Salem: Pool and Palfray, 1808. 52pp. Stitched, as issued. Shelf label and institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Light tanning and foxing, slightly heavier to final leaves. Good. Critical response by John Quincy Adams to a pamphlet by Timothy Pickering, the United States Minister to Great Britain, regarding the tense relations.....

London: John Stockdale, 1794. Three volumes. 8,xxxii,3-392; [2],451,[1]; [2],528,[36]pp. Portrait in first volume. Half title in each volume. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Occasional light tanning and foxing. Overall, a very good set. The definitive final edition, after its first appearance in London in 1787. One of the most.....

Boston. 1823. x,219pp. Later three-quarter calf and marbled boards, expertly rebacked. Couple of spots, else very good. [with:] Pickering, Timothy: A REVIEW OF THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE HON. JOHN ADAMS...AND THE LATE WM. CUNNINGHAM.... [2],140pp. Salem. 1824. Modern cloth, leather label. Some foxing, minor tape repair in blank corner of.....

[Philadelphia. 1798]. 11pp. Dbd. Some scattered foxing and tanning. Good. Lists a number of ships which were captured by the British, including details of events leading to their captivity.

Lancaster. 1803. [3]-124,101-154,14pp. Lacks half title. 20th-century tan buckram, gilt morocco labels. Shelf mark on spine. Institutional ink and blind stamp on titlepage. Occasional foxing and contemporary marginalia, worming to last portion of text and the Appendix. Good. Addison, a pugnacious reactionary (he defended the Alien and Sedition Acts), was.....

[New York]. 1808. 43pp. Dbd. Foxed, couple of marginal chips, hole to one leaf affecting several words. Good. Severely critical reply to Adams.

[Philadelphia. 1797]. 22pp. Dbd. Scattered browning and foxing. Good. This document was intended to accompany the President's Message of Jan. 19, 1797, not present here. Recounts events leading up to negotiations for a treaty with Algiers, and lists expenditures involved. The U.S. was still in the embarrassing position of paying.....

[Philadelphia]. 1800. 4pp. Dbd. Stab holes in gutter. Very good. The decision of a committee concerned with a case related to the Alien and Sedition Acts. A group of immigrants, having failed to gain citizenship before the implementation of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, although previously eligible to.....

Providence: Bennett Wheeler, 1782. [40]pp. 16mo. Self-wrappers, stab-stitched. Slight browning. Overall, very good. The present edition of the NORTH-AMERICAN CALENDAR... is most notable for its inclusion of the complete Articles of Confederation, which had passed into law upon Maryland's agreement to ratify on March 1, 1781. Published by Benjamin West.....

[Philadelphia]. June 9, 1798 - April 6, 1799. [161]-416pp. (lacks pp.163-166). Apparently also lacking titlepages with complete publication title. Contemporary half calf and plain boards. Spine worn, front hinge cracked. First two leaves lightly dampstained. Lacks two leaves. Otherwise good, untrimmed. A volume of ten complete issues of this early.....

Washington. 1812. 33pp. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Very good, untrimmed and unopened. This claim was submitted by the heirs of Beaumarchais, the great French playwright who produced THE BARBER OF SEVILLE and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, requesting compensation for the funds their ancestor expended in supporting the American Revolution.....

[Philadelphia. 1797]. [3],20-41pp. including two folding tables. Stitched as issued. Minor toning and foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. Contains many statistics regarding seamen who put into port along the New England and southern coastline, by state, as well as statistics on impressment.

Lowell, Ma. 1858. 36pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, wraps tanned and bit chipped, else good. An important chapter in the manufacturing history of New England, and the role of the power loom in the production of cotton materials.