Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Gathered signatures. Stitched as issued. Untrimmed. Last leaf tanned. Otherwise a very good copy. Fourth edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot only.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty, else very good. First edition. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777): "...If the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the idiot only to suppose that we can preserve.....
Oxford. [ 1777]. 64pp. Dbd. Titlepage a tad dusty. Else very good. Second edition, after the first of the same year. A reply to Burke's LETTER...ON THE AFFAIRS OF AMERICA (1777). "...if the liberty of our fellow-subjects in America are to be taken from them, it is for the ideot.....
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.....
Boston. 1808. 32pp. Dbd. Foxing, particularly on outer leaves, else very good. The second edition of this pamphlet by the future President, discussing the embargo.
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt; neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Leaf tipped in preceding titlepage with presentation inscription from the author ("Gideon Hard from John Quincy Adams") and further inscriptions by several later owners passing along the book.....
Washington, D.C. Duff Green, 1835. 96pp. Original printed blue front wrapper, rear wrapper lacking. Wrapper worn around the edges, spine partly perished. Foxing. Good. Adams' speech honors the memory of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette. Adams provides a review of Lafayette's contributions to American independence and his activities in.....
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Fine. In a cloth chemise and red half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. A presentation copy of Adams' speech honoring the memory of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette.....
Washington: National Intelligencer, 1825. Broadside, 23 x 19 inches. Several hundred lines of text printed in five-column format. Minor creasing, occasional foxing. Very good. Expertly matted, and protected with a mylar sheet. Adams' first State of the Union address. Before becoming president, Adams was the chief architect of the Monroe.....
Philadelphia. 1797. Three volumes. 6,xxxiii,[3]-392; [4],451; [2],528,[44]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage of first volume, later institutional blind stamps on titlepages. Light tanning and an occasional fox mark. Very good. In a three-quarter morocco and cloth clamshell box. Styled the.....
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.....
Paris. 1792. Two volumes. [4],xxiv,547; [2],503pp. Half title in each volume. Bound in original wrappers of yellow printer's wastepaper, with other wastepaper used as the inner wrapper; original printed paper labels. Wrappers lightly stained. An occasional fox mark, else internally pristine. A fine set, in original, completely unsophisticated condition, untrimmed.....
[Philadelphia. 1798]. 72pp. Dbd. Light even toning. Very good. This message is the second entirely devoted to the troubles of the United States with France, the XYZ Affair, and the naval "Quasi-War." The French government had attempted to extort a bribe from the American envoys Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and.....
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. 1800]. 8pp. Folded sheet. Light soiling and wear. Very good. Untrimmed. Contains a list of claims by American ships adjusted under the 21st article of the Treaty with Spain ratified in 1799, by which Spain paid fines for ships seized during the "Quasi- War" in 1797-98.
[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.
Providence & New York. 1980. Two volumes. xxx,536; [8],[537]-1102pp. Original cloth. Fine. A fundamentally important and exhaustive reference on British pamphlets of the American Revolution era, with collations and notes on first and subsequent editions. With useful appendices on disputes and exchanges, and indices.
Lancaster. 1803. 154pp. Lacks the 14pp. appendix at rear. Later three-quarter morocco and cloth, bit sunned, untrimmed, some foxing, else very good. Without the 14pp. appendix at rear. Addison, a pugnacious reactionary (he defended the Alien and Sedition Acts), was impeached and removed from the bench on a charge of.....
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.....
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and T. Cadell, London, 1830. Two volumes. vii,[1],iii,[1],339; [2],iii,[1],327pp. Frontispiece in first volume. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, black gilt morocco labels. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown of second volume, removed in first. Internally bright and clean. Near fine, in an attractive contemporary binding. An.....
[New York]. 1808. 43pp. Dbd. Foxed, couple of marginal chips, hole to one leaf affecting several words. Good. Severely critical reply to Adams.
Washington. 1816. 7pp. Dbd. Foxed, else good, unopened. Narrates the seizure of this U.S. vessel by the Dey of Algiers in 1812. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
[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: Richard Folwell, [ 1799]. 50,[3],[52]-240,vii,[4],[244]-561,[4],[4]- 26,iv,[48]pp. Contemporary calf, blind ruled, neatly rebacked in matching style. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper and titlepage. Light foxing. Very good. The scarce official printing of the collected laws passed by the Fifth United States Congress, which include the notorious Alien and.....
[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.....
