Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1812. vi,275pp. Contemporary calf. Boards detached, corners heavily worn. Lightly tanned. Good. A collection of sermons targeted specifically at sailors, including such topics as "The Guilt of Profane Cursing and Swearing," and "Fleshly Lusts Defined and Shown to Be Inexcusable."
Philadelphia: Printed and published, by H. Maxwell, 1804. vii,[3]-53,[1]pp. Half title. Dbd. An occasional bit of foxing. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding box, spine gilt. Dedicated to Hamilton's widow, Elizabeth. About half the text is a condemnation of the practice of duelling. Heavily footnoted, with allusions.....
Cambridge, Ma. 1905. 46pp. Original printed wrappers, slightly frayed at edge of front wrapper, else fine. Presentation copy to Harvard professor Charles Eliot Norton,this essay is a critical review of Rhodes' history covering the Civil War between the months of December, 1864 and August, 1866, and was reprinted from The.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31pp. Dbd. Some light foxing and tanning. Overall very good. This pamphlet relates to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams' A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799), which Jedediah Morse had anticipated by producing his own school history. Adams, whose eyesight was failing, felt.....
Boston. 1814. viii,31; 4; 42pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Lacks wrappers. Leaves a bit tanned. Pinhole to lower margin barely affecting a few letters. Else very good. An interesting set of tracts relating to a controversy that ensued over the schoolbook abridgment of Adams's A SUMMARY HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND (1799).....
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. 1829. 80pp. Contemporary plain wrapper. Wrap bit chipped at spine, light scattered foxing. Good. Prints correspondence originally published in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER wherein Adams accused certain but unnamed citizens of Massachusetts of engaging in a design to dissolve the union, a response of some Massachusetts citizens, and Adams' reply.....
Washington. 1834. 43pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Foxed, some minor marginal dampstaining, titlepage dust soiled. A decent copy. Adams speaks against the President's use of monies taken from Massachusetts banks, calling the action a usurpation of legislative power.
Boston: Charles Bowen, 1834. 352pp. plus plates. 19th-century maroon morocco with elaborately blindstamped boards, spine gilt and elaborately stamped in blind, a.e.g. Head of spine chipped, upper joint partially split. Minor occasional foxing to text. Very good. In a maroon half morocco slipcase and chemise, spine gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed.....
Quincy, [Ma.]: November 24, 1813. [2]pp. Quarto. Old fold lines. A few small spots of foxing, faint stain from wax seal. Very good. In a folio-sized half morocco and cloth clamshell box, leather labels. A warm letter from former President John Adams to his dear friend and writer, Mercy Otis.....
Boston: White and Adams, 1780. 18pp. Lacks half title. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Tanned, minor soiling. Very good. Although primarily written by John Adams, this explanation of the new constitution was issued by James Bowdoin, convention president. After the rejection of the 1778 Massachusetts constitution.....
Madrid: En la Oficina de Antonio Fernandez, 1778. 196pp. Small quarto. Modern calf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt leather labels. One raised band scraped of its leather, bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Faint contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good plus. A compilation of material.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1940. 640pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block, spine cracked. Good, lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of.....
[Boston: Benjamin Edes, ca. January 28, 1777]. Broadside, 13¾ x 8¼ inches. Docketed on verso. Expertly repaired separation along upper horizontal fold, short fold separation at left side of middle horizontal fold, moderate marginal dampstaining. About very good. Untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Each act has a separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection.....
Edinburgh: Printed by Alexander Kincaid His Majesty's Printer, 1764–1776. Five separately printed acts, pagination given below. Folio. Dbd. Numbering in ink to head of titlepage of first four of the five acts. Ink inscription cropped at head of A2 of the final act. Some soiling. Overall very good. A collection.....
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[Boston: Edes & Gill], 1774. Broadside, 12 x 7 inches, mounted on 14 x 9¼- inch sheet. Signed in type by Benjamin Lincoln. Tanned. Large chips to upper corners and left edge, lower quarter of the sheet with loss of paper affecting five lines of text (about two dozen words).....
[Boston: Edes & Gill, November 20, 1772]. Broadside, 13 x 12 inches. Signed in manuscript "William Cooper" and addressed in ink to the Select-Men of "Kingston" below the text. Ink notation on verso reading: "To the Select Men of Kingston." A few areas of paper loss, most significantly to the.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1774. [2],1251-1252pp. Folio. Dbd. Sewing holes from former binding at gutter, else fine. The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773 unified both the protesting colonists in America and the forces of reaction in Great Britain in their respective positions. News of.....
[Philadelphia. 1775]. [4]pp. on bifolium sheet. Folio. Very minor soiling and chipping at edges. Fine. Printed in Philadelphia on the day of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, opening the American Revolution, by the man who would print the Declaration of Independence the next year. This supplement to the PACKET.....
[Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes], November 2, 1776. Broadside, 15 x 9 1/2 inches. Several folds, minor staining, fold lines reinforced with archival tape on verso. Good. Early November 1776 was a dark moment for the American side in the Revolution. Washington had been routed from New York, the victory.....
Cambridge. December 26, 1774. [2]pp. on both sides of a folio leaf, plus integral blank leaf, docketed on verso. Leaves neatly separated along center fold, just beginning to split at some horizontal folds. Light tanning and staining. Very good. A crucially important manuscript document calling a town meeting at Cambridge.....
[London. 1780]. Five documents, totaling [23]pp. Large folio sheets, folded into four panels, with docketing information on verso of final leaf. Minor soiling. Near fine. In a blue half morocco and cloth box. Court documents relating to the appeal case of the Massachusetts ship Nicholas, captained by Nathaniel Atkins, which.....
Newbury-Port: Printed and sold by John Mycall, [1785]. [24]pp. Stitched. Evenly tanned, else a fine copy. Contains an essay supporting freedom of the press, several essays on health, an anecdote about wealth, a table of roads, and an advertisement for the printer. NAIP states that this almanac has very similar.....
