Philadelphia: J. Conrad & Co., 1806. [8],480pp. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt, leather labels. Light scuffing to boards, light wear at edges and spine ends. Light tanning, occasional faint foxing. The sixth volume of this relatively short-lived Philadelphia periodical, which includes an early printing of William Clark's famous letter to..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta a Cargo de Martin Rivera, 1823. [4],66pp. Small octavo. Modern red calf, front board gilt lettered; original plain paper wrappers bound in. Minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Contemporary gift inscription on front wrapper. Light toning and an occasional, small fox mark; light tide line at..... More
New York: G. & R. Waite, 1804. 78pp. Dbd. Trimmed close at lower edge, occasionally affecting last line of text; light damage at lower edge of initial two leaves. Light tanning and foxing. An important record of speeches before an upstate New York court in a landmark First Amendment case..... More
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[Lisbon or London? 1798]. 114; 172pp. Unbound folio sheets. Minor wear at edges; light tanning and scattered foxing. Two manuscript versions of a widely influential American polemic against France in the aftermath of the Jay Treaty. The first is a working draft with numerous annotations, while the second is a...... More
Baltimore: Printed at the Office of the Evening Post by H. Niles, [1809]. 75pp. Later drab boards with linen spine; front cover detached, spine chipped. Slight loss to center of first three leaves, affecting two words of title and six lines of second leaf; loss limited to a single word..... More
Cambridge: Printed for the University, by William Hilliard, 1802. viii,187pp. Contemporary calf; rebacked preserving original label. Boards moderately worn. Bookplate on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, later ink stamp on title page. Minor foxing, but generally quite clean internally. First American edition of this Hebrew lexicon originally..... More
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[Princeton? 1796]. [25],[419]pp. Modern calf, gilt leather label. Some chipping and wear to a few leaves, light scattered foxing. Manuscript volume of eighty-three 18th-century university theology lectures written in Taylor shorthand. Picking up at the start of the semester in January 1796, the book contains lecture notes through late February..... More
Richmond: Samuel Pleasants, 1803. 43pp. Modern half blue calf and marbled boards, original leather label retained. Moderate wear and soiling to text, title page with contemporary ownership inscription heavily inked over. One or two other ink notations to text. A solid copy. An anonymous collection of travel notices written by..... More