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[San Francisco: Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee, 1935. Broadsheet, 8-1/2" x 11". With photo images on recto of Mooney dated 1916 and 1935, "before frame-up, and after frame-up. Union label at bottom of recto. Verso with a full-page photo illustration of Mooney in his prison cell: "A CLASS WAR PRISONER FOR 19 YEARS ON JULY 27, 1935 THE VICTIM… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

[New York], 1793. Five printed receipts completed in manuscript. Average size 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" to 3" x 4". All printed with decorative border and "New-York, Bowery, "179__/ C. Q. lb./ HAY" with variations of "from Mr./ For Mr. / At... " "J. & G. Coutant" at bottom of each receipt. Completed in ink manuscript with year, name, amounts and… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Sold at the Political Book-Store, 1796. 14pp, lacking the bookseller advertisement at page [15]. Else Very Good in modern half brown morocco with gilt-lettered spine title. Hopkins pours out his wrath upon his enemies, the Democrats, who are no longer fellow-countrymen but traitors. "By the time Lemuel Hopkins published The Guillotina, or, a Democratic Dirge… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia, 1780. 4pp, folded folio leaf. Caption title [as issued]. Old horizontal folds, with short separation along margins at one fold [no loss]. Rubberstamp in blank portion of page 4, releasing the document from HSP. Good+. Signed in type by William Bleckly, Clerk to the Meeting, on page 4. Reviews of the Meetings of Friends in America indicate… Read more about this item

Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1822. 20pp. Partly uncut, lightly foxed. Bound in later quarter sheep and decorative cloth, with typed spine label. Good+. A defense of the United States from the charge that "the United States had, in a formal treaty, sanctioned the crime of attempting to starve the whole innocent population of another country." The reference is… Read more about this item

[Boston: [Printed by Adams and Nourse. Printers to the Honourable General Court., 1788. Folio. Pages 99-142, [14- Index], as issued. Original drab wrappers [some spotting and staining]. Text generally clean with scattered fox spots. Good+ to Very Good. Governor Hancock reports to the General Court on 27 February 1788, lauding the new Constitution and deploring "the obvious… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed by David Carlisle., 1807. 62pp. Disbound, blank inner margin of title and last leaf browned; blank outer margin of title leaf reinforced. Good+. Examining international law and the Chesapeake affair, Everett concludes that England's firing upon the Chesapeake and imprisoning its crew members-- alleged deserters from British ships-- was "piracy." Should England fail "to… Read more about this item

Windsor: Printed by George Hough and Alden Spooner, Printers to the General Assembly of Said State, 1787. Quarto. 171, [1 blank] pp [pp 101-104 misnumbered 102-105, as issued]. Endpapers are pale blue. Minor wear, Very Good plus in original sheep, with ribbed spine. Ownership signature of George M. Powers [1861-1938] of Morrisville, Vermont, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1792. Folio. 228pp [last page numbered '224', as issued]. Original calf [short separations at upper and lower corners of front board; hinge starting], raised spine bands, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A clean and bright text with only minor occasional foxing. Very Good plus. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper: "The Speaker of the House of… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for Mathew Carey, 1794. iv, [3], 8-22, [2-publ. advts.] pp; plus the rear plain wrapper, with contemporary signatures of Moses Hatch. Disbound with some loosening. The final advertising leaf, frequently absent, is present. Portions of some margins foxed. Good+. Humphreys, a Revolutionary hero and aide to George Washington, was also a diplomat, poet, and one… Read more about this item

[Towanda PA?, 1844. Folio broadside, 10-1/8" x 21." Printed in four columns, each column separated by a rule. Light to moderate foxing, light wear. Good+. Signed in type at the bottom by thirty disillusioned local Democrats. Towanda is the county seat of Bradford County, the residence of many of the signers, including Judge Edward Herrick, the first… Read more about this item

[Washington, 1860. 101, [3 blanks] pp. 36th Cong., 1st Sess. HED 76. Uncut and untrimmed. Bit of foxing. Near Fine. Lewis Cass, President Buchanan's Secretary of State, transmits documentation of the anti-Semitism of Swiss authorities. One Gootmann, an American citizen, was ordered "to quit the country, on the ground of his being an Israelite merchant." Much material on… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, 1823. 40pp. A dramatic frontis illustration captioned, "the cruel catastrophe of MARY FINLEY." Disbound, uniformly toned, lightly spotted. Good+. The caption title at page [5] is: "The sorrowful life and cruel death of Mary Findley, (daughter of Major Hugh Middleton, Edgefield District, South Carolina.) Who, after giving a handsome fortune to a most depraved… Read more about this item

[Boston: Thomas Adams, 1791. Broadside, 8" x 12-3/4." Some foxing. Left edge has a couple of shallow chips. Old horizontal folds. Docketed in manuscript on verso: "Captn Reuben Barton | Sutton." Good+. The broadside is signed at the end in type, "By order of the Commander in Chief, WILLIAM DONNISON, Adjutant-General." A veteran of the Revolutionary War, Donnison… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed by J. Gill, Printer to the General Assembly, 1777. 37, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title and final blank. Stitched. Inscription on verso of final blank, : "the gift of Dr. W. Gordon / to g. Woods march 17th 1786." Several text corrections in ink, probably by Gordon himself. Light foxing and wear. Good+. … Read more about this item

Boston: Green and Russell, 1765. 59, [1 blank] pp, with the half title [which is loose]. Disbound, light to moderate foxing, Good+. Eliot's powerful election sermon, reprinted in London in the same year, infused the increasingly widespread American ideas of Natural Rights and self-government "with more direct power and gave them new point; for to proclaim from the… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1783. 28, [4 advt] pp. Scattered spotting, Good+ The author, one of the Society's founders, calls a free press "the PILLAR that supports the whole fabric of freedom." But, he observes, "The fairest blossom is the reptile's food," and a licentious press has gorged itself on a slander of the noble Society. That slander… Read more about this item

Chicago: Daily Times Book and Job Office, 1857. 15, [1 blank] pp. Untrimmed and uncut. Light tide mark to upper third of the sheet, and to lower blank margin corner. Good+. This is one of three printings of Douglas's important speech on the Dred Scott decision. His chief biographer calls Douglas's remarks one of his "major speeches...The… Read more about this item