AMERICAN REV from David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

[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: [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

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

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

Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1780. Quarto, stitched in original plain wrappers, untrimmed. 27, [1 blank] pp. Near Fine. Matlack, who had engrossed the Declaration of Independence, delivered "the Oration immediately after the Law for incorporating the Philosophical Society was passed by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania." He discourses on the Revolution, celebrating the courage in battle of… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1812. 112pp, with engraved frontispiece by Graham and tissue guard. Original paper over boards, title printed on front cover. Front hinge cracked but holding. Text untrimmed, with endpapers and tissue guard browned. A date stamp from a library is present on margins of a few pages. Good+. This copy has… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Peele, at Locke's Head, 1721. Contemporary panelled leather boards [some wear, rebacked]. lii, 444, [20- Index] pp. Lightly foxed, Very Good. The first printing in book form of the 53 papers comprising this classic of political and religious liberty. These two radical Whigs profoundly influenced the revolutionary generation, which was increasingly at odds with… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Hall and Sellers, 1775. Folio. xxi, [1 blank], 536, 22 [Appendix], [12- Index], 3 [Addendum], [1 blank] pp, as issued. Dirty blank endpapers, but a clean text with mild scattered foxing. Bound in contemporary calf, with raised spine bands and gilt-lettered morocco spine label, Very Good. With the ownership signature of Lebbeus Egerton, dated… Read more about this item

Boston: Manning & Loring, 1805. 119, [1 blank] pp. Bound in quarter sheep and paper-covered wooden boards [front inner hinge cracked]. Some toning, Very Good.

[Paris?: F. Bonneville; Delatour Sculp. Small oval bust portrait, 2 1/16" x 2 3/8"; printed within raised rectangular border, 2 5/8" x 4 1/4"; printed on partly untrimmed sheet of thick paper 8 5/8" x 12 3/8". Portrait done using stipple effect. "F. Bonneville del" and "Delatour Sculp." printed outside bottom border of oval. Caption directly below and within… Read more about this item

Akron, Ohio: H. Canfield, Printer, 1847. 15, [1 blank], 11, [1 blank] pp. Stitched with wrapper title as issued. Spalding's pencil presentation inscription to future president Rutherford B. Hayes: "R.B. Hayes from Hon. R.P. Spalding." Light scattered foxing. Very Good. The first pamphlet's title page is "Oration on the Causes Which Led to Our National Independence, and the… Read more about this item

Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press, 1794. 18pp, disbound rather roughly at inner blank margin,. With the half title, 'Mr. Emerson's Discourse on the American Independence' [upper blank corner clipped]. Light perforation stamp at title page. Text clean, but several blank margin repairs. Good or so. This July 4th Sermon was delivered by the father of Ralph Waldo… Read more about this item

[np, 1799. 8pp, caption title [as issued]. One folio sheet, folded, with a couple of spine separations. Untrimmed. Light uniform toning. Except as noted, Very Good. A rare survival from the 1799 contest for Governor of Pennsylvania. Thomas McKean, the Jeffersonian candidate, was Chief Justice of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court and a Signer of the Declaration of Independence;… Read more about this item

Paris: chez L'Auteur rue du Theatre Francais N4, 1820. Oval stipple engraving, 3-5/8" x 4-1/2" on 7-7/8" x 10-3/8" sheet. Along the oval in small type: F. Bonneville Deli. Also: Gautier Sculp. Very Good. British Museum Registration #1927,0308.62. Edwin Babcock Holden Collection #13813 [1910].

Philadelphia, 1890. Etching 5" x 7," on card stock. "Portrait of George Washington, bust, directed to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing jacket closed, neckerchief and frill, hair tied into a queue. . . [S]ignature of the artist in pencil below the platemark and on the bottom right on the sheet" [British Museum copy]. Fine. Born… Read more about this item

Lancaster: Printed and Sold by William Hamilton, 1802. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper over boards [inner hinges cracked, extremity wear]. viii, [9]-320, 78, [401]-411, [1 blank] pp. Lacks the frontis portrait of Washington. Clean text. Except as noted, Good+. The book prints Washington's most oft-cited Addresses, Speeches, Letters, and Messages, as well as ceremonies, eulogies,… Read more about this item

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Charles Dilly, in the Poultry. . ., 1788. Four volumes: [26], 504; [8], 584; [8], 499, [1 blank]; [8], 445, [1, blank], [34- Index], [2 blanks] pp. Complete with nine folding maps: The United States of America; Boston, and its Environs; New York Island, & parts adjacent; The Jerseys, &c. &c;… Read more about this item

Boston: Edes and Gill, 1772. 43, [1 blank] pp, but lacking the half title. Stitched and untrimmed. First leaf torn at outer blank margin, not affecting text. Outer margins browned. Good+. A desirable pre-Revolutionary War sermon. Parsons locates God's hand in all events, "either when we enjoy the advantages of good civil government, or find that it… Read more about this item