Care, Henry. English Liberties: Or, the Freeborn Subject's Inheritance, Containing I. Magna Charta. First edition. 1682. One of the very first law books printed in colonial America presenting England’s “fundamental laws” as the inheritance of free subjects. Issued during the Exclusion Crisis, the work articulated principles of jury trial, religious.....
Unknown. A Speech Never Intended To Be Spoken, In Answer To A Speech Intended To Have Been Spoken On The Bill For Altering The Charter Of The Colony Of Massachusets Bay. London: Printed for J. Knox, in the Strand, 1774. Suspected first edition. Scarce; 11 copies of this edition recorded.....
Frothingham, Richard. The History of Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1845 to 1849, a serialized local history that documents one of the central sites of the American Revolution, including the Battle of Bunker Hill, while preserving early civic records, family materials, and community memory in print. Written by Richard Frothingham, a historian, politician.....
Swett, Samuel. History of Bunker Hill Battle with a Plan, 1826, an early nineteenth century reconstruction of the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill that consolidates veteran testimony into printed form at a decisive moment in the formation of Revolutionary memory. Published immediately following the fiftieth anniversary commemorations and.....
Knox, William. The Controversy Between Great Britain and Her Colonies Reviewed, 1769, a pre Revolutionary pamphlet that articulates a forceful defense of parliamentary sovereignty and rejects colonial claims to exemption from imperial taxation and legislative authority. Written by Anglo Irish statesman William Knox, an established commentator on British imperial policy.....
Waterhouse, Benjamin. Autograph note signed written after 1814 by Benjamin Waterhouse, the Harvard physician who introduced Edward Jenner’s smallpox vaccination to the United States and helped establish the earliest vaccination campaigns in North America. Waterhouse emerged as a central figure in early American public health after learning of Jenner’s experiments.....
Report of the Arguments of the Attorney of the Commonwealth at the Trials of Abner Kneeland. Boston: Beals, Homer, 1834. First edition. 8vo. This 1834 publication documents one of the most consequential early American prosecutions concerning freedom of expression and religious dissent. The trials of Abner Kneeland, a Universalist minister.....
Cotty, Gaspard Hermann. Mémoire sur la Fabrication des Armes Portatives de Guerre, 1806, provides a detailed technical account of small arms production and military equipment at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, drawing on developments that emerged from both the French Revolutionary and American Revolutionary periods. The work addresses the.....
Wagner, Arthur L.; Kelley, [Assistant Adjutant-General]; Jerrold, J.D. The United States Army and Navy: From the Era of the Revolution to the Close of the Spanish-American War, 1899, presenting a comprehensive late nineteenth-century account of American military development, with direct relevance to the study of warfare, institutional organization, and expansion.....
[Revolutionary War] December 1774 Gentleman's Magazine reports on the developing Revolutionary War, including articles on "Plan of A Union Between Great Britain and the Colonies", "The King's Speech to the New Parliament", "Protest against the Lord's Address", "Letters From the Massachusetts Assembly to Lord Dartmouth", "Proceedings in the Province of.....
[Western Americana] Letter of Colonel Bomford on Ordnance Duty to The Secretary of War Relative to the Number of Arms Required Annually to Supply the Militia of the West. House of Representatives: Washington, 1823. Printed Pamphlet totals 6 pages. Measures 5.75 x 8.75 inches. When the United States Army was.....
Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr. military commission for Abel Rossetter, dated October 12, 1799, documents Connecticut’s post-Revolution militia system through a gubernatorial appointment issued during Trumbull’s tenure as governor. The document supports research into early federal military preparedness, state command structures, and the continuing role of the militia in the generation after.....
1st President of the United States. Original oil painting of the famous bust shot of George Washington. Canvas size about 20" x 24". A beautiful hand painted oil painting on canvas, not a machine made reproduction. This painting is 100% hand painted, This is a 20th century painting with good.....
Revolutionary War Receipt from Comptroller's office of Oliver Walcott dated April 7, 1789 Hartford, Connecticut. The receipt is signed by William Benvour, who was a soldier in the American Revolution. This receipt was for the States Notes that were issued during the Revolutionary War and were then redeemed by the.....
F.O.C Darley engraving "The March to Valley Forge." 1877. Measures 9.5 x 7 inches. Illustration shows continental soldiers marching,against the wind, their feet buried in snow. One man helps another as he falls. Two officers on horseback ride beside the troops with a small dog, stooping too, at their feet.....
Morris, Gouveneur. An Answer To War In Disguise; Or, Remarks Upon The New Doctrine Of England, Concerning Neutral Trade. New York: Hopkins and Seymour, 1806. Removed from a book of pamphlets. Leather remnants on spine. Edges neatly trimmed, 8" x 5" inches. 76 pages. The statesman Gouveneur Morris played an.....
Revolutionary War Receipt from Comptroller's office of Oliver Walcott dated April 9, 1789 Hartford, Connecticut. The receipt is signed by Eldad Shepard, a soldier in the American Revolution. This receipt was for the States Notes that were issued during the Revolutionary War and were then redeemed by the soldier. Shepard.....
Sylvanus Urban. The Gentleman's Magazine. London: Edward Cave, June 1746. 7" x 5" inches. pp. 280-332. This edition of The Gentleman's Magazine focuses on current events, political affairs, poetry, and opinion pieces of 18 century England. The Gentleman's Magazine ran for around 200 years, and was one of the first.....
