Philadelphia: William Brown and Charles Peters, 1828. Second Edition, Revised, Improved, and Enlarged. Five octavo volumes; xxi, 397; [i], 435; [i], 391; [i], 372; [i], 386 pages. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards, with spines lettered in gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including a vignette title page in each.....
Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1805-7. First Edition. Three octavos, vii, 516, 67p.; vii, 527, 38p.; vii, 779, 36 pages, bound in contemporary full tree calf, with gilt bands and gilt-lettered spine labels. John Marshall’s Life of George Washington is one of the earliest major biographies of Washington, written by the.....
London: J. Ridgway, 1792. 12mo, 46, [2] pages, professional rebound in black cloth over tan boards. An important work by Thomas Paine concerning the American Revolution, written in response to the French philosopher and historian Abbé Raynal’s account of the conflict. Paine challenges Raynal’s interpretation of the causes, character, and.....
Philadelphia: James Webster, 1818. Second Edition, Corrected by the Author. Octavo, xv, 427, xii pages, bound in period full leather. William Wirt’s Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry is one of the foundational early biographies of the great Virginia orator and Revolutionary patriot, preserving Henry’s reputation as.....