New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo, xv, 824 pages, publisher's original blue cloth-covered boards. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. First edition of this substantial study of American government in the modern industrial age by Charles A. Beard and William Beard, examining the expanding functions, institutions, and administrative machinery.....
London: James Bettenham, 1739. First Edition. Two octavo volumes, viii, 472; 464 pages, bound in period full leather with raised bands to the spines. A married set, with the volumes in differing bindings. First edition of Thomas Carte’s important documentary history of seventeenth-century England, A Collection of Original Letters and.....
Harrisburg, PA: Wm. Stanley Ray, State Printer of Pennsylvania, 1899. First Edition. Presentation copy, with a purple ink stamp reading “Compliments of Jeremiah Roth, House of Reps. Pa.”. Slim octavo, 38 pages, period gilt-lettered black cloth covered boards. An attractive contemporary presentation copy of Governor Daniel H. Hastings’s final message.....
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.....
London: H. D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792. 12mo, [2], 8, 17-40, professional rebound in brown cloth over tan boards. Lacking the half-title and pp. 9–16 (four leaves of text); the publisher’s final advertisement leaf bound at front. A significant Paine pamphlet issued in the immediate aftermath of the.....
New York: James Eastburn & Co., 1817. Second Edition, with Additions and Corrections. Official U.S. Senate copy, with “Senate U.S. Committee Room, No. 1” stamped in gilt on both boards and spine. Octavo, xii, 445, vii, [1] pages, bound in period full tree calf. A notable official U.S. Senate copy.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1838. First Edition. Two octavos, lx, 416; xii, 490 pages, finely bound by Arthur E. Colley in quarter black leather over blue cloth covered boards. Spines with raised bands and ornate gilt decoration. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the bookplates of Frances E. Hunter, 1826 South.....
London: J. Darby, 1704. Second Edition, carefully corrected. Folio, [8], 424 [i.e. 420], [48] pages, bound in period Cambridge-style full leather, with raised bands to the spine. With the neat bookplate of previous owner Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle (1809–1878). A landmark work of English republicanism and early modern.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. Octavo, 320 pages, period full leather with gilt bands and gilt-lettered labels to the spine. Marbled endpapers and edges. Henry A. Wise’s Seven Decades of the Union is a substantial 19th-century work of American political history and reminiscence, centered on a memoir of.....
Washington, D.C. McGill, Witherow & Co., 1862. First Edition. Octavo, 14 pages, publisher's original printed wraps. Speech of Benjamin Wood, of New York, on the State of the Union, in the House of Representatives, May 16th, 1862 is an important Civil War-era political pamphlet by New York congressman Benjamin Wood.....