Early America (to 1815)
Aristotle's complete master-piece (1766): the first American illustrated medical text, from a woman's library
Aristotle's complete master-piece, in three parts; displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. Regularly digested into chapters and sec...
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Jonathan Swift, Contests and dissentions. First American edition (1728)
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745). A discourse of the contests and dissentions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome : with the consequences...
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$45,000
Thomas Paine. Common Sense. The first London edition (1776), with manuscript additions
Paine, Thomas (1737-1809). Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America… A New Edition, with several Additions in the Body of the Work. To wh...
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Jonathan Edwards. Two Dissertations. First edition. (1765)
Edwards, Jonathan (1703 – 1758). Two dissertations: I. Concerning the end for which God created the world. II. The nature of true virtue. Boston: Prin...
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Thomas Jefferson, Observations sur la Virginie (1786), first edition in original binding
Jefferson, Thomas. Observations sur la Virginie, par M. J***, Traduites de L'Anglois [by abbé André Morellet]. Paris: Chez Barrois l'ainé, Paris, 1786...
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The Boston Chronicle: a Tory paper from the library of a prominent loyalist (1767-1768)
The Boston Chronicle, volume 1, Nos. 1-54, plus supplements. 21 December 1767 to 26 December 1768. 28 cm (4to.) Irregularly paginated, with some pages...
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Benjamin Franklin. The Way to Wealth (ca. 1760), one of five extant copies
[Franklin, Benjamin]. Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods; introduced to the public by Poor Richard, (a...
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Report on Publishing the Constitution and Laws of the United States (1799)
[Nicholas, John (1764-1819)] Report of the committee to whom was referred, on the 19th of December last, a resolution for causing a publication of the...
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Harvard College alumni register, annotated by Isaiah Thomas (1803)
Harvard University. Catalogus eorum qui in Universitate Harvardiana, Cantabrigiae, in republica Massachusettensi ab anno MDCXLII, ad annum MDCCCIII, a...
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A 1797 Hudson Printing of George Washington’s Farewell Address
Washington, George. America's lecacy [sic]: being the address of G. Washington, on his declining a re-election to the presidency, to the people of th...
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Astronomy and Murder: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for 1792
[West, Benjamin (1730-1813) and Amos Pope (1772-1837)] . Bickerstaff's genuine Boston almanack, or, Federal calendar, for 1792. [Boston] Printed by E....
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Lemuel Cox's labor contract for Londonderry Bridge, 1790
Cox, Lemuel (1736-1806). Articles of Agreement for the construction of a bridge in Londonderry, Ireland. 7 February 1790. Ink on vellum, about 73 x 43...
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