Category: United States History

The Jubilee of the Constitution. A Discourse Delivered at the Request of The New York Historical Society...on Tuesday, the 30th of April 1839; Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of George Washington...

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New-York: Berford and Company, 1848.

Seller ID: 28563

Octavo, original wrappers bound in quarter polished calf & marbled boards, 135 pp., ads. Front wrapper has been repaired with old transparent tape; otherwise clean and tight with light spine scuffing.
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The United States and the Soviet Union: Some Quaker Proposals for Peace. A Report Prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.

By: American Friends Service Committee.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Have: Yale University Press, 1949.

Seller ID: 4684s

First Edition. Tall octavo, (hardcover), yellow cloth, 39 pp. Near-Fine, with light foxing to endpapers, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with edgewear. Contents: Foreword -- Why This Study?; Basic Considerations -- The Widespread Desire for Peace, Communism and the Western Democratic System Both Likely to Continue, Important Differences in Aims and Methods, The Possibility of Accomodation and Coexistence, The United States and the Soviet Union Fear Each Other, Security Unlikely to Be Achieved Through Armaments Competition, Armaments Competition Threatens the Democratic System, Some Restraits t...
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Constitutional Republicanism, In Opposition to Fallacious Federalism; As Published Occasionally in the Independent Chronical [sic], under the Signature of Old-South. To Which is Prefixed, A Prefatory Address to the Citizens of the United States, Never before Published.

By: Austin, Benjamin, Jun.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Boston: Printed for Adams & Rhoades, 1803. First Edition. Howes A396.

Seller ID: vas5328

Octavo, tree calf, rebacked preserving original spine, calf label, 327pp. Austin, an ardent Jeffersonian, originally published this series of anti-Federalist columns under the pseudonym ÒOld South.Ó Good; some shelf wear, bearing the signature of a former-owner, John Turner Wait, a U. S. Representative from Connecticut, dated 1839.
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America: The Last Best Hope. Volume 1: From the Age of Discvoery To a World at War, 1492-1914.

By: Bennett, William J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Nashville: Nelson Current, (2006). First Edition.

Seller ID: vita5523

Bearing a personalized bookplate on the front free endpaper, inscribed ÒBest Wishes,Ó and signed by the author, ÒBill Bennett.Ó Octavo, maroon boards (hardcover), xvii, 573 pp. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
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Betts-Roosevelt Letters: A Spirited and Illuminating Discussion on a Pure Democracy, Direct Nominations, the Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall and the New York State Court of Appeals' Decision in the Workmen's Compensation Case.

By: Betts, Charles H..

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Lyons, NY: The Lyons Republican Company, 1912. First Edition.

Seller ID: 235fd

Betts' copy, inscribed and signed by him. Octavo, 3/4 leather and marbled boards (hardcover), gilt letters, marbled endpapers, 93 pp. Very Good, with lightly rubbed edges.
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Patriotism.

By: Bolton, H. W.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago: Transue & Grimm, 1890.

Seller ID: vita5514

Octavo, blue pebbled boards (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to spine, all edges red, viii, 305 pp. From Introduction: I have read with great profit the addresses embodied in this volume, and, after perusing them, felt as one of the millions who in 1861-65 showed their love for liberty and country. Every young man especially, whether native or foreign born, should read patriotic utterances, since otherwise he is apt to become indifferent to the institutions to which he is indebted for the freedom he enjoys. The perpetuity of the Union depends upon the instruction given the young, f...
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Sketches of Universal History, Sacred and Profane, from the Creation of the World to the Present Time. The Fifth Edition, In Four Parts, Embracing a Concise View of the Political Administrations of the American Presidents.

By: Butler, Frederick.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Hartford: Roberts & Burr, Printers, 1823.

Seller ID: vas5348

Duodecimo, mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine, iv, [5]-412 pp. Frontis., plates. Very Good; an old professional spine repair; some foxing.
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The Bold and Magnificent Dream: America's Founding Years, 1492-1815. [The Doubleday Basic History of the United States].

By: Catton, Bruce and William B. Catton.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978.

Seller ID: 00269s

Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 495 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing (age darkened spotting), in a like dust jakcet with slight fading to spine. Includes bilbiography, maps, and index. ÒThis is the story of America, from Columbus and the Colonial Age through the War of 1812 -- told with rare eloquence and power by two eminent historians...They move perceptively through the complex ideological, economic, and social forces that led to the establishment of European colonies on the North American continent. And they describe the vigorous movement to independence...Here, ...
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The Southeast in Early Maps. With an Annotated Check List of Printed and Manuscript Regional and Local Maps of Southeastern North America During the Colonial Period.

By: Cumming, William P.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, (1962).

Seller ID: 335453qs

Quarto, gray cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 284 pp. Near Fine. From Preface: This is a study of the historical cartography of the southeastern region of the North American continent before the American Revolution. It attempts to analyze the manuscript and printed maps of that area, showing the expansion of geographical knowledge through the periods of discovery and colonization, and at times relates these maps to other primary documents of the period. Through these cartographical records one can trace the origin and development of the fascinating misconceptions of the continent in t...
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A Williamsburg Galaxy.

By: Davis, Burke.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Published by Colonial Williamsburg, distributed by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1968]. Williamsburg in America Series, No. 6.

Seller ID: 70174s

Octavo, cloth (hardcover), 232 pp. Portraits. Fine in dust jacket.
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Three Years Among the Indians in Dakota. With a New Introduction by John M. Carroll.

By: Drips, J. H.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York: Sol Lewis, 1974. Limited Edition of 500.

Seller ID: vas5343

Octavo, red illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt letters and decorations to upper cover, black spine label edged in gilt, xv, 139 pp. Fine. From Introduction: One cannot deny the value of an eyewitness account of any event. Undeniable as well is the rarity of such accounts coming from the pens of enlisted men in the army. Some, such as Cox's Five Years in the Army, have become important human documents not only because of the aforementioned factor, but also due to limited printing of such records in the original. The J. H. Drips' narrative -- poor and misprinting notwithstanding -- is one...
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A Letter Addressed to Cadwallader D. Colden in Answer to the Strictures Contained in His ÒLife of Robert Fulton,Ó Upon... a Memorial Relative to Steam Navigation [on the Hudson], Presented to the Legislature of New-York, at the Session of 1814. With an Appendix, Containing the SEveral Laws Concerning Steam Boats...

By: Duer, William A.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1817. First Edition.

Seller ID: 9385gcs

Octavo, printed wrappers, uncut, 127 pp. One text illustration. Duer was chairman of the committee that drafted the law giving Livingston and Fulton navigation rights in the Hudson River and wrote two pamphlets in the law's defense, of which this is the first. An important New York lawyer, Duer was later president of Columbia. Covers chipped and wrinkled; nearly disbound.
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Travels in New England and New York. Edited by Barbara Miller Solomon with the Assistance of Patricia M. King. [Four volumes].

By: Dwight, Timothy.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1969.

Seller ID: 9337gcs

Four volumes. Octavo, silver-stamped brown cloth, lxii, 425 pp + xv, 413 pp + xv, 412 pp + x, 455 pp. Frontis. portrait, maps, facs. Near-Fine, with sticking of ffep to half-title of Volume I.
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Law in American History. Edited by Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University. Introduction by Byron R. White, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court.

By: Fleming, Donald and Bernard Bailyn; Editors.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston: Little Brown and Company, (1971).

Seller ID: 9251gcs

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xi, 677 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: Ever since its founding, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, has played a vital role in shaping and defining the goals of contemporary historical research in the United States. One of the Center's most signficiant ventures has been its sponsorship of Perspectives in American History, a series of interpretive volumes on topics of both scholarly and popular interest in the field of American history. Law in American Histor...
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1776, Year of Illusions.

By: Fleming, Thomas.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.

Seller ID: 4134s

First Edition. Octavo, red cloth, gilt letters, 525 pp. B & w illus. Very Good+ with former owner stamp and marks to endpapers from removed tape, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light fading to spine. Thomas Fleming writes, ÔWe have celebrated the heroic side of 1776 for a long time. Perhaps after two hundred years we are ready to look steadily at the dark side of the story as well. Perhaps by facing it, absorbing it, contemporary and future Americans will be spared the paroxysms of shock and dismay, the cries of despair and predictions of imminent doom which emanate from so many mouths...
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Address of Henry Prather Fletcher: American Ambassador to Italy at the Dinner of the Italy-America Society, New York City, November 11, 1924.

By: Fletcher, Henry Prather.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Published by the Author, 1924.

Seller ID: 51516bd

Duodecimo, paperbound (stapled, printed wrappers), 12 pp. Very Good. ÒMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very glad of this opportunity to meet the members of the Italy-America Society and their guests and to express, as American Ambassador, my deep appreciation of the good work being done and the excellent results accomplished by this Society in preserving and developing the friendly relations of our two countries, and to acknowledge the fine spirit of helpfulness and co-operation it brings to the support of the official representatives of both Governments...
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The National Calendar, and Annals of the United Sates; for MDCCCXXII, Vol. III.

By: Force, Peter.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washington City: Published Annually by Davis & Force, 1822.

Seller ID: vas5396

16mo, roan-backed marbled boards (leather backed hardcover), [viii], [13]-260 pp. Four plates (2 plans, 2 tables), 2 fold-out tables. Sabin 25056. In addition to a list of representatives and laws, it includes (among other things) a list of Customs Officials, Revenue amounts and sources, and a complete list of Army and Naval officers with the rank and present duty station of each. Ex-library copy bearing a bookplate, and two small stamps, one of which is a withdrawal; front hinge repaired with paper tape.
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Personal Narrative of Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of a Residence in the Illinois Territory; 1817-1818. Edited by Frederic Austin Ogg.

By: Fordham, Elias Pym.

Price: $90.00

Publisher: Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1960. First Edition.

Seller ID: 5537fd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), uncut, 248 pp., ads. Map, plans, plates. Howes F257. Very Good; former-owner signature, two small spots of discoloration on front cover, otherwise clean and tight.
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The Connecticut Register, and United States Calendar, for the Year of Our Lord 1820: Being the Forty-Fourth of the Independence of the United States.

By: Green, Samuel.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New London: Printed and Sold by Samuel Green, 1819.

Seller ID: vas5399

16mo, original wrappers, 176 pp. Good.
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The Connecticut Register, and United States Calendar, for the Year of Our Lord 1823...

By: Green, Samuel.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New London: Compiled, Printed and Sold by Samuel Green, 1822.

Seller ID: vas5400

16mo, original wrappers, 132, 28 pp. Good.
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Category: United States History