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1790106002<p>Partial manuscript printed receipt 3 1/2" x 7" decorative border signed. Missing most of the interest section a round hole indicating payment results in partial loss of text small hole in number 4 a little uneven normal aging; otherwise about very good. This is a receipt issued by the Comptroller’s office of Connecticut indicating that John Morgan is entitled to receive payment of one pound for an interest payment. Ralph Pomeroy Comptroller signs it. It is dated October 4 1790. </p> Hudson & Goodwin,
17883578Mutinae: Prostant Venetiis Apud Simonem 1788. Later Edition . Full-Leather. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. `. Brown leather boards. 2iii-xviii500p Interior very good.1 1/2" lether tear at head. Leather loss front right edge and lower right corner. 1" leather loss spine and tail. Tome I Latin Text. Editio Novissima. <br/> <br/> Prostant Venetiis Apud Simonem hardcover
1790016799<p>Connectict: Hudson and Goodwin 1790. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. ORIGINAL HAND WRITTEN AND PRINTED COLONIAL STATE OF CONNECTICUT October 1790 SIGNED TAX RECEIPT Combination hand writing and printing Colonial border design around 5x7 inch Seven sentences of print and script Hartford Printer Hudson And Goodwin with Signature Treasurer Very Good shape original hole punched by the State of Connecticut in center of document. Two halves One piece of clear tape holding together Flip side signed and inscribed beautiful flowing script"John Dodd" Photo on request.</p> Hudson and Goodwin
17619316Dublin: Printed for Richard Watts in Skinner-Row and Laurence Flin in Castle-Street. Poor. 1761. Hardcover. xii 196 pp 26 index 2 leaves pub. ads; 16mo; full brown calf. Front board detached; ownership signature Thomas Knight 1829 with four line note "Collection of Irish History from the reign of Elizabeth etc. front endpaper. Thomas Knight's name also written vertically accross top portion of title page. At the end of the half page of text on xii begins in a miniscule holograph hand presumed by Knight an account of Lady Davies who according to the preceeding Author's Life "had or pretended to have a spirit of prophecy" and it was reported that she predicted her husband's death the Sunday before his being found dead of an apoplexy on the morning of Thursday 8th of December 1626 just before his installation as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The writing continues onto the next blank page printed oddly with only the words HISTORICAL RELATIONS the preceeding page also having the word HISTORICAL printed below the text apparently relating an anecdote about Lady Davies who having made prophecies of bad luck for the Duke of Buckingham and other predictions of a mischevious nature was brought before the High Commission where the proceedings apparently involved her claims of the prophet Daniel infused into her body based on an anagram of her name Eleanor Davies and ultimately being "shot with arrows from her own quiver" by the Bishop suggesting Dame Eleanor Davies - never so mad a lady. What fun in the margins. . Printed for Richard Watts in Skinner-Row and Laurence Flin in Castle-Street hardcover
1785194908London : His Majesty's printers for T. Cadell 1785. First Edition. Hardback. Good copy in a contemporary binding of cloth-backed boards. MS-titled label to spine. Spine and panel edges considerably worn with surface stains and general wear. Internally all pages are present and bound and in quite sound condition. Rough-trimmed pages. POS to title page.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 758 pages; Description: 1v. : 758p. Tables ; 30cm. Subjects: Finance Public - Great Britain. Contents: 8th report - 9th report - 10th report - 11th report - 12th report. Volume 2 of a 3-volume series. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog ESTCT1767. London : His Majesty's printers, for T. Cadell hardcover
1796049671Hartford CT: Hudson & Goodwin 1796. First 10 pages of introductory material absent including title page we determined title and age by matching to Evans 30260. Begins with six pages of index bdginning with L for Leather then proceeds to page enumerated as 1 which is The Charter of the antient Colony of Connecticut remaining pages present. Heavily worn sheep leather with black spine label spine split as is the text block many pages detached paper brittle many chips and tears very minor wormhole to bottom of the last 100 pages or so pages age-toned with some occasional spotting index pages that are present are browned and heavily chipped. Front free endpaper actually present and the faint offsetting from the missing title page confirms the title. Certainly no better than a binding or research copy. Hard Cover. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hudson & Goodwin Hardcover
1792E9535New York: Thomas Greenleaf 1792. Hardcover. Modern two-toned cloth covered boards with spine imprinted in gilt "The Constitution of the State of New York 1777". 508 pp. Lacking any preliminaries and the title page so that the first page of text is the start of the printing of the state constitution. Interior is quite clean and complete some foxing on the final page of the text. <br/><br/> Thomas Greenleaf hardcover
17394412Paris France: Hippolyte-Louis Guerin 1739. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/n/a. 18mo 6.5"x4". 392pp. Leather wrapped boards. Faded gilt decorations to spine. Significant shelfwear and rubbing. Corners and extremes bumped and crushed. Eight places where leather has fallen away. With the most significant to spine and front board 1"x1". See photos. Fading to red colored text block edge. Mild wave to textblock. Textblock toned though no spotting. Missing rear endpaper. Not the most handsome book but it is holding together. Text in French. Volume Two only. Hippolyte-Louis Guerin hardcover
1798031EV1Printed by W. Ross Philadelphia: . 1798 131 p. Publisher's device on title page. Light XLib stamp of the Mercantile Library on title page and elsewhere. Light dampstain. Lacks fly leaves. Top edge gilt. Small 8vo. 200 mm. Disbound - removed. Good. Title continues: 'Published by the Secretary of State Timothy Pickering In conformity with the Resolution of Congress of the 22d June 1798.' The envoys were: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney 1746-1825; John Marshall 1755-1835; and Elbridge Gerry 1744-1814. An important document in the quasi-war with France 1798. Evans 34838. Sabin 34870. Quite scarce. EVANS1. Hardcover. Printed by W. Ross, Philadelphia: (). hardcover
1800mon0000028980S Low London 1800. Leather. Very Good. in x in x in. Rubbing to the covers of all volumes. Raised bands on the spine. I assume a paste on leather label of the title was on each volume at one point. It is no longer there on any of the vols. On Vol. 3 the binding is starting to crack on the outside at the front spine edge. The other three vols. the binding is fine. Vol. 1-438pp.; Vol. 2-534pp.; Vol. 3-448pp; Vol. 4-371pp. plus an appendix at the end of Vol. 4 of 175pp. S Low, London hardcover
1798018808PA: W. Ross 1798. Book. NVG. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Softcover with baby blue wrappers which are worn minor foxing thus near very good. What make this copy interesting is that it is signed by Yale professor and noted lawyer Roger M. Sherman. W. Ross Paperback
1794003621Philadelphia: Francis Bailey 1794. Hardcover. Good. Printed by Francis Bailey . . . for Edmund Hogan." xii 776 p.: tables; 22 cm. Contemporary full calf; red leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: "Hogan's State Trials." Although this is "Vol. I" no more published. First Edition. Early Am. Imprints ser. 1 Evans no. 27132. The Dedication by Edmund Hogan is dated Jan. 1795. Special title page for each trial: An Account of the Impeachment and Trial of the late Francis Hopkinson Esquire Judge of the Court of Admiralty for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and An Account of the Impeachment Trial and Acquittal of John Nicholson Esquire Comptroller-General of the State of Pennsylvania. The list of subscribers pp. ix-xii contains members of the Pennsylvania legislature and other prominent figures including Thomas Bradford Benjamin Franklin Bache William Bingham Tench Francis Albert Gallatin Jared Ingersoll Thomas Mifflin Robert Morris David Rittenhouse Arthur St. Clair and the Library Company. Includes a table with the votes in the Senate on Nicholson's trial and an alphabetical index of the letters official documents witnesses names of the speakers and other occurrences in the two trials. Inscription on front fixed endpaper covered by bookplate of the Belles Lettres Society of Dickinson College indicating that this was presented to the Society by Joshua Hoover in 1827. Written in pencil on front free endpaper: "Joshua Brinkle." Oval stamp of Dickinson College Library on both front endpapers. On the title page "J. P. Brinckle" is crossed out and "Kemp Roberts" written below. Francis Hopkinson 1737-1791 a Signer of the Declaration of Independence and composer was tried in 1780 on charges of accepting bribes; he was acquitted. John Nicholson d. 1800 financier Comptroller General of Pennsylvania and land speculator was charged with financial irregularities in 1793; he was acquitted. In Good Condition: loss of leather at ends of spine and in the middle of the spine including from the spine label; tear from fore-edge across pp. 55-56 without loss of text; light foxing; otherwise clean and solid. Francis Bailey hardcover
1759033598Philadelphia PA: William Dunlap "at the Newest Printing-Office in Market-Street" 1759. Book. Good. Full-Leather. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Full calf five raised bands. Leather shows surface rubbing rounded and exposed corners both covers reinforced/reattached by stitching along joints. Main title detached but present all other leaves firmly anchored. viii242vi220 pp. Interior shows typical signs of use including light to moderate foxing occasional light dampstaining some creased corners. Some fascinating period inscriptions: 1 main title: "John Gardiner's / Book / Given by His Mother / to Him Catharine Tomlinson / 178"; 2 front pastedown: partially decipherable undated Gloucester County New Jersey; 3 manuscript notes on blank verso of second title concerning the passing of two friends Bowman and Buchan on the same day month and year "2nd of the 4th mo. 1753" dated 2nd mo 18th 1818; 4 name of Elizabeth Easttaugh and date of 23 of 8th mo 1738 on blank recto of rear flyleaf; signature of John Gardiner on rear flyleaf. Howes B 668 combined edition. Quaker. William Dunlap, "at the Newest Printing-Office, in Market-Street" Hardcover
1797008977Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1797. Hardcover. Good. 4 ix 1 817 iii 34 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Names of two former owners at head of title page: Parker Campbell and Mathew Ritchie the latter crossed out. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was presented to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at ends of spine and corners; front joint is cracked; closed 5-cm. tear from the fore-edge of front free endpaper; occasional foxing generally light; otherwise clean and solid. Hall and Sellers hardcover
1797008976Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1797. Hardcover. Good. 4 913 1 64 iv 22 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Printing error: 737 and 738 were skipped in pagination no text is lacking. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was presented to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed; joints are cracked; minor loss at ends of spine; blank leaf preceding title page has one horizontal tear from the fore-edge almost to the gutter; occasional foxing generally light; otherwise clean and solid. Hall and Sellers hardcover
1795008978Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1795. Hardcover. Good. 2 xliii 1 793 1 v 21 p.; 32 cm. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Laws of Pennsylvania. Includes: "Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed at a Session which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday the Seventh Day of December in the Year One Thousand Seven and Ninety and of the Independence of the United States of America the Fifteenth. To Which are Prefixed the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth" Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers 1791. Former owner's name at head of title page and on front fixed endpaper: "Alex Addison 1796." Alex Addison 1759-1807 a Scottish immigrant was admitted to the washington County Pa. bar in 1787 and appointed the president judge of the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania in 1791. Bookplate on back fixed endpaper indicating that this was presented to the Washington County Historical Society by Janet M. Clark in 1905. Binder's error: final 4 pages of the Acts are bound in following the Laws of Pennsylvania title page. A heavy book; for international shipping it will have to be sent by priority international. In Good Condition: leather is rubbed with loss at ends of spine and corners; joints are cracked; old dampstaining at edges of some pages; occasional foxing generally light; otherwise clean and solid. Hall and Sellers hardcover
17760087821776. Near Fine -. 1 handwritten document of 4 pages 39 x 25 cm. folded. On 12 Dec. 1776 William Rowan of Fawn Township York Co. Pa. yeoman mortgaged 245 acres in Fawn Township to Beulah Paschall of the city of Philadelphia spinster for 300 pounds of Pennsylvania due by 12 Dec. 1783 with interest paid yearly. Signed by William Rowan; witnesses Peter Miller and Abraham Shoemaker; Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice Thomas Willing; and York County Recorder Samuel Johnston. Embossed paper stamp of Pennsylvania. The mortgagee was Beulah Paschall 1732-1793 a Philadelphia Quaker and owner of Cedar Grove. Thomas Willing 1731-1821 was a highly successful merchant and real estate developer as well as a Philadelphia Supreme Court Justice from 1767 to 1776. He served as the first president of both the Bank of North America and the Bank of the United States and supported the American Revolution. York County Recorder Samuel Johnston on the other hand had come to York County from England as an official representative of the Penn family. He held a variety of county offices at various times in addition to that of recorder of deeds: clerk of courts prothonotary and register of wills. When he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania during the Revolution he had to relinquish all public offices. However he did not opposed the Revolution. Two of his sons-in-law served as colonels in the American militia and two of his sons were privates. By 1786 Johnston lived in Maryland and was admitted as an attorny in Baltimore County. In Near Fine- Condition: just starting to separate along folds; minor soiling; otherwise bright and solid. unknown
1798001593Philadelphia Pa: William McCulloch 1798. Paperback. Good . 1 6-48 4 p.; 21 cm. Caption title. Disbound from a nonce volume. Signatures: B-G4 8vo. Lacking first 4 leaves title page and front matter. Publisher's advertisement on 4 unpaginated pages following text for "W. M'Culloch printer bookseller and stationer No. 306 Market near Ninth-Street Philadelphia." Although lacking title page this first and perhaps only issue of this religious periodical was definitely published by W. M'Culloch William McCulloch as p. 19 contains a letter addressed to "Mr. M'Culloch" regarding the insertion of a letter in "your first number" of his "Christian Magazine." Not in Early American Imprints 1st series Shaw & Shoemaker. No other copies of this publication have been located. It is not known whether there is any connection to the publication of same name begun in Edinburgh 1797. Although his work as a printer is not well-documented in Early American Imprints Evans or Shaw & Shoemaker this is the William McCulloch of "William McCulloch's Additions to Thomas's History of Printing." Contents: On the Gospel by Eubulus; The Extent of a Minister's Work in Preaching the Gospel by Beart; Observations on the Manner of Travelling in the Holy Land from Harmer; On Christian Hope by Benevolus; Extract from a letter from the Rev. Booth of London with a plan for the establishmend of a Baptist Society in London for the encouragement and support of Itinerant Preaching; The Death of the Saints Illustrated by C.R.; An Essay introductory to the Study of the Controversy Between Christians and Deists by Y.; The Life of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel; "A Treatise on the Truth of the Christian Religion" by James Vernet; 4 poems; publisher's advertisements. No other copies of this 18th-century religious periodical published in Philadelphia have been located. In Good Condition: disbound; lacking first 4 leaves including title page; light foxing throughout; old damp stain on last few leaves. William McCulloch paperback
1792008987Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews 1792. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Early American Imprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In contemporary marbled calf red morocco label with gilt lettering back viii 9-396 pp. Contains 28 sermons. Volume II only of the 2 volume set. Very Good a few pages with marginal marks and notations in pencil moderate toning throughout boards rubbed first front end page almost separated. The period ownership signature at title page of David Goodwin. Possibly David Goodwin c.1744-1825 who served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War later represented Charlestown in the Massachusetts legislature and he was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bible Society. Printed by Isaiah Thomas 1749-1831 the famous Yankee patriot printer newspaper editor historian and founder of the American Antiquary Society. I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews Hardcover
17902602240024Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin State of Connecticut 1790. First Edition. Manuscripts & Paper Collectibles. Very Good. Signed. Early Connecticut Ephemera Six State of Connecticut 1790 & 1791 Shilling and Pound Receipts for payment of Interest & Liquidated Debt by the State of Connecticut. Each signed by Comptroller Ralph Pomeroy. <br> Ralph Pomeroy 1737-1819 of Hebron Connecticut was the son of a Congregational minister and the nephew of Eleazar Wheelock who founded Dartmouth College. After graduating from the College of New Jersey worked in the ministry and teaching before settling in Hartford to practice law and engage in commercial trade. He was Wheelock's lawyer on retainer. He served as paymaster for Connecticut during the American Revolution and Deputy Quartermaster in the American forces. During the 1780s and 1790s Pomeroy served as a justice of the peace city alderman and state comptroller James McLachlan Princetonians 1748-1768: A Biographical Dictionary Princeton 1976 240-2. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, State of Connecticut unknown
175943057Lisboa: Impressa na Secretaria de Estado dos Negocios do Reino 1759. Removed from a larger volume. A very good fresh crisp copy tiny stain to fore edge pinprick to upper margin. 7 1 pp. 11.5 x 8 inches. Issued on the anniversary of the supposed plot against the King of Portugal by the Jesuits the "Lei de expulsão da Companhia de Jesus de Portugal e seus Domínios" of September 3 1759 promugated on October 3 1759 condemned the Jesuits as rebels and traitors banishing them from all Portuguese territiories under pain of death along with anyone who either helped or communicated with them. It was the culmination of a long list of actions by the Marquês de Pombal who was behind these laws and who had written in a letter to Conde de Unhão in February before the law was published that "nothing can be omitted or ought to be omitted to disarm the Jesuits' diabolical machinations so that they may not be reborn and any hidden roots remain in our land." This was reflected in the document which accused the Jesuits of attempting to assassinate the king ruin the kingdom destroy Portugal and "clandestinely pursuing the usurpation of the entire state of Brazil with such an artificial and so violent progress that if it was not promptly and effectively shut down".the Company of Jesus' goal would be accomplished. "within a space of less than ten years and become inaccessible and insurmountable." Dated and signed in print: "Dada no palacio de Nossa Senhora da Ajuda aos tres de setembro de mil setecentos cincoenta e nove. Rey." And then "Lisboa 3 de outubro de 1759 Rodrigo Xavier Alvares de Moura. Foi impressa na Secretaria de Estado dos Negocios do Reino." Printed as Section XIX of "Collecçaõ dos Breves Pontificios e Leys Regias . sobre a liberdade das pessoas . dos Indios do Brasil" Lisbon Impressa na Secretaria de estado por especial ordem de Sua Magestade 1759. See Gauz: Portuguese and Brazilian Books in the John Carter Brown Library 759/1. Impressa na Secretaria de Estado dos Negocios do Reino unknown
17892604070002Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin State of Connecticut 1789. Manuscripts & Paper Collectibles. Very Good. Early Connecticut Ephemera Six State of Connecticut 1789 1790 1791 Shilling and Pound Receipts for payment of Interest & Liquidated Debt by the State of Connecticut. Each signed by Comptroller Ralph Pomeroy. <br> Ralph Pomeroy 1737-1819 of Hebron Connecticut was the son of a Congregational minister and the nephew of Eleazar Wheelock who founded Dartmouth College. After graduating from the College of New Jersey worked in the ministry and teaching before settling in Hartford to practice law and engage in commercial trade. He was Wheelock's lawyer on retainer. He served as paymaster for Connecticut during the American Revolution and Deputy Quartermaster in the American forces. During the 1780s and 1790s Pomeroy served as a justice of the peace city alderman and state comptroller James McLachlan Princetonians 1748-1768: A Biographical Dictionary Princeton 1976 240-2. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, State of Connecticut unknown
1794007663Philadelphia: Robert Campbell 1794. Paperback. Good. 32 p.: woodcut illustration tables; 19 cm. Stitched. Wrapper included in page count. Wrapper title. Woodcut illustration of "The Anatomy of Man's Body as governed by the Twelve Constellations." "DJenkins" stamped at lower edge of front wrapper. Not in Early American Imprints or WorldCat. Very scarce. In Good Condition: restitched at some point; some chipping from fore-edges; old dampstaining heaviest on first 2 leaves; hole at upper corner of back wrapper with minor loss of printing from tables; corners creased. Robert Campbell paperback
1786conn1786Connecticut 1786. First Edition. Paper. Printing and signatures bright a. Summons to be enacted by the Sheriff in 1786 town of Salisbury County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut. Historical from the time period directly after the Revolutionary War when money collection was of high priority. Debt was in shillings just prior to when moving to US currency. Also includes receipt for payment of a debt in New York 1774.Both mounted in board under glass and frame. Remarkably bright and readable. Excellent piece of early Americana. Summons measures 8 x 6.25 inches. receipt 3 x 7.5 inches in frame measuring 11.5 x 9 inches.Printing and signatures bright and crisp light toning lines tatter to left edge and small cut to left lower corner unknown
179210204no place Dublin: no publisher Mills 1792. Fair. 1792. Softcover. i dedication to the Duke of Portland; B3 To the Public; 7-172pp.; 8vo; bound in later plain brown paper wrappers with title and imprint information in pencil front cover. Dampstain and tanning throughout more severe in the final few leaves but text is eminently readable. From the holdings of the late Ian Jackson. Francis Dobbs 1750-1811 was an influential member of the Irish Parliament barrister and writer on political and religious themes. Sir Jonah Barrington wrote of him: "His intellect was of an extraordinary nature; he seemed to posses two distinct minds - the one adapted to the duties of his profession; the other diverging from its natural center led him through wilds and ways rarely frequented by the human understanding - entangled him in a maze of contemplative deduction from revelation to futurity." . no publisher (Mills) (1792) paperback