(Benjamin Franklin)

The Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Benjamin Franklin Celebration by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston in Symphony Hall, Boston January 17, 1906

Boston, Massachusetts General Court and the Boston City Council, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 113; burgundy cloth with a gilt bust of Franklin in profile at center of upper board, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. "Deaccessioned from the Connecticut Historical Society" with their bookplate but no additional markings whatsoever; Presentation copy inscribed by Samuel A. Green, Chairman of the Franklin Bi-Centennial Committee and dated September 10, 1906. Very nice addition to any Franklin Collection. Ill.: Illustrated with black and white frontis. Very good .

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Book number: 16370

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Keywords: Americana, Revolution, Benjamin Franklin. Illustrated with Black and White Frontis.

Cunningham, Jr., Noble E.

In Pursuit of Reason the Life of Thomas Jefferson

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xvi, (ii), 414, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; burgundy cloth lettered in silver in a pictorial dust jacket. One of the best single volume treatment of Mr. Jefferson's life. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18016

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Keywords: Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency Federal Period / War 1812 / Expansion

Guild, Reuben Aldridge

Footprints of Roger Williams

Providence, Tibbitts & Preston, 1886. First Edition, reprinted from the Providence Journal. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 48, index; printed tan wrappers; This copy extracted from a volume of bound pamphlets, wear to the spine. Reprinted from the Providence Journal, scarce in this original edition. .

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Book number: 19047

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Keywords: New Englandiana

McLaughlin, Jack

Jefferson and Monticello, the Biography of a Builder

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Paperback. Octavo; pp; viii, (ii), 481, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. A look at the Domestic Mr. Jefferson and his home as a reflection of the character of the builder. Minor edge wear else very good .

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Book number: 18064

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Keywords: Presidents, First Ladies & the Presidency

Sabine, Lorenzo

Address Before the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, in the Hall of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, Tuesday, Sept. 13th, 1859. The Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Major General James Wolfe, with Passages Omitted in the Delivery and Illustrative Notes and Documents

Boston, A. Williams & Co. for the Society, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto; pp; 100; original blue printed wrapper bound in, three quarter brown leather and marbled paper covered boards. This copy bears the tasteful bookplate of Edward Denham. There is a copy of this bookplate in the University of Delaware Collection. Spine eroded exposing the underlying spine backing, internally very good, many pages untrimmed.

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Book number: 17732

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Shelley, John C.

John Harvard and His Times

Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1908. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 331, (i), index, ad; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and twenty-three additional black and white plates from photographs; gilt decorated and lettered red cloth, top edge, gilt, mostly uncut. The biography of John Harvard (1607-38), English-born Puritan minister who moved to Massachusetts in 1637. Harvard University was established in 1639 and after the minister bequeathed in his will a sizeable amount and over 300 books to the university, the school was named after him. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17737

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Keywords: New Englandiana

Winship, George Parker

A Representative Massachusetts Puritan: Increase Mather. Considered in Relation to the Animadversions of Sundry Writers on the Colonial History of the Bay Colony, a Portion of Winship's Introductory Essay to Thomas Holmes' Bibliography of Increase Mather

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1931. First Edition, "a few copies printed for the friends of the author. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 11, (i); original printed cream wrappers. Portion of Winship's introductory essay to Thomas Holmes' bibliography of Increase Mather. This copy signed by Frank Carney, a beloved employee of the Harvard Libraries for over 50 years. Very good .

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Book number: 19046

Catalogue: Colonial & Revolutionary Period

Keywords: Massachusetts