Litchfield, Connecticut: Np, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 62 pages. Illustrated by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel. A beautifully printed book by a woman author who focused on the gender issues of labor. She emphasizes not only the dignity of labor but its importance both from early history to its importance in the..... More
London: For J. Debrett (successor to Mr. almon) Opposite Burlington-House, Piccadilly, 1783. Octavo. Second edition. 115pp., (1) pp. errata. The British surrender at Yorktown proved to be one of the most decisive engagements in the 18th Century. While Yorktown's loss from the British point of view was often blamed purely..... More
Salem, MA: Cushing and Appleton, 1809. Octavo. 511 pages, errata (p. 512). From the Adams family to Yale Elihu. The family of Rev. Joseph Buckminster (page 88-89) is noted in the book and also written on the front pastedown the following biographical information: Great Grandfather Buckminster, Col. 1876, Essex Co,....Richard..... More
London: For Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. 12mo. Second Edition. In two volumes: Volume I, xii, 322 pages and Volume II, vii [1] 344 pages. The author was born in Glasgow in 1755, the daughter of an army officer who was posted to America where his family joined him..... More
Printed By John Wyeth: Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania, 1811. Small Octavo. 378 pages, [1] page (errata). Published in 1811 anonymously, he was born in 1752 and was raised in Philadelphia where he studied for the bar but when the American Revolution began, he raised a company and was taken captive by the..... More
Boston: Printed By Richard Draper, Printer of His Excellency the Governor, 1769. Octavo. 55 pages. The Rev. Jason Haven was a graduate of Harvard and a longtime pastor of the First Church of Dedham. He was initially most famous for requiring those guilty of fortification before the entire congregation and..... More
London: 1860. First Edition. Quarto. Portrait frontispiece, xvi, 437 pages, the subscriber's edition with subscriber's list, illustrated with 25 plates of which 3 are full page and several tinted maps, all with tissue guards present. In his work at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he distinguished himself in his work..... More