1782

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a peace or truce with certain colonies

GLC03562.29

1782

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better detaining, and more easy exchange of American prisoners...

GLC03562.30

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to repeal... two acts... as prohibits trade.. with the United States

GLC03562.31

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for preventing certain instruments being required... [trade related]

GLC03562.32

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for appointing commissioners to enquire into the losses [for Tories]

GLC03562.33

24 December 1814

Great Britain. Treaties.

Pamphlet

Title: A Treaty of peace and Amity [Treaty of Ghent. Official British printing]

Printed by R. G. Clarke. [duplicate of GLC 3985.18]

GLC03562.34

1853-1857

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864

Book signed

Title: Information respecting the history condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States

Six volumes of a series entitled, "Information respecting the history condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States," published in 1853- 1957. Contains the results of a study commissioned by Congress to collect statistics on the condition of indigenous peoples of the United States. Volumes 1-4 are signed by the author and inscribed to Clamor Hagedorn. Volume 1 contains 568 p. ; volume 2 contains 608 p. ; volume 3 contains 635 p. ; volume 4 contains 668 p. ; volume 5 contains 712 p. ; volume 6 contains 756 p.

GLC03679

1875

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

Book signed

Title: Memoranda During the War [presentation copy to J.Q.A. Ward]

Inscribed on a printed "Remembrance Copy" notice. To Ward from "his friend the Author."

GLC03737

1 January 1853

McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

Book signed

Title: A Treatise on field fortification

A copy of Dennis H. Mahan's "A Treatise on Field Fortification" signed by James B. McPherson. The full title of the book is"A treatise on field fortification : containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications." McPherson signs just before the title page, and also writes the date. The book contains twelve fold-out lithographic plates. It was printed in 1852 in New York by John Wiley. Original binders stored separately.

GLC03746.02

1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Report... on... establishing a uniformity in... weights and measures

Full title: "Report of the Secretary of State, on the subject of establishing a uniformity in the weights, measures, and coins of the United States." Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine. Jefferson's report on standardizing weights, measures and coins. This report is a primary document in the establishment of the federal government and in the implementation of Jefferson's ideas concerning science and government. Politically the report would bind the nation together as a unit with similar measures, and inventions would be encouraged by uniformity in standards. Jefferson also felt…

GLC03756

1794

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794

Book

Title: Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States... [Incomplete]

Boston edition. Title continues, " ... to which are added the United States Militia Act passed in Congress, May 1792, and the Militia Act of Massachusetts, passed June 22, 1793." Steuben's name is spelled Stuben. Printed for David and John West, Boston, Massachusetts. Missing pages 61-62 and some engravings and plates. Original leather binding.

GLC03760.02

1877

Jackson, William Hicks, 1835-1903

Book

Title: Descriptive catalogue of photographs of North American Indians

Printed by the Government Printing Office. This document is a catalogue intended to systematize the collection of photographs taken of Native Americans during the United States Geological Survey of the Territories.

GLC03775.01

1794

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Book

Title: A Defence of the Constitutions of the government of the United States...

New Edition, with a preface extracted from Jedediah Morse's American Geography, describing Adams. Printed by John Stockdale. Bound in contemporary tree calf with gilt edges.

GLC03771.01

1781

Delolme, Jean L., fl. 1781

Book

Title: The Constitution of England... [3rd edition]

Jean-Louis Delolme's treatise The Constitution of England, published in multiple French and English editions, is said by R. R. Palmer to have had greater impact on pre-Revolutionary continental views of British politics, than did the Montesqieu's Spirit of the Laws (The Age of the Democratic Revolution, Princeton, 1959, 2: 145.)

GLC03771.02

1861

Wallis, Severn Teackle, 1816-1894

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Committee on Federal Relations in Regard to the Calling of a Sovereign Convention

Also on the committee were J.H. Gordon, G.W. Goldsborough, James T. Briscoe, and Barnes Compton. Printed by E.S. Riley in Frederick, Maryland. Opposes all efforts to defeat rebellion in the Confederate States. Says "If a President of the United States, under the fraudulent pretence of suppressing unlawful combinations in Louisiana and Florida, could be permitted to call out troops, to be used for any purpose in Maryland or Virginia, no soil of any State would be free from invasion, and no right of the citizen anywhere would be secure against overthrow" (pg. 4). Claims the war is…

GLC03773.01

1865

Baxter, S.S., fl. 1865

Pamphlet

Title: Free Masonry and the War

Full title is "Free Masonry and the War. Report of the Committee Under the Resolutions of 1862, Grand Lodge of Virginia, in Reference to Our Relations as Masonic Bodies and as Masons; in the North and South, Growing Out of the Manner in Which the Present War Has Been Prosecuted." Written by Baxter as Chairman of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Ordered to be published by John Dove, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. Printed by Charles H. Wynne in Richmond. Report written as a "vindication of our position, and the position of our country in the present conflict between the…

GLC03773.02

1865

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of North Carolina

Printed at the "Daily Confederate" Office in Raleigh. Consists of the proceedings of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina for 1864. Back of cover says these proceedings should be "read at some convenient time, for the information of members of their respective Lodges." Lists dues collected, lodges in North Carolina, and returns of members in each lodge in the state. Stab-stitched in original wrappers. Slight water damage. Some folds in the booklet.

GLC03773.03

13 June 1798

Pamphlet

Title: House Report re: sale of lands North-west of the Ohio River

Evans 34780.

GLC03774.01

1799

Pamphlet

Title: House Report re: accepting cession of CT's Western Reserve

Connecticut gave up the territory west of Pennsylvania.

GLC03774.02

1776-1779

Book

Title: Journals of Congress v. 2 and 4

Declaration of Independence printed in v. 2

GLC03672.01

1795

United States. Treaties, etc.

Pamphlet

Title: Treaty of amity, commerce and navigation between Great Britain and United States

Printed by Edward Johnston. Official British printing of Jay's Treaty. Signed on 19 November 1794. ADD REFERENCES.

GLC03673.01

1797

Pamphlet

Title: A bill for carrying into execution the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation

Printed docket.

GLC03673.02

1783

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Pamphlet

Title: Preliminary articles of peace between...Brittanick Majesty and the King of Spain

First official english publication of preliminary articles of peace between England and Spain. Printed by T. Harrison and S. Brooke. References: American Controversy 83-44, Davenport 170.

GLC03985.10

1778

France. Treaties, etc.

Book

Title: Treaty of amity and commerce between the U.S. and France

Printed by De L'imprimerie Royale. First official printing.Treaty of friendship and commerce. One of the first two treaties concluded by the United States. Signed on 6 February 1778.

GLC03985.12

1778

United States. Treaties, etc.

Book signed

Title: Treaties of amity and commerce and of alliance...

Printed by Draper and Folsom. First American printings. The two treaties with the French were the first made by the United States. Signed on 6 February 1778.

GLC03985.13