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November 1796 ca.
Washington, George (1732-1799)
Farewell Address
Farewell Address, printed in "Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Together with the messages..."
GLC08021
1789
Morse, Jedediah
The American Geography / By Jedediah Morse
8vo. Signed on titlepage by George Washington with his engraved heraldic bookplate. Contemporary calf. With two fold-out engraved maps, as issued. Athenaeum Catalog (1897) p. 506 (item 161 in the GW's estate inventory), mentions that it was once...
GLC00176
Cushing, William (fl. 1789)
Acts passed at a Congress of the United States of America...
Containing the Bill of rights. This copy annotated by Assoc. Supreme Court Justice William Cushing; Collation: pi A-B4 C4(-C4)D-Z4 2A1 2B-2C4. With adverts. First 8vo edition and first unofficial edition of Acts passed at a Congress. Cushing's...
GLC00447
05 December 1791
Hamilton, Alexander (1755-1804)
Report of the Secretary of Treasury on the subject of manufactures
Howes H123. Disbound and boxed. One of Hamilton's most important reports as Secretary of Treasury, to justify his system of tariffs.
GLC00891
1790
Report... relative to... the support of the public credit...
Folio. Evans 22998 (2298?). Authored by Hamilton, called by DAB "one of his greatest state papers." First printing. Bookplate of Jolen [Johanne] White and ownership signature of William Henderson, a New York Federalist, manufacturer and friend of...
GLC00960
1799/01/15
Report of the inspectors of the state-prison [New York prison reform]
Printed by Loring Andrews.
GLC06232.06
1797
Observations on certain documents contained in... no. V & VI ...
Disbound. Printed by John Bioren for John Fenno. The famous "Reynolds pamphlet." Responding to charges against Hamilton of speculation while serving as Sec. of State. Howes H120, Evans 32222. Full title: "Observations on certain documents contained...
GLC05649.01
1796/05/14
An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt
Printed draft act of Congress, noting revisions of the bill.
GLC06547
1791/09/19
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Return of the whole number of persons... [census report]
GLC07833
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States...
Printed Quaker petition, containing letters and what is apparently the first printing of the first petition brought before Congress by free Blacks (p. 7) appealing for intervention against the Fugitive Slave Act, which is called "a Flagrant proof of...
GLC07442
May 1790
Unknown
The universal asylum, and Columbian magazine for May, 1790.
Pages numbered 267-326. Contains "History of the Life and Character of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D. &c." (pages 268-72), "Plan for Improving the Condition of Free Blacks" (281-82), "Thoughts on Female Education by Benjamin Rush" (continued from...
GLC07485.03
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