REPRESENTATION DU FEU TERRIBLE A NOUVELLE YORCK
[circa 1778]
Imaginative European peep show engraving of a major event within British occupied territory: the Great Fire of New York.
American Revolution
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DISCOURSES CONCERNING GOVERNMENT
MDCXCVIII [1698]
First edition of this major influence on the US Founders, "probably the best elementary book of the principles of government [...] which has ever been published in any language," according to Thomas Jefferson (1804 letter to Mason Locke Weems).
WASHINGTON'S MONUMENTS OF PATRIOTISM
1800
First edition of this collection of documents and writing by Washington published in the wake of his death, a work that helped shape his enduring image and legacy.
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