PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN CITIZENS AND FAC-SIMILES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS
First edition of this remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.
First edition of this remarkable collection of silhouette portraits of prominent politicians and leaders, created by scissors artist William H. Brown.
Signed first printing of Hitchens's history of the famous defense of the principles behind the French Revolution, by the English-born American Revolutionary and author of COMMON SENSE.
First edition of this classic biography of the first president of the United States, including the scarce atlas volume.
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).
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.