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Other Early Republic (1784 - c.1830) Offerings

• Charles Thomson’s Secret Journal of the Confederation Congress, Including Detailed Description of the Great Seal and Negotiations for the Treaty of Paris to End the Revolutionary War
• George Washington’s “Justice and Public Good” Letter, Written Just Before Becoming the First President of the United States
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Authorizing Copper Coinage (the First Legal Tender Produced by U.S. Government)

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• Jefferson-Signed Patent Act of 1793
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Judiciary Act of 1793
• Jefferson’s Excessively Rare Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
• To Avoid Abuse from “bigots in religion...politics, or...medicine,” Thomas Jefferson Declines to Publish Benjamin Rush’s Private Correspondence
• Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
• Thomas Paine: “Contentment”
• Congress Begs the States for the Power to Regulate Trade and Negotiate Treaties
• Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania Ratification Debates, More, in 1787 Newspaper Run
• Charles Thomson (One of Only Two Men to Sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4) Sends Treaty of Paris Proclamation Officially Ending the Revolutionary War
• Jefferson’s Autograph Notes Explaining Napier’s Rule on Spherical Triangles, a Branch of Geometry Crucial to Astronomy, Geodesy, Navigation, & Architecture
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• Declaration of Independence Signer Samuel Huntington’s Copy of an Act of Congress Signed by Thomas Jefferson
• Former President and Future Confederate Supporter John Tyler Forcefully Defends the Fugitive Slave Act and the “Southern Cause,” Attacks the NY Press, and Plays up His Own Service in the War of 1812
• President Adams Writes to an Old Friend, Reflecting on the Vicissitudes of High Office
• Alexander Hamilton Writes to His Beloved Wife, Eliza, About the Deteriorating Health of Her Younger Sister, Peggy
• Early Printing of the Original Twelve Articles of the Bill of Rights
• Hamilton’s Advice to Holland Land Company on a New Law Relating to New York State’s Prohibition Against Foreigners Owning Land
• George Washington’s Second Thanksgiving Proclamation, Sent to American Consuls
• Georgia Constitution of 1798 Prohibits Both the Importation of Slaves and Emancipation by Legislation
• Hamilton LS to Bank of New York Advising That Collectors Will No Longer Receive Its Notes
• John Quincy Adams’ Copy of a Scarce South Carolina Printing of the Monroe Doctrine
• Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
• Hamilton Serves as Surety for Loan to Fellow Attorney and Second in His Duel with Burr
• Newport, Rhode Island Land Deed to Oliver Hazard Perry, Signed by the Wife, Six Daughters and Two Sons-in-law of Moses Mendes Seixas, Who Inspired George Washington’s Famous “to bigotry no sanction” Letter
• Rare document of Newport Jewish leader Moses Seixas – who wrote address that elicited George Washington’s most famous statement on religious freedom and citizenship
• The Justice Department’s First Publication: Attorney General Edmund Randolph’s Suggestions to Improve the New Federal Judiciary, Including Supreme Court Fixes
• Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton and Six Other Commissioners Ask the Governor of Georgia to Support Federal Funding of the Erie Canal
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress for Compensating Court Officers, Jurors, and Witnesses
• Mexican Revolution Hero José María Morelos taunts Spanish viceroy he met in military school: any bad news is fake news, he alone resisted, and his troops “attack and “don’t leave the action until they are victorious...”
• George Washington’s Famous Letter to American Roman Catholics: A Message of Thankfulness, Patriotism, and Inclusiveness
• Thomas Jefferson Pays Import Duty on Famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock
• Major General Alexander Hamilton Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
• Richard Varick’s Appointment as Mayor of New York City
• Bill of Rights: First House of Representatives Draft, Rare July 31, 1789 Newspaper Printing
• Hamilton LS on Declaration-Signer Philip Livingston's Estate, Ten Years After His Death
• James Monroe Defends his Actions in Futile Defense of Washington in War of 1812
• Manuscript Eulogy to George Washington Penned by R.I. Senator Foster During Senate Session
• Very Early 1790s Naturalization Certificate for Famous French Physician – One the First Persons to Become an American Citizen Under the First Naturalization Act
• Daniel Webster Details a Duel Challenge by Congressman John Randolph
• Significant Collection of the Worcester Magazine, Publisher Isaiah Thomas’ Protest against Advertising Tax. Filled with News of Shays’ Rebellion, and Federalist and Anti-Federalist Essays
• New Hampshire Acts Organizing the Election of 1792 -Washington’s re-Election
• Rare “Address to the People of the State of Connecticut,” the Report of Delegates from 97 Towns Who Met to Call for a Democratic Non-Theocratic State Constitution
• The Second Naturalization Act - Establishing Laws for Citizenship
• President John Quincy Adams’ Remarks & Toast Commemorating William Penn’s Landing
• Confederation Congress sends proposed Constitution to the states for ratification
• Secretary of State Pickering certifies five Acts of Congress relating to the Whiskey Rebellion, debtor’s prison, the estate of General Nathanael Greene, etc.
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• Large 1801 Folio Engraving of Thomas Jefferson as New President
• The News in 1815: 104 Issues of the Boston Patriot
• [Thomas Jefferson]. 1807 Acts of Congress, Including Law Abolishing Slave Trade, the Insurrection Act, and Lewis & Clark Content. First Edition.
• Connecticut Prepares for New Federal Constitution, Establishes Plan to Elect Senators and Representatives
• George Washington’s Address to the Roman Catholics in America
• Relieving Persons in Debtors Prison
• [George Washington] Rare Broadside Instructing Ships’ Captains re Impressment of American Seamen
• Iconic Pillars Illustration -- Celebrating Massachusetts’ Ratification and the Process of Erecting the “great federal superstructure”
• Accusing Recently Retired Hamilton of Financial Malfeasance
• Draft of Thomas Jefferson Circular, Addressing Duties of Consuls & Vice-Consuls
• Justice William Paterson Hold State Law Unconstitutional in Charge to Jury
• Newspaper Belonging to John Quincy Adams Reports Transfer of the Floridas to the U.S.
• U.S. Constitution – Contemporary List of States with Ratification Dates and Votes
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• Congress Authorizes a Mint, and President Washington Proclaims the Location of the Permanent Seat of Government
• President Washington Approves Establishment of Mint and Issues First Veto
• A Fatal Duel Set Up by N.C. Congressman & Later Republic of Texas’s Secretary of State
• “An Act to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States”
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• War of 1812 Hero, Early New Mexico Explorer, and the “First American Buried in California Soil”
• Adams Defends U.S. Constitution, First French Edition
• British Lieutenant Inventories Ammunition and Ordnance Taken from Americans in Burning of Washington
• Early Printing of a Bill to Establish the Treasury Department
• Harvard’s 1786 Graduating Class and Their Theses, Dedicated to Gov. James Bowdoin
• John Marshall’s Supreme Court Decides Osborn et al. v. The Bank of the United States, landmark 11^th Amendment Case
• Opposing the African Slave Trade - 1790 New Haven Sermon
• Eighteenth-Century Archive from Hartford Free Grammar School, the Second Oldest Secondary School in America
• Caleb Cushing, U.S. Congressman,
  Calls for Annexation of Canada
• Secretary of War Orders Payment for Georgia State Militia Called Out to Prepare for War With the Creeks
• September 1789 Printing of the Act Establishing the Treasury Department, Along With Important Congressional Debates on Organizing the Federal Judiciary
• The New U.S. Senate Considers Bill to Organize the Federal Judiciary: Full Text of the Senate Bill to Establish the Supreme Court, Federal Judicial Districts and Circuit Courts, as Well as the Position of Attorney General
• Continuing Controversy Over Contested 1824 Election, Maryland Governor Accuses North Carolina Congressman of Lying To Hide His Vote for J.Q Adams over Andrew Jackson
• Harvard’s 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
• William Pinkney, Ripped Off by the Government
  for His Work on Jay’s Treaty, Declares
  “I Do Not Owe The Government One Farthing”
• Elisha Boudinot: Vermont Voters Disgraced Themselves by Reelecting a Congressman Who Was Jailed for Violating the Sedition Act
• Receipt for Jewelry for Rachel Jackson
• Jonathan Williams - First Superintendent of West Point and First Head of the Army Corps of Engineers - Assesses New York Harbor Defenses
• Director of Ordnance on Loan of Gunpowder to DuPont and Private Individuals; forwards Copy of Prior Letter Informing Secretary of War John Calhoun of his Objection
• First Army Chief of Ordnance Rails against Military Waste in a Very Modern Essay
• James Madison’s Second Inaugural Address,
  in a Rare New York Irish Newspaper
• Henry Clay ALS, Responding to St. Nicholas Society Speech, Takes a Jab at Martin Van Buren
• Maryland Ratifies the Constitution, Suggests Amendments; and Pennsylvanians Speak Out Against the Slave Trade
• Jefferson’s Response to the New Haven Merchants’ Remonstrance, and his First Inaugural Address
• James Monroe & Congress Support the Independence Movements of Spain’s American Colonies
• James Madison’s First Inaugural Address, Asserting Neutral Rights in Prelude to the War of 1812
• Franklin on Revealed Religion, and South Carolina on Freedom of Religion
• N.J. Congressman Praises Andrew Jackson After His 1824 Presidential Election Loss in the House of Representatives
• Reporting the Infamous XYZ Affair
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• 1790 Massachusetts Newspaper Discussing Nantucket Whalers
• An Act to Incorporate the Ohio Insurance Company
• John Hancock Addresses Massachusetts Legislature
• The U.S.S. Chesapeake Prepares for the Mediterranean, and the Senate Debates Judiciary Establishments
• During Peninsular War in Europe and Rebellions in Latin America Transmitting Order of Spanish Colonial Cuban Government Restricting American Imports to Cuba
• Jefferson’s Proclamation on the State of Affairs with England (1807)
• A History of Harvard University; North Carolina Debates Ratifying the Constitution; and a List of Newly-Minted U.S. Senators
• Andrew Jackson’s First Inaugural Address in Maryland Newspaper
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication
• The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution and Founding

Other Books Offerings

• July 8, 1776 – The First Book Printing of the Declaration of Independence, and One of the First Printings
• General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America, Printed by Benjamin Franklin
• General Washington Orders Declaration of Independence Read to Army in New York

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• One of the Earliest Announcements of Independence
• Unique Inscribed Set of John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, With Joseph Story Letter to the Daughter of the Late Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston, Conveying Marshall’s Thanks and Noting That He Will Be Sending to Her These Very Books
• Early Printing of the Original Twelve Articles of the Bill of Rights
• California Constitution First Printing in Book Form–One of Earliest Printings in San Francisco
• Early Printing of the U.S. Constitution, in American Museum—One of the First Two Magazine Printings of the Constitution
• South Carolina’s Reconstruction Governor’s Copy of Reconstruction Acts, Including Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment
• The Psalms of David, Carried in a Rhode Island Revolutionary War Unit in 1776
• 1865 General Orders,
  Including Many Regarding Lincoln’s Assassination
• Hand-Made Union Patriotic and Religious Song Book
• Accusing Recently Retired Hamilton of Financial Malfeasance
• Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press
• First Edition of FDR’s Committee for Civil Service Improvement Report, Signed by Three Supreme Court Justices
• Justice William Paterson Hold State Law Unconstitutional in Charge to Jury
• The Pentagon Papers:
  William Bundy’s Annotated Copy
• A General Account of … Using Atomic Energy
  for Military Purposes
• Adams Defends U.S. Constitution, First French Edition
• FDR Signed Engraving of White House Bound in The Democratic Book 1936
• Opposing the African Slave Trade - 1790 New Haven Sermon
• Unique Sea Mosses Book Sold at the New York Metropolitan Fair to Benefit Sick and Wounded Union Troops
• American Christian Palestine Committee Scrapbook from 1951 Trip to Israel & Arab Lands
• Masonic Constitution Dedicated to George Washington, with frontispiece Masonic Coats of Arms by Future Chief Engraver of the US Mint
• A Scarce Record of Thomas Dorr’s Trial for Treason
  After His Failed Revolt
• John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
  and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
• The Defense in Ex parte Milligan Argues That Even During War the Federal Government Can’t Use Military Trials Where Civilian Courts Are Operative
• “Freedom to Serve”: Secretary of Defense’s Copy of Seminal Report on End of Official Racial Discrimination in the Armed Forces
• Carrie Chapman Catt’s Book, with editor’s letter promoting the “Co-Workers Edition” – to a noted Chicago Suffrage leader, millionaire and vice chair of Republican Party
• Extremely Unwoke Women’s Suffrage Views by a Chicago Italian-American Attorney
• Illinois Governor Richard Yates’ Fourth of July Address at the End of Civil War – Unhappy that the Nation Would not Execute Jefferson Davis