Revolutionary & Federal Miscellany including Continental Works

A collection of 38 publications concerning or dating from the Revolutionary and Federal period, various sizes, generally very good condition although many lack half-titles. Various bindings, mostly recent boards or wrappers, some disbound. Comprising:



A German Freeholder, to His Countrymen [in opposition to the election of Joseph Galloway]. [Philadelphia: William Goddard, 1770]. Broadside (8 x 7 1/4 in.; 204 x 184 mm); inlaid, some spotting at left edge. Matted, blue half-morocco folding case. Evans 11665 — Common Sense: in Nine Conferences, between a British Merchant and a Candid Merchant of America. London: J. Dodsley, 1775. 4to, uncut (Adams, Controversy 75-29) — [Rokeby, Matthew Robinson-Morris]. Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America. London: Printed. Boston, Re-printed by Edes & Gill, 1774. 8vo; some browning and occasional spotting. Old three-quarter morocco, upper cover detached. (Adams, American Independence 134f) — America Pois'd in the Balance of Justice. London: for the author & John Williams, [1776]. 4to, engraved frontispiece and tail-piece; browned, lower outer corner frayed with crude mends. Three-quarter morocco. (Adams, Controversy 76-4) — Vincenzio Martinelli. Istoria del Governo d'Inghilterra. Florence: Cambiagi, 1776. 8vo, half-title; some soiling. Contemporary decorated paper wrappers, green half-morocco slipcase. — [Augustus Keppel] Extrait du Journal de l'Armée Navale du Roi - Supplément a la Gazette du Lundi 3 Août 1778, no. 62, pages 281-284, and no. 65, pages 297-298. 4to, brown half-morocco folding-case — [William Meredith]. Historical Remarks on the Taxation of Free States. London: Printed the Sixteenth of November, 1781. 4to. (Adams 78-71b) — [Delaunay]. Histoire d'un Pou François, ou L'Espion. "Paris" [Geneva: Jean Abraham Nouffer], 1781. 8vo. Satire on Franklin and current politics. Sabin 32029 — Drie Samen-Spraaken, tusschen Lodewyk, Coenraat en Frans ... [1781]. 8vo, stitched as issued, blue half-morocco clamshell box. — Onzydige overwegingen over den Oorlog tusschen Groot-Brittannien en de Vereenigde Provincien van Nederland uit het Fransch vertaald. Utrecht: B. Wild, 1783. 8vo, wrappers, gray half-morocco folding-case. — Costituzione degli Stati-Uniti d'America preceduta dall loro confederazione. Milan: Sonzogno & Co., 1814. 8vo; some marginal spotting. Wrappers, half-morocco clamshell box. — Robert Walsh. An Appeal from the Judgements of Great Britain Respecting the United States of America. Part First. London: John Miller, Mitchell, Ames & White, 1819. 8vo, unopened. Contemporary boards; upper cover detached. Blue half-morocco slipcase. Howes W-67 — plus 26 others.

generally very good, although many lack half-titles, various bindings, a few disbound.
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