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WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799. Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, &c. [and] The Conclusion of Major Washington's Journal, begun in our last. In: The Maryland Gazette. Annapolis, MD: Jonas Green, March 21-28, 1754. Nos 463-464.. Sold for US$173,000 inc. premium

THE FIRST SECESSION BROADSIDE. Charleston Mercury Extra ... The Union is Dissolved! Charleston, SC, December 20, 1860.. Sold for US$35,000 inc. premium

THE CAUSES AND NECESSITIES OF TAKING UP ARMS. [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.] A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the Causes and Necessity of their Taking Up Arms ... July 6th, 1775. [Portsmouth, N.H.]: Sold at the printing-office in Portsmouth [by Daniel Fowle, 1775].. Sold for US$22,500 inc. premium

IMPORTANT MORMON LETTER ABOUT THE FIRST MAJOR CALIFORNIA GOLD STRIKE. POMEROY, IRENE. 1835-1860. Autograph Letter Signed ("Irene"), 4 pp recto and verso,. Sold for US$7,500 inc. premium

GERONIMO, SON & TWO PICKED BRAVES. Albumen print photograph, 4 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches, Tombstone, Arizona, 1886,. Sold for US$3,750 inc. premium

LOUIS XIV ROYAL WALL ALMANAC FOR 1701. Le Roy declare Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou Roy d'Espagne.... Paris: F. & G. Landry, [1700].. Sold for US$2,375 inc. premium

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SIEGE OF ORLEANS.
[TORTOREL, JEAN, and JACQUES PERISSIN.]
Orleans assiegé au mois de Ianuier, 1563. [Geneva, c.1570.]

US$500 - US$800

[SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT.] Ausszug neuwer Zeitungen. Aussz der rom. kai. Mai. Feldleger inn Hungern, zwo meil under Rab, von dem 30. Augusti: 1566. Augsburg: Zimmerman, 1566.

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[SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT.]
Ausszug neuwer Zeitungen. Aussz der rom. kai. Mai. Feldleger inn Hungern, zwo meil under Rab, von dem 30. Augusti: 1566. Augsburg: Zimmerman, 1566.

Sold for US$500 inc. premium

TRIAL OF WILLIAM PARRY, SPY AND POTENTIAL ASSASSIN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. A True and plaine Declaration of the horrible Treasons, practised by William Parry the Traitor, against the Queenes Maiestie. The maner of his Arraignment, Conviction and execution.... London: C[hrisopher] B[arker], [1585].

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TRIAL OF WILLIAM PARRY, SPY AND POTENTIAL ASSASSIN OF QUEEN ELIZABETH.
A True and plaine Declaration of the horrible Treasons, practised by William Parry the Traitor, against the Queenes Maiestie. The maner of his Arraignment, Conviction and execution.... London: C[hrisopher] B[arker], [1585].

Sold for US$1,750 inc. premium

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EIGHTY YEARS WAR: SIEGE OF STEENWIJK.
Wie Steinwick von Graff Moritz erobert wirdt ... 4 July 1592. [Germany, c.1592.]

Sold for US$162.50 inc. premium

TRAVELS TO BRAZIL. LÉRY, JEAN DE. 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. [Geneva:] heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.

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TRAVELS TO BRAZIL.
LÉRY, JEAN DE. 1534-1611.
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. [Geneva:] heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.

US$6,000 - US$9,000

ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION OF HENRI IV. HOGENBERG, FRANS, attributed. Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594. [N.p.: 1594.]

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ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION OF HENRI IV.
HOGENBERG, FRANS, attributed.
Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594. [N.p.: 1594.]

US$400 - US$600

GUNPOWDER PLOT & EXECUTION OF GUY FAWKES. [HOGENBERG, ABRAHAM.] Eigentliche Abbildung wie ettlich englische Edelleut einen Raht schließen den König sampt dem gantzen Parlament mit Pulfer zuvertilgen. [Cologne: Hogenberg], February 1606 (i.e. 1607).

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GUNPOWDER PLOT & EXECUTION OF GUY FAWKES.
[HOGENBERG, ABRAHAM.]
Eigentliche Abbildung wie ettlich englische Edelleut einen Raht schließen den König sampt dem gantzen Parlament mit Pulfer zuvertilgen. [Cologne: Hogenberg], February 1606 (i.e. 1607).

Sold for US$1,875 inc. premium

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FIRST AFRICAN AMBASSADOR TO EUROPE.
Contrafactur deß Gesanten des Königs zu Congo in Africa an die Bäbstl.... Augsburg: Christoff Mang, [1608].

Sold for US$1,062.50 inc. premium

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ROWDINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY.
Document Signed ("Nathanniell Bowman"), 1 p, oblong 8vo, [Watertown, Mass, c.1636],

Sold for US$2,000 inc. premium

PUBLIC PRAYER AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. Act for the uniformity of publique prayers, and administration of sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies: and for establishing the form of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons in the Church of England (caption title). London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662.

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PUBLIC PRAYER AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
Act for the uniformity of publique prayers, and administration of sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies: and for establishing the form of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and deacons in the Church of England (caption title). London: John Bill and Christopher Barker, 1662.

US$600 - US$900

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PLYMOUTH COLONY IN 1665.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, quarto,

US$1,000 - US$1,500

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GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Platte Grondt der Stadt London met de Aenwysinghe Hoe die Afgebrandt Is. Amsterdam: Frederick de Wit, 1666.

Sold for US$6,875 inc. premium

ANGLO-DUTCH WARS. Description exacte de tout ce qui s'est passe dans les guerres entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Etates des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas, & l'Evesque de Munster.... Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668.

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ANGLO-DUTCH WARS.
Description exacte de tout ce qui s'est passe dans les guerres entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Etates des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas, & l'Evesque de Munster.... Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668.

US$600 - US$900

KING PHILIP'S WAR, ADDRESS TO TROOPS. Manuscript Document, "A Letter written when the Souldiers were at Naragansett in the Armey January 1675," 1 p, folio, n.d., n.p.,

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KING PHILIP'S WAR, ADDRESS TO TROOPS.
Manuscript Document, "A Letter written when the Souldiers were at Naragansett in the Armey January 1675," 1 p, folio, n.d., n.p.,

Sold for US$2,125 inc. premium

DEATH OF CHARLES II. [CHARLES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1630-1685. & JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1633-1701.] The London Gazette. London: Thomas Newcomb, February 5-9, 1684/5.

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DEATH OF CHARLES II.
[CHARLES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1630-1685. & JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1633-1701.]
The London Gazette. London: Thomas Newcomb, February 5-9, 1684/5.

Sold for US$475 inc. premium

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1687 CATSKILLS LAND DEED.
Manuscript Land Grant, 1 p, folio, [Albany], New York, May 23, 1687,

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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MASSACHUSETTS PURITAN LETTER.
ALLIN, JAMES. 1657-1696.
Autograph Letter Signed ("James Allin"), 1 p, folio, n.p., October 12, 1688,

Sold for US$437.50 inc. premium

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LOUIS XIV SATIRICAL BROADSIDE.
HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE. 1645-1708.
Mardi Gras de Cocq a L'Ane. Antwerp: Cornelis Woons, 1690.

US$800 - US$1,200

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VOYAGE TO VIRGINIA WITH "A WITCH ABOARD."
The Athenian Mercury. London: J. Dunton, 1691.

US$1,200 - US$1,800

SALEM WITCH TRIALS. Memoirs of the Present State of Europe, or the Monthly Account of Occurrences Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military. Vol II. No 1 [-12]. London: printed for Robert Clavel and Jonathan Robinson and Samuel Crouch, 1692-93.

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SALEM WITCH TRIALS.
Memoirs of the Present State of Europe, or the Monthly Account of Occurrences Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military. Vol II. No 1 [-12]. London: printed for Robert Clavel and Jonathan Robinson and Samuel Crouch, 1692-93.

US$6,000 - US$8,000

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NEW HIGHWAY IN PENN'S PENNSYLVANIA.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, Philadelphia, August 10, 1697,

Sold for US$750 inc. premium

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WHALING IN AMERICA, 1699.
Votes of the House of Commons. London: for Edward Jones & Timothy Goodwin, April 27, 1699.

US$500 - US$800

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17TH CENTURY COLONIAL POSTAL HISTORY.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Adam Winthrop"), 1 p, folio, London, September 23, 1699,

Sold for US$600 inc. premium

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KING WILLIAM'S WAR.
ALLEN, JEREMIAH.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Jer. Allen" with flourish), 1 p, folio (conjoined address leaf), Boston, October 16, 1699,

Sold for US$937.50 inc. premium

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LOUIS XIV ROYAL WALL ALMANAC FOR 1701.
Le Roy declare Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou Roy d'Espagne.... Paris: F. & G. Landry, [1700].

Sold for US$2,375 inc. premium

CATHOLIC PERSECUTION IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. Acts and Laws, Passed by the Great & General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New England: Begun and Held at Boston, on Wednesday the Twenty-ninth of May, 1700 (caption title). [Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen, 1702.]

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CATHOLIC PERSECUTION IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY.
Acts and Laws, Passed by the Great & General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New England: Begun and Held at Boston, on Wednesday the Twenty-ninth of May, 1700 (caption title). [Boston: Printed by Bartholomew Green and John Allen, 1702.]

Sold for US$625 inc. premium

EARLIEST PROCURABLE PRINTED AFRICAN-AMERICANUM, 1703. Acts & laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England: begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the Twenty-sixth of May, 1703 ... An Act relating to Molato and Negro Slaves ... An Act for further continuing of several Acts that are near expiring. [Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1703.]

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EARLIEST PROCURABLE PRINTED AFRICAN-AMERICANUM, 1703.
Acts & laws, passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly ... of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England: begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the Twenty-sixth of May, 1703 ... An Act relating to Molato and Negro Slaves ... An Act for further continuing of several Acts that are near expiring. [Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1703.]

Sold for US$3,125 inc. premium

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DUDLEY, JOSEPH. 1647-1720.
Manuscript Letter Signed ("J Dudley"),

Sold for US$437.50 inc. premium

DEATH OF BLACKBEARD. The Present State of Europe: or, The Historical and Political Monthly Mercury ... For the Month of April, 1719. London: Henry Rhodes, 1719. Vol 30.

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DEATH OF BLACKBEARD.
The Present State of Europe: or, The Historical and Political Monthly Mercury ... For the Month of April, 1719. London: Henry Rhodes, 1719. Vol 30.

Sold for US$3,500 inc. premium

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BLACK BART THE PIRATE: "HAVOCK AND DEPREDATIONS."
The Historical Register for the Year 1721 (caption title). [London: 1721.] No 23.

US$2,500 - US$3,500

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DEATH OF BLACK BART THE PIRATE.
The Political State. London: June 30, 1722.

US$3,000 - US$5,000

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COLONIAL ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Document Signed ("Fred. Philipse" and "Dirk Eghberts"), 1 p, folio, New York, August [7], 1729,

US$500 - US$800

WAR OF JENKINS' EAR. GEORGE II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1683-1760. His Majesty's Declaration of War against the King of Spain. London: printed by John Baskett, [October], 1739.

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WAR OF JENKINS' EAR.
GEORGE II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1683-1760.
His Majesty's Declaration of War against the King of Spain. London: printed by John Baskett, [October], 1739.

US$2,000 - US$3,000

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FOUNDATION OF THE OLD WEST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BOSTON.

US$1,200 - US$1,800

A CAUTION ABOUT RELIGION. RUSSELL, SAMUEL. 1693-1746. Man's liableness to be deceiv'd about Religion, Shewn & Caution'd against ... A Sermon Preach'd at a Public Association-Lecture at West Haven, September 30, 1741. New London, Connecticut: T[imothy] Green, 1742.

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A CAUTION ABOUT RELIGION.
RUSSELL, SAMUEL. 1693-1746.
Man's liableness to be deceiv'd about Religion, Shewn & Caution'd against ... A Sermon Preach'd at a Public Association-Lecture at West Haven, September 30, 1741. New London, Connecticut: T[imothy] Green, 1742.

US$600 - US$900

PEMBERTON, EBENEZER. A Sermon Preach'd in New-Ark, June 12, 1744, at the Ordination of Mr. David Brainerd, a Missionary among the Indians.... Boston: Rogers and Fowle for J. Pemberton, 1744.

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PEMBERTON, EBENEZER.
A Sermon Preach'd in New-Ark, June 12, 1744, at the Ordination of Mr. David Brainerd, a Missionary among the Indians.... Boston: Rogers and Fowle for J. Pemberton, 1744.

US$3,000 - US$5,000

COLONIAL THANKSGIVING SERMON. PRINCE, THOMAS. 1687-1758. A Sermon Delivered at the South Church in Boston, N.E. August 14. 1746. Being the Day of General Thanksgiving for The great Deliverance of the British Nations by The Glorious and happy Victory near Culloden. Boston: for D[aniel] Henchman, S[amuel] Kneeland, and T[homas] Green, 1746.

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COLONIAL THANKSGIVING SERMON.
PRINCE, THOMAS. 1687-1758.
A Sermon Delivered at the South Church in Boston, N.E. August 14. 1746. Being the Day of General Thanksgiving for The great Deliverance of the British Nations by The Glorious and happy Victory near Culloden. Boston: for D[aniel] Henchman, S[amuel] Kneeland, and T[homas] Green, 1746.

Sold for US$125 inc. premium

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WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799.
Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, &c. [and] The Conclusion of Major Washington's Journal, begun in our last. In: The Maryland Gazette. Annapolis, MD: Jonas Green, March 21-28, 1754. Nos 463-464.

Sold for US$173,000 inc. premium

EARLY AMERICAN JUDAICA. [LOPEZ, AARON, & HAYMAN LEVY.] Document Signed ("Isaac Lawton") as Master of the sloop Industry, 1 p, 4to, Newport, [Rhode Island], March 1, 1756, partially printed and completed in manuscript,

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EARLY AMERICAN JUDAICA.
[LOPEZ, AARON, & HAYMAN LEVY.]
Document Signed ("Isaac Lawton") as Master of the sloop Industry, 1 p, 4to, Newport, [Rhode Island], March 1, 1756, partially printed and completed in manuscript,

Sold for US$150 inc. premium

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CROWN POINT EXPEDITION.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, 8vo, Boston, June 14, 1756,

US$800 - US$1,200

41^¤ —
PIRATES OF COLONIAL NEW YORK.
CRUGER, JOHN. 1678-1744.
Manuscript Document Signed ("John Cruger") as Mayor of New York City, 1 p, folio, with

Sold for US$687.50 inc. premium

COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS & SAMUEL ADAMS. Journal of the Honourable House of Representatives, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, Begun and Held at Boston ... on the Twenty-Seventh Day of May ... 1761. Boston: S. Kneeland, printed to the Honourable House of Representatives, 1761.

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COLONIAL MASSACHUSETTS & SAMUEL ADAMS.
Journal of the Honourable House of Representatives, of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, Begun and Held at Boston ... on the Twenty-Seventh Day of May ... 1761. Boston: S. Kneeland, printed to the Honourable House of Representatives, 1761.

Sold for US$1,250 inc. premium

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THE SONS OF LIBERTY EXECRATE THE STAMP ACT.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, folio,

US$8,000 - US$12,000

FORT WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, NEW YORK. Manuscript Document, "Quarterly Return of Barracks, Barrack Bedding and Furniture at ... Fort Wm. Augustus," 1 p, oblong folio, Oswegatchie, New York, February 1, 1773,

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FORT WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, NEW YORK.
Manuscript Document, "Quarterly Return of Barracks, Barrack Bedding and Furniture at ... Fort Wm. Augustus," 1 p, oblong folio, Oswegatchie, New York, February 1, 1773,

Sold for US$437.50 inc. premium

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SLAVES BEING SOLD BY COLONIAL PRINTER.
Supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette. Boston: Richard Draper, June 17, 1773.

Sold for US$375 inc. premium

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BOSTON TEA PARTY.
[ADAMS, SAMUEL. 1722-1802.]
The Boston Evening Post. Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, November 29, 1773. No 1992.

Sold for US$7,500 inc. premium

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BOSTON TEA PARTY BROADSHEET.
Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser. [Philadelphia: J. Dunlap, December 1773.] No 112.

Sold for US$2,750 inc. premium

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NEW YORK TEA PARTY.
Aris's Birmingham Gazette. Birmingham, UK: Thomas Aris, January 24, 1774. Vol 33, no 1679.

Sold for US$1,062.50 inc. premium

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1 — SIEGE OF ORLEANS. [TORTOREL, JEAN, and JACQUES PERISSIN.] Orleans assiegé au mois de Ianuier, 1563. [Geneva, c.1570.]

2 — [SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT.] Ausszug neuwer Zeitungen. Aussz der rom. kai. Mai. Feldleger inn Hungern, zwo meil under Rab, von dem 30. Augusti: 1566. Augsburg: Zimmerman, 1566.

4¤ — EIGHTY YEARS WAR: SIEGE OF STEENWIJK. Wie Steinwick von Graff Moritz erobert wirdt ... 4 July 1592. [Germany, c.1592.]

5 — TRAVELS TO BRAZIL. LÉRY, JEAN DE. 1534-1611. Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. [Geneva:] heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.

6¤ — ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION OF HENRI IV. HOGENBERG, FRANS, attributed. Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594. [N.p.: 1594.]

7 — GUNPOWDER PLOT & EXECUTION OF GUY FAWKES. [HOGENBERG, ABRAHAM.] Eigentliche Abbildung wie ettlich englische Edelleut einen Raht schließen den König sampt dem gantzen Parlament mit Pulfer zuvertilgen. [Cologne: Hogenberg], February 1606 (i.e. 1607).

8 — FIRST AFRICAN AMBASSADOR TO EUROPE. Contrafactur deß Gesanten des Königs zu Congo in Africa an die Bäbstl.... Augsburg: Christoff Mang, [1608].

9 — ROWDINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. Document Signed ("Nathanniell Bowman"), 1 p, oblong 8vo, [Watertown, Mass, c.1636],

11 — PLYMOUTH COLONY IN 1665. Manuscript Document, 1 p, quarto,

12 — GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. Platte Grondt der Stadt London met de Aenwysinghe Hoe die Afgebrandt Is. Amsterdam: Frederick de Wit, 1666.

13 — ANGLO-DUTCH WARS. Description exacte de tout ce qui s'est passe dans les guerres entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Etates des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas, & l'Evesque de Munster.... Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668.

14 — KING PHILIP'S WAR, ADDRESS TO TROOPS. Manuscript Document, "A Letter written when the Souldiers were at Naragansett in the Armey January 1675," 1 p, folio, n.d., n.p.,

15 — DEATH OF CHARLES II. [CHARLES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1630-1685. & JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1633-1701.] The London Gazette. London: Thomas Newcomb, February 5-9, 1684/5.

16 — 1687 CATSKILLS LAND DEED. Manuscript Land Grant, 1 p, folio, [Albany], New York, May 23, 1687,

17 — MASSACHUSETTS PURITAN LETTER. ALLIN, JAMES. 1657-1696. Autograph Letter Signed ("James Allin"), 1 p, folio, n.p., October 12, 1688,

18 — LOUIS XIV SATIRICAL BROADSIDE. HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE. 1645-1708. Mardi Gras de Cocq a L'Ane. Antwerp: Cornelis Woons, 1690.

19 — VOYAGE TO VIRGINIA WITH "A WITCH ABOARD." The Athenian Mercury. London: J. Dunton, 1691.

20 — SALEM WITCH TRIALS. Memoirs of the Present State of Europe, or the Monthly Account of Occurrences Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military. Vol II. No 1 [-12]. London: printed for Robert Clavel and Jonathan Robinson and Samuel Crouch, 1692-93.

21 — NEW HIGHWAY IN PENN'S PENNSYLVANIA. Manuscript Document, 1 p, Philadelphia, August 10, 1697,

22 — WHALING IN AMERICA, 1699. Votes of the House of Commons. London: for Edward Jones & Timothy Goodwin, April 27, 1699.

23 — 17TH CENTURY COLONIAL POSTAL HISTORY. Autograph Letter Signed ("Adam Winthrop"), 1 p, folio, London, September 23, 1699,

24 — KING WILLIAM'S WAR. ALLEN, JEREMIAH. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jer. Allen" with flourish), 1 p, folio (conjoined address leaf), Boston, October 16, 1699,

25 — LOUIS XIV ROYAL WALL ALMANAC FOR 1701. Le Roy declare Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou Roy d'Espagne.... Paris: F. & G. Landry, [1700].

28 — DUDLEY, JOSEPH. 1647-1720. Manuscript Letter Signed ("J Dudley"),

29 — DEATH OF BLACKBEARD. The Present State of Europe: or, The Historical and Political Monthly Mercury ... For the Month of April, 1719. London: Henry Rhodes, 1719. Vol 30.

30 — BLACK BART THE PIRATE: "HAVOCK AND DEPREDATIONS." The Historical Register for the Year 1721 (caption title). [London: 1721.] No 23.

31 — DEATH OF BLACK BART THE PIRATE. The Political State. London: June 30, 1722.

32 — COLONIAL ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK. Document Signed ("Fred. Philipse" and "Dirk Eghberts"), 1 p, folio, New York, August [7], 1729,

33 — WAR OF JENKINS' EAR. GEORGE II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1683-1760. His Majesty's Declaration of War against the King of Spain. London: printed by John Baskett, [October], 1739.

34 — FOUNDATION OF THE OLD WEST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BOSTON.

35 — A CAUTION ABOUT RELIGION. RUSSELL, SAMUEL. 1693-1746. Man's liableness to be deceiv'd about Religion, Shewn & Caution'd against ... A Sermon Preach'd at a Public Association-Lecture at West Haven, September 30, 1741. New London, Connecticut: T[imothy] Green, 1742.

36 — PEMBERTON, EBENEZER. A Sermon Preach'd in New-Ark, June 12, 1744, at the Ordination of Mr. David Brainerd, a Missionary among the Indians.... Boston: Rogers and Fowle for J. Pemberton, 1744.

38 — WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799. Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, &c. [and] The Conclusion of Major Washington's Journal, begun in our last. In: The Maryland Gazette. Annapolis, MD: Jonas Green, March 21-28, 1754. Nos 463-464.

39¤ — EARLY AMERICAN JUDAICA. [LOPEZ, AARON, & HAYMAN LEVY.] Document Signed ("Isaac Lawton") as Master of the sloop Industry, 1 p, 4to, Newport, [Rhode Island], March 1, 1756, partially printed and completed in manuscript,

40 — CROWN POINT EXPEDITION. Manuscript Document, 1 p, 8vo, Boston, June 14, 1756,

41¤ — PIRATES OF COLONIAL NEW YORK. CRUGER, JOHN. 1678-1744. Manuscript Document Signed ("John Cruger") as Mayor of New York City, 1 p, folio, with

43 — THE SONS OF LIBERTY EXECRATE THE STAMP ACT. Manuscript Document, 1 p, folio,

44 — FORT WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, NEW YORK. Manuscript Document, "Quarterly Return of Barracks, Barrack Bedding and Furniture at ... Fort Wm. Augustus," 1 p, oblong folio, Oswegatchie, New York, February 1, 1773,

45 — SLAVES BEING SOLD BY COLONIAL PRINTER. Supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette. Boston: Richard Draper, June 17, 1773.

46 — BOSTON TEA PARTY. [ADAMS, SAMUEL. 1722-1802.] The Boston Evening Post. Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, November 29, 1773. No 1992.

47 — BOSTON TEA PARTY BROADSHEET. Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser. [Philadelphia: J. Dunlap, December 1773.] No 112.

48 — NEW YORK TEA PARTY. Aris's Birmingham Gazette. Birmingham, UK: Thomas Aris, January 24, 1774. Vol 33, no 1679.

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1 —
SIEGE OF ORLEANS.
[TORTOREL, JEAN, and JACQUES PERISSIN.]
Orleans assiegé au mois de Ianuier, 1563. [Geneva, c.1570.]

2 —
[SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT.]
Ausszug neuwer Zeitungen. Aussz der rom. kai. Mai. Feldleger inn Hungern, zwo meil under Rab, von dem 30. Augusti: 1566. Augsburg: Zimmerman, 1566.

4^¤ —
EIGHTY YEARS WAR: SIEGE OF STEENWIJK.
Wie Steinwick von Graff Moritz erobert wirdt ... 4 July 1592. [Germany, c.1592.]

5 —
TRAVELS TO BRAZIL.
LÉRY, JEAN DE. 1534-1611.
Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. [Geneva:] heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.

6^¤ —
ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION OF HENRI IV.
HOGENBERG, FRANS, attributed.
Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594. [N.p.: 1594.]

7 —
GUNPOWDER PLOT & EXECUTION OF GUY FAWKES.
[HOGENBERG, ABRAHAM.]
Eigentliche Abbildung wie ettlich englische Edelleut einen Raht schließen den König sampt dem gantzen Parlament mit Pulfer zuvertilgen. [Cologne: Hogenberg], February 1606 (i.e. 1607).

8 —
FIRST AFRICAN AMBASSADOR TO EUROPE.
Contrafactur deß Gesanten des Königs zu Congo in Africa an die Bäbstl.... Augsburg: Christoff Mang, [1608].

9 —
ROWDINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY.
Document Signed ("Nathanniell Bowman"), 1 p, oblong 8vo, [Watertown, Mass, c.1636],

11 —
PLYMOUTH COLONY IN 1665.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, quarto,

12 —
GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
Platte Grondt der Stadt London met de Aenwysinghe Hoe die Afgebrandt Is. Amsterdam: Frederick de Wit, 1666.

13 —
ANGLO-DUTCH WARS.
Description exacte de tout ce qui s'est passe dans les guerres entre le Roy d'Angleterre, le Roy de France, les Etates des Provinces Unies du Pays-bas, & l'Evesque de Munster.... Amsterdam: Jacques Benjamin, 1668.

14 —
KING PHILIP'S WAR, ADDRESS TO TROOPS.
Manuscript Document, "A Letter written when the Souldiers were at Naragansett in the Armey January 1675," 1 p, folio, n.d., n.p.,

15 —
DEATH OF CHARLES II.
[CHARLES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1630-1685. & JAMES II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1633-1701.]
The London Gazette. London: Thomas Newcomb, February 5-9, 1684/5.

16 —
1687 CATSKILLS LAND DEED.
Manuscript Land Grant, 1 p, folio, [Albany], New York, May 23, 1687,

17 —
MASSACHUSETTS PURITAN LETTER.
ALLIN, JAMES. 1657-1696.
Autograph Letter Signed ("James Allin"), 1 p, folio, n.p., October 12, 1688,

18 —
LOUIS XIV SATIRICAL BROADSIDE.
HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE. 1645-1708.
Mardi Gras de Cocq a L'Ane. Antwerp: Cornelis Woons, 1690.

19 —
VOYAGE TO VIRGINIA WITH "A WITCH ABOARD."
The Athenian Mercury. London: J. Dunton, 1691.

20 —
SALEM WITCH TRIALS.
Memoirs of the Present State of Europe, or the Monthly Account of Occurrences Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military. Vol II. No 1 [-12]. London: printed for Robert Clavel and Jonathan Robinson and Samuel Crouch, 1692-93.

21 —
NEW HIGHWAY IN PENN'S PENNSYLVANIA.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, Philadelphia, August 10, 1697,

22 —
WHALING IN AMERICA, 1699.
Votes of the House of Commons. London: for Edward Jones & Timothy Goodwin, April 27, 1699.

23 —
17TH CENTURY COLONIAL POSTAL HISTORY.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Adam Winthrop"), 1 p, folio, London, September 23, 1699,

24 —
KING WILLIAM'S WAR.
ALLEN, JEREMIAH.
Autograph Letter Signed ("Jer. Allen" with flourish), 1 p, folio (conjoined address leaf), Boston, October 16, 1699,

25 —
LOUIS XIV ROYAL WALL ALMANAC FOR 1701.
Le Roy declare Monseigneur le Duc d'Anjou Roy d'Espagne.... Paris: F. & G. Landry, [1700].

28 —
DUDLEY, JOSEPH. 1647-1720.
Manuscript Letter Signed ("J Dudley"),

29 —
DEATH OF BLACKBEARD.
The Present State of Europe: or, The Historical and Political Monthly Mercury ... For the Month of April, 1719. London: Henry Rhodes, 1719. Vol 30.

30 —
BLACK BART THE PIRATE: "HAVOCK AND DEPREDATIONS."
The Historical Register for the Year 1721 (caption title). [London: 1721.] No 23.

31 —
DEATH OF BLACK BART THE PIRATE.
The Political State. London: June 30, 1722.

32 —
COLONIAL ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK.
Document Signed ("Fred. Philipse" and "Dirk Eghberts"), 1 p, folio, New York, August [7], 1729,

33 —
WAR OF JENKINS' EAR.
GEORGE II, KING OF ENGLAND. 1683-1760.
His Majesty's Declaration of War against the King of Spain. London: printed by John Baskett, [October], 1739.

34 —
FOUNDATION OF THE OLD WEST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BOSTON.

35 —
A CAUTION ABOUT RELIGION.
RUSSELL, SAMUEL. 1693-1746.
Man's liableness to be deceiv'd about Religion, Shewn & Caution'd against ... A Sermon Preach'd at a Public Association-Lecture at West Haven, September 30, 1741. New London, Connecticut: T[imothy] Green, 1742.

36 —
PEMBERTON, EBENEZER.
A Sermon Preach'd in New-Ark, June 12, 1744, at the Ordination of Mr. David Brainerd, a Missionary among the Indians.... Boston: Rogers and Fowle for J. Pemberton, 1744.

38 —
WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799.
Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, &c. [and] The Conclusion of Major Washington's Journal, begun in our last. In: The Maryland Gazette. Annapolis, MD: Jonas Green, March 21-28, 1754. Nos 463-464.

39^¤ —
EARLY AMERICAN JUDAICA.
[LOPEZ, AARON, & HAYMAN LEVY.]
Document Signed ("Isaac Lawton") as Master of the sloop Industry, 1 p, 4to, Newport, [Rhode Island], March 1, 1756, partially printed and completed in manuscript,

40 —
CROWN POINT EXPEDITION.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, 8vo, Boston, June 14, 1756,

41^¤ —
PIRATES OF COLONIAL NEW YORK.
CRUGER, JOHN. 1678-1744.
Manuscript Document Signed ("John Cruger") as Mayor of New York City, 1 p, folio, with

43 —
THE SONS OF LIBERTY EXECRATE THE STAMP ACT.
Manuscript Document, 1 p, folio,

44 —
FORT WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, NEW YORK.
Manuscript Document, "Quarterly Return of Barracks, Barrack Bedding and Furniture at ... Fort Wm. Augustus," 1 p, oblong folio, Oswegatchie, New York, February 1, 1773,

45 —
SLAVES BEING SOLD BY COLONIAL PRINTER.
Supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette. Boston: Richard Draper, June 17, 1773.

46 —
BOSTON TEA PARTY.
[ADAMS, SAMUEL. 1722-1802.]
The Boston Evening Post. Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, November 29, 1773. No 1992.

47 —
BOSTON TEA PARTY BROADSHEET.
Postscript to the Pennsylvania Packet, or, The General Advertiser. [Philadelphia: J. Dunlap, December 1773.] No 112.

48 —
NEW YORK TEA PARTY.
Aris's Birmingham Gazette. Birmingham, UK: Thomas Aris, January 24, 1774. Vol 33, no 1679.