American Historical Ephemera & Photography Online

A group of 6 works related to the Founding Fathers and early American history, comprising: 

[FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790)] The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin. Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His Life, Written By Himself. New York: George G. Sickels, 1830.

 

12mo. Engraved title and frontispiece. (Heavy spotting.) Original publisher's boards (toned, repair to joints and spine reinforced with adhesive); modern vellum box. Provenance: Edmund Throckmorton (ownership signature). 

 

A collected copy of Franklin's essays. The title page bears the 1830 publication date, the engraved title bears 1829, and the cover shows 1828 with the publisher's advertisement to the rear board. RARE: online records indicate only 1 copy sold at auction (noted as 1828). 

 

[With:] Acts Passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States of America. Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia...on Monday the Second of December, in the Year M,DCC,XCIX. Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, ca 1800. 8vo. (Toned.) Contemporary calf, rebacked with modern tan calf, original black gilt morocco spine label laid down (scuffing). RARE: OCLC locates 3 copies.

 

[With:] WEBSTER, Daniel. An Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1825. 8vo. (Occasional spotting.) Original wrappers, string-bound (toning, light spotting); modern vellum clamshell gilt. FIRST EDITION with "University Press--Hilliard & Metcalf" to title verso. Sabin 102266. 

[Also with:] HOLMES, Abiel. A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, 22 December, 1806, at the Anniversary Commemoration of the First Landing of the Fathers, A.D. 1620. Cambridge, MA: William Hilliard, 1806. 8vo. (Toned, occasional spotting.) Original wrappers, string bound (toned, stain to upper right); modern vellum folder and box. -- CLOQUET, M. Jules. Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette. London: Printed for Baldwin and Cradock by G. Woodfall, 1835. 8vo. Embellished with engravings. (Minor soil to page edges). Contemporary boards rebacked with modern brown cloth and modern tan morocco spine label gilt-lettered (scuffs to boards). FIRST BRITISH EDITION, which preceded the American edition. Sabin 13773. -- HEADLEY, J.T. The Illustrated Life of Washington. Springfield, MA and Detroit, MI: Gurdon Bill and H.C. Johnson, 1864. 8vo. Illustrated. (Toned.) Contemporary illustrated red cloth gilt (recased, with original cloth laid down, gilt tarnished, some scuffing). Later edition.