Catalogue of the Entire Private Library of the Late Mr. William J. Davis: To be Sold at Auction ... Apr. 17, 1865

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J. M. Bradstreet & Son, printers, 1865 - America - 128 pages
 

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Page 75 - States, and the Constitutions of the several states comprising the Union. pp. 409. 12° boards, uncut. Washington, 1820 856 CONSTITUTIONS (The) of the several Independent States of America; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation between the said States; the Treaties between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America.
Page 65 - Novanglus and Massachusettensis, or Political Essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy between Great Britain and her colonies. The former by John Adams, late President of the United States ; the latter by Jonathan Sewall, then King's Attorney-General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. To which are added a number of letters, lately written by President Adams to the Hon. William Tudor.
Page 12 - BUTLER (Samuel). — Hudibras, in three parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars : Corrected and Amended.
Page 47 - Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships.
Page 24 - Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England : Made in the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860.
Page 43 - New Jersey ; containing an account of its First Settlement, progressive improvements, the original and present Constitution, and other events, to the year 1721, with some particulars since; and a short view of its present state.
Page 58 - Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution ; or, Illustrations by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Scenery, Biography, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence.
Page 40 - The Pilgrim Fathers— Collections concerning the Church or Congregation of Protestant Separatists formed at Scrooby, in North Nottinghamshire, in the time of James I., the Founders of New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England.
Page 16 - The High Court of Justice : comprising Memoirs of the Principal Persons who sat in Judgment on King Charles the First, and signed his Death-Warrant, together with those Accessaries, excepted by Parliament in the Bill of Indemnity.
Page 35 - Year 1796,' in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted. Written by Himself.

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