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Folwell's Printing: The Fifth U.S. Congress 
United States. Laws, statutes, etc. 1797–99 (5th Cong., 1st–3rd sess.). Acts passed at the first session of the fifth Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, in the year MDCCXCVII and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first. Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, [1797–99]. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.4"). 240, vii, [1], [241]–561, [1 (blank)], 26, iv, [48 (index)] pp.
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Reading or browsing, in this volume, is interesting and eye-opening.
Provenance: Old signature, “Hall Harrison,” on title-page.
• Evans 32952, 34688, & 36479; ESTC W11750; Sabin 15502, 15503, & 15504. Contemporary treed calf, rebacked with calf, spine with gilt-stamped bands and gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels; leather of boards (but not spine) crackled, chipped/chipping, and discolored from a fire, with rear board most affected and with one corner lost (3/4" up and across from the point, this showing in our extra photograph). Front pastedown with old institutional bookplate; title-page with early inked ownership inscription as above and old institutional rubber-stamp. Offsetting from binding at beginning and end, intermittent mild offsetting and faint spotting generally, a few leaves towards the back browned, with pages otherwise clean; the fire that affected the boards did not reach the interior, here. (25667)
For Books for the BUSTED
Freedom
of the Press — Philadelphia, 1800United States. Senate. Committee of Privileges. Report of the Committee of Privileges, on the measures it will be proper to adopt, relative to a publication in the General Advertizer, or Aurora, of the 19th of February last. [Philadelphia: Pr. by John Ward Fenno?, 1800]. 8vo. 7, [1] pp. 
At the heart of the controversy was Duane’s support of Jefferson for president and his exposure of the notorious Ross election bill by which the Federalists sought to thwart Jefferson’s bid for that office.
• Evans 38856; ESTC W021879. Removed from a nonce volume. Clean and in nice condition.
Plan
del Perú with Considerable
Cuban Content
As Well
SPANISH
Philadelphia Publication ofVidaurre [y Encalada], Manuel Lorenzo de. Plan del Perú, defectos del gobierno español antiguo. Necesarias reformas....Contiene al fin...los motivos políticos que obligan á la isla de Cuba á declarar inmediatamente su independencia. Philadelphia: Impr. por Juan Francisco Hurtel, 1823. 8vo. 225, [1 (blank)] pp., [2] ff.
• During the late 18th and early 19th centuries Philadelphia was a significant center of émigré activity. First were the French fleeing their Revolution, and they were succeeded by Spaniards and Spanish-Americans who were displaced by the Wars of Independence. Both émigré communities took advantage of the guaranteed freedom of the press in the U.S., and the city's printers issued a considerable number of important political works from the pens of the refugees, written in French or Spanish.In this work printed in Philadelphia, Vidaurre calls for republican reforms in Peru. This was a major change of political stance for him, for he had loyally served the crown in both his native Peru and, after the commencement of the Wars of Independence, in Spain. His attack on the Spanish political system and call for liberal republican reforms involves passionate denunciation of slavery, and his "renuncia" (pp. 197-225) speaks at length about Cuba's current socio-political conditions and explains why Cuba should follow the lead of the former Spanish colonies of the American mainland. On the basis of this work, which is dedicated to Simón Bolívar, The Liberator appointed Vidaurre head of the supreme court at Trujillo.
• Sabin 99491; Shaw & Shoemaker 14780. On Vidaurre, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 1012, frames 251-56 & 261-62. Modern quarter green morocco and marbled paper sides. Foxing, some staining. Complete with the errata leaf, and solid.
TYRANNY
. . . by Taxation . . .[Walsh,
Robert]. A letter on the genius and dispositions of the French government,
including a view of the taxation of the French Empire. Addressed to a friend,
by an American recently returned from Europe. Philadelphia:
Hopkins & Early; also by P.H. Kicklin & Co. [and in Baltimore
and elsewhere by other publishers], 1810. 8vo (23.2 cm; 9.125"). iv, 253, [1 (blank)]
pp. 
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An explanation of the tyranny that Napoleonic bureaucracy imposed upon the empire,
with an especial focus on the oppressive tax system. The author was a leading
Catholic-American literary critic, founder of the first American quarterly,
The American Review of History and Politics, and founder and editor
of the American Quarterly Review. This extended pamphlet draws on Walsh's
three years of travel and study in France and Britain as a young man. It was
republished in England and Lord Jeffrey said of it, in the Edinburgh Review
(1853, p. 799), "We must learn to love the Americans when they send us
such books as this" (cf. New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia).
• Sabin 101158; Shaw & Shoemaker 21936. 19th-century quarter
green morocco with marbled paper sides; round spine with raised bands, gilt
center ornaments in three compartments, title in gilt in one compartment.Ex–Library
Company of Philadelphia, properly deaccessioned. Joints rubbed,
top of spine pulled; foxing and staining. Uncut.
More Sovereignty to the PeopleWeaver, Isaac. Experience[,] the test of government: In eighteen essays. Written during the years 1805 and 1806. To aid the investigation of principles, and operation of the existing constitution and laws of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Pr. by William Duane, 1807. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.125"). 60 pp. 
Sole edition.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 14179 & 12469. Recent gray-green paper over light boards; front cover with paper label, lettered in black. Uncut copy. Paper lightly age-toned and deckle edges with some light browning, waterstaining, and traces of soiling.
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Parson
Weems's Powerful!
Myths
Weems, Mason Locke. The life of George Washington; with curious anecdotes, equally honourable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen. Embellished with six engravings. Philadelphia: Joseph Allen (pr. by King & Baird), [ca. 1846]. 12mo. Frontis. port., title-leaf, [5]–244, 36 pp.; 5 plts. (included in pagination).
• Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-embossed, and spine with gilt decoration, lettering, and cameo portrait; portions of binding discolored, gilt-lettered author's name on spine rubbed, spine slightly cocked, corners bumped. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting; intermittent staining/spotting, and a few old ink stains. Small chip at bottom margin of pp. 155/156. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, pressure-stamp on title-page, ink numeral in lower margin of p. [5], charge pocket on rear free endpaper, no other markings. Small booksellers' label of “Leary & Getz” inside front cover. (26332)
TheLatest
Agricultural Innovations,
with COLOR-PRINTED
Plates
Wells, David Ames. The year-book of agriculture; or, the
annual of agricultural progress and discovery, for 1855 and 1856. Exhibiting the most important
discoveries and improvements.... Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45").
399, [1] pp.; 5 plts. (4 col.).
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J. Downing, “the most eminent of American horticulturists
and professors of Rural Architecture” (p. 5). Much interesting material
is present here on the cultivation of various fruits and vegetables, the introduction
of exotic domesticated animals (Chinese yaks, cashmere goats, camels) into the
United States and Europe, statistics of American production, and various mechanical
and technical innovations.
Illustrated
with four color plates done by Max and Louis N. Rosenthal of the famed Philadelphia
firm Rosenthal's, producers of some of the earliest chromolithographs
in the U.S. The frontispiece here, after a drawing by B.L.C. Wailes, depicts
a blossoming cotton plant, while the three other chromolithographed plates show
a more mature example, the cotton caterpillar, and rot in cotton. The volume
is additionally illustrated with a number of in-text steel and wood engravings.
• Allibone 2641. Not in Reese, Stamped with a National Character. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, chipped at head, and with small darkened area. Ex–social club library: Call number on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, title-page and several others (not plates) with old, round, light rubber-stamp. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (26420)
An
Item from Our “Capital”
Period: XYZ
in French!
(XYZ Affair). France. Ministère des Affaires Etrangères. French originals of all the documents, translations of which accompanied the message of the President of the United States, of the 18th January, 1799, relative to the affairs of the United States with the French republic. Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1799. 8vo. [1] f., 58 pp.
• Evans 36517. Recent cloth. Released from the New Hampshire Historical Society with its bookplate and one small, inoffensive rubber-stamped number in the upper margin of p. 1. No other markings. Stray stains (last third). A crisp copy.
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