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An oration delivered at the state-house, in Philadelphia : to a very numerous audience; on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776
An oration delivered at the state-house, in Philadelphia : |b to a very numerous audience; on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776 / by Samuel Adams, Member of the **** ********** the General Congress of The ****** ****** of America. London printed, London reprinted for : E. Johnson, No. 4, Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
"Of this oration [never delivered], there was no Philadelphia edition [in spite of its being indicated by title-page]; it was, in fact a London forgery designed to show that the colonies were bent on independence."-- Howes, p. 15. No such oration was given by Adams.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of Jay Snider with his bookplate.
Rockefeller Library copy bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London bookbinders.
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Four tracts on political and commercial subjects
Four tracts on political and commercial subjects / by Josiah Tucker, D.D. Dean of Glocester. The third edition. Glocester : Printed by R. Raikes, and sold by T. Cadell, in the Strand, London, MDCCLXXVI [1776].
Edition statement precedes author statement on title page.
With a half-title.
Signatures: A-O⁸.
Rockefeller Library copy bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London bookbinders.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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A letter to Edmund Burke, Esq. : member of Parliament for the city of Bristol, and agent for the colony of New York, &c. in answer to his printed Speech, said to be spoken in the House of Commons on the twenty-second of March, 1775
A letter to Edmund Burke, Esq. : member of Parliament for the city of Bristol, and agent for the colony of New York, &c. in answer to his printed Speech, said to be spoken in the House of Commons on the twenty-second of March, 1775 / by Josiah Tucker, D.D. Dean of Glocester. Second edition, corrected. Glocester : Printed by R. Raikes and sold by T. Cadell, in the Strand, London, MDCCLXXV [1775].
Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility on title page.
"Price one shilling."
Signatures: A-G⁴ H².
Publisher's advertisements: pages [1-2] at end.
Rockefeller Library bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London bookbinders.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol : |b on presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th of February, 1780) a plan for the better security of the independence of Parliament, and the oeconomical reformation of the civil and other establishments
Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., Member of Parliament for the City of Bristol : on presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th of February, 1780) a plan for the better security of the independence of Parliament, and the oeconomical reformation of the civil and other establishments. A new edition. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, MDCCLXXX [1780].
"Price 1s."--half-title.
Rockefeller Library copy bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.