[POLITICS]. Six issues Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, including three inscribed by General Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810).
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[POLITICS]. Six issues Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, including three inscribed by General Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810).
Containing early reporting on Maine statehood. [With:] A Bone to Gnaw. Philadelphia, Thomas Bradford, 1795.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 6 issues (incomplete run). Boston: Belknap and Hall; Samuel Hall, 1792-1798.
8vo, 6 issues numbering: September 1792; Vol. II, No. 10, July 1793; [Vol. IV?, No. 1?], 1795; Vol. IV, No. IV, 1795; Vol. V, No. III, 1798; Vol. V, No. IV, 1798. (Some browning or spotting.) Original blue printed wrappers (light wear to edges). Provenance: General Benjamin Lincoln (ownership inscriptions on 3 issues). Lincoln (1733-1810) was a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, notably being the officer who formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown.
Articles include: "An Expedient proposed for the further Civilization of the Indians"; "Discovery and Description of Islands in the South Pacifick Ocean"; "Capt. Magee's Discovery of a Group of Islands in the North Pacifick Ocean"; "Narrative of Newspapers printed in N. England"; and notably: "The Proceedings of Two Conventions, Held at Portland, to Consider the Expediency of a Separate Government in the District of Maine." (pp. 25-40), the first organized report of a separate government for Maine. Evans 24530, 25791, 29049; Sabin 45852
[With:] [CORBETT, William]. A Bone to Gnaw, for the Democrats; or, Observations on a Pamphlet, Entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain." Philadelphia: Thomas Bradford, 1795. 8vo. (Toned.) Original wrappers (light soil). Second Edition.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 6 issues (incomplete run). Boston: Belknap and Hall; Samuel Hall, 1792-1798.
8vo, 6 issues numbering: September 1792; Vol. II, No. 10, July 1793; [Vol. IV?, No. 1?], 1795; Vol. IV, No. IV, 1795; Vol. V, No. III, 1798; Vol. V, No. IV, 1798. (Some browning or spotting.) Original blue printed wrappers (light wear to edges). Provenance: General Benjamin Lincoln (ownership inscriptions on 3 issues). Lincoln (1733-1810) was a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, notably being the officer who formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown.
Articles include: "An Expedient proposed for the further Civilization of the Indians"; "Discovery and Description of Islands in the South Pacifick Ocean"; "Capt. Magee's Discovery of a Group of Islands in the North Pacifick Ocean"; "Narrative of Newspapers printed in N. England"; and notably: "The Proceedings of Two Conventions, Held at Portland, to Consider the Expediency of a Separate Government in the District of Maine." (pp. 25-40), the first organized report of a separate government for Maine. Evans 24530, 25791, 29049; Sabin 45852
[With:] [CORBETT, William]. A Bone to Gnaw, for the Democrats; or, Observations on a Pamphlet, Entitled, "The Political Progress of Britain." Philadelphia: Thomas Bradford, 1795. 8vo. (Toned.) Original wrappers (light soil). Second Edition.
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