declaration independence articles confederation published (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. [9], Vi-Xxix, [3], 367, [1], 401-472, [4] Pages, [1] Leaf Of Plates : Portrait (Copper Engraving) ; 23 Cm (8Vo). (Note That Pages Vii, 468, 470 Are Mis-Numbered Vi, 486, 468 Respectively). List Of Presidents At End [473], Followed By Three Pages Of Ads. The Leaves Are 20.8 X 12.5 Cm. First Published 1780 In The U.S., First London And Irish Editions 1782, This Edition Considerably Enlarged With Treaties, Etc. In 1783. Original Speckled Calf, Worn, Edges Frayed And Rounded; Spine, Newly Re-Backed To Style, Red Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. . Contents Complete, Including Frontispiece Of Washington. Tightly Bound. Bookplate, Motto Pro Rege Et Patria / Denique Caelum", Motto Of The Leslie-Melville Family, The Earls Of Leven And Earls Of Melville, With Printed Signature Of "A. Leslie Melville" . The Honorable Major General Alexander Leslie (1731 - 1794), Son Of The 5Th Earl Leven And 6Th Earl Of Melville, Was A Major General In The British Army During The American Revolutionary War. He Was The Commander Of The British Troops At The Battle Of Harlem Heights. He Replaced Cornwallis As Commander In The South In 1782. Very Little Is Known Of His Childhood. Leslie Was Brother To Lady Mary Hamilton. He Enlisted In The 3Rd Foot Guards Of The British Army In 1753. He Was Promoted To Lieutenant-Colonel Of The 64Th Regiment Of Foot In 1766. In 1775, Before The American War Of Independence Broke Out, He Led Troops To Salem, Massachusetts Looking For Contraband Weapons. His Advance Was Delayed By A Standoff At A Bridge, During Which The Colonists Removed The Weapons He Was Looking For. His Force Was Eventually Allowed To Proceed, But Found Nothing Of Consequence, And Was Received With Hostility During The Expedition. In 1776, Leslie Was Promoted To Brigadier-General. He Fought In The Battle Of Long Island, The Landing At Kip's Bay, The Battle Of White Plains And The Battle Of Harlem Heights, The Battle Of Princeton And The Siege Of Charleston During The American War Of Independence. At Princeton, His Nephew, Captain William Leslie Was Mortally Wounded. In 1780, He Was Sent To The Chesapeake Bay By Sir Henry Clinton In Order To "Make A Powerful Diversion In [Earl Cornwallis's] Favor By Striking At The Magazines Then Collecting By The Enemy . For Supplying The Army They Were Assembling To Oppose Him." He Became Major General In 1782 And Was Made Colonel Of The 63Rd (West Suffolk) Regiment Of Foot The Same Year. He Transferred In 1788 To Be Colonel Of The 9Th (East Norfolk) Regiment Of Foot To His Death. Also, With A Later Gift Inscription Dated 1960.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Full leather. Scuffed calf with raised cords on the spine, elaborate but chipped gold decoration. Hinges cracked but both boards still attached by cords. Engraved bookplate on inside front cover with coat of arms and the name Lord Dinorben. Early ownership name 'Edw'd Hughes 1783' on first blank page. Frontispiece portrait of George Washington. Large moisture stain to bottom half of frontispiece portrait and title page. Conspicuous high-tide line across the middle of both pages, but hardly noticeable on either side of it. 472 pages + 1 page list of Presidents of Congress and 3 pages of ads for other Stockdale titles. More recent ownership name at the bottom of the title page, illegible. Some pen notes on rear endpapers. Contents begin with the now nearly forgotten Declaration of Rights, written over Peyton Randolph's name, resolved at the Continental Congress in Sept, 1774. It asserts their right to 'life, liberty, and property,' their legal English citizenship, which includes the right to participate in Legislative Council. It asserts their right to peacefully assemble, that the Crown keeping a standing army is against the law, and the the branches of government be independent of each other. The next item is the October 1774 Non-importation Agreement, signed by all the members of the Continental Congress at that time including John Adams and George Washington. This was the first colony-wide boycott of British goods, following the 1768 Boston Non-Importation Agreement and shortly on the heels of the Boston Tea Party (December 1773). The final of the pre-Declaration papers is the 'Last Petition to the King' from Sept 1775, signed by a much longer roster of Continental Congressmen, including John Hancock, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson (listed incorrectly as a Pennsylvania delegate), and others. The pagination of the book begins with the Declaration of Independence; then the Articles of Confederation; then the Constitutions of the 13 Colonies. The US Constitution itself had not yet been written. When this book was published, the Colonies were still operating under the loose framework of the Articles of Confederation. 
The Treaties section of the book contains the Treaty of Amity and Commerce with France (1778) and the 1782 Treaty with the Netherlands. On the owners of this book. Lord (Baron) Dinorben, William Lewis Hughes. 1767-1852. Welsh. Was the owner of the largest copper mine in Europe (Parys Mountain), and member of Parliament from 1802-1831. The signature on the first blank page, Edw'd Hughes is his father, the Reverend Edward Hughes, who was likely the original owner of this book, since the date is the same and the publication date, and young William was only 15 at the time. Please email with questions or to request additional photos.

Hardcover. Second Edition. Bound in contemporary calf-backed boards. Though not a First Edition, still an early eighteenth-century printing of one of the most desirable volumes of this prestigious series as this year contains two of the most important documents in American history. Where the text states "The history of the present ----- of --------- ------------- is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations," someone has added in ink in an early hand "King of Great Britain." Early ink name crossed out on the title page, light to moderate foxing; pages 255 to 258 in the second section lacking, otherwise complete with the entire text of the Declaration and the Articles present. Binding tight with some wear but easily Very Good.