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paperback. Zustand: Fair. Philadelphia, 1795; Poor Condition; covers and endpapers are missing; heavy discoloration to outer pages; starts with title page; large chip at top edge of title page; pages are discolored and spotted; markings on last page; 103 pages; 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall.

Poor copies with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; 2v. : ill. Subject; Hume, David, 1711-1776 Portraits. 3 Kg. A new edition, with the author's last corrections and improvements.

Poor copies with wear and tear. Text remains clear and unblemished. Physical description; 4v. : ill. Subject; Hume, David, 1711-1776 Portraits. 5 Kg. A new edition, with the author's last corrections and improvements.

First edition. First edition. 103pp. Without the half title. Errata bound in following the title. 8vo. Randolph was appointed Washington's attorney general, then secretary of state after Jefferson's retirement from that office. He resigned from Washington's cabinet after being implicated in French intrigue, and published the present pamphlet in self-defense. Howes R55; Evans 29385; Sabin 67817 Later morocco backed cloth boards, worn at joints 103pp. Without the half title. Errata bound in following the title. 8vo.

First edition. First edition. Unbound, removed from a larger volume. 44 p. Early and unusually comprehensive 1806 proposal for a federally centered national university, reviewed by Thomas Jefferson and introduced in the U.S. Senate. Joel Barlow's Prospectus of a National Institution, dated 24 January 1806, outlines an ambitious plan for a federally centered university at the seat of government, issued at a moment when the young republic was still defining the relationship between national authority, science, and education. The paper proposes a comprehensive establishment intended to operate on a truly national scale. At the core of Barlow's scheme is the union of two functions often kept separate in Europe: the advancement of knowledge through associations of scientific men and the dissemination of that knowledge through the instruction of youth. By combining research and formal education within a single institution, he argued, the United States could create an establishment of broader practical utility, embracing scientific and technical training alongside liberal instruction and teacher preparation. He further warned that the vast territorial extent and regional diversity of the United States might produce a tendency for different regions to diverge in sentiment; a national university devoted to literature, science, and the arts would, in his view, help foster a "harmony of sentiment" and strengthen the community of interest on which the federal Union depended. The project circulated at the highest levels of the early republic: Barlow transmitted a draft bill to Thomas Jefferson, who reviewed it and returned it with suggested revisions, and the measure was introduced in the Senate in 1806. Although it did not succeed, the Prospectus forms part of the early national debate over federal support for higher learning and scientific organization. Barlow (1754-1812), a Connecticut-born poet, diplomat, and member of the Connecticut Wits, was active within the intellectual networks of the early republic. After the War of Independence he spent many years in Europe, especially in France, where he moved in advanced Enlightenment circles and developed a cosmopolitan outlook. He maintained correspondence with leading American figures, including Jefferson, and his Prospectus belongs to the broader founding-era movement to establish a national university at the federal capital-a project advocated at various times by Benjamin Rush, George Washington, James Madison, and Jefferson. Though never realized, Barlow's paper stands among the fullest early statements of a national educational institution linking scientific research, advanced instruction, and republican statecraft. According to RBH, the latest recorded offering dates from 1949 (Goodspeed). Sabin 3429 . Number ?13? in ink to the upper edge, partly shaved, and the author?s name supplied in pencil on the title page. Two leaves (pp. 13?16) lacking and supplied in photocopy; the preceding and following leaves damaged at the gutter and partly reinforced with Japanese paper. Otherwise in very good condition. Unbound, removed from a larger volume.

First complete edition, 8vo, pp. 58; full-p. map in the pagination; removed; title page separated. Published by Smith earlier the same year, but without 7-page declaration of John Sappington received after the publication of the former. Jefferson supplies evidence to prove that Michael Cresap and his party murdered the Indian Logan's family and other peaceful Indians. The account was refuted years later in a biography of Cresap by John L. Jacob, a revolutionary officer and late clergyman who had married Cresap's widow, and "resulted in the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" (see Streeter III, 1335). Evans 37701; Sabin 35880; Sowerby 3225; Vail, Frontier, 1235.