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American Colonies, 1775. Original engraved boxwood block, 3 x 4 inches, three-quarters-inch deep, together with a uniformly framed modern impression. A few hair-line surface clefts and two larger clefts, one along the flag's edge and the other at flag center. Exceptionally rare and well-preserved Revolutionary War artifact depicting one of the most famous and enduring symbols and mottos of the colonial fight for independence.. Remarkable eighteenth-century engraved woodblock depicting an uncoiled rattlesnake against the thirteen-stripe flag emblazoned with the motto "Don't Tread on Me" set diagonally below. This original woodblock would have been used during the Revolutionary War to reproduce this defiant cartoon in colonial pamphlets, newspapers, and broadsides during the fight for independence. The cartoon's thirteen stripes represented the thirteen colonies, and the threatening serpent posed a striking warning to those who would dare tread upon their freedom. The rattlesnake was a well-known… Read More

Boston: Printed at the Repertory Office, 1804. Pamphlet. Wraps, 9 x 6 inches, 15 pp. Contemporary, likely original, plain blue wrappers, sewn, untrimmed; text slightly browned with foxing throughout and some contemporary marginalia. Short inscription on head of front wrapper.. An uncommon first edition of A Sketch of the Character of Alexander Hamilton, attributed to the influential Massachusetts Federalist and famed orator Fisher Ames, in contemporary (and likely the original) plain blue wrappers, untrimmed and bound with original thread binding. Ames was widely recognized for his oratorical skills and fervent opposition to Jeffersonian democracy. Prior to the election of 1800, Ames urged Hamilton to align with the Federalists and nominate Aaron Burr for President over Thomas Jefferson. Despite Ames's pleas, Hamilton broke with the Federalists and supported Jefferson, which ultimately resulted in Jefferson's victory amidst the contentious Electoral College tie. After Hamilton's death in 1804… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1958. First bound edition. Octavo. Volume XXXIII (33)-1958, bound in original boards. Minor scuffing and spotting to page block; pencil bookseller notations to front pastedown endpaper, else a near-fine bound edition of Volume 33 (1958) of Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, complete with advertisements.. Uncommon bound first edition of the journal Philosophy with G. E. M. Anscombe's (1919-2001) landmark article "Modern Moral Philosophy," which offered a powerful critique of the Kantian and utilitarian ethical traditions in modern moral philosophy-and is renowned for introducing the term "consequentialism" into the lexicon of analytical philosophy and for inaugurating a revival of Aristotelian virtue ethics. In her article, Anscombe, a distinguished British analytical philosopher and professor at the University of Cambridge, set forth a powerful critique of Kantian and utilitarian ethics, arguing that both sought a foundation for morality… Read More

N.P.: Offprint published from the Annals of Botany, Vol. XXXII, No. CXXVIII, 1918. Offprint. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 9 x 6 inches, offprint including pp. 466-501. Wrappers age-toned with creasing to wrappers and leaves; staining and sunning to wrappers, particularly at edges, with some spotting; staple rust; leaves unmarked and well-preserved with some wrinkling. This original offprint contains seven illustrated figures by Arber herself. Aged but very good offprint inscribed by the great British plant morphologist Agnes Arber to top of front wrapper: "With kind regards / A. A." Especially rare with inscription.. Original offprint authored and inscribed by Agnes Arber (1879-1960), the pioneering anatomist, historian, and botanist who would become the first woman botanist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first woman to receive the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society of London for her contributions to botany. Born in London in 1879, Arber attended the North London Collegiate School… Read More