Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....
Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry.....
Philadelphia: Issued by John M. Wolff, Stationer, [n.d., but circa 1855-60]. An early broadside edition., and the first separately printed edition that identified Moore as the author. Marshall, The Night Before Christmas, A Descriptive Bibliiography, 25; noted under BAL 14346: "An undated broadside, printed in blue and red, was issued.....
Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.