Item of the Day: Letter from John Quincy Adams to Mr. Murray (1801)

Full Title: To Monsieur Murray, Ministre des Estats Un d’Amerique, La Haye from John Quincy Adams. May 2, 1801.
[This signed letter from John Quincy Adams to William Vans Murray was written shortly after Adams' recall as Minister to Prussia by President John Adams following John Adams' defeat by Thomas Jefferson in the election of [...]

Item of the Day: Irving’s Salmagundi (1814)

Full Title:
Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Laucelot Langstaff, Esq. And Others.
Volume I
Written by Washington Irving (1783-1859). Printed in New-York by David Longworth, 1814.
Notes, by William Wizard, esq. A description of the dance called the waltz — the intertwining of arms et cetera — the ecstatic fatigue of both parties at its conclusion:
1. Waltz] [...]

Item of the Day: The History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade (1808)

Full Title: The History of the Rise, Progress, & Accomplishments of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament.
Written by Thomas Clarkson, M.A. Printed in Philadelphia by James P. Parke, 1808.
Volume I. Chapter V.
Anthony Benezet may be considered as one of the most zealous, vigilant, and active advocates, which the cause of the [...]

Item of the Day: Complete Works of Fielding (1784)

Full Title:
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq; with the Life of the Author. A New edition, in Ten Volumes. To which is now added, The Fathers; or, The Good-natured Man.
Written by Henry Fielding. Printed in London for W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne, S. Crowder, T. Longman, J. Robson, C. Dilly, G. Kearsly, [...]

Item of the Day: Il Consolato del Mare (1599)

Full Title Page:
IL
PORTOLANO
DEL MARE;
NEL QVAL SI DICHIARA
MINVTAMENTE DEL SITO
DI TVTTI PORTI.
QVALI SONO DA VENETIA
in Leuante, & in Ponente: & d’altre
cose utilissime, & necessarie
a i Nauiganti.

DI NVOVO CON QVELLA PIV
accurata diligentia, che s’è potuto,
corretto, & ristampato.
IN VENETIA, Apresso Lucio Spineda.
M D X C I X.

Bound With:

IL
CONSOLATO
DEL MARE;
NEL QVALE DI COMPRENDONO
tutti gli Statuti, & Ordini: disposti da [...]

Item of the Day: Memoirs of A Captivity Among Indians of North America (1824)

Full Title:
Memoirs of A Captivity Among Indians of North America, From Childhood to the Age of Nineteen: With Anecdotes Descriptive of Their Manners and Customs, To Which Is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory westward of the Mississippi.
Written by John Dunn Hunter. Printed in London by Longman, Hurst, [...]

Item of the Day: Beccaria’s Crimes and Punishments (1788)

Full Title:
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments. By The Marquis Beccaria of Milan. With a Commentary by M. de Voltaire. A New Edition Corrected.
Written by Cesare Beccaria. Printed in Edinburgh by James Donaldson, 1788.
Chapter XVI. Of torture:
THE torture of a criminal, during the course of his trial, is a cruelty consecrated by custom in most [...]

Item of the Day: Hobbes’s Thucydides (1634)

Full Title:
Eight Bookes of the PELOPONNESIAN WARRE Written by THVCYDIDES the sonne of OLORVS. Interpreted with Faith and Diligence Immediately out of the Greeke By Thomas Hobbes Secretary to ye late Earle of Deuonshire.
Written by Thucydides, translated by Thomas Hobbes. With maps, illustrations, and errata from the first edition. Imprinted in London for Richard Mynne [...]

Item of the Day: Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651)

Full Title:
Leviathan, or, the Matter, Form, and Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil. By Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
Written by Thomas Hobbes. Printed for Andrew Crooke in London at the Green Dragon in St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1651.Introduction:
NATURE (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in [...]