Featured WorkRubricated Manuscript on Paper in Latin. This volume is a translation of Leonardo Bruni transcribed by an unrecorded scribe, Guillaume-Henri, citizen of Embrun at Carpentras in France. The work is presumed to be dedicated to Aristotle's father or his...
Liberty & Dignity Articles
My Bondage & My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Featured Work First published in 1855, 'My Bondage and My Freedom' is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first, 'Narrative of the Life of...
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Featured Work Sixth Edition, printed in the same year as the first edition. This is one of the earliest non-Philadelphia printings. Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" anonymously on January 10, 1776. In "Common Sense," Paine made a persuasive case to the Colonists...
Magna Carta
Featured Work Contains Magna Charta; Statues of the Realm; Register of Writs. First Issued in 1215 as a result of an angry encounter, on the plains of Runnymeade, between an assembly of Barons and King John over the right of the King to obtain funds from a few...
Declaration of Independence by Congress
Featured Work One of three known copies. "The only one in private hands. This is the third Dunlap printing. John Dunlap, as one of the leading printers in Philadelphia, produced numerous pieces both for the Continental Congress and the state of Pennsylvania. Only...
Complete Proceedings of the First Continental Congress by Congress
Featured Work First Edition. Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia, on the Fifth of September 1774. Containing, The Bill of Rights, a List of Grievances, Occasional Resolves, the Association, an Address to...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Featured Work First Edition. One of the landmarks of American literature. An American abolitionist and author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day. Her novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was a depiction...
Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
Featured Work First Edition. David Hume's "Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding" was first published in 1748. In 1758, the work became known as "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." It was a revision of an earlier work of Hume's entitled, "A...
Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney
Featured Work First Edition. Algernon Sidney’s "Discourses Concerning Government" was published from his original manuscript in 1698. Written between 1680 and 1683, it was not published until 1698, after Sidney was executed in 1683 for his involvement in the Rye...