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American Independence COLLECTION OF 36 WORKS IN SIX VOLUMES: [Paine, Thomas.] Common Sense: addressed to the inhabitants of America... Philadelphia, printed: London, reprinted for J. Almon, 1776--Candidus [Chalmers, James]. Plain Truth: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America. Philadelphia printed; London reprinted, for J. Almon, 1776, second edition, corrected, half-title with advertisement on verso--Price, Richard. Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America. Edinburgh: for J. Wood and J. Dickson 1776, eighth edition, newly corrected [Adams, 76-118r]; Additional Observations on the Nature and Vlue of Civil Liberty, and the War with America... for T. Cadell, 1777--[Blacklock, Thomas.] Remarks on the nature and extent of liberty, as compatible with the genius of civil societies; on the principles of government and the proper limits of its powers in free states; and, on the justice of the American war... Edinburgh: for W. Creech and (London:) T. Cadell, 1776 [Adams, 76-15]--Mauduit, Israel. Remarks upon Gen. Howe’s account of his proceedings on Long-Island, in the extraordinary Gazette of October 10, 1776. for Fielding and Walker, 1778, without half title--Pulteney, William. Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs with America...the third edition. For J. Dodsley and T. Cadell, 1778, ownership signature of William Forbes--An Answer to the Declaration of the American Colonies...the fifth edition. For T. Cadell, 1776--Wesley, John. A Calm Address to our American Colonies...a new edition. R. Hawes [Adams, 75-155e, THREE COPIES ONLY RECORDED BY ESTC], somewhat soiled--[Chandler, Thomas Bradbury.] What think ye of the Congress now? or, an enquiry, how far the Americans are bound to abide by, and execute, the decisions of the late Continental Congress. With A plan, by Samuel Galloway, Esq; for a proposed union between Great-Britain and the colonies. New York, printed by J. Rivingston: London, reprinted for Richardson and Urquart, 1775, half-title, final leaf of advertisements [Adams, 75-22b]--[Chandler, Thomas Bradbury.] A Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans...New York, printed: London, reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart, 1774 [Adams, 72-20b]--[Leonard, Daniel.] Massachusettensis: or a series of letters, containing a faithful state of many important and striking facts, which laid the foundation of the present troubles in the province of the Massachusetts Bay... Boston printed: London reprinted for J. Mathews, 1776, fourth edition [Adams, 75-76f]--Consolatory Thoughts on American Independence...Edinburgh: James Donaldson, 1782 [Kress 12258; Sabin 96076], PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR INSCRIBED TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES ON TITLE PAGE; and many others, similar, all from the time of the American War of Independence, authors including Josiah Tucker, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke David Hartley Joseph Galloway (Letters to a Nobleman... 1779, with folding plan of the operations of the British and Rebel army in the Campaign, 1777), Henry Clinton (including the campaign in North Carolina); 4to and 8vo, some with William Forbes' ownership signature, late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf, marbled boards (spines numbered 1-6), some wear to bindings (6)