[Rarebooks] for sale: early American magazine

[Norman Kane]

[FRANKLIN; FRENEAU; HAMILTON; ET AL.]  THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, OR REPOSITORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN FUGITIVE PIECES, PROSE AND POETICAL. FOR JUNE, 1787. VOLUME ONE – NUMBER 6.  Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1787.  Sewn, no wrappers or illus., pp. [481] – 576 (pp. 497-498 skipped in the pagination, but complete), a stain on a few pages. Removed from a bound volume ??  (Includes, among much else:  **  “An Inquiry into the principles on which a commercial system for the United States of America should be founded . . . read . . . at the house of His Excellency Benjamin Franklin ... May 11th, 1787” (for the attention of the members of the Constitutional Convention then about to meet) **  “Colonel Hamilton’s speech in  the assembly of New York ... when the impost was under consideration”  **  “Petition of an African slave [Belinda] to the Legislature of Massachusetts”**  “Address to the heart, on the subject of American slavery”  **  “The influence of Free Masonry upon society”  **  “Meteorological imaginations and conjectures, by Benjamin Franklin” dated Passy, 1784  **  “A journal of the siege of York-town, taken by a field officer ... the last scene which guarantied [sic] our independence”  **  A lengthy poem: “Address of the genius of Columbia to the members of the Continental Convention”  **  A poem, “The Desolate Academy” by Philip Freneau  **  A poem, “An Epithalamium” by Col. David Humphries  **  A poem, “Columbia: a song” by  T[imothy] Dwight  *  and “A song for the Massachusetts Insurgents.”) There is also the Index for Volume One. 
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