About this title: Fisher Ames was a leading New England Federalist and sublime critic of Jacobin Democracy and the French Revolution. During the presidency of George Washington, he was the leader of his party in the House of Representatives. Ames was active in public life from 1787 through 1807 and was instrumental in one drafting of the First Amendment to the Constitution. His witty, often brilliant, letters, speeches, and essays offered a sustained defense of conservative principles and insight into the Federalist theory of government. This enlarged edition includes many speeches and writings by Ames that ...
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Binding: Hardcover and Softcover
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Indianapolis
Date Published: 1983
Description: Fine and New. Jacket Not Issued. Vol. one is trade paperback still sealed in plastic never opened......volume II is hardcover. nice clean tight copy. read more
Binding: Softbound
Publisher: Liberty Classics, Indianapolis
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780865970168ISBN:0865970165
Description: Fine. Volumes I and II / facsimile reprints of earlier editions / complete in two mammoth paperbacks, 1618 pages total / little indication of use / clean, square, no creasing, no edgewear, no markings / same-day shipping, with Delivery Confirmation, of orders received by noon Pacific Time. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ptd & Publ by T.B. Wait & Co, Boston
Date Published: 1809
Description: portrait frontisp. pp. xxxi, [9], 519. full calf with red leather label intact, Sm.8vo head of spine & corners worn with loss, spine scuffed, edges & joints rubbed with 3-1/2" crack in front joint apparently the result of a slightly warped front board, early library bookplate, endpapers, prelims, frontisp & title page browned, scattered light foxing & staining throughout, 1" tear in lower margin of frontisp & 1" tear in gutter margin of title page, still a good usable copy. Fisher Ames (1758 ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: T. B. Wait, Boston
Date Published: 1809
Description: VG/NONE. 3/4 leather and marbled boards binding. Rebacked in leather w/original spine label overlaid, replaced end sheets. Frontis of author. Some fairly minor dampstain to top page edge and top margins mainly only to prelims and forelims. Some minor edge wear/rubbing.; 8vo; 519 pages. read more
Edition: 1809 Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston, T. B. Wait
Date Published: 1809
Description: Description: xxxi, 519 p. port. 24 cm. Subjects: United States--Politics and government--1789-1809. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt-titled spine, gilted-raised bands, and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy-scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. 1. pp. 519. read more
Edition: 1809 Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boston, T. B. Wait
Date Published: 1809
Description: Description: xxxi, 519 p. port. 24 cm. Subjects: United States--Politics and government--1789-1809. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt-titled spine, gilted-raised bands, and spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy-scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. read more
Description: Frontis. port. 519pp. 8vo, contemporary calf, leather label; (spine ends chipped, inner hinges strengthened, foxing). Boston: T.B. Wait, 1809. "As an orator he (Ames) had no equal in the generation between Patrick Henry and Henry Clay. On the formative period of the Federal Government he had a strong and wholesome influence. " DAB I, p. 246. S&S 16855. read more
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