The Right Of The People To Establish Forms Of Government Mr Benjamin Franklin Halletts Argument In

by Benjamin Franklin Hallett

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: printed by Beals & Greene, 1848. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 71, 1 ; neatly bound in later black cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; ex-R.I. Historical Society with a bookplate marked withdrawn, no external markings; a nice copy preserving the original printed orange front wrapper. Rhode Island authorities, acting under a decree of martial law i.e. the Algerine Law , arrested Martin Luther, a shoemaker, for acting as moderator

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