1783

La plaisanterie confondüe ou les intrépides voyageurs

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; spectators in foregrou... More

The state vintners. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Britis...

"The interior of a punch-house. In an alcove or bar (right), behind a counter, stand North and Fox mixing punch..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and ... More

Edmund Randolph to James Madison, May 25, 1783.

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United States Congress, January 2, 1783, Proceedings and Final Decisio...

Edmund Randolph to James Madison, June 30, 1783.

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Les caprices de la goute, ballet arthritique

Satire showing men with limbs strapped in wooden cases performing exercise for gout in the establishment of Abraham Buzaglo.

Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du b...

Vue d'optique shows the unmanned gas balloon, "The Globe," which frightened the villagers in Gonesse, France after landing there on August 27, 1783.

Moyen infaillible d'enlever les Balloons

Caricature of infallible means of raising a hot air balloon, by passing gas into it; satirical poem and illus. of ascension of Montgolfier brothers' balloon. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawi... More

To His Excellency George Clinton, Esquire Governor, and the other the ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 111, Folder 7.

James Madison to Edmund Randolph, August 31, 1783.

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George McCully journal, - Public domain document scan

Manuscript copy of a journal (45 pages) kept by McCully pertaining to his journey (1783 June-July) from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Detroit, Mich., on an expedition headed by Ephraim Douglass to inform the Indians of t... More

L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

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L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

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Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

Himegimi no gaishutsu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows two women and two children walking with a female attendant holding a large parasol; one of the children is carrying a doll. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored ... More

Modern characters from Shakespeare. Macbeth, British Cartoon Print

William Shakespeare books and illustrations Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dominion of the sea, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Britannia in a boat with a fox on the prow at anchor in "Portland Road"; she is holding a staff with the banner of St. George and the British flag, and an olive branch in her right hand, her shield ... More

Expérience aërostatique faite à Versailles le 19 septembre 1783 en pré...

Print shows the balloon of Etienne Montgolfier decorated with King Louis XVI's monogram above the Palace of Versailles carry the first passengers in a balloon flight: a rooster, a sheep and a duck. (Source: A.G... More

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, May 24, 1783.

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May 30, 1783, Essex, Baptists, opposed to inequality of vestry and mar...

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A political concert; the vocal parts by 1. Miss America, 2. Franklin, ...

Print shows a Native woman representing America and Britannia standing in the center holding a pole topped with a liberty cap, they are joined by Benjamin Franklin, Charles James Fox, Augustus Keppel, Lord Shel... More

General Orders, April 15, 1783, Extract from Provisional Peace Treaty;...

Extract from Provisional Peace Treaty; British Withdrawal; with Copy

The blessings of peace, British Cartoon Print

Print shows George III receiving advice from a large group of ministers and politicans, all are identified by number and corresponding legend, following ratification of peace treaty by the U.S. Congress on Apri... More

Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

[Four scenes of men and women courting(?) while riding in balloons cap...

Tissandier collection. Public domain photograph of electric motor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

His Excellency George Washington's last legacy. A circular letter ... ...

Listed in John Alden's Rhode Island Imprints, but see R. W. G. Vail "A patriotic pair of peripatetic printers" in Essays honoring Lawrence G. Wroth, Portland, Me., 1951.; Bristol B5844.; On verso: General Wash... More

Treasury Department, 1783, Estimate of Public Debt of the United State...

Estimate of Public Debt of the United States

Major general Baron Steuben / B.B.E., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows Baron von Steuben, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile; in oval. Illus. in: Portraits of generals, ministers, magistrates, members of Congress, and others, who have rendered themselves illust... More

Éxperience du globe ae̋rostatique du MM. Charles et Robert, au Jardin ...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More

Edmund Randolph to James Madison, March 29, 1783.

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F. Pilatre de Rozier. Premier navigateur ae̋rien et pensionaire du roy...

Oval head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, who took the first balloon flight in 1783. "Et se trouve chez Mr. Pujos Peintre, Quai Pelletier prés la Greve" at bottom o... More

State of New-Hampshire. In the House of representatives, February 27th...

Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 89, Folder 1.

Allarme générale des habitants de Gonesse occasionée par la chûte du b...

Vue d'optique shows the unmanned gas balloon, "The Globe," which frightened the villagers in Gonesse, France after landing there on August 27, 1783.

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, February 15, 1783.

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Virginia Delegates to Benjamin Harrison, January 7, 1783.

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L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

Public domain cooking book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

Public domain cooking book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territo...

Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes and ill. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Creased, soiled, small tears along edges of sheet. Acquisitions control no. 99-83

The American general Lee taken prisoner by lieutenant colonel Harcourt...

Print shows Charles Lee at his capture by British troops. Engraved for Barnard's New complete & authentic history of England. Illus. in: The new, comprehensive and complete history of England : ... / By Edward... More

Depart de MM. Charles & Robert, du Jardin des Tuilleries dans leur mac...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. "Sic itur ad astra" wr... More

Benjamin Franklin to Baron Rosencrone, April 15, 1783

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[Cartouche showing a Native woman, representing America, nursing infan...

Illus. in: L'Amérique septentrionale, ou se remarquent les États Unis. / par M. Brion de la Tour, ingénieur-géographe du roi. Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly, 1783. Published in: The American Revolution in dra... More

Le grande Bretagne mutilé Das verstümmelte Britanien., British Cartoon...

Print shows the head and torso of Britannia chained to a hillside, her arms and legs, representing the American colonies, have been cut off and lie on the ground before her; a sailor in chains stands among arti... More

Globe aërostatique. Dédié à Monsieur Charles. Cette machine est repres...

Jacques Alexandre César Charles departs Nesle, France after the landing of the first hydrogen balloon flight from Paris on December 1, 1783. Marie-Nöel Robert (on the ground at left), who accompanied Charles o... More

The surrender of Earl Cornwallis (Lieutenant-General of the British Ar...

Print shows General Charles O'Hara, representing General Cornwallis, handing sword to George comte de Rochambeau who is standing with George Washington. Engraved for Barnard's New complete & authentic history ... More

Naturliche Magie, oder, Erklarung verschiedner Wahrsager

Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ A-R⁸. Errata: p. [1] at end. LC copy has bookseller's label: Hannemann's Buchhandlung, Berlin. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2018-08-21 LC Review ... More

John Francis Mercer to James Madison, August 31, 1783.

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Experience du globe aerostatique du MM. Charles et Robert au Jardin de...

Print shows Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert riding in the gondola of a balloon ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. (S... More

Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Citizens, May, 1783. Address to Virginia ...

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The blessings of peace, British Cartoon Print

Print shows George III receiving advice from a large group of ministers and politicans, all are identified by number and corresponding legend, following ratification of peace treaty by the U.S. Congress on Apri... More

Le moment d'hilarité universelle ou le triomphe de MMrs. Charles et Ro...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight. Inset view shows propo... More

Descente de la machine aerostatique des Srs. Charles et Robert

Print shows Jacques Charles and Marie Noel Robert stepping out of their hydrogen balloon on a plain near Nesle, France after the first manned balloon flight in December of 1783. Printed text below image: Extrai... More

Joseph Jones to Thomas Jefferson, December 29, 1783

L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

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Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

Magie oder, die Zauberkrafte der Natur : so auf den Nutzen und die Bel...

Imprint transposed: dates appear before publisher's name. Vol. 1 (1783): LVI, 424 p., IX folded leaves of plates; v. 2 (1784): XXXII, 440 p., 5 folded leaves of plates; v. 3 (1785): XVI, 600 p., IX folded leav... More

L--d Shel--, begging Monsieur to make piss or p--e, British Cartoon Pr...

Print shows Lord Shelburne holding a chamber pot up to a Frenchman, saying "Monsieur, be so obliging as to make piss with us." The Frenchman is kicking the pot, saying, "By the House of Bourbon, with the war we... More

Experience de la machine areostatique

Vue d'optique shows the Montgolfier brothers' balloon, "The Globe," ascending from Champ de Mars, Paris, France, August 27, 1783. Caption (French): Experience de la machine aréostatique de Mrs. de Montgolfier d... More

Banditti. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British Cartoon ...

Satire on the Coalition and Fox's India Bill showing ministers, as bandits, grouped round a table, drinking and dividing their spoil. Included are North, Fox, Keppel, Burke, the Duke of Portland, Lord John Cave... More

Yūjo to shinzō Sugegasa o kaburu onna. - Torii Kiyonaga

Prints show a courtesan standing with an attendant lying at her feet on the floor looking at a scroll, and a woman, standing, facing left, wearing hat and holding a fan. Title and other descriptive information ... More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... More

The only booth in the fair - Portland & Co., late Shelburne / I. Boyne...

Print shows a country fair amusement with Charles James Fox, on a raised platform, wearing a dunce or liberty cap labeled "Vox Populi" receiving bribes from Lord North, to the right, on the platform, Lord Shelb... More

[Woman stands in the basket of a balloon holding flags]

Tissandier collection. Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A new map of the West Indies, - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:11,250,000. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows Florida, eastern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1712 Available als... More

The encampment in St. James's Park MDCCLXXX

Print shows soldiers relaxing in tents and talking on horseback, with women and children and dogs in the foreground, and a view of Westminster Abbey in the background.

James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, February 8, 1783

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

F. Pilatre de Rozier. Premier navigateur ae̋rien et pensionaire du roy...

Oval head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, who took the first balloon flight in 1783. "Et se trouve chez Mr. Pujos Peintre, Quai Pelletier prés la Greve" at bottom o... More

Guy Carleton to George Washington, May 12, 1783

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Shelb---ns sacrifice / invented by Cruelty ; engraved by Dishonor., Br...

Print shows Lord Shelburne watching Natives slaughter loyalists in America; Britannia, with raised spear, attacks Shelburne. Caption continues: Or the recommended Loyalists, a faithful representation of a trag... More

The tea-tax-tempest, or Old Time with his magick-lanthern

Cartoon shows America, seated on the left, and a sombre Britannia treated to a glass lantern presentation on the American Revolution. Father Time, leaning against a globe, provides a commentary on the momentous... More

November 13, 1783, Botetourt, Asking relief from payment of minister's...

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette to...

with response from Floridablanca; in French

[Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pe...

Attributed to Gilbert Stuart. Inscribed on framing material: Portrait of Gilbert Stuart drawn 1783 by himself and given to Thomas Sully about 1817 - from Sully to R. Lambdin 1857. Original frame and framing ma... More

L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

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Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

The signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and of Alliance betwee...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... More

The Robin Hood Society, British Cartoon Print

"A meeting of this well-known debating society..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified data from George. Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawin... More

Naturliche Magie, oder, Erklarung verschiedner Wahrsager

Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ A-R⁸. Errata: p. [1] at end. LC copy has bookseller's label: Hannemann's Buchhandlung, Berlin. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2018-08-21 LC Review ... More

Les caprices de la goute, ballet arthritique

Satire showing men with limbs strapped in wooden cases performing exercise for gout in the establishment of Abraham Buzaglo.

Benjamin Harrison, July 2, 1783, Proclamation Ordering Enemy Aliens Ou...

Proclamation Ordering Enemy Aliens Out of Virginia; Andrew Johnston, et al; with Copy

James Madison to Edmund Randolph, February 13, 1783. Partly in Cipher.

Benjamin Hawkins to James Madison, August 31, 1783.

Letter from Isaac Hite to Abraham Hite

La frayeur de Gonnesse [i.e. Gonesse], contre-danse franc̜oise / mis a...

Contra-dance instruction manual with dance notation, a description of the dance figures, and music for bass and violin. Title page includes a picture of a man running or dancing near a flying balloon. Possibly ... More

Charles Williamos to Thomas Jefferson, July 8, 1783

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[Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pe...

Attributed to Gilbert Stuart. Inscribed on framing material: Portrait of Gilbert Stuart drawn 1783 by himself and given to Thomas Sully about 1817 - from Sully to R. Lambdin 1857. Original frame and framing ma... More

L'Art alimentaire, ou Methode pour preparer les aliments les plus sain...

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Thomas Jefferson, 1783-1826, [Epistolary Record or Summary Journal of ...

Bowles's new map of North America and the West Indies, exhibiting the ...

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Ferro. "Publish'd as the Act directs 2. Jan. 1783." Includes historic notes. Insets: A particular map of Baffin and Hudson Bays [ca. 1:18,000,000]--A map of ... More

[Proposed design for balloon utilizing sails for propulsion, Paris, 17...

Design drawing shows two men in basket steering balloon by manipulation of a sail. A ladder connects the balloon to a parachute-style apparatus intended for safe descent where a third man handles the connection... More

His excellency General Washington commander in chief of the united Sta...

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile; in oval. Illus. in: Portraits of generals, ministers, magistrates, members of Congress, and others, who have rendered themselves illus... More