1783

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

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. (... More

Chōjiya uchi chōzan, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows Chōzan, a courtesan, with two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the series: Hinagata wakana ... More

His excellency Henry Laurens, president of congress & minister plenipo...

Print shows Henry Laurens, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in oval. Illus. in: Portraits of generals, ministers, magistrates, members of Congress, and others, who have rendered themselves illustriou... More

A new map of the United States of North America with the British Domin...

Print shows a cartouche on a map with several parcels in a natural setting. Illus. in: A new atlas of the mundane system; ... / Samuel Dunn. London : Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1778 [i.e., 1783], no.... More

View of the attack on Bunker's Hill, with the burning of Charles Town,...

Print shows four British warships landing troops and firing on Charlestown, a British battery on Copp's Hill in Boston also fires on Charlestown which is in flames, also shows the assault on "Bunker's Hill." I... More

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

Elnathan Haskell to James Madison, September 12, 1783.

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Aux amateurs de physique - Public domain book illustration

French cartoon shows people crowded outside the Tuileries Garden wall in Paris to view the first balloon ascension of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noël Robert in 1783. Several people are climbing over the wall, in... More

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

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[Instruction of American youth] / J. Norman sc.

Print shows an allegorical scene where a youth stands before a pyramid inscribed with the names of battles in the American Revolution. The goddess Peace attempts to turn the youth away toward three other goddes... More

Blessed are the peacemakers, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two men representing Spain and France leading George III by a rope attached to his neck and Lord Shelburne through a gateway formed by spears, from the crossbar of which are tumbling the British lio... More

Kesagozen, print by Kiyonaga Torii - Ukiyo e print

Print shows a domestic scene with a man sitting on the floor holding writing implements and Kesa Gozen standing nearby, her hair down, having just washed it, hanging a piece of cloth to dry, also a washbasin ne... More

Santō Kyōden - Sakazuki - Public domain drawing

Print shows a man and woman seated on the floor, a shamisen between them, a child climbing on the man's back, the woman holding a cup; standing behind them is a woman with many hairpins. Title and other descrip... More

Veluti in speculum. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows seven British officers admiring themselves in a mirror held up for them by a devil. The officers are, from right to left, Amherst, Murray, Burgoyne, and possibly Tarleton, Cornwallis, Clinton, and S... More

[Inflated balloon with filling apparatus attached to barrels of gas]

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

William S. Smith, 1783, Violations of Peace Treaty by British in New Y...

Violations of Peace Treaty by British in New York; Guy Carleton, Earl of Dorchester

[Young woman putting flowers on statue of Cupid looks over her shoulde...

Accompanied by letter clipped from a book and note by Paul Tissandier. Tissandier collection.

The times, anno. 1783, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, British

Print shows John Bull throwing up his arms in despair as the devil flies away with a map labeled "America"; to the left are a portly Dutchman, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, in the background is a battle scene at... 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 ...

Niwa no yukimi, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows three women on a veranda looking at a snow-covered garden. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: right panel of a vertic... More

An high wind in St. Paul's Church yard, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a street scene outside a print shop on a windy day as pedestrians struggle against the force of the wind. Handwritten title from item. Alternate title from: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the B... More

Ascent of the 19th September, 1783, at Versailles

Montgolfier brothers before King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; balloon ascension, France. Landauer Collection of Aeronautical Prints and Drawings. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. ... More

Carte generale des colonies angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale p...

Scale ca. 1:5,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes historic notes and insets "Suite de la Floride et la position des Isles Lucayes et des Grandes Antilles" and "Le de... More

The encampment in the museum garden MDCCLXXX / N' P. Sandby f.

Print showing men, women, and children on the lawn in the museum garden, building on the left, and the tents of a military encampment, on the right.

Benyamin [sic] Franklin gebohren 1706 / D. Berger sculp., 1783.

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in oval with ribbon at top. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Libr... More

Philadelphia, February 13, By a gentleman just arrived in this City fr...

The general p--s, or peace, British Cartoon Print

Print shows five men, an Englishman, a Dutchman, a Native representing America, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman urinating into a pot. The Englishman says, "Say what they will, I call this an honourable P--," the Na... 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

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

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

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, February 11, 1783. with Draft Copy.

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Joseph Chew to James Madison, November 6, 1783.

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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

[Britannia attacked by her enemies]

Print shows Britannia and the British lion being attacked from the left by a Dutchman, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, and from the right by a Native woman representing America. Illus. in: The new, comprehensive ... More

Machine aérostatique de 70 pieds de hauteur sur 46 de diametre, qui s'...

Illustration shows the ornate balloon used by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Girond de Villete in a captive balloon ascent from Paris, October 19, 1783, reaching an altitude of 330 feet for nine minutes. (... More

An accurate map of the United States of America, with part of the surr...

Scale ca. 1:4,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. Shows national boundaries, towns and cities, frontier forts, trading posts, Indian villages and tribal territory, rivers an... More

St. Lucia in the West Indies taken possession of by Admiral Barrington...

Print shows six ships in line flying the French flag, however, appears to be disembarking British troops who are about to take possession of the island after the French have withdrawn. Engraved for Barnard's N... More

Edomachi nichōme tsutaya uchi hitomachi[?] - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows the courtesan Hitomachi with another woman and two young female attendants. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. From the ser... More

[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...

Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... More

[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...

Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... More

[Departure of Jacques Charles and Marie-Noel Robert's 'aerostatic glob...

Drawing shows Jacques Charles and Nicolas Marie-Noel Robert standing in their hydrogen-filled balloon waving flags, beginning their ascent from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris, with the Versailles Palace in the ba... 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

Letter from Isaac Hite to Abraham Hite

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 ...

[1st human balloon ascension; balloon with Pilatre de Rozier and Marqu...

Engraving by N. de Launay, drawn by Chev. de Lorimier. Illus. in: Faujas, Descriptien de la Machine, 1783, vol. 2, frontis. Reference copy may be in LOT 4700A. This record contains unverified, old data from cap... More

Exp[é]rience a[ë]rostatique faite Versailles le 19 sept. 1783

Vue d'optique shows the balloon launched by the Montgolfier brothers ascending from the Palace of Versailles, France, before the royal family, September 19, 1783. A sheep, a duck and a rooster were the only pa... More

Governeer Morris Esq'r., member of congress / B.B.E.

Print shows Gouverneur Morris, 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

An analysis of modern patriotism performed by public opinion & display...

Print shows two views of Charles James Fox, on the left, as a member of parliament supporting the policies of Lord North, and on the right, when out of office, on a platform before a crowd arguing against the p... More

Haut tapfer zu auf diesen Hund ... / J.M. Will, excud. A.V.

Print shows Turks, represented by dogs, fleeing toward Constantinople after the Battle of Vienna, 1683. In the center, a large dog, representing the Sultan, is being beaten by two European officers(?). Overhead... More

The manner in which the American colonies declared themselves independ...

Print shows a man on horseback riding through town reading the Declaration of Independence to cheering crowds; a notice has been posted on a wall "America independant 1776." Illus. from: The new, comprehensive... More

Thomas Jefferson to Abner Nash, March 11, 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

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

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, June 14, 1783. Partly in Cipher.

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James Madison to Edmund Randolph, August 31, 1783.

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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

Thomas Jefferson, 1783, Musical Score; with Notations

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In Assembly, Tues., December 2nd, 1783

Text of "the report of the Committee ..." describing the "triumphal arch and its ornaments." Text in: Journal of the House of Representatives, p. 390.

Plano del Lago de San Bernardo en el Seno Mexicano /

Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink and pencil. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 975 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Maggs number annotated ... More

El Guarico, alias, el cavo Frances, es una de las colonias y puertos q...

Scale ca. 1:18,880. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Watermark: IV. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Mounted on cloth backing. LC Luso-Hispanic World, 462 LC Maps of North America, ... More

Carte de la partie sud des Etats Unis de l'Amérique septentrionale.

Scale ca. 1:4,250,000. Prime meridian: Paris and Isle de Fer. Relief shown pictorially. "Liv. XVII, XVIII. No. 48." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1406 Available also through the Library of Congress Web s... More

Joseph Jones to James Madison, June 28, 1783.

James Madison to Edmund Randolph, September 13, 1783.

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Benjamin Harrison, April 21, 1783, Proclamation on Articles of Peace; ...

Proclamation on Articles of Peace; with Copy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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