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6. AUFRER(E¸), Anthony.
[ The Cannibals’ Progress; or the dreadful horrors of French invasion, as displayed by the Republican officers and soldiers, in their perfidy, rapacity, ferociousness and brutality, exercised towards the innocent inhabitants of Germany. Translated from the German, by Anthony Aufrer, Esq . . . London: published by Wright, Cadel and others; and republished at Philadelphia By William Cobbett. Price only 6 cents, 11 for half a dollar, 25 for a dollar, 56 for 2 dollars, three dollars and a half per hundred.] n.d. [ 1798.]
12mo. 22 leaves only, should be 24; this copy lacks the first two leaves, with the title and the Introductory Address tot he People of America [by Cobbett]; the last leaf is defective. The text ends on D 6, page 40, and is followed by four leaves with an address headed Americans.
Evans 33334.
Anthony Aufrer(e¸), 1756-1833, English antiquary. His first edition of this translation was published in London in 1798. Evans lists fourteen American editions for this year.
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7. OGILVIE, James.
Cursory reflexions on government, philosophy and education; by James Ogilvie, instructor of youth in the Stevensburg Academy. Alexandria: printed by J. & J. De Westcott, 1802.
Sm. 8vo. 23 leaves, list of Irrata [sic] on the last page.
Sabin 56837n.
For a note on Ogilvie and another pamphlet by him see no. 3195 in this volume.
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3. 1815 Catalogue, page 102. no. 274, Political Pamphlets, American, 1798, 8vo.
1849 Catalogue, page 622. no. 465, Pamphlets, American--On Miscellaneous Subjects, by T. W. Griffith, W. C. Nicholas, A. Gallatin, A. Addison, George Logan, T. Coxe, Wm. Nelson, Wm. Thompson, A. Martin, and Rev. Mr. Ogden;--also, Message of the President of the United States to both Houses of Congress, April 3d, 1798, with accompanying Papers, in relation to Difficulties with France; Reflections on the Present Contest between France and Great Britain; Debates in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and the Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, upon the Important subject of the Acts of Congress passed at their last Session, commonly called the Alien and Sedition Laws, &c., 8vo. Philadelphia, Paris, Washington, New-York, Richmond, &c., 1798’-’99.
The fourteen pamphlets originally bound together in one volume have disappeared and cannot be traced. They are not in the 1864 catalogue, and possibly may have disappeared in the fire of 1851.
In cases of prolific authors, it has not been possible to determine which particular pamphlet was included in this volume.
1. [GRIFFITH, Thomas Waters.]
L’Indépendance absolue des Américains des Etats-Unis. Prouvée par l’état actuel de leur commerce avec les Nations Européennes . . . A Paris: chez Laran, an VI.-- 1798.
HF3025 .G86
8vo. 77 leaves, the last with Errata.
Not in Sabin.
Faÿ, page 37.
Mentions Jefferson and the Notes on the State of Virginia .
Thomas Waters Griffith, merchant of Baltimore, was for a time American consul at Le Havre.
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2. NICHOLAS, W. C.
No pamphlet by Wilson Cary Nicholas was published during the years 1798 or 1799.
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