All exhibition items at Princeton University Library Collection 55 items

All exhibition items from the Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution at Princeton University Library

1.
The genuine trial of Thomas Paine, for a libel contained in the second part of Rights of man : at Guildhall, London, Dec. 18, 1792, before Lord Kenyon and a special jury : together with the speeches at large of the attorney-general and Mr. Erskine, and authentic copies of Mr. Paine's letters to the attorney-general and others, on the subject of the prosecution / taken in short-hand by E. Hodgson.

2.
“An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to Thomas Paine” (1796)

3.
“Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution” (1791)

4.
“A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned by His ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ ” (1790)

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“A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain” (1789)

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“Authentic Account of the Proceedings of the Congress held at New York in MDCCLXV, on the Subject of the American Stamp Act” (1767)

7.
“Letters to Thomas Payne, in Answer to His Late Publication on the Rights of Man” (1796)

8.
“A Narrative of the Late Proceeds at White-hall, Concerning the Jews” (1656)

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“A Discourse, Delivered on the 26th of November, 1795: Being the Day Recommended by the Governor of the State of New-York to Be Observed as a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, on Account of the Removal of an Epidemic Fever, and for Other National Blessings” (1795)

10.
“An Answer to Mr. Paine's Age of Reason, Being a Continuation of Letters to the Philosophers and Politicians of France, on the Subject of Religion” (1794)

11.
“The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology” (1794)

12.
“Rights of Englishmen: An Antidote to the Poison Now Vending by the Transatlantic Republican Thomas Paine” (1791)

13.
“An Answer to Pain's ‘Rights of Man’ ” (1793)

14.
The philosopher reading a lecture on the Orrery.

15.
“An Answer to Paine's ‘Rights of Man’ ” (1796)

16.
The claims of the Jews to an equality of rights : illustrated in a series of letters to the editor of the Philadelphia gazette / by Isaac Leeser.

17.
Gagne-pain d'un exilé aux États-Unis d'Amerique de 1793 à 1814 : manuscript, 1842.

18.
“A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of It, in the State of Virginia” (1796)

19.
“State of His Majesty's Privy Council with Respect to the Repeal of the Stamp Act” (1766)

20.
“The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved” (1764)

21.
“An Appeal to Honest People against Wicked Priests: Or, The Very Heathen Laity's Declarations for Civil Obedience and Liberty of Conscience, Contrary to the Rebellious and Persecuting Principles of Some of the Old Christian Clergy” (1713)

22.
The dying Negro, a poem.

23.
Astrolabe, modern reproduction. Presented by Mario Soares, President of Portugal.

24.
“British Humanity or African Felicity in the West Indies” (etching, 1788)

25.
Death mask of Thomas Paine.

26.
A laudable partnership or souls and bodies, cured without loss of time.

27.
“The Objections to the Taxation of Our American Colonies, by the Legislature of Great Britain, Briefly Consider'd” (1765)

28.
“Wha Wants Me?” (colored engraving, 1792)

29.
The repeal. Or the funeral procession of Miss Americ-Stamp.

30.
“Bannaker's Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North-Carolina Almanack and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1796” (1795)

31.
“New Morality - Or - The Promis'd Installment of the High-Priest of the Theophilanthropes, with the Homage of Leviathan and His Suite” (etching, 1798)

32.
Description of a slave ship.

33.
Bible view of slavery : a discourse, delivered at the Jewish synagogue, "Bnai Jeshurum," New York, on the day of the national fast, Jan. 4, 1861 / by the Rev. M.J. Raphall.

34.
“Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event” (1790)

35.
“Thomas Paine” (Engraving, 1791)

36.
“A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects” (1792)

37.
“A Second Letter to a Friend Concerning Naturalizations” (1753)

38.
Professor's wife, "What have you done?" "I've sub-divided the atom!".

39.
“Get Money Money Still and Then Let Virtue Follow If She Will” (etching, 1808)

40.
“The Doctor Dismissing Death” (aquatint, 1785)

41.
“A Thanksgiving Sermon on the Total Repeal of the Stamp-Act” (1766)

42.
“A Lady in Limbo or Jew Bail Rejected” (etching, 1802)

43.
“The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, Before an August Assembly, Relating to the Repeal of the Stamp-Act, &c.” (1766)

44.
Ride for ride. Reunion des trois ordres. A concise answer to Burke's pamphlet.

45.
Cries of London No. 7: Old cloaths, any old cloaths.

46.
A view of the obelisk erected under Liberty-tree in Boston on the rejoicings for the repeal of the Stamp Act.

47.
Box with initials "G.R." surmounted by a crown, and under it the legend "Stamp Act Rep" March 18, 1766, once owned by John Witherspoon.

48.
“Doctor Botherum. The Mountebank” (aquatint, 1800)

49.
The most formidable weapon against errors : the Sid Lapidus '59 Collection and the Age of Reason / [curator, Steven A. Knowlton].

50.
Apothecary's travelling medicine case.

51.
“Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue, by Act of Parliament” (1765)

52.
“Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists in a Letter to a Noble Lord” (1765)

53.
“Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding” (1748)

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“An Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stamp Duties, and Other Duties, in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, towards Further Defraying the Expences of Defending, Protecting, and Securing the Same; and for Amending Such Parts of the Several Acts of Parliament Relating to the Trade and Revenues of the Said Colonies and Plantations, as Direct the Manner of Determining and Recovering the Penalties and Forfeitures Therein Mentioned” (1765)

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“Considerations on Keeping Negroes: Recommended to the Professors of Christianity, of Every Denomination. Part Second” (1762)