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A portion of Paine's "Common Sense"...

Item # 716388
THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, Philadelphia, March, 1787, Second Edition (1788)  The first 6 pages are taken up with: "Common Sense, by Mr. Payne ([sic] (Concluded) Part IV. Of the present Ability of America, with some Miscellaneous Reflections".
Other items include: "Thoughts on Mobs" "A Word of Consolation for America..." "Letter from Mr. Jefferson to Mr. Jay" "Method of Hunting the Buffalo" "Manner of Living of the Inhabitants of Virginia" "Portrait of Dr. Franklin"  "Portrait of Gen. Washington" "Address to the Armies of America"; a poem: "On the Happiness of America" which takes 14 pages.
Complete in 96 pages, disbound with full title page, contents page at the back 5 by 7 3/4 inches. Note this is the Second Edition printed in 1788.

This title, along with the "Columbian Magazine", has the honor of being the first successful American magazine, both published in Philadelphia. The Museum was published by Mathew Carey and existed from January, 1787 thru the end of 1792.

Item from our most recent catalog - #367 - released for June, 2026