You are invited to touch, feel and read original and 1st edition works

The exhibit of more than 40 documents will be on display in Phillips Library beginning August 21, 2008 through the fall semester.

The display is open to the public for viewing Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.-Midnight; Friday, 8 a.m.-10 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, Noon-Midnight. To schedule a group visit, please contact Dr. Stephen Rockwood, Dean of the Library, at 301-447-5244.

The Remnant Trust Collection at Mount St. Mary's

• Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, John Adams, 1787, Volumes 1-3
  
• Summa Theologiae Pars Secunda, Thomas Aquinas, 1475
  
• Ethics, Politics & Economy, Aristotle, 1483
  
• Citie of God, Saint Augustine, 1610 First English
  
• Commentaries on the Law, William Blackstone, 1771, First American Edition, Volumes 1-4
  
• Reflections on the Revolution in France (bound with three responses), Edmund Burke, 1790
  
• "The Declaration of Independence", 1776, Third Edition
  
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, autobiography, 1846
  
• "The Emancipation Proclamation", 1863, First Edition
  
• Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841, First Edition
  
• "The Federalist", Federalist, 1788
  
• "Inquiry Concerning Political Justice", William Godwin, 1796, First Edition, Volumes 1-2
  
• Essays Moral and Political, David Hume, 1742, Second Edition, Volumes 1-2
  
• "The Gettysburg Address", Abraham Lincoln, 1863, First Edition
  
• Two Treaties of Government, John Locke, 1694, Second Edition
  
• The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, 1595, First English Edition
  
• Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Karl Marx, 1889, First American Edition
  
• On Liberty, John Stuart Mill, 1859, First Edition
  
• The Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill, 1869, First American Edition
  
• Areopagitica, John Milton, 1644, First Edition
  
• Common Sense, Thomas Paine, 1776
  
• Republic, Plato, 1763, First English Edition
  
• Works of Seneca, Lucious Annaeus Seneca, 1614
  
• Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith, 1759 First Edition
  
• Inquiry into the Nature of Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, 1776, First Edition, Volumes 1-2
  
• "A Yankee in Canada", Henry David Thoreau, 1866, First Edition
  
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1836, Second English Edition, Volumes 1-2
  
• A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1790
  
• A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792, First Edition
  
• "Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Opinions of the Judges thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F.A. Sandord", 1857 First Edition
  
• The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius, 1507
  
• "Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society Founding Document", Benjamin Franklin, 1787 First Edition
  
• "The Bill of Rights", 1789, First Printing
  
• "Morals of Confucius", 1691 First Edition
  
• "Habeas Corpus Act", 1679, First Edition
  
• "Dialogo di Galileo Galilei Linceo Matematico Supremo Dello Studio di Padova" (Galileo's Dialogues), Galileo Galilei, 1710
  
• "A Tale of the Tub" and "Battle between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James Library", Jonathan Swift, 1710
  
• "On the Law of War and Peace", Hugo Grotius, 1682 First Edition
  
• The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, Sir Isaac Newton, 1729 First Edition, Volumes 1-2
  
• Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, 1488,
  
• "Coi Prefagiorum Libri", Hippocrates, 1512
  
• "A Fragment on Government", Jeremy Bentham, 1823 first edition/first published work
  
• "Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical", Benjamin Rush, 1806
  
• "Louisiana Purchase Documents", 1804 First Edition

The Remnant Trust

The Remnant Trust is a public educational foundation that shares an actively growing collection of original and 1st edition works dealing with topics of liberty and dignity with some pieces dating as early as 1250.