A brief and serious warning to such as are concerned in commerce and trading : who go under the profession of truth, to keep within the bounds thereof in righteousness, justice and honesty towards all men / written by Ambrose Rigge, in the year 1678 ; and now re-printed together with the advices of several yearly-meetings of like tendency ; by order of the last Yearly-Meeting in London.

After nearly 60 years of collecting, Sid Lapidus ’59 has presented to the Library more than 2700 volumes representing the fruits of his enthusiasm. Broadly conceived, the collection charts the definition and re-definiton of rights and liberties endemic to Western political traditions. The main focus is texts and documents relating to the American Revolution, its run-up dating back to the Commonwealth men, and coming down to documents of the early Federal government.