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William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is made up of an assortment of material recently acquired by this firm. None of the items have appeared in previous catalogues. All are related to North America from the late 16th century to modern times, although most items described were published in the 18th and 19th centuries. There are numerous works of natural history, color plate and illustrated books, a substantial group of material on the Civil War and American politics, and a broad variety of unusual and interesting material in books, pamphlets, broadsides, prints, and photographs.

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Front cover: 9. Audubon, John James: The Birds of America....New York & Philadelphia. 1840-1844.

Rear cover: 158. [United States Army and Navy]: Regulations for the Uniform & Dress of the Army of the United States.... Philadelphia. [1851]. 1. Adams, John: A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOV- ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. London. 1787. [2],xxxi,[3]-392pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Internally clean. Very good.

The true first edition, complete in one volume, of one of the most important and widely read of the many writings of the important Revolutionary figure and second American president. At the time Adams wrote this work he was serving as the first United States ambassador in England, an uncomfortable position for a recent rebel, but he was ever ready to argue the American point of view. Herein he forc- ibly states the principles upon which he perceived the United States to be founded. The book was popular and went through numerous editions, to which Adams added two additional volumes, which contain descriptions of the Italian republics of the Middle Ages as well as a lengthy analysis of “the Right Constitution of a Com- monwealth.” This edition’s issuance as the federal constitutional convention was assembling added to its popularity and resulted in several American reprintings. According to the DAB, “its timeliness gave it vogue.” Later, Adams’ detractors sought to find in it a hidden desire for a monarchy. HOWES A60. SABIN 233. DAB I, p.76. $5000.

Presentation Copy from the Former President

2. Adams, John Quincy: ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARAC- TER OF GILBERT MOTIER DE LAFAYETTE. DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BEFORE THEM, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AT WASHINGTON, ON THE 31st DE- CEMBER, 1834. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt; neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Leaf tipped in preceding titlepage with presentation inscription from the author (“Gideon Hard from John Quincy Adams”) and further inscriptions by several later owners passing along the book. Very minor foxing and soiling. A good copy.

Adams’ speech honors the memory of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette. This copy is inscribed by Adams to Gideon Hard, is in a presentation binding of the sort favored by the Adams family for decades, and is printed on thick paper. John Quincy Adams devoted his entire career to government service. The son of President John Adams, he himself served as the sixth president, as a U.S. Sena- tor from 1803 to 1808, as Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in the U.S. Capitol in 1848. Gideon Hard (1797-1885) was a lawyer and politician from New York State. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1833 to 1837, and was thus one of Adams’ fellow Congressmen. He later held several New York State political offices. Adams provides a review of Lafayette’s contributions to American independence and his activities in the decades after the Revolutionary War, particularly his involvement in the French Revolution and various French governments which followed. In this brief biography Adams reflects “upon the life and character of a man whose life was, for nearly threescore years, the history of the civilized world – of a man, of whose character, to say that it is indissolubly identified with the Revolution of our Independence, is little more than to mark the features of his childhood – of a man, the personified image of self-circumscribed liberty.” An eight-page appendix records Congressional actions related to the death of Lafayette. SABIN 295. JACKSON, p.208. $6750.

Early Chicago Anti-Slavery Pamphlet by Adams

3. [Adams, John Quincy]: LETTER FROM THE HON. JOHN Q. AD- AMS, TO THE BANGOR COMMITTEE, ON THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE WEST INDIES. [Chicago. ca. 1846]. pp.[89]- 96. Dbd. Light soiling and wear. Good.

A scarce printed letter from John Quincy Adams to the anti-slavery committee in Bangor, dated July 4, 1843, followed by a report from the Monroe, New York Democrat about Adams’ recent journey through the state. In his letter to the Bangor committee Adams declines an invitation to speak, citing poor health, but contributes a “strong blast at the institution of slavery” (Byrd). “The extinction of slavery from the face of the earth,” Adams writes, “is a problem, moral, political, religious, which at this moment rocks the foundations of human society throughout the regions of civilized man. It is, indeed, nothing more nor less than the consum- mation of the Christian religion” (p.[89]). The letter first appeared in a regular issue of The Liberty Tree (probably the December 1843 issue, according to Byrd) and was most likely printed separately (but retaining original pagination) along with other important documents from the first volume of that publication approximately three years later. The Liberty Tree was a monthly anti-slavery periodical edited and published in Chicago by Zebina Eastman from 1843 to circa 1846. OCLC lists five copies: University of Chicago, Libraries of the Claremont Colleges, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, Brown University, and Princeton. BYRD 1009. $1750.

A Wonderful Illustrated Broadside of African-Americana and Native American Imagery

4. [African-Americana]: [Native Americans]: [PARTIALLY PRINT- ED MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATE, COMPLETED IN MANU- SCRIPT, FOR THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF THE METH- ODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH]. New York. Nov. 5, 1839. Broadside, 20 x 13¾ inches. Partially printed, completed in manuscript. Minor foxing and toning, manuscript slightly faded. Very good.

Handsome pictorial broadside certificate for the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It reads: “This certifies that [Henry Chronise] having paid to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the sum of twenty dollars is thereby constituted a Member during life conformably to the seventh article of the Constitution.” It is signed by Daniel Ostrander as Chairman and Francis Hall as Clerk. The top half of the certificate contains a lithograph by Nathaniel Currier depicting a minister preaching to a group of Native Americans, their tee- pees in the background. Freed slaves pray to heaven in the right foreground, their open shackles on the ground nearby, with a scene of fiery damnation in the left foreground, the broken temples of idolaters just behind. An angel trumpets over the whole scene, holding up the Holy Bible. Two copies located, at the American Antiquarian Society and the Smithsonian Institution. $2500.

The Elections to the First Continental Congress

5. “Agricola” [pseudonym]: TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK. GENTLEMEN, IT IS AN IN- VIDIOUS TASK TO BE EMPLOYED IN DETECTING AND EXPOSING THE MANY FALSEHOODS AND ABSURDITIES, CONTAINED IN THE NUMEROUS PUBLICATIONS THAT DAILY INFEST THIS CITY...[caption title and first lines of text]. New York. July 12, 1774. Broadside, 14½ x 10¼ inches. Loss of the “o” and “e” in the first two words of the title. Minor soiling and wear. Tipped to a larger sheet. About very good.

Broadside concerning the election of delegates to the First Continental Congress, responding to Alexander McDougall’s “To the freeholders, freemen, and inhabitants of the city and county of New-York” and another broadside entitled “To the freeborn citizens of New-York,” authored by someone signing himself as “A Moderate Man.” There was significant debate over whether or not to elect representatives to the first Continental Congress, followed by further debate over the best method to go about electing those representatives once the idea took hold. This broadside refutes the two others that deal with this subject, in blistering language. The author writes: “It must be a lame cause, that will admit of such lame advocates. When the blind lead blind, it is no wonder they both fall into the ditch.” ESTC records only two copies, at the New York Public Library and the Library Company of Philadelphia. We are aware of one other in a private collection. Rare. EVANS 13097. ESTC W1195. $12,500.

One of the Alien and Sedition Acts, Increasing the Residency Requirement to Become a Citizen

6. [Alien and Sedition Acts]: AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO, AND TO AMEND THE ACT, INTITULED, “AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AN UNIFORM RULE OF NATURALIZATION; AND TO RE- PEAL THE ACT HERETOFORE PASSED ON THAT SUBJECT.” [caption title]. [Philadelphia. 1798]. [2]pp. on a folio sheet. Docketed on the verso. Very good.

Rare printing of a law that was part of the highly controversial “Alien and Sedi- tion Acts” passed during the administration of John Adams. The first American naturalization act was passed in 1790 and held that a free white person could be a candidate for citizenship provided they had lived within the United States for two years, being a resident of one state for at least one year. In 1795, Congress passed a law increasing the residency requirement from two to five years. The present law, passed during heightened tensions with France during the so-called “Quasi-War,” increases the residency period from five to fourteen years, and requires all aliens to register with the federal government. The law also proscribes citizenship for any native of a nation or state with which the United States is at war. This law was not repealed until 1802, during Jefferson’s first term as president, when the residency requirement reverted back to five years. ESTC locates only two copies of this contentious law, at the American Antiquarian Society and the University of Virginia; OCLC adds a copy at Central Connecticut State University, and Evans at the John Carter Brown Library. EVANS 34700. ESTC W14669. OCLC 11420339. $2500.

Pennsylvania Journals of the Revolution

7. [American Revolution]: [Pennsylvania]: JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA. BEGINNING THE TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1776, AND ENDING THE SECOND DAY OF OCTOBER, 1781. WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEV- ERAL COMMITTEES AND CONVENTIONS, BEFORE AND AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Volume the First. Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1782. [2],698 [i.e. 697]pp. plus errata page. Tall folio. Antique three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Text evenly toned, scattered foxing, occasional bit of dampstaining. Leaf Gg has a long closed tear in the lower margin, not costing any text. Very good. Untrimmed.

This copy bears the ownership signature of Richard Willing on the titlepage. Will- ing, of Chester County, was a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1788 to 1790. This volume of the Journals of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives contains vital records from the period of the American Revolution. Printed in this volume are the Proceedings of the Provincial Conference of Committees, the Declaration of Independence, the Proceedings of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, and the Articles of Confederation. A volume of utmost interest and importance, recording in detail the major legislative actions of the Founders from the seat of American revolutionary activity. The House ordered 200 copies of this volume to be printed. Rare. EVANS 17658. ESTC W20604. SABIN 60173. HILDEBURN 4205. MATYAS 82-07. $6000. Eulogy on King Philip

8. Apes, William: EULOGY ON KING PHILIP, AS PRONOUNCED AT THE ODEON, IN FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON, by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian. Boston. 1836. 60pp. including woodcut frontispiece. Contemporary paper wrappers. Spine chipped, rear cover stained. Some light toning. Very good. Bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering laid in. In a half morocco slipcase.

Apes, an Indian and a Methodist minister, was an early and outspoken champion of Indian rights. Here he staunchly defends King Philip and recalls the grievances which led to King Philip’s War. He exonerates Philip and accuses the Pilgrims of extreme hostility and intolerance toward the Native Americans who had supported them during times of hardship. The war, fought from 1675-76, desolated English settlements in the Connecticut River valley and devastated the Indian populations of New England. Henceforth, Indian skirmishes and warfare were primarily confined to the boundaries between the French and the English. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 35798. FIELD 42. SABIN 1734. $1250.

One of the Most Important American Color Plate Books

9. Audubon, John James: THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAW- INGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITO- RIES. New York & Philadelphia: Audubon and J.B.Chevalier, 1840-1844. Seven volumes. 500 handcolored lithographed plates after Audubon by W.E. Hitchcock, R. Trembley, and others, printed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia (plates 1-135, 151-500) or George Endicott of New York (plates 136-150); numerous wood-engraved anatomical figures in text. Royal octavo. Half titles. Period half black morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. Spines a bit rubbed. Scattered foxing, generally to the tissue guards and text. Else very good. See front cover of this catalogue for color illustration

The first octavo edition of “Audubon’s Great National Work.” This is the first complete edition and the first American edition. The work is one of the “most beautiful, popular, and important natural history books published in America in the nineteenth century...[also] representing the best of pre-Civil War American lithography and giving Audubon the opportunity finally to display his scholarship and genius to a large American audience for the first time” (Ron Tyler). The plates, here accompanied by the text for the first time, were reduced and variously modified from the Havell engravings in the double elephant folio. Seven new species are figured, and seventeen others, previously described in the Ornitho- logical Biography but not illustrated, were also shown for the first time. Audubon may have been prompted to publish the reduced version of his double elephant folio by the appearance in 1839 of John Kirk Townsend’s rival Ornithology of the United States; or, as he writes in the introduction to the present work, he may have succumbed to public demand and his wish that a work similar to his large work should be published, but “at such a price, as would enable every student or lover of nature to place it in his Library.” The first edition of the octavo work is certainly the most famous and accessible of all American color plate books, and now represents the only realistic opportunity that exists for collectors to own an entire collection of Audubon images in a form that was overseen and approved by the great artist himself. The octavo Birds of America was originally issued in 100 parts, each containing five plates executed by the Philadelphia lithographer, J.T. Bowen. The whole story of the production of the book, with detailed information about every aspect of the project, is told by Ron Tyler in Audubon’s Great National Work (Austin, 1993). The story Tyler tells of the difficulties of production and marketing are revealing of the whole world of color printing in mid-19th-century America. By combining detailed text with careful observations next to his famous images, Audubon proved that he was as good a scientific naturalist as the members of the scientific establishment who had scorned him. BENNETT, p.5. NISSEN 51. SABIN 2364. McGRATH, p.50. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 34. RIPLEY 13. ZIMMER, p.22. Ron Tyler, AUDUBON’S GREAT NATIONAL WORK (1993), Appendix I. WOOD, p.208. $95,000.

10. [Ball, Sheldon]: BUFFALO, IN 1825: CONTAINING HISTORI- CAL AND STATISTICAL SKETCHES, ILLUSTRATED WITH A MAP OF THE VILLAGE AND VIEW OF THE HARBOR. Buffalo: Published by S. Ball, M.A. Salisbury, Printer, 1825. 13,[1]pp. plus full-page view and folding map. Original plain blue wrappers. Wrappers a bit stained, bookplate on verso of front wrapper. Final text leaf with small hole in lower inner portion, not affecting text. Seven-inch long tear along the right edge of the folding map, intruding at most one-inch into the image. A good copy overall. In a cloth chemise and slipcase.

“The first history of the town of Buffalo and one of the rarest Buffalo imprints” – Streeter. The “View of Buffalo Harbor” and the “Plan of the Village of Buffalo” are believed to be the first copper engravings ever produced in Buffalo. The map was “compiled, surveyed, drawn, and engraved” by Ball and the view, though unsigned, was almost certainly created by him as well. An amateur artist, Ball produced this brief history due to “the growing importance, the great demand, and daily inquiries by strangers for information in relation to the village of Buffalo.” He reviews the history of Buffalo and describes its topography, climate, natural advantages, popu- lace, buildings, and local Indian notables. “One of the most-to-be-prized Buffalo books” – Severance. Only two copies known at auction since 1922. The Streeter copy brought $400 in 1967. SABIN 9052. SEVERANCE, BUFFALO IMPRINTS, p.560. STREETER SALE 906. BRINLEY SALE 2943. $2500.

The First American Book on Geology and Mining

11. [Barba, Alvaro Alonso]: GRÜNDLICHER UNTERRICHT VON DEN METALLEN.... Ephrata. Pa.: J. Georg Zeisiger, 1763. Two volumes bound in one. 198,[4],14pp., with a full-page woodcut on p.187. Modern calf, incorporating portions of the original covers, spine with raised bands, red morocco label. Browning as usual, else very good.

The first book on mining and geology published in North America, and a rare Ephrata imprint. Barba’s work was originally published in Madrid in 1640 as Arte de los Metales. Barba was a priest who was at Potosí, Peru when its silver mining industry was at its height. The book, the earliest on American mining, ores, and minerals, gives a description of the revolutionary practices being implemented in the mines. Barba describes the generation of metals, methods of extracting silver by mercury, the process discovered in 1607 for extracting gold, silver, and copper by boiling with a salt solution and mercury in a copper vessel, and the refining and separation of these metals. There is also a chapter on petroleum products in Peru and elsewhere. The plate shows mining tools and a brick oven. This Pennsylvania printing of Barba’s work makes it the first book printed in the British colonies on mining and mineralogy, and therefore a landmark publication. Why it was printed by the Ephrata Cloister, which operated the second German- language press in the colonies, is an intriguing question. Copper mines had been discovered in neighboring New Jersey in the early 18th century, but coal was not mined in Pennsylvania until the 1770s, and the Appalachian gold deposits were not discovered until after the founding of the United States. “Very rare imprint” – Sabin, who notes that a copy had been recently (i.e. 1886) priced in a dealer catalogue for $90. Rink locates seven copies. EVANS 9333. NAIP w018481. HILDEBURN 1873. SEIDENSTICKER, p.60. DOLL & FUNKE 399. ARNDT 267. RINK 769. SABIN 67375. $7500.

Caricatures of the French Commissioners to the Centennial Exposition

12. Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste: EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE PHILADELPHIE. L’ALBUM DU BORD GALERIE DE POR- TRAITS AUTHENTIQUES DES MEMBRES DU JURY FRAN- ÇAIS ET DE LEURS COMPAGNONS EMBARQUÉS SUR ET POUR “L’AMÉRIQUE” 1876. Paris. 1879. [6],[xi]-xiii,[1]pp. plus [30] color lithograph plates. Half title. Original blue cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Corners and spine lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Fernand J. Heitz on front pastedown. Inscribed by Bartholdi on the half title. Very minor soiling. Very good.

Pictorial album of the French commissioners to the Philadelphia Centennial Expo- sition. Each plate contains a caricature of a member of the Jury Français, together with a brief couplet describing the image – Bartholdi is featured in the first plate. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) was a French sculptor who is best known for creating the Statue of Liberty. He was one of the commissioners for the French delegation to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where he exhibited several bronze statues. The book is inscribed by Bartholdi to Madame Sautelli, dated Oct. 24, 1883, in commemoration of the trip to America. Scarce, with three copies listed in OCLC: the Bibliothèque Nationale, the New York Public Library, and the Houghton Library at Harvard. A most unusual and rare piece. OCLC 465466290, 27024130. $4500. Item 12.

13. Bartlett, William, and Nathaniel Parker Willis: CANADIAN SCEN- ERY ILLUSTRATED. FROM DRAWINGS BY W.H. BARTLETT. London. 1842. Two volumes. [4],128; [4],116pp., plus frontispiece and engraved title in each volume, and 117 engraved plates. Quarto. Contemporary green morocco, gilt extra, a.e.g. Corners bumped. Some light shelf wear. In- ternally clean. A very pretty, near fine copy.

First edition, first issue, with the portrait of Bartlett. Bartlett was a skilled topographical draughtsman who travelled extensively, providing the plates for a number of travelogues. Canadian Scenery is considered his finest work. Between 1836 and 1852 he visited the U.S. and Canada four times, and sketched much of what he saw. The views include Kingston, Cobourg, Ottawa River, Quebec, Toronto, Queenstown, scenes of Indians, and much more. Willis provides the text, descriptive of the plates and relating a history and the current conditions in the eastern provinces and Upper and Lower Canada in 1839-40. SABIN 3786 (ref ). TPL 2424 (imperfect). LANDE 2310. $1250. 14. Bartram, William: TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST & WEST FLORIDA, THE CHER- OKEE COUNTRY, THE EXTENSIVE TERRITORIES OF THE MUSCOGULGES, OR CREEK CONFEDERACY, AND COUN- TRY OF THE CHOCTAWS.... London: Re-printed for J. Johnson, 1792. xxiv,520,[12]pp. plus seven plates (one folding) and folding map. Frontis. 19th- century three-quarter mottled calf and marbled paper boards, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt morocco label. Moderate rubbing at joints, raised bands, and corners. Very clean internally. Very good.

First British edition of one of the classic accounts of southern natural history and exploration, with much on the southern Indian tribes. For the period, Bartram’s work is unrivalled. “...[He] wrote with all the enthusiasm and interest with which the fervent old Spanish friars and missionaries narrated the wonders of the new found world...he neglected nothing which would add to the common stock of human knowledge” – Field. “Unequalled for the vivid picturesqueness of its descriptions of nature, scenery, and productions” – Sabin. The map illustrates the east coast of Florida from the St. Johns River to Cape Canaveral. The portrait shows the Seminole warrior, Mico Chlucco. HOWES B223, “b.” SABIN 3870. CLARK I:197. VAIL 849. FIELD 94. SERVIES 678. Coats, The Plant Hunters, pp.273-76. $6000.

15. Belknap, Jeremy: THE HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Boston. 1792, 1791-1792. Three volumes. viii,362,[ciii]; 493,[1]; 480,[8]pp., plus folding map bound in as frontispiece in first volume. Early 20th-century sheep and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn. Later ownership inscription on front pastedowns. Some offsetting to titlepage of first volume from map; map lightly foxed and with starting tear at inner margin. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good.

Second edition of the first volume, first edition of the second and third volumes, as is often the case in this work. The first extensive history of New Hampshire, and “one of the most important eighteenth-century American histories,” according to Streeter. The first two volumes trace the history of New Hampshire, while the third discusses the geography, natural history, society, laws, government, etc. The author was a determined antiquarian and founder of the first American historical association, the Massachusetts Historical Society. Tocqueville praised Belknap’s history, saying, “The reader of Belknap will find more general ideas and more strength of thought, than are to be met with in other American historians, even to the present day” (quoted in Larned). EVANS 24087, 23166, 24088. STREETER SALE 715 (vol. 1 only). SABIN 18344. HOWES B323, “aa.” LARNED 3128. BAL 922, 928, 930. WHEAT & BRUN 183. $1500. Item 15.

First European Language Bible Printed in America

16. [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christoph]: BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEI- LIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS MIT JEDES CAPITELS FURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELEN; NEBST EINEM ANHANG DES DRITTEN UND VIERTEN BU- CHS ESRA UND DES DRITTEN BUCHS DER MACCABAER. Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1743. [4],995,277,[7]pp. Thick quarto. Con- temporary calf over wooden boards, metal clasps. Clasps renewed, corners worn, head of spine expertly repaired. Contemporary and later manuscript notations on front pastedown and rear fly leaf. Titlepage with neat marginal repairs, some light stains. Very good.

The first European language Bible printed in America, and the second Bible printed in America after John Eliot’s Indian Bibles of the 1660s. The text is based on Martin Luther’s version by way of the thirty-fourth edition of the Halle Bible, with Book Three of Edras, Book Four of Edras, and Book Three of Maccabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. Believed to have been printed in an edition of 1200 copies, of which slightly over one-tenth are known to have survived. Christoph Saur was a native of Wittgenstein, Germany who settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. There are three variant titlepages noted for this work, of which this is the second. A landmark in American religious and printing history. DARLOW & MOULE 4240. EVANS 5128. HILDEBURN 804. ARNDT 47. SEIDEN- STICKER, p.20. NAIP w018551. $10,500.

The First Printed Draft of Any Part of the Bill of Rights

17. [Bill of Rights]: THE FOLLOWING ARE THE AMENDMENTS TO THE NEW CONSTITUTION, PROPOSED BY THE HON. MR. MADDISON [sic]. [Contained in:] GAZETTE OF THE UNIT- ED STATES. No. XVIII. New York: Published by John Fenno, June 13, 1789. [4]pp. folio newspaper (the pages numbered [69]-72), printed on a single folded sheet. Three small stab-holes in the margin. Lightly toned, stained around the edges. Some small paper repairs at edges. Very good.

The second printed appearance of the first draft of the Bill of Rights. What became the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution were first proposed by James Madison in the House of Representatives, then sitting in New York, on June 8, 1789. Madison’s proposals were first printed in the New York Daily Advertiser on June 12, followed the next day by this June 13 issue of the Gazette of the United States – more than three months before they were finalized and approved by the Congress and sent to the states for ratification. James Madison’s proposals appear on the third page of this issue, as part of a section giving a “Sketch of Proceedings of Congress,” which summarizes activities that took place on June 10, 11, and 12. The resolution as introduced by Madison reads: “Resolved, That the following amendments ought to be proposed by Congress, to the legislatures of the States, to become, if ratified by three fourths thereof, part of the Constitution of the United States.” Madison’s recommendations are listed as nine proposals, several of which contain multiple clauses. The first proposal proclaims that “all power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from the people,” that government is instituted for the benefit of the people, and that they have an unalienable right to reform or change their government. Proposal Four contains much of what became the Bill of Rights: guarantees of religious freedom, freedom of speech and of the press, freedom to assemble, and the right to keep and bear arms. Also, defenses against unreasonable search and seizure, the right to confront witnesses against the accused at trial, protections against self-incrimination, safeguards against double jeopardy, and the right to a speedy and public trial. Madison’s proposals were eventually expanded to seventeen Amendments passed by the House of Representatives, which were then winnowed down to twelve by the Senate, of which ten were ratified by the states. Madison’s language here is often identical to that of the Bill of Rights as finally approved. The Gazette of the United States was the only newspaper of record during the early years of the Federal government, and was the primary means of disseminating the proceedings and debates in the First Congress at a time when the government of the United States was busy defining itself in terms of the new Constitution. By any account the Gazette is the most reliable primary source for United States government affairs and political issues during the critical first Federal Congress of 1789-91. One of the dominant issues of the first year of the government, carrying over from the previous year’s debate over ratification of the Constitution, was the need to augment the Constitution to protect individual rights and liberties. That issue was directly addressed in the development of the Bill of Rights. John Fenno established the Gazette of the United States in New York as a Fed- eralist organ to support the new government. The first issue appeared less than two months before the present issue, on April 15, 1789, announcing itself as a semi-official medium for the proceedings and debates of Congress, and promising to print “essays upon the great subjects of Government in general, and the Federal Legislature in particular; also upon the national and local Rights of the American Citizens, as founded upon the Federal or State Constitutions....” Fenno was paid by the government for printing the proceedings of Congress, and the leading Fed- eralists (including Hamilton) stepped in with additional financial assistance when necessary. When the seat of government moved to Philadelphia, Hamilton and others aided Fenno in transferring the newspaper there. This is essentially the earliest version of any form of the Bill of Rights obtainable. Issues of the New York Daily Advertiser from this period are exceedingly rare. A landmark printing of Madison’s initial proposal of the Bill of Rights, the fundamental defense of American rights and liberties. A copy brought $31,200 at Swann Galleries in April 2012. $30,000.

Arguing for the Cherokees

18. [Blunt, Joseph]: EXAMINATION OF THE RELATIONS BE- TWEEN THE CHEROKEES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. New York. June 1829. 16pp. Dbd. Scattered foxing. Very good.

“The author praises the treatment of the Cherokee by the federal government and accuses Georgia of cupidity in its repudiation of Indian rights and titles” – Cohen. “A strong plea for justice for the Cherokee Nation, based on the treaties of Hopewell, Holston, and Tellico” – Eberstadt. Joseph Blunt, son of publisher Edmund Blunt and an energetic lawyer, author, and editor, wrote about the treatment of Indians over several decades. His attitude toward Native Americans could charitably be described as paternalistic, but he was defending the tribe at a point when it desper- ately needed help. Not in Field nor in the Siebert sale, and scarce in the market. SABIN 12456. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 38518. COHEN 6939. DE RENNE, p.410. EBERSTADT 131:314. $1500.

Captain Fanning’s Copy

19. Bowditch, Nathaniel: THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVI- GATOR; BEING AN EPITOME OF NAVIGATION.... Newburyport: Edmund M. Blunt...for Thomas Biggs, Philadelphia, [1802]. Engraved folding frontispiece map, seven engraved plates. Contemporary calf, covered in sailcloth at a period date. Very good. In a dark blue half morocco box. Prov- enance: Captain Edmund Fanning (1769-1841, voyager and author, signature on front endpaper).

The scarce first edition of the first accurate American navigational guide, a landmark work in its field. Most copies were used to pieces, hence the scarcity of decent copies. “The first complete epitome of practical navigation for the common man.... Often termed the greatest book in all the history of navigation, this intellectual achievement of our early culture was indispensable to the maritime and commercial expansion of the nineteenth century” – Grolier American Hundred. Bowditch was hired by Blunt to revise John Hamilton Moore’s New Practical Navigator, first published by Blunt with Bowditch’s additions in 1799. Proficient in several languages, with a good amount of sailing experience, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bowditch added much to the work in the way of additional information. He contributed so much in the way of revisions, he decided to completely redo the book, publishing it in 1802 with a new title and with Bowditch listed as the author. It is a fundamentally important work on the art of navigation, with scores of tables and diagrams, and a wealth of practical information. This copy has an important provenance to Captain Edmund Fanning. Fanning’s adventurous life at sea began at a young age. A native of Connecticut, he set sail in 1792 for the South Seas in search of seal skins. During the following quarter century he made voyages around the world and to the Pacific, visiting Australia, south Georgia, Fiji, Tonga, and the Marquesas. “Fanning, who went to sea as a 14-year-old cabin boy in 1783, first sailed to the South Seas on a voyage for seal skins on the Betsey in May 1797. During the next 25 years he either captained or directed over 70 voyages to the Pacific and around the globe, personally visiting China, Australia, Fiji, and the Marquesas. In 1798 he discovered both Fanning and Palmyra Islands...the latter is officially a part of the city and county of Honolulu and is privately owned by a Honolulu family. In 1829 Fanning was instrumental in sending out an exploring expedition under the command of Captain Benjamin Pendleton and Nataniel Brown Palmer....It was Fanning’s petition to Congress and largely his own personal efforts that led to the...fitting out of the United States Exploring Expedition [i.e. Wilkes Expedition]” (Forbes). The entire history of the Bowditch Navigator is told exhaustively in John Campbell’s History and Bibliography of The New American Practical Navigator (Salem, 1964). Campbell identifies eight different imprints for the first edition (all listing different regional booksellers) and does not hazard to officially assign priority, though he notes that the issue printed for Thomas Biggs (like the present copy) has advertisements dated earlier than any of the other issues. The first edition of Bowditch is notoriously difficult to find in good condition, with most copies used to pieces; the sail cloth binding on the present copy is a good indication that it was used on board ship. CAMPBELL 3. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 25. HOWES B657, “b.” STREETER SALE 3967. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1938. DIBNER, HERALDS OF SCIENCE 15. $9500.

20. Bradford, Thomas G.: A COMPREHENSIVE ATLAS GEOGRAPH- ICAL, HISTORICAL & COMMERCIAL. Boston & New York. 1835. [2],180pp. including maps and plates, but leaves with maps and plates only numbered on the printed side. Includes sixty-six maps, colored in outline. Frontis. Large quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked and cornered in modern calf, gilt. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Lightly foxed, heavier in a few places. Very good.

This atlas by Bradford covers the whole world, but about half of it is devoted to the United States, with detailed maps of most of the eastern states going as far west as Louisiana, and larger maps of the continent and of South America. The text provides considerable background information. There are also numerous maps of the rest of the world. PHILLIPS ATLASES 770. $2500.

21. Braun, Johannes: CIRCULAR=SCHREIBEN AN DIE DEUTSCHEN EINWOHNER VON ROCKINGHAM UND AUGUSTA, UND DEN BENACHBARTEN CAUNTIES. Harrisonburg: Laurentz Wart- mann, 1818. x,[4],409,[2]pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label, remnants of metal clasps. Binding lightly worn. Contemporary notation on endpapers. Light dampstaining to first and last few leaves, some light scattered foxing. A good, solid copy.

Johannes Braun (1771-1850), sometimes anglicized as John Brown, was a leading minister of the German Reformed Church in Rockingham and Augusta Counties. Though the titlepage indicates that it is the first volume, no more appear to have been published. Included among the sections is an essay on slavery and serfdom. “Largely concerned with slavery in Virginia” – Howes. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 43460. BOTTE & TANNHOF 2275. HOWES B726, “aa.” HAYNES 2252. $1750.

With the Rare Fourth Volume, Aided by Jefferson

22. Burk, John: THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT DAY. Petersburg, Va. 1804- 1805/1816. Four volumes. Later allegorical print of Virginia bound in near front of first volume. Late 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spines richly gilt, t.e.g. Light shelf wear, mostly to heads of spines. Two bookplates on front pastedown of each volume (including that of Joseph Y. Jeanes of Philadelphia). Two early ownership signatures on titlepage of first and second volumes ( J. Smith Davison and W. Davison). Text lightly toned (more so in fourth volume), scattered foxing. Very good overall.

An important history of Virginia, here present with the very rare fourth volume. That volume, issued years after the rest of the set, was largely destroyed by fire, and only a few copies have survived. The author, well known as a dramatist, was an Irish emigrant and enthusiastic Jeffersonian. After his death in a duel in 1808, the fourth volume was written by Skelton Jones and Louis Girardin, supposedly with the aid of Thomas Jefferson, to whom it is dedicated. That volume covers 1775 to 1781. Jefferson also assisted Burk in the research for the second and third volumes by lending him manuscripts, newspapers, and other materials, and Burk quotes Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia throughout his History... (see Sowerby for details). “The lengthy appendices are of the highest historical importance” – Eberstadt. HOWES B971, “b.” SABIN 9273. HAYNES 2499. CHURCH 1298. SOWERBY, JEF- FERSON’S LIBRARY 464. EBERSTADT 131:686. $4750.

An Angry Rebuttal

23. Cadogan, George: THE SPANISH HIRELING DETECTED: BE- ING A REFUTATION OF THE SEVERAL CALUMNIES AND FALSHOODS [sic] IN A LATE PAMPHLET, ENTITUL’D AN IM- PARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE EXPEDITION AGAINST ST. AUGUSTINE UNDER GENERAL OGLETHORPE. London: for J. Roberts, 1743. [2],68pp. Modern crushed green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Lower outer corner of leaf H2 torn, not affecting text; closed tear in upper margin of leaf H4 neatly mended. Near fine.

A defense of Gen. James Oglethorpe’s incursion into Florida against the Spanish at St. Augustine, written by a lieutenant in Oglethorpe’s regiment. During the War of Jenkins’ Ear, Oglethorpe, a founder of Georgia, drew on militia from that colony as well as from South Carolina to attack the Spanish in Florida. He was unsuccessful and his actions were roundly criticized, first in 1742 in an Impartial Account of the Late Expedition, to which Cadogan’s work is a direct reply. That earlier work was written (anonymously) by James Killpatrick, a Charleston physician who served under Oglethorpe, prompting Cadogan to produce what Streeter calls “an angry and not very effective reply.” Cadogan challenges Killpatrick to identify himself as the author of the attack on Oglethorpe, and criticizes Killpatrick’s text, virtually page by page. The appendix reprints correspondence between Oglethorpe and South Carolina officials. The Streeter copy sold for $2600. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 43/46. HOWES C14, “aa.” ESTC T116530. SABIN 9829. SERVIES 370. DE RENNE, p.110. CLARK I:51. STREETER SALE 1126. SIEBERT SALE 575. $12,500.

24. [Callender, James T.]: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE NATURE AND CONSEQUENCES OF EXCISE LAWS; INCLUDING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE RECENT INTERRUPTION TO THE MAN- UFACTORIES OF SNUFF AND REFINED SUGAR. Philadelphia: Printed for the Booksellers, 1795. 116pp. Dbd. Remnant of contemporary marbled wrapper affixed to gutter of titlepage. Toning and foxing. Good.

An early Callender pamphlet on taxation. The author is famous for his scandal mongering, two of his favorite targets being Hamilton and Jefferson. Callender’s unscrupulous behavior was halted one day when, in a drunken stupor, he drowned in three feet of water in the James River. In this volume he opposes recently passed Congressional taxes on sugar and snuff as “ruinous to manufacture, and of consequence, unproductive to the revenue.” He reviews the history of British and American excise laws, and sees only harm to American manufacturers, large and small: “The nation that, for eight years, bled in every vein to buy its freedom, will gaze on with criminal apathy while the brewer, the tanner, the tallow chandler, the soapboiler, the paper maker, the nailer, the hatter, and the newsprinter ascend in succession the scaffold of excise....A standing army will soon become requisite for supporting a system universally detested.” A powerful anti-tax statement, rather scarce in the market. SABIN 10071. EVANS 28383. ESTC W29417. KRESS B2899. $850.

An Important Early History of Rhode Island

25. Callender, John: AN HISTORICAL DISCOURSE ON THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE COLONY OF RHODE- ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS IN NEW-ENG- LAND IN AMERICA. FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT 1638, TO THE END OF FIRST CENTURY. Boston: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1739. [2],14,120,[1]pp. including errata on final printed page. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Old ink stain in bottom edge and margin of most leaves. Closed tear in first leaf of dedication, with no loss. Occasional light foxing. Good.

This copy bears the ownership signature on the titlepage of Theodore Foster, dated June 22, 1812. Foster (1752-1828), a Rhode Island politician and a Federalist, was one of the first two United States Senators from the state. He was also an active collector of books and historical documents on the history of Rhode Island, and was one of the founders of the Rhode Island Historical Society. At one point Foster considered writing his own history of Rhode Island, and relied heavily on Callender’s work in his research (see the article noted below). An important colonial history containing a good deal of information about Roger Williams, religious freedom, Indians and Indian wars, etc., by the pastor of the Baptist church in Newport, Rhode Island, the second Baptist church in the United States. SABIN 10075. EVANS 4347. STREETER SALE 677. HOWES C74, “aa.” William E. Foster (editor), “Early Attempts at Rhode Island History, Comprising Those of Stephen Hopkins and Theodore Foster” in Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Vol. VII (1885), pp.5-134. $1750.

26. Campbell, Alexander, editor: THE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST. PUB- LISHED MONTHLY. Vol. I. Buffaloe Creek, Brooke County, Va.: Printed b[y] Solomon Sala, at the Buffaloe Printing-Office, 1824. 300,[4]pp. Contem- porary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Boards heavily worn, paper partially peeled away, corners worn. Contemporary and later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers. Moderately foxed. About very good.

Second edition. Monthly periodical issued by reform preacher Alexander Campbell (1788-1866). A Scottish immigrant to the United States in 1809, Campbell was part of the Restoration Movement and founded Bethany College in West Virginia. He edited the Christian Baptist from 1823 to 1830. “Recognizing the utility of the press to his evangelical mission, Campbell initiated a monthly journal, the Christian Baptist, on 4 July 1823. Iconoclastic and satirical, it held up to ridicule the foibles of the religious leaders with whom he disagreed. As his reformation grew, he replaced the Christian Baptist with the Millenial Harbinger in 1830, a monthly with a more constructive tone. Most of Campbell’s journalistic essays were reprinted in the British Millenial Harbinger” – ANB. This is the second edition, printing the first twelve issues with an index and collective titlepage. $875. Lawrence Washington’s Set

27. [Carey, Mathew, editor]: THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, OR, RE- POSITORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN FUGITIVE PIECES, &c. PROSE AND POETICAL.... Philadelphia. 1790, 1789, 1788-1792, 1799. Eight volumes, detailed below. Uniform contemporary three-quarter calf and boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Foot of spine chipped and separat- ing on first volume; head of spine chipped on all other volumes. Light wear to corners and boards, some separation of paper from rear board on seventh volume. Contemporary ownership inscription of Lawrence Washington on each front fly leaf. Text toned, sometimes heavily. A good, solid set with a nice provenance.

A mostly complete run of The American Museum..., America’s first literary magazine, a pioneering effort on the part of its publisher, Mathew Carey, to bring news to a national audience, and to develop and promote an indigenous literary culture. Carey began The American Museum on the heels of a failed partnership with other printers called the Columbian Magazine. Carey’s original goal in his solo venture was to cull from other sources the best essays on political, economic, and cultural subjects, as well as poetry and prose, and offer it to a national audience. Despite the note to the reader in his first issue apologizing for his journal being “destitute as it is of originality,” he soon began to publish original work. A favorable opinion of the The American Museum from George Washington, often reprinted in advertisements, enhanced its reputation. Carey cast a wide net in soliciting writers and topics for his periodical. Among the distinguished contributors were Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jef- ferson, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, James Bowdoin, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin West, Jeremy Belknap, Ezra Stiles, Noah Webster, H.M. Brackenridge, Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight, Benjamin Rush, Joel Dickinson, and Tench Coxe. All of the major issues of the day, as well as scientific and cultural events, found a place in its pages. Not the least of these are the debates surrounding the Constitu- tion, but also internal improvements, manufactures, agriculture, and the general state of the nation, as well as poetry and varied prose. The appearance of the Federal Constitution in the September 1787 issue is one of the first contemporary printings of the document, and the inclusion in the same issue of a “Letter Relative to the Hessian Fly” shows the range of the journal’s interests. The American Museum became a vital source for information about the activities of the federal government, as Carey printed reports from cabinet departments, the proceedings of Congress, state constitutions, treaties with foreign nations, and foreign intelligence. Authors contributing literary essays and poetry include Francis Hopkinson, Philip Freneau, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight, and John Trumbull. The success of The American Museum helped establish Mathew Carey as the leading printer of his generation. Through the publication of this periodical he was able to develop a distribution network which greatly aided him in coming years as he became a leading book publisher. A congressional change in postal rates for magazines in 1792 forced Carey to end The American Museum in order “to have recourse to some other object that might afford a better reward to industry.” This set includes the scarce additional volume for 1798, however, which is considered to be the “thirteenth volume” of the set. This set is from the library of Lawrence Washington, nephew of President George Washington, with his ownership inscription on the fly leaf dated 1818. Lawrence Augustine Washington (1775-1824) was the fourth son of George Washington’s younger brother, Samuel. When Samuel Washington died in 1781, the future president took it upon himself to provide for the education of his nephew, Lawrence, and for Lawrence’s older brother, George Steptoe Washington. Throughout the 1780s and early 1790s, Washington supervised and paid for their education in Alexandria, Virginia, and then at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from which the two nephews graduated in 1792. While in Philadelphia, Lawrence Washington also studied law with Attorney General Edmund Randolph. He married Mary Dorcas Wood in 1797 and lived at Federal Hill, outside Winchester, Virginia. Upon George Washington’s death Lawrence and his brother, George, were absolved of all debts for their schooling, a sum of approximately five thousand dollars. George Washington also left his nephews a small portion of his estate in his will. The volumes are as follow:

1) Covering January through June, 1787. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1790. Third edition. 2) Covering July through December, 1787. Philadelphia: Printed by Mathew Carey, 1789. Second edition. 3) Covering January through June, 1788. Philadelphia: Printed by Mathew Carey, 1788. 4) Covering July through November, 1788. Philadelphia: Printed by Mathew Carey, 1788. 5) Covering January through June, 1790. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1790. 6) Covering January through June, 1792. Philadelphia: From the press of M. Carey, 1792. 7) Covering July through December, 1792. Philadelphia: From the press of M. Carey, 1792. 8) For the year 1798. [Lancaster]: Printed for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, by W. & R. Dickson, Lancaster. June 20, 1799.

EVANS 22307, 21646, 20927, 20928, 22309, 24045, 24046, 35105. ESTC P5392, P5460, W42119. James N. Green, Mathew Carey, Publisher and Patriot, pp.6-7. CHIELENS, AMER- ICAN LITERARY MAGAZINES, pp.19-24. $8500.

First Printed Account of Coronado’s Expedition

28. Castañeda de Magera, Pedro de: Ternaux-Compans, Henri: RELA- TION DU VOYAGE DE CIBOLA ENTREPRIS EN 1540. [Con- tained in:] VOYAGES, RELATIONS ET MÉMOIRES ORIGINAUX POUR SERVIR A L’HISTOIRE DE LA DÉCOUVERTE DE L’AMERIQUE. Paris. 1838. [4],392pp. Original pink wrappers, paper label. Minor chipping to front wrapper, minor spine wear, rear wrapper mostly lacking. Minor soiling, else near fine internally. Untrimmed and unopened. In a half red morocco and marbled boards box, spine gilt.

A work of primary importance for the American Southwest, the “first appearance in any language of the chief source on Coronado’s expedition, previously known of only from meager accounts found in Ramusio, Herrera, Gomara and Venegas. Coronado and his men were, aside from De Vaca, the first Europeans to visit Texas, and preceded all others into New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado” – Howes. This work, which is complete on its own, was first issued as a volume in the impressive collection of French translations of early histories of Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Florida, and more, assembled by Henri Ternaux-Compans, the first major collector of Americana. The scion of a French family who had made a fortune in the wool trade, Ternaux-Compans collected vigorously in the two decades after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, publishing a catalogue of his collection in 1837, the same year he began publishing the series. This is the more desirable volume, in original condition. HOWES C224a, “aa.” $2250.

29. Catlin, George: LETTERS AND NOTES ON THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CONDITION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1841. Two volumes. viii,264; viii,266pp., plus hundreds of plates, folding map, and two single-page maps. Errata slip. Frontispiece in first volume. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spines sunned, corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Leaves Q and Q2 in second volume with closed tears in the upper margin (intruding into five lines of text in the first instance), with no loss. Otherwise, impeccably clean and fresh internally. A very attractive set, and a complete copy with all plates called-for.

First American edition of Catlin’s famous book, issued the same year as the London first, with the same collation, maps, and illustrations. One of the most important works on American Indians published in the 19th century. Besides the descriptions of Catlin’s travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of Indians, as well as two significant maps of Indian tribe locations. Catlin first went west in 1830, travelling extensively for the next six years accumulating his “Indian Gallery.” Letters And Notes... was published when he brought the exhibition to London. Complete with all plates called-for (numbers 23, 137, 142, 149, 159, 246, and 247 were never produced). The errata note, tipped in at the titlepage, explains that although it may seem that several illustrations are missing, those referred to in the text are all present. WAGNER-CAMP 84:3. HOWES C241. McCRACKEN 8a. FIELD 261. SABIN 11536. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 680. $3250. The Second American Census

30. [Census, Second]: RETURN OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF PER- SONS WITHIN THE SEVERAL DISTRICTS OF THE UNITED STATES: ACCORDING TO “AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE SECOND CENSUS OR ENUMERATION OF THE INHABIT- ANTS OF THE UNITED STATES,” PASSED FEBRUARY THE 28th, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED. Washington: Printed at the Apollo Press, by Wm. Duane & Son, 1802. [5]-88pp. plus folding table. Contemporary marbled wrappers. Wrappers lightly rubbed. Near fine.

The octavo edition of the complete returns of the second American census (the first to be printed by official order), following the very rare folio edition of the previous year. When the delegates of the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, the population of America was a great unknown. Aside from the expected reduction in the male population due to the recent war, hoards of Loyalists had fled to Canada, while throughout the 1780s large numbers of families sought new opportunities in the frontier along the Ohio. These dramatic shifts, combined with a known but unquantified increase in the number of births per annum, created a definite need for some sort of official count. Under Madison’s leadership six cat- egories were determined for the first American census of 1790: heads of family, free white males over sixteen, free white males under sixteen, free white females, other free persons, and slaves. Despite the usual hesitancy of the people to offer such personal information to government officials, the effort was a resounding success; but due to rapid growth and increased contact with Indians, it was clear that the next census would require even more statistical enumeration. In early 1800, Congress passed an act mandating a new census. The present effort contains a new layer of schedules, including places of residence, new age group brackets for free white males and females, and, most importantly, the qualification that untaxed Indians be left off the roll of “other free persons.” All of the states are represented, as well as the aforementioned territories and other regions such as the eastern and western districts of Pennsylvania and Virginia, and the District of Columbia, here noted as part of Virginia. Such luminaries as Thomas Jefferson and Timothy Dwight of Yale called for even more specific information such as economic standing, occupation, and distinctions between immigrant and natural-born free people; but Congress, for now, ignored their appeals. The total population, with corrections, is given as just over 5.3 million. A most important record of the growth of the United States, at a key moment in the history of American demography. HOWES R221. SABIN 70147. EVANS 3442. SOWERBY, JEFFERSON’S LIBRARY 3289. Anderson, The American Census, pp.14-23. Cassedy, Demography in Early America, pp.206-42. $2000. 31. Charlevoix, Pierre François-Xavier: JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NORTH-AMERICA...CONTAINING THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THAT COUN- TRY, PARTICULARLY CANADA. TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CUSTOMS, CHARACTERS, RELIGION, MANNERS AND TRADITIONS OF THE ORIGINAL INHAB- ITANTS.... London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1761. Two volumes. viii,382; viii,380,[26]pp., plus folding map. Half title in each volume. Con- temporary gilt calf, rebacked to style, spine with raised bands, red morocco label, endpapers renewed. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

Charlevoix was sent to Canada by the Jesuits at the age of twenty-three. After four years of missionary work he returned to France, whereupon he accepted the commission for this trip from the regent of France. During 1720-22 he travelled in the Great Lakes region and down the Mississippi. Although his trip was publicly stated to be for the purpose of inspecting interior posts and settlements, he was actually under orders to seek out information relating to the existence of a passage to the Pacific via continental North America. During his travels Charlevoix ques- tioned the Sioux and traders he found returning to the Mississippi via the Missouri River. Although he hoped to return up the Mississippi in 1723, he fell ill at Biloxi and was forced to return to France from there. This work was originally published in French in 1744 as part of Charlevoix’s larger work on New France; the present edition is the first separately published edition in English. “...One of the most interesting of 18th century travel books” – Graff. HOWES C308, “b.” GRAFF 651. SABIN 12139. CLARK I:60. FIELD 283. SERVIES 419. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 758. GREENLY MICHIGAN 12. SERVIES 419. $3500.

An Unrecorded Broadside Issued in San Francisco Against the Civil War on Its Outbreak

32. [Civil War]: [California]: A POWERFUL APPEAL FOR PEACE BY THE CHAMPIONS OF WAR [caption title]. [San Francisco? ca. May 1861?]. Broadside, 23 x 14¾ inches, printed in five columns. Several old folds. Some minor tanning and edge wear. Very good. Matted and framed.

A rare anti-war broadside, apparently printed in California just at the beginning of hostilities, and using the words of prominent Republicans and pro-Republican newspapers for the cause of non-aggression. The anonymous author of this broadside argues against war, and for reconciliation with the Confederacy, in an effort to “save what remains of the Republic from wreck and ruin, from grinding taxation and an inevitable military despotism.” The argument is done quite cleverly by quoting a series of Republicans from the pre-war period, and using their own words against them. The first half of the broadside quotes San Francisco’s three Republican newspapers, the Bulletin, Times, and Alta California. The author then takes us “cross the mountains” to “see what the New York Tribune, the most potential and approved organ of the Abolition Party of the states has said.” Next is a series of quotations from California’s Senator Milton Latham. Finally comes a 1848 quote from Abraham Lincoln: “Any people anywhere, being inclined, and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing Government, and form a new one that suits them better.” The concluding question: “Now, fellow-citizens, are not these clamorers for war convicted out of their own mouths?” The latest source quoted here was an April 11 San Francisco Times article, and the context suggests that open hostilities had scarcely begun. The broadside was done to shore up support for the “Democratic Peace Party of California,” possibly in advance of the September 1861 gubernatorial election. Not in Greenwood, and we locate no copies in OCLC or in the trade. $5000. Union Recruiting Poster in Kentucky, 1863

33. [Civil War]: [Kentucky]: THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE 16th KY. VETERAN CAVALRY!! SOLDIERS HONORABLY DIS- CHARGED FROM THE SERVICE OF U.S. OF NINE MONTHS OR MORE SERVICE, ARE WANTED FOR THE 16th KEN- TUCKY VETERAN CAVALRY...[caption title and start of text]. Princeton, Ky. Oct. 28, 1863. Broadside, 10½ x 11½ inches, printed on white paper with thin blue rules. A bit of offsetting and soiling, a few ink smudges. Very good. Framed and glazed (not examined out of frame).

A rare broadside calling for troops for the 16th Kentucky Veteran Cavalry, which had formed just a few months earlier. Soldiers honorably discharged from the Union Army are encouraged to sign up for three years, and are promised a “liberal bounty of $402,” which would be paid in installments during their service. New recruits would receive $100, with $25 of that paid when they mustered in to service. The broadside also announces that first and second lieutenants would be appointed by the recommendation of Lieut. John C. Akerstom, whose printed name appears at the conclusion of the text. There are few surviving records regarding the 16th Kentucky Veteran Cavalry, and no roster survives. The first companies were mustered into service at Paducah in late summer 1863, under the command of Major George F. Barnes. Attached to a cavalry corps in the Department of the Ohio, they ventured as far as eastern Tennessee, and when back in Kentucky fended off an attack by the forces of famed Confederate commander Nathan Bedford Forrest, dealing him significant casualties. In the fall of 1864 they accompanied General Gillem’s expedition through the Blue Ridge, after which some, if not all, of the companies were consolidated into the 12th Kentucky Cavalry. No copies of this broadside are listed in OCLC. Scarce evidence of the formation of this cavalry unit from a crucial border state. $2500. Civil War Political Caricature

34. [Civil War]: YE BOOK OF COPPERHEADS. Philadelphia: Frederick Leypoldt, 1863. [2],24,[6]pp. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Cov- ers chipped and worn, rear cover and final leaf detached. Some light foxing and soiling. Good.

A scarce political satire lampooning those Northern Democrats who opposed the Civil War, with a cartoon on each page accompanied by rhyming verse. Below a number of the cartoons are quotations from Shakespeare. The cartoons are followed by four pages of limericks. Most of the images feature snakes in one form or another, sometimes with the heads of recognizable political figures. $1250.

35. [Civil War]: Gay, William: GRAND PANORAMA OF THE WAR! WHILE OUR FATHERS AND BROTHERS ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR LIBERTIES, COME AND VIEW THE SCENES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE ON THE BATTLE GROUNDS, PRE- PARED BY THE BEST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD, EMBRAC- ING OVER 60 SCENES IN THE PRESENT WAR. [Boston?]. 1864. Broadside, 17½ x 6 inches. Ornamental border. Foxing, some wear along edges. Small hole in upper border, likely where nailed for display. Good.

An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising the display of a massive panorama of Civil War battles. Penciled information on this broadside indicates the panorama could be viewed at Brimfield, Massachusetts on Wednesday, October 26, 1864, and William Gay is identified as the “delineator” of the presentation. Nearly all the major battles of the war would be depicted, including Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Wilson’s Creek, the bombardment of Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Ball’s Bluff, the engagement of the Monitor and the Merrimac, Pea Ridge in Arkansas, Antietam, Vicksburg, Fort Donelson, and much more. There are also portraits of Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, a group of rebel prisoners at Fort Donelson, a panoramic view of New Orleans, and a potentially gruesome view of “the effect of one cannon ball.” Following the panorama of war scenes would be a comic interlude, and the evening concludes with a “series of National Chromotypes” and a “new and beautiful design of the Stars and Stripes revolving around Washington, the Father of our Country.” We can find no copies of this broadside listed in OCLC, nor are we able to find any other information about William Gay or his panorama. It is well known that during the Civil War crowds of civilians would gather at the edges of battles to watch as they unfolded. This broadside is rare evidence of the public’s continued fascination with images of battles during the war itself, exhibited in an exciting form for a mass viewership. $1500. Columbia Burns!

36. [Civil War]: [Columbia, South Carolina Newspaper]: COLUMBIA PHOENIX. Vol. 1, No. 2 [caption title]. Columbia: J.A. Selby, Thursday, March 23, 1865. [6]pp. Single-sheet newspaper folded in three. Browned, light dampstaining and foxing, in original state with edges untrimmed. Very good.

The second issue of the Columbia Phoenix, published in the Union-occupied capital of South Carolina in late March 1865. In the aftermath of its destruction by fire in the last several months of the Civil War, the Columbia Phoenix rose from the ashes of Columbia, South Carolina to record the destruction of that city immediately after its occupation by Union forces under General William T. Sherman. After completing his famous March to the Sea at Savannah, Georgia just before Christmas 1864, Sherman turned his seasoned army northward in February 1865. Columbia was in the path of Sherman’s march and surrendered on Feb. 17, 1865. The night of the occupation, fires sprang up and spread quickly, fanned by high winds. Whether the fires were intentional or an accident, caused by drunken Union soldiers or otherwise, remains a controversy to this day. The city’s firemen and the Union army both rushed to put out the flames, but in the ensuing chaos, much of the city was destroyed. Sherman’s troops then proceeded to demolish anything left of strategic military value. Starting literally from scratch, newspaperman Julian A. Selby scoured the state for a press and materials, printing the first issue of the Columbia Phoenix on March 21, 1865. This second followed two days later. The first ten issues chronicled the destruction of the city. Crudely printed on poor quality paper, this issue gives a detailed description of the Union invasion, provides a list of residences and other buildings that succumbed to the fire, and prints a letter of thanks to the “Israelites in Columbia” for their handsome conduct after the fire. The newspaper strikes a defiant tone, declaring: “Our city shall spring, from her ashes, and our Phoenix, we hope and trust, shall announce the glorious rising! God save the state!” The paper survived, with some changes of name and format, for the next decade. In April 1865 the newspaper split into the Columbia Phoenix, a daily, and the Columbia Tri-Weekly Phoenix, which was published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. The daily paper changed its name to Columbia Daily Phoenix in May 1865 and then became the Daily Phoenix in July. The Tri-Weekly Phoenix ran until 1875. $1000.

The First Union Paper in Occupied Richmond

37. [Civil War]: [Richmond Newspaper]: EVENING WHIG. Wm. Ira Smith, proprietor. Richmond. April 4, 1865. Large folio broadsheet. Old fold lines. Lightly foxed. Contemporary ink note at top of sheet, small ink stain in lower half. Very good.

The first issue of the newly reopened Richmond newspaper, after the fall of the city to Union forces on April 3, 1865. Publication of this newspaper was resumed on April 4, with the consent of the Federal authorities, under the condition laid out by the Union military governor which, the paper notes, “will be cheerfully and faithfully complied with.” One of the paper’s articles notes that two other newspaper presses were destroyed in the previous day’s fires, which leveled much of the city. By Spring 1865 the Confederate Army was considerably weakened by disease, desertion, and a severe shortage in supplies. On April 2, Union troops gained a decisive victory at Petersburg, and Robert E. Lee made a calculated move to abandon the nearby Confederate capital at Richmond. The government and other officials abandoned the city, along with much of the citizenry. Retreating soldiers set fire to bridges, the armory, and warehouses, a conflagration which spread unchecked and burnt much of the city. On April 3 the mayor and remaining citizens surrendered the city to Union troops, who proceeded to extinguish what remained of the blaze. The new proprietor of the newspaper, William Ira Smith, was a Union sympa- thizer. Of the newspaper he writes: “The sentiments of attachment to our ‘whole country,’ which formerly characterized it as a journal, will again find expression in its columns, and whatever influence it may have for the restoration of the national authority will be exerted.” The paper proceeds to report that President Lincoln will be arriving in Richmond that afternoon, and to report on the occupation and current situation, including an account of the fire, property destroyed, lives lost, etc. Crudely produced and issued as a broadsheet, probably because of a shortage of paper, this issue of the Evening Whig is evocative evidence of the tumult which surrounded it. Rare. $1750.

The Second Issue of the First Union Paper in Occupied Richmond, with a Letter from a Union Soldier

38. [Civil War]: [Richmond Newspaper]: EVENING WHIG. Wm. Ira Smith, proprietor. Richmond. April 5, 1865. Large folio broadsheet. Old folds. Worn at folds, with some separation and slight loss, affecting some text. Contemporary manuscript letter in top margins, written by a Union soldier. Lightly soiled. A fair copy.

The second issue of the newly reopened Richmond newspaper, after the fall of the city to Union forces on April 3, 1865. Publication of this newspaper was resumed on April 4, with the consent of the Federal authorities, under the conditions laid out by the Union military governor which, the paper notes, “will be cheerfully and faithfully complied with.” By Spring 1865 the Confederate Army was considerably weakened by disease, desertion, and a severe shortage in supplies. On April 2, Union troops gained a decisive victory at Petersburg, and Robert E. Lee made a calculated move to abandon the nearby Confederate capital at Richmond. The government and other officials abandoned the city, along with much of the citizenry. Retreating soldiers set fire to bridges, the armory, and warehouses, a conflagration which spread unchecked and burnt much of the city. On April 3 the mayor and remaining citizens surrendered the city to Union troops, who proceeded to extinguish what remained of the blaze. The new proprietor of the newspaper, William Ira Smith, was a Union sympa- thizer. This issue of the paper provides news about the Army of the Potomac, as well as further information on the condition of the city, such as drug stores remaining, pillagers killed, etc. Written in the margins of this issue is a letter home from a Union soldier, dated April 6. It reads:

Richmond April 6 – All well, still in camp here. Everything goes on swim- mingly. Please send me some papers giving accounts of the war news in the past few days. Papers for sale are all gobbled up before they get down to the Regts. Am living now in a [vacated?] “Sesesh” house just on the outskirts of the city. I have a good bed, good quarters, and am living “like a fighting cock.” I send enclosed a piece of braid and a piece of the covering of the speaker’s chair of the Rebel congress. I know them to be genuine as I tore them off myself. I will write in a day or two. Geo.

Crudely produced and issued as a broadsheet, probably because of a shortage of paper, this issue of the Evening Whig is evocative evidence of the tumult which had surrounded it. Rare, and doubly interesting for its dual usage as a letter sheet. $1350.

The Confederates Rousted from Richmond

39. [Civil War]: THE FIRST OF MAY 1865 OR GENL. MOVING DAY IN RICHMOND VA. New York: H. & W. Voight, 1865. Handcolored lithograph, 9½ x 11¾ inches. Lightly toned, with minor wear. Very good.

A satirical political print showing “moving day” at Confederate headquarters in Richmond. The lithograph depicts Gen. Robert E. Lee loading old swords in a dog cart with two scrawny dogs attached, while Treasury Secretary George Trenholm hauls a string of boxes carrying worthless bonds over his shoulder, each bearing the name of a Confederate state. A box on the sidewalk marked “C.S.A. Treasury (on which a dog is unabashedly urinating) is also labeled as “Waste Paper,” and the building in the background sports signs that read “Sheriff Sale” and “To let. Apply Lincoln & Co.” Several individuals – including two African Americans, one thumbing his nose – look on. The title date of May 1 would lead one to think that this lithograph was issued on that date, but in fact it was probably issued earlier in the spring, before the collapse of the Confederacy, and is speculating on its demise with May 1 as a projected to date. In fact, Richmond was occupied by Union troops on April 3. Likewise, the reference to “Lincoln & Co.” is unlikely after his death on April 15. Finally, Treasury Secretary Trenholm had resigned on April 27, although this detail might have escaped a cartoonist. A very rare image. We locate copies at the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Yale, Virginia Historical Society, and Brown University. $2000.

Lithograph of Andersonville Prison

40. [Civil War]: [Georgia]: UNION PRISONERS CONFINED IN CAMP SUMPTER. NEAR ANDERSONVILLE, GA. Annapolis: Charles A. Schwab, 1865. Color lithograph, 11¼ x 17 inches. Lightly and evenly tanned. A few small dampstains around the edges, not affecting image. Very good.

A bird’s-eye view of the infamous Andersonville prison. The print shows the stockade and prison grounds, with the prisoners in a tightly crowded camp and six bodies hanging from a scaffold in the right center. A numbered key denotes headquarters, “Rebel camp,” the hospital, the cookhouse, and the “deadhouse.” This notoriously overcrowded prisoner of war camp was the scene of death and deprivation. Over a third of prisoners held there died while imprisoned before the camp was liberated in May 1865. The commander of the camp, Confederate officer Henry Wirz, was executed after the war for crimes related to his control over the camp. Andersonville was opened in February 1864, and conditions there quickly became intolerable. This lithograph would seem to depict things as they stood in the summer of 1864, datable for two reasons. First, in June 1864 the original stockade was doubled in size, to the other side of a small creek, and this lithograph shows a stockade enclosing closely crowded ground on side of the stream, but nothing within the stockade enclosure on the other side. Second, in the spring of 1864 a group of prisoners called the “Andersonville Raiders” came together among the Federal troops and instituted a reign of terror among the inmates, co-opting all food and clothing. Countering them, another group of inmates called the “Regulators” arose and overthrew the “Raiders.” With the permission of the Confederate authorities they meted out rough justice, including hanging six of the “Raiders” leaders. This occurred in July 1864 and is evidently the hangings depicted in the camp. This unique moment is not preserved in other views of the notorious camp, which was not liberated until May 1865. A rare print and iconic image, with copies located at the American Antiquarian Society, New Haven Historical Society, and Buffalo Historical Society. $3250.

Early Quaker Tract Refuting Charges of Tyranny in Pennsylvania

41. Claridge, Richard: MELIUS INQUIRENDUM: OR, AN ANSWER TO A BOOK OF EDWARD COCKSON, M.A. AND RECTOR, AS HE STILES HIMSELF, OF WESTCOT-BARTON IN THE COUNTY OF OXON. MIS-INTITULED, RIGID QUAKERS CRUEL PERSECUTORS...IN WHICH ANSWER, THE SAID REVIEW IS EXAMINED, AND REFUTED, AND THE QUAK- ERS CLEAR’D OF THE CHARGE OF PERSECUTION FOR RELIGION. London: Printed and sold by T. Sowle, 1706. [16],296,[4]pp., including errata. Late 19th-century paneled calf in antique style, gilt leather label. Calf lightly scuffed. Light toning, a bit of light foxing. About very good.

Richard Claridge (1649-1723) was an Anglican priest before converting to the Baptist faith in 1691. By 1696 he had become dissatisfied with the Baptists, and became a Quaker minister, writing many works on Quaker doctrine, including a defence of William Penn’s The Sandy Foundation Shaken. In the present work he seeks to refute the arguments of Edward Cockson, whose Rigid Quakers, Cruel Persecutors was published in 1705, and which included a “history of the Quakers persecutions for religion, in Pensilvania and America.” Section fourteen of Claridge’s work specifically refutes the charges of Quaker tyranny in Pennsylvania, and the rest of the book seeks to dismantle Cockson’s other arguments, point by point. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 706/46. ESTC T102450. SMITH, FRIENDS BOOKS I:412. $1250.

The Cod Fisheries That Made New England

42. [Cod Fisheries]: “Fisher, Sally”: BRITAIN’S GOLDEN MINES DIS- COVER’D: OR, THE FISHERY TRADE CONSIDERED, UNDER THESE THREE HEADS, I. WHAT BENEFIT BRITAIN MAY REAP BY IT. II. WHICH IS THE MOST PROBABLE WAY OF RECOVERING IT. III. THE THREE GREAT FISHING TRADES, VIZ. THAT UPON OUR OWN COASTS, THAT UPON THE COASTS OF GREENLAND, AND THAT UPON THE COASTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, PARTICULARLY EXAMINED.... Lon- don: Printed for J. Morphew near Stationers-Hall, 1720. xvi,80pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Lightly edgeworn. Very clean internally. Very good.

A scarce and early study of the Atlantic fisheries off Newfoundland and Greenland that were so crucial to the development of the economy of British North America and to the sustenance of the American colonists in the 18th century. Because cod could be easily dried and thus did not require refrigeration, it became the most transportable protein source in the world, and was especially important in feeding Caribbean slaves. New England merchants built the region’s economy partially by trading their cod for molasses and other goods from French possessions in the Caribbean, a trade that eventually angered British authorities and led them to pass the Molasses Act in 1733. Fifty years after that, John Adams would argue that the securing of American fishing rights on the Grand Banks was one of the most important elements of the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution. The text of this work is in the form of a letter from the pseudonymous Sally Fisher in Paris to the equally invented Mally Loverus in London. While the name of the author may be invented, the importance of the subject was not. The author discusses the aggressive policies of the French King, Louis XV; makes connections between the machinations of John Law and the potential French threat to British rights to Atlantic fisheries; and assesses the threat from the Dutch and Spanish fleets. There is a detailed discussion of the many advantages that the fisheries accrue to the British nation and the royal coffers, and a strategy is proposed for regaining British dominance of the Newfoundland and Greenland fisheries. There is also a consideration of the advantages of organized companies vis à vis private fishermen, and of economic theory in general. Not in Sabin. A very interesting work ESTC T95732. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 720/85. GOLDSMITHS 5617. KRESS 3210. HANSON 2603. $1500.

Beginning the Confederacy, with the Constitution

43. [Confederate States of America]: PROVISIONAL AND PERMA- NENT CONSTITUTIONS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES. [with:] ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, HELD AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. [with:] ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE PROVI- SIONAL CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, HELD AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. [with:] ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, HELD AT MONTGOMERY, ALA. Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, 1861. The first two titles continuously paginated: 159pp., followed by 119; 94,[1]pp. Modern three- quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Scattered foxing and toning. About very good.

An important collection of early Confederate laws, bringing together early printings of the provisional and permanent Confederate constitutions, as well as the acts and laws of the first three sessions of the Confederate Provisional Congress, all of which convened in 1861. Within the proceedings of the first three sessions of the Provisional Congress will be found a great number of acts that established the structure of the government of the Confederate States of America, giving us an excellent understanding of how the Confederacy functioned as a governmental entity. Among the acts are those establishing the Department of War, the Army and Navy, the Post Office, courts, Justice Department, providing for an Executive Mansion, and establishing free navigation of the Mississippi River. Other acts formally bring states (such as Texas) into the Confederacy, address issues of tariffs, counterfeiting, the treatment of prisoners of war, and the powers of the president, set up an official printing office, and much more. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 21. $5000. First Edition of the Saybrook Platform: One of the most important books printed in the eighteenth century” – Streeter

44. [Connecticut]: A CONFESSION OF FAITH OWNED AND CON- SENTED TO BY THE ELDERS AND MESSENGERS OF THE CHURCHES IN THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT IN NEW- ENGLAND, ASSEMBLED BY DELEGATION AT SAY BROOK SEPTEMBER 9th, 1708. New-London in N.E.: [Thomas Short], 1710. [2],116pp. Signature B omitted, evidently in the original binding process, thus lacking pp.5-12, supplied in facsimile. Contemporary calf. Repaired at corners and top and bottom of spine. Contemporary ownership inscription on second leaf. Moderate dampstaining. Otherwise a very good copy in contemporary condition.

A landmark Americanum, being the first edition of the Saybrook Platform, the governing doctrine of Congregationalism in Connecticut. This is generally considered the first book printed in Connecticut, preceded only by broadsides and a thirty-seven-page pamphlet. It was printed by pioneer printer Thomas Short, who learned his craft from Bartholomew Green in Boston. Short began printing the book in 1710, but it was not completed until the following year. He died in 1712. “The Saybrook Platform, adopted at a synod meeting called by the Connecti- cut legislature and held at Saybrook in September, 1708, modified the Cambridge Platform by emphasizing rule by councils of church leaders, rather than by the individual congregations within themselves. The adoption of the Saybrook Platform made the church in Connecticut practically a form of Presbyterianism and resulted in a rigid orthodoxy. The interest in the Saybrook Platform was so great that two thousand copies were ordered printed, and though not, as formerly thought, the first book printed in Connecticut, it was one of the most important books printed in the eighteenth century” – Streeter. This copy is interesting for its provenance, descending in the family of James Wadsworth of Durham, Connecticut. James Wadsworth (1677-1756) was a lawyer who relocated from Farmington to Durham in 1707. He served in the colonial militia and held several public offices, including Judge and Town Clerk. The Wadsworth family was politically prominent in the area for the next century or so. EVANS 1486. ESTC W30483. TRUMBULL 500. JOHNSON, NEW LONDON 13. SABIN 15447. CHURCH 844. STREETER SALE 663. $6000.

45. [Connecticut]: THE RIGHT OF THE GOVERNOR AND COM- PANY, OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, TO CLAIM AND HOLD THE LANDS WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THEIR CHARTER, LYING WEST OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW- YORK, STATED AND CONSIDERED: IN A LETTER TO J.H. ESQUIRE.... Hartford: Printed by Eben. Watson..., 1773. 47pp. Small quar- to (as indicated by collation and chain lines). Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco label. Early manuscript note at head of titlepage. Small hole in titlepage from ink burn, costing the “C” in “Colony” in the title and one word of text on the verso of the first text leaf. Four-digit ink number stamped on recto of leaf A2 and lower margin of leaf A3. Very good, untrimmed.

The anonymous author urges the Connecticut Assembly to support the claim of the Susquehanna Company to lands also claimed by Pennsylvania north of the 41st parallel along the Susquehanna River. The claim was founded upon the 1662 Connecticut charter, and was contested by Pennsylvania, which cited the 1681 charter given to William Penn. This letter convinced the Connecticut legislature but provoked a harsh reply by William Smith of Pennsylvania. Rival factions had battled over the Wyoming Valley region after Connecticut settlers moved there and founded Wilkes-Barre, but Pennsylvania finally gained the title in 1800. “This pamphlet is of importance as being one of the first on this very live issue” – Streeter. STREETER SALE 702. EVANS 12978. CHURCH 1096. SABIN 15689. HOWES C684, “b.” VAIL 619. COHEN 10735. $1500.

Including Lewis and Clark Material

46. [Cramer, Zadok]: THE NAVIGATOR, CONTAINING DIREC- TIONS FOR NAVIGATING THE MONONGAHELA, ALLEGH- ENY, OHIO, AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS; WITH AN AMPLE AC- COUNT OF THESE MUCH ADMIRED WATERS, FROM THE HEAD OF THE FORMER TO THE MOUTH OF THE LATTER; AND A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THEIR TOWNS, VIL- LAGES, HARBORS, SETTLEMENTS, &c. WITH MAPS OF THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPEN- DIX, CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF LOUISIANA, AND OF THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, AS DISCOVERED BY THE VOYAGE UNDER CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARKE [sic]. Pittsburgh: Cramer & Spear, 1818. 304pp. including twenty-eight full- page woodcut maps. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and quite worn around edges, two minor instances of paper loss on front board. Toned, scattered foxing and staining. Good.

The first navigational guide to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, with Lewis and Clark material appended. This vitally important work in helping to develop the commerce of the early United States, containing woodcut maps of the length of the aforementioned rivers as well as an early plan of Pittsburgh, was the “most widely used guide to western waters in the early period both before and after the application of steam in 1807” (Howes). This edition is styled on the title as the tenth. Also of interest is the appearance in this later edition of an account of Louisiana and the Missouri and Columbia rivers as discovered by Lewis and Clark. The Lewis and Clark material (see pp.290-295) is derived from Patrick Gass’ journal, which was also printed by Cramer in Pittsburgh. HOWES C855. SABIN 17386. $3000.

Famous Western Images

47. [Crockett, Davy]: “GO AHEAD!!” THE CROCKETT ALMANAC 1839. CONTAINING ADVENTURES, EXPLOITS, SPREES & SCRAPES IN THE WEST, & LIFE AND MANNERS IN THE BACKWOOD. Nashville: Ben Harding, [1838]. 36pp. including twenty woodcut illustrations (twelve full-page). Contemporary manuscript notes in margins of recto of final leaf, recording the effects of a gale. Bound into early plain tan paper wrappers. Wrappers lightly stained and edgeworn. Moderate staining and edge tears. A good copy.

“It was the Crockett Almanacks which made Crockett a legendary figure and a part of American folk-lore” – Grolier American Hundred. This is volume 2, number 1, and the fifth of the Crockett almanacs to be issued in Nashville. This issue contains the usual tall tales and wonderful woodcut illustrations, including “Judy Finx whipping a Catamount,” “Col. Crockett and the Methodizer,” “An unexpected ride on the horns of an Elk,” and other classics. The text, written in frontier dialect, describes Crockett’s adventures with a grizzly bear; a ride on back of a buffalo; Col. Crockett and the Squatter; Col. Crockett in the parlor; Davy Crockett’s dream; buying a horse; Ben Harding and the pirates; Col. Crockett and the elk; and more. HOWES C897. STREETER SALE 4187. AII (TENNESSEE) 379. GROLIER AMER- ICAN 100, 39. EBERSTADT 113:012. DRAKE 13414. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 49951. ALLEN, TENNESSEE 1462. $4000.

A Federalist Congressman Holds Forth

48. [Dana, Samuel W.]: ESSAY ON POLITICAL SOCIETY. Whitehall [Pa.]: Printed by William Young, 1800. 234pp. Half title. Original blue-grey paper boards, with tan paper backstrip, expertly rebacked with matching paper. Boards soiled and a bit edgeworn. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and titlepage, slightly later ownership signature on boards. Scattered foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.

A scarce and little known work of Federal-era political philosophy, attributed to Samuel W. Dana, a Yale-educated Connecticut lawyer and politician. Dana served more than a decade each in the U.S. House and Senate, and was one of the manag- ers in the impeachment of William Blount. Dana was a Federalist, and his primary concern herein is the fragility of republican forms of government, and the threats posed by despotism, particularly “administrative despotism.” Written in the wake of the Alien and Sedition Act, and during a time of great acrimony between the two parties, Dana’s work is an important statement of Federalist political philosophy and a validation of their preference for the rule of elites. There are chapters on social systems, justice, constitutional order, Congress, the Executive and Judicial branches, and more. “Dana’s essay, the most thorough work of political philosophy written by a Connecticut Federalist, revealed the concerns motivating Federalist thinkers. The questions that they sought to answer concerned the fragility of republican government and the persistent threat of despotism” – Siegel. A significant Federal-era “theory of justice.” EVANS 37381. ESTC W31985. SABIN 22947. GAINES, POLITICAL WORKS OF CONCEALED AUTHORSHIP 00-24. Andrew Siegel, “‘Steady Habits’ Under Siege: The Defense of Federalism in Jeffersonian Connecticut” in Federalists Reconsidered (Charlottesville, Va., 1998). $2750.

49. Denson, Jesse: THE CHRONICLES OF ANDREW; CONTAINING AN ACCURATE AND BRIEF ACCOUNT OF GENERAL JACK- SON’S VICTORIES IN THE SOUTH, OVER THE CREEKS AND HIS VICTORIES OVER THE BRITISH AT NEW-ORLEANS. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. [Removed from:] Hillard, Isaac: A WONDERFUL AND HORRIBLE THING IS COMMITTED IN THE LAND.... [Hamilton, Oh. 1822]. pp.[87]- 118. Contemporary half leather and paper boards. Boards quite edgeworn and soiled. Contemporary ownership signatures of members of the Van Cleve family on front free endpapers, bookplate on rear pastedown. Toned, scattered foxing. Good.

An interesting creation in which an early owner has removed Jesse Denson’s The Chronicles of Andrew from the 1822 Hamilton, Ohio edition of Isaac Hillard’s A Wonderful and Horrible Thing is Committed in the Land... and bound it as a separate, discreet title. Denson’s highly approving assessment of Andrew Jackson’s conduct in the War of 1812 and against the Creek Indians was first published in Lexington, Kentucky and Milledgeville, Georgia in 1815. In that sense it is the third edition of the text. It was then included as the concluding section of the 1822 edition of Hillard’s book, which was first published (without the Denson portion) in Pough- keepsie in 1814. Denson’s text is a mixture of prose and poetry, written in a highly religious style, thereby lending Andrew Jackson godlike qualities. A strange copy of a strange title. 1822 edition of Hillard: HOWES H491. SABIN 31915. STREETER SALE 1736. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9010. $3500.

With Superb Nature-Printed Plates

50. Denton, Sherman F.: AS NATURE SHOWS THEM. MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF THE UNITED STATES EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Boston: Bradlee Whidden, 1900. Two volumes. x,[6],161pp. plus numerous halftone illustrations and ten nature-printed and handcolored plates; xiv,[3],164-361pp. plus numerous halftone illustrations and forty-six nature-printed and handcolored plates. Two section wrappers bound in the rear (parts one and eight). Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands; rebacked, preserving the original spines. Very good. Provenance: Malcolm Gerry Ken- nedy (bookplate).

From an edition limited to 500 copies. A sumptuous color plate book on the butterflies of the United States east of the Rockies. The color plates in this work are quite remarkable as, whilst the bodies are handcolored engravings, the wings are impressions from the actual insects’ wings pressed onto the paper. In the preface Denton describes his labors as he travelled widely in search of specimens:

The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterward colored by hand....I have had to make over fifty thousand of these transfers for the entire edition, not being able to get anyone to help me who would do the work as I desired it done....I will say, however, that there was never a laborer more in love with his work.

BENNETT, p.33. McGRATH, p.177. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 107. $2850.

A Major Louisiana Rarity

51. Dubroca, Louis: L’ITINÉRAIRE DES FRANÇAIS DANS LA LOUI- SIANE. Paris: Dubroca, Fuchs, Veuve Deveaux, and Rondonneau, 1802. [4], 104pp. plus large folding map (partially handcolored). 12mo. Early 19th-century marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription dated Paris, 1804 on titlepage. Some light toning and soiling, heavier to first and last leaf. Book- plate on rear pastedown. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase.

First edition of this exceedingly rare French imprint promoting the possession of Louisiana in the early 19th century. It was published during the brief return of France’s control of the territory between the Spanish and American periods of ownership between March and December 1803. The large folding map, “Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississipi avec les Colonies Anglaises,” is a revised version of Guillaume Delisle’s map first published in 1718. The work includes a history and description of the colony, a description of the natives of the area and their customs, and the state of commerce in the region. Dubroca, who evidently published the work himself, argues for a much greater French presence in Louisiana. SABIN 21028. HOWES D526, “b.” STREETER SALE 1572. SIEBERT SALE 682. $13,500.

Early American Painting Exhibition

52. Dunlap, William: DESCRIPTION OF DUNLAP’S PAINTING OF THE CHRIST REJECTED [caption title]. [N.p. n.d., but probably ca. 1822]. Broadside, 11½ x 9 inches. Lightly and evenly toned. Some light soiling, minor foxing; small hole in top corner, not affecting text. Manuscript notation on verso. Good plus.

Broadside describing William Dunlap’s painting, Christ Rejected (1822), with a line noting that admission is 25 cents, though a ticket “admitting the bearer at all times during the Exhibition” is 50 cents. Dunlap (1766-1839) was a dramatist, historian, and painter, authoring numerous stage plays and managing a theatre company. Born in New Jersey, the son of a merchant, Dunlap had little formal schooling but trained as a painter, eventually studying with Benjamin West. While in London, however, he primarily reveled in the theatre scene, writing and producing his first play in 1787 upon his return to New York. He became a managing partner in the American Company in 1796, an organization which eventually went bankrupt. Though he returned officially to his painting career, he flirted with the theatre on and off for financial reasons until 1811, though he continued to write plays. “As his principal biographer, Oral Sumner Coad, has noted, Dunlap was a man of moderate innate talent but of seemingly unlimited versatility, energy, and enthusiasm, who participated in practically all of the significant cultural activities of his day” – ANB. He is considered to be one of the fathers of American drama. He also wrote several histories on the American theatre and the first book on the history of the fine arts in the United States, History of the Arts of Design. During the 1820s, Dunlap produced a series of large-scale exhibition paintings based on the life of Christ, among which is the painting described in the present broadside. “The picture represents the events which took place when Pilate brought forth Jesus from the Judgment Hall to the Pavement crowned with thorns, and in the gorgeous robe with which he had been arrayed by Herod.” The broadside goes on to described the various groups of people assembled and their place amongst the throng on the canvas. All of Dunlap’s large exhibition paintings have perished and are known only through descriptions such as this, excepting Christ Rejected, which is also known in one small-scale study located at the Princeton Art Museum. ANB (online). $2250. An Edwards Family Copy

53. Edwards, Jonathan: SERMONS, ON THE FOLLOWING SUB- JECTS; THE MANNER IN WHICH SALVATION IS TO BE SOUGHT. THE UNREASONABLENESS OF INDETERMINA- TION IN RELIGION. [&c.].... Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1780. 282,[1]pp. Contemporary calf. Corners bumped, extremities lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf and first page. Light foxing. Very good.

Posthumously published volume of sermons by Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) edited by his son, Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1745-1801). The contemporary ownership inscription on the fly leaf and first page of text reads: “Timo. Edwards, 1781.” It is entirely probable that this is Timothy Edwards, son of the author and elder brother of the editor. A nice association on a copy in contemporary condition. Scarce. EVANS 16767. ESTC W29388. TRUMBULL 1780. $2000.

54. Elderkin, James: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANEC- DOTES OF A SOLDIER OF THREE WARS, AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Detroit. 1899. [4],202pp. plus frontispiece portrait and three plates. Half morocco and pictorial boards. Boards lightly worn and faded, some scuffing, corners worn. Internally clean. About very good.

Autobiography of a career soldier, spanning the 19th century. “The Florida, the Mexican War and the Great Rebellion, together with sketches of travel, also of service in a militia company and a member of the Detroit Light Guard Band for over thirty years.” Elderkin joined the army in 1839 at the age of nineteen and was first stationed in Indian Territory for two years before going to Florida in 1841. He gives a vivid account of the brutal combats of the Second Seminole War, where he spent several “dark and terrible” years. In 1842 he was transferred to Jefferson Barracks (now Kansas City). He went to the Texas frontier with Taylor in 1846, and was present at Palo Alto, Churubusco, and minor conflicts in between, followed by the taking of Mexico City. In 1852 he was transferred to California, where he was under the command of U.S. Grant for a time. In 1854 he left the Army and lived as a miner and musician in California in 1857, before moving to Detroit. In 1861, Elderkin reenlisted and took part in all of the Peninsular Campaign in 1862, of which he gives a vigorous account. He left the army when his one- year enlistment was up (he was now forty-two) and returned to Detroit, where he remained for the rest of his life. An interesting western narrative. $1250.

Comparing a Presidential Candidate to Benedict Arnold

55. [Election of 1868]: BENEDICT ARNOLD & HORATIO SEY- MOUR! THEIR IDENTITY OF VIEWS. WHO IS TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? FROM THE New York Times OF SEPTEMBER 19, 1864 [caption title]. Brooklyn: D.S. Holmes, [1868]. Broadside, 13 x 10 inches. Some small tears, chipping and loss at top and right edges. Minor foxing. Very good.

Broadside printed for the U.S. Presidential Campaign of 1868, which pitted former New York governor Horatio Seymour against Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. This broadside points out Seymour’s Copperhead tendencies and statements made by him in 1864, linking him to similar sentiments made by notorious traitor Benedict Arnold. Seymour’s Copperhead utterances during the war haunted his campaign, and he lost decisively to Grant. The text printed here strives to demonstrate:

...the points made by Horatio Seymour against the Administration in 1864 [are] identical, point by point, with those made by Benedict Arnold against Washington and the Continental Congress in 1780....The Copperhead chiefs of these times, who draw so lavishly upon the sophistries and fallacies of 1780 for the furtherance of their factious designs, cannot too well understand that the sequel to all this is endless disgrace. They must not expect to fight the Government with weapons of the Tories and of the blue-light Federalists, without sharing the same fate.

OCLC locates three copies (incorrectly dated 1864), at the New-York Historical Society, the Library Company, and the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. OCLC 77763594. $1000.

With the Rare Fifth Volume Which Includes Madison’s Journal of the Constitutional Convention

56. Elliot, Jonathan: THE DEBATES, RESOLUTIONS, AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS, IN CONVENTION, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE GENERAL CONVENTION AT PHILADELPHIA, ON THE 17th OF SEPTEMBER, 1787: WITH THE YEAS AND NAYS ON THE DECISION OF THE MAIN QUESTION. Washington: Printed by and for the editor, 1827-1830, 1845. Five volumes. viii,358,8; viii,[33]-487; [7],[17]-322; [8],v-272,404,[8]; xxii,641pp. Contemporary sheep, gilt leather labels. Light wear to first four volumes. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepage and endpapers. Text lightly toned and foxed. Fifth volume scuffed, hinges tender. Light foxing in text. Small puncture at foot of front cover, affecting first few leaves of text. Overall, a good set.

First edition of this collection recording the state ratification debates on the Con- stitution, of great importance in American constitutional history. The first three volumes include the debates in Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North and South Carolina. The supplementary fourth volume contains the journal and debates regarding the federal convention “with the constitution of the United States, illustrated by the opinions of twenty successive congresses, and a digest of decisions in the courts of the Union, involving constitutional principles.” These additional records were intended to show “the rise, progress, present condition, and practice of the constitution, in the national legislature and legal tribunals of the republic.” The fifth volume, published in 1845, contains the debates on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as well as an important “Diary of the Debates of the Congress of the Confederation” as reported by James Madison and published here for the first time. Madison was crucial to the sculpting and ratification of the Constitution, and the inclusion of his notes on the debates increases considerably the interest of this work as a whole. HOWES E98. $4000.

A Classic of American Botany

57. Elliott, Stephen: A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF SOUTH-CAR- OLINA AND GEORGIA. Charleston, S.C.: J.R. Schenck, 1821/1824. Two volumes. [4],[iii]-iv,[iii]-vi,606,14pp. plus six plates bound at rear; viii, 743pp. plus six plates bound at rear (for a total of twelve plates) Late 19th- century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, t.e.g. Lightly edgeworn, worn along the joints. Large bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Upper outer corner of leaf with pp.77-78 in first volume and leaf with pp.73-74 in second volume torn away, but not affecting text. Quite clean internally. Very good.

An important contribution to American botany, and one of the first major botanical works to treat the American South. Elliott was a member of one of the most prominent families in South Carolina. After his graduation from Yale in 1791, he served as a legislator and ran the state bank, but devoted much of his time to his botanical pursuits. This work was originally published in thirteen parts, the first appearing in 1816, which accounts for the eccentric pagination of the first volume. A rare and significant work of American natural history. TAXONOMIC LITERATURE 1659. MEISEL III:388. DE RENNE, p.375. SABIN 22276. DAB VI, p.99. $4000.

Imagining the Emancipation Proclamation

58. [Emancipation Proclamation]: [African-Americana]: READING THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. [Hartford: S.A. Peters & Co.], 1864. Lithograph, 18 x 20¾ inches. Matted to 22½ x 24½ inches. Corners and edges with a few chips and small tears. Small dampstain along lower edge. Image fresh and crisp. Very good.

This image depicts a white Union soldier reading the Emancipation Proclamation to a cabin full of slaves (or former slaves). A young boy stands atop a chair and holds a torch aloft to make light, while a woman kneels and clasps her hands together prayerfully at the table next to him, with two smaller children clinging to her. To her left an older woman raises a hand in thankfulness while a man swings his cap to celebrate. To the right of the boy with the torch and the reading soldier, a woman holds a baby while her daughter stands near her, and a man next to her prays over clasped hands. Another man peers incredulously at the newspaper over the shoulder of the soldier. A boll of cotton hangs from a line strung across the room at the top edge of the image. The image was drawn by H.W. Herrick and engraved by J.W. Watts. It is copyrighted by Lucious Stebbins and was issued with a pamphlet by him. The title and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln are beneath the image itself. A wonderful lithograph, combining sentiment and propaganda in equal degrees. $3500.

Rare Midwestern Guide

59. [Emigrant Guide]: THE EMIGRANT’S GUIDE, OR POCKET GE- OGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN STATES AND TERRITORIES.... Cincinnati: Published by Phillips & Speer..., 1818. 266pp. 18mo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Expert repair to foredge of titlepage and preface leaf. Text toned. Good.

This rare guide covers Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Missouri, Michigan, and Illinois. The text gives geographical descriptions of these regions as well as noting resident Indian tribes, major towns, climate, resources, navigation, etc. “Compiled from the very best and latest authorities,” the author draws on Brackenridge, Brown, and Kilbourn. A very early guide for the Mississippi Valley frontier. “The book, as are many of the early Guides to the West, is uncommon” – Thomson. HOWES E141, “aa.” STREETER SALE 837. SABIN 22480. AII (OHIO) 412. GRAFF 1246. THOMSON 378. $2250.

60. [Episcopal Church]: [New York]: JOURNAL OF THE CONVEN- TION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, – FROM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6th, 1787 – TO TUESDAY, OC- TOBER 13th, 1791. New York: Hugh Gaine, 1792. 32pp. Loose gatherings, remnants of stitching. Light wear, a few minor spots of foxing. Very good.

Summary of the conventions held by the Protestant Episcopal Church of New York State for 1787 to 1791. The final pages contain the “Canons for the government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, agreed on and ratified in the General Convention of said church, held in the city of Philadelphia, from the 29th day of September to the 16th day of October, 1789.” Fewer than ten copies noted by ESTC. EVANS 24720. ESTC W27496. $1250.

One of the Greatest Graphic Representations of the Civil War

61. Forbes, Edwin: LIFE STUDIES OF THE GREAT ARMY. New York: Harry Johnson, 1876. Forty plates. Large folio. Original publisher’s cloth, gilt. Boards present but detached, worn at extremities. Plates loosely laid into archival folders. Light scattered foxing, heavier to first plates. Light dampstain in left margin throughout, not affecting images. Several plates with small marginal tears. Good plus.

Edwin Forbes was one of the most notable illustrators of the American Civil War. From 1862 on he was a correspondent for Harper’s Weekly, producing illustrations to accompany war news. During most of this period he accompanied the Army of the Potomac on its campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Although Forbes portrays battle scenes, he was much more interested in depicting the everyday life of the private soldier in camp and on the march. Typically his scenes include such topics as “Washing Day,” the camp cook, vendors of supplies to soldiers, picket duty, and other incidents of camp life. A number of other illustrations show life on the march, fording streams, the supply train, and the like. All of the plates are etchings, evidently executed by Forbes himself from his original drawings (which were mainly pen and ink wash). The forty plates contain fifty-nine scenes, since some plates have two or three scenes, and one has five. A table of contents appears on the inside of the front board, where each plate has a more lengthy textual gloss as well. The front board proclaims the publication was sold “to subscribers only.” It divides the plates into ten parts, so it would seem the publication was issued over a period of time, although all plates are dated 1876. A major graphic record of the Civil War, by one of its most notable recorders. $4750.

62. Foxcroft, Thomas: OBSERVATIONS HISTORICAL AND PRAC- TICAL ON THE RISE AND PRIMITIVE STATE OF NEW- ENGLAND. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE OLD AND FIRST GATHER’D CHURCH IN BOSTON. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, for S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1730. [8],46pp. Half title. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Ex-Newberry Library, with their small ink stamp on the half title, titlepage, and several internal leaves. Half title and title-leaf restored along gutter, first leaf of dedication with an old repair, obscuring five full lines and fourteen half-lines of text. A good plus copy.

A nice association copy, bearing an inscription in a slightly later hand on the half title reading, “Lydia Abbot’s Book the gift of Mrs. Abigail Foxcroft,” and in the same hand (presumably Lydia Abbot’s): “Lydia Abbot her book.” Abigail Foxcroft (d. 1803) was apparently the daughter of the author. First and only edition of this “valuable tract, compiled from original sources” (Sabin). Foxcroft, minister of the First Church of Boston, reviews the history of a century of Puritan New England, their religious mission, and the example the forefathers set for his own flock. Called “very scarce” in the Brinley sale catalogue. EVANS 3280. ESTC W28699. HOWES F309, “aa.” SABIN 25399. BRINLEY SALE 1588. $2000.

63. [Franklin, Benjamin]: LA SCIENCE DU BONHOMME RICHARD, MOYEN FACILE DE PAYER LES IMPÔTS. Philadelphia [but actually Paris]: Chez Ruault, 1778. 151,[5]pp. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary French calf, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label. Calf a bit rubbed, small chip at foot of spine. Foxing. Final advertisement leaf torn in lower outer corner (perhaps a paper flaw?), costing a handful of letters of text. A good plus copy, in an attractive binding.

The Roderick Terry copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. The third French edition of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth. “Contains also the examination of Dr. Franklin before the British Parliament, in 1766, translated by Dupont de Nemours; the Constitution of Pennsylvania, as established in 1776; and the examination of Mr. Penn, at the bar of Parliament in 1776. Translated by MM. Quetant and Lecuy” – Sabin. This appeared the same year as the first and second (also French) editions, the year Franklin negotiated the first treaty between the United States and France and was the toast of Paris. SABIN 25583. FORD 115. $1500.

From the Collection of R.T.H. Halsey

64. [Franklin, Benjamin]: [TWO CARVED IVORY PORTRAITS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN]. [N.p. ca. 1780?]. Two carved bas relief portraits, in ivory, framed, each approximately 3 inches in diameter. One highly polished and finished, the other slightly rough-hewn. Framed in black wood with gold mountings. Very good.

Two ivory carvings featuring a bust of Benjamin Franklin, from the collection of noted collector Richard Townley Haines Halsey. Halsey (1865-1942) was a collector of American decorative arts, with a particular penchant for Benjamin Franklin. He was instrumental in the founding of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum, an active early member of the Grolier Club and Walpole Society, a prolific author, and at the end of his life a research associate in the Franklin Papers at the Yale Library (Mr. Halsey died when he was hit by a car about a block from the offices of the William Reese Company). Many of his Franklin pieces were exhibited in shows at the Met and elsewhere. A note on the back of one of the pieces reads: “This one [i.e. the rough-hewn carving] is not 100% completed but obviously by the same fine artist.” $5000. Franklin on Swimming

65. Franklin, Benjamin: THE ART OF SWIMMING, MADE SAFE, EASY, PLEASANT, AND HEALTHFUL, BY ATTENTION TO THE INSTRUCTIONS HEREIN SET FORTH.... London: J. Bailey, [ca. 1810-1820]. 24pp. plus handcolored folding frontispiece. Contemporary plain paper wrappers. Bookplate of John M. Schiff inside front cover. Minor wear and soiling. Very good. In a green cloth folder.

Evidently the second edition of this tract by Franklin, written by him in 1781, but first published in 1798 in London. Other dated and undated editions appear from 1816 onward, but the majority of institutional cataloguing gives this priority. “Found in his tracts on education, letters to friends, and the Autobiography, swimming is a mode of both physical exertion and mental focus that Franklin practiced, taught, and advocated as a skill central to a full and meaningful expression of human possibility, a scientifically and culturally regulated biomechanical event that integrated several mechanisms by which Franklin helped take a recognized eighteenth-century phenomenon that was essentially ‘dry’ – a specialized skill lacking mass appeal – and transformed it into a popular and socially acceptable activity” – Cleary. The frontispiece shows different swimming poses, and one vignette depicts how “to cut the nails of your toes in the water.” This edition is not listed by Ford, and OCLC locates only five copies, dated circa 1810 to 1820 (Yale, the Huntington, University of Michigan, New York Public Library, and Princeton). All of the early editions are rare. This copy was once in the great sporting library of John M. Schiff. Scott Cleary, “The Ethos Aquatic: Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Swimming” in Early American Literature, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2011. FORD 299 (ref ). $2850.

66. Gage, Thomas: NOUVELLE RELATION, CONTENANT LES VOYAGES DE THOMAS GAGE DANS LA NOUVELLE ES- PAGNE, SES DIVERSES AVANTURES, & SON RETOUR PAR LA PROVINCE DE NICARAGUA, JUSQUES A LA HAVANE. AVEC LA DESCRIPTION DE LA VILLE DE MEXIQUE.... Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1720. Two volumes. 25,431; [9],360pp., plus two frontispieces, four folding maps, and four folding plates. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Light wear to extremities, later bookplates on front pastedowns. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

Thomas Gage (1603?-56) was an English Dominican friar who spent several decades in Spanish America as a missionary. He later became a Protestant and a principal advisor to Oliver Cromwell. This work was first published in 1648 under the title The English-American His Travail by Sea and Land. It tells the story of Gage’s missionary adventures ministering to the Indians and living in the New World. The plates include three maps of the region and scenes of native life in Mexico and Guatemala. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 720/95. PALAU 96486. SABIN 26306. $1250.

De Soto’s Expedition

67. Garcilaso de la Vega, “El Inca”: HISTOIRE DE LA CONQUETE DE LA FLORIDE...TOME PREMIER...TOME SECOND. Leide: Pierre Van Der Aa, 1731. Two volumes bound in one, continuously signed and paginated. [26],290; [291]-582pp., plus a total of nine folding plates and a folding map. Titlepages printed in red and black. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked in matching modern calf, tooled in blind and gilt, raised bands, retaining the original gilt morocco label. Edges and corners bumped. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Light uniform toning to the text, a few occasional fox marks. Very good.

Later French edition, “corrigée & augmentée,” after the Lisbon first of 1605 and the first French of 1670, of Garcilaso de la Vega’s great work on De Soto and the aborigines of Florida. The author, the extraordinary half-Incan historian, obtained a great portion of the material contained in this work directly from a member of De Soto’s ill-fated expedition, as well as from two manuscripts of unquestioned authority written by two other members of the expedition. Although for a period in the 19th century Garcilaso de la Vega’s three great works on the conquests of Peru and Florida were subject to skepticism on the part of some historians, time and further scholarship have established their authenticity, and this publication is now regarded as one of the primary works on the events with which it deals. The text concerns De Soto’s forays into Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and even as far west as Arkansas. “One of the major accounts of the travels of De Soto in Florida and throughout the present day Southeastern United States...the Inca’s work remains the major literary by-product of this historic invasion” – Servies. The first edition of this work is generally recognized as the first published work by a native-born American author. See Field for a good discussion of Garcilaso de la Vega’s life and works. PALAU 354841. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 731/93. SABIN 98748. SERVIES 316. FIELD 587 (first ed). CLARK I:8 (ref ). $1250.

The Earliest Obtainable Map to Name Illinois

68. Gardiner, John: MAP OF THE BOUNTY LANDS IN ILLINOIS TERRITORY. [Washington: General Land Office, 1817]. Engraved map, 20¾ x 16¾ inches. Old folds. Two period manuscript additions near the lower neat line, identifying the locations of St. Louis and the Missouri River. Very good.

An early and important map of Illinois Territory. This is the earlier of two issues of the map, without the printed township grid found in the later issue. In May 1812, Congress passed a law which set aside lands in what is now Arkansas, Michigan, and Illinois as payment for service in the War of 1812 (they had similarly given out lands in the Northwest Territory to Revolutionary War veterans). Offering western lands was a means of doing well by doing good: the free lands would attract settlers and push the frontiers of American civilization westward. One hundred sixty acres in bounty lands in Illinois Territory were offered to each prospective settler for free. Some war veterans actually did move westward, while others sold the rights to their lands to those more eager to go to the frontier. Ultimately, thousands went west to Illinois in the decade, and the territory became a state in 1818. John Gardiner was the chief clerk of the General Land Office and composed a handful of maps of available western lands during the 1810s. This map shows a wide swath of territory available in Illinois between the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. The lands are neatly divided into squares, with “Ranges East” and “Ranges West” on either side of a north-south “Principal Meridian” line, and with an east- west dividing “Base Line” passing through the center of the territory. Lake Peoria is called “Lake Peoire” and the creek flowing into the Illinois River at the lower end of the lake is called “Kickaboo or Red Bud Cr.” The attractive map was drawn by C. Schwarz of Washington, D.C., though the identity of the firm that actually engraved the map is unknown. The map can be dated to 1817 based on a letter from Gardiner to James Madison dated Oct. 29, 1817, sending him a copy of the map “which I have engraved for the use of soldiers of the late Army.” This appears to be the first issue of the map, without the printed “townships maps” often found in the lower left corner. This map is also often found with a few words or lines of manuscript text describing particular areas, and bearing the signature of John Gardiner. The present example does not bear Gardiner’s signature, nor any additional lines of text, but it does bear a faint outline of the continued southward courses of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, with a manuscript note showing the location of St. Louis and a small grouping of nine squares showing the town, and another ink manuscript note reading: “Missouri R.” “This is the first map that Phillips lists under Illinois, and it is perhaps the first map showing a considerable part of Illinois with ‘Illinois’ in the title” – Streeter. An early and important map of Illinois, and of American efforts to push westward into unsettled territories. PHILLIPS, MAPS, p.326. STREETER SALE 1430. KARROW, CHECKLIST OF PRINTED MAPS OF THE MIDDLE WEST TO 1900 (ILLINOIS), p.290. AMERICAN IMPRINTS (1812) 27202. GRAFF 1505. $9500.

The Narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas

69. [Gentleman of Elvas]: HISTOIRE DE LA CONQUESTE DE LA FLORIDE, PAR LES ESPAGNOLS, SOUS FERDINAND DE SOTO. Paris: Denys Thierry, 1685. [24],300pp. 12mo. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra. Corners bumped and rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown, later bookplates on rear pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine.

The first available edition of this extremely important narrative, preceded by the 1557 original (of which only four copies are known), and two issues published by Richard Hakluyt in 1609 and 1611, in English. The identity of the Gentleman of Elvas has remained a mys- tery. His narrative is the primary source for information concerning the De Soto expedition of 1539-43, the first investigation by Europeans of the southeast region of the United States. De Soto landed on the west coast of Florida in 1539, marching north through Georgia and west to Mobile Bay. His party reached the Mississippi River in 1541 and went perhaps as far as the present Oklahoma-Arkansas border. Returning east, De Soto died and was buried in the Mississippi. The survivors floated to the Gulf and made it to Mexico. SABIN 24864. SERVIES 218. PALAU 256843. CLARK I:8. JCB (2)II:1324. $6000. 70. Gladwin, George E.: PEN & INK SKETCHES, COAST AND HAR- BORS OF LABRADOR, SUMMER OF 1876. [Worcester, Ma.]. 1877. 32 leaves plus folding map. Oblong small folio. Original printed boards, rebacked to style in black morocco. Very good.

Scarce work of reproduced pen and ink sketches drawn by George Gladwin while on holiday in Labrador during the summer of 1876. The dedication leaf reads: “To Capt. John Bartlett of Brigus, Newfoundland, whose kindness and generous treatment of a party of excursionists from Boston while weather bound in St. Michael’s Bay, Labrador, will long be remembered.” Each leaf is printed in heliotype. The illustrations show charming harbor scenes with boats and icebergs. Gladwin served as the first professor of drawing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Scarce on the market, and seemingly printed privately for the author in a small number. Not in Sabin or TPL. $4750.

71. Gordon, William: THE HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND ESTABLISHMENT, OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATE WAR; AND OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES, FROM THEIR ORIGIN TO THAT PERIOD. London: Printed for the Author..., 1788. Four volumes. [26],504; [8],584; [8],499; [8],445,[35]pp., plus nine folding maps. Early 19th-century polished calf, expertly rebacked in matching calf, spine gilt with raised bands. Bookplates of Joseph Y. Jeanes on front pastedown of each volume. Internally clean, with the maps in excellent condition. A very handsome set.

“First full-scale history of this war by an American; to its preparation Jefferson contributed some aid” – Howes. “Gordon is deservedly reckoned as the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution” – Sabin. Gordon was a dissenting minister in England, who like many of his class sympathized with the contention of the Thirteen Colonies. Going to America during the disturbances and becoming pastor of the church at Jamaica Plain, now a district of Boston, he was throughout the Revolution a spectator close at hand of many important events, and the associate of many of the chief patriots. Later scholarship has shown that a good part of Gordon’s history was taken from the Annual Register. The excellent maps illustrate the eastern United States, Boston, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Vermont, the Carolinas and part of Georgia, Charles- town with Sir Peter Parker’s attack on Fort Moultrie, part of Virginia, and “York Town and Gloucester Point, as besieged by the allied army.” HOWES G256, “aa.” SABIN 28011. LARNED 1341. GEPHART 996. $11,000. 72. Gould, John: A MONOGRAPH OF THE ODONTOPHORINAE, OR PARTRIDGES OF AMERICA. London: Richard & John E. Taylor for the Author, [November 1844 – March 1846 – November] 1850. 1p. list of subscribers. Thirty-two fine handcolored lithographed plates after Gould and H.C. Richter. Folio. Early half olive green morocco and green pebbled cloth, bound for Sotheran’s, spine gilt with raised bands, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very good.

A fine copy of the first edition of Gould’s fourth monograph, in which he considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family. Besides the spectacular plates of American birds, this work is interesting for the light it throws on the all encompassing nature of science before specialization: Gould was inspired by the gift of an English Arctic explorer, received much useful information from a Scottish botanist, and finally dedicated the work to French ornithologist Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803-57), the author of American Ornithology. In this, Gould’s fourth monograph, he considerably enlarged the number of recorded species of the American partridge family. Gould was persuaded to un- dertake this project “by the sight of the beautiful Callipepla Californica, presented to the Zoological Society of London by Captain Beechey, in 1830. The graceful actions and elegant deportment of these birds inspired me with a desire to become thoroughly acquainted with the entire group of which they form a part; this desire was even strengthened by the details furnished to me by the late celebrated traveller and botanist, Mr. David Douglas, respecting species seen by him in California, of the existence of which we had until then no idea....In the course of my researches I have several times visited most of the public and many of the private collections of Europe, and have besides corresponded with various persons in America: the result is that I have had the pleasure of extending our knowledge of the group from eleven to no less than thirty-five species” (Preface). ANKER 176. FINE BIRD BOOKS (1990), p.102. NISSEN IVB 376. SAUER 13. WOOD, p.365. ZIMMER, p.257. $20,000.

Inscribed to President Ulysses S. Grant, by a Noted Political and Educational Reformer

73. [Grant, Ulysses S.]: Hawkins, Dexter A.: SIX REPORTS ON POLIT- ICAL REFORM [cover title]. New York. 1874/1873. Two works bound together. 13; 24,16,10,[2],7pp. Original printed blue wrappers bound into a presentation binding of green pebbled cloth, ruled in gilt and with gilt title on front board. Light shelf wear. Near fine.

Two works on political and educational reform in New York City, inscribed on the front pastedown: “U.S. Grant President of the United States. With the compliments of the author.” This copy also bears the bookplate of collector Joseph M. Gleason, just above the inscription to Grant. Dexter A. Hawkins (1825-86) was born in Maine and became involved in issues of educational reform at a young age. He attended classes at Harvard Law School and built a respected practice, but returned to his first passion after the Civil War. “In 1867 he devoted his energies once more to the cause of education and was instrumental in the establishment of the Department of Education....During the remainder of his life Hawkins was an ardent champion, by speeches, pamphlets, and newspaper articles, of a system of free, independently controlled public schools....In 1874 he drew up provisions which were passed into law by New York State under the title, ‘Act to Secure to Children the Benefits of Elementary Education.’...His attacks on parochial schools were bitter....He was equally outspoken in his denun- ciation of political corruption and extravagance in New York City. The statistics contained in his various pamphlets were instrumental in the overthrow of the Tam- many ring and in the correction of other less glaring irregularities” – DNB. Both the pamphlets bound herein are published under the aegis of the “New York City Council of Political Reform.” The wrapper title of the first pamphlet, published in 1874, is Report on Compulsory Education. The second pamphlet, published in 1873, is entitled Five Reports and contains sections on surface street railroads; “sectarian appropriations of public money”; the “duty of the state to protect the free common schools by Amendments to the Constitution”; with two sections on the Tammany Ring. Much is devoted to an attack against Catholic opposition to free compulsory public schools, and in opposition to the appropriation of public funds for sectarian (i.e. Catholic parochial) schools. Ulysses S. Grant lived in New York City late in his life, composed his memoirs there, and is buried in Grant’s Tomb in the city’s Morningside Heights. DAB VIII, pp.414-15. $1250.

Pioneering American Lithographs

74. Guillet, Peter: TIMBER MERCHANT’S GUIDE. ALSO, A TA- BLE, WHEREBY, AT ONE VIEW, MAY BE SEEN SOLID AND SUPERFICIAL MEASURE OF ANY SQUARE OR UNEQUAL HEWED LOGS OF PLANK...ALSO, PLATES REPRESENTING THE FIGURES OF THE PRINCIPAL PIECES OF TIMBER, USED IN BUILDING A SEVENTY-FOUR GUN SHIP OF THE LINE, IN STANDING TREES. Baltimore: John D. Toy for James Love- grove, 1823. 24pp. of text plus [89]pp. of letterpress tables, and thirty handcolored lithographic plates by Henry Stone after Guillet. Errata slip pasted to rear endpaper. Contemporary tree sheep, expertly rebacked to style. Very good.

A remarkable book, illustrated with thirty handcolored lithographic plates, each of which illustrates the method of extracting various portions of lumber for use in building a ship. This is the second book printed in America to be illustrated with lithographs, preceded only by J.E. Smith’s Grammar of Botany. The plates were produced by Henry Stone, “one of the earliest and most elusive of all the lithog- raphers” (Peters) and the first lithographer to practice in Baltimore. The author begins the book with an impassioned plea for conserving forest resources:

When we consider the progressive devastations committed upon the vast forests of this country – that, if the present destructive course be pursued, they must in time entirely disappear – the necessity of taking prohibitory measures for their preservation, must be obvious to every man of intelligence. It is necessary, not only to make the best use possible of the timber we possess, but also to preserve resources for the future....Let commissioners or foresters be appointed to superintend the concerns of the forests, whose duty should be to attend to their preservation...our expansive and seemingly inexhaustible forests, will ere long be ruined; the foregoing anticipated evils will soon be realized, unless preventive measures are immediately taken by the government.

Not in Raphael’s An Oak Spring Sylva. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.376. RINK 1636. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 12738. BENNETT, p.67. $3750.

Item 75. Handsome Prints of Confederate Generals

75. Hall, Charles B.: MILITARY RECORDS OF GENERAL OFFI- CERS OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.... New York. 1898. ix,108pp. plus frontispiece and 108 portraits. Large folio. In sheets. Portfolio case of three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, cover gilt; case repaired, preserving original spine. Pencil notations and publisher’s signature on titlepage. Internally clean and fresh. Very good.

Noted by the publisher as being “No. 4 of six copies printed entirely on Imperial Japan Paper.” The rare original publication, notable for its fine portraits of important Confederate generals, arranged in rank from Lee downward. The portraits are arranged “in order of their rank, with their military records in the Confederate Army and previous records in the United States Army.” A difficult work to come by, and particularly desirable in its special and limited state, signed by the publisher. HOWES H52, “b.” WRIGHT H61. $15,000.

Hamilton’s Landmark Proposal for Establishing the Public Credit

76. [Hamilton, Alexander]: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, RELA- TIVE TO A PROVISION FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE PUBLIC CREDIT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONFORMITY TO A RESOLUTION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF SEPTEM- BER, 1789. PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE ON THURSDAY THE 14th DAY OF JANUARY, 1790. New York: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790. 51pp. Pp. 27-30 and 51 supplied in expert facsimile. Folio. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Very good.

Alexander Hamilton’s public credit report, his first major report as the first Secretary of the Treasury, and one of the greatest American state papers. This document laid the ground work for Hamilton’s campaign to restore the credit of the United States and define the role of the federal government in the new Union. It was also the catalyst for the creation of opposing political parties in the bitter debate which ensued over Hamilton’s proposals. Much of our present political and governmental system springs from this document. During the first session of the new Congress in September 1789, the House requested that Hamilton, as Secretary of the Treasury, prepare a plan for restructuring the web of state and national debt left by the Revolution. At the beginning of the second session of Congress, Hamilton sought to present his plan in a speech, but was denied the opportunity, setting a precedent for cabinet members not to appear before the full House of Congress. Instead, he was required to submit his plan in writing. Working with his usual alacrity, he quickly drafted this report, which was presented to the House in printed form on Jan. 14, 1790. According to Hamilton’s biographer, Robert Hendrickson, “This first of Ham- ilton’s great public reports...constituted the seven-point legislative program of President Washington’s first administration. The seven points were: 1) the restoration of public credit, 2) a sound system of taxation, 3) a national bank, 4) a sound currency, 5) the promotion of commerce, 6) a liberal immigration policy, and 7) the encouragement of manufactures.” Parts of this program were elaborated in subsequent Hamilton reports, but the kernels of them all, and particularly the first two, are in this first report. Partisan lines were quickly formed between those who applauded Hamilton’s proposals and those who saw in them “deep, dark, and dreary chaos,” as Fisher Ames put it. Hamilton intended to have the federal government absorb many of the state debts of the Revolution, as well as old Continental war loans and certificates given to soldiers. Foreign debts would be honored, and all would be consolidated into one national debt that would be funded, establishing public credit. Privately, Hamilton felt the consolidated debt would be the glue which would hold the nation together. These plans stepped on a variety of state, sectional, and personal interests, and the storm of protest which arose, led by James Madison, soon mushroomed into open partisan politics; but in the end the essence of Hamilton’s plan was adopted, and the fiscal basis of the federal government was laid. EVANS 22998. FORD 161. HENDRICKSON, HAMILTON II, pp.21-25. $6500.

The Denmark Vesey Conspiracy

77. [Hamilton, James]: NEGRO PLOT. AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATE INTENDED INSURRECTION AMONG A PORTION OF THE BLACKS OF THE CITY OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CARO- LINA. Boston: Printed and published by Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822. 50pp. Modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Head of spine and top corners with neat repair. Evenly toned, spotting throughout. Very good.

First and only northern edition (denoted “second edition” on the titlepage) of the primary contemporary account of the 1822 slave uprising in Charleston, South Carolina, written by James Hamilton, the Intendant (Mayor) of Charleston. This Boston edition was published the same year as the Charleston first edition, which was followed by two more Charleston editions in 1822. All are scarce. The demand for this text in Charleston is obvious; the fact that this edition was printed in far- away (abolitionist) Massachusetts is curious. Perhaps the harsh attitude evinced by the white South Carolinians in the text was meant to further stoke anti-slavery passions in the north, or perhaps the intention was to reinforce the threat of a bloodthirsty slave population. Led by Denmark Vesey, a former slave who had fought for his freedom, the planned uprising was exposed by one of the conspirators before it even began. Vesey and thirty-four other African-Americans were convicted of conspiracy to seize the city of Charleston and executed. Several others who were arrested and found guilty were imprisoned or sent out of the state, while some were found not guilty and returned to their owners. The first thirty-two pages give a narrative of how the plot was uncovered and an account of the trials. The appendix includes summaries of testimony, confessions, a table of the defendants, and the sentence of defendant Jack Pritchard, also known as “Gullah Jack.” Vesey receives the lion’s share of the blame in the conspiracy, driven by “a malignant hatred of whites, and inordinate lust of power and booty,” though the leaders of the local African Meth- odist Church (several of the insurrectionists came from their ranks) also receive some blame. In a note “to the public” at the start of the text, Hamilton writes that he has, at the request of the Charleston City Council, brought together all the evidence of the plot and the account of its aftermath to show that “there can be no harm in the salutary inculcation of one lesson, among a certain [i.e. slave] portion of population, that there is nothing they are bad enough to do, that we are not powerful enough to punish.” The Vesey uprising and the Nat Turner rebellion in Virginia in 1831 terrified white southerners, especially slave owners, and led to more repressive treatment of slaves. SABIN 12032, 30013. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 8318. HOWES H130. COHEN 12186. WORK, p.348. $6750.

Important Early Western Account

78. Haswell, Anthony: MEMOIRS AND ADVENTURES OF CAP- TAIN MATTHEW PHELPS; FORMERLY OF HARWINGTON [sic] IN CONNECTICUT. NOW RESIDENT IN NEWHAVEN IN VERMONT. PARTICULARLY IN TWO VOYAGES, FROM CON- NECTICUT TO THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI, FROM DECEMBER 1773 TO OCTOBER 1780.... Bennington, Vt.: From the press of Anthony Haswell, 1802. 210,63,[3],xii pp. 12mo. Antique-style calf, gilt leather label. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Moderately toned. Else very good.

One of the only sources for this period, and probably the only printed narrative by an eyewitness and participant in the opening campaigns of the American Revolu- tion in Louisiana and the “Natchez Country.” Field described the work as “very scarce” in 1875, and Owen dubs it “exceedingly rare.” Includes detailed accounts of the battles and travels, with much on the collusion between the British and the Indians, Spanish intrigues, etc. “[T]he Memoirs is one of the most fascinating and harrowing narratives of the early nineteenth century. Phelps and his family were members of a party led by Phineas Lyman to settle on the Yazoo River” – Graff. HOWES H300, “b.” GRAFF 1816. STREETER SALE 1528 (this copy). CLARK I:287. SABIN 30829. OWEN, p.782. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 2887. FIELD 920. McCORISON 643. $3500. First American Edition of Cook: The First World Map Printed in the Americas, and a Paul Revere Plate

79. Hawkesworth, John: A NEW VOYAGE, ROUND THE WORLD, IN THE YEARS 1768, 1769, 1770, AND 1771; UNDERTAKEN BY OR- DER OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY, PERFORMED BY CAPTAIN JAMES COOKE, IN THE SHIP ENDEAVOR...IN TWO VOL- UMES, WITH CUTTS AND A MAP OF THE WHOLE NAVIGA- TION. New York: James Rivington, 1774. Two volumes. [2],17,4,[2],260pp. plus frontispiece and folding engraved map; [2],250pp. plus folding frontispiece. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, gilt leather label. Corners worn. Frontispiece in first volume strengthened at fold with older paper. Lightly foxed. Very good.

The first American edition of any of Cook’s voyages, issued in New York on the eve of the American Revolution by Loyalist printer James Rivington. The work contains one of Paul Revere’s more exotic copper plate engravings and the first world map printed in the Americas. Hawkesworth’s account of Capt. James Cook’s first voyage to the Pacific first appeared in 1773. One of the most important publications in all of the literature of exploration and voyages, it describes Cook’s important explorations of Australia, discovery of New Zealand, adventures on Tahiti, and a wealth of other material. The tremendous interest in the voyage is reflected in this American edition, only the second work devoted to Pacific exploration to be published in an American edition. “The frontispiece by Paul Revere and the Romans map make this a distinguished book” – Streeter. The publisher, Rivington, later famous as the New York Loyalist printer of the Revolution, made every effort to make this product of the British colonial press as elegant as possible. The frontispiece of the first volume was engraved by Paul Revere. Brigham records the correspondence between Rivington and the bookseller (and later general), Henry Knox, commissioning Revere to execute the plate entitled “Dramatic Interlude & Dance Given by the Indians of Ulietea....” In his records Revere notes billing Rivington for the plate on May 3, 1774. The plate is thus the conjunction of three famous Revolutionary figures, as well as the first visual image of the South Seas to be printed in America. The untitled map is the first map of the world to be published in the Americas. A Mercator projection designed to show the track of Cook’s voyage, it shows the course charted by Bougainville as well. It was designed and engraved by the famous American mapmaker, Bernard Romans, best known for his work as a naturalist and cartographer in Florida, as well as his sailing directions of the East Coast and an engraved map of Connecticut. A rare American cartographic landmark, found as originally published in the first American edition of any of Cook’s voyages, itself a significant issue of the late British colonial press. BEDDIE 656. STREETER SALE 2407. WHEAT & BRUN, AMERICAN MAPS BEFORE 1800, 1. BRIGHAM, PAUL REVERE, pp.76-78. SABIN 30936. HOLMES 9. $22,500.

The Leading Southern Magazine of Reconstruction, in Original Wrappers

80. Hill, Daniel Harvey, editor: THE LAND WE LOVE. Vol. I, No. 1 [– Vol. 6, No. 5]. Charlotte. 1866-1869. Thirty-five issues. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Light scattered soiling and wear. Spines lightly chipped on some issues, most heavily on the very first issue, from which the front cover is nearly detached. Overall, very good.

A complete run, in the original wrappers, of this important southern literary periodical. Edited by former Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-89), the magazine focused primarily on southern literary efforts, but also included essays on various social and historical subjects. A key outlet for southern writers in the wake of the Civil War. While scattered parts show up, complete sets are virtually impossible to assemble. $5000.

The First Edition of The Long Lost Friend

81. Hohman, Johann Georg: DER LANGE VERBORGENE FREUND, ODER: GETREUER UND CHRISTLICHER UN- TERRICHT FÜR JEDER- MANN, ENTHALTENDL WUNDERBARE UND KÜN- STE, SOWOHL FÜR DIE MENSCHEN ALS DAS VIEH.... Reading: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, 1820. 100pp. Contemporary half calf and patterned boards. Corners heavily worn, boards worn. Light toning and foxing. Very good.

A legendary work of Pennsylvania German folk magic and remedies, in its exceedingly rare first edition. This publication (probably based on earlier works of folk magic in the European tradition such as the various works attributed to Albertus Magnus), was reprinted many times and became closely associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch magic tradition known as Braucherei. Often referred to as the “pow-wow book” in translation (indeed, still in print today), it is a work of broad appeal, as so many of the spells, recipes, and remedies are universally applicable to rural concerns, especially those pertaining to both human and animal health. The supposedly occult powers of the book figure in works of fiction as well. Not surprisingly, this first edition appears rarely, for all editions saw heavy use. Three copies located in OCLC; of these, only one copy is in North America, at the American Antiquarian Society. This is the first copy we have ever handled of this book, although we have hoped to have one since we first learned of it forty years ago. AUSTIN 922. SHOEMAKER 1642. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 2462. $6000.

82. Holditch, Robert: THE EMIGRANT’S GUIDE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; CONTAINING THE BEST ADVICE AND DIRECTIONS RESPECTING THE VOYAGE, – PRESERVA- TION OF HEALTH, – CHOICE OF SETTLEMENT, &c..... Lon- don: William Hone, 1818. iv,123,[1]pp. Contemporary blue boards, printed paper label. Spine chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription on second leaf. Minor toning at edges, very minor scattered foxing. Very nice, in un- touched contemporary condition.

A rare guide for Englishmen intending to emigrate to North America, providing essential information on Canada and the United States. After discussing Upper and Lower Canada, the author undertakes to give a sketch of each of the states: their population, topography, climate, economy, etc. The guide also provides prices on stagecoach fares, costs of provisions and labor by region, and notes on the political scene and freedom of the press. The author likewise provides the emigrant with a sketch of the American character, noting that the American female is warmer than the English lady but not so bold as the French. With an index. Rare on the market; this is the first copy we have handled, and the last copy at auction was in 1983. HOWES H584. $2000.

Rare History of Relations with Indians in the 18th Century

83. Hopkins, Samuel: HISTORICAL MEMOIRS, RELATING TO THE HOUSATUNNUK INDIANS: OR, AN ACCOUNT OF THE METHODS USED, AND PAINS TAKEN, FOR THE PROPAGA- TION OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE HEATHENISH TRIBE.... Boston: Printed and Sold by S. Kneeland..., 1753. [2],iv,182pp. Small quar- to. Bound to style in antique three-quarter speckled calf, leather label, and marbled boards. Lower 3/8 of titlepage in expert facsimile (the entire title present, authors name and imprint in facsimile). Light foxing to a few leaves. Else very good.

“The Historical Memoirs are regarded as one of the foundation stones in the relation between the Whites and Indians in the 18th century...” – Streeter. Hopkins, pastor of a church in Springfield, describes the mission near the intersection of the upper Housatonic River and the Connecticut-Massachusetts line, and its activities from 1734 to 1749. He gives an intimate and detailed picture, often on a day-by-day basis. The mission was conducted by the Rev. John Sergeant, originally recruited for the job by Stephen Williams, son of the “Redeemed Captive” and long active in Indian-white relations in western Massachusetts. This book is really a colonial diary. It is remarkable for its details of daily life, but especially in illustrating the degree to which the lives of Indians and British settlers intermingled in New Eng- land before 1750, on one hand; and how education and schooling was conducted, on the other. This book undermines all stereotypes of Indian/White encounter once the frontier had moved westward. There is no better picture of the relationships of the two races during this transitional period on the frontier of New England. This is an extremely rare book and is not listed in Field. In the Streeter copy the title-leaf and last two leaves are in facsimile, which is apparently the case with a number of other copies located. “One of the rarest books relating to New Eng- land” – Sabin. HOWES H632, “b.” CHURCH 986. EVANS 7023. SABIN 32945. STREETER SALE 679. $4000.

North America on the Eve of the French and Indian War

84. [Huske, Ellis]: THE PRESENT STATE OF NORTH-AMERICA. I. THE DISCOVERIES, RIGHTS AND POSSESSIONS OF GREAT- BRITAIN. II. THE DISCOVERIES, RIGHTS AND POSSESSIONS OF FRANCE. III. THE ENCROACHMENTS AND DEPREDA- TIONS OF THE FRENCH UPON HIS MAJESTY’S TERRITO- RIES IN NORTH AMERICA.... London Printed, Boston, New-England, Re-printed and Sold by: D. Fowle and by Z. Fowle, 1755. [2],64pp. plus advertisement leaf. Small octavo. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Text evenly toned, occasional foxing. “F” gathering with some dampstaining. Still very good. Untrimmed. In a half morocco box.

First published in London the same year, this is the very scarce first American edition. A second Boston edition (identified as such on the titlepage) was also issued in 1755, due to the great demand for the work. Huske reviews the history of North American settlement from an English point of view, then describes French aggressions in Nova Scotia, in Maine, penetration into upper New York and the Ohio country and throughout the South. Huske urges immediate war to remedy the situation. “This book was, at the time of its appearance, both inflammatory and influential. It set forth British aims in North America, making a clear, vigorous, and concise attack on the French pretension...” – Lande. Often attributed to John Huske, the North American Imprints Project, DNB, and British Museum Catalogue list the author as Ellis Huske ( John Huske’s younger brother). Ellis Huske was postmaster in Boston in 1734, preceded Benjamin Franklin as deputy postmaster general of the colonies, and was the publisher of the Boston Weekly Postboy for some twenty years. He died in 1755. This copy bears a contemporary ownership signature on the titlepage: “Enoch Kidder’s Book.” This was quite likely Enoch Kidder (1697-1781) of Billerica, Mas- sachusetts. A lawyer and farmer, Kidder served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 1740s, 1750, and 1760s. HOWES H840, “aa.” SABIN 34027. LANDE 463. EVANS 7434. NAIP w028956. WROTH, AMERICAN BOOKSHELF, p.142. DNB X, pp.322-23. Appleton’s Cyclopædia III, p.330. $7500.

85. [ Jackson, Andrew]: THE APPEAL OF L. LOUAILLIER, SEN. AGAINST THE CHARGE OF HIGH TREASON, AND EX- PLAINING THE TRANSACTIONS AT NEW ORLEANS. [New Orleans]. 1827. 28pp. Stitched as issued. Spine reinforced with tissue, some splitting. Minor soiling and wear, last two leaves lightly dampstained. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson had established martial law during his occupation of New Orleans. State senator Louis Louaillier wrote an article criticiz- ing Jackson’s military dictatorship and was arrested; subsequently Judge Dominic Hall objected to Jackson’s suspension of habeas corpus and Louaillier’s arrest, and Hall was also arrested for treason. Upon his release, Hall fined Jackson the im- mense sum of $1,000, which was later deemed by several official parties to be an outrageously large fine. This pamphlet, issued during the presidential campaign of 1828, speaks of the injustices perpetrated by Jackson against Louaillier, urging citizens to vote instead for John Quincy Adams (who lost anyway). HOWES L485. SHOEMAKER 29534. JUMONVILLE 596. THOMPSON 1037. $3000.

The Rarest Version of the “Coffin Handbill”

86. [ Jackson, Andrew]: [Election of 1828]: A SHORT ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE BLOODY DEEDS OF GENERAL JACKSON [caption title]. [N.p. 1828]. Broadside, 20¾ x 13¼ inches. Old fold lines. Light wear and minor loss along folds and top edge. Central folds reinforced with tissue on verso, older paper and label on verso at right edge. Lightly toned. Good plus.

One of versions of the “Coffin Handbills” attacking Andrew Jackson in the presidential campaign of 1828. There was considerable mud-slinging between the Jackson and Adams camps during that campaign, which eventually saw the defeat of the incumbent John Quincy Adams and the election of Andrew Jackson. Across the top of the present broadside are six woodcut coffins bearing the names of six militiamen shot on Jackson’s orders during the War of 1812; an account of their wrongful execution follows. Below that there are four more accounts of Jackson’s evil and murderous deeds, including seven regular soldiers shot on Jackson’s orders prior to the six militiamen (complete with coffin woodcuts all in a row); the tale of another soldier unfairly executed (with another woodcut coffin); Jackson assault- ing another man in the streets of Nashville and running him through with a sword while he bent over to pick up a rock for defense (with a woodcut of the murderous act); and a brief account of some Indian prisoners executed on Jackson’s orders (four more coffins). The bottom portion prints a narrative comparing Jackson with a more merciful commanding officer, with a testimonial by Thomas Hart Benton, who himself had fought a duel with Jackson. The “Coffin Handbill” exists in several formats, of which this would seem to be the rarest. Not in Shoemaker, and only one other copy located, at the American Antiquarian Society. $3750.

A Rare Copy with the Plates Colored

87. Janson, Charles W.: THE STRANGER IN AMERICA: CONTAIN- ING OBSERVATIONS MADE DURING A LONG RESIDENCE IN THAT COUNTRY, ON THE GENIUS, MANNERS AND CUS- TOMS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.... London. 1807. 22,499,[1]pp. plus engraved titlepage, nine colored plates, one plan, and 6pp. of advertisements. Quarto. Contemporary drab boards; rebacked, preserving portion of the original spine, corners renewed. Boards somewhat soiled and worn. Minor foxing and toning to text. Very good.

The rare issue of this important work with the plates colored (almost all copies have the plates in sepia only). Janson lived in America from 1793 to 1805, beginning in Rhode Island (where he failed in business) before travelling in the American South, especially Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, where he was defrauded in the Yazoo land scheme. He did not like what he saw, or at least felt that the rise of Jeffersonian democracy was guided by the devil. Clark sums up the book well: “Janson draws a picture of unrelieved black, but one worthy of attention because of the length of his stay and the breadth of his interests. He covers an astonishing variety of subjects in a loose topical arrangement....” “A petulant view of U.S. life” – Howes. The handsomely produced book contains nine colored plates depicting six scenes in Philadelphia, one of Mount Vernon, and one each in Boston and New York. The view on the engraved titlepage is the earliest known published image of the White House, and the Mount Vernon plate is one of the earliest of Washington’s home. The appendix to the book contains, on pages 482-489, what appears to be the first British printing of Thomas Jefferson’s December 1806 message announcing the completion of the Lewis and Clark expedition, as well as other western explorations. This is unnoticed by bibliographers and should seem to qualify it for inclusion in Wagner-Camp, though it is not listed there. HOWES J59, “b.” CLARK II:99. SABIN 35770. ABBEY 648. $6000.

88. [ Jeffreys, George Washington]: A SERIES OF ESSAYS ON AGRI- CULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS; IN FORTY-SEVEN NUMBERS. Raleigh. 1819. 223pp. plus index leaf. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges cracked; spine heavily worn and chipped, with ex-lib. markings. Bookplates on front pastedown. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Slight worming to last few leaves, affecting minor amounts of text. About good.

The title states this work to be “By ‘Agricola,’ A North Carolina Farmer,” the pseudonym of George Washington Jeffreys. A very early southern agricultural publication and an unusual imprint, containing essays on land law, manuring, enclosure, grasses, tillage, a variety of crops, fruit trees, and livestock. THORNTON 6872. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 48370. RINK 1214. $1000.

Early Kentucky Imprint: The Second Known Copy

89. [Kentucky]: TO THE PUBLIC. FELLOW CITIZENS, I NOTICE IN THE PALLADIUM OF JULY 14th INST. A PUBLICATION SIGNED SAMUEL TAYLOR; TO WHICH HE HAS SUBJOINED A CIRCULAR FROM PITTSBURG [sic]...[first few lines of text]. [Frankfort, Ky.?: Printed at the Palladium?], 1808. Broadside, 9 x 7½ inches. Light soiling and wear. Paper flaws affecting a few letters but with no loss. Very good.

A campaign endorsement for General Charles Scott in his first, successful run for the office of Governor of Kentucky. Scott (1739-1813), a native of Virginia and a veteran of both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, served for a time as George Washington’s chief of intelligence. He moved to Woodford County, Kentucky in 1787, participated in the border conflicts against the Indians, including the 1790 Harmar expedition and the Fallen Timbers campaign of 1794, before entering politics and serving as Kentucky’s fourth governor from 1808 to 1812. This broadside urges support of the effort to approve funding for the pen- sions of Revolutionary War veterans, and Scott’s run for the governorship succeeded the following month. It is signed in type at the end by “A Friend of the Military, July 16th, 1808.” Rare and early for the area. Not in Hummel or Shaw & Shoemaker. OCLC locates only one copy, at the Society of the Cincinnati. $3500.

Item 90. Two Hundred Handsome Handcolored Plates

90. Kerner, Johann Simon: FIGURES DES PLANTES ECONOMIQUES [Vols. 4 & 5]. Stuttgart. 1791-1792. Two volumes (of eight). 44; 36pp., plus 200 handcolored plates (plates 301-500). Quarto. Contemporary marbled boards, spines gilt, leather label. Corners and head and foot of spine worn. Light foxing to titlepages and one or two plates, but generally quite clean and fresh internally. Very good.

Volumes four and five of this handsome and important botanical work, complete with descriptive text and 100 handcolored plates in each volume. Johann Simon Kerner (1755-1830) was a German botanist and doctor who authored and illustrated several botanical works. These two volumes are part of a larger, eight-volume work, describing fruits, flowers, fungus, and trees. Each plate is precisely drawn and delicately colored. A handsome work. TL2 3604. $5000.

Some Imaginary Cartography

91. Lahontan, Louis Armand, Baron de: VOYAGES DU BARON DE LAHONTAN DANS L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE. [with:] SUITE DES VOYAGES DU BARON DE LAHONTAN.... [with:] MEMOIRES DE L’AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE.... Amster- dam: Francois L’Honore, 1741. Three volumes. [10],188,[4]; [6],220; 237pp., plus twenty-six maps and plates (five folding). 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Corners lightly worn. Small modern book label on front pastedown of each volume. Very minor soiling and foxing. Small tear in gutter margin of one map. Very good.

One of the principal early 18th-century descriptions of Canada, here in a later edition which is styled as the second edition. Here the second volume is called “Suite” and the third volume “Memoires,” which together form the second volume in the 1728 edition. The spurious dialogue which had formed the third volume of that edition is removed from the publication. Lahontan’s famous narrative is a curious blend- ing of fact and fantasy, to be honored in regard to his account of his travels in the Great Lakes region, but to be accompanied by tongue placed amply in cheek in regard to his claims to have journeyed west of the Mississippi, which Howes states have the veracity of “the legends of the sea serpent.” The maps and plates are quite interesting, though the former evidence some confused geography, most notably that of the “Long River” west of the Great Lakes. De- spite Lahontan’s lapses, this remains one of the most important midwestern travel narratives, and was one of the principal early 18th-century descriptions of Canada. HOWES L25 (ref ). CLARK I:111 (ref ). SABIN 38644. TPL 6357 (ref ). $2500.

92. Laujon, A.P.M.: PRECIS HISTORIQUE DE LA DERNIERE EX- PEDITION DE SAINT-DOMINGUE, DEPUIS LE DEPART DE L’ARMEE DES COTES DE FRANCE, JUSQU’A L’EVACUATION DE LA COLONIE; SUIVI DES MOYENS DE RETABLISSEMENT DE CETTE COLONIE. Paris. [1805]. iv,257pp. Contemporary half calf and red paper boards, spine richly gilt, gilt leather label. Boards edgeworn, with wear at spine ends and joints; backstrip rubbed. Clean internally. Very good.

Laujon’s work gives a firsthand account of the situation in Santo Domingo at the height of the massacre of the white population there, after the French expeditionary force under Rochambeau was decimated by disease and then withdrawn by Napoleon in 1803, when he abandoned his American schemes with the sale of Louisiana. Orchestrated by the newly installed emperor, Dessalines, the terror took place in early 1804 and claimed the lives of several thousand French Creoles. Laujon was a high-ranking French official in Port-au-Prince, which was largely spared from the carnage. The text concludes with his suggestions for the restoration of French rule on Haiti; in fact, any chance for that had passed. BISSAINTHE 6498. PALAU 133000. SABIN 39245. $900.

A Seminal Work for Early North America

93. Le Moyne, Jacques: DER ANDER THEYL, DER LEWLICY ER- FUNDENEN LANDTSCHAFFT AMERICAE.... Frankfurt: Theodor De Bry, 1591. Engraved title, engraved section title, list of plates, folding engraved map, [6],42,[26]pp., plus forty-two plates after Le Moyne with letterpress titling above and text beneath, and two engraved illustrations. Without the initial and final blank leaves, as is usually the case. Folio. 20th-century three-quarter crushed red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Second titlepage with a one-inch tear with slight loss, closed tear in bottom portion, and chipping in lower margin. Three small, closed marginal tears in the map. Several leaves with neat, expert marginal repairs. Plate 22 backed, repairing a horizontal tear. Overall, a very good copy.

The first German-language edition of De Bry’s Florida, a seminal illustrated work for early North America, with Jacques Le Moyne’s spectacular images of the region’s American Indians. The publication of this work by De Bry, together with Hariot’s Virginia, launched what would later become known as De Bry’s Grand Voyages. The two works are without question the most important of the series both in terms of contemporary influence and modern historical and ethnographic value. The text here describes the earliest French settlements of what are now portions of the United States and are here united by De Bry with engravings based on watercolors accomplished by a member of the expedition to the New World. To most of Great Britain and Europe, this work presented the first accurate accounts and eyewitness depictions of American Indians from that region. In the mid-1560s, hoping to thwart the Spanish conquest of the Americas, two French expeditions led by Jean Ribault and René Goulaine de Laudonnière sought to establish a Huguenot settlement in Florida, a region also encompassing much of present-day South Carolina. Among those accompanying the latter was Jacques Le Moyne. Le Moyne de Morgues, born in Dieppe, France in about 1533, was appointed artist to the expedition led by Laudonnière, which sailed in April 1564. Arguably the first European artist to visit the New World, Le Moyne recorded the scenery of Florida and the lives of the Timucua Indians in great detail, as well as charting the coastline of Florida. The young French colony was seen as a threat by the Spanish, and in September 1565 a Spanish force led by Pedro Menendez massacred the French colonists at Fort Caroline. Le Moyne and several others made a miraculous escape. The story of their struggles, however, would not be published until 1588, when Richard Hakluyt instigated Laudonnière’s journal to be published by a friend in Paris. Later that year master engraver and publisher Theodor De Bry traveled to London to meet with Le Moyne to obtain illustrations of the region to accompany a new edition of Laudonnière’s journal. Le Moyne declined, but after he died sud- denly the following year, De Bry returned to London and purchased the watercolors from Le Moyne’s widow. It was on this trip to London that De Bry met Hakluyt, who informed him of the British expeditions to Virginia, shared with him both Hariot’s journal and White’s watercolors from the expedition, and suggested the publication of a series of illustrated voyages to America, beginning with Hariot/ White and Laudonnière/Le Moyne. De Bry returned to Frankfurt and in 1590 published the former in Latin, German, French, and English; the following year he published the latter in Latin and German, presumably having found only a small market for the other languages. CHURCH 179. SERVIES 69. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 591/38. JCB (3)I:355. SA- BIN 8784, Vol. 3, pp.50-51. ARENTS 37, 39, 44 (refs). $50,000.

94. Long, Ellen Call: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE PRINCESSE ACHILLE MURAT [caption title]. Tallahassee, Fl. [1867]. Broadside, 21¼ x 13½ inches. Old folds. Some light wear and soiling. Con- temporary authorial inscription at top of sheet; manuscript corrections to text in the same hand. Contemporary inscription in another hand on verso. About very good.

Broadside obituary of the Catherine D. Willis, the Princesse Murat. The docketing note on the verso reads: “Obituary notice of my Cousin Princess Achille Murat by Mrs. Long of Tallahassee, Fla.” After Waterloo, Achille Murat, Crown Prince of Naples and Napoleon’s nephew, immigrated to the United States; settled in Florida Territory, where he ran a cotton slave plantation; served as a colonel of a backwoods regiment during the Seminole War; and married Catharine D. Willis of Virginia, George Washington’s great grand-niece. He died in 1847, but his widow lived on in Florida through the Civil War while being accorded the title of Princess at the Court of Napoleon III. Upon her death in 1867 this obituary was written by her close friend and fellow Confederate stalwart, Ellen Call Long (1825-1905), whose father had been Territorial Governor of Florida and Murat’s close friend. There is no record of where – or if – this obituary was published before it was reprinted in the Florida Historical Society Quarterly of 1909 and again in book form in 1931. Two biographies of Murat cite only the much later reprints. This appears to be the only existing copy of the original 1867 broadside printing, which includes the author’s handwritten corrections which were not incorporated in the later reprints. $1250.

Georgia Scenes

95. [Longstreet, Augustus B.]: GEORGIA SCENES, CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c. IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE RE- PUBLIC. By a Native Georgian. Augusta, Ga. 1835. 235pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities worn. Con- temporary ownership inscription on front pastedown, fly leaf, and titlepage. Newspaper clipping pasted to rear fly leaf. Toning and foxing, some light wear to text. A good, solid copy. In a half green morocco and marbled boards box.

The rare first edition of a classic of southern literature and manners, Georgia Scenes... is written in the form of a series of sketches set in frontier Georgia at the beginning of the 19th century. Although in fictional form, the book is such realistic social history that it presents one of the best pictures of life in that time and place, and straddles the line between fact and fiction. Longstreet said that his purpose was “to supply a chasm in history which has always been overlooked – the manners, customs, amusements, wit dialect, as they appear in all grades of society to an ear and eye witness of them...there is scarcely one word from the beginning to the end of the book that is not strictly GEORGIAN.” The book stands at the beginning of a long line of southern humor. HOWES L448, “b.” STREETER SALE 1168. DE RENNE I, p.445. GEORGIANA 28. SABIN 41936. WRIGHT I:1721. BAL 12946. $6000.

96. [Louisville & Nashville Railroad]: [ARCHIVE OF OVER FIFTY ARCHITECT’S ELEVATIONS, PLANS, AND DIAGRAMS FOR BUILDING TOOLS, BUILDINGS, AND OTHER ITEMS RELAT- ED TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE RAILROAD]. Louisville. 1880s – 1930s. Fifty-five plans of various sizes, averaging approximately 18 inches in height (some larger, some smaller). On waxed architect’s linen. Some light soiling and wear. Overall very good.

A very interesting group of drawings shedding light on the various items required for the working of a railroad. The collection includes elevations and plans for a foreman’s house, shanties for laborers, a watchman’s house, a sand house, etc. There are also diagrams for structures necessary to maintain the lines, such as water tanks, signal towers, steel forms for standard concrete mile posts, mail bag catcher, a file case for the chief clerk, benches or settees for waiting rooms, a hog watering device, inspection hammers, and many more. A treasure trove of vital railroad minutia and everyday objects. $2750. 97. [Louisville & Nashville Railroad]: [COLLECTION OF TWENTY- FOUR ARCHITECTURAL PLANS FOR STATIONS IN THE SOUTH]. Louisville. 1887-1917. Twenty-four plans of varying size, most circa 25 inches tall. On waxed architect’s linen. Light wear and soiling. Very good plus.

A nice group of architectural floor plans and elevations for railway stations in several southern states, including Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, and Louisiana. Several of the floor plans include the detail of a specified “colored person waiting room.” The plans from Virginia include a plan of a freight depot in Lynchburg dated 1892; in Mississippi there are two plans for Mississippi City, including one that shows the colored waiting room (1899), Biloxi (one, dated 1888), Pass Christian (one, 1887), and Scranton (one, 1904). There are several plans for stations in Georgia: Atlanta (two plans, 1905 and 1942), Junta (1914), Oakman (two, 1909), Cartersville (1906), and Tate, which has three plans dated 1916, including a colored waiting room. For Louisiana there are plans for Chet Menteur (1888) and New Orleans (1882, showing a cotton shed); four North Carolina plans include Green Mountain (1917), Youngville (two plans dated 1907), and Kona (1914). $2250.

98. [Louisville & Nashville Railroad]: [COLLECTION OF TWENTY- FOUR PLANS AND ELEVATIONS FOR RAILWAY STATIONS IN THE MIDWEST]. Louisville. 1888-1912. Twenty-four plans of varying sizes, most measuring approximately 18 inches tall. On waxed architect’s linen. Some light wear and minor soiling. Very good plus.

Group of architectural plans and elevations for railway stations in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Missouri. The Illinois stations shown are Carmi (three plans dated 1894- 1907), Wabash River Draw (one plan, 1894), Eldorado (one, 1895), Highand Park (one, 1891), Swansea (one, 1896), and McLeansboro (one, 1912). The Indiana stations shown are Evansville, including a nice elevation and floor plan for a freight depot (three plans, 1889-1902), Howell (five plans, 1888-1893, including two for a machine shop), and a long plat denoting property ownership along a stretch of rail line (ca. 1910). In Ohio there are two plans of Cincinnati (1904-1909), one of Wallace & Sanford’s Mill (1887), and one for Rhorer (1884). Additionally, there are three plans for a freight depot in St. Louis (1892). $2250.

The Mississippi River During the Vicksburg Campaign

99. Magnus, Charles: [Civil War]: PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AND ITS FORTIFICATIONS. New York: Charles Magnus, [1863]. Four-panel lithographed strip map, a total of 23¾ x 26 inches, with hand-coloring. Old folds. Two-inch closed tear at bottom edge of central vertical fold. Sheet lightly toned. Several small chips and tears around edges, not affecting the map image itself. Good plus.

A wonderful “strip-map” of the Mississippi River, its towns, fortifications, industries, and businesses, issued during the Civil War for “a public eager to learn the geography of the various seats of action during the war” (Holland). Four side-by-side verti- cally oriented maps show the course of the Mississippi from its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico all the way north beyond St. Louis, a distance of more than 1,300 river miles. Control of the Mississippi was vitally important during the Civil War, as it was used to move troops and commerce, and ran past several strategically important cities. This map contains inset views of four of those cities: St. Louis, Memphis, Vicksburg, and New Orleans. The map also locates several important forts along the river, including Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip at the mouth of the Missis- sippi, and Fort St. Leon at the first major bend of the river, an important defense for New Orleans. Hundreds of towns are located, as are sugar refineries, saw mills, churches, colleges, courthouses, military arsenals and depots, railroad lines, smaller rivers, lakes, and much more. Two tables provide distances by steamer between various points. This map was created by Charles Magnus, a prolific publisher of views, maps, song sheets, patriotic covers, and more. HOLLAND, MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN MAPS AND VIEWS, pp.154, 160-61. E. Richard McKinstry, Charles Magnus, Lithographer (New Castle, De., 2013), pp.158-59. $4250.

Marshall Writes on Supreme Court Records

100. Marshall, John: [AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED, BY JOHN MAR- SHALL AS SECRETARY OF STATE, INSTRUCTING HIS COR- RESPONDENT ON HOW TO OBTAIN RECORDS OF A CASE DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT]. Washington. July 7, 1800. [1]p. on a 6 x 9¾-inch sheet. Foxed, else very good.

A brief but interesting note in the hand of John Marshall and signed by him a year before he became the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. Although the note relates to the business of the Supreme Court, it was actually written by Marshall while he was Secretary of State, less than a month after he assumed that office. Marshall writes to a Mr. Temple: “If you will call at the office of the Prothonotary, I think the officers there will be pleased to show you any record of any case that has been disposed of by the Supreme Court. The case to which you seek access has been decided unanimously.” Marshall had been a prominent jurist since the mid-1780s, and in 1798 he actually declined his first appointment to the Supreme Court, as an Associate Justice. Despite that he had argued before the Supreme Court, and was clearly well informed as to its workings, as is indicated by this note. This Marshall letter is not listed in The Papers of John Marshall. $1750.

Photographs of the Methodist Camp Ground on Martha’s Vineyard

101. [Martha’s Vineyard – Stereoviews]: [COLLECTION OF 23 STE- REOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF THE WESLEYAN GROVE CAMP GROUND ON MARTHA’S VINEYARD]. [New Bedford or Fall River, Ma. ca. 1875]. Twenty-three stereoviews (nineteen by Brownell & Adams of New Bedford, three by Joseph Warren of Fall River, one by S.F. Adams of New Bedford) on original photographers’ mounts (approximately 3½ x 7 inches). Very good.

Open air Methodist meetings began being held near Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Martha’s Vineyard as early as 1835. In the 1860s and 1870s the Society tents began being replaced with permanent wooden cottages. The present collection of stereoviews shows scenes in Wesleyan Grove (now called Martha’s Vineyard Campmeeting Association), with many depicting families in front of their ornate Victorian cottages. Between 1859 and 1864 a new American building type, the “Martha’s Vineyard” cottage, remarkable in its singularity in appearance and structure, was developed at Wesleyan Grove. There were about forty cottages in 1864, 250 in 1869, and 500 by 1880. Approximately 300 cottages are still extant. $1500. American Militia

102. [Martin, Samuel]: A PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING AND DISCI- PLINING A NATIONAL MILITIA IN GREAT BRITAIN, AND IN ALL THE BRITISH DOMINIONS OF AMERICA. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1745. [2],xlvii,106pp. Antique half calf and marbled boards. First and last pages heavily soiled, contemporary inscriptions. Negligible foxing and soiling. Else very good.

First issue. Outlines measures to be taken, particularly in North America, for protection against France, “now at enmity, whose interest it is to subdue by fraud or force, all those Countries lying between his dominions and the sea. For preventing such encroachments, no means can be so effectual as a general Militia....” Protec- tion of the Newfoundland fisheries is also considered. A long appendix treats the necessity of improving the naval strength of Britain, examining the added benefits which would accrue to trade with the colonies, etc. SABIN 63269. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 745/134. GOLDSMITHS 8200. ESTC T93627. $1250.

The First Version of the Massachusetts Constitution

103. [Massachusetts]: [A] CONSTITUTION OR FRAME OF GOV- ERNMENT, AGREED UPON BY THE DELEGATES OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY, IN CONVENTION, BEGUN AND HELD AT CAMBRIDGE ON THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER, 1779, AND CONTINUED BY AD- JOURNMENTS TO THE SECOND OF MARCH, 1780.... Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes & Sons, 1780. 53pp. Half title. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. The titlepage was apparently misprinted and lacks the “A” at the beginning of the title, and the upper portion of a few letters in “Constitution” and portions of the imprint are faint. Very good. Untrimmed.

First printing of the first Massachusetts state constitution, a document of capital importance in the framing of subsequent state constitutions as well as the United States Constitution. A slightly more radical constitution was proposed in 1778 which, for example, granted suffrage to all males except blacks, Indians, and mulattoes, but it was rejected by the people. The present constitution begins with a long declaration of the rights of Massachusetts citizens (including freedom of the press and protection from unreasonable searches), then spells out the roles and powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. This version was revised considerably before its final adoption (that version was also printed in 1780). “In some respects the constitution of 1780 remedied the defects of its predecessor of 1778. A bill of rights assured to each citizen ‘the security of his person and property’ as an unassailable condition to the social contract. A strong executive with extensive veto powers, an independent judiciary appointed for good behavior, and a senate representing property effectively restrained the house of representatives, the only popular branch of government” – Handlin. There is also a section continuing the special privileges of Harvard College, and another encouraging the appreciation of literature in the commonwealth. The Handlins note that John Adams’ role was pre-eminent in the crafting of the 1780 constitution. It is a constitution that served as a guide for other states and for the Constitutional Convention of 1787. See the Handlins’ Commonwealth for an extended discussion of the creation and importance of the Massachusetts constitution. “Despite the title, Massachusetts is declared to be a free and independent Commonwealth (not State), and its people are referred to repeatedly as ‘subjects.’ Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all Protestants, except that Catholics are barred from holding office. (However, there is nothing to keep them from coming to New York to run for office.) Enfranchisement is based solely on property” – Eberstadt. This octavo edition is the first issue, followed by a more common folio issue. A state constitution of great influence. EVANS 16844. NAIP w015133. SABIN 45691. EBERSTADT 166:71. ROSENBACH 8:752. Oscar & Mary Handlin, Commonwealth (Cambridge, 1969), esp. pp.24-31. $4750.

Ratifying the Constitution in Massachusetts: Josiah Quincy’s Copy

104. [Massachusetts]: DEBATES, RESOLUTIONS AND OTHER PRO- CEEDINGS, OF THE CONVENTION OF THE COMMON- WEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, CONVENED AT BOSTON, ON THE 9th OF JANUARY 1788, AND CONTINUED UNTIL THE 7th OF FEBRUARY FOLLOWING, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSENTING TO AND RATIFYING THE CONSTITUTION RECOMMENDED BY THE GRAND FEDERAL CONVENTION. TOGETHER WITH THE YEAS AND NAYS ON THE DECISION OF THE GRAND QUESTION. TO WHICH THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION IS PREFIXED. Boston: Printed and sold by Adams and Nourse, Benjamin Russell...and Edmund Freeman..., 1788. 219pp. Con- temporary tree calf, neatly rebacked in matching style. Boards lightly scuffed, corners lightly worn. Light toning and foxing. Else very good, with the contemporary ownership inscription of Josiah Quincy on titlepage.

“These Debates were recorded by printers representing the Massachusetts Centinel and Independent Chronicle in Boston and were reprinted from them. A later edition (1856) included the official journal and notes on the debates kept by Theophilus Parsons, a delegate to the state convention and later chief justice of the Massachu- setts Supreme Court. “The ratification process in Massachusetts was viewed with anxiety by sup- porters of the Constitution throughout the nation. Massachusetts was a key state, and it was thought that actions there might determine the ultimate fate of the Constitution. The struggle was hard, bitter, and characterized by wild rumor and allegations of corrupt behavior....The Federalist strategy was to ratify the Constitu- tion first and then consider amendments to it....On February 6 the Constitution was endorsed by the narrow vote of 187 to 168. Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify....Massachusetts was the first state to propose amendments along with ratification, setting a pattern for the states that followed. All except Maryland and Rhode Island were to ratify and simulta- neously propose amendments” – Liberty’s Legacy. The debates of other states were also extensively published. That of Vir- ginia, where many of the leaders of the Revolution were delegates, appeared in two volumes in 1788. This copy bears the ownership signature of Josiah Quincy on the titlepage. Josiah Quincy III (1772-1864) was a Federalist Congressman (1804-13) before turning his hand to local politics and becoming Boston’s second mayor (1823- 28). During his time as mayor he “left no aspect of Boston’s public domain un- touched or unimproved,” with the result that upon leaving office, “Boston [was] the cleanest, most orderly and best governed city in the United States” (ANB). He then spent the next fifteen years serving as president of Harvard before retiring from public life. LIBERTY’S LEGACY USC-25. EVANS 21242. SABIN 45702. $5000.

105. Mather, Samuel: AN ATTEMPT TO SHEW, THAT AMERICA MUST BE KNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS...TO WHICH IS ADD- ED AN APPENDIX, CONCERNING THE AMERICAN COLO- NIES, AND SOME MODERN MANAGEMENTS AGAINST THEM. By an American Englishman. Boston: J. Kneeland, 1773. 35pp. Half title. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Ownership inscription on half title partially erased. Trimmed close at bottom edge, minutely affecting some text. Lightly soiled. Still very good.

The first portion of the text is turned over to an interesting summary of the case for pre-Columbian European knowledge of the Americas, the possibilities of ancient migrations, and so forth (including passing references to Atlantis). The second portion of the text is devoted to inequities in British treatment of the colonies. ADAMS 98. HOLMES 61. EVANS 12861. SABIN 46792. HOWES M408, “aa.” $2500.

Indians of Martha’s Vineyard

106. Mayhew, Experience: INDIAN CONVERTS: OR, SOME AC- COUNT OF THE LIVES AND DYING SPEECHES OF A CON- SIDERABLE NUMBER OF THE CHRISTIANIZED INDIANS OF MARTHA’S VINEYARD, IN NEW-ENGLAND...TO WHICH IS ADDED, SOME ACCOUNT OF THOSE ENGLISH MINIS- TERS WHO HAVE SUCCESSIVELY PRESIDED OVER THE IN- DIAN WORK IN THAT AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS. BY MR. PRINCE. London: Printed for Samuel Gerrish, Bookseller in Boston in New-England, 1727. xxiv,310pp. plus [2],8pp. of bookseller’s advertisements. Early 20th-century polished calf, spine gilt, leather label, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription crossed out at head of titlepage. Light to moderate foxing. About very good.

Mayhew worked as a missionary among the tribes in Martha’s Vineyard. “In this extraordinary relation of the effects of the Gospel upon the aborigines, are narrated biographical sketches of one hundred and twenty-nine Indians, who gave unexceptional tokens of conversion by Christian lives” – Field. Prince’s work has a separate title at page 277. HOWES M452, “aa.” FIELD 1045. SABIN 47124. JCB (1)III:399. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 727/158. SIMMONS 1727:17. $4250.

107. [Mazzei, Filippo]: RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES ET POLI- TIQUES SUR LES ETATS-UNIS DE L’AMERIQUE...PAR UN CITOYEN DE VIRGINIE.... Paris. 1788. Four volumes bound in two. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

The author emigrated to America from Italy in 1773 to introduce the cultivation of grapes and olives to the United States. He became a neighbor of Jefferson in Virginia, settling near Monticello at Jefferson’s request, and this association led to their long friendship and the author’s acquaintance with Franklin and Adams. A staunch Republican, he took an active roll in the Independence movement. In this work Mazzei outlines the history of the American colonies, the causes of the Revolution, and the economy and government of the United States. Also discussed are Indians, slavery, emigration, and the Society of the Cincinnati. An important work which Dumas Malone characterizes as “probably the most reliable of all the works of the period on the United States.” Jefferson aided Mazzei in the compila- tion of the work while acting as American minister in Paris. HOWES M456. SABIN 47206. MALONE, THOMAS JEFFERSON II, pp.109-10. $1000.

Pioneering History

108. McCall, Hugh, Capt.: THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA, CON- TAINING BRIEF SKETCHES OF THE MOST REMARKABLE EVENTS, UP TO THE PRESENT DAY. Savannah: Printed and published by Seymour and Williams, 1811-1816. Two volumes. viii,376; vii,[1], 424pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedowns. Toning, scattered light foxing. About very good.

The first history of the state of Georgia and a standard work of southern history as well as an interesting imprint. McCall’s history covers events from 1733 to 1783, with the first volume going through 1773 and the second being wholly devoted to the Revolution. The second volume was written largely from personal experience, since McCall was a Revolutionary officer. Willingham says the book is written “intelligently and well” and is “a landmark in the development of Georgia literature.” Streeter calls it “the chief source on the border wars with the Creeks and Cherokees. This is one of the rarest of state histories.” HOWES M33. DE RENNE, p.344. CHURCH 1305. SABIN 42973. WILLINGHAM 21. STREETER SALE 1161. FIELD 972. $3500.

An Important Broadside from One of the First Campaigns of the Civil War

109. McClellan, George B.: TO THE UNION MEN OF WESTERN VIR- GINIA: VIRGINIANS! THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT HAS LONG ENOUGH ENDURED THE MACHINATIONS OF A FEW FACTIOUS REBELS IN YOUR MIDST...[caption title and first lines of text]. [Cincinnati] Headquarters, Department of the Ohio. May 26, 1861. Broadside, 10 x 3 inches. Lightly foxed, a bit rumpled. Very good.

A rare and ephemeral handbill issued in the opening months of the Civil War. The Department of the Ohio was created on May 10, 1861 by combining the forces of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. George B. McClellan, at the time a major general in the Ohio Volunteers, was appointed to the command, and four days later he was commissioned a major general in the regular army. When news reached his headquarters of the Rebel burning of several Baltimore and Ohio railroad bridges in Virginia, he decided to invade the state and issued this proclamation to rally the many citizens of the Old Dominion still loyal to the Union. The text reads, in part:

Virginians! The General Government has long enough endured the machinations of a few factious rebels in your midst. Armed traitors have in vain endeavored to deter you from expressing your loyalty at the polls. Having failed in this infamous attempt to deprive you of the exercise of your dearest rights, they now seek to inaugurate a reign of terror, and thus force you to yield to their schemes and submit to the yoke of the traitorous conspiracy dignified by the name of the Southern Confederacy. They are destroying the property of citizens of your State and ruining your magnificent railways. The General Government has heretofore carefully abstained from sending troops across the Ohio, or even from posting them along its banks. Although frequently urged to do so by many of your prominent citizens, it determined to await the result of the late election, desirous that no one might be able to say that the slightest effort had been made from this side to influence the free expression of your opinions, although the many agencies brought to bear upon you by the rebels were well known. You have now shown under the most adverse circumstances that the great mass of the people of Western Virginia are true and loyal to the beneficent government under which we and our fathers have lived so long.

McClellan goes on to state that he has now ordered troops across the river, at the request of Virginian citizens, to protect Union loyalists and crush rebellion.

They come as your friends and brothers, as enemies only to the armed rebels who are preying upon you. Your homes, your families, and your property are safe under our protection. All your rights shall be religiously respected, notwithstanding all that has been said by the traitors to induce you to believe that our advent among you will be signalized by interference with your slaves.

McClellan even goes so far as to promise to crush any slave uprisings that should occur. We cannot find another copy of this broadside, probably printed on an Army field press. $6500.

A Manuscript Confederate Military Map from the Tennessee Theatre in 1863

110. Meister, C.: [Confederate Manuscript Map]: [CONFEDERATE MIL- ITARY MANUSCRIPT MAP OF SHELBYVILLE AND TULLA- HOMA AND THE SURROUNDING AREA]. Tullahoma, Tn.: From Engineer Office, May 10, 1863. Single sheet, 12¼ x 13¼ inches. Old fold lines. Backed on slightly later paper. Minor loss at some folds. Light soiling and dampstaining. Good plus.

A highly important Confederate manuscript map of the area to the north and east of Shelbyville, Tennessee, located about twenty-five miles south of Murfreesboro, executed in the midst of the Civil War. This map was made a month before the Tullahoma Campaign in late June and early July, in which the Union pushed the Confederacy out of Middle Tennessee, opening the way to the capture of Chat- tanooga. The map is signed by C. Meister, one of the Confederacy’s draughtsman deployed in the field with Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. Bragg headquartered his army at this time in Tullahoma, anticipating any attack would come through Shelbyville. Bragg’s troops were spread across a wide front which encompassed most of the territory shown on this map. Union General Rosencrans was headquartered in Murfreesboro, just to the north. The map shows Christiana to the north, Pocahontas and Manchester to the east, and Tullahoma on the southern edge of the surveyed area. Roads have been marked in red, with rivers and streams delineated in blue, and the railroads and towns marked out in black ink. Meister has included key details such as bridges (noted as being in “good order”), mills and other landmarks, and occasionally mileage between points. The map is noted as “No. 32” in the bottom left corner. With the outbreak of the Civil War there was a surge in demand for accurate and up-to-date maps. The Union had field presses and several government surveyors employed in creating maps. The Confederacy, however, was in short supply of everything, including surveyors, proper equipment, and the means to print. As a result, Confederate survey parties were sent into the field to draw maps, which were later traced into multiple copies. Although time consuming, this method was significantly cheaper than any method of printing available to them. A wonderful exemplar of Confederate cartography, showing a key piece of ground covered by the Army of Tennessee, essential to the Tullahoma Campaign. $12,500.

A Remarkable Union Army Field Map, Printed for Sherman’s Operations in Georgia

111. Merrill, William E.: [Georgia]: MAP OF NORTHERN GEORGIA, MADE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPT. W.E. MERRILL. Chattanooga. May 2, 1864. Lithographed folding map, sectioned and linen- backed as issued, the rivers handcolored. Sheet size: 39 x 35¼ inches. Original card covers, printed paper label. Minor foxing, else very good. In a black half morocco box. Provenance: Colonel McCrerey (signature on cover label).

A highly detailed map of the northern part of Georgia, made under the direction of Capt. W.E. Merrill, Chief Topographical Engineer of the Army of the Cumberland. The map shows all the major roads and rail lines, in addition to natural topographical features, in northern Georgia. The map extends as far north as Chattanooga near the Georgia/Tennessee state line, and far enough south and east to include the northwest sixth of the state. The capture of Chattanooga in November 1863 gave the Union the foothold they needed to cut off supply lines and advance into the Deep South. In the spring of 1864 the forces under Gen. William T. Sherman were poised to strike. As soon as Chattanooga was taken, Sherman’s chief topographical engineer, Capt. William E. Merrill, “the most innovative and conscientious exponent of mapping during the Civil War,” began to compile a map of northwest Georgia. Merrill had his own complete establishment for map production: a printing press, lithographic presses, and draftsmen. Equally important, Merrill’s assistant Sgt. N. Finnegan developed an extraordinary body of intelligence, drawing on spies, prisoners, refugees, peddlers, itinerant preachers and scouts – what Merrill called “his motley crew.” All of this information was digested by Merrill day by day until he was notified that the campaign would begin within the week. At this point the topographers finished their work, and two hundred copies were produced, mounted on linen for field use, and distributed to field commanders down to the brigade level. In five months Merrill and his men had produced a remarkably accurate map of country that lay mostly behind enemy lines. The Merrill map was a critical aid to Sherman’s campaigns in Georgia. Five days after the map was completed, on May 7, Sherman’s army left Chattanooga and began its hard-fought push to the southeast, slowly driving the Confederates back to the railroad hub of Atlanta (which is in the lower right quadrant of this map). In a campaign of continual attempts by both armies to outflank each other, the understanding of the ground it would have brought the Union commanders was invaluable. Sherman took possession of Atlanta in September, and used it as a base of operations for the next two and a half months while he raided in every direction, all within the boundaries of this map. On November 15 the Federal forces burned the city, cut loose from their rail communications with Chattanooga, and began the famous March to the Sea, heading east toward Savannah, burning and pillaging everything in their path. About a week later they moved off the east edge of this map. An examination shows why this map would have been an invaluable aid to the Union commanders in the Georgia campaign. It details topography, rivers, existing roads and railroads, towns, and other features on a very small scale of four miles to the inch. Conveying the latest in Union military intelligence and combining new and existing information, it would have guided Sherman and his officers through eight months of the hardest-fought campaigning of the entire Civil War. A tri- umph of coordinated intelligence and map-making, it is one of the most remarkable cartographic productions of the Civil War. Indeed, it might be called the “Holster Atlas” of the Georgia campaign. STEPHENSON, CIVIL WAR MAPS IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS S28-29. MILLER, GREAT MAPS OF THE CIVIL WAR, p.39. $12,000.

Early South Carolina Militia and Slave Patrol Laws, with Specific Laws Governing Slaves

112. Miller, John B.: A COLLECTION OF THE MILITIA LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH-CAROLINA, THAT ARE OF FORCE, WITH SUCH PARTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS THEREOF AS RELATE TO THE MILITIA; ALSO, THE PA- TROL LAWS OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. Columbia: Printed by D. & J.J. Faust, 1817. 82,[8]pp. Modern calf, gilt red leather label. Toning, foxing, an occasional stain. Good. In a cloth slipcase.

A very rare volume of United States and South Carolina militia laws, along with the laws governing slave patrols, located in only three other copies. The text brings together the various United States and South Carolina laws and constitutional provisions regarding militias, and includes the divisional breakdown of the South Carolina militia. Of great importance are the slave patrol laws of the state, including “An Act for the better ordering and governing Negroes and other Slaves in the Province” and another act that imposes restrictions on the emancipation of slaves. The patrols are given broad powers to search slave dwellings and punish slaves off plantations without a proper ticket allowing them to be, as well as compelling plantation owners and their white employees to serve on patrols. The laws even regulate musical instruments that can be owned by slaves (drums, horns, or loud instruments that could be used for signals are forbidden) and prohibit any meetings, even church services between sunset and sunrise. John B. Miller, who compiled the laws in this volume, was lieutenant colonel of the 32d Regiment of the South Carolina Militia. The text is very detailed, including the minutiae of South Carolina uniforms, and the final eight pages contain an index. OCLC lists only two copies, at the University of South Carolina and Duke University, and American Imprints adds a copy at the National Archives. Sabin notes a copy at the New-York Historical Society, but it is not listed in their online database. Rare. OCLC 31228700. COHEN 8959. SABIN 87685. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 42173. $8500.

Early Mississippi Almanac

113. [Mississippi]: THE CHRISTIAN ALMANAC, FOR MISSISSIPPI, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, 1833.... Natchez: Published by the American Tract Society, and sold by Franklin Beaumont, 1833. 36pp. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Light soiling and wear, contemporary ownership inscriptions on front and rear covers. Minor soiling internally. Very good.

A rare Mississippi almanac, providing religious enlightenment in addition to the traditional yearly calendar. The text contains a listing of different missionary and tract societies in the state, with brief text on some of their efforts. Drake lists editions for 1830, 1832, and 1836, but not the present 1833 edition. OCLC locates one copy for 1831 at the American Antiquarian Society, but no others. Rare. $1500.

In Pristine Condition

114. [Missouri]: [Iowa]: [Minnesota]: [Midwest Cartography]: A MAP OF THE STATES OF MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, IOWA, AND WISCON- SIN; THE TERRITORY OF MINNESOTA, AND THE MINERAL LANDS OF LAKE SUPERIOR. Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857. Handcolored pocket map, 30 x 23¼ inches, folded to 5½ x 3½ inches. Origi- nal cloth folder, stamped in blind and gilt. Minor toning and soiling to map. Contemporary bookseller’s label on front pastedown. Near fine.

A handsome and pristine copy of this scarce map of the upper Midwest, showing Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Each state is handcolored, with individual counties delineated in a distinguishing color. Minnesota Territory notes the areas inhabited by different Indian tribes, marking villages and trade routes. To the west of Missouri tribal lands are noted in Indian Territory as well. The front pastedown has a bookseller’s label advertising “T.B. Peterson’s Publishing and Bookselling Establishment, 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.” This label has been pasted over the printed endpaper advertising Desilver, and is likely where the map was originally sold. In beautiful condition, almost like new. $2250.

115. [New York City]: Klinckowstrom, Axel Leonhard: BROADWAY- GATAN OCH RADHUSET I NEW YORK. [View from: BREF OM DE FORENTA STATERNA, FORFATTADE UNDER EN RESA TILL AMERIKA AREN 1818, 1819, 1820...]. [Stockholm. 1824]. En- graving, 10½ x 17½ inches, framed to 19½ x 26 inches. Tasteful modern coloring. Minor toning. Very good.

A handsome Broadway street scene from this highly important and very rare United States view book. According to Stokes, this is “one of the most picturesque and interesting early views of Broadway and City Hall.” The engraving shows City Hall on the left in the immediate distance, with a long view down Broadway, which is lined with trees and houses and bustling with carriages and foot traffic. Several stray dogs and groups of pedestrians bustle about the foreground. “One of the European artists to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for their skillful rendering of scenes in the young American republic is Baron Axel Leonhard Klinckowstrom. A Swedish aristocrat, Klinckowstrom spent three years in the United States (1818-20) as an official emissary of his country, traveling widely and taking a lively interest in all he saw” (NYPL/Deák). A rare plate, tastefully colored by a modern hand and prime for display. HOWES K201. NYPL/DEÁK 310, 322. SABIN 38053. STOKES 3:563. $2500.

Charles III’s Copy, Large Paper in Full Morocco with Arms in Gilt

116. Nuix, Juan: Varela y Ulloa, Pedro, translator: REFLEXIONES IM- PARCIALES SOBRE LA HUMANIDAD DE LOS ESPAÑOLES EN LAS INDIAS, CONTRA LOS PRETENDIDOS FILOSOFOS Y POLITICOS. Madrid: Por D. Joachin Ibarra..., 1782. [4],lii,315pp. Large quarto. Contemporary red morocco, tooled in gilt with coat of arms stamped in gilt on cover, blue watered silk endpapers, a.e.g. Lightly rubbed at extremities, some minor staining to boards. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Minor staining to last few text leaves. Negligible foxing. Else very good.

The first Spanish edition, translated from the original Italian written by an exiled Spanish Jesuit. Nuix weighs in on the controversy surrounding Spanish treatment of the native population in the Americas. Though he recognizes the violence perpetrated against the Indians, he defends Spanish colonialism as a grand and greater good brought to the Americas. This is a large paper copy of this important work, bound in full red morocco especially for Charles III, King of Spain (1759-88). The covers are stamped with the royal coat of arms. A discrete 19th-century bookplate of the Baroness Roth- schild adorns the front pastedown, showing the embossed arms of the Rothschild family. Large paper copies of this work are exceedingly rare, and certainly none have so fine a provenance as this. PALAU 196692. SABIN 56309. MEDINA 5007. $6750.

117. [Nursery Specimens]: [NURSERY SPECIMEN BOOK CONTAIN- ING FORTY-SEVEN PLATES]. Rochester: J.W. Thompson, [ca. 1870s]. Forty-seven color plates. Oblong. Contemporary black cloth. Cloth worn at extremities, lightly frayed. Cracked inner hinges reinforced. Light soiling to some plates; children’s doodles on the blank verso of some leaves. Good.

The plates are primarily printed with pochoir and stenciling, in a style typical of the early work of the Thompson firm, which was active from 1876 to 1891. Books such as this were used to sell fruit trees and shrubs, displaying the handsome fruits in vibrant colors. This volume is comprised primarily of apples, with several plates showing pears, plums, peaches, grapes, cherries, raspberries, and several shrubs. A nice, early specimen. See Raphael’s Oak Spring Pomona 65 for an album with similar Thompson plates. $1500. 118. [Nursery Specimens]: [NURSERY SPECIMEN SAMPLE BOOK CONTAINING SEVENTY-SEVEN PLATES, PLUS ELEVEN LATER PLATES LAID IN]. Rochester. [ca. 1888]. Seventy-seven leaves (one partial and detached), plus eleven later plates laid in. Oblong. Contem- porary black morocco, gilt. Extremities rubbed, corners lightly worn. Front inner hinge broken, spine detached from text block. Light soiling and wear to plates. Still, good.

An extensive nursery sample book, displaying fruits and flowering shrubs in a series of chromolithographic and pochoir stenciled plates. The plates are by two Rochester firms, J.W. Thompson and Stecher. Several of the chromolithographs are dated copyright 1888. The Thompson firm was active from 1876 to 1891. The handsome color plates show apples, peaches, pears, grapes, cherries, berries, and several flowering shrubs, as well as a walnut tree with sample nuts displayed. The eleven later plates were produced by Julius Bien in New York, dated 1901, and come out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Yearbook. A handsome and large collection of early fruit plates. $1250.

A Rare Travel Narrative, with Mention of Mackenzie’s Voyage

119. [Ogden, John C.]: A LETTER FROM A GENTLEMAN TO HIS FRIEND, IN ENGLAND, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE DIFFERENT SETTLEMENTS IN THE PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA. Phil- adelphia: Printed by W.W. Woodward, 1795. 30pp. 12mo. Gathered signatures, string-tied as issued. Several stab holes in the inner margin. Near fine.

Ogden travelled to Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, and Niagara in 1794. As with the same author’s account of his later travels in Pennsylvania, this is an entertaining narrative. The present account, which is dated as having been written in New York on November 20, 1794, was included in Ogden’s A Tour Through Upper and Lower Canada, published in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1799 and printed on pages 91-119 of that work. This earlier Philadelphia printing is quite rare and considered one of the earliest and fullest estimations of the newly created Province of Upper Canada (established in 1791) and its potential, discussing settlement, administration, and commercial possibilities. A brief description of Detroit, Michilimackinac, and Fort Miami concludes the Letter..., with a mention of Mackenzie’s overland expedition to the Pacific. Of this text Kingsford states:

This volume...gives the fullest picture we possess of the condition of the Prov- ince in 1794....We learn that the rights of the Indians were extinguished by fair and just purchase....The writer describes the political institutions of the country, and much of its interior economy....This unpretentious volume is one of the most useful which we possess of this class.

A London edition, under a slightly different title, appeared the same year, but we presume this Philadelphia edition to be the first. The Brinley sale catalogue describes this work as “scarce,” and Rosenbach, in offering a copy in 1911, called it “exceedingly interesting” and one of the sources of Longfellow’s Evangeline. Of considerable additional interest in this work is the very early mention of Alexander Mackenzie’s voyage to the Pacific. Ogden describes Mackenzie’s voyage, completed the previous year, and credits him with being the first person to suc- cessfully traverse the continent. Mackenzie had just returned to Montreal, where Ogden evidently met him. Very rare. This is the first copy we have handled in almost forty years in the trade, and we know of only one other copy to trade, privately, in that period. EVANS 29236. ESTC W13428. SABIN 10504. DECKER 38:56. TPL 670. KINGS- FORD, pp.46-48. BRINLEY SALE 8126. ROSENBACH 6:52. $4500.

The Truth About the Revolution

120. Paine, Thomas: A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL ON THE AFFAIRS OF NORTH-AMERICA. IN WHICH THE MISTAKES IN THE ABBE’S ACCOUNT OF THE REVO- LUTION OF AMERICA ARE CORRECTED AND CLEARED UP. Philadelphia: Melchior Steiner, 1782. [4],77pp. Half title. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title and several text leaves. Very good.

Paine’s response to the appearance of a pamphlet in London and America titled The Revolution of America, by the Abbé Raynal. The Abbé’s work contained numerous substantial errors, and Paine sought to correct the Abbé’s misstatements. But in a mild defense, Paine writes that he believes the Abbé’s work was “unfairly purloined” from the original printer and hastened into print. Paine posits that the work is part of a larger piece yet in production, and that the author’s opportunity to revise may have been compromised. He uses this opportunity to discuss the need for a substantial review of intellectual property rights and international copyright, with the understanding that such review could only happen after the war’s conclusion. That Paine seems sure that an American government would have the opportunity to take up the matter indicates a sense of prevailing optimism in the war’s closing months. An interesting Paine item, and quite scarce. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 82-66a. HOWES P25, “aa.” GIMBEL 36. SABIN 58222. EVANS 17652. $2250.

121. Paine, Thomas: LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESI- DENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON AFFAIRS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE. Philadelphia: Printed by Benj. Franklin Bache, 1796. 76,[1]pp Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Some foxing and toning, heavier on outer leaves. Very good. Untrimmed.

An important Paine tract wherein the author complains that Washington did nothing to intervene for his freedom when he was held prisoner during the French Revolution, and attacks the President’s military skill to boot. EVANS 30951. GIMBEL 104. HOWES P24, “aa.” SABIN 58224. $2750.

Rare Documents from One of Virginia’s Foremost Founding Fathers

122. Pendleton, Edmund: [SEVEN AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENTS CON- CERNING CLIENTS’ CLAIMS FOR PAYMENTS OF VARIOUS DEBTS]. Orange, Va. [1741-1742]. [9]pp. total. Folio and octavo sheets. Old fold lines, light wear and soiling. Very good.

Seven legal documents written by Virginia patriot Edmund Pendleton, in which he presses his clients’ claims for payment of various debts, at the beginning of his brilliant legal career. Pendleton, whose father died before he was born, was ap- prenticed at the age of fourteen to a clerk of Caroline County’s court. He proved a diligent student, augmenting his work with legal reading as he was able, and he was admitted to the bar in April 1741. These documents are dated July 22, 1741 through June 24, 1742 at the court in Orange County. Both of Pendleton’s biographers (Robert Hilldrup and David Mays) describe his early practice in his home county of Caroline and those contiguous, especially Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Essex, but neither mentions Orange. Each of the documents offered here is a complaint, written and signed by Pendleton on behalf of the plaintiff, asking the court for help in collecting debts – no doubt clients “who could not pay fees or who wanted to collect some, small, tough accounts which the successful lawyers did not find worth their while” (Mays, p.26). Edmund Pendleton served as a representative to the First Continental Con- gress, was president of both of Virginia’s revolutionary conventions in 1775, and was also president of the powerful Committee of Safety for the state. Only an injury sustained in a fall from a horse kept him from being in the Second Congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected president of the Virginia convention again in 1776, and under his direction Virginia’s delegates to the Continental Congress put forth a motion for independence from Britain. Following Independence he helped revise Virginia’s own Constitution and worked tirelessly on behalf of the judicial system, serving as a chief justice in Virginia’s courts. Finally, he presided as president of Virginia’s Ratifying Convention for the Constitution in 1788. Material from this early in Pendleton’s career is very rare in the market, as is Pendleton material of any sort. Robert Hilldrup, The Life and Times of Edmund Pendleton (Chapel Hill, 1939). $9500.

123. [Penn, William]: A PERSWASIVE TO MODERATION TO CHURCH DISSENTERS, IN PRUDENCE AND CONSCIENCE: HUMBLY SUBMITTED TO THE KING AND HIS GREAT COUNCEL. BY ONE OF THE HUMBLEST AND MOST DU- TIFUL OF HIS DISSENTING SUBJECTS. [London: Andrew Sowle, 1686]. [8],52pp. Lacks errata. Small quarto. Modern paper boards. Titlepage torn in gutter margin with minor losses, lightly soiled, the whole reinforced with tissue on both sides. Leaf C2 torn at lower corner with loss to several letters. Minor soiling. Good.

First edition, second issue (after the first of 1685), with page 16 numbered “15” and the King’s name spelled “Charls” in the last line of the titlepage. Written by William Penn shortly after his return to England from his first journey to the American colonies and to his own colony of Pennsylvania, this is a plea from the important Quaker leader for religious toleration and liberty of conscience. It was on these principles that Penn encouraged many to emigrate to Pennsylvania. ESTC locates only a handful of copies. BRONNER & FRASER, PENN BIBLIOGRAPHY 72B. WING P1338A. SMITH, FRIENDS’ BOOKS 2:303:7. ESTC R38196. $1250.

124. Penn, William: THE CHRISTIAN QUAKER AND HIS DIVINE TESTIMONY STATED AND VINDICATED, FROM SCRIP- TURE, REASON AND AUTHORITY. London: T. Sowle, 1699. [14], 254pp. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Light foxing and soiling. Very good.

The third edition of this work by William Penn, with no copies of the first edition being recorded extant, and the second published in 1674. In this work the noted Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania refutes assertions about the Quaker faith made by Baptist preacher Thomas Hicks in his pamphlet, A Dialogue Between a Christian and a Quaker (1673). Hicks’ pamphlet purports to be a conversation between an orthodox Christian and a Quaker, in which the Quaker is made to appear quite foolish. Bronner & Fraser note that it must have been quite popular, as it went through two printings, and Penn felt compelled to respond with the present work. Penn’s essay concerns “the Light within,” which he claims is universal, dating back to the classical world even before Christ, though he notes that Christ is the ultimate expression of the Light. “WP went on to prove the universality of the Light through reason, and to summarize the character of a True Quaker, as one who is completely obedient to the Light. Biographers have called this WP’s most systematic essay written up to this point, and it was given a good reception in the seventeenth century” – Bronner & Fraser. ESTC R26864. WING P1267. SMITH, FRIENDS’ BOOKS 2.291. BRONNER & FRASER 22C. $2500.

Early Alabama History

125. Pickett, Albert J.: INVASION OF THE TERRITORY OF ALA- BAMA, BY ONE THOUSAND SPANIARDS, UNDER FERDI- NAND DE SOTO, IN 1540. Montgomery: Printed by Brittan & De Wolf, 1849. [2],ii,[5]-40pp. Original printed front blue wrapper (rear wrapper lacking), bound into modern three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Bookplate on rear pastedown. Wrapper repaired at edges. Titlepage and several text leaves with old repairs at edges. Toned. Good.

Howes calls this the “prospectus” to Pickett’s History of Alabama, which was published two years later, but that is not accurate. The text is devoted entirely to De Soto and was reused by Pickett in his History. It is thus the first edition of a work later used as the beginning of a larger one, but is the much rarer first edition. Very scarce. HOWES P347, “aa.” SABIN 62669. EBERSTADT 164:3. $4000. 126. Pierpont, James: Mather, Cotton [preface]: SUNDRY FALSE HOPES OF HEAVEN, DISCOVERED AND DECRYED. IN A SERMON PREACHED AT THE NORTH-ASSEMBLY IN BOSTON.... Bos- ton: Sold by T. Green, 1712. [2],xxiv,46pp. 12mo. Dbd. Early ownership signature in foremargin of titlepage. Text toned. Final leaf torn in upper outer corner, affecting fewer than ten words. Good.

Pierpont, a Congregationalist minister in New Haven, was instrumental in the founding of Yale. In this sermon he preaches on the uplifting optimism of the faith, taking as his inspiration Psalm 119, verse 116: “Uphold me according unto thy Word, that I may Live: and let me not be Ashamed of my Hope.” Of special interest is the twenty-four-page preface, written by Cotton Mather, in which the famous New England divine discourses on the “blessed hope” of Christianity...a hope of blessedness in a future state, in an other world.” Mather thought so highly of his prefatory essay that he published it separately, later in 1712, as A Soul Well- Anchored. Scarce, with the Brinley copies being the only previous ones that we can find in the market (one of those two copies purchased by the American Antiquarian Society). Holmes locates five copies in all. Rare. ESTC W2561. EVANS 1581. HOLMES, COTTON MATHER 299-A. SABIN 62757. BRINLEY SALE 2179, 7706. $2500.

127. Price, Richard: THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC DEBTS AND FI- NANCES AT SIGNING THE PRELIMINARY ARTICLES OF PEACE IN JANUARY 1783. WITH A PLAN FOR RAISING MON- EY BY PUBLIC LOANS, AND FOR REDEEMING THE PUBLIC DEBTS. London: T. Cadell, 1783. [4],36pp. Antique half calf and marbled boards. Minor soiling. Very good plus.

An expense account of Britain’s cost in the American Revolutionary War. In addition to laying out the public debts incurred by the Crown, Price includes a section on the estimated cost of the war if it had been continued and a plan for alleviating the debt by public loan. Price was one of the most prominent British sympathizers with the American cause. He was a well known British Presbyterian minister and the author of several notable books about moral philosophy and economics. He was particularly friendly with a number of Americans, most prominently Benjamin Franklin, and vigorously argued their part in the British debate over colonial taxation and government. Not in Adams’ American Controversy but should be. ESTC T4228. KRESS B.625. GOLDSMITHS 12496. $1500.

128. [Quasi-War with France]: AN ACT, FURTHER TO SUSPEND THE COMMERCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE, AND THE DEPENDENCIES THEREOF [caption title]. [Philadelphia. 1800]. [3]pp. on a single folded folio sheet. Docketed in ink on the verso. Folio. Old folds. Closed split along the horizontal portion of the center cross-fold, not affecting text. Very good.

Rare congressional act extending the suspension of trade with France during the so-called “Quasi-War” of the late 1790s, further tightening the ban on French ships seeking to enter American ports, and clarifying the status of Hispaniola, which was in the process of coming under the control of Toussaint L’Ouverture. This act was approved February 27, 1800 and extends and expands the provisions of the law first approved June 13, 1798 and furthered in 1799. It is signed in type at the conclusion by President Adams, Vice President Jefferson, and Speaker of the House Theodore Sedgwick. The Quasi-War was an undeclared conflict between the United States and France during the Adams administration in the late 1790s, manifested mostly in naval engagements between the two nations. The war was the outgrowth of deteriorating Franco-American relations, which had been weakened earlier in the decade by the “Genet Affair” and the “XYZ Affair,” and it wreaked havoc on commerce between the two nations. One of the main weapons wielded by Adams was to ban American commerce from France and French dependencies, accomplished by the congressional act of 1798. That law was extended by an act of 1799, which also permitted United States navy vessels to inspect and potentially seize American vessels that have traded with France or with French dependencies. This 1800 extension of the law adds further provisions to the previous two acts, allowing French ships coming into American ports to be seized. It also declares “the whole island of Hispaniola shall for the purposes of this act be considered as a dependency of the French Republic.” Hispaniola was in a terrible state of upheaval in 1800 as the former slave, Toussaint L’Ouverture, was consolidating his power throughout the island and expelling or killing the former French rulers. Not listed in OCLC; ESTC locates only the copy at the Library of Congress. EVANS 38693. ESTC W17654. $1850.

Item 129. Illustrated with Original Photographs

129. [Railroads]: THE MICHIGAN BRIDGE & CONSTRUCTION CO. DETROIT. MANUFACTURERS OF IRON, WOODEN, COMBI- NATION AND SUSPENSION BRIDGES, TRESTLES, ROOFS, TURN-TABLES, WATER-STATIONS, &c. Detroit: O.S. Gulley, 1871. 40pp., illustrated with thirteen full-page albumen photographs. Original black pebbled calf, gilt, neatly rebacked in matching style. Contemporary inscription on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good plus.

Rare photographically illustrated trade catalogue for a Michigan railroad bridge builder. The images depict various examples of iron and wooden railroad bridges, trestling, as well as an image of a roundhouse and types of roofs for railroad buildings. Though unattributed, the images are artfully composed and in wonderful condition with strong tones. An interesting and handsome volume. $5000.

130. [Railroads]: [COLLECTION OF TWENTY ARCHITECTUR- AL ELEVATIONS AND PLANS FOR RAILWAY STATIONS IN FLORIDA]. Louisville; Norfolk. 1882-1941. Twenty plans of varying sizes, most approximately 25 x 30 inches, although some are larger and some smaller. Drawn on waxed architect’s linen. Some minor wear and soiling. Near fine.

A group of twenty architectural plans for railway stations throughout the state of Florida, prepared by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co. and the Louisville & Nash- ville Railroad. The plans show elevations and floor plans of stations in Tallahassee (four plans dated 1935-1949), De Funiak Springs (two plans, 1889), Pensacola (seven plans, 1882-1912), Jacksonville (one plan, 1929), Palmetto-Ellentown (one plan, 1928), West Pascagoula (one plan, 1906), and Yuken (three plans, 1941). A handsome group of material. $3250.

Two Significant Maps

131. [Rand, McNally & Co.]: MAPS OF MINNESOTA AND DAKOTA [cover title]. Minneapolis: Minnesota Loan & Trust Company, [1883]. Two folding color maps, 21½ x 14 and 27 x 21 inches. Folded into contemporary printed card covers. Covers and spine chipped, spine reinforced with tape. Some minor separation at a few folds. Maps bright and clean. Very good.

An attractive pairing of two maps, one of Minnesota and the other of Dakota Territory, prepared by Rand, McNally & Co. as commissioned by the Minnesota Loan & Trust Company. Important geographic features are noted and all counties are shaded in color. A nice promotional item. Quite rare. Not in Phillips’ Maps, Rumsey, nor in Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West: Minnesota. OCLC notes a copy at Brown University. $1500. Rare American Architectural Work

132. Riddell, John: ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS FOR MODEL COUN- TRY RESIDENCES, ILLUSTRATED BY COLORED DRAWINGS OF ELEVATIONS AND GROUND PLANS, ACCOMPANIED BY GENERAL DESCRIPTIONS AND ESTIMATES. PREPARED EX- PRESSLY FOR PERSONS WHO CONTEMPLATE BUILDING, AND ARTISANS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. Phila- delphia: John Riddell and J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1864. Twenty-two chromolithographic plates on twenty sheets, as issued, each sheet accompanied by uncolored lithographic floor plan and letterpress text leaf, all printed by Sin- clair after Riddell. Oblong folio. Half black morocco and publisher’s pebbled cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt. Very good.

The twenty chromolithographs depict front elevations for villas and cottages; two sheets have two front elevations per page, making a total of twenty-two designs on twenty sheets. Each chromolithograph is accompanied by black and white floor plans for the villa or cottage in question, along with a page or two of general building instructions for the house. The designs are primarily Italian villas and Gothic cottages, with an introductory essay on monumental Greek Revival style. Many of the houses depicted were actually built for clients in and around Philadelphia, and the final text page lists 137 individuals for whom Riddell has designed buildings. The lithography is superbly done by T. Sinclair of Philadelphia. The work was first published in 1861 and reissued in 1864 (as in the present example) and 1867. All editions are rare. “The successful architect John Riddell is best remembered for his Architectural Designs for Model Country Residences, a book written to encourage prospective clients that – ironically – remains his chief monument. Illustrated with twenty lithographs in full color, Architectural Designs is one of the handsomest American books of architecture published in the nineteenth century” – Roger Moss, Philadelphia Architects and Buildings. Not in Bennett or McGrath. HITCHCOCK 1004. $15,000.

133. [Rousselot de Surgy, Jacques Philibert]: HISTOIRE NATURELLE ET POLITIQUE DE LA PENSYLVANIE, ET DE L’ESTABLISSMENT DES QUAKERS DANS CETTE CONTRÉE. Paris. 1768. xx,372,[4] pp. plus folding map. Half title. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, ornately gilt spine. Chipped at head of spine, joints with some expert repair work. An occasional light fox mark. Very good.

This primary work on the political and natural history of Pennsylvania and the establishment of the Quakers is based on German translations of Peter Kalm’s Resa Till Norra Amerika and Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Reise Nach Pennsylvanien im Jahr 1750. The introduction mentions several other works as useful sources. A nice Pennsylvania item, and quite scarce. SABIN 73490. HOWES R471, “aa.” $1500.

Benjamin Rush’s Doctoral Dissertation: His First Publication

134. Rush, Benjamin: DISSERTATIO PHYSICA INAUGURALIS, DE COCTIONE CIBORUM IN VENTRICULO...PRO GRADU DOC- TORIS.... Edinburgh: Balfour, Auld, and Smellie, 1768. [8],30pp. Modern half calf and later paper boards, red gilt morocco label. Minute wear to covers. Internally bright and clean. Contemporary manuscript index on front free endpaper. Contemporary armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Very good.

Benjamin Rush’s doctoral dissertation from the University of Edinburgh, and apparently his first publication. Rush went to Edinburgh on the advice of his mentor in Philadelphia, Dr. John Redman, under whom Rush studied medicine from 1761 to 1766. At Edinburgh, Rush continued his education under such luminaries as Joseph Black, John Gregory, and William Cullen. In his prefatory matter Rush acknowledges Benjamin Franklin, Black, Redman, Jonathan Smith, and others. The dissertation is bound with nine other pamphlets, all presentation copies, including one by a Virginian, Jacob M’Clurg, titled Tentamen Medicum Inaugurale de Calore... Pro Gradu Doctoris... (Edinburgh, 1770). After finishing his degree in June of 1768, Rush returned to the United States where his practice and influence grew rapidly. He signed the Declaration of Inde- pendence and, despite a falling out with Washington over his military leadership, Rush rose prominently in Philadelphia society. He authored some of the most important early American medical works, such as An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, As It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793 (Philadel- phia, 1794), and Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind (Philadelphia, 1812), the first native work on psychiatry. A rare, overlooked window into the talents of a precocious young man who became a renowned figure in Revolutionary America. GUERRA, AMERICAN MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1639-1783, p.773. SABIN 74241 (note). DAB XVI, pp.227-30. OCLC 14335721, 14319480. $12,500.

135. [St. Domingue]: OUVERTURE DE TOUS LES PORTS DE LA COLONIE AUX ÉTRANGERS. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de Mozard, 1790. 11pp. on a single folded sheet. Fine. Untrimmed and unopened.

The year 1790 saw the beginnings of the crawl toward freedom and away from French colonial rule in St. Domingue, with important laws being passed concerning race and slavery and the governance of the island. In February a “colonial assembly” was elected which was comprised entirely of white citizens. The following month the National Assembly passed a decree declaring free mulattoes were equal citizens, which the colonial assembly opposed. In Saint Marc in April the As- semblée Générale de la Partie de Saint Domingue convened, replacing the colonial assembly on the orders of the King. This pamphlet prints an extract from the July 20 meeting of the assembly in Saint Marc, containing eighteen articles decreed by the assembly, including the opening of the colony’s ports to foreign vessels. A grave act of defiance, this would lead to near-immediate intervention on the part of the colonial government. Rare, with two copies located in OCLC, at the American Antiquarian Society and the John Carter Brown Library. ROQUINCOURT 4047. $3850.

Civil Rule Begins to Collapse in St. Domingue

136. [St. Domingue]: PROCLAMATION DE M. LE GOUVERNEUR GÉNÉREAL, CONTENANT L’EXPOSITION DE LA CONDUITE DE L’ASSEMBLÉE, CI-DEVANT SEANTE A SAINT-MARC, ET INVITATION AUX PAROISSES POUR EN FORMER UNE NOUVELLE. Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de Mozard, 1790. 19pp. on folded sheets. Near fine. Untrimmed and unopened.

Dated August 29, this new proclamation of the Governor of St. Domingo discusses the reasons which led him to dissolve the Assembly of Saint Marc on the night of July 29 and 30, 1790, and encourages the election of a new assembly. To accom- plish this the parishes are invited to nominate new representatives, in accordance with the decree of the National Assembly on March 8, 1790 and the instruction of the previous March 28. In 1790 the colony of St. Domingue was on the brink of revolution and independence. Rare, with only four copies located in OCLC, at New York Public Library, Columbia University, University of North Carolina, and Bibliothèque Nationale. $4000. One of the Greatest Archives of Saint-Mémin Images Available

137. [Saint-Mémin, Charles B.J.F. de]: THE ST.-MEMIN COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS, CONSISTING OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY MEDALLION PORTRAITS; PRINCIPALLY OF DISTIN- GUISHED AMERICANS, PHOTOGRAPHED BY J. GURNEY AND SON, OF NEW YORK, FROM PROOF IMPRESSIONS OF THE ORIGINAL COPPER-PLATES...TO WHICH ARE ADDED A MEMOIR OF M. DE ST.-MEMIN, AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE PERSONS WHOSE PORTRAITS CONSTI- TUTE THE COLLECTION. New York: Elias Dexter, 1862. viii,104pp. plus sixty-three photographic plates. Small folio. Period green morocco, covers elaborately paneled in gilt and blind, spine gilt with raised bands, yellow endpapers, a.e.g. Minor dampstaining and foxing. Minor fading to three plates. Else very good. Provenance: W.F. Bartlett (signature on titlepage).

From an edition limited to 100 copies. Charles B.F. Févret de Saint-Mémin was a young, aristocratic military officer when he fled France during the Revolution in 1790. In 1793 he arrived in New York with his father and soon began pursuing a career in the arts. Applying early training he had received in drawing and with an eye for precision, Saint-Mémin quickly taught himself the techniques of engraving and printing, and began producing plans and landscapes of New York. In 1796 he co-founded a business creating profile portraits with the aid of a physiognotrace, a recently invented drafting device that allowed portraitists to capture their sitters’ profiles with extreme accuracy. After tracing a subject’s profile with the physiognotrace, Saint-Mémin would complete a portrait in chalk, reduce and copy it to a copper plate using a pantograph, and finally engrave the plate and produce a series of prints. Each patron would receive the original drawing, the plate, and, typically, a dozen engravings. Saint-Mémin’s business was wildly successful, and for fourteen years, from 1796 to 1810, it sustained him as he traveled through the eastern U.S. capturing the likenesses of many leading American figures of the day. While he was in the habit of giving the original plates to his patrons, he kept impressions for his archive, which he took with him when he returned home to France in 1815. The collection was later purchased by James B. Robertson of New York and returned to America, setting in motion the production of this volume. It comprises the second largest collection of Saint-Mémin images (the largest, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, was purchased by William Wilson Corcoran in a sale facilitated by noted bookseller Henry Stevens). The collection illustrated in the present work was later purchased by philanthropist Paul Mellon and donated to the National Portrait Gallery, where it now resides. “This book has become the major source of information on St.-Mémin and his work. It is equally significant as one of the earliest volumes to have all illustrations done with original photographs: each copy of the book contains a full set of handmade photographic prints” – Miles. Miles, St.-Memin (Washington, 1994) 212. HOWES F107, “b.” SABIN 75444. $5750. A Southern Review of Confederate Foreign Policy

138. St. Paul, Henry: OUR HOME AND FOREIGN POLICY. NOVEM- BER 1863. [Mobile, Al.]: Printed at the Office of the Daily Register and Advertiser, 1863. 23pp. Antique half calf. Toned. Small closed tear in foredge of titlepage. Minor chipping at extremities of a few leaves. Good plus.

A forceful (and ultimately fanciful) statement of Confederate foreign policy aims more than two years into the Civil War. “Dream of an Imperial Confederacy” – Howes. Born in Belgium to French parents, Henry St. Paul fought for the South and was brevetted a colonel on the battlefield at Seven Pines. In this tract, which seems to be rather scarce in the market, he lambastes Northern pretensions to moral superiority, and dispels the “King Cotton” theory, asserting that it was never inevitable that cotton-dependant England would side with the South. Rather, he looks forward to a Confederate alliance with France, which would not be duped into the “sickly sentimentalism of negro worship.” St. Paul urges Confederate statesmen to practice a vigorous diplomacy, and predicts the CSA and France working together could turn the Gulf of Mexico into a “French and Confederate lake,” and that they could control Central America as well. HOWES S39, “aa.” PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5832. SABIN 75451. $1250.

Rare Vermont Imprint and Indian War History

139. [Sanders, Daniel Clark]: A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS WITH THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE UNITED STATES, PAR- TICULARLY IN NEW ENGLAND. Montpelier. 1812. 319pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities rubbed, small chip at head of spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Near fine.

A rare work on the history of the Indian Wars in New England, written by the president of the University of Vermont. “This book aroused bitter criticism because of its strictures on colonial bigotry and cruelty to the natives...” – Streeter. The book was long believed to have been suppressed by its author because of his mortification at the attacks made on it by reviewers, and both Field and Church give long accounts of its supposed destruction. While there certainly were bitter reviews and the work is quite rare, more modern bibliographers, notably Marcus McCorison in Vermont Imprints, have suggested that the suppression story may be exaggerated. Later writers have also praised the book as one of the best written histories of the Indian Wars of New England. CHURCH 1306. HOWES S84. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3474. FIELD 1351. GILMAN, p.240. SABIN 76366. McCORISON 1420. STREETER SALE 727. $2000. American Military Pocket Atlas

140. Sayer, Robert, and John Bennet [publishers]: THE AMERICAN MIL- ITARY POCKET ATLAS; BEING AN APPROVED COLLECTION OF CORRECT MAPS, BOTH GENERAL AND PARTICULAR, OF THE BRITISH COLONIES; ESPECIALLY THOSE WHICH NOW ARE, OR PROBABLY MAY BE THE THEATRE OF WAR: TAKEN PRINCIPALLY FROM THE ACTUAL SURVEYS AND JUDICIOUS OBSERVATIONS OF ENGINEERS...AND OTHER OFFICERS EMPLOYED IN HIS MAJESTY’S FLEETS AND ARMIES. London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennet, [1776]. Titlepage, 2pp. dedication to “Gov. Pownall,” 2pp. “Advertisement,” 1p. “List of maps,” and six engraved maps, handcolored in outline. Contemporary marbled boards, rebacked to style in modern calf, gilt leather label. Boards worn. Maps with some light foxing and soiling, light wear at edges and folds, slight separation at some folds. Map 2 split along length of one vertical fold. About very good.

The “Holster Atlas” is one of the most important atlases of the American Revolu- tion, designed for use in the field. It was issued at the suggestion of Governor George Pownall and included the “maps that the British high command regarded as providing essential topographical information in the most convenient form” (Schwartz & Ehrenberg). This collection of maps was published by Sayer and Bennet at the beginning of the Revolution for the use of British officers. “Surveys and Topographical Charts being fit only for a Library, such maps as an Officer may take with him into the Field have been much wanted. The following Collection forms a Portable Atlas of North America, calculated in its Bulk and Price to suit the Pockets of Officers of all Ranks” – Advertisement. Although the publishers claimed the atlas would fit into an officer’s pocket, it was usually carried in a holster and thus gained its nickname. The atlas was generally bound in an octavo format, as is the case in this copy. The six maps are as follow:

1) Dunn, Samuel: North America, as Divided Amongst the European Powers. By Samuel Dunn, Mathematician. London: Printed for Robt. Sayer, Jan. 10, 1774. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, 13½ x 18¼ inches. Engraved for Dunn’s A New Atlas (London, 1774). 2) Dunn, Samuel: A Compleat Map of the West Indies, Containing the Coasts of Florida, Louisiana, New Spain, and Terra Firma: with All the Islands. London: Robt. Sayer, Jan. 10, 1774. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, 13¼ x 18½ inches. Engraved for Dunn’s A New Atlas (London, 1774). The “Advertisement” describes these first two maps as “a general map of the part of the globe, called North America, and a second general map of those islands, shores, gulfs, and bays, which form what is commonly called the West Indies; these we consider as introductory, and as giving a general idea, and we trust a just one.” 3) A General Map of the Northern British Colonies in America. Which Comprehends the Province of Quebec, the Government of Newfoundland, Nova-Scotia, New-England and New-York. from the Maps Published by the Admiralty and Board of Trade, Regulated by the Astronomic and Trigonometric Observations of Major Holland and Corrected from Governor Pownall’s Late Map 1776. London: Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennet, Aug. 14, 1776. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, 20¾ x 26¾ inches. First state, also issued as a separate map. This map was re-issued in 1788 with the title changed to reflect the new political realities. McCORKLE, NEW ENGLAND 776.11. SELLERS & VAN EE 143. STEVENS & TREE 65. 4) Evans, Lewis: A General Map of the Middle British Colonies, in America. Containing Virginia, Maryland, the Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the Addition of New York, and the Greatest Part of New England, As Also of the Bordering Parts of the Province of Quebec, Improved from Several Surveys Made After the Late War, and Corrected from Governor Pownall’s Late Map 1776. London: R. Sayer & J. Bennet, Oct. 15, 1776. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, 20½ x 26¾ inches. Based on Lewis Evans’ map of 1755, with additions and corrections. STEPHENSON & McKEE, VIRGINIA, p.82 (an image of the Evans map). 5) Romans, Bernard: A General Map of the Southern British Colonies, in America. Comprehending North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, with the Neighbouring Indian Countries. From the Modern Surveys of Engineer De Brahm, Capt. Collet, Mouzon & Others; and from the Large Hydrographical Survey of the Coasts of East and West Florida. By B. Romans. London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett [sic], Oct. 15, 1776. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, 21¼ x 26 inches. Based on charts and maps by Romans and others. 6) Brassier, William Furness: A Survey of Lake Champlain Including Lake George, Crown Point and St. John, Surveyed by Order of...Sr. Jeffery Amherst...by William Brassier, Draughtsman. 1762. London: Robt. Sayer & Jno. Bennet, Aug. 5, 1776. Engraved map, handcolored in outline, 28 x 20½ inches. Also issued as the first separately published map of Lake Champlain, this excellent detailed chart was based on a survey made during the French and Indian War but not published until the Revolution. The map was issued in two states and is included here in its appropriate (and preferred) second state, illustrating the very first battle fought by the U.S. Navy: the Battle of Valcour Island, which transpired near present-day Plattsburgh, New York. The inset in the lower right corner of the map features an extremely detailed rendering of Lake George, surveyed by Brit- ish Captain Jackson in 1756. No mention is made of Ethan Allen’s taking of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775. An important collection of Revolutionary-era American maps, intended for use by British officers in the theatre of war, and here in handsome original condition. FITE & FREEMAN, A BOOK OF OLD MAPS, pp.212-16. HOWES A208. NEBEN- ZAHL, ATLAS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, pp.61-63. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1206. RUMSEY, p.311. SABIN 1147. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.190. STREETER SALE 73. CLARK I:189. $22,500. 141. [Scott, Thomas]: VOX POPULI. OR NEWES FROM SPAYNE, TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO THE SPANISH COPPIE. WHICH MAY SERVE TO FOREWARN BOTH ENGLAND AND THE UNITED PROVINCES HOW FARRE TO TRUST TO SPAN- ISH PRETENCES. [London]. 1620. [27]pp. Small quarto. Modern three- quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor toning. Very good.

“[This work] purports to describe the report of the Spanish ambassador, Gondomar, to the council of state in Madrid on his return from his first embassy to England in 1618. The ambassador recounts the success of his efforts to subvert the English government, and describes with evident satisfaction the crowds that flocked to mass in his chapel in London. Relaxation of the recusancy laws, the banning of decent protestant preaching as ‘puritan’, and the distribution of popish propaganda, Gondomar claims, have all been obtained by bribery of courtiers and the king’s ministers. Gleefully Gondomar also describes the failure of Ralegh’s expedition and his subsequent destruction, connived at by the unholy alliance of greedy courtiers, personal enemies, and outright papists which the Spaniard boasts of orchestrat- ing....Apparently taken for a piece of genuine reportage at a time of deep, and not entirely unjustified, religious paranoia, the anonymously published pamphlet caused a furore, and prompted an energetic hunt for its author. Its printers remained at work producing new editions, though they were evidently disturbed by the hue and cry – several of these editions ‘are composed of assorted sheets of different impressions hastily bound together’ (Adams, ‘Captain Thomas Gainsford,’ 143)....[T]his tract stands as a powerful and excoriating criticism of the Hispanophile and pacific strands of Jacobean foreign policy....In Vox Populi, as later in the tracts written on the continent, Scott articulated strong ‘country’ ideology, contrasting the honest patriotism of the ordinary people and their representatives in the Commons with the vogue for all things Spanish within the highest circles of government and society; in particular he advocated an ideal of active citizenship which has been described as quintessentially puritan, or else classical republican, but which could equally well be characterized as both” – DNB. Of particular note for Americana interest, there is reference to the Spanish colonies in America, as well as to Virginia and Bermuda. ESTC S4894. STC 22100.4. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 620/150. CHURCH 380. SABIN 78376. $1250.

One of the Leading New England Divines

142. Shepard, Thomas: THESES SABBATICAE. OR, THE DOCTRINE OF THE SABBATH.... London: Printed by T.R. and E.M. for John Roth- well, 1649. [20],151,[1],32,[4],36,29-50pp. Early 20th-century three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Extremities slightly rubbed. Old unobtrusive library ink stamp on front pastedown. Some light toning and minor soiling, trimmed a bit close at bottom edge on a few leaves. Very good.

First edition of this famous work by notable Puritan minister Thomas Shepard (1605-49), one of the leading religious figures in the first generation of New Eng- land settlement. Also active in New England’s public life, Shepard assisted John Eliot with his mission among the Indians of New England, and testified against Anne Hutchinson at the trial resulting in her banishment. This is Shepard’s eighth published work, which came out the year he died. ESTC R232939. WING S3144, S3147. CHURCH 495. SABIN 80255. $3500.

Insurrection on Barbados: A Rare Caribbean Imprint

143. [Slavery]: [Barbados]: THE REPORT FROM A SELECT COM- MITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE ORIGIN, CAUSES, AND PROGRESS, OF THE LATE INSURRECTION. Barbados: W. Walker, [1818]. 63pp. Stitched as issued. Minor foxing. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemise.

Very rare first edition of a report printed in Barbados on the origins of the slave insurrection of 1816, including numerous eyewitness descriptions of the bloodshed. “The rebellion began on April 14, 1816, in St. Philip’s Parish. The canes on one-fifth of the estates in the island were burned, and property to the amount of £179,000 was destroyed. It had its origin in a rumor that freedom was to have been granted at the close of 1815. When this had not transpired, a restlessness resulted which showed itself in the Easter outbreak. The foundation of the false report was to be found in the proposed establishment of registration, and the hope for emancipation had been kept alive by the exertions of Wilberforce in England” – Ragatz. Following a report of the committee containing a history of the insurrection as well as conclusions of its origins, the pamphlet includes transcripts of twenty-one interviews with various slaves, free men of color, military officers, pastors of local churches, and others. The pamphlet concludes with the Jan. 17, 1816 resolutions of the Barbados House of Assembly as well as an alphabetical listing of Barbados property owners, with the amounts of their losses from the insurrection. Undated on the titlepage, Ragatz and other bibliographers have ascribed a date of 1816 to this pamphlet; however, a footnote on page 23 references a Feb. 19, 1817 report, and at a meeting of the Barbados Assembly on Jan. 7, 1818 the committee’s report was formally presented and 250 copies were directed to be printed for distribution on the island and in England. Among the recipients of the latter was John Gladstone, the original owner of the present copy. The provenance of this copy to Gladstone, the father of the prime minister, is significant, as he was among the largest of the slave owners in the West Indies. OCLC cites but three extant copies of the first edition, at the Library of Con- gress, University of London, and American Antiquarian Society. Schomburgk, in his mid-19th-century history of Barbados, confirms: “There are few copies if any of that report left in the island.” HANDLER, pp.70-71. RAGATZ, p.138. Schomburgk, The History of Barbados, p.398. SABIN 3284. $8500.

Slave Sale Broadside from Tennessee

144. [Slavery]: [Tennessee]: NEGROES FOR SALE [caption title]. Lew- isburg, Tn.: Southern Messenger Print, March 28, 1859. Broadside, 12 x 17 inches. Old fold lines. Repaired with tissue at folds on verso. Lightly foxed. Some splitting at folds, repaired with tissue, minor losses at fold corners. About very good.

A rare slave sale broadside for a sale in Lewisburg, Tennessee, a town directly south of Nashville, about half way to the Georgia border. The broadside reads in part:

By virtue of a decree in Chancery Court at Lewisburg at its February Term 1859, in the case of Moses Thompson et als vs Allen McDaniel et als; I will on the 4th day of April next, (being County Court day) at the Court House door in Lewisburg sell a negro woman and her two children, sold as belonging, to the estate of Francis McDaniel. Full particulars made known on the day of sale.

Terms are provided below, offering credit “except 35 or 40 Dollars to be paid in cash.” By their very nature, slave sale broadsides are ephemeral and thus scarce. Such pieces were hung in public places and then torn down and discarded when the sale was over. Not in Hummel, and evidently unrecorded. $8500.

Acts Relating to the South Sea Bubble: The Copy of the Chief Justice of New York

145. [South Sea Company]: [British Acts]: [COLLECTION OF BRITISH ACTS, INCLUDING TWO RELATING TO THE FINANCIAL- LY DEVASTATING SOUTH SEA BUBBLE, AS WELL AS ACTS PUNISHING THE LEADERS OF THE ATTERBURY PLOT, WHICH SOUGHT TO OVERTHROW KING GEORGE I]. [Con- tained in:] ANNO REGNI GEORGII REGIS MAGNA BRITANNIA, FRANCIA, & HIBERNIA, NONO. AT THE PARLIAMENT BE- GUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, THE NINTH DAY OF OCTOBER, ANNO DOM. 1722....BEING THE FIRST SES- SION OF THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. London: Printed by John Baskett, 1722-1723. 4,[2],287-735,[4]pp. Quarto. Slightly later reverse calf, tooled in blind, spine with raised bands and gilt morocco label. Worn at corners and spine ends, some splitting at joint extremities. Endpapers soiled and stained; text toned, with scattered foxing and staining. Very good.

This volume bears the bookplate on the front pastedown of Lewis Morris (1671- 1746), Chief Justice of New York and the first Governor of New Jersey. The bookplate features the Morris family coat of arms and their motto: “Tandem Vincitur.” Present herein are thirty-one British Acts passed during the first session of the Parliament of 1722-23 (the ninth year of the reign of George I), lacking only the lengthy Act for a British Land Tax, which is paginated 7-286 (British acts of this period, although issued separately, were paginated continuously). Among the most significant acts present are two pertaining to the South Sea Company. Founded in 1711 as a joint-stock company, its stock rose quickly and to dizzying heights before the bubble burst, sending the stock crashing in 1720. The speculation mania ruined many English investors, and was the greatest financial crisis and public scandal in English history. The two acts contained herein were an attempt by Robert Wal- pole to manage the economic crisis, which not only resulted in a large number of bankruptcies, but made the ministry very unpopular. They are “An Act for Reviving and Adding Two Millions to the Capital Stock of the South-Sea Company...” and “An Act for further Enlarging the Times for Entering, Hearing, and Determining Claims on the Estates vested in the Trustees of the South-Sea Company....” In these measures Walpole rescheduled the debts and arranged some compensation, which helped the return to financial stability. There are a number of other interesting acts passed in this session, including one for better securing and ascertaining the duties on tobacco, and to prevent fraud in its exportation. Several acts relate to the so-called Atterbury Plot, a Jacobite plan to overthrow the Hanoverian King George I and to replace him with the “Old Pretender,” James III. Three acts “inflict pains and penalties” on conspirators Francis Atterbury, John Plunket, and George Kelly, and others lay “a tax on Papists,” and require Catholics who refused to take the oaths “for the security of His Majesty’s Person and Government” to register their names and estates. Other laws provide for the improvement of roads, piers, and harbors, while others relate to the coining of money and poor relief. ESTC locates only four copies in the United States, at Columbia University Law Library, Cornell, Rice, and UCLA. ESTC N50234. KRESS S3083, S3084. $2850.

Four Watercolors by a Student of Audubon

146. [Sprague, Isaac]: [FOUR ORIGINAL ORNITHOLOGICAL WA- TERCOLOR AND PENCIL DRAWINGS BY 19th-CENTURY BOTANICAL AND ZOOLOGICAL ARTIST ISAAC SPRAGUE]. [United States. ca. 1850?]. Four individual sheets, three matted and one mounted on card. Some scattered foxing, affecting two of the watercolors. Generally very good.

Isaac Sprague (1811-95) was one of the most prolific and well-known illustrators of flora and fauna in 19th-century America. Stafleu & Cowan lists seven composite works, ranging from 1848 to 1891, that included Sprague’s illustrations, in addition to his Wild Flowers of America and Flowers of the Field and Forest, both published in 1882. He is particularly remembered for accompanying John James Audubon on his expedition up the Missouri River in 1843, aiding the master painter with ornithological sketches and drawings. The two first met on August 19, 1840, when Audubon admired the young artist’s bird drawings. Audubon recorded the meeting in a journal entry:

Saw some very remarkable drawings of birds (far better than any ever made by the immortal Alexr- Wilson) by a young man named Sprague. Truly wonderful drawings, my dearest friends. But this person was out shooting and I did not see him. I however wrote a few lines on several of them the purports of which, I trust, will not displease him.

The diary Sprague kept on this trip, in which he gives useful accounts of the settlements and topography of the Missouri River valley, is now held by the Boston Athenaeum. Sprague also illustrated several works by important naturalist Asa Gray, including Gray’s Botanical Text-Book and Manual of Botany of the Northern United States. Gray’s wife, the editor of his letters, wrote the following description, cited in McKelvey’s Botanical Exploration:

President, then Professor, Felton...knowing Dr. Gray was looking for someone for his scientific drawings, recommended Mr. Sprague, and he began with the illustrations for the Lowell lectures and the new edition of the Botanical Text- Book. Dr. Gray was delighted with his gift for beauty, his accuracy, his quick appreciation of structure and his skill in making dissections. Mr. Sprague was from that time his chief and almost only, illustrator for his books, both educational and purely scientific.

The drawings are as follow:

1) “Blue Jay.” Original watercolor, 12 x 9¾ inches. Matted. In very good condition. Depicts a blue jay, beak open, perched on a branch, with a focus on the detail- ing of the head and feathers. Light foxing, but colors remain quite strong. A fine, precise work. 2) “Robin and Holly.” Original watercolor, 12 x 9¾ inches. Matted. Marginal chipping and tape stains, not visible under mat. Tanned. Good condition, and quite visually appealing. Depicts an American Robin perched on a holly branch, with holly leaves and berries in the background. 3) “Pine Grosbeak.” Pencil drawing, 15 x 11 inches. Matted. In fine condition. A fine sketch of this western bird, labeled in pencil at lower left corner. 4) “Savannah Sparrow.” Original watercolor, 5 x 4¼ inches. Mounted on card. Some soiling and foxing. Good. A beautifully detailed small drawing, with particular attention paid to the mottled coloration of the feathers. Although none of the four drawings is signed, each has a provenance connecting it either to a Sprague descendant or to an early owner in Sprague’s native Hingham, Massachusetts. The pieces were eventually sold through Goodspeed’s Book Shop in the 1960s. On the whole, a remarkable group of original works by an important ornithological and botanical illustrator, acclaimed by no lesser contemporary naturalists than Audubon and Gray. McKelvey, Botanical Exploration, pp.834-36. STAFLEU & COWAN 12.635, 12.636 (ref ). BM NATURAL HISTORY V:1993 (ref ). $6500.

The Mobile Edition

147. Squibb, Robert: THE GARDENER’S CALENDAR FOR ALA- BAMA, SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND NORTH CARO- LINA; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WORK NECESSARY TO BE DONE IN THE KITCHEN AND FRUIT GARDENS EV- ERY MONTH IN THE YEAR, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERFORMING THE SAME. ALSO, PARTICULAR DIREC- TIONS RELATIVE TO SOIL AND SITUATION, ADAPTED TO THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS AND TREES MOST PROPER FOR CULTIVATION IN THESE STATES. Mobile, Al.: Published by S.W. Allen, 1843. 108pp. 12mo. Original half roan and printed paper boards, spine ruled in gilt. Boards darkened and a bit stained. Scattered toning and foxing. A good copy.

The fourth edition, first published in Charleston in 1787, and then again in 1809 and 1827. This Mobile edition is the first to include Alabama material. An interesting guide, arranged chronologically by month of the year, with descriptions of gardening tasks which should be undertaken each month for a particular fruit, vegetable, or herb. The final few pages contain a catalogue of “fresh garden seeds” available from I.C. DuBose & Co., druggist of Mobile, as well as other titles available from publisher S.W. Allen. Squibb was a southern seedsman and nursery grower. The first edition of this work was the second gardening book published in America; both the first and second editions are practically unprocurable. This fourth edition is not listed in De Renne or Hedrick, nor is it in Owen. OCLC lists three copies, at the University of Alabama, the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and Dumbarton Oaks. Scarce and interesting. SABIN 89948 (note). ELLISON 478. OCLC 28989599. $4000.

A Presentation Copy of One of the Classics of the Civil War and Constitutional Thought, by the Vice President of the Confederacy

148. Stephens, Alexander: A CONSTITUTIONAL VIEW OF THE LATE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES; ITS CAUSES, CHARAC- TER, CONDUCT AND RESULTS. PRESENTED IN A SERIES OF COLLOQUIES AT LIBERTY HALL. Philadelphia. [1868-1870]. Two volumes bound in one. [4],654,[1]pp., engraved frontispiece plus six portrait plates; xii,[5]-827,[4]pp., engraved frontispiece portrait plus eight plates. Thick octavo. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and cloth, spine gilt, t.e.g. Lengthy manuscript dedication leaf by Stephens and typed facing transcript bound into front of volume. Internally clean and fresh. Near fine.

A classic of the Civil War and of American Constitutional thought, by the vice president of the Confederacy. In it Stephens both describes his role in the Confederate government throughout the war, and elaborately reviews all of the constitutional arguments for States’ Rights. His book is described by Howes as “The most elaborate – and best – argument for the constitutional validity of the doctrine of state sovereignty and the right of secession.” It was met with great controversy, evoking attacks from both the North and the South. “An elaborate, legalistic argument to vindicate the South; considerably more pro-Confederate in tone than the author was as Vice President during the war” – Nevins. Alexander Stephens had a remarkable career, rising from youthful poverty and overcoming extreme physical frailty to be one of the most influential American politicians and constitutional thinkers of the 19th century. After success as a lawyer earned him a fortune, Stephens served in the Georgia legislatures and then the U.S. House of Representatives from 1839 to 1859, where he was friendly with Abraham Lincoln. He then served as vice president of the Confederacy throughout the Civil War. As the war progressed Stephens was increasingly at odds with President Jef- ferson Davis, and was one of the leaders of efforts for a peace settlement (he was one of the three Confederate leaders to meet with Lincoln at the Hampton Roads Peace Conference). After the war he was imprisoned for five months, during which time he began work on the present publication. He was fully reconciled to the outcome of the war, and served again in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1873 until his election as governor of Georgia in 1882 (he died the same year). This copy has a dedication letter from Stephens bound in, together with a typed transcript, which reads:

In this Book will be found as the author thinks not only the true principles of the Constitution of the United States of America; but a truthful exposition of the real cause, character and conduct of the late [war] between those States with its results up to the time at which it was written. Mr. Pliny Freeman the author hopes will give it at least a careful as well as thorough and impartial perusal. Washington D.C. 18 Feby 1874. Alexander H. Stephens.

Pliny Freeman, a New York actuary, controlled one of the first mutual insurance companies, New York Life, for many years. He spent much time in Washington in the 1860s and ’70s lobbying Congress. Burton Hendrick, in his history of the life insurance business in the United States, describes Freeman as “a thoroughly unscrupulous and dishonest man.” HOWES S938. NEVINS II, p.91. $15,000.

A Premier Piece of Midwestern Americana, in the Original Binding: The Streeter Copy

149. Stipp, G.W.: THE WESTERN MISCEL- LANY, OR, ACCOUNTS HISTORICAL, BIO- GRAPHICAL, AND AMUSING. Xenia, Ohio: Printed for the compiler, 1827. 224pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Minor wear to binding. Light foxing. In beautiful contemporary condition, with the bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter laid in, with his pencil notes on front fly leaf.

The Streeter copy of an extremely rare book, and very hard to find in the market, especially in unsophisticated condition, as here. One of the most important sources on the early western frontier, with primary source material on Indian warfare of the Revolutionary period in Kentucky and Ohio. Stipp’s work is most notable for including the first separate printing of John Bradford’s Notes on Kentucky, which first appeared in the Kentucky Gazette, published in Lexington beginning Aug. 25, 1826. Herein are found some of the basic accounts of Boone and other famous Indian fighters. The rest of the book consists of further anecdotes of the early frontier. A great midwestern rarity, and a mine of firsthand source material on the Kentucky Indian wars during the Revolution. A beautiful copy with excellent provenance, this sold for $1700 at the Streeter sale. HOWES S1011, “d.” STREETER SALE 1665. COLEMAN 2247. SABIN 91838. THOMSON 1109. MORGAN 1359. SHOEMAKER 30713. $17,500.

150. Strecker, Herman: LEPIDOPTERA, RHOPALOCERES AND HETEROCERES, INDIGENOUS AND EXOTIC; WITH DE- SCRIPTIONS AND COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. Reading, Pa.: Owen’s Steam Book and Job Printing Office, Jan. 1, 1873-1876. Twelve (of fifteen) original parts. Twelve handcolored lithographs colored by Strecker. Quarto. Original paper wrappers in various colors. Minor staining to a few wrappers. Very good. In half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

Parts 2 through 13 (1873-76) of the original fifteen-part set published between 1872 and 1877. Strecker was a funeral monument director and enthusiastic amateur naturalist. He formed one of the largest collections of North American butterflies and moths ever assembled, now at the American Museum of Natural History. This is his first work on lepidoptery. He originally planned to publish it in monthly parts, but quickly fell behind and only produced these fifteen parts in a six-year period. According to Bennett, Strecker’s work is indeed rare, “only 300 copies were printed.” It describes over 300 specimens of butterflies. His goal, as stated in the advertisement for this title, was the completion of one issue each month with an accompanying color plate, on which Strecker intended to fit “as many descriptions as possible.” So dedicated was he to the publication of his work, he allocated all of his money earned from sculpting tombstones, to purchase the lithographic stone on which he then drew and engraved each illustration that was to accompany the monthly issue. At the time of his death in 1901, Strecker was considered one of the country’s leading entomologists and, according to his obituary printed in the New York Times, “the most noted lepidopterist in America.” Comprising over 375,000 specimens, he “owned the largest, most valuable, and in every way the most remarkable public or private collection of butterflies or moths on the American Continent...” (New York Times). His collection now resides in the Field Museum in Chicago. BENNETT, p.102. McGRATH, p.218. New York Times, Dec. 1, 1901. NISSEN 4021. $2250.

151. Sumner, Charles: HIS COMPLETE WORKS. Boston: Lee and Shepa- rd, 1900. Twenty volumes. Half red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands, t.e.g. Fine. With [3]pp. a.l.s. tipped in.

One of 1000 numbered sets of the “Statesman Edition.” The autograph letter from Sumner to “My dear Waterston” reads:

Yesterday I read the enclosed account, which will explain itself. It seems to me rather hard that I should be left in the lurch by our committee, and particularly by individuals on it who have never contributed their full quota, and who are themselves rich, too. I have so far neglected my worldly affairs during these latter years, and have been called upon so frequently for contributions, that I am less able than any member of the committee to pay this deficiency out of my own pocket. Nor do I think it just that Mr. Bingham, or Mr. Brooks, or Mr. Thayer, all of whom were originally responsible with me, and who have not contributed their full share, should let this be cast upon me. I have had the labor and responsibility of carrying the matter through, as far as it has gone, and secured contributions much beyond my portion. It seems to me, therefore, that I may properly devolve upon the members of the committee above named the duty of meeting this deficit. Upon you there is not claim, for your have already supplied more than your share; but I submit the account to you, and ask your advice as to the course to be pursued. Ever sincerely yours, Charles Sumner.

Sumner was the lead member of a committee formed to honor Horace Mann for his contributions to education. The committee decided, after originally planning a statue to honor Mann, to raise $5000 for two normal schools in Massachusetts with the funds to be matched by the state. Although Sumner did his part, his labors were not matched by the other committee members. Because not all the pledges he had raised had come in after a year of effort, he was asked to meet his note. Still, the project was successful and the monies were raised. The project itself was dear to Horace Mann, who wrote Sumner on August 6, 1846, urging him to go to the dedication of “the new Normal Schoolhouse at Bridgewater....The active and leading agency you have had in executing measures which have led to this beneficial result would make your absence on that occasion a matter of deep regret. I know it will console you for your troubles in relation to the subject....” Rev. Robert C. Waterston was a dedicated education reformer and follower of Horace Mann. He served for ten years as the head of the Boston school board and president of the Boston Latin School association. In addition, he was the prime mover in raising a fund of $50,000 for William Lloyd Garrison. Charles Sumner (1811-74) was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, notable advocate of the emancipation of slaves, and dedicated to the cause of peace. His selection as orator at Boston’s Fourth of July celebration in 1845 proved the turning point in his career from lawyer to political force. He spoke forcefully for the cause of peace. He entered the Senate in 1851, where his maiden speech was in favor of an amendment to an appropriation bill that would forbid any expenses incurred “for the surrender of fugitives from service or labor.” Daniel Webster, on his final visit to the Senate, heard Sumner’s three-hour speech while sitting near Horace Mann. Sumner played a large part in the organization of the Republican party, and he was a major opponent of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. He was the first prominent politician to urge emancipation. Upon Republicans gaining a majority in the Senate, Sumner was made chairman of the foreign relations committee. After the war he became a major opponent of Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction policies. He declared he would vote, if he could, “Guilty, of all [the charges] and infinitely more.” He continued to serve in the Senate until his death. $3000. 152. Symmes, Thomas: GOOD SOLDIERS DESCRIBED, AND ANI- MATED. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE HONOUR- ABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, IN BOSTON, JUNE 6th. 1720. BEING THE DAY OF THEIR ELECTION OF OFFICERS; AND NOW PUBLISHED AT THEIR REQUEST. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, for S. Gerrish, and D. Henchman, 1720. [2],iv,37,[1]pp. 12mo. Later tissue wrappers. Trimmed close around all edges, affecting some catch- words, signature marks, page numbers, and grazing the edges of lines of text on several leaves. Good.

Thomas Symmes (1678-1725) was a minister in Bradford, Massachusetts. In 1720 he preached this sermon to the Artillery Company in nearby Boston, on the occasion of their election of officers. After discussing the concept of “good soldiers” as it appears in the Bible (particularly with reference to the soldiers of the tribe of Zebulun), Symmes considers the characteristics of such soldiers, including their duties and character. In addressing the harm done by disloyal soldiers, “a reproach and plague to their Prince and County,” he writes: “too many recent instances, in the British Empire, do sadly verify this assertion.” Symmes is best remembered for his pamphlet about the death of a Massachusetts militia leader in Indian warfare in Maine, Lovewell Lamented, published by the same printed in 1725. This title is notable for the quality of its typography, with stylized initials, woodcut vignettes, and ornaments throughout. It is a relatively early imprint by Samuel Kneeland, who started on his own as a printer in 1718 after apprenticing with Benjamin Green. It appears that Kneeland took this opportunity to display the wares in his type and ornament cases, hoping to solicit future business. ESTC locates eleven copies. EVANS 2182. ESTC W12455. SABIN 94106. $2500.

Magnificent Map of the United States

153. Tanner, H[enry] S.: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [with:] Tan- ner, H.S.: MEMOIR ON THE RECENT SURVEYS, OBSERVA- TIONS AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF THE NEW COUNTIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, CANALS, AND RAIL-ROADS, NEVER BE- FORE DELINEATED. BY H.S. TANNER. INTENDED TO AC- COMPANY HIS NEW MAP OF THE UNITED STATES. Philadel- phia: Published by Henry S. Tanner, 1829. Map: Engraved map, handcolored in outline, in sections backed on linen and edged with green silk. Sheet size: 49¾ x 63 inches. Engraved by H.S. Tanner, assisted by E.B. Dawson, W. Allen, and J. Knight, with integral decorative title vignette after J.W. Steel. The map is surrounded by numerous small panels including two extensions to the area covered by the map, six more-detailed maps of environs of various eastern cities, eight city plans, a number of elevation profiles of railroads and waterways, and two tables of statistics. Memoir...: 8pp. publisher’s advertisements at rear. Contemporary red half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Map: Fine condition. Loose as issued within contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards portfolio, titled in gilt on spine, linen ties.

A fine copy of the first edition of Tanner’s spectacular and very beautiful large-scale map from “the Golden Age of American Mapmaking,” here accompanied by the explanatory text. The map and text are described in Tanner’s list of “Maps, Chart, and Geographical Works” at the back of the text volume: “No. 69 A new and elegant Map of the United States on a scale of 30 miles to the inch [actually 32 miles to the inch, or 1: 2,000,000] – 5 feet 4 inches long, and 4 feet 2 inches high. Price of the map with the accompanying Memoir on the materials used in its construction, $10.00.” The Memoir was also sold separately for $1.00. The 1829 first edition of this map is described by Rumsey as “one of the best early large maps of the United States and the premier map for its period” (Rumsey 975). The present map shows the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to present- day western Kansas (noted as “Kanzas” on map). To the west of Michigan Territory and Missouri large areas of land include the locations of numerous Indian tribes but are designated as “Districts” rather than Territories: District of Huron, Sioux District, Mandan District, Osage District, and Ozark District. Also included are canals, railroads, “McAdamized” roads and proposed canals and railroads. One of the most attractive and interesting aspects of the map is the numerous insets, including sixteen city and regional maps (“Environs of Albany,” “Environs of Bos- ton,” “Environs of New York,” “Environs of Philadelphia and Trenton,” “Environs of Baltimore and Washington,” “Cincinnati,” “Charleston,” “New Orleans,” “South Part of Florida,” “Washington,” “Baltimore,” “Philadelphia,” “New York,” “Boston,” “Pittsburgh & Environs,” and “Oregon and Mandan Districts” [8 x 13 1/8 inches, with a further inset, “Outlet of Oregon River”]). The border of the main map also includes fourteen profiles of portages, canals, and railroads, and two tables in the lower right corner: “Statistics of the Western Districts,” and “Statistics of the United States.” According to Tooley, H.S. Tanner is “thought to be the first native-born Ameri- can to devote his career to publishing,” and he is responsible for some of the most important maps of the United States to be published in the 19th century. An idea of his output can be garnered from the eighty items listed in the catalogue at the back of the Memoir. Tanner acknowledges the assistants who helped him complete this major undertaking, and the fine vignette title is also fully attributed as being the work of James W. Steel (1799-1879), a Philadelphia line engraver. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40603. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.885 (ref ). RUMSEY 975. STREETER SALE 3835 HOWES T28. RISTOW, pp.191-98. SABIN 94318. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.253 (“Twice as detailed as Melish’s map of 1816”). WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI II, 390, p.94 (illustrated), p.96. $19,500.

An Early View of Nashville

154. [Tennessee]: [Nashville]: NASHVILLE. Nashville: J.F. Wagner Lith., [ca. 1855]. Tinted lithograph, 15¼ x 20¼ inches. Expertly repaired on verso. A striking image. Matted.

A beautiful view of Nashville, showing the city in the decade before the outbreak of the Civil War. Running diagonally through the center of the view is the Cumber- land River, and a large paddlewheel steamboat marked “U.S. Mail” is seen steaming along. Other steamboats are shown in the distance, and above the river is a long, impressive bridge being used by carriages and pedestrians. The riverbank on the left is undeveloped, while the land across the river is tightly packed with multi- story buildings. The view is flanked on the left by the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, and on the right by the Southern Methodist Publishing House. Nearby the publishing house is the City Hotel, one of the popular hotels of the period in the area. “The buildings are cleanly outlined, and there is a nice textural handling of the rock and of the foliage in the foreground” – Deák. Deák and Stokes & Haskell list the lithographer of this view as unknown, and the illustration of this print in both those references does not show any imprint. However, our copy is clearly imprinted, just below the lower left corner of the image, “J.F. Wagner Lith. Nashville, Tenn.,” and Reps lists Wagner as the printer. Lithographer J.F. Wagner receives scant mention in Peters’ America on Stone, who lists only one small view for the firm’s output. No copies of this view are located on OCLC, nor in the online catalogues of the Library of Congress or the American Antiquarian Society. Apparently Elder’s Bookstore in Nashville produced a repro- duction of this view in the early 1970s, which is the only listing in OCLC (at the University of Tennessee) and in Reps (at the Tennessee State Library). Rare, and a lovely view of a developing and important southern city just before the Civil War. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 712. REPS, VIEWS AND VIEWMAKERS OF UR- BAN AMERICA 3940. STOKES & HASKELL, AMERICAN HISTORICAL PRINTS P. 1849-51 – F-68. $8500. A Primary Work on Kentucky

155. [Toulmin, Harry]: A DESCRIPTION OF KENTUCKY, IN NORTH AMERICA: TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS RESPECTING THE UNITED STATES. [Lon- don]. November 1792 [but almost certainly Spring 1793]. 121,[3]pp. plus single-page map of Kentucky and accompanying “Explanation” leaf. Slightly later three-quarter calf and cloth, spine gilt. Light foxing. First two signatures of text gnawed in upper outer corner, occasional light edge wear. Very good.

“About the first piece describing Kentucky from the point of view of the prospective immigrant” – Streeter. Toulmin draws some of his information about Kentucky from Morse and Filson, but this work is an early and important immigrant’s guide, and quite scarce in containing the map of Kentucky by Baines, which is often absent. There is much detailed information on Kentucky’s topography, geography, natural resources, civic structures, chief towns, and more, and the text also includes an advertisement by a farming party about to emigrate. Toulmin provides much information for the emigrant on the United States generally, such as the text of Jefferson’s Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia, information on American economics and manufactures, prices of provisions, a description of a Pennsylvania farm, and much more. Toulmin, an English-born Unitarian minister, came to America in 1793 when his outspoken views on political and ecclesiastical matters brought him much scorn in his homeland. He soon made the acquaintance of Jefferson and Madison, and through their assistance became the president of Transylvania University. He later served as Secretary of State for Kentucky, and appointed by Jefferson to a Superior Court judgeship in Mississippi Territory (now a part of Alabama). While there he helped foil Aaron Burr’s machinations and worked to curb sentiment in favor of attacking Spanish possessions. Toulmin was the first person to record the formal law codes of Kentucky, Mississippi, and Alabama. This work was preceded by Toulmin’s Thoughts on Emigration (London, 1792) and is sometimes found bound with that work, though Howes asserts that “separates must have been issued.” The titlepage imprint is dated November 1792, but the text contains a letter dated February 2, 1793, so most authorities put publication in the Spring of 1793. Evans 26268 gives Lexington, Kentucky as the place of publication, an assertion that strains credibility, to say the least. A scarce book in the market. We find the Streeter and Siebert copies are the only ones at auction with the map since 1968; the Siebert copy fetched $8625 in 2014. SABIN 19708, 96327. ESTC T110641. HOWES T307, “b.” JILLSON 10. CHURCH 1258. VAIL 923. STREETER SALE 1625. SIEBERT SALE 309. ANB 21, pp.768-769. $8500. Against the Oppression of the State

156. Trenchard, John: AN ARGUMENT, SHEWING THAT A STAND- ING ARMY IS INCONSISTENT WITH A FREE GOVERNMENT, AND ABSOLUTELY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ENGLISH MONARCHY. London. 1697. iv,30pp. Small quar- to. Stitched. Gatherings reinforced with tissue at spine edge. Titlepage lightly soiled, contemporary notations on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good.

John Trenchard (1662-1723) was a political writer who wrote a series of weekly essays under the heading of “Cato’s Letters,” which railed against governmental corruption and advocated the rights of the common man. He also authored two works arguing against a standing army in England: the present work and A Short History of Standing Armies in England (1698). He is often considered the intellectual forerunner of the “Country Whig” party, from whom the American revolutionaries drew many of their ideas. ESTC R16212 WING T2110. $2000.

With a Map of Washington

157. [Tuck, Amos]: [SAMMELBAND OF THREE TITLES BELONG- ING TO CONGRESSMAN AMOS TUCK, INCLUDING THE CONSTITUTION, A GUIDE TO THE UNITED STATES CAPI- TOL, AND THE CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY FOR THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS, WHICH INCLUDES TUCK’S FRIEND AND POLITICAL ALLY, ABRA- HAM LINCOLN]. [Washington. 1847-1848]. Three titles bound together, detailed below. 12mo. Bound in late 19th-century crushed green morocco, ruled in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, t.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Bookplate on front pastedown. Unevenly trimmed, affecting the final line of text on four pages in the third title. A few light fox marks. Very good.

These three titles have the provenance of New Hampshire politician and United States Congressman Amos Tuck, with Tuck’s marks locating his seat in Congress in the second and third titles. Tuck (1810-79) attended Dartmouth (the Business School there was founded by his son, Edward), practiced law, and was elected to the New Hampshire House. He was elected to the United States Congress as an Independent in 1846, serving alongside Abraham Lincoln during the future president’s one and only term in Congress. The two men occupied desks only a few feet away from each other on the House floor. Tuck was re-elected as a Free Soil candidate in 1848 and as a Whig in 1850. He was instrumental in founding the Republican Party and in helping Lincoln secure the party’s nomination for president in 1860. This volume bears the bookplate of Tuck’s descendant, the Tuxedo Park socialite, Amos Tuck French, on the front pastedown, and it was likely he who had these three titles bound together by the Rose Bindery of Boston. The titles, in the order in which they are bound, are as follow:

1) Constitution of the United States of America, as Proposed by the Convention Held at Philadelphia, September 17, 1787...To Which are Added Standing Rules and Orders for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives of the United States. Printed for the Use of the House of Representatives. Washington: Printed by Tippin and Streeper, 1847. 91pp. Amos Tuck began the first of his three congressional terms in 1847, and this text would have been his guide to the rules of the House. 2) Mills, Robert: Guide to the Capitol and National Executive Offices of the United States.... Washington: Wm. Greer, 1847-1848. [2],94,[2]pp. plus eight full-page plates (including frontispiece of the Capitol) and a folding map (not called for) bound in. First published in 1841, this guide to the Capitol and federal office buildings in Washington is by Robert Mills, who is often considered America’s first native born architect. Mills designed the Washington Monument and the Treasury Building, and was also responsible for producing one of the first American state atlases, of South Carolina, in 1825. The frontispiece shows a Capitol building that is much more modest in scope than the one we know today. The plates show the floor plans of the House and Senate chambers, with the seats of each occupant (including Tuck) identified. Curiously, on the list of House members, Abraham Lincoln’s seat (seat 191) is noted as “vacant.” This is likely due to the fact that Lincoln did not take his seat until early December 1847, although the Congress convened in March of that year. The other floor plans show notable Washington buildings, including the Treasury Department, Post Office, Patent Office, and the building housing the War, State, and Navy departments. The folding map, “Map of the City of Washington...,” published by D. McClelland in Washington in 1846, was apparently inserted when this volume was bound. 3) Congressional Directory for the First Session of the Thirtieth Congress of the United States of America. Washington: J. and G.S. Gideon, printers, 1848. [4],56pp. plus two floor plans. “Second edition. Corrected up to June 22d, 1848.” In this copy the locations of the seats of Amos Tuck and Abraham Lincoln are circled and their names noted in manuscript. $1000.

The First American Military Uniform Color Plate Book: The President’s Copy

158. [United States Army and Navy]: REGULATIONS FOR THE UNI- FORM & DRESS OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES. JUNE, 1851. FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT AND DRAWINGS IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Philadelphia: Published by William H. Hortsmann and Sons, [1851]. 13pp. plus twenty-five plates by P.S. Duval after G.C. Humphries (five printed in colors, six handcolored). Folio. Contemporary brown morocco, cover gilt, neatly rebacked, a.e.g. Corners bumped. Some light foxing on text leaves. Plates clean and fresh. Very good. See rear cover of this catalogue for color illustration

President Millard Fillmore’s copy of this rare color plate book recording the uniform and dress of the mid-19th-century United States Army, with Fillmore’s ownership inscription on nthe front pastedown. This copy is in a presentation morocco binding stamped with the title and “Millard Fillmore President of the United States.” Fillmore, who had one of the most extensive libraries of any president, was notable for his scholarship. He served as Zachary Taylor’s vice president and became president in 1850, after Taylor’s death. Thus he was president at the time of publication, and the full morocco binding was done especially for him. This work was published by William H. Hortsmann and Sons, “military furnishers” of Philadelphia; established in 1815, they were the country’s leading military outfitters throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th. The plates, drawn by G.C. Humphries, were presumably used by Hortsmann, in conjunction with the text, to explain to customers what they were entitled to wear, the official nature of the work being emphasized by the facsimile endorsements on each plate by the Adjutant General. The attractive plates are ably executed in lithography by P.S. Duval, one of the leading lithographic printers of the time. They consist of five chromolithographic images showing nineteen full-length views of various ranks and regiments within the U.S. Army; followed by sixteen plates of details of uniforms (four partially or completely handcolored); two plates of swords; and ending with colored plates of “horse furniture.” The text reprints the relevant regulations concerning the dress code for officers and enlisted men, including members of the topographical engineers, dragoons, and cadets. Not in Bennett or McGrath. COLAS 2520. SABIN 68957 (an apparent variant, with all 25 plates colored). HOWES R155. $8500.

The First Printing of the Full Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention

159. [United States Constitution]: JOURNAL, ACTS AND PROCEED- INGS, OF THE CONVENTION, ASSEMBLED AT PHILADEL- PHIA, MONDAY, MAY 14, AND DISSOLVED MONDAY, SEP- TEMBER 17, 1787, WHICH FORMED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Boston: Printed and Published by Thomas B. Wait, 1819. 510pp. Contemporary sheep, rebacked with original spine laid down, modern leather label. Boards rubbed and scuffed. Minor scattered foxing, else generally quite clean internally. Very good.

This volume is the first publication of the journals and proceedings of the Con- stitutional Convention, which had been kept secret for the preceding thirty-two years. As such, it marks the beginning of historical examination into the processes of the formation of the Constitution. Kept by the official secretary to the convention and edited by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, it was “published under the direction of the President of the United States, conformably to a Resolution of Congress of March 27, 1818.” Included are a list of members of the Constitutional Convention with their credentials and the full journal of the proceedings of the convention. A supplement at the end prints the ratification notices of the several states. A landmark work in American history. FORD CONSTITUTIONS 85. SABIN 15557. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 49802. CO- HEN 2943. $1750.

Reestablishing Trade with Great Britain After the Revolution

160. [United States – Great Britain Trade]: A BILL FOR THE PROVI- SIONAL ESTABLISHMENT AND REGULATION OF TRADE AND INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THOSE OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA [caption title]. [WITH FOUR ADDITIONAL BRIT- ISH ACTS REGARDING BRITISH TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES, AS LISTED BELOW]. [London. 1783-1788]. Paginations given below. Folio. Four of the titles string-tied, as issued. First title lightly foxed and toned. Very good. In a half morocco and marbled boards box, spine gilt.

An interesting assemblage of British legislation from the period immediately following the Revolutionary War, documenting British efforts to allow only very limited trade with the newly independent United States. British trade policy during this period is an excellent example of a foreign power taking advantage of the weak structure of the American Articles of Confederation, which made it difficult for the thirteen states to act in concert and out of a any position of strength through unity. By 1783 the United States had formal trade relations with only two nations: France, secured through the 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce; and the Neth- erlands, via a Commercial Treaty negotiated by John Adams in 1782. Before the Revolution, British merchants had relied heavily on exports sent to the British colonies in North America, which greatly outweighed goods imported to Britain from the colonies. After the war the British government was reluctant to sign a formal commercial treaty with the United States. The states at the time were operating under the relatively weak structure of the Articles of Confederation, and the British felt that they could secure the benefits of trade with the American states without making any treaty concessions. Britain opted instead for a series of acts that established limited trade with the United States and between the United States and Canada and the British colonies in the West Indies. The first of these laws was passed in 1783, and the evolution of that law is reflected in the first three items below. In all, these British laws severely circumscribed American trade with England and with English colonies, though they did allow some markets for American exports, and did facilitate the flow of much needed imports into the United States. In 1784, British exports to the United States were valued at more than £3.5 million, while American exports to England were less than one-fifth of that sum. The United States and Great Britain would not sign a formal trade treaty until the Jay Treaty, which was approved in 1795 and which gave the United States limited trading rights in the British West Indies. The first, second, third, and fifth titles below were printed in very small numbers for the use of members of Parliament during debate and action on the bills. Known as “slip bills,” they are a snapshot of the legislation as it proceeded through the legislative process. The first and fifth titles contain blank spaces in the text where dates and tariff rates would be filled in later, and all four of the slip bills have printed docketing on the final page. The first and fifth items also contain a printed note before the text of the bill reading “the figures in the margin denote the Number of the Folios in the written copy,” which indicates just how early in the legislative process these bills were printed. The four bills and one act included in this group are:

1) A Bill for the Provisional Establishment and Regulation of Trade and Intercourse Be- tween the Subjects of Great Britain and Those of the United States of North America [caption title]. [London. 1783]. 3,[1]pp. This bill gives the United States the same trading status as other independent sovereign states, but restricts American exports to Great Britain only to those goods that are “the growth, produce, or manufacture of the said United States.” It thus forbad the “triangular” trade in which American merchants liked to engage, while not imposing the same restriction on British exporters. ESTC locates only five copies. ESTC N32490. BELL G578 (ref ). 2) A Bill [As Amended in the Committee] for the Provisional Establishment and Regula- tion of Trade and Intercourse Between the Subjects of Great Britain and Those of the United States of North America [caption title]. [London. 1783]. 5,[1]pp. This bill expands on and further defines the previous bill, clearly spelling out the limitations on American trade with England while imposing no such restrictions on English merchants, and in fact making every provision to facilitate British exports to America. ESTC locates six copies. ESTC N32061. 3) A Bill [As Amended in the Committee to Whom the Same was Re-Committed] for the Provisional Establishment and Regulation of Trade and Intercourse Between the Subjects of Great Britain and Those of the United States of North America [caption title]. [London. 1783]. 5,[1]pp. As with the previous two versions of this bill, the language here explains that it would be “highly expedient” to have a trade treaty with the United States, but until that point England would make do with legislation regulating Anglo-American commerce. The same restrictive language regarding exports from America is carried over. ESTC locates only five copies. ESTC N32016. 4) An Act to Extend the Powers of an Act...for Giving His Majesty Certain Powers for the Better Carrying on Trade and Commerce Between the Subjects of His Majesty’s Dominions and the Inhabitants of the United States of America, to the Trade and Commerce of This Kingdom with the British Colonies and Plantations in America... [caption title]. London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784. [2],715-716pp. This law specifically relates to British exports of iron, hemp and sail cloth from the Baltic states to the United States. ESTC locates only three copies. ESTC N58431. BELL G585. 5) A Bill for Regulating the Trade Between the Subjects of His Majesty’s Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries Belonging to the United States of America; and Between His Majesty’s Said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies [caption title]. [London. 1788]. 9,[1]pp. This bill essentially prohibits American trade with Britain’s colonies in the West Indies and prohibits American exports to Canada as well. The sole exemption is with regard to salt from the Turks Islands, a product the English wanted to encourage. The bill allows American ships to receive salt on the islands. It also limits exports from the West Indies to America on such goods as sugar, molasses, coffee, etc. to British ships only. ESTC locates only four copies. ESTC T201245. RAGATZ, p.95. BELL G618 (ref ).

An important group of rare working drafts of British legislation. $5000.

The First Direct Federal Tax, Based on Slaves and Real Estate Values

161. [United States Taxation]: EXTRACTS FROM AN ACT OF CON- GRESS, ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE VALU- ATION OF LANDS AND DWELLING-HOUSES, AND THE ENUMERATION OF SLAVES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES [caption title]. [Philadelphia. 1798]. 15pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Light soiling and toning, lightly creased. About very good. Untrimmed and unopened.

This pamphlet publishes for public distribution the first direct federal tax in the United States. It contains extracts from the first law on property valuations, issued with “An Act to Lay and Collect a Direct Tax Within the United States” (pp.5-15). The first section lays out information on surveying and revenues, leading to the second section, which outlines how a tax of two million dollars is to be apportioned among and collected from the individual states, based upon these valuations. In this way Congress began the first federal taxing of the states in order to pay for the debts incurred during the American Revolution. As indicated in the title, slaves were enumerated alongside land and dwellings:

And all slaves, whether negroes mulattoes or mestizoes, above the age of twelve, and under the age of fifty years, shall be enumerated in the assessment district in which they may, respectively, be kept or employed, at the time of the enumeration, except such as from fixed infirmity, or bodily disability, may be incapable of labor....

The second act dictates that for each slave “there shall be assessed fifty cents.” Property assessments cover dwellings and building lots but not agricultural land. Fewer than ten copies located in ESTC and OCLC. EVANS 34705. ESTC W14668. $1500.

162. Urlsperger, Samuel: DER AUSFUHRLICHEN NACHRICHTEN VON DER KONIGLICH-GROSS-BRITANNISCHEN COLONIE SALTZBURGISCHER EMIGRANTEN IN AMERICA. ERSTER THIEL [WITH SIX ADDITIONAL CONTINUATIONS]. Halle. 1738-1743. Three volumes consisting of one part and six additional “Con- tinuations.” Without the map and fold-out plate. Small quarto. First volume: Contemporary marbled boards. Covers worn and chipped. Titlepage heavily toned, closely trimmed. Minor toning and foxing in text. Second volume, containing five “Continuations”: Contemporary three-quarter calf. Binding worn. Text toned and foxed, a few pages with damage. Third volume, containing Neunte Continuation: Dbd. Light wear and foxing. Overall in good condition.

An extensive collection of these vital sources for the early history of Georgia. This group contains the first part, with the first five Continuations, as well as the ninth Continuation, of these important annual accounts of the Salzburger settlements in Georgia, commonly known as “the Salzburger Tracts.” These settlements began when a group of German settlers from Salzburg, fleeing religious persecution at home, accepted the invitation of Gen. James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, to settle there in 1734. By 1741 some 1200 Salzburgers were living in Georgia, and these volumes are both a history and a promotional work for further settlement. “This series of Nachrichten is one of the most important source works on the history of Georgia, being the contemporary accounts of the German settlements in the province...” – De Renne. The individual parts that make up this set are as follow:

1) Der Ausfuhrlichen Nachrichten von der Koniglich-Gross-Britannischen Colonie Saltz- burgischer Emigranten in America. Erster Thiel. Halle. 1741. [14],242,[2]pp. 2) Erste Continuation der Ausfuhrlichen Nachricht von Denen Saltzburgischen Emi- granten.... Halle. 1738. [22],[243]-574pp. 3) Zweyte Continuation der Ausfuhrlichen Nachricht von Denen Saltzburgischen Emi- granten.... Halle. 1739. [18],[575]-980pp. 4) Dritte Continuation der Ausfuhrlichen Nachricht von Denen Saltzburgischen Emi- granten.... Halle. 1740. [12],[981]-1099,2000-2072 [i.e. 1172]pp. The work is complete despite the jump in pagination. 5) Vierte Continuation der Ausfuhrlichen Nachricht von Denen Saltzburgischen Emi- granten.... Halle. 1740. [12],[2073]-2312pp. 6) Funfte Continuation der Ausfuhrlichen Nachricht von Denen Saltzburgischen Emi- granten.... Halle. 1740. [28],[2313]-2598,[38]pp. Includes a [38]pp. register at the end. 7) Neunte Continuation der Ausfuhrlichen Nachrichten von Denen Saltzburgischen Emi- granten.... Halle. 1743. [4],[1015]-1270pp.

EUROPEAN AMERICANA 741/234, 740/314. BAGINSKY, GERMAN AMERI- CANA 305. JCB (1)III:541. SABIN 98133. HOWES U27, “b.” DE RENNE, pp.57-68. $2400.

163. [Usselincx, Willem]: NAERDER BEDENCKINGEN, OBER DE ZEE-BAERDT, COOPHANDEL ENDS NEERINGHE.... [Am- sterdam]. 1608. [36]pp. Small quarto. Dbd. Very minor worming in gutter margin. Some light foxing. Very good.

Willem Usselincx, the founder of the Dutch West Indies Company and the most influential merchant of his day, argues here that the war with Spain must continue in order to preserve religious toleration and commerce in the Netherlands. He discusses the possibility that the war with Spain might spread to the West Indies or East Indies, destroying trade, and he mentions the conspiracy of Lord Cobham and Walter Raleigh to murder King James. Stevens calls this pamphlet “Excessively rare. One of the earliest and most important publications of...that clear-headed and farseeing political economist, to whom Holland is perhaps more indebted than to any other one man, for her rapid growth and prosperity between 1600 and 1635.” ASHER 32. BELL II:21. KRESS 297. STEVENS, BIBLIOTHECA HISTORICA 2159. SABIN 98200. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 608/171. $1250.

The Foundation of Dutch Involvement in America

164. [Usselincx, William]: VERTOOGH, HOE NOOTWENDICH, NUT ENDE PROFIJTELICK HET FY VOOR DE VEREENIGHDE NEDERLANDEN TE BEHOUDEN DE VRYHEYT VAN TE HANDELEN OP WEST-INDIEN.... [Amsterdam. 1608]. [20]pp. Small quarto. Early 20th-century speckled calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, neatly rebacked in matching style, gilt, leather label. Internally clean. Very good.

This rare pamphlet is the foundation document of the Dutch West India Company and all Dutch involvement in the New World. The author, William Usselincx, was an inveterate foe of the Spanish and the champion of Dutch expansionism. Herein he argues for the creation of a Dutch West India company and emphasizes the necessity of preserving Dutch free trade with the West Indies. Such trade would not only curb Spanish power, he notes, but also enrich the Dutch empire. He writes that the wealth to be gained from the West Indies is not to be found in gold and silver, but in the natural products of the region, reaped with the benefit of slave labor (though he does cogently note the economic disadvantages of slavery). This work and other writings of Usselincx led directly to the creation of the Company in 1621 and the settlement of the Dutch in New York and Brazil. There are two issues of this pamphlet, both dated 1608, the present copy being the issue which originally appeared as part of Usselincx’s collection of anti-Spanish pamphlets, the “Bye-corf ” or “Bee-hive.” European Americana locates ten copies of the “Bye-corf ” issue. “One of the best Dutch economic pamphlets of the seventeenth century” – Jameson. A book of great importance to the history of New York and the Dutch in the New World. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 608/178. JAMESON, USSELINCX 6. ASHER 33. CHURCH 334. SABIN 98212. KRESS 298. BELL U72. KNUTTEL 1443. $2500.

165. [Virginia]: THE CASE OF THE PLANTERS OF TOBACCO IN VIRGINIA, AS REPRESENTED BY THEMSELVES; SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL, AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF BURGESSES. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A VINDI- CATION OF THE SAID REPRESENTATION. London: J. Roberts, 1733. 64pp. 19th-century blue half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Front board detached, held on with two small pieces of tape. Minor toning. Contemporary notation on final leaf. About very good.

“The preamble to this pamphlet (published by Sir John Randolph) contains a summary of the various imposts on tobacco landed in England, an account of the complicated customhouse procedures, and of the frauds most prevalent at impor- tation and exportation. It is suggested that the methods enforced by the custom regulations invite deception. The difficulties of the planters are referred to. But, the writers note, the matters dealt with in this preface are but ‘an Epitome of some of our Grievances....’ This introductory account is signed by Robert Carter, Presi- dent, and John Halloway, Speaker, of the Virginia House of Burgesses, June, 1732” – Arents. The author goes on to argue against the mistreatment of the colonial planters. A copy of this text was in the Jefferson library. Scarce. SABIN 99911. SOWERBY 2976-7. ARENTS 673. KRESS 4126. GOLDSMITH 7069. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 733/46. STEELE (PLANTERS) 184. CLAYTON- TORRENCE 122. ESTC T20255. BRINLEY 3732. $1250.

Lawrence Washington’s Copy

166. Volney, Constantin F.: [Washington, Lawrence A.]: A VIEW OF THE SOIL AND CLIMATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: WITH SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS UPON FLORIDA; ON THE FRENCH COLONIES ON THE MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO, AND IN CANADA; AND ON THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF AMERICA. Philadelphia. 1804. xxviii,446pp. plus two folding plates and two folding maps. Half title. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, retaining original leather label. Ink marks on endpapers. Slight foxing and dampstaining. Good.

The first American edition of the American travels of this French firebrand and social critic, who went to America to avoid imprisonment in France. This copy bears the ownership inscription of Lawrence Washington, nephew to President George Washington, on the front fly leaf. The narrative is notable for Volney’s comments concerning the French royalist colonies in the Ohio country. He also includes a vocabulary of the Miami language, and some interesting meteorological and geological observations. The maps show the U.S. and North America. “His work teems with the most interesting particulars, which he observed or learned, regarding the Indians” – Field. “Considered as a picture of the physical condition of the country, as far as respects its surface and climate, this was the best and most complete that had appeared up to the time of its publication” – Thomson. HOWES V141. CLARK II:69. FIELD 1611. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 4063. MONAGHAN 1472. BUCK 49. COLEMAN 15. SERVIES 783. THOMSON 1170. SA- BIN 100694. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7675. $1100.

Premier British Edition of Washington’s Farewell Address

167. [Washington, George]: A LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM GEORGE WASH- INGTON, ON HIS RESIGNATION OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. London: J. Debrett, 1796. 32pp. Modern plain wrappers. Small hole in leaf C1 (apparently a paper flaw) affecting five words of text, three of which have been supplied in early manuscript. Early manuscript notes on several pages (see below), portion of early ownership signature on titlepage. Very good.

One of two initial London printings of Washington’s Farewell Address done in 1796, the same year that it was first published in Philadelphia. The other London 1796 edition was published by J. Moxon. Of the two publishing houses, Debrett appears to have been the more successful, and he produced two more editions by the end of the year. The text’s popularity was immediate, and it was quickly reprinted in Edinburgh, Dublin, Glasgow, and elsewhere. Designed by Washington and his principal advisors in drafting it, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, as both a valedictory and advice to succeeding genera- tions, the address served as a guidepost to Americans from the point of its publication. In it Washington stresses the importance of the preservation of the Union; urges moderation of political factions, reconciliation of regional differences and avoidance of foreign “entanglements”; urges that the nation be prepared, but only fight in self-defense; and supports the principal of the voluntary retirement of the president after two terms. The most influential presidential address ever delivered, looked to as a guidepost of American policy into modern times. This copy has interesting manuscript underlining by an early English reader, often highlighting passages referring to liberty and patriotism. SABIN 101566. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 60. ESTC T109655. OCLC 1882988. $2500. Washington Promotes Agriculture in His Final Speech to Congress

168. [Washington, George]: [Agriculture]: REPORT OF THE COM- MITTEE TO WHOM WAS REFERRED SO MUCH OF THE SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS, AS RELATES TO THE PRO- MOTION OF AGRICULTURE. Washington: 1797. 8pp. Half calf and marbled boards. Contemporary ownership signature on titlepage. Very minor soiling. Very good.

George Washington long pushed for aid to agriculture, and in his last message to Congress, on Dec. 7, 1796, he specifically argued for a governmental organization to collect and promote knowledge of agriculture. Representative Zephaniah Swift’s committee, whose report forms this document, followed up with this proposal that ended in a plan for the organization of the American Society of Agriculture:

Societies have been established in many parts of the United States, but are on too limited a scale to answer the great national purpose of agricultural improvement throughout the United States; it is, therefore, necessary that a society should be established, under the patronage of the general government, which should extend its influence through the whole country, and comprehend the extensive object of national improvement. It is believed that very essential advantages would be derived from such an institution. While it excites a general spirit of inquiry, it will awaken the attention and animate the exertions of the State societies, as well as encourage new associations, by extending the means of increasing their knowledge. It will be a common centre to unite all the institutions in the United States, and will strengthen the bond of union; it will be a deposite to receive and preserve all the discoveries or societies in every part of the world; whence the result of the whole, after it has been digested by the society, may be disseminated throughout the United States.

The committee report concludes with a detailed proposal for the creation of the society. But Congress never voted on the measure, a fact agrarians attributed to Alexander Hamilton’s promotion of manufacturing. Relatively scarce. This copy bears the ownership signature of Samuel Sitgreaves, a Philadelphia lawyer and one of the American commissioners charged with sorting out financial claims made against Americans by British creditors, including Loyalists, as part of the Jay Treaty. EVANS 33031. BATSCHELE 675. $1250.

With a Large Map of the Mount Vernon Estate

169. [Washington, George]: LETTERS FROM HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON, TO ARTHUR YOUNG, ESQ. F.R.S. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS HUSBANDRY, WITH A MAP OF HIS FARM; HIS OPINIONS ON VARIOUS QUES- TIONS IN AGRICULTURE; AND MANY PARTICULARS OF THE RURAL ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES. London. 1801. vi,172 [i.e. 176]pp. plus folding map. Half title. 20th-century half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Binding rubbed. Modern ownership inscription at foot of titlepage. Small closed tear at inner margin of map, neatly repaired and reinforced. Light offsetting on map, light foxing on facing pages. Otherwise clean internally. Very good.

An interesting series of letters from George Washington to noted British agricultural reformer and writer Arthur Young. The letters span the period from 1786 to 1793 and show Washington’s keen interest in and involvement with agriculture and animal husbandry. The President gives much information drawn from his own experiences of farming on Mount Vernon and relates the experiences of other farmers in Virginia (including Thomas Jefferson) with whom he has corresponded in the mid-Atlantic states. He gives information on prices for various goods, the rates of taxation on property (including slaves), the produce and livestock that flourish particularly well, and much more. The extremely interesting map was printed from an original provided by Washington, and shows the vast expanse of the Mount Vernon estate, which comprised almost ten square miles at Washington’s death. SABIN 101719. RINK 1144. $2000.

From the Library of Lawrence Washington

170. [Washington, Lawrence A.]: [Paine, Thomas]: [SAMMELBAND OF FOUR POLITICAL PAMPHLETS, INCLUDING TWO BY THOMAS PAINE AND TWO ON THE FRENCH REVOLU- TION, FROM THE LIBRARY OF LAWRENCE WASHINGTON]. Dublin, London & Philadelphia. 1782-1792. Detailed below. Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked in matching style. Contemporary ownership inscription of Lawrence Washington on front fly leaf and in text; manuscript table of contents on second preliminary blank. Titlepage of first and half title of last pamphlet with top corner clipped to remove signature; title-leaf to third pamphlet lacking. Moderately foxed. Very good.

This volume of pamphlets from the library of Lawrence Washington, nephew of President George Washington, contains two pamphlets by Thomas Paine and two other works on the French Revolution. Lawrence Augustine Washington (1775- 1824) was the fourth son of George Washington’s younger brother, Samuel. When Samuel Washington died in 1781, the future president took it upon himself to provide for the education of his nephew, Lawrence and for Lawrence’s older brother, George Steptoe Washington. Throughout the 1780s and early 1790s, Washington supervised and paid for their education in Alexandria, Virginia and then at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, from which the two nephews graduated in 1792. While in Philadelphia, Lawrence also studied law with Attorney General Edmund Randolph. He married Mary Dorcas Wood in 1797 and lived at Federal Hill, outside Winchester, Virginia. At George Washington’s death Lawrence and his brother, George, were absolved of all debts for their schooling, a sum of approximately $5,000. George Washington also left his nephews a small portion of his estate in his will. The list of pamphlets is as follows:

1) Mirabeau, Gabriel-Honoré de Riquetti: Speeches of M. de Mirabeau the Elder, Pro- nounced in the National Assembly of France. To Which is Prefixed, a Sketch of His Life and Character. Translated from the French Edition of M. Mejan, by James White, Esq. Dublin: P. Byrne, J. Moore [et al]..., 1792. [4],viii,120pp. Speeches of the Comte de Mirabeau to the National Assembly of France during the French Revolution. Mirabeau (1749-91) favored a constitutional monarchy for France similar to the system of government in Great Britain, and attempted to mediate between the Crown and the Assembly during the Revolution. He was an important politician and statesman, particularly during these years. This Dublin edition is scarcer than its London counterpart. ESTC T83496. 2) Impeachment of Mr. Lafayette: Containing His Accusation, (Stated in the Report of the Extraordinary Commission to the National Assembly, on the 8th of August, 1792,) Supported by Mr. Brissot of Warville; and His Defence by Mr. Vaublanc: with a Supplement, Containing the Letter, and Other Authentic Pieces Relative Thereto, Translated from the French by William Cobbett. Philadelphia: John Parker, 1793. 104pp. Works relating to the impeachment of Gen. Lafayette by the Jacobins. The impeachment, which took place following Lafayette’s failed efforts to preserve the 1791 constitution, resulted in his removal from the military and forced his flight to Liège, where he was turned over to the Prussians. By the time the present work was published, Lafayette had begun his five years of imprisonment by the Prussians and Austrians, despite American outcry and attempts at intercession. EVANS 25497. BRINLEY SALE 5229. 3) Paine, Thomas: Letter Addressed to the Addressers, on the Late Proclamation. [London: H.D. Symonds and Thomas Clio Rickman, 1792]. [3]-78pp. Lacks titlepage. Printed the same year as the first edition. This pamphlet is an attack on the royal proclamation of May 21, 1792 against seditious acts, which was aimed at Paine’s The Rights of Man.... Paine corrected the proofs while in Paris and sent them to London for publication. Both Symonds and Rickman were prosecuted for publishing the work. “Paine here makes a brazen call for a revolution in England and outlines a plan for calling together a convention for the purpose of reviewing the whole mass of English laws and retaining all worthy ones, while letting the rest drop” – Gimbel. This is often taken as the third part of Paine’s The Rights of Man. ESTC T5837. 4) Paine, Thomas: A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America. In Which the Mistakes in the Abbe’s Account of the Revolution of America are Corrected and Cleared Up. Philadelphia: Melchior Steiner, 1782. [4],77pp. Paine’s response to the appearance of a pamphlet in London and America titled The Revolution of America, by the Abbé Raynal. The Abbé’s work contains numerous substantial errors, and Paine seeks to correct them; but in a mild defense Paine writes that he believes the Abbé’s work was “unfairly purloined” from the original printer and hastened into print. Paine posits that the work is part of a larger piece yet in production and that the author’s opportunity to revise may have been compromised. He uses this opportunity to discuss the need for a substantial review of intellectual property rights and international copyright, with the understanding that such review could only happen after the war’s conclusion. That Paine seems sure that an American government would have the opportunity to take up the matter indicates a sense of prevailing optimism in the war’s closing months. An interesting Paine item, and quite scarce. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 82-66a. HOWES P25, “aa.” GIMBEL 36. SABIN 58222. EVANS 17652. $2250.

171. [Welles, Noah]: THE REAL ADVANTAGES WHICH MINISTERS AND PEOPLE MAY ENJOY ESPECIALLY IN THE COLONIES, BY CONFORMING TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; FAITH- FULLY CONSIDERED, AND IMPARTIALLY REPRESENTED, IN A LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. [Boston?]. 1762. 47pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Contemporary ownership signature at foot of titlepage and on verso. Titlepage stained, with some chips and tears around edges. Text evenly toned. Good.

Evans notes that this pamphlet is attributed to Noah Welles in Dexter’s Yale Gradu- ates. “An amusing and very cleverly written satire on the Church of England and its form of worship. Noah Welles, pastor of the church at Stamford, Conn., was an ardent supporter of Puritanism against Episcopacy. He graduated from Yale in 1741, and all his life was prominent in its affairs. On the death of Thomas Clap he was seriously considered as his successor for president of the College. The above work ranks as an extremely fine example of early American humor and satire” – Lathrop Harper. Relatively scarce in the market. EVANS 9302. ESTC W21659. SABIN 102573. LATHROP HARPER CATALOGUE 169:1397. $1750.

The Earliest Published Image of George Washington

172. [West, Benjamin]: [Washington, George]: BICKERSTAFF’S BOS- TON ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR REDEMPTION, 1778. BEING THE SECOND YEAR OF AMERICAN INDEPEN- DENCE.... Danvers, Ma.: Printed by E. Russell, [1777]. [24]pp. Stitched. First leaf detached, several leaves loosening. Light wear, contemporary notation on titlepage. Interleaved with contemporary notes, primarily recording the weather. Good.

Revolutionary-era Boston almanac, featuring portraits of generals George Wash- ington and Horatio Gates on the front page – the “first known American print of George Washington” (Wick). Wick notes that it is likely this image was made when Washington first arrived in Boston in 1775 or early 1776 to take command of the Continental Army. The first known use of this image is on a 1776 Salem printing of the Declaration of Independence. This is its second printed appearance. Due to the scarcity of visual material it was reused several times, resurfacing again in Bickerstaff almanacs in the 1790s. This almanac also has woodcuts at the top of each calendar showing a seasonal scene with the appropriate zodiac sign at the top. An early and important image of our first president. DRAKE 3274. EVANS 15705. WICK, GEORGE WASHINGTON AN AMERICAN ICON 1. $3000.

Western Civil War Diaries

173. Wetherell, Whiting M.: [GROUP OF THREE CIVIL WAR DIA- RIES OF LIEUT. WHITING M. WETHERELL OF THE 35th IOWA INFANTRY, COVERING 1862, 1864, AND 1865]. [Various places]. 1862, 1864-1865. Three volumes. [440] leaves. Original leather wallet- style bindings. Text block detached from binding on two volumes; light wear, heavier to third volume. Internally clean. About very good.

Three Civil War diaries of Union lieutenant Whiting M. Wetherell for 1862, 1864, and 1865, along with two tintypes and a carte de visite. Together they provide a rich picture of campaigning, mainly West of the Mississippi until 1865. The three diaries begin on January 1, 1862, with entries recording the daily life of Wetherell and his family around his Mechanicsville, Iowa farm. Life changed for them, however, in July when he attended a “war meeting in Evening, signed muster Roll with 8 others.” He left home with his brother, John, in August at the age of twenty-six as a private with Company H of the Iowa 35th Infantry. Eventually he became an officer. The 1862 diary records that the regiment joined Grant in the campaigns along the Mississippi. In the 1864 diary Wetherell chronicles his regiment’s movements as they marched from the Red River Campaign in Louisiana through Arkansas and Tennessee. He records the battles he fought, including the bloody Battle of Nashville (December 15-16). Wetherell’s entry on the 16th reads:

Deploy’d Co. H as skirmishers & advanced. At Daylight advanced over a mile & found the Enemy entrenched. Artillery firing most of a.m. 4th Corps made a charge in A.M. Grand charge by whole army at 4 p.m. 1st Div captured 8 Guns & 3000. 3rd Brig. got 4 Pieces several more wounded but none killed.... Camped near the Hills in Rebel Camp – they fled towards Franklin.

From his 1865 diary we learn the regiment moved into Alabama during the Spring of 1865, marching into Mobile on April 12, three days after General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. There, Lieutenant Wetherell and his regiment “raised the Flag” and received official “news of the great battle in Virginia that we had part of Lee’s army.” Nine days later: “200 Guns [were] fired in honor of Lee & Johnson.” Joy, however, turned to sorrow as Wetherell records on April 26, partially erroneously, that a “Report came of the death of Lincoln & Seward by Violence.” Wetherell mustered out of service on May 31, 1865 in New Orleans. The diary continues through the remainder of 1865, covering his return home and resumption of life in Iowa. Also included are two tintypes (one picturing two Union soldiers and the other picturing a seated gentleman) and one carte de visite. $3750.

With Detailed Battle Plans

174. White, Thomas: NAVAL RESEARCHES; OR, A CANDID INQUI- RY INTO THE CONDUCT OF ADMIRALS BYRON, GRAVES, HOOD, AND RODNEY, IN THE ACTIONS OFF GRENADA, CHESAPEAK, ST. CHRISTOPHER’S, AND OF THE NINTH AND TWELFTH OF APRIL 1782.... London. 1830. 136pp. plus ten handcolored folding maps. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather labels. Armorial bookplate on front fly leaf, with ownership signature (see below). Maps lightly dampstained. Very good.

An examination of the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies during the American Revolutionary War, written by British naval officer Thomas White. The battle was fought between the British Royal Navy and the French fleet assisting the American colonials. The work contains ten folding maps showing the engagement. With the ownership markings of Sir Henry Bradshaw Popham, who served as governor of the British Windward Islands from 1937 to 1942. SABIN 103459. $1500.

An Important Early Quaker Work

175. [Whitehead, George]: AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE VEN- OME OF THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS: OR, THE BOOK SO STILED. AND THE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS VINDICATED FROM ITS MOST GROSS ABUSES AND CAL- UMNIES. IN CERTAIN REFLECTIONS, DETECTING THE NAMELESS AUTHOR’S MALICE, OUTRAGE AND PERSECU- TION AGAINST THE SAID PEOPLE.... London: Printed for Tho. Northcott, 1697. [4],xi,[1],268,[4]pp. 12mo. Modern three-quarter speckled calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Early ownership signature (“John Harrison”) on titlepage. Scattered foxing. Very good.

Written by George Whitehead, one of the early leaders of the Quaker faith, and containing several references to Quakers in America and Penn’s colony in Penn- sylvania. Whitehead writes in reply to three anti-Quaker works by Charles Leslie: The Snake in the Grass (Wing L1156), Satan Dis-Rob’d from His Disguise of Light (Wing L1149), and A Discourse Proving the Divine Institution of Water-Baptism. Quite scarce in the market. SABIN 103655. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 697/188. SMITH, FRIENDS’ BOOKS II:902. McALPINE IV:576. WING W1889. ESTC R27066. JCB (4), pp.356-57. $3750.

Early Photographs of Alaska, with Naval Artifacts

176. Wieber, Francis W.F.: [PHOTO ALBUM OF NAVAL SURGEON FRANCIS W.F. WIEBER, OF EARLY SCENES IN ALASKA, TO- GETHER WITH HIS NAVAL HAT AND EPAULETTES]. [Various places. ca. 1880s-1890s]. Thirty-three leaves containing ninety photographs (nineteen cyanotypes), plus a tin type laid in. Hat and epaulettes housed in archival boxes. Images primarily 7½ x 9½ inches, some a bit larger or smaller (approximately 5½ x 4½ inches), also several panoramic photos. Oblong quar- to. Modern half morocco and paper boards, gilt leather label. Images removed from previous album and remounted, resulting in loss at a few corners; a few minor tears. Photos clean. Very good.

Commodore Francis William Ferdinand Wieber (1861-1947), born in Germany, was in the U.S. Navy for forty years, serving on the Vermont, Iroquois, Vandalia, Independence, and Charleston. In 1884 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, and in 1887 he achieved Passed Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon in 1897. He served in the Pacific and was also stationed at Norfolk, Virginia and Puerto Rico. In addition to his active naval duties, he authored a number of journal articles related to treating Yellow Fever aboard ship. He retired in 1925 and died in San Diego at the age of eighty-six. The present album documents Wieber’s service and contains some wonderful large images of Alaska, Puerto Rico, China, and the Philippines. The Alaskan images appear to be quite early and we assume they predate the Gold Rush. There are twenty-eight large photos showing old fishing villages, log cabins, a group photo depicting two men and three women posing in front of the frame of a boat under construction, mountain scenery, flocks of seals gathering on beaches, and more. In one of the group photos several of the people are clearly of Inuit heritage. Interest- ingly, there is a significant Russian influence in the images, from the architecture (particularly churches) to the clothing worn by the photographed subjects. The remaining images are also quite interesting, including a large photograph of a political event in Puerto Rico, several photographs illustrating the aftermath of a terrible storm in the Philippines, and images of working farmers in China. There are also a few portraits of the crew with Wieber. Accompanying this album is Wieber’s naval cap, his belt and epaulettes, and an old tin type of him. All told, this is a fascinating collection of images and memo- rabilia documenting a segment of this officer’s career in the navy. $4250.

With the Rare Panorama Plates

177. Wild, J.C.: PANORAMA AND VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA, AND ITS VICINITY. EMBRACING A COLLECTION OF TWENTY VIEWS, FROM PAINTINGS BY J.C. WILD. WITH POETICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF EACH SUBJECT, BY AN- DREW M’MAKIN. Philadelphia. 1838. [22]pp. plus twenty-four black and white lithographs. Folio. Original brown embossed cloth, gilt leather label on cover; neatly rebacked in matching cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf; later ink inscription at top of titlepage. Light foxing, heavier to first few leaves and tissue guards. Very good.

A large paper copy of this important and very rare American view book showing scenes in and around Philadelphia, primarily notable public works and major public buildings, ranging from the University of Pennsylvania to the Eastern Penitentiary, U.S. Mint, Naval Asylum, U.S. Bank, Merchants’ Exchange, and more. This issue also includes four additional plates, being north, south, east, and west views from City Hall, forming a panorama. The panorama plates are perhaps the most interesting in the work and are often lacking. Wild was well-known as a landscape artist and panorama painter. Shortly after this volume was published he moved to St. Louis, where he produced the first lithographically illustrated work issued there, The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated. The handsome views in this volume are some of the nicest American city views of the period. There are two issues of this book, the present issue and another with the title, Views of Philadelphia.... The other issue has only twenty plates, omitting the four panorama plates present here. Howes accords the Panorama and Views of Philadel- phia a “c” rating, while the other issue rates a “b.” The twenty-plate issue is quite scarce; the present issue, with the panorama plates, is extremely rare. HOWES W410, “c.” SABIN 103971. $9500.

178. [Williams, John]: THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE RETURNING TO ZION: OR, A FAITHFUL HISTORY OF REMARKABLE OC- CURRENCES IN THE CAPTIVITY AND DELIVERANCE OF MR. JOHN WILLIAMS.... Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall, 1795. 132pp. Contemporary half cloth and plain paper boards, printed paper label. Cloth and boards with light soiling and wear. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Text with light, even toning. Near fine, in unsophisticated condition. Untrimmed and mostly unopened. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and marbled boards slipcase, spine gilt.

The Frank C. Deering copy, with his gilt leather bookplate on the front pastedown. Styled the sixth edition on the titlepage, the first two editions being virtually unprocurable. One of the most famous and most popular captivity narratives. Williams, a Harvard graduate in charge of the church at Greenfield when it was attacked by Indians in 1703, was taken with others to Canada. His wife and two of his children were tomahawked on the way. Gagnon, in describing the first edition, calls the Williams narrative a work of great interest for Canadian history. “As a powerful picture of Indian cruelty, ranks next to the Rowlandson captivity narrative, published in 1682...” – Howes. HOWES W461, “aa.” EVANS 29893. VAIL 1044. TPL 141. GAGNON I, p.521 (note). AYER 308 (another ed). $1250.

179. Williamson, Peter: THE LIFE AND CURIOUS ADVENTURES OF PETER WILLIAMSON, WHO WAS CARRIED OFF FROM ABERDEEN, AND SOLD FOR A SLAVE. CONTAINING, THE HISTORY OF THE AUTHOR’S SURPRISING ADVENTURES IN NORTH AMERICA. HIS CAPTIVITY AMONG THE INDIANS, AND THE MANNER OF HIS ESCAPE.... Aberdeen: Printed by John Burnett, 1801. 144pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled paper boards, old shelf number stamped in gilt at foot of spine. Worn at spine ends with short crack at upper portion of rear joint, boards rubbed. An occasional bit of foxing or staining in the text. Overall, a very good copy in unsophisticated condition. Untrimmed. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The Frank Deering copy, with his gilt leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. A classic Indian captivity narrative, first published in 1758 under the title, French and Indian Cruelty. Vail calls this “the most popular of all Indian captivities.” Pe- ter Williamson was born in Scotland but was kidnapped and sold into bondage in Pennsylvania when he was eight years old. His master proved kind and ultimately his benefactor, leaving Williamson enough money to marry and establish himself on a farm near the forks of the Delaware. In 1754 he was captured by Indians, probably Delawares, held captive for three months, and submitted to various tortures and humiliations. Escaping in January 1755, he joined the army and was first sent to Boston, then with the expedition to defend Oswego. When Oswego was captured by the French, he was wounded and taken prisoner. Finally he was paroled and sent to England, arriving in November 1756. Williamson seems to have been a popular figure in Scotland, whence he returned in 1758. Many chapbook editions of his captivity narrative appeared into the 19th century, but this is the first copy of this Aberdeen edition that we have owned. This copy is also interesting in having the bookplate of a Scottish circulating library on the front pastedown, reading: “W. Cockburn’s Circulating Library, Instruther. Where may be had, every article in the Book & Stationary Line.” VAIL 1267. SABIN 104480. AYER 324. HOWES W500. $1500.

A Nice Colonial Sammelband

180. [Yale University]: [SAMMELBAND OF SIX 18th-CENTURY CON- NECTICUT IMPRINTS RELATING TO YALE UNIVERSITY, IN- CLUDING TWO SETS OF STATUES FOR YALE COLLEGE]. New Haven & New London. 1754-1764. Late 18th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Some headlines shaved. Minor foxing and toning. Very good.

These important pamphlets relate to the controversies at Yale University during the Great Awakening, along with two versions of the regulations of the college. In response to the preaching of George Whitefield, President Clap assumed control of the main New Haven Church, preaching his own version of Protestantism. When townspeople protested, Clap defended his independence as in keeping with the statutes and traditions of the third oldest university in the colonies. Clap cited the Westminster catechism and the Saybrook Confession to defend his strict, evangelical, Calvinist preaching. The debate over free religious expression at Yale represents an episode which takes place not only elsewhere in the colonies but throughout American history. Items in the volume are as follow:

1) Collegii Yalensis, Quod est Novo-Portu Connecticutensium, Statuta, a Praeside et Sociis Sancita. [New Haven]: Jacob Parker, 1759. [2],25,[1]pp. EVANS 8523. TRUMBULL 1719. 2) Collegii Yalensis, Quod est Novo-Portu, Connecticutensium, Statuta, a Praeside et Sociis Sancita. [New Haven]: Benjamin Mecom, 1764. [2],25,[1]pp. EVANS 9885. TRUMBULL 1720. 3) Clap, Thomas: A Brief History and Vindication of the Doctrines Received and Es- tablished in the Churches of New-England, with a Specimen of the New Scheme of Religion Beginning to Prevail. New Haven: James Parker, 1755. 44,[1]pp. EVANS 7386. TRUMBULL 474. 4) Clap, Thomas: The Religious Constitution of Colleges, Especially of Yale-College in New-Haven in the Colony of Connecticut. New London: T. Green, 1754. [2],20pp. EVANS 7171. TRUMBULL 473. JOHNSON 597. 5) [Darling, Thomas]: Some Remarks on Mr. President Clap’s History and Vindication of the Doctrines, &c. of the New-England Churches. New Haven: J. Parker & Co., 1757. 127pp. EVANS 7881. TRUMBULL 557. 6) Graham, John: An Answer to Mr. Gale’s Pamphlet; Entituled, A Calm and Full Vin- dication, &c. Relating to Yale College.... New Haven: James Parker & Co., 1759. 28pp. EVANS 8357. TRUMBULL 771. $6750.