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Silhouette Portraits of American Political Leaders 1. Brown, William H.: PORTRAIT GALLERY OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN CITIZENS, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, AND FAC- SIMILES OF ORIGINAL LETTERS. Hartford: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, 1845. 111pp., printed in double columns, plus twenty-seven plates and twenty-seven facsimiles, including frontis. Folio. Publishers’ half black morocco with brown cloth boards, gilt pictorial front board, blindstamped pictorial rear board, spine gilt, t.e.g., skillfully rebacked retaining original backstrip, corners renewed with black buckram. Boards shelfworn, occasional foxing throughout, a few tears to tissue guards. Very good overall. First edition of this dramatic work of visual biography. This impressively large scale work is notable for its lithographs of renowned Americans of the 1820s, ‘30s and ‘40s, showing the subjects standing in full-length silhouette profile, against a tinted background, resulting in effective and evocative portraits. All the portraits (save for the George Washington frontispiece) are based on sketches made from life by William Henry Brown (1808-1882), who was widely celebrated for his scissor portraits. Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes (with appropriate tinted backgrounds) were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best known lithographic firms of the period: the Kelloggs of Hartford, Connecticut. Included (after the necessary eulogistic frontispiece dedicated to Washington) are John Marshall, John Quincy Adams, Richard C. Moore, Andrew Jackson, John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard M. Johnson, Joel R. Poinsett, Alexander Macomb, Martin Van Buren, Samuel L. Southard, Henry Clay, Henry A. Wise, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White, Silas Wright, Na- thaniel P. Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon H. Lewis, and John Randolph. Each portrait is accompanied by another plate displaying a facsimile of the subject’s handwriting, usually in a piece of correspondence. According to Alice Van Leer Carrick, “Henry Clay wrote to Brown concerning the profile of his old political enemy, John Randolph of Roanoke, ‘It is the very perfection of your art’,” and that “Daniel Webster said of his silhouette, ‘I cannot, however, see its resemblance to the original as I do in all the others...[although] My friends unite in saying that the one you took of myself is a striking likeness’” (quoted in Peters, p.116). HOWES B871, “b.” SABIN 8578. PETERS, AMERICA ON STONE, pp.116- 17. $6000.

Francis Scott Key’s Copy of the Rarest Account of the Burr Treason Trial 2. [Burr, Aaron]: Wirt, William: TWO PRINCIPAL ARGUMENTS OF WIL- LIAM WIRT ON THE TRIAL OF AARON BURR, FOR HIGH TREASON, AND ON THE MOTION TO COMMIT AARON BURR AND OTHERS, FOR TRIAL IN KENTUCKY. Richmond: From the Press of Samuel Pleasants, 1808. [4],103,[1],104-221pp. Lacks the frontispiece portrait (see below). 16mo. Original calf, spine ruled in gilt, gilt leather label. Expertly rebacked, retaining the original backstrip. Bookplate on front pastedown (see below). Light toning and foxing, bottom edge of pp. 49/50, 55/56, and 59-62 untrimmed. Very good. From the library of Francis Scott Key with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Best known as author of the “Star Spangled Banner,” Key was also a prominent Washington-area lawyer. Published the same year that William Wirt, then future United States attorney general, was elected to the House of Delegates. His prestige was increased dramatically when he appeared for the prosecution of the case against Burr, prompting Jefferson to suggest Wirt seek a Congressional seat, which the latter declined. Burr was accused in 1807 with conspiracy to invade Mexico, seize New Orleans, and set up an independent government west of the Mississippi. Wirt’s two arguments were ultimately unsuccessful, and Burr and his co-conspirators were acquitted. A rare Burr item. Streeter’s copy contained a frontispiece portrait of Wirt by Saint-Mémin, which is not always present and is not present in this copy. HOWES W587. COHEN 14120. TOMPKINS 112. HARDISON 369. SABIN 104883. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 16753. STREETER SALE 1693. $4000. Letter Sheet of California Indians 3. [California Pictorial Letter Sheet]: [Hutchings, James M.]: HUTCHING’S [sic] CALIFORNIA SCENES. THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS [caption title]. [San Francisco]: Excelsior Print, [1854]. Quarto sheet of light blue paper, 11¼ x 9¼ inches, with the integral blank leaf (unused). With eight illustrations in the borders and text in double columns in center. Minor edge wear, chipped at lower left corner (not affecting text or images). Very good.

An attractive California pictorial letter sheet, featuring eight scenes of California Indians around the border of the sheet, with explanatory text in the middle. Scenes depicted are “Gathering Acorns,” “Gathering Seeds,” “An Indian Fandango,” “Catching Grasshoppers,” “Grinding Acorns,” “Mode of Travelling,” “Burning their Dead,” and “Cooking Food.” Male and female Indians are shown, with most of the females topless and bosomy. The illustrations are by the great artist, Charles Nahl, the “Cruikshank of California.” The text describes the scenes and California Indian social customs.

The publisher, James M. Hutchings, issued several pictorial letter sheets showing California scenes, and this was among his most popular. Baird notes two issues of this letter sheet, one with “Sun Print” listed as the printer, the other (as is ours) with “Excelsior Print.” The Excelsior Print is the scarcer of the two issues, and Kruska tells us that it was printed in an edition of 5000 copies. A handsome letter sheet, with dramatic scenes of California Indians. BAIRD, CALIFORNIA’S PICTORIAL LETTER SHEETS 105. CLIFFORD LETTER SHEET COLLECTION 102. KRUSKA, JAMES MASON HUTCH- INGS OF YOSEMITE 5b. $1250. An obscure work for an all but forgotten failed utopian experi- ment in Colorado in the late-19th century. The New Era Union utopia planned by Caryl was to be based on gold mining in the Centennial State. Caryl planned to incorporate the Gold Extraction, Mining and Supply Company at $10,000,000 of capital stock. As he writes, the “idea of the New Era Union is to provide employment for eight hours a day under the most favorable conditions, to all classes of honorable mental and physical labor.” Chapter six is titled, “Poverty and Misery to be Abolished; Women to be the Saviors of Mankind” and the last chapter promises “Universal Peace, Happiness and Prosperity for All Who Work for the New Era Union.” Gold Mining Utopia, with the Folding Plans Particularly notable in this copy are the two folding diagrams – almost always 4. [Caryl, Charles W.]: NEW ERA PRESENTING THE PLANS FOR THE lacking – illustrating the truly utopian ideal of the proposed “New Era Model NEW ERA UNION TO HELP DEVELOP AND UTILIZE THE BEST City.” The first is an artist’s rendering titled, “Sketch of Center of New Era RESOURCES OF THIS COUNTRY. ALSO TO EMPLOY THE BEST Model City.” The second plan, “Outline of Plan for New Era Model City” is an SKILL THERE IS AVAILABLE TO REALIZE THE HIGHEST DEGREE overhead schematic of the proposed city, with small vignettes of the city in each OF PROSPERITY THAT IS POSSIBLE FOR ALL WHO WILL HELP TO corner. Both plans highlight the main unique aspect of the proposed city, which ATTAIN IT BASED ON PRACTICAL AND SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS was to be laid out in radiating concentric circles METHODS. Denver. [1897]. 192pp. plus portrait frontispiece and two folding plans. Original blue cloth ruled in blind, title stamped in gilt on front board. “Plan to establish a new Utopia, which won the backing of Edward Bellamy and Minor edge wear, light soiling. One folding plan expertly repaired. Very good. others” – Wessen. WYNAR 1444. MIDLAND NOTES 89:128. $950. Presentation Set 5. Catlin, George: CATLIN’S NOTES OF EIGHT YEARS’ TRAVELS AND RESIDENCE IN EUROPE, WITH HIS NORTH AMERICAN IN- DIAN COLLECTION. WITH ANECDOTES AND INCIDENTS OF THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF THREE DIFFERENT PARTIES OF AMERICAN INDIANS WHOM HE INTRODUCED TO THE COURTS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM. London: Published by the author, 1848. Two volumes. xvi,296; xii,336pp., plus twenty-four plates. Printed slip bound in following p.302 in second volume. Original pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, spines gilt. Expertly rebacked, retaining original backstrips. Endpapers renewed, save for the original front free endpaper in the first volume, bearing Catlin’s presentation inscription. Cloth lightly rubbed. Old ink stain on p.91 of first volume, else clean internally. Very good. A presentation set, inscribed on the front free endpaper of the first volume, “Mr. A.B. Wright, from his friend, the author, Geo. Catlin 1848.” This is the second edition, published the same year as the first. This work ap- peared just as Catlin’s Indian Gallery reopened in London, only to be bashed by British critics who complained of “a recklessness and a roughness in some of his anecdotes” and “indelicate innuendoes and double entendres” (Dippie). Later printed under the title, Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium.... “Anecdotal though it is, Notes is a readable and revealing book in the classic satirical vein of the visitor from a foreign culture commenting on the peculiarities of civilized society” – Dippie. SABIN 11533. FIELD 256. Dippie, Catlin and His Contemporaries, pp.126-27 and passim. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 77 (note). $3750. Boston Printing of These First Documents of Revolution 6. [Continental Congress]: EXTRACTS FROM THE VOTES AND PRO- CEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA ON THE 5th OF SEPTEMBER 1774. CONTAIN- ING THE BILL OF RIGHTS, A LIST OF GRIEVANCES, OCCASIONAL RESOLVES, THE ASSOCIATION...PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE CONGRESS. Philadelphia: Printed. Boston: Re-printed by Edes and Gill...and T. and J. Fleet, 1774. 56pp. Later buckram with gilt library stamp on lower left of front board, gilt leather spine label. Ex-Harvard library (Ebeling Collection), with withdrawal stamps on front pastedown and titlepage verso initialed in pencil “W.A.J.” (William A. Jackson?). Bookplate of Israel Thorndike mounted on front pastedown. Some wear and ink annotations to titlepage, occasional foxing and tanning throughout. About very good. Uncommon Boston printing of one of the most significant documents of the American Revolution, condensing the most important proceedings of the First Continental Congress between September 5 and October 26, 1774. This pub- lishes the Declaration of Rights, passed October 14, by which Congress asserts the colonists’ rights as Englishmen and claims they were violated by the Stamp Act, the Townsend Act, the Coercive Acts, and the Quebec Acts. It further asserts their right to peaceably assemble and have their own legislatures. The Declara- tion is followed by the Association, by which the colonies bound themselves to an agreement regarding non-importation, non-exportation, and non-consumption of British goods, and resolved to reassemble the following May if wrongs had not been redressed. This is followed by two addresses, one to the people of Great Britain and the other to the inhabitants of the colonies, justifying the conduct of the Congress. These actions laid the basis for American resistance and organized rebellion which escalated into open warfare in the spring of 1775. Needless to say, the actions of the Continental Congress were of the greatest interest in the colonies, and these Extracts... were published first in Philadelphia while Congress was still sitting. Printings followed in Albany, Annapolis, Boston, Hartford, Lancaster, New London, New York, Newport, Norwich, and Providence, all in 1774. This is one of several Boston printings from that year. This copy came to Harvard through the generosity of merchant and politician Israel Thorndike (1755-1832). In 1818, Thorndike purchased the library of Ger- man scholar Christoph Daniel Ebeling, an expert in the history and geography of North America, and donated it to Harvard, substantially expanding library holdings and forming the core of the Harvard Map Collection. HOWES E247. EVANS 13729. ESTC W32254. SABIN 15528 (ref). REESE, REVOLUTIONARY HUNDRED 25 (ref). $3500. Hawaii and the Northwest Coast in 1812 7. Cox, Ross: ADVENTURES ON THE COLUMBIA RIVER, INCLUDING THE NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE OF SIX YEARS ON THE WEST- ERN SIDE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, AMONG VARIOUS TRIBES OF INDIANS HITHERTO UNKNOWN: TOGETHER WITH A JOUR- NEY ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT. London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. Two volumes. [iii]-xxiv,368; [iii]-viii,400pp. Lacks half titles. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt with raised bands and black and burgundy morocco labels. Small ink stamp at bottom of both titlepages. Light shelf wear. Occasional foxing and tanning. Very good. First edition of one of the two most important sources of information about Oregon in the early period. This work, along with Alexander Ross’ Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River (London, 1849), are generally considered to be the prime printed sources of information on the exploration and settlement of Oregon. Cox left Hawaii and arrived in Oregon with the Astoria party in 1812, later working for the North West Company. In 1817 he went overland to Montreal. “Cox’s narrative gives an excellent firsthand account of the fur trade and of the Indian tribes in Montana, Idaho, and eastern Washington with whom the fur traders dealt and sometimes fought. While Cox was making this journey the tension between Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Companies had become very acute and he gives a good account of their rivalry” – Streeter. WAGNER-CAMP 43:1. TWENEY 89, 10. HOWES C822, “aa.” PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 915. FIELD 376. SABIN 17267. JUDD 47. PEEL 83. COWAN, p.59. STREETER SALE 3702. HILL 390. FORBES 775. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 58. $2500. Presentation Copy 8. Devol, George H.: FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI. New York: George H. Devol, 1892. 300pp. plus frontispiece portrait and four plates. Original green cloth, gilt. Cloth moderately rubbed, light edge wear. Previous owner’s signature and presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Titlepage partially torn at gutter, not affecting text. Lightly toned. A very good copy. Rare presentation copy of the second edition of the classic work on riverboat gambling, by one of the few sharks to write his memoirs in full. The first edi- tion was published in 1887, and copies are found with Cincinnati and New York imprints. In the present copy, a former owner writes on the front free endpaper that this copy was “Presented by the Author (Geo H. Devol), at the Monmouth Park Race Track July 8th, 93.” Though this is a secondary inscription, presenta- tion copies of any kind of Devol’s works are exceedingly rare and highly desirable. George H. Devol was a notorious 19th-century gambler, and the bane of suckers and sharpers throughout the rivers and towns of the Mississippi Valley. As he explains in the lengthy subtitle, Devol could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven, and stack a deck at fourteen; he bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican-American War; won hundreds of thousands from paymasters, cotton buyers, defaulters, and thieves; fought more rough and tumble fights than any man in America; and was “the most daring gambler in the world.” George Devol was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1829, was running a keno game by the time he was fourteen, and quickly built a small fortune by running games and taking his cut. He moved on to three-card monte and other card games on Mississippi River steamboats, and claims to have made friends with slaves at some of the big plantations along the river, so that he could impersonate the planta- tion master if he had to get off a boat and out of a tight situation in a hurry. His work is equal parts a boasting memoir of a colorful career, and an apologia for a life lived in the shadows of polite society. “Rarely did he comment on anything not directly associated with his vocation. His description of the Wilson Rang- ers, a cavalry company of New Orleans gamblers who attempted to defend that city against General Butler in 1862, contributes little to military history, but it is interesting reading” – Clark. One of the most important memoirs of a 19th-century American gambler, and especially desirable as this copy was given to the original owner by Devol himself. HOWES D295. CLARK III:297 (ref). GRAFF 1071 (ref). EBERSTADT 105:108 (ref). $1500. “REMEMBER – A REPUBLICAN President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, broke your SHACKLES and set you FREE.” 9. [Election of 1912]: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT AFRO-AMERICANS STOP! READ! THINK! [caption title]. [N.p., likely Washington, D.C. ca. 1912]. Broadside affixed to thin board, 10 x 4½ inches. Minor staining and rubbing, mild wear to corners, printer’s stamp at bottom rubbed away. Very good. A seemingly-unrecorded but fiery campaign card aimed at African-American vot- ers and printed by the Republican Party during the 1912 Presidential campaign, a hotly-contested three-way race between Democratic nominee Woodrow Wil- son, the Progressive Party’s (aka Bull Moose Party’s) Theodore Roosevelt, and incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft. Wilson eventually won rather handily, with 435 of the 531 electoral votes and 41.8% of the popular vote. The present campaign handbill encourages African-American men to “Remem- ber” ten points of information relating to the Republican Party’s history with black voters, the other candidates’ deficiencies in this area, and President Taft’s achievements for black voters. For instance, “REMEMBER – A REPUBLICAN President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, broke your SHACKLES and set you FREE.” Also, “REMEMBER – A REPUBLICAN Administration gave you opportunity to EDUCATE yourselves and your CHILDREN, to buy homes, to accumulate wealth, to be MEN NOT SLAVES.” The text excoriates Teddy Roosevelt, as follows: “REMEMBER – The BULL MOOSE LEADER of the Progressive Convention REFUSED RECOGNITION to SOUTHERN Negro delegates, in order to bid for WHITE VOTES in the SOUTH where you are practically DIS- FRANCHISED.” Of Wilson’s Democratic Party, the text exclaims, “REMEMBER – The DEMOCRATIC PARTY gave you SLAVERY, DISFRANCHISEMENT, SEGREGATION and DEGRADATION.” Touting President Taft’s successes, one of the points reads: “REMEMBER – Under the TAFT ADMINISTRATION there are 22,000 Afro-Americans in the PUBLIC SERVICE of the Country, and they receive $12,500,000 in salaries.” The last point references Frederick Douglass: “REMEMBER – The words of your own great Douglas [sic], “THE REPUBLI- CAN PARTY IS THE SHIP; ALL ELSE IS THE SEA.” The broadside is especially interesting for having emanated from the Department of Woman’s Work of the Republican National Committee during a time when women were still prohibited from voting themselves. The handbill is signed in print at the bottom by the chair of the Department of Woman’s Work, Helen Varick Boswell and the secretary, Mary Wood. We could locate no other copies of the present broadside in OCLC or auction records. $850. Selling Housewares and Hardware in Federal-Era Boston 10. Foster, James: FRESH IMPORTED HARD-WARE GOODS. JAMES FOSTER, AT HIS STORE, No. 7 ANN STREET, AND NO. 7 NORTH SIDE THE MARKET, [BOSTON] IMPORTS, AND HAS FOR SALE, AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF CUTLERY, IRONMONGERY, AND HARD-WARE GOODS.... [Boston. ca. 1805]. Letterpress broadside, 11¾ x 7¾ inches. “Boston” inscribed in ink after “Market,” on recto. Manuscript receipt on verso, dated August 10, 1805 and signed by James Foster. Old folds, three-inch closed tear at left edge of center fold (no loss to text), moderate foxing. Very good. Well-preserved broadside advertising James Foster’s hardware store in two loca- tions. Foster offers just about everything, from spoons, nails, a variety of cast iron goods, and hooks, to “windowblind hinges,” “best English glue,” “pewter and japanned wares” and even “English, Dutch and American gunpowder.” Text at the bottom of the broadside notes that Foster is willing to barter his goods for “hollow ware, cut and wrought nails, scythes, hoes and shovels.” The manuscript receipt on the verso, signed by Foster, lists “thumb latches” and “chest locks” among other items, with accounting in both pounds and shillings, and dollars and cents. While undoubtedly abundant at the time, advertising broadsides like these rarely survived unless they were pressed into service as receipts, as in this case. Foster is listed in the 1805 Boston Directory at his “no. 7, N. side market” address and in 1806 at the Ann Street address. We could find no copy listed in OCLC. A significant source of information on the selling – and buying – of goods in early 19th century Boston. $650. Unrecorded Fruit Planting Broadside 11. [Fruit Trees]: Heiks and Company: INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLANTING AND CULTIVATING FRUIT TREES [caption title]. Dayton, Oh.: Gazette Print, October 29, 1852. Letterpress broadside, 12¾ x 8¾ inches, with ornamental border. Old folds, minor foxing, two ink spots in left margin. Very good.

A seemingly-unrecorded broadside detailing instructions on the planting, cultivat- ing, culturing, pruning, gathering, and preserving of various fruit trees in Ohio in the middle of the 19th century. The nursery owners explain their reason for issuing the broadside: “Inasmuch as there are many persons though intelligent in other matters, who are altogether unacquainted with the cultivation of Fruit Trees, we the undersigned, deem it our duty to furnish all our patrons with printed instructions on the subject.” The broadside was produced by Heiks & Company of Dayton, who provide guidance on proper procedures for care of apple trees, peaches, grapes, and strawberries, with brief mentions of gooseberries, raspber- ries, and currants. Whether this broadside was given out to customers along with their purchases, or posted at the Heiks & Company nursery is unknown, but likely the former. A taste of the instructions, regarding apple trees, reads: “Make your rows thirty-three feet apart, each way, dig holes fifteen inches deep and two feet square, fill the hole, before setting in the tree, within ten inches of the surface with rich loam, – set in your tree in an erect position and to support it drive in a stake and attach the tree to it with a band of straw or some soft material. The ground around the tree should be kept loose and free from grass. Cultivate the spaces between the trees in potatoes, turnips or like crops. Pruning should be done in the months of June and July, or September. Cutting large limbs injures the trees.”

Little is known of the issuing company, Heiks & Co., other than they were a nursery in Dayton (and possibly Troy) for some time into the 20th century. We can locate no other copies of the broadside in trade, auctions, or on OCLC. This is, perhaps, a unique surviving example. $1250. In the Publisher’s Presentation Binding 12. Green, Jonathan H.: THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS; OR, THE AMERICAN OUTLAWS. Philadelphia: G.B. Zieber & Co., 1847. 192pp. plus five plates (including frontispiece). 12mo. Publisher’s red morocco, tooled in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Extremities worn, mild soiling to boards. Moderate foxing, plates toned. Withal, a very good copy, in the deluxe binding. First edition of one of the classics in American gambling literature, in the pub- lisher’s deluxe binding. The author is Jonathan H. Green (1813-87), renowned professional gambler and, later, reformer. Green was a gambler who became a crusader against illegal gambling, and this work is a lurid expose of crime, cheat- ing, and vice. In the introduction, Green says that this work is unlike any other he has ever written – unlike, in fact, any work ever before published in America: “It is not a mere exposure of gambling, nor yet an attack on the character of particular gamblers. It is a revelation of wide-spread organization – pledged to gambling, theft, and villainy of all kinds.” Howes calls this a sequel to Green’s Gambling Unmasked. “Exposé of a secret organization of gamblers and criminals. Pages 147-62 relate his trip to Texas and the Choctaws in 1833” – Eberstadt. A rare work on early American gambling. HOWES G367. SABIN 28534. EBERSTADT 162:355. $4500. With a Presentation Inscription from an Important Early Suffragist 13. [Griffing, Josephine S.]: Riddle, A.G.: THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO EXERCISE THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, UNDER THE FOURTEENTH ARTICLE OF THE CONSTITUTION. SPEECH OF A.G. RIDDLE, IN THE SUFFRAGE CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON, JANUARY 11, 1871. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, Printers, 1871. 16pp. Original self- wrappers, sewn. Minor foxing and mild staining to outer leaves, two old horizontal folds. Internally clean. Presentation inscription on titlepage reading. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed on the titlepage, “Regards of Josephine S. Griff- ing.” Griffing was a lifelong activist, and an early, vocal, and visible advocate for women’s suffrage. She served as Secretary of the inaugural National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee, and the National Woman Suffrage As- sociation, established just after the January 11, 1871 convention. Prior to this, Griffing was a noted abolitionist; after the Civil War, she moved to Washington, D.C. to work for the Freedmen’s Bureau. Sadly, she died of consumption the year after this convention was held, and was sorely missed by the early women’s suffrage movement. This is the revised edition, published the same year as the first and probably just afterwards, of A.G. Riddle’s speech before the landmark January 11, 1871 National Women’s Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C. In early January 1871, Isabella Beecher Hooker and several other notable suffragettes, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Julia Ward Howe, and Susan B. Anthony organized a national convention in Washington “for the purpose of pressing upon Congress the immediate passage of a Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution...” which would guarantee voting rights for women. They organized the convention at their own expense. The present work prints Riddle’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in support of Elizabeth Woodhull’s “Memorial” to the same committee in favor of woman suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton entreated Riddle to speak broadly on behalf of women’s suffrage, and make the argument that “the women of these United States are full and complete citizens – citizens as fully as it is possible for men to become, though not permitted to exercise the elective franchise.” While supporting women’s efforts in requesting the passage of a Sixteenth Amend- ment to the United States Constitution, Riddle effectively presents women’s suffrage as a natural right of self-government and puts forth the argument that the Fourteenth Amendment already guarantees women the right to vote. Riddle builds his argument around the assertion that women are citizens of the United States, and the language of the Constitution does not limit its protections to “all male persons, nor all white persons, but ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States, subject to the jurisdiction thereof...’.” Riddle lays blame for lack of extension of the franchise right to women guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment at the feet of Congress, who never recognized the right. Towards the close of his speech, Riddle states: “We men have made all institutions for men, and for men alone; we never con- “Henahan” on page 3; the middle spelling is the correct one. The pamphlet sulted woman. We have said she was nobody, and nowhere; or, if she was found includes photographic portraits of Hanehan at various ages (including one of his anywhere, she was out of her sphere, and must go back to nowhere immediately, aged self and his granddaughter), his wife, and his daughter. A scarce work in and to nobody. We have gravely assumed that we understood her nature and trade, with a smattering of institutional copies. $650. character better than she did herself....Let woman speak for herself. Give her a chance to speak as man speaks, by precisely the same language, and in the same manner, and then reverently incline your heads, and listen to what she says.” The text of Riddle’s speech is followed by an appendix printing the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. A cursory examination of this revised edition with the first printing of Riddle’s speech yields numerous minor textual differences, mostly in phrasing. Albert Gallatin Riddle was an Ohio-trained Free-Soiler, abolitionist, and lawyer, who defended the Oberlin slave rescuers in 1859. Shortly thereafter, he served as a Ohio Representative to Congress during the early years of the Civil War, during which time he made the first speech on the House floor in favor of arming slaves. He then served as U.S. consul to Cuba until 1864. After the war, Riddle helped prosecute presidential assassin John Surratt, and continued as an active member of the legal community in Washington, D.C., including his time as head of the legal department at Howard University. Not in Krichmar. An early and scarce entry into the Constitution-based argument for women’s suffrage – a movement that would come to be known as the New Departure – with a presentation inscription from an early and important suffragist. SABIN 71265 (note). $2000.

A Multiple Murderer Confesses...Fifty Years Later 14. [Hanehan, James]: A THRILLING STORY OF JAMES HANAHAN [sic] ALIAS JAMES D. BURTON AUCTIONEER FIFTY YEARS A FUGITIVE [wrapper title]. [N.p., but perhaps St. Louis? ca. 1912]. 32pp., including photo- graphic portraits. Small octavo. Original red wrappers printed in black. Moderate edge wear, dampstains and soiling to rear wrapper, affecting last blank leaf. Even toning to text. Withal, very good. The remarkable tale of James Hanehan, who walked into the offices of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1912 and confessed to killing two men in 1865, just at the close of the Civil War. At that time, Hanehan claims to have killed Michael Carney and Frank McGuire in Clarksville, Tennessee and that he also later shot George T. Bowes in Kansas City. After his dastardly deeds, Hanehan changed his name to James D. Burton, fled to various places, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Louisville, Oklahoma, Texas, and other locations, where he partici- pated in a series of failed businesses and schemes before finding some success as an auctioneer in Philadelphia and later Louisville. The text is in the form of an extended first-person narrative and confession, and includes an affidavit by Hanehan that it was accurately recorded. In the present work his last name is spelled variously as “Hanahan” on the front wrapper, “Hanehan” on page 2, and Small Archive on European Emigration to North America in the 1850s 15. [Immigration]: [Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam Ship Company]: English immigrants from Liverpool. In the 1840s, Philadelphia was eclipsed by [STEAMSHIP MANUSCRIPT MANIFEST, LARGE ENGRAVED ADVER- the port of New York, only to regain prominence with the introduction of steam TISING BROADSIDE, AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS RELATING navigation, and the formation of the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam Ship TO EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION TO NORTH AMERICA THROUGH Company (LPSSC) in 1849. Between 1847 and 1854, over 120,000 immigrants THE RICHARDSON BROTHERS IN THE EARLY 1850s]. Liverpool & arrived through the port of Philadelphia, making the city the fourth-busiest port Philadelphia. 1850-1852. Five items, detailed below. Overall very good. in the country during those years. A small but important collection of documents recording the immigration of Established by William Inman in partnership with the Richardson Brothers (devoted Western Europeans to Philadelphia, California, Canada, and other North American Quakers), and headquartered in Liverpool, the LPSSC established a Philadelphia locales aboard the ship City of Glasgow in 1852. Starting in the 1820s, Philadelphia branch with Thomas Richardson as its agent in 1850. The company acquired became a leading port of entry for sailing vessels carrying predominately Irish and its first ship, the City of Glasgow in October of that year. The company’s first passage from Liverpool to Philadelphia left on December 17, 1850, carrying 400 New York – is listed prominently here, along with steamships named after the passengers, and arrived in Philadelphia just ten days later. Refitted in 1852, the cities of Manchester, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. City of Glasgow was also the first steamship to carry steerage passengers, trans- porting thousands of European emigres to the Eastern seaboard of the United The broadside is packed with information, including travel schedules for the States over the next two years. Sadly, in March 1854, the City of Glasgow simply company’s four ships running between Liverpool and Philadelphia from August disappeared on its way from Liverpool to Philadelphia with 430 passengers, and to November 1851; rates of passage, enumerated at 22 guineas from Liverpool for its fate and whereabouts remain a mystery today. cabin and steerage at 13 guineas (both prices constituting months-worth of wages for the common laborer); rates of freight at “60s. per ton”, with free forwarding The present collection includes the following: services for goods traveling to “the interior of the United States,” and railway and boat ticket prices from Philadelphia to New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cincin- 1) Report or Manifest of All the Passengers Taken on Board the City of Glasgow S.S.V. nati, and Charleston, with steamer service to Havana from the latter. Whereof William Wylie Is Master, from Liverpool...[beginning of text]. Philadelphia: Maurice, Stationers, August 9, 1852. [15]pp., docketed on verso. Oblong folio. A 3) A Meeting of the Merchants and Citizens Generally of the City of Philadelphia...to couple of short closed marginal tears, else very good. A partially-printed mani- Celebrate the Arrival of the Steamer “City of Glasgow,” the First of the New Line of fest, completed in manuscript, listing 311 passengers on the newly-refitted City Steamships Established to Ply Between This Port and Liverpool [caption title]. [Phila- of Glasgow single-screw steamship. About 100 passengers are listed with cabin delphia]: Mason & Maas, [n.d., but November 1850]. Broadside, on a single folded seats, while over 200 are assigned to steerage; interestingly this was the first year sheet, docketed on verso, 10 x 7¾ inches. A small broadside notice in which the passengers were allowed in steerage for overseas travel. “merchants and citizens” of Philadelphia anticipate the arrival of the new City of Glasgow steamship after its maiden voyage from Liverpool, which occurred the Each entry records the passenger’s name, occupation, native country, and country next month. Below the announcement are four columns listing over 150 notable of destination. The male passengers are mostly tradesmen, though there are also Philadelphia figures or businesses, headed by the mayor and other officials. This merchants, engineers, distillers, brewers, shopkeepers, a music teacher, vocalists, example of the notice was posted to Hon. William D. Lewis, collector of the port; farmers, lawyers, and more. Most of the female passengers’ occupations are re- his is the second name listed after the mayor’s. corded as “none” (as are a great deal of the men) though one woman is listed as a “shoe binder.” The country of origin for most of the passengers is either England, 4) [Three Partially-Printed Receipts for Richardson Brothers Freight Duties in Scotland, or Ireland (this is just a few years after the mass exodus caused by the 1852]. All three receipts made out to John Pennington and signed by Thomas Great Potato Famine), but a healthy number of passengers hail from Germany. Richardson during his time in Philadelphia. The first for the “Steam Ship City Almost all of the passengers hope to settle in the United States, but a handful of Glasgow” is dated January 7, 1852; the second, for the “Steam Ship City of are heading for Canada, and one passenger to Peru. Three farmers from Ireland Pittsburgh” is dated April 20, 1852; the last, dated July 12, 1852 pertains to the are headed to California specifically, and other cities identified by name include “Steam Ship City of Manchester.” Baltimore, Pittsburgh, New York, and Toronto. Ages of the passenger range from six months to seventy-two years. A vital record of European emigres to North 5) Propeller Steamship “City of Glasgow,” of the Liverpool and Philadelphia Line, Head- America during a brisk era of immigration. ing Down the Delaware [caption title]. [Boston]: F. Gleason, [n.d.]. Handcolored engraving, 6 x 10¾ inches. Toned, trimmed. Good. Matted. Removed from an 2) Steam Communication Monthly from Liverpool to New York, Baltimore, Pittsburg undated issue of Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. A handsome engraving [sic], Cincinnati, Charleston, Havana, &c., By Way of Philadelphia. Liverpool: T. showing the famous Philadelphia steamship that brought thousands of European Brakell, Printer, [n.d., but 1851]. Illustrated broadside, 17½ x 11¼ inches. Old emigrants to new lives in America, then disappeared in the North Atlantic in 1854. folds, minor creasing. Very good. A striking and apparently unrecorded broadside marking both the revitalization of the port of Philadelphia as a destination for A unique collection of material relating to European emigration to the United immigrants to the United States, and steam navigation as the means by which States in the early 1850s, with a manuscript manifest containing vital information they traveled. The Richardson Brothers’ first steamship the City of Glasgow – the on over 300 American immigrants. The collection informs both the human side first steamship to demonstrate that Atlantic steamers could operate profitably and the business side of immigration, providing a deep picture of the complexi- without government subsidies and the first steamship to travel from Glasgow to ties involved with leaving a homeland for better opportunities in the New World. $3250. Baba’s Alien Registration No. as 4115648, his full name, and includes his right index fingerprint and a small passport-style portrait photograph of him. On the last page of the document, Baba has tipped in a small newspaper clipping listing the U.S. District Attorney for Los Angeles, the Director of the Immigration Service, the Alien Registration Division office, and the FBI (likely printed in some publication as a guide to Japanese Americans who were being forcibly evacuated in early 1942).

Baba, who lived on Vermont Avenue in Los An- geles, was assigned to the Granada Relocation Center (aka Camp Amache) in Colorado, evi- denced by a partially-printed letter, signed, laid into the Alien Registration card. Wartime “Papers” of an Interned The form letter is titled, “War Relocation Authority Alien’s Indefinite Leave.” Japanese Man Living in Los Angeles The document grants Baba, “an alien of Japanese nationality residing in Block No. 10E-1A” indefinite leave from Granada Relocation Area on May 5, 1943 in 16. [Japanese-American Internment]: Baba, Komao Nobu: [ALIEN REG- order to travel to Camp Savage in Minnesota. The letter is signed by the project ISTRATION CERTIFICATE OF IDENTIFICATION FOR A YOUNG director at Granada, James G. Lindley. JAPANESE ISSEI IN LOS ANGELES IN 1942, ACCOMPANIED BY AN INDEFINITE LEAVE LETTER FROM CAMP AMACHE]. Los Angeles. Baba was most certainly sent to Camp Savage to participate in the United States February 9, 1942. [3]pp., plus a partially-printed letter, signed, laid in. 16mo. Military Intelligence Service’s language school, which moved from San Francisco Original pink paper wrapper, partially printed and completed in manuscript, and to Minnesota in June 1942. At the language school, both Issei and Nisei men additional thick card printed covers. Small tape repair at bottom edge of front were trained to translate captured documents, assist in interrogations of Japanese wrapper, newspaper clipping affixed to last page. Very good. war prisoners, serve as interpreters for American military units, and help the American war effort however their language skills might do so. A sobering document of the Japanese-American internment period. This Alien Registration ID card belonged to Komao Nobu Baba who was born in Japan Little else is known of his wartime service, but unlike a great deal of Japanese in 1905, but had lived in the United States for nineteen years by the time the Americans sent to Minnesota, Komao Nobu Baba returned to California after the ID card was mandated and issued. The document lists Baba’s date and place of war. He died in San Francisco on Sept. 4, 1958, age 53, and is buried at Cypress birth, notes his citizenship as “Japan,” gives his length of American residence, Hill Memorial Park in Petaluma. The present document stands as a sad reminder address, height, weight, hair color, and distinctive marks. The facing page lists that his short life was decidedly more difficult than it should have been. $1250. Celebrating the Japanese Americans of Southern California 17. [Japanese-American Photographica]: Akashi, Kaoru, photographer & Los Angeles in the early 1920s. Though internment during World War II was publisher: HEIWA KINEN SHASHINCHO: NANKA ZAIRYU DAIHYOTEKI some twenty-plus years into the future, it is certain that some of the businesses NIHONJIN [in Japanese characters] [translated in English as ALBUM COM- featured here were lost at that time. MEMORATING PEACE: REPRESENTATIVE JAPANESE RESIDENTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA]. [Los Angeles: Parisu Shashinkan, 1922]. [408] The photographs are mostly printed full-page, or usually with no more than two pp., profusely illustrated throughout with half-tone photographs with captions photographs on any given page. The album opens with introductory text, a few in both Japanese and English. Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth, bound in pages of pictures featuring Japanese dignitaries, and some general images of vari- Japanese style, gilt titles on front board, string bound, a.e.g. Edges worn, with ous landmark locations around southern California, before turning to Japanese- minor vermin damage, boards rubbed and a bit soiled. Occasional minor dust- American settings exclusively for over 300 pages. These begin with the “Center soiling and thumb-soiling to text. In very good condition. of Japanese Business District” in Los Angeles, and include a vast array of people and their families, Japanese-owned shops, factories, hotels, restaurants, nurser- A phenomenal and important photographic record of Japanese and Japanese- ies, dozens upon dozens of ranches, farms, and numerous other businesses – both American people and their businesses in southern California in the early 1920s, exterior and interior views. Photographs of people and their families outside produced by a Japanese-American photographer. The title of the work indicates their homes are often captioned with relevant professional information, and that it was produced after World War I, to reinforce friendly relations between Japanese-American owners of businesses are usually identified next to the name Japan and America. An alternately-translated title sometimes assigned to the book of the business. All the photographic images, whether residential or business in reads, The Famous Japanese in Southern California: A Commemorative Picture Book nature, include addresses. of Peace. It provides valuable visual evidence of Japanese-American life around A small selection of highlights include the residence of the Japanese consul and yellow pages for Japanese-Americans in 1922 southern California. “Photographs a picture of the consul and his family; Keystone Ladies Tailoring College; the of individuals, families, shops, businesses, farmlands, etc. in Southern California. Tomio Company Department Store; the interior of Tenshodo Drug Store; Ameri- Akashi Kaoru was a photographer and the owner of Parisu Shashinkan in Little can Produce Company; the interior of the California Candy Company; both an Tokyo” – Japanese American National Museum. interior and exterior of New Standard Rubber Co.; the Bunrin-do bookstore; Rafu Hardware Store; the interior of the Mitamura Seed Company; Toyo Fruit and OCLC records just one copy of the original publication of this work, at the In- Produce Company; a workday scene showing dozens of Japanese women inside ternational Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. Also, according to New Vernon Basket Corporation; Harada Restaurant; Asahi Nursery; Sugar Beet its bibliography of pre-World War II Japanese-American rarities, the Japanese Ranch; White Point Radium Spring; L.A. Sea Food Company; the Japanese As- American National Museum holds three copies. The other copies listed on OCLC sociation & Church of Buddhist; Empire Printing Co.; and literally hundreds of pertain to a 2006 reprint published in Tokyo by Bunsei Shoin. others. The last page has a picture of the photographer, Akashi Kaoru, with the An exceedingly rare and important photographic chronicle of Japanese-American address of his studio on East First Street in Los Angeles. life in California during the 1920s. Given that the photographs of people and businesses are captioned with addresses, JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM PRE-WORLD WAR II PE- the work is practically a photographically-illustrated combination white pages and RIOD ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 20. OCLC 1021010478. $7500. circular vignette of a pig; the top right corner the same for a steer. The bottom left corner notes the broadside was printed by the Union Bank Note Company. A small printed notice in the border below the bird’s-eye view reads “Drawn by E.A. Filleau, KC Mo.” Another identi- fies the publisher, W.A. Barbot, who created a handful of maps and views which seem to mostly center around the Denver area, including an 1891 Denver souvenir album, a perspective map of Denver in 1892, and a Denver trade and labor periodical in the 1890s. His presence in Kansas City is likely testament to the growing power of the stock yards on locations farther west, like Denver.

The Kansas City stock yards were established in 1871, largely by investors from Boston, who were attempting to create a rival cattle market to the one thriving in Chi- cago. Kansas City quickly grew a close second to Chicago through several factors, including a plethora of railroad lines, proximity to western and southwestern cattle pro- ducers, high-quality facilities, and competitive yardage fees. The stock yards were built on the Kansas side of the Kansas River south of the tracks belonging to the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific, and Missouri Pacific railroads, but soon expanded to parts of the Missouri side, as well. This helped make the Kansas City Stock Yards the premier hub for the Western cattle trade by the turn of the century.

Judging by the construction and the packing houses men- tioned here, this print was produced before the calamitous 1906 fire, from which the stock yards nevertheless quickly recovered. By 1917 the influence of the stock yards and packing houses was so significant to the national food sup- ply that they were intentionally burned, largely believed to be the work of German terrorists looking to slow down the war effort. Also helping to date the broadside is the Bird’s-Eye View of the Kansas City Stock Yards artist’s credit, belonging to Emery A. Filleau (1855-1935), a prominent New York-born artist who lived and worked in Kansas City until about the turn of 18. [Kansas City]: [Filleau, Emery A.]: KANSAS CITY. STOCK YARDS the century, when he moved to Houston, Texas. In fact, in Powers’ Texas Paint- AND PACKING HOUSES. Kansas City: Copyrighted and Published by W.A. ers, Sculptors & Graphic Artists, the authors contend that Filleau was already in Barbot, [ca. 1900]. Lithograph, printed in blue and black, 22 x 28 inches. Uni- Houston “before 1900.” According to Susan V. Craig’s Biographical Dictionary of formly toned, a handful of closed marginal tears. Very good. Shrink-wrapped to Kansas Artists (Active Before 1945), Filleau advertised himself in an 1894 Kansas acid-free foam core. City directory as “artist, designer, illustrator, and general sketch artist; portraits, An unrecorded promotional broadside for the Kansas City Stock Yards printed landscapes, buildings, birds-eye views and street scenes in all materials and for all around the turn of the 20th century. The piece was sponsored by Verner & purposes.” Filleau appears in OCLC as the illustrator for a handful of western- Scroggin, Live Stock Commission Merchants, with offices in the Live Stock related works printed in Kansas City during his time there, including Cowboy Life Exchange; their information is printed in a box just below the title. A central on the Sidetrack, Among the Ozarks, and Last Raid of the Daltons. bird’s-eye view of the stock yards is bordered on top and bottom by eight smaller This attractive view is not listed on OCLC, nor in Reps. A rare and significant vignettes of related companies, mostly meat processing and packing plants. These view of a location vital to the cattle trade. companies are Phoenix Packing Co., Alcutt Packing Co., George Fowler & Sons, Susan V. Craig, Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (Active Before 1945), p.123. Kansas City Horse & Mule Market, Jacob Dold Packing Co., Swift and Co., The Powers, Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists: A Biographical Dictionary of Armour Packing Co., and Kingan & Co., Limited. The top left corner has a Artists in Texas Before 1942, p.168. $6500. uct of Julius M. Keeler, who came to California in the Gold Rush twenty-five years previous to the publication of this map, and who in the early 1870s relocated to the Owens Lake district in Inyo County, eventually founding the town of Keeler. The map includes a great amount of geographi- cal detail. The various districts are individually colored and the various types of ores to be found are identified by letters corresponding to a key. For those foolhardy enough to consider cutting through Death Valley, it is noted that “emigrants perished here in 1850.” The map and the accom- panying text emphasize that gold and silver are still to be found in the county. The recreational aspects and natural resources of the area are pro- moted as well, describing the fishing potential of the lakes and rivers in detail, with attention paid to the Sierra Golden Trout. The view of Mount Whitney, from Lone Pine, is by Mollie Stevens, daughter of a local sawmill owner,

“Published to promote the potential mineral wealth of Inyo County and the recreational value of the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Mount Whitney region. The map names and defines the boundaries of the county’s mining Attractive and Important districts based on data provided by J.H. Crossman and several others acquainted with the area” – Currey & Kruska. The map was offered in three iterations: as a 19. Keeler, Julius M.: MINING MAP OF INYO COUNTY. San Francisco: plain sheet on fine book paper for fifty cents; on linen paper, in cover, seventy-five Lith. Britton & Rey, [1884]. Colored lithographed map, 16 x 17½ inches. Includes cents; and colored, in covers, for a dollar. The present example is the most deluxe a colored illustration of Mount Whitney, as well as descriptive text. Folding into of the three options, colored and in covers. OCLC locates a total of five copies: original printed paper wallet-style covers, printed advertisements on inner flaps. at the Bancroft Library, Stanford, the Huntington Library, the California State Fine. Library, and at Yale. There is also a copy at the St. Louis Mercantile Library. A scarce map of Inyo County in east-central California. The map promotes the Not in Rocq, though there is descriptive text of Inyo County. mining potential and recreational beauty of the county, which abuts the Nevada An attractive copy of the deluxe edition of an important California map. state line and encompasses both the highest point (Mount Whitney) and the low- CURREY & KRUSKA 222. NORRIS CATALOGUE 2375. OCLC 82959006, est point (Death Valley) in the continental United States. The map is the prod- 58899122, 21738688. $4500. The Gettysburg Address Published in New York the Day After the Event 20. [Lincoln, Abraham]: NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. Vol. XXIII....No. 7,061 [CONTAINING THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS]. New York. Nov. 20, 1863. 8pp., printed in six columns, on a single folded sheet. Large folio. Old vertical and horizontal folds, minor fraying to spine. A few small holes along folds or at cross-folds, but none affecting Lincoln’s address. Light occasional foxing and soft creasing. Very good overall. Untrimmed and unopened. The complete issue of the New-York Tribune printing the Gettysburg Address on the morning of Nov. 20, 1863, the first possible date of the speech’s printing. The previous day, Lincoln delivered his great address at the dedication of a cemetery on the Gettysburg battlefield four months after the bloody and pivotal battle that turned the tide of the Civil War in favor of the Union. Lincoln’s speech was preceded by an address from Edward Everett, the most famous orator of his day. Everett’s speech took between ninety minutes and two hours to deliver and today is largely forgotten. Lincoln’s speech, delivered in only a few minutes, stands as a supreme distillation of American values and of the sacrifices necessary for the survival of liberty and freedom. Much controversy surrounds the circumstances and content of the address as it was actually delivered at Gettysburg. The words spoken in the speech differ in the versions appearing in newspapers and the text which appeared in Washington several days later (published as The Gettysburg Solemnities and known in only four copies) which is now taken as the closest version to Lincoln’s final intent because of its correspondence to the known manuscript versions. Interestingly, and ac- cording to Carbonell, the text of the first appearance of the speech in book form, published a few days later as An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (Monoghan 193), is taken largely from this New-York Tribune printing. As it appears here, the address corresponds closely to the transcription printed in the same day’s edition of the New York Times, with slight variations in punctuation and capitalization (“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new Nation...,” in the Tribune, versus, “Fourscore and seven years ago our Fathers brought forth on this Continent a new nation...,” in the Times, e.g.). The address is printed on the first page at the bottom of the fifth column, running to the top of the sixth. Significantly, it notes the five places during Lin- coln’s speech where applause broke out, thereby providing an important historical record of the reception of the speech as it was delivered by Lincoln. It is noted that the conclusion of the speech was met with “long continued applause” and that “three cheers were here given for the President and the Governors of the States.” Lincoln’s speech is preceded by the opening prayer of the Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, and followed by Everett’s speech, which occupies the rest of the sixth column and the vast majority of space on page two. War news occupies the other column space on the front page. Together with examples from other newspapers of November 20, 1863, this is- This book is without a publication date, which remains uncertain; McGrath sue of the New-York Tribune represents the first appearance of any version of the guesses that it was probably printed in the early 1850s, while Bennett assigns a Gettysburg Address in print, although at some variance with the version Lincoln date of 1853. This copy, however, bears a faint ownership signature on the front eventually disseminated. The exact order in which the morning editions of No- free endpaper of “Henry Baird / 1848,” and a presentation inscription on a front vember 20 were printed is practically impossible to determine at this point, and as fly leaf reading “Bessie D. Baird / from her Husband / Philad. Oct 2, 1850,” Carbonell states, “will almost certainly never be known.” Rightfully so, Carbonell indicating a publication of at least 1850, and likely 1848. includes all November 20 morning newspaper printings of the Gettysburg Ad- Marzio, The Democratic Art, p.192. Wainwright, Philadelphia Lithography, p.86. dress as his first entry, with no priority. Suffice to say this is as early a printing McGRATH, p.105. BENNETT, p.71. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL of one of the foundational documents of American life as one can ever encounter. CHARACTER 89. $1250. “Lincoln’s speech, composed on the train on the way to Gettysburg and writ- ten down, according to tradition, on scratch-paper and the backs of envelopes, comprised ten sentences and took only a few minutes to deliver. From the first words – ‘Four score and seven years ago’ – to the last – ‘that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth’ – it is immortal, one of the supreme utterances of the principles of democratic freedom” – Printing and the Mind of Man. A handsome copy of this rare and important document. CARBONELL 1. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 72 (ref). STREETER SALE 1748 (ref). PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 351 (ref). HOWES E233 (ref). MONAGHAN 192 (ref). Paul M. Angle, “Four Lincoln Firsts” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society, 36, Spring, 1942, pp.13-17. For an outstanding analysis of the structure and importance of the Gettysburg Address, see Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg (New York, 1992). $9500.

Beautiful Color Printing 21. Mapleson, T.W. Gwilt: PEARLS OF AMERICAN POETRY. New York: Wiley and Putnam, [n.d., circa 1848]. 53 illuminated pages, mainly with highly gilded and decorated borders done in chromolithography. Small quarto. Bevelled black cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, raised bands, a.e.g. Rubbed along the joints and edges, corners worn; chip at head of spine repaired. Very clean and bright internally. Very good overall. A stunning example of a type of mid-19th-century American literary work em- bellished with chromolithographs, it is singled out by several writers as a fine example of the genre. The striking lithographic work was produced by the Brett and Sinclair firms of Philadelphia. The text consists of a number of poems, the title and author’s name preceding the verses themselves. “The illuminated border is different for each poem. Many of them contain miniatures of birds, animals, landscapes and human beings. The ‘pages’ are really hinged boards” – Bennett. Marzio calls the plates “brilliant” and Wainwright says: “The effect of this con- centration of color is almost blinding, the title page alone carrying an impact sufficient to stun the senses.” Mapleson, a talented book designer, produced several other, similar works, including A Handbook of Heraldry (New York, 1851) and Lays of the Western World (New York, 1849). Seeking a Medical Deferment in the Civil War 22. Menger, William A.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WIL- LIAM A. MENGER TO LOCAL ENROLLMENT OFFICER, F.B. FREN- KEL, SEEKING AN EXEMPTION FROM CONFEDERATE MILITARY SERVICE DUE TO A MEDICAL CONDITION]. San Antonio. February 1, 1865. [2]pp. on a single folded sheet, docketed on verso of integral blank. Original mailing folds, light creasing, minor surface and edge wear. Very good. A Civil War-era letter written by William A. Menger (1827-1871), the founder of the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. Menger was a German emigrant who found success in San Antonio with a brewery in 1855, then opened the Menger Hotel near the Alamo in 1859. The Menger Hotel found fame after Theodore Roosevelt used the lobby bar as a recruitment center for his Rough Riders. The Menger is, to this day, one of the Southwest’s preeminent hotels. In the present letter, Menger writes, in part: “I have the honor to submit for your consideration, the accompanying certificate of physicians, regarding my physical condition, and showing my total inability to do military duty ‘in the field.’ My disease is of long standing and as I am in- formed by physicians...incurable....While I am and always have been desirous of serving the Government in any capacity within my abilities, it cannot be a matter of indifference to me to be placed in a position where great bodily suffering, if not death, would be the inevitable result.” Menger’s plea to avoid military service in the Confederate Army came just two months before the end of the Civil War, and was apparently successful. He con- tinued to run his hotel for six more years until he died suddenly at the hotel in 1871, presumably from whatever illness he speaks of here (if, in fact, he had any illness at all). Menger letters are rare in the market, and we find none having appeared at auction. $850. Black Hawk Tells His Own Story 23. Patterson, J.B., editor: LIFE OF MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK OR BLACK HAWK...WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSE AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR, HIS SURRENDER AND CONFINE- MENT AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS, AND TRAVELS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES. Cincinnati. 1833. 155pp. 12mo. Original blue-grey paper- covered boards and muslin backstrip, printed paper spine label. Minor wear and soiling to boards, spine and spine label rubbed. Lacks front fly leaf. Moderate occasional foxing. Overall very good. The rare first edition, issued without the portrait, of an important Indian au- tobiography. The work was dictated by Black Hawk to Antoine Leclair, the U. S. Interpreter for the Sacs and Foxes, after the former’s trip to Washington in 1833. Black Hawk spearheaded the work in order to explain to Americans the reasons for his past conduct. Previously, Black Hawk led his people in a series of skirmishes against the United States military that would take his name, the Black Hawk War. The war was contested between Black Hawk’s Sauk Indians and the U.S. troops in Illinois, along the Mississippi, and in southern Wisconsin in the spring and summer of 1832. Black Hawk surrendered on Aug. 27, 1832 and, after a brief imprisonment, he and his son were taken to Washington, D.C. in the late spring of 1833. They met with President Jackson and toured other eastern cities, including New York City, drawing large crowds. “In the spring of 1832, Black Hawk and his band returned to an Indian village occupied by whites at the mouth of the Rock River in Illinois and] massacred nearly a score of whites, carried off two young women, and killed several settlers” – Hubach. “Black Hawk’s narrative is one of the very few important American Indian autobiographies” – Graff. HOWES P120 “b.” GRAFF 313. JONES 948. PILLING ALGONQUIN 49. HUBACH, p.72. DOROTHY SLOAN 9:135. FIELD 138 (1845 ed). MORGAN 2171. SABIN 5675 (ref). $1750. Bestseller of Its Time 24. Stratton, R.B.: CAPTIVITY OF THE OATMAN GIRLS: BEING AN family were murdered, one of the sons was left for dead, and Mary and Olive were INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF LIFE AMONG THE APACHE AND taken by the Apaches. Mary died in captivity and Olive was ransomed in 1856. MOHAVE INDIANS.... New York: Published for the Author..., 1859. 290pp. She was extensively tattooed, and went on tour to describe her experiences and including map and illustrations, plus five plates (including frontispiece) and 2pp. display her decorations. The book was tremendously popular in its time and a advertisements. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends and cor- bestseller. Wagner-Camp does not mention a “twenty-second thousand” edition, ners worn. Very light, occasional foxing; some tanning near the plates. Very good. but this might be their 294:6, which is referred to as the “twenty-first thousand.” The first edition, published in San Francisco in 1857, is extremely rare and the Later, enlarged edition (designated “twenty-second thousand” on the titlepage) second only slightly less so. of this popular Indian captivity. Copyrighted 1857, the third edition appears HOWES S1068. WAGNER-CAMP 294:6. AYER 284 (ref). SABIN 92742 (ref). with an 1858 titlepage (and a designation of “fourteenth thousand”), and has an FIELD 1515 (ref). RITTENHOUSE 542 (ref). REESE, BEST OF THE WEST identical collation to this 1859 edition. The Oatman family was attacked while 148 (ref). $600. travelling to California via the Old Santa Fe Route in 1851. Six members of the 25. [Texas]: PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF TEXAS OF KNIGHTS TEMPLARS, AT THE ANNUAL CONVOCATION, HELD AT HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, ON JUNE 22, A.D. 1855, AND OF THE OR- DER, 737. Seguin: Printed at the Office of the Texan Mercury, 1855. 21,[2]pp. Original printed yellow wrappers, stitched. Minor edge wear and toning, spine partially split. Two leaves with short tears in upper margin, text tanned. Still, a very good copy. A rare and early Seguin imprint containing the proceedings of the Knights Tem- plar annual convention in Huntsville for the year 1855, one of the earliest annual convocations of the group. The work lists the participants and the Grand Master’s Address reminiscing about the “glorious results” that had their beginnings in “the month of December, 1835, at the incipiency of our revolution, or of the revolution which resulted in separating Texas from Mexico.” The text reports the activities of the subordinate encampments, and includes lists of membership for each. The Knights Templar in Texas are related to the Masonic order. Scarce, with OCLC reporting just ten copies in institutions, almost all in Texas. WINKLER 569. OCLC 19694020. $850. Natural History of Australia 26. White, John: JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES John White, chief surgeon to the settlement in New South Wales, was also an WITH SIXTY-FIVE PLATES OF NON DESCRIPT ANIMALS, BIRDS, accomplished naturalist and herein describes the animals he discovered during LIZARDS, SERPENTS, CURIOUS CONES OF TREES AND OTHER his exploratory journeys in the new colony. The fine colored ornithological and NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. London: Printed for J. Debrett, 1790. [18],299,[40] other natural history plates are most attractive. The journal includes an impor- pp., including [4]pp. publisher’s advertisements, plus sixty-five engraved plates. tant account of a voyage from London to Rio de Janeiro, to Cape Town, and of Engraved titlepage. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and paper-covered other colonial voyages to Norfolk Island. Includes a subscribers list containing boards, spine decoratively gilt in panels, with red morocco label. Small label at some seven hundred names, which speaks to the contemporary interest in the foot of spine, red ink stamp (Röttger Graf von Veltheim) on verso of titlepage. South Pacific in the wake of Cook’s voyages. “White’s account contains many Moderate wear to boards and extremities, hinges a bit loose but still holding circumstances omitted by Governor Arthur Phillip and others. The long appendix strong. Light scattered foxing, occasional light offsetting from plates, but interior is very important as it describes the natural history of the new colony; the first very clean overall. Very good. major work of this sort” – Hill. Some copies, unlike this example, were issued with the plates colored. FERGUSON 97. WANTRUP 17. HILL 1858. NISSEN ZBI 4390. $4500. a transit or telescope and draw fauna. The upper right image depicts a group of sailors and Charles Wilkes, huddled to- gether on the snow surrounded by a ring of polar bears and an upturned rowboat, foxes, penguins and a campfire. They are flying an inverted U.S. flag to signal distress. At the bot- tom, between the two titles is an inset of the three Navy Commissioners, Isaac Chaucey, Charles Morris, and Alexander S. Wadsworth at sea in a bowl. They are framed Making Fun of the Wilkes Expedition by a shield surmounted by a jester, and flanked on the left by a man in naval uniform (James Kirke Paulding, Secretary of the Navy) and a sailor with a sad 27. [Wilkes Expedition]: Robinson, H.R. [publisher]: AN EXPLORING expression on the right” – Harry T. Peters Collection at the Smithsonian Institu- EXPEDITION ON THE CANAL STREET PLAN. THE EXPLORING tion (online catalogue). The print is “Respectfully inscribed to the Secretaries EXPEDITION AT THE SOUTH POLE, WAITING FOR STORES. New of the Navy and Army, and the Board of Navy Commissioners, by their humble York: H.R. Robinson, 1838. Lithograph, 12½ x 20 inches. Light foxing and soiling. servant, Robinson Crusoe.” Two short closed tears in the right edge and left edge of the sheet. Very good. Not in Reilly’s catalogue of American political prints in the Library of Congress, A very rare print satirizing the recently undertaken United States Exploring Expe- though OCLC does locate a copy at the Library of Congress. That is one of two dition commanded by Charles Wilkes. The Expedition departed in August 1838, copies listed on OCLC, the other copy is at the American Antiquarian Society. and Robinson’s eagerness to satirize it and the politicians who supported it is ample There are also copies in the Peters collection at the Smithsonian, and at the evidence that the endeavor was not universally popular. The print is made up of Australian National Maritime Museum. three humorous vignettes. “The upper left is Charles Wilkes in a rowboat with OCLC 299947747, 752795742. Herman J. Viola, ed., Magnificent Voyagers, the an oarsman and two members of the scientific corps who make observations with U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Washington, 1985), p.13. $9250. Early Woman’s Life Insurance Association 28. [Woman’s Benefit Association]: REVISED LAWS OF THE WOMAN’S BENEFIT ASSOCIATION. [Port Huron, Mi.: W.B.A. Print Shop], 1927. 252,lvii pp. 12mo. Tan pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Wear to extremities, lower right corner of front wrapper torn away, curling to lower right corner of first quarter of text block, internally quite clean. Very good. An apparently quite rare publication, this is the 1927 laws of the Woman’s Ben- efit Association (W.B.A.), one of the first organizations to offer life insurance to women. This volume outlines the W.B.A.’s organizational structure and mission statement, and includes policies governing state conventions, local chapters, as- sociation funds, member’s rights and responsibilities, admission of new members, tables of monthly rates and benefits, disciplinary procedures and appeals, and so forth. The W.B.A. was founded in 1892 by Sabina “Bina” West Miller (1867-1954), then a twenty-five year-old school teacher in rural Michigan, who soon became a prominent business executive and suffrage advocate. Prior to this, women had few options for financial security, and were usually deemed uninsurable because of the high mortality risk from the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. With $500 in borrowed capital, Miller travelled across the United States and Canada selling memberships and establishing local chapters wherever she went. Within ten years, she had enrolled over 100,000 members. These chapters acted as sup- port groups as well, where women could come together to support each other emotionally as well as financially. The W.B.A. is now known as Woman’s Life Insurance Society and continues to fulfill Miller’s vision, including the chapter system, and is still headquartered in Port Huron. Miller was also a notable figure in local, state, national, and international poli- tics. She was an advocate for women’s suffrage and traveled throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Near East, urging the vote for women. In 1928 she was named Michigan’s top businesswoman in a Detroit Free Press poll, and the Associ- ated Press called her “one of the five greatest women in America.” We find only one copy listed in OCLC, located at the Library of Congress. OCLC 867000873. $375.