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William Reese Company Rare Books, Americana, Literature & Pictorial Americana 409 Temple Street New Haven, Connecticut 06511 203 / 789 · 8081 fax: 203 / 865 · 7653 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.reeseco.com Bulletin 24: Provenance The ownership and travels of books can be as interesting as the books themselves. From the beginning of book collecting, provenance—where the item has been—has been important to collectors. This bulletin brings together a group of works notable in American history which are appealing, remarkable, or unusual for who owned them in the past. These fall into two general categories: books presented or owned by persons who lived around the time of publication, or books owned by famous or notable collectors in the field. In the first instance there are books owned by Presidents, and notables from John Locke to the Brit- ish Foreign Office. In the second instance there are items once in the collection of such famous collectors as George Brinley, Thomas W. Streeter, Frank Deer- ing, Frank Siebert, John Carter Brown, Sir Thomas Phillipps, Estelle Doheny, and others.

Thomas Jefferson’s Copy of an Important Work by John Quincy Adams

1. Adams, John Quincy: THE DUPLICATE LETTERS, THE FISHERIES AND THE MISSISSIPPI. DOCU- MENTS RELATING TO TRANSACTIONS AT THE NEGOTIATION OF GHENT. . . . Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, 1822. 256, 3pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco spine label (half chipped away). Boards rubbed, spine chipped and worn, front board nearly detached. Text tanned and foxed. Good. In a folding leather box, gilt morocco spine labels. A wonderful association copy, connecting John Quincy Adams (formed between selling his second collection to the Library of and Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was America’s first Secretary of Congress in 1815 and his death in 1826), and was sold at the dis- State and, as the country’s third president, concluded the Loui- persal of those books in 1829, where it was bought by a Virginia siana Purchase, a diplomatic coup of the first order. John Quincy lawyer and acquaintance of Jefferson, John Peyton. Adams, arguably America’s greatest diplomatic mind, was Secre- On October 11, 1822, Adams wrote to Jefferson presenting him tary of State from 1817 to 1825, before going on to serve as presi- with this copy of his book. Jefferson responded to Adams with a dent himself, from 1825 to 1829. This book is Adams’ examination letter from Monticello dated October 23. He returned “his thanks of the role he played in the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent, to Mr. Adams for the copy of the Ghent Documents which he which resolved the War of 1812, a conflict with roots in Thomas has been so kind as to send him. . . . The volume is a valuable gift Jefferson’s presidency. This volume was in Jefferson’s final library to his fellow citizens generally, and especially to the future historian whom it will enable to give correct ideas of the views of that treaty and to do justice to the abilities with which it was negotiated. He begs leave to salute Mr. Adams with assurances of his highest esteem and respect.” Books from Jefferson’s library are usually identifiable by Jeffer- son’s method of putting a manuscript “T” before the “I” signature mark in a gathering (the letter “J” not being commonly used), and a “J” following the “T” signature mark. The present book is not signed in letters, but in numbers, and so Jefferson has written his “T” before the signature numbered “1”, as was his custom in such volumes. This book was lot 691 in Nathaniel P. Poor’s catalogue of Thomas Jefferson’s library, sold at auction in Washington com- was on Jefferson’s shelves in his final library when he died. mencing February 27, 1829. It was purchased at that sale by John An outstanding association copy, linking two of America’s H. Peyton, whose ownership signature is on the front pastedown. most bibliophilic presidents to a book whose subject was of great Peyton’s provenance, and Jefferson’s characteristic mark, firmly personal and political interest to them both. establish this as the copy Adams gave Jefferson, and the one that sabin 276. shaw & shoemaker 7740. $65,000.

The Copy of the Wayward Son: Charles Adams’ Copy of His Father’s Famous Work

2. Adams, John: A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMER- ICA. London. 1787–88. Volumes two and three only (of three). [4], 451; [2], 528, [36]pp. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco spine labels. All boards present, though front board detached on volume two and rear board detached on volume three. Lightly tanned. Good. Lacks the first volume. tions of alcoholism at the age of thirty. The Uranian Society, to which these volumes were at some point given by Charles Adams, was a debating club under the auspices of Columbia College, and existed in New York from roughly 1788 to 1794. Records show that Charles Adams was a member, and he likely donated these volumes to the Society in an effort to develop their collection of use- ful books. This set lacks the first volume, and it is unlikely that we will ever know for certain whether John Adams personally presented these volumes to his struggling young son, Charles. It is known that John Adams provided financial support to his sons, John Quincy, Charles, and Thomas, especially when they were struggling early in their professional lives. Further, biographer Joseph Ellis notes that John Adams “sold his own horses in order to pur- This set bears the ownership signature of Charles Adams (1770– chase the most up-to-date law books for Charles.” It is not a wild 1800), second son of President John Adams, the author of this conjecture to suppose that, having likely given Charles a copy of work. The second volume bears a presentation inscription from the book when it was initially published in a one-volume edition Charles Adams on the front pastedown. There is also an inscrip- in London in 1787, John Adams supplied his son with these two tion on a front fly leaf of volume three reading “Uranian Soci- volumes when they were subsequently published. ety from Charles Adams,” likely in the hand of another person. John Adams’ Defence of the Constitutions is one of the most Though we cannot be certain, it is quite possible that President important and widely read of the many writings of the important Adams himself gave these volumes to his son, Charles. Revolutionary figure and second President. These second and Charles Adams graduated from Harvard in 1789 and moved to third volumes contain descriptions of the Italian republics of the New York, where he studied law for three years (for a brief period Middle Ages as well as a lengthy analysis of “the Right Constitu- in the office of Alexander Hamilton), established a practice in tion of a Commonwealth.” 1792, and married in 1795. Ultimately, Charles was a disappoint- howes a60, “aa.” sabin 233. dab i, p. 76. $7500. ment to his father, living a dissolute life and dying of complica-

Click on titles to view complete descriptions of the item and additional images where applicable. One of the Most Important American Color Plate Books, with a Fine Provenance

3. Audubon, John James: THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES. New York & Philadelphia: Audubon and J. B. Chevalier, 1840–1844. Seven volumes. 500 handcolored lithographed plates after Audubon. Half titles. Contemporary 19th-century green half morocco gilt, spines in six compartments with raised bands, red morocco label in the second, volume numbers tooled in gilt in the third The present set belonged to the actress, Charlotte Cushman, and lar, and important natural history books published in America in according to internal evidence, was given to her by John James the nineteenth century . . . [also] representing the best of pre-Civil Audubon himself. Cushman (1816–76) was the greatest actress of War American lithography and giving Audubon the opportunity her day, and at the height of her career was one of the most famous finally to display his scholarship and genius to a large American women in the English-speaking world. She honed her art in New audience for the first time” (Ron Tyler). York and Philadelphia in the late 1830s and early ’40s. Cushman The first edition of the octavo work is certainly the most famous played a variety of roles, including some of Shakespeare’s most and accessible of all American color plate books, and now repre- famous: Lady Macbeth, Cordelia, and – helped by her mascu- sents the only realistic opportunity that exists for collectors to line appearance – Romeo. She also excelled in contemporary dra- own an entire collection of Audubon images in a form that was mas, such as Sir Walter Scott’s play, “Guy Mannering.” Cushman overseen and approved by the great artist himself. The octavo Birds debuted in London in 1845 and took the British theatre world by of America was originally issued in 100 parts, each containing five storm. She spent the next thirty years performing in Europe, Brit- plates executed by the Philadelphia lithographer, J. T. Bowen. The ain, and the United States. whole story of the production of the book, with detailed informa- This is a very fine set of the first octavo edition of “Audubon’s tion about every aspect of the project, is told by Ron Tyler in Audu- Great National Work.” It is the first complete edition and the first bon’s Great National Work (Austin, 1993). American edition. The work is one of the “most beautiful, popu- $120,000. The “Gun-wad” Bible – the Doheny Copy

4. [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christopher]: BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTA- MENTS. . . . Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1776. viii, 992, 277, [1]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down. Some dampstaining and foxing; light wear to some leaves. Contemporary notations on end leaves; book label of Estelle Doheny on front pastedown. A good to very good copy of a rare work. This is the Estelle Doheny copy, with her leather book label on in an edition of 3000 copies, most are said to have been destroyed the front pastedown. Mrs. Doheny was one of the most prominent by the British during the battle. The present edition was printed book collectors of the twentieth century, collecting in a wide array by Christopher Saur II, son of Christoph Saur the elder, a native of fields, including American literature, California and the West, of Wittgenstein, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Ger- fine bindings, and early printed books. mantown, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to The third edition of the first European language Bible printed printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition; the son then in America, famously known as the “Gun-Wad Bible,” after its use printed a second edition in 1763. in the American Revolutionary War as cartridge paper during the A very nice copy of an important early American Bible, with an Battle of Germantown. It is also notable for being the first Bible excellent provenance. printed from type cast in America. Reputed to have been printed evans 14663. hildeburn 3336. sabin 5194. $6000. An Important Early History of Rhode Island

5. Callender, John: AN HISTORICAL DISCOURSE ON THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE COLONY OF RHODE-ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS IN NEW-ENGLAND IN AMERICA. FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT 1638, TO THE END OF FIRST CENTURY. Boston: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1739. [1], 14, 120, [1]pp. including errata on final printed page. Later 19th-century maroon pebbled morocco, gilt-stamped spine. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and head of titlepage, old institutional stamp on first page of dedication. Scattered foxing. Very good. This volume bears the provenance of the John Carter Brown mation concerning Roger Williams, religious freedom, Indi- Library and of noted Americana collector Matt B. Jones, with ans and Indian wars, etc., by the pastor of the Baptist church in their bookplates on the front pastedown. A note on the JCB book- Newport, Rhode Island, the second Baptist church in the United plate indicates this volume was sold as a duplicate in 1934, presum- States. An excellent Rhode Island item, and a far nicer copy than ably to Matt Jones. Jones sold his collection through Goodspeed’s the Laird Park copy, which brought $2040 in 2000. in 1940. sabin 10075. evans 4347. streeter sale 677. howes c74, “aa.” An important colonial history containing a good deal of infor- $2000. The Marquis of Lansdowne Copy

6. Cartwright, George: A JOURNAL OF TRANSACTIONS AND EVENTS, DUR- ING A RESIDENCE OF NEARLY SIX- TEEN YEARS ON THE COAST OF LAB- RADOR. . . . Newark. 1792. Three volumes. [2], xvi, [6], 287 [i.e. 295]; x,505; x, 248, 15pp. plus two large folding maps. Frontispiece portrait. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. First volume rebacked, neatly preserving original spine. Hinges on second volume cracked; those on third volume tender – both sound. Each spine stamped at the top with the crest of the Marquis of Lansdowne in gilt. Bright and clean internally, with wide margins. Very good. A subscriber’s copy of this important work on Newfoundland and Labrador. This copy is stamped with an “L” beneath a crown at the head of the spine – the ownership mark of William Petty, Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne who, most notably, presided over the peace negotiations with the new United States Cartwright determined to set up as a trader and entrepreneur in during his brief tenure as Prime Minister, and is famous for com- Labrador, and in 1770 he went on half pay to that end. Raids by the missioning the so-called “Lansdowne Portrait” of George Wash- Americans, competition between the English and French fisher- ington, the most iconic image of the first President. His name is men, and between the different English merchant houses, along found in the subscribers list in the first volume. with the hostility between the natives and Europeans, all made The author, formerly a British army officer, made six expedi- for an unstable business atmosphere during Cartwright’s time in tions to Newfoundland and Labrador between 1770 and 1786. The Labrador and Newfoundland. journals describe his explorations, hunting, and trapping along From the stations he established, he engaged with his servants the coast, and contain extensive descriptions of Indians, Eski- and sharemen in the fisheries for cod, salmon, and seals, and the mos, and the fauna he encountered. The two large maps depict trade in furs. The present work gives a fascinating insight into the the coast of Labrador, based on surveys made by Byron in 1770 business life of the region; but this work offers much else besides: and 1771, and the island of Newfoundland, based on a survey of a detailed record of the seasons with fine meteorological and natu- 1790. Robert Southey, who met Cartwright in 1791 and read this ral history observations as well as extensive notes on the numer- book in 1793, subsequently wrote that the author “had strength ous hunting expeditions that Cartwright undertook. The journal and perseverance charactered in every muscle...The annals of his is, above all, testimony to a persistent, curious, and resourceful campaigns among the foxes and beavers interested me far more mind. The book particularly struck many contemporary readers than ever did the exploits of Marlbro [sic] or Frederic; besides, I for its excellence of observation and straightforward style. saw plain truth and the heart in Cartwright’s book and in what lande 106. tpl 586. sabin 11150. dab vii, pp. 412–13. history could I look for this?” Following a career in the army, $6000. A Wonderful Presentation Copy, from Benjamin Franklin to DuPont

7. Cavallo, Tiberius: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF AEROSTATION. London: Printed for the author, 1785. viii, 326, [8]pp. plus two engraved folding plates. Dbd. (most of original rear wrapper is intact). Some loosen- ing of gatherings at spine. Light wear and soiling to titlepage. Minor soiling to text. About very good. In a calf clamshell box.

An influential scientific account of early aeronautical experi- DuPont’s first major work of political philosophy,Physiocracy . ments, and the first English-language treatise on the subject. While serving as American minister plenipotentiary in France, This copy has a presentation inscription from Benjamin Frank- Franklin took a keen interest in the first balloon ascents made by lin to Pierre Samuel DuPont, followed by a presentation inscrip- the Montgolfier brothers, witnessing the first unmanned ascent in tion from DuPont to his cousin. Written on the titlepage, the August 1783, and the first manned flight in November that year. inscriptions read: “To Mr. DuPont de Nemours from his obliged Franklin was among the eminent scientists who signed an official and obedt. servt. B. Franklin”; and beneath that, “A ma chere certification for the Montgolfiers (noted by Cavallo on p.50 of this cousin en Carolina, Aoust 1799, DuPont de Nemours Souvenir work). Cavallo describes the early balloon experiments in France de ‘BonHomme Richard.’” Though the inscription by Franklin is and England, speculates on the scientific principles they employ faint, it was authenticated by Edwin Wolf in his survey of books and envisions applications of the nascent science. Much of the work which had belonged to Benjamin Franklin. Since Franklin gave the is devoted to the Montgolfier brothers. When asked by a skeptical book away in his lifetime, it would not have been part of the final observer what practical use a hot-air balloon might be, Franklin library he assembled in Philadelphia at the end of his life. Franklin famously responded, “What is the use of a new-born baby?” made the acquaintance of Pierre Samuel DuPont in France, spend- estc t131745. wolf & hayes, library of benjamin ing a good deal of time in his company and offering high praise for franklin 563. $55,000. The George Brinley–Brayton Ives Copy

8. Charlevoix, Pierre François-Xavier: JOUR- NAL OF A VOYAGE TO NORTH-AMER- ICA...CONTAINING THE GEOGRAPH- ICAL DESCRIPTION AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THAT COUNTRY, PAR- TICULARLY CANADA. . . . London: Print- ed for R. and J. Dodsley. . . , 1761. Two volumes. viii, 382; viii, 380, [22]pp. plus folding map and 4pp. of ads. Lacks the half titles. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked with antique gilt-extra spine, leather labels. Corners worn. Internally clean. Overall very good. This is the George Brinley–Brayton Ives copy, with their bookplates from their sales in 1879 and 1891. Brinley was one of the greatest Amer- ican book collectors of all time, and amassed an astounding collection of books acquired from dealers, at auction, and by travelling throughout New England and “scouting” for himself. His library was sold at a series of sales between 1879 and 1893. Brayton Ives, a graduate of Yale, was commissioned a brigadier general during the Civil War and was subsequently active on Wall Street, where he was elected president of the New York Stock Exchange in 1877. Ives himself built a significant collection of Ameri- cana, and was an active participant at the Brin- ley sales, where he bought this copy of Charle- voix in 1879, for $1.75. It sold at the 1891 sale of Ives’ books for $6. Charlevoix was sent to Canada by the Jesuits at the age of twenty-three. After four years of missionary work, he returned to France, where- upon he accepted the commission for this trip from the regent of France. Beginning in 1720 he spent two years travelling 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 questioned 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. “. . . One of the most interesting of 18th century travel books” – Graff. brinley sale 78 (this copy). ives sale 166 (this copy). howes c308, “b.” graff 651. sabin 12139. clark i: 60. field 283. $3750. First Collected State Constitutions – a Copy from the British Foreign Office

9. [Constitutions]: THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA. . . . Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, 1781. [2], 226pp. Con- temporary speckled calf, raised bands. Calf scuffed and a bit shelfworn. Bookplate on front pastedown. An occasional light stain in the upper margin, but generally quite clean internally. A near fine copy. In a half morocco box. This copy has a very fine provenance, bearing a contemporary ink inscription at the top of the titlepage reading “Office of Foreign Affairs,” indicating that this copy had once belonged to the British Foreign Office. The Foreign Office was created in 1782, with the merger of the British government’s Northern and Southern Departments, and was solely responsible for the conduct of foreign affairs, while the newly-created Home Office addressed domestic affairs. This volume, containing the constitutions of the American states, the Articles of Confed- eration, and the text of the treaty between the United States and France, would have been an important guide for the British Foreign Office. This is the first collected constitutions of the several states, and an important step on the road to the formulation of the Federal Constitution. Many constitutional historians, most recently and persuasively Willi Paul Adams, have argued the role of the state constitutional conventions and constitutions in providing models for the framers of the 1787 constitution. In many cases it would have been this work which provided a convenient reference to the state constitutions. Printed in an edition of only 200 copies, this book is quite rare, and one of the most desir- able works in American constitutional history. On Dec. 29, 1780, Congress appointed a committee of three to “Collect, and cause to be published, two hundred correct copies of the Declaration of Independence with the Constitutions or forms of government of the Several States, to be bound together in boards.” TheMonthly Review noted, “It contains a greater portion of unsophisticated wisdom and good sense, than is, perhaps, to be met with in any legislative case that was ever yet framed. It is, in short, the book which may be considered the Magna Charta of the United States.” howes c716, “aa.” evans 17390. sabin 16086. matyas, declaration of independence, 81-01. cohen 3017. $20,000. Elbridge Gerry and Edward Everett’s Copy of the Folwell Edition of the Journals of Congress

10. [Continental Congress]: JOURNALS OF CONGRESS: CONTAINING THEIR PROCEEDINGS [FROM SEPTEMBER 5, 1774 TO NOVEMBER 3, 1788]. Philadelphia: From Folwell’s Press, 1800–1801. Thirteen volumes. Modern antique style three- quarter calf and marbled boards. Some light tanning and soiling, but generally clean internally. Very good. The first collected printing of the Journals of the United States Congress, known as the “Folwell Edition.” Prior to the issuing of Folwell’s set, the Journals had appeared in more or less annual volumes. Many of those original journals are virtually unobtainable. In 1799, Congress directed that Richard Folwell print 400 sets of the complete journals of the Continental Congress for the use of the Senate and the House of Representatives. This was accom- plished during 1800 and 1801, reprinting the annual volumes com- prising the proceedings of the Continental Congress from the two Congresses held prior to the Declaration of Independence, then drawing of electoral districts. Gerry was the vice-presidential can- for the duration of the Confederacy, through the adoption of the didate when James Madison won a second term as President in Federal Constitution in 1788. 1812, and he died in office in 1814. This set has the important provenance of Elbridge Gerry, the Edward Everett attended Harvard, then became the first fifth Vice President of the United States, and then to the distin- American to study in Europe and obtain a Ph.D. He served in guished American statesman Edward Everett. Everett’s bookplate the House of Representatives, as governor of Massachusetts from is in each volume, and he has written on the front flyleaf of vol- 1835 to 1839, then U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, President ume one “This copy of the Journals of the Continental Congress of Harvard, Secretary of State, and Senator from Massachusetts. belonged to Elbridge Gerry, Vice-President of the United States A capstone of Everett’s career was as the keynote speaker at Get- with President Madison in his second term. E. E.” Gerry served in tysburg, preceding Abraham Lincoln’s Address with two hours of the Continental Congress and was a signer of the Declaration of oratory. He died a year later. Independence. He was an early and vigorous advocate of Ameri- An important set with the significant provenance of two of the can Independence, and played a crucial role in the formation of most important statesmen from Massachusetts in the first half of the new United States government, insisting on a bill of rights the 19th century. being added to the new Constitution. Gerry’s name is perhaps sabin 15545. evans 15683, 38750 (through 1800). most remembered, however ignominiously, in connection with $20,000. the term “gerrymandering,” denoting the politically motivated James Buchanan’s Copy of the Secret Acts of the Revolutionary Congress

11. [Continental Congress]: SECRET JOURNALS OF THE ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS, FROM THE FIRST MEETING THEREOF TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE CONFEDERATION, BY THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . . . VOL. II. Boston: Printed and published by Thomas E. Wait, 1820. 587pp. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco spine label. Rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Light shelfwear, corners lightly bumped. Moderate tanning. Good. In a half morocco and marbled boards slipcase, spine gilt. President James Buchanan’s copy, with his ownership signature on the titlepage. The titlepage is also signed by Buchanan’s niece, Har- riet Lane Johnston, who has dated her signature to 1868, indicating that she was either given this volume by the President before his death, or that she inherited it shortly there- after. Buchanan (1781–1868) was the 15th President of the United States, serving from 1857 to 1861, the critical years before the out- break of the Civil War. Before that he was a United States Congress- man (1823–1831) and Senator from Pennsylvania (1834–1845). Buchanan played a significant role in American foreign relations of his era, serving as Minister to Russia and to Great Britain, and as Secretary of State (1845–1849). This volume, on early American foreign affairs, would have been of special interest to him. A lifelong bachelor, Buchanan’s niece, Harriet Lane Johnston, served as his First Lady during his years in the White House, making this not only a significant volume from a presidential library, but an interesting association copy as well. This is the second volume only of a four volume collection of the secret acts and proceedings of the Conti- nental Congress. This volume contains proceedings on Foreign Affairs from November 29, 1775 through August 16, 1781. sabin 15594. $2500. The Copy Presented to Thomas Jefferson

12. Drake, Daniel: NATURAL AND STATISTICAL VIEW, OR PICTURE OF CINCINNATI IN THE MIAMI COUN- TRY, ILLUSTRATED BY MAPS. . . . Cincinnati. 1815. 251, [4]pp. plus two folding maps. Contemporary tree calf, spine elaborately gilt, black leather label. A presentation binding, as this book was issued either in boards or in a plain sheep edition binding. Scattered foxing, else a fine copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. One of the most notable and important early Ohio books, by On April 7, 1816, Jefferson wrote to Meigs: one of Cincinnati’s most famous residents, in a remarkable copy I have referred [sic] asking the favor of you to return my inscribed on the front fly leaf: “For the honorable Thomas Jeffer- thanks to Dr. Drake for the copy of his account of the state son with the respects of his very obedt. servt. Dan. Drake.” The of Ohio which he has been so kind as to send me until I could book, modeled on Jefferson’s own notes on the state of virginia, have time to peruse it. I have done this with great pleasure covers the geography, antiquities, topography, medical conditions, and may now express my gratification on this able addition to and government of southern Ohio. “The work is almost entirely the knowledge we possess of our different states; and I may original, and has been drawn upon largely by all subsequent writ- say with truth that were all of them as well delineated as that ers on the subject” – Thomson. The maps are a plan of Cincinnati which is the subject of this volume, we should be more accu- and a map of Miami county. rately and scientifically known to the rest of the world. With The author, Dr. Daniel Drake, was one of the first great physi- my thanks for this mark of attention be pleased to accept the cians in the West. He was involved in the founding of numerous assurance of my great esteem & respect. Th: Jefferson. Ohio and Kentucky institutions and wrote a number of important works, especially medical, on the area. This book, issued when he This volume would have come into Jefferson’s hands after the sale was thirty, was the first to achieve national notice. Despite the of his main collection to the Library of Congress in 1815, and so imprint date of 1815, a delay in obtaining the maps, which were became part of his third and final library. Hence it does not figure engraved in Philadelphia while the book was printed in Cincin- in Sowerby’s catalogue of Jefferson’s library, and was one of the nati, delayed issue until Feb. 16, 1816. group of books widely dispersed after Jefferson’s death a decade One of Drake’s good friends was Josiah Meigs, the commis- later. It does not have Jefferson’s usual marks of ownership of his sioner of the General Land Office and an acquaintance of Jeffer- initials next to the signature letters; he may have assumed the pre- son. Drake asked Meigs to send Jefferson this presentation copy, sentation was identification enough. and on March 1, 1816, Meigs wrote to Jefferson: “My friend Dr. A wonderful association copy of a significant book. Daniel Drake of Cincinnati, Ohio, has requested me to transmit howes d465, “aa.” sabin 20822. streeter sale 1355. to you a Copy of his work, entitled ‘Picture of Cincinnati.’ I pre- thomson 346. Emmet F. Horine, daniel drake, pioneer sume it will gratify you as an elegant and valuable work.” Meigs physician of the midwest (Philadelphia, 1961), pp. 116–17 also described Drake as “a sincere and faithful friend of our free (citing Meigs and Jefferson letters). $75,000. Institutions,” signaling that Drake was a good Republican. The Great Classic of Constitutional Thought: The Streeter Copy

13. Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison; and John Jay: THE FEDERALIST: A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS WRITTEN IN FAVOR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION, AS AGREED UPON BY THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, SEPTEM- BER 17, 1787. New York: Printed and sold by John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788. Two volumes bound in one. vi, 227; vi, 384pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Boards worn at extremities. Name clipped from titlepage of first volume, repaired with one word in ink facsimile; name erased from titlepage of second volume, with small area of paper loss at top of leaf. Fewer than a dozen leaves with short tears or paper loss, affecting only a few letters of text. In a black morocco box. Thomas Streeter’s copy of the rare first edition of the most important work of Ameri- can political thought ever written and, according to Thomas Jefferson, “the best commentary on the principles of government.” Streeter was the greatest Americana book collector of the twentieth century – this copy of The Federalist was sold at his sale in 1967. This copy also bears the ownership signature on both titlepages of Wil- liam Coxe, Jr., (1762–1831). The first edition ofThe Federalist com- prises the first collected printing of the eighty-five seminal essays written in defense of the newly-drafted Constitution. The essays were first issued individually by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in New York newspapers under the pseudonym Publius to garner support for the ratification of the Constitution. The first thirty-six numbers ofThe Federalist were published in book form in March 1788, with the remaining forty-nine, together with the text of the Constitution, in May of that year. Upon its publication, George Washington noted to Alexander Hamilton that the work “will merit the Notice of Pos- terity; because in it are candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will always be interesting to mankind” (George Washing- ton, letter to Hamilton, August 28, 1788). The Federalist is without question the most important commentary on the Con- stitution, the most significant American contribution to political theory and among the most important of all American books. streeter sale 1049 (this copy, sold for $1100). evans 21127. grolier american 100, 19. church 1230. howes h114, “c.” sabin 23979. pmm 234. $200,000. The Very Rare Boston Edition of the Most Famous History of the New England Indian Wars

14. Hubbard, William: A NARRATIVE OF THE TROUBLES WITH THE INDIANS IN NEW-ENGLAND, FROM THE FIRST PLANTING THEREOF IN THE YEAR 1607, TO THIS PRESENT YEAR 1677. BUT CHIEFLY OF THE LATE TROUBLES IN THE TWO LAST YEARS, 1675 AND 1676. TO WHICH IS ADDED A DISCOURSE ABOUT THE WARRE WITH THE PEQUODS IN THE YEAR 1637. Boston: Printed by John Foster, 1677. [14], 132, [8], 7–12, [2], 88pp., including several pagination errors. Small quarto. Sumptuously bound in 19th-century blue morocco by Pawson and Nicholson, with elaborately gilt boards and spine, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Bookplates on front pastedown, early ownership signature and notes (see below). Small chips at edges of titlepage. Trimmed close, occasionally touching a page number, running title, or catchword. Occasional staining. One leaf supplied from the London 1677 edition. Map supplied in facsimile. Withal, still a very good copy. This copy has a long and distinguished provenance, bearing the early ownership signature of antiquarian and editor John Farmer on the first page of the text, and several manuscript notes of a historical nature throughout. It also bears the bookplates of E. Stanley Hart and Roderick Terry (one of the most famous American book collectors of the early 20th century) on the front pastedown. Randolph Adams lists this copy in his study of Hubbard’s work, and notes that it was also owned by printer Theodore Low DeVinne (a founder of The Grolier Club) and by William W. Cohen. Adams further notes that this copy was probably the one used by Samuel G. Drake in editing his 1865 edition of the book. The very rare first edition, printed in Boston, of William Hubbard’s crucially important history of the Indian wars of New England, a cornerstone Americanum. A London edition followed, published in the same year. Hubbard was born in England and came to the colonies in 1635, eventu- ally becoming pastor of the church in Ipswich, Massachu- setts. He was closely involved in the government of the colony during King Philip’s War, and this work, along with those of Increase and Cotton Mather, is the best and full- est account of the events of the struggle in Massachusetts. Hubbard and Increase Mather differed with each other on a number of points, and this book seems to have ignited the envy of the latter. “[Hubbard] was distinguished, in an age and country of bigots, for his liberality, moderation, and piety, and his narrative has always been regarded as authoritative by historians” – Church. A remarkably important work, one of the earliest such histories written and published in the colonies, here in the very rare Boston first edition. evans 231. church 650. howes h756, “dd.” sabin 33445. field 731. streeter sale 640. vail 184. Randolph G. Adams, “William Hubbard’s Narrative, 1677: A Bibliographical Study” in Papers of the Biblio- graphical Society of America (Vol. 33, 1939), pp. 25–39. $42,500. The Brinley Copy

15. [Hutchinson, Thomas, et al]: A CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE COMMISSARIES OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY [sic], AND THE COMMISSARIES OF NEW-YORK; AT NEW-HAVEN IN THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT. 1767. Bos- ton: Printed by Richard Draper . . . , 1768. 26, [1]pp. Quarto. 19th-century three-quarter straight-grained morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Binding worn and rubbed. Titlepage stained and soiled, a few small chips at edges, not affecting text; repair on verso mending closed tears in titlepage gutter. Otherwise clean and very good. The George Brinley copy, with his sale’s auction ticket on the front pastedown. An important example of the diplomacy practiced among British colonies in the pre-Rev- olutionary era. This publication records the proceedings of a conference held in New Haven to settle a boundary dispute between New York and Massachusetts in which Massachusetts claimed “the whole territory, within their North and South limits, from the Atlantic Ocean to the South Sea.” The commissioners representing New York were Robert R. Livings- ton, William Smith, and William Nicol. The Massachusetts commissioners were Thomas Hutchin- son, William Brattle, and Edward Sheaffe. A rare item, printed for distribution to members of the Massachusetts legislature. This is the issue without the appendix – of which only eight copies are located by NAIP. A fine example of inter- colonial diplomatic relations, an under-studied but vitally important aspect of the history of British North America. brinley sale 2751 (this copy). evans 10965. howes m376, “b.” sabin 45689. naip w030474. $6000. From the Library of James Monroe

16. Lanjuinais, Le Comte: CONSTITUTIONS DE LA NATION- FRANCAISE, AVEC UN ESSAI DE TRAITE HISTORIQUE ET POLITIQUE SUR LA CHARTE, ET UN RECUEIL DE PIECES CORRELATIVES. . . . Paris. 1819. Two volumes. viii, 320, 194; [4], 565, [1] pp. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, original spines laid down. Bookplates on front pastedown and fly leaf. Light scattered foxing, some light dampstaining. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt, and cloth chemises. An account of France’s political transformation through the revolutionary period and the succeeding government of Napoleon Bonaparte, containing texts of various acts and constitutional charters. This copy notably bears the bookplate of James Monroe on the front pastedown of each volume. This is a set which would have been of particular interest to Monroe, an unabashed Francophile. He served as ambassador to France 1794–96, then as special envoy to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and later as Secretary of State for most of the Madison administration. During his term as president (during which time this book was published) an important commercial treaty was negotiated with France. According to the catalogue of Monroe’s library reconstructed in 1967 by Gordon W. Jones, French books comprised nearly one third of his library, which, according to Monroe’s own estimate, approached nearly 3,000 volumes. Only a tiny portion of Monroe’s extensive library has been preserved intact, and copies from the library rarely turn up on the market. As of 1967, the Mon- roe Memorial Library at Fredericksburg housed some twenty-eight titles in fifty volumes. These are known to have belonged to Monroe because they descended through the family; most, according to Jones, do not have Monroe’s bookplate. Only two other books belonging to Monroe are located by Jones, both in the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia. Doubtless other works are scattered throughout various other public and private collections, but the general lack of a bookplate makes these nearly impossible to identify. All of which makes this work, complete with Mon- roe’s bookplate in both volumes, a welcome artifact that exemplifies Monroe’s library and evokes Thomas Jefferson’s influence on Monroe as a book collector. Gordon W. Jones, the library of james monroe (Charlottesville, 1967). $12,500. President Garfield’s Copy

17. Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark: HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, TO THE SOURCES OF THE MISSOURI, THENCE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND DOWN THE RIVER COLUMBIA TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. PERFORMED DURING THE YEARS 1804–5- 6. . . . Philadelphia: J. Maxwell for Bradford & Inskeep and Abm. H. Inskeep of New York, 1814. Two volumes. xxviii, 470pp. plus large folding map and two single-page maps; ix, [1], 522pp. plus three single-page maps. Contemporary marbled sheep, expertly rebacked to style, morocco label. Very good. In a black morocco box, spine with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt. President James A. Garfield’s copy of the first edition of the “definitive account of the most important exploration of the North American continent” (Wagner-Camp). This copy of Lewis and Clark’s account was given by Wilbur Fiske Sanders, a future Senator of Montana, to future President James Garfield in 1872. The inscription reads: “I present to my old comrade and commander in war Maj Gen James H. Garfield these volumes, a monu- ment of the fidelity zeal enterprise thoroughness and usefulness of the United States Army in the achieve- ments of peace. . . .” Interestingly, although the inscription is dated August 29, 1872, Sanders appears to have had both volumes of the book postmarked, with two variant postmarks from Helena, each dated February 17, 1870, on the front and rear endpapers (one octagonal, one circular). This cornerstone of Western Americana describes the government-backed expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase undertaken from 1804 to 1806 by ascending the Missouri to its source, crossing the Rocky Mountains, and reaching the Pacific Ocean. In total, the expedition covered some eight thousand miles in slightly more than twenty-eight months. They brought back the first reliable information about much of the area they traversed, made contact with the Indian inhabitants as a prelude to the expansion of the fur trade, and advanced by a quantum leap the geographical knowledge of the continent. This official account of the expedition is as much a landmark in Americana as the trip itself. It is the first great U.S. government expedition, the first book on the Rocky Mountain West, and a host of other firsts. It is among the most famous American books. The large folding map of the West was not issued with all copies, and in fact was priced separately and cost almost as much as the book itself. It is an extraordinary feat of cartography, accurately revealing much of the trans-Mississippi for the first time, and is one of the most important American maps. wagner-camp 13:1. pmm 272. grolier american 100, 30. howes l317. tweney 89, 44. graff 2477. sabin 40828. church 1309. field 928. streeter sale 1777. streeter, americana beginnings 52. shaw & shoemaker 31924. hill 1017. $210,000. The First Significant Account of Interior Africa in English: The Signet Copy

18. Lopes, Duarte: A REPORT OF THE KINGDOME OF CONGO, A REGION OF AFRICA. AND OF THE COUN- TRIES THAT BORDER ROUNDE ABOUT THE SAME. . . . London: Printed by John Wolfe, 1597. [20] pp., second title, 217, [3] pp. plus three folding maps (two of them joined to form a single large map); ten woodcut illustrations. Small quarto. 19th-century gilt calf, a.e.g., stamped with the arms of the Society of Writers to the Signet, rebacked with original gilt backstrip with leather label laid down. Extremities rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown and fly leaf. First title soiled, maps reinforced at folds, light scattered soiling. Very good.

The Society of Writers to the Signet, a private association of Scottish lawyers, was founded in the 16th century, and formed a remarkable library. Many of the rare books in the collection were sold in 1978. This is the best 16th-century account of Cen- tral Africa, and the first substantive one to appear in English. The work was originally published in Italian in 1591, then in this English version, and in Latin and German by the publisher Theodor De Bry the following year. Lopes was a Portuguese colonist who spent ten years in the Christian kingdoms of Angola and Congo before returning to Rome to recruit more missionaries. There he narrated his experiences to the Papal Chamber- lain, Philippo Pigafetta. He provides a fascinating account of central Africa, including trade, natural history, settlements, missionary work, and local customs. In this copy the two maps of north and south Africa have been joined into one large folding map. It is one of the best of the period, as is the small map of the Kingdom of Congo. All of the maps are the issues which appear in Part I of De Bry’s Petit Voy- ages, issued in 1598. The maps were compiled by Pigafetta, based on Lopes’ investigations. He was the first cartographer to arrive at an approximately accurate idea of the origins of the Nile. stc 16805. estc s108820. norwich, maps of africa, 16 and 23 (ref.) $20,000. John Marshall’s Copy

19. Marshall, Humphrey: THE HISTORY OF KENTUCKY. EXHIBITING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MODERN DISCOV- ERY; SETTLEMENT; PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT; CIVIL AND MILITARY TRANSACTIONS; AND THE PRESENT STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Frankfort: Geo. S. Robinson, 1824. Two volumes. v, [1], [3]–47, [1], 465, [1], 8; v, [1], 524pp. Blue crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, ruled in gilt, spine gilt, raised bands, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles. Slight rubbing along the outer hinges of both volumes. Signature of “J. Marshall” (quite faded) on each titlepage. Internally very neat and clean. A handsome set. This copy belonged to John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and distant relative of the author, and is signed on both titles in his characteristic scrawl. This is the second edition, after the original 1812 Frankfort printing, of the most important early history of Kentucky, enlarged by the addition of a second volume. Also, included in the first volume of this edition is Constantine Rafinesque’s “Ancient Annals of Kentucky.” As stated in the title, Marshall’s text covers all aspects of the state’s history. The most engag- ing segments discuss Kentucky’s relationship with Virginia, Daniel Boone, the history of the Revolutionary War on the Kentucky frontier, and relations with the Shawnees and other Indian tribes. Some scholars have criticized Marshall for riddling his work with his own fervent political opinions, but these opinions do not detract from its historical reference value. The first edition of Marshall’s history is rare; this second edition is also a scarce book. coleman 3245. a kentucky hundred 34 (ref ). jillson, p.70. howes m313, “aa.” sabin 44780. streeter sale 1660. field 1018. american imprints 17026. boewe 466. $3500. The 1726 Laws of Massachusetts, with Session Laws: Presentation from the Governor

20. [Massachusetts Laws]: THE CHARTER GRANT- ED BY THEIR MAJESTIES KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN NEW ENGLAND. [bound with:] ACTS AND LAWS, OF HIS MAJESTY’S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHU- SETTS-BAY IN NEW-ENGLAND. Boston. 1726. [2], 14, 18, [2], 483pp. Folio. Original calf, elaborately stamped in gilt, rebacked to style duplicating the backstrip of the John Carter Brown Library copy in a similar binding. Moderate wear to boards. Internally quite clean. Near fine. This copy bears an exceptional colonial provenance, being inscribed on the front free endpaper from Jonathan Belcher, governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire from 1730 to 1741, and of New Jersey from 1747 to 1757. Belcher has inscribed it: “To the Honorable Sir Philip York His Majesty’s Attorney General, from His most obedient, most faithfull, and most humble servant. . . .” The inscription is dated Boston, Oct. 18, 1732. Philip Yorke (1690–1764), the 1st Earl of Hardwicke, was attorney general to George II from 1724. He was chief justice after 1733 and lord chancellor after 1737. A remarkable association copy, linking the laws of the Crown to their administrator in the colonies and their chief enforcer in England. This is the second collected laws of Massachusetts, pre- ceded only by the 1699 edition. This copy includes the separately printed Charter (bound first), the full 1726 laws, and all of the session laws printed through July 1, 1732. A total of six- teen Evans items. evans 2762, 2900–2902, 3054–3057, 3182, 3306, 3307, 3440–3442, 3564, 3565. charlemagne tower collection of american colonial laws 215-230. $14,500. The Earliest Obtainable Edition of the Cambridge Platform, with Stun- ning Provenance

21. [Mather, Richard, et al]: A PLAT- FORM OF CHURCH-DISCIPLINE: GATHERED OUT OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND AGREED UPON BY THE ELDERS AND MESSENGERS OF THE CHURCHES ASSEMBLED IN THE SYNOD AT CAMBRIDGE IN NEW-ENGLAND. . . . Printed in New England; reprinted in London for Peter Cole . . . , 1653. [4], 8, 29, [1]pp. Small quarto. Mid-19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Some leaves trimmed a bit close at the foredge, with minor loss to marginal text. Minor soiling and toning. Very good. With the bookplate of John Carter Brown on the front paste- calls it “the platform upon which the structure of New England down, and his ink stamp on the second leaf. This was the first copy Congregationalism was built, rebuilt, tenemented, and redeco- of the Cambridge Platform acquired by Brown, one of the most rated.” The compilers of the Grolier Hundred call it “the culmina- famous of Americana collectors, later deaccessioned as a duplicate tion of the Puritan theory of the Union of Church and State.” by the John Carter Brown Library. From the style of binding and After the American edition of 1649, an English edition of 1652 his early stamp, it is highly likely that this is one of the books sold was published, but this was so full of errors that it was suppressed. to John Carter Brown by Henry Stevens on the first invoice of The present London, 1653 edition is the first authorized English transactions between the two, in 1846. edition. All known copies of the American first edition are now The earliest obtainable edition of one of the most important in libraries, the last to sell being the Streeter copy, which fetched documents in American history, and the foundation document of $80,000 in 1966 (to Harvard). No copies of this edition have sold New England Congregationalism. The Cambridge Platform was at auction in the last thirty years. drafted in 1648 and first published in Cambridge the following grolier american 100, 3. holmes, minor mathers year. Streeter calls this a work “of the greatest American signifi- 51-c. jcb (3)ii:432. european americana 653/34. essays cance, maintaining as it did the principles of self-government and honoring lawrence wroth, p.453 (where the platform independence that deeply influenced the origins of the American is listed in the transcription of Henry Stevens’ first invoice to political system.” Thomas Holmes, bibliographer of the Mathers, John Carter Brown, under Winslow as author). $50,000. With the Morris Journal of the Pontiac War: The Jones–Rosenbach–Littell–Siebert Copy

22. Morris, Thomas: MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE. London: John Ridgway, 1791. 181, [4]pp. Portrait. Later marbled wrappers. Minor foxing in latter part of text, a few light dampstains to lower corner. Very good plus. In a half morocco and cloth case. The Herschel V. Jones–Rosenbach– C. G. Littell–Frank T. Siebert copy, with the Littell book label. Jones, Littell, and Siebert were three of the most significant Americana book collectors of the twentieth century, making this a copy with a highly respectable provenance. Inscribed by Frank T. Siebert on the slipcase chemise: “Dr. Rosenbach says the finest copy he has ever seen.” The seemingly slight title makes no mention of Captain Morris’ journal which was kept while an Indian captive during the Pontiac War between August and late September 1764. “On pages 1 to 39, [Mor- ris] gives his narrative of the incidents of his hazardous mission to Pontiac, a sav- age general, who in a six weeks’ campaign, overthrew the British authority in all the territories of the northwest. Captain Morris accepted the service at the request of General Bradstreet, sensible that to place himself in the power of the vindic- tive Indian chief, was little short of a sen- tence to death. General Bradstreet, who had the ill luck to bear a reputation too great for his capacity, had the additional misfortune of seldom knowing what he really wanted. Captain Morris, by the combined force of good fortune, and good conduct, escaped the perils which inclosed his course and seemed irresistibly to close behind him and forbid his return to life. With the fire kindled around the stake to which he was tied, he was more than once rescued at the last minute” – Field. According to Dr. Siebert’s note, “Plenty rare.” ayer 208. field 1095. thomson 854. howes m833. sabin 50876. This copy: adventures in americana 620. littell sale 756. siebert sale 964. $11,000. The Macclesfield Copy of an Extraordinary Rarity, with Extra Illustrations

23. Neck, Jacob Cornelissoon van: THE IOURNALL, OR DAYLY REGISTER, CONTAYNING A TRUE MANIFESTA- TION, AND HISTORICALL DECLARATION OF THE VOYAGE . . . WHICH SAYLED FROM AMSTERDAM THE FIRST DAY OF MARCH, 1598. SHEWING THE COURSE THEY KEPT, AND WHAT OTHER NOTABLE MAT- TERS HAPPENED UNTO THEM IN THE SAYD VOYAGE. London: [Simon Stafford and Felix Kingston] for Cuthbert Burby & John Flasket, 1601. [1], 58, [4] leaves. Woodcut vignette of sailing ship on titlepage. Extra-illustrated with nineteen engravings (numbered 1–3, 19, 4–18) from Van Neck’s HISTORIALE BESCHRIJVINGHE (Amsterdam, 1619). Text and plates “inlaid to size,” remargined to 9¼ x 6¾ inches. 19th-century mottled calf, gilt border on boards, spine gilt, leather label. Boards and spine slightly worn. Titlepage and extra-engraved plates fully attached to sheets; printed pages of text inserted in blank leaves in order to show recto and verso. Lacking the dedication leaf and leaf Q4 (blank), leaves trimmed closely (with occasional slight loss of text in lower margin), rust hole in leaf P3 (affecting a few letters on recto), repaired tear in leaf Q3. Overall, a very good copy. With the 1860 engraved bookplate of the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield on the front pastedown, shelf marks inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper, and the embossed stamp of the Earls of Macclesfield in upper extended margins of the title leaf and following two leaves of text. A rare book on the market. Prior to this copy from the Macclesfield sale in March 2007, the last copy previously available was sold at the Boise Penrose sale in 1971. Both European Ameri- cana and STC record only two copies in the U.S., at the Huntington and The New York Public Library, the latter noted as imperfect. This is the first English edition of Van Neck’s account of his 1598 voyage to the East Indies, translated from the 1601 Amsterdam edition of the author’s Het Tweede Boecke. The Dutch navi- gator, who represented the Verre Company, com- manded three ships which were part of the first successful Dutch trading voyage to the region. Van Neck’s vessel became separated from the other two after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, and the three did not reunite again until his arrival in Java in late December 1598. While focused on activity in the East Indies, the text also includes references to Brazil and tobacco from the West Indies. This extra-illustrated copy includes nineteen engraved plates from the Amsterdam 1619 edition of Van Neck’s Historiale Beschrijvinghe. The images are mounted on separate sheets and bound in the book at the appropriate portion of the text. The engravings are annotated in ink, indicating the appropriate page related to the image. european americana 601/66. stc 18417. tiele-muller, p. 144. $75,000. The Foundation of Pennsylvania: the Deering Copy

24. Penn, William: SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSILVANIA IN AMERICA; LATELY GRANTED UNDER THE GREAT SEAL OF ENGLAND TO WILLIAM PENN. . . . London: Benjamin Clark, 1681. [2], 10pp. Folio. Blue crushed morocco by Riviere & Son, title in gilt on spine and front board, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Scratch on front cover, two bookplates on front pastedown. Expert restoration to the title-leaf with a few letters supplied; minor soiling. A few text leaves skillfully repaired. Very good. The primary tract in the foundation of Pennsylva- nia, and a bedrock piece of Americana. On March 4, 1681, to resolve the Crown’s debt to the Penn family, Charles II granted the vast area west and south of New Jersey to William Penn, and Penn immedi- ately began laying the foundations for his new colony. This included contact with numerous leading Quakers in England and Wales, the appointment of several agents, and, most importantly, the publication of this promotional tract “to describe the new colony and the opportunities that were available to persons wishing to settle there or invest in the ven- ture . . . [It] is the basic pamphlet” – Bronner & Fra- ser. The successful settlement of Penn’s new charter was due principally to William Penn’s marketing of the region, beginning with this work. “Penn’s adver- tising campaign for his new colony in the early 1680s was the most successful English colonial recruit- ment drive since the Puritans had founded Massa- chusetts fifty years before...and provided the neces- sary momentum that got the Quaker colony off to a successful start” – Dunn. The work is quite rare on the market. This copy is Bronner & Fraser’s second state of the first edition, with the “Fifty Acres shall be allowed” reading at the bottom of page 5. This copy has a distinguished provenance, originally bound by Americana bookseller Charles Heartman, later sold to Frank C. Deering, and then sold with other Deering books about 1970 by Ken- neth Nebenzahl. european americana 681/113. bronner & fraser 58b. church 671. Richard Dunn, “William Penn and the Selling of Pennsylvania” in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 127, no. 5. sabin 59733. estc r24456. wing p1365. streeter sale 940. $60,000. First Edition of the Perrin du Lac Narrative: The Siebert Copy

25. Perrin du Lac, François Marie: VOYAGE DANS LES DEUX LOUI- SIANES, ET CHEZ LES NATIONS SAUVAGES DU MISSOURI, PAR LES ETATS UNIS, L’OHIO ET LES PROVINCES QUI LE BORDENT, EN 1801, 1802 ET 1803. . . . Lyon. 1805. [4], x, 479pp. plus folding map and folding plate on bluish paper. Half title. Contem- porary plain wrappers, manuscript paper label. Minor wear to wrappers, heavier wear to spine. Internally bright and clean. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth box. The rare first edition of this important narrative. The author arrived in New York in 1801 and travelled to St. Louis by way of the Ohio, ascending the Missouri River as far as central South Dakota with a fur trading expedition in the summer of 1802. There is some doubt as to whether Perrin du Lac himself made this trip or used without acknowl- edgement the journal of St. Louis trader Jean Baptiste Trudeau, but the veracity of the account itself is unques- tioned. It is by far the most important published account of the Upper Missouri fur trade in its early days, including a great deal of information about tribes along the river. The large map of the Missouri River, beautifully engraved, is unquestionably the most detailed map of its watershed up to that point. Wheat describes it as “the earliest published map of the Trans-Mississippi region which can be said to display even the faintest resemblance to accuracy.” It charts the river as far as the Arikara villages in central South Dakota. One of the few major narratives of the trans-Mississippi area prior to Lewis and Clark, here in the very rare first edition. There were two issues published the same year, the other in Paris, with the same collations, but Howes and Wagner-Camp consider the Lyon issue to be the first. siebert sale 793 (this copy). streeter sale 1773. wagner-camp 3:1. howes p244, “b.” wheat transmis- sissippi 256. clark ii:52. sabin 61012. monaghan 1178. graff 3254. $9500. The First Modern Atlas and an Important Piece of Early New World Cartographica

26. Ptolemy, Claudius: GEOGRAPHIE OPUS NOVISSIMA TRADUCTIONE E GRECORUM ARCHETYPIS CASTIGA- TISSIME PRESSUM. Strassburg: Johann Schott, March 12, 1513. Two parts in bound in one volume. [Title and dedication leaves], 5–60 numbered leaves, [14 index leaves], twenty-seven woodcut “ancient” maps (26 double-page), [supplement title-leaf], twenty woodcut “modern” maps (19 double-page, the final single-page map of Lorraine printed in three colors), [15 text leaves]. Folio. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century red morocco, paneled in gilt on the covers, spine simply gilt with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second compartment. Full condition report available. A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell box, spine gilt.

A unique copy of the first modern atlas, including two maps in Geographica. . . . The first part of this atlas consists of twenty-seven early proof states. A monumental and important work, contain- Ptolemaic maps, taken from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy, or perhaps the ing critical New World information, derived from the latest voy- manuscript atlas of Nicolaus Germanus upon which the Ulm Ptol- ages of exploration. Streeter called this “the most important of emy was based. Work on the twenty maps in the Supplement began all the Ptolemy editions,” and it includes the earliest map devoted around the year 1505 by Martin Waldseemuller and Mathias Ring- entirely to the new world. This copy has occasional early mar- mann, geographers based in Saint-Dié, and was partially funded by ginal notes in two scripts, in red or black ink. It is also the Samuel Duke Rene of Lorraine. The accompanying text was completed a Latham Mitchell Barlow copy, bought at his sale in February 1890 bit later, and in 1508 all of the materials for the atlas passed into by the noted collector Alfred T. White, who has made a pencilled the hands of two Strassburg citizens, Jacobus Eszler and Georgius inscription recording his purchase. Ubelin, at whose cost the work was completed in 1513. This masterful atlas is one of the most important cartographi- Among the twenty “modern maps” which appear in this edi- cal works ever published. Known as the first “modern” edition of tion for the first time, “Orbis Typis Universalis” and “Tabula Ptolemy, it is usually accepted as the most important edition of the Terre Nova,” stand as important examples of early New World cartographica. Indeed, the latter is considered the earliest map the “Tabula Terre Nova” map, and is described as a Genoese sail- devoted entirely to the New World, and depicts the coast of ing under command of the king of Castile. American in a continuous line from the northern latitude of 55° With the twenty modern maps of the Supplement, compiled to Rio de Cananor at the southern latitude of 35°, with about sixty from the latest available voyages, this atlas holds rightful title to places named. The other map, “Orbis Typis,” depicts the outline being the first modern atlas of the world. of northeastern South America, with five names along that coast, barlow sale (this copy) 2037. european americana 513/6. and the islands Isabella and Spagnolla, and another fragmen- harrisse (bav)74. sabin 66478. shirley, world maps 34. tary coast, as well as an outline of Greenland. The text states that streeter sale 6. phillips atlases 359. world encom- the New World maps are based upon geographical information passed 56. bagrow, history of cartography, p. 126. obtained from “the Admiral,” possibly a reference to Vespucci, Stevens, ptolemy’s geography (1908), p. 44. $485,000. Cabral, or Columbus. The latter is actually referred to by name on

John Locke’s Copy

27. Schouten, Willem: IOURNAL OU RELATION EXACTE DU VOYAGE DE GVILL. SCHOUTEN, DANS LES IN- DES. . . . Paris: Chez M. Gobert, 1618. [13], 232pp. plus four folding maps and four folding plates. Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on backstrip. “E” signature supplied from another copy. Quite clean and neat internally. A lovely, near fine copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. Famed philosopher John Locke’s copy, with his ink ownership inscription on the front pastedown. In front of his signature Locke has made the notation “b” which, according to The Library of John Locke by Harrison and Laslett, was an inventory mark put into books in or about 1697 and not to be found in any books acquired after that date. Locke has noted at the foot of the titlepage that this is a duplicate copy. The rare first Paris edition of Schouten’s voyage. Under- taken in 1615 and lasting until 1617, this important expedition was the third complete circumnavigation, after Magel- lan in 1519 and Drake in 1577. The expedition was the first to round Cape Horn from the east, naming the Cape after the Dutch town of Hoorn, whose aggressive traders sponsored the voyage. In addition, the expedition explored the Pacific coast of South America, pursued the search for Terra Aus- tralis, and proved that Tierra del Fuego was not an island. Schouten’s work was originally published in Amsterdam in 1618 by Willem Jansz Blaeu. Though printed in his name, Schouten was most likely not the author of the present work, and it was probably compiled for him by Blaeu from the ships’ logs. The work proved exceedingly popular, “no fewer than thirty-eight editions of the work were printed in Holland alone between the year 1618 and 1766” (Church). This is the first Paris edition. A fundamental voyage in worldwide navigation, with an outstanding provenance. sabin 77952. european americana 618/119. tiele-muller 42n. $55,000. With the Famous Plates by Benjamin West: The Phillips–Siebert Copy

28. [Smith, William]: AN HIS- TORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION AGAINST THE OHIO INDIANS, IN THE YEAR MDCCLXIV. UNDER THE COMMAND OF HENRY BOUQUET, ESQ. . . .INCLUD- ING HIS TRANSACTIONS WITH THE INDIANS, RELA- TIVE TO THE DELIVERY OF THEIR PRISONERS...WITH AN INTRODUCTORY AC- COUNT OF THE PRECEDING CAMPAIGN. . . . Philadelphia, Printed; London, Re-printed for T. Jefferies, 1766. [2], xiii, 71pp. plus folding engraved map, two engraved plates, and two engraved plans. Quarto. Original blue-grey paper- covered boards, cream paper backstrip, contemporary ink inscription on upper cover. Folding map backed onto fine linen at an early date. Very good, uncut and largely unopened. In a blue cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. This copy belonged to the famed English collector, Sir Thomas and offers recommendations for repelling the natives. Phillipps, with his distinctive ownership markings on the front The important map by Thomas Hutchins is titled “A Map of pastedown. It was later acquired by Dr. Frank T. Siebert, who [the] Country on the Ohio & Muskingum Rivers Shewing the built the most significant and comprehensive private collection of Situation of the Indian Towns with respect to the Army under books on the North American Indian, sold at auction in 1999. the Command of Colonel Bouquet,” and includes an inset show- The principal account of the Bouquet Expedition: a lovely copy ing the route of Bouquet’s march. The map, re-engraved for this of the first British edition in boards containing the famous plates edition, is the most detailed depiction of the Ohio Valley up to by Benjamin West not found in the American first edition. Bou- that time. quet’s expedition to relieve Fort Pitt displayed British strength in This first British edition contains two famous plates by Benja- the Ohio Country in the wake of the conclusion of the French min West, showing meetings between Bouquet and the Indians, and Indian War, and brought an end to the Pontiac War and the that did not appear in the first edition published in Philadelphia beginning of settlement in the region. The Indians were soundly the previous year. In addition, this edition contains an appendix defeated at the battle of Bushy-Run and treated for peace, releas- not found in the first edition. ing captives taken during previous years. Smith describes the sabin 84617. field 1442. thomson 1066. howes s693, “c.” campaign, gives an account of the country, tells of Indian warfare, vail 572. siebert sale 279 (this copy). $27,500. 16th-Century English Work on Navigation: From the Libraries of Two Important Voyage Collectors

29. Stevin, Simon: THE HAVEN- FINDING ART, OR, THE WAY TO FIND ANY HAVEN OR PLACE AT SEA, BY THE LATITUDE A ND VAR IATION. LATELY PUB- LISHED IN THE DUTCH, FRENCH, AND LATINE TONGUES…AND NOW TRANSLATED INTO ENG- LISH FOR THE COMMON BENEFITS OF THE SEA- MAN OF ENGLAND. London: G. B[ishop], R. N[ewbery], and R. B[arker], 1599. [16], 27pp. including three woodcut figures in the text (one full-page, one three-quarter page). Small quarto. Modern sprinkled calf, boards and spine gilt. Upper outer joint tender, separating at top and bottom. Titlepage age-toned, slight chips to foredge, old paper repairs at corners (not affecting text). A very good copy. In a half morocco and cloth box. This copy carries the bookplates of two highly significant collectors of books on navigation and voyages: the scholar Boies Pen- rose, and Frank S. Streeter, son of Thomas W. Streeter. First edition in English of Simon Stevin’s navigation manual, Havenvinding, published the same year as the original Dutch edition and separately printed French and Latin editions. Stevin served as quartermaster-general of the Dutch army and was often consulted on matters of defense and navigation by the government of the Netherlands. A compilation of information on mag- netic variation which would assist navigators in determining their position at sea, this English edition was translated by Edward Wright upon the urging of Richard Hakluyt. A work of extraordinary rarity, this is the only copy to appear at auction in the last seventy years. It realized $5280 at the Pen- rose sale in 1971. penrose sale 237 (this copy). frank s. streeter sale 483 (this copy). stc 23265. taylor, mathematical prac- titioners of tudor & stuart england 100. adams & waters, english maritime books 3453. waters, the art of navigation pp.229-30. $72,500. A Primary Account of Pennsylvania, in a Contemporary Binding

30. Thomas, Gabriel:AN HISTORICAL AND GEO- GRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE PROVINCE AND COUNTRY OF PENSILVANIA; AND OF WEST-NEW-JERSEY IN AMERICA. . . . London: Printed for, and sold by A. Baldwin, 1698. [8], 55, [13], 34pp. plus folding engraved map. Contemporary ruled sheep, with eight leaves of original printed binder’s waste sheets. Minor wear along front joint, but a near pristine copy in original binding. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase. The Frank Siebert copy, purchased at his 1999 sale by this firm on behalf of a private collector. One of the first extensive promotional tracts for New Jersey and Pennsylvania, based on the author’s fifteen years there, and dedicated to William Penn. An enthusiastic pro- moter, Thomas describes the natural products of the country and the extent of settlement which had already taken place, as well as giving a good account of the Indian tribes of the area and specimens of the Delaware Indian language. He particularly encourages poor Englishmen to move there, and gives one of the first descriptions of Philadelphia. “Thomas had lived in America for about fifteen years, and the information contained in this book is the result of his own observations and experience. It was written to induce the immigration of all who wished to better their worldly condition, and especially of the poor who might subsist in West Jersey ‘without either begging or stealing.’ He gives an account of the natural products of the country and the improvements already made and in progress, as well as of the modes of life among the Indians and the prevailing intercourse between them and the settlers. In the Preface the author says: ‘Nor is there the least question or doubt to be made, but this Noble Spot of Earth will thrive exceedingly’” – Church. In addition to the geographic and ethnographic information it provides, Thomas’ text also recognizes a nascent population boom that would sustain growth and development in the region. He writes: “Jealousie among Men is here very rare, and Barren- ness among Women hardly to be heard of, nor are old Maids to be met with; for all commonly Marry before they are Twenty Years of Age, and seldom any young Married Woman but hath a Child in her Belly, or one upon her Lap.” One of the most important early works on Pennsylvania, rich with descriptive information, in a fine contemporary binding. This copy sold for $40,250 at the Siebert sale in 1999. siebert sale 122 (this copy). streeter sale 946. howes t167, “dd.” church 778. sabin 95395. vail 280. adventures in americana 143. european americana 698/214. $48,000. The English Edition of Tonti

31. Tonti, Henri De, Chevalier: AN ACCOUNT OF MONSIEUR DE LA SALLE’S LAST DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AMERICA. PRESENTED TO THE FRENCH KING, AND PUBLISHED BY THE CHEVALIER TONTI, GOVER- NOUR OF FORT ST. LOUIS, IN THE PROVINCE OF THE ILLINOIS. . . . London: J. Tonson, S. Buckley, and R. Knaplock, 1698. [2], 211, [1], 44pp. Contemporary calf. Rubbed, chipped at head of spine. Scattered foxing, minor browning. Titlepage and first few leaves slightly stained, endpapers moderately soiled. Although worn, a good copy, in an unsophisticated contemporary binding. In a half morocco and cloth box. This copy bears the ownership signature of Alexander Dallas (1759–1817) Secretary of the Treasury under James Madison, on the rear pastedown. This is Tonti’s relation of La Salle’s final expedition, here in the first English edition, after the Paris edition of 1697. This is the first issue, with “Grown” instead of “Crown” in the imprint. La Salle was the first to descend the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and this account by his second in command describes La Salle’s search for the mouth of the Mississippi River and his inten- tion to ascend it for the purpose of establishing a colony. La Salle was murdered by a mutinous band before his plans could come to fruition. “Tonti disclaimed authorship of this narrative, but it was probably based on his letters or memoirs” – Howes. A work of primary importance in regard to the early exploration of the Gulf Coast, Louisiana, Texas, and the Mississippi. Tonti’s work is far rarer than the other primary account of La Salle’s expedition, by Joutel. This English edition is particularly difficult to acquire. sabin 96171. wing t1890. graff 4163. howes t294, “c.” european americana 698/2. wagner, spanish southwest 67a. harrisse, nouvelle france 178. $20,000. Inscribed by Webster to John Adams’ Cousin, with John Adams’ Letter Lauding Webster as the Greatest Orator of the Time: “If there be an American who can read it without tears, I am not that American.”

32. Webster, Daniel: DISCOURSE, DELIVERED AT PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 22, 1820, IN COMMEMO- RATION OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW- ENGLAND. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1821. 104pp. Contemporary straight-grained red morocco with boards spine, edges, and dentelles all elaborately gilt. Scattered light foxing. Fine. [with:] [MANUSCRIPT LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN ADAMS TO DANIEL WEB- STER]. Dec. 23, 1821. [2]pp. with integral address leaf. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, in two cloth chemises. A presentation copy, inscribed by Daniel Webster on the titlep- To John Adams, second president of the United States, one age: “Mr. Webster desires Mr. Boylston’s acceptance of this, with of the few surviving signers of the Declaration of Independence, his regards.” This copy is beautifully bound in red straight-grained and arguably the most important figure in the Revolution from morocco, tooled in gilt on the boards and the spine, presumably Massachusetts, the speech rang true, and not only for its tower- bound for Boylston to signify it as a special copy. Accompany- ing praise of himself. Adams wrote a laudatory letter of thanks to ing the pamphlet is a remarkable letter from John Adams, second Webster, the very letter which accompanies this pamphlet. The president of the United States, congratulating Webster on the letter, dated Dec. 23, 1821, is in the hand of an unknown secretary speech and lauding him as the greatest orator of the time. (for reasons made clear in the letter), but signed by Adams in a Webster presented the pamphlet to Ward Nicholas Boylston shaky eighty-five-year-old hand. In it he praises Webster for his (1749–1828), member of a prominent Boston family and a cousin of ability as an historian and orator, and for his stand on slavery. It is John Adams. Webster’s primary theme is the American Revolu- a remarkable passing of the torch from one great American leader tion and the principles of American democracy. Addressed to “the to another. true sons of New England,” it is a clear statement of Webster’s A remarkable confluence of documents, bringing together New political stance, in which he frames his views as the proper succes- England’s two political giants. sor to the New England founders, most particularly John Adams. sabin 102262. american imprints 7609. $62,500. The long and laudatory oration celebrates the bicentennial of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620 and the rise of the nation which grew from this seed.

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