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The American Revolution 1765–1783 CATALOGUE TWO HUNDRED NINETY The American Revolution 1765–1783 WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is made up entirely of material new to our stock relating to the American Revolution. It covers the rising conflict beginning in 1765 up to the final peace treaties of 1783, but also includes a number of important historical works about the war published into the late 19th century. Particularly notable is an extensive selection of political pamphlets from both sides before and during the war, a number of extremely rare broadsides, and significant manuscript material from key figures beginning with Samuel Adams. Also present are a number of important military narratives such as that of Ethan Allen, and some significant atlases and maps. Available on request or via our website are our recent catalogues 281, Americana in PRINT- ING AND THE MIND OF MAN; 282, Recent Acquisitions in Americana; 283, American Presidents; 284, Latin American Independence; 285, The English Colonies in North America 1590-1763; 287, Western Americana; and 288, The Ordeal of the Union as well as Bulletin 21, American Cartography; Bulletin 22, Evidence; Bulletin 24, Provenance and many more topical lists. Some of our catalogues, as well as some recent topical lists, are now posted on the Internet at www.reeseco.com. A portion of our stock may be viewed via links at www. reeseco.com. If you would like to receive e-mail notification when catalogues and lists are uploaded, please e-mail us at [email protected] or send us a fax, specifying whether you would like to receive the notifications in lieu of or in addition to paper catalogues. Terms Material herein is offered subject to prior sale. All items are as described and are con- sidered to be on approval. Notice of return must be given within ten days unless specific arrangements are made. Connecticut residents must be billed state sales tax. Postage and insurance charges are billed to all nonprepaid domestic orders. Overseas orders are sent by air unless otherwise requested, with full postage charges billed at our discretion. Payment by check, wire transfer or bank draft is preferred, but may also be made by MasterCard or Visa. William Reese Company Phone: (203) 789-8081 409 Temple Street Fax: (203) 865-7653 New Haven, CT 06511 E-mail: [email protected] www.williamreesecompany.com FRONT COVER: 152. Stevens, Benjamin Franklin: B.F. Stevens’s Facsimiles.... [London. 1889-98]. REAR COVER: 141. [Stamp Act]: The Pennsylvania Journal.... Philadelphia. Oct. 31, 1765. A Forged Address Attributed to Samuel Adams 1. [Adams, Samuel]: AN ORATION DELIVERED AT THE STATE- HOUSE, IN PHILADELPHIA, TO A VERY NUMEROUS AUDI- ENCE; ON THURSDAY THE 1st OF AUGUST, 1776.... Philadelphia Printed; London, Re-printed for E. Johnson, 1776. [2],42pp. Modern paper covered boards, printed paper label. A few light fox marks; faint stain in gutter of first text page. Closed tear in one leaf, not affecting text. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. A curious, and spurious, Revolutionary pamphlet, allegedly printing an oration by Samuel Adams, which was not written by him, and which was never published in Philadelphia. This text was issued in the wake of the American Declaration of Independence, and whoever the author was, he was well-versed in revolutionary rhetoric. Howes calls it “a London forgery designed to show that the colonies were bent on independence.” “It extols the merits of the newly independent colonies, but overtones suggest that it was actually written in England” – Adams. A Dublin edition followed the same year. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 76-106a. HOWES A72. SABIN 344. $4000. Sam Adams Authorizes an Expedition Against British Privateers 2. Adams, Samuel: [LETTER, SIGNED, FROM SAMUEL ADAMS TO GOVERNOR JONATHAN TRUMBULL OF CONNECTICUT REGARDING MATTERS OF THE CONTINENTAL NAVY AND BRITISH PRIVATEERS IN LONG ISLAND SOUND]. Philadelphia. Feb. 10, 1779. [1]p. plus integral blank leaf, docketed on verso. Folio. Old fold lines; some minor loss at folds, minutely affecting text. Expertly backed with tissue. Minor soiling. About very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case. A letter from Samuel Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence and member of the Continental Congress, to Gov. Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, authoriz- ing the use of the ship, Confederacy, in his proposed attack on British privateers at Huntington Harbor, Long Island. The letter, written in a secretarial hand, is signed by Samuel Adams as chairman of the Marine Committee. The letter reads: By an express from the Navy Board of the Eastern Department the Marine Committee had the honor of receiving your letter to them of the 22nd January respecting the enemys armed vessels in the western sound, and the probability of taking or destroying them by joining the force of the Confederacy to the two state ships. They were very anxious of adding the Confederacy to the number of those ships destined for another service; but the object you have in view is so very desirable, and the accomplishment of it, from your representation attended with so little danger or delay, that they have fallen into the measure and consented to join the Confederacy to the state ships. You suppose a few days will be sufficient to answer the ends you have in view, and it is under the state of the case, that I am by the direction of the Committee to inform your Excellency that Captain Harding will receive orders to obey you, and to take your directions for the government of his conduct in the proposed expedition, but not to exceed ten days after the sailing of the ship from New London in the said expedition, tho should service be performed in a shorter time, the Captain must proceed to sea with the utmost dispatch agreeable to our instruction. The authorization, however, was premature, as the Confederacy was not yet prepared to sail. Despite the ship’s completion three months prior to this letter, she was not yet fully crewed or provisioned and would not set sail until May 1st, when she would set out to patrol the Atlantic seaboard in company with the ship, Boston, commanded by Captain Samuel Tucker. An interesting letter on the burgeoning American navy, illustrating the prob- lems of Loyalist privateers, signed by a signer of the Declaration of Independence. $12,000. One of the Rarest of All Revolutionary War Narratives 3. Allen, Ethan: A NARRATIVE OF COLONEL ETHAN ALLEN’S CAPTIVITY, FROM THE TIME OF HIS BEING TAKEN BY THE BRITISH...TO THE TIME OF HIS EXCHANGE...CON- TAINING, HIS VOYAGES AND TRAVELS...INTERSPERSED WITH SOME POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE CURIOUS IN ALL NATIONS. Philadelphia: printed, Bos- ton: Re-printed: by Draper and Folsom, 1779. 40pp. Early 20th-century blue morocco by Macdonald, gilt inner dentelles, raised bands, spine gilt, a.e.g. Lightly edgeworn, raised bands rubbed. Stained and tanned. Trimmed close, costing several catchwords and occasionally shaving a running headline, page number, or letter of text. Overall, good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. The excessively rare second edition of Ethan Allen’s Revolutionary War captivity narrative. Four editions were printed in 1779, all of which are extremely rare. The Philadelphia edition printed by Bell is designated by Evans as the first edition, and this Boston printing is called the second edition. We have never seen a copy of the Bell edition offered for sale, and the North American Imprints Project locates only two copies of that edition – it is so rare as to be virtually unobtainable. This is only the second copy of the Boston edition that we have ever seen offered for sale. As leader of the Green Mountain Boys, Ethan Allen played a crucial role in the attack on Fort Ticonderoga, and proved to be a constant source of difficulty to the British in the northeast. He was captured in September 1775 while leading a group of New Englanders and Quebecois in an attack on Montreal, and suffered two years of brutal captivity in British prisons, aboard prison ships, and in the New York City jail. Allen was finally exchanged for a British prisoner and wrote this account of his ordeal, excoriating the British for their cruelty and calling on Americans to forsake any thought of compromise in the revolutionary cause. Allen’s narrative was very popular “and is rated second among best-selling books of the revolutionary period after Thomas Paine’s Common Sense” (ANB). It was reprinted several times in the following decades. The great 19th-century Americana collector, George Brinley, possessed three copies of this Boston edition, all of which were sold at the auction of his collection some 120 years ago. All three of those copies, however, were defective in some way, and the catalogue description still referred to this Boston printing as being “excessively rare.” Neither Thomas W. Streeter, E.D. Church, or Herschel Jones, three of the greatest Americana collectors of the 20th century, were able to obtain any 1779 edition of Allen’s narrative. The ever-bold Charles Heartman offered a copy of this Boston edition in 1930 (at the onset of the Depression) for $975. Very rare, and an essential Revolutionary War narrative. HOWES A136, “b.” GILMAN, p.5. SABIN 793. EVANS 16181. NAIP w013736. ANB I, pp.309- 10. $35,000. 4. [Almon, John]: A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES JENKINSON. London. 1781. [3]-51,[1]pp. Quarto. 20th- century blue morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Light wear to extremities. Modern bookplate on front pastedown.
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