Greenwich Ephemera Fair 2018

Striking Abolitionist Broadside

1. [Abolitionist Broadside]: [Western Anti-Slavery Society]: UNION WITH FREEMEN - NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! [caption title]. Salem, Oh.: Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10¾ inches. A few short closed edge tears, light toning and foxing. Very good plus.

A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio, the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and a small but important center of progressive movements through much of the 19th century. As suggested by their advertisement's headline, "Union with Freemen - No Union with Slaveholders," the members of the Western Anti-Slavery Society were radical Garrisonian abolitionists who believed the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally a pro-slavery document and therefore unfit to bind together a morally just nation. Formed in the mold of Garrison's New England Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1832) and American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society first assembled in 1833 in Putnam, Ohio, and in 1839 moved its headquarters to Salem and became known as the Western Anti-Slavery Society. From 1845 to 1861 the Society published a weekly newspaper, THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE, printed for the first five weeks in New Lisbon, Ohio, and for all subsequent issues in Salem. The text of the broadside, a printed blank form for advertising abolitionist meetings, reads in full as follows:

"Union with Freemen - No Union with Slaveholders. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! Anti-Slavery Meetings will be held in this place, to commence on [blank] in the [blank] at [blank] To be Addressed by [blank] Agents of the Western ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Three millions of your fellow beings are in chains - the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! AND LEARN YOUR DUTY TO YOURSELVES, THE SLAVE AND GOD. EMANCIPATION or DISSOLUTION, and a FREE NORTHERN REPUBLIC!"

OCLC lists only two copies, at Yale and Williams College; the Library of Congress holds an additional copy, which may be viewed online at the American Memory web site (see below). OCLC 59557224. "An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera." Library of Congress, American Memory website. $4750.

2. [African-American Photographica]: [LARGE CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN AND FOUR WHITE CHILDREN]. Washington, D.C. [ca. 1891]. Albumen card-mounted photograph, image approximately 8¾ x 6¾ inches. Light wear to card. Faint line of older adhesive substance in center of photograph. Minor wear and fading. About very good.

A large photograph of a well-dressed African-American woman posing with four white children. The black woman wears a demure, dark dress with a high collar and brooch at her throat. Her hair is parted in the center and pulled back. She stares fixedly into the camera. Four white children pose on and around her, the oldest two girls standing behind and to either side of her, while a younger girl and the youngest boy each sit next to her, their arms leaning on her thighs. The boy is dressed in a sailor suit, cap in hand. We suppose that the woman is the children's nanny, or similar trusted household servant. One of the most striking factors is the sheer size of the photograph, in addition to the subject matter. The mount is stamped with the logo for Prince's studios in Washington, D.C., with the center stamped: "Enamel Finish, 1891 Imperial." $450.

3. [African Americana]: SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE COLORED WOMEN AND CHILDREN, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1, 1879. Washington, D.C. 1879. 16,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Mild spotting to wrappers. Light foxing. Very good.

A rare report for a little-known organization formed in the American capital in 1863 to support "aged or indigent colored women and children." The present work includes the charter, by-laws, a list of officers, the annual report for the organization through 1878, a "Matron's Report," extracts from letters written by children helped by the organization, a list of donations, and a membership listing. OCLC records a smattering of reports from the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, but no copies of the present work. $600.

4. [Alaska]: Goetze, O.D.: SOUVENIR OF NORTH WESTERN ALASKA [cover title]. [Nome, Ak. 1904]. [96]pp. of photographic illustrations. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, short, straight tear to fore-edge of wrapper, some stray coloring marks on blank rear wrapper. A few marginal small closed tears, plus light soiling from handling. Still very good.

A wonderful photographic account of Gold Rush life in Nome, Alaska at the turn of the 20th century. The photographer, O.D. Goetze, moved to Nome at the beginning of the rush in 1898 and operated a photography studio there for approximately a decade, though none of the images collected here are dated beyond 1904. They include a wide variety of photographic reproductions of street scenes, Eskimo portraits, hunting and fishing work, mining activity, landscapes, winter scenes, wildlife, and transportation. An attractive record of Nome in the Gold Rush. $750.

5. [Alaskan Photographica]: [ANNOTATED COLLECTION OF VERNACULAR ALASKAN VIEWS TAKEN AND ORGANIZED DURING THE LATTER YEARS OF THE ALASKAN GOLD RUSH, WITH SEVERAL VIEWS OF MINING CAMPS]. [Nome, Juneau, and other locations in Alaska, ca. 1900]. Twenty-four tipped-in photographs, with printed captions, each photograph approximately 3½ x 3½ inches. Contemporary brown wrappers. Some scuffing to spine. Minor fading to images. Very good.

An excellent collection of vernacular photographs of Alaska around the turn of the 20th century, with printed captions beneath the images containing valuable information for identification of the images. The majority of the album captures images of Nome when it was a thriving boom town following shortly after the 1898 discovery of gold. One of the captions covering three of the photographs reads, "Mining on the Beach. Nome, Alaska." Other views include Nome from a distance, showing the hundreds of tents housing the prospectors; the house in Nome belonging to one of the album organizer's friends; sled dog teams delivering water; six views taken on the Fourth of July, including a parade of sled dogs passing in front of Wyatt Earp's Dexter Saloon, draped in patriotic ribbons; the Hunter Saloon, titled "the finest in Nome," and Northern Saloon, similarly decorated for Independence Day; the J.F. Giese Hardware Store, occupying the "finest building in Nome;" five views of Juneau, including a street scene, a brewery housed in the first church in Juneau, and an enormous canoe named the "Whalekiller"; totem poles in Wrangle, Ak.; and the Muir Glacier near Skagway. Photographs from the time period near the Alaskan Gold Rush are rare, especially in an album as well-organized and well-identified as this one. $2000.

6. [Alaskan Photographica]: [OUTSTANDING VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM AND ANNOTATED SCRAPBOOK DOCUMENTING AN ALASKAN CRUISE BY TWO SISTERS AND THEIR FRIENDS IN 1932]. [Victoria, B.C.; Juneau, Skagway, Whitehorse, and other locations in Alaska. 1932]. [78]pp. with seventy-two originals, from 2½ x 3½ inches to 3 x 5 inches, most captioned in manuscript in white ink, also with thirty-eight real photo postcards, nine color & black-and-white linen postcards, thirteen shipboard newsletters or newspapers, and approximately fifty assorted ephemeral items both pasted in and laid in. Oblong quarto. Contemporary string-tied brown cloth photograph album, front cover embossed. Minor shelf wear. Chipping to corners of a few leaves, a few removed photos or ephemeral items. Still, very good.

A marvelous vernacular photograph album, annotated by hand, recording an Alaskan cruise by two sisters from Salt Lake City, along with two friends and their mothers, in 1932. The principal figures, Le Nora L. Losee and Frances Losee Pearson, the former a statistician with the Salt Lake City school district for over twenty years, and the latter an elementary school teacher in Utah and California, were both the daughters of Frank Losee, owner of a large lumber mill operation in Salt Lake City. They documented their Alaskan trip unusually well, with LeNora writing a detailed itinerary describing their journey. The itinerary begins with their Union Pacific train from Salt Lake City to Portland, hence to Seattle, where they boarded the S.S. NORTHWESTERN of the Alaskan Steamship Company line.

The photographs and ephemeral souvenirs track their progress through the Inside Passage, their arrival at Wrangell and Ketchikan, where the women visit the Kadashan Totem Poles, Taku Glacier, followed by a visit to Petersburg, where they view the newspaper shop. In Juneau, they see the famed Nugget Shop, and then take a trip out to Mendenhall Glacier. They also travel to the Chilkoot Barracks, stop over in Skagway, and take a tour of historic Gold Rush sites with Alaskan author Martin Itjen (author of THE STORY OF THE TOUR ON THE SKAGWAY, ALASKA STREET CAR, 1933).

The women also travel along the White Pass & Yukon Railway, take the Tutshi steamer across Lake Bennett, visit the Atlin Inn in British Columbia, and see yet another gold mine. On their return trip, they stop in Sitka, then see the sights in Seattle, Portland, and the Columbia River Gorge.

The ephemeral items include periodical clippings, menus, souvenirs, tickets, telegrams, a laid-in manuscript itinerary & Alaskan steamship brochure, and more. There are also three leaves from a former trip the women had taken to Europe, also containing photographs and ephemeral items from that 1930 excursion.

A fascinating collection of photographs and likely unique ephemera from Alaska in the early part of the 20th century, with crucial details about the trip provided in manuscript annotations. $1500.

8. [Marie Antoinette]: TRIAL OF MARIE ANTOINETTE, LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE, BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL, AT PARIS; COMPILED FROM A MANUSCRIPT SENT FROM PARIS, AND FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE MONITEUR. London: Printed and Sold at the Logographic Press..., [1794]. vi,82pp. Dbd. Minor staining, institutional ink stamp on titlepage, small blank portion of titlepage repaired on verso. Good.

A scarce edition of the account of Marie Antoinette's trial for high treason in Paris in 1793, one of seven London editions printed in 1793-94. Antoinette faced the Revolutionary Tribunal in October 1793, but most believe the result was predetermined. After a short trial, for which Antoinette's lawyers were given less than one day to prepare her defense, Antoinette was convicted of depleting the national treasury, conspiracy against the state, and high treason. Later the same day, she was executed by guillotine. All contemporary London printings of Antoinette's trial are rare, with ESTC reporting between two and nine copies of the various editions. ESTC locates just eight copies of the present work. ESTC T96761. $600.

Excellent Logbooks of Arctic Whaling Voyages

9. [Arctic Whaling]: [THREE LOG BOOKS FROM THE WHALING AND TRADING VOYAGES OF THE STEAMER Herman, COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN HARTSON H. BODFISH, OUT OF SAN FRANCISCO TO THE ARCTIC SEAS]. San Francisco, Anchorage, and other ports, but mostly at sea, such as Point Barrow, Franklin Bay, and more. 1909-1911. Three volumes. [2],60; 34; 42pp. Quarto. Matching printed canvas, calf corners. Bindings shaken, some staining. Some hinges split but holding, mild dampstaining, commensurate with items used regularly on whaling ships. Good, with generally clean and legible handwriting.

Original manuscript log books of three whaling voyages by steamer, departing from San Francisco for the North Pacific and Arctic Ocean, for eight to nine months at a time over three years in the first decade of the 20th century. This was an interesting time in the exploitation of resources in the Northern Pacific and Arctic regions. With Roald Amundsen's successful navigation of the Northwest Passage from 1903 to 1906, the area exploded with activity, but the whaling industry was on decline. The present whaling journals stem from this era of hyperactivity in the Arctic region just after this monumental event, but also stand as one of the last remnants of a waning industry - whaling by steamer. At the time these journals were written, only a few steamships still operated as whaling ships in the area. Like the whales they were hunting, steamers decked out as whaling ships were a dying breed.

Daily entries of the log books detail the wind and weather, events and activities on board, numerous mentions of whale sightings, lowering boats to capture whales, several instances of killing and cutting up whales, encounters with other ships, supply inventories, and more. In the first journal, there are a number of ink stamps of whales in the margins, indicating sightings; sightings of whales in the third journal are indicated by the word "Whale" in the margins. Further details, and one sample entry from each the three journals are as follows:

1) 1909 Log Book, commencing April 27, 1909, ending Nov. 2, 1909: "Sunday, Aug. 29th, 1909. Begin with strong N.E. Wind BF tied up to ice East Point Barrow due the forenoon snow squalled latter part clear up some at 3 p.m. We raised Bowhead out side the ice. We had S. Boat on lookout in the ice. So he struck the whale. We lowered 4 Boat took the whale along side cutting before night at night we clear away the head so end."

2) 1910 Log Book, commencing April 30, 1910, ending Nov. 9, 1910: "[Westward from Point Belcher, in sight of Herald Island] Monday Oct. 3rd [1910]. Light westerly winds hauling to the S & W saw whale 8a.m. lowered boats - chased til dark several whales in sight. Working to the westward among young ice...."

3) 1911 Log Book, commencing March 22, 1911, ending Nov. 9, 1911: "Friday Sept. 15th [1911]. Moderate easterly winds 4:30a.m. Herald Island SE magnetic distant 25 miles came around on Northern tack. 7:30a.m. saw whales lowered boats - Sardvard boat struck killed whale 2 other boats chasing other whales. Mr. Allen & officer struck and killed whale finished cutting at 4:45p.m. Number of whales in sight...."

^The 1909 log book is titled in manuscript on the first leaf, "Log Book Str. Herman April 27th 1909. Keep by chief officier [sic] E.F. Morgan. Sail from San Francisco." The second journal is titled on the first page, "Journal of S.S. Herman to Arctic Ocean Commencing Sat. April 30th 1910." The latter two log books seem to be written in different hands than the first. Further, the authors are not identified, but the running headers note the same ship and the same master, Captain Bodfish. The three journals here were likely kept by the first officer of each expedition.

Capt. Hartson H. Bodfish commanded a number of whaling and trading voyages into the Pacific and along the Northwest Coast at this time. He later produced, with the assistance of Joseph C. Allen, CHASING THE BOWHEAD: AS TOLD BY CAPTAIN HARTSON H. BODFISH, published by Harvard University Press in 1936. The New Bedford Whaling Museum owns logbooks kept by Capt. Bodfish, including one for the 1910 expedition, in a binding matching the present volume, with entries conforming to the activities recorded here.

A fascinating collection of whaling logs, encompassing three years of the industry during its last days. $8500.

Account Book of Atlantic Trading Voyages

10. [Atlantic Trade]: [West Indies]: [ACCOUNT BOOK OF THE BRIGS NIMROD AND JASPER UNDER CAPTAIN JOHN HILL, 1826 - 1833]. [Various places, including Antwerp, London, Havana, Pensacola, and New York. 1826-1833]. Twenty-one leaves, plus two additional manuscript leaves laid in. Folio. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, manuscript label on front board. Hinges cracked, boards somewhat soiled, spine and lower corner of rear board chipped. Bookseller's label on front pastedown. Very good.

An interesting manuscript ship's log containing financial accounts for the brigs Nimrod and Jasper for an eight year period from 1826 to 1833, while they were under the command of a Capt. John Hill. The two ships made numerous voyages between the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. The present log book contains accounting of expenditures for journeys from London and Marseille to New York and Norfolk in 1827; from Antwerp to London in 1828; from Philadelphia to the West Indies in 1829; from Madeira to the Turks Islands in 1831; from the West Indies to Pensacola to Havana in 1832; from the Indies to New York in 1833; and several other similar voyages. The log also contains two copies of an 1832 letter written in Havana by Hill to merchants there inquiring about the price of molasses, and a list of port charges at several major way points.

A fascinating artifact of trans-Atlantic trade in the 1820s and 1830s. $1500.

11. [Barnum's American Museum]: BARNUM'S MUSEUM CORNER OF SEVENTH AND CHESNUT STREETS...THE MANAGER ANNOUNCES THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE HIGHLY TALENTED AND POPULAR COMEDIAN, MR. WEAVER!...FOR THIS WEEK, THE FAR-FAMED MARTINETTI FAMILY!.... [Philadelphia. ca. 1850]. Broadsheet, 19¾ x 9 inches. Lightly tanned, trimmed close at bottom, with the loss of a line of text (and possibly the imprint). A few small tears at edges, left edge reinforced with tissue. Good plus.

Broadsheet, printed on both sides, advertising the latest and greatest spectacles at P.T. Barnum's Museum in Philadelphia. The main attractions listed on the from are the comedian Mr. Weaver; the acrobatic Martinetti Family; "The Three Boy Babies, survivors of the Four at one Birth...no danger is apprehended from them, as their mother and nurse are present"; the Mammoth Brothers, ages six and nine, weighing in at 600 pounds; and the Binghamton Pig, "raised in Broome County, New York, and weighed 1987 pounds." The back of the sheet advertises Mrs. Perlby's Wax Statuary, which includes a "choice lot of Mexican wax figures! Representing the Mexican people, their avocations, conditions, &c." Likewise, Barnum's recently purchased painting of The Deluge by Girodet, the Automaton Writer, and a series of lecture room performances. Prices for regular and season tickets are listed at the bottom of the sheet. Founded in 1849, Barnum's Philadelphia Museum had a short-lived career, burning to the ground in December 1851. A scarce and ephemeral piece of advertising. $600.

12. Barry, John: [PRINTED CERTIFICATE, SIGNED BY JOHN BARRY, ENTITLING THE BEARER TO PRIZE MONEY]. [N.p. ca. 1780] [1]p., 3½ x 7½ inches. Minor wear and soiling. Very good.

Printed certificate signed by Capt. John Barry, captain of the first ship in the Continental Navy. The document reads: "I do hereby certify, That the Bearer, [blank] late [blank] on board the [blank] under my command, is entitled to whatever share or portion of prize-money may accrue to him from [blank] to [blank] [signed] John Barry Capt." Captain John Barry (1745-1803) entered the service of the Patriot cause in late 1775, taking command first of the Alfred and subsequently the Lexington. On April 6, 1776 the Lexington engaged with British sloop Edward, capturing the British vessel and resulting in the first American naval victory of the war. Following the war Barry was made a senior captain in the new United States Navy and effectively protected U.S. shipping interests in the West Indies during the Quasi War with France. He is credited with developing both the navy and its finest commanding officers, including Stephen Decatur.

A scarce and ephemeral piece of American naval history. The only example of such a form, also unaccomplished, realized $1100 at Christie's in 1993. $1500.

13. [Bermuda Photographica]: [ALBUM CONTAINING FORTY-FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF LATE-19th CENTURY BERMUDA, COMPILED BY A NEW YORK TOURIST]. Bermuda. ca. 1895. Forty-four silver gelatin photographs, each 3½ x 4½ inches. Maroon pebbled cloth album. Light shelf wear, some water damage to front board. Photos mounted directly to thick card stock. Light wear to edges of a few images. Very good.

An engaging photograph album that documents a late 19th-century voyage to Bermuda. The photographer left New York on a steamer operated by A.E. Outerbridge & Co., one of the early organizers of tours to Bermuda for American vacationers. Much as today, they advertised the climate as a perfect choice for the discerning and well-to-do winter vacationer.

The album begins at the point of departure, with images of the pier in New York and the steamer conveying tourists to Bermuda. The ship arrives in Hamilton, and there are a series of harbor and town images, including the docks and port, the town's Front Street, several hotels, and beach scenes. The album also contains numerous images of rural Bermuda, its estates and plantations, landscapes, locals working and in transit, and animal life.

An attractive vernacular assemblage that depicts Bermuda at the end of the 19th century and testifies to the island's emerging tourist industry. $3000.

Photograph of the Famous Western Painter

14. Bierstadt, Albert: [PHOTOGRAPH OF ALBERT BIERSTADT, TOGETHER WITH A DATED AUTOGRAPH]. New York. March 2, 1872 [?]. Photograph 3½ x 2¼ inches, mounted on a stiff card together with Bierstadt's autograph. Minor soiling. Very good plus.

Photograph of renowned Western artist Albert Bierstadt, with his autograph, taken by Napoleon Sarony in New York during the height of the painters success. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was born in Solingen, Germany, and emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts with his family in 1832. He studied art in Dusseldorf, Germany and returned to New Bedford in 1857, where he began selling his paintings of European scenes. In 1859 he travelled west with Lander's South Pass Wagon Road Expedition to the Rocky Mountain region, seeing for the first time sites in the American West that would become the scenes and subjects of some of his greatest paintings. Through his paintings of the Rocky Mountains, Bierstadt "gave the nation its initial vision of the majestic western landscape that awaited settlement" (ANB). Bierstadt created his large canvas paintings from field sketches and stereoscopic camera views that he made himself. Bierstadt travelled west again in 1863, going through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Utah all the way to California, where he spent six weeks sketching in Yosemite. The period of the 1860s to the mid-1870s was a period of great success for Bierstadt, as his paintings sold for astronomical amounts, and he was acknowledged as a master of large landscape paintings. $600.

15. [Black Crime]: THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE ALMS-HOUSE, vs. ALEXANDER WHISTELO, A BLACK MAN; BEING A REMARKABLE CASE OF BASTARDY, TRIED AND ADJUDGED BY THE MAYOR, RECORDER, AND SEVERAL ALDERMEN, OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK.... New York. 1808. 56pp. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blindstamp to titlepage, minor toning, light foxing. Overall, very good.

A curious and rare account of the trial of Alexander Whistelo, a black man accused of leaving Lucy Williams, a mulatto, with child. A controversy ensued as sundry doctors stated that the child was the offspring of white parents. In addition, a witness attested to a white man visiting Ms. Williams: "The witness...confessed that such a person had been in bed with her: that he had turned the black man out with a pistol, and taken his place - that they had a connexion; but she said she was sure they had made no one young one...." In the end, Whistelo was acquitted. SABIN 103312. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 14750. $1250.

Roots of Rock

16. [Black Minstrel Song Sheet]: WHO'S DAT KNOCKING AT DE DOOR [caption title]. [London?]: E. Hodges, (From Pitts,) wholesale Toy, and Marble warehouse, [nd, but ca. 1850s]. Single sheet, 3½ x 9½ inches. A bit crinkled, somewhat tanned. Else very good.

British song sheet with a crude woodcut vignette of two figures, one black, the other a white sailor smoking, next to a barrel of rum. The minstrel theme and song follows: "I hab just come down on a little bit ob spree, / And I'm berry well acquainted wid de gals I come to see, / I went to de house, but dey was all gone to bed, / And out of the winder a colour'd lady said, / 'Who is dat knocking at de door?'" The rest of the lyrics, though somewhat different, clearly show the origin of the well known modern rock song, "I hear you knocking, but you can't come in...." $400.

17. [Boone, John William]: [Music, American]: [ADVERTISEMENT CARD FOR RAGTIME MUSICIAN BLIND BOONE]. [N.p. 1915]. Photographic card, 8½ x 5½ inches. Upper right corner bumped. Lightly foxed. Very good.

Illustrated advertisement card, showing a photograph of African-American ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone and his manager, John Lange, looking quite dapper in trench coats and hats. Boone rests his hand atop a cane, while Lange somewhat surreptitiously holds onto his arm for the photo. Boone's left hand is tucked jauntily into a vest pocket. The text below the photograph is reprinted from the KANSAS CITY SUN of Dec. 5, 1914. It reads: "The most astute, dignified and successful manager of the race, and the greatest living musical prodigy, who have journeyed together in the Blind Boone Concert Company thirty-five years, a record unsurpassed or equalled by any other company, white or colored in America. Both are philanthropic, generous and kind hearted to such a degree that they are loved by their race throughout the length and breadth of America." Blind Boone was the son of a former slave and a Union Army bugler, born at the end of the Civil War. At the age of six, a surgeon removed his eyes to relieve pressure on his brain during a fever. Despite this, he was a musical prodigy and became one of the great ragtime composers of the era. $450.

The Last Witchcraft Trial

18. [Bragge, Francis]: A FULL AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF SORCERY AND WITCHCRAFT, PRACTS'D BY JANE WENHAM OF WALKERNE IN HERTFORDSHIRE, UPON THE BODIES OF ANNE THORN, ANNE STREET, &c.... London: Printed for E. Curll..., 1712. [4],36pp. Dbd. Trimmed close, especially along the bottom edge, costing most of one or two lines per page. Good.

The first edition of the first work in a pamphlet war that resulted from the last witch trial in England. Wenham was condemned to death but was later pardoned. This was the first work relating to the Wenham case, produced just after her trial by Rev. Francis Bragge, her chief prosecutor. Here, Bragge recounts the charges against Wenham and provides a strong argument for her guilt. Despite Bragge's efforts, at least two pamphlets were produced in defense of Wenham, and Bragge wrote another screed against her later the same year. ESTC T71994. $1000.

19. Brown, David Paul: [Kilpatrick, John]: SPEECH OF DAVID PAUL BROWN, UPON MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL, IN THE CASE OF THE COMMONWEALTH AGAINST JOHN KILPATRICK, FOR MURDER, ON THE 3rd OF APRIL, 1858. Philadelphia. 1858. 56pp. Dbd. Institutional ink stamp on titlepage. Light tanning. Good.

"Because the unloaders took John M'Cracken's cart first, Kilpatrick took offense and a fight ensued. Kilpatrick beat M'Cracken with a slat and caused his death" - McDade. "Brown argues here for a new trial, on the grounds that proof of premeditation was lacking, and that Kilpatrick had been drinking. It is not clear from this document whether or not a new trial was granted" - Cohen. COHEN 12770. McDADE 555. $300.

20. [Byrne, Ellen]: THE TRIAL OF MRS. ELLEN BYRNE, FOR THE MURDER OF MR. AUGUSTINE BYRNE, HER HUSBAND; AT THE COMMISSION COURT, DUBLIN, ON THE 15th AND 16th AUGUST, 1842.... Dublin. 1842. 60pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine labels slightly chipped. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink and blind stamps, ownership inscription on titlepage. Upper corner of final leaf torn away, not affecting text, titlepage slightly chipped. Light tanning and foxing. Good plus.

An exceedingly scarce account of an extraordinary murder case in 1840s Dublin. Ellen Byrne, a woman of apparent amazing intemperance, lived with the corpse of her husband for a period of two to four days before the body was discovered in a state of rapidly advancing decomposition. Upon its discovery, she argued that she was not aware, presumably on account of her alcoholic stupor, that her husband had died. This explanation was so inconceivable to the authorities that Byrne was put on trial for the murder of her husband by suffocation or strangulation. Owing to the state of the body, however, no evidence that she committed the crime other than her inability to report the death could be produced, and she was found not guilty. Only one copy in OCLC, located at the National Library of Ireland. $650. Enumerating the Troops Needed in Mexican California

21. [California]: ESTADO QUE MANIFIESTA LA FUERZA QUE DEBEN TENER LAS SEIS COMPAÑIAS QUE SE CONSIDERAN NECESARIAS PARA LA GUARNICION DE LOS TERRITORIOS DE LA ALTA Y BAJA CALIFORNIA, CON ESPRESION DE LOS HABERES Y GRATIFICACIONES QUE DEBERÁN DISFRUTAR [caption title]. Mexico. May 8, 1828. Broadside, 16¾ x 12½ inches. Old folds. Slight wear and a few closed tears at edges. Very good. In a half morocco and marbled boards folding box, spine gilt.

A scarce broadside, enumerating the number of troops and officers which were needed for posts in California. The various posts are listed, including San Francisco, Monterrey, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and Loreto, as well as frontier forces. The number of soldiers called for at each is given, as well as physicians and surgeons, inspectors, etc. The annual budgets for the forces are also provided. Signed in print at the end: "F. Castro." This broadside is sometimes found with an accompanying printed circular announcement, not present here. $2000.

23. [California Coal Mining]: [ENGRAVED STOCK CERTIFICATE, WITH AN ILLUSTRATION OF MINERS, FOR FIFTEEN SHARES IN THE FORT ROSS COAL MINING COMPANY]. [Petaluma?]: "Journal" Press, [n.d., but probably 1863]. Engraved stock certificate, 5½ x 10 inches, small illustration in upper enter. Completed in manuscript, and printed (but unaccomplished) on the verso. Some old light folds. Very good.

An attractive engraved stock certificate for this obscure coal mining operation in Fort Ross, in Sonoma County on the California coast north of San Francisco. The company issued 1800 shares of stock, valued at $100 each. The present certificate records the sale of fifteen shares of stock to S. Thompson Huie(?), and is signed by C. Temple, the president of the company, as well as secretary T. Vander Root. The company was incorporated on Dec. 17, 1863, and this certificate was filled out on Jan. 30, 1864. The illustration shows two men with pickaxes mining coal. According to a story in the SONOMA COUNTY DEMOCRAT Temple and two others nearly lost their lives in an explosion in the mine on June 15, 1864. $300.

24. [California Gold Rush]: [Havens, Langdon H.]: Judd, J.W.: [AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED, BY J.W. JUDD, TO GUY R. PHELPS, REGARDING A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY FOR LANGDON H. HAVENS, A FORTY-NINER AND MEMBER OF JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON'S ILL-FATED OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849]. New York. Jan. 29, 1849. [1]p. of a bifolium, docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds, slight edge discoloration, else fine.

An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads, "Langdon H. Havens wants a [life insurance] permit for California to go over the Overland Route in company with persons bearing dispatches from our Government, in a Company of 100 or more. He wants to leave for Washington immediately...." Perhaps the twenty-six-year-old Haven (sometimes spelled Havens) originally intended to join a safe government-sponsored expedition from Washington, but he was in fact among the 100 Forty-Niners who embarked on a famously ill-fated overland expedition, led by Army Colonel Henry Webb, with John Woodhouse Audubon, son of the famous ornithologist, as his second in command, which left New York on Feb. 8.

The company proceeded by ship, train, stagecoach and riverboat to New Orleans and from there by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande, where they arrived on March 13 - an odd overland route dictated by Webb, a veteran of the Mexican War. There disaster struck. A dozen men died of cholera, the company's money was stolen, and leadership conflict led Webb to leave the company with a dozen followers. Some of the remaining stalwarts, including Haven followed Audubon onward, trekking for seven months through Mexico and Arizona, the survivors finally reaching San Diego in November. Some then took a boat to San Francisco; others continued overland to the gold fields. As meticulously recorded by Audubon, a naturalist and painter in his own right, the entire venture has gone down in history as "one of the most poorly-planned" Forty-Niner expeditions "on record." Haven, though nearly dying en route, was one of the fortunate few who "made it to California." An appealing note, dated in the famous year of the California Gold Rush, that eerily anticipates the dangers inherent in overland travel in America in the 19th century. $600.

25. [California Gold Rush]: [Philadelphia and California Mining Company]: [STOCK CERTIFICATE No. 1767 FOR FIFTY SHARES IN THE PHILADELPHIA AND CALIFORNIA MINING COMPANY]. [Philadelphia. Sept. 16, 1852]. Broadsheet, 8 x 9½ inches. Previously folded, with small chip at edge of a fold line. Printed form, completed in manuscript by several hands. With a woodcut mining vignette. Near fine.

A certificate for stock in the Philadelphia and California Mining Company, completed on Sept. 16, 1852, granting one Theodore Walter fifty shares in the venture, and signed by the Secretary, L. Alter, and the President, Pearson Serrill. The central woodcut depicts a mining scene representing the company's California operations. The Philadelphia and California Mining Company was founded in the same year on the basis of a land lease from John Fremont in the area of the Mariposa River. A rare piece of mining ephemera: OCLC records only one other example of a stock certificate from this company, held by the California Historical Society. OCLC 828929436. $750.

26. [California Indian Photographica]: Heller, Louis Herman: HOOKA JIM. [Fort Jones, Ca. 1873]. Oversized carte de visite photograph, 4¼ x 3 inches, on a 5 x 3¼-inch mount. Printed advertisement for Watkins Yosemite Art Gallery on verso. Photograph and card with old stains. In good condition.

A rare photograph of one of the Modoc Indians captured during the Modoc War of 1873 in northern California. Palmquist and Kailbourn call Louis Heller "the indefatigable photographer of the Modoc War," and this image is one of twenty-four portraits that Heller made of Modoc prisoners. Born in Germany, Heller emigrated to the United States in the mid-1850s, and was an assistant to lithographer Julius Bien in the production of the Bien edition of Audubon's THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. In the early 1860s, Heller went to California and established himself as a photographer in Yreka in 1863. He moved to Fort Jones in 1869 and worked there for the rest of the century. When the Modoc War broke out in 1872, Heller became one of its primary photographic chroniclers, and was in direct competition with Eadweard Muybridge. The main Modoc grievance was over forced resettlement on reservations, and hostilities lasted into 1873. Heller made stereoscopic views of significant sights in the conflict, and produced a series of twenty-four portraits of Modoc protagonists, which he published under his own imprint in May 1873. Muybridge, however, did a better job of marketing his photographs nationally, so Heller turned to Carleton Watkins to market his own photographs. When Heller's images were published in July, 1873 in FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER, they were attributed to Watkins, thus obscuring Heller's contribution. Heller eventually sold his negatives to Watkins, and the mount on this copy advertises the "Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery," from which may be had "the only genuine photographs of Captain Jack, and the Modoc Indians," as well as "interesting points of the Modoc War." The copyright notice on the recto of the mount is for Heller, however.

"Hooka Jim" (better known as "Hooker Jim") was considered one of the most aggressive of the Modocs, who were led by Captain Jack. He eventually surrendered to the Army, testified against Captain Jack in return for amnesty, and was exiled to Indian Territory. The printed attestation under the portrait of Hooka Jim on the recto of the mount reads: "I certify that L. Heleer [sic] has this day taken the Photographs of the above Modoc Indian, prisoner under my charge. Capt. C.B. Throckmorton, 4th U.S. Artillery, Officer of the Day. I am cognizant of the above fact. Gen. Jeff C. Davis, U.S.A." PALMQUIST & KAILBOURN, PIONEER PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE FAR WEST, pp.288-90. $900.

27. [California Theatre]: DIETZ OPERA HOUSE! OAKLAND. THE GRANDEST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD. MCDONOUGH & EARNSHAW'S ROYAL MARIONETTES! FOR ONE WEEK ONLY....ORDER OF PROGRAMME - PART FIRST. CHRISTY MINSTRELS.... [Oakland? n.d., ca. 1874]. Handbill, 8¾ x 4½ inches, printed on yellow paper. Old light folds, else fine.

Scarce handbill advertising a night's entertainment at the Dietz Opera House, the first theatre in Oakland, located at the corner of Webster and 12th Streets. Shows began there around 1874, and continued until 1905, and the theatre hosted stars such as Buffalo Bill and Sarah Bernhardt. Along with McDonough & Earnshaw's Royal Marionettes and the Christy Minstrels, part three of the night's entertainment is a performance called "Sports of the Fantoccini," composed of Chinese bell ringers and "Brigham Young and Family." In an 1896 SAN FRANCISCO CALL article about theatrical manager Mark Thall, he claims to have been present for McDonough and Earnshaw shows at the theatre "with the first company that opened the old Dietz Opera-house," a date he places at 1870. But since shows did not begin at the Dietz until around 1874, we place the printing of this broadside at that date. $250.

A Letter from the Overland Trail in 1849

28. [California Trail in 1849]: Snyder, Fred: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM EMIGRANT FRED SNYDER TO HIS BROTHER, JOHN, WHILE EN ROUTE ON THE OREGON TRAIL]. Near Fort Kearny, Ne. May 9, 1849. [1]p. plus integral address leaf, addressed on verso. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Moderate soiling and dampstaining, primarily to second leaf. Small paper loss to a few folds, affecting a few words of text. Still, quite legible. Good.

Written from the banks of the Platte River in Nebraska, this letter typifies correspondence sent home from the Oregon Trail, reporting on game, grass, Indian encounters, and deaths on the Trail. Given the date and the destination, it is possible that Fred Snyder was a Forty-Niner, headed West to the California gold fields. He writes:

"I have just time to inform you that we have travelled about 310 miles from St. Joseph and 800 from St. Louis and are now encamped upon the Platte River between Fort Kearney and Fort Laramie. We are now within 16 days travel from the latter fort. Game is abundant but the grass is poor. I shall take every opportunity to write to you, but I have not heard a word from home since I left nor do I expect to until my arrival in California. Do not forget to direct letters for me to San Francisco by the way of Chagres & Panama. We meet Indians every day and are now in the Paunee country. By tomorrow we shall be among the Sioux. Nicholas Boismenue of Cahokia accidentally shot himself a few days ago and died immediately. He was buried on the Big Blue River. Regards to all."

Until the Panama railway was completed in 1855, Chagres, Panama was the main port of call for travelers who took the sea voyage to California, landing at Chagres and then traversing the Isthmus before boarding a vessel on the other side.

A good letter, illustrative of the emigrant experience on the Oregon Trail. $1750.

Large Chromolithographs of the Riel Rebellion

29. [Canada]: [North-West Rebellion]: [Blatchly, W.D.]: [THREE HANDSOME COLOR LITHOGRAPHS DEPICTING THREE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES DURING THE NORTH-WEST, OR SECOND RIEL REBELLION]. Toronto: Toronto Lithographing Co., [ca. 1885]. Three color lithographs. Cut Knife and Fish Creek: approximately 20¼ x 26¾ inches; Capture at Batoche: approximately 19½ x 26¼ inches. Cut Knife and Fish Creek trimmed about ¾ inch along the top margin, and about 1¼ inches along left margin. Capture at Batoche trimmed slightly more, but evenly in each margin and adhered to backing board. Overall good plus.

A trio of rare battlefield views depicting three of the major skirmishes fought during the North-West Rebellion in Saskatchewan in 1885. This series of battles is also known by several other names, including the Saskatchewan Rebellion, the Northwest Uprising, and the Second Riel Rebellion (the first Riel Rebellion occurred near Manitoba in 1869, and is also known as the Red River Rebellion). Both the 1869 and 1885 actions were led by Louis Riel, the leader of the Métis people.

Chronologically, the lithographs are as follows:

1) "Battle of Fish Creek." This battle occurred on April 24, 1885, and resulted in a stunning victory when around 200 Métis soldiers overcame a superior force of 900 government soldiers, and temporarily halted an advance on Batoche.

2) "Battle of Cut Knife." On May 2, 1885, a force of Cree warriors held off a superior group of Canadian army units.

3) "The Capture of Batoche." Effectively the end of the rebellion, the Métis were soundly defeated in the second week of May after they ran out of ammunition on the third day of fighting. This action forced Riel to surrender on May 15.

The Métis are one of the recognized aboriginal groups in Canada who trace their roots to the first interaction between First Nations people and the earliest European settlers, usually French, and largely as a result of the fur trade. The Métis are, in essence, the earliest mixed-race people in Canada, and developed a separate, distinct culture based on their ancestral origins, usually stemming from the coupling of an indigenous woman and a male European settler.

By the 19th century, the Métis were well-assimilated into French-Canadian culture, and many worked as fur traders for the North-West Company or Hudson's Bay Company, or supplied furs as independent trappers. When those companies pulled out of the Red River and Saskatchewan regions in the mid-to-late 1800s, the Canadian government took over the land, and began to enforce their will on the Métis people.

The first armed conflict between the Métis and the Canadian provincial government occurred in 1869 in the Red River region, where Louis Riel led an unsuccessful rebellion. Some fifteen years later, the Métis formed their own provincial government in western Saskatchewan after hearing that the Canadian government was sending mounted police to enforce Canadian law in the region. This Second Riel Rebellion occurred in a series of skirmishes between the Métis and the Canadian armed forces between March 26 and May 12, 1885. Though led by Louis Riel, the Métis ultimately lost again to the Canadian government. Still, both rebellions helped the Métis gain some measure of recognition and respect from the Canadian government that they would very likely have not earned otherwise.

The lithographs were produced by the Toronto Lithographing Company, purveyors of patriotic views of famous Canadian wars. In this case, the company assigned W.D. Blatchly to paint the scenes for the 1885 conflicts; Blatchley was, at the time, one of the leading artists in all of Canada. An excellent series of lithographs illustrating three important events in the famous rebellion, with outstanding display appeal. $3750.

Printed on the First Press in the New World

30. Carpenter, Edwin H.: A SIXTEENTH CENTURY MEXICAN BROADSIDE. Los Angeles: The Plantin Press, 1965. 14pp., plus printed form (completed in manuscript) in pocket. Folio. Half cloth and paper boards. Small nick to top edge of front board, some minor soiling, else fine.

A 16th-century Mexican broadsheet from the collection of Dr. Emilio Valton, in the extremely rare book with explanatory text by Edwin Carpenter. The piece present here is a CARTA DE PODER (or power of attorney) form accomplished on March 28, 1594 in Mexico City, by the second printer in the New World, Pedro Ocharte. Ocharte took over the press from Juan Pablos and operated it until 1592, so this form was not used until some time after it was printed. Valton owned a total of thirty-nine pre-1600 broadsheets. This represents virtually the only chance to own an example from the first press in the New World. $2000.

Doc Carver in Germany

31. [Carver, William Frank "Doc"]: [RARE 1880 BROADSIDE PROGRAM FOR A SHOOTING EXHIBITION FOR KAISER WILHELM I OF GERMANY]. Berlin: Beuckert & Radetzki, 1880. Broadside, 16¼ x 10½ inches. Some toning and dust-soiling, a couple minor creases. Backed on thicker paper some time ago. News clippings pasted to verso. Very good.

A fascinating broadside, printed in German, for an exhibition from the "Champion rifle shot of the world," William Frank "Doc" Carver, held in Potsdam, Germany on June 13, 1880. In 1879-80, Carver toured Europe to perform in a series of shooting exhibitions, where he engaged in contests with shotguns, rifles, pistols, and shot both from horseback and on foot. Thirty various exhibitions of gunplay are enumerated on the present broadside, such as "Zerschiessen von wenigstens 75 Glaskugeln aus 100" ("Shoot to pieces at least 75 out of 100 glass targets"). During this tour Carver visited France, Belgium, Austria, and Germany, but spent most of the tour in Great Britain. Upon returning to America he would partner with Buffalo Bill Cody on a traveling Wild West show. In later years Carver would invent the diving horse stunt, the origin of which, like most of Carver's story, is shrouded in legend. $2500. A Large Collection of American Chromolithographic Ephemera

32. [Chromolithographs]: [COLLECTION OF SCRAPBOOKS CONTAINING OVER 1000 TRADING CARDS, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND OTHER EPHEMERAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC ITEMS, ALMOST ALL PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE 19th CENTURY]. [Various places. ca. 1875-1905]. Approximately 1100 pieces, both loose and in four albums. Most pieces pasted into albums. Albums are quarto and folio in size. Largest album lacking spine and front board, spine deteriorated on second album, leaves loose in both. Some light wear to leaves in all four albums, some heavier than others. Overall, the individual pieces are in very good condition.

Large group of primarily American trade cards, advertisements, and other ephemeral printed items, most printed in chromolithographic full color. The collection spans a variety of printing firms, in various locales, including Boston, New York, New Bedford, Philadelphia, and Buffalo, among others. In addition to chromolithographs of flowers and other ornamental scenes, there are trade cards advertising a wide variety of products: corsets, soap, thread, medicines and remedies, early appliances and household goods, shoes, furniture, dry goods, cigars, and many more. Most of the advertisements and trade cards are aimed at a female audience, relying on the desires of the burgeoning Victorian middle class. Some show African Americans in extreme caricatures, notably a series of cards for cigars. A significant archive of ephemeral items, neatly collected and grouped. $8000.

A Rare Recruiting Broadside from the Beginning of the War

33. [Civil War]: [New York]: $14 CASH! IN ADVANCE! HARRIS' LIGHT CAVALRY! Plattsburgh, N.Y. [1861]. Printed broadside, 13¾ x 20 inches. Matted. Mild offsetting of text from being previously folded, minor restoration in left margin, light folds and toning. Very good.

A rare Civil War recruitment broadside, stating that Captain W.B. Weed will pay $14 in advance to all Union recruits accepted after October 23 in the Harris' Light Cavalry. Signed in type by Captain Weed, who enlisted with the 2nd New York Cavalry in September 1861, only to be discharged less than a year later, on June 24, 1862. The broadside includes a large and well-executed engraving of a cavalry horse.

Named in honor of Senator Ira Harris of Albany, Harris' Light Cavalry, the 2nd New York Cavalry, was organized at Scarsdale, N.Y. during the summer of 1861 and over the course of four years' service, earned one of the most illustrious records in the Army of the Potomac. The 2nd Cavalry lost heavily during Pope's Campaign in the late summer of 1862 and again before and after Gettysburg, losing almost 50 at Aldie alone, with equal losses later in the year at Liberty Mills and Buckland Mills. During the summer of 1864, the regiment took part in Wilson's raid on the South Side and Danville Railroads and it fought in the Shenandoah Campaign when the tide was finally turned against the Confederates. The 2nd New York Cavalry is one of the 300 fighting regiments mentioned by Colonel Fox, and ranks eighth in the list of mounted regiments which lost the most men killed and fatally wounded in action during the Civil War. $5000.

35. [Civil War]: [Pennsylvania]: ONCE MORE FOR THE COUNTRY! Pottsville, Pa. August, 1861. Broadside, approximately 18 x 24 inches. Minor separations at crossfolds, some edge wear and short closed tears to edges, somewhat toned. Good.

A rare Civil War recruitment broadside, calling for troops to join the Tower Guards in Pennsylvania during the first year of the conflict. The broadside is illustrated with a large, open-winged eagle holding a banner in his beak which reads, "The Union Forever!" The body of the broadside reads, in part:

"The undersigned desires to have the Company which has been commanded by him for three months past, the 'Tower Guards,' go again to support the Government and help crush out the great rebellion. He therefore offers A bounty of five hundred and five dollars, to one hundred and one picked men."

The text explains that the company will be commanded by Henry Pleasants as Captain, and will be part of a Regiment commanded by Colonel James Nagle "Or some other satisfactory Colonel, or as an independent company of Rangers." The broadside directs any interested men to call and enroll their names at the Office of Henry Pleasants. Signed in type by "C. Tower, Captain." Charlemagne Tower organized a company of Union soldiers from Pottsville in a three-month enlistment during the Civil War. Before the war, Tower worked in law, specifically moving to Schuylkill County to get involved in claims to large coal and mineral deposits there. Tower was able to build wealth and prominence for himself in the area through his work in land dispute cases, most prominently the Munson-Williams Case.

When the Civil War began at Fort Sumter, Tower took notice. Within ten days of that first conflict on April 12, 1861, Tower had recruited around 270 men from his county to join the Union Army under a three-month enlistment provision. Tower's unit, who became known as the "Tower Guards," entered the Union Army as Company H of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, part of a brigade commanded by Major General Robert Patterson. Tower, commissioned captain of his unit, provided uniforms and arms for his men at his own expense. The unit saw action most famously in the engagement at Falling Waters in July of 1861, a Union victory in name, but with its own failings that led to the defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. It would seem that Tower's efforts were not exhausted on this first unit, because the featured broadside is dated just after his unit mustered out of service, and asks for more men to take up the cause and fight for the Union. It would seem that Tower himself funded the bounty offered in the broadside, but this is not certain because much less is known about this second attempt to recruit men for the Union Army.

After his service in the war, Tower was later named U.S. Provost Marshal for Pennsylvania's 10th Congressional District from 1863-64, and continued working at his Pottsville practice until moving to Philadelphia in 1875. A master land negotiator, Tower held property in North Dakota and Minnesota that would help develop those states and the United States as a whole. His holdings in North Dakota became Tower City, a promising town arranged and planned by George Ellisbury in 1879. Tower's land in the Vermilion Range in Minnesota proved to be rich with iron-ore, necessitating a mine and a direct railroad line, both of which contributed to the local, state, and inter-state economies.

Though Tower died on July 25, 1889, his legacy was carried on by the towns across state lines that were named after him, his son who became the minister to Austria-Hungary under President William McKinley, and the unit of "Tower Guards" who fought for the Union Cause in the Civil War. A visually-striking artifact from the early period of the Civil War, with no copies recorded in OCLC. $4000.

A Striking Recruiting Broadside

37. [Civil War]: [New York]: THE WAR HAS ALREADY BEGUN! Dansville, N.Y. November, 1861. Printed broadside, approximately 18¾ x 24 inches. Top edge chipped, edges worn, center fold partially separated, a bit brittle, as usual. Still, a good copy of a rare piece of historical ephemera.

A striking Civil War recruitment broadside filled with bold text inviting the citizens of East Avon, N.Y. to meet at the Brick Church on the evening of Nov. 19, 1861, to hear speakers including W.H.C. Hosmer and Job C. Hedges, Esq. discuss the recently-engaged Civil War and "its merits." Text at the bottom of the broadside explains that at the end of the meeting, men will have an opportunity to join the "Gallant Thirteenth Regiment the most Popular, best Fed, best Clothed, and most comfortably Quartered Regiment on the Potomac." Broadside undersigned in print by the recruiting officer, Lieut. C. S. Benjamin.

The Thirteenth Regiment of New York was organized at Elmira, N.Y. and mustered into the Union Army on April 25, 1861. The Regiment was transferred from state service to federal service later that same year in August. From 1861-1863, the Regiment participated in numerous crucial conflicts including the Advance on Manassas, the First Battle of Bull Run, the Siege of Yorktown, the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, and many others. During its service, the regiment lost a total of one hundred men to battle and disease. Included in their ranks was the notable Private Myron H. Ranney, who received the Medal of Honor for his service at the First Battle of Bull Run.

One of the speakers mentioned in this broadside is William Howe Cuyler Hosmer, a poet born in Avon, N.Y. who graduated from the University of Vermont in 1841 where he studied law. Hosmer had a particular fascination with Native Americans, and spent time amongst the tribes of Florida and Wisconsin studying their culture. One of his most famous poems, "Yonnondio, or Warriors of Genesee" is said to have inspired Walt Whitman to write his own poem of the same name. Hosmer would have been a particularly interesting speaker to hear at the event advertised in this broadside. $3500.

Confederate Texas

38. [Civil War]: [Texas]: ATTENTION, PARTIZAN RANCERS [sic]! [caption title]. Washington, Ar. Aug. 15, 1862. Small broadside, approximately 11 x 8 inches. Previously folded. Two very short separation along old folds at right edge. Faint dampstaining in lower left corner, light tanning. Very good.

An extremely scarce Confederate broadside, calling for the mobilization of the First Texas Partisan Rangers and their assembly in East Texas near the Arkansas state line. The Partisan Rangers Act was passed in the spring of 1862 by the Confederate Congress to encourage the formation of irregular military units. Accordingly, Col. W.P. Lane raised the First Texas Partisan Rangers in June 1862. The regiment spent all of its service west of the Mississippi River, and participated in more than twenty engagements, including those at Bayou Boeuf, Kock's Plantation, Stirling's Plantation, and Bayou Bourbeau. This broadside indicates that the regiment will be bound for Ft. Gibson, in Indian Territory.

The text of the broadside reads in full:

"Attention, Partizan Rancers [sic]! All persons who have enlisted for, or squads or companies raised by the authority from Col. W.P. Lane, or the undersigned, will report at once to Major Burns or the Senior officer at camp, close to the Arkansas state line a short distance from Rondo. The regiment is under urgent marching orders for Ft. Gibson, en route to [...] Bring all the arms possible. We have special orders by which we are not to be dismounted! Lt. Col. A. Neill."

A rare Confederate Texan survival, with only two other copies located, at Yale and Duke University. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4974. $5000.

The Union Navy on the Mississippi River

39. [Civil War]: [Tennessee]: PROCLAMATION!!! TO THE INHABITANTS OF CLARKSVILLE, TENN....AFTER OUR HOISTING THE UNION FLAG AND TAKEN POSSESSION OF THE FORTS...THAT THEY MAY IN SAFETY RESUME THEIR BUSINESS AVOCATIONS WITH THE ASSURANCE OF MY PROTECTION. Clarksville, Tn. February, 1862. Printed broadside, approximately 11½ x 8¾ inches. Mounted to verso of engraving featuring a female pianist, with thicker green paper border supplied between the two, adhesive stains around edges, vertical split at center, old folds, some foxing and toning. Good. An intriguing Union naval proclamation issued by Andrew H. Foote, Flag Officer of the Commanding Naval Forces, on board the U.S. Flag Steamer CONESTOGA near Clarksville, Tn., in early 1862. Foote's proclamation states his intentions that the naval force should not bother the citizens of Clarksville or their personal property in taking possession of Clarksville. His message concludes, however, with a warning:

"At the same time I require that all military stores and army equipments, shall be surrendered - no part of them being withheld or destroyed - and farther, that no secession flag, or manifestation of secession feeling, shall be exhibited, and for the faithful observance of these conditions, I shall hold the authorities of the city responsible."

This proclamation came after the surrender of Clarksville, Tn., which was captured on Feb. 17, 1862 by two Union ironclads. The city's valuable railroad bridge was one factor that made it so important to the Union strategy. Though many of Clarksville's residents had left by the time the Union Army took over, the mayor of the city called upon Commander Foote to state his intentions to the remaining citizens. Notably, Clarksville also became a gathering place for escaped or freed slaves; therefore, the 16th United States Colored Infantry Regiment was mustered into the Union Army in Clarksville.

Andrew Hull Foote was a naval officer heavily involved in the Civil War. He was promoted to captain in 1861 and led the Mississippi River Squadron from then until 1862 when he and Ulysses S. Grant overtook Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, and attempted to overtake Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River. Foot then campaigned against Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River with General John Pope. He ended up with a wounded foot, but was awarded the "Thanks of Congress" twice for his gallant efforts. By the end of 1862, Foote had been promoted to rear admiral, and on his way to lead the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1863, he suddenly passed away, shocking the nation.

A rare and important broadside proclamation. OCLC reports no physical copies, only a single digital copy at the Tennessee State Library & Archives. $3750.

Just Before the Battle of Gettysburg

41. [Civil War]: [Pennsylvania]: INVASION OF PENNSYLVANIA BY THE CONFEDERATES [manuscript title]. Waynesboro, Pa. [ca. June 30, 1863]. [8]pp., on two bifolia. One old horizontal fold, minor soiling. Very good.

A fascinating eyewitness account written by an unnamed resident of the town of Waynesboro, Pa., concerning Confederate troop activity in Pennsylvania near the Maryland border in the days leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Though undated, the manuscript, according to the writer, was composed, or at least started, on June 30. It is not clear if the manuscript was written over several days, and completed at a later date. Notably, there is no mention of the Battle of Gettysburg, which ran from July 1-3. The author was also not aware that Hooker was no longer in command of the Army of the Potomac and that he had been replaced by General George G. Meade on June 28.

The account begins with reference to the Second Battle of Winchester, Va., which occurred on June 13-15, 1863, and resulted in a Confederate victory under Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell, and was followed by Ewell's advance into Pennsylvania. Confederate forces also captured the town of Martinsburg, W.V. The account reads, in part:

"On Sunday the 14th...news reached here that Confederates were advancing down the Shenandoah Valley in force that [Union Major General Robert H.] Milroy had been driven closely into his entrenchments at Winchester and was surrounded and that a large Cavalry force had passed Winchester, attacked the Union forces at Martinsburg, killed and captured most of them and put the rest to flight. The force at Martinsburg consisted of one Ohio Regiment 126 one New York Regiment and a six gun battery from Fairmount Va. under Capt. [Colonel William P.?] Maulsby. The battery was captured. This news produced considerable excitement among our citizens. A dispatch was received here by the officers of Company E 126 [Pennsylvania] Reg. who[se] time had recently expired...to reform the Company and prepare to reorganize the 126 Reg. Some effort was made in that direction but with little success. On Monday morning our town was full of rumors & excitement. A number of persons who left here for Greencastle returned to this place again before reaching that place declaring that the Rebels were in Greencastle. No one however had seen them. It was also reported that a Cavalry fight had occurred between Capt. Fiery [William Firey] & the Confederate force between Hagerstown & Clearspring [Clear Spring] in which Capt. Fiery was reported killed (some accounts say wounded & prisoner). This fight occurred on Sunday the 14th. On Monday the 15th marched on to Chambersburg and arrived there about 11 oclock at night under the command of Gen. A.G. Jenkins with a force reported to be about 1500."

In this last sentence, the author refers to Confederate Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins, who, two weeks prior to General Robert E. Lee's arrival in Pennsylvania, led a weeklong Confederate raid into southern Pennsylvania. Jenkins stole horses and cattle, as well as destroyed a number of farms. During this time Jenkins' force captured Chambersburg. His soon fled, however, when he received word of an advancing Union force. Within days of leaving, Jenkins returned, along with several Confederate divisions. They appropriated vast amounts of provisions, but leaving Chambersburg intact when they departed.

After mentioning Jenkins' capture of Chambersburg, the author returns to describing events in Waynesboro and Greencastle: "On Tuesday morning some of The Whiskey patriots of our town visited Greencastle and assisted in arresting three stragglers and brought them to this place, later in the day four couriers were arrested. On the arrival of these prisoners a hearty cheer was given by the unthinking part of our citizens. The more reflective portion of our people seemed to fear that mischief might grow out of these arrests. About 9 oclock on Tuesday night Maj. [D. Watson] Rowe...arrived here and stated that a Squadron of Cavalry had returned to that place from Chambersburg demanding the return of all the prisoners with their horses & guns declaring that they meant to hold Greencastle & Waynesboro. This news produced intense excitement among our citizens. Their arrest under the circumstances was freely discussed and denounced by our respectable citizens. The fact too that our town was under the control & influence of a set of Whiskey Suckers was also freely admitted & denounced.... Arrangements were made and four of them were sent back that night, and a pledge given that the balance should be sent if possible the next day."

The taking of Confederate prisoners came with a price, as Greencastle and Waynesboro came under a threat of Confederate retaliation by Tuesday and Wednesday. The author continues:

"In the afternoon about thirty soldiers rode into Greencastle and read an order from Gen. Jenkins demanding the return of their prisoners' horses and property by four oclock that evening or they would burn down the town. This order it is said produced the most intense excitement there. Parties from here having heard this order read returned to this place and gave this information. Many persons here believing that this order would be executed and that Waynesboro would share the same fate became much alarmed. This alarm became very general and the result was one night of much excitement. The night passed however and no rebels made their appearance. On Wednesday...we received word that four rebels were at Marsh River, capturing horses and stated that they would be in Waynesboro on the following day. At this time many rumors were afloat in regard to the approach of the Rebels. Time and again it was rumored that they were coming. The excitement began to run at fever heat. Finally the cry was raised at the west end of town that the Rebels were coming and would be in in a few minutes. For a moment all was excitement. The women began to run & scream the children to cry and the men of business to slam their doors & windows shut & all was confusion and excitement for this time but it was soon found that all were more scared than hurt. No Rebels came. The farmers were all busy endeavoring to save their horses. Nearly all seemed to look for safety in the mountains.... In the early part of the week the news prevailed through the county that Gen. Jenkins' men were capturing all the horses they could find. Such news became very unpleasant to those who had horses - especially the farmers."

By Friday, June 19, Confederate forces arrived and encamped near Waynesboro. The author of the manuscript recounts his meeting with Confederate officers and the interactions between the rebel soldiers and the citizens of the town:

"About five oclock in the evening a squad of Confederate Cavalry made their appearance in town...representing themselves to be the advance guard of Gen. A.P. Hill's Corps. Many persons appeared to doubt the truth of their statement. Not very long however and Gen. [Henry] Heth Commander of the division made his appearance, ordered the stores to be spared and that the citizens furnished [blank] lbs of bread by 6 oclock in the morning. A number of our citizens at once canvassed the town and got the amount subscribed.... The conduct of the troops in passing through town was very good but the bitterness of those that had the opportunity to talk to our citizens against the North was most intense. Many of them seemed to thirst for revenge. Almost every one told the same story of the wanton destruction of their homes or the homes of their parents. Many seemed anxious to retaliate in the same manner.... The capture of hats was practiced by swapping by the Rebs. It was very common occurrence to see them step up to a citizen and seize his hat and give him his old one in return. This was done sometimes with the utmost coolness at other times they seemed to regard it as a good piece of fun. The number of troops in these two divisions were estimated by different persons at from 15 to 20,000. About 18,000 would likely be about correct. The Confederates were frequent in their inquiries as to who would meet them. The idea that they would be met with militia seemed quite amusing. They insisted that they could whip all the militia that could possibly be brought before them. They also insisted that when they did fight it would be against Hooker's Army (in which opinion this writer fully concurs). The troops passing through here on Saturday entered the stores and took a large quantity of goods paying in Confederate money. Many things was taken up by the privates and not paid for. The army moved on to Fayetteville and there encamped for the night & is said to be there at the present writing June 30."

The conclusion of the account addresses rumors concerning the advance of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia toward the Harrisburg and Chambersburg areas:

"During the day a report reached here through a deserter from the Union Army that Hooker's forces were between Frederick City, Md. and Boonsboro, that Lee had got an army in his rear and was advancing on Baltimore and that Hooker had turned his forces and was following him up. The fact that the Rebel forces in Pa still remaining on the Pike from Chambersburg to Gettysburg made this story look plausible: that they would advance on Hooker & bring him between the two Rebel forces, seize the North Central road & cut off all [?] from Harrisburg.... Mr. McCausland arrived this evening from Chambersburg and states that Gen. Lee is in Chambersburg & that a very long train heavy loaded with heavy guard of infantry & artillery left Chambersburg in the direction of Hagerstown. Mr. Mc. gave it as the opinion at C[hambersburg] that they were moving off their superfluous plunder and were about to prepare to march towards Baltimore. A report reached here today that the Cavalry force that crossed the mountains yesterday evening met a force of infantry at Millerstown and were driven back. We have no news from a distance; no mails, nothing but rumors and not one in ten that may be correct."

A fascinating look at how one resident of a Pennsylvania town near Gettysburg responded to and interpreted events leading up to that epic engagement. A typed transcription of the letter is included. $3750.

42. [Civil War]: IS THE WAR A FAILURE? [caption title]. New York. [1864]. Broadside, approximately 11¼ x 8¾ inches. Small portion of upper left corner torn away, short closed at tear at upper right. Tanning, light matte burn. Good plus.

This scarce broadside rebuts Copperhead claims that the War is a disastrous mistake, requiring that "immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities." Issued during the critical 1864 presidential campaign, it quotes Generals Grant, Sherman, Seymour, and Dix, who make clear that the Rebels are on their last legs. In fact, "The rebel cause is fast failing from exhaustion." Grant reports, "The rebels now have in their ranks their last man. The little boys and old men" are filling the ranks. "AMERICANS! Read these declarations of your Generals in the field, and then decide whether the Chicago Convention was right or wrong in pronouncing the war a failure?" $750.

Printed on a Naval Vessel on the Mississippi, 1865, Trying to Catch Jeff Davis

43. [Civil War]: [Military Press Printing]: SPECIAL ORDER No. 8. U.S. MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, FLAG SHIP "TEMPEST," MOUND CITY, ILLS., APRIL 24, 1865 [caption title]. Mound City, Il. April 24, 1865. [1]p. Two older tape stains, otherwise clean. Very good.

A rare U.S. Mississippi Squadron Special Order from Rear Admiral Samuel Lee on the Flag Ship Tempest, passing along a confidential telegraph order from Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Lee conveys the order that "the utmost vigilance should be exercised on the Mississippi River, especially the lower portion of it, the prevent the carrying across of plunder and property in the hands of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet, and also the seize their persons." Davis and other Confederate leaders had fled Richmond and the oncoming Union Army; they had hoped to find sanctuary outside the United States. At one point they hoped to cross the South and reach Mexico. Davis, his family, and entourage were captured in Georgia on May 10th. $600.

44. Cole, Elizabeth M.: JOTTINGS FROM OVERLAND TRIP TO ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA. Poughkeepsie. 1908. 99pp. Illustrated. Original printed wrappers. Rear cover and last few leaves separating. Ownership inscription on front cover. Internally clean. Good plus.

Privately published travel narrative of an overland journey by rail, made by two women. Oddly enough, their narrative highlights visits to mines in Arizona and agricultural excursions in California. $250.

A Beautiful View of Cripple Creek

45. [Colorado]: CRIPPLE CREEK. 1896. VICTOR. Denver: Phillips & Desjardins, 1896. Chromolithographic broadside, 29 x 38½ inches. Minor marginal chipping, one corner renewed, two closed tears expertly repaired on verso. Very good.

An early and exceedingly rare chromolithographic bird's-eye view of Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado. The image includes a large central view of Cripple Creek, with a smaller view of nearby Victor inset at the bottom. Surrounding the central bird's eye views are twenty smaller views of local mines, including the Portland Gold Mining Co. Mine and the Pike's Peak Mine. The view was printed by the Western Lithograph Co., Denver.

Cripple Creek was founded in 1891 and quickly became the center of the mining world in Colorado. In early 1896, two fires burned most of the wooden structures, which were quickly rebuilt in brick, and these newer brick structures can be seen here. By that year, the population of Cripple Creek numbered over 20,000 people and over 200 mines were established in the vicinity. Today fewer than 1,200 people live in the town, and mining is all but dead there, relative to the industry's heyday depicted in this bird's-eye view.

An important depiction of a once-vital hub for the mining industry during the Cripple Creek Gold Rush, which was effectively over less than a decade after this lithograph was printed. Rare, with only two copies in OCLC, at Yale and the History Colorado Center in Denver. Reps records two more, at the Amon Carter Museum and the Library of Congress. REPS, VIEWS &VIEWMAKERS 478. REPS, CITIES ON STONE, p.92. OCLC 80855495, 16886906. $5500.

46. [Confederate States of America]: [Virginia]: [UNCUT SHEET OF FOUR EARLY CONFEDERATE ELECTORAL TICKETS FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA]. [N.p., likely Richmond. late 1861]. Broadside, matted to 7 x 11 inches, framed to 12 x 15 inches overall. Small marginal adhesive stain at top and bottom center, some wrinkling, small chip to lower right corner, contemporary ink signature in bottom margin. Very good. Matted and framed.

An intriguing and exceedingly rare relic from the early days of the Confederacy - an uncut sheet of four Confederate electoral tickets for the November 6, 1861 election for president and vice president of the Confederacy, along with the electors, Confederate Congress, and the state convention for the state of Virginia. Each ticket lists Jefferson Davis for president, Alexander Stephens for vice president, two at-large state electors, sixteen district electors, John Brown Baldwin for the Confederate Congress, and John H. Hendren for the state convention. Davis, Stephens, Baldwin, and Hendren were each elected to his post, presumably along with most or all of the state electors listed on the tickets.

Parrish & Willingham records two 1861 Virginia Confederate electoral tickets, but both are smaller than the present example, the text of the which begins: "Electoral Ticket. Freedom and Independence. Election Day, Wednesday, Nov'er 6th. For President, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi....." Rare, especially as an uncut sheet of four. OCLC lists no physical copies of even a single ticket. $3000.

47. [Cortés, Hernando]: [HANDSOME FACSIMILE OF CORTÉS' FAMOUS MAP OF MEXICO CITY AND THE GULF OF MEXICO]. [N.p. after 1524]. Hand-colored engraving, 16½ x 23½ inches. A bit toned at edges, dampstain to lower third. Very good. Framed.

An expert facsimile of Hernando Cortés's extremely-rare map of Tenochtitlan and the Gulf of Mexico, commonly referred to as "Mexico City and the Gulf of Mexico." The map was originally engraved in Nuremberg and published with the 1524 first Latin edition of Cortés' second letter describing his adventures in the New World, titled PRAECLARA FERDINADI CORTESII DE NOVA MARIS OCEANI HYSPANIA NARRATIO.... This map is generally considered the earliest plan of any city in America, and was reportedly drawn from memory by Cortés in 1521. Owing to its importance, it has been reproduced many times over the centuries. This map was the first view Europeans had of a city that had, by that time, been leveled by Cortés. Scholars believe the map was based on an unknown map made by indigenous people in Tenochtitlan, since many of the elements of the map are a native construct. For example, the central plaza is large relative to the city, emphasizing its importance, but there are only the twin temples (Templo Mayor with temples dedicated to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, the gods of war and rain, respectively), two skull racks (tzompantli) and a couple other structures. Yet, the Spaniards mention in their letters and other writings that the city center was bustling with activity. Later archaeological work has indicated that there were over seventy buildings in the plaza. This map reflects the importance of Templo Mayor in the mind of a native person rather than a European explorer. The shape of the city and lake in which it resides are also thought to be native constructs.

The map is oriented with West at the top. It shows many details, although rendered in a European style (the houses are medieval, for example). There are canals in the city, and bridges across the lake, so a person could go anywhere on foot or by canoe. There is a dike that was built at the eastern edge to control flooding after a disastrous flood in 1452. However, the dike is depicted as a wattle and daub wall, but reports indicate it was primarily rock and mud. Cortés has noted Moctezuma's houses, a zoo, and "pleasure houses" for his women.

The smaller map to the left is the outline of the Gulf of Mexico, oriented with South at the top. It is the first map to name Florida ("la florida"), and shows a large river to the west, noted as the Rio del spiritu sancto (sacred spirit river) (identity unclear, but many see it as the Mississippi because of its size), the Yucatan is nearly an island (on this map with a very narrow isthmus), and just east of Florida is the tip of Cuba, here connected to North America.

In 1521-22, Cortés laid siege to the city, ultimately leveling it stone by stone. The Spanish then rebuilt the city, leaving many features in place (such as four divisions), but replacing the temples with churches and other civic buildings in the center of town. Much of the city depicted on this map now lies under present-day Mexico City.

A well-executed facsimile of one of the most important maps in the history of America. $2500.

48. [Craig, John H.]: THE CONFESSION OF JOHN H. CRAIG, AS STATED BY HIM, AFTER TRIAL, WHO WAS EXECUTED ON SATURDAY 6th JUNE, 1818. AT CHESTER, NEAR PHILADELPHIA, FOR THE MURDER OF EDWARD HUNTER, ESQUIRE. New York: Printed for the Flying Booksellers, 1818. 12pp. Dbd. Evenly toned, a few minor stains, top corner of last leaf torn diagonally, costing one or more words in the first ten lines. Good.

The rare New York imprint of this Philadelphia murder confession. "Craig felt that Hunter had influenced his father-in-law to leave him out of his will. He shot Hunter from ambush with a rifle. He was hanged about a mile from Chester, and at his request he was permitted to walk to the scene from town" - McDade. The titlepage is decorated with a coffin woodcut. Exceedingly rare, with no copies listed in OCLC, which records only one copy of the Philadelphia imprint of this title at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. McDade locates a single copy of the New York imprint, this copy, formerly belonging to the New York Bar Association. Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. McDADE 222 (this copy). SHAW & SHOEMAKER 43764 (Philadelphia ed). $2000.

A Play about Voodoo in Haiti, London, 1801

49. [Cross, John Cartwright]: MISS SCOTT EVANS...BEGS LEAVE RESPECTFULLY TO INFORM HER FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC, THAT HER BENEFIT, AT THE NEW ROYAL CIRCUS, ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS, IS FIXED FOR SATURDAY, THE 3D OF OCTOBER, 1801, WHEN THE NEW GRAND SPECTACLE OF KING CÆSAR, OR, THE NEGRO SLAVES...WILL BE PERFORMED. [London]: Printed at the Philanthropic Reform...by J. Richardson, [1801]. Broadside, 13¼ x 8¼ inches. Contemporary ink correction to one word, old folds, light edge wear, minor creasing and wrinkling. Very good. Untrimmed.

This playbill records a performance of KING CÆSAR, OR, THE NEGRO SLAVES... by John Cartwright Cross at the New Royal Circus, London, Oct. 3, 1801. The production was inspired by the activities of the rebel slave leader and Voodoo priest François Mackandal in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in the Caribbean. A one-armed escaped slave, Mackandal organized Maroon bands in the 1750s, staging raids on the French until his eventual capture in 1758. First performed on Wednesday, Sep. 16, 1801, the "grand spectacle" was produced at the time of great public interest in the ongoing slave revolt on Saint-Domingue (1791-1804) that led to the founding of Haiti. Not in OCLC. $1850.

Some Racism Down Under

50. Cruikshank, George: PROBABLE EFFECTS OF OVER FEMALE EMIGRATION, OR IMPORTING THE FAIR SEX OF THE SAVAGE ISLANDS IN CONSEQUENCE OF EXPORTING OUR OWN TO AUSTRALIA!!!!! [London. 1851]. Handcolored etching, 7¼ x 17¼ inches, matted to 13½ x 23 inches. Old fold lines, minor wear. Very good.

An excellent example of this satirical print drawn by illustrator and cartoonist George Cruikshank, and issued with his THE COMIC ALMANAC for 1851. Cruikshank was a notable artist who contributed illustrations to the works of Charles Dickens, among others. Throughout the first decades of Australian settlement, men outnumbered women to an extraordinary degree, resulting in grave social problems for the new colony. Active attempts to address the imbalance included immigration drives for women in Britain. Cruikshank's burlesque cartoon imagines that the supposed exodus of women who took up offers of assisted passage to Australia has created a critical shortage of women in England. His dockside scene depicts the ship-load of Pacific Island women - all of whom are drawn as African savages with exaggerated black features, some with stretched ears, etc. - who have responded to the desperate call of the crowd of pallid Englishmen, greeting them upon arrival. $1250.

51. [Cuba]: [BROADSIDE LISTING PRICES AND EXPORTS OF MARIATEQUI, KNIGHT & Co. FROM CUBA]. Havana. April 18, 1834. Broadside, 9¾ x 7½ inches. Old fold lines. Fine.

A fine broadside advertising goods and services of Mariatequi, Knight & Co. of Havana, Cuba, and giving commercial news. The company exported sugar, coffee, molasses, and sundry provisions to New Orleans and other parts of the United States, and to Europe. This broadside gives the going rates on those products, as well as two comparative export charts listing quantities shipped to various locales. They list three kinds of sugars for sale - white, brown, and yellow - and note that coffee is dear due to "the extreme scantiness of this year's production." Beyond coffee and sugar, under the heading of "provisions," the company offered jerked beef, codfish, cocoa, hams, lumber, flour, candles, soap, lard, and other various items. $400.

Port Regulations for Havana

52. [Cuba]: EL CAPITAN DEL PUERTO DE LA HABANA PREVIENE A LOS CAPITANES Y PATRONES QUE FONDEEN O ESTEN FONDEADOS EN ESTE PUERTO, LO SIGUIENTE...[caption title]. [Havana. 1850s?] 4pp. on a bifolium, 15¾ x 10½ inches. Printed in three columns. Previously folded, with some short separations along fold lines. Somewhat tanned, with some dust soiling in upper portion of first leaf recto. Good plus.

Bifolium printing of twenty-four directives intended to govern the operation of vessels in the port of Havana. They include provisions for the arrival and departure of ships, their docking and mooring, the storage of gunpowder while in port, fire prevention, and penalties for carrying firearms or other deadly weapons ashore. The document is printed in three columns, which provide versions of the regulations in Spanish, English, and French. Daniel Warren, mentioned here as the port officer in charge of preventing desertions and illegal transfers of men from ship to ship, is also named as Havana shipping master in an 1858 letter from the American Consul, Thomas Savage, to the Governor of Havana, included in a contemporary United States Senate report on foreign trade. "As early as 1828, Irish migrant Daniel Warren established 'a deposit for foreign sailors and artisans' in Havana, providing an initial place for them to stay while looking for work"- Curry-Machado. A very rare piece of Cuban maritime ephemera, with OCLC noting only one copy at the Harvard Law Library. OCLC 81408661. Curry-Machado, CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY, p.74. $1750.

53. [De Beck, William L.]: MURDER WILL OUT. THE FIRST STEP IN CRIME LEADS TO THE GALLOWS. THE HORRORS OF THE QUEEN CITY.... Cincinnati. 1867. 128pp. Dbd. Institutional stamps on titlepage, otherwise clean. Very good. A scarce compendium of atrocious murders, including "an account of the two soldiers where executed at old Fort Washington, and the trials and executions of John May; Philip Lewis (colored); John Cowan, the Murderer of his Family...[and others]." Thompson had a mixed opinion of the work: "As a chronological index of crime in Hamilton County has some value, but it is written in a most wretched style." Not in McDade, according to Midland Notes. MIDLAND NOTES 84:92. THOMPSON 315. EBERSTADT 113:353. $250. Important Account Book of the Newfoundland Trade

54. [Dennison, John]: [MERCANTILE LETTER BOOK AND RELATED ACCOUNT BOOK RECORDING THE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES OF JOHN DENNISON IN THE NEWFOUNDLAND TRADE]. [Liverpool. 1807 - ca. 1813]. Two volumes. [380]; [231]pp. Folio. Original three-quarter reverse calf and marbled boards, gilt spine labels. Boards heavily scuffed, edges and corners worn, spine ends chipped. Light tanning and scattered foxing, but internally sound. Good.

Two substantial manuscript volumes, a mercantile letter book containing approximately seven hundred letters and a related cash account book, that record the Liverpool-based business activity of John Dennison in the Newfoundland trade between 1807 and approximately 1813. Dennison was involved in the importation of cod, salmon, cod oil, seal skins, seal oil, and whale blubber from St. Johns, Newfoundland, as well as some good from the West Indies such as rum. Woolens, calico, and other English products were exported to Canada. Before taking up this venture, Dennison had been a partner in the firm Atkinson & Dennison, and acted as the president of the Board of Trade for Lancaster.

During the period covered by these volumes, he became involved more closely with two other merchants, Alexander Carson and David Parry, eventually forming a partnership with them. Among Dennison's principal foreign correspondents are Patrick Ryan and the firm Lily & Hatrick, both located in St. Johns, Gold Brothers & Co. in Lisbon, and Robert Hyndman in Antigua. There is also much correspondence with businesses in Manchester, Bristol, Hull, and Waterford, as well as some letters from the Admiralty. These volumes address all aspects of Dennison's business, including ships and shipping, ordering commodities, market speculation, insurance matters, and financing, and provide an excellent, detailed overview of trade in Newfoundland at the beginning of the 19th century. $6750.

A Selection of Early Beadle Dime Novels

55. [Dime Novels]: [A COLLECTION OF OVER TWENTY BEADLE'S DIME NOVELS FROM ACROSS THE FIRST SERIES, PLUS ADDITIONAL WORKS FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND INSTRUCTIONAL HANDBOOK SERIES]. New York; London. Beadle and Company, 1860-1872. Twenty-three volumes. Original pictorial wrappers. Some chipping to spines of several volumes, dust soiling to wrappers, and corner and edge wear. Light toning and occasional foxing and dampstaining internally. Overall, very good.

A collection of scarce publications from a number of the Beadle's Dime Series. The preponderance of the volumes, seventeen, are from the first series of Dime Novels, a genre that Beadle originated and made vastly popular. Six other volumes come from Beadle's biographical, historical, and instructional handbook series. A list of titles follows.

Beadle's Dime Novels: 13) No. 141. The Helpless Hand. $325 1) No. 11. The Prisoner of La Vintresse. $750 14) No. 142. The Sagamore of Saco. $275 2) No. 15. The Frontier Angel. $1000 15) No. 226. The Mustang-Hunters. $500 3) No. 20. Florida; Or, The Iron Will. $400 16) No. 237. The Plymouth Scout. $275 4) No. 26. Isabel De Cordova. $375 17) No. 261. Red Dan, The Ranger. $250 5) No. 29. The Forest Spy. $425 6) No. 46. The Wreck of the Albion. $350 Beadle's Dime Handbooks: 7) No. 50. The Black Ship. $325 1) Hand-Book of Pedestrianism. $200 8) No. 62. The Unknown: A Tale of 1777. $325 2) Hand-Book of Yachting and Rowing. $200 9) No. 64. The Rangers of the Mohawk. $325 3) Hand-Book of Riding and Driving. $200 10) No. 69. Black Hollow. $300 4) Handbook of Croquet. $200 11) No. 79. The Schuylkill Rangers. $275 5) Book of Cricket and Foot-Ball. $200 12) No. 80. Eagle Eye. $275 6) Beadle's Chess Instructor. $200

57. Du Bois, William E.: TRIAL OF LUCRETIA CHAPMAN, OTHERWISE CALLED LUCRETIA ESPOS Y MINA, WHO WAS JOINTLY INDICTED WITH LINO AMALIA ESPOS Y MINA, FOR THE MURDER OF WILLIAM CHAPMAN, ESQ.... Philadelphia. 1832. [2],213pp. Dbd., with minimal remnants of original wrappers; has the appearance of gathered signatures, stitched. Minor staining and foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.

A scarce trial account involving Lucretia Chapman and a young Spaniard in the murder of Chapman's husband. William Chapman was a Pennsylvania schoolteacher in Andulusia, outside Philadelphia; Lucretia was his young and buxom wife. By all accounts, the Chapmans lived quietly.

"At their door one day appeared a young (twenty-two) foreigner, small (only five-feet, two inches) but not unprepossessing in appearance. He gave his name as Carolino Espos y Mina and told an imaginative tale of being the son of the Spanish governor of California who was endeavoring, with much difficulty, to join his family. Mrs. Chapman was neither the first nor the last female to be swayed by a pair of Spanish eyes and a Latin name. He moved into the house and stayed there, despite the protestations of Mr. Chapman, who was not the master in his home. Thereafter the two were frequently seen by children, servants, and neighbors hugging and kissing about the place. Five weeks after he arrived Lino purchased a quarter of a pound of arsenic from a Philadelphia druggist, explaining that he used it in stuffing birds. The following day Mr. Chapman was taken ill; four days later he was dead.... The schoolmaster was in his grave less than two weeks when the Spanish don and Mrs. Chapman were quietly married in New York, though there was later a disagreement between them over whether this was at his urging or hers. Almost immediately the true character of the Spanish adventurer came out, with the disappearance of the family silver and other obvious signs of his chicanery.... An autopsy disclosed that Mr. Chapman was heavily dosed with arsenic, and both Lino and Lucretia were charged with his murder. In separate trials she was acquitted while he was convicted and executed. It is difficult to tell whether they had acted in concert in the murder; at least the jury gave her the benefit of the doubt" - McDade.

An interesting study of early 19th-century social mores, gender relations, and racial issues. McDADE 169. COHEN 12416. $400.

A Year Before the Declaration...Washington Appointed Commander-in-Chief

58. [Dunlap, John]: [Pennsylvania Packet]: POSTSCRIPT TO THE PENNSYLVANIA PACKET. No. 184. JULY 4, 1775 [caption title]. [Philadelphia. July 4, 1775]. Broadsheet, approximately 16¼ x 10 inches. Edges chipped, upper left corner nearly torn away. Several small binding holes, not affecting text. Tanned, light foxing. Verso moderately soiled. About good.

Supplement to the Philadelphia newspaper, PENNSYLVANIA PACKET, published by John Dunlap in various guises until 1800. At this time the periodical was printed weekly and often carried important first public printings of Revolutionary and early federal news and government documents. After the end of the Revolution it went on to become the nation's first successful daily paper. This issue contains reports from across Europe that had recently arrived on ships from London and Belfast. The final short item notes that the Continental Congress has appointed George Washington "General and Commander in Chief of all the American forces." $1500.

Bleeding Kansas

59. [Election of 1856]: [ILLUSTRATED BROADSIDE ADVERTISING A MEETING OF JAMES BUCHANAN SUPPORTERS IN CONNECTICUT TO HEAR ANTI-FRÉMONT SPEECHES CONCERNING BLEEDING KANSAS]. Suffield, Ct. Sept. 27, 1856. Broadside, 17 x 10½ inches visible area. Matted and framed. Light dampstaining at top edge, light foxing. Very good.

An attractive broadside advertisement that promotes a meeting of James Buchanan supporters, the "Keystone Club," in Suffield, Connecticut on September 27, 1856. The poster promises a number of speeches against the candidate of the newly-formed Republican Party, John C. Frémont that assert the complicity of his supporters in the violence roiling Kansas. The key (and virulent) disagreement between the Democratic party, for whom Buchanan was the nominee, and the Republicans was over the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the issue of popular sovereignty, which would allow the residents of new states to vote on the existence of slavery within their borders. This broadside accuses anti-slavery and pro-Frémont partisans in Kansas of fomenting violence there for political gain. The text reads in full:

"Messrs. A.G. Howard, C.W. Philleo, and others, will address the Keystone Club at the Town Hall in Suffield, on Saturday Eve'g, Sept. 27, 1856. We make the charge, that the troubles in Kansas are encouraged and kept alive by the supporters of Freemont [sic], in the hope of gaining political capital. And we can prove the charge!"

The text is headed by an American eagle gripping arrows and olive branch, in the style of the Great Seal. OCLC records only two copies of this interesting broadside, at the Connecticut Historical Society and the Connecticut State Library. $2500.

Comparing a Presidential Candidate to Benedict Arnold: You Thought Things Were Ugly Now!

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

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

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

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

Ellsworth Authorizes the Militia at the Beginning of the Revolution

61. Ellsworth, Oliver: [AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT, SIGNED BY OLIVER ELLSWORTH AND THOMAS SEYMOUR, AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO THE FAIRFIELD MILITIA DURING THE FIRST MONTHS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Hartford. Nov. 30, 1775. [1]p., measuring 6 x 8 inches, ten lines of text; docketed on verso. Old fold lines. Minor soiling Near fine.

Key manuscript document, written and signed by Oliver Ellsworth, revealing the interaction between the colonies during the earliest stages of the American Revolution, and the financial interchanges that fueled the rebellion. Ellsworth served in several Connecticut government positions during the Revolution, including as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was one of the five-member committee that drafted the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, playing an important role in the drafting of the Connecticut Compromise, which gave equal representation to large and small states in the Senate; Ellsworth left the Convention, however, before the final draft was completed and is not counted among the Signers. He subsequently served as a U.S. Senator (1789-96) and as the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Following the alarm raised by the battles at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, militiamen from across the colonies gathered at Boston - this body would become the Continental Army, and the Revolutionary War had begun. In this document, Ellsworth and Thomas Seymour authorize Connecticut Treasurer Jonathan Lawrence to "Pay the Select Men of Fairfield Five pounds Five Shilling & nine pence in Bills - in part the Expence of the Inhabitants of sd. Town who marched towards Boston & to N. York in Alarm last Spring - & Necessaries supplied the Rifle Battalion marching thru this colony to camp at Cambridge...." Signed by Ellsworth and Seymour on the recto, and by Thaddeus Burr, acknowledging receipt of the funds, on the verso, along with docketing. A wonderful piece, in lovely condition, from the opening months of the Revolution. $1350.

Early American Murder Trial

62. [Fairbanks, Jason]: REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF JASON FAIRBANKS, ON AN INDICTMENT FOR THE MURDER OF MISS ELIZABETH FALES. AT THE SUPREME COURT, HOLDEN AT DEDHAM, IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, ON THURSDAY THE 6th, AND FRIDAY THE 7th DAYS OF AUGUST, 1801. Boston. 1801. 87pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt spine labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, shelf label on spine. Institutional ink and blind stamps, ownership inscription on titlepage. Light tanning and scattered light foxing. Good plus.

Fourth edition, after the first of the same year, of this popular trial account of a sensational case. "The parents of Elizabeth Fales objected to Fairbanks' suit of their daughter, and he, in revenge or frustration, cut her throat in a field. He made an attempt to commit suicide at the same time. He claimed that she committed suicide. He was convicted of murder, but escaped, apparently with the help of friends, and almost reached Canada. He was retaken, however, just before boarding the boat at Whitehall, Vermont. He was executed" - McDade. McDADE 297. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1229. SABIN 23672. $450.

Rare Germantown Imprint, with a Colonial Woman's Provenance

63. Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY'S DISSERTATION ON PURE LOVE, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LADY, FOR WHOSE SAKE THE ARCHBISHOP WAS BANISH'D FROM COURT, AND THE GRIEVOUS PERSECUTIONS SHE SUFFER'D IN FRANCE FOR HER RELIGION.... Germantown: Christopher Saur, 1750. xcvii,120pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Titlepage and first few leaves with neat paper repair in upper right corner. Light foxing and wear, contemporary ownership inscriptions in text, contemporary notations on front fly leaf. Very good.

A Germantown, Pennsylvania printing of Fenelon's work, a selection of his OEUVRES SPIRITUELLES, first published under this title in London in 1735. Fenelon (1651-1715) was a French archbishop, theologian, and writer, best known for his work, THE ADVENTURES OF TELEMACHUS, first published in 1699. The title refers to Fenelon's banishment from court for friendship with a lady, Madame Guyon, whose Quietist views were considered heretical. Despite Fenelon's protestations that he did not share such beliefs, that in combination with his publication of TELEMACHUS earned him the ire of Louis XIV. Later in life Fenelon wrote several anti-Jansenist works as well.

This edition is notable for emanating from the press of Christopher Saur. In 1738, Saur established the first German-language press in America in Germantown, near Philadelphia, and his family continued printing there through the end of the century. Interestingly, this work is in English, one of the first of his English language imprints. Rare. This copy is further distinguished by having the ownership inscriptions of three women. The first, on the front fly leaf, reads: "This book Ann Cooper's in the year 1751 Price three shillings." The second inscription reads: "the gift of Ann Cooper's daughter Ann Whita [several letters lost]." Finally, the top of the titlepage is inscribed in what would appear to be an early 19th-century hand: "Joseph and Hannah Whitall." This would seem to indicate descent through three generations of the same family. EVANS 6498. HILDEBURN 1174. ESTC W19461. $4750.

William Lloyd Garrison with a Gun

64. [Garrison, William Lloyd]: [Fugitive Slave Law]: PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW [caption title]. [Boston? 1850-1851?] Lithograph, 13 x 16½ inches. Matted. Light scattered foxing, but generally a clean, crisp copy. Very good.

A striking lithographed cartoon illustrating the tensions over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This severe law was part of the Compromise of 1850 orchestrated by Henry Clay, and it allowed slave owners to pursue and capture their "property" without due process, laid heavy penalties on those who hoped to assist escaped slaves, and enjoined all citizens to aid in the implementation of the statutes.

"Thousands of Negroes [sic] who had been settled in the North for years, found reputable employment, built homes, and reared families, were now in danger of being dragged back into servitude. It was not difficult to kidnap a free Negro on the pretext that he was a slave. Many Northerners, including prominent ministers, defied it. The newspapers were soon full of news of rescues or attempted rescues of fugitive blacks, while some of the most noted statesmen of the North went into the law court to defend alleged fugitives. Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, for example, was soon called 'attorney general for runaway Negroes.'....This cartoon, a bit freer in drawing than cartoons generally at that time, appeals to Northern indignation over the law, showing an arrogant slave driver riding a bitted Daniel Webster, while Garrison defends a cowering black woman" - Weitenkampf.

"A satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Here abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (left) holds a slave woman in one arm and points a pistol toward a burly slave catcher mounted on the back of Daniel Webster. The slave catcher, wielding a noose and manacles, is expensively dressed, and may represent the federal marshals or commissioners authorized by the act (and paid) to apprehend and return fugitive slaves to their owners. Behind Garrison a black man also aims a pistol toward the group on the right, while another seizes a cowering slaveholder by the hair and is about to whip him saying, 'It's my turn now Old Slave Driver.'...The print may (as Weitenkampf suggests) be the work of New York artist Edward Williams Clay. The signature, the expressive animation of the figures, and especially the political viewpoint are, however, uncharacteristic of Clay. (Compare for instance that artist's 'What's Sauce for the Goose,' no. 1851-5.) It is more likely that the print was produced in Boston, a center of bitter opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 and 1851" - Reilly. A rare and vivid illustration, with only six copies located on OCLC. NEVINS & WEITENKAMPF, pp.70-71. REILLY, p.344. $4500.

65. [German Emigration]: [MID-19th CENTURY PRUSSIAN PASSPORT, COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, WITH NUMEROUS ANNOTATIONS]. Prussia. 1848-1850. [1]p. printed on a bifolium, with an additional page of manuscript annotations on verso. Folio. Previously folded, with separations along fold lies. Light dampstaining and tanning. Good.

A Prussian passport for Carl Werderbrück, documenting his travels in central Europe from 1848 to 1850. The first page, completed in manuscript, gives his details and fairly extensive physical description. On the verso of that page are several lengthy manuscript annotations by immigration officials of several the places he visited, including Bleiburg in Austria, Esche in Germany, and the long defunct Belgian-Prussian condominium of Moresnet. $125.

The Revolution of 1848

66. [German Revolution of 1848]: [GROUP OF NINE POLITICAL BROADSIDES RELATING TO THE 1848 REVOLUTIONS IN GERMANY]. Berlin. 1848-1849. Nine broadsides, various sizes. Folded. Some wrinkling and chipping. One broadside split along central fold. Light tanning and foxing. About very good.

Nine German political broadsides addressing aspects of the 1848 Revolution in Prussia. Along with citizens of several European countries, German citizens in a number of states rose up in the spring of 1848 to demand more democratic government and a unified Germany. In Prussia, protestors confronted the King, Frederick William IV demanding parliamentary elections and a free press. Several days later, a prolonged street battle between demonstrators and the Prussian army left over two hundred dead, and the King agreed to the formation of a Constitutional Assembly. By the end of the year, however, the body was unable to agree upon a functioning constitution, and Frederick William was able to regain almost all of his authority by the middle of 1849.

The vast majority of broadsides present in this group express the revolutionary perspective. They put forth ideas for the prospective new constitution, impugn the monarch and the ruling classes, and issue calls to arms to the Prussian people to protect their country and their fellow brothers and citizens. One broadside prints a satire of army officers among the revolutionary forces; another publishes Frederick William's rejection of the imperial crown offered to him by the failing National Assembly in May, 1849, of which only three copies are recorded in OCLC. Fascinating and ephemeral propaganda from a period of great upheaval in Central Europe. $2000.

Important Work on the Dred Scott Case

67. [Gray, Horace, and John Lowell, Jr.]: A LEGAL REVIEW OF THE CASE OF DRED SCOTT, AS DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE LAW REPORTER FOR JUNE, 1857. Boston. 1857. 62pp. Dbd. Later institutional ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good plus.

First separate edition of this important analysis of the landmark case, Dred Scott v. Sandford. The authors present several counter-arguments to the Court's decision, declaring it "unworthy." The Court's decision, which essentially ruled that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States because they were property and not people, demonstrated the extreme pro-slavery position of the Court and helped to precipitate the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave who lived in Rock Island, Illinois and Fort Snelling, Wisconsin - both places where slavery was prohibited - sued for his freedom in 1846. The Supreme Court's decision against Scott exacerbated feelings between the North and South and seriously diminished the Court's credibility in the North. COHEN 11882. SABIN 78260. DUMOND, p.61. $750.

68. [Greely Arctic Expedition]: [Arctic Photographica]: GREELEY ARCTIC EXPEDITION. SEASONS OF 1881-84. Newburyport, Ma.: S.C. Reed, [ca. 1885]. Cabinet photograph, mounted on card, 5 x 8 inches. Minor edge wear, two later presentation inscriptions and photographer's studio stamp on verso. Very good.

A rare cabinet card photograph picturing the members of the ill-fated Greely Arctic Expedition. Greely led a scientific expedition aboard the Proteus to Lady Franklin Bay in 1881. Greely and his crew were stranded at Fort Conger on Ellesmere Island without supplies. Nineteen of the twenty-five crew members would perish in the Arctic, and one more would die on the journey home after Greely's party was rescued near Cape Sabine. Rumors of cannibalism would haunt the survivors of the expedition for the rest of their lives. Pictured here are several of the expedition members, including Adolphus Greely, just before they departed. They are identified as follows: D. Schneider, D. Cross, D. Linn, S. Long, S. Frederick, D. Henry, S. Connell, D. Bender, D. Salor, S. Bierdersack, D. Gardner, D. Ellis and D. Ralston - Seated from left to right: S. Brainard, D. Keslingbury, S. Greeley (leader), D. Lockwood, D. Israil, D. Jewell, and D. Rice. $500.

69. Guinan, Texas: [PHOTOGRAPH OF ACTRESS AND SINGER MARY LOUISE CELIA "TEXAS" GUINAN]. [New York. 1915]. Sepia photograph, 9½ x 7¼ inches. Bottom right corner very lightly creased. Near fine.

Texas Guinan (1884-1933) was famous first as a singer and vaudeville personality, and later as the hostess of a New York City nightclub, the 300 Club, during the prohibition era (the 300 Club was about a block down West 54th Street from the later Studio 54). There she was the toast of a similarly chic, elite, and spendthrift crowd. In 1917 she debuted as a silent film actress, appearing as the first cowgirl, a role she played in several films. The photograph shows Guinan facing left, with her head turned slightly to the right, eyes looking over her right shoulder. She has an engaging smile, with her mouth slightly open, which makes it appear that she is either about to laugh or in the midst of cracking wise. A contemporary manuscript note on the verso of the image reads: "Texas Guinan with 'The Whirl of the World' Musical Spectacle, Cort Theatre, February 15th 1915. No other record." A lovely image of this interesting woman. $250.

70. [Haiti]: Wigglesworth, John: [PARTIALLY-PRINTED BILL OF EXCHANGE FOR SUPPLIES, SIGNED BY JOHN WIGGLESWORTH, AGENT TO THE COMMANDER OF THE 1796 BRITISH OCCUPATION FORCE IN HAITI]. Port-au-Prince. Sept. 21, 1796. Broadside, 3½ x 9¾ inches, docketed on verso. Minor toning. Very good.

A rare pay order for supplies intended for the British occupation force in Haiti, made out to M. Jure aine. The document is signed by John Wigglesworth, agent to the Commander of the British forces in Haiti and later Britain's envoy to the leader of the Haitian Revolution, Touissant Louverture. By early the next century, Louverture would become, ever so briefly, chief of the first free Black Republic in Haiti. The payee, Jure, has docketed the verso in French, with an additional docket in French transferring payment to Dutilh & Wachsmuth, a Philadelphia mercantile house.

St. Domingo, the French part of Haiti, was a highly prosperous sugar, coffee, and cotton slave-estate island whose produce was described as exceeding that of the whole of the British Leeward and surrounding islands. In 1789 it was said to consist of 10,000 white people, 24,000 free mixed-race people, and 455,000 negro slaves. Although free, local laws decreed that mixed-race individuals could not accept any office or employment other than as planters. As news spread of the revolution, this group revolted but were roundly defeated. Part of the white response to the uprising was to create their own local assembly which excluded those of mixed race and resolved to transfer the island's allegiance to Great Britain, whereupon France sent Commissioners who according to some reports recruited negroes to fight the whites.

Starting in August 1791, the slaves revolted in many towns, implementing major massacres and destruction of estates and establishing free communities of their own. They were led by Touissant Louverture, an ex-slave who later joined the French army after the country abolished slavery in 1793. Louverture swiftly rose to the rank of Commander in Chief of the French forces in Haiti, and proved to be an effective leader. In 1794, the British army, under the pretense of the Napoleonic war, sent a force from Jamaica that occupied Port-au-Prince and some other towns, a welcome development for the remaining white population on the island. This British force was commanded by General Sir Thomas Maitland of the 62 Foot Regiment, for whom Wigglesworth was the army agent.

In the end, the British were not successful. By 1798, the British army had been virtually wiped out by yellow fever, and in April of that year, Maitland withdrew the British forces from Haiti under a guarantee from Louverture that the remaining pro-British whites would be protected. In May 1801, Touissant established St. Domingo as an independent republic. This alarmed the French so badly that they subsequently sent an army of 25,000 that recaptured the island within a year, and by a ruse conveyed Louverture to France where he soon after died in prison. $850.

An Architectural Traveller

71. Hannah, Ian C.: THREE CONTINENTS NOTE BOOK [manuscript title]. [Various places]. July 1911-1920. Approximately [300]pp. plus extensive material laid in. Folio. Contemporary three-quarter black roan and cloth, spine detached but laid in. Corners heavily worn. Internally clean. Highly legible. Very good.

Lengthy manuscript account, illustrated with numerous clippings, postcards, and photographs, detailing travels through Scotland, France, the American Southwest, Mexico, and Japan, made by architectural historian Ian C. Hannah (1874-1944). A British academic, in 1915 Hannah was appointed to a post at Oberlin Theological Seminary in Ohio as a professor of church history. He was also somewhat of an expert on ancient Scotland and published several books on the subject. Both those passions are in evidence in the present manuscript. His handwritten notes give details on the history of construction and numerous architectural details, as well as sketches of details and floor plans. Hannah married Oberlin alumna and artist Edith Brand, who may be the creator of the original watercolor laid into the book.

As listed in the front of the volume, Hannah's journeys are through Scotland; Louisiana, Utah, Colorado, Arizona; France; New Mexico, California, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma; Japan; and Mexico. The opening section on Scotland contains numerous observations on church architecture, together with photographs, clippings, and manuscript floor plans to illustrate the commentary. Moving on to the United States he continues describing architecture and monuments, finding considerable fault with New Orleans. He writes: "The Cathedral of St. Louis is an unsatisfactory building which has been much reconstructed, partly from the slipping of its foundations...." "Christ Church Cathedral. A deplorable Gothic effort, its chief feature being metal pillars, each with four detached shafts of wood." He comments on the cemetery and the process of vaulting versus in-ground burial due to the soil and water table. In each town in Louisiana (New Orleans, Lafayette, Shreveport) the churches and other eminent buildings receive similar treatment, being described as "fair" at best. He does have kind words for the new capitol building in Salt Lake City, calling it "a very successful piece of work." He describes the courthouse in St. Louis as "dignified if not very distinctive," and the Cathedral of San Francisco in Santa Fe as "a poor modern structure in a sort of mongrel Byzantine style...," but praises the efforts to preserve the original Spanish character of the city.

Approximately a quarter of the volume is devoted to Japan. His description of the Village of Hachi-Ishi includes a watercolor map of the area. Much like his laudatory descriptions of Scotland and France, Hannah seems to have enjoyed Japan and its architecture, and this section is extensively illustrated with drawings, photographs, and postcards showing the areas and buildings which he toured. The last few pages of the volume comprise an index by region. $1250.

72. Hardesty, Frank: [San Antonio View Company]: [COLLECTION OF SEVEN LATER 19th-CENTURY CABINET CARDS AND ONE STEREOVIEW OF SAN ANTONIO PRODUCED BY FRANK HARDESTY AND THE SAN ANTONIO VIEW COMPANY]. San Antonio. [ca. 1880s]. Seven albumen photographs, most 4½ x 7½ inches, plus one stereoview, measuring approximately 3¾ x 6¼ inches. Mounted on card. Cards with some edge wear, one more heavily chipped. Some light dampstaining and other marks affecting several images. Good plus.

An assemblage of eight attractive images of San Antonio, consisting of seven large cabinet cards and one stereoview, produced during the 1880s by professional photographer Frank Hardesty. Hardesty operated the San Antonio View Company, which published a series of stereoviews of the city by several photographers, including Hardesty himself, H.A. Doerr, and H.L. Bingham, and is most well-known for his photographs of Geronimo when he was being held at Fort Sam Houston. There is one stereocard example in this collection, depicting two street vendors, a Mexican and a younger white boy. The cabinet cards consist of larger single versions of the images used for the stereoviews. The photographs include images of a partially completed San Fernando Cathedral, the Missions of San José and Concepción, the Government Tower, San Pedro Park, as well as photographs of two wagons fording the San Antonio River underneath a railroad and of an older woman preparing food. Very interesting and scarce images of later 19th-century San Antonio. $2000.

A Harrison Campaign Newspaper

73. [Harrison, William Henry]: [Tennessee Newspaper]: SPIRIT OF '76. No. 1 [-34] [caption title]. Nashville. 1840-1841. 536pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. Leather and boards rather worn, hinges loosening. Faded contemporary ownership inscription on first leaf of each issue, often trimmed. Tanning and foxing. Good.

A complete run of this Nashville Whig periodical, published during the presidential campaign of 1840 in support of William Henry Harrison. The run consists of thirty-three issues published from March to October, 1840, and one additional issued published in January 1841 providing complete election results. The articles chiefly concern themselves with defending Harrison's record, promoting his agenda, and publishing favorable articles about the popularity of his candidacy, as well as printing the text of pro-Harrison speeches. Contemporaneously reprinted from an Indianapolis newspaper of the same title. ALLEN 1723. $1750.

The Inaugural Which Did in the President

74. Harrison, William Henry: INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT HARRISON. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER....EXTRA. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1841. [Washington. March 4, 1841]. Broadside, 24 x 19½ inches, printed in five columns. Matted, well suited for framing. Previously folded, with a couple of small separations along old fold lines. Slight marginal paper loss along top edge, not affecting text. Some dust soiling at edges and along folds. About very good.

The very rare first printing of William Henry Harrison's inaugural address, the longest in United States history and what many believe caused his death after only thirty-two days in office, the shortest tenure of any American President.

On a cold and wet March 4, 1841, newly-elected President William Henry Harrison famously delivered this address without coat or hat. Harrison took well over two hours to deliver his anti-Jackson, pro-Whig agenda, the longest speech ever for the occasion. In the days following the address and inaugural balls, Harrison caught a cold, which developed into pneumonia and pleurisy. He died on April 4, 1841, becoming not only the shortest-serving President, but also the first to die in office. We locate only five surviving examples of this broadside extra, with none at the Library of Congress. $7500.

The Hartford Convention: The North Threatens Secession

75. [Hartford Convention]: CONNECTICUT COURANT, EXTRA. JANUARY 6, 1815. THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONVENTION OF DELEGATES FROM THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, CONNECTICUT, AND RHODE-ISLAND; THE COUNTIES OF CHESHIRE AND GRAFTON IN THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE; AND THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM, IN THE STATE OF VERMONT [caption title]. Hartford. January 6, 1815. [3]pp. Folio. Previously folded. Some wear and minor loss along old folds, with a few tissue repairs, slightly affecting text. Four-inch tear from upper fore-edge of second leaf. Light dust soiling and foxing. Good. Untrimmed.

A rare report of the proceedings and resolutions of the Hartford Convention, together with a number of tables containing relevant statistical evidence, printed by a local Hartford newspaper, the CONNECTICUT COURANT. The Convention comprised a series of secret meetings held by New England Federalists in December 1814 to discuss their common grievances against the federal government, to demand several constitutional amendments to redress what they considered to be an imbalance of power among regions, and for some delegates to call for secession. As the convention formally ended on Jan. 5, 1815, this supplement to the COURANT, published the following day on Jan. 6, is undoubtedly the earliest printed account of the completed proceedings. Only one copy located by OCLC, at the Connecticut History Society. $2250.

76. [Hawaii Photographica]: PICTURES TAKEN IN THE PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC HAWAII THROUGH COLE COLE [KOLEKOLE] PASS BY PACK TRAIN [manuscript title]. [Various locations in and around Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. ca. 1935]. Seventy-eight mounted silver gelatin photographs, either 3½ x 5¼ inches or 2½ x 3½ inches. Oblong octavo photograph album, paper-covered boards, string-bound. Front cover detached, covers and spine chipped. Some album pages chipped, but photographs remain largely untouched. Very good.

An absorbing collection of photographs capturing American military life in Hawaii during the first half of the 20th century, with the great majority of the photographs captioned in ink on the album pages. The unnamed photographer and compiler of the photographs apparently served at the Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, as he includes several photographs of the base, including the "Boxing Bowl." He also records other notable locations around Honolulu, including the Waipahu Sugar Mill, the Kilaeua Crater, Japanese Temple, the Mid-Pacific Railway wreck, Kapiolani Park, the Honolulu railway station, Sand Island, the naval destroyer JEANNE D'ARC, Sampans Haleiwa Bay, the Monoa Hotel, the Waipahi Sugar Mill, Diamondhead and Kahala Bay, Waikiki Beach, several shots of volcanoes and lava formations, and more. He even includes a shot of the pack mule he presumably used in his wanderings. Hawaiian photographs are scarce in the market, and continually more desirable, especially with holographic notations, like those present in this intriguing album. $600.

77. [Horn, Adam]: [Hellman, Andrew]: THE CONFESSION OF ADAM HORN, ALIAS ANDREW HELLMAN, EMBODYING PARTICULARS OF HIS LIFE: CONVICTED ON THE 27th NOVEMBER, 1843, IN BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT, OF THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE.... Baltimore: Printed by James Young, 1843. 31pp. including one woodcut illustration. Dbd. Minor edge wear, two small ink numbers on titlepage. Very good.

The confession of Adam Horn who was convicted in Baltimore in November of 1843 of chopping up his wife and burying part of her in the orchard and then carelessly leaving other parts of her strewn about the house. He later admitted his real name was Andrew Hellman. Includes a woodcut illustration of the murderer looking quite sinister and strange. Relatively scarce, with only eleven total copies between McDade and OCLC. McDADE 484. OCLC 8611516. $375. 78. [Hyde, Fanny]: OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF FANNY HYDE, FOR THE MURDER OF GEO. W. WATSON, INCLUDING THE TESTIMONY, THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL, AND THE CHARGE OF THE COURT, REPORTED VERBATIM.... New York. 1872. 161pp., including two frontispiece portraits. Dbd. Portraits and first two leaves detached. Institutional ink stamp to titlepage. Light tanning. Good.

"Watson was a manufacturer of hair nets; Hyde was his forelady–and more. She bought a pistol and one day was found on the stairs of the factory during a lunch-hour recess standing over his dead body. Her brother, who worked on the floor below, arriving at the scene, '...stepped across the dead body of the man, the defendant still being there, and showing some emotion said to her, "Fanny, I told you not to do this."' The defense of seduction produced a disagreement at the trial" - McDade. McDADE 499. $375.

79. [Illinois Railroads]: VOTERS OF KANSAS TOWNSHIP! READ THIS BEFORE DEPOSITING YOUR BALLOT! REASON WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE TO AID IN THE BUILDING OF THE DANVILLE, OLNEY & OHIO RIVER RAILROAD [caption title]. [Kansas, Il. ca. 1868]. Broadside, approximately 19½ x 13 inches. Previously folded. Some separation and loss along fold lines, slightly affecting text, upper left corner chipped. Light foxing. Good.

An animated and potentially unique broadside published by the "Friends" of the Danville, Olney & Ohio River Railroad, exhorting votes of Kansas Township in Illinois to support a levy towards its construction. In addition to offering reasons of substantial financial remuneration for the sought-after investment, the broadside warns that, "If we let slip this golden opportunity, imagine what our town will be in 10 years from this time. Our houses covered with moss and our streets growing with dog-fennel - a general decay visible on everything." Not located in OCLC. $250.

A Large Collection of the Indian Rights Association

80. [Indian Rights Association]: [NINETY-EIGHT PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING REPORTS, STUDIES, SPEECHES, AND OTHER ARTICLES, PRINTED FOR THE INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION]. Philadelphia. 1885-1932. Ninety-eight separate pamphlets, of varying lengths. Original printed wrappers, some stitched or stapled gatherings, some printed bifolium and single sheets. Some works with institutional ink stamps. A few chips and small closed tears to shorter works. Some light dust soiling and tanning. Overall very good.

An extensive collection of pamphlets, reports, and other short works published by the Indian Rights Association. Founded in 1882 in Philadelphia, the group was organized to respond to government mistreatment of Native American tribes at the end of the 19th century and the perceived mishandling of Indian Affairs by the federal offices. It primarily concerned itself with the issues of Indian citizenship right and land allotment as means towards assimilating natives into American society. The association played an important role in the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887, which gave the President the authority to break up reservation lands into lots for sale to individual Indians. The association also placed a heavy emphasis on religion, education, and temperance as the essential basis for improvement and civilization. The group remained an active and influential political force until the mid-1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt allowed for the reorganization of the reservations.

This collection consists of eighty-one small publications printed from 1885 to 1924, as well as run of seventeen editions of the association's annual report between the years 1914 and 1932. The shorter individual publication consist of speeches, articles, government documents, and other materials related to the support of the association's cause. A number of works from the group pertain to the passage of the Dawes Act and the Teller Bill, which sought to reorganize the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Other works in this group address the mission of the association as it related to education and temperance, and to revealing the mistreatment of Indian issues by government officials. The annual reports contain progress assessments on the group's various projects, as well as accounts of its "field work" with different tribes across the country. The reports also contain financial information, lists of members, and other organizational information.

A collection of imprints that provides an insightful look into the operation of one of the most influential Indian rights groups of the late-19th and early-20th centuries. $3000. Attacking Jackson's Conduct in Florida: A Rare Anti-Jackson Periodical

81. [Jackson, Andrew]: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR JACKSON IN FLORIDA. [Washington, D.C.: National Intelligencer, June 21 - Sep. 23, 1828]. 48pp. (printed in nine numbers in five pamphlets, continuously paginated). Modern plain paper wrappers. Institutional withdrawal stamp on first leaf, minor fore-edge tape repairs to initial leaves. Some browning and foxing, heavier to initial leaves. Good.

The complete run of this anti-Jackson pamphlet series issued in nine parts during the heated 1828 Presidential campaign, which pitted Jackson against the incumbent John Quincy Adams. Printed by the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, the work outlines a variety of supposed malfeasances committed by Jackson in his brief but controversial term as military commissioner of Florida. In the grand tradition of American political discourse, the articles are presented as letters, each previously published in the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER and signed "Henry."

The letters demonstrate Jackson's typically "violent, arbitrary, and rapacious disposition" as military governor of Florida, a position he held from March 10 to Dec. 31, 1821. Possible authorship of the letters is attributed to Henry M. Brackenridge by Servies. The letters describe Jackson's actions in Florida as "rivalling the bold but impious pretensions of King Henry the 8th." Jackson's legislative record during this period is assessed in despotic terms, accusing Jackson of seeking to "regulate the forms of secret devotion" by declaring a day of Sabbath observance. He is also accused of seizing private property without authority, placing it under his personal control, prohibiting liquor sales to soldiers, and committing other, equally-heinous acts. "Includes notes on the ordinances of 1821, and correspondence demonstrating Jackson's unsuitability as President" - Servies.

The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER was founded by Samuel Harrison Smith in 1800. The paper reflected Jeffersonian Republican sentiments, supported Jefferson for president, and enjoyed the significant privilege of printing Jefferson's first inaugural address before it appeared in any other periodical. Joseph Gales bought the paper in 1810; under Gales, the INTELLIGENCER supported Madison in 1812 and Monroe in 1816. At this time, the paper received many government printing contracts, as it would later enjoy during the John Quincy Adams administration, whom the paper also supported. And to be pro-Adams was, of course, to be anti-Jackson, thus explaining the present work.

These pamphlets were likely issued separately, as here, and also printed in a single pamphlet later in 1828. Each part is rare, and complete runs are practically unheard of in the market. WISE & CRONIN 276. SERVIES 1366. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33107. $1500. 82. [Jackson, Andrew]: OFFICIAL RECORD FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT, OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COURT MARTIAL WHICH TRIED, AND THE ORDERS OF GENERAL JACKSON FOR SHOOTING THE SIX MILITIA MEN...SHOWING THAT THESE AMERICAN CITIZENS WERE INHUMANLY AND ILLEGALLY MASSACRED. Albany. 1828. 47pp. Dbd. Institutional ink stamp to titlepage. A few slight chips at edges. Light dampstaing, moderate foxing. Good.

A scarce Albany printing of this work, first printed in Washington in the same year, detailing the execution of six soldiers for mutiny during the Seminole campaign in 1815, an incident that would haunt Jackson throughout his political career. OCLC locates copies at nine institutions. HOWES J11. SABIN 56778. SHOEMAKER 36679. WISE & CRONIN 511. $600.

83. Keyser, N.: WHO ROBS THE TAX-PAYERS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND THE UNITED STATES? [caption title]. San Francisco: Sept. 1, 1889. 4pp. Bifolium. A few minor chips and small closed tears, slight paper loss in corners not affecting text. Good.

A vivid anti-Catholic, anti-Jesuit, and anti-Masonic attack, accusing them of involvement in a wide array of conspiracies, including assassinating Abraham Lincoln and James A. Garfield, stealing large amounts of tax money, and attempting to destroy public education. "The Pope says Republicanism, free thought, the separation of church and state, free schools, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independece, are heresies to be put down, and every true Romanist is bound to put down heresies and heretics. The Pope claims all inside of the lodge and church, and all outside are heretics, and it is no sin to kill them." Not in OCLC. $375. 84. Knight, George A.: TO WESTERN EMIGRANTS. HAVING BEEN APPOINTED TICKET AGENT OF THE OHIO & MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY, AND ALL CONNECTING LINES NORTH-WEST, WEST, AND SOUTH-WEST, I AM FULLY PREPARED TO MAKE CONTRACTS FOR FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS OR STOCK TO ANY RAILROAD POINT IN MISSOURI, KANSAS, NEBRASKA, COLORADO, CALIFORNIA, ARKANSAS AND TEXAS...[first few lines of text]. Cincinnati. [1870s]. Broadside, 11 x 8½ inches. Contemporary ink stamp advertising Henry H. Hannan, land and emigrant agent at Swan Creek, Ohio. Fine.

Broadside advertising the services of George A. Knight, ticket agent for the Ohio & Mississippi Railway, who promises to meet you at the steamboat in Cincinnati, transfer your baggage, and see you safely aboard a railway car bound for the West. "Being the agent of all the connecting lines, I can give you choice routes and will check your baggage from Cincinnati Through to Destination, Free! Bear in mind the fact, the Ohio & Mississippi is the Only Line that runs its entire trains through from Cincinnati to St. Louis with No Midnight Changes!" A note at the bottom urges readers to "Please post up, or hand to your neighbor about to emigrate." The contemporary ink stamp is an advertisement for Henry H. Hannan, purveyor of Texas and Arkansas maps, guides, land circulars, railroad fares, time tables, and more. OCLC locates two copies, at Yale and the Huntington. Scarce. $250.

A Horticultural and Pomological Scrapbook

85. Little, Henry: [SCRAPBOOK OF COL. HENRY LITTLE OF BANGOR, MAINE, CONTAINING NUMEROUS ITEMS OF HORTICULTURAL AND POMOLOGICAL INTEREST]. [Bangor, Me. 1846-1876]. Approximately [89] leaves, pasted with numerous clippings. Several small pamphlets or other pieces laid or pasted in. Folio. Original three-quarter sheep and boards. Spine and corners heavily worn, boards heavily worn. Leaves loose or loosening. Light foxing and soiling. Good.

Henry Little (b. 1788) was the proprietor of Henry Little & Co., a Bangor nursery which flourished in the 1840s and 1850s, specializing in fruit trees. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and was present at Castine when it was captured by the British. In 1829, then residing in Bucksport, he joined the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Little moved to Bangor in 1836, where he established his nursery and became a leading figure in Maine horticulture. His life was spent in dedicated pursuit of the best fruit varieties for New England culture, and he wrote numerous articles on the subject which he contributed to local and national periodicals. He was a founder and long-time president of the Bangor Horticultural Society, president of the Maine Board of Agriculture, and a regular Maine delegate to national pomological conventions. In 1873, Col. Little moved to Boston to be near his children, at which time he was presented with a gold-headed cane by the citizens of Bangor. His scrapbook contains numerous clippings of his horticultural articles, some of which were published anonymously. Also included in the scrapbook are various addresses, his reports of conventions and exhibitions, his accounts of Canadian travel, an occasional letter written to him, articles of interest, poems, prints, and other similar items. His annotations are evident throughout. Among the more interesting individual items are a manuscript diagram of Little's property in Bangor, showing positions of buildings and gardens, all labeled, and a trimmed but still striking broadside advertisement for Little's nursery (dated 1846), with the fruits handcolored, possibly by Little himself. A tantalizing aspect is that Little used an earlier account book containing his nursery accounts to create this scrapbook, which, though obscured by the current contents, could be revealed by careful conservation. A fascinating artifact from this important Maine horticulturalist. $2500.

Broadside of Slave Sales, Flights, and Emancipations in Louisiana

86. [Louisiana]: [Slavery]: BATON ROUGE GAZETTE EXTRA. Baton Rouge. Dec. 8, 1827. Broadside, 17 x 12 inches. Minor edge wear, light foxing, one small hole in the fourth column costing a few letters. Very good.

A rare early 19th-century newspaper extra providing unique insight into life in the Deep South thirty-four years before the start of the Civil War, containing a number of advertisements for the public auction of slaves, as well as several calls for runaways. One prominent advertisement lists the names of twenty-four slaves which will be offered for sale by the Honorable Ch. Tessier. Names include Onesime, Azor, Cojo, Thalie (described as a "negro girl, aged 11 years, a creole"), and Josephine ("negress aged 30 years good domestic, Angel, her daughter aged 9 years, Basile, her son aged 7 years, Julienne, her daughter aged 3 years"). Includes conditions for payment listed at bottom.

This issue of the GAZETTE reports on a number of runaway slaves, detailing the escaped slave's name, physical appearance, and owner. Public notice is also given in reference to George Killian, Senator of St. Helena Parish, who was not going to proceed to pass "an act of emancipation in favor of his negro woman slave named Philis, aged 50 years." A column headed "New Orleans Price Current" details the going price of commodities ranging from "Bale Rope" to "Wine" and includes large ads promoting the "Louisiana Catholic Church Lottery" and "Public School Lottery." An interesting footnote in the history of the BATON ROUGE GAZETTE: in 1843, the GAZETTE's editor, John Hueston, was killed in a shotgun duel with a candidate for Congress, Alcee Labranche, who believed Hueston had insulted him.

An uncommon newspaper extra with important information regarding the commerce of slavery in early 19th-century Louisiana. $900.

87. [Louisiana Crime]: [LOUISIANA WANTED POSTER FOR "CRIME AGAINST NATURE" IN CALCASIEU PARISH, LOUSIANA]. [N.p. n.d.]. Broadside, approximately 9¾ x 6 inches. Previously folded. Signed in pencil. Very good.

Wanted poster circulated by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff at Lake Charles, D.J. Reed, offering a fifty dollar reward for the arrest of Frank R. Lumpkin, accused of an unspecified "crime against nature." The poster also identifies a seventeen-year-old Mrs. Lumpkin, and so one must suppose the charge to be in the realm of statutory rape, but it may have been even more lurid. With photographic reproductions of the illicit couple. $125.

88. [Magic]: DE LA MANO IS COMING! THE CHAMPION PRESTIDIGITATEUR ABIDEXTROUS [sic] COMEDIAN, ARCH ILLUSIONIST AND HUMORIST [caption title]. Buffalo: Courier Company Show Printing House, [1875?] Broadside, 42½ x 14 inches. Fold line near center. Two minor chips in the right edge, two very small holes near the left. Near fine.

An illustrated broadside printed on yellow paper announcing and describing a performance by the Austrian magician and showman, De La Mano. His real name was Zell Dreitzehn, and he performed for several years in the United States before he himself disappeared in upstate New York in 1882. A central engraving depicts Dreitzehn performing before a crowded theater audience, while several smaller images show some of his various acts, which are also listed. These includes tricks such as "The Enchanted Cross," "The Great East India Dagger Mystery," and "The Magic Omelet," among others. "This is no exhibition of Doubtful Merit but a permanently established and legitimate entertainment, exhibited with pride and pleasure." An entertaining and scarce example of 19th-century magic ephemera. $850. A Significant Album of Architectural Photographs

89. Marble, Albert P., compiler: [Massachusetts]: [Architectural Photography]: PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCHOOL HOUSES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS, IN WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS. Worcester: Printed by Charles Hamilton, 1873. 10pp. (printed on recto only) plus thirty-two mounted albumen photographs on captioned card mounts. Small oblong folio. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco and marbled boards, leather label on front cover, marbled endpapers. Very good. Provenance: Albert Marble (inscription on titlepage).

A rare American photographically illustrated book and a wonderful collection of Massachusetts architectural photography. The thirty-two albumen photographs depict various schools and other public buildings in Worcester, Massachusetts in the latter half of the 19th century, including a few floor plans. The buildings include Worcester High School, Walnut Street School, Thomas Street School, Sycamore Street School, Worcester Public Library, College of Holy Cross, Antiquarian Hall, Highland Military Academy, and many more.

The book's compiler, Albert Marble, who has inscribed the titlepage, was the Superintendent of Public Schools in Worcester. A handful of notations from Marble can be found in the book, including autograph captions to some of the plates and a holographic correction on page 2. The note on the titlepage reads: "This volume was exhibited at the Vienna Exposition, 1873. APM." The 1873 Vienna Exposition brought together almost 26,000 exhibitors from all over the world, and this volume would certainly have fit the motto of the fair: "Culture and Education." A wonderful source for early photography of Massachusetts schools and public buildings. Unrecorded in OCLC. $2850.

90. [Marshall, John]: THE OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL, IN THE CASE OF GARNETT, EX'R OF BROOKE v. MACON et al. Richmond: Peter Cottom, 1827. 59pp. Dbd. Titlepage with institutional blind and ink stamps. Some tanning. Good plus.

Second, much scarcer, edition of John Marshall's opinion in this case of financial estate and contract law before the Circuit Court in Virginia in 1825. A rare case from when the Supreme Court still sat on circuits.The main point of contention was over a contract to sell land in an estate in order to settle debts. Marshall found in favor of Macon and dismissed the suit. OCLC locates only four copies; not in Cohen or Shoemaker. $600.

Diary of a Woman Keeping an Indian School

91. [Martin, Minnie L.]: [MANUSCRIPT DIARY KEPT BY MINNIE L. MARTIN, A TEACHER AT AN INDIAN SCHOOL IN MICHIGAN, FOR THE YEAR 1893]. [Battle Creek, Mi. 1893]. [248]pp. 24mo. Original red cloth, wallet-style binding, front flap gilt lettered, all edges marbled. Light wear to cloth. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

A comprehensive diary for the year 1893, kept by Minnie L. Martin of Battle Creek, Michigan, a teacher at a nearby Indian school. Throughout the diary, she discusses her teaching duties, describes Indians with whom she has contact, and recounts information about her family life and other significant events. Martin was only twenty-two at the time of writing, and overall the diary is an excellent source for the experiences of a young teacher at a rural Indian school.

Typical entries on the subject of the school read thusly:

"Miss Ballantyne called. I know I shall like her. She is going to lay the Indian matter before the Temperance Union and think they may take an Indian and educate him. I think it strange she should do it.... I had to punish Willis at the start this morning. He was insolent and I had to do it in justice to him and to the rest of the boys. Homer had to be spoken to sharper than I like to but they did better than they have many times."

One of the most interesting events for the year that Martin relates was a trip to the Chicago World's Fair, where she spent two months. There, she met Chauncey Yellow Robe, a prominent Indian and activist, with whom she afterwards carried on a correspondence. She must have been quite taken with him, as she writes at one point when she encounters him at the Fair, "And who should I find the Carlisle young man to be but Chauncey Yellow Robe, my much long to be seen and to think I should ask him if he knew him. I felt that I wished I could go through the floor.... I think he is a noble specimen of a man." A very interesting diary with much content on late 19th-century Indian education, written by a very earnest young teacher. $3250.

Massachusetts Oath to Cooperate Against Great Britain, 1776

92. [Massachusetts]: [American Revolution]: COLONY OF MASSACHUSETT'S-BAY, 1776. WE THE SUBSCRIBERS, DO EACH OF US SEVERALLY FOR OURSELVES, PROFESS, TESTIFY AND DECLARE BEFORE GOD AND THE WORLD, THAT WE VERILY BELIEVE THAT THE WAR, RESISTANCE AND OPPOSITION IN WHICH THE UNITED AMERICAN COLONIES ARE NOW ENGAGED AGAINST THE FLEETS AND ARMIES OF GREAT-BRITAIN, IS ON THE PART OF THE SAID COLONIES, JUST AND NECESSARY.... [Watertown: Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1776]. Broadside on a folio sheet, 13¼ x 8 inches. Old folds. Faint offsetting from folding. Light stain in center right margin. Very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase.

A rare Revolutionary oath, printed as a broadside and sent to towns throughout Massachusetts in 1776. Issued shortly after May 1, some two months before the formal Declaration of Independence of early July, the text calls on citizens to pledge not to, "during the said War, directly or indirectly, in any Ways, aid, abet or assist, any of the Naval or Land Forces of the King of Great-Britain, or any employ'd by him; or supply them with any Kind of Provisions, Military or Naval Stores...." The oath further calls on citizens not to communicate any intelligence to British forces, recruit anyone to the British army or navy, or "take up or bear Arms against this or either of the United Colonies." Rather, the colonists pledge to "defend by Arms, the United American Colonies." This oath was printed in accordance with the Massachusetts legislature's passage of the act of May 1, 1776, severing ties with Great Britain.

The bottom half of this document is blank, and was meant to be signed in manuscript by those ascribing to the oath. The present copy is unaccomplished. Evans notes that the copy in the Massachusetts Archives is signed by James Otis, James Bowdoin, and other well-known Boston area patriots. NAIP and Ford together locate only five copies. Rare. EVANS 14840. ESTC W7237. FORD, MASSACHUSETTS BROADSIDES 2030. BRISTOL B4251. SHIPTON & MOONEY 43064. $13,500.

The Beginning of Gerrymandering

93. [Massachusetts]: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN SENATE, OCTOBER 21, 1812. A RESOLVE FOR DISTRICTING THE COMMONWEALTH FOR THE PURPOSE OF CHOOSING ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT [caption title]. [Boston]: Repertory Office, W.W. Clapp, printer, [1812]. Broadside, 12¾ x 8 inches. Printed in two columns. Printed in two columns. Three horizontal folds. Minor edge wear. Very good.

Broadside denoting the division of six districts in Massachusetts for the purpose of selecting electors for the presidential election of 1812. The six districts, divided by county, had a total of twenty-two electors - presumably broken down by population density. The broadside goes on to make provision for the day and means of voting for the electors, and the method of counting the votes - which is to be done in an open town hall meeting. The bill was read and passed through the state congress on Oct. 22, 1812. This broadside is particularly interesting in light of a similar bill which was signed by Gov. Elbridge Gerry earlier the same year, in which he apportioned the districts in such a way as to maintain his party's political power in the state senate, giving rise to the term gerrymandering. The presidential election of 1812 would, in fact, see Gerry elected vice president. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 25996. $400.

94. [Mormons]: [TWO PARTIALLY PRINTED SHARES OF STOCK IN THE NAUVOO HOUSE ASSOCIATION]. St. Louis, Mo.: J.T. Hammond, [ca. 1841?]. Two certificates, each 3¼ x 7¾ inches, printed on the same side of a single 6½ x 7¾-inch sheet of paper. Fine.

A rare example of Mormon financial ephemera, documenting the Mormons' stay in Nauvoo and the attempt to build "Nauvoo House," a splendid hotel in the Illinois town. The present example of Nauvoo House stock certificates is one of only two mentioned by Rush, the other being printed in Nauvoo itself. The present certificate is not filled out in manuscript, and Rust mentions that none were signed, conjecturing that they were never officially issued. The St. Louis certificates are much more elaborately illustrated than the Nauvoo issue. They include engravings of a bust of George Washington, a steamboat, an eagle, angels, and the figure of Columbia.

The Mormon Church was headquartered in Nauvoo from 1839 until they moved westward in 1846. In January 1841, Joseph Smith had a revelation instructing him to build a hotel that would provide accommodations to "strangers and tourists" (see the Mormon Doctrines and Covenants 124:60). Construction began in the spring of 1841, and stock in the building was sold in order to fund the efforts. It was estimated that construction would cost $100,000, and stock was issued in shares ranging from $50 to $1500. The total stock subscription was $150,000. "All who believed in the Book of Mormon or the revelations of God were permitted to hold stock" - Jenson. The stock certificates were transferable by endorsement, so they were used as a medium of exchange as well. The present two certificates are for $50 and $100 worth of stock in the association. Nauvoo House was only partially completed when the Mormons left Nauvoo in 1846, and the house was eventually completed (though not to the original grand design) by Joseph Smith's widow and her second husband. It survives today as a hostel, owned and operated by the Reorganized Church.

The only institution listing Nauvoo House Association stock certificates on OCLC is Yale, which apparently owns an example slightly larger in size than this certificate. Any such pieces of Mormon ephemera relating to the Mormon stay in Nauvoo are rare. Rust, MORMON AND UTAH COIN AND CURRENCY, pp.24-25. OCLC 54168121 (ref). Jenson, ENCYCLOPEDIC HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, p.562. $3000. The Mormons Weather the Civil War

95. [Mormons]: CIRCULAR. TO THE CITIZENS OF UTAH: THE MANNER IN WHICH WE CAME TO THESE VALLEYS, BRINGING WHAT SEEDS...AND PROVISIONS WE COULD FOR OUR SUBSISTENCE UNTIL WE SHOULD BE BLESSED WITH A HARVEST.... [Salt Lake City. 1864]. Broadside, 12¾ x 7½ inches. Manuscript notation in ink at bottom: "GSL City July 5, 1864." Stub of original blank continuation leaf for subscribers still affixed at bottom. Very good. In a modern cloth folder, leather label.

First edition, first issue, with the place and date in manuscript. This was originally issued with a blank continuation leaf intended for circulation to subscribers. The Yale copy has the stub (visible in the facsimile Yale issued in 1985), as do all other copies known to us.

An attempt to guard the Mormon community against the ravages of a free market economy likely to produce severe fluctuations in demand and money supply as a result of gold discoveries and intensified western migration. According to the text accompanying the Yale facsimile edition:

"The broadside printed here was probably stimulated by mineral discoveries in Montana in 1864. In its simultaneous calls for Mormons to accept only gold when trading with miners and to preserve sufficient stores of grain for their neighbors' needs as well as their own, the proclamation reveals the mixture of shrewd business sense and social idealism characteristic of the early Mormons....Chief among their policies was the development of an insular, self-sufficient economy which would protect the well-being of the Mormon community from the distractions of materialistic national markets."

The convention, attended by "one delegate from each precinct of our grain raising regions" was to be held "in the Tabernacle in Great Salt Lake City, on the second Monday in August next." As an additional measure taken to maintain a price level consistent with the needs of the community, the covenant concludes with a vow "that we will mutually sustain each other...by those who are able...buying at the aforementioned price from those who may not be able to hold on against lower offers." Similarly, the circular stipulates: "previous to selling any grain, we will reserve at least a year's supply for ourselves."

Rare, with only five copies located in OCLC, at Yale, BYU, Princeton, University of Utah, and Utah State. There are also copies at the Bancroft Library and the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University. Not in Eberstadt or SCALLAWAGIANA. We are aware of only one trade sale, from a Michael Heaston catalogue in 1988 for $850. Accompanied by the Yale University facsimile edition, published for the Friends of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Christmas 1985. FLAKE 2374a. OCLC 6590739. $4750.

96. [Murder]: [Connecticut]: A MINUTE AND CORRECT ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF LUCIAN HALL, BETUEL ROBERTS AND WILLIAM H. BELL FOR MURDER...WITH THE INDICTMENT...TESTIMONY IN FULL...AND A REPRESENTATION OF HIS WOUNDED AND BLOODY RIGHT HAND: AND OTHER INTERESTING MATTERS RELATING TO THE MURDER AND TRIAL. Middletown. 1844. [2],40pp. plus folding map and woodcut facsimiles. 20th-century blue buckram, spine gilt. Faint institutional stamps and contemporary ink ownership signatures on titlepage,

A rare Connecticut murder trial from the mid-19th century. The victim, Mrs. Lavinia Bacon, was beaten and stabbed to death in her home while the rest of the family attended church. Although Hall, Roberts, and Bell were all indicted, Hall finally admitted his guilt, the other two were found innocent, and justice was done. McDade singles out a sentiment herein expressed which deserves quoting: "The peculiar circumstances of this case...that plausibility is not always truth - that innocence sometimes needs a vindicator, and that all stories have two sides." The folding map is of particular interest in that it displays the murder scene and environs, to better aid the appreciation of the narrative. The woodcut facsimiles include a floor plan of Bacon's house, a depiction of Hall's injured hand, and Hall's signature on his own confession. Rare. McDADE 430. $375.

97. [Nairn, Katharine]: [Ogilvie, Patrick]: THE TRIAL OF KATHARINE NAIRN AND PATRICK OGILVIE, FOR THE CRIMES OF INCEST AND MURDER.... Edinburgh printed: London reprinted. 1765. [8],134pp. Dbd. Institutional ink stamps to half-title and titlepage, half-title a bit frayed, short tears to last two leaves. Still, very good.

The scarce London printing of the trial account of a twisted story of incest and murder in Georgian Scotland. Katharine Nairn married Thomas Ogilvie in Edinburgh in January 1765. Soon after her wedding, she took a shine to Patrick Ogilvie, a young soldier recently returned from the East Indies...and her brother-in-law. The couple's affair led to suspicions of murder after Thomas's death by poisoning. They were both convicted of incest and murder, and sentenced to hang. Ogilvie professed his innocence all the way to the other end of the rope; Nairn successfully escaped execution, prison, and even her own country, after stealing away from her cell in the uniform of an old family servant, and making her way to France. She was never seen again. $250.

98. [Nevada Mining]: THE MANHATTAN NEVADA GOLD MINES COMPANY...CAPITAL STOCK, 5,000,000 SHARES. PAR VALUE $1 EACH...[caption title]. [New York. 1906]. Bifolium, 15¼ x 8¾ inches, plus two small printed forms. Previously folded. Two minor separations at old folds, very short closed tear at fore-edge. Very good.

Advertising prospectus for a new mining venture in central Nevada during the first decade of the 20th century. Mining in the Manhattan area had slowed dramatically since the end of the silver boom, but the discovery of gold in 1905 reinvigorated the industry in the area, and the company for which this prospectus advertises was one of numerous endeavors that sought to cash in. "Mines of marvellous richness are being discovered and developed; new strikes of ore, literally sprinkled with gold, are being made almost daily. The Smelting Companies at Salt Lake declare they have never before received so much high-grade ore in so short a period. Manhattan is probably the greatest early producer of gold ever known.... The bonanza days of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode are been [sic] outdone and their glitter is overshadowed by the record and the possibilities of Manhattan."

Accompanied by two printed order forms, one solely for purchasing stock in the Manhattan Nevada Company, and a second for a combination offer of stock in three mining companies - Manhattan Nevada, Empire, and Black Oak. Only copy of the prospectus located by OCLC, at Yale. $300.

99. [New Mexico]: [Lopez de Santa Anna, Antonio]: MINISTERIO DE GUERRA Y MARINA. SECCION CENTRAL. MESA 1.A EL EXMO SR. PRESIDENTE INTERINO DE LA REPÚBLICA SE HA SERVIDO DIRIGIRME EL DECRETO QUE SIGUE...[caption title]. [Mexico. April 22, 1839]. Broadside, 8 x 12 inches. Minor stain in upper left corner, otherwise clean. Very good.

"Establishes the Department of New Mexico as separate 'Commendancia General,' it being particularly liable to Indian incursion and depredation" - Eberstadt. An important decree for the protection of the lucrative Santa Fe and Taos trade, issued while Santa Anna was serving as acting president of Mexico. Quite rare. Not in OCLC. EBERSTADT 163:406. HANDBOOK OF TEXAS 5, pp.881-82. $1250.

100. [North Carolina]: [African-American Fugitive]: [EARLY 20th-CENTURY WANTED POSTER FOR A BLACK MAN ACCUSED OF MURDER]. [Lexington, N.C.?] Oct. 10, 1906. Broadside, 11¾ x 9¼ inches. Printed on salmon-colored paper. Previously folded, with small separations and chips along old fold lines, sometimes affecting text. Some larger chips and loss along edges. Good.

A striking wanted poster from North Carolina in 1906, offering a $250 reward: "For the arrest and delivery to undersigned [T.S.F. Dorsett, Sheriff Davidson County] of Oscar Gaddy who murdered R.H. Eubanks, Supt. for Lane Bros. Co., & Jones, near Lexington, North Carolina, on Sunday, October 7, 1906." The broadside contains a vivid and remarkable description of the accused: "A black, rawboned negro, about 180 to 200 lbs, six feet high or over, stands very straight, even white teeth and has a crippled thumb on right hand. This thumb has been mashed and is twisted to one side. Lives in neighborhood of Henderson, N.C., - also lived in Terra Cotta. Has worked in Coal fields of West Va. When last seen was coatless, hatless, and shoeless." $500.

101. [Oil Photographica]: [LARGE FORMAT PHOTOGRAPH OF AN EARLY OIL RIG]. [N.p., perhaps Pennsylvania. ca. 1890-1900]. Silver gelatin photograph, 15¾ x 19½ inches. Mounted to backing board and framed to an overall size of 20½ x 25 inches. Slight silvering of part of the image, light edge wear, minor chipping to frame. A very good image.

A fascinating image featuring eleven men standing in front of an oil rig, complete from engine house to the oil derrick, the latter extending beyond the frame of the picture. Most of the men are fairly well dressed, and perhaps picture the management of the rig or the oil company that owns the rig. Among the better-dressed subjects is a young boy perhaps in his early teenage years. Two of the men are dressed in overalls, and are likely the roughnecks for this particular rig. A rare large photograph capturing the early days of the oil business in America. $650.

102. [Ottawa]: THE OTTAWA HYMN BOOK. HYMNS FOR EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS. Ottawa: Hunter, Rose and Co., 1868. iv,64pp. 16mo. Original green printed wrappers. Light soiling to wrappers, scattered light foxing internally. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box.

A small hymnal for Ottawa residents, containing the lyrics to sixty-five songs. Quite scarce, with OCLC locating copies only at the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois. $750.

104. [Philippines Photographica]: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM DEPICTING NATIVE AND AMERICAN MILITARY LIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING THE 1920s AND 1930s]. Philippines. [ca. 1920s-1930s]. Eighty-eight photographs of varying sizes, most approximately 3 x 5 inches. Black faux leather album, tied with cord. Photos in white corner mounts on black construction paper. With original tissue guards, of which the first three are detached and chipped. A few images slightly faded or with light soiling, but mostly clear and well developed. Very good.

An outstanding album of eighty-eight photographs portraying native country life and showing scenes from the U.S. Army's Nichols Field outside of Manila during the 1920s and 1930s. The images of native Filipinos consist principally of individual and group portraits of men and women in traditional dress. There are a number of additional images showing agricultural activity, rural farm land, and animals. The second significant portion of the album contains images of Nichols Field, the American military base built near Manila in 1919. These photos depict indigenous people and American personnel in and around the airfield, along with several representations of military buildings, living quarters, army activity, airplanes, and other army matériel. A few other images of port activity and a photograph that captures an eruption of the Mayon volcano are also included.

Well shot and well developed, the photographs in this album create a striking portrait of two vastly different modes of living during this period in Philippine history. $1250.

Insanity Defense Works

105. [Pierce, Aratus F.]: TRIAL OF ARATUS F. PIERCE, AT LOCKPORT, N.Y., FOR THE MURDER OF WM. BULLOCK. Lockport, N.Y. 1871. 101pp. Dbd. Titlepage detached, initial leaves nearly so. Institutional ink and blind stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good.

"At Lockport, New York, Pierce killed his sister's seducer, who had refused to marry her. He was acquitted, his defense being 'the law of MANIA TRANSITORIA'" - McDade. McDADE 748. $750.

106. [Pierrepont, Edwards]: ARGUMENT OF HON. EDWARDS PIERREPONT TO THE JURY, ON THE TRIAL OF JOHN H. SURRATT FOR THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Washington. 1867. 122pp. Dbd. Original printed front wrapper, detached and chipped. Later institutional stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good.

Official printing of the arguments and cross-examinations made by lawyer Edwards Pierrepont in the prosecution of John Surratt for the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Surratt was the last person to be submitted to military tribunal in connection with the assassination, and had evaded capture until 1867 by fleeing to Canada, England, and Italy before finally being captured in Egypt. The case ended with a hung jury and Surratt was freed; Pierrepont went on to be appointed a United States Attorney, then Attorney General during the Grant administration. McDADE 606. MONAGHAN 889. $650.

107. Preble, Edward, Commodore: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM COMMODORE EDWARD PREBLE TO NAVY PURSER NATHANIEL LYDE, AUTHORIZING HIM TO PROCURE MEN AND PAY NECESSARY EXPENSES OF OFFICERS FOR THE U.S. NAVY. WITH A FURTHER LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION, ALSO IN PREBLE'S HAND, TO NAVY AGENT SAMUEL BROWN, COPIED OUT FOR THE USE OF PURSER LYDE]. Portland, Me. Feb. 8, 1806. [1]; [1]p. on a folded folio sheet. A bit of old tape residue along edge of fourth page (used for addressing and docketing). Near fine.

A pair of letters on a single sheet, in the hand of Commodore Edward Preble, written just a year before his death, in his role supervising shipbuilding activities for the United States Navy in Portland, Maine. In the letters Preble authorizes the procuring of petty officers for two of the Navy's newest bomb ketches, U.S.S. Etna and Vesuvius. The main letter is written from Preble to U.S. Navy Purser Nathaniel Lyde at Boston. Preble writes:

"I have rec'd your letter of the 5th inst. You may furnish the armorer with 30 Doll. and it shall be re-imbursed you here [the final seven letters of this sentence are crossed out]. I enclose you an order on Samuel Brown Esq. for 500 Doll. to procure men and pay necessary expenses of officers &c. for which you will be held accountable to the Navy Department. The money is not to be expended without my approbation." On the verso of this page Preble has copied out for Lyde a letter he wrote to Navy Agent Samuel Brown, which reads: "Sir, there is wanted five hundred dollars for the purpose of procuring petty officers & men for the U.S. Bomb Ketches Etna & Vesuvius and for boats no. 11 & 12 at Portland and near my post for which I am held accountable to the U.S. Navy Departments."

Preble (1761-1807) joined the Massachusetts state navy in 1780 and participated in battles against the Royal Navy and Loyalist privateers. For a brief time he was held prisoner by the British aboard the prison ship Jersey. After the war he engaged as a master of supercargo and merchants' vessels sailing to Europe, Africa, and the West Indies. By the time of the "Quasi War" in the 1790s he was eager to join the American navy. He was commissioned a lieutenant in 1798 and promoted to captain the following year. In 1803-4, Preble was commander of the U.S. Mediterranean Squadron, arguably the most important command in the navy at the time, and his heroics against the Barbary states are what made his reputation. He fought successfully against Morocco and Tripoli and engineered, with Stephen Decatur, the destruction of the captured American frigate Philadelphia. After his return to the United States he supervised the construction of gunboats and served as an adviser to the Navy. $750.

Privateering in the French and Indian War

108. [Privateering]: [CIRCULAR LETTER, IN FRENCH, FROM AN INVESTOR IN SEVERAL FRENCH PRIVATEERS, BEMOANING HIS LOSSES AND SEEKING TO RECOUP THEM WITH FURTHER RAIDS]. Paris. Jan. 15, 1759. 2pp. plus integral blank. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear and soiling. Very good.

An example of the financial risks inherent in investing in privateers, two of which the writer of the letter lost during the British raid on St. Malo on June 5, 1758. Thirty privateers and one hundred other vessels were also burned in that same raid. The present letter concerns a famous ship that did not burn with the others.

During the Seven Years' War, François Thurot, legendary captain of the famous forty-six-gun French frigate Maréchal de Bellisle, terrorized British shipping and the coasts of England and Scotland. In this letter the principal investor in that ship writes about financial difficulties caused by the burning of two of his ships during the raid on St. Malo. Having eluded the forces sent specifically to destroy him, Thurot arrived at Bergen on Sept. 13, 1758, staying there until November 25th. Heading south, taking more prizes along the way, Thurot spent most of December at Ostend selling the prizes, and finally reached Dunkirk at the beginning of January 1759, when this letter was written. At the end of the letter is the holograph signature of one "Merlin," a chief investor in several French privateers including the Maréchal de Belleisle, who writes [in translation]: "I have the honor to advise you that I sent to Paris to M. Couteulx an account in duplicate of the armament of the frigates Maréchal de Bellisle, the Chauvelin & the Marquise, the relevant documents transmitted in duplicate to the Admiralty in St. Malo....The burning of the frigates Chauvelin and the Marquise, by the English in the port of St. Malo was an event above human precaution, but the consequences of such an event may be reduced by a new campaign taking into account that this might be still more profitable if there was not some considered difficulty at Bergan in Norway....The loss of both the other corsairs fell mainly on me and on my own account of personal loss of 79-f-128 for the armament; and a further loss of 600 thousand livres in the burning of the port, and now I find myself unable to meet my liabilities."

Merlin says his creditors will only be satisfied with further adventures by Thurot, whose name is, however, never directly mentioned. Merlin is looking for an agreement to meet his liabilities in four installments.

"...but another of the creditors not willing to accept the agreement seized not only these effects, but also the holdings belonging to the commissioning, confounding thus my personal debts with those of the said commissioning...the result is that my personal creditors becoming owners of my interests, which are the largest in the ship Maréchal de Bellisle, will dictate to the other interested parties and will cause either expenses or a suspension of commission, a fact detrimental to common interest; perhaps, also, and very likely, they will demand the sale of the ship, which will result in an evident loss for all concerned without compensation. The only way to stop it would be by obtaining a judgment of suspension...."

He notes that under the circumstances he hopes the recipient will seek the help of Mons. Vallet de la Touche (whose name is supplied in manuscript). Vallet de la Touche (1698-1759) was secretary and advisor to King Louis XV. At the end, Merlin has penned under his signature a nine-line postscript, again mentioning Vallet de le Touche, and giving his address. Thurot was killed and his ship captured in an action off the Isle of Man. His body washed ashore near the Mull of Galloway, and he was buried with full honors in the churchyard of Kirkmaiden, Scotland. $1500.

Very Unusual American Color Plates

109. [Quarré, F.]: [Color Plate Books]: THE ARTIST. A MONTHLY LADIES' BOOK. Vol. I [– II]. New York: F. Quarré, 1842-1843. Twelve issues, with thirty-five color plates. Large octavo. Contemporary full red sheep, boards gilt rules, spine gilt. Front hinged cracked, boards rubbed, edge and spine wear. Binder's ticket on front pastedown, slightly later pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Edges dampstained, light tanning and scattered foxing. About very good.

A complete run of an early and little known American periodical illustrated with color plates. Overlooked by both Bennett and McGrath, THE ARTIST... is an important work in the history of American color printing and in the development of color printing techniques. The publisher, an artist named F. Quarré, states in the introduction that the plates for the new periodical would be accomplished by "a process hitherto unknown." Quarré further states that the plates are "engravings in color...the invention and the means of execution are our own exclusive property...we shall have been the first to trace out a new line which has not as yet been attempted in any other country...." The plates appear to be aquatints, with different portions of the plate inked in different colors, and some of them closely resemble the color-printed plates of Jacob Bigelow's AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY of 1817-21. Quarré is not completely unknown - he is listed in Groce and Wallace, as well as in Jay Last's THE COLOR EXPLOSION.

THE ARTIST was printed at the Herald Printing Establishment, at the corner of Nassau and Fulton Streets in New York, and was produced in only a small number of copies. In most, including the present one, in addition to purely color printed plates there are plates that are partly color printed and partly handcolored, plates that are entirely and conventionally hand colored, and plates that are embossed (of which one is hand colored). Finally there are several plates with simulated lace borders. "Quarré's most distinctive productions were flower aquatints embellished with engraved white lace, in the manner of the later valentine" - Groce & Wallace. "These plates exemplify the experimentation with color printing techniques in book illustration which paralleled the beginnings of chromolithography in the 1840s" - Reese.

A rare and important periodical, never encountered as a complete run. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 48. $3000.

110. [Reed, Joseph W.]: AN AMERICANIST ALPHABET. WILLIAM REESE COMPANY. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. [New Haven. 1989]. Color poster. 27 x 39¾ inches. As new. Rolled.

A visually striking book collecting-related poster from the early-middle years of the famed New Haven bookseller, the William Reese Company. Features the names and likenesses of famous collectors and terminology in the field of Americana, one for each letter of the alphabet, as determined by Mr. Reese himself and drawn by Joseph W. Reed. A wonderful display item for those interested in 20th-century American book collecting and the book trade. $50.

111. [Ruloff, Edward H.]: LIFE, TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF EDWARD H. RULOFF, THE PERPETRATOR OF EIGHT MURDERS, NUMEROUS BURGLARIES AND OTHER CRIMES; WHO WAS RECENTLY HANGED AT BINGHAMTON, N.Y. Philadelphia. [1871]. [2],[19]-80pp. including four full-page engravings. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blind stamp on titlepage and first text leaf, mild toning. Good.

A rare account of the misdeeds of one of the most fascinating criminals of the 19th century. "Rulloff (or Ruloff; the name is spelled both ways) was one of those bizarre criminals who defy easy classification. He began his criminal career with the murder of his wife and child at Ithaca, New York, probably disposing of their bodies in Lake Cayuga. Unable to establish a corpus delicti, the state could only convict him of abducting his wife. He served ten years in prison.... During his incarceration he had learned Latin, Greek, and other languages, and had developed a theory of languages. Under an alias he lectured before the American Philological Convention at Poughkeepsie, though his theory did not find ready acceptance. For the next dozen years he was touring the country with two associates, committing burglaries and other crimes. In August 1870, the trio burglarized a shoe store in Binghamton, New York, and were surprised in the act by two clerks who slept on the premises. Ruloff shot one of them, Frederick Mirick, and escaped - briefly. His associates were drowned trying to cross the Chenango River. Ruloff was identified by the lack of a big toe on his left foot, tried, convicted and finally hanged for the murder. As no one claimed his remains, a Dr. Geo. Burr was permitted to remove his head for study, and there were many comparisons of Ruloff's brain with those of Daniel Webster and Thackeray, to the disadvantage of the latter. His brain, which found a final resting place in Cornell University, fared better than the rest of his remains, which disappeared after they were dug up by body snatchers" - McDade.

The four engravings include a rather straightforward depiction of Ruloff and his accomplices and three sensationalized scenes - two depictions of Ruloff's murders, and one of body snatchers surprised to find Ruloff's headless body after digging up his grave. The titlepage concludes with exclamations about Ruloff: "A man shrouded in mystery! A learned ruffian! Was he man or fiend."

Rare, with only seven copies reported by McDade; OCLC is inconclusive, with all but one copy recorded under digital records, with some physical copies surely mixed into the electronic resource records. McDADE 835. BANGS 5529. $325.

A Large Broadside from Saint Domingue

112. [Saint Domingue]: EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DE L'ASSEMBLÉE PROVINCIALE DE LA PARTIE DU NORD DE LA COLONIE FRANÇOISE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE. DES DÉLIBÉRATIONS DE LA SÉANCE DU MERCREDI 18 NOVEMBRE 1789...[caption title]. [Cap Français. Nov. 18, 1789]. Broadside, 17¾ x 14 inches. Old folds, minor wear at edges, some minor foxing. Very good.

Concerning the local militia, signed in type by Jean-Jacques Bacon de la Chevalerie (1731-1815) as President of the Northern Provincial Assembly, and by Geanty as Secretary. Here the assembly deals with the organization of a militia responsible for ensuring the public tranquility, on the model of the National Guard in Paris. Brigadier Bacon de la Chevalerie, chosen from the outset by the settlers to chair the Northern Assembly, declared himself leader of the white separatist movement on the island and played a significant role in the revolutionary events of the period.

A rare format for surviving imprints from Saint Domingue. From imprints handled by this firm we know that there was a rich print culture in Saint Domingue on the verge of the revolution. There were presses at Saint Marc, Port-au-Prince, and Cap Français, with probably two or three different printers at each of the latter two. All Caribbean printing is quite rare. No copies located in OCLC. $5000.

113. Seward, William H.: ARGUMENT OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD, ON THE LAW OF CONGRESS CONCERNING THE RECAPTURE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES [wrapper title]. Albany. 1847. 40pp. plus errata slip. Dbd., retaining original front printed wrapper. Minor dust-soiling to front wrapper, light edge wear. Mild foxing to a few leaves. Overall good plus.

A rare Supreme Court argument against the Fugitive Slave Law, given before the Supreme Court by William H. Seward in 1847. The work is variously listed under its wrapper title, as we have it, or by the information on the titlepage, which reads, "In the Supreme Court of the United States, John Van Zandt, ad sectum Wharton Jones. Argument for the Defendant. By William H. Seward." Here, Seward represents the defendant, John Van Zandt of Ohio, who was sued by Wharton Jones of Kentucky, who claimed Van Zandt was harboring a fugitive slave who rightfully belonged to him. The text records Seward's argument in front of the Supreme Court, which he divides into four points. In the first two points, Seward argues specific aspects of the case before him. In Seward's last two points, he challenges the Constitutionality of the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act itself. The titles of points three and four are, respectively, "The Law of 1793 is in Conflict with the Ordinance for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, passed in 1787, and is therefore void" and "The Law of 1793, so far as its provisions affect the questions now before the Court, is Unconstitutional and Void."

William H. Seward was a prominent lawyer from New York, and served as governor of the state from 1839 to 1842. He later served as the Senator for New York, 1849-1861 before serving as President Lincoln's Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869. In-between his governorship of New York and serving in the Senate, Seward continued to practice law, and the present work concerns one of his more notable cases during that time. Seward and his wife, Frances, were ardent abolitionists who participated in the Underground Railroad, opening their home in Auburn, N.Y. to escaped slaves. This earlier case, in which Seward argues not only against enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, but against its very existence, is consistent with his later activities against slavery itself.

Salmon P. Chase had represented Van Zandt in this case at the circuit level. Chase was unable to travel to Washington, however, to argue the case in front of the Supreme Court. Chase employed Seward to present his brief to the court, entitled RECLAMATION OF FUGITIVES FROM SERVICE, along with Seward's own argument, represented in the present work. "Seward's brief is almost devoid of the antislavery arguments offered by Chase. He is somewhat more legalistic and much briefer in his points and citations" - Finkelman.

Scarce in institutions, and rather rare in the marketplace. DUMOND, p.101. FINKELMAN, pp.70-75. SABIN 79504. $1250.

Murder in the Far North West

114. Simpson, William S.: REPORT AT LARGE OF THE TRIAL OF CHARLES DE REINHARD FOR MURDER, (COMMITTED IN THE INDIAN TERRITORIES,) AT A COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD AT QUEBEC, MAY 1818. TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A SUMMARY OF ARCHIBALD M'LELLAN'S INDICTED AS AN ACCESSARY [sic]. Montreal: Printed by James Lane, 1819. xii,340pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt spine labels. Front hinge cracked, cloth somewhat dust soiled. Light tanning, occasional faint foxing. Good plus.

Account of an 1816 murder that arose out of the violent clashes between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company over Lord Selkirk's Red River Colony. "Owen Keveny, an HBC [Hudson's Bay Company] employee, was murdered September 11, 1816. Reinhard was convicted of the murder, while M'Lellan was acquitted. Jurisdictional disputes meant the sentence of death by hanging was never carried out" - Peel. PEEL 110. $2000. Slavers Beating Their Captives to Death

115. [Slavery]: [Kimber, John]: TRIAL OF CAPTAIN JOHN KIMBER, FOR THE MURDER OF A NEGRO GIRL, ON BOARD THE SHIP RECOVERY; BY SUSPENDING HER BY THE LEGS AND ARMS, AND FLOGGING HER IN A MOST CRUEL AND BARBAROUS MANNER. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, 1792. 32pp. Half title. Dbd. Two institutional ink stamps on half title, one on titlepage, minimal toning. Overall very good.

An exceptionally rare pamphlet detailing the trial of John Kimber for the murder of a slave girl on board his ship in 1791. Kimber captained a slaving ship called the Recovery, which picked up about 300 slaves from New Calabar in West Africa, leaving there and headed for Grenada on Sept. 1, 1791. On September 27, Kimber allegedly beat to death a young slave girl for refusing to exercise on the deck of the ship, a common practice on slave ships during the Middle Passage. The present work recounts Kimber's brutal act:

"John Kimber...wilfully and of his malice aforethought, murdered a certain negro girl, to the Jurors unknown, on board of the said ship, by flogging her with a certain whip, which he then and there held in his right hand, and by suspending her by the legs and arms, and by beating, flogging, whipping, and bruising her so suspended, upon the back, belly, legs, thighs, and other parts of her body, by which bruising, &c. she, the said negro girl, did die...."

The case was brought to light mainly through the efforts of legendary abolitionist William Wilberforce, who spoke about the case in Parliament in the Spring of 1792. After a short trial, Kimber was acquitted, and subsequently, though unsuccessfully, pursued Wilberforce for damages. Though Kimber would not suffer greatly for his alleged act of violence, his trial provided the foundation for future cases in which the crew of a slaving ship could be tried for murder.

About half a dozen editions of Kimber's trial account were printed in London in 1792, by printers such as William Lane and Charles Stalker, but this is the only Symonds printing. OCLC records just three copies, two at the New-York Historical Society Library, and one at the New York Public Library, though the former record might be duplicated. ESTC records only the New York Public Library copy. ESTC N491759. OCLC 26665518, 82034238. $1500.

116. [Slavery]: [Commonwealth vs. Aves]: CASE OF THE SLAVE-CHILD, MED. REPORT OF THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL, AND OF THE OPINION OF THE COURT, IN THE CASE OF COMMONWEALTH vs. AVES; TRIED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS. Boston. 1836. 13,[13]-40pp. Dbd. Minor edge wear, institutional ink stamp on titlepage, trimmed close along fore-edge, occasionally just touching letters on the last leaf. Good.

A scarce pamphlet recording each side's argument plus the court's opinion for one of the most important anti-slavery cases to ever appear in Massachusetts courts. Med, a six-year-old Louisiana slave girl, accompanied her master's wife, Mary Aves Slater to Boston in 1836. After learning of her presence, abolitionists brought a case against Thomas Aves, Mary's father, at whose house Med was staying. Aves' attorney, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, argued that the girl should remain slave property under the doctrine of comity. Ellis Gray Loring, arguing for the abolitionists, characterized slavery as immoral and stated that the doctrine of comity was not applicable "in doubtful cases" such as those involving slavery. The court agreed with Loring, issuing a unanimous opinion that Med was to be free since her owners "voluntarily" brought her into a free state. A landmark decision, and one that would be cited by abolitionists throughout their struggle to end slavery altogether. LIBRARY COMPANY, AFRO-AMERICANA 739. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 35849. SABIN 2490. $1250.

Maryland Runaway Slave Poster

117. [Slavery]: FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RANAWAY FROM THE SUBSCRIBER, ON SATURDAY THE 28th INSTANT...[caption title and first line of text]. [Bladensburg, Md.?] Aug. 31, 1852. Broadside, 9¾ x 9 inches. Trimmed raggedly on left edge, affecting a few letters. Evenly tanned, minor soiling. Docketed on verso. About very good.

Wanted poster for a runaway slave, posted by A.B. Berry of Prince George's County, Maryland, near Bladensburg. Berry offers $50 for "a negro man named Jim, about 5 feet 6 inches high, bright mulatto, full suit of hair, no marks recollected. He is about 24 years of age, and has rather a down look when spoken to. He has a variety of clothing, which he took with him. Jim was raised by Dr. John Wootton, late of Prince George's co. I will give the above reward for his apprehension and return to me, or placing him in jail, so that I get him again." Albert B. Berry, of the milling firm Berry & Taylor, was active in financing the slave, cotton, and speculating enterprises of the Old South. While slavery was common in Maryland, such wanted posters are usually from more southern locales. A rare and ephemeral piece. $5000.

Sex, Printing, and Perjury

118. [Stiles, Thomas T.]: TRIAL OF EDWARD LYON, (OF NORTHUMBERLAND) FOR SUBORNATION OF FALSE SWEARING: IN WHICH JOHN BINNS, WAS ENDORSED AS PROSECUTOR. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF BINNS, INTERSPERSED WITH EXTRACTS OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY HIM TO EDWARD LYON, FROM GLOUCESTER GAOL. Philadelphia. 1816. [3]-25,[33]-72pp. Dbd. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Bottom edge of titlepage trimmed away, a few small stains, piece of scotch tape at top of page. Minor soiling and wear. Good plus.

"Edward Lyon, a wealthy farmer, was tried for subornation of perjury in 1804 on the accusation of John Binns, a newspaper editor. Lyon had brought Binns, a Irish republican, to this country and helped him set up a printing press in Pennsylvania. Their friendship ended when Lyon accused Binns of seducing his servants, a young woman whom Binns later married. Binns, in response, accused Lyon of suborning the servant to testifying that he had seduced her. Lyon was acquitted after a jury trial. The publication of 'TRIAL OF EDWARD LYON...' occurs more than ten years later, with a preface by Thomas T. Stiles. Stiles had been attacked by Binns in his newspaper, which led him to investigate Binns' past" - Cohen. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 39112. COHEN 13737.52. MARKE 995. SABIN 42850. $650.

119. [Sweeting, Whiting]: THE NARRATIVE OF WHITING SWEETING, WHO WAS EXECUTED AT ALBANY, THE 26th OF AUGUST, 1792 [sic]. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TRIAL BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, AT THE JULY TERM, 1791, FOR THE MURDER OF DARIUS QUIMBY.... Providence: Bennett Wheeler, 1794. 59pp. Dbd. Tanned, scattered foxing, a couple short closed marginal tears, first and last leaves repaired. Good.

A scarce near-contemporary reprint edition of this extremely popular late 18th-century convict's narrative. McDade describes this work as "probably the most frequently reprinted murder pamphlet in American criminal history." He records three 1791 editions, four 1792 edition (including one published in Providence), and seven additional printings which appeared between 1793 and 1797, including the present example.

Whiting Sweeting was charged with the murder of Darius Quimby, who was killed in the course of Sweeting's arrest on a separate charge. THE NARRATIVE... begins with an account of the trial, including testimony against Sweeting, the prisoner's defense to the jury, and the concluding remarks and the guilty verdict of the chief justice. The majority of the text, however, is dedicated to Sweeting's own account. This includes an "Address to the Public" and "Application," concerned with the disastrous consequences of a sinful life and the need to always live a proper religious life; and separate addresses to his parents, his brothers and sisters, his wife, and extended family members. Several portions of the prisoner's narrative are presented as verse. The text concludes with a "short account of the life, conversation, parting advice, and execution of Whiting Sweeting, by William Carter."

A rare edition of a popular criminal narrative. OCLC records just four total copies, at the Harvard Law School Library, Brown University, and two at the Library of Congress; McDade adds one at Boston University. McDADE 960(k). EVANS 27767. OCLC 24801537, 44112153. $1000.

120. [Swett, Jane M.]: TRIAL OF JANE M. SWETT, OF KENNEBUNK, FOR HOMICIDE. Biddeford, Me. 1867. 82pp. plus tipped-in Errata slip. Dbd., retaining original front printed wrapper. Minor edge wear, small ink notations on front wrapper. Contents a bit toned but otherwise clean. Good plus.

A rare account of the trial of a young murderess in Maine just after the end of the Civil War. According to McDade, "This case should be a caution to secret drinkers. Swett's wife found his bottle hidden in the barn. Claiming later that she did it to cure him of drinking, she 'did privately and subtilely, with a gill of whiskey, mingle, put into and mix a large quantity of morphine.' The dose proved fatal, and she was sentenced to a term of six years." The contents of the pamphlet include the indictment, closing arguments for each side, and the judge's verdict. A rare work, with only nine total copies between McDade and OCLC, including the present copy, formerly belonging to the New York Bar Association. McDADE 961. OCLC 40259459, 83235032, 210596238. $400.

121. Swinburne, John: [Budge, Henry]: A REVIEW OF THE CASE, THE PEOPLE AGT. REV. HENRY BUDGE, INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE PRISCILLA BUDGE, (TRIED AT THE ONEIDA, NEW YORK, CIRCUIT COURT, IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1861,)...AND THE JUDGE'S CHARGE IN THE CIVIL ACTION OF HENRY BUDGE AGT. CALEB LYON, FOR LIBEL, TRIED AT THE HERKIMER CIRCUIT IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, 1861. Albany. 1862. 94pp. plus six plates. Dbd. Initial leaves slightly chipped, a few very short closed tears along fore-edges. Light dampstaining to initial leaves, moderate toning throughout. Good.

"Mrs. Budge's death was first ruled a suicide; then her husband was indicted and tried, but acquitted. Her throat had been cut. After acquittal, Budge sued Caleb Lyon for calling him a murderer. Lyon's defense was that the allegation was true. Budge got a judgment of $100; he had sued for 420,000. Dr. Swinburne was Lyon's defense witness, and his pamphlet summarizes that trial. There is an interesting series of illustrations demonstrating the kinds of wounds made from different positions" - McDade. An interesting work of forensic medicine. McDADE 137. $350.

122. [Tennessee]: [Clay, Henry]: Norvell, C.C., editor: WHIG BANNER. No. 1 [– 20] [caption title]. Nashville. 1844. 320pp. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Initial leaf chipped at fore-edge. Several headlines trimmed close, affecting pagination. Tanning, light foxing and dampstaining. Very good.

Norvell and Zollicoffer edited the NASHVILLE WHIG, which published this election supplement first biweekly then weekly during the presidential campaign of 1844. The paper urged the election of Whig candidate Henry Clay and the defeat of Democrat (and fellow Tennessean) James K. Polk. It supported the re-establishment of a National Bank, protectionist tariffs, and federal aid for internal improvements, and it denounced supporters of free trade such as John Calhoun and opponents of the bank like Polk.

An excellent and scarce source for abundant commentary on local and national politics in 1844. Allen locates one complete run, at the Knoxville Public Library; only several incomplete runs located in OCLC, and not in Lomazow, Mott, or noted by the Library of Congress' Chronicling America. ALLEN 2126. $2250.

123. [Tennessee]: [Confederate States of America]: Moffitt, William H.: Haynes, Mathew T.: [PARTIALLY-PRINTED GOVERNMENT FORM, A CONFEDERATE IMPRINT, COMPLETED IN MANUSCRIPT, BEING A JUDGEMENT AGAINST WILLIAM MOFFITT & SON FOR DEBTS OWED TO "ALIEN ENEMIES," ACCOMPANIED BY A MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNTING OF PAYMENT OF THE DEBT, ALONG WITH THE ORIGINAL MAILING ENVELOPE]. Jonesborough, Tn. Apr. 21, 1863. [2]pp. plus original mailing envelope. Typical mailing folds, minor toning. Very good.

An unrecorded Confederate imprint from the Receiver's Office in East Tennessee in 1863. The small, partially-printed document was designed to be used by Mathew T. Haynes, the Receiver for the 1st District of East Tennessee in the Confederate Court at Knoxville in deciding judgements for debts due by Confederates to "Alien Enemies," i.e., American citizens or Union sympathizers. Here, Haynes instructs William Moffitt & Son to pay the sum of $115.29 plus an additional $93.98 to an unnamed person or persons (referred to in the accompanying manuscript accounting of the debt payment simply as "Alien enemies"). The accompanying manuscript includes Moffitt's summary of the judgement, along with the notation that he "handed to Jos. Logan at Jonesboro $212 to settle" the debt. Also includes the original mailing envelope, postmarked April 21 from Jonesborough. Possibly a unique example of this Confederate form, with no mention in the standard bibliographies and no copies listed in OCLC. $500. 124. [Texas]: TEXAS ASSOCIATION. 8,000 SQUARE MILES ON THE TRINITY RIVER [caption title]. Louisville, Ky.: Hart, Mapother & Co., [ca. 1858]. Broadside, 6¾ x 10½ inches. Uncompleted lithographed form. Vignette in lower margin. Fine.

An uncompleted, stock certificate for the Texas Association, otherwise known as the Mercer Colony, located roughly between the Brazos and Sabine rivers. The Texas Association was formed in early 1844 by Charles Fenton Mercer, a former agent for the Peters' Colony, which had obtained a large impresario grant to settle North Texas. Following a controversy between British and American stockholders in which the latter seized control of the project and reorganized it as the Texas Emigration and Land Company, Mercer sold his interest in the enterprise to Louisville-based investors and obtained a new and separate contract from the Republic of Texas. This agreement, made by President Sam Houston on Jan. 29, 1844, granted Mercer and the stockholders of the Texas Association eight thousand square miles on the Trinity River. In a colonization prospectus which he issued in September 1844 under the title of TEXAS COLONIZATION (see Streeter 1520), Mercer offered, on payment of a surveying fee of eight dollars, up to half a section of land for every family settling on the grant before March 20, 1845. In order to finance his contract with Texas, Mercer "divided his whole interest the said tract of land...into one-hundred shares" (TEXAS COLONIZATION).

Despite the fact that Mercer spent over $15,000 on his project, by September 1847 his plans had not progressed smoothly: "The work of colonization was impeded by the fact that various Texas politicians, land speculators, and squatters, all eager to supplant the impresario system, questioned the legality of the renewal of the impresario system. Squatters moved into the Mercer survey and denied the claims of settlers who held Mercer colony certificates" (HANDBOOK OF TEXAS). Faced with mounting losses, in 1852, Mercer assigned his interests in the colony to a group of Louisville investors in exchange for an annuity of $2,000. Under the leadership of George Hancock, who had become chief agent, the Association was reorganized. In September 1858 the new secretary, Claudius Duval, called in Mercer's original one hundred certificates and issued new shares to sell for one hundred dollars each. The present certificate is from this issue of 1858.

A rare Texas item. Not in the Streeter sale. Three copies are listed in OCLC, at Yale, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of North Texas, but each is described, we think erroneously, as being printed in 1844. HANDBOOK OF TEXAS (online). OCLC 6553655, 54135222 (ref). $950.

125. Townsend, George Alfred: THE LIFE, CRIME, AND CAPTURE OF JOHN WILKES BOOTH, WITH A FULL SKETCH OF THE CONSPIRACY OF WHICH HE WAS THE LEADER, AND THE PURSUIT, TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF HIS ACCOMPLICES. New York. [1865]. 69,[9]pp. including maps, plans, other in text illustrations, and eight pages of advertisements. Dbd. Lacking frontispiece portrait. Two closed tears from gutter of titlepage. Dust soiling and some staining to outer leaves. Toning, scattered foxing. Good.

A scarce work on the assassination of President Lincoln, rife with details and very readable. Illustrated with pertinent maps of Booth's escape route from Ford's Theatre. HOWES T315, "aa." MCDADE 617. MONAGHAN 781. SABIN 6388. $350.

126. [Trans-Mississippi Exposition]: [China]: YEE HONG TONG, DIRECT FROM CHINA. INTERNATIONAL HALL, OMAHA, NEB. No. 2881. MONGOLIAN JADE-STONE CARVINGS [caption title]. Omaha. [1898]. Broadside advertisement, approximately 10½ x 7¾ inches. Previously folded, some separations along old fold lines. Tanned, corners slightly chipped. Good.

A curious survival from the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, promoting the sale of Mongolian jade carvings at a booth in the International Hall of the fair. The advertisement emphasizes the obscurity of the region of origin ("the Chinese population could not understand their Mongolian brothers except through writing") and the convoluted journey of the artwork to America ("carried in wicker baskets suspended on a pole resting on the shoulders of two men"). "Were it not for the fact that the workers receive but a small daily wage, hundreds of dollars would be represented in many of the pieces; as it is, it is possible to dispose of them at moderate prices. An opportunity is thus offered to lovers of the curious and the beautiful to secure something entirely new in the art world, something too, of great artistic merit." $225. A Huge Panorama of Venice in the 1870s

127. [Venice]: [Italian Photographica]: [EPIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PANORAMA OF VENICE, ITALY]. [Venice. ca. 1870s]. Panoramic photograph, 11¼ x 150 inches. Mounted on card, linen-backed in nine sections, folding into leather slipcase stamped "VENISE" in gilt. Light surface dusting. Slipcase worn and partially split. Panorama near fine.

An amazing panorama of the "Queen of the Adriatic." Measuring over twelve feet, this striking panorama shows the southern side of Venice as taken from the bell tower of the Chiesa del San Giorgio Maggiore, a 16th-century Benedictine church located just east of the barrier island of Giudecca, directly opposite San Marco and the Doge's Palace. The photograph shows the entire expanse of the city, from the western end to the public gardens on the eastern extreme of the island, and depicts a bustling port city, with numerous ships running in the Venetian Lagoon. A stunning and important photographic record of one of the planet's most romantic cities. $7500.

128. [Vigilance Committee of 1856]: HEAD QUARTERS MILITARY DEPARTMENT, VIGILANCE COMMITTEE, SAN FRANCISCO, - 1856. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT - IS - OF THE - REGIMENT OF - IN THE SERVICE OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. [San Francisco. 1856]. Printed form, unused, 9¼ x 4¼ inches. Allegorical engravings of "Liberty" and "Eye." Some minor dust soiling, else very good.

The Vigilance Committee was an extra-legal organization which evolved in California in the mid-1850s with the goal of ending the lawlessness then rampant. This is an unused form intended to be issued and carried by members of the Vigilance Committee in San Francisco, enrolling the bearer in membership. Join today! $300.

129. [Vinton, Samuel]: SUBSTANCE OF AN ARGUMENT OF SAMUEL F. VINTON, FOR THE DEFENDANTS, IN THE CASE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA vs. PETER M. GARNER AND OTHERS, FOR AN ALLEGED ABDUCTION OF CERTAIN SLAVES...[wrapper title]. Marietta, Oh. 1846. 32pp. Dbd., with original printed front wrapper (rear lacking). Later institutional ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good plus.

Presentation copy, inscribed at the top of the titlepage: "For the Honbl. R.G. Winthrop, with the authors respects." An uncommon transcript of arguments made by the defense attorney, Samuel Vinton, for three Ohio men abducted into Virginia and tried there for assisting fugitive slaves in an 1845 case. He successfully argued that Virginia state courts did not have jurisdiction over crimes allegedly committed in Ohio.

"By directing the Virginia court to the boundary issue, and away from the slavery issue, Vinton succeeded in defusing what could have been a very serious interstate conflict. Vinton was correct that the simple boundary issue was complicated by the issue of slavery. But, it seems unlikely that any other issue could have led to the seizure of people in Ohio by Virginians who claimed that acts committed in Ohio were indictable in Virginia" - Finkelman. COHEN 13727. FINKELMAN, pp.177-79. SABIN 99836. $1250.

130. Walker, J.G., Major General: HEAD QUARTERS, DIST. OF TEXAS, NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 6. [Houston. Feb. 23, 1865]. Broadside, 8 x 4¾ inches. Small, closed tear in upper margin. Minor foxing. Small institutional stamp ("withdrawn") on verso. Good.

A scarce Confederate imprint, reporting the details of the attempted desertion of Private Antone Richers of Degé's Light Battery. Richers deserted on December 10, 1864 at Galveston, Texas, but his boat capsized in trying to navigate the channel, and when he was rescued he was charged with desertion and found guilty. Richers was sentenced "to be shot to death with musketry." If only he had waited it out a few more months.... PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 1431. $600.

Woman Murders Slave Traders to Steal Their Slaves

131. [Walters, Ann Smith]: LIFE AND CONFESSION OF ANN WALTERS, THE FEMALE MURDERESS!! ALSO, THE EXECUTION OF ENOS G. DUDLEY, AT HAVERHILL, N.H., MAY 23d, 1849. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE CONFESSION OF MARY RUNKLE, WHO WAS EXECUTED FOR MURDER. [Boston]: Printed for the proprietor, 1850. 32pp. Illus. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling, some chipping to spine. Minor foxing. Very good.

Although OCLC records an "Ann Walters (1812-1844)," McDade believes her story to be a work of fiction, incorporating the details of a dozen different murders. He also doubts the veracity of the Runkle case. Walters ran a tavern on the Delaware-Maryland border, where she liked to murder traveling slave traders and steal their slaves, money, and other valuables. Her murder of a slave trader is depicted in one of the woodcuts. She began her career by killing her child and husband, subsequently becoming the leader of a criminal gang. Her depravity is blamed in part on the morally corrosive effects of slavery: "Although born in a free country where slavery is abhorred [Canada], she soon imbibed a taste for the traffic in slaves, as our readers may easily perceive that her location in a slave state where morality is not very exalted, as such a course could not have been carried on in a free state so long, without meeting the eye of detection." Only a handful of copies in OCLC. McDADE 1036. $900.

Building the Washington Monument

132. [Washington Monument]: TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES [caption title]. Washington: C.W. Fenton, [ca. 1848]. Broadside, 19 x 12 inches. Printed in three columns of dense text. Minor marginal repairs, old folds. Otherwise clean and bright. Very good.

Description of the design of the Washington National Monument, with an announcement from the Washington National Monument Society that construction has commenced with the laying of the cornerstone on July 4, 1848.

Though the importance of memorializing George Washington had been recognized shortly after his death (Samuel Blodgett's broadside of 1801 aimed to accomplish the very same), it was during the 100th-year anniversary of his birth that gave renewed impetus to the attempts of the American people to celebrate his life and accomplishments. Inspired by his loyalty, patriotism, and selfless leadership during and after the Revolutionary War, concerned citizens gathered in 1833 and formed the Washington National Monument Society, the sole purpose of which was to erect a fitting monument in Washington's name. By 1836, Richard Mills had been chosen as the architect; but under heavy criticism of the design as well as the estimated cost, the project halted until 1848, when President Zachary Taylor laid the first cornerstone and construction finally began. By 1854 donations ceased and the project was once again stalled, and it was not until 1884 that Washington saw its monument complete.

The present broadside describes the proposed monument in great detail, giving exact specifications for all its measurements and edifices:

"This Design embraces the idea of a grand circular colonnaded building 250 feet in diameter, and 100 feet high, from which springs an obelisk shaft 70 feet at the base and 500 feet high, making a total elevation of 600 feet....In the centre of the Monument is placed the tomb of Washington, to receive his remains, should they be removed thither, the descent to which is by a broad flight of steps lighted by the same light which illumines his statue."

Washington remained buried at Mount Vernon even after the Monument was finished. A handsome document describing the grand memorial to our Founding Father. $2500.

133. Watkins, John: THE IMPORTANT RESULTS OF AN ELABORATE INVESTIGATION INTO THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF ELIZABETH FENNING: BEING A DETAIL OF EXTRAORDINARY FACTS DISCOVERED SINCE HER EXECUTION, INCLUDING THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF HER SINGULAR TRIAL, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, AND COPIOUS NOTES THEREON. London. 1815. xiii,[1],194,46 Dbd. Institutional ink stamps on titlepage and first text leaf. Moderate tanning, light foxing. Good.

A sensational account of the famed trial of Elizabeth Fenning, who was convicted of attempted murder in 1815 for attempting to poison her family by lacing their dumplings with arsenic. Despite much evidence towards her innocence, she was executed. This account publishes the trial with much added commentary and breathless analysis in favor of Fenning's innocence. The final section prints a series of thirty letters written by Fenning from prison prior to her execution. $350.

Cruising the Caribees, and Quasi-Published

134. [West Indies Photographica]: THE WEST INDIES AND PANAMA MARCH AND APRIL, 1913. [Various Caribbean locations. March & April 1913]. Title-leaf and sixty-six silver gelatin photographs, all approximately 3¼ x 5½, with printed captions mounted near photos and occasional sectional titles with explanatory text. Brown leather, string-bound. Minor edge wear. Internally clean, with photos in excellent condition. Very good. A delightful and well produced souvenir photograph album of a 1913 vacation cruise through the Caribbean, compiled by Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph Donovan, with a presentation inscription to their daughter, Geraldine Goodheart Donovan, on the title-leaf. In an interesting form of quasi-publication, the introduction and explanatory text are printed and mounted opposite original photographs. In a printed note titled "Our Trip" mounted to the verso of the titlepage, the Donovans explain that "these notes and pictures of our trip to Panama, the West Indies and Caracas are prepared as a souvenir for a few personal friends and relatives." The photographs are arranged according to each location they visited, with each section beginning with a short printed commentary by them. The Donovans sailed upon the VICTORIA LUISE, a "floating hotel" from which they observed the South Atlantic and Caribbean. Captions mounted with the photos chart the journey from the moment they leave New York on March 11, 1913 to just before they head home on the train. In between, the album is filled with wonderful images of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Panama, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, and St. Thomas. Highlights of the photographs include Morro Castle and several street scenes in Havana; Caguas Church in San Juan; Nelson Monument in Kingston; a handful of shots showing completion work on the Panama Canal, namely Gatun Lake and the Culebra Cut; a view of Caracas from Columbus Monument; a shot of ten children in Trinidad labeled "Pickaninnies"; a sugar cane field in Barbados; a market scene in Fort-de-France, Martinique; and Bluebeard's Tower in St. Thomas. In addition to the photographs of the various locales, there are several photographs showing on-deck activities including tug-of-war, a pillow fight, "Girls' Nail-Driving," and more.

An attractive photographic record of a wonderful trip from New York, through the Caribbean, and back again, produced at no small expense to the travelers, evidenced by the arrangement of the photographs and the printed personalized commentary that opens each section. $2250.

Against the Mathers

135. Wise, John: THE CHURCHES QUARREL ESPOUSED: OR, A REPLY IN SATYRE, TO CERTAIN PROPOSALS MADE, IN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION, WHAT FURTHER STEPS ARE TO BE TAKEN, THAT THE COUNCILS MAY HAVE DUE CONSTITUTION AND EFFICACY IN SUPPORTING, PRESERVING, AND WELL-ORDERING THE INTEREST OF THE CHURCHES IN THE COUNTRY? Boston: Reprinted: Sold by Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1715. Testimonial leaf, title-leaf, 116pp. 12mo. Original calf covered birch boards, boards ruled in blind. Hinges cracked, boards rubbed, spine extremities bumped. Waste paper pastedowns, free endpapers excised. Later ownership inscriptions on initial and final blanks. Tanned, occasional foxing. A very good copy in original condition. In a half morocco box.

Second edition, after the virtually unobtainable first New York edition of 1713. The present pamphlet was issued in response to an attempt by the Mathers and others to initiate a movement to establish associations of clergy to exercise functions usually left up to individual churches. Wise has since been called the "first great American democrat" due to his argument that the ultimate power of the churches should rest with the congregation and not with their ministers or an association of ministers. "The People...are the first Subject of Power...a Democracy in Church or State is a very honourable Government." Wise's influential A VINDICATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW-ENGLAND CHURCHES (Boston, 1717) is the famous statement of his belief in Congregational polity. ESTC W5306. EVANS 1795. SABIN 104897. HOWES W594, "aa." DAB XX, p.427. $5000.

New England's Prospect

136. Wood, William: NEW ENGLANDS PROSPECT. A TRUE, LIVELY, AND EXPERIMENTALL DESCRIPTION OF THAT PART OF AMERICA, COMMONLY CALLED NEW ENGLAND: DISCOVERING THE STATE OF THAT COUNTRIE, BOTH AS IT STANDS TO OUR NEW-COME ENGLISH PLANTERS; AND TO THE OLD NATIVE INHABITANTS.... London: Printed by Tho. Cotes for Iohn Bellamie, 1635. [8],83,[5]pp. Title somewhat soiled. Trimmed a trifle close, shaving a few headlines. Folding map and leaf G1 provided in facsimile. Small quarto. Antique style full calf, stamped in blind, spine gilt, raised bands, leather label.

The rare second edition of Wood's NEW ENGLANDS PROSPECT...: one of the classic works on early New England, important for descriptions of the land, natives, and produce of the country.

The first edition of this remarkably accurate work was published in 1634. According to Vail it includes the earliest topographical description of the Massachusetts colony. It is also the first detailed account of the animals and plants of New England, as well as the Indian tribes of the region. Of particular note is a chapter describing the customs and work of Indian women.

Part One is divided into twelve chapters and is devoted to the climate, landscape, and early settlements, and describes in some detail the native trees, plants, fish, game, and mineral ores, as well as including advice to those thinking of crossing the Atlantic. The early settlements described include Boston, Medford, Marblehead, Dorchester, Roxbury, Watertown, and New and Old Plymouth. These chapters also include four charming verses which are essentially a series of lists naming the native trees (twenty lines, starting "Trees both in hills and plaines, in plenty be, / The long liv'd Oake, and mournfull Cyprus tree / ..."); the animals (twelve lines, starting "The kingly Lyon, and the strong arm'd Beare, / The large lim'd Mooses, with the tripping Deare, / ..."); the birds (twenty-eight lines, starting "The Princely Eagle, and the soaring Hawke, / Whom in their unknowne wayes there's none can chawke: / The Humberd for some Queenes rich Cage more fit, / Than in the vacant Wildernesse to sit, / ..."); and the inhabitants of the seas and rivers (twenty-eight lines, starting "The king of waters, the Sea shouldering Whale, / ..."). The chapter on the birds also includes what are clearly eye-witness descriptions of a number of birds including the Hummingbird and the Passenger Pigeon.

Part Two is devoted to the native inhabitants and is divided into twenty chapters. The tribes described are the "Mohawks," "Connectecuts," "Pequants and Narragansetts." Again Wood goes into some detail describing the clothing, sports, wars, games, methods of hunting and fishing, their arts, and ending with their language: the work ends with a five-page vocabulary of Indian words, one of the earliest published for New England.

The map, present here in facsimile and often found lacking, is one of the most important early New England maps. It shows most of the New England coast north of Narragansett Bay. Philip Burden praises the map: "An extremely influential and very rare map, the most detailed of the emerging settlements in New England to date....Although simply made, this map is of greater accuracy than any before it. Covering the area from the Pascataque River, in present day New Hampshire, to Narragansett Bay, it is, however, the Massachusetts Bay area that is shown with the most detail....Wood's map was not improved upon until the John Foster [map] in 1677." It is the first map of the region made by a resident, William Wood, and the first to name Boston and some thirty other English or Indian settlements. The delineation of the coast is very well done, and it influenced John Smith, whose 1635 map includes a three-line inscription referring to Wood's map as the source for new information, and also shows new towns depicted on Wood's map.

"Little is known of the author. The dedication to Sir William Armine, Bart., of Lincolnshire, may indicate that Wood was also from there. He was resident in New England, perhaps primarily in Lynn, from 1629 to 1633, when he returned to London to publish his book. He may have returned to New England afterward. The General Court of Massachusetts Bay voted thanks to him on the appearance of NEW ENGLAND'S PROSPECT. The exceptional charm and vivacity of Wood's writing, including flights of verse, is widely acknowledged" - Siebert sale. BURDEN 239. SCHWARTZ & EHRENBERG, p.100. McCORKLE 634.1. THE WORLD ENCOMPASSED 213. MAPPING BOSTON, pp.23-24, plate 9. VAIL 89. CHURCH 433. STC 25958. SABIN 105075. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 4199. PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, p.535. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 635/134. JCB (3)II:258. SIEBERT SALE 96. $6000. 137. [World War I]: [Arizona]: [STRIKING PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH OF A MILITARY ENCAMPMENT, LIKELY DOUGLAS, ARIZONA, CIRCA 1915, AT THAT TIME THE TRAINING GROUND FOR AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE 1916 MEXICAN EXPEDITION AGAINST PANCHO VILLA AND LATER, WORLD WAR I]. [Camp Douglas, Az. ca. 1915]. Panoramic silver gelatin photograph, 8 x 32¾ inches. Minor dust-soiling, some foxing at right, a handful of tiny surface abrasions. Overall, very good.

An intriguing "yard-long" panoramic photograph showing a handful of men and supplies, likely belonging to the Sixth Field Artillery at Douglas, Arizona around 1915. A pencil notation in the bottom margin identifies the location as "Douglas, Ariz." and the supplies are similar to those found in another Camp Douglas encampment photograph held by this firm. The foreground captures about a dozen large gauge artillery guns on wooden wagon wheels, likely officer's quarters atop the hill, and then hundreds of tents arranged in tight quarters in the valley below for as far as the eye can see. The photograph captures important details on the organization and supplies necessary for training troops in the American army during the early 20th-century.

Military records indicate the regiment training at Douglas at this time was the Sixth Field Artillery, shortly before they participated in the Mexican Expedition of 1916-17, designed to defeat Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution. The regiment would soon after fold into the First Expeditionary Division (later the First Infantry Division) - known to history as the Big Red One - during World War I. Soldiers who had come from the Sixth Field Artillery to the First Infantry Division would see action in France, specifically Lorraine and Picardy, in 1917 and 1918.

An important view of military organization in the early decades of the last century, before mechanized vehicles became the norm in war. $425.

138. [World War I]: Stafford, Charles Lieut.: [HOMEFRONT SCRAPBOOK COMPRISED OF ORIGINAL VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHS, TELEGRAMS, PROGRAMS, AND MORE, ASSEMBLED BY A YOUNG CALIFORNIA WOMAN FROM ITEMS SENT HOME BY HER "DOUGHBOY" HUSBAND SERVING IN FRANCE AND ITALY DURING WORLD WAR I]. Various locations, including California, New York, France, and Italy. 1917-1919. [54]pp. Oblong folio. Original black cloth photograph album. Overall very good.

An interesting scrapbook organized chronologically by Mrs. Charles Stafford, wife to Lieut. Charles Stafford of the Aero Squad of the American Expeditionary Forces of the United States Army during World War I. The Staffords appear to reside in San Diego, and have a son named Jack at the time of the album's formation. The scrapbook is largely comprised of photographs, telegrams, letters, postcards, programs, menus, tickets, and more sent home by Lieut. Stafford from France and Italy during his service as an infantry soldier with the AEF. Stafford appears to have served in World War I throughout the entire course of time that the "doughboys" of the AEF spent in Europe.

The scrapbook opens with several pages of photographs likely showing Stafford in training in California, followed by telegrams and photographs of him in New York before the first photograph and telegram from France appear, dated April and May, 1917, respectively.

An approximate count of the various items mounted in the scrapbook amounts to the following: 150 original photographs, fourteen postcards, a handwritten note, seventeen telegrams, two menus, twelve programs, three greeting cards, and about a dozen printed documents, tickets, and other ephemeral items from Europe. Stafford inscribed two of the photographs to his wife and son, "Love from Papa." The great majority of the photographs show Stafford in uniform, often with other soldiers, and usually in the presence of military equipment, including motorcycles, tanks, cannons, and the like. The photographs also include several city and street views in France.

A fantastic visual record of one doughboy's experience in Europe throughout the war, or at least the parts he felt comfortable enough to share with his wife. $1750.

139. [World War II]: [Japan]: [PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF ORIGINAL IMAGES, RECORDING AMERICAN SCENES AND EXPERIENCES IN OCCUPIED JAPAN JUST AFTER WORLD WAR II]. [Various locations in Japan. ca. 1945]. 124 silver gelatin photographs, mostly 2¼ x 3¼ inches, 106 of them in corner mounts. Contemporary blue cloth photograph album. Moderate edge wear and rubbing. Photos in generally nice shape. Very good.

A fascinating vernacular photograph album capturing scenes in American-occupied Japan just after the Second World War. Most of the photographs are captioned in white ink on the black album pages, and organized in sections such as "Landmarks," "The People," "The Cities," "The Military," and "Personalities."

"Landmarks" include views of sites in Kokura, Yakata, Okayma Prefecture, picturing shrines, country homes, water works, the "International Military Tribunal Far East," and more. "The People" shows Japanese residents of all ages, some in Western dress, others in traditional Japanese garb, standing in front of structures, on the streets, at a military checkpoint, playing "yakkyu national game" [baseball], swimming, and other activities. The section on the cities comprises street views in Okayama, Kokura, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Yakata, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Yokohama. Surprisingly, the four shots of Hiroshima do not contain much evidence of destruction, and provide a rare, contemporary glimpse of areas of the city not leveled by Little Boy. Views of Tokyo include the Dai Ichi Building, the Imperial Museum, and an image of an American soldier "on the Ginza." The various views in the other cities show Japan's largest steel works, a partially-demolished department store, temples, and the Yokohama wharf. The military section includes photographs of Okayama Post, the "A.G. Office," barracks, headquarters of the 24th Division in Kokura, Kyushu, the Kokura Arsenal and Post Exchange, Fukuoka's 118 Station Hospital, and more. The "Personalities" section is comprised of shots of American soldiers in and out of uniform, almost all of them identified by their first names or nicknames. This section also includes photographs of "A.G. Girls," a few Japanese people identified by name, American soldiers at the War Ministry Hotel in Tokyo, U.S. soldiers at the "4th Repl. Depot" in Sobudai," and more.

A handful of the captions, and some of the loose photographs, are captioned in Japanese. Some of the loose photographs are stamped on the verso "Jack Woytych" with his Wisconsin address, though it is unclear whether this refers to the owner/photographer of the album or the printer of the photographs. Most of the loose photos emanate from Okayama. A noteworthy collection of personal images from an American serving in Japan at the end of World War II. $750.

140. [World War II Photographica]: [ENGAGING ANNOTATED PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM RECORDING A MARINE CORPS RESERVIST'S TIME ON OCCUPIED OKINAWA AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL U.S. INVASION TOWARDS THE END OF WORLD WAR II]. [Okinawa, Japan; Camp Pendleton, Ca.; Kinston, N.C.]. 1944-1946. 101 silver gelatin photographs, most 4¼ x 5¼ inches, some smaller. Oblong folio. Contemporary black leatherette photograph album, string-bound. Minor edge wear. Very good.

An interesting collection of vernacular images from World War II Okinawa, documenting an American Marine Corps reservist's time on the Japanese island after the successful U.S. invasion in the Spring and Summer of 1945. He is identified simply as "Ronnie" in several photographs. The album was likely assembled by Ronnie's wife or girlfriend, as the first item is annotated "A Christmas card from my honey" and includes a greeting in manuscript from the soldier on the verso. Eighty-nine photos emanate from Okinawa, four from Camp Pendleton, and eight from Camp Lejeune in Kinston, N.C. and on the soldier's furlough at home (likely Florida).

The photographs of Okinawa feature a wide variety of interesting subjects, including island views, abandoned Japanese bunkers, tombs, Shinto shrines, damaged Japanese armaments, "Korean teahouse girls - the type used by the Jap armies for entertainment purposes," Japanese natives washing clothes in the river, views of villages, "A native barber and his victim in the village of Ishikawa in northern Okinawa," "Native family of three enroute to a detention camp," "Jap dugout in the 'Suicide Cliff' area," "Japanese school children and teachers," "Native women bathing," "Remains of Jap 'Betty' pilot, Yontan Airstrip," marine and army cemetaries, "Ernie Pyle's grave," "Spot where Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner was killed - June 18, 1945," and many more.

The U.S. invasion of Okinawa began in April 1945, and lasted eighty-two days, ending on June 22. Immediately, the island became an important staging area for the planning of the U.S. invasion of mainland Japan. Ultimately, the invasion was not necessary after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August.

Also taped-in are two Japanese yen bills and eight magazine excerpts featuring Okinawa scenes. Laid-in are three Florida newspapers detailing the U.S. Navy's invasion of Japan. A rare view of occupied Okinawa from an American Marine - itself a rare thing, as most albums of this type come from Army boys. $1000.

141. [World War II Photographica]: [Tibbets, Paul W.]: [Atomic Bomb]: [SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF PAUL W. TIBBETTS WAVING FROM THE COCKPIT OF THE ENOLA GAY]. Tinian Island. August 6, 1945. Photograph, 8 x 10 inches. Image slightly faded. Very good.

A print of the famed image of the Enola Gay with its pilot, Paul W. Tibbets, upon its return to Tinian Island following the release of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The photograph depicts Tibbets waving from the cockpit of the plane, and is signed by him centrally in the area of the fuselage between the cockpit windows and the stencil of the airplane's moniker. $300.

142. [Yosemite Photographica]: [Women Travelers in the American West]: [ORIGINAL VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF A WEEK-LONG TRIP TO YOSEMITE BY THREE YOUNG WOMEN IN 1928]. Oakland, Ca. and various location in Yosemite National Park. 1928. Eighty-two original silver gelatin photographs, each 2¾ x 4¼ inches, in corner mounts, manuscript annotations below most photographs. Oblong quarto. Original string-tied cloth photograph album, "YOSEMITE" in gold ink on front cover. A handful of photos missing from mounts, some slight wear to edges, with minor edge tears to some leaves. Overall very good.

A slice-of-life photograph album featuring three young flappers on a week-long trip through Yosemite National Park in 1928. The women are identified as Fannie, Flo, and Madeline, and may have lived in Oakland, Ca., which is where they both begin and end their trip. The ladies were quite adventurous; they stayed in a tent in Camp Curry, hiked to the Lookout Tower on the Glacier Hike, and trekked to the tops of numerous famous points in Yosemite, including Yosemite Fall and Glacier Point. Other identified locations in the album include the Merced River, Washington Column, Half Dome, North Dome, the Ahwahnee Hotel, Glacier Point, Vernal Falls, Nevada Falls, and Mirror Lake. A single bifolium of Camp Curry stationery is pasted in after the photographs. A wonderful record of a trio of fashionable California women in the wilds of Yosemite during the end of the Roaring Twenties. $400.

Panorama of Dawson City

143. [Yukon Photographica]: [THREE-PART GOLD RUSH ERA PANORAMA OF DAWSON CITY, YUKON TERRITORY]. [Dawson City, Yukon. ca. 1900]. Three silver gelatin photographs, each approximately 6 x 8 inches, forming a 6 x 24¼ inch panorama. Images joined by cloth tape on versos. Light crease near joint of left and central photos. Images clear and sharp. Very good.

A fine panorama of Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, the center of the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th century. This image dates to approximately 1900, when the gold rush was dying down, but the town had been fully developed. The principal photographers in Dawson at this time were Edward Larss and Joseph Duclos, who had succeeded a Swedish photographer named Eric Hegg in 1899, and these images were likely taken by their firm. The panorama shows the sweep of Dawson City from across the Yukon River. In the foreground are the shipping buildings along the riverfront and the town's building rising up the hillside. To the left is the Midnight Dome and at the far right the mouth of the Klondike River at its junction with the Yukon is visible.

An excellent view of Dawson, just past its prime as a mining boomtown. $1500.