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BEST EARLY ACCOUNT OF NEW SWEDEN, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS
1. ACRELIUS, ISRAEL. Beskrifning om de Swenska församlingars forna och närwarande tilstånd, uti det så kallade Nya Swerige, sedan Nya Nederland, men nu för tiden Pensylvanien, samt nåstliggande orter wid aelfwen De la Ware, Wåst-Yersey och New-Castle County uti Norra America.... Stockholm: Harberg & Hesselberg, 1759. 4to. [20], 449 [i.e., 448], 479-533, [1] p. Contemporary paper-covered boards, gold-stamped paper label on spine. Spine and extremities of boards worn, internally near fine. Bookplates. $2500
First edition of the best early account of the Swedish settlements on the Delaware River, and the most comprehensive and accurate history of New Sweden until Amandus Johnson's Swedish Settlements on the Delaware (1911). Acrelius came to America in 1749 as provost of the Swedish churches on the Delaware, and served as pastor of a church in Wilmington until 1756, when he returned to Sweden. A full English translation of the work was published in 1874. This is the first copy we have handled in the original boards, with full wide (202 x 175 mm.) margins and a very minimal amount of browning. Most copies have been trimmed and rebound and exhibit varying degrees of browning. Howes A34; JCB(III) I, 1202; Vail 528; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1.
PRINCETON JUST AFTER THE BATTLE
2. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINCETON). Manuscript provision return for Capt. William McAl- vey's Company in Col. John Piper's Battalion, Bedford County [Pa.] militia, dated "Princetown 9th Feby. 1777." One page, 3.5 x 8.5 in. Signed for McAlvey by Nicholas Bray. In fine condition. $450
A provision return for "1 Captn., 17 Rank & file, and 1 W:Woman [i.e., washerwoman]." Military documents from Princeton in early 1777 are almost unobtainable.
KEARNY’S FIRST NEW JERSEY BRIGADE
3. BAQUET, CAMILLE. History of the First Brigade, New Jersey Volunteers, from 1861 to 1865. Trenton, 1910. [2], iii, 515 p. Plates. Cloth. Stitching just a bit loose, as usual with this book, else a very good, clean copy. $325
History of Philip Kearny's First New Jersey Brigade. The appendix includes muster-in rolls of the unit.
SIGNED AS GOVERNOR AT ELIZABETHTOWN, 1754
4. BELCHER, JONATHAN (1681/2-1757). Colonial governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey. Docu- ment signed ("J Belcher"), Elizabeth Town, 23 November 1754. One page, quarto. Neatly inlaid to a larger sheet; two thin spots on verso from mounting, not affecting document itself. $850
A brief covering letter to James De Lancey, lieutenant governor of New York, sending (not present) a copy of an order to Col. Van Camp. Belcher was governor of New Jersey from 1746 until his death, and a leading figure in the establishment of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), but for some reason Belcher documents signed in New Jersey are very rare, while documents from his earlier Massachusetts governorship are much more frequently seen.
THE RARE 1805 MORRISTOWN BIBLE
5. BIBLE. ENGLISH. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Together with the Apocrypha.... Morris-Town: Mann and Douglas ... 1805. 8vo. 1142 p., text in two columns. Contem- porary sheep. Lower inch and a half of each hinge cracked but hinges otherwise still very strong. Front and rear free endpapers loose, else a very good, tight copy. Christopher Greene (1733-1820) and Mercy (Stoddard) Greene's (1740-1830) copy, with family records and Mercy Greene's attractive 1806 calligraphic ownership signature. Modern bookplate. $1000
The third Bible printed in New Jersey, following Isaac Collins' quarto of 1791 and octavo of 1793/94, and far more difficult to find than either of the Collins Bibles. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 367, for an essay on the production of this Bible.
ELIAS BOUDINOT LETTER
6. BOUDINOT, ELIAS (1740-1816). Distinguished statesman; commissary general of prisoners in the Revolution; President of Congress; Director of the Mint. Letter signed, Elizabeth Town, 1 August 1769. To Andrew Elliot. One page, folio. Folds strengthened on verso; inlaid to another sheet. $900
Concerning Col. Templer and settling the estate of Sir John St. Clair.
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS DESCENDED FROM THE JEWS?
7. BOUDINOT, ELIAS. A Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Preparatory to their Return to their Beloved City, Jerusalem. Trenton: D. Fenton, S. Hutchinson, and J. Dunham; George Sherman, printer, 1816. iv, 312 p. Contemporary sheep, very skillfully rebacked in period style. Endsheets replaced, rubber stamp in upper margin of title, foxed and slightly dampstained. $600
First edition. Boudinot's attempt to prove that the North American Indians were descended from the Jews. Much important information on Indian language and customs. Howes B643; Pilling, Algonquian, p. 54; Rosenbach 180; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 433.
JOHN BUNYAN
8. BUNYAN, JOHN. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: or, A Brief and Faithful Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan. New York [i.e., Elizabeth- town?]: Printed [by Shepard Kollock?] for John Reid, 1794. 12mo. 141 p. Contemporary undecorated sheep-backed boards (marbled paper gone from both boards, extremities worn). Fore-edge cut close with the ends of a few lines slightly cut into, corner of D4 torn away with loss of a few words. A good, tight copy. $375
John Reid was a New York bookseller and stationer and both used, and shared editions with, several New York and New Jersey printers, including Elizabethtown's Shepard Kollock. The distinctive combination of type ornaments here matches that being used at this time by Kollock, enabling at least a tentative attribution to the Elizabethtown printer. Evans 26713.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS FOR YOUTH
9. BURDER, GEORGE. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Versified: for the Entertainment and Instruction of Youth. Burlington: Stephen C. Ustick, 1807. 71, [1] p. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper covered boards. Front cover detached, front binder's blanks wanting. Light foxing and dampstaining, but quite good. $500
Ustick's edition of Burder's Pilgrim's Progress, Versified was issued both with and, as here, without seven woodcut plates by Garret Lansing. Welch 136.1; S&S 12238.
FIRST ATLAS OF BURLINGTON COUNTY
10. (BURLINGTON COUNTY). Combination Atlas Map of Burlington County, New Jersey. Philadelphia: J.D. Scott, 1876. Folio. 84, lxxxv-lxxxviii p. Illus. Hand-colored maps. Leather-backed cloth. Spine broken and rough, as always, corners of covers with usual wear, wanting front free endpaper, title page a bit browned and with lower corner (3 x 3 in.) torn off, else a very good, clean copy internally. $1600
The first atlas of Burlington county, with hand-colored local maps depicting landowners' names and locations of buildings, lithographs of houses and farms, business directory of local residents, etc.
AARON BURR NEW JERSEY SERMON: 1757
11. BURR, AARON. The Watchman's Answer to the Question, What of the Night, &c. A Sermon Preached before the Synod of New-York, Convened at Newark, in New-Jersey, September 30. 1756 ... The Second Edition. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1757. 46 p. Stitched in contemporary blue paper wrap- pers, then sewn into early (18th-century?) homemade covers. Stain on both wrappers and first few leaves of text, upper corner of title page worn away costing one letter, outer cover chipped at edges, else a very good copy. Eighteenth-century ownership signatures of Benjamin Sheldon and Josepha [?] Ely, the latter dated 1777. $900
Second edition of an early New Jersey sermon by the second president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Aaron Burr was born in Connecticut, graduated from Yale College, and in 1736 became minister of the First Church in Newark. He was one of the original trustees of the College of New Jersey, and after Jonathan Dickinson's death in 1747 Burr became the college's second president, serving until his own death ten years later. During his presidency the college moved from his parsonage in Newark to Princeton. He was the father of Aaron Burr (1756-1836), vice-president of the United States. Evans 7863; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 34.
THE BEGINNING OF ATLANTIC CITY: 1853
12. CAMDEN AND ATLANTIC LAND CO. Charter and By-Laws of the Camden and Atlantic Land Company. Philadelphia, 1853. 18 p. Printed wrappers. A fine copy. $300
The land company was formed by the promoters of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad to develop a tract of one thousand acres at the eastern terminus of the railroad on Absecon Island--what is now Atlantic City. Sinclair & Fowler 221.
"THE AGE OF SIXTY . . . THE COMMENCEMENT OF SENILITY"
13. CARLISLE, ANTHONY. An Essay on the Disorders of Old Age, and on the Means for Prolonging Human Life. Philadelphia: By Edward Earle; W. Myer, printer, New Brunswick [N.J.], 1819. 74 p. Original paper-covered boards, paper-covered spine and printed spine label. Covers moderately worn and soiled, particularly along spine, faint dampstain on the first few leaves, but withal a very good copy in the fragile original boards. With the signature of Wm. B. Magruder, 1824. $300
First American edition; first printed in London in 1817. On medical and other treatments for old age. "The age of Sixty may, in general, be fixed upon as the commencement of Senility." A good example of a country printer in New Jersey printing for a city publisher. S&S 47517; Austin 416.
DEFENDING THE AMERICAN COLONIES
14. CHAUNCY, CHARLES. A Letter to a Friend, Containing Remarks on Certain Passages in a Sermon Preached by ... John Lord Bishop of Landaff ... in which the Highest Reproach is Undeservedly Cast upon the American Colonies. Boston: Kneeland and Adams, for Thomas Leverett, 1767. 56 p. Untrimmed and stitched, as issued. Half title loose and with a part of the lower blank margin torn off. Light soiling and chipping at fore-edge. With the signature of Abraham Hill, 1767, on the half title. $550
First edition. The first response from America to Landaff's sermon deploring the heathenism and infidelity in America and urging the appointment of American bishops. Chauncy defends the American colonies and emphasizes their piety and missionary zeal. The next five years saw one of the largest pamphlet controversies in our history, drawing in such notables as Chauncy, William Livingston, Thomas Bradbury Chandler, and many others. Adams, American Controversy, 67-3a; Nelson, American Episcopate Controversy, 2; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 50; Evans 10579.
6TH NEW JERSEY IN ACTION
15. (CIVIL WAR). Jess, Levi. Autograph letter signed, Camp Baker, Lower Potomac, 10 March 1862. To "Cil," reporting war news. 2 1/2 pages. Folds, writing a trifle light, but essentially fine. $500
In part, ". . . I guess the next letter I get will be on the other side for we will cross tomorrow . . . Two of our regiments cross this morning the first NH & 5 KY and I guess we will follow suit. Our gun boats came down yesterday and commenced shelling the Rebels batteries. They drove them out and went ashore and hoisted the stars and stripes on the cockpit . . . and we burnt one of their steamers & two schoones. There appeared to be a great deal of exploding a going on all the afternoon. About this & camps which they left behind it is supposed the Rebels have fell back on to Manassas and there they will make a stand. Our captain seems to think we have got the hottest part of the fighting to do yet . . . a man out of our regiment belonging to Co. B was shot on Saturday lying at the Landing by one of his comrades. He was going into the store house and sentinel who was on guard halted him & the man was about to give him the pass word & the sentinel up with his gun & shot him right through the heart. He was killed immediately, the ball went clear threw him and struck the store. . . .
GRAY’S ELEGY PRINTED IN ELIZABETHTOWN
16. A COLLECTION OF POEMS on Religious and Moral Subjects. Extracted from the Most Celebrated Authors. Elizabeth Town: Printed by Shepard Kollock, for Cornelius Davis, New York, 1797. [4], [3]-124 p. Contemporary mottled sheep. Short crack at bottom of upper hinge, occasional minor stains, but a very good copy. $350
Includes Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a County Church-Yard, Edward Young's The Last Day, and other poems. Some copies contain a separate title page, A1, for Gray's Elegy, but it is not in this copy or in most other copies. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 54; Evans 31953.
HIGH-DENOMINATION NEW JERSEY COLONIAL CURRENCY
17. (COLONIAL CURRENCY). Three pounds note, issue of April 10, 1759. Printed in red and black by James Parker in Woodbridge on paper with mica chips. Signed by Samuel Nevill, Daniel Smith Jun., and Samuel Smith. A slightly worn note with a vertical crease and somewhat rounded corners, but overall quite respectable. $500
The second largest denomination of this emission, and, like all high-denomination notes, very scarce, particularly in an early emission. Wait 128. 1844 NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTION BROADSHEET
18. (CONSTITUTION). Broadsheet printing of the newly-enacted constitution of New Jersey as an extra of the Somerset Messenger. Somerville, ca. July 1844. [2] p., folio. Chips along top and bottom blank margins, light foxing, light fold wear. $450
Beneath the large-type masthead, "Somerset Messenger--Extra" is the full text of the 1844 New Jersey constitution in three columns on both sides of the sheet, concluding with an affidavit of Governor Daniel Haines.
NEW JERSEY COPPER COIN
19. (COPPER COIN). 1787 New Jersey copper. Small planchet, pronounced outline to shield. 154.3 grains. Cleaned long ago, now retoned to a glossy olive- and reddish-brown color. Tiny planchet clip beneath the "17" of the date. Old scratch in the right obverse field; hairline scratch in the field above the shield. A fine example. $550
Maris 48-g.
NEW JERSEY COPPER COIN
20. (COPPER COIN). 1787 New Jersey copper. Small planchet, pronounced outline around shield. 164.9 grains. Near-black color. Reasonably good details, with light circulation marks on either side and two tiny dings on the obverse rim. A fine example. $550
Maris 64-t.
MARK NEWBY FARTHING
21. (COPPER COIN). St. Patrick or Mark Newby copper farthing, used as legal tender in West Jersey in 1682. Very worn and not in good condition, but still easily recognizable, with much of the let- tering and some of the details, such as the milling, the bottom of St. Patrick's crozier and the snakes being driven out, still quite clear. Because of condition, $400
These copper coins were originally thought to have been minted in Dublin in the 1670s, but it is now thought that they were struck at the Tower mint in London in 1641-42 and were intended for Ireland but were impounded during the English Civil War. A quantity of them were brought to West Jersey in 1681 by Mark Newby, a Dublin candlemaker, and in 1682 they were authorized by the West Jersey assembly to pass as legal tender. Examples today in good condition bring very high prices in the rare coin market. This one is very worn and very inexpensive.
THE RICHARD COXE DICTIONARY
22. [COXE, RICHARD SMITH]. A New Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Containing, All the Words in General Use .... By an American Gentleman. Burlington: D. Allinson & Co., 1813. 4to. xiv, 85, [941] p. Contemporary reversed sheep. Front inner hinge loose, otherwise the nicest copy of this book we have seen. $300
A massive but predominantly derivative dictionary, compiled by Coxe, a prominent Burlington, and later Washington, lawyer, largely before reaching age eighteen. The work achieved little critical acclaim when published, and was soon forgotten. For a lengthy essay on Coxe and his dictionary, and its novel "spring" binding (probably executed by Allinson himself), see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 531.
FIRST AMERICAN BOOK ON POMOLOGY
23. COXE, WILLIAM. A View of the Cultivation of Fruit Trees, and the Management of Orchards and Cider; with Accurate Descriptions of ... Native and Foreign Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, and Cherries, Cultivated in the Middle States of America.... Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son [David Allinson, printer, Burlington, N.J.], Nov. 1, 1817. 253, [15] p. Diagram. 77 woodcut plates. Contem- porary sheep, very skillfully rebacked in period style. Light foxing, as always with this book, but a very attractive copy. $1400
First edition of the first American book devoted exclusively to pomology. William Coxe was one of the foremost fruit growers in America in the early years of the nineteenth century as well as the most important American writer on pomological topics. He owned extensive orchards in Burlington, New Jersey, which contained most of the varieties of fruit that could be grown in America. His descriptions are detailed and accurate, as are the nearly 200 woodcut illustrations, executed by William Mason of Philadelphia, depicting 100 varieties of apples, 63 pears, 15 peaches, 17 plums, 3 apricots, and 2 nectarines. For a detailed nine-page essay on the printing and publishing history of this important book, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 532-533. Rink 1653, S&S 40585.
DOROTHY CROSS - THE FIRST VOLUME
24. CROSS, DOROTHY. Archaeology of New Jersey. Trenton, 1941. Large 4to. xii, 271 p. Maps and plans. 73 plates. Folding map and plan in pocket. Cloth (a trifle soiled). A very good copy. $350
Volume One, complete in itself (the second volume was not published until 1956). Detailed report on the excavations of 39 Indian sites in New Jersey, and one of the major works on the Indian in New Jersey.
DOROTHY CROSS - THE SECOND VOLUME
25. CROSS, DOROTHY. Archaeology of New Jersey ... The Abbott Farm. Trenton, 1956. Large 4to. xii, 215 p. Illus., diagrams, tables. 46 plates. Cloth. $300
Volume Two, complete in itself, and devoted exclusively to the Indian artifacts uncovered at the Abbott Farm just south of Trenton. Volume One, published in 1941, was a detailed report on the excavations of 39 Indian sites throughout New Jersey. The two volumes are ordinarily not found together. UNCUT SHEET OF SUSSEX COUNTY CURRENCY
26. (CURRENCY--SUSSEX COUNTY). Uncut sheet of four engraved bank notes from the Sussex Bank, Newton. 18[50s?]. Three $1 notes and one $2 note. Printed in red and black. In absolutely pristine condition, with wide borders on all four sides. $300
A handsome uncut sheet, in superlative condition. Wait 1742, 1749, assigning the highest rarity value (R7) to each note.
LANDMARK WORK ON THE DRUG CULTURE PRINTED IN BRIDGETON
27. [DE QUINCEY, THOMAS]. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater .... Philadelphia: E. Littell; S. Siegfried, printer, Bridgeton, N.J., 1823. 183 p. Original paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label. Imperfect: Wanting 3 text leaves. Front cover loose. $350
First American edition of De Quincey's famous autobiography, and a landmark work in the literature of the drug culture. Job-printed for Littell on a country press in Bridgeton, New Jersey, by Simeon Siegfried. An imperfect copy of a very scarce book, and priced accordingly. Shoemaker 12366; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 541 (this copy).
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE D & R CANAL COMPANY - 1831
28. DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL CO. First Annual Report of the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company; May 10, 1831. Princeton, 1831. 31 p. Modern cloth. Marginal foxing, else fine. $300
After several earlier failures, the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company was incorporated by the legislature on February 4, 1830, and Robert F. Stockton, with money advanced by his father-in-law, John Potter, subscribed for sufficient shares to enable the company to organize. This first report includes the legislation creating the canal company and the famous monopoly, as well as estimates for constructing various segments of the canal. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 546.
THE 1830 ACT INCORPORATING THE D & R CANAL
29. (DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL CO.). New Jersey. Laws, etc. ... An Act to Incorporate the Delaware & Raritan Canal Company. [N.p., 1830.] 8 p. Stitched. Two noticeable dampstains, one within the text and the other marginal, else a nice uncut copy, stitched as issued. $350
The act of the legislature incorporating the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company, February 4, 1830. After several earlier failures, this act began the company that, when merged with the Camden and Amboy Railroad soon after, created the monopoly that controlled much of New Jersey's transportation, and politics, throughout the mid-nineteenth century.
HISTORY OF THE NINTH NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS
30. DRAKE, J[AMES] MADISON. The History of the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Vols.: A Record of its Service from Sept. 13th, 1861, to July 12th, 1865 .... Elizabeth, 1889. 501 p. Plates. Cloth. $300
Detailed history as well as a complete roster of the unit.
18TH-CENTURY MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS
31. EDWARDS, JONATHAN. An Account of the Life of the Reverend Mr. David Brainerd, Minister of the Gospel; Missionary to the Indians ... and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New-Jersey.... Worcester, Mass.: Leonard Worcester, 1793. 346, 84 p. Contemporary sheep. First and last few leaves pulled slightly and browned at the fore-edge tips, binding scuffed, head and tail of spine chipped away, hinges beginning to split, glue residue on pastedowns. Eighteenth-century signature of Eliphalet Gillet, later bookplate of a church library. A good copy. $450
Later edition of Edwards's classic biography, first printed in Boston in 1749. The second section is a reprint of Brainerd's Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, first printed in Philadelphia in 1748. Edwards's work is one of the classic mid-eighteenth-century accounts of missionary life among the American Indians. David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a Connecticut native who was expelled from Yale in 1742 for, among other things, sympathizing with the Whitefield revival and remarking that a particular college tutor had "no more grace than this chair." After his ordination to the ministry, he served as a missionary to the Indians in the Massachusetts-New York border area and near present-day Easton, Pennsylvania, before going to New Jersey, where he remained until early 1747. He died later that year at the home of his future father-in-law, and biographer, Jonathan Edwards. Edwards' account consists chiefly of entries from Brainerd's diaries, with inserted comments and extracts from letters. The work was reprinted frequently and is still in print today. Evans 25431, 25228; Johnson, Jonathan Edwards, 143; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 71.
DUTCH HOUSES IN NEW JERSEY: ONE OF 150 COPIES
32. ELLIS, ROWLAND C. Colonial Dutch Houses in New Jersey. Twenty Wood Engravings. Newark: Carteret Book Club, 1933. viii, [2], 60, [3] p. Illus. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. A very good plus copy in publisher's glassine and slipcase (rubbed). $300
One of 150 copies, printed by Monroe F. Dreher of Newark for members of the Carteret Book Club. Twenty handsome woodcuts by Ellis of early Dutch houses in Bergen, Passaic, and Somerset Counties, with text by James O. Betelle. One of the most desirable of the Carteret Book Club publications.
1798 NEW JERSEY CHILDREN’S BOOK
33. THE ENTERTAINING, MORAL, AND RELIGIOUS REPOSITORY; Containing Upwards of Three Score Separate Performances, all of which are Written in a Simple yet Pleasing Style, and are Eminently Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of Both Sexes ... In Two Volumes. Elizabeth-Town: Shepard Kollock, 1798. 396 p. Contemporary sheep (worn, front hinge cracking). Tape repair on title page and on several other early leaves, overall soiling and staining, numerous gatherings pulled. Withal, a respectable copy. $900
Volume 1 only. This first edition of the Entertaining, Moral, and Religious Repository contains the first appearance in America of several of the Cheap Repository tracts of Hannah More and others. The work was originally issued in parts and first advertised in Shepard Kollock's New-Jersey Journal of August 28, 1798. Other than a few surviving copies of the first part, containing the first 96 pages, copies are known entirely from the bound volumes, and the two volumes are rarely found together. Some copies contain a contents leaf which was tipped in later between A1 and A2; it is not present in this copy. Evans 35296; Welch 361.2.
1800 NEW JERSEY CHILDREN’S BOOK
34. THE ENTERTAINING, MORAL AND RELIGIOUS REPOSITORY; Containing, Upwards of Three Score Separate Performances, all of which are Written in a Simple yet Pleasing Stile, and are Eminently Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of Both Sexes. Elizabeth-Town: Shepard Kollock, for C. Davis, New York, 1800. [2], 324 p. Contemporary undecorated sheep-backed marbled paper-covered boards (rubbed, corners worn). Usual light foxing. An unusually clean and tight copy. With an 1804 ownership signature of Jane Sears. $1500
A reissue of the second volume of Kollock's 1798 edition, with a new title leaf. Evans 37374; Welch 361.7; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 78.
BOUND VOLUME OF 21 PAMPHLETS
35. EPISCOPAL CHURCH. DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY. Bound volume of 21 pamphlets, 1829 through 1839. Includes the journals of the 46th through the 56th annual conventions, 1829-1839, an 1829 charge by Bishop John Croes, the 1832 printing of the journals of two adjourned conventions, the 1837 printing of the constitution and canons, and seven episcopal addresses by Bishop George W. Doane. Imprints from New Brunswick, Camden, Burlington, &c. 21 items, with numerous folding tables. In a very utilitarian modern binding, somewhat soiled. $350
A nice consecutive run of the journals and the addresses.
UZAL OGDEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH NONCE VOLUME
36. (EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE U.S.A.) A nonce volume consisting of three journals of the conven- tions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, 1785-1786, and three sermons, delivered by Charles H. Wharton, William Smith, and William White, at those conventions. The six pamphlets bound up with a special volume half title leaf, printed by Hall and Sellers and titled Journals of the General Convention, with Sermons. Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, undecorated sheep spine. Extremities well worn, but volume tight. From the library of Rev. Uzal Ogden, with his signature on the general title and a short note in his hand on the front endpaper. $750
Whether the nonce volume is unique and was made up by Hall and Sellers for Ogden, a wealthy man, or whether several copies were assembled from remaining pamphlets, has not been determined. We are unable to trace either another copy or the special half-title leaf, but if other copies had been prepared, it is unlikely that they would have survived intact over the last 200-plus years. The journals cover the Philadelphia conventions of October 1785 and June 1786 and the Wilmington convention of October 1786 (Evans 19209, 19941, and 19942). The sermons are by Charles H. Wharton, A Sermon on the Relations of the Christian Ministry, William Smith, A Sermon Preached in Christ-Church, and William White, A Sermon, Delivered in Christ-Church (Evans 19383, 19247, and 20145). All six pamphlets were printed in Philadelphia. Uzal Ogden (1744-1822) was a prominent New Jersey churchman and rector of Trinity Church, Newark. In 1798 he was elected the first bishop of New Jersey, but the general convention of the church refused to consent to his consecration.
1800 NEWARK EDITION
37. ESSAYS ON THE SPIRIT OF LEGISLATION, in the Encouragement of Agriculture, Population, Manufactures, and Commerce. Translated from the Original French. Newark: William Reid, Pennington & Gould, printers, 1800. 479, vii p. Modern half leather. $300
Includes writings of Bertrand, de Correvan, and others. Chiefly agricultural. The third Newark printing. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 83.
1772 AMERICAN POETRY BY A HADDONFIELD RESIDENT
38. EVANS, NATHANIEL. Poems on Several Occasions, with some other Compositions. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1772. xxviii, 160, [3]-24 p. Contemporary calf, very skillfully rebacked in period style. The usual foxing, else the nicest copy of this book we have seen. Late 19th century book label of A. G. Odenbaugh. $750
First and only contemporary edition of the works of this early American poet who died at the age of 25. A native of Philadelphia and a resident of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Evans was an S.P.G. missionary for Gloucester County and a friend and correspondent of Elizabeth Graeme (later, Ferguson). Copies of the book often lack the list of subscribers, the ode on Evans' death by Elizabeth Graeme, and the 24-page discourse at the end, all of which are present in this copy. The errata slip, as always, is not present. Wegelin 133; Evans 12386; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 85.
1783 MONMOUTH COUNTY LETTER
39. FORMAN, STEPHEN. Autograph letter signed, Freehold, 4 June 1783. To his cousin Samuel S. Forman at Middletown Point. 2 pages, quarto, with integral address leaf. In fine condition. $300
The youthful Forman discusses the mutual benefit of the correspondence, asks if his cousin Jonathan would sell his Greek Testament, the prospect of college in the fall, &c. Monmouth County.
CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF NEW JERSEY IN THE CIVIL WAR
40. FOSTER, JOHN Y. New Jersey and the Rebellion: A History of the Services of the Troops and People of New Jersey in Aid of the Union Cause. Newark, 1868. viii, 872 p. Port. Original full leather presentation binding, richly gilt, all edges gilt. Hinges and extremities a bit scuffed, but a very clean and tight copy. $350
The most comprehensive nineteenth-century work on New Jersey in the Civil War, in the very rare original presentation binding (most copies were bound in cloth). A very difficult book to find in tight condition.
NEW JERSEY FRAKTUR
41. (FRAKTUR). Early hand-colored printed fraktur, recording the 1802 birth and baptism in Greenwich Township, Sussex County, of Katharine Boyer, daughter of George and Anna (Mechlin) Boyer. Printed by John Ritter in Reading, Pa. 16 x 13 in. Handsomely matted and framed. Some light wrinkling and minor chipping at the extremities, some very faint foxing, but withal in very good, almost fine condition. $1100
A very desirable early printed fraktur with lovely contemporary hand coloring. The central text, completed in manuscript, records the birth of Katharine Boyer and her subsequent baptism by the Rev. Mr. Hoffmire. Her sponsors were Anthony and Katharine Oberly. Several printed verses, each with a type- ornament border, are interspersed with hand-painted angels, birds on sprigs, and a cornucopia. At the top is a cherub, beneath which is Katharine Boyer's name in pen-and-ink block letters within a type-ornament frame, lightly colored in wash for contrast. This is a very early, and most desirable, New Jersey baptismal fraktur. Cannot be shipped framed.
HURRAH! HURRAH! THE COUNTRY'S RISIN' FOR HARRY CLAY & FRELINGHUYSEN
42. (FRELINGHUYSEN, THEODORE). Hand colored lithograph, Theodore Frelinghuysen. / Hurrah! Hurrah! the Country's risin' / For Harry Clay & Frelinghuysen. New York: N. Currier, [ca. 1844]. 35.5 x 25 cm. overall. In very nice, clean condition, with half-inch or greater margins all the way around. Two tiny and almost invisible closed edge tears. $750
A very attractive vice-presidential campaign portrait of Frelinghuysen seated at a desk, with one hand on a book and the other hand inserted, Napoleon-like, in his vest. Conningham 6005.
PRINTED ON FRENEAU'S OWN PRESS
43. FRENEAU, PHILIP. Poems Written Between the Years 1768 & 1794.... Monmouth, (N.J.): Printed at the press of the author, at Mount-Pleasant, near Middletown-Point, 1795. [5], x-xv, [1], 455, [1] p. Contemporary sheep. Many gatherings variously foxed or browned, as always with this book, else an unusually nice copy. Contemporary signatures of Geo. J. Warner and, slightly later, Susan Nichols. $1200
The only edition of Freneau's poetry printed by Freneau himself, on his own press, and the only full-length book to come from this very short-lived New Jersey press. The presswork is poor, and there are numerous typographical errors and mis-paginations, some of which were corrected by stop-press alterations, resulting in slight differences between copies. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 96, for a full account. This copy is in a most interesting eighteenth-century binding, with a red spine label reading "American Poets," a black spine label reading "Freneau," and an oval black volume label reading "I." It is interesting to speculate what other works, if any, the original owner had uniformly bound. Wegelin 173; BAL 6445; Evans 28712. GIBBONS' EXTRAORDINARY HANDBILL CHALLENGING ODGEN TO A DUEL
44. (GIBBONS v. OGDEN). To Col. Aaron Ogden, Sir, As you refused to receive a letter that I sent you by General Dayton yesterday, I will give it publicity through another channel. For like Nicanor upon Judas you made war upon me on the Sabbath Day .... I was this day arrested in a Suit at Law, in your name .... As we reside within half a mile of each other, and you never intimated to me, nor any of my friends, any claims, or cause of Action against me, I pronounce your conduct RASCALLY. I don't regard your Suit in terrorem, but I must teach you to proceed with decency .... I understand that you have interfered in a Dispute between Mrs. Gibbons and myself which has been brought on by John Trumbull .... My friend General Dayton will arrange with you the time, and place, of our Meeting. Th. Gibbons. Elizabeth-Town, 26th July, 1816. [Elizabethtown, N.J., 1816.] Broadside. 28 x 24 cm. In very fine condition, fully untrimmed. $4500
The steamboat in New Jersey and New York had a long and litigious history, beginning with the controversies between John Fitch and Robert Fulton, through the granting by the state legislatures in 1808 of exclusive navigation privileges, to the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in Gibbons v. Ogden in 1824. Thomas Gibbons and Aaron Ogden were originally partners in a steam ferry operating between Elizabeth-Town Point and New York City. In 1814 a dispute arose over a lease renewal. Soon other arguments ensued, and Gibbons established a rival ferry. The two became bitter antagonists. Meanwhile, Gibbons was embroiled in a nasty domestic quarrel involving John Trumbull, who had seduced Gibbons' daughter before marrying her, and each side publicly circulated the foulest stories about the other. Ogden's legal advice was solicited by the Trumbull faction, and Gibbons, in a rage, had this handbill struck off, and, horsewhip in hand, went to Ogden's house to challenge him to a duel. Ogden escaped over the back fence, and immediately sued Gibbons for trespass. The details of the case are reported in 2 Southard, 598. Gibbons' rival steamboat, with young Cornelius Vanderbilt as captain, continued to challenge Ogden and the monopoly interests. With Daniel Webster and William Wirt as his attorneys, Gibbons finally appealed to the Supreme Court, and in one of the most famous decisions in American Constitutional law, Chief Justice Marshall ruled that navigation was commerce and Congress had the power to regulate interstate commerce. The steamboat monopoly was struck down. This is one of the most dramatic broadsides we have handled.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR TRENTON
45. GORDON, PETER (Trenton merchant and bookseller, quartermaster general during the Revolutionary War). Receipt for three hundred and twenty-one dollars from Amos Howell for "a Roan Horse 6 Years old Branded (U. S.)," Trenton, 5 May 1779. One page, octavo. Signed by Gordon as Q.M. About fine. $300
Gordon notes the horse was sold at vendue.
FIRST EDITION OF GRIFFITH’S TREATISE
46. GRIFFITH, WILLIAM. A Treatise on the Jurisdiction and Proceedings of the Justices of the Peace in Civil Suits, with an Appendix .... Burlington: Elderkin & Miller, 1796. [xii], 272, [21] p. Contemporary sheep (worn). $300 First edition of a highly respected legal treatise and form book compiled to serve the specific needs of New Jersey justices and other civil officers. Griffith was a Burlington lawyer. For a detailed description of Griffith's important Treatise, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 108.
MOSES GUEST’S NEW BRUNSWICK VERSE - 1824
47. GUEST, MOSES. Poems on Several Occasions. To which are Added, Extracts from a Journal Kept by the Author while he Followed the Sea, and During a Journey from New-Brunswick, in New-Jersey, to Montreal and Quebec. Cincinnati: Looker & Reynolds, 1824. 160 p. Contemporary sheep (heavily worn and scuffed, hinges broken). Foxed. Modern bookplates. Good only. $300
Second edition, with some alterations from the first edition printed in Cincinnati the previous year. Guest was a New Brunswick native. During the Revolutionary War he commanded the party of Middlesex militia that captured John Graves Simcoe shortly after Simcoe's notorious raid into Somerset County in 1779. After the war Guest became a mariner and remained in New Brunswick until removing to Cincinnati in 1817. Many of Guest's poems concern individuals and events in New Brunswick and New Jersey. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 744, for considerably more detail.
HISTORY OF THE FIFTEENTH NEW JERSEY VOLUNTEERS
48. HAINES, ALANSON A. History of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. New York, 1883. 388 p. Illus. Port. Cloth. Early bookplate of a Military Order of the Loyal Legion commandery, small paper label at foot of spine, else unmarked and a fine tight copy that appears to have had little if any use. $325
Civil War regimental history.
SCARCE NEW JERSEY UNIT HISTORY
49. HANIFEN, MICHAEL. History of Battery B, First New Jersey Artillery. [Ottawa, Ill., 1905.] 174 p. Plates. Cloth. Spine number and one other small paper label on cover, very light cover soiling, neat 1906 bookplate of a Military Order of the Loyal Legion commandery, else a very nice, tight copy. $300
Includes an annotated roster of officers and enlisted men. A scarce New Jersey Civil War regimental history.
THE HARTLAUB AND MILLER INDEX
50. HARTLAUB, ROBERT J., and GEORGE J. MILLER. Colonial Conveyances. Provinces of East & West New Jersey, 1664-1794. [Summit, 1974] 2 vols., obl. folio. [3], 538 leaves. In the original post binders, one post lacking and wired closed. Minor ex-library stamping. $325
The invaluable, and very hard-to-find, index of New Jersey land transactions from 1664 to 1794. Arranged in one alphabetical sequence, each entry list grantor, grantee, book and page reference, date, and brief location of the land. Compiled from the old card index in the State Archives, and containing many entries not included in vol. 21 of the published New Jersey Archives, this index is one of the essential reference tools for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New Jersey research. Only a very small number of copies were produced and they all went into institutions. This is the first copy we have offered for sale, having been acquired from a now-defunct library.
HESTON’S ANNALS OF ATLANTIC CITY AND COUNTY
51. HESTON, ALFRED M. Absegami: Annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic City, 1609-1904. Being an Account of the Settlement of Eyren Haven or Egg Harbor, and Reminiscences of Atlantic City and County .... [Atlantic City], 1904. 2 vols. 337 p. 446 p. Illus. Plates, folding maps. Neat later cloth, portion of original gilt covers laid down. $325
One of 500 numbered sets, privately printed. One of the standard histories of Atlantic City and Atlantic County, illustrated with many folding maps and photographs.
THE WOOLMAN & ROSE ATLAS OF THE NEW JERSEY COAST
52. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ATLAS of the New Jersey Coast. Philadelphia: Woolman & Rose, 1878. Sm. folio. 372 p. Lithographed views and maps (some folding, many hand colored). Original cloth, neatly rebacked with a cloth spine and new endpapers. Lacks the large statewide geological map following the title, as is often the case, extremities of cover well worn, else very good. A nice, sturdy copy--perfect for library use, and priced less than a fine copy. $2200
Compiled by T.F. Rose, T.T. Price, and Bernard Connolly; surveys by H.C. Woolman. The largest and most lavish of the 19th century New Jersey atlases, with scores of wonderful colored maps and lithographed views of local towns, houses, and street scenes in Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic, and Cape May Counties. This is the atlas that the low-end print and antiques dealers most love to cut up. Copies, particularly in fine condition with all the folding maps, are getting harder to find, and prices continue to rise. An embarrassingly amateur and artless reprint was done in 1985.
FRANCIS HOPKINSON AND JOSEPH BORDEN
53. HOPKINSON, FRANCIS (Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey; Bordentown resident). Engraved bill of exchange from the Loan Office of the United States, 30 October 1780, payable to Peter & Wm. Wikoff. 9.5 x 21 cm. Signed by Hopkinson as treasurer of the Continental Loan Office and countersigned by Joseph Borden as commissioner of the Loan Office for New Jersey. In fine condition. $3000
Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791) was one of New Jersey's five signers of the Declaration of Independence, He was married to a daughter of Joseph Borden, the leading citizen of Bordentown, and for several years Hopkinson lived in Bordentown. In 1779 he became an admiralty judge in Pennsylvania. Documents signed by Hopkinson are not rare, but they almost never have any connection to New Jersey. The present bill of exchange is not only signed by Hopkinson's father-in-law, Joseph Borden, but the recipients, Peter and William Wikoff, were Monmouth County residents, and Peter had been an aide to Washington at the Battle of Monmouth. The most "New Jersey" Hopkinson document we have ever handled. ATLAS OF HUDSON COUNTY: 1909
54. (HUDSON COUNTY). Atlas of Hudson County, New Jersey ... from Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins Co., 1909. Vol. 2 (of 2). Large folio. Title leaf, double-page index map, street and tract index, and 35 double-page linen-backed colored maps. Original cloth (worn). Front inner hinge open, title leaf detached and a bit chipped, else generally very good. $900
Cover title: "Plat Book of Hudson County, N. J." This atlas was issued in two volumes, the first volume devoted entirely to Jersey City and the present volume covering the rest of the county, including Hoboken, Bayonne, Kearny, &c., &c. The colored maps depict streets and roads and the locations of buildings (and often their footprint and construction material). Businesses are indicated as well as landowners' names for the larger tracts. Rare.
RARE COLLECTION OF HUDSON/BERGEN COUNTY MAPS
55. (HUDSON COUNTY). Certified Copies of Original Maps of Hudson County, New Jersey, Filed in the Registrar's Office and Elsewhere, Together with Certified Copy of General Index of all Maps on File in Registrar's Office, Previous to April 25th, 1881, and Important Notes and Information Regarding the Same. Vol. I. Hoboken: Spielmann & Brush, 1882. Large folio. Title leaf, double-page index map, and 76 individual colored maps on 38 sheets. Laid loose, as issued, in original half leather portfolio with decorative leather label on front cover. Blank edges of first few maps lightly soiled and chipped, edges of portfolio worn and spine repaired with cloth tape, else an unusually clean and sound copy. $1400
One of 200 only copies produced, and the only volume published. A remarkable publishing venture, which faithfully reproduced 38 of the most important property maps of Hudson County (originally Bergen County). Early maps include the 1764 Bergen Township partition, the 1804 Loss map of Hoboken, the 1841 Douglass map, the Coster map of Hoboken, the Coles estate map, and many others. A major reference tool for Hudson/Bergen County land research, and a very scarce book. In 39 years this is only the second copy we have had for sale, although we just reacquired this copy from the individual to whom we originally sold it twenty years ago.
CURRIER & IVES COLORED LITHOGRAPH OF PHILIP KEARNY
56. (KEARNY, PHILIP). Hand colored lithograph, General Philip Kearney. New York: Currier & Ives, [n.d., but 1862-63]. Image 12 7/8 x 9 in. plus min. 3/4 in. margins on all four sides. Very faint dampstaining in lower margin, mat burn toning on verso but not visible on recto. A very nice copy with good wide margins. $600
Hand colored Currier & Ives lithograph depicting the one-armed Kearny, mounted on his white horse, at the front of his troops, battle rubble on the ground. Kearny was killed at Chantilly, Virginia, in September 1862. The print's four-line title concludes: ". . . Of all the gallant Officers that have fallen, none will be more deeply lamented by his companions in arms than 'Brave Phil Kearney.' 'Who can replace Phil Kearney.'" Gale 2455. THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN MORRISTOWN
57. [KNOX, VICESIMUS]. The Spirit of Despotism. Morris-Town: Jacob Mann, 1799. [10], 319 p. Contemporary sheep. Covers a bit warped, a few signatures pulled, else a fine, tight copy. $350
The first book printed in Morristown. Jacob Mann came to Morristown in late 1797 as printer and publisher of the local newspaper. For the year 1798 there is one known separate Jacob Mann imprint, a pamphlet act of the legislature. In 1799 there are but two separate Mann imprints, another small pamphlet and this bound work by Vicesimus Knox. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 121. Evans 35691.
GENERAL JOHN LACEY WRITES FROM NEW MILLS
58. LACEY, JOHN. Autograph letter signed, New Mills, 15 August 1795. To John Nicholson at Philadelphia, about trading his lands and furnaces. One page, quarto. Very fine. $900
John Lacey, Jun. (1755-1814) was a distinguished brigadier general in the Revolutionary War. He married a daughter of Thomas Reynolds, of New Mills (now Pemberton), Burlington County, and moved there after the war. He established the New Mills Forge and also had interests at that time in the Hanover Furnace. He tells Nicholson "I hold One Quarter of the Lands and Furnaces all of which I purpose to dispose of but must have part in cash...." Nicholson, a major land speculator, was proposing an exchange of lands.
FIRST PRINTING OF BLACKSTONE IN AMERICA, AND THE FIRST LEGAL TREATISE PRINTED IN NEW JERSEY
59. (LAW). Parker, James. Conductor Generalis: or, The Office, Duty and Authority of Justices of the Peace, High-Sheriffs ... Constables, Gaolers ... To which is added, A Treatise on the Law of Descents in Fee-Simple: By William Blackstone.... Woodbridge, in New-Jersey: Printed and sold by James Parker; sold also by John Holt ... in New-York, 1764. 8vo. xvi, 592 p. Contemporary sheep. A worn copy, with extremities of binding chipped and front cover detached. Internally a good copy, with the usual browning. Trimmed a trifle close, with some bottom lines or catchwords cut into; corner of A6 torn off costing a few letters. From the library of John Mehelm (1735-1809), a member of New Jersey's Provincial Congress, Revolutionary War patriot, and justice and surrogate of Hunterdon County. $2200
First edition of the first legal treatise printed in New Jersey, the first printing of Blackstone in America, and one of the most substantial books both written and printed by a colonial American printer. James Parker was a justice of the peace in New Jersey as well as the colony's first printer, having established his press at Woodbridge in 1754. His legal manual was based upon earlier English works of a similar nature, chiefly Burn, but was considerably altered to suit American needs. Blackstone's treatise on descents was the first work of that author to be printed in America. Parker's Conductor Generalis was a shared edition and exists with three variant title page imprints. Bristol B2507; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 211.
SENSATIONALIZED ACCOUNT OF ROBERT THE HERMIT
60. LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBERT, the Hermit of Massachusetts, who has Lived 14 years in a Cave, Secluded from Human Society .... Taken from his own Mouth, and Published for his Benefit. Providence: H. Trumbull, 1829. 36 p. incl. frontis. Stitched in contemporary plain wrappers. Some browning and soiling, else very nice. $450
One of two slightly varying editions of a cheap, sensational narrative based upon a real hermit, but considerably fictionalized. According to the narrative, Robert was born a slave in Princeton. His mother was a black slave in bondage, his father "a pure white blooded Englishman ... a gentleman of considerable eminence." He was carried South, escaped from slavery, made several voyages, and spent the remainder of his life in a cave near Providence, Rhode Island. For a very detailed study of the publication history of pamphlet, the fact versus the fiction, the identification of the real author, and the part played by the enterprising Henry Trumbull, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 836-837. Shoemaker 40690.
WILLIAM LIVINGSTON DOCUMENT
61. LIVINGSTON, WILLIAM (1723-1790; governor of New Jersey, 1776-1790). Document signed, 27 August 1783. Being a legal document assiging rights in a financial obligation. 2 1/2 pages, folio. Signed by William Livingston, with his red wax seal, and witnessed by Brockholst Livingston and Susan Livingston. In fine condition. $700
Concerns a bond executed to Livingston in 1769 by Philip French of New Brunswick. Mentions Ann and Susan Brown, Edward Neale, David Van Horne, and David Clarkson.
FINE AND FRESH MAP OF NEW JERSEY
62. (MAP). Colton's Larger Township Map of New Jersey. New York: G.W. & C.B. Colton, 1886. 35.5 x 26.5 in. Fully colored. Folded into a cloth case lettered "Colton's Railroad Map of New Jersey." A remarkably fine copy, bright and crisp. $550
A highly detailed map showing the vast number of railroads crisscrossing the state in the mid- 1880s, at the high point of railroad-building in New Jersey.
CIVIL WAR REGIMENTAL HISTORY
63. MARBAKER, THOMAS D. History of the Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers from its Organization at Appomattox, to which is added, Experiences of Prison Life and Sketches of Individual Members. Trenton, 1898. viii, 364 p. Illus. Cloth. Early bookplate of a Military Order of the Loyal Legion commandery, small paper label at base of spine, else unmarked and a remarkably fine, fresh copy that appears to have seen little if any use. $300
A fine Civil War regimental history.
RARE MIDDLESEX COUNTY MAP
64. (MIDDLESEX COUNTY). Franklin Survey Company's Original Street, Road and Acreage Plat Map of Middlesex County, New Jersey. Philadelphia: Franklin Survey Co., [ca. 1939?]. 74 x 59 in., colored in outline. Linen-backed and sectioned into four pieces and folded into folio-size cloth covers, as issued. Map very good and clean, covers a bit soiled. $500
Huge, detailed county map, showing streets and roads and giving property owners' names for the larger parcels and acreage and dimensions of larger lots, &c. Probably the last Middlesex County map to include landowners' names for the farms and acreage, much of which disappeared with the postwar land boom. These twentieth-century insurance atlases are very rare--far more so than the earlier atlases. This is the first copy we have handled.
EARLY AMERICAN FOX HUNTING IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY
65. [MILNOR, WILLIAM]. An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in Schuylkill. From its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, near Philadelphia ... to the Present Time. By a Member. [bound with, as issued:] Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, near Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Judah Dobson, 1830. viii, 127, [3], 56 p. Errata leaf. 5 plates. Original reddish-pink linen-covered boards, printed paper label on front cover. Some foxing, as always, spine faded and with short hinge splits, early manuscript spine title. Withal a very nice copy of of a fragile book. In a handsome gilt-tooled leather-backed slipcase, worn at extremities. Philadelphia antiquarian Ferdinand J. Dreer's copy, signed and dated 1852. $1200
First edition of an important early American sporting book in the original binding. The Schuylkill Fishing Company, founded in 1732 and still in existence, is the oldest sporting club in North America. This copy contains the portrait by St. Memin of Governor Morris which was not in the earliest copies released. The second title, which was issued with the fishing company history, is the first American book on fox hunting. The hunt took place near what is today Woodbury, Gloucester County, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. Copies in the fragile original red linen boards with the paper cover label, in nice condition, are rarely seen. Henderson p. 178; Howes M636.
THE FIRST BOOK OF NEW JERSEY ROAD MAPS
66. MOORE, JOSHUA J., and THOMAS W. JONES. The Traveller's Directory, or a Pocket Companion: Shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York, and from Philadelphia to Washington. With Descriptions of the Places through which it Passes, and the Intersections of the Cross Roads.... Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1802. 8vo. [6], 52 p. 38 engraved strip maps on 22 plates. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, in period style. Foxing and offsetting, as usual with this book, else a very good copy in a nice period-style binding. $10,000
First edition of the second American book of road maps, following Christopher Colles' exceedingly rare Survey of the Roads of the United States (1789), and the first road map book to provide detailed maps of the road from Philadelphia north through New Jersey to New York, and from Philadelphia south through Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia to Washington. Joshua John Moore and Thomas W. Jones were young surveyors in the employ of the Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey. From several letters they wrote to Carey during the course of the survey (Lea & Febiger papers, PHi), a clear picture emerges of the extremely difficult task they had undertaken. On June 29, 1801, they wrote from New York: "We should have written to you before this, had not fatigue of our daily Journies rendered repose indispensable after the finishing of our Notes and Traverses. After twelve days driving our way through an immense multitude of Questioners, Observers, laughters, & Critics, who generally thronged around us at every place, to our great discomposure at first ... we are at length arrived here. If astonishment would ensure success to a work, we may entertain strong hopes indeed of ours; but it has nearly exhausted our health, as every violent effort naturally must...." Upon completion of the surveys, the maps were drawn by the surveyors. They locate crossroads, streams, taverns, churches and other public buildings, and occasionally private houses. Carey employed four engravers to produce the plates: William Harrison, Jr., and Francis Shallus, who did the bulk of the work, and John Draper and James Smither, Jr. The text, also assembled by Moore and Jones, describes the various towns through which the roads pass, including sites of interest to the traveler. The book is very scarce. In the past 35 years only three copies have appeared at auction. The last (Christie's 2007) brought $10,625. Carey printed a second edition in 1804, with revised and expanded text, but the maps were printed from the same plates and are identical to those in the first edition, with no alterations. Copies of the second edition appear periodically on the market. For a highly detailed account of the production of this important early American map book, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 886. Howes M-778; Streeter sale 3969; S&S 2686.
PRINTED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOR A MONMOUTH COUNTY MINISTER
67. MORGAN, ABEL. Anti-Paedo-Rantism Defended: A Reply to Mr. Samuel Finley's Vindication of the Charitable Plea for the Speechless. Wherein his Repeated Objections against the Baptism of Believers only, and the Mode of it by Immersion, are again Examined and Refuted. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1750. 230 p. Contemporary sheep (extremities worn, hinges cracked but held firmly by cords, spine ends chipped). Contemporary signatures and pen trials of members of the Laxley and Williams families on endpapers and a record of the 1753 death of Thomas Perice. $2200
Abel Morgan was a Baptist minister at Middletown, Monmouth County; Finley was a Presbyterian minister in Cumberland and Cape May counties (and later president of the College of New Jersey). Their differences over infant baptism began at Cape May in 1743, when each minister was invited to preach a sermon on the subject. A pamphlet controversy ensued. The present work is Morgan's rejoinder to a sermon published by Finley in Philadelphia in 1748. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 145, Miller 425, Evans 6013.
THE FIRST AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: 1789
68. MORSE, JEDIDIAH. The American Geography; or, A View of the Present Situation of the United States of America. Elizabeth Town: Shepard Kollock, 1789. xii, 534, [3] p. 2 folding maps. Contemporary sheep, very skillfully rebacked in correct period style, rear endpaper sympathetically replaced. Light foxing and occasional browning throughout, as usual with early American paper, a few short splits and one map tear skillfully mended. Twentieth-century owner's stamp at the foot of the dedication page and on the verso of one map. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes bookplate. $5500
The first American geography, and an important early American cartographical work. Jedidiah Morse was a congregationalist minister who in 1784 published a school text, Geography Made Easy. Two years later, he began work on a comprehensive American geography. He sought assistance from many distinguished Americans, including Washington and Franklin. Governor William Livingston of New Jersey took considerable interest in the work and made numerous contributions to the text. Morse returned his thanks to Livingston by dedicating the book to him. The maps were engraved by Amos Doolittle, who compiled the map of the northern states. The map of the southern states was compiled by Joseph Purcell and depicts the "New State of Franklin" between present Tennessee and North Carolina. This copy is complete including the errata leaf and directions to the binder, leaf 3X4, and the leaf "Corrections respecting France" tipped in at the rear. For an essay on the compilation and publication history of this important book, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 147. Howes M840; Wheat & Brun 149, 491.
BATTLE OF TRENTON MUSIC
69. (MUSIC). Washington's March [followed by:] Washington's March at the Battle of Trenton. Philadelphia: G. E. Blake, [1812-14]. Half sheet broadside with copperplate engraved music. 14¼ x 9½ in. Foxed, edges rather ragged but wide margins. $325
Two works on one sheet, three and four grand staffs. No lyrics. Wolfe, Secular Music in America, 9621.
NEW BRUNSWICK COMMON COUNCIL MINUTES, 1796–1832
70. NEW BRUNSWICK. Carbon copy of a complete typed transcription of the minutes of the New Brunswick Common Council, 1796-1832. Copied by Louise Marshall Vandivert and John P. Wall, 1909-1910. 260, 37, [1] pages, folio. Bound in 3/4 morocco. Front inner hinge broken, spine covered with clear plastic tape. Internally fine. $325
Apparently one of three copies made. An extraordinary project.
THE GENERAL ELECTION IN NEW JERSEY
71. NEW JERSEY. Annual Returns of the General Election, for the Year 1884 [-1908]. Trenton, 1884- 1909. 25 pamphlets, in wrappers as issued, some with folding tables. A few wrappers chipped or detached. [Accompanied by] Annual Returns of General Elections, from 1876 to 1884. Camden, 1885. 321 p. Wrappers damaged, first two leaves torn. The lot of 26 items, $300
A complete run of the annual statistical breakdowns of the general election in New Jersey.
LONG RUN OF STATE GEOLOGIST ANNUAL REPORTS
72. NEW JERSEY. GEOLOGIST, STATE. A nearly consecutive run of the annual reports of the State Geologist from 1869 through 1909, lacking only 1871, 1873, 1877, and 1879. First ten years in original printed paper covers (some covers loose, some chipping, one pocket map wanting); 1881 onward in original cloth-backed printed boards in very good condition, possibly wanting a folding or pocket map. $1000
The annual reports of the State Geologist comprise one of the least known, and most useful, New Jersey research tools, and a very important source for local history and for local and regional site planning. The subjects treated, usually in great depth and with illustrations, range from local industries (quarrying, mining, building, sawmills, pottery, brickmaking, fishing, timber mining, water control, etc., etc.) to archaeology, topography, water resources, firefighting, forest control, and much more. The many photographs of local scenes are invaluable. Given the mediocre quality of the paper and the binding of most of these reports, this is a sound, desirable set. NEW JERSEY AT GETTYSBURG
73. NEW JERSEY. GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD COMMISSION. Final Report of the Gettysburg Battle-Field Commission of New Jersey. Trenton, 1891. 165 p. Plates. Wrappers (brittle and quite chipped around the edges). $300
A full statistical study of the New Jersey troops at Gettysburg, with addresses at the dedications of the various regimental monuments, photographs of the monuments, &c.
CONSECUTIVE 145-YEAR RUN OF THE PROCEEDINGS
74. NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society [later, New Jersey History]. Newark: Vol. 1, 1845, through vol. 104, 1986. Illus., plates, maps, etc. First few bound volumes in half leather, rest bound in dark blue cloth through 1963, remainder unbound as issued. Lacking Second Series vols. 6-13; also a few articles clipped out and mostly replaced by trimmed and laid-in xeroxes. Otherwise fine and complete in 104 volumes. $3500
A consecutive 145-year run, from the first issue, of the largest single source of New Jersey history. The Proceedings began as a mid-nineteenth century antiquarian journal, with transcriptions of colonial and Revolutionary War-period letters and diaries, articles on military history, local history, genealogy, and biography. In the twentieth century the format became increasingly scholarly, and over the years the more administrative "proceedings" of the society were gradually dropped from the journal. In 1967 its name was changed to New Jersey History. Over the next four decades the magazine faced several identity crises and underwent various editorial policy changes, largely for the worse. In 2006 the journal was discontinued as the poor New Jersey Historical Society reinvented itself for the umpteenth time while continuing its sad downward spiral. Yet the magazine is, and has always been, the only scholarly journal devoted to New Jersey history, and a complete run represents a vast wealth of information on New Jersey. With the publication in 1996 of Donald A. Sinclair's superb index, this tremendous resource is now readily available to the researcher. This present set was assembled by us over a long period of time and is only the second complete set we have had for sale in almost 40 years. We will supply to the purchaser at no charge the few missing volumes/ numbers whenever we can find them.
CONSECUTIVE 105-YEAR RUN
75. NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Newark: Vol. 1, 1845, through vol. 68, 1950. Illus., plates, maps, etc. First 39 volumes bound in uniform half leather, next 18 volumes bound in relatively uniform cloth, remaining 11 volumes unbound as issued. A few leather spines dry and damaged, else a fine and very attractive run. Bookplate in most volumes. $2000
A consecutive 105-year run, from the beginning, and the ideal solution for the library or individual already owning the more recent volumes.
NEARLY COMPLETE RUN OF THE BUREAU OF STATISTICS REPORTS
76. NEW JERSEY. LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, BUREAU OF STATISTICS. First [-Thirty-Sixth] Annual Report ... for the Year Ending October 31st, 1878 [-1913]. [V.p.], 1878-1914. Cloth. Lacking volumes for 1900 and 1904. The 34 volumes, $900
A complete run (less two volumes), from the beginning, of the finest source of information on labor and industry in New Jersey during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the early years of this century. Each volume (of from 300 to 700 pages) contains a wealth of statistics on New Jersey trades and industries, factory conditions, child and Negro labor problems, trade unions, etc. The later volumes contain, increasingly, accounts of strikes and lockouts, and the 1913 volume contains one of the most important contemporary examinations of the great Paterson silk industry strike. A vital resource for economic, social, and technological research in New Jersey during this period, and essential to any good research library. Individual volumes are almost never seen on the market; it took us 15 years to build this collection.
NEW JERSEY REORGANIZES ITS MILITIA, 1792–1794
77. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Laws for Regulating the Militia of the State of New-Jersey. Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1794. 12mo. 39 p. Disbound (stitching gone). Dampstains throughout, but quite good. $600
When Congress passed its Uniform Militia Act in 1792, the individual states reorganized their militias and passed appropriate legislation. This pamphlet prints New Jersey's new militia law, An Act for Organizing and Training the Militia of this State, passed in November 1792, as well as supplements of 1793 and 1794. The work was issued separately, as here, and was also bound with copies of Cist's edition of Steuben's military manual. Bristol B8763; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 165.
THE FIRST COMPILATION OF NEW JERSEY LAWS: 1732
78. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government of the said Province, to the Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the Second.... Philadelphia: William and Andrew Bradford, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, for the Province of New-Jersey, 1732. Fol. [14], 281 p. Contemporary sheep, blind two-line fillet around covers, very skillfully rebacked in period style. Scattered foxing and occasional light browning, as usual in American books of this period, intermittant dampstain at fore- edge and a brown stain in the top margin that diminishes and disappears about halfway into the text. A very good, most desirable copy. With the contemporary signature of John Wetherill, "His Book Bougt in the year 1730 [sic]. $5500
The first official compilation of the laws of New Jersey, prepared by John Kinsey and covering the years 1703 to 1730. Prior to this work, the only collections of New Jersey laws were a few nonce volumes assembled by printer William Bradford from individual pamphlet, or session, laws then at hand. In July 1730 the New Jersey assembly authorized its speaker, John Kinsey, to collect, revise, and correct the laws of New Jersey then in force. Proposals for printing the work were first announced in November 1730, and the completed volume was advertised as available in May 1732. The book is very scarce; this is only the third complete copy we have had in nearly forty years of specializing in New Jerseyana. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 153; Evans 3578. THE SECOND COMPILATION OF THE LAWS: 1752 AND 1761
79. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Time of the Surrender of the Government ... to this Present Time ... By Samuel Nevill.... [Philadelphia]: William Bradford, 1752. Sm. fol. [4], 507 p. [with:] The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Year 1753 ... where the first volume ends, to the Year 1761 ... By Samuel Nevill ... Volume the Second. Woodbridge: James Parker, 1761. Sm. fol. [4], x, [2], 368, [4], 369-401, [1], 56, 64 p. Contemporary sheep (v.1) and contemporary reversed sheep (v.2), both very skillfully rebacked in period style. First two leaves of v.1 neatly guarded in the blank margins, the usual foxing and browning common to early American paper, else an unusually nice set in contemporary bindings. $2500
The second compilation of the laws of New Jersey (following that of John Kinsey in 1732), assembled by Samuel Nevill with the assistance in the first volume of Philip Kearny. The second volume is the first law compilation to be printed in New Jersey, James Parker having set up the colony's first permanent printing press at Woodbridge in 1754. For a detailed study of the evolution and printing of Nevill's Laws, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 155 and 157. Evans 6893, 8947.
THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCUMENTS OF NEW JERSEY, 1664–1702
80. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey. The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments, and other Material Transactions ... By Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Philadelphia: W. Bradford, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province of New-Jersey, [1758]. Sm. fol. [4], 763 p. Neatly rebound in modern legal-style reversed calf, red and black spine labels. First several leaves dampstained, occasional marginal dampstaining elsewhere in text, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. With the signature of Hugh Hartshorne Bowne. $2400
The classic compilation of the foundation documents of New Jersey from 1664 to 1702, accompanied by the session laws from 1668 to 1701. Authorized by the legislature in 1752, the work was assembled over the next six years chiefly by Samuel Nevill and Samuel Smith, and was seem through the press by Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Of all the compilations of New Jersey laws from the 1752 Nevill volume onward, the "Grants and Concessions" is the scarcest. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 156, for a detailed ten-page study of this highly important colonial New Jersey book. Evans 8205.
THE GRANTS AND CONCESSIONS: A REMARKABLE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION COPY
81. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey. The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments, and other Material Transactions ... By Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Philadelphia: W. Bradford, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province of New-Jersey, [1758]. Pot folio. [4], 763 p. Modern calf, superbly executed in period style. The usual sporatic light foxing common to early American paper, else an unusually fine, fresh copy. In the eighteenth century the book was owned by John Smyth (1722-1786), Perth Amboy resident, member of the governor's council, and treasurer of East Jersey. His signature is on the title page. In the nineteenth century the book was owned by William A. Whitehead (1810-1884), New Jersey's first scholarly historian and one of the founders of the New Jersey Historical Society. Tipped in at the front of the volume are two excellent colonial New Jersey letters, one from Aaron Leaming and the other from Jacob Spicer, each sent to Doctor Lewis Johnson of Perth Amboy. The Leaming letter, dated 20 March 1754, concerns a plat Leaming is making of the Middle Precinct of Cape May prior to the purchase by the inhabitants of that precinct of the West Jersey Society's vacant lands in their district. The Spicer letter, dated Cape May, 7 September 1759, concerns a survey of lands at Tuckahoe, and other matters. $3500
A remarkable and unique New Jersey association copy of the classic compilation of the foundation documents of colonial New Jersey from 1664 to 1702, accompanied by the session laws from 1668 to 1701. Authorized by the legislature in 1752, the work was assembled over the next six years chiefly by Samuel Nevill and Samuel Smith, and was seen through the press by Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Of all the compilations of New Jersey laws from the 1752 Nevill volume onward, the "Grants and Concessions," or "Leaming and Spicer," as it is commonly called, is the most difficult to find. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 156, for a detailed ten-page study of this highly important colonial New Jersey book. Evans 8205.
ALLINSON'S LAWS OF NEW JERSEY: 1776
82. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of Our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January 1776 ... By Samuel Allinson.... Burlington: Isaac Collins, 1776. Folio. viii, 493, [1], 6, 6, 4, 4, 3, [1], 15 p. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, very skillfully executed in period style. The usual foxing and browning present in all copies, occasional minor spotting, else a very good, desirable copy in a handsome and correct period-style binding. $1000
A compilation of all the laws in force in New Jersey in 1776. Though begun several years earlier, publication was delayed by Governor William Franklin's constant quarrels with the assembly, the outbreak of hostilities, and, finally, as Allinson notes in his preface, the inability to obtain sufficient paper, "... the Want of [which] stop'd the Press several Weeks at sundry Times, until more could be manufactured." The quality of the paper varied considerably, and all copies exhibit differing degrees of foxing and browning from gathering to gathering. There are several contemporary manuscript corrections, also present in all copies and probably done in the printer's shop. For a detailed account of the evolution and printing history of Allinson's Laws, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 158. Evans 14911.
REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD LAWS OF NEW JERSEY
83. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Acts of the Council and General Assembly of the State of New-Jersey, from the Establishment of the Present Government, and Declaration of Independence, to the end of ... December, 1783; with the Constitution Prefixed ... By Peter Wilson. Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1784. Folio. x, 389, [1], 28, 4, 4, 30 p. Early decorated paper-covered boards, later calf spine, leather spine label (worn at extremities). Title leaf somewhat soiled and dampstained, marginal dampstain on next few leaves, the usual foxing and browning of some gatherings as found in all copies, small piece torn from the top blank margin of 3G2, without loss. George S. Woodhull's copy. $900
A compilation of New Jersey laws passed between 1776 and 1783, and the work that updates Samuel Allinson's compilation of 1776. A great many of the laws pertain to the American Revolution. For a detailed account of the evolution and printing history of Wilson's Laws, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 161-2. Evans 18632. WILLIAM PATERSON'S REVISION OF THE LAWS OF NEW JERSEY
84. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Laws of the State of New Jersey, Revised ... by William Paterson. New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt, 1800. Lg. folio. [2], xxi, [1], 455, [33] p. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, very skillfully executed in period antique style. The usual minor foxing and spotting, but a fine copy in a correct period-style binding. $1000
A complete revision and compilation of the laws of New Jersey, begun in 1792 while Paterson was governor of the state and completed while he was associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Consolidating the existing statutory law with the Common Law of England, Paterson essentially re-wrote much of the state's law. The work is a monument both to Paterson's extraordinary legal mind and to his remarkable abilty to produce and complete such a complex undertaking while serving successively as governor and Supreme Court justice. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 168, for a detailed nine-page study of the evolution of this landmark New Jersey book. Evans 38064.
THE "CHEAP" EDITION OF PATERSON'S REVISION
85. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Laws of the State of New-Jersey; Revised and Published, under the Authority of the Legislature, by William Paterson. Newark: Matthias Day, 1800. Lg. 8vo. [2], 455, [1], xxi, [1], 2, 46, [1] p. Modern full calf in antique style, red and black spine labels. Minor marginal spotting at rear of text, else a fine copy. $900
The octavo edition of Paterson's Laws, printed by Matthias Day from sheets of the folio edition as they came from Abraham Blauvelt's press. Blauvelt's folio was an essential but expensive book, and Day saw a market for a less costly edition, printed on super royal paper in octavo format. The text on each page was nearly identical to that in the folio edition, so that a citation to one edition was also a citation to the other. For a detailed description of the evolution and printing of this edition, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 169. This copy contains the original title page, with the horse's head in the state arms facing to the left. When the remainder of the edition was purchased from Day by Newark printer and bookseller William Tuttle in 1814, Tuttle printed a new title page, dated 1800 but most easily identified by a right-facing horse's head. Evans 38063.
CONSECUTIVE RUN OF THE SESSION LAWS, 1901–1950
86. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Acts of the One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth [-One Hundred and Seventy-Third] Legislature of the State of New Jersey.... Trenton, 1901 [-1950]. A consecutive run, handsomely and uniformly bound in tan law buckram with black and red leather spine labels. In excellent condition. The set, $850
A consecutive 50-year run of the annual session laws of New Jersey, in a very desirable uniform binding. A necessary reference work for an institution. NEW JERSEY ALMANAC FOR 1786
87. THE NEW-JERSEY ALMANACK for the Year of our Lord 1786 ... By Timothy Trueman. Trenton: Isaac Collins, [1785]. 12mo. [40] p. Anatomy woodcut. Untrimmed and stitched, but stitching perished and last few gatherings loose. Some soiling, particularly on first few leaves and outer rear leaf, else very good. $750
Eighteenth-century New Jersey almanacs are now seldom seen on the market. Evans 19276; Drake 5133; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 182.
NEW JERSEY ALMANAC FOR 1801
88. THE NEW-JERSEY and PENNSYLVANIA ALMANAC, for the Year 1801 ... By Abraham Shoemaker. Trenton: Sherman, Mershon & Thomas, [1800]. [36] p. Stitched. Light staining and soiling on first and last few leaves, else very good. $450
The verso of the final leaf contains an advertisement for George Rea, Trenton clock- and watchmaker. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 198; Drake 5207; Evans 38498.
NEWARK IN ITS GLORY DAYS, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED
89. (NEWARK). Art Work of Newark. Chicago: W. H. Parish, 1892. Sm. folio. 12 parts, in wrappers, as issued (complete). Collotype photographic plates. All wrappers very brittle, as always with this work, and most are detached at the spine. The front wrapper of the first number is heavily chipped around the edges. Internally fine and fresh. $400
Superb photographic and architectural record of Newark in its glory days. Includes plates of houses, commercial and industrial buildings, churches and public buildings, bridges, street scenes, landscapes, etc. The photographs are beautifully produced collotypes, with great detail.
THE FIRST NEW JERSEY CITY DIRECTORY
90. (NEWARK). Directory of Newark, for 1835-6. With an Historical Sketch. Newark, 1835. 102 p. + [2] p. ads. Original sheep-backed plain boards. Spine quite worn with inner hinges renewed, else a very nice, clean copy. $475
The first Newark directory, and the first directory of a New Jersey city. The compilers were William W. Moulton and Benjamin Thompson Pierson, and the press run was 600 copies. Pierson would eventually compile and publish twenty-seven more Newark directories before his death in 1862. We have seen a copy with a contemporary notation on the title page that the historical sketch is by the Rev. Charles G. Halsey, but this is not documented elsewhere. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 572, for a lengthy account of this first New Jersey directory. ONE OF THE GREAT ARCHITECTURAL LITHOGRAPHS OF NEW JERSEY
91. NOTMAN, JOHN. State Capitol of New Jersey at Trenton. Built, 1794. Altered & Enlarged 1845 & 46. Philadelphia: T. Sinclair's lith., [ca. 1845]. Large folio (42 x 61 cm. plus full original margins). Professionally cleaned and very skillfully colored. One very light crease in the sky and a few very small marginal tears very neatly and unobtrusively repaired. Correctly framed in a period- style, leaf-gilt antiqued frame, acid-free fillets under the rabbet, by one of America's leading museum framers. A beautiful example. $3000
By 1845 New Jersey's State House--built in 1794--had become both inadequate and in need of considerable repair. Philadelphia architect John Notman was retained to prepare a set of drawings, which were accepted, that dramatically altered and enlarged the original structure. Construction began in 1845 and was completed the next year. See C. M. Greiff, John Notman, Architect (1979), pp. 82-90. At some point in the process drawings by Notman were provided to the Sinclair firm, which produced three lithographs: one depicting the original 1794 structure, and two depicting the Notman alterations and addition, one a northeast and the other a southeast perspective. All three are very rare today: in thirty years of handling New Jerseyana, this southeast view is the first of the three that we have ever offered for sale. This is a lovely copy, on a full uncut sheet, tastefully colored, and beautifully and correctly framed. Cannot be shipped.
MATTHIAS OGDEN LETTER: 1775
92. OGDEN, MATTHIAS (1754-1791). Autograph letter signed, Eliz. Town, 18 March 1775. To an unidentified Aaron, possibly his brother. 2 pages, folio. A trifle darkened, but very good. $750
A charming letter, possibly to his brother, the future Governor Aaron Ogden, about women. "I read with pleasure your love intrigues ... with Miss T ... Steadily Aaron. Money is alureing, & there is pleasure in gratifying a Friend, but let not a fortune buy your peace, nor sell your happiness to gratify a Friend ... I understand her fondness for C. was after she was acquainted with you ... Be cautious Aaron weigh the matter well ... Let not her sense, her education, her modesty, her graceful actions, or her wit, betray you...." A full letter, entirely in this vein. Several months later Matthias Ogden would leave with Arnold's expedition to Quebec.
ATLAS OF THE ORANGES, DEPICTING DWELLINGS
93. (ORANGES). Atlas of the Oranges, Embracing the Cities of Orange and East Orange, Town of West Orange, Village and Township of South Orange, New Jersey. Compiled from Actual Surveys, Official Records and Private Plans, by J.M. Lathrop and T. Flynn. Philadelphia: A.H. Mueller, 1911. Folio. 2 printed leaves + 27 double-page colored maps, all linen-backed, as issued. Leather-backed cloth. Outer hinges broken and leather dry and beginning to powder, leather tabs perished, all as usual, else a nice clean copy, otherwise tightly bound. $900
Each map covers one section of the town and indicates all dwellings and commercial buildings and their construction (stone, frame, brick, etc.), including barns and stables. Names of all but the smaller property owners are indicated, as are all other improvements. An important local atlas. THE EARLIEST VIEW OF THE PASSAIC FALLS
94. (PASSAIC FALLS). A View of the Falls on the Passaick, or Second River, in the Province of New Jersey . . . Sketch'd on the Spot by His Excellency Governor Pownall. . . . London: For John Bowles, Robert Sayer, Thos. Jefferys, Carington Bowles, and Henry Parker, [1768]. 14.5 x 21.2 in. (platemark) plus 1/4 in. margins. Black and white etching/engraving. Two tears into image neatly closed, skillfully backed in tissue by a leading American conservator. $2000
The first published image of the Passaic Falls and one of the earliest published images of New Jersey. The artist, Thomas Pownall, served as lieutenant-governor of New Jersey and governor of Massachusetts and spent several years in America between 1753 and 1759. His sketch of the Passaic Falls was given to London artist Paul Sandby, who made a finished painting from it and then an engraving. This engraving, along with five others (not New Jersey) from Pownall sketches, was published by Thomas Jefferys in London in 1761 as Six Remarkable Views in the Provinces of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania, in North America. Copies are very rare. Seven years later, in 1768, a second impression of the engraving was made for inclusion in a portfolio of 28 views entitled Scenographia Americana. In this second impression, the 1761 Jefferys imprint was removed from the plate and replaced with an undated line naming the five publishers of the new work. Other than the addition of a small "c.2." just below the lower right-hand corner of the image, no other changes were made to the plate for the second impression, which we offer here. Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints, 568.
WILLIAM PATERSON'S COPY
95. (PATERSON, WILLIAM). Lilly, John. A Collection of Modern Entries: or, Select Pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer... London: By W. Strahan and M. Woodfall, for J. Worrall and B. Tovey [et al], 1771. Folio. [8], 676, [30] p. Contemporary sheep. Binding scuffed and worn at extremities, front hinge broken and cover formerly held on with cellophane tape and now neatly jacketed in clear mylar. Early signature torn from front endpaper. $900
Fourth edition of a standard eighteenth-century legal reference work, from the library of William Paterson, with his signature at the top of the title page. Paterson (1745-1806) was a Revolutionary War veteran, signer of the Constitution, governor of New Jersey, and a justice of the United State Supreme Court. In addition, during the last decade of the eighteenth century he almost singlehandedly revised the laws of New Jersey.
THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER NEW JERSEY NOVEL
96. PETERSON, CHARLES J. Kate Aylesford. A Story of the Refugees. Philadelphia, [1855]. [5], 22- 356 p. + [20] p. advts. Cloth. A very worn but complete copy, as follows: spine ends worn with some cloth loss; outer rear hinge cracked but solid; spine a bit canted; corners worn through; front free endpaper and flyleaf wanting; several gatherings sprung. Withal, a decent copy of a book that, when found, is almost always in very worn condition. $750
First edition, first issue, of a novel laid in the Pine Barrens during the Revolutionary War. The action takes place at Sweetwater, now Pleasant Mills, Atlantic County. Kate Aylesford is the quintessential heroine of Victorian fiction. Many of the local scenes are identifiable, and the heroine's mansion is the Elijah Clark house, still standing on Lake Nescochague at Pleasant Mills. The 1778 raid at Chestnut Neck is an important part of the action, and the "Pine Robbers" are conspicuous in the action. The story first appeared serially in a Philadelphia newspaper, then was released in book form in 1855. It was reprinted, with trifling changes, in 1858, and was reissued in 1873 with a new title, The Heiress of Sweetwater. By J. Thornton Randolph. It is the most sought-after New Jersey novel, and copies are invariably worn and well-read. For a detailed essay on the book, the characters, the author, and the publication history, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1210.
THE NEW BRUNSWICK PRESBYTERY - 1800
97. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. PRESBYTERY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. Rules Established by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, for their own Government; and recommended ... to the Observation of their Churches. Together with a Pastoral Letter, addressed to all the Churches .... New Brunswick: A. Blauvelt, 1800. 30 p. Later half morocco (front hinge rubbed). A nice copy. $300
Evans 38317; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 219.
1776 BURLINGTON IMPRINT
98. RELLY, JAMES and JOHN. Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs, Sacred to the Praise of God our Saviour. Burlington: Isaac Collins, 1776. [2], iv, [1], 4-236, [8] p. incl. list of subscribers' names. Later library binding. Ex-library, with numerous 19th-century stamps throughout. A trifle brittle, with a tear on X1. $400
An early Isaac Collins Burlington imprint. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 226; Evans 15042.
SCARCE RECORD OF A NEW JERSEY CIVIL WAR REGIMENT
99. RODGERS, RICHARD N. Epitome of the 37th Reg't, New Jersey Volunteers. New York: J. Craft, printer, [1864]. Broadside, 19.5 x 13.5 in. Folded into leather-backed cloth portfolio, leather label on front cover, as issued. Neatly rebacked. $550
Printed label on the inside front cover reads: "Epitome 37th Regiment, N.J. Vols., by R. N. Rodgers, Co. E. Privately printed, October 25th, 1864." A very handsome and large broadside, headed by woodcuts of an American eagle, the arms of New Jersey, and a tombstone. The text, enclosed within a typographic border, is in four columns and lists officers, dead and wounded, and remarks. Sinclair 426.
FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON THE GEOLOGY OF NEW JERSEY
100. ROGERS, HENRY D. Report on the Geological Survey of the State of New Jersey. Philadelphia, 1836. 174, [1] p. Folding colored geological section. Original cloth, printed paper spine label. Extremities moderately worn, particularly along front hinge, endpapers foxed, else a lovely copy. $850
First edition of the first published work on the geology of New Jersey. In 1835 the state legislature authorized a geological survey of New Jersey under the direction of Henry D. Rogers. The next year Rogers issued this preliminary report of his findings; in 1840 he issued a "final" report. This first report is very scarce and it is only the third copy we have had for sale in more than 35 years. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 945.
COMPLETE RUN OF AN 1811 BURLINGTON PERIODICAL
101. THE RURAL VISITER. A Literary and Miscellaneous Gazette. Burlington: D. Allinson. Vol. I no. 1, Jul. 30, 1810, through vol. I no. 52, Jul. 22, 1811. 4to. 268, [2] p. Volume title page not present. Contemporary sheep-backed boards. Very heavily worn, some dampstaining. $350
All published. A complete run of this literary, scientific, and ephemeral weekly periodical published by David Allinson and his brother, John C. Allinson. Valuable articles on contemporary methods of raising specific crops, manufacturing techniques, domestic hints, and much local South Jersey news and notices. Each number was issued with two pages of advertisements, but when sets were bound, as here, these 13 leaves were almost always cancelled. For a full history as well as bibliographical analysis of the work, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1269.
DANIEL SCUDDER OF SCUDDER'S FALLS
102. SCUDDER, DANIEL. Deposition taken before Benjamin Biles about fish pounds in the Delaware River, 18 September 1762. Signed by Scudder and by Biles. One page, folio. Fine condition. $300
Daniel Scudder (1736-1811), whose family farm overlooked the Delaware River at present-day Scudder's Falls in Ewing Township, Mercer County, states that his plantation is opposite a fish pound in the Delaware, and that he is a part owner of the pound. He further states that five years earlier he saw a raft coming down the river that became stuck on the walls of the pound and had to be separated, and he feels similar pounds are a hindrance to river navigation.
ONE OF THE SCARCEST NEW JERSEY LOCAL HISTORIES
103. SHAMPANORE, FRANK. History and Directory of Warren County, New Jersey. Washington, N.J., 1929. 4to. Unpaginated. Illus., folding map. Last leaf in facsimile. Post-bound in limp cowhide, as issued. $375
One of the scarcest, and most sought-after, New Jersey local histories. Shampanore published the book with the intention of updating it periodically with additional material, and for this reason he chose a post binding with a cover of limp cowhide. Though a bit unusual, the binding has held up well. The directory part of the work is arranged by town and includes street addresses and occupations.
SIMCOE'S MILITARY JOURNAL
104. SIMCOE, JOHN GRAVES. Simcoe's Military Journal. A History of the Operations of a Partisan Corps, Called the Queen's Rangers, Commanded by Lieut. Col. J. G. Simcoe, During the War of the American Revolution.... New York, 1844. xvii, [4], 14-328 p. 10 folding lithographed battle plans. Contemporary boards, printed paper spine label. Persistent dampstain at lower inside corner of entire text block, foxing throughout. Stitching loosening, spine beginning to split. A respectable copy of a book very difficult to find in fine condition. $1000
First American, and first published, edition, after a small edition printed in Exeter, England, in 1787 for private circulation. This edition contains considerable additional material as well as a memoir of the author. Simcoe, a British officer, led the Queen's Rangers, a regiment composed largely of American Loyalists. The regiment took part in actions in Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey from 1777 to 1780, in which year they went to Virginia, where they remained until Yorktown. Two of the battle plans depict Southern New Jersey engagements: the skirmish at Quintin's Bridge and the surprize at Hancock's House. Howes S-461; Clark I, 311; Lande 749.
THE FIRST HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY
105. SMITH, SAMUEL. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New-Jersey: Containing, an Account of its First Settlement, Progressive Improvements, the Original and Present Constitution, and other Events, to the Year 1721. With some Particulars Since; and a Short View of its Present State. Burlington: James Parker, 1765. x, 573, [1] p. Modern calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, very skillfully executed in period style. Noticeably foxed, as usual, a few blank corners torn away without loss. With contemporary ownership signatures of Burlington County residents Saml. Black and Abner Wright. $2000
The first edition of the first general history of New Jersey. James Parker left his Woodbridge printing office in the care of his son and moved to Burlington to fulfill a long-standing promise to Samuel Smith to print his history as soon as it was ready for the press. The printing press used was one belonging to Benjamin Franklin and formerly used by Franklin's nephew, Benjamin Mecom, in Antigua. The press was shipped from New York to Burlington in April of 1765, used for the Smith book and three or four smaller Burlington jobs, then sent on to Philadelphia in February of 1766, at which time Parker returned to Woodbridge. The press run was 600 copies, as indicated by Parker's bill to Smith. Parker printed two title pages simultaneously on a halfsheet, thus providing each title page a blank conjugate for binding that also precluded the need for a free front endpaper. This old time- and cost-saving printer's trick, combined with stop-press alterations in the text of a number of sheets, has led past bibliographers to speak of two distinct issues of the book. There is absolutely no correlation between the uncorrected and corrected sheets and the two title pages; all were freely mixed by the binder without any discernable pattern or priority. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 243, for a seven-page analysis of this cornerstone New Jersey book. Evans 10166; Miller, Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia Printing, 853; Streeter Sale 923; Howes S661.
1885 SMITHVILLE PAINTING?
106. (SMITHVILLE). Oil painting on board depicting a farm house, barn, and outbuildings, with surrounding fields. The land in the foreground is covered with water, much like a flooded cranberry bog. A straight, narrow strip of land, almost like a cranberry bog dike, lends support to this theory. The painting is unsigned and unidentified. However on the back of the period gilt frame is written in pencil: "Emma's house near Smithville New Jersey / Painted by her best freind Susan Lear 1885." Accompanying the painting is a late 19th century photograph by Fritz of Lambertville, N.J., iden- tified on the verso: "Aunt Sue Lear / Grandma Vasey's sister." The board is split twice horizontally; the frame is excellent. $750
A delightful painting, in primitive but detailed style. Unfortunately, without additional research, Emma, her farm, and the painting's subject remain a mystery. Probably the Burlington County, rather than the Atlantic County, Smithville.
PATERSON LOTTERY TICKET, OWNED BY AN EARLY AMERICAN JEWISH WOMAN
107. SOCIETY FOR ESTABLISHING USEFUL MANUFACTURES. Lottery ticket for the "Paterson Lottery," undated but about 1797. Printed by John Woods in Newark. Signed by Jonathan Rhea. A lovely example, with one very tiny chip out of the type ornament border on the left edge, else fine and fresh, with the ticket number in red ink. The ticket owner, Rachel Levy, has signed her name on the verso. $700
A rare ticket for the ill-fated S.U.M. lottery in Paterson, presumably owned by a member of the early American Jewish Levy family.
FIRST STATEWIDE ATLAS OF NEW JERSEY
108. STATE ATLAS of New Jersey. Based on State Geological Survey and from Additional Surveys by and under the Direction of F. W. Beers.... New York: Beers, Comstock & Cline, 1872. Folio. 122 p. This copy contains the 9 unpaginated leaves of "business notices" at the end that are not found in all copies. Cloth, leather spine and corners. Spine rough and breaking, as usual. U.S. map slightly foxed, one map split partly along binding stub, else an unusually fine and crisp copy internally--far better than most. $1500
The first statewide New Jersey atlas. The attractively hand colored lithographed maps of cities and towns show locations of buildings, names of property owners, etc.
EARLY WORK ON THE CONSTITUTION BY HOBOKEN'S JOHN STEVENS
109. [STEVENS, JOHN]. Examen du Gouvernement D'Angleterre, Comparé aux Constitutions des Etats- Unis. Où l'on Réfute quelques Assertions Contenues dans l'Ouvrage de M. Adams ... Par un Cultivateur de New-Jersey .... Paris: Chez Froullé, 1789. viii, 291 p. Modern French leather-backed marbled boards. Small early repair to bottom edge of title page, else a near-fine, wide-margined copy. $1250
The greatly enlarged first French edition of one of the earliest works on the Constitution, originally published in New York in 1787. Attributed by Sabin, Evans, and most other bibliographers (except Howes) to William Livingston, the work was actually written by Livingston's friend John Stevens (1749-1838), best known as a leading early American engineer and pioneer in the field of steamboat and railroad transportation. In the Stevens papers is a draft of the work in Stevens's hand, a receipt from the New York printer for printing 500 copies, and several letters of Stevens referring to the essay. Largely unappreciated in America, Stevens's work was a great success in France. The original 56-page pamphlet was turned into a 291-page book with notes by Dupont, Condorcet, and Mazzei. There is much comment on John Adams's recently published Defense of the Constitutions. Howes S-968; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 254. ONE OF THE CLASSIC WORKS OF BLACK NEW JERSEYANA
110. STILL, JAMES. Early Recollections and Life of Dr. James Still. [Philadelphia]: Printed for the author, 1877. 274 p. Port. Cloth. A heavily worn copy, lacking both free endpapers, inner margins strengthened with library cloth, portrait dampstained around edges. A complete copy in a fair original binding. $300
Autobiography of a Black physician in the rural Burlington County Pine Barrens. This is one of the classic works of Black New Jerseyana and a scarce and desirable book. Most copies are in rough condition, and this copy is rougher than most, but it is complete and in the original binding and would make a very respectable copy until a better one becomes available.
STOCKTON FAMILY CARNELIAN SEAL
111. (STOCKTON FAMILY). Carnelian seal with the arms of the Stockton family. Second half of the 19th century. 6 cm. in length, cut from one solid piece of Carnelian. In fine condition. $350
The Stockton arms and motto, "Omnia Deo Pendent." A handsome seal.
THREE-PAGE RICHARD STOCKTON LETTER, 1770
112. STOCKTON, RICHARD (Signer of the Declaration of Independence, one of New Jersey's five Signers). Autograph letter signed, Princeton, 24 July 1770. To Aaron Leaming at Cape May. 3 full pages, folio. On legal matters in Cape May. Ink very light, but entirely readable. Folds, a central eroded spot on the second leaf costs several letters. $2500
Richard Stockton is one of the scarcer Signers of the Declaration, and full autograph letters are very difficult to find. This three-page letter is priced low because Stockton's ink is very light. The letter, which discusses Stockton's representation in a legal matter in Cape May involving Aaron Leaming, is completely legible, but the hand is faint and reading requires some effort. The letter has just come from a collection of family papers and has never been on the market.
THE S.U.M. VERSUS THE MORRIS CANAL—THE OPENING SALVO
113. [SULLIVAN, JOHN L.] Report, on the Origin and Increase of the Paterson Manufactories, and the Intended Diversion of their Waters by the Morris Canal Company: also on Post Rail Roads, as the Means of Cheap Conveyance throughout New-Jersey, of bringing Susquehanna Coal to the Iron Mines and Forges, and to Supply Paterson and New-York: also on a Method of Supplying the City of New-York with Water from the Great Falls of the Passaic. Paterson: Day & Burnett, at the office of the Paterson Intelligencer, 1828. 60, [2] p. Folding map, with routes highlighted in colors. Stitched and untrimmed, as issued. Nineteenth-century library blindstamps (faint), occasional light soiling, else a very good, as-issued copy. $900
The opening salvo in the pamphlet war between the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures and the Morris Canal and Banking Company. By 1827 Roswell Colt, governor of the SUM, had become concerned about competition from the expanding Morris Canal company, and, after complaining to the state legislature, he retained civil engineer John L. Sullivan to prepare a report detailing the damages that would be sustained by the SUM if the canal company continued its present course. The report is a broad document treating the history of the SUM, the economic prosperity of the Paterson area, the amount of water needed to operate the mills in the area, an alternative route for the Morris Canal, a proposed new canal and railroad, and other concerns. The folding map depicts the northern part of the state with the existing and the proposed canals and railroads highlighted. Cadwallader Colden issued a pamphlet in reply to Sullivan, and Sullivan in turn responded to Colden with yet another pamphlet. For more information, see Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1348. A highly important document in the early industrialization of New Jersey, and only the second copy we have offered for sale in almost forty years. Shoemaker 35438; Rink 2839.
MAJOR TRENTON LAND DEVELOPMENT
114. (TRENTON). Enterprise Land Co. Plan of Building Lots and Manufacturing Sites, Lying between Brunswick Avenue and Clinton Street, East Trenton, N. J. Surveyed and Drawn by C. C. Haven, Civil Engineer, 1873. Redrawn 1890. [Trenton, 1890]. Lithographed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia. Black and white, with most lots hand colored in red. 66.5 x 90.5 cm. Linen backed and folded into period cloth case. Both map and case are considerably worn from use, with one partial fold split, but still quite good. $350
The Enterprise Land Company was a major landowner and developer in the industrial heyday of Trenton, and this is the company's own copy of the map. It is heavily annotated in pen and pencil with names and notes of all kinds. The locations of many important manufactories are indicated, including about ten named potteries and tile companies, a brick works, &c. This part of East Trenton was at that time a major manufacturing center of industrial Trenton.
LOVELY ETCHING OF THE OLD BARRACKS PRIOR TO RESTORATION
115. (TRENTON). Original etching by Robert Shaw, The Old Barracks, Trenton, N.J. New York: B.F. Buck, 1910. 26 x 36 cm. (platemark) plus very wide margins. Black and white, sepia-toned. Signed in pencil by Shaw. In very fine condition. $400
One of 500 copies. A fine, highly detailed chine colle etching depicting the barracks before its twentieth century restoration. Excellent architectural details. Shaw (1859-1912) was a well known American etcher whose work is becoming increasingly collected.
EARLY TRENTON CITY DIRECTORY
116. (TRENTON). The Trenton Directory, 1872 ... By J.H. Lant & Co. Trenton, 1872. lxviii, [49]-316 p. Cloth-backed printed boards. Boards darkened from soiling, extremities a bit worn, but tight and very good. $325
Includes business directories of the city and of the surrounding communities. HE CLAIMED HE OWNED NEW JERSEY
117. VARLO, CHARLES. The Essence of Agriculture, being a Regular System of Husbandry, Through all its Branches; Suited to the Climate and Lands of Ireland ... with the Author's Twelve Months Tour thro' America.... London: For the author, 1786. v, [3], 283, [1], 124 p. Fold. table. Modern half calf antique. Some worm trails in early leaves, else very good. $900
First edition of Varlo's frequently-reprinted treatise on agriculture, with an account of his travels in America. Varlo (ca. 1725-ca. 1795), a Yorkshireman farming in Ireland, came to America in 1784 to prosecute a bogus claim to a part of New Albion, roughly including parts of New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. He traveled along the coast from Boston to Virginia, placing advertisements in newspapers and generally attempting to be heard. He even published a book, A New System of Husbandry (Philadelphia, 1785). After his return to Europe he published The Essence of Agriculture, which, like most of his books, he reissued randomely and repeatedly, altering titles, rearranging or interchanging sections, and adding and removing pages of subscribers' names. Later editions were titled Nature Displayed and The Floating Ideas of Nature. Howes V51. See also Clark, Old South, II, 129, and Felcone, New Jersey Books, 281-283.
A CONSECUTIVE RUN FROM THE FIRST NUMBER
118. VINELAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. Vol. I no. 1, Jan. 1916, through vol. 60, 1984. Original wrappers, as issued. Includes the Centennial Number published in 1961. In fine condition. $400
A consecutive run, from the first number through the year 1984, of one of the oldest local historical journals in New Jersey. Begun as a quarterly in 1916 by Vineland antiquarian Frank D. Andrews, the magazine is still published, annually, by the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian Society, and the issues after 1984 can be obtained from them.
THE FIRST MEDICAL BOOK PRINTED IN SOUTH JERSEY
119. WARE, THOMAS E. Wesley's Family Physician, Revised: and Ware's Medical Adviser. A Book of Receipts ... for the Benefit of Families, Clergymen, Philanthropists, and Reformers. Salem, N.J.: S. Prior, Jr., 1839. 96, [2], 94 p. Sheep-backed marbled paper-covered boards (considerably worn at the extremities with pastepaper boards exposed). Piece torn from fore-edge margin of pp. 49/50, costing several letters, usual foxing, but a good, tight copy, with the sheep spine in very good state. $450
Apparently the first medical book printed in South Jersey (a pamphlet dissertation on dysentery by Benjamin Champneys was printed in Bridgeton in 1805). The first text is John Wesley's Primitive Physic, considerably revised by Ware from the 1814 edition; the second text is Ware's own Medical Adviser, consisting chiefly of Thomsonian and botantic remedies. Thomas E. Ware (1808?-1844), of Salem, was licensed by the New Jersey Medical Society in 1830 and practiced botanic medicine in Salem. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1413, for a more detailed account of this book and of the unusual Dr. Ware. American Imprints 59164, 59087. BENJAMIN OWEN TYLER AND PETER MAVERICK COLLABORATION
120. (WASHINGTON, GEORGE). Engraved calligraphic print, "Eulogium Sacred to the Memory of the Illustrious George Washington, Columbia's Great and Successful Son: Honored be his Name." New York: Benj. Owen Tyler, 1815. 17.3 x 21 in. Engraved by Peter Maverick, Newark, N. Jersey. Mounted on linen with wooden rollers at the top and bottom (bottom detached), as issued. 1.5 x 2.5 inch piece missing from the left margin, costing four letters of the title and a bit of the calligraphic border. Surface abrasion and some wrinkles, quite quite good. $550
A classic production of the great early American calligrapher Benjamin Owen Tyler in collaboration with the important early American engraver Peter Maverick. At the center is an oval stipple portrait of Washington above a pedestal. Surrounding this central image is a most remarkable display of calligraphy, "Designed written and published by Benjamin O. Tyler, professor of penmanship, New York, 1815. Engraved by P. Maverick, Newark, N. Jersey." Stephens, The Mavericks, 767.b.
EARLY ELIZABETHTOWN IMPRINT
121. WATTS, ISAAC. Horae Lyricae. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind.... Elizabeth-Town: Shepard Kollock, 1793. 12mo. 219 p. Contemporary sheep. Old crude repair to spine, front hinge broken, early newspaper cuttings pasted to endpapers. $300
Evans 26439.
EARLY ELIZABETHTOWN IMPRINT
122. WATTS, ISAAC. Miscellaneous Thoughts, in Prose and Verse, on Natural, Moral and Divine Subjects ... The First American Edition. Elizabeth Town: Shepard Kollock, 1796. 12mo. 240, [3] p. Contemporary mottled sheep (hinges cracked, spine scuffed, part of label gone). Internally some foxing and toning, but a nice copy. $300
Evans 31580.
WEEHAWKEN TURNPIKE COMPANY LEDGER
123. WEEHAWKEN TURNPIKE CO. The Original manuscript ledger of the "Weehawken Turnpike Company, Aug. 1837." Folio. Only 6 pages used, the remainder blank. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards. In very fine condition. $450
The Weehawken Turnpike Company was incorporated in 1837 and this is its initial (and only?) record book. The accounts are with William Cooper and Francis Price, two of the incorporators. Only six pages are used, and the final entry is dated Jan. 1, 1840. Present-day Hudson County.
THE FIRST MEDICAL BOOK PRINTED IN NEW JERSEY
124. WESLEY, JOHN. Primative [sic] Physic; or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases. Trenton: Quequelle and Wilson, 1788. 12mo. 125 p. Modern full sheep, superbly executed in period style. Title leaf washed and very skillfully laid down, lower corner neatly replaced, random dampstaining and a few chipped corners. A correctly restored copy of a very scarce book. $1800
The first medical book printed in New Jersey. Wesley's Primitive Physic (here misspelled on the title page by novice printers Frederick C. Quequelle and George M. Wilson) is a collection of remedies for the treatment of diseases, symptoms, and accidental injuries. First published in London in 1747, it was reprinted more than forty times over the next eighty years. This Trenton edition is rare, and the handful of located copies are largely in poor condition from very heavy use. Evans 21589; Austin 2029.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH IN SOUTH JERSEY
125. WEST NEW JERSEY BAPTIST ASSN. Minutes of the Thirty-Seventh [-Sixty-Fifth] Anniversary ... 1848 [-1876]. V.p., 1848-1876. The 29 consecutive issues, handsomely bound together in 3/4 leather. $325
Much information on individual Baptist churches in South Jersey. The organization was called the New Jersey Baptist Association until 1854, when it changed its name to the West New Jersey Baptist Association.
THE S.U.M. VERSUS THE MORRIS CANAL
126. [WILLIAMSON, ISAAC H.] Law Opinion, in the Case of the Paterson Manufacturing Society, against the Morris Canal and Banking Company. Paterson: D. Burnett, 1829. 27 p. Stitched and uncut, as issued. Right one third of title page torn away, cropping a letter or two in each of three lines (chiefly blank margin torn away), foxed. Priced accordingly, $450
Williamson's opinion as chancellor, refusing to grant an injunction sought by the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures against the Morris Canal and Banking Company. The SUM, fearful of competition from the canal company, argued that the operation of the Morris Canal would so deplete the waters of the Passaic River that the society's mills at Paterson would be adversely affected. Williamson held that until the society could demonstrate an actual loss, rather than a contemplated one, no injunction would issue, but the canal company must proceed at its own peril. A very scarce pamphlet, and the first copy we have ever had for sale. While the defective title page is indeed regrettable, only a handful of letters are affected, as the loss is chiefly blank margin. Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1421.
EARLY WITHERSPOON WORKS
127. WITHERSPOON, JOHN. Essays on Important Subjects. Intended to Establish the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, and to Point Out its Influence on Holiness of Life. London: For Edward and Charles Dilly, 1765. 12mo. 2 vols. vi, 279, [5] p.; [2], 290 p. Contemporary sprinkled calf. Name clipped from top margin of title page of first volume and free endpaper of second volume, else a lovely copy inside and out. $900
An early edition of selected Witherspoon works. FIRST EDITION OF WITHERSPOON'S WORKS
128. WITHERSPOON, JOHN. The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon ... Late President of the College, at Princeton New-Jersey. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Author's Life ... by Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New York.... Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1800. 3 vols. (36, [4], 37-604 p.; 632 p.; [4], 9-611, [12] p.) Very skillfully rebound in period-style calf-backed marbled paper-covered boards, original endpapers retained throughout. Vol. 3 has a minor paper defect on B1 affecting two letters and gathering 2T is stained, else a lovely set with only slight foxing, in a very handsome and correct period-style binding. $2500
The first collected edition of Witherspoon's works, prefaced by John Rodgers' 1795 funeral sermon on Witherspoon. Includes all of Witherspoon's most important works. A fourth volume was issued by Woodward in 1801. Witherspoon was a distinguished Presbyterian theologian, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and the only minister to sign the Declaration of Independence. Evans 39128; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 299.
SECOND EDITION OF WITHERSPOON'S WORKS
129. WITHERSPOON, JOHN. The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon ... Late President of the College at Princeton, New-Jersey. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Author's Life ... by Rev. Dr. John Rodgers, of New York.... Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1802. 4 vols. [15], 13-569, [3] p.; 586 p.; [4], 9-592 p.; 475, [13] p. incl. list of subscribers' names. Complete. Rebound in modern red buckram. Title page of vol. 1 a trifle foxed, else a remarkably fine, clean, unfoxed set, neatly but unsympathetically rebound in buckram. Priced considerably less than a set in a period or period-style binding. $750
The second collected edition of Witherspoon's works, prefaced by John Rodgers' 1795 funeral sermon on Witherspoon. Includes all of Witherspoon's most important works. The text does not differ greatly from the first edition of 1800-1801, but the type is entirely reset, some corrections and additions have been made, and the order of the selections is altered. Witherspoon was a distinguished Presbyterian theologian, president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), and the only minister to sign the Declaration of Independence. S&S 3572; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1430.
BURLINGTON EDITION OF ARTHUR YOUNG'S HUSBANDRY ESSAYS
130. [YOUNG, ARTHUR]. Rural Economy, or Essays on the Practical Parts of Husbandry: Designed to Explain Several of the Most Important Methods of Conducting Farms of Various Kinds ... To which is added, The Rural Socrates.... Burlington: Isaac Neale, 1792. 299, [1] p. Contemporary mottled sheep. Upper hinge beginning to crack, light internal toning, else a very nice copy. $400
Felcone, New Jersey Books, 312; Rink 1110; Evans 25061.
THE MORRISTOWN GHOST!
131. YOUNG, DAVID. The Wonderful History of the Morristown Ghost .... Newark: Benjamin Olds, for the Author, J.C. Totten, printer, 1826. 76 p. Later half morocco (dry, hinges cracked, bottom of spine chipped). Lower blank corner of text block dampstained with some erosion loss, not affecting type. Bookplate. $350
The delightful account of the "Morristown ghost." One Ransford Rogers, supposedly a Connecticut schoolmaster, was brought to Morris County in 1788 because of his professed ability to communicate with spirits. It was the belief of many local residents that, at the outbreak of the Revolution, the Tories in the vicinity of Schooley's Mountain had buried money and other valuables in the hills. After the defeat of Great Britain, many of these Loyalists fled, leaving behind their buried possessions. These treasures were guarded by hobgoblins and apparitions. If the spirits could be dispelled, great riches would be available. Rogers, seeing a perfect opportunity in the gullible local residents, concocted a series of noctural events to reinforce the faith the locals had in his ability to communicate with the spirits. Once he had gained their confidence, he began to extract money from them. Eventually his scheme was discovered, and he was jailed. Released on bail, he fled the area, and was never seen again. Young's edition is re-written from the extremely rare Newark, 1792 original edition. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 1449, for a long entry on the book.
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