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JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since  JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since 1972 post office box 366 • princeton, new jersey 08542 usa tel (609) 924-0539 • fax (609) 924-9078 e-mail [email protected] • web site www.felcone.com È Rare New Jerseyana 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.
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