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On the front cover: 151. [Prang, Louis]: [American Card Album]. [Boston. 1864].

On the rear cover: 152. [Prang, Louis]: [Views in Central Park]. [Boston. 1864]. Justifying American Liberty in 1770

1. Adams, Amos: A CONCISE, HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIF- FICULTIES, HARDSHIPS, AND PERILS WHICH ATTENDED THE PLANTING AND PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENTS OF NEW-ENGLAND. WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF ITS LONG AND DESTRUCTIVE WARS, EXPENSIVE EXPEDI- TIONS, &c. Boston printed, London reprinted. 1770. [2],68pp. Lacks half title. Dbd. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

History of New England from the time of settlement through the French and Indian War. This work contains much information on King Philip’s War, as well as the French and Indian War. Toward the end the author comments on the current state of affairs, mentioning the Stamp Act and its repeal: “This was a strange turn in favour of American liberty.” “One of the fullest and most interesting narratives of the establishment and development of the Colony of New England, with particular emphasis on the various Indian Wars and Expeditions” – Eberstadt. Relatively scarce. ESTC T31122. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 69-1b. EBERSTADT 106:2 (1st ed). HOWES A43. SABIN 170. $1250.

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

2. Adams, John Quincy: [ Jefferson, Thomas]: THE DUPLICATE LETTERS, THE FISHERIES AND THE MISSISSIPPI. DOCU- MENTS RELATING TO TRANSACTIONS AT THE NEGOTIA- TION OF GHENT.... Washington: Printed by Davis and Force, 1822. 256,3pp. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt morocco label (half chipped away). Boards rubbed, spine chipped and worn, front board nearly detached. Text tanned and foxed. Good. In a folding leather box, gilt morocco labels.

A wonderful association copy, connecting John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jef- ferson. Jefferson was America’s first Secretary of State and, as the country’s third president, concluded the Louisiana Purchase, a diplomatic coup of the first order. John Quincy Adams, arguably America’s greatest diplomatic mind, was Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, before going on to serve as president himself, from 1825 to 1829. This book is Adams’ examination of the role he played in the negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent, which resolved the War of 1812, a conflict with roots in Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. This volume was in Jefferson’s final library (formed between selling his second collection to the Library of Congress in 1815 and his death in 1826), and was sold at the dispersal of those books in 1829, where it was bought by a Virginia lawyer and acquaintance of Jefferson, John Peyton. John Quincy Adams compiled the documents which make up this book while he was Secretary of State, two years before he was elected president. In 1822, Adams faced mounting criticism surrounding his actions in 1814, when he was among the American negotiators who concluded the Treaty of Ghent. Adams responded with this volume, in which he brings together the correspondence and reports of the negotiations he conducted with the British to resolve the War of 1812. As ever, Adams was very sensitive to criticism, and this exhaustively defends his work. British depredations against American shipping and the American Navy (including the impressment of sailors) were constant pre-occupations of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, and they were among the root causes of the War of 1812 (prosecuted by Jefferson’s successor, James Madison). Jefferson was also passionately concerned about American access to the Mississippi River, and this desire was one of his major motivations in concluding the Louisiana Purchase, the outstanding achievement of his presidency. That subject is also discussed in this book, making it of even greater interest to Jefferson. On October 11, 1822, Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson presenting him with this copy of his book. Adams wrote:

Dear Sir, I have taken the liberty of transmitting to you a pamphlet which I have felt a necessity of giving to the public. So far as it involves a mere personal controversy I should not have thought it worthy of being presented to you. [?] much of it I would request of you the favour to overlook. Nor after the recent manifestation of the public sentiment on this subject would this collection of documents have appeared, but for the questions of general interest to the Union implicated in the discussion, and which as affecting the welfare of our country, I know can never be objects of indifference to you. It is from this motive that I am induced to ask your acceptance of the volume, and avail myself of the occasion to renew the tender of my sincere veneration. Jefferson responded to Adams with a letter from Monticello dated October 23. He returned “his thanks to Mr. Adams for the copy of the Ghent Documents which he has been so kind as to send him. So far as concerns Mr. Adams personally, the respect and esteem of the public for him was too firmly and justly fixed to need this appeal to them. But the volume is a valuable gift to his fellow citizens generally, and especially to the future historian whom it will enable to give correct ideas of the views of that treaty and to do justice to the abilities with which it was negotiated. He begs leave to salute Mr. Adams with assurances of his highest esteem and respect.” Books from Jefferson’s library are usually identifiable by Jefferson’s method of putting a manuscript “T” before the “I” signature mark in a gathering (the letter “J” not being commonly used), and a “J” following the “T” signature mark. The present book is not signed in letters, but in numbers, and so Jefferson has written his “T” before the signature numbered “1”, as was his custom in such volumes. This book was lot 691 in Nathaniel P. Poor’s catalogue of Thomas Jefferson’s library, sold at auction in Washington commencing February 27, 1829. It was purchased at that sale by John H. Peyton, whose ownership signature is on the front pastedown. John Howe Peyton (1778-1847) was born in Virginia, attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), and practiced law in his native state. He was a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, served in the Virginia House of Delegates, and from 1839 to 1845 in the State Senate. Peyton also bought the preceding lot in the Jefferson library sale (the Report of the Convention of New York, lot 690 in the Poor sale), and he probably bought others. Peyton’s provenance, and Jefferson’s characteristic mark, firmly establish this as the copy Adams gave Jefferson, and the one that was on Jefferson’s shelves in his final library when he died. An outstanding association copy, linking two of America’s most bibliophilic presidents to a book whose subject was of great personal and political interest to them both. SABIN 276. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7740. $65,000.

Presentation Copy from John Quincy Adams to His Nephew

3. Adams, John Quincy: AN EULOGY: ON THE LIFE AND CHAR- ACTER OF JAMES MONROE, FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.... Boston. 1831. 100pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly chipped; inscribed by the author on front cover. Light dampstaining to top edge of first few leaves. About very good. Untrimmed.

A long and eloquent rendition of James Monroe’s career by the man who served him as Secretary of State and succeeded him as president. This copy is inscribed by the author to his nephew: “Isaac H. Adams, From his Uncle, J.Q. Adams.” A nice association, and a warm tribute to a man who had been opposed to his father politically, but with whom J.Q. Adams found common ground as a diplomat and statesman. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5630. $10,000.

Presentation Copy from the Former President

4. Adams, John Quincy: ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARAC- TER OF GILBERT MOTIER DE LAFAYETTE. DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BEFORE THEM, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AT WASHINGTON, ON THE 31ST DE- CEMBER, 1834. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Fine. In a half morocco box.

A presentation copy of Adams’ speech honoring the memory of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette. Though not inscribed, this copy is in a presentation binding of red straight-grained morocco, of the sort favored by the Adams family for decades, and is printed on thick paper. John Quincy Adams devoted his entire career to government service. The son of President John Adams, he himself served as the sixth president, as a U.S. Sena- tor from 1803 to 1808, as Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in the U.S. Capitol in 1848. Moses Mason, Jr. (1789-1866) was born in Dublin, New Hampshire, and moved with his family to Maine when he was about ten years of age. He studied medicine and practiced it in Maine, and also held a number of local civil service positions. Mason was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Jacksonian, and served from 1833 to 1837. Adams provides a review of Lafayette’s contributions to American independence and his activities in the decades after the Revolutionary War, particularly his involvement in the French Revolution and various French governments which followed. In this brief biography, Adams reflects “upon the life and character of a man whose life was, for nearly threescore years, the history of the civilized world – of a man, of whose character, to say that it is indissolubly identified with the Revolution of our Independence, is little more than to mark the features of his childhood – of a man, the personified image of self-circumscribed liberty.” An eight-page appendix records Congressional actions related to the death of Lafayette. SABIN 295. JACKSON, p.208. $12,500.

5. [African Slave Trade]: [Royal African Company of England]: THE CASE OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY OF ENGLAND. London: Samuel Aris, 1730. 34pp. including woodcut vignettes on titlepage and first page of text. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked, leather label stamped in gilt. Contemporary shelf mark inscription and 1860 engraved bookplate of the Library of the Earls of Macclesfield on front pastedown. Contemporary embossed stamp of the Earls of Macclesfield on titlepage. Titlepage slightly soiled. Bottom edge closely trimmed throughout, affecting a few printed characters (catchwords, signature marks, and date of imprint on titlepage). Single text correction in a contemporary hand on p.17. A very good copy.

A scarce history and defense of the monopoly of the Royal African Company on the West African slave trade, the account also includes references to the Dutch West India Company, the Spanish West Indies, and various British colonies in America. This text is not a reprint of the circa 1709 publication of the same title (which was concerned with the decline of the company after independent traders were admitted to its lands), but is one of at least four publications issued by the Royal African Company in 1730 defending its status and practices. European Americana records copies at Boston Public Library, Baker Library at Harvard, the James Ford Bell Library, and the British Library. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 730/215. SABIN 73763. HANSON 4083. KRESS 3856. GOLDSMITHS 6772. BELL R410. $4250.

The First American Agricultural Periodical

6. [Agriculture]: [Wiley, David, editor]: THE AGRICULTURAL MU- SEUM: DESIGNED TO BE A REPOSITORY OF VALUABLE IN- FORMATION TO THE FARMER AND MANUFACTURER, AND THE MEAN [sic] OF A FREE COMMUNICATION OF SENTI- MENT, AND GENERAL INTERCHANGE OF IDEAS ON THE IMPORTANT SUBJECTS OF THEIR OCCUPATION. Georgetown: Printed for the editor by W.A. Rind, 1811. Thirty-four consecutive issues, dated July 4, 1810 (Vol. 1, No. 1) through April 1812 (Vol. 2, No. 10). [4],392 [without pp.337-338, as published],[2]; 312pp. [pp.9-16 bound out of order]. Modern calf, spine gilt, gilt morocco label. Light, even tanning; scattered foxing. Dampstaining to titlepage, margins of earliest leaves, and gutter of later leaves. Two leaves torn in lower outer corner, not affecting text. Very good.

A nearly complete run (lacking only the final issue) of the very rare Agricultural Museum, the first American magazine devoted to the important subject of agriculture. Editor David Wiley audaciously launched his periodical without a single subscriber, issuing the first number from Georgetown on July 4, 1810. Wiley was secretary of the Columbian Agricultural Society, and he apparently hoped that the members of that society would support it. It ran for a total of only thirty-five issues, first semi-monthly and then only monthly, finally expiring in May 1812. The final issue in this volume is dated April, 1812 (volume 2, number 10). Much of the contents consists of extracts from proceedings of American and foreign agricultural societ- ies, and there is a valuable series of articles on wheat. John Taylor of Caroline and Joel Barlow were among the contributors. OCLC locates runs of The Agricultural Museum at Penn (apparently complete) and at the American Antiquarian Society (an incomplete run). Of Rink’s listings, only the copies at the National Agricultural Library and Harvard appear not be microfilm. A rare, important, early American agricultural periodical, appearing at a time when farming was a major component of the American economy. MOTT, AMERICAN MAGAZINES I:152-153. EDGAR, AMERICAN MAGAZINES 5. RINK 52. $2750.

The Aitken Bible, First English Bible Printed in America

7. [Aitken Bible]: Aitken, Robert (printer & publisher): THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS,: NEWLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES.... Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, 1781-1782. Two parts bound in one volume. [1452]pp. Unpaginated, the Old Testament collates [pi],A-ZZ in twelves, Aaa5. The New Testament collates A-Dd in sixes (including a W signature). Complete with the title-leaves to both the Old and New Testa- ments, along with the certification leaf from Congress. 12mo. Original calf, skillfully rebacked with original spine laid down, corner tips repaired. Minor foxing and staining, skillful repairs to a few leaves, leaves A 3-4 of the New Testament with slight loss to the foredge of the leaves, affecting a few letters of text. Final leaf of text and rear flyleaf reinforced with Japan tissue. Overall a quite good copy of this fragile book, seldom found in the original binding and with contemporary provenance. In a half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

The Aitken Bible is one of the most celebrated American Bibles, being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era, the monopoly on printing English Bibles belonged to the Royal Printer, and the colonies were supplied entirely with Bibles printed in England. The first Bible printed in the British colonies in America was the famous Eliot Indian Bible, in Algonquin, issued in Cambridge in 1661-63 and reprinted in 1680-85. The 18th century saw the printing of Bibles in German. With the American Revolution, the British monopoly on English-language Bibles naturally ended, and the embargo on goods from England acted to create a shortage. Aitken, a Philadelphia printer, undertook the task, producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament in 1782. On completion, he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production, the Aitken Bible is often referred to as “The Bible of the Revolution.” A major rarity in American Bibles and American printing, this book has become very difficult to find in any condition. The present example, despite minor faults, is a very good copy of a work usually found in poor condition, in an attractive contemporary American binding. This copy of the Aitken Bible is also interesting for its evidence of contemporary ownership, with the signature “William Mahany His Book July 7th 1788” on the front fly leaf and the further annotation on the second blank fly leaf: “William Mahany his book the 1st day of the 6th mo. Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Nine 1789.” The last two leaves contain biographical information noting the death of his wife and daughter in 1812. Mahany, a Quaker, lived in Chester County, Pennsylvania. DARLOW & MOULE 928. SABIN 5165. EVANS 17101, 17473. HILDEBURN 4126, 4184. NAIP w004490. HILLS 11. O’CALLAHAN, p.31. $150,000.

The Original Life Magazine

8. [American Periodical]: [COLLECTION OF 207 ISSUES OF Life MAGAZINE]. New York. 1893-1905. 207 issues. Some light wear and soiling. Overall very good. In ten uniform red half morocco and cloth boxes, spines gilt.

Extensive collection of the original Life magazine, which began publication in 1883 and ran until 1936, when it was purchased by Time. In its original incarnation, Life was similar to Puck, being a general-interest periodical with some light humor and many illustrations. Its contributors included some of the leading artists and writ- ers of the day, including illustrators Norman Rockwell and Charles Dana Gibson. This is a significant run of the magazine, with most of the issues from the turn of the century, 1895-1899 and 1901-1902, with a scattering of issues from other years between 1893 and 1905. This collection is very handsomely housed in half morocco boxes. $1500.

Classic History of the Woman’s Suffrage Movement in America: Inscribed by Susan B. Anthony to Her Close Colleague and Supporter, George Francis Train

9. Anthony, Susan B.; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Matilda Joslyn Gage; and Ida Husted Harper, editors: HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Rochester, N.Y. 1881, 1881, 1886, 1902. Four volumes, with fifty-seven plates. Large octavo. Original burgundy publisher’s cloth, spines gilt. First volume expertly rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Volumes 2 and 3 with institutional blindstamp on titlepage, new endpapers, and remnants of labeling on the spine. Hinges a touch weak. Very clean internally. Very good overall.

The first and fourth volumes of this set are inscribed by Susan B. Anthony, to the noted author, entrepreneur, and agitator, George Francis Train. Train and Anthony spent weeks together in Kansas in 1867 stumping for women’s rights, and later toured the country together. Train was the creator and principal backer of Susan B. Anthony’s important newspaper, The Revolution, published from 1868 to 1870. The inscription in the first volume reads: “George Francis Train / with grateful memory / of his valuable aid / in Kansas in 1867 & / the Revolution 1868 / Susan B. Anthony / Madison Square / Nov. 22, 1881.” The inscription in the fourth volume reads: “George Francis Train / & his daughter / Stamford Ct. / See what gains have / been made since – Kansas 1867 – / four states with full suffrage – Wyoming / Colorado, Utah & Idaho – great hopes for / the future – with great respect & gratitude / Susan B. Anthony / 17 Madison St / Rochester / N.Y. / June 20, 1903.” Train’s contributions to the women’s suffrage movement, especially with regard to the campaign in Kansas, are discussed in the second volume of this work. George Francis Train (1829-1904) was born in Boston, received an education in Massachusetts, and found work in a relative’s shipping office in Boston. He went on to manage the company’s offices in Liverpool and Melbourne, Australia before embarking on a tour of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Train became a proponent of streetcar lines in England and railroads in the American West, involved himself in numerous public issues, including the Fenian cause, and wrote several books. Train was a major supporter of women’s rights, and provided financial backing for Susan B. Anthony’s newspaper, The Revolution. He first met Anthony in 1867, when she invited him to help the cause of women’s rights in Kansas (he was then developing real estate in Omaha). Train was a candidate for the Ameri- can presidency in 1872, joined the French Communists (only to be expelled from France in 1870), and championed Victoria Woodhull. His greatest impact on the public imagination stemmed from his around-the-world trip of 1870, which he accomplished in eighty days, serving as the inspiration for the Jules Verne novel. Train travelled around the world at least two more times, and became increasingly eccentric in his old age. A key work, a record of the various documents that formed the basis of the women’s rights movement. All four volumes are present here in their first editions. This work was published over an extended period, accounting for the similar but not uniform bindings, with varying imprints. In 1922 two additional volumes were published, but are not present in this set – as would be expected since George Francis Train died before their publication. Edited by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper, the first three volumes were published between 1881 and 1887, and the first supplementary volume (volume 4) appeared in 1902. Because of the extended and varied means of publication, complete sets are rare, and generally ex-library. The volumes document the speeches, papers, correspondence, and other records of the women’s rights movement, and to some degree the temperance and abolition movements as well. The first four volumes include documents from the 19th century, as follow: Volume 1: 1848-61; Volume 2: 1861-76; Volume 3: 1876-85; Volume 4: 1883-1900. The introduction to the fourth volume describes the first three volumes as representing “the seed-sowing time of the movement,” while the fourth volume captures the harvesting of the first few fruits of that “long period of persistent tilling and sowing.” The set is illustrated with copper-plate, steel-engraved, and photogravure portraits of prominent and lesser known figures in the fight for women’s rights. ALLIBONE, CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 1378. $15,000. The First American Book on Geology and Mining

10. [Barba, Alvaro Alonso]: GRÜNDLICHER UNTERRICHT VON DEN METALLEN.... Ephrata: J. Georg Zeisiger, 1763. 198,[4],14pp., including a second titlepage within the pagination and a full-page plate on p.187. Contemporary ruled calf, raised bands. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, chipped at spine ends, small chip in front board. Lightly tanned and foxed. Overall, very good, in original condition.

The first book on mining and geology published in North America. Barba’s work was originally published in Madrid in 1640 as Arte de los Metales. Barba was a priest who was at Potosí, Peru when its silver mining industry was at its height. The book, the earliest on American mining, ores, and minerals, gives a description of the revolutionary practices being implemented in the mines. Barba describes the generation of metals, methods of extracting silver by mercury, the process discovered in 1607 for extracting gold, silver, and copper by boiling with a salt solution and mercury in a copper vessel, and the refining and separation of these metals. There is also a chapter on petroleum products in Peru and elsewhere. The plate shows mining tools and a brick oven. This Pennsylvania printing of Barba’s work makes it the first book printed in the British colonies on mining and mineralogy, and therefore a landmark publication. Why it was printed by the Ephrata Cloister, which operated the second German- language press in the colonies, is a mysterious and interesting question. Copper mines had been discovered in neighboring New Jersey in the early 18th century, but coal was not mined in Pennsylvania until the 1770s, and the Appalachian gold deposits were not discovered until after the founding of the United States. “Very rare imprint” – Sabin, who notes that a copy had been recently (i.e. 1886) priced in a dealer catalogue for $90. A rare work, and an Americana landmark. Rink locates seven copies. EVANS 9333. NAIP w018481. HILDEBURN 1873. SEIDENSTICKER, p.60. DOLL & FUNKE 399. ARNDT 267. RINK 769. SABIN 67375. $12,500.

The Shores of Tripoli

11. [Barbary Wars]: Guerrazzi, John B.: THE BURNING OF THE AMERICAN FREGATE [sic] THE PHILADELPHIA IN THE HARBOUR OF TRIPOLI HAPPILY EXECUTED BY THE VAL- IANT CAP. DECATUR TO WHOM THIS PLATE IS RESPECT- FULLY DEDICATED BY HIS OBEDIENT SERV[ANT]. Livorno, Italy: “[ John] B. Guerrazzi, Sold at Leghorn,” 1805. Copper engraving. Sheet size: 10¼ x 14¾ inches. Trimmed to within the image area and shaved, with loss to the title and imprint at foot; neat repairs to image area. Else very good.

A very rare engraving depicting one of the most exciting events in the history of the Barbary Wars, the destruction of the U.S.S. Philadelphia by Stephen Decatur in the harbor of Tripoli. Lord Nelson is said to have called Decatur’s action “the most bold and daring act of the age.” The engraving shows the Philadelphia on fire in the Tripoli harbor, with a huge column of fire and smoke rising from it. The harbor and city of Tripoli are seen in the background, and in the left foreground is the ship, Intrepid, and smaller boats, prepared to sail away after their heroic act. The First Barbary War (1801-5) began when the Pasha of Tripoli demanded payment from the United States in order to keep American shipping from being attacked in Mediterranean waters (a similar tribute had been paid by the U.S. to Algiers earlier). The new president, Thomas Jefferson, refused, the Pasha declared war, and a squadron of American ships under Commodore Richard Dale was sent to Tripoli to blockade the coast. In October 1803 one of those ships, the Phila- delphia – commanded by Captain (later Commodore) William Bainbridge – ran aground in the harbor of Tripoli. The ship surrendered, and the officers and men were taken captive. The Philadelphia itself, however, was deemed too valuable to fall into enemy hands, and the decision was made to destroy it. On February 16, 1804 a team of American sailors, commanded by Stephen Decatur, Jr., recaptured the ship and burned her in the harbor of Tripoli. This engraving is indicated as being “sold in Leghorn,” the Anglicized name of the city of Livorno, on the northwest coast of Italy. John B. Guerrazzi published another engraving from the Barbary Wars, showing Commodore Preble’s attack on Tripoli (see Olds 107 and 108). Though not formally allied with the United States, the Italian states were also antagonized by the Barbary pirates, and it is not surprising that the Italians would celebrate American successes. The fact that Ital- ian printmakers commemorated these actions with engravings made in a northern Italian port town, and that these engravings survive at all today, is quite remarkable. OCLC lists only a photograph of the present print, in the Library of Congress, which does not have a copy of the original print. OLDS, BITS AND PIECES OF AMERICAN HISTORY 104. GROLIER CLUB, UNITED STATES NAVY 1776 TO 1815, 24. AMERICAN NAVAL BROADSIDES 27. OCLC 76958776 (ref ). $7500.

12. Barber, John W.: A HISTORY OF THE AMISTAD CAPTIVES: BEING A CIRCUMSTANTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE CAPTURE OF THE SPANISH SCHOONER AMISTAD, BY THE AFRICANS ON BOARD; THEIR VOYAGE, AND CAPTURE NEAR LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EACH OF THE SURVIVING AFRICANS ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF THE TRIALS HAD ON THEIR CASE... New Haven. 1840. 32pp. including in-text illustrations and a map. Lacks the folding frontispiece found in some copies. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Old un- obtrusive blindstamp in the upper outer corner of the titlepage. Titlepage reinforced along gutter. Scattered foxing. Very good.

A history of this celebrated case, in which a cargo of Africans who were being smuggled into the South as slaves in 1839, rose up and massacred the crew of the Amistad, on which they were being transported. The Africans managed to sail the boat, but without navigational skills they ended up off Long Island, where they were captured. Piracy claims against them were suppressed, and jurisdiction placed in Connecticut, so that the case was heard in New Haven, a leading abolitionist center. At the time Barber wrote this pamphlet, the fate of the Africans was still undecided, although in the following year the Supreme Court upheld lower rul- ings and declared them free; they were later returned to Africa by private charity. Barber gives a history of the incident and biographies of the Africans then on trial. Woodcuts in the text show profiles of the Africans, beginning with Cinque, their leader. A rare and important piece of Afro-Americana. SABIN 3324. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40-480. DUMOND, p.24. COHEN 11836. $3000.

An Early American Library Mission Statement: The Founding of One of the Earliest American Subscription Libraries

13. Barton, Thomas: PREFACE TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE JU- LIANA LIBRARY OF LANCASTER (PENNSYLVANIA) written by the Rev. Thomas Barton of Lancaster [manuscript title]. Lancaster. [ca. 1766]. [2],10,[2]pp. Folio. Stitched leaves. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling, heaviest to title leaf. With manuscript corrections by the author. Very good.

Manuscript draft of the prefatory text of the catalogue for the Juliana Library, the third subscription library in the colony of Pennsylvania. It was written by Thomas Barton (1728-80), an English-born Anglican minister, who was given the pulpit in Lancaster by the Penns in 1759. An ardent Loyalist, he was later evicted from the colony when the Revolution broke out and spent the last two years of his life in British-occupied New York City, dying a self-declared martyr. Barton worked tirelessly on behalf of the Penns, and this document is likely part of those efforts. The Lancaster Library Company was established in 1759 and later renamed the Juliana Library Company, after Juliana Penn, daughter of William Penn, to secure her favor for support of the library. Barton’s text lauds the value of learning and knowledge, and, interestingly, gives a brief history of libraries. After singing the praises of various European establishments, he turns his eyes to the colonies and the libraries present here, saying:

Several of the Colonies have already founded publick seminaries of knowledge, and each seems fir’d with an emulation to excell....In this glorious contest, the Province of Pennsylvania claims no small degree of merit...the Juliana Library in Lancaster is yet in its infacy, & has nothing to boast of except the notice & encouragement it has receiv’d from Persons whose names would do honour to any institution; and that the means of knowledge are thereby brought the nearest westwardly of any that we know of, to the borders of Error and Barbarity.

A manuscript mock-up of the titlepage, as well as the dedicatory text, follows the text of the preface. The manuscript matches almost exactly the printed version of the catalogue produced by Hall and Sellers in 1766, the primary difference being that Sellers is left off the imprint in the manuscript draft. The proposed seal is also outlined in the final leaf of manuscript. The layout of the titlepage and dedicatory text also match the printed version, leading one to the conclusion that this may have been a working draft for setting the type for that item (Evans 10350). The Juliana books were put in storage during the American Revolution, but the library reopened in 1784 and lasted another fifty years before being dispersed. A few remnants passed to its successor institution, the Lancaster Public Library. EVANS 10350 (ref ). $7500.

Archive of an Early Episcopal Minister in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York

14. Belden, David: [EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED MANUSCRIPT SERMONS, WITH TWO DIARY FRAGMENTS, BELONGING TO EPISCOPAL PRIEST DAVID BELDEN]. Various places in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. 1785-1825. More than 100 individually stitched sermons, plus two sections of journal and several other fragments. Detailed further below. Primarily small quarto booklets, each typically 10 to 12 leaves. Some light soiling and wear, but generally very good and highly legible.

A large and interesting archive of manuscript sermons written by Episcopal minister David Belden (1764-1832). Originally from Connecticut, Belden graduated from Yale College in 1785 and was ordained as a deacon. Significantly, Belden has docketed most of the sermons to indicate when and where they were preached, and some of these date as early as 1785, the year the American Episcopal Church established itself as distinct from the Anglican Church of the pre-Revolutionary period. Through his docket notes, on can trace his career as an Episcopal minister and see just how wide-ranging it was. Most of his earlier ministerial activity seems to have centered on congregations in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and Hudson, New York. From 1793 to 1798, Belden was the first Episcopal minister at Duanesburg, New York, near Albany. After this it appears Belden moved back to downstate Connecticut, ministering primarily in Fairfield County. He appears to have had a church in Weston, Connecticut for some time, as most sermons are docketed thus. Other locations noted by him throughout the years include Kings- bury and Saratoga Springs, New York; Lee and Sandiesfield, Massachusetts; and in Connecticut: New Fairfield, Danbury, Ridgefield, Redding, New Canaan, and Norwalk. The last of the sermons was given in 1825, when Belden was sixty-one. Perhaps he retired at this point; he died seven years later. In addition to this significant archive of early American sermons, there are two sections of Belden’s journal recording daily activity, which are written in an engag- ing manner and filled with details. These date to March through May of 1788 (20pp.) and January through February of 1795 (32pp.), with a final appended entry for December of that year, recording the birth of his son in some detail. He notes visits to local families in New Haven County, recording some of the details of his journey through the Connecticut wilderness, including a trip through an Indian village. In an entry for January 22, 1795 he writes:

I set out for Great Barrington, traveled ten or twelve miles upon the east bank of the Hausitonick River, then crossed the river at Bull’s Bridge & travelled several miles upon the west side of the river. Passed through Scattikook, an Indian settlement on the west bank of the Hausitonick. It is a level tract of land in quantity I should judge about two hundred acres. Having the river on the east & a high mountain on the west, it is enclosed at each end with a fence & a field gate. It contains a number of wigwams, which were all deserted, except two or three, the Indians & squaws having some of them gone into the swamps & some into white families in the adjacent towns.

An important and interesting archive of an Episcopal minister in Connecticut and New York in the Federal period. $9000.

Indian Orator

15. [Benezet, Anthony]: AN ACCOUNT OF A VISIT LATELY MADE TO THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS IN PHILADELPHIA, BY PAPOONAHOAL, AN INDIAN CHIEF, AND SEVERAL OTHER INDIANS, CHIEFLY OF THE MINISINK TRIBE. WITH THE SUBSTANCE OF THEIR CONFERENCES ON THAT OCCA- SION. London. 1761. 21,[1]pp. 16mo. 19th-century three quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Lightly foxed. A good copy. In a red half morocco slipcase, spine gilt.

The Siebert copy of this rare work, which includes the speeches of Indian chief Papoonahoal. “Papoonahoal was an extraordinary Indian chief, who, in his native forests, before communication from Christian advisers had reached him, conceived the design of personal moral reform. To forward this purpose he took back to Philadelphia three white prisoners and several stolen horses which he had purchased from hostile tribes” – Jones. Papoonahoal’s speeches to the governor were much admired by Field, who calls them “models of good sense and religious conviction... worthy of a place on the same page with the most renowned sayings of the heroes of antiquity.” ESTC records only seven locations for this work. ESTC N15870. FIELD 1167. SIEBERT SALE 170. JONES 504. JONES II:173. SABIN 58493. $11,000.

16. Beyer, Edward: [COLLECTION OF THIRTY-TWO PLATES FROM BEYER’S Album of Virginia; or, Illustration of the Old Dominion]. Richmond [i.e. Dresden & Berlin, Germany]: Edward Beyer [but printed by Rau & Son of Dresden and W. Loeillot of Berlin], 1857-1858. Thirty-two (of forty) tinted plates after Beyer by Rau & Son or W. Loeillot. Oblong folio. Dbd. Lacking the tinted lithographic title and eight plates. Some expert restoration, else very good.

A large selection from one of the foremost works of American scenery from the golden age of lithography. “This is a major outstanding item, the rarity of which is by no means fully appreciated” – Bennet. The following plates are included:

“View from Little Sewell Mountain No. 1 / Fayette County Va.” “Warm Springs / Bath County Va.” “The Drum’s...The Tapestry Room...Weyers Cave / Central R.R. Augusta County Va.” “The Little Tunnel near Shawville Va. & T.R.R. / Montgomery County Va.” “Red Sulphur Spring / Monroe County Va.” “Kanawha Fall / Fayette County Va.” “Old Point Comfort. / Hygeia Hotel.” “Old Sweet Spr. / Monroe County Va.” “The Salt Pond from the Salt Pond Knob / Giles County Va. No. 2.” “Salt Sulphur Spring / Monroe County Va.” “Falling Springs / Bath County Va.” “Burner’s White Sulphur Spr. Shenandoah Co.” “Bullard Rock on the New River / near the New River White Sulphur Spr. Giles County Va.” “View from Gambles Hill / Richmond Va.” “View from Little Sewell Mountain No. II / Fayette County Va.” “The high bridge near Farmville” “Fauquier White Sulphur Springs / Fauquier County Va.” “Blue Sulphur Spring / Greenbier County Va.” “Yellow Sulphur Springs / Montgomery County Va.” “The Salt Pond from the Salt Pond Knob / Giles County Va. No.1” “Harper’s Ferry from Jefferson Rock / Jefferson Co. Va.” “View from the Hawk’s Nest / Fayette County Va.” “Viaduct on Cheat River B. & O. R. R. / Preston County Va.” “View from the Peak of Otter / Bedford County Va. No. 2.” “Rockbridge Alum Spring. / Rockbridge County Va.” “Stribling Springs / Central R. R. Augusta County Va.” “Rockfish Gap and the Mountain House / Central. R. R. Augusta Co. Va.” “Album of Virginia. / Views / of / Wyer’s Cave / Augusta Co. / Virginia / taken from Nature / by / Ed. Beyer / 1856” “Natural Bridge / Rockbridge County Va.” “James River Canal near the mouth of the North River. / Rockbridge County Va.” “U.S. Armory in Harpers Ferry / Jefferson County Va.” “Red Sweet Springs / Monroe County Va.”

Edward Beyer was a German artist who visited the United States in the early 1850s. He chose to concentrate his work on Virginia and Kentucky, spending three years in Virginia working on the original drawings for this book. Although the title notes that the copyright was registered by Beyer in the District of Virginia, the book was actually produced in Germany, with the plates being prepared in Dresden or Berlin. The superb tinted lithograph views (printed in black with, generally, two further colors) include beautiful natural scenes, Harper’s Ferry, White Sulphur Springs, railroad bridges and tunnels (e.g. Highbridge near Farmville), views in Weyer’s Cave, and scenes at many of the fashionable spa resorts which nestled amid the mountains of Southwest Virginia. Deak writes of Beyer:

He was taken by the beauty of the Virginia landscape, particularly by the elegant settings of some of the region’s watering places. Virginians responded warmly to Beyer’s enterprise and often gave him advance access to architectural plans when these could be of help to him. There was probably no Virginia county that Beyer left unvisited in his zeal to present what is, in fact, an affectionate family album of an entire state.

Deák praises Beyer’s “delicate and precise style” and “characteristic refinement of proportion.” HOWES B413, “b.” SABIN 5125. BENNETT, p.10. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 721. $20,000.

Boston Printing of a Hieroglyphical Bible

17. [Bible for Children]: A NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE FOR THE AMUSEMENT & INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN; BE- ING A SELECTION OF THE MOST USEFUL LESSONS; AND MOST INTERESTING NARRATIVES; (SCRIPTURALLY AR- RANGED) FROM GENESIS TO THE REVELATIONS.... Boston: W. Norman, [1794]. [2],144pp. plus folding plate. Contemporary wooden boards, covered in patterned paper, paper spine. Bottom inch of rear board lacking. Two later linen strips reinforcing hinges. Wear to binding. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good.

Illustrated Bible for children, with numerous woodcuts, including a full set of the Apostles and a full-page cut showing the Day of Judgement. The folding plate at the front shows two states of being, as depicted by a tree: that of a good Christian and that of the Natural Man. This is the second hieroglyphical Bible printed in America, preceded only by the Isaiah Thomas one of 1788. William Norman, the publisher, is better known as a map publisher and printer of the first American coastal atlas (1790). Quite nice, in contemporary condition, and of great rarity. EVANS 26651. BRISTOL B9480. SHIPTON & MOONEY 47726. WELCH 513.1. ROSENBACH 181. HAMILTON 153. SABIN 53019. $4000.

With Woodcuts with Contemporary Coloring

18. [Bible for Children]: KLEINE BIBLISCHE HISTORIEN, AUS DEM ALTEN UND NEUEN TESTAMENT. MIT VIELEN BUNT- EN BILDERN GEZIERT. Harrisburg, Pa.: G.S. Peters, 1838. 18pp., including colored illustrations on each page of text. Colored frontis. Colored titlepage vignette. 16mo. Original orange printed wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers. Light foxing to text. Contemporary ownership inscription inside front cover. Copper plate illustrations with contemporary color. Very good.

Illustrated Bible stories for children, printed for the German-American community. The woodcut illustrations are colored by hand using a stencil. Peters began publishing schoolbooks and children’s books in the 1820s, and became one of the first American publishers to routinely color children’s books, using a stencil process. From 1829 on Peters was based in Harrisburg. His colored productions are rare. $1250.

First Printing in America of the Bible in French

19. [Bible in French]: LE NOUVEAU TESTAMENT DE NOTRE SEI- GNEUR JESUS-CHRIST, EN FRANÇAIS, SUR LA VULGATE. TRADUCTION DE L. M. DE SACY. Boston. 1810. Two volumes bound in one. 403; 326,[1]pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Extremi- ties worn, spine and boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Light to moderate tanning throughout. Good. In a half morocco box.

First American edition of the Bible in French. De Sacy’s translation was the most widespread French Bible of the 18th century. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 19531. O’CALLAGHAN 1810:4a. $3000. The “Gun-Wad” Bible

20. [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christopher]: BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER TEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS MIT JEDES CAPITELS FURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARAL- LELEN.... Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1776. [4],992,277,[3]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal clasps; rebacked with original spine laid down. Later newspaper clippings (in German) pasted to front pastedown; contemporary ownership inscriptions on rear fly leaf. Some later and contemporary notations in text. Light foxing. Very good.

The third edition of the first European-language Bible printed in America, famously known as the “Gun-Wad Bible,” after its use in the American Revolutionary War as cartridge paper during the Battle of Germantown. It is also notable for being the first Bible printed from type cast in America. Reputed to have been printed in an edition of 3000 copies, most are said to have been destroyed by the British during the battle. The present edition was printed by Christopher Saur II, son of Christoph Saur the elder, a native of Wittgenstein, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition; the son then printed a second edition in 1763. EVANS 14663. HILDEBURN 3336. SABIN 5194. $6000.

Important German-American Bible

21. [Bible in German]: BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE GANZE GÖTTLI- CHE HEILIGE SCHRIFT ALTEN UND NEUEN TESTAMENTS, NACH DER DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LU- THERS.... Reading: Gottlob Jungmann, 1805. [52],1008,[4],277,[3]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf. Clasps lacking; front board detached. Contem- porary manuscript notations on first two leaves, and in text at some points. Lightly and evenly foxed. About very good.

A landmark in American bible printing, this is the first German-American Bible printed outside of Philadelphia, and the first Bible printed in Reading. A significant edition, both in size and scope, this marked the spread of German printers and the more local production of bibles in the Pennsylvania-Dutch back country. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 7984. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 1467. $1100.

The First Bible Published West of the Alleghenies

22. [Bible in German]: BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE GANZE GÖTTLICHE HEILIGE SCHRIFFT, ALTEN UND NEUEN TESTAMENTS, NACH DER DEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZKUNG DR. MARTIN LUTHERS. Somerset [Pa.]: Friedrich Goeb, 1813. [4],527,66,[2],169,[2]pp. Large, thick quarto. Contemporary calf with clasps. Minor wear to extremities. Contemporary notations in German on first two preliminary leaves. Some light scattered foxing and toning. A near fine copy.

A lovely copy of this highly important German-American Bible, notable for being the first Bible printed west of the Allegheny Mountains. Goeb emigrated from Germany in 1804, settling in western Pennsylvania and establishing himself as a printer, first in Chambersburg and later in Somerset, in far western Pennsylvania. Printed in two columns, this Bible includes the Old and New Testaments, as well as the Apocrypha. A handsome copy, in original condition. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 27883. BÖTTE & TANNHOF 2004. $2250. A Leaf Book of the German Bible in America

23. [Bible in German]: THE GERMAN BIBLE IN AMERICA. WITH 25 ORIGINAL LEAVES. Introduction by Don Yoder. New Haven; Bryn Mawr; New York. 2012. 20; 20pp. plus twenty-five original leaves tipped into accompanying folders. Text in both English and German. Large folio. Fine. In a custom clamshell box.

The German Bible in America has a long and significant history, reflective of the European culture which gave it birth, the local conditions of Pennsylvania, where it rose to its greatest heights, and the rich German-American culture created by emigrants and their descendants in the 19th-century United States. From the first American edition of a Bible in German, in 1743, through the late 19th century, numerous printers and publishers issued Bibles in various formats, ranging from large folios intended for lectern use to smaller versions for personal study. This leaf book celebrates the range and richness of these productions, indicative of the world of German culture in America in the 18th and 19th centuries, as expressed through its most widely studied text, in a series of twenty-five leaves. Each set contains two versions of the descriptive text, one in English and the other in German, with an introduction by Don Yoder, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Folklore and Folk-Life at the University of Pennsylvania. Further text describes the printers of each of the leaves, the circumstances under which they were printed, and other attributes. Each leaf is enclosed in an individual folder. The German Bible in America is issued in an edition of sixty copies, with fifty of the regular series and ten additional deluxe copies containing six extra leaves of illustrations from the illustrated Bibles included in the collection. This is one of fifty regular copies, numbered by hand. A deluxe issue, with six additional illustrated leaves, is also available for $3500. $2950.

First Spanish Language Bible Printed in America

24. [Bible in Spanish]: BIBLIA SAGRADA, A SABER: EL ANTIGUO Y EL NUEVO TESTAMENTO, TRADUCIDOS DE LA VULGATA LATINA EN ESPAÑOL. New York. 1824. 928,251pp. Contemporary calf. Front hinge neatly repaired, wear to corners, some rubbing. Later bookplate on front pastedown. Light to moderate foxing. Very good. In a half morocco box.

First American edition of the Bible in Spanish, printed by the American Bible Society for the use of missionaries in South America. This is a Catholic Bible, and so one of the earliest such in the U.S. as well. “Edicion I,” as noted on the verso of the titlepage. This text was taken from the Madrid edition of 1797, translated from the Latin by Felipe Scio de San Miguel, Bishop of Segovia. SHOEMAKER 15340. O’CALLAGHAN 1824:5. PARSONS 813. $6500. Item 24.

A Rare, Miniature, Colonial Bible Epitome

25. [Bible – Miniature]: VERBUM SEMPITERNUM. The Seventh Edi- tion with Amendments. Philadelphia: A. Steuart, [1769]. [288]pp., final leaf blank. Miniature, 50mm. Contemporary embossed paper boards. Spine mostly perished, corners rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front fly leaf. Later pink ribbon in book. Some light foxing. Very good.

An epitome of the Bible in verse, written by John Taylor and commonly known as the Thumb Bible. Thumb Bibles were generally intended for a juvenile audience. This is one of the more common texts used in America and is dedicated to William, Duke of Gloucester, with the date of publication suggested by Welch. Because of their diminutive size and young audience, early thumb Bibles are seldom found in fine condition. Rare, with only four copies located in ESTC. BRISTOL B2975. SHIPTON & MOONEY 42009. ADOMEIT, THUMB BIBLES A155. WELCH 1293.4. ESTC W5362. $2000. Inscribed to President Millard Fillmore

26. Boardman, H.A.: THE NEW DOCTRINE OF INTERVEN- TION, TRIED BY THE TEACHINGS OF WASHINGTON: AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN THE TENTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia. 1852. 63pp., plus 24pp. of advertisements and 4pp. of advertisements tipped in at the front. Original printed wrappers. Inscribed by the author to President Millard Fillmore on the front cover. Internally clean. Very good.

Second edition. This address, given by Henry Augustus Boardman, pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and prolific author, denounces the policy of political intervention proposed by deposed Hungarian leader Lajos Kos- suth in his speech before Congress. Kossuth, who was briefly President-Regent of Hungary, fled the country in 1851 after the collapse of his power base. Considered a revolutionary, he was feted across England and America and addressed the Con- gress, exhorting them to intervene in the quarrels of foreign countries to support democracy and freedom. Boardman is highly critical of this idea. This copy is inscribed on the front wrapper: “President Fillmore – With Re- spects of the Author.” At the time of the address Fillmore was president of the United States, although he failed to win renomination later in the year. By the time Fillmore received this pamphlet, he probably shared Boardman’s views. Kossuth, a flamboyant figure, was invited to the White House at the time of his address to Congress, and used the opportunity to call for American intervention. Fillmore mildly rebuked him, making it clear that intervention in the affairs of Europe was not American policy. Kossuth was so angry at this, he behaved very badly for the rest of the evening. Millard Fillmore, one of the most literate of presidents, had one of the most extensive libraries of any president. $2000.

In a Philadelphia Binding by Robert Aitken

27. [Book of Common Prayer]: [Aitken, Robert]: [Bookbinding, Ameri- can]: DAS ALLGEMEINE GEBET-BUCH WIE AUCH DIE AD- MINISTRATION DER H. SACRAMENTEN...DER KIRCHEN VON ENGLAND.... The Hague. 1718. xliv,728,[2]pp. Later 18th-century red morocco, boards elaborately gilt, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, morocco label. a.e.g., by Robert Aitken. Extremities rubbed. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage trimmed at top and backed with later paper. Lightly foxed. Very good.

The Book of Common Prayer for the Anglican Church, translated into German. This copy was bound by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia, possibly for Bishop Wil- liam White. Aitken was a printer, engraver, and bookseller in Philadelphia and is most notable for printing the first complete English-language Bible in America. This volume is a lovely example of Revolutionary-era American bookbinding from one of the most famous American binders of the period. Willman and Carol Spawn, “The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth Century Bindery and its Tools,” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, LVII (1963), pp.422- 37. $3500.

The First Episcopal Prayer Book: Suppressed!

28. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER... AS REVISED AND PROPOSED TO THE USE OF THE PROT- ESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT A CONVENTION...HELD IN PHILADELPHIA, FROM SEPTEMBER 27th TO OCTOBER 7th, 1785. Philadelphia, Printed; London, Re-printed: J. Debrett, 1789. [364] pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges neatly mended. Contemporary manuscript notations on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good.

The American Protestant Episcopal Church was founded after the American Revolution as an adaptation of the Church of England in the new United States. The church was founded at a convention in Philadelphia in 1785, at which it was agreed to create a separate prayer book, first published there in 1786. This is the London edition, published in a very limited number for the use of the bishops of the Church of England. Partly because of the opposition of the Anglican hierarchy to whom this was distributed, this prayer book was never adopted. “This edition, contains the alterations which were intended to adapt the Book of Common Prayer, of the Church of England, to the changed political conditions of this country; and is the result of a convention held in Philadelphia, in 1785, presided over by the Reverend William White. The proposed Prayer Book met with much criticism and opposition in the church, owing to its radical changes, and was never adopted. It was reprinted in London, in 1789, in an edition of fifty copies, without the eight engraved pages of music, for the use of the Anglican bishops in convocation, together with the Application of the American Church, for discussion” – Evans. Page called his copy “...one of the very rare existing copies.” “Few persons have ever seen this remarkable liturgical production, either in its American form or as reprinted in England; and without any discussion of the principles involved in its publication, the bibliographical fact may be stated, that a rarer book connected with American church history can hardly be named” – William Stevens Perry. EVANS 19940 (ref ). PAGE, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 53. ESTC T161150. SABIN 6349. $6000. A Rare Brooklyn Imprint

29. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, AC- CORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... Brooklyn: Thomas Kirk, 1801. [624]pp. Contemporary tree calf, gilt. Extremities lightly worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

Scarce and interesting Brooklyn imprint, bound here in a nice contemporary binding, with the Psalms following the devotional text, not always found in all copies. SHAW& SHOEMAKER 1196, 184. GRIFFITHS, BROOKLYN IMPRINTS 1801/16. $1500.

30. [Book of Common Prayer]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRA- TION OF THE SACRAMENTS AND OTH- ER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... Philadelphia. 1805. [2],80,[452],[2],95pp., plus seven plates and 6pp. subscribers list. Contemporary red roan, gilt, spine gilt extra. Extremities worn, boards lightly scuffed. Ownership inscriptions on front fly leaf. Light foxing and toning to text. Good.

An early edition of the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer, illustrated with engravings by Tanner after Robert Smirke. The Psalms follow the devotional text. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9205. $2000.

Printed in London for the Confederacy, but Taken from a Blockade Runner

31. [Book of Common Prayer]: [Confederate Imprint]: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SAC- RAMENTS; AND OTHER RITES AND CEREMONIES OF THE CHURCH, ACCORDING TO THE USE OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA: TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, 1863. [592],271,[1]pp. 16mo. Original brown morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Extremities lightly rubbed. Contempo- rary inscriptions on fly leaf. Contemporary newspaper clipping pasted on rear pastedown; modern bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good. In a blue cloth slipcase.

Book of Common Prayer, printed in London with a Richmond imprint, for use in the Confederacy. A contemporary newspaper clipping in the back gives the history of the publication: “It is a very beautiful volume....It was intended as an importation to the Confederate States, but failed to get in. Nearly 100 copies, of which this is one, were captured on the blockade-runner Robert E. Lee, and sold recently in Boston.” One of the inscriptions on the fly leaf notes the history of this particular copy: “This was given me by my gallant friend, who pursued the ‘blockade runner.’ She threw over-board much of her lading & this book was in a box that was soaked by the sea. A.C.C.” The ownership inscription, dated 1863, is that of Dr. A.C. Coxe, Bishop of Western New York. A romantic Civil War association. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 9157. $1500.

The Largest Book Produced in Colonial America

32. Braght, Tielman Janszoon van: DER BLUTIGE SCHAU-PLATZ ODER MARTYRER SPEIGEL DER TAUFFSGESINTEN ODOR WEHRLOSEN-CHRISTEN, DIE UM DES ZEUGNUSS JESU IHRES SELIGMACHERS WILLEN GELTTEN HABEN, UND SEYND GETODTET WORDEN.... Ephrata, Pa.: Drucks und Verlags der Brüderschafft, 1748-1749. Two volumes bound in one. 56, 478,[4],[14],949,[11]pp. Thick folio. Contemporary calf with brass corners. Front hinge cracked, extremities worn. Light scattered soiling and foxing. Very good.

A massive work from the noted Brotherhood Press in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, translated by Johann Peter Miller and commissioned by the Mennonites. With the rare engraved frontispiece. “The largest book printed at the Brotherhood Press. The Ephrata Brethren were three years engaged upon its printing and binding....The engraved frontispiece, representing the army of the martyrs marching to Heaven is generally missing, as the design was offensive to the Mennonites” – Evans. The largest book produced in colonial America. HILDEBURN 1050. EVANS 6256. ARNDT 96. NAIP w019947. $3500.

One of the First Illustrated American Bibles

33. [Brown, John]: THE SELF-INTERPRETING BIBLE: CONTAIN- ING THE SACRED TEXT OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTA- MENTS...TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, MARGINAL REFER- ENCES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, AN EXACT SUMMARY OF THE SEVERAL BOOKS, A PARAPHRASE OF THE MOST OBSCURE OR IMPORTANT PARTS, AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS OF EACH CHAPTER, EXPLANATORY NOTES, AND EVANGELICAL REFLECTIONS. New York: Hodge and Camp- bell, 1792. [1046]pp. plus twenty plates, including map and frontis. Large, thick folio. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label on spine and front cover, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Corner tips repaired. Light scattered foxing and wear. Very good.

The first Bible printed in New York, with George Washington at the head of the included list of subscribers. “[I]t was printed in forty parts over a period of two years....John Brown (1722-1787) was a Scottish weaver who became a Presbyterian minister. Although self-educated he prepared an annotated Bible, Bible dictionary and concordance, and a metrical version of the Psalms. His Self-Interpreting Bible... first appeared in 1778 in Edinburgh and was many times reprinted in Scotland and in America” – Hills. The many plates depict a variety of dramatic scenes and were engraved specifically for this edition. The frontispiece shows the female personi- fication of America, wearing an Indian headdress, embraced by the light of the Word. The manuscript genealogy of the Laverty family is written on the verso of the fourteenth plate, continuing on a facing inserted leaf. An important American Bible, notable for its illustrations. HILLS 37. EVANS 22348, 23181, 24099. NAIP w004505. $2500.

34. [Bugg, Francis]: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE QUAKERS SOL- EMN AFFIRMATION; AND MAKE-ING THE SAME PERPET- UAL; HUMBLY PROPOSED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT [caption title]. [London? 1715]. Broadsheet, 14½ x 9¼ inches. [2]pp. including printed docket title. Printed in two columns. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Small portion of lower inner margin excised, with no loss to text. Mild foxing. Very good.

A scarce and highly informative letter to Parliament offering a critical history of the Quakers’ “solemn affirmation.” In 1696, after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths, Quakers were granted the right by Parliament to take a “solemn affirmation” in legal situations in place of an actual oath. Over the next two decades many Quak- ers continued to object over the use of God’s name in the affirmation, and various non-Quakers continued to express their resentment over the entire matter. In 1715 a bill was under consideration in Parliament to renew indefinitely the Quakers’ right to the affirmation. The author of this document, Francis Bugg, recommends against passing it “Without a Universal Obligation upon them...without a Penalty upon every Quaker that shall neglect or refuse to take it in due Form,” pointing to hypocrisy and disingenuousness he has perceived among that community. Bugg (1640-1724?) was a Quaker apostate who published numerous writings against Quakerism from about 1680 through the 1720s. Dated May 5, 1715, and signed in print by F. Bugg. Not listed in Joseph Smith’s Biblioteca Anti-Quakeriana or A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends’ Books. ESTC lists copies at three institutions: the British Library, the Library of the Religious Society of Friends, and Oxford. DNB III, pp.226-28. $1750.

An Important Work from One of the Greatest Early American Cartographers

35. Burr, David H.: A NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS; COMPRIS- ING SEPARATE MAPS OF ALL THE PRINCIPAL EMPIRES, KINGDOMS & STATES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND FORMING A DISTINCT ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES CAREFULLY COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES EXTANT BY DAVID H. BURR.... New York: D.S. Stone, [1835]. En- graved throughout, title, 1p. contents list, sixty-three handcolored engraved plates. Expertly bound to style in half calf over publisher’s pebbled cloth covered boards, upper cover titled in gilt, spine gilt. Color endpapers. Very good.

David H. Burr was one of the great American mapmakers of the 19th century. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, he began his career leading a road survey through the southern counties of New York for the purpose of building a highway. This led to his being given, in 1829, the responsibility of revising Simeon De Witt’s seminal New York State map of 1804 (under De Witt’s direction) to account for the considerable changes that had occurred over the last generation. This and the Atlas of the State of New York he published in 1829 established Burr’s prominence in American cartography. The success of his state Atlas persuaded him to aim at a wider audience and publish a general atlas. Ristow states that Burr completed only eight of the sixty-three maps by 1832, when his involvement in the project was severely curtailed after he accepted the position of topographer for the United States Post Office Department. His maps were engraved by Thomas Illman and Edward Pillbrow, and they took over the responsibility for finishing the work, although Burr retained an editorial role, and he was probably able to make use of his new position, which gave him access to geographical material sent in from postmasters throughout the land. PHILLIPS ATLASES 1379a (ref ). RISTOW, p.106 (ref ). $14,000.

Printed by a Woman Printer

36. Campbell, George, trans.: THE FOUR GOSPELS, TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK. WITH PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS, AND NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY. Philadelphia: A. Bartram, 1799. viii,xvi,488,196,[16]pp. Quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Front hinge starting, extremities rubbed. Contemporary inscription on front fly leaf. Minor scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

Second American edition of this translation of the Gospels by Scottish minister George Campbell. An important piece of scholarship, this work was first published in London in 1789, with the first American edition appearing in 1796. “Through all these years Campbell had diligently pursued his own critical and historical studies of scripture. These researches were finally published in 1789 as The Four Gospels..., acknowledged by contemporaries to be his scholarly masterpiece. This massive work contained fresh translations of the canonical gospels with extensive critical notes, as well as historical discussions of the nature and method of translat- ing ancient terms and documents” – DNB. The typography and printing of this book is elegantly done, the work of Ann Bartram, one of the relatively few women printers of the Federal period. A nice copy. EVANS 35200. HILLS 71. ESTC W4382. DNB (online). $1500.

37. Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM FUTURE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE BENJAMIN CAR- DOZO TO GEORGE KOHUT, REGARDING HIS IMMINENT NOMINATION TO THE COURT]. [New York. Jan. 23, 1932]. [3]pp. on a fold sheet. Old folds. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.

After Justice Holmes submitted his resignation to Hoover in early January 1932, “newspapers began reporting that Cardozo’s name was under consideration to take Holmes’s place....Cardozo was featured so prominently that by January 22 Mark Sullivan wrote in his syndicated column that the ‘universality of the applause for Judge Cardozo constitutes a unique condition, almost a phenomenon’” (Kaufman). That day, too, Cardozo delivered a lecture on Jurisprudence before the New York State Bar Association in which he argued against neorealist interpretations of the law, too rigid adherence to the dogma of precedent, and an exaggerated view of the indeterminacy of legal principles. Cardozo’s appointment was widely hailed, and the Senate hearing on his appointment was brief. He was confirmed without discussion or objection on February 24, 1932. The letter reads:

Beloved George Kohut, I don’t know how to answer your letter. It moves me deeply. I find that I am rapidly developing into a myth. If I were not a Jew, I should expect to be transformed pretty soon into a Greek God. It is hard to make people believe me, but I prefer my present office to a place on the Supreme Court, though I might find myself forced to accept promotion if offered to me...the best thing about the agitation is that it gives me an insight into the devotion of my friends.

The recipient, George Kohut (1874-1933), was a writer, educator, and bibliographer, and a close friend of Cardozo’s friend and correspondent, Rabbi Stephen Wise. Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo (1998), pp.455-71. $2500.

A Seminal American Atlas

38. Carey, Henry Charles, and Isaac Lea: A COMPLETE HISTORI- CAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL AMERICAN ATLAS, BEING A GUIDE TO THE HISTORY OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND THE WEST INDIES: EXHIBITING AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY, SETTLE- MENT, AND PROGRESS, OF THEIR VARIOUS KINGDOMS, STATES, PROVINCES, &c. TOGETHER WITH THE WARS, CELEBRATED BATTLES, AND REMARKABLE EVENTS, TO THE YEAR 1822. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1822. Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title (copyright notice on verso), 1p. “Adver- tisement” dated “June 21, 1822” (verso blank), 1p. “Contents” and “Index” (verso blank). Forty-six double-page handcolored engraved maps of America, all but one with borders of letterpress descriptive text; uncolored double-page engraved view showing the comparative heights of mountains throughout the world; handcolored double-page engraved table showing the comparative lengths of the principal rivers worldwide; five letterpress tables (four double- page [three of these handcolored]); 18pp. of uncolored letterpress text. Ex- pertly bound to style in half dark blue calf over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, spine gilt. Very good.

First edition of one of the most important early atlases printed in the United States: a handsome atlas of the Americas, with individual color maps of each state in the Union, including a seminal map of the West by Stephen H. Long. At the time of publication this was the best and most detailed atlas to be produced in the United States. Fielding Lucas, the major Baltimore printer, was the principal engraver and substantial historical background text accompanies each map. Among the most noted maps in the atlas is Major Stephen H. Long’s “Map of Arkansa and other Territories of the United States.” That map, which depicts the Missouri basin between Nashville in the east, the Mandan villages in the north, and the Rocky Mountains in the west, was based on the surveys conducted by Long on his expeditions of 1819 and 1820. The map published in Carey & Lea’s atlas preceded the official account of that expedition by expedition botanist Edwin James, which included a smaller map with similar detail, titled “Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section.” Carey and Lea’s 1823 publication of James’ Account perhaps explains the prior inclusion of this map with Long expedition information in their atlas. On this famous map is the printed legend, which would perpetuate a myth for many years to come, identifying the high plains as the “Great American Desert.” Carey & Lea’s atlas was first issued, as here, in 1822; an 1823 second issue followed, substantially the same as the first, but with a new title and revised states of several maps and text leaves (generally minor revisions, including additional shading of maps and improved resetting of several text leaves). PHILLIPS ATLASES 1373a. HOWES C133, “aa.” SABIN 15055. WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI 348, 352. $18,500.

39. Cary, John: CARY’S NEW UNIVERSAL ATLAS, CONTAINING DISTINCT MAPS OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES AND KING- DOMS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. FROM THE LATEST AND BEST AUTHORITIES EXTANT. London: Printed for J. Cary, Engraver and Map-seller, 1808. Sixty engraved colored double-page or folding maps. Printed contents list (surround by a typographic border) laid in. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, raised bands, leather label stamped in gilt. Maps colored throughout. Minor offsetting to some maps. Very good.

An attractive atlas issued by the talented British engraver, John Cary. The atlas begins with maps of the Eastern and Western hemispheres, followed by a map of the world showing the routes of famed navigators, including Cook, La Pérouse, and Vancouver. The Americas are depicted on eleven maps, though that part of North America west of the Mississippi is largely uncharted, save for the location of the Mandan villages on the Missouri River, the course of the Red River and its tributaries, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevadas. Alaska and the North- west Coast are largely terra incognita, though many places are identified along the West Coast from Canada to the southern tip of California. Nearly two-thirds of the maps are devoted to Europe and the British Isles. A large folding map of the Russian Empire, “divided into its governments,” shows the entirety of Russia from Europe to Asia on two joined sheets. Turkey is covered in two maps, one of “Turkey in Europe” (including Greece and the Balkans) and another of “Turkey in Asia.” Africa is mostly uncharted, save for the coastal areas, and there is a map showing a long stretch of the Nile. The maps carry dates from 1799 to 1807. PHILLIPS ATLASES 714. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 268 (Vol. 1), 273. $12,000.

40. Cassatt, Mary: [DOCUMENT, SIGNED (“MARY S. CASSATT”) THREE TIMES AND ONCE BY THE UNITED STATES VICE CONSUL GENERAL, ALLOWING ENTRY OF A PAINTING INTO FRANCE]. [with:] [MANUSCRIPT CUSTOMS DECLA- RATION, SIGNED (“R.S. CASSATT”) BY CASSATT’S FATHER, ALLOWING THE PAINTING’S EXPORT FROM PHILADEL- PHIA]. Paris. July 28, 1876. [1]p. printed “Artist-Certificate” accomplished in Cassatt’s hand, with [1]p. customs declaration in pen and ink and [1]p. violet covering sheet, docketed in pen and ink. Prior folds, affixed at top edge to customs declaration. In a cloth chemise.

Cassatt adds a two-line description of the painting on the verso: “a picture 100 [?] by 70 centimeters / representing a Musical Repetition.” This is most likely “A Musical Party,” painted in 1874 and now at the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Cassatt’s father, who disapproved of his daughter’s vocation, signed the Philadelphia customs declaration which valued the painting at $400 in its frame. $3500.

A Major Rarity of Illustrated American Travel Books

41. Castelnau, Francis de Laporte, comte de: VUES ET SOUVENIRS DE L’AMERIQUE DU NORD. Paris: Chez Arthus Bertraid, 1842. Thirty- five lithographed plates (thirty-four mounted India paper proofs, plate 19 printed on regular paper). Half title. Quarto. Contemporary black morocco backed paper covered boards with vellum tips, covers bordered in gilt, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Scattered minor foxing to the text and plate mounts, plate 19 age-toned. Very good. Provenance: Marie Seok’Han de Kersabiec, nee Beaujeu (bookplate); Ecole Normale, Congregation Notre Dame, Sherbrooke, Ouest [Montreal] (ink stamp on title).

Among the rarest books of North American views, including views of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, the Great Lakes region, and parts of Canada. “Born in London from an early age Castelnau took an interest in science and adventure, having read the accounts of Captain Cook and others, and having studied natural history under Cuvier and Saint-Hilaire. Between 1837 and 1841 he travelled through the United States and Upper and Lower Canada, studying their institutions and meeting many prominent people” – Howgego. The text contains a description of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and Lower Canada, based upon the authors travels. In his description of each region, Castelnau describes the agriculture, education, customs, etc., dividing each section to separately discuss “des blances, des noirs, and des indiens.” Castel- nau traveled in areas that were comparatively remote and had not been extensively pictured previously. From Florida he included views of Tallahassee, Key West, and the Everglades, while the scenes of Augusta and Columbus, Georgia are among the earliest of those infant cities. From the Great Lakes region he provided several scenes of Michilimackinac Island; an early view of Sheboygan, Wisconsin; two pictures of Quebec; and the “Entrée de la Rivière de Chicago, Illinois, thus being referred to as the “first book to contain a view of Chicago” (Howes). The plates comprise:

1) “Tallahassée” 2) “Capitole de Tallahassée” 3) “Magnolia” 4) “Plantation sur le lac Jackson” 5) “Vues de la Floride” [4 views on one plate] 6) “Plantation sur le lac Lafayette (Floride)” 7) “Bois de la Floride” 8) “Chêne vert Riviere d’Appalachicola” 9) “Village Indien sur l’Appalachicola / Riviere d’Appalachicola / Arsenal a Mont- vernon / Chemin de feu de Tallahassee” [4 views on one plate] 10) “Arsenal a Key West” 11) “Key West Golfe du Mexique” 12) “Chûtes de la Chattahoutchie (Alabama)” 13) “Hotel de ville de Millegville (Georgie) / Pont d’Augusta – Georgie / Pont de Columbus (Georgie et Alabama)” [3 views on one plate] 14) “Wissegong Indien Chippeway (Michigan)” 15) “Piniswaneket (l’oiseau dans le Nuage) Indienne Chippeway (Michigan)” 16) “Fort Howard dans le grande Baie verte (Ouisconsin)” 17) “Danse de guerre des Folle – avoines de la Baie verte (Ouisconsin)” 18) “Presqu’île Michigan / Sheboigan Ouisconsin / Fort Gratiot Michigan / Entrée de la Rivière de Chicago, Illinois” [four views on one plate] 19) “Guerrier Folle Avoine Grande baie verte” 20) “Indien Delaware Monses, Lac Winnebagoe” 21) “Roche Folie de Robinson, Ile de Michilimakimac” 22) “Village des Folle – Avoines Ouisconsin” 23) “Roche dite le Pain de Sucre, Ile de Michilimakimac” 24) “La roche arquéee, Ile de Michilimakimac” 25) “Village Ottowa, Ile de Michilimakimac” 26) “Fort Americain, dans l’Ile de Michilimakimac” 27) “Ile de Michilimakimac (Lac Huron)” 28) “Fort Brady (Lac Supérieur)” 29) “Banc de sable dit l’Ours endormi, Lac Michigan” 30) “Indiens hurons (Canada)” 31) “Chûtes St. Marie, Lac Supérieur” 32) “Bracelets, Nattes, Armes, Raquettes et Instrumens de musique des Indiens de l’Amerique du Nord” 33) “Ornemens, calumets, boites, etc. des Indiens d l’Amerique du Nord” 34) “Marches naturelles prés de Québec” 35) “Cascade de la riviere de Monmarency (Canada)”

The work seems to have been issued on regular paper or as India proofs, as here (one plate from the present copy is on regular paper but appears issued as such and not supplied at a later date). Castelnau’s Vues, in either form, are very rare, with only a handful of copies trading on the market in the last century. $45,000.

A Lovely Portrait of George Catlin’s Wife

42. [Catlin, George]: [Linen, George]: [OVAL PORTRAIT OF MRS. CLARA BARTLETT GREGORY CATLIN]. [New York. ca. 1840]. Oil on linen, mounted on masonite, framed; 6 x 5 inches, framed to 9½ x 9 inches. In very good condition.

A lovely portrait of George Catlin’s wife, Clara, painted by Scottish-born artist George Linen. Born in Greenlaw, Scotland, George Linen came to America in 1834 and established a painting career first in New York City. He had studied painting at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh and worked as a portrait painter in England for about ten years before immigrating. He opened a studio in New York City and became a successful painter of small-format portraits, exhibiting regularly between 1837 and 1843 at the Apollo Association and the National Academy of Design. Nine of his portraits were praised in the New-York Spectator on May 18, 1837: “...exceedingly well colored and carefully finished; and if Mr. Linen is young in the profession, as we suppose he is, they give promise of very high rank for him hereafter.” Two years later he received a silver medal from the National Academy of Design for his portrait of Henry Clay. Although he is known primarily as a portrait painter, Linen also painted landscapes after retiring to a farm in New Jersey in 1868. Clara Bartlett Gregory met and married George Catlin in her hometown of Albany, New York in 1828, while he was there to paint Governor De Witt Clinton. Despite her frail health, she accompanied her husband on one of his five journeys west and supported his efforts to capture the likenesses of American Indians. She and their youngest son died while visiting Paris in 1845, a loss that devastated Catlin. $6000. Large Map of the East End of Long Island

43. [Chace, J.]: MAP OF SUFFOLK CO. L.I., NEW YORK.... Philadel- phia: John Douglass, 1858. Copper-engraved wall map, 49 x 57½ inches. Very good.

A very rare map, and the best 19th-century map of Suffolk County; the “Gold Coast” of New York State. This map was constructed by Chace under the supervision of the Smith-French survey of New York, the most ambitious and advanced mapping project for any American state to date. Due to the county’s excessively long and narrow form, Chace has chosen to divide the map into two parts, with the western part of the county shown at top, and the eastern at bottom. Interspersed are thirty-three inset plans of Suffolk towns, including Southampton, Easthampton, Bridgehampton, Amagansett, Sag Harbor, Riverhead, Islip, Stoneybrook, Sayville, Patchogue, Smith Town, Amityville, and Greenport. Hundreds of property owners are identified by name on the map proper and the insets. OCLC locates only two copies, at Cornell and SUNY Stony Brook. OCLC 26960792. RISTOW, p.388. $7500.

Chase Moves West, But “in my veins runs the blood of the pilgrim”

44. Chase, Salmon P.: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“S.P. CHASE”), FROM SALMON P. CHASE TO HIS COUSIN, DR. JOSEPH A. DENISON, JR., OF ROYALTON, VERMONT]. Cin- cinnati. Aug. 3, 1830. 3½pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Some old dampstains, occasionally affecting legibility; one perforation from wax seal, with loss of three letters, not affecting legibility; old folds. In a folding cloth case, leather label.

A magnificent letter from Salmon P. Chase (1808-73), who was a lifelong opponent of slavery; U.S. Senator from Ohio; the twenty-third governor of Ohio; U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (appointed by Lincoln). Although Chase was born and raised in New Hampshire, as an ambitious young lawyer in 1830 (the year of this letter), Chase decided to seek his fame and fortune out West, and moved to Cincinnati. Writing to his cousin back in Vermont, Chase asserts his pride as a New Englander:

...I am sorry to see you despairing of the Republic. Does the possession of Of- fice constitute greatness? Is New England less glorious now when her noblest are removed from high national trusts, than she was when her [ John Quincy] Adams filled the chair of Executive rule and her arms controlled the Legisla- tive Assembly by the magic of his eloquence? No; my dear cousin, I think not. Of what is New England deprived? Her voice is still heard in the Senate. Her industry nourishes the land. Her ships cover the seas. Her capital moves the springs of society. If she maintains her own self-allegiance pure, she has nothing to fear. Her virtue can never be hurt. Her moral grandeur is of an immortal nature and must survive every assault of malice. Her intelligence and public spirit are to her a motive and a guide in action and of them no external agency can wrest from her. She dedicates her works to immortality, and calm in the consciousness of her own rectitude assigns the task of her vindication to Time, the great Justice. When I bow my knee to our Great Father, I will thank him that New England was my native soil and that in my veins runs the blood of the pilgrim. Yet it is natural that we should regret the loss of a relative strength. No man, 1 suppose, views the ____ [?] gradually departing without some human feeling. Yet we of New England foresaw this result long ago. Perhaps this foresight strengthens the opposition exhibited by a part of her population to the purchase of Louisiana. But the purchase was made. Then New England might have retained her own relative importance by retarding the settlement of the West. But she felt that such a course would be inconsistent with a large zeal for the general welfare. She was called to choose between sectional and national glory. She made the choice without hesitation. She made the sacrifice without a sigh. And what son of New England shall repent her choice or her sacrifice? But I am detaining you too long on this theme. My heart and my head are responsive in it and I dilate without perceiving it....

A truly moving and important letter from the young statesman, early in his career. “There can be no question that from his youth Chase possessed an inordinate drive for personal advancement. But it is equally clear that throughout his extraordinary career he remained true to the goals of reform to which he had so passionately dedicated himself as a young man. It was the forceful fusion of his ideals and his ambition that gave Chase his power and his greatness. Few careers trace the nation’s bitter strife or illuminate its torturous journey through Civil War as clearly as does Chase’s” – ANB. $2500.

A Contemporary Collection of Colonial Imprints

45. Chauncy, Charles: [COLLECTION OF SIX SERMONS BY CHARLES CHAUNCY, STITCHED TOGETHER AT AN EARLY DATE]. Boston. 1739-1762. Six pamphlets, detailed below. Stitched together in gutter margin with contemporary string. Light soiling. Title and half title of one sermon with some loss at bottom edge, affecting part of imprint. A few contemporary ownership markings. Final leaf of last pamphlet lacking. Still, very good and in unsophisticated original condition.

Charles Chauncy (1705-87) was the minister of the First Church in Boston for sixty years. He was one of the most influential ministers in New England at the time. Many of his sermons were printed, and he also authored the first account in book form of Braddock’s defeat during the French and Indian War. This collection stitches together six of his sermons, spanning just over twenty years, including an interesting work on the missionary efforts among the Mohawk Indians. The contents are as follow:

1) The Horrid Nature, and Enormous Guilt of Murder. A Sermon Preached at the Thursday Lecture in Boston, November 19th, 1754. Boston: Thomas Fleet, 1754. [3]-24pp. Lacks half title. Sermon preached on the day of the execution of William Wieer for the murder of William Chism. EVANS 7168. ESTC W20478. 2) The Only Compulsion Proper to Be Made Use of in the Affairs of Conscience and Religion. A Sermon Preach’d at the Old Brick Meeting-House in Boston, September 2d 1739. Boston: J. Draper for J. Edwards, 1739. [4],26pp. EVANS 4349. ESTC W21414. 3) The Blessedness of the Dead Who Die in the Lord. A Sermon Preached the Lord’s Day After the Funeral of Mrs. Anna Foxcroft, the Amiable and Pious Consort of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Foxcroft.... Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1749. 31pp. Titlepage and half title with some loss, affecting one word of imprint. EVANS 6298. ESTC W2734. 4) Marvellous Things Done by the Right Hand and Holy Arm of God in Getting Him the Victory. A Sermon Preached the 18th of July, 1745.... Boston: T. Fleet, 1745. 23pp. Sermon preached for the “solemn thanksgiving to almighty God, for the reduction of Cape-Breton by his Majesty’s New-England forces, under the command of the honourable William Pepperrell, Esq.” There was also a London edition printed the same year. EVANS 5558. ESTC W20721. 5) The Counsel of Two Confederate Kings to Set the Son of Tabeal on the Throne, Represented as Evil, in It’s Natural Tendency and Moral Aspect. A Sermon Occasion’d by the Pres- ent Rebellion in Favour of the Pretender. Preach’d in Boston, at the Thursday-Lecture, February 6th. 1745,6. Boston: D. Gookin, 1746. 43pp. EVANS 5752. ESTC W37624. 6) All Nations of the Earth Blessed in Christ, the Seed of Abraham. A Sermon Preached at Boston, at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Bowman, to the Work of the Gospel- Ministry, More Especially Among the Mohawk-Indians, on the Western Borders of New-England. Boston: John Draper, 1762. [2],viii,48 (of 50)pp. Concerns the missionary activity among western Indians sponsored by the Society for the Propagating Christian Knowledge. EVANS 9088. ESTC W37169.

A nice collection of early American sermons by this important New England minister. $4000.

The First American Book on Chess

46. [Chess]: CHESS MADE EASY. NEW AND COMPREHENSIVE RULES FOR PLAYING THE GAME OF CHESS...TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A PLEASING ACCOUNT OF ITS ORIGIN; SOME INTERESTING ANECDOTES OF SEVERAL EXALTED PER- SONAGES WHO HAVE BEEN ADMIRERS OF IT; AND THE MORALS OF CHESS, WRITTEN BY THE INGENIOUS AND LEARNED DR. FRANKLIN. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by James Humphreys, 1802. 97,[8]pp. Frontis. 16mo. Contemporary calf, gilt morocco label. Calf rubbed, worn at spine ends and corners. Light tanning and foxing. Small hole near gutter of leaves A6-A8, not affecting text and mended with tissue; final two leaves (advertisements) with a small tear, affecting a few letters of text. Good. In a folding cloth case, gilt leather labels.

The first American chess book, including the text of Benjamin Franklin’s Morals of Chess. Franklin was a chess enthusiast and active player, and his essay contains practical advice on the game, coupled with the type of moral advice that also appeared in his autobiography. Chess had been included in editions of Hoyle published in the United States in the 1790s, but this is the first American book devoted solely to the game. The text includes a consideration of the game’s history, rules, and tactics. Examples are taken from Philidor and Cunningham, and the frontispiece is an engraving of a chess board and the pieces. Rare on the market. FORD 335. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 2025. HAGEDORN 1. $7500.

47. Clap, Thomas: THE ANNALS OR HISTORY OF YALE-COL- LEGE, IN NEW-HAVEN, IN THE COLONY OF CONNECTI- CUT, FROM THE FIRST FOUNDING THEREOF, IN THE YEAR 1700, TO THE YEAR 1766: WITH AN APPENDIX, CON- TAINING THE PRESENT STATE OF THE COLLEGE, THE METHOD OF INSTRUCTION AND GOVERNMENT, WITH THE OFFICERS, BENEFACTORS AND GRADUATES. New Ha- ven: Printed for John Hotchkiss and B. Mecom, 1766. [4],124pp. 20th-century blue morocco, gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor toning and soiling. Near fine. Untrimmed.

History of Yale College, by its first president. Thomas Clap (1703-67) was a Congregational minister and the fifth Rector of Yale College. Under his administration, in 1745 a new charter for the school was drafted, and Clap was appointed the first president of the College, a position he held until 1766. The appendix to this work contains a “Catalogue of the Officers of Yale College” and names of the benefactors. The final twenty pages are a catalogue of the graduates, which also includes a roll of the current students. This copy bears the ownership signature of Eliphalet Williams on the titlepage, dated 1766. Williams was a graduate of the Yale class of 1743, and the minister at the First Congregational Church in East Hartford for over fifty years, serving there from 1748 to 1801. His brother, William Williams, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Connecticut. EVANS 10262. TRUMBULL 478. $4000.

A Printing of Henry Clay’s Farewell Speech on Silk

48. Clay, Henry: VALEDICTORY OF HENRY CLAY, IN THE SEN- ATE OF THE UNITED STATES, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1842 [caption title]. Washington: J. & G.S. Gideon, 1842. Broadside on silk, 19 x 15 inches. Light wear at the edges, some light soiling; small tear minutely affecting a few letters of text. Very good. In a cloth folder.

An elegant silk broadside printing the text of Henry Clay’s farewell speech, resigning his position in Congress. Clay (1777-1852) represented Kentucky in the Senate for numerous years, first elected in 1806. His lengthy and important political career included Secretary of State and Speaker of the House, and several presidential bids. He was key in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, issues relative to slavery and statehood. Though he states that he is retiring from the Senate “forever,” Clay would return to serve a final term from 1849 until his death in 1852. $3000.

The Injustice of Slavery, North Carolina, 1812

49. Clemmons, Peter: POOR PETER’S CALL TO HIS CHILDREN AND TO ALL OTHERS WHO CAN HEAR AND BELIEVE. Salis- bury, N.C.: Coupee and Crider, 1812. 153,[3]pp. Dbd. Evenly tanned, some light staining and foxing. A few small chips in edge of titlepage and final leaf. Good.

A southern religious book giving instruction on righteousness, set apart by a won- derfully impassioned twenty-four-page essay on “The Injustice of Slavery.” Clem- mons, for whom the North Carolina town is named, was a former slave owner who could not have made many friends in the Salisbury area by espousing his views on the subject. He writes:

[A]ll who buy negroes to keep or to sell in slavery for gain...be as men who buy stolen goods of a thief, or as thief buying of a thief...coveting nations who wanted to live rich and great on the labor of others, without making full compensation to the poor laborers, have gone as a thief, kidnapped and hired kidnappers on the expense of much blood, they have brought Africans here and sold them to our Americans, as a horse thief sells the horse or mare he has stolen...freedom is the negro’s just right....

A remarkable book for its time and place. OCLC locates five copies, all in North Carolina libraries. Another copy is located at the American Antiquarian Society. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25095. THORNTON 2373. OCLC 11876702. $4000.

A Highly Important Map of Maine

50. Colton, J.H.: COLTON’S RAILROAD & TOWNSHIP MAP OF THE STATE OF MAINE, WITH PORTIONS OF NEW HAMP- SHIRE, NEW BRUNSWICK, & CANADA. New York: Colton & Company; Portland, Me.: C.C. Hall, 1855. Pocket map, 40¾ x 33 inches. Full contemporary color. Several small separations at folds; minor foxing. Gilt- stamped leather cover worn, spine perished. Very good.

One of the finest of all 19th-century maps of Maine, first published in 1852 as a wall map and present here in the first edition pocket map of 1855. “Colton found a ready market for railroad maps in the 1850s and it is not surprising that his first map of Maine is in this category” – Thompson. Thompson identifies this map as the fourth state of Colton’s railroad map of Maine, which differs from the third state only in copyright date. The map shows fifteen (of an eventual sixteen) of Maine’s counties, and includes a brief list of the state’s population by city. A handsome copy of this important map. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.385. RUMSEY 2720. THOMPSON, MAPS OF MAINE 142. $3500.

Not in Parrish & Willingham

51. [Confederate Imprint]: [CONFEDERATE RECRUITING NOTICE FOR THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA]. Thibodaux. July 4, 1863. Broadside, 9 x 12 inches. In French and English. Folded in half. Old folds, light foxing and wear. Good.

A very interesting Confederate recruiting broadside issued in a Confederate-controlled part of Louisiana. One side, in French, is a call to arms by Colonel Louis Bush. It begins: “Citizens: Your homes have been invaded and noble Louisiana needs your courage! [translated].” Page two contains a similar notice, in French and in English, also by Colonel Bush. It offers amnesty to everyone willing to enlist: “I hereby tender a full pardon to those who will voluntarily come forward and report to me for enlistment, and call upon all goods [sic] citizens to give to this measure all assistance in their power.” Thibodaux was occupied by the Union from late 1862 into 1863, but by this date (Union forces were busy that day, as Vicksburg surrendered) it was held by the Confederates. Possibly unique. $1750.

The Establishment of Groton as a Separate Town

52. [Connecticut]: YE AGREEMENT BETWEEN NEW LONDON AND GROTON [manuscript docket title]. [Hartford, Ct.? 1705?]. Broadside, 15 x 12 inches. Folio. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling; a few areas of minor loss, not affecting legibility. Very good.

Manuscript copy of the agreement between the Connecticut towns of New London and Groton, agreed upon at a general assembly in Hartford, establishing Groton as an independent town. The east bank of the Thames River thus became Gro- ton, while the west bank remained New London. The agreement to incorporate Groton as a separate town included continued use of the ferry and free school for inhabitants on both sides of the river; acknowledgement that citizens of the new town would agree to pay their part of the town debt previously incurred; and the continued maintenance of various ministries and free schools as indicated. It is signed: “A True Copy, Eleazar Kimberly Secry. Extracted from Groton Records & Compared Samll. Avery, Recorder.” Accompanied by a typed transcription with the note: “Purchased at Perkins Auction, Waterford, [Ct.] 9/4/31.” $2500.

53. [Connecticut]: Doolittle, Amos: CONNECTICUT FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES. [New Haven. ca. 1810]. Map, 16 x 18½ inches. Outlined in period color, faded. Light dampstaining to lower left corner. Lightly and evenly toned. About very good. Matted.

The earliest issue of Amos Doolittle’s map of Connecticut intended for separate sale, not as part of an atlas or other book. The first issue of this map was engraved for Carey’s American edition of Guthrie’s Geography Improved (1795), and also appeared in Carey’s American Atlas that same year. This version is slightly larger than the original state, and the attribution line indicating publication for Mathew Carey has been removed, as has any plate number. Thompson notes: “in this state, the map is on a large sheet with generous margins, apparently issued for separate sale...some time after 1800....Amos Doolittle (1754) was a famous and prolific early Connecticut engraver whose work continued for some three decades after this date.” The cartouche for this map of Connecticut is unchanged from the original through the 1814 edition of Carey’s world atlas; by 1818 the plate had been retouched and the word “Connecticut” enhanced in the title. THOMPSON, MAPS OF CONNECTICUT 36. $1500.

A Sammelband of Eccentric Printing

54. Cook, William: THE EUCLEIA, WORKS by Rev. William Cook. [Salem. 1861]. Ten pamphlets, various paginations. Original patterned cloth, title stamped on cover. Original pamphlet wrappers bound in. Lightly worn. Old embossed library stamps on first two leaves. Some light toning. Very good.

A charming example of American folk art – the whole volume written, illustrated, and printed by the author, the Rev. William Cook. The Rev. “Billy” Cook was a penniless clergyman and tutor who supplemented his income by selling his (arguably bad) pamphlets of religious poetry and prose on the streets of Salem. Though his poetry was terrible, he is fascinating for having manufactured his own press on which to print his verses, as well as carving his own woodcut illustrations, and printing and binding the little pamphlets himself. His works were mainly purchased as curiosities, as he was considered rather mad. Each pamphlet has illustrated colored paper wrappers, as well as several similar illustrations within. The crude cuts show pleasant, amateurish scenes of civic, natural and domestic life. Sabin calls the work “singular” and the author “eccentric.” Given the very DIY nature of the production, it’s no surprise that this volume is slightly varied from that recorded by Sabin. The works contained in the present volume are: “Hope,” 1852 & 9; “Sunbeam Through Pagan Clouds,” 1853 & 61; “The Olive Grove Poems,” 1853; “The Ploughboy, A Poem. In Three Parts,” 1854-5; “The Telegraph or Star-Banner Song,” 1856; “Fremont, A Poem,” 1856; “Chestnut Street, A Poem,” 1857; “The Ploughboy’s Harrow, Number Three,” 1860. A rare and interesting example of self-publication and early American folk art. SABIN 16297. $2500.

55. Coolidge, Calvin: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE. New York. 1929. 247pp. Original grey boards, blue cloth spine, t.e.g. Bookplate on front pastedown and front fly leaf, else quite fine. In original cardboard slipcase.

Number 956 from an edition limited to 1000 copies, signed by Coolidge. $1000.

White Kennett’s Copy

56. Cotton, John: THE WAY OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES CLEARED: IN TWO TREATISES.... London: Printed by Matthew Simmons..., 1648. Title-leaf, [10],104,44pp. Small quarto. Early 20th-century brown morocco. Bottom margin trimmed, affecting last line of imprint, some signature marks or catchwords, and the bottom line of text on one page. Small hole in titlepage, not affecting text. Minor soiling and toning. Very good.

Cotton was among the most important early Puritan ministers. He arrived in Massachusetts in 1633, and soon became a prominent figure, and became “key spokesman for the New England polity.” Cotton was one of the leaders of New England Congregationalism, played a part in the framing of the church government ordered by the Cambridge Synod in 1646, and is remembered as “one of the ablest and most influential men of his day in Massachusetts” – DAB. He was also, with Richard Mather, the primary author of the new translation of the Psalms which became the Bay Psalm Book. “Included is a substantial discussion of the church of New England. Also issued as part of Thomas Hooker’s A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline of this year....In part a reply to Daniel Cawdry’s Vindiciae Clavium (London, 1645)” – European Americana, which differentiates between two states. The present copy is the first of two states described in European Americana. This copy belong to White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough, famed early collector of Americana, and author of the first bibliography devoted entirely to Americana, the Biblioteca Americana Primordia (1701). EUROPEAN AMERICANA 648/52. JCB (3)II:367. SABIN 17091. ESTC R22936. WING C6469. $3250.

57. Cotton, John: A BRIEFE EXPOSITION WITH PRACTICALL OBSERVATIONS UPON THE WHOLE BOOK OF ECCLESIAS- TES. London: Printed by T.C. for Ralph Smith, 1654. [8],277,[1]pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Moderate foxing and soiling. Light wear to edges of some leaves. About very good.

In this work, Cotton uses Ecclesiastes to warn his New England audience against the neglect of religion in pursuit of worldly gain. ESTC R20578. WING C6413. SABIN 17049. $2750.

58. Cotton, John: A PRACTICAL COMMENTARY, OR AN EXPOSI- TION WITH OBSERVATIONS, REASONS, AND USES UPON THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERALL OF JOHN. London: Printed by R.I. and E.C. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1656. [8],431pp. Small folio. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Some occasional staining, most no- ticeable at the foredge of the last several signatures, small hole in Bb1, but a good copy.

First edition of this major work of theological exegesis in this posthumous publication. SABIN 17076. WING C6451. ESTC R26042. $2500. Map of Cuba for Use in the Spanish-American War

59. [Cuba]: MILITARY MAP OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA. PRE- PARED IN THE MILITARY INFORMATION DIVISION, AD- JUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, WAR DEPARTMENT. [New York: Julius Bien, lithographer], 1897. Four folded sheet maps, each 37 x 27 inches. Quarto. Original brown cloth, gilt leather label on cover. Light wear to binding. Each map segmented and backed with linen. Light toning. Very good.

Lithograph map of Cuba, drawn by C.H. Ourand, showing various districts and precincts, small towns, villages, telegraph stations, military trenches, railroads, highways, wagon roads, and even foot paths. This map was published on the eve of the Spanish-American War, wherein the United States fought for Cuban independence from Spain. This map seems also to exist in a large, single-sheet version, though this edition was clearly printed in four distinct segments, likely to show more detail at a larger resolution. $3500.

60. Cuming, Fortescue: SKETCHES OF A TOUR TO THE WEST- ERN COUNTRY, THROUGH THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY; A VOYAGE DOWN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS, AND A TRIP THROUGH THE MISSISSIPPI TERRI- TORY, AND PART OF WEST FLORIDA.... Pittsburgh. 1810. 504pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Rubbed, corners bumped. Lacks front free endpaper. Text tanned. A good copy.

Thomson calls this one of the most interesting works relating to the West. It is likely that this account was edited by Zadok Cramer, from whose press it was issued, and who included over one hundred pages of other information on the West gathered by himself, which follows the Cuming narrative. These include contributions by Loskiel, Forsyth, Hildreth, Badger, and Heckewelder, among others. Cuming himself undertook his tour in 1807 and 1808. An excellent account of one of the most notable early trips down the Mississippi to New Orleans and environs. THOMSON 286. BUCK 71. CLARK II:13. HOWES C947. JONES 739. SABIN 17890. GRAFF 944. STREETER SALE 1325. SERVIES 808. $2000.

With Beautiful Steel Engravings of American Scenes

61. Dana, Charles A.: THE UNITED STATES ILLUSTRATED; IN VIEWS OF CITY AND COUNTRY. WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL ARTICLES. New York: Herrmann J. Meyer, [1855]. Two volumes. 180,154pp. Extra engraved titlepages plus seventy-nine steel-engraved plates. Tissue guards. Quarto. Original black morocco, stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked with original spines laid down. Scattered foxing, but very good.

Dana’s work contains handsome steel engravings of scenes throughout the country, many of them executed by Hermann J. Meyer. While Howes calls for seventy- seven plates, this copy contains two more. The first volume is devoted to the East Coast, and includes views of Niagara, Washington, West Point, Mount Vernon, New York, and Harper’s Ferry. The second volume contains scenes in the West, in Minnesota, along the Mississippi, in Missouri, St. Louis, on the Plains, and in California. Includes views of San Francisco, Sacramento, California gold diggings, New Orleans, Fort Snelling, Nauvoo, New Harmony, St. Louis, Kansas, Jefferson City, Independence, a Mandan Village, and others. A beautiful book. HOWES D45, “aa.” FLAKE 2657. $5000.

62. Davis, Noah, Rev.: A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF REV. NOAH DAVIS, A COLORED MAN. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-FOUR. Baltimore: Published by John F. Weishampel, Jr., [1859]. 86pp. plus [4]pp. of advertisements. Portrait and frontis. 16mo. Origi- nal brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, rebacked in matching cloth with portion of original backstrip laid down. Cloth a bit faded, corners bumped. Very good.

The author’s stated purpose in writing this book was to “raise sufficient means to free his last two children from slavery....” Davis was pastor of the Saratoga Street African Baptist Church in Baltimore, the facade of which is depicted in the frontispiece. He describes his early life in Virginia, apprenticeship as a shoemaker, religious conversion, marriage, purchase of freedom for himself and his wife (and later five of his children), their move to Baltimore and experiences there, and the founding and development of his church. WORK, p.311. SABIN 18870. $2500.

Manuscript of the Toasts of the Democratic Party, July 4th, with Music

63. [Declaration of Independence]: [Democratic Party]: [MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT OUTLINING THE TOASTS GIVEN AND MU- SIC PLAYED AT AN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE]. [Np. 1836]. 3pp. Folio. Old fold lines. A few spots of foxing. Very good. In a blue half morocco folder, spine gilt.

Manuscript document outlining the toasts given at Democratic Party celebration of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, along with the pieces of music to accompany each toast – the basis for the modern Jefferson-Jackson day dinner that is a primary rallying point of party unity. The document begins: “The day we celebrate the anniversary of the great deed which proclaimed and established the rights of man. May our children and our children’s children be imbued with the spirit which pervades the glorious instrument of our Independence and gave rise to its adoption.” The celebrants proceed to toast Washington, Jefferson (music “Hail Columbia”), Andrew Jackson (music “Jackson’s March”), Martin Van Buren (music “Auld Lang Syne”), James Madison (music “Roslin Castle”), and others. Jackson is toasted on the eve of his retirement, while Van Buren is treated as elected, although he had only been nominated by the Democrats. The celebrants also toast the Bank of the United States, “whether state or national, still the same dangerous and aris- tocratic institution. Eternal infamy awaits those who voted for the imposition of such a heavy burden upon the people.” Vigorously opposed by Jackson, the Bank would expire at the end of 1836, when its charter was not renewed. Madison had died a week earlier, and is remembered as “The author and surviving signer of our Constitution. While that instrument remains the bonds of our Union and the precious relic of the wisdom of our Revolutionary patriots belong with his name to be held in veneration.” Also toasted are the Army (music “Yankee Doodle”), Thomas H. Benton (music “Hail to the Chief ”), and the Rights of Suffrage (music “Star Spangled Banner”). An interesting and unique piece. Corrections would seem to indicate that this was the working draft for the occasion. $2500.

The Force Printing of the Declaration of Independence

64. [Declaration of Independence]: [Force, Peter]: IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIR- TEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...[caption title]. [Washing- ton: Peter Force, 1848, but actually 1843]. Broadside, 29½ x 25 inches, printed on parchment. Some faint offsetting and minor foxing. Near fine. Matted.

The Declaration of Independence, the foundation document of the United States, has been printed myriad times since its original publication in 1776. At first as broadsides, then as an essential addition to any volume of laws, it was from the beginning a basic work in the American canon. The present document is from one of the earliest broadside reproductions of the Declaration, done within a few years of the first broadside republications. In the period following the War of 1812, Americans began to look back, for the first time with historical perspective, on the era of the founding of the country. The republic was now forty years old, and the generation of the American Revolution, including the signers of the Declaration, was dropping away. With nostalgia and curiosity, many Americans began to examine the details of the nation’s founding. Among other things, such documents as the debates of the Constitutional Conven- tion were published for the first time. It seemed extraordinary that the Declara- tion of Independence, as created, was unknown to Americans, when the text was so central to the national ego. Several entrepreneurs set out to bridge this gap by printing reproductions of the document, often featuring calligraphic text, portraits, or other decorative flourishes. The most accurate of these early reproductions was an official facsimile, sponsored by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and created by William J. Stone in 1823. Stone used a wet transfer process to make an exact facsimile of the Declaration (then kept in the State Department), printed actual-size on parchment. Bidwell calls this facsimile “a magnificent replica,” and it is from this facsimile (likely from Stone’s original copper plate) that Peter Force made the present facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, printed in 1843 and published in the fifth series of his American Archives in 1848. It is an exact facsimile of the actual Declaration, on a slightly smaller scale, accurately reproducing the restrained force of the original document. A most desirable, attractive, and scarce facsimile of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. John Bidwell, “American History in Image and Text” in Proceedings of the American Anti- quarian Society, Vol. 98, 1988, pp.247-302 (also issued as a separate pamphlet by AAS); item 7 (note). $30,000.

65. [Dickinson, Jonathan]: A DISPLAY OF GOD’S SPECIAL GRACE. IN A FAMILIAR DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MINISTER & A GENTLEMAN OF HIS CONGREGATION, ABOUT THE WORK OF GOD, IN THE CONVICTION AND CONVERSION OF SIN- NERS, SO REMARKABLY OF LATE BEGUN AND GOING ON IN THESE AMERICAN PARTS.... Boston: Printed by Rogers & Fowle for S. Eliot, 1742. [2],vi,111,[1]pp. Contemporary calf, gilt. Spine and corners worn; head and foot of spine chipped. Titlepage backed with later paper. Contemporary author notation on titlepage. Lightly soiled. Several edge tears throughout text. About very good.

Jonathan Dickinson (1688-1747) was one of the foremost leaders in the New England Presbyterian Church and the first president of the College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University). Throughout his career he actively championed freedom for dissenters and strove to find middle ground between the extremes of the church. This work was one of his most effective, defending revival while maintaining the need for order, stability, and holiness provided by the church. An attestation prefixed to the text is signed in type by Boston ministers Benjamin Colman, Joseph Sewall, Thomas Prince, John Webb, William Cooper, Thomas Foxcroft, and Joshua Gee. Scarce on the market and especially nice in this original condition. EVANS 4931. $2250.

Early Theatre in the Nation’s Capital

66. [District of Columbia]: [Theatre]: WASHINGTON THEATRE... ON MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, WILL BE PRESENT- ED THE COMEDY OF THE SCHOOL OF REFORM; OR, HOW TO RULE A HUSBAND....TO WHICH WILL BE ADDED...THE CELEBRATED GRAND HEROIC PANTOMIME...HERCULES & OMPHALE...[caption title]. Washington City: W. Cooper, [1813]. Broadside, 21½ x 8¼ inches. Minor soiling and wear. Contemporary manuscript corrections. Very good.

The Washington Theatre was the second theatre in early Washington. The first was the National Theatre, originally formed by Thomas Wignell and Alexander Rein- agle with the company from Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street Theatre. The National Theatre opened in 1800 in an unfinished hotel. Within three years money was raised for a second, more permanent theatre, which would be suitable to entertain Jefferson, Madison, and other important personages in the new capital. On Nov. 16, 1804 the Washington Theatre opened its doors on Pennsylvania Avenue. The first season completed Dec. 17, 1804, and the theatre did not reopen its doors until the following autumn. In 1808 the Wignell company began regular summer seasons, which had the benefit of getting the company out of Philadelphia during the yellow fever season, as well as providing uninterrupted practice for the cast and crew. The season of 1808 began on September 7 and lasted a mere nine nights; the season for 1809 ran from June 13 to August 7. Closed in 1810 due to lack of success, the theatre was advertised for sale June of 1811. It failed to sell, and the company reopened for a summer season later that month. They managed to stay open for the next several summer seasons, despite war with Britain and a terrible theatre fire in Richmond in December 1812 which killed eighty people and caused a country-wide anti-theatre crusade. By 1813, when this broadside was printed, the War of 1812 was raging. This copy is particularly notable for its contemporary annotations, with fourteen cast and scene changes marked. If these are taken as last-minute changes, the annotations provide a great deal of information about the actual performance of Sep- tember 6, as well as the dramatic exegesis caused by losing, for example, the singer Mrs. Green, which caused the song “Bright Chanticleer” to be entirely cancelled. An extensive description is given of the pantomime of “Hercules & Omphale,” choreographed by James Byrn. Byrn created a number of ballets in America, some of which he later staged in London. The playbill also indicates that the epilogue to “School of Reform” was spoken by the English actress Mrs. Mason, a brilliant comedienne of the times. Aside from a unique playbill at Harvard, this is the earliest surviving broadside of a Washington, D.C. theatre; the next nearest is 1816. Unique and interesting. $3750.

Extraordinary Album of Original Art Work Illustrating the Natural History of the Bible

67. Edmunds, Mary Beresford [artist & compiler]: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIBLE WITH ADDI- TIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME TEXTS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES...MARY BERESFORD EDMUNDS FECIT. [Np, but England. nd, but some leaves watermarked 1825-1827]. Title in gouache with gilded areas, on vellum backed with paper, in the form of a medieval illuminated manuscript leaf, with one large illuminated initial, calligraphic let- tering, a miniature of Noah praying whilst the animals enter the Ark, and an elaborate decorative border incorporating plants and animals. 126 leaves (116 paper, 10 vellum) with original watercolor or wash drawings, mounted recto only of 120 laminated leaves (including 11 watercolors drawn “from nature”; 97 from various printed sources; 18 unassigned). Folio. Contemporary russia, the covers with wide elaborate borders tooled in gilt and blind with blocked inner corner pieces, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, lettered in the second compartment “History /of the / Bible” and again at the foot of the spine “Illustrations,” brown glazed endpapers, a.e.g. Very good.

A natural history album of the first rank, beautifully bound with original natural history watercolors of a very high standard. The album is arranged systematically: plants (leaves 1-41); followed by mammals (44-76); birds (78-97); reptiles, fish, arachnids (101-107); insects (110-116); shells (118- 120); ethnographical and antiquities (121- 128), with a final larger watercolor view on toned paper of Mount Ararat (mounted on a sheet with a decorative border). Most drawings include what appears to be a page reference to a work on the Bible or Bible history. In addition, when appropriate, the printed source for each image is given. The sources are generally identified by the author’s surname, and include James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile; Friderik Ludwig Norden, The Antiqui- ties, Natural History, Ruins...of Egypt, Nubia and Thebes; Asiatic Society of Bengal’s Asi- atick Researches, or Transactions of the Society; Joseph Pitton de Tournefort’s Relation d’une Voyage du Levant; Charles Nicolas Sonnin’s Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt; Prosperus Alpinus’ Historiae Aegypti Naturalis; J. Wolf and Bernard Meyer’s Naturgeschichte der Voegel Deutschlands; James Grey Jackson’s An Account of the Empire of Morocco; and works by others including Morier, Bulliard, Rumphius, Cuvier, Shaw, and Ridinger. The features that makes this album stand out from other “amateur” albums of the period when the ability to draw was considered a necessary accomplishment, are the quality and care taken over of every aspect of its production. The title is appropriate and beautifully executed; in most cases the images are taken from printed sources, but the artist’s talent was such that she improved upon the originals: life is given back to the formulaic (see the leopard on leaf 64); and when the images are taken from life and drawn on vellum the results are truly spectacular (see the “Fritillaria Imperialis” on leaf 32). A great deal of thought also went into the binding. Too often good drawings were relegated to standard and rather uninspiring albums. The present album has been designed specifically for the collection of drawings; it is the work of a binder at the top of his game, and forms a fitting setting for the jewel-like drawings within. $15,000. Edwards’ Classic Work, His Son’s Copy

68. Edwards, Jonathan: THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED; EVIDENCE OF ITS TRUTH PRODUCED, AND ARGUMENTS TO THE CONTRARY AN- SWERED. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1758. [2],xviii,386,[7]pp. Contemporary paneled calf. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Some light toning and soiling. Very good.

A posthumously published treatise on the nature of original sin by the renowned New England divine, Jonathan Edwards. Edwards’ treatment herein of the nature of man’s soul in the absence of grace is consistent (if not more strident) with the fire-and-brimstone sermons that marked his career. This copy is inscribed on the front fly leaf by the son of the author, reading: “Jonathan Edwards his book, Boston, Octor. 1764.” Like his father, Edwards was also a minister. Scarce, with a particularly pleasing association. NAIP w020417. EVANS 8118. SABIN 21942. $2000.

The Election of 1824

69. [Election of 1824]: WANTED, NOT UNTIL MARCH 4th, 1825, AN HONEST, INTELLIGENT AND FAITHFUL MAN SER- VANT, TO SERVE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, AS THEIR PRESIDENT...[first line of text]. [Np. 1824]. Broadside, 11 x 9 inches. Old fold lines. A few small stains. Very good.

A scarce and intriguing campaign broadside from the 1824 presidential election presented in the form of a “help wanted” ad, naming no specific candidate, but calling for an honest man to be a servant to the people, uncorrupted and incorruptible. The broadside repeatedly calls for representation of the common man over political cronies, support of American goods and interest over foreign concerns, and plain honest speech over flattery and rhetoric. In the election of 1824, none of the four candidates running for office – Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay – secured a majority of electoral votes, and the decision was thrown into the House of Repre- sentatives. Henry Clay, who was one of the candidates, was compelled to cast the deciding ballot by virtue of being House Speaker. He chose John Quincy Adams over Andrew Jackson, and much controversy ensued over an alleged “corrupt bar- gain” between Clay and Adams, with Adams naming Clay as his Secretary of State. Jackson would win the 1828 election against the incumbent Adams, partially as a backlash from the election of 1824. Only three copies in OCLC, at Brown University, the Huntington, and the New-York Historical Society. OCLC 54042567, 58786287, 228709189. $1500. 70. [Ephrata Cloister]: GÜLDENE AEPFFEL IN SILBERN SCHALEN ODER: SCHÖNE UND NÜTZLICHE WORTE UND WARHEIT- EN ZUR GOTTSELIGKEIT. ENTHALTEN IN SIEBEN HAUPT- THEILEN DIE IN DIESEM BUCH ZUSAMEN GESTELLET SIND.... Ephrata. 1745. [8],519 [i.e. 534],[14]pp. 12mo. Contemporary leather over wooden boards. Spine expertly rebacked in matching period style, retaining a portion of the original spine; lower clasp on binding present, upper clasp lacking. Boards with an expected amount of wear, leather stripped from lower portion of rear board. Text intermittently tanned, some foxing. Titlepage and following thirty leaves with an old stain in the outer portion of each leaf; several later leaves stained in lower margin, not affecting text. Overall, a good plus copy.

Evans calls this “The first book printed at the Brotherhood press” of the Ephrata Cloister, and it is generally accepted as such. Seidensticker suggests that a press was in operation before 1745, though he locates no earlier Ephrata imprints. The “Golden Apple” is a devotional book of the Swiss-Mennonite brethren, originally printed in Basel in 1702 and reprinted there in 1742. This Ephrata printing is the third edition of the text, containing devotional works from a variety of sources, including the Anabaptists. The overall emphasis of the texts is to shore up the spirit in the face of adversity, and would have been especially useful to the relatively new Ephrata Cloister, which was established in what is now Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania in 1732. Known for their simple and monastic lifestyle, the community established their own printing press after their leader, Conrad Beissel, had a falling out with the pioneering German-American printer, Christoph Saur. There are two issues of this collection, one with a titlepage noting its intended use by the Ephrata community (as in the present copy), and another with a titlepage noting its use by the Mennonites. The “Mennonite titlepage” is also found in this copy, bound in at the rear, as is sometimes the case. ARNDT 76. EVANS 5603. NAIP w006901. HILDEBURN 932. DOLL & FUNKE 370. BENDER, p.2. SEIDENSTICKER, p.26. $4500.

The First American Book on Mills and Milling Machines

71. Evans, Oliver: THE YOUNG MILL-WRIGHT & MILLER’S GUIDE. Philadelphia: Printed for, and sold by the author, 1795. [8],160,96, [99]-178,90,10,[12]pp. plus twenty-six engraved plates (two folding). Con- temporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Foot of spine repaired, corners lightly worn. Light soiling and foxing. Several plates lightly reinforced with tissue at edges. Half of second folding plate supplied in facsimile. Still, about very good.

First edition of the first American book on mills and milling machines, and a landmark of early American technology. While working at his family’s mill in Wilmington, Delaware in the 1780s, Evans designed and put into successful operation a series of improvements in flour mill machinery. These machines, operated by water power, included elevators, conveyors, a hopper boy, drills, and descenders, and together they performed every necessary movement of the grain and meal, reducing the number of men needed to operate milling equipment from four to one. Millers at first were universally opposed to Evans’ improvements. In 1795 he incorporated all of his innovations into The Young Mill-Wright & Miller’s Guide. Written in a simple and straightforward style, with clear and detailed plates, the book soon revolutionized flour milling. It remained in print for over sixty years, passing through at least fifteen editions. Evans went on to achieve even greater success, later becoming America’s first steam engine builder. For a full analysis of the present text, see G. and D. Bathe, Oliver Evans (Philadelphia, 1935). “The key publication in the development of flour milling” – Hindle. RINK 1412. EVANS 28644. KRESS B2928. HORBLIT SALE 352. NAIP w029728. $4000.

A Constitutional Classic from the Library of Melville’s Father-in-law: The Dartmouth College Case, Judge Lemuel Shaw’s Copy

72. Farrar, Timothy: REPORT OF THE CASE OF THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE AGAINST WILLIAM H. WOOD- WARD. Portsmouth, N.H. [1819]. [4],406pp. Original blue paper boards, original tan paper spine, original paper label. Spine neatly repaired. Contem- porary ownership inscription on front fly leaf: “Lemuel Shaw’s.” Some light toning and foxing. Near fine. Untrimmed.

One of the most important constitutional cases to appear before John Marshall’s Supreme Court, the “Dartmouth College Case.” This copy belonged to distinguished Massachusetts lawyer and jurist Lemuel Shaw, at that time one of the leading attorneys in New England and, after 1830, the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court for the next three decades (1830-60), a position he undertook at the instigation of Daniel Webster. As a disciple of Webster, it no doubt had both a personal and legal interest for him. Shaw’s daughter, Elizabeth, married author Herman Melville. In this notable Supreme Court opinion on what is known as the Dartmouth Col- lege Case, Chief Justice Marshall ruled, without citation to any case authority, that the Charter of Dartmouth College, which had been granted before the Revolution in 1769, could not be invalidated or impaired by the legislative enactments of the new state government. Marshall held that by the terms of the Federal Constitution, no state could impair the obligation of a contract. Daniel Webster, who made the successful case for his alma mater, convinced the court that within the meaning of the Constitution, an amendment of the college charter by the state would impair the original contract between the state and college. In the Dartmouth College case, the very definition of contract was underscored in the Supreme Court’s decision that a corporate charter was “a contract made on a valuable consideration...[a] contract for the security and disposition of property.” Consequently no legislature could change the terms of any charter which a previous legislature had granted; to do so would impair the charter. The decision protected private endowments from political interference and encouraged charitable gifts, gave added stability to the rights protected by private charters and facilitated investment of private resources in private corporate enterprises, but gave corporations an immunity from judicial interference. This final problem was corrected in 1837 when Chief Justice Taney limited Marshall’s ruling by deciding that corporate charters should be made strictly in the public’s favor. An important ruling in the early history of the country, which had far-reaching implications in protecting private endowments from political interference. A fine association copy of this important case. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 47980. MARKE 964. SABIN 23887. $4500.

First Book Printed in Michigan

73. [Father Richard’s Press]: [Le Clerc, Paul]: L’AME PENITENTE OU LE NOUVEAU PENSEZ-Y-BIEN; CONSIDERATION SUR LES VE’RITE’S ETERNELLES, AVEC DES HISTOIRES & DES EXEMPLES. NOUVELLE EDITION. REVUE & AUGMENTEE PAR L’AUTEUR DE L’AME ELEVEE A DIEU. Detroit: Jacques M. Miller, 1809. 220pp. Gathered signatures, uncut and unbound. Slight edge wear, otherwise near fine.

This is the first book comprised of more than twenty-four pages printed in Michi- gan. To further his educational projects and his own ministry in Detroit, Father Gabriel Richard procured a printing press while visiting eastern cities in 1808 and established first generally effective press in the Detroit area and the upper Midwest. A press had been set up in Detroit in 1796, but its production was limited to one known sixteen-page pamphlet and some blank forms. Father Richard established his press for the production chiefly of textbooks, religious items, and a few odd political items, and employed several different pressmen, including James M. Miller, A. Coxshaw, and Mettez, from 1809 through 1816. The present book is the first substantial work to issue from Father Richard’s frontier printing establishment. James M. Miller of Utica, New York, whose name appears on the present imprint, was the first regular printer at Father Richard’s establishment. Greenly, citing the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris as authority, attributes the work to Barthelemi Baudrand. Greenly locates nine copies. “One of the earliest Detroit printings, from Father Richard’s famous press” – Streeter. STREETER SALE 1387. AII (MICHIGAN) 3. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 37. GREEN- LY, FATHER RICHARD’S PRESS 4. McMURTRIE (MICHIGAN) 25. CLARKE, RICHARD PRESS 7. PARSONS, EARLY CATHOLIC AMERICANA 343. $6000. A Detroit Children’s Book

74. [Father Richard’s Press]: Berquin, Arnaud: LE LIVRE DE FAMILLE OU JOURNAL DES ENFANS...THE FAMILY BOOK, OR CHIL- DREN’S JOURNAL...I. PARTIE...NOUVELLE EDITION. [with:] II. PARTIE...NOUVELLE EDITION.... Detroit: Printed by Theophi- lus Mettez, 1812. Two volumes. 252; 232pp. First volume in contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, leather labels; second volume in contemporary three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Hinges repaired on first volume; modern bookplate on front pastedowns. Paper flaws in two leaves of second volume, affecting some text. A near fine set.

First Detroit printing of this popular collection of tales for the moral edification of children, here printed with parallel French and English texts. One of the most famous productions of Father Richard’s press, the first generally effective press in the Detroit area and the upper Midwest. A press had been set up in Detroit in 1796, but its production was limited to one known sixteen-page pamphlet and some blank forms. Father Richard established his press for the production chiefly of textbooks, religious items, and a few odd political items, and employed several different pressmen, including James M. Miller, A. Coxshaw, and Mettez, from 1809 through 1816. It is likely that Richard had a hand in the preparation of the English translation which appears here in parallel with the French text. AII (MICHIGAN) 24, 25. GREENLY, FATHER RICHARD’S PRESS 26. WELCH 73. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24811. $7500.

Land Promotion in Florida, 1821

75. Forbes, James Grant: SKETCHES, HISTORICAL AND TOPO- GRAPHICAL, OF THE FLORIDAS; MORE PARTICULARLY OF EAST FLORIDA. New York. 1821. 226pp. plus advertisement leaf. Folding frontispiece map. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Bookplate on front pastedown. Folding map backed with tissue, repairing several closed tears. Leaf preceding titlepage also backed with tissue. Light foxing and soiling. Scattered pencil annotations. About very good.

First and only edition. A guide to East Florida at the time it was ceded to the U.S., designed to attract investors and settlers to the “Forbes Purchase,” encompassing over one million acres on the Apalachicola bay and river. An appendix reprints some historical documents, including a bilingual version of the treaty of cession. Sabin does not note the map, and Howes states it was not issued in all copies. It depicts the Apalachicola river and bay, and includes a plan of the proposed town of Colinton with street names, squares, etc. SABIN 25046. STREETER SALE 1205. CLARK II:203. HOWES F243. SERVIES 1078. $3750. First American Edition, with Remarkable Early American Plates: Both Judaica and Irish Interest

76. Foxe, John: THE NEW AND COMPLETE BOOK OF MARTYRS; OR, A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF MARTYRDOM: BEING FOX’S BOOK OF MARTYRS, REVISED AND CORRECTED, WITH ADDITIONS AND GREAT IMPROVEMENTS.... New York: William Durell, 1794. Two volumes. 939; 669,[3]pp. plus forty leaves of plates. Thick quarto. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Bind- ing lightly worn. Bookplates on front pastedowns, a few old library stamps. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepages. Light scattered foxing and toning, primarily to plates and surrounding text. Very good.

The expanded American edition of Foxe’s famed Book of Martyrs. This New York edition was first issued in forty parts, each with its own engraving, in an impressive quarto format. First published in 1563, the text is a history of Christian martyrdom throughout the ages, beginning with the early Church, but with heavy emphasis on England in the reign of Henry VIII and his daughter, Mary. A number of the martyrs were Catholic priests in Ireland, giving the work substantial Irish interest. Also, several stories about Jews are contained in Foxe’s text, making it an example of early American Judaica included in Singerman’s definitive bibliography. The most striking aspects of this American edition are the forty plates, crudely but effectively engraved by four artists. John Scoles began working in New York in 1793, and was also a bookseller. Benjamin Tanner was also at the beginning of his career; he later worked with his brother, Henry, as a map publisher. Elkanah Tisdale made engraving plates, and later worked painting miniature portraits. N. Pigalle is unknown. This is one of the most extensively illustrated American books published up to this time. EVANS 26991. SINGERMAN, AMERICAN JUDAICA 79. STAUFFER, AMERICAN ENGRAVERS, passim. $5000.

77. [Franklin, Benjamin]: THE CONFESSION OF FAITH, THE LARGER AND SHORTER CATECHISMS, WITH THE SCRIP- TURE PROOFS AT LARGE. TOGETHER WITH THE SUM OF SAVING KNOWLEDGE (CONTAIN’D IN THE HOLY SCRIP- TURES, AND HELD FORTH IN THE SAID CONFESSION AND CATECHISMS)...OF PUBLICK-AUTHORITY IN THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1745. 567,[23]pp. Lacks pp.371-384. Thick octavo. Contemporary sheep. Heavily worn. Mod- erate foxing and soiling. Several leaves loose. Small piece of p.59 torn away, affecting edge of top half of text; small tear in edge of p.173; p.369 mutilated; small tears and minor paper loss to pp.408-409. Fair.

An early Franklin imprint, in the original binding. “This printing was commissioned by the Philadelphia Synod which paid Franklin sums totaling £70 between Sept. 27, 1742, and Feb. 20, 1746-1747. The first American publication of the Confession, with the larger catechism and brief sum of Christian Doctrine added, was done in Boston by S. Kneeland for D. Henchman in 1723, from Rothwell’s London edition of 1658. [Franklin] used as his copy text the Thomas Limisden and John Robertson edition of Edinburgh, 1728, which with its completed ‘canon’ and accurate text based on William Dunlop’s edition of 1719 represented the norm of Scottish editions” – Miller. EVANS 5709. HILDEBURN 924. MILLER 371. $1750.

78. [Franklin, Benjamin]: [American Newspaper]: THE PENNSYLVA- NIA GAZETTE. NUMB. 1907. Philadelphia: Printed by B. Franklin, Post-Master, and D. Hall, July 11, 1765. 2 leaves. Folio. Dbd. Some toning, very small hole in first leaf affecting a few letters, else very good.

“The State of Pennsylvania Hospital” is printed on the front page, although it does not include the tabular abstract of admission featured in the previous year’s report. Among the advertisements is a notice for Poor Richard’s Almanack for 1766, drawing attention to the printing in the Almanack of the text of the Stamp Act; “as every person is, almost, more or less affected by this Act, it is absolutely necessary that all should become acquainted with it.” MILLER 842. BRIGHAM II, pp.933-37. $2000.

Poor Richard Illustrated

79. [Franklin, Benjamin]: POOR RICHARD ILLUSTRATED. LES- SONS FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD ON INDUSTRY, TEMPER- ANCE, FRUGALITY &c. By Benjamin Franklin. Boston: E. Herbert Clapp, [ca. 1865]. Broadside, 21½ x 27¾ inches. Faint dampstaining. Very good.

Large pictorial broadside illustrating sayings from Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack, engraved by Oliver Pelton. It shows twenty-four oval vignettes, with Franklin’s portrait in the center. This image appears to have been first published by Allen & Holland in Boston in 1859; it was later reprinted in 1887 by Thomas Perry, also in Boston. While we find records for an E. Clapp publishing in Boston in the late 1850s and early 1860s, we do not find any record of this particular print. Neatly executed. A nice piece of Frankliniana. $1250.

80. [Garfield, James A.]: Hayne, Paul Hamilton: [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED (“PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE”), OF HAYNE’S POEM, “THE UNSEEN HOST”]. [Grovetown, Ga. 1881]. [1]p., in purple ink on ruled paper, the original copy sent to the printer, with title in editor’s hand and other typesetting marks. Minor soiling and smudges along right margin, not affecting legibility. Very good.

Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-86) was an American poet. “After the death in 1870 of William Gilmore Simms, an old friend and mentor, Hayne became the chief literary spokesman for the South, an unofficial postwar laureate for the late Con- federacy” – ANB. Hayne composed this poem after the attack on President James A. Garfield by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington railroad station on July 2, 1881. Originally titled “The President’s (Unseen) Company” with the subtitle, “The Prayers of the People will not let the old Soldier die!,” and dedicated to Mrs. Garfield, the poem was re-titled by the editor and published as “The Unseen Host.” The poem, in three stanzas of six, five, and six verses, reads in part:

Angels are these, born on the breath of prayer! For him through all the land, fervent and sweet, What prayers oh! Christ, have risen to kiss Thy feet! No marvel then a Spiritual Concourse stands Beside his bed, lifting ethereal hands Against all treacherous demons of the dark! With mystic wings they fan his vital spark

Garfield lingered and succumbed to the assassin’s bullet on Sept. 19, 1881. $1000.

An Extraordinary Archive of Material on the Assassination of President James Garfield, and the Trial of the Assassin, Charles Guiteau

81. [Garfield, James A.]: [Guiteau, Charles]: [Garfield Assassination and Trial]: [A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS, DRAFTS, NOTES, PAMPHLETS, AND EPHEMERA RELATING TO THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JAMES GARFIELD AND THE TRIAL OF CHARLES GUITEAU]. Wash- ington D.C., New York, and various places. 1859-1883. In all, eighteen autograph letters, mostly signed, various sizes, approximately [50]pp. written; eighteen secretarial copies of reports on the President’s condition; news clippings and broadside extras; autograph album with thirty-nine signatures; and engraved portrait of Garfield. Octavo to folio. Condition noted on individual items below. All laid into a three-quarter black morocco drop box.

This remarkable collection contains manuscripts and printed material relating to the death of President James Garfield and the life and trial of his assassin, Charles Guiteau. Highlights include five autograph letters and manuscripts by Guiteau, including one of the earliest known letters and a chilling jailhouse manuscript written shortly before his execution; extensive autograph material by the lead prosecutor, James K. Porter, including one of his trial notebooks and a draft of his counter to Guiteau’s “Unsound Mind” defense; the autograph draft of the bulletin announcing Garfield’s death by head surgeon Dr. D.W. Bliss; a letter from defense counsel George Scoville to Porter; an extraordinary correspondence between Porter and trial observer Frederick Douglass; an autograph album with the signatures of Guiteau, attorneys, jurors, and other notables attending the trail; letters by Postmaster Gen- eral Thomas L. James and Speaker of the House J. Warren Keifer conveying their firsthand accounts of Garfield’s condition on the day of the shooting; and a moving letter by Lucretia Garfield, still in mourning several years after her husband’s death. James Garfield (1831-81), twentieth president of the United States, was born into poverty in northern Ohio. Through perseverance and natural ability he escaped the hardships of his youth, eventually attending Williams College in Massachusetts, where he received his B.A. in 1856. He returned to Ohio to take up a professorship of ancient languages at Hiram College and was later named president of the school. Garfield entered politics on an anti-slavery platform, winning a seat to the Ohio legislature in 1859. His exemplary service during the Civil War boosted his political stock and he won the first of nine consecutive victories for a seat in Congress from 1862. Garfield emerged from the highly factious 1880 Republican convention as his party’s compromise nominee for president, a position he was not even actively seeking. Garfield’s brief presidency was largely consumed with the political infight- ing of the “Stalwart” faction of his party lead by rival Roscoe Conkling. On July 2, 1881, Garfield entered the Baltimore & Potomac railroad station with the intention of traveling to his alma mater, Williams College, and then on to a much-needed vacation. On the platform he was ambushed by Charles Guiteau, a disturbed man with fanciful notions of his own abilities and importance, who unloaded two bullets into the President’s back. Garfield would linger for months, stoically enduring the unsterile exploratory surgeries of his doctors, who tried in vain to locate one of the assassin’s bullets. Daily bulletins on the President’s health were sent out to an anxious nation which, for the first time since before the Civil War, felt united in a shared grief. Garfield finally succumbed on September 19, the victim of an infection undoubtedly introduced by his doctors. Guiteau (1841-82) was a disappointed and delusional office-seeker who believed his work on behalf of the Republican Party had earned him, through the spoils system, the right to a top diplomatic position. He came to politics after failing in law, publishing, evangelism, bill collecting, and public lecturing. Other than six years spent at the utopian Oneida Community, he was almost always on the move, frequently skipping town without paying his room and board. Roundly disliked and mistrusted, he supported himself by fraud, thievery, and deceit, yet was possessed of a maniacal belief that God had some great purpose for his life. He was eventually convinced that God wished him to assassinate Garfield in order to unite a feuding Republican Party and save the Union. His trial was one of the most sensational in the nation’s history and one of the first and most notorious uses of the insanity defense. Guiteau continuously interrupted the proceedings with his wild outbursts, despite which the jury rejected his insanity defense and convicted him after only an hour and a half of deliberation. He was hanged on June 30, 1882. An unprecedented collection in terms of the scope and significance of its content, with deep autograph and manuscript material covering all aspects of Garfield’s death and the following trial. This is certainly the greatest single offering concerning Garfield’s assassination to be on the market, and it rivals or surpasses all of the major institutional collections devoted to the subject. A detailed inventory follows:

I. Charles Guiteau, assassin. Three of the following letters are to his sister Frances Scoville. She and her husband George (who would act as Guiteau’s defense council) for a time provided Guiteau with shelter and money. In one notable example of his violent outbursts, Guiteau threatened Frances with an axe.

1) Autograph letter, signed (“Chas J. Guiteau”), to his sister Frances. Ann Arbor. Nov. 6 1859. 4pp., pen and ink. Formerly folded, signs of mounting at top edge. Eighteen-year-old Guiteau describes life at college, urges his sister to embrace the Christian faith, and declares his sympathies with the Oneida Community. A very early letter; earliest letters at auction are from the 1870s.

2) Autograph letter, signed (“C.J. Guiteau”), to his sister Frances. Oneida Com- munity. Aug. 9, 1861. 2pp. pen and ink. Formerly folded, small tear at top edge, signs of mounting at top edge. Writing from the Oneida Community, Guiteau offers some of his religious views and shares his concern for his sister’s soul: “I pray that God may open your mind and heart to the great and glorious truths of ‘Bible Communism’....” 3) Autograph letter fragment, unsigned, to his sister Frances. New York. May 20, 1867. 2pp. pen and ink on paper. Signs of mounting at upper edge. Guiteau describes his life as a bachelor in New York City (“on the whole it is a rather *cold* way [to live]”), mentioning a room at 29th and 4th and a trip uptown to Harlem. Includes some religious ramblings and theodicy: “If we receive not afflictions than [sic] are we *bastards* indeed and not Sons of God.” 4) Autograph draft petition to the Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York, signed (“Charles J. Guiteau”) and docketed “Guiteau’s copy.” New York. Jan. 5, 1874. 1½pp. pen and ink on paper. Formerly folded, a few edge tears. An earlier example of Guiteau acting in his own defense in a case brought by Stephen English. In 1874, Guiteau spent a month in the Tombs for not paying rent on his law office space. 5) Autograph manuscript, signed (“Charles Guiteau”). United States Jail, Washington, D.C. April 13, 1882. 3pp. pen and ink on paper, written on rectos only. Formerly folded, edges frayed, mended tears. On dealings with his brother-in-law and defense council, George Scoville, whom he accuses, in his paranoid way, of mis- handling his case (“the most important criminal case of the century”). Guiteau dismisses Scoville and appoints Charles H. Reed in his stead. Also mentions his father (who “ran me into that stinking Oneida Community when a boy”) and his ex-wife (“a poor, uneducated girl without position or friends”).

II. John K. Porter, prosecutor (autograph letters are assumed to be drafts or retained copies). Porter (1819-92) was a prominent trial lawyer and judge involved in three of the most sensational criminal trials of the 19th century: as defense attorney for John Brown after Harper’s Ferry; defending Henry Ward Beecher against charges of adultery in Tilton vs. Beecher; and the United States v. Guiteau. Porter successfully argued against Guiteau’s “insanity defense,” winning a conviction for the prosecution. Insanity was poorly understood at the time, and Guiteau’s conviction exposed flaws in the prevailing method of determining legal insanity, the M’Naughten Rule. This collection contains notes on Porter’s counter to the insanity defense as well as other examples of his trial notes. Most interesting in this collection is his correspondence with Frederick Douglass. Porter writes a withering letter to Douglass, wrongly accusing the abolitionist and Garfield supporter of being in sympathy with the defense. Douglass responds to the obviously false charge and acquits himself, supposing Porter has been told “a hell black lie.” The correspondence is as follows:

6) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to Frederick Douglass, the original letter, as returned to Porter. Washington, D.C. Dec. 28, 1881. 3pp., with accompanying envelope. Porter expresses his dismay at Douglass’ sympathy with the assassin as reported in the media:

[I was] brought to the conclusion that every slave should be a freeman, by our eloquent speech at the City Hall in Albany, it has sadly disappointed me to learn through the public press, I am sure unjustly, that your sympathy is with the murderer. I do not personally believe it; but your prominent position, as the pre-eminent representation of the colored race, leads me to suffer the question, whether you can afford to go down to posterity as the defender of such a diabolical murder....You will pardon me for saying that your reported utterances, have not been in keeping and harmony with your utterances in the case of my old client John Brown, who has made his name immortal by utterances which will ring through all succeeding centuries....

7) Autograph letter, signed (“Fredk Douglass”), from Frederick Douglass to John K. Porter, with a postscript initialed “F.D.” Washington, D.C. Dec. 29, 1881. 2pp. Douglass denies any sympathy with the assassin:

I am in doubt as to whether I ought to answer your note of this morning. If I did not know something of your high and honorable character, I should treat it with silent contempt. I am surprised and astonished...Judge Porter, you have been grossly imposed upon by somebody. Any one who has told you that I have done anything or that I will do anything, or that I wish to do anything to avert a conviction has to led you a *hell-black* lie. I am utterly at a loss to know upon what grounds of assurance you could make such a statement to me....

Douglass adds a postscript:

I shall be glad to converse with you at any time as to my views and feelings as to the case of the assassin. I have made no statements to the newspapers, and have seen none ascribed to me, such as you describe. I have no fear of going “down to posterity as a defender of such a diabolical murder” and there is no ground for such fears....

8) Autograph notes on the Guiteau trial. 11pp. pen and ink and pencil in a stapled graph-paper notebook. 12mo. A few ink stains. Possibly notes for the opening or closing statement by the prosecution. “Expected pardon....Had studied Wilkes booth....Is cowardice peculiar to insanity....His hands are bloody, & he asks you to bring yourself to the same hue....” 9) Autograph notes on the “Unsound Mind” defense. 2pp. pen and ink on paper. Formerly folded, a few stains. Draft of the prosecution’s handling of Guiteau’s insanity defense: “No man of sound mind, in popular sense, ever committed a murder. No man of perfectly Sound Mind ever ravished a defenseless girl....” 10) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to Colonel F.S. Waldron. New York. Nov. 2, 1881. 1½pp. Asking for suggestions in prosecuting the case. 11) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to Chauncey B. Ripley. Washington, D.C. Nov. 29, 1881. [1]p. Formerly folded. “It would be monstrous, if in the 19th. Century, a deliberate and foreplanned murder could be justified by a pretense of the assassin [sic], that he had the Power of Attorney from the Deity to commit it.” 12) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to Austin Abbot. Washington, D.C. Dec. 15, 1881. 2pp. Formerly folded. Comments on the medical evidence given at the trial with Abbot’s help. 13) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to George B. Corkhill. Washington, D.C. Jan. 26, 1882. 2pp. Formerly folded, lightly soiled. Congratulations on a well-handled trial. 14) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to Lucien Brock Proctor. New York. Feb. 15, 1882. 2½pp. Formerly folded. Congratulations on the trial, commenda- tion of Proctor’s Bench and Bar of New York. 15) Autograph letter, signed (“John K. Porter”), to Edwin A. Merritt. New York. Feb. 20, 1882. 2pp. Formerly folded, stained and wormed in upper portion affecting a few letters. On the feeling in England about the assassination. 16) Guiteau Trial. Closing Speech to the Jury of John K. Porter. [Washington, D.C. 1882]. Self-wrappers. Some foxing on first few leaves, edges frayed. Printed pamphlet. Inscribed by Porter to his nephew, John Porter Leland, Jr. 17) Autograph letter draft (ends mid-sentence), unsigned, to George Scoville. New York. Feb. 1, 1883. [1]p. “The trial was somewhat memorable, and though we happened to be professionally opposed, I cannot forbear to express my sense of the marked ability with which you conducted the defense, though, with my fixed conviction I am unable to think any living lawyer could have rendered it more effective.”

III. Miscellaneous Letters

18) Autograph letter, signed (“John Wells”), from John Wells to “Judge” John K. Porter. Providence, R.I. [1]p. Formerly folded. Offers some assistance to Porter on how to formulate his arguments. 19) Autograph letter, signed (“Geo. Scoville”), from George Scoville to John K. Porter. Chicago. Feb. 15, 1883. 2pp. on his law office stationery. Formerly folded. Exchange of photographs and documents for a publication on the trial. 20) Autograph letter, signed (“Lucretia R. Garfield”), from Lucretia Garfield to Miss Larcom. Cleveland, Oh. Dec. 2, 1887. 2½pp. on mourning stationery. Formerly folded, mended at central fold. “I cannot yet understand why the great life that made my world so beautiful – so filled it with a sunshine that seemed from Heaven [–] should have been snatched away: but it may be I shall yet know – if not here, then hereafter.”

IV. President Garfield’s Fight for Life

21) Autograph letter, signed (“Thos. L. James”), from Thomas L. James, regarding the President’s condition, written on the day of the shooting. Washington, D.C. [ July 2, 1881]. [1]p. pen and ink on Executive Mansion stationery. “At six o’clock Dr. Bliss attending surgeon says the condition of the President to be very critical.” James was Postmaster General under Garfield. 22) Autograph letter, signed (“J. Warren Keifer”), to Carrie E. Howland. Springfield, Oh. July 9, 1881. 2pp. (8 x 5 inches). In a tan half morocco folding case. Keifer was a prominent Ohio Republican, and at the time of the shooting was Speaker of the House.

You ask about the Prest. When I saw him and his dreadful wound on the 2nd – the day he was shot – I thought in common with Genl Sherman & others then about him that the President could live but a few hours at far- thest. Now I think he may recover. The wound seemed necessarily mortal, but the prayers of a nation of 50,000000 of people for the Presidents [sic] recovery are about to be answered by a never deserting Providence....

23) Reports on the condition of the President, consisting of secretarial copies of twelve telegrams by James Gillespie Blaine as Secretary of State to James Russell Lowell, the American Minister in London, July – Aug. 24, 1881; six telegrams by Robert R. Hitt, Assistant Secretary of State, to Lowell, Aug. 11-16, 1881; and nineteen news clippings from the same period. 24) Fair copy of the Sept. 1, 1881 bulletin on Garfield’s health, signed by the attending physicians, including head doctor D.W. Bliss. [Elberon, N.J.]. 12:30 p.m., Sept. 1, [1881]. [1]p. pencil on paper. “The state of the wound remains the same....” 25) Autograph draft of “The Last Bulletin” by Dr. D.W. Bliss, describing Garfield’s death. [Elberon, N.J.]. 11:30 p.m. Sept 19, 1881. [1]p. pencil on paper, with corrections and deletions, small dark smudge in lower left margin. “The President died at 10:35 p.m.....”

V. Signatures

26) Guiteau trial autograph album. [Washington, D.C. January 1882]. With thirty- nine autograph signatures of notable participants. A second-generation photograph of the jury laid in. Original gold-stamped sheep, a.e.g. Worn, a few leaves loose. Autographs include those of Charles Guiteau (“In God We Trust. / Charles Guiteau / January 10 – 1882 / In Court / Washington D.C.”); presiding judge Walter S. Cox; defense councils George Scoville and Charles H. Reed; prosecutor John K. Porter; the twelve jurors; the warden and various guards; the newspaper artist, et al. 27) Clipped signature of James A. Garfield on a printed document, dated July 2, 1881. With clipped signature of Charles Guiteau attached, and a broadside reminiscence of the President’s life.

VI. Ephemera

28) Jacksonville Daily Journal. Three broadside extras reporting the assassination. July 2, 1881. 29) Three broadside announcements of the assassination, and death of Garfield, plus a memorial card. Includes two copies of “The Last Bulletin.” Elberon, N.J. Sept. 19, [1881]. 30) Two bank drafts, one made out to Guiteau (a joke, made out for $25,000), the other to George Scoville ($1, “after the execution of G.J. Guiteau”). Jan. 19 and 31, 1882. 31) The Life and Assassination of President Garfield, Together with the Life of the Cowardly Assassin, Guiteau. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., [1883]. Green printed wrappers with portrait of Garfield. Edges of wrappers frayed, corners bumped. 32) Engraved portrait of Garfield. 5 x 4 inches, mounted on a card. $90,000.

A Extraordinary Unique Package of Binding and Illustration

82. [Gift Book]: THE SACRED WREATH. Philadelphia: Thomas T. Ash & Co., [ca. 1839]. [136]pp., including blank leaves. Printed on rectos only. Quarto. Contemporary full green morocco, elaborately embossed, with a simple gilt rule on the boards and gilt title on the front board, grey silk endsheets. Hinges expertly repaired, corners lightly worn. Very minor foxing and soiling. Near fine.

A remarkable deluxe quarto gift book produced when the genre flourished in the early 19th century (the paper is watermarked “1839”). This copy appears to be unique, or represent some kind of singular production. The embossed pages are printed on various kinds of white paper, with some leaves on other colors of paper. Some of these have printed texts, while others are blank, evidently so the owner could inscribe sentiments of their own. The lithographed titlepage is on glazed paper, with the imprint of Thomas Ash, a prominent Philadelphia publisher who produced many volumes in the gift book genre. The volume includes four engravings after Benjamin West, drawn and engraved by H. Moses, printed on blue paper, and probably produced in England. Also includes ten embossed plates, including botanical plates of the rose, passion flower, tulip, amaranth, viola tricolor, a child in prayer, the stork, a bird’s nest, and others, each accompanied by prose or poetry within an embossed frame. A fine example of the genre, remarkable both for the range and nature of the contents and for the magnificent American embossed binding. No copies located in OCLC, or in the extensive collections of the American Antiquarian Society, and evidently a unique or one-on production. $3750.

A Large Antebellum Map of a Virginia County in the Shenandoah Valley

83. Gilham, William: Otey, W.N.P.: MAP OF THE COUNTY OF ROCKBRIDGE, VIRGINIA. Baltimore: A. Hoen & Co., [ca. 1859]. Wall map, 33 x 36½ inches, handcolored. Mounted on wooden rollers. Re- cently backed with linen and edged with silk, old varnish removed. Some light creasing and wear. Very good.

A rare lithographed map of Rockbridge County, Virginia, in the southwest part of the state, by the Baltimore firm of A. Hoen & Co., from surveys made by Profes- sor William Gillam of the Virginia Military Institute, and drawn by Cadet W.N.P. Otey, who graduated in July 1861. Incredibly detailed, this map shows the locations and names of hundreds of individual land owners and residents, farms, churches, hotels, mills, foundries, furnaces, stores, railroads, and roads. The James River and Kanawaha Canal with the North River Improvement to Lexington are also shown, with the ferries for crossing. Virginia Military Institute, Washington College, and well-known natural landmarks such as the Natural Bridge, Rockbridge Baths, and Rockbridge Alum Springs are also noted. Political districts are delineated in different colors. Large format maps of southern state counties from the Antebellum period are quite rare, and this is one of the earliest Virginia county maps. A rare and detailed look at this Shenandoah Valley county. $6500.

84. Godfrey, Thomas: JUVENILE POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. WITH THE PRINCE OF PARTHIA, A TRAGEDY. Philadelphia: Henry Miller, 1765. xxvi,[2],223pp. Quarto. 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed, front hinge tender. Light foxing and toning. About very good.

First and only edition of this American author’s works, including the dramatic piece, “The Prince of Parthia,” the earliest dramatic production to be written by an American and actually performed on stage. Godfrey (1736-63), who had a natural inclination to the artistic life, was apprenticed to a watchmaker and had little formal education. After his early death, at age twenty-seven, his friend, Nathaniel Evans, compiled this volume of his works, including a brief biography and account of his literary efforts. Notable for its importance in the history of American drama. The last complete copy to appear at auction realized $200 in 1965. EVANS 9983. HILDEBURN 2129. WEGELIN 183. HILL 119. ESTC W20606. $4500.

First Commemoration of the Signing of the Declaration

85. Gordon, William: THE SEPARATION OF THE JEWISH TRIBES, AFTER THE DEATH OF SOLOMON, ACCOUNTED FOR, AND APPLIED TO THE PRESENT DAY, IN A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE GENERAL COURT, ON FRIDAY, JULY THE 4th, 1777. BEING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCY. Boston: Printed by J. Gill, 1777. 37pp. Half title. Dbd. Stain and early ownership signature on half title. Very clean. Very good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The sermon, a patriotic exegesis of I Kings 12, is accompanied on the final leaf by a “Hymn from Dr. Watts’s collection, somewhat altered...sung upon the occasion” (p.37). William Gordon, a minister of the Independent Church in England, politically supported and corresponded with American colonial leaders before immigrating to America in 1770. He was ordained as pastor of the Third Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1772, and went on to publish a major history of the U.S. from England in 1788. The present volume is “[p]erhaps the first anniversary sermon, commemorative of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, printed” (Evans). EVANS 15317. NAIP w029110. SABIN 28009. ROSENBACH 69. DAB VII, p.426. $2800.

A Masterpiece of Grangerization: Over 2000 Added Plates and Manuscripts

86. Greville, Charles: THE GREVILLE MEMOIRS. A JOURNAL OF THE REIGNS OF KING GEORGE IV AND KING WILLIAM IV. [with:] A JOURNAL OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA. London. 1874-1887. Eight volumes bound in twenty. Contemporary brown morocco, gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, t.e.g. Light wear to bindings, spines a bit sun- faded. Generally quite clean internally. Profusely extra-illustrated with over 2000 additional plates and manuscripts. Very good.

A handsome set of this important memoir by politician and diarist Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, lavishly extra-illustrated with engravings and manuscript material. Greville (1794-1865) served as Clerk in the Council Ordinary from 1821 to 1859, a career that spanned the reigns of three monarchs and brought him into contact with the most important and influential people of the day. His memoirs are an invaluable source of both social and political insight for the period. First published in 1874, during Queen Victoria’s reign, the memoirs caused something of a scandal, as they pertained directly to public figures who were still alive. “The appearance in print of the private diaries of a man who had known everyone of importance in public life for a generation, and who had not hesitated to set down what they had told him and his opinion of their characters and attainments, caused an uproar in society in 1874. Disraeli described their publication as ‘a social outrage’; another of those men in public life who appeared in their pages observed, ‘It is like Judas writing the lives of the apostles’” – DNB. Greville’s Memoirs are an interesting and informative read. This copy has been extensively extra-illustrated with over 2000 engravings, as well as many autograph letters, providing the reader with an even more well- informed portrait of the times. An extra imprint, printed in red, at the bottom of each titlepage reads: “Extended and illustrated by Loren Griswold DuBois, Boston 1888.” DuBois has included portraits of Queen Charlotte, William Pitt, Princess Victoria, Napoleon, and many others; several of the portraits are handcolored, as are several of the views. Letters are included by Lady Conyngham; Frederick, Duke of York; Charles X, King of France; Robert Peel, and others. A unique and wonderful set of this important work, essential for any collector of this period. DNB (online). $17,500. 87. [Hamilton, Alexander, et al]: THE FEDERALIST, ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION; WRITTEN IN 1788, BY MR. HAMILTON, MR. JAY, AND MR. MADISON. Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818. 504pp. plus three portraits. Modern scarlet morocco, spine gilt, leather labels. Light foxing throughout text. Very good.

Later edition, improved from the edition of the previous year by the addition of an appendix. One of the most important texts in United States political history. With portraits of the three famous authors. SABIN 23984. $2500.

With Important Maps of Ohio

88. Harris, Thaddeus M.: THE JOURNAL OF A TOUR INTO THE TERRITORY NORTHWEST OF THE ALLEGHANY MOUN- TAINS; MADE IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1803. WITH A GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE STATE OF OHIO.... Boston: Printed by Manning & Loring, 1805. 271pp., plus folding engraved view, engraved plan, three folding engraved maps. Origi- nal paper boards, printed paper label. Minor insect damage to the spine paper. Institutional ink stamp on one text page. Scattered foxing in the text, heavier on the maps. A very good copy, in original condition. Untrimmed.

This copy bears the contemporary ownership signature on the front free endpaper of Joshua Cushman. This is quite likely the Joshua Cushman (1761-1834) who served in the United States House of Representatives as a member from Massachusetts and Maine from 1819 to 1825. A 1787 graduate of Harvard, Cushman served in the Continental Army from 1777 to 1780. First edition of one of the earliest separate historical accounts of Ohio, here in the rare original boards, with Rufus Putnam’s map: the first large folding map of the state of Ohio. One of the other maps shows the headwaters of the Ohio, and another shows plats of land that had been appropriated for military service (also featuring the Moravian Indian towns of Shoenbrun, Gnadenhutten, and Salem). This latter map is also attributed to Rufus Putnam, the Surveyor General and the dedicatee of Harris’ work. Also included is a plan of the town of Marietta and a bird’s-eye view of the ancient Indian works on the Muskingum. Harris’ journey was undertaken on doctor’s orders, as a cure for “wasting sickness.” The cure seems to have worked and the author lived on until 1842, despite the fatalistic final lines of his introduction: “...to the hopes not of the present, but of the future life, I resign myself.” The text is also notable for a particularly early discussion of the petroleum deposits near Pittsburgh. HOWES H233, “aa.” SABIN 30515. CLARK II:37. STREETER SALE 831. THOM- SON 510. $4000. 89. Hoover, Herbert: [TYPED SENTIMENT, SIGNED, BY HERBERT HOOVER]. [Np]. Feb. 25, 1926. 3 lines on single sheet, beneath a photo- mechanical portrait. Very good. In a quarto folding cloth case, leather label.

“America has always had a lifting purpose greater than the struggle of materialism, and Lincoln would remind us of it if he were alive today. / [signed] Herbert Hoover / February 25, 1926.” $1000.

Two Evans Rarities

90. [Hopkins, Samuel]: RARE OBSERVATIONS: OR, SOME RE- MARKS ON SEVERAL POINTS, RARELY CONSIDERED. Provi- dence. 1770. 76pp. [bound with:] A COLLECTION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT COMMANDS. Boston. 1777. 24pp. Contemporary paper boards, calf spine. Hinges cracked, spine chipped. Boards lightly soiled and worn. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on titlepages. Light foxing. About very good.

Two rare imprints bound together in a contemporary colonial binding. The Rare Observations... is attributed by Alden to Rhode Island minister Samuel Hopkins. Hopkins is notable for having been an early opponent of slavery, and an originator of the theological concept of “disinterested benevolence” which became important during the Second Great Awakening. The other title is a collection of scriptures from the New Testament. Alden records only three copies of the Providence imprint – one of them defective – at Rhode Island Historical, American Antiquarian Society, and Brown University. ESTC locates only one copy of the Collection..., at Yale. It is also notable for an unusual imprint, especially in the wake of the British occupation of Boston: “Boston: Printed for and sold by John Mascoll Williams in Haverhill mdlxxvii.” A pair of rare early American imprints. SHIPTON & MOONEY 42111. ALDEN 442. BRISTOL B3202 ESTC W11251, W4699. EVANS 15244. $2500.

91. Hopkinson, Francis: SCIENCE. A POEM. By Francis Hopkinson. Philadelphia: William Dunlap, 1762. 19pp. Quarto. 20th-century marbled boards, leather spine, gilt. Spine lightly worn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Leaves reinforced in gutter margin. Minor soiling. About very good.

Epic poem in praise of science and higher education, dedicated to the trustees and professors of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, the author’s alma mater. Hopkinson was among the first students of that institution, graduating in 1757 and then earning an M.A. in 1760. He studied law, wrote hymns and other songs, and authored many other political and literary works. He is considered an important early American writer. ESTC notes only eleven institutional copies of this work. Scarce. EVANS 9141. WEGELIN 208. ESTC W1132. SABIN 32982. $2500. 92. Hough, Romeyn Beck: THE AMERICAN WOODS, EXHIBITED BY ACTUAL SPECIMENS AND WITH COPIOUS EXPLANA- TORY TEXT. Lowville, N.Y. 1893-1894. Volumes I-IV only (of fourteen). Illustrations. 312 samples of wood, each wafer-thin transverse, radial, and tangential sections illustrating 104 species, window-mounted in 104 card mounts. Text in original glazed paper wrappers, samples in card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying samples within original green cloth cover. In matching original cloth slipcase, with metal catch and bosses to covers. Very good.

Mixed edition. A representative sample of a rare and remarkable work on the woods of America. Volumes I-IV cover all the trees of New York and adjacent states. A contemporary reviewer called it “one of the most marvelous and instructive books ever made” (Art Education). This remarkable work was the lifetime achievement of Romeyn B. Hough, who devoted himself to the study of American trees, and who is best known for his Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Canada, long a standard reference work in American dendrology. In this work Hough sought to describe the woods found in America, with a detailed description in an accompanying pamphlet, and with thin cross-sections of actual woods mounted and labeled on accompanying stiff cardboard mounts. These provide a unique record of American wood types, arranged geographically. Generally each species is shown with wood cut on traverse section, radial section, and tangential section. The samples are so thin as to be easily translucent. The age of these specimens gives them tremendous importance from an ecological standpoint, as well as their great interest to students of American furniture and woodcrafts. The trees available to Hough at the time make such an endeavor impossible to contemplate today. Parts I-IV cover New York and adjacent states, part V covers Florida, parts VI-X describe the Pacific Slope, parts XI-XII cover the Atlantic states, and part XIII southern Florida. Part XIV contains a continuation of the work on the trees of Florida with text by Marjorie Hough, using specimens and notes prepared by her father before his death in 1924. Hough explained the unique nature of the work thus:

[It is] illustrated by actual specimens, and being in this way an exhibition of nature itself it possesses a peculiar and great interest never found in a press- printed book. The specimens are...about 2 x 5 in. in size, and sufficiently thin to admit of examination in transmitted light....Looked at in reflected light they appear as in the board or log.....These specimens are mounted in durable frame-like Bristol-board pages, with black waterproofed surfaces... and each bears printed in gilt-bronze the technical name of the species and its English, German, French and Spanish names. The pages are separable... and are accompanied with a full text...giving information as to the uses and physical properties of the woods, and distributions, habits of growth, botanical characters, habitats, medicinal properties, etc., of the trees....The woods used for the specimens are personally collected by the author...and are sectioned and prepared by a process of his own device.

Complete sets of this work are very rare, since subscribers came and went over the twenty-five-year period of publication and many only bought the volume or volumes on the areas that interested them. The volumes were priced at five dollars each, a high price reflecting the work involved in assembling them. The rarity of complete sets can be judged from the fact that Stafleu and Cowan record the work as being complete in six volumes. BM (NH) II, p.880 (parts1-8 only). STAFLEU & COWAN TL2 II, p.341 (ref ). $4500.

An Early Agreement of Western Newspaper Ownership

93. [Illinois Newspaper]: [MANUSCRIPT AGREEMENT FOR THE NEW OWNERSHIP OF THE JOLIET-COURIER NEWSPAPER]. [ Joliet, Il.]. Oct. 9, 1839. 5pp. Folio. Old folds. Separation at many folds, most repaired with tape. Light soiling and foxing. Some small paper loss due to wax seals. Still, quite legible. About good. In a green half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

A manuscript purchase agreement for the Juliet Courier, the Chicago area’s oldest newspaper, and the sixth oldest paper in Illinois. The Juliet Courier was founded April 20, 1839 by thirteen investors in Juliet, Illinois (changed to Joliet in 1845). They hired an editor named Balch (variously referred to as P.O. Balch, O.H. Balch, and C.H. Balch), who abandoned the project a few months later, resulting in the present document. The paper was then edited by David L. Gregg, a local attorney who rose to prominence and later served as Illinois Secretary of State; in 1853, Gregg was appointed United States Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, where he served for the next ten years. The paper was published as the Juliet Courier until 1843, when the name was changed to the Juliet Signal (later the Joliet Signal, with the change in the town’s name). The paper is published to this day under the banner of the Joliet Herald News. The document opens: Whereas the Juliet Courier, lately under the management of P.O. Balch, has been abandoned by the said Balch, without any provision for its further publication. And whereas the said Courier is likely to be discontinued unless funds be provided immediately for purchasing stock, paying journeymen, &c. And also whereas it is both necessary and expedient for the democracy to keep in existence a press of sound Democratic principles, devoted to the best interests of the people – Therefore, we the undersigned do promise & agree to pay for the purposes above specified, to the committee of stockholders owning the printing establishment of the aforesaid Courier the amount set opposite to our respective names, with the express understanding & consideration that the same shall be refunded from the rents & profits due to the aforesaid establishment. It is signed by fifteen individuals or establishments, with notes that each has paid the amount stated (generally five dollars). The remainder of the document discusses the continuation of the paper’s operation, signing the responsibility over to David L. Gregg and W.P. Hudson. It is signed at the end by the twenty shareholders, noting how many shares each owns in the company. An interesting and early piece of Illinois newspaper history. Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois, p.207. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHICAGO (online). $2500.

A Huge Album of Images Taken in Occupied Japan by an American Serviceman

94. [ Japan – American Occupation]: [Photographica]: [PHOTO ALBUM BELONGING TO AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WITH THE 8th ARMY, IN OCCUPIED JAPAN, 1947 – 1948]. [Various locations in Japan. 1947-1948]. Fifty leaves, containing approximately 1200 photographs. Photos range in size from 1½ x 2½ inches to 3¼ x 4¾ inches; most with manuscript captions. Large oblong folio. Original red burlap. Album leaves lightly toned, some with construction paper laid down and photos mounted either by paste or corner holders. Extremities worn. Internally clean, most images quite clear, though some slightly faded. Very good.

Substantial photograph album belonging to Staff Sergeant Steven Rent, containing hundreds of images from his stay in occupied Japan in 1947 and ’48. Tipped to the first page of the album is a printed certificate from the “Domain of the Golden Dragon, Ruler of the 180th Meridian,” which declares, with tongue in cheek, that Rent had crossed the meridian on Jan. 23, 1947 and was now to be considered “a dweller of the Far East.” Further items include a newspaper clipping showing Admiral W.S. Sims leaving Fort Mason on Jan. 16, 1947 for Japanese occupation duty; a pencil sketch of Staff Sergeant Rent; and his certificate for completing a course as a tank commander at the Armored Replacement Training Center at Fort Knox, Kentucky in 1945. A note at the end of the album records his return from Japan in October 1948. Of the 100 pages of photographs, twenty-four show Rent’s family life from the 1920s on. The rest are of his time in Japan, where he recorded street scenes and the Japanese people in the cities and towns where he was stationed. He mentions Yokohama, Tokyo, Kamakura Beach, Atomi, Camp Drake (outside of Tokyo), etc. A photo of Japanese men, women, and children is captioned, “My employees”; another, of two men, is titled, “Two of my Jap police.” There are photos of school children with their teachers, people in traditional and modern dress, baseball games, picnics, beach-goers, geisha girls, prostitutes, scavengers, and an American military parade through the streets of Yokohama. A few photos show bombing wreckage at Shinagewa, and burnt and bombed out shrines at Shiba. The caption under his photo of the Judge Advocate’s Building states that this was where the war crimes trials were held. A very personal and extensive look at life in Japan just after the war, presenting a remarkable view of the evidently easy-going relationship between this American serviceman and Japanese civilians. $3850.

Early College Funding Problems

95. Jay, James: A LETTER TO THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, &c. IN RESPECT TO THE COLLECTION THAT WAS MADE FOR THE COLLEGES OF NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. London. 1774. [2],20pp. Modern paper boards, printed paper label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor toning and soiling, Very good plus. In a blue half morocco and cloth folder.

Sir James Jay – elder brother of Founding Father John Jay – here writes a vindication of himself against accusations brought in the chancery court. Jay collected funds for the establishment of King’s (now Columbia) College in New York. The Governors later drew on him for more than he had collected, and upon his protesting the bills, brought suit against him in chancery court. An interesting look at early educational funding in the colonial United States. Only a handful of copies in ESTC. ESTC T68095. STREETER SALE 4065. $1850.

President Jefferson Sends the British Ambassador Some Pecan Nuts to Plant in England

96. Jefferson, Thomas: [AUTOGRAPH NOTE FROM PRESIDENT THOMAS JEFFERSON TO AMBASSADOR DAVID ERSKINE CONVEYING SOME PECANS]. [Np, but Washington]. Dec. 1, 1807. [1]p., on a single quarto sheet. Old folds. Neat separation at center horizontal fold and small tears in edges expertly mended. Backed with thin Japanese paper. Minor soiling. Good.

An interesting letter from President Thomas Jefferson to British Ambassador David Erskine, sending him a gift of pecan nuts and a book. The nuts were to be sent to Erskine’s father, Lord Thomas Erskine, then Lord Chancellor of England. Jefferson writes:

Th. Jefferson presents his respects to Mr. Erskine and begs leave through him to present a bag of Paccan nuts ( Juglans Paccan) for the acceptance of Lord Erskine & as a mark of his respect for him. They are of this year’s crop & will probably vegetate if planted before the spring; and the sooner the better, they may perhaps be a year in the ground. They bear our climate to the northward of this where the degree of cold is much greater than in the middle parts of England. The richer the soil they are planted in, the more thrifty will they be. He sends also Mde. de Stael’s Corinne for the perusal of Mr. Erskine & Mr. Foster.

The note has been docketed: “From the President Jefferson of the U.S. of America.” David Erskine served as the British Ambassador to the United States from 1807 to 1809. He had lived in the United States for some time after graduating from Cambridge, and was married to an American. Both he and his father tended to be pro-American in their views. After the fall of the “Ministry of All Talents,” which turned his father out of office, David Erskine was fired as Ambassador by the new Foreign Secretary, Canning, who thought Erskine had gone too far in his offers to compromise over the Chesapeake-Leopard affair. This gift certainly illustrates his friendly relationship with Jefferson. The development of varied plantings of trees and plants from around the world was a passion of many British aristocrats from the early 18th century. Jefferson’s gift, highlighting his own passion for plantings, was also a canny way of reaching out to those in power in England, using an American product, in a way which could not be construed as a political gaffe. $19,000.

97. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: [LITHOGRAPHED PORTRAIT OF THOM- AS JEFFERSON, BY MAURAISSE]. [Paris: C. Motte, 1826]. 21 x 14 inches. Some very light foxing. Embossed oval stamp beneath caption title, reading: “Contemporains Etrangers, Q.M.” Very good.

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, drawn by Mauraisse and lithographed by C. Motte in Paris. Mauraisse has signed the image at the bottom and dated it 1826. In the portrait, which shows the former president later in life, Jefferson faces right and is shown from the chest upward. A fine image, and quite large. $3000.

Inaugural Speeches of Jefferson and Madison

98. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: [Madison, James]: THE INAUGURAL SPEECHES AND MESSAGES OF THOMAS JEFFERSON, ESQ. LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. TOGETHER WITH THE INAUGURAL SPEECH OF JAMES MADISON, ESQ. HIS SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE. Boston. 1809. 126pp. Original blue paper covers with no spine, likely as issued. Light dampstaining and soiling. Still, very good. In a slipcase.

Inaugural addresses of Jefferson and James Madison, issued on the occasion of Madi- son’s election to the presidency, together with several other messages to Congress. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 18909. $1250.

99. Jefferson, Thomas: MEMOIR, CORRESPONDENCE, AND MIS- CELLANIES FROM THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON.... Boston. 1830. Four volumes. viii,464; [2],500; [2],519; [2],532pp. plus frontispiece and facsimiles. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt. First volume neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Hinges and extremities rubbed, light wear to boards. Modern bookplate on front pastedowns. Light scattered foxing, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

The second edition, edited by Thomas J. Randolph, after the first edition of the previous year. The memoir was written by Jefferson at the age of seventy-seven, and is accompanied by a journal kept during his tenure as Secretary of State. The remainder of the content is comprised of correspondence not already printed as government publications. SABIN 35891. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 2040. $1000.

100. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: Kimball, Fiske: THOMAS JEFFERSON ARCHITECT. ORIGINAL DESIGNS IN THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS COOLIDGE, JUNIOR, WITH AN ESSAY AND NOTES BY FISKE KIMBALL. Boston: Printed for Private Distribu- tion at the Riverside Press, 1916. [viii],205,xi pp. with frontispiece and 233 facsimiles of drawings on 99 pages. With tipped-in printed dedication sheet signed by Clara A. Coolidge. Folio. Original tan buckram and green paper over boards, paper label. Minor dampstain at lower edges of several early leaves; bookplate. Else very good.

A rare and important work, based on Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr.’s collection of Jefferson’s architectural drawings. “No one today can hope to understand the full scope of Jefferson’s work without knowledge of Kimball’s monumental book Thomas Jefferson Architect” – O’Neal, “Checklist of writings on Thomas Jefferson as an architect.” ROOS 2705. GARRETT, p.53. $2250.

New Orleans Illustrated

101. Jewell, Edwin L., editor & compiler: JEWELL’S CRESCENT CITY ILLUSTRATED. THE COMMERCIAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND GENERAL HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS, INCLUDING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS DISTINGUISHED CITI- ZENS, TOGETHER WITH A MAP AND A GENERAL STRANG- ERS’ GUIDE. New Orleans. 1873. [114],xxi,[8]pp., including several in-text illustrations, plus fifty-eight full-page illustrations and a folding map, 18¾ x 22¾ inches. Small folio. Original rust colored cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Cloth soiled and lightly rubbed, lightly worn at extremities. Quite clean internally. Very good.

A marvellous illustrated tour of New Orleans, with dozens of full-page illustrations of city landmarks and businesses. Historian Charles Gayarre contributed to the historical sketch of the city, which is followed by descriptions of prominent businesses, and biographical sketches of leading citizens. The illustrations are quite lovely, and include stately residences, churches, the “New Temple Sinai,” businesses, factories (“Sugar Sheds,” “Orleans Cotton Press,” “New Orleans Grain Elevator”), theatres, steamboats on the Mississippi, the Customs House, members of the “New Orleans Row Boat Club” in their boats, one of the Lake Pontchartrain levees, hospitals and asylums, and much more. The folding map, “prepared expressly for Jewell’s Crescent City Illustrated,” shows the area from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, and is quite detailed, showing the various wards, streets, parks, etc. The “Stranger’s Guide” at the conclusion is an extended business directory and listing of municipal services. $4250.

Presentation Copy from Kennedy to His Former Boss

102. Kennedy, John: PROFILES IN COURAGE. New York. 1956. xix,266pp. Blue cloth with black cloth spine, gilt. Light edge wear. Presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Very good. Lacks the dust jacket. In a blue morocco slipcase, spine gilt.

Later printing of this famous work, which won Kennedy the Pulitzer Prize. The front fly leaf is inscribed in Kennedy’s hand: “To my former boss Louis Ruppel – with warmest regards, John Kennedy.” Louis Ruppel was the associate editor of the American Weekly newspaper in New York. Kennedy previously worked for Ruppel as a reporter, and maintained a warm relationship with him as his political career took off. $7500. Famed Inaugural Address Inscribed by John F. Kennedy

103. Kennedy, John F.: THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY OF JANUARY 20th, 1961 AND HIS STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE OF JANUARY 30th, 1961. [New York. 1961]. [2],35,[1]pp. Original blue cloth. Inscribed on front fly leaf. Near fine.

The Harper’s gift edition of President Kennedy’s inaugural address and State of the Union speech, printed in an edition limited to 106 copies. This copy has been signed on the front fly leaf: “With high esteem, John Kennedy.” The original recipient’s name has been rubbed away, defacing the paper slightly. $10,000.

104. [Kennedy, John F.]: [PHOTOGRAPH OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. KENNEDY, INSCRIBED BY HER SOON AFTER THE ASSASSINATION, TO JFK’S PHYSICIAN, DR. JANET G. TRAV- ELL]. [Mexico? February 1964]. 10 x 8 inches, mounted. Very good. In a folio morocco backed cloth box, ribbon tie.

Inscribed on the photo: “For Dr. Travell – with deepest appreciation for everything / With affection / Jacqueline Kennedy.” Dr. Janet G. Travell (1901-97) was a New York physician and medical researcher. She was appointed the personal physician to President John F. Kennedy in 1961. She graduated from Wellesley College and Cornell University Medical College. She was the first female doctor to be the personal physician to a sitting United States president and retained that post until March 1965. Her specialty was treating muscular pain. Kennedy’s injuries from WWII were the beginnings of his back pain problems. She helped him so much in the late 1950s, he chose her as his personal physician while he was in the White House. The photo is accompanied by small typed note on White House stationery signed by Travell which explains that this photo was taken when the Kennedys were in Mexico at the end of June 1962. $4800. 105. Key, Francis Scott: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED (“F S KEY”), FROM FRANCIS SCOTT KEY TO IGNATIUS DAVIS “NEAR FREDERICK TOWN,” ON LEGAL BUSINESS]. George- town. Dec. 5, 1810. [1]p. Quarto. Old folds, slight wrinkling and soiling; closed tear repaired. Else very good.

“After graduating from St. John’s College in Annapolis, [Key] studied law and in 1801 opened his law practice in Fredericktown with Roger B. Taney, who married his sister and would later serve as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1802 Key married Mary Tayloe Lloyd; they had eleven children. Soon after his marriage, he moved to Georgetown, D.C., and began legal practice there in association with his uncle Philip Barton Key” – ANB. The letter to Davis from the author of our national anthem reads:

I have had a great many talks with Judge Garett about your judgment. We had consented to leave the balle [?] to be settled by E.B. Caldwell, Esq and at last month’s Court I took Henry O’Neale’s deposition which is very strong in your favor. He now says he is prepared to let Mr. Caldwell determine it, but has sent me the annexed which he wishes to sign & return. – He says you ought to return my money which he can prove he has overpaid. You will therefore determine whether you will assent to this & inform me. Mr. Garett, if it was even possible to prove he had overpaid the debt, would be still bound to pay the costs of the judgt....

Over the last thirty years, only one other Francis Scott Key letter of an earlier date has appeared at auction. $2500.

“The Star Spangled Banner”

106. [Key, Francis Scott]: “THE DEFENCE OF FORT M’HENRY.” [Contained in:] THE ANALECTIC MAGAZINE. FOR NOVEM- BER, 1814. Philadelphia. 1814. pp.[433]-434 of pp.[353]-[440]. 20th-century half black calf and marbled boards. Spine lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered soiling and foxing. Very good.

The first appearance in a magazine of the words of “The Star Spangled Banner,” preceding any appearance in book form, and only the fourth printing in a periodical. The poem appears here without attribution of an author, with the note that it is to be sung to the tune of “Anacreon in Heaven.” This number of The Analectic Magazine also contains many articles of scientific and travel interest, with a number of plates. BAL 11081. STREETER SALE 1070. SONNECK, p.83. $1350. With Lithographs of Washington by Augustus Kollner

107. [Kollner, Augustus]: PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND STATUARY OF THE GOVERNMENT: THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND AR- CHITECTURAL ORNAMENTS OF THE CAPITOL OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. Washing- ton: Lithographed and published by P. Haas, 1840. [4],44,[2]pp. plus twenty- two lithographic plates (three folding). Printed and lithographic titlepages. 16mo. Original roan, title amid laurel wreath design stamped in gilt on front cover, rebacked in matching style. Corners repaired. Foxing throughout, as well as an old tideline in upper portion of plates and text leaves. Good.

This copy bears a gift inscription on the front free endpaper to Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. Borah, a Republican, served in the United States Senate from 1907 to 1940, ran for president in 1936, and was a leading “isolationist” on foreign policy matters. An enchanting illustrated guide to the art and architecture of the United States Capitol, with lithographic plates by artist Augustus Kollner and the publisher and lithographer, P. Haas. Each image is accompanied by explanatory text. Included are views of the Capitol, the “Presidents House,” the Treasury, the Post Office, and the Patent Office as well as interior scenes of the Capitol and the Senate Chamber. Representations of statuary found in various Washington buildings include Thomas Jefferson, Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, Daniel Boone, and the Pilgrims at Plymouth. The folding plans are diagrams of the floor of the Senate and the floor of the House of Representatives. Each is accompanied by an index indicating the desk of each Senator and Representative. A folding plate shows the House chamber. Kollner was a prolific and long-lived Philadelphia artist (he died in 1908) who also produced a larger series of views of American cities between 1848 and 1851. This book is some of Kollner’s earliest work, as well as being one of the earliest series of views of Washington, and one of the earliest publications with representations of the art decorating the U.S. Capitol. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 40-5625. OCLC 5620465. $1750.

The Little Eskimo Lady

108. [Krarer, Olof ]: [BROADSHEET PROGRAM AND TWO CABI- NET CARD PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISS OLOF KRARER, “THE LITTLE ESQUIMAUX LADY”]. Illinois. 1890/1893. 4pp. on a folded folio sheet, with two cabinet card photographs, 6½ x 4¼ inches. Old folds, some chipping and wear to program. About very good. Cabinet cards near fine.

Promotional items for Miss Olof Krarer, “The Little Esquimaux Lady,” an Icelandic dwarf who toured and lectured about her supposed life as a Greenland Eskimo. The program, which indicates that Krarer will speak at the Presbyterian Church in Richland, Michigan on Friday evening, April 18, 1890, gives testimonials about her talk, as well as biographical information about the lecturer. As she told it, her life was a fairy tale. Krarer (1858-1935), an Icelandic native, emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. Unable to find any work beyond the circus sideshow, she reinvented herself as a Greenland Eskimo and took to the lecture circuit, where she told outlandish (and incorrect) tales of life as a Greenland native. Her talk was extremely popular, and she toured for many years, delighting audiences across the country. The two cabinet cards, printed in Ottawa, Illinois, show her in “native dress” (i.e. a white furry suit) and in the latest Victorian fashion. Both the cards and program note that she is “40 inches in height, and weighs 120 pounds.” $1500.

109. Lake, D.J., and S.N. Beers: MAP OF THE VICINITY OF PHIL- ADELPHIA FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS BY D.J. LAKE AND S.N. BEERS ASSISTED BY F.W. BEERS, L.B. LAKE AND D.G. BEERS. Philadelphia: J.E. Gillette & Co. publishers, 1861. Lithographed folding wall map, handcolored in outline, in thirty-six sections backed on linen (88 x 65¾ inches overall), edged with pink linen ribbon, contemporary metal rings through cloth hoops sewn along upper margin of map. Very good. In a modern red three-fold chemise, all within modern red morocco-backed cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

A rare and finely detailed magnificent large-scale map of Philadelphia and surrounding country, and a fascinating picture of Philadelphia after the Consolida- tion Act of 1854. The map incorporates a decorative title, an inset general plan of Philadelphia, with an extensive index of businesses and services, with inset details of boroughs and townships (with properties and ownerships indicated) the whole within a decorative border of scrolling fruit, vines, and leaves. Philadelphia had been the second largest city in the Union until 1830, when it was exceeded in size by Baltimore as well as New York. The Consolidation Act, passed by the state legislature, extended the city’s boundaries to include all of Philadelphia county, and in 1860 the city was again able to claim to be the Union’s second city. This map was drawn up after the census of 1860, and in addition to a comprehensive street plan of the city of Philadelphia, includes all the fifteen boroughs and townships incorporated in 1854 (Somerton, Haddington, Whitehall, Bustleton, Fox Chase, Germantown, Bridesburg, Frankford, Kenderton, Manayunk, Falls of Schuylkill, Hestonville, Tacony, Holmesburg, and Paschallville), each with accompanying directories, some adjacent, but most integral with the plans themselves. D.J. Lake and S.N. Beers, who had trained under J.H. French, were assisted in the execution of this map by Lamson Lake and Silas and Frederick Beers. PHILLIPS, MAPS AND VIEWS OF PHILADELPHIA 429. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.706 (variant). RUMSEY 2903 (suggests 8 variant issues). RISTOW, p.397. $5250.

Early Philadelphia Imprint

110. [Law]: [Philadelphia]: CONDUCTOR GENERALIS, OR THE OFFICE, DUTY AND AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, HIGH-SHERIFFS, UNDER-SHERIFFS, GOALERS, CORONERS, CONSTABLES, JURY MEN, OVER-SEERS OF THE POOR, AND ALSO THE OFFICE OF CLERKS OF AS- SIZE AND OF THE PEACE, &c. COLLECTED OUT OF ALL THE BOOKS HITHERTO WRITTEN ON THOSE SUBJECTS, WHETHER OF COMMON OR STATUTE-LAW. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COLLECTION OUT OF SIR MATTHEW HALES CONCERNING THE DESCENT OF LANDS. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Andrew Bradford, 1722. [8],xii,299,[1]pp. Small quarto. Early 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Boards rubbed and edgeworn, front hinge loosening. Front free endpaper detached. Final leaf of contents torn in outer margin, not affecting text. Intermittent staining and tanning, a few fox marks. Good.

This is the second printing of this popular handbook for justices of the peace and other principle officers responsible for ensuring that laws are properly enforced. It is the first legal vade mecum printed in Philadelphia, following (and greatly expanding) a New York printing of 1711 (published by William Bradford, with his son Andrew working as his apprentice). Cohen records twelve editions, of varying lengths and contents, published between 1711 and 1819. The work was based primarily on English sources, including Richard Burn’s Justice of the Peace, first published in England in the mid-18th century. Organized alphabetically, the work covers the broadest range of topics, including arraignments and arrests, bail, gaming, highways and homicide, indictment, larceny, oaths, pardons, search warrants, vagrants, and warrants. A second part of the text, devoted to the duties of sheriffs, under-sheriffs, juries, and jailers, contains its own titlepage, dated 1721, but is continuously paginated and signed to the preceding section. A fine source for the practice of everyday law in the colonial period. EVANS 2327. NAIP w037506. HILDEBURN 179. SABIN 15215. COHEN 7955. $7500.

The Morocco Bound Travelling Library of an American Diplomat

111. [Lear, Tobias]: [COLLECTION OF SIX CLASSIC WORKS, IN FORTY-FIVE VOLUMES, UNIFORMLY BOUND, COMPRISING THE LIBRARY OF TOBIAS LEAR]. [Various places. 1789-1803]. For- ty-five volumes. Uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco wallet-style bindings (described further below). Some light wear to bindings. Bookplate of Benjamin Lincoln Lear, Tobias Lear’s son, on front pastedown of each volume. Contents described in detail below. Very good.

The forty-five-volume travelling library of American diplomat Tobias Lear, comprised of six classic histories, and literally bound in Morocco during his time as consul general in Algiers between 1803 and 1812. Lear (1762-1816) is best known for the time he spent as General Washington’s personal secretary (1786-93 and 1798-99). He formed a close relationship with Washington and his family – he was married successively to two of Washington’s nieces. Upon Washington’s death, Lear spent nearly two years sorting out the General’s affairs. The ANB states that “controversy over his handling of the general’s papers, some of which disappeared during this period, would hound Lear the rest of his life.” During the Haitian revolution, Lear was sent to St. Domingue as U.S. consul, but returned fruitlessly in May 1802. “Shortly after his return from Saint Domingue, Lear was offered the position of consul general to the Barbary Coast. His task was, with the support of U.S. warships, to negotiate treaties with the Barbary regencies. He experienced success in his dealings with Morocco and Algiers. His negotiations with Tripoli, however, were greatly complicated by the efforts of William Eaton to foment a revolution that would restore the former ruler of Tripoli to his throne and the Tripolitan seizure of the USS Philadelphia and her crew of three hundred. After two years of negotiations, Lear signed an agreement with the Pasha on 4 June 1805. Among the provisions of the Treaty of Tripoli was an agreement to pay a ransom of sixty thousand dollars for the prisoners. Although the amount was far less than Secretary of State James Madison had authorized, Lear nonetheless came under severe criticism for the ransom provisions of the treaty and its undermining of Ea- ton’s efforts. Lear remained in the Mediterranean until 1812, when on 25 July the Dey of Algiers ordered him to leave. Although the treaties had been defended by Thomas Jefferson and had won ratification in the Senate, Lear returned to harsh criticism, generated to a large extent by an embittered Eaton, whose exploits had made him a national hero. During the War of 1812 Lear was sent to northern New York to negotiate with the British over prisoner-of-war exchanges, at which he was successful. He eventually became an accountant at the War Department, a position he held until his death by suicide in Washington” – ANB. The library, comprised of classic history titles, has been bound in red morocco, in an Islamic-style wallet binding. Each is tooled in blind, the covers stamped with three floral medallions, and the borders tooled with a blind roll. The author’s name and volume number have been written on the spine in contemporary ink, presumably by either Lear or his son, whose bookplate is inside each volume. The titles are as follow:

1) Hume, David: The History of England. From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688. Basil. 1789. Twelve volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Very minor scattered foxing, generally quite bright and clean. Very minor worming to lower margin of final volume. 2) Smollett, Tobias: The History of England. From the Revolution to the Death of George the Second. (Designed as a Continuation of Mr. Hume’s History). Basil. 1794. Eight volumes. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Light dampstaining in second and fourth volumes; minor dampstaining in sixth volume. Minor foxing. Some very minor worming to lower margin of second volume. 3) Robertson, William: The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V.... Basil. 1793. Four volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Tobias Lear’s signature on titlepage of each volume. Some light dampstaining in first volume. Minor foxing. 4) Steuart, James: An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy. Being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations.... Basil. 1796. Five volumes. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Minor foxing. 5) Gibbon, Edward: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London. 1802. Twelve volumes. A new edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Light foxing and toning. 6) Robertson, William: The History of America. London. 1803. Four volumes. Tenth edition. Original plain blue wrappers bound in. Minor foxing. Tobias Lear’s signature on titlepage of first volume.

A unique and widely-traveled collection of books, formed by an important American diplomat, and bound for him in Algiers, in morocco. ANB (online). $35,000.

112. Lear, Tobias: [Washington, George]: [DOCUMENT SIGNED BY TOBIAS LEAR CONCERNING GOODS IMPORTED FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON]. Havre de Grace [Md.]. May 30, 1791. [1]p. Old fold lines. Minor loss at fold; another minor loss due to ink burn. Minor soiling. Very good. In a grey folio-sized cloth folder, gilt leather label.

Document signed by Tobias Lear in the capacity as Washington’s personal secretary, retrieving goods from the ship Henrietta Weeks. Lear retrieved one case of “plated wares” valued at $24.42, with a ten percent duty, and signed a statement that reads: “I do swear that this entry is to the best of my knowledge & belief just & true & contains as herein specified the whole of the goods, wairs [sic] or merchandise imported on account of the President of the United States in said vessel.” Lear (1762-1816) is best known for the time he spent as General Washington’s personal secretary (1786-93 and 1798-99). He formed a close relationship with Washington and his family – he was married successively to two of Washington’s nieces. Upon Washington’s death, Lear spent nearly two years sorting out the general’s affairs. The ANB states that “controversy over his handling of the general’s papers, some of which disappeared during this period, would hound Lear the rest of his life.” He subsequently served as U.S. Consul to St. Domingue and the Barbary Coast. $1250.

A Senator from Virginia Speaks Out Against Abolition in the Wake of the Nat Turner Uprising

113. [Leigh, Benjamin Watkins]: THE LETTER OF APPOMATTOX TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA: EXHIBITING A CONNECT- ED VIEW OF THE RECENT PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; AND A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF THE DOC- TRINES BROACHED BY THE FRIENDS OF ABOLITION, IN DEBATE: AND THE MISCHIEVOUS TENDENCY OF THOSE PROCEEDINGS AND DOCTRINES. Richmond: Thomas W. White, 1832. 47pp. Dbd. Lightly tanned, a few marginal fox marks. Very good. Un- trimmed.

A scarce tract against abolition, published in the wake of the Nat Turner rebellion, which resulted in the death of dozens of whites at the hands of blacks in Virginia, and general terror among the white population of the Commonwealth. The author considers a number of abolition and emigration plans being discussed, and finds fault with them all. Attributed by Swem to Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1781-1849), a prominent Virginia lawyer and politician, who held a variety of public posts, including United States Senator in 1835-36. Scarce in the market. We are unable to locate any other copies at auction in the past thirty-five years. SABIN 40352. SWEM 10580, 10581. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 13372. $1250.

114. [Library of Congress]: A SUPPLEMENT TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Washington: Printed by Peter Force, 1827. 109pp. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Later ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Very minor foxing. Very good plus.

This early Library of Congress catalogue reflects the strong ancient and modern history holdings of the library. Other subjects covered are law, politics, agriculture, geography, and natural history. The Library of Congress was originally created from a collection of books purchased from Thomas Jefferson’s personal library. A brief supplement of additions to that collection was published in 1820; this is the second supplement. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31516. $1000.

Early Printing of the Gettysburg Address

115. [Lincoln, Abraham]: [Massachusetts]: ADDRESS OF HIS EX- CELLENCY JOHN A. ANDREW, TO THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, JANUARY 8, 1864. Boston. 1864. 88,110pp. plus folding map. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. 19th-century ink stamp on titlepage, contemporary inscription on second leaf. Internally clean. Very good.

Devoted almost entirely to the Massachusetts war effort, published early in January 1864. The folding map shows the Soldier’s National Cemetery at Gettysburg, dedicated November 19, 1863, with the long speech of Edward Everett of Massachusetts and the short “Dedicatory Speech by President Lincoln,” better known as the Get- tysburg Address. Also printed is the “Programme of Arrangements” of that day, a list of Massachusetts soldiers killed at Gettysburg and buried there, and details of the cemetery. Monaghan notes this as an early printing of the Gettysburg Address. MONAGHAN I:48. $1750.

Decorative Printing of the Emancipation Proclamation

116. Lincoln, Abraham: PROCLAMATION OF EMANCIPATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Boston: B.B. Russell & Co., 1865. Lithographic broadside, 24 x 20 inches. Some faint creasing, light foxing in margins. One small tear at top of sheet. Very good.

Scarce broadside edition of one of the great documents of human freedom. Ap- pearing at the top is a portrait of Lincoln above an eagle, flanked by two vignettes. The image on the left shows a woman being sold at a slave auction, while the image on the right shows free black carpenters planing boards in a workshop. A third vignette at the bottom center portrays the ruin visited upon a family in the slave- holding South, represented by a weeping woman and her disabled veteran husband with their dilapidated house in the background, opposite the prosperity attending freedom and reliance upon one’s own labor, represented by men working in a field with a handsome farmhouse in the background. This is one of the most artistic of the illustrated editions. A handsome piece. $5000.

The Louisiana Secession Convention, 1861

117. [Louisiana]: OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. BY AUTHORITY. New Orleans: J.O. Nixon, Printer to the State Convention, 1861. 330pp., without pages numbered 97-98 and with two pages numbered 291 (in both cases as issued, and as noted by Parrish and Willingham). Con- temporary blue sheep, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt. Binding lightly rubbed, light wear at spine ends and corners. Lightly tanned. Very good.

Scarce collection of political documents from the newly-seceded state of Louisi- ana. The contents include the official journal of the proceedings of the Louisiana convention that began meeting in late January 1861, beginning with their resolution to dissolve their union with the United States, and documenting their vote to send delegates to the Confederate Congress gathering in Mobile in February. The convention also reconsidered the laws of Louisiana in light of the new situation, voted on the Confederate Constitution, and devised a new state constitution. The Official Journal is printed in English and French (with a separate French-language titlepage), followed by the Ordinances of the convention (in French and English, with titlepages in each language), and the newly amended constitution of the state. The present copy belonged to Albert Gaius Hills, a war correspondent for the Boston Journal, who served for a three-month period in 1863 as a first lieutenant in the Union Army, and who was present in the South as a reporter during the Civil War, spending several months with Union troops in New Orleans. This copy descended in his family. We are able to locate only two previous copies at auction in the past thirty-five years. An important document of the political process in seceded Louisiana. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2979. CRANDALL 1613. JUMONVILLE 3118. FOOTE, p.60. THOMPSON 1161. SABIN 42275. $4000. With a Woodcut Portrait of Cromwell, Within Days of the Tea Party

118. Low, Nathanael: AN ASTRONOMICAL DIARY; OR, ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF CHRISTIAN AERA, 1774.... Boston: J. Knee- land, 1774 [i.e. 1773]. [24]pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light foxing and toning. Very good.

The titlepage of this almanac is adorned with a woodcut portrait of Oliver Crom- well, captioned: “Ungrateful Those, who would no tears allow / To him, who gave them Peace and Empire Too!” Cromwell’s famous speech dissolving Parliament is quoted extensively on the following page. This almanac would have been printed within ten days, at most, of the Boston Tea Party, and the pointed anti-King, anti- Parliament message would have rung loud and clear. EVANS 12837. DRAKE 3229. $1500.

Exceedingly Rare Book on Antigua by a London Mapmaker

119. Luffman, John: A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND OF AN- TIGUA, TOGETHER WITH THE CUSTOMS AND MANNERS OF ITS INHABITANTS AS WELL WHITE AS BLACK: AS ALSO AN ACCURATE STATEMENT OF THE FOOD, CLOATHING, LABOR, AND PUNISHMENT, OF SLAVES. IN LETTERS TO A FRIEND. WRITTEN IN THE YEARS 1786, 1787, 1788. London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789. [6],[blank leaf ],180pp. plus folding engraved map by the author. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter and marbled boards; rebacked, with original spine laid down, gilt leather label. Corners rubbed, light wear to boards. Map reinforced at one fold, splitting at another. Some light dampstaining and scattered foxing. About very good.

This rare account of Antigua, written in a series of forty letters, is a most important narrative of life in the Caribbean for the time. “Presents one of the best pictures of plantation life in existence and a splendid account of social conditions in Anti- gua. Luffman was anti-slave in sentiment. The book itself is a rarity” – Ragatz. Vere Oliver thought so much of this book that he reprinted it in its entirety in the first volume of his classic History of the Island of Antigua (1894) (see Ragatz, p.181 where Luffman’s book is described as “exceedingly rare”). Luffman was a London engraver, publisher, and goldsmith, active from about 1776 to 1820 (see Tooley). The map present here is a reduced version of Luffman’s four-sheet map of Antigua which he engraved and published in the West Indies. He arrived on the island on May 6, 1786, and his letters are filled with remarks on slavery and the slave trade, along with observations on the climate, plantation life, the frequent earth tremors, and the shortage of water. Luffman devotes considerable attention to the natural history of the island, both agriculture and local species. There is also mention of the arrival of Prince William Henry (the future William IV) with his aide-de- camp, Captain Horatio Nelson, who visited the island on a regular basis during the author’s residence. Not in Hough, Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection. Only the second copy of this rarity that we have seen. SABIN 42665. RAGATZ, p.228. $6000.

Lutheran Catechism for the Delaware Indians, 1696

120. [Lutheran Catechism]: [Delaware Indians]: LUTHERI CATECHIS- MUS ÖFWERSATT PÄ AMERICAN-VIRGINISTE SPRÄCKET. Stockholm. 1696. [16],160pp. plus frontis. Contemporary calf, stamped in blind on spine and cover. Some wear to spine and extremities. Minor foxing, a few small worm holes. Very good. In a brown half morocco slipcase.

First edition of the Lutheran catechism in the language of the Delaware Indians, translated by Johan Campanius, chaplain at the Swedish colony of Fort Christina in present-day Wilmington, Delaware for six years. He learned the native languages and founded the first Christian church in what is now Pennsylvania. His adaptation of Luther’s Catechism for native use is rather free – in the Lord’s Prayer the phrase “give us this day our daily bread” is replaced by “give us a plentiful supply of venison and corn.” Pages 155-160 contain a vocabulary of the Mohawk Indians. King Charles XI published this catechism at his own expense and sent 500 copies to America. The Frank T. Siebert copy, in a lovely contemporary binding. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (DELAWARE) 20. CHURCH 760. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 696/151. PILLING, IROQUOIAN 24. SABIN 42726. SIEBERT SALE 478. $6500.

An Early Study of American Geology

121. Maclure, William: OBSERVATIONS ON THE GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE EFFECT PRODUCED ON THE NATURE AND FER- TILITY OF SOILS, BY THE DECOMPOSITION OF THE DIF- FERENT CLASSES OF ROCKS. Philadelphia: Printed for the author by Abraham Small, 1817. [2],127,[2]pp. plus large colored folding map and folding table. Contemporary half leather and marbled boards, rebacked in matching style, gilt leather label. Boards a bit shelfworn. Scattered light foxing. Very good.

Maclure’s book is the first important work on American geology, encompassing all of the territory east of the Mississippi. He travelled extensively throughout the United States from the 1790s on, gathering material. His book, and particularly its accompanying map, were immediately recognized as major contributions, and he was elected president of the Academy of Natural Sciences the same year it was published, a post he held for the rest of his life. The map is generally considered the first important geographical map of the United States. In 1824, Maclure became deeply interested in Robert Owen’s experiment at New Harmony. He moved there in 1825 and used the New Harmony press to publish his Opinions on Various Subjects, Dedicated to Industrious Producers (1831-38). He died in 1840. HOWES M161. DAB XII, p.135. RINK 777. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 41325. $2750.

Where the Wood for the Furniture Came From

122. [Mahogany]: THE MAHOGANY TREE: ITS BOTANICAL CHARACTERS, QUALITIES AND USES, WITH PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR SELECTING AND CUTTING IT IN THE REGIONS OF ITS GROWTH, IN THE WEST INDIES AND CENTRAL AMERICA.... Liverpool & London. [1850]. ix,[1],[5]-117pp. plus seven plates, folding table, and folding map. Original dark green publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind. Corners bumped and rubbed. Minor scattered foxing and soiling, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

Essentially a trade publication, issued by timber merchants Chaloner & Fleming, describing the various uses of Mahogany and promoting its use in ship-building. Citing the discovery of gold in California as an impetus, the authors discuss the prospect of “facilitating the transit of commerce across the American Isthmus... either by canals or railroads.” Not only would this assist fortune-seekers bound for California, but it would enable merchants to find their way into the western countries of Central and South America – and into their mahogany forests. This work contains a description of the regions in which the mahogany tree grows, as well as illustrations of harvesting and shaping the timber. The final portion of the volume is devoted to the petition of mahogany merchants regarding the use of mahogany in the building of first-class ships. Relatively scarce, with only one copy appearing in auction records for the past forty years. A lovely copy. $2000.

Marshall’s Life of Washington in Boards

123. Marshall, John: THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, COM- MANDER IN CHIEF OF THE AMERICAN FORCES, DURING THE WAR WHICH ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTRY, AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES...TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE COLONIES .... Philadelphia. 1804-1807. Five text volumes plus separate atlas volume of 22pp. and ten maps (most double-page). Text volumes: Portrait. Thick octavo. Original blue paper boards, neatly rebacked in light tan paper spines, red paper labels. Boards lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on each titlepage. Light scattered foxing. Untrimmed. Quarto atlas volume: Original blue paper boards, printed paper label on front cover, neatly rebacked in matching style. A fine set in original boards, untrimmed.

First issue of the text with the first edition quarto atlas of the classic biography of Washington. “After the able, accurate and comprehensive work of Chief Justice Marshall, it would be presumptuous to attempt a historical biography of Washington” – Jared Sparks. Later American editions omitted the history of the colonies, which is the subject of the first volume. The atlas volume contains ten maps relating to the Revolution and twenty-two pages of subscribers’ names. HOWES M317 “aa.” SABIN 44788. LARNED 1561. $9000.

124. [Maryland]: [Baltimore]: ART WORK OF BALTIMORE, MD. PUBLISHED IN TWELVE PARTS. Chicago: Gravure Illustration Co., 1899. Twelve parts. [1],17 leaves of text plus seventy-four plates. Large quarto. Original green printed wrappers, gilt. Some light wear to spines and wrappers. Internally clean. Very good. With the remnants of the original cardboard portfolio.

A handsome set of views of the city of Baltimore, showcasing the architecture and elegance of the city. Images in this set include City Hall, various churches, Oheb Shalom Synagogue, several views of Druid Hill Park and Patterson Park, Johns Hopkins, Mount Vernon Place, various views of the Peabody Institute, the Maryland School for the Blind, scenes of the harbor, and others. The Gravure Illustration Company published many similar pictorial works. This copy is in particularly nice condition. Rare, with only four copies located in OCLC, at New York Public Library, Art Institute of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania State University. OCLC 79197722. $1250.

125. Mason, Richard: THE GENTLEMAN’S NEW POCKET FARRI- ER, COMPRISING GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NOBLE AND USEFUL ANIMAL THE HORSE.... Richmond: Published by Peter Cottom, 1825. 228pp. plus five plates including frontis. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Some tanning and light foxing. Good.

Styled “Third edition, enlarged and improved” on the titlepage, after the first of 1811. This work was to include, in the fourth edition, the first American stud book. The plates show horses in various modes of work and activity, including “A Virginia Race Horse.” This is the earliest edition listed by Haynes. HENDERSON, pp.121-22. HAYNES VIRGINIANA 11451. $1250.

Massachusetts Attempts to Control Currency in 1779

126. [Massachusetts]: STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. IN COUN- CIL. JUNE 11, 1779. RESOLVED, THAT THE FOLLOWING AD- DRESS BE PRINTED IN HAND-BILLS AND SENT TO THE SEVERAL MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE TOWNS AND PARISHES WITHIN THIS STATE...[caption title]. [Boston: Edes & Gill], 1779. Broadside, 18 x 13½ inches. Printed in four columns. Some minor loss. Backed with heavier paper. Very good. Matted and framed.

Proclamation made by the Massachusetts state congress concerning the economic impact of the Revolutionary War upon the currency, and noting France’s alliance with the States. By 1779 the colonies were embroiled in a financial crisis. The Continental dollar was depreciating rapidly, and it was becoming increasingly difficult for the state and national governments to supply the army. The broadside blames not the dollar but the “artifices of men” for price-gouging and monopolizing goods. Likewise, the Congress indicates that more money is needed to defray the cost of the war:

Your governments being now established, and your ability to contend with your invaders ascertained, we have on the most mature deliberation judged it indispensably necessary to call upon you for forty five millions of dollars, in addition to the fifteen millions required by a resolution of Congress of the 2d of January last, to be paid to the Continental treasury before the 1st day of January next....

The text continues, announcing the alliance with France and exhorting the people to repulse their enemies and hold fast to the cause. On March 18, 1780 the Conti- nental Congress passed a law withdrawing the older, inflation-ridden currency. The law called for each state to collect its share of outdated currency. Massachusetts’ share amounted to over five million pounds. ESTC locates only five copies, at the American Antiquarian Society, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, Rosenbach Library, and Yale University. EVANS 16637. FORD 2191. CUSHING 1073. ESTC W34194. $6000.

127. Mather, Cotton: THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER: A COLLEC- TION OF THE BEST DISCOVERIES IN NATURE, WITH RELI- GIOUS IMPROVEMENTS. London. 1721. vii,[1],304pp. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, leather label. Some wear to corner tips, light scattered foxing. Later ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good.

This is one of the most curious controversial books in the vast Mather canon. Al- though Mather’s exploration herein of the wonders of nature is intended to exhibit God’s presence in the world, the book is essentially scientific and was apparently written with a self-aggrandizing motive. Mather had a flair for science, having helped to introduce smallpox inoculation into America, and in 1714 he began using the initials of a Fellow of the Royal Society after his name. According to Stevens, Mather wrote a letter of thanks to the Society and continued correspondence, but there was much contemporaneous skepticism about whether he had the right to use the august “F.R.S.” This work, written while the controversy was still hot, was apparently intended to demonstrate Mather’s competence and eagerness to be America’s first Royal Society member. Mather’s most substantial and personally significant work of science. HOLMES, COTTON MATHER 52-A. SABIN 46253. $4000.

128. [Mather, Cotton]: PARENTATOR. MEMOIRS OF REMARK- ABLES IN THE LIFE AND THE DEATH OF THE EVER- MEMORABLE DR. INCREASE MATHER. WHO EXPIRED, AUGUST 23, 1723. Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724. [2],x,xiv,239,[5]pp. 12mo. Modern calf, spine gilt, leather label. Titlep- age soiled and worn; chips and tears at edges repaired; bottom gutter corner torn and repaired, affecting a few letters of the imprint text and border. Moderate dampstaining to first few pages; some light foxing and toning. A good copy.

Cotton Mather’s homage to his famed and prolific father, one of the most influential men in the history of colonial New England, who died the previous year. It constitutes the earliest extensive biography of Increase Mather, and gives important details of his religious and political activities in Massachusetts. Holmes describes the biography as an “eminently readable work.” The book includes an early catalogue of Increase Mather’s works. The errata notes that this title was the first work printed by Timothy Green, Junior (1703-63), at the time an apprentice in his uncle Bartholomew’s shop and a member of the distinguished Boston printing family. This copy lacks the frontispiece portrait of Increase Mather, which is the second engraved portrait to be published in the British colonies. According to Holmes, the portrait was not originally published with the work and appears “to have been added to special copies, either at the time of publication, or since.” HOLMES, COTTON MATHER 271. HOWES 393, “b.” JCB (3)I:347. CHURCH 893. JONES 419. EVANS 2557. SABIN 46447. $3750.

Interesting Sammelband

129. Mayhew, Jonathan: [SAMMELBAND OF EIGHT PAMPHLETS, PRIMARILY WRITTEN BY JONATHAN MAYHEW, INCLUD- ING SEVERAL IMPORTANT EARLY POLITICAL SERMONS AND SERMONS ON THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR]. Bos- ton. 1758-1765. Eight pamphlets, enumerated below. Lacking several leaves of text. Early 19th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather labels. Extremities worn. Contemporary ownership inscription and contents list on front fly leaf. Some light scattered toning, foxing, and soiling. A few titlepages with contemporary notations. A few titlepages torn. Generally good to very good.

A collection of colonial Boston imprints, with seven written by Dr. Jonathan Mayhew and one written in reply to him. All the pamphlets in this volume are relatively scarce, particularly in the trade. This sammelband belonged to Rev. Joseph Tucker- man, a Unitarian minister in the Boston area. Tuckerman supplied a manuscript list of contents, dated 1806, the likely date of the collection being bound. Mayhew (1720-66) was a prominent Congregationalist minister in Boston, and a man who was never afraid to speak his mind. Many of Mayhew’s spiritual ideas are seen as a precursor to Unitarian thought. “Outspoken whenever a principle was concerned, Mayhew entered debates over political questions as well as religious ones. Several of his printed sermons nurtured incipient patriotism in the colonies. He produced learned discourses against unlimited submission to political power, especially that of Charles I. Those ideas formed some of the theoretical framework for subsequent American revolutionary efforts. Another treatise defended the right to disobey unjust laws. He upheld basic liberties in the face of arbitrary rule and justified taking over reins of government to preserve fundamental freedoms. Men were bound to obey a king who ruled justly, he acknowledged, but if royal authority proved to be tyrannical, citizens had the right to resist oppression in the name of civil liberty. His famous address, “The Snare Broken” (1766), embodied public satisfaction over repeal of the Stamp Act that occurred shortly before his death” – ANB. All told, a wonderful collection of Mayhew’s writings, detailed below.

1) Two Discourses Delivered November 23d. 1758. Being the Day Appointed by Author- ity to be Observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving.... Boston: R. Draper, Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, [1758]. 56 (of 57) pp. Lacks half title and final text leaf. Titlepage torn with minor loss. The discourses are “The Late Smiles of Providence, Represented” and “The duty of religious thankfulness explain’d and inculcated.” EVANS 8192. 2) Two Discourses Delivered October 25th. 1759. Being the Day Appointed by Authority to be Observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving, for the Success of His Majesty’s Arms, More Particularly in the Reduction of Quebec, the Capital of Canada. Boston: Richard Draper, Edes & Gill, and Thomas & John Fleet, 1759. 67,[12]pp. Lacks half title. Two Thanksgiving discourses given on the occasion of the Quebec Campaign of the French and Indian War: “Of the great things which God hath done for us” and “What great cause we have for gladness and rejoicing.” With an Ap- pendix “Containing a brief account of two former Expeditions against Quebec and Canada, which proved unsuccessful.” One of the few colonial descriptions of the events of the seizure of Quebec. EVANS 8417. 3) Striving to Enter in at the Strait Gate Explain’d and Inculcated; and the Connexion of Salvation Therewith, Proved from the Holy Scriptures. In Two Sermons on Luke XIII. 24. Boston: Richard Draper, Edes & Gill, and Thomas & John Fleet, 1761. 88pp. Lacks half title. EVANS 8926. 4) The Snare Broken. A Thanksgiving Discourse, Preached at the Desire of the West Church in Boston, N.E. Friday May 23, 1766. Occasioned by the Repeal of the Stamp-Act. Boston: R. & S. Draper, Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet, 1766. viii,44pp. Titlepage torn with some paper loss. One of Mayhew’s most famous sermons, reprinted the same year due to popular demand, expressing public satisfaction and triumph over the repeal of the Stamp Act. Dedicated to William Pitt. EVANS 10388. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 35a. 5) Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; Designed to Shew Their Non-Conformity to Each Other.... Boston: Richard & Samuel Draper, Edes & Gill, Thomas & John Fleet, 1763. 174 (of 176)pp. Lacks final leaf with one page of text and errata. Titlepage torn with loss to a few words of text. One of three vituperative pamphlets written by Mayhew against the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, denouncing their activities to convert Congregationalists in New England to Anglicanism. Mayhew viewed this as a political issue. EVANS 9441. 6) A Defence of the Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propaga- tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Against an Anonymous Pamphlet Falsly Intitled, A Candid Examination of Dr. Mayhew’s Observations, &c.... Boston: R. & S. Draper, Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet, 1763. 138 (of 144)pp. Recapitulates and extends Mayhew’s 1763 argument with the Church of England’s Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. EVANS 9442. 7) A Letter of Reproof to Mr. John Cleaveland of Ipswich, Occasioned by a Defamatory Libel Published Under His Name, Intitled, An Essay to Defend Some of the Most Important Principles in the Protestant Reformed System of Christianity.... Boston: R. and S. Draper, Edes & Gill, and T. & J. Fleet, 1764. 49pp. EVANS 9737. 8) Cleaveland, John: A Reply to Dr. Mayhew’s Letter of Reproof.... Boston: W. M’Alpine & J. Fleming, 1765. [2],96pp. Titlepage and final two leaves torn, the final two with loss to lower portion of page and some text. EVANS 9932.

$3500.

First Constitution of the State of Michigan

130. [Michigan]: CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, AS ADOPTED IN CONVENTION, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF DETROIT, ON MONDAY, THE 11th DAY OF MAY, A.D. 1835. Detroit: Sheldon M’Knight, 1835. 20pp. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good.

First constitution of the state of Michigan. “Drawn up in large part by the almost legendary ‘boy governor,’ the first to serve in that capacity in the State of Michigan. In 1831, at the age of nineteen, Stevens T. Mason was appointed Secretary of the Territory, and during most of the next five years he was acting governor ex officio. He seized the leadership of the movement for statehood and vigorously prosecuted the boundary dispute with Ohio, calling out the militia to guard the Toledo Strip which rightfully belonged to Michigan by the Northwest Ordinance, but had been given to the sister State. The transition of Michigan from territory to state is unique in American history, involving the Toledo War and this Constitution. Under its influence a political revolution was consummated; the territorial government was banished; a state government established which included the disputed territory; and Michigan functioned as a state for a year and a half unrecognized by the United States!” – Eberstadt. No copies appear in auction records since the Sonneborn sale in 1980. A scarce and important piece of Michigan history. AII (MICHIGAN) 265. GREENLY 73. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33021. EBER- STADT, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS (166) 76. $3500.

131. [Military Manual]: [Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Au- gustin]: THE MILITARY COMPANION: BEING A SYSTEM OF COMPANY DISCIPLINE, FOUNDED ON THE REGULATIONS OF BARON STEUBEN...CONTAINING THE MANUAL EXER- CISE, FACINGS, STEPS, TURNINGS, WHEELINGS, MISCEL- LANEOUS EVOLUTIONS, AND FIRINGS, TOGETHER WITH THE DUTY OF OFFICERS AND PRIVATES...DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF THE MILITIA. Newburyport: Published by Thomas & Whipple, April 1810. 48pp. plus two plates. 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit stained and lightly worn. Leaf C3 torn in lower outer corner, affecting a few words of text. A few light fox marks. On the whole, a lovely copy, in original condition.

Designated the “third edition, improved” on the titlepage and the wrapper. Sabin notes a second edition of 1808, but not a first edition. A comprehensive military manual, based on Steuben’s principals, apparently for the use of the Massachusetts militia. The tenets in this manual would have guided American forces during the War of 1812. Included are descriptions of duties for officers, privates, ensigns, and sergeants. The plates show formations for marching. Scarce on the market. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 20735. SABIN 91460. $1350.

First American Edition

132. Milton, John: PARADISE LOST. A POEM, IN TWELVE BOOKS. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1777. 15,328pp. plus frontispiece portrait. Contem- porary calf. Binding rubbed, neatly rebacked retaining original spine. Con- temporary ownership inscriptions on front fly leaf and half title. Small part of top corner of half title torn away, affecting some advertisement text on verso, loss replaced with blank paper. Old closed tear in portrait discreetly repaired with tissue, not affecting image. Light foxing and old dampstaining. Good.

The first American edition of this famous work, published in the midst of all the tumult of 1777 Philadelphia. It was issued together with Milton’s Paradise Regain’d, the two works being paginated continuously, and the twelfth book of Paradise Lost included in the volume of Paradise Regain’d. The frontispiece portrait of Milton was engraved by John Norman. Relatively scarce on the market, and a surprisingly small number of copies located in OCLC; the ESTC lists just twenty. The volume is in one of the typical bindings of publisher Robert Bell (best known for publishing Common Sense the previous year), with letters blindstamped on the spine. EVANS 15443. HILDEBURN 3582. ESTC w31084. OCLC 12646195, 228766755. $2500.

133. [Mitchell, S. Augustus]: MAP OF THE STATES OF KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1838. Handcol- ored folding pocket map, 18 x 21½ inches, in a 16mo. morocco folder, cover stamped in blind and gilt. Lightly rubbed at extremities. Minor toning, a few small spots of foxing. A few small separations at corner folds. Colors fresh and bright. Very good.

A nice pocket map of Kentucky and Tennessee, intended for travellers. The map includes charts with steamboat and stage routes through the states, as well as insets of the area around Nashville, Louisville, and Frankfort and Lexington. The census data for 1830 is pasted to the inside of the front cover. Not in Phillips or Rumsey; no copies of this edition in OCLC. $1500. A Primary Work of Early American Judaica

134. Monis, Judah: DICKDOOK LESHON GNEBREET. A GRAM- MAR OF THE HEBREW TONGUE, BEING AN ESSAY TO BRING THE HEBREW GRAMMAR INTO ENGLISH, TO FA- CILITATE THE INSTRUCTION OF ALL THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF ACQUIRING A CLEAR IDEA OF THIS PRIMI- TIVE TONGUE BY THEIR OWN STUDIES.... Boston, N.E.: Printed by Jonas Green, and are to be sold by the author at his house in Cambridge, 1735. [4],94,[2]pp. Tipped in before the titlepage is a folding broadside of The Hebrew Grammar, at One View from Parkhurst’s An Hebrew and Eng- lish Lexicon, likely the 1762 edition. Quarto. Three-quarter speckled calf and marbled boards. Light stains on folding table, titlepage, and following three leaves. Final leaf (containing table of contents) with a one-inch triangular tear in outer edge, costing about a dozen words. Several instances of early ink marginalia or doodlings. Very good.

A landmark in the history of printing in the Americas, this is the first Hebrew grammar published in America, printed from “the first complete fount of Hebrew type in the American colonies” (Eames). This copy bears the manuscript name, in two places (the upper margin of pages 20 and 94), of Simeon Howard. Howard (1733-1804) attended Harvard, graduating in 1758. He was almost certainly a student of Monis, and would have used this book as his textbook. For more than thirty-five years Howard was the pastor of the West Church in Boston, one of the most influential churches in the city. Hebrew type was first used in the North American colonies in the Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 in Cambridge. Over the next ninety-five years Hebrew type appeared in a handful of American imprints, usually in brief examples of single words or short sentences. By the 1720s, measures were taken to change this situation. As Eames explains:

In 1726, Mr. Thomas Hollis, merchant of London, sent over three boxes of Greek and Hebrew types, a present from one of his friends to the Corpora- tion of Harvard College. Upon examination by Mr. Monis, the instructor of Hebrew in the College, the set of Hebrew types was found to be incomplete, therefore in June, 1728, the Corporation voted to send for so many Hebrew types and points as were necessary to complete the set.

Judah Monis, born in Algiers or Italy in 1683, had settled in Boston by 1720. In 1723 he was awarded an M.A. from Harvard, and he was the instructor of Hebrew there (though never a full professor) until 1760. Monis published several works in his lifetime, and though the present grammar was accessible to any educated person, it was produced “especially for the use of the students of Harvard-College at Cambridge.” He attempted to publish the book in 1720 and again in 1726, but was hindered partly by the paucity of Hebrew types noted above. The book was finally printed in 1735 by Jonas Green, the grandson of Samuel Green, who was the second printer in the British colonies, preceded only by Stephen Day (who printed the Bay Psalm Book). Jonas Green apprenticed under his father, Timothy Green, himself a noted printer in New London, Connecticut. Jonas Green printed a few items in Boston before moving on to Philadelphia (where he worked for Franklin and Bradford) and Annapolis, where he became printer to the colony in the 1740s. The Dickdook... was printed in an edition believed to be a thousand copies, and was used by students at a number of New England colleges, including Dartmouth. A landmark of American printing history, and of Jewish Americana. EVANS 3931. NAIP w004735. GOLDMAN, HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA 171. KARP, FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 286. ROSENBACH, AMERICAN JEWISH 28. Wilberforce Eames, “On the Use of Hebrew Types in English America before 1735” in Studies in Jewish Bibliography and Related Subjects (New York, 1929), p.481. $30,000.

First Newspaper Printing of the Monroe Doctrine

135. [Monroe, James]: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.... Washington. Dec. 4, 1823. 4pp. in National Intelligencer Vol. 24, No. 3526. Folio. Dbd. Old folds and some light wrinkling. Rough along the left edge. Good.

This copy bears the manuscript name in the upper left corner of Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, who at the time the Monroe Doctrine was issued was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, and who would go on to serve in the United States Congress and as U.S. Minister to Russia. The second printing and first newspaper appearance of one of the most important foreign policy statements of the United States government. In this message to Congress, Monroe asserts that the Americas cannot be the subject of colonization by European powers, and that any European intervention in the Americas will be considered a “manifestation of an unfriendly disposition towards the United States.” Monroe delivered the Doctrine in his State of the Union message on Dec. 2, 1823, and it was first printed as a National Intelligencer Extra the same day. We are aware of only four copies of that printing, the Streeter copy (his sale, lot 1734, $3500 in 1967), now in the Scheide Library; a copy in the Gilder-Lehrman Collection; and two other copies, whereabouts unknown. This is the second printing, in a regular issue of the National Intelligencer for Dec. 4. This printing seems to be from the same setting of type, with a slight rearrangement of the columns. It appears on page 4 of the issue and is suitable for broadside display. STREETER SALE 1734 (ref ). GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 33. $3500.

A Share in an Investment Disaster

136. [Morris, Robert]: [PRINTED CERTIFICATE FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY, COMPLETED IN MANU- SCRIPT AND SIGNED BY JAMES MARSHALL AND ROBERT MORRIS]. Philadelphia. Feb. 20, 1793. Broadside, 10 x 12 inches. Matted and framed. Minor soiling. Scalloped cut along left margin. Near fine.

Document signed by Robert Morris – signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution, and the “Financier of the Revolution” – granting four shares in the North American Land Company to Dr. Enoch Edwards. Enoch Edwards, a surgeon by trade, was a leading patriot who served as a member of the June 18, 1776 Provincial Congress, and a signer of the 1790 Pennsylvania Constitution. Robert Morris played a leading role in the financial decisions of the Revolutionary government – he founded the first national bank, sought to fund public debts by means of a national revenue, and used his own funds, when necessary, to finance the Revolution and the fledgling American government. In the late 1780s and the 1790s, Morris speculated extensively in various land deals, becoming fabulously wealthy, then losing everything in 1798, spending two and a half years in debtors prison. The North American Land Company, the most ambitious of his schemes, is the venture that finally brought about Morris’ downfall. Counter signed by Secretary James Marshall, brother of future chief justice John Marshall. $3750.

Rare New Haven-Issued Atlas

137. Morse, Jedidiah, and Sidney E. Morse: A NEW UNIVERSAL AT- LAS OF THE WORLD COMPRISING IN TWENTY ONE MAPS, CAREFULLY PREPARED FROM THE LATEST INFORMA- TION AND NEATLY ENGRAVED, THE WORLD, ITS SEVERAL GRAND DIVISIONS AND PRINCIPAL SUBDIVISIONS. New Haven. 1831. Engraved titlepage and twenty-one handcolored maps. Folio. Original red three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Extremities worn. Light dampstaining and scattered foxing, but contents generally quite bright and clean. Very good.

Second edition of this atlas by noted geographer Jedidiah Morse, with corrections by N. & S.S. Jocelyn. Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) was a noted clergyman and an important contributor to geographical publications, considered the “father of American Geography.” In 1797 he published The American Gazetteer, which went through several editions. “During their author’s lifetime the Morse geographies virtually monopolized their field in the United States” – DAB. Sidney, Morse’s son, was a noted inventor and author, who worked with his father on some of the latter’s geographical publications. The map of the United States shows the country as it appeared after the Louisiana Purchase and the statehood of Maine and Missouri. Not in Philips or Rumsey; only two copies on OCLC, at Yale and the University of Idaho. OCLC 41715834. $2750. Anti-Catholic Rant by Painter Samuel F.B. Morse

138. [Morse, Samuel F.B.]: FOREIGN CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE LIBERTIES OF THE UNITED STATES. THE NUMBERS OF BRUTUS, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW-YORK OB- SERVER. New York. 1835. 188pp. Original blue publisher’s cloth, printed paper label. Cloth lightly rubbed, label lightly soiled and chipped. Contempo- rary ownership inscriptions on titlepage and one interior leaf. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Very good.

First edition of this fiercely Anti-Catholic conspiracy tract by artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, denouncing the Popish conspiracy to influence events in America. In the prefatory remarks Morse writes: “That a vigorous and unexampled effort is making by the despotic governments of Europe to cause Popery to overspread this country, is a fact too palpable to be contradicted.” Not in American Imprints, and rare. $3000.

139. [Mount, William Sidney]: Burt, Charles: BARGAINING FOR A HORSE. Engraved from the original painting in possession of the New York Gallery of Fine Arts. New York: American Art Union, 1851 [i.e. 1853]. Engraved print, 11 x 12 inches; matted to 15 x 16 inches. Small crease at bottom edge, else fine.

Engraving by Charles Burt, after William Sidney Mount’s famous painting of New England horse trading. This work is typical of Mount’s style, capturing a scene from everyday rural American life. Standing outside a rickety stable, two men whittle sticks as they negotiate the price of a saddled horse, standing near a fence behind and to their left. Charles Burt was a Scottish-born engraver who emigrated to New York City, where he gained both experience and renown. This is among his better-known works. Though the line beneath the title attributes the date as 1851, the very small print at the bottom notes a copyright date of 1853, after the American Art Union had been dissolved. A lovely copy of this iconic image. $1200.

With An Original Pencil Sketch by David Claypoole Johnston

140. Neal, Joseph C.: [ Johnston, David Claypoole]: CHARCOAL SKETCHES; OR, SCENES IN A METROPOLIS. With illustrations by David C. Johnston. Philadelphia. 1838. 222pp. plus four plates. With an original pencil sketch, 5 x 4½ inches. Original publisher’s cloth, printed paper label. Extremities worn, label rubbed. Some light foxing. Very good.

First edition of this American humorist’s first book. Joseph C. Neal first published these sketches in the journal, The Pennsylvanian. This is their first appearance in collected form. They were very well received. This copy is accompanied by an original pencil drawing for the plate facing page 66, illustrating the character sketch for “The Best-natured Man in the World.” The illustrator, David Claypoole Johnston (1798-1865), was known as the “American Cruikshank.” Murrell calls Johnston “one of our foremost ante-bellum humorous draughtsmen,” and he produced many satirical prints on a variety of subjects during his long career. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 51835. WRIGHT 1952. BAL 14943. $1250.

141. [New Orleans]: [Southern Litho. Co. (printer)]: THE WORLD’S INDUSTRIAL AND COTTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, NEW ORLEANS, LA....PLAN No. 2 MAP OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SHOWING LOCATION OF EXPOSITION GROUNDS AND ALL APPROACHES THERETO BY LAND & WATER. New Orleans: Southern Litho. Co., [ca. 1884]. Folding lithographic map, with thirteen insets or vignettes. Sheet size: 27½ x 36¾ inches. Matted. Various neat repairs to folds and old tears, else very good. Accompanied by the original black cloth-covered boards, the covers blocked in blind, the upper cover lettered in gilt, the upper cover pastedown printed with a 1p. letterpress “Stranger’s Guide.” Provenance: Frederick D. Rice (inscription, dated 1897).

A rare ephemeral item from the New Orleans exposition of 1884: the second world’s fair to be held in America. The Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, held on the centennial of the first known export of cotton from the United States to Great Britain, offered New Orleans a chance to demonstrate to the world how its businesses and infrastructure had been revitalized by Reconstruction. The fair, however, suffered from debt and fraud and was not financially successful. Although the buildings constructed for the fair, held on present-day Audubon Park, were among the largest in the United States to that date, all were dismantled. The thirteen insets or vignette illustrations on this map include: “View of New Orleans in 1719”; “Plan of New Orleans in 1770”; “Rail-Road Map of Louisiana and Texas”; a bird’s-eye view of an approach to New Orleans by water; “Ground Plan of the Exposition”; “Perspective View of the Buildings and Grounds from the northeast”; and views of seven individual Pavilions and Halls containing the Exposition. The “Stranger’s Guide” on the front pastedown lists public buildings and points of interest, hotels, depots and ticket offices, and railroad ticket brokers. See Charting Louisiana 188 for a broadside advertisement for the exposition that includes a bird’s-eye view of New Orleans; this map is not listed in the carto- bibliographic work. RUMSEY 5324. $12,000. A New Orleans “Blue Book”

142. [New Orleans]: BLUE BOOK [wrapper title]. [New Orleans. ca. 1915]. [96]pp., printed throughout in red and black. 12mo. Original blue wrappers with printer’s ornament of a harp in red on front wrapper. Wrappers very lightly worn, with short closed tears along spine ends. Very clean internally. Near fine.

This is the last of the series of guides to the bawdy houses of New Orleans, issued between 1900 and 1915. Heartman identifies this is as the “thirteenth” edition. Before the First World War, the red-light district of New Orleans operated in a very public way, until the U.S. government suppressed it at the time of the American entrance into the war. This guide lists women by address and contains advertisements for houses in the rear. They include lists of burlesque houses, names of landladies, and names of prominent women in the trade. The prostitutes are often identified by race, most commonly white, black, and octoroon. The earliest such guide appeared about 1896, though they were produced in their present format from 1909 to 1915 by Billy Struve on the second floor of Lulu White’s saloon at the corner of Basin Street and Bienville. Struve was knee deep in the business; in addition to composing the Blue Book, he also managed a saloon owned by Tom Anderson, known about town as the “Mayor of Storyville.” An advertisement for Tom Anderson’s New Cabaret and Restaurant is found on the rear wrapper of this edition. The guides were sold throughout the district, but primarily at the corner of Basin and Canal. The two photographs include a facade of Emma Johnson’s famous “Studio” and a portrait of the Oriental Danseuse, Rita Walker. Owing to their content and heavy use, all Blue Book guides are extremely rare. HEARTMAN, BLUE BOOKS XIII. $2500.

The Romance of Key Biscayne with Richard Nixon

143. [Nixon, Richard]: [Graham, Billy]: Woodman, Jim: THE BOOK OF KEY BISCAYNE BEING THE ROMANCE OF CAPE FLORI- DA.... [Np. 1967]. [12],66,[2]pp. Original printed card covers. Signed on the front cover by Richard Nixon and Billy Graham; with numerous notations in the text, as well as several drawings; newspaper clippings pasted in. Very good. In a half morocco folder.

Souvenir of future President Richard Nixon’s luncheon at Key Biscayne, Florida, autographed by him and the Rev. Billy Graham, who was a guest at the event. The book also bears a presentation inscription to James Copley and many notes taken down by a supporter at the event. An interesting and unique piece of Nixon memorabilia. $1500. Rochester Lithographs of Nursery Specimens

144. [Nursery Specimens]: [Rochester Color Plates]: [SPECIMEN BOOK FROM THE HOOPES BRO. & THOMAS COMPANY OF WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA, CONTAINING 127 CHROMO- LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF FRUITS, FLOWERS, AND TREES]. Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Lithograph Co.; Vredenburg & Co., [ca. 1880]. 127 color plates. Original black cloth, wallet-style binding. Heavily worn. Folds open into eight panels, with each row of plates connected with pink linen straps. Some light wear and soiling to plates. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Extensive salesman’s nursery specimen book from the Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Com- pany nursery of West Chester, Pennsylvania, containing 127 chromolithographic plates. This book contains a mixture of plates, primarily from the Vredenburg and Rochester Lithograph Companies, both located in Rochester, New York. Specimens on offer include an extensive selection of plums, pears, cherries, apples, peaches, grapes, berries, roses, flowering shrubs, and trees. $5000.

145. [Nursery Specimens]: [Rochester Color Plates]: [SPECIMEN BOOK OF THE HOOPES BRO. & THOMAS COMPANY NURSERY, CONTAINING 112 CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC PLATES]. Roch- ester, N.Y. [ca. 1880-1910]. 112 color plates. Original black cloth, wallet-style binding. Heavily worn. Folds open into eight panels, with each row of plates connected with pink linen straps. Some light wear and soiling to plates. Some contemporary notations. In a cloth clamshell case. Good.

Extensive salesman’s nursery specimen book from the Hoopes Bro. & Thomas Company nursery of West Chester, Pennsylvania, containing one hundred twelve chromolithographic plates. This book contains a mixture of plates, primarily from the Vredenburg and Rochester Lithograph Companies, both located in Rochester, New York. The plates range in date from the 1880s to the early 20th century. Specimens on offer include and extensive selection of plums, pears, cherries, apples, peaches, grapes, berries, roses, flowering shrubs, and trees. $4500.

The Programs for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics

146. [Olympic Games]: [Los Angeles]: COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE 39 OFFICIAL PROGRAMS: GAMES OF THE Xth OLYM- PIAD [cover title]. Los Angeles. 1932. Thirty-nine programs, variously 8pp. to 32pp. Original blue cloth, gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Bookplates on front pastedown. Small chips to top edge of fly leaf. Else quite fine.

Collected programs from the tenth Olympic Games, held in Los Angeles in 1932. Held during the Great Depression, the Games had a remarkably low participation turnout but nonetheless managed to make a profit. The Los Angeles Olympics are notable for introducing many of the features of the modern format still in use today. A wonderful collection. $1500.

An Important American Artist’s Print, with Exhibition Ticket

147. [Peale, Rembrandt]: THE COURT OF DEATH. FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING, BY REMBRANDT PEALE [caption title]. [with:] THE COURT OF DEATH. BY REMBRANDT PEALE [printed receipt for the purchase of the engraving]. New York: Colton, 1859. Chromolithographic print: 20 x 30 inches. Receipt: 3 x 7½ inches. Minor toning and soiling, small tear at bottom edge. Very good.

Large print of Rembrandt Peale’s famous painting, “The Court of Death,” lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp. Rembrandt Peale was the most accomplished son of the great American portrait painter, Charles Willson Peale. The painting, “The Court of Death,” was the most ambitious of his works, full 24 by 13 feet in size. Completed in 1820, it was displayed for a number of years at the Baltimore Peale Museum and then toured to other cities up through the time of the Civil War. By 1859 the painting had been sold to Gardiner Quincy Colton, who published it in the present format and sold the prints for the low price of $1. Noted scholar Peter C. Marzio wrote: “Peale himself, normally haughty and querulous, provided a model of understated endorsement of the lithograph, writing shortly before his death [to Tristram Coffin on July 3, 1860], ‘The drawing is correct, and the Colouring (considering the difficulty of the process & its cheapness) gives a good general idea of the painting.’” Marzio further adds that this lithograph is among his favorites, due to its importance in Peale’s brilliant career not only as an artist, but as a popularizer of art, noting: “The painting is historically important as a very popular touring picture.” This example is accompanied by a printed and illustrated receipt for the purchase of one print. The receipt “entitles the holder to an ownership of One Share in the original Painting, valued at $25,000; which will be disposed of, as soon as 100,000 Engravings are taken, in such manner as they, the associated owners, shall determine.” The receipt has a portrait of Peale on one end and of George Washington on the other. In a contemporary prospectus for the print, the publisher touts the obvious truth that more profit could be made by selling 100,000 prints at the low price of $1 than could be achieved by selling 5,000 prints at $5. In addition to increasing his profit margins, Colton clearly hoped to sell more prints based on the idea of buying into a share of the painting. A pair of items illustrating the distinct link between art and commerce. Peter C. Marzio, Democratic Art, pp.51, 216. GOLDSMITH 23085 (ref ). Last, Color Ex- plosion, pp.132-33. $2500.

Maps of West Point

148. Peck, William Guy: [West Point]: [FOUR MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF WEST POINT AND ENVIRONS]. [West Point. 1841]. Four manuscript maps, various sizes. Matted. All but the largest with wide margins. Minor soiling. Very good plus.

Four maps drawn by William Guy Peck (1820-92) during his years as a student at West Point. Peck graduated from West Point in 1844 and served with the Topographical Engineers, where was assigned as assistant to James William Ab- ert, surveying the Canadian River through Indian territory during the summer of 1845. The next year he and Abert accompanied Gen. Stephen W. Kearny’s Army of the West to New Mexico. Peck subsequently spent two years (1848-50) on the faculty at West Point, where he taught drawing. He also wrote several textbooks on mathematics. The largest of these maps is a plan of West Point (14 x 19½ inches), dated 1841, which shows the buildings and topographical elevations of the point. The other three are unidentified, but show a confluence of two rivers (7¼ x 9 inches), a landscaped garden (6½ x 8 inches), and military troop movements (5 x 5 inches), possibly from an exercise performed at the school. All are neatly executed in ink. $2000.

Early Description of Louisiana and West Florida

149. Pendergrast, Garrett Elliott: A PHYSICAL AND TOPOGRAPH- ICAL SKETCH OF THE MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY, LOWER LOUISIANA, AND A PART OF WEST FLORIDA. Philadelphia: Printed at the Office of the Gazette of the United States. 1803. 34pp. Antique three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Lightly tanned. Very good.

Generally credited with being the first American scientific description of the lower Mississippi Valley, based on the observations of the author and material supplied by William Dunbar. The author was a native of Natchez, and this work (dedicated to some of the most eminent scientists of the day) was his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Jones notes this work as “very rare,” and the Eberstadts call it “a great rarity.” STREETER SALE 1532. HOWES P197, “b.” SABIN 65056. EBERSTADT 164:299. JONES 196. SERVIES 772. $9500.

Early American Stove

150. Pettibone, Daniel: DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE RARIFYING AIR-STOVE, FOR WARMING AND VEN- TILATING HOSPITALS, CHURCHES, COLLEGES, DWELL- INGHOUSES, HOT OR GREENHOUSES, MANUFACTORIES, BANKS, BARRACKS, SHIPS, &c..... Philadelphia. 1810. 33,[3],[35]- 45pp. Dbd. Contemporary inscription, “Mr.[?] Griswold & Senate,” in upper margin of titlepage. Scattered foxing and soiling, dampstain in final four leaves, affecting some text. A good copy.

Rare variant issue of early American inventor Daniel Pettibone’s description of his patented air heating stove and its recent improvements. Pettibone’s stove was in- stalled in the White House, but it was destroyed in the War of 1812. Included are testimonials from dozens of notable men of science, including Benjamin Rush and chemist James Cutbush. This copy includes a final section, paginated 35-45, which is only known in one other copy: Pettibone’s personal copy, presently in a private collection. This section is entitled, “Improvements on the Common Nine or Ten plate Stove,” and was apparently suppressed by Pettibone when his pamphlet was distributed. It describes details of planned improvements by Pettibone, which he probably decided to keep unpublished. Shaw and Shoemaker and OCLC together locate ten copies, none of which contain this final section, and Rink calls for only thirty-three pages as well. This copy was evidently presented to Stanley Griswold, appointed to the Senate from Ohio in 1809. Scarce. RINK 2902. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 21052. OCLC 11407476, 166601917, 164089887. $1500.

A Wonderful Collection of Prang Cards

151. [Prang, Louis]: [AMERICAN CARD ALBUM]. [Boston: Manufac- tured by L. Prang & Co., 1864]. [38] leaves of cards, 455 cards in all (lacking one card from “Language of Flowers” series). Each card measures 4¼ x 2½ inches. Twelve cards tipped to each album leaf. Quarto. Cloth boards, neatly rebacked in leather. A bit of occasional light foxing on the cards, but on the whole quite clean and the colors bright. Very good. [See front cover of this catalogue for illustration]

A collector’s album for Louis Prang’s series of chromolithographic cards. Prang issued these pictorial cards on a variety of subjects, ranging from nature scenes and other natural subjects to comical figures. There were also series of cards illustrating maxims from Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard,” as well as beautiful views of Niagara Falls. The thematic cards came in packs of twelve, and scrapbook albums such as these were made to mount and display the cards. Each album leaf holds twelve cards, which are mounted on facing leaves to display twenty-four cards at once. This album has a total of thirty-eight leaves of cards from nineteen separate series, for a total of 455 cards. Cards in this album include “Niagara Falls”; “Winter Landscapes”; “Wildflowers” Parts 1 and 2; “Roses”; “Flowers” Parts 1 and 2; “Sea Mosses” Parts 1 and 2; “Wood Mosses” Parts 1 and 2; “Language of Flowers” (lacks 1 card); “Butterflies and Moths of America” Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4; “Fruit and Flow- ers” Parts 1 and 2; “Autumn Leaves” Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; “Summer Landscapes”; “American Birds” Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4; “Hummingbirds” Parts 1 and 2; “Life of Childhood” Parts 1 and 2; “Vessels”; “Pilgrim’s Progress” Parts 1 and 2; “Maxims of Poor Richard” Parts 1 and 2; and “Funny Characters.” A large collection of these beautiful cards, issued by America’s leading chromo- lithographer. $8500.

Thirty-six Prang Chromos of Scenes in Central Park, with Twelve More of New York Street Scenes

152. [Prang, Louis]: [VIEWS IN CENTRAL PARK. (with:) NEW YORK STREET SCENES]. [Boston: Manufactured by L. Prang & Co., 1864]. Central Park: Thirty-six chromolithographic cards, each 4¼ x 2½ inches. Tipped to three album sheets. Street Scenes: Twelve chromolithographic cards, each 4¼ x 2½ inches, tipped to matching album sheet. Light soiling or foxing to a few images. Near fine. [See rear cover of this catalogue for illustration]

A marvelous collection of thirty-six chromolithographic views of New York City’s Central Park, issued by the renowned firm of Louis Prang and Company. In 1864, Prang issued numerous series of cards, often showing nature scenes, and meant to be collected and tipped into albums. Among these series, one of the rarest is the present series of thirty-six views of Central Park. When these cards were issued Central Park was still a new attraction in New York City. In 1857 a competition had been announced to submit designs for the park, and the winning entry was the “Greensward Plan” submitted by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The park opened later in 1857. This collection contains views of some of the most famous places in the park, including The Ramble and the Boat Landing. The scenes in this collection are:

1) “The Island.” 2) “The Rustic Bridge.” 3) “Entrance to Cave.” 4) “The Lake.” 5) “Rustic Arbor.” 6) “The Brook.” 7) “Moonlight on the Lake.” 8) “Cascade.” 9) “The Arch.” 10) “The Ramble.” 11) “Boat Landing.” 12) “Marble Bridge Over the Lake.” 13) “Rude Stairway.” 14) “Abode of the Swans.” 15) “The Silver Lake.” 16) “Entrance to Cave From the Lake.” 17) “The Tower.” 18) “Ornamental Bridge.” 19) “The Drive.” 20) “The Bridle Path.” 21) “The Music Temple.” 22) “Sunset on the Lake.” 23) “Rustic Arbor.” 24) “A Glimpse of the Lake.” 25) “The Marble Bridge.” 26) “Vine Arbor.” 27) “Bust of Schiller.” 28) “The Fountain.” 29) “On the Ramble, near the Lake.” 30) “Fancy Bridge No. 14.” 31) “The Casino.” 32) “Bridge at the 7th Avenue Entrance.” 33) “The Cove.” 34) “Rustic Bower.” 35) “Rustic Arbor.” 36) “Evening on the Lake.”

Prang followed the present three series of Central Park views, with another two series issued in 1869. Any of the cards in the Central Park series are among the rarest of Prang cards. With the Central Park series is another early Prang series, depicting street scenes and characters of New York. These charming images capture the spirit of the metropolis at the beginning of the Gilded Age. They are:

1) “Street Musician.” 2) “The Drum Major.” 3) “Emigrants Just Arrived.” 4) “Muddy Street.” 5) “The Fruit Pedlar.” 6) “The Old Coin Merchant.” 7) “The Street Singers.” 8) “Walking Advertisement Balloon Seller.” 9) “The Convoy Over Broadway.” 10) “On Broadway.” 11) “French Nurse.” 12) “Newspaper Boy ‘Tribune Sir?’”

An amusing collection of images of the sort of people who would have been found in Central Park in the 1860s. $8500.

153. [Presidential Campaigns]: THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. 1856. ELECTION – TUESDAY, 4th NOVEMBER [caption title]. New York. 1856. Broadside, 34 x 25 inches. Six sheets neatly joined on verso with older paper. Minor soiling. Very good.

Large campaign broadside depicting the six candidates for the three major political tickets of the election of 1856, with a column of text running down the center. James Buchanan and John C. Breckenridge for the Democratic Party adorn the topmost portion, followed by John C. Fremont and William L. Dayton of the Republican Party and Millard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson of the Know Nothing Party. The central column of text advertises a “mammoth double-sheet” edition of the weekly newspaper, Brother Jonathan, published by Benjamin Day. The special issue promises to contain “seventy to eighty fine engravings,” and this broadside was likely a timely exemplar of what the publication had to offer in this regard. A very nice display piece, with illustrations of two presidents and four wannabes. $1750.

Quakers Seek Relief on Affirmation

154. [Quakers]: THE CASE OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, WITH RESPECT TO MANY OF THEIR FRIENDS IN SOUTH- BRITAIN, AND THEIR FRIENDS IN GENERAL IN NORTH- BRITAIN, WHO CONSCIENTIOUSLY SCRUPLE THE TAKING OF THE PRESENT AFFIRMATION. [London? 1715]. Broadsheet. [1] p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Moderate toning and foxing. Very good.

In 1696, after experiencing decades of exclusion and imprisonment for conscientiously refusing to take loyalty and court oaths, Parliament granted Quakers the right to take a “solemn affirmation” in legal situations in place of an actual oath. Over the next two decades numerous Quakers objected to the invocation of God’s name in the official affirmation and refused it as they had the oath. In 1715 a bill was under consideration in Parliament to renew indefinitely the Quakers’ right to the affirmation. The Quaker authors of the present petition support the bill, but ask that it be amended with a revised affirmation that does not include the name of God. ESTC lists copies at four institutions: British Library, Library of the Religious Society of Friends, National Library of Scotland, and Oxford. SMITH, FRIENDS’ BOOKS II, p.265 (listing its imprint at “about 1721”). $1750.

Pennsylvania Quakers Present Their Case to the Assembly Protesting Persecution of Their Non-Violent Stance

155. [Quakers]: [American Revolution]: ON THE 26th ULTIMO A COMMITTEE OF SIX FRIENDS, BY APPOINTMENT WAITED ON THE PRESIDENT OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL...TO THE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, THE GEN- ERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND OTHERS WHOM IT MAY CONCERN; THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS...[caption title]. [Philadelphia. 1781]. 3pp. on a folded folio sheet. Folio. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good.

A statement from a leading group of Philadelphia Quakers, presented to the Penn- sylvania Assembly, regarding their persecution for their belief in abstaining from participating in violent acts, namely the Revolutionary War. In the early years of the growing discord between Great Britain and the colonies, the Society of Friends, despite numerous assurances by them of their neutrality, were under increasing suspicion of Loyalism. In 1774 the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friend’s religious leaders issued an edict threatening banishment from the Society should any member take part in insurrection. While Quakers did consider any sort of armed resistance to be sinful, the fact remained that under the royal government the Society had prospered, and enough prominent Quakers were perceived as outright Loyalists to characterize the entire sect as such in the eyes of the Revolutionaries. The hostility with which the Revolutionary leaders regarded the Quakers reached a breaking point in 1777 when the Continental Congress ordered the arrest of eleven prominent Friends, seeking to add to the list of those Quakers “inimically disposed toward the American states.” Here the Quakers protest their loyalty as Americans, noting that they have been pacifists from the start, including William Penn, the founder of the colony. “It must therefor appear strange and extraordinary in the view of candid inquirers...that we, many of whom are the descendants of the first settlers, possessing...duty to the real good and welfare of our country...should now be vilified, persecuted, imprisoned and excluded from our just liberties and privileges.” It is “Signed in and on behalf of a meeting of the representatives of the said people, held in Philadelphia, the 22d day of the 11th month, 1781. By John Drinker, clerk.” An important statement of the principles of the Society of Friends. ESTC locates only seven copies. EVANS 17166. ESTC W5778. HILDEBURN 4164. $2000.

Rawle on the Constitution: “First authoritative interpretation....” – Howes

156. Rawle, William: A VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825. vii,[1],[5]-347pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf, leather label. Very good.

The scarce first edition of this influential study of the United States Constitu- tion, containing a consideration of the rights of states to secede from the Union. Rawle, a Quaker, held Loyalist sympathies as a young man. Born in Philadelphia, he studied law in London before returning home to practice, eventually serving as a chancellor of the Philadelphia bar. Rawle’s is a thorough consideration of the several powers in the Constitution, and discusses the rights of states to secede from the Union (though Rawle personally was opposed to the measure). “First authoritative interpretation, in which was admitted the abstract right of state secession. These views exerted a profound influence on Southern political thought” – Howes. “This work, suggesting that Rawle believed the states had the right to secede from the Union, was used as a textbook for many years at West Point and other schools throughout the country. It is therefore generally considered to have influenced subsequent leaders and supporters of the Confederacy, although in fact Rawle opposed secession” – Cohen. This copy bears the ownership signature on the front free endpaper of William Samuel Johnson, likely a descendant of the signer of the Declaration of Independence of the same name. This is the first copy of this book that we have encountered. HOWES R77. SABIN 68003. COHEN 2893. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 22035. $4250. Early Americana Reference Work

157. Rede, Leman Thomas: BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA; OR, A CHRONOLOGICAL CATALOGUE OF THE MOST CURIOUS AND INTERESTING BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, STATE PAPERS, &c. UPON THE SUBJECT OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERI- CA, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT, IN PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT...WITH AN INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE ON THE PRESENT STATE OF LITERATURE IN THOSE COUNTRIES. London: Printed for J. Debrett, J. Sewell, R. Baldwin & J. Bew and E. Harlowe, 1789. [4],271pp. Quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Minor soiling and foxing. Old embossed library seal on titlepage and one other leaf. Else very good.

First edition of this important work on early printed and manuscript Americana, with a valuable introductory essay. This anonymous work has in the past been ascribed variously to “[Alexander] Dalrymple, Homer, Long, and Reid” (Church), but is now known to have been written by the miscellaneous writer, Leman Thomas Rede, a student of the Middle Temple (see Stuart C. Sherman, The William & Mary Quarterly, 3rd Ser., Vol. 4, No. 3 [ July 1947], pp.332-49). According to the title, Rede compiled the work from the holdings of the British Museum “and the most celebrated public and private libraries, reviews, catalogues, &c.” It is of particular value as it includes manuscript material in addition to printed works, and also for the seventeen-page “Introductory Discourse on the State of Literature in North and South America,” which includes musings on the benefits of freedom of the press to the development of “Genius” (South America does not compare well with North), as well as interesting details of bookselling in the United States. The demand was for small format works on practical matters; imported books were generally cheaper than home-produced editions (even with the hefty premiums that booksellers were able to place on the imports) because of the cost of materials and printers’ wages. CHURCH 1235. SABIN 5198. $2750.

First Account of Egypt by an American, with Two Folding Maps

158. Remmey, John, comp: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF EGYPT....TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN APPENDIX, CON- TAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE LATE NAVAL ACTION IN THE ROAD OF ABOUKIR, WITH AN ACCURATE PLAN. THE WHOLE ILLUSTRATED BY A MAP OF EGYPT AND PART OF SYRIA, FROM THE LAT- EST AND BEST AUTHORITIES. New York: Printed for John Reid by M.L. & W.A. Davis, 1799. [5],10-107,[1]pp., plus two folding maps. Original marbled wrappers. Spine perished, wrappers lightly worn. Some offsetting from the maps, a bit of light internal staining. Good plus, in original condition. In a blue half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.

The first American-generated study of Egypt, previous works having been translations of real or imagined journeys from European sources. John Remmey was a New York bookseller who dealt in American books, as well as works imported from Europe and England. The ongoing Napoleonic Wars, specifically the recent Battle of the Nile, sparked American interest in information on Egypt, a need which Remmey sought to fill. Indeed, he draws much of his information from the travels of Volney, Bruce, and others, but also a wide variety of other sources, to put together this substantial description of Egypt: its history, religion, geography, rivers, harbors, climate, soil, agriculture, chief towns, population, manners and customs, laws, government, manufactures, arts, and commerce. The two maps were engraved by Benjamin Tanner, and the whole work was published by John Reid, second only to Mathew Carey as the most prominent American cartographic publisher of the day. One of the maps is “Egypt from the best Authorities,” and the other, “Dispo- sition of the English & French Fleets, at the Commencement of Action, August 1st 1798,” is a map of the Battle of the Nile, with an inset view of Bokier Castle. An advertisement at the conclusion of the text reads:

If it should appear, in the course of a short period, that the French army have penetrated into the province of Syria, or into Arabia, we then propose to publish an account of those countries, in a manner similar to the present of Egypt; and to print it in the same size, with the type and paper equal in quality, that purchasers who save this pamphlet, may have a compleat volume on those countries.

The British victory at the Battle of the Nile halted Napoleon’s eastward march, however, and Remmey’s proposed volumes never appeared. NAIP and ESTC together locate fifteen institutional copies of this study of Egypt. We can find no copies of Remmey’s work appearing at auction or in the trade in the past forty years. Rare on the market, and a significant early American attempt to understand Egypt. EVANS 36202. NAIP w036731. ESTC W36731. $4250.

159. Roosevelt, Eleanor: [TYPED LETTER, SIGNED (“ELEANOR”), FROM ELEANOR ROOSEVELT TO HENRY STEWARD HOOK- ER (“FRIEND HARRY”), CONCERNING HER APPOINTMENT AS A DELEGATE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS]. Hyde Park, Duchess Co., New York. July 17, 1948. [1]p. on stationery of Val-Kill Cottage, Hyde Park. Fine. In a quarto half morocco and cloth clamshell box.

This note is addressed to Henry S. Hooker, who was Roosevelt’s longtime friend and attorney (and FDR’s law partner). Written only a few years after FDR’s death in 1945, the former first lady was still politically active, as this letter illustrates:

I have just been officially notified that I am to be again appointed as a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations which meets in Paris. I shall have to sail on September 13th. In view of this, could you and Nancy come up here on September 4th to stay over Labor Day? I would like to have a birthday party for you and Elliott before I leave! [stroke of exclamation point drawn in with pen]. Affectionately, [signed] Eleanor.

Hooker had a late September birthday, as did her son. Blanche Wiesen Cook, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1 (1992). $1250.

160. Roosevelt, Franklin D.: [AUTOGRAPH AND TYPED LET- TERS FROM FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT CONCERNING THE FOUNDING AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA]. Warm Springs, Ga. 1927/1928. [8]pp. in Roos- evelt’s hand, 10pp. typed (including [7]pp. on Warm Springs letterhead). Let- ters have been hole-punched and bear marks from previous stapling. Half-inch tear to one of the typed pages and some chipping to 3 pages of memos. In a half red morocco slipcase.

A small but exceptional collection of memos and drafts, providing rare insight into how FDR ran the Georgia Warm Springs, a Georgia resort that he took over and developed into a retreat for polio sufferers after founding the Warm Springs Foundation in 1927. The collection comprises five parts:

1) Autograph manuscript (not signed) in FDR’s hand, on Warm Springs letterhead. 5pp.

To all patients.... The Foundation is conducting the treatment, and the patients come here for a definite purpose. The greater part of each day is taken up with the treatment, and while there is no wish to curtail personal liberty or recre- ation, it is essential to prevent fatigue and to work for the highest degree of health for all concerned. That is why simple rules are necessary. Many patients or their families will perhaps consider that circumstances warrant special exceptions to the rules – but this would soon lead to confusion and discrimination. That is why all patients whether of full age or minors, whether living in the colony, hotel or in private cottages are asked to live up not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the rules. We are concerned with the greatest good to the greatest number.

2) Autograph manuscript (not signed) in FDR’s hand. 3pp. “Memo.” 3) Typed manuscript, dated January 1, 1928. 8pp. (4 drafts). “Rules for Guests Liv- ing in the Colony.” 4) Typed manuscript, dated July 7, 1927, on Georgia Warm Springs Foundation letterhead. [1]p. “Subject: The Comfort & Happiness of Patients,” signed in type: “E. T. Curtis, Mgr.” Reading in part: “A prime reason for the operation of Warm Springs by the Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt and associates, is the establishment of the Cure. The happiness of all patients, whether in the Hotel, in the Colony, or in private cottages, is of the first importance and will be so considered by all members of the staff.” 5) Typewritten newsletter, “The Daily Gossip,” dated July 6, 1927, on the verso of Georgia Warm Springs letterhead. Whimsical report of the disappearance and subsequent location of two of the resort’s patients who happened to be young, male, and inebriated.

Roosevelt acted as general manager in charge of setting policy during first year of the foundation, the period during which these letters were written. He would ultimately meet his end there two decades later, and it was subsequently renamed the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation. This collection of documents outlines policies and reflect Roosevelt’s enthusiasm for the resort’s therapeutic capabilities, from which he felt he had already benefited, as well as his sense of great responsibility for visiting patients. Letters and documents including details of Roosevelt’s time at Warm Springs are rare. $10,000.

Presentation from FDR to His Children

161. [Roosevelt, Franklin D.]: Lindley, Ernest K.: FRANKLIN D. ROO- SEVELT: A CAREER IN PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY. India- napolis. 1931. 379pp. plus frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt. Corners lightly worn, spine a bit sunned. Presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Very good.

Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, inscribed by him to his children: “For my very dear children, James & Betsy, from their devoted Pa. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Christmas 1931.” A wonderful association. $5000.

TR on War and Peace

162. Roosevelt, Theodore: [TYPED LETTER, SIGNATURE EXCISED, FROM THEODORE ROOSEVELT TO ANDREW CARNEGIE AS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL ARBITRATION AND PEACE CONGRESS]. Washington, D.C. April 5, 1907. 6½pp. on White House stationery. Quarto. Very good. In a grey cloth chemise.

An important letter from President Theodore Roosevelt, summarizing his views on the goal of abolishing war, to Andrew Carnegie, who was then the President of the National Arbitration and Peace Congress, and ultimately the creator in 1910 of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Roosevelt expresses his regret at not being able to be with Carnegie at the International Peace Conference at The Hague:

...I much regret my inability to be present with you....First and foremost, I beseech you to remember that tho it is our bounden duty to work for peace, yet it is even more our duty to work for righteousness and justice....Harm and not good would result if the most advanced nations, those in which most freedom for the individual is combined with most efficiency in securing orderly justice as between individuals, should by agreement disarm and place themselves at the mercy of other peoples less advanced, of other peoples still in the stage of military barbarism or military despotism. Anything in the nature of general disarmament would do harm and not good if it left the civilized and peace-loving peoples, those with the highest standards of municipal and international obligation and duty, unable to shock the other peoples who have no such standards, who acknowledge no such obligations....These warnings that I have uttered do not mean that I believe we can do nothing to advance the cause of international peace. On the contrary, I believe that we can do much to advance it, provided we act with sanity, with self-restraint, with power; which must be the prime qualities in the achievement of any reform. The nineteenth century saw, on the whole, a real and great advance in the standard of international conduct, both among civilized nations and by strong nations toward weaker and more backward peoples. The twentieth century will, I believe, witness a much greater advance in the same direction....More important than reducing the expense of the implements of war is the question of reducing the possible causes of war, which can most effectually be done by substituting other methods than war for the settlement of disputes. Of those other methods the most important which is now attainable is arbitration....

A carefully, lengthy, and eloquent statement from President Roosevelt, who, perhaps more than any others in the nation’s history, has been characterized as an imperial- ist and a warmonger. Morison, ed., The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, V, pp.638-42. $4500.

163. Roosevelt, Theodore: THEODORE ROOSEVELT. AN AUTOBI- OGRAPHY. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. New York. 1914. xi,615,[8]pp. plus frontis. Original blue gilt pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear. Inscribed on front fly leaf. Very good.

Second printing of this autobiography of President Theodore Roosevelt, inscribed by him on the front fly leaf: “Good luck! Theodore Roosevelt. March 21st, 1917.” $3000.

First Book of the Famed Doctor and Signer of the Declaration

164. [Rush, Benjamin]: SERMONS TO THE RICH AND STUDIOUS, ON TEMPERANCE AND EXERCISE. London. 1772. 80pp. Modern red morocco, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. A few later notations in pencil. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

Sermons on how to eat right and live well by Founding Father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). This was Rush’s first book, issued in London. In three short treatises Rush outlines his views on the benefits of eating healthily, moderation in alcohol, and the benefit of exercise. Each is headed with a verse from Proverbs, to lend it an air of biblical authority. Among the forms of exercise advocated, he lists swimming, dancing, golf, skating, jumping, tennis and bowls, as well as talking and reading aloud, which “promote the circulation of the blood through the lungs.” ESTC locates fewer than ten copies in North American institutions. Rare on the market. ESTC T71915. $7500.

Rush on Mineral Waters

165. Rush, Benjamin: EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE MINERAL WATERS OF PHILADELPHIA, ABINGTON, AND BRISTOL, IN THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Phila- delphia: James Humphrey, 1773. 30pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Some light soiling to text. Very good.

The second published work of Dr. Benjamin Rush, and his first published in America. Rush first gives the “chemical history” of the waters in question, followed by indications of the diseases they are used treat, and directions for how to do so. “Writing prolifically over nearly half a century, Rush was the first American physician to become widely known at home and abroad. More than any other physician, Rush established the reputation of Philadelphia as a center for medical training...” – ANB. Rush was also concerned with social reform and the treatment of mental patients. Not in Norman. EVANS 12995. AUSTIN 1642. ESTC W32214. $5000.

The Haskell Norman Copy of an American Medical Classic

166. Rush, Benjamin: AN ORATION DELIVERED FEBRUARY 4, 1774, BEFORE THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCI- ETY, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, CONTAINING AN ENQUI- RY INTO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE AMONG THE INDIANS IN NORTH-AMERICA, AND A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THEIR DISEASES AND REMEDIES, WITH THOSE OF CIVILIZED NATIONS. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, [1774]. 118pp. 20th-century half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine lightly rubbed. Haskell Norman bookplate on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage. Older library ink stamp on second leaf. Titlepage lightly soiled, otherwise text generally quite clean. Very good.

A discussion of Native American medicine by Dr. Benjamin Rush. “The first treatise on North American Indian medicine published in North America. Rush was particularly interested in American Indian medical practices, about which he learned from travelers and from the occasional Native American visitors to Philadelphia. He described some of these practices in his oration to the American Philosophical Society, approving those, such as bloodletting, that coincided with his own medical theories, and dismissing as useless those that did not. He believed ‘fevers’ to be the only disease from which Indians suffered” – Norman. This is the copy of noted medical collector H.F. Norman, the only copy to appear in auction records for the past forty years (it realized $9775 at his sale in 1998). An important American medical work, and quite rare on the market. EVANS 13592. AUSTIN 1678. NORMAN 1861. ESTC W6693. $12,500.

A Fine Medical Letter from Benjamin Rush: “I love to see the productions of young men...”

167. Rush, Benjamin: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BENJAMIN RUSH TO DR. VALENTINE SEAMAN, DISCUSS- ING RECENT MEDICAL TEXTS]. Philadelphia. June 3, 1793. [2] pp. plus integral address leaf. Quarto. Lightly silked. A few tears and losses repaired, affecting a few words of text. Good. In a half green morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

Dr. Rush writes to fellow physician Valentine Seaman, discussing Dr. Seaman’s recent work on mineral waters and other medical discourses. Seaman was the first doctor in America to teach clinical surgery, and was likewise the first to introduce vaccination, vaccinating his own children against chicken pox. Rush was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence; he later served as surgeon general for the Middle Department of the Continental Army, though he resigned in outrage over the disorganization and corruption in army hospitals. Rush established several medical facilities in Philadelphia, including the College of Physicians in 1787. “Writing prolifically over nearly half a century, Rush was the first American physician to become widely known at home and abroad. More than any other physician, Rush established the reputation of Philadelphia as a center for medical training....His drive to understand mental illness and render the treatment of mental patients more humane earned Rush the title ‘father of American psychiatry’” – ANB. In this letter Rush writes:

Your analysis of the mineral waters at Saratoga is ingenious, and calculated to be useful. I admire the intrepidity in thinking discovered by the authors of the inaugural dissertations. I object only to the indelicate epithets with which they condemn the theories from which they dissented. In a science so difficult as medicine...even conjectures should be treated with decency. It will give me pleasure to hear of your not only rivalling your alma mater, but of your exceeding us in useful discourses. “Ubi libertas, ibi Roma.” In like manner where there is truth, there should be the focus of all literary prejudice and attachment. I expect to commit a second volume of medical inquiries and observations to the press in a few days. Mr. Stall, one of my pupils, will convey to you some copies of the theses of our late graduates. I beg you would continue to send me copies of all that are published in your college every year. I love to read the productions of young men. If they are destitute of new facts, they abound with new tho’ts, & are most necessary to men in the median or decline of life.

A fine letter between two of the country’s leading medical men. $5000.

168. Rush, Benjamin: [Yellow Fever in Philadelphia]: A SECOND AD- DRESS TO THE CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA, CONTAIN- ING ADDITIONAL PROOFS OF THE DOMESTIC ORIGIN OF THE MALIGNANT BILIOUS, OR YELLOW FEVER.... Phila- delphia: Thomas Dobson, 1799. 40pp. Dbd. Light wear and soiling. About very good.

Philadelphia suffered two serious yellow fever epidemics in the last decade of the 18th century. In this pamphlet Rush argues for local origin of the disease, as opposed to the popular view that yellow fever had been imported from the West Indies. He points out that unless the stagnant and marshy areas are drained and the city’s filth is dealt with, a quarantine will do little good. This put Rush at odds with not only the local medical community, but with those who disliked the notion that their city was a cesspool. “Rush also made a number of professional enemies during bitter debates within Philadelphia’s medical ranks when he defended unpopular theories on the origins and transmission of the disease. Rush’s insistence, for instance, that yellow fever arose from putrid matter left in the open rather than from contagion angered many proud Philadelphians” – ANB. Scarce. Only a handful of copies in ESTC. EVANS 36254. ESTC W5150. AUSTIN 1679. $1500.

A Signer Loses His Umbrella

169. Rush, Benjamin: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM BENJAMIN RUSH TO HIS WIFE]. Philadelphia. Sept. 1, 1803. [2] pp. Quarto. Old folds. Light soiling. Top half of left edge repaired with newer paper. About very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt, red leather labels.

A familiarly chatty letter written by Benjamin Rush to his wife, Julia, who is away from home, relating the latest news and gossip from Philadelphia. He mentions Julia’s “little farm,” writing of improvements to be made there:

Marcus is now employed in planting strawberries. He shall attend to your directions. Your flowers & fruit trees seem to languish for your eye & hand. I have engaged a surveyor to go out & run the line which is to add an acre or two to your little farm. In the course of the stream which issues from the spring, thro’ the wood, there is a pleasant & shaded spot on which I shall direct a covered bath to be made. It will furnish ice in winter, and a bath in summer.

He continues with some news of family and neighbors, writing:

I have passed another busy day – two hours of it were pleasantly spent at Mr. Wister’s at Germantown in the company of three of the best informed ladies of Philada. Young Mr. Wister relapsed a few days ago, but is now I hope mending. Capt. [ John] Barry is better, but not well. My country patient at Frankford is out of danger. I visited him yesterday – probably for the last time....John unkindly took my umbrella with him & left me a note to buy another for myself. I have not time to do so, nor do I know where to borrow one. From the want of it I have suffered from the rain this evening. To him it was an article of dress; to me it was a necessity of health. I never expect to see it again.

The Captain Barry referred to is the famous naval officer considered as second only to John Paul Jones. Rush closes the letter with a post script about a party given by the governor, attended by Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon: “Governor McKean gave a splendid tea party this evening in honor of Jerome Bonaparte. Miss Eliza Smith who attended it, says he is a modest, thoughtful well behaved young man.” Jerome Bonaparte was a lad of eighteen who was deeply in love with Elizabeth Patterson of Maryland. They waited until December 1803 to be married, when Jerome would have passed his nineteenth birthday. The marriage was dissolved by Napoleon in 1805. $3750.

Rush Expresses His Life of Frustration

170. Rush, Benjamin: [DRAFT AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED BY BENJAMIN RUSH, EXPRESSING DISILLUSIONMENT AT THE END OF HIS CAREER]. Philadelphia. Aug. 11, 1812. [2]pp. Quarto. Expertly inlaid in later paper, repairing several small losses at edges. Losses affecting a few words of text. Otherwise very good. In a blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

Draft of an unpublished letter written by Benjamin Rush in the last year of his life, to an unidentified recipient, acknowledging receipt of his certificate of membership for the Royal Academy of Medicine in Madrid and lamenting the general lack of appreciation one sees at the end of one’s career.

Accept of my thanks for your polite letter inclosing me a certificate of my membership of the Royal Academy of Madrid. Such notices of our labors serve to console us for the neglect and calumnies with which our opinions have been treated in our native country. Permit me to congratulate you upon your escape from public life where you have been employed for several years in the unprofitable business of “cutting blocks with a razor”; as Goldsmith says of Ed[mun]d Burke: “Who born for the universe narrows his mind. And to parts gave up what was meant for mankind.” If you feel, in viewing your political life, as I do in reviewing mine, you will [wish?] for a sponge to blot out the recollections of it for ever from your memory. “Where,” said Sancho when he retired from government (and was asked how he liked it) “Where are my shoes and stockings?” Should a similar question be asked of a physician when he retires from public life, his answer should accord in indignation and contempt with that of Sancho’s. It should be, “Where is my pestle and mortar – where is my library – where is my pen and ink?” They are the only sources of enjoyment and usefulness to a man who has once tasted of the pleasures of service & benevolence.

This letter does not appear in the Letters of Benjamin Rush (1951), nor does any content relating to the Royal Academy of Medicine in Madrid. An exceptional letter by this Founding Father. ANB (online). $4500.

171. Sabin, Joseph, [et al]: A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA.... New York. 1868-1936. Twenty-nine volumes. Uniformly bound in mid-20th-century cloth. Very good.

A complete set of the first edition of Sabin’s Biblioteca Americana, still one of the standard reference works in Americana, listing over 100,000 titles, and often mul- tiple editions, of works relating to America. Sabin, a New York bookseller and auctioneer, began the project in the 1860s and made it to the letter “J” before his death. The work was then assumed by the great bibliographer, Wilberforce Eames, who pushed the project on through the entries for Captain John Smith by 1890. Eames’ other work then caused him to halt, and it was not until the 1920s that a team under the direction of R.W.G. Vail set about to complete it, which they did in 1936. Still extremely useful. $2000.

American Medical Color Plate Book

172. Sarlandière, Jean-Baptiste: SYSTEMATIZED ANATOMY, OR HU- MAN ORGANOGRAPHY, IN SYNOPTICAL TABLES, WITH NUMEROUS PLATES. FOR THE USE OF UNIVERSITIES, FACULTIES AND SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY, ACADEMIES OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND THE ROYAL COLLEGES. New York. 1837. [19] leaves of text, plus fifteen handcolored plates. Oblong folio. Original marbled boards, neatly rebacked and corner tips renewed in leather. Original leather ownership label on front board. Endsheets renewed. Moderate foxing and toning. Good.

Second edition in English, improved and corrected. Jean-Baptiste Sarlandière (1787-1838) was a French physician and anatomist best known for introducing electroacupuncture to European medicine. It was translated from French by W.C. Roberts, a member of the Medical Society of the City and County of New York. The plates were lithographed by the firm of J. & E. Bisbee. This copy has the ownership label of John Light Atlee, a Lancaster, Pennsylvania surgeon who was one of the organizers of the American Medical Association, also serving for a time as its president. $1250.

First Substantive Book Printed in German in America

173. [Saur, Christopher]: [German Printing in America]: ZIONITISCH- ER WEYRAUCHS-HUGEL ODER: WYRRHEN BERG.... German- town: Christopher Saur, 1739. [12],792,[14]pp. Thick octavo. Contemporary calf, front hinge neatly repaired. Lower corner of titlepage reinforced. Light toning and soiling throughout. Very good. In a half morocco box.

This is the first work of any size printed in German in America. The first printing in German of any sort was done by Andrew Bradford and Benjamin Franklin, both of whom produced ephemeral items between 1728 and 1737. In 1738, Christopher Saur established the first German-language press in America in Germantown, near Philadelphia, and printed this book the following year. The Zionitischer... was printed for the Ephrata Cloisters, and was probably largely arranged by Conrad Beissel. A landmark of American printing. EVANS 4466. SEIDENSTICKER, p.11. ARNDT 17. $7500.

The First American Mennonite Hymnal

174. [Saur Hymnal]: AUSBUND, DAS IST: ETLICHE SCHONE CHRISTLICHE LIEDER, WIE SIE IN DEM GEFANGNUSS ZU BASSAU IN DEM SCHLOB VON DEN SCHWEITZER- BRUDERN.... [with:] FUNF SCHONE GEISTLICHE LIEDER... GEDRUCKT IM JAHR 1752.... Germantown: Christoph Sauer, 1751- [1752]. [10],812,[6],20,46,[2],40pp. Contemporary calf, metal clasps intact. Extremities lightly worn. Light soiling and foxing. About very good.

Second American edition, following the 1742 Saur printing. Ausbund, Das Ist... is the primary Anabaptist hymnal, and the oldest Christian songbook in continuous use. Originally composed and printed in the 16th century, this American edition contains a total of 140 hymns to be used by Swiss Mennonites in America, the forerunners of the Amish community. The second title, printed in 1752 by Saur, is given its own entry by Evans, but is properly found with the Ausbund.... A scarce printing of a central work, from the most important German-language printer in the colonies. ARNDT 139. EVANS 6632 & 6847. NAIP w007005. BENDER, p.3 SEIDENSTICKER, pp.36, 39. HILDEBURN 1205. $1000. With Contemporary Manuscript Notes

175. [Sewall, Stephen]: AN HEBREW GRAMMAR, COLLECTED CHIEFLY FROM THOSE OF MR. ISRAEL LYONS...AND THE REV. RICHARD GREY...TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED A PRAXIS, TAKEN FROM THE SACRED CLASSICS, AND CONTAINING A SPECIMEN OF THE WHOLE HEBREW LANGUAGE: WITH A SKETCH OF THE HEBREW POETRY AS RETRIEVED BY BISHOP HARE. Boston: Printed by R. and S. Draper, for the Honorable and Reverend the President and Fellows of Harvard-College, 1763. v,[1],83pp. Interleaved with several blank pages. Lacks the half title. 19th-century three- quarter green-dyed calf and marbled boards, spine neatly repaired, leather label replaced. Early 19th-century ownership inscription on front free endpaper; text heavily annotated by a student (see below). Tanning, scattered foxing. Very good.

This copy bears the ownership signature of “David Pulsifer, 3d. 1830. Mar. 4.” on the front free endpaper. Pulsifer (1802-94), a noted antiquarian, historian, and expert in chirography, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He was known for his expertise in early handwriting, and played an important role in preserving and publishing colonial New England records. Pulsifer also studied Hebrew, as is shown by this heavily used this copy. It is interleaved throughout with blank pages, many with extensive notes, though the majority of his work seems to have been done on the text leaves themselves, which contain cross-outs, corrections, and writing. Stephen Sewall (1734-1804) was professor of Hebrew at Harvard and one of the leading scholars of his day, specializing in Oriental languages and Hebrew. In 1761, Sewall succeeded Judah Monis as instructor in Hebrew at Harvard, a position Sewall held for more than twenty years. This is the second Hebrew grammar produced in America, preceded only by a work by Monis published in 1735. Rosenbach asserts that the Hebrew types used in it were destroyed by fire in 1764. The final twenty-three pages are comprised of a study of Hebrew poetry. ROSENBACH AMERICAN JEWISH 43. GOLDMAN, HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA 172. EVANS 9514. NAIP w020434. SABIN 79458, 42873. Pulsifer: Appleton’s Cyclopædia V, pp.134-35. $3000.

Early Town Planning for the Americas

176. [Sharp, Granville]: A GENERAL PLAN FOR LAYING OUT TOWNS AND TOWNSHIPS ON THE NEW-ACQUIRED LANDS IN THE EAST INDIES, AMERICA, OR ELSEWHERE.... [London: W. Calvert], 1804. 24pp. plus folding plan, partially handcolored. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Small tear at inner margin of map. Negligible soiling. Very good.

Second edition. Sharp’s plan was first published in 1794 with the stated goal “to promote cultivation, and raise the value of all the adjoining land, at the price of giving gratis the town-lots and, in some cases (as in new colonies), also the small out-lots, to the first settlers and their heirs, so long as they possess no other land; and on other equitable conditions.” His plan shows a central town laid out in one square mile, organized around a central green, around which municipal buildings are placed. Four roads lead diagonally through the town into the center green. A wide band of common land surrounds the town, while outlying township lots are laid out for farming, etc. Sharp (1735-1813) was a writer and ardent abolitionist, and in 1783 he even proposed the idea of a founding a colony for freed slaves in Africa. His ideas on town planning may have been influenced by James Oglethorpe, whose early plan for Savannah resembles the plan presented in this work. Likewise, Sharp’s work influenced many important figures in the New World, including Thomas Jefferson, who, according to Reps, corresponded with Sharp: “Thomas Jefferson’s interest in city planning during his presidency was no sudden development...from abroad came letters from Granville Sharp containing plans for building new towns on novel and improved lands.” This second edition is far scarcer than the first. While OCLC locates at least a dozen copies of the 1794 edition, only five copies of this edition are found, and no copies are noted in auction records. SABIN 79822. GOLDSMITHS 16046. REPS, THE MAKING OF URBAN AMERI- CA, p.317. $6500.

177. Shaw, Edward: RURAL ARCHITECTURE: CONSISTING OF CLASSIC DWELLINGS, DORIC, IONIC, CORINTHIAN AND GOTHIC, AND DETAILS CONNECTED WITH EACH OF THE ORDERS; EMBRACING PLANS, ELEVATIONS PARAL- LEL AND PERSPECTIVE, SPECIFICATIONS, ESTIMATES, FRAMING, etc. FOR PRIVATE HOUSES AND CHURCHES. Boston. 1843. 108pp., plus fifty-two plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Rear hinge repaired, front hinge starting. Extremities rubbed. Ownership ink stamp on titlepage and following leaf. Minor foxing. Very good.

Shaw, a native of Manchester, New Hampshire, and architect of several important churches there, was author of several pattern books. This work, the scarcest of Shaw’s four architectural titles, features several buildings in the gothic style. HITCHCOCK 1161. $1750.

Signed by Two Connecticut Signers of the Declaration

178. [Sherman, Roger]: [Wolcott, Oliver]: [Connecticut General Assem- bly]: [LIST OF MONIES OWED TO REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UPPER HOUSE OF THE CONNECTICUT GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE OCTOBER 1771 SESSION, SIGNED BY ROGER SHERMAN, OLIVER WOLCOTT, AND OTHERS]. [Np, but likely New Haven]. November 1771. [1]p. plus integral docketing leaf. Folio. Backed with tissue. Faint old fold lines. A few small edge tears at folds, repaired. Minor soiling. Very good. In a red half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

List of monies paid to twelve members of the House of Assistants of the Con- necticut General Assembly, signed by several of them, including two future signers of the Declaration of Independence, Roger Sherman and Oliver Wolcott. Sherman is notable as the only person to sign all four of the major foundational documents of United States: the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. He also served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and later drafted the Connecticut Compromise for the U.S. Constitution, which proposed a bicameral representative government and guaranteed equal representation in the Senate for every state, no matter its size. Wolcott signed not only the Declaration, but also the Articles of Confederation, and later served as Connecticut’s fourth governor. This document was likely written in New Haven, which served as the joint capital of Connecticut with Hartford until 1776, hosting the October legislative sessions. In addition to Sherman and Wolcott, it is signed by representatives William Pitkin, Robert Walker, Abraham Davenport, William Samuel Johnson, and Joseph Spencer. The remaining members are noted as having been “paid by receipt.” It is docketed on the verso and signed by Joseph Trumbull, deputy to the Assembly. For his time in the House of Assistants (later the Connecticut Senate), Sherman was paid £6/18/0; Wolcott, £5/15/4. $3000.

Item 179. Alabama Slave Sale Broadside

179. [Slave Sale Broadside]: EXECUTOR’S SALE OF LAND, NE- GROES, AND PERISHABLE PROPERTY. UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF THE POWER VESTED IN US BY THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JANE ANDERSON, DEC’D, WE WILL, ON THE 21st AND 22nd DAYS OF DECEMBER NEXT (A.D. 1859,) AT THE LATE RESIDENCE OF THE SAID JANE AN- DERSON, PROCEED TO SELL, AT PUBLIC VENDUE, TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER...[caption title and first few lines of text]. [Np, but likely Greensboro, Al.]. Oct. 12, 1859. Broadside, 19½ x 13 inches. Some slight, narrow losses, affecting a few letters of text. Some light soiling. The whole backed on heavier paper. Still, very good.

Rare Alabama slave sale broadside advertising the sale of the estate of Mrs. Jane Anderson of Greensboro. The sale includes seven parcels of land, listed in detail, as well as the “perishable property” (mules, cows, hogs, tools, furniture, etc.). The broadside also lists twenty-four slaves for sale, listed with both their name and age, ranging from age three to seventy-four. Fully a third are children ten years and under. The terms provide twelve months credit, with two sureties needed for the purchase of land or slaves. Not in Hummel. $6000.

A Connecticut Minister Preaches on the Revolution: “These are times for the Tryal of mens souls.”

180. Smith, Cotton Mather: [SIX MANUSCRIPT SERMONS, IN- CLUDING TWO PREACHED DURING THE AMERICAN REV- OLUTION, WITH CONTENT ON THE WAR]. [Various places in Connecticut. 1777-1795]. Six pamphlets, detailed below. Stitched. Some light soiling. Very good.

Collection of six sermons preached by Rev. Cotton Mather Smith (1731-1806), minister in Sharon, Connecticut, including two with content on the American Revolution. Smith was a Yale graduate (1751) who went straight into the ministry, ordained to the church in Sharon where he served for over fifty years. An ardent and outspoken patriot, he served as a chaplain to the 4th Connecticut Regiment during the Revolutionary War and saw active service in the Canada Campaign. Smith worked his zeal for the American cause into his church services, and two of these sermons date to the Revolution. The first is dated “Novr. 20, 1777, Thanksgiving for glorious success against ye army of Britain” (16pp.). Preaching of the text of Genesis 50:20, Smith discusses Joseph’s enslavement by his brothers. He writes:

These very Enemies who designed to strip us of our Liberty and Property and reduce us to a State of Slavery and Bondage, by ye overuling Providence of God, have been ye means of confirming our liberties...adopting such forms of government as are friendly to Liberty, and will lay ye foundation of lasting [?] to future generations....

This sermon presumably follows on the defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga shortly before. The second Revolutionary sermon, given on “Decr. 7th 1780, Continental Thanksgiving,” (16pp.) touches on the theme of the American Revolution and the fight for independence. Almost the entirety of the sermon focuses on the Ameri- can case against Great Britain. Smith starts out by quoting the famous line from Thomas Paine’s American Crisis: “These are times for the Tryal of mens souls.” After praising God with thanks for blessings, he moves to the heart of the matter, writing:

I rejoice, my friends, yet I have something this day to say to ye Praise and Honour of ye...good Being that has appeared for us in so many instances of danger and distress: If the Americans had a right to make the solemn appeal to the sword in defence of their invaded rights, then they will forever stand qualified in ye high Court of [God?] and of all wise and good Beings in ye Resistance they have made, and which they had a right so to do....

He goes on to state the justification for America’s actions against Britain’s invasion of rights and infringement on property, noting: “Was there ever a People more loyal than the Americans?” He writes: “If Great Britain has a right to make laws binding in all cases whatever, then resistance in any case whatever is rebellion. If she has no such right, then every step she has taken to support it, is unnatural, cruel and unjust.”

The remaining four sermons are as follow: Sept. 18, 1785 (18pp.); Nov. 5, 1789 (14pp.); June 21, 1791 (23pp.); May 31, 1795 (10pp.). All told, a fabulous cache of early American manuscript sermons written by a patriot of the American Revolution. $3750.

181. Smith, Samuel Francis: [AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, SIGNED (“S.F. SMITH, WRITTEN IN 1832. NOV. 8, 1892”), FAIR COPY OF THE FOUR STANZAS OF “AMERICA”]. [Np]. Nov. 8, 1892. [2] pp. on lined paper. Some old wrinkling, minor toning, else about fine. In a half morocco slipcase.

Samuel Francis Smith (1808-95), editor, Baptist clergyman, and author. While a seminarian, “Smith was asked by his friend Lowell Mason, an early proponent of common school music education, either to translate the lyrics of some German songbooks into English or to supply new lyrics for the tunes. One such song, at the time unknown to Smith as the tune to the British anthem ‘God Save the King,’ was the basis of what became one of the most famous of American national hymns: ‘My Country, ’Tis of Thee.’ Originally five stanzas, the third was eventually removed to leave the four stanzas known today. Written in thirty minutes and stored away in a desk drawer for months before it was finally sent to Mason, the song was premiered on 4 July 1831 at a children’s celebration in the Park Street Church of Boston. First published by Mason in The Choir (1832), it was published again four years later in The Boston Academy under its most widely known title, ‘America’...often considered the second national anthem of the United States” (ANB). $2500.

First American Edition: One of Two Known Copies

182. Smith, William: THE HISTORY OF THE HOLY JESUS. CON- TAINING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BIRTH AND LIFE, THE DEATH, RESURRECTION, & ASCENSION OF OUR BE- LOVED SAVIOUR.... Boston: Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump for Nicho- las Buttolph, 1716. 214pp. 24mo. Contemporary calf. Front board lacking, spine coming away and heavily worn; rear board worn. Light wear and some chipping to edges of leaves. Contemporary ownership inscription on verso of titlepage. Light scattered soiling. Still a good copy.

First and only American edition, noted as “The tenth edition, corrected” on the titlepage. This text appears to be the precursor to the intensely popular children’s book of the same title. The abridged children’s book version first appeared in Boston in 1745, a mere forty-eight pages in length and illustrated with sixteen woodcuts. It was the most popular and widely published of all works for children, excepting only the New England Primer. First published in London in 1701, the present work was popular enough in its own right to go through fourteen English editions in twenty-three years, with the final edition published in 1735. This is the only edition of the full work to be published in America. All the English editions of this work are extremely rare, most known in only one or two copies. This edition is known in only one other copy, at the John Carter Brown Library. ESTC incorrectly calls for [2] pages after the text, but this is an assump- tion based on collation; in fact, the JCB copy is just like this one. ESTC W4668. BRISTOL B516. SHIPTON & MOONEY 39656. SABIN 84553. WELCH 587 (ref ). $10,000.

Inscribed by the Author

183. Smyth, James Carmichael: PRECIS OF THE WARS IN CANADA, FROM 1755 TO THE TREATY OF GHENT IN 1814. WITH MIL- ITARY AND POLITICAL REFLECTIONS. London. 1826. xiii,[1], 185pp. Contemporary drab boards. Spine renewed with later paper. Hinges reinforced internally with tissue. Presentation inscription on fly leaf. Edges roughly trimmed. Very minor foxing. Very good. In a red half morocco clamshell box.

This work was privately printed in limited numbers, published at the suggestion of the Duke of Wellington for confidential use. Smyth prepared it following his 1825 visit to Canada to inspect military defenses. In the course of his visit, Smyth analyzed the assaults on Canada during the French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the War of 1812, and made a series of suggestions designed to protect Canada from American invasion. This copy is inscribed by the author to Colonel Nicolls of Halifax “with the author’s best compliments.” Scarce. TPL 7156. HOWES S728. SABIN 85236. DIONNE II:103. LANDE 801. $1750.

South Sea Speculator

184. [South Sea Company]: A MEMORIAL OF THE CONTRACTA- NTS WITH MR. AISLABIE. IN A LETTER TO LICINIUS STO- LO. London: J. Roberts, 1721. [2],60pp. Without the second, internal title, as in the British Library copy. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Very good.

A round condemnation of John Aislabie for his role in the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The South Sea Company was established in 1711. Wild speculation led to its collapse and demise in 1720-21. Aislabie utilized his position as Chan- cellor of the Exchequer to promote inflated shares in the Company. The scheme led to an investigation by the House of Commons, the eventual expulsion and imprisonment of Aislabie, and the ruin of thousands of investors. The pamphlet compares Aislabie to Licinius Solo, a Roman Tribune who used his position to misappropriate public land and debts, to the ruin of the people. Only a handful of copies recorded by ESTC. ESTC T88564. GOLDSMITHS 6024. $1500.

In Reply to Increase Mather

185. Stoddard, Solomon: THE DOCTRINE OF INSTITUTED CHURCHES EXPLAINED AND PROVED FROM THE WORD OF GOD. London. 1700. [2],34pp. Small quarto. Antique calf in period style, by Trevor Lloyd. Text trimmed close, affecting text on some pages and headlines on others, and removing the date on the title imprint. Various owner’s ex-libris in manuscript on the verso of the titlepage. Good.

Stoddard was one of the liberal Boston ministers who wished to dispute the con- servative principles put forth by Increase Mather in his important work, The Order of the Gospel... (Boston, 1700). Like Benjamin Colman and Thomas Brattle, who had their reply printed in New York, Stoddard found that the Mathers’ friendship and influence with the Boston printers of the time prevented him from getting into print there, so he took his publication to London. Only a handful of copies noted by ESTC. WING S5708. ESTC R16977. SABIN 91945. $2500.

186. Stuart, J.H.: STUART’S ATLAS OF THE STATE OF MAINE. South Paris, Me.: J.H. Stuart, 1898. [3],10-109pp. plus one large folding map. Lacks titlepage. Large folio. Original publisher’s pebbled cloth boards, stamped in blind and gilt, with modern red calf spine and corners. Boards rubbed. Light dampstaining to lower corner, else clean internally. Folding map reinforced on folds. About very good.

The tenth edition of this popular atlas by J.H. Stuart, with detailed color maps of the cities and counties of Maine. The large folding map shows the entirety of the state. Only four copies of this edition listed in OCLC. OCLC 10743279, 53381972. $2500.

Presentation Copy

187. Taft, William Howard: POPULAR GOVERNMENT. ITS ES- SENCE, ITS PERMANENCE AND ITS PERILS. New Haven, Lon- don & Oxford. 1913. ix,283pp. Original blue publisher’s cloth, gilt. Extremities rubbed. Presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good.

Treatise on government written by President William Howard Taft while he was a law professor at Yale University. This copy is inscribed by him on the front fly leaf: “Henry E. Whittemore, December 1913. ‘Wilmer,’ With best wishes, Wm. H. Taft. Boston Feby. 6th, 1914.” $1250.

188. Taylor, John, of Caroline: NEW VIEWS ON THE CONSTITU- TION OF THE UNITED STATES. Washington City: Printed for the Author, 1823. [4],316pp. Contemporary calf, rebacked in antique style, leather label. Scattered foxing, at times quite heavy. Else very good.

The fourth and last of Taylor’s full-scale books on the Constitution, in which he fully expounds his philosophy of government. Taylor was one of the major political theorists of the early United States, as well as the most articulate and persuasive exponent of the states’ rights, agrarian school. HOWES T64. SABIN 94493. COHEN 2925. $2500.

189. Tocqueville, Alexis de: DE LA DÉMOCRATIE EN AMÉRIQUE. Paris: Charles Gosselin, 1840. Four volumes bound in two. Final blank at the end of part I, volume I. Folding handcolored lithographic map bound at the end of the first volume. Contemporary light brown calf, covers in gilt and blind, spines with raised bands, spine gilt, leather labels, marbled endpapers. Lacking half titles and final blank in third volume. Folding map backed onto silk at an early date. Very good. Provenance: Northern Lighthouse Board (Scotland, binding).

A fine set containing the final revised text for both parts of Tocqueville’s famous classic: the very rare eighth edition of the first part and the third edition of the second. From the time of its first publication, Democracy in America enjoyed the reputation of being the most acute and perceptive discussion of the political and social life of the United States ever published. This set contains the first publication of Tocqueville’s text in its final revised form, since he revised each successive edition of part I from the first through the eighth, and did the same with the first three editions of part II. Beginning with the ninth edition of 1842, the work was issued as a complete uniform edition, and there were no further revisions. The origins of the book lie in the observations Alexis de Tocqueville made during a nine-month tour of the United States starting in the spring of 1831. He was accompanied by his friend and fellow student, Gustave de Beaumont, and their original goal was to study the penitentiary system of the United States. After visiting prisons in the East, they undertook a tour of the South as far as New Orleans, ascended the Mississippi, visited the Great Lakes and Canada, and returned via New York. After writing their report on prisons, Tocqueville worked on the first part of Democracy in America in 1833-34, publishing it in Paris in 1835 to great acclaim. The 1840 second part was equally as successful, and the book remained in print throughout the 19th century: there were probably more than fifty editions in English and French published before 1900, besides numerous other translations. Remarkably, it has sustained its appeal generation after generation, as new read- ers find it speaks to their time with a contemporary voice. Whether perceived as a textbook of American political institutions, an investigation of society and culture, a probing of the psyche of the United States, or a study of the actions of modern democratic society, the book has continued to offer insight and provoke thought. It has also probably provided commentators and politicians with more quotations than any other work. CLARK III:111. HOWES T278, T279 (refs). SABIN 96060, 96061 (refs). Library of Congress, A Passion for Liberty, Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy & Revolution (Washington, 1989). Nolla, De la Démocratie en Amérique (Paris, 1990) II, pp.334-35. $7500.

190. Truman, Harry S.: [TYPED LETTER, SIGNED AS PRESIDENT (“HARRY TRUMAN”), TO HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE OVER- TON BROOKS, DEMOCRAT FROM LOUISIANA, REGARD- ING TREASURY SECRETARY JOHN RYDER]. Washington, D.C. April 28, 1948. [1]p. on White House stationery, with envelope. Fine. In cloth folder.

A characteristically blunt letter from the thirty-third president of the United States, in defense of his cabinet appointee, John W. Snyder, who was a close personal friend:

...I appreciated very highly your letter of the twenty-third in regard to your visit with the Secretary of the Treasury at Shreveport. I’ve always known the Secretary for what he is but he was misrepresented by the columnists and press people here. The regular people are just beginning to find out what a pack of lies that was.... $1000.

John Trumbull Writes a Great Art Patron About the Exhibition of His Famed Painting of the Declaration of Independence, His Anger at Printmakers, His Work in the U.S. Capitol, and the Exhibition of His Works

191. Trumbull, John: [COLLECTION OF FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED, FROM JOHN TRUMBULL TO DANIEL WADSWORTH, REGARDING HIS WORK AND BUSINESS AF- FAIRS]. New York; Washington. 1828-1832. [5]pp. total. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, some wear and slight separation to two of the letters, minor loss to one not affecting text. Minor soiling. Very good.

An important group of four letters written by American artist John Trumbull (1756-1843) to art patron Daniel Wadsworth, his nephew by marriage, discussing the sale of one of his most famous paintings, hanging his work in the Capitol, an exhibition, and the engraving of the print for Trumbull’s famous painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Hailed as the official painter of the Revolution, Trumbull studied painting and art in England and France. His father, the governor of Connecticut, very much wanted his son to go into law. Trumbull did study the law, but gladly joined the fight against the British when the Revolution broke out. He eventually served as Washington’s second aide-de-camp, having been brought to the General’s attention through some very accurate drawings he had made of British gun emplacements. He rose to the rank of colonel as a deputy adjutant-general, but resigned the commission he finally received because it was dated three months late, a slight his honor could not tolerate. He refused to return to the law, finding it quite distasteful, and chose instead to pursue his true passion, art, against his family’s wishes. Though he was never particularly wealthy in this pursuit, he did achieve a certain amount of success in his own lifetime. Among his most famous works are those commissioned in 1817 by Congress to adorn the Capitol building: “The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga,” “The Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown,” “The Declaration of Independence,” and “The Resignation of General Washington.” Daniel Wadsworth (1771-1848) was an amateur artist and patron of the arts, the scion of one of the richest families in Connecticut. He was married to Trum- bull’s niece. Wadsworth was a leading patron of Thomas Cole and other American painters, and founded the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, one of the first great art museums in the United States. In the first letter, dated at New York, July 24, 1828, Trumbull writes about the planned sale of a painting, weighing two contending offers. He writes that he has had a letter from the secretary at the Boston Athenaeum offering “two thousand dollars for the picture,” though his friends advise him to hold out until he hears about another pending offer, which may amount to “at least 3 or 4000 dollars.” This is one of Trumbull’s most famous paintings, “Sortie Made by the Garrison at Gibraltar.” It was indeed bought by the Athenaeum, which sold it to the Metro- politan Museum of Art in 1976. His second letter was sent from Washington, Nov. 27, 1828, where he was engaged in “a laborious, troublesome & dangerous task – clambering for days on scaffolds & step ladders high above a stone floor,” working on his famous paintings which still grace the entrance to the Capitol today. The four paintings in the Rotunda had been exposed to dampness due to the building design since their hanging in 1824. The effects were visible by 1828, and Trumbull received permission to alleviate the situation, which required treating the paintings and closing a large open aperture in the crypt of the building. This letter refers to his removing the paintings from the walls and rehanging them after the building had been modified. He continues:

I am very much obliged by the interest you take in my prints. I shall be in New York by the middle of next month; when having finished all occupation here, I shall devote my attention to the objects which you suggest. With respect to the portrait of Washington by [Gilbert] Stuart, in the State House – I beg to recommend its remaining untouched, until I can see it, which I trust may be in the Spring. I will then advise to the best of my judgment and knowledge.

In the third letter, dated April 4, 1831, Trumbull writes about an exhibition soon to be opening in Connecticut, enclosing one of the exhibition catalogues (not present here). He writes that the exhibition will run from April through September, “which means all those of New Haven or Hartford, who are disposed to take any interest in my proposal, will have a fair opportunity of judging how far it deserves attention.” Trumbull proposed to leave a body of his work to Yale University in return for an annuity of $1000, which the university granted in December that year. This exhibition, which led directly to Trumbull’s gift to Yale, also brought about the founding of the Yale University Art Gallery, which opened on the Yale campus as the Trumbull Gallery in 1832. In the fourth letter, dated Sept. 24, 1832, Trumbull writes at length regarding his extreme displeasure with a deal regarding the engraving of a print of his painting of The Declaration of Independence. He writes:

Dear Sir, on the 15th April 1829 you wrote me a letter, advising me to consent that a copy of my print of the Declaration of Independence should be engraved & published in a small elegant volume for Mr. Huntington of your city. I gave my consent, conditioned that it should be engraved in the best style, that the impressions should be bound with the proposed annuals, and sold in no other way. It proves as I dreaded that Mr. Huntington has played me a most vile Yankee trick; first, the plate was engraved by men unknown to me as artists, most contemptibly: and I now am told that Mr. Huntington has ceded the plate to the engravers Messrs. Illman & Pilbrow, and they are printing & selling impressions – one of which has been purchased for me at a print shop at half a dollar & is now in my possession. Now my dear sir this is a base violation of my copyright, and is already a serious injury: for I was in treaty a few days ago, with a person for the sale of the original plate & all the impressions will remain in my hands unsold for a sum which would have extricated me from debt. We agreed as to the price of the plate, but an apprehension was expressed that the purchaser might be injured by some copy, lithographic or other, and the discussion was deferred to the next day, when the person returned & said that he had found that a copy had already been engraved, and was selling about town, and that the engravers Messrs. Illman & Pilbrow had informed him that they knew how to obtain permission to engrave a copy half the size of the original plate, & he therefore declined going further in the negotiation. This is an evil for which I must seek a remedy the best way I can, and I now write to Mr. Jos. Trumbull to engage his legal advice & services. Whether he or you made any written agreement with Mr. Huntington, on my part or not, I do not know: but this I know, that I acted like a child, in consenting at all, and especially in not having a written contract with a bookseller born in New England. Will you, my dear friend, consent with Mr. Trumbull as to what can be done in remedy, as well as endeavor to recollect what passed on your part with Huntington, and also to hunt up any letters of mine upon the subject.

An excellent collection of letters, with good historical content, touching on some of the most famous moments of Trumbull’s career. $12,500.

Presentation Copy to U.S. Grant

192. Tullidge, Edward W.: OLIVER CROMWELL; AN HISTORICAL PLAY, IN FIVE ACTS, WRITTEN FOR NIEL WARNER, ESQ. Salt Lake City. 1870. 72pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and cloth. Spine and corners worn. Presentation inscription to Ulysses S. Grant on dedication leaf. Minor soiling. About very good.

Edward Tullidge (1829-94) was a prominent Mormon literary figure in Salt Lake City, editing several periodicals, including the Mormon Tribune, and authoring several articles on Mormonism. He later wrote biographies of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith. This copy of his play is inscribed to President U.S. Grant on the dedication leaf, dated May 8th, 1870 at Salt Lake City. A scarce work – OCLC locates only three institutional copies, at Princeton, Brown, and the University of Utah – and one of few original literary works produced in territorial Utah. OCLC 5059288. $1500. The First Unitarian Prayer Book

193. [Unitarian Church]: A LITURGY COLLECTED PRINCIPALLY FROM THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, FOR THE USE OF THE FIRST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN BOSTON; TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID. Boston: Peter Edes, 1785. [408]pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good.

The first Unitarian Prayer Book, issued by the congregation of King’s Chapel, Boston, and compiled by the Rev. James Freeman. The Rev. John Wright, in his Early Prayer Books, writes:

A congregation in communion with the Church of England, existed in Boston as early as 1686, though the building known as King’s Chapel was not erected until 1749. During the Revolutionary War and for several years after, the Church was weakened by loss of members. During these times of depression Mr. James Freeman was in charge as lay reader for a few months. He then sought ordination at the hands of the Episcopal authorities. But Mr. Freeman’s doctrinal position, especially in regard to the Trinity, was not in harmony with the faith of the American Episcopal Church. Under these circumstances both Bishops Seabury and Provoost declined him ordination. The growing changes in the minds of some of the members of the congregation led, in 1785, to the revision of the Prayer Book. These changes were so radical that the parish ceased to be an Episcopal Church and became the first Unitarian Society of Boston.

An important early American religious text. Scarce. SABIN 41553. EVANS 18938. BRINLEY 6104. GOODSPEED 408:723. LATHROP HARPER 169:1353. WRIGHT, EARLY PRAYER BOOKS, pp.305-17. NAIP w004056. PAGE, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, p.49. $2750.

Instructions for Diplomats

194. [United States Department of State]: PERSONAL INSTRUC- TIONS TO THE DIPLOMATIC AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Washington: Government Print- ing Office, 1885. 77pp., printed on blue paper. Folio. Original salmon-colored front wrapper (rear wrapper lacking) bound into later green cloth, spine gilt. A bit of light wear. Near fine.

The copy given to the newly-appointed United States Ambassador to France, Robert M. McLane, with an inscription on the front wrapper, and signed in manuscript by Secretary of State Thomas F. Bayard on the printed transmittal page. Robert Milligan McLane (1815-98) was a congressman from Maryland, and later governor of the state. He was appointed Ambassador to France in 1885, having previously served as U.S. Commissioner to China (1853-54) and Minister to Mexico (1859- 60). Thomas Francis Bayard (1828-98) was a three-term Senator from Delaware, and was appointed Secretary of State by Grover Cleveland in 1885. These instructions were meant to address questions of diplomatic conduct for American representatives abroad in an era before instant worldwide communication. From transit to the post, to presentation of credentials, to accurate record keeping and correspondence with the Department, virtually anything imaginable is covered. It is also, in its way, a précis of international law at the time. Printed in a small number, for the use of the diplomatic corps. OCLC locates only four copies of the complete printing of these instructions (with the index on pages 69- 77), at Columbia University Law School, Newberry Library, Library of Congress, and Cornell University. OCLC 63625201, 183423169 $1250.

195. [United States State Papers]: STATE PAPERS AND PUBLICK DOCUMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE ACCES- SION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON TO THE PRESIDENCY, EXHIBITING A COMPLETE VIEW OF OUR FOREIGN RE- LATIONS SINCE THAT TIME [1797 – 1815]. Boston: Printed and Published by T.B. Wait & Sons, 1814-1815. Five volumes. Numerous folding tables. Contemporary blue boards with paper spines and labels; one volume rebound with later boards, one volume rebacked with modern paper. Spines chipped. Bookplate on front pastedowns, contemporary ownership inscriptions. Overall, about very good. Untrimmed. In half morocco slipcases.

An important collection of United States state papers and foreign relations documents during the important period from 1789 through 1815, including Washington’s first speech to Congress, his message on the situation with Algiers, Pickering’s letter to Pinkney (while the latter was plenipotentiary of the United States in Paris), and many others of equal importance. The volumes also contain documents relating to French depredations on American vessels; messages relative to affairs with Spain on the Mississippi; intercourse with Indians; the XYZ Affair; commerce with St. Domingo; Jefferson’s inaugural addresses of March 4, 1801 and March 4, 1805; documents concerning the Barbary Powers; notices of treaty negotiations from Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney; reports and lists of captured American vessels; and extensive official correspondence regarding U.S. relations with the European powers. This is the first edition of Wait’s “State Papers” compilation, which is listed under two separate entries in Sabin, of three and five volumes, respectively, for a total of eight volumes in a complete set (the second volume of the three-volume set is lacking here). A second edition in ten volumes appeared in 1817. See Sabin for an extensive note on this useful collection. Prior to the beginning of the standard U.S. documents Serial Set in 1817, and to Peter Force’s compilations in the 1830s, this was the first standard compilation of American State Papers. SABIN 90637. COHEN 7363. $1500. With the Directory to the Map

196. Walling, H.F.: MAP OF THE STATE OF MAINE. Portland, Me.: J. Chace Jr., & Co., 1861. Wall map, 62½ x 61 inches, with full period hand- coloring. Mounted on canvas with wooden roller at top of map (bottom roller lacking). Some tearing and wear at bottom edge. Coated uniformly with a yellow shellac. Good. [with:] A BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF THE SUB- SCRIBERS TO THE NEW MAP OF MAINE.... Portland. [1861]. 344pp. Original publisher’s cloth. Lightly worn and faded at extremities. Very minor foxing. About very good.

An impressive and immensely detailed map of the state of Maine, incorporating the work of the British and American Boundary Commissioners Survey, the U.S. Coast Survey, the State Land Surveys, and the New Brunswick Provincial Surveys. Drawn on a scale of five miles to an inch, the chart shows all the counties and cities in the state, and minutely delineates the coastline. Several cities are shown in inset maps: Portland, Calais, Presque Isle, Houlton, Ellsworth, Bangor, Eastport, Machias, Bath, Farmington, Dover and Foxcroft, Paris Hill, Skowhegan, Water- ville, Hallowell, Wiscasset, Gardiner, Augusta, Waldboro, Brunswick, Thomaston, Rockland, Auburn and Lewiston, and Saco and Biddeford. Also included is a table of distances and an engraving showing the mountains of Maine with their height in feet. A rather large inset map shows the United States, and a smaller one shows the world. Phillips’ Maps and Rumsey list an 1862 edition, but not the present one. This is Walling’s first map of Maine, and so misses by a year inclusion in Thompson’s bibliography of Maine maps. 1862 edition: RUMSEY 1153. PHILLIPS MAPS, p.385. $4000.

An Important Washington Letter Written at Yorktown During the Final Siege of Cornwallis and the British Troops

197. Washington, George: [MANUSCRIPT LETTER IN A SECRE- TARIAL HAND, SIGNED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, WRITTEN TO BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE WEEDON REGARDING A VICTORY IN A SKIRMISH WITH BRITISH TROOPS]. Head quarters [near Yorktown]. Oct. 4, 1781. [2]pp. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Very good. In a half morocco box.

An interesting letter from Washington congratulating Brigadier General George Weedon of the Virginia militia on his victory over British Colonel Banastre Tarleton during the skirmishes around the siege of Yorktown, the crucial battle that clinched the War of Independence for the American colonists. General George Weedon (1734-93) had served under Washington as a lieutenant in the French and Indian War. During the American Revolution his regiment of Virginia militia saw service with Washington’s army at Trenton, Brandywine, and the famous crossing of the Delaware. He was likewise integral to the Siege of Yorktown, where he commanded the Virginia militia. The combined armies of Rochambeau, Washington, and Lafayette made a feint in the summer of 1781, leading General Henry Clinton to believe that an attack on New York City was imminent. After successfully deflecting the British with this ruse, the Continental forces moved south to Yorktown, Virginia, where Lord Cornwallis and his troops had awaited relief by the British Navy. Since the French fleet successfully prevented this by blocking the mouth of the Chesapeake, the al- lies laid siege to the British and forced Cornwallis’ surrender on October 19. The Virginia militia under the command of General George Weedon played an instru- mental role in this campaign. On October 4, a week into the siege of Yorktown, British Colonel Banastre Tarleton led a foraging party out of Gloucester, Virginia. They were soon driven back within their lines with heavy losses by the French troops in Lauzun’s Legion. Weedon, who was Lauzun’s American counterpart in this part of the line, reported the news to General Washington, who replied with some enthusiasm in the present letter. Weedon’s success at holding off the British at Gloucester Point cut off Cornwallis’ hope of escape, playing a key role in ensuring a Continental victory. General Washington writes:

Dear Sir, I am much obliged by the communication of the intelligence which you have this day given me. The information is very pleasing. And the ad- vantage obtained over the Enemy, as it exhibits a noble proof of that order of spirit in the Allied troops, which has long wished for an opportunity to display itself. So, in its consequences, it may prove very interesting in the course of our operations. I wish you would be so good as to consult Genl. Choisey & determine if there may not a shorter route for your expresses be found, below the town, to cross the river under cover of the French ships, than is at present used. I fancy as the ships now lye [sic], the distance might be much shortened. As the necessity of frequent expeditions communications with your side will probably increase, & may be of the utmost importance, it is a matter of great consequence to find out the shortest rout [sic] possible for our expresses.

Washington has signed the letter with his usual flourish. The body of the letter is written by one of his aides (probably Jonathan Trumbull). An excellent letter from Washington discussing a key action in the most significant battle of the American Revolution. $50,000.

With a Wonderful Woodcut

198. [Washington, George]: WEATHERWISE’S TOWN AND COUN- TRY ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1784; BE- ING BESSEXTILE [sic] OR LEAP-YEAR: AND THE EIGHTH OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.... Boston: Nathaniel Coverly, [1783]. [24]pp. Pictorial self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Light soiling and tanning, heavier soil on outermost leaves. Small tear repaired in second leaf. Good.

An early and rare post-Revolutionary almanac, notable for the primitive woodcut containing an almost cartoon-like portrait of “Victorious General Washington, survey’d in pleasing attitudes...while Britannia deplores her loss of America.” The caption beneath the cut reads: “Washington – Victory doth thy Trumpets sound, Who are with Laurels, cover’d round.” NAIP attributes this almanac to Daniel George, and says that Evans is incorrect in assigning it to David Rittenhouse. Another issue, identical save for the titlepage, was also published in 1783 with the Boston imprint of Norman & White. “The illustration was...a sort of lifetime memorial that reflected Washington’s legendary status among his countrymen by the time the Revolution was over” – Wick. NAIP locates six copies. EVANS 18163. DRAKE 3335. WICK, GEORGE WASHINGTON AN AMERICAN ICON 18. NAIP w036458. $1250.

With an Illustration of Washington’s Jack-Ass

199. [Washington, George]: WEATHERWISE’S TOWN AND COUN- TRY ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1786 BE- ING THE SECOND AFTER BISSEXTILE OR LEAP-YEAR, AND THE TENTH OF THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.... Boston: J. Norman, [1785]. [24]pp. Stitched as issued, with later stitching. Light scattered soiling, primarily to exterior leaves. Contemporary ownership notation. Very good.

With a woodcut illustration on the cover, entitled “General Washington’s Jack Ass,” accompanied by a verse satirizing the gift. The animal was a gift to Washington from the King of Spain and was used to breed the first mules in the country. The verse on the cover ends with the lines, “Though droll the Gift, yet from a King ’tis good; / Asses, Kings, Ministers are all one blood.” Also included in the almanac is a table with the weight and value of coins, and the standard calendar information. EVANS 19224. DRAKE 3372. $1750.

The Washington’s Tomb at Mount Vernon

200. [Washington, George]: IN MEMORY OF GENL. GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS LADY. Baltimore: M.H. Campbell, 1859. Chromolithograph, 16 x 21 inches. Minor soiling. Color fresh and bright. Very good.

A handsome chromolithographic print memorializing the final resting place of George and Martha Washington. In the foreground two women (one weeping) and a young man stand at the grave marker for the Washingtons, a large urn-like edifice on a pedestal with a relief of each of the Washingtons carved on its surface in profile. Mount Vernon is seen in the background. A line beneath the title indicates that the print is rendered “from an original picture painted 1804 in possession of the Washington family.” A popular image, first reproduced in an engraving by Samuel Seymour in 1804, the production of this print coincides with the initial efforts of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association. Founded in 1853, the Association set about raising money to purchase, preserve, and restore George Washington’s estate. The nation responded to the call, and the Association raised $200,000 in five years, purchasing the main house, the outbuildings, and two hundred acres of surrounding land. Mount Vernon was opened to the public as an historic trust in 1860, the year after this print was produced. The national campaign put on by the Association certainly would have sparked the public imagination, and, coupled with the grand opening of the estate, would have created fertile ground for marketing prints such as this one. $2500.

Building the Washington Monument

201. [Washington Monument]: TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES [caption title]. Washington: C.W. Fenton, [ca. 1848]. Broadside, 19 x 12 inches. Printed in three columns of dense text. Light foxing, primarily to top edge. Very good.

Description of the design of the Washington National Monument, with an an- nouncement from the Washington National Monument Society that construction has commenced with the laying of the cornerstone on July 4, 1848. Though the importance of memorializing George Washington had been recognized shortly after his death (Samuel Blodgett’s broadside of 1801 aimed to ac- complish the very same), it was during the 100th-year anniversary of his birth that gave renewed impetus to the attempts of the American people to celebrate his life and accomplishments. Inspired by his loyalty, patriotism, and selfless leadership during and after the Revolutionary War, concerned citizens gathered in 1833 and formed the Washington National Monument Society, the sole purpose of which was to erect a fitting monument in Washington’s name. By 1836, Richard Mills had been chosen as the architect; but under heavy criticism of the design as well as the estimated cost, the project halted until 1848, when President Zachary Taylor laid the first cornerstone and construction finally began. By 1854 donations ceased and the project was once again stalled, and it was not until 1884 that Washington saw its monument complete. The present broadside describes the proposed monument in great detail, giving exact specifications for all its measurements and edifices:

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

Washington remained buried at Mount Vernon even after the Monument was finished. A handsome document describing the grand memorial to our Founding Father. $5000. The Seedling of Webster’s Great Work

202. Webster, Noah: A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LAN- GUAGE; COMPILED FOR THE USE OF COMMON SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES. New Haven. 1807. v,[1],306pp. Contempo- rary calf, leather label. Rubbed and worn, especially at spine and corners. Some tanning and scattered foxing. A few signatures sprung. Rear free endpaper laid in. About good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

This shorter dictionary by Webster is an abridgement of his Compendious Diction- ary, published for school use. It was published in an attempt to gather funds for the completion of his Complete Dictionary, a tremendous lexicographical achievement that he thought would take only a few years to complete but was ultimately published in 1828. “Advertised in the Connecticut Herald, December 15, 1807, and in the Connecticut Journal, February 18, 1808, and later” – Skeel. An important and early Webster dictionary. SKEEL, NOAH WEBSTER BIBLIOGRAPHY 578. $2500.

“The most ambitious publication ever undertaken, up to that time, upon American soil” – Grolier American Hundred

203. Webster, Noah: AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENG- LISH LANGUAGE. New York: Published by S. Converse, printed by Hezekiah Howe of New Haven, 1828. Two volumes. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Webster by A.B. Durand after S.F.B. Morse at the front of first volume; “Additions and Corrections” leaf bound at the end of second volume. Large, thick quarto. Expertly bound to style in diced russia and contemporary marbled boards, spines gilt with semi-raised bands, marbled endpapers and edges. Very good. Provenance: Walter Bowne (1770-1846, mayor of New York City, signatures in each volume).

First edition of the most important American dictionary, the “most ambitious publication ever undertaken, up to that time, upon American soil” (Grolier Ameri- can Hundred) and a prize to be cherished by any American who cares about their native tongue. This copy with provenance to Walter Bowne, mayor of New York City from 1829 to 1833. An American Dictionary was printed in an initial edition of just 2500 copies, uncut in boards or full calf, at $20 for the two volumes. Importantly, the present copy includes the “Additions and Corrections” leaf at the end of the second volume, which is sometimes lacking. Webster’s best-known work is significant for a string of reasons: according to Printing and the Mind of Man, the Dictionary “at once became, and has remained, the standard English dictionary in the United States...[it also] marked a definite advance in modern lexicography, as it included many non-literary terms and paid attention to the language actually spoken....In fact, Webster succeeded in breaking the fetters imposed upon American English by Dr. [Samuel] Johnson...to the ultimate benefit of the living languages of both countries.” To sum up: An American Dictionary was “one of the great contributions towards mass education...[in the United States, placing] correct spelling and usage within the reach of Everyman” (Grolier American Hundred). Noah Webster, teacher, lawyer, and lexicographer, was also “an ardent nationalist and he wanted to stress the political separation from England by the cultivation of a separate American language” (PMM). Starting work on An American Dictionary in 1800, “Webster set a new standard for etymological investigation, and for accuracy of definition (‘a born definer of words’ – Sir James Murray), and included 70,000 words, as against the 58,000 of any previous dictionary” (Grolier American Hundred). This two-volume quarto dictionary represents the culmination of Webster’s indefatigable dedication to providing his country with its first comprehensive modern dictionary. The valuable introductory material contains his thesis on the development of languages, and his philosophical and practical grammar of the English language. GROLIER AMERICAN 100, 36. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 291. SKEEL 583. SABIN 102335. $22,500.

204. Wesley, John: EXPLANATORY NOTES UPON THE NEW TES- TAMENT. Philadelphia. 1791. Three volumes. 416; 348; 342,[4]pp. Late 19-century three-quarter leather and marbled boards, spines gilt, remnant of labels. Hinges and corners worn. Bookplate on front pastedowns. Some contemporary ownership markings and notations in text. Some light foxing. Last two leaves of first volume with minor loss at bottom edge. Still, about very good.

First American edition. “As a result of his intensive study of the Greek text...John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, felt the AV could be improved by the use of a better Greek text and by better renderings into English. He made 12,000 deviations from the AV....The text first appeared in 1755 in London, with explanatory notes; a standard edition was issued in 1760 and a pocket edition, without notes, in 1790. This is the first American edition, many times reprinted with and without the notes” – Hills. EVANS 23976. HILLS 35. $1250.

A Union Soldier in Louisiana

205. White, James: [ARCHIVE OF TWENTY-TWO LETTERS WRIT- TEN BY UNION SOLDIER JAMES WHITE, INCLUDING CON- TENT ON THE SIEGE OF PORT HUDSON]. Various locations, including Baton Rouge and Port Hudson. 1862-1863. Twenty-two letters, 54pp. total. Octavo sheets. Old folds, some minor soiling. Many original en- velopes present. Very good plus.

Archive of letters written by a Union soldier to his family back home in Maine, discussing his life in camp, wounds taken, and the important actions at Port Hud- son, Louisiana. The battle for Port Hudson (May 22 – July 9, 1863) was integral to Union control of the Mississippi River, and was conducted in conjunction with U.S. Grant’s siege of Vicksburg. James White was a member of Company G, 26th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, which was attached to General Nathaniel Banks’ Army of the Gulf. His letters span from November 1862, shortly after the regiment was formed, through July 1863, when White was wounded. An additional letter from September 1864 is also present. The 26th Maine mustered in October 1862 for a nine-month term. They were stationed in Louisiana for most of their service, before mustering out in August 1863. James White was wounded in July, which he describes in a letter in the present archive. White gives details of the siege of Port Hudson, the fall of Vicksburg, the drafting of troops into the Union army, and a smallpox outbreak aboard a transport ship. Writing on Feb. 1, 1863, he describes picket duty and mentions colored troops [transcribed as written]:

...I have got a slite cold I got on picket the other night. I shall go on picket again to morrow it is loansome Brother out there in the woods on the alleart for the ennemay for twenty-four ours at a time & it makes me think of home when at the dead owers of night I stand lisning to the slightist noyse....report says there is fifty niggars comeing in to day, we had coffe bread and poark for dinner to day that is a tite living but ile not spin a yarn about our living. I expect Foart Hudson will be our place of destination when we move from hear, it is eighteen miles from hear....Well there is one niggar Regiment hear sixteen hundred of them. Our Captain is sicj in the hospiddle at New Orleans has been there about four weeks.

Another letter is written during the siege of Port Hudson, dated June 18, 1863. He writes: “Port hudson is not taken yet they still keep fireing the most of the time upon there brest works they will hold out as long as possible but it is a hard place to take....I am on a brig now which we are to lay acrost the ditch for the battrys to cross on after the infintry gits in side of there brestworks.” Of the opposing army he writes: “A flag of truce out yesterday and I saw a lot of the rebbles and some of there offericers, they are good looking men we talked with some of the men.” Writing to his father on July 10th, after occupying the fort after the month and a half long siege, he writes: “...the fort has sirrendered and we are inside now... it is a harde looking place.” In the same letter he discusses the fall of Vicksburg: “Vitsburg has sirrendered so that is good news.” On the same sheet he writes a second letter, informing his family that he has been wounded:

...we have don a good thing for the rebels and a beter thing for the country, our time hase expired we shall be home soon. I want to see Clara very much if it was not for that I should enlist again. It does me good to see the rebelion fall, I have ben in two very hard Batels the last day. I got a buck shot in my ankel but i did not leave the field it did not lame me.

A look at the ordinary camp life of a Union soldier involved in the important action at Port Hudson. $3000.

Presentation Copy of a Key Anti-Slavery Work

206. Wilberforce, William: A LETTER ON THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE; ADDRESSED TO THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF YORKSHIRE. London. 1807. [2],iii,396pp. Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, leather label. Corners and hinges lightly worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. In a half morocco box.

First edition, inscribed “From the Author” by Wilberforce on the titlepage. One of the most important works in the British anti-slavery campaign. A politician, philanthropist, and devoted Christian, Wilberforce spent many years fighting in Parliament for the abolition of the slave trade. This work, originally intended to only be a pamphlet, was a description of the evidence and arguments against the slave trade accumulated by Wilberforce over the course of two decades. Its publication on Jan. 31, 1807 served as the culmination of the final struggle for stopping the trafficking of slaves along with the introduction of the Abolition Bill in the House of Lords, and was the decisive factor in its passage. The bill passed the upper house by a large majority and was read in the Commons on February 23rd. It passed by 283 votes to 16 and received the royal assent on March 25. Wilberforce devoted the rest of his life to the anti-slavery movement and died in 1833, just three days after Parliament voted to abolish slavery. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 232. $6500.

207. Williams, Eleazer: GOOD NEWS TO THE IROQUOIS NATION. A TRACT, ON MAN’S PRIMITIVE RECTITUDE, HIS FALL, AND HIS RECOVERY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. Burlington, Vt.: Samuel Mills, January 1813. 12pp. Dbd. Minor foxing and toning. Very good.

“Grandson of Indian captive Eunice Williams who married an Indian chief of Caughnawaga, Eleazar Williams (d. 1858) served as an American scout in northern New York during the War of 1812. Desiring afterwards to work as a missionary, he published in 1813 this ‘gospel’ for the Iroquois Nation. Although a devout spiritual leader for many years, Williams later fell into the delusional fantasy that he was the Dauphin of France” – Siebert. The Siebert copy was in quite poor condition. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 30540. SIEBERT SALE 487. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.167. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (IROQUOIAN) 15. FIELD 1667. $2500.

208. Wilson, Woodrow: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. New York & London. 1916. [6],71pp. Original blue publisher’s cloth, gilt. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Bookplate on front pastedown. Signed by Wilson on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus.

Treatise on the office of the president, written by Wilson in 1908, when he was a history professor, and printed separately here for the first time, when he was president, and signed by him. $1000.

209. Wilson, Woodrow: WHY WE ARE AT WAR. MESSAGES TO THE CONGRESS. JANUARY TO APRIL, 1917. New York & London. 1917. [8],79pp. Red morocco, gilt, a.e.g. With a typed letter, signed by Wilson, tipped in. Fine. In a cloth slipcase.

Collection of six speeches given by President Woodrow Wilson leading up to and following the declaration of the United States’ entry into World War I. Included is a typed letter, signed by Wilson, to Newton Adams of Newport, Rhode Island, in which he writes: “My dear Mr. Adams, I appreciate very warmly your very generous letter of November 9th. It is delightful that men whom I have known a long time, and whom I have known as my friends, should feel as you do about my election. Cordially yours, Woodrow Wilson.” A fine copy, made especially attractive by the addition of this letter. $1500.

A Pioneering Work on American Government

210. Wise, John: A VINDICATION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW-ENGLAND CHURCHES.... [bound with:] Wise, John: THE CHURCHES QUARREL ESPOUSED.... [bound with:] [Mather, Richard]: A PLATFORM OF CHURCH-DISCIPLINE.... Boston: John Boyles, 1772. 271pp. plus [12]pp. subscribers’ list. 12mo. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good.

The second Boyles edition of A Vindication..., both published in 1772, accompanied by the other two works, as issued. Wise has been called “the first great American democrat” for his argument, put forth in A Vindication, that the ultimate power of the churches should rest with the congregation and not with their ministers or an association of ministers. “The People...are the first Subject of Power...a Democracy in Church or State is a very honourable Government.” This title is included in the Grolier American Hundred on the strength of A Vindication. Howes calls it “the most authoritative defense of Congregational polity.” HOWES W595. EVANS 12626. $1250.

211. Witherspoon, John: THE WORKS OF THE REV. JOHN WITH- ERSPOON.... Philadelphia. 1802. Four volumes. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities worn, boards scuffed. Head of spine on second volume chipped. Contemporary ownership inscription on fly leaf. Light scattered foxing. Good.

Second edition of the collected works of John Witherspoon, with an account of his life by John Rodgers. Witherspoon, a Scottish-born clergyman, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and became president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton). He served in the Continental Congress for six years and involved himself in several important debates on the powers of government. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3572. FELCONE 1430. $1000.

Leading American Utopian Journal

212. Wright, Frances; Robert Dale Owen; [et al] [editors]: THE FREE ENQUIRER. VOLUME I. New York. Oct. 28, 1828 – Oct. 21, 1829. [4],416pp., printed in three-column format. Comprised of fifty-two weekly numbers, continuously paginated. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and blue paper boards, spine gilt, leather label. Extremities rubbed. Contempo- rary bookplate of Joseph H. Smith on front pastedown. Lightly foxed; minor dampstaining at top edge. Very good.

This periodical continues the work begun by the New Harmony Gazette, recording the utopian projects and ideas of Robert Dale Owen and others associated with the New Harmony community in Indiana. After three years of publication in Indiana, the New Harmony Gazette was moved to New York and renamed The Free Enquirer in October 1828, surviving until 1835. In the first issue of this new series, Owen remarks on the move to New York: “If free enquiry be impracticable in New York, it must be so everywhere, while, should it successfully elicit truth here, the same would spread far and wide....” This first volume of the renamed publication was co-edited by Owen, feminist Frances (“Fanny”) Wright, and Robert L. Jennings. Although the New Harmony community lasted only two years under Owen’s leadership, the present volume reflects the continued feverish activity of those involved with the community, with more essays on a wide variety of controversial subjects, including the abolition of slavery, religious freedom, Fanny Wright and Robert Owen on women’s rights, agriculture, a new social system, gymnastics, equalization of property, cooperative associations, popular education, and the like. SABIN 25708. $2250. Frequently Cited References

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