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C:\Users\Joseph J Felcone\Dropbox\DATA JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since 1972 post office box 366 • princeton, new jersey 08542 usa tel (609 ) 924-0539 • fax (609 ) 924-9078 e-mail felcone @felcone.com • web site www.felcone.com È Rare New Jerseyana BEST EARLY ACCOUNT OF NEW SWEDEN, IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS 1. ACRELIUS, ISRAEL. Beskrifning om de Swenska församlingars forna och närwarande tilstånd, uti det så kallade Nya Swerige, sedan Nya Nederland, men nu för tiden Pensylvanien, samt nåstliggande orter wid aelfwen De la Ware, Wåst-Yersey och New-Castle County uti Norra America... Stockholm: Harberg & Hesselberg, 1759. 4to. [20], 449 [i.e., 448], 479-533, [1] p. Contemporary paper-covered boards, gold-stamped paper label on spine. Spine and extremities of boards worn, internally near fine. Bookplates. $2500 First edition of the best early account of the Swedish settlements on the Delaware River, and the most comprehensive and accurate history of New Sweden until Amandus Johnson's Swedish Settlements on the Delaware (1911). Acrelius came to America in 1749 as provost of the Swedish churches on the Delaware, and served as pastor of a church in Wilmington until 1756, when he returned to Sweden. A full English translation of the work was published in 1874. This is the first copy we have handled in the original boards, with full wide (202 x 175 mm.) margins and a very minimal amount of browning. Most copies have been trimmed and rebound and exhibit varying degrees of browning. Howes A34; JCB(III) I, 1202; Vail 528; Felcone, New Jersey Books , 1. THE FIRST NEW JERSEY REGISTER 2. ALDEN, TIMOTHY. Alden's New-Jersey Register and United States' Calendar, for ... 1811 . Newark: William Tuttle, [1811]. 160, [4] p. Original sheep-backed boards (front hinge cracking). Early library markings of the Essex Institute, but otherwise a very nice copy. $300 First issue of the first New Jersey register. Contains a highly useful list of New Jersey civil and military officers, courts, post offices, churches and ministers, colleges and schools, libraries, and other societies. Alden's register folded after only one more issue, and several later attempts similarly failed after one or two issues. It was not until the manual of the legislature started in 1872 that an annual New Jersey register succeeded. For additional information on Alden and his register, see Felcone, New Jersey Books , 321. Drake 5275; S&S 22165. PRINCETON JUST AFTER THE BATTLE 3. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRINCETON). Manuscript provision return for Capt. William McAlvey's Company in Col. John Piper's Battalion, Bedford County [Pa.] militia, dated "Princetown 9th Feby. 1777." One page, 3.5 x 8.5 in. Signed for McAlvey by Nicholas Bray. In fine condition. $450 A provision return for "1 Captn., 17 Rank & file, and 1 W:Woman [i.e., washerwoman]." Military documents from Princeton in early 1777 are almost unobtainable. THE MOUNT HOLLY HERMIT: 1811 4. [ATKINSON, JOHN]. The Hermit, or an Account of Francis Adam Joseph Phyle ... who Lived without the Use of Fire for Upwards of Twenty-Two Years, in a Small Cave, in the Midst of a Wood, near Mount-Holly, in Burlington County, New Jersey; and was found Dead therein, in the Year 1780. In a Series of Letters... New Jersey: John Atkinson; John Bioren, printer, Phila., 1811. 98 [of 102] p., lacking the final two leaves . Untrimmed, in the original paper-covered boards (heavily worn, spine covering lacking and sewing breaking). Internally foxed and with some marginal dampstaining. A good copy only. $550 First edition of the first separately printed account of the Mount Holly Hermit. The hermit was real, and lived in a crude cave-like dwelling in Joseph Burr's woods. He was a local curiosity, and there are very brief accounts of him in a few eighteenth-century diaries, in Smith's 1765 history of New Jersey, and in the New-Jersey Gazette . Atkinson took the facts and added his own embel- lishments, as was a common practice in the cheap, sensational literature of the period, so it is difficult today to determine where fact ends and fiction begins. The book is very rare, and this is the first copy we have ever offered for sale in over forty years of specializing in New Jerseyana. It is slightly imperfect, which accounts for the low price. For a very detailed account of the hermit and Atkinson's book, see Felcone, New Jersey Books , 339 (this copy); S&S 23004. SIGNED AS GOVERNOR AT ELIZABETHTOWN, 1754 5. BELCHER, JONATHAN (1681/2-1757). Colonial governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey. Document signed ("J Belcher"), Elizabeth Town, 23 November 1754. One page, quarto. Neatly inlaid to a larger sheet; two thin spots on verso from mounting, not affecting document itself. $850 A brief covering letter to James De Lancey, lieutenant governor of New York, sending (not present) a copy of an order to Col. Van Camp. Belcher was governor of New Jersey from 1746 until his death, and a leading figure in the establishment of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), but for some reason Belcher documents signed in New Jersey are very rare, while docu- ments from his earlier Massachusetts governorship are much more frequently seen. THE RARE MORRISTOWN BIBLE 6. BIBLE. ENGLISH. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Together with the Apocrypha... Morris-Town: Mann and Douglas ... 1805. 8vo. 1142 p., text in two columns. Contem- porary sheep. Lower inch and a half of each hinge cracked but hinges otherwise still very strong. Front and rear free endpapers loose, else a very good, tight copy. Christopher Greene (1733-1820) and Mercy (Stoddard) Greene's (1740-1830) copy, with family records and Mercy Greene's attractive 1806 calligraphic ownership signature. Modern bookplate. $1000 The third Bible printed in New Jersey, following Isaac Collins' quarto of 1791 and octavo of 1793/94, and far more difficult to find than either of the Collins Bibles. See Felcone, New Jersey Books , 367, for an essay on the production of this Bible. THE FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN NEW JERSEY 7. BIBLE. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised . Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1791. 4to. [1316] p. Contemporary blind-paneled sheep (extremities rubbed but hinges very sound). Dampstaining, noticeable at the beginning of the text and diminishing then disappearing further in, then reappearing at the end. "Naomy Bower her Bible and she was born in the year of our Lord 1742,..." with genealogical records of Abraham and Naomi Bower and the Cox and Scholl families. A very good copy. $3000 The first Bible printed in New Jersey, the second quarto King James Bible printed in America, and the best known product of the eighteenth-century New Jersey press. For a lengthy and highly detailed account of the printing, binding, promotion, publication, and distribution of the Collins Bible, see Felcone, Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800 , 578. This copy contains the Apocrypha and, like all copies, John Downame's concordance at the end. Evans 22472, 23184, 23656; Hills 31; ESTC W4498, W4517, W27796, W28443, W36125. REVOLUTIONARY WAR PSALM BOOK OF REBECAH BARCALOW, OF FREEHOLD, MONMOUTH COUNTY 8. BIBLE. OLD TESTAMENT. PSALMS. The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament; and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. By I. Watts . Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1781. 12mo. 252 p. Contemporary sheep, with a single blind fillet around the boards, undecorated spine with raised cords. Covers just a trifle cupped, text lightly foxed as usual with early American paper, else a remarkably well-preserved copy, with the binding tight and entirely unchipped. $1600 From the eighteenth-century library of Rebecah (Polhemus) Barcalow of Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, with her signature on the front free endpaper: "Rebecah Barcalow Her Psalm Book February 10, 1783." Also the signature of her husband, David Barcalow, on the rear endpaper. Rebecah Polhemus married David Barcalow in June 1779 and they lived in Freehold Township until her death in February 1813. It is quite unusual in late-eighteenth and very early nineteenth-century rural New Jersey for a woman to own a library significant enough (to her at least) to provide for its disposition by will. Evans 17097; ESTC W4978, recording seven copies. ELIAS BOUDINOT LETTER, 1769 9. BOUDINOT, ELIAS (1740-1816). Distinguished statesman; commissary general of prisoners in the Revolution; President of Congress; Director of the Mint. Letter signed, Elizabeth Town, 1 August 1769. To Andrew Elliot. One page, folio. Folds strengthened on verso; inlaid to another sheet. $900 Concerning Col. Templer and settling the estate of Sir John St. Clair. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS DESCENDED FROM THE JEWS 10. BOUDINOT, ELIAS. A Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Preparatory to their Return to their Beloved City, Jerusalem . Trenton: D. Fenton, S. Hutchinson, and J. Dunham; George Sherman, printer, 1816. iv, 312 p. Contemporary sheep. Foxed, as usual, with occasional spotting, but a nice sound copy. $600 First edition. Boudinot's attempt to prove that the North American Indians were descended from the Jews. Much important information on Indian language and customs. Howes B643; Pilling, Algonquian , p. 54; Rosenbach 180; Felcone, New Jersey Books , 433. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS FOR YOUTH 11. BURDER, GEORGE. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Versified: for the Entertainment and Instruction of Youth . Burlington: Stephen C. Ustick, 1807. 71, [1] p. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper covered boards. Front cover detached, front binder's blanks wanting. Light foxing and dampstaining, but quite good. $500 Ustick's edition of Burder's Pilgrim's Progress, Versified was issued both with and, as here, without seven woodcut plates by Garret Lansing.
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