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JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since  JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since 1972 post office box 366 • princeton, new jersey 08542 tel (609) 924-0539 • fax (609) 924-9078 e-mail [email protected] • web site www.felcone.com È New Jersey in the American Revolution :: May 2010 1. ADAMS, RANDOLPH G. British Headquarters Maps and Sketches used by Sir Henry Clinton while in Command of the British Forces Operating in North America During the War for Independence, 1775-1782. Ann Arbor, 1928. vi, 144 p. Port. Cloth-backed boards. $50 Guide to the Clinton maps and plans in the Clements Library. PRINCETON JUST AFTER THE BATTLE 2. (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., washer-woman]." Military documents from Princeton in early 1777 are almost unobtainable. 3. ANDREWS, FRANK D. A Biographical Sketch of Enoch Green, Eminent Presbyterian Divine of Deerfield, New Jersey, Preacher, Teacher, Chaplain in the Revolution ... with Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1771-1776, as Recorded by Mr. Green. Vineland, 1933. 20 p. Wrappers. Old library stamp on front wrapper. $50 Born in present-day Ewing, New Jersey, and minister in Deerfield, Cumberland County. Includes several pages of Deerfield church records copied by Charles E. Sheppard. 4. ANDREWS, FRANK D. The Tea-Burners of Cumberland County who Showed their Resistence ... by Burning a Cargo of East India Tea on the Evening of December 22, 1774, at Greenwich, New Jersey. Vineland, 1908. [2], 41 p. Plates. Wrappers. $75 One of 500 copies. The Greenwich Tea Party. Contains biographical sketches of all the tea- burners. Cumberland County. 5. ARMSTRONG, JAMES F. (Minister of Presbyterian church, Trenton; chaplain in Revolu- tionary War). Autograph letter signed, [Trenton], 12 February 1795. To Colonel Christian Febiger, about paying off Scott's mortgage and his poor health. 1 page, quarto, with integral address leaf. Fine. $250 Armstrong was minister of the Presbyterian church in Trenton after the Revolution. 6. ARMSTRONG, JAMES F. (Minister of Presbyterian church, Trenton; chaplain in Revolu- tionary War). Brief autograph letter signed, 12 June 1797. To George Simpson, cashier of the Bank of the United States, about a check, and thanking him for his "attention to me and my business." One half page, quarto. Light soiling. $200 Armstrong was minister of the Presbyterian church in Trenton after the Revolution. 7. ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM CLINTON. The Battles in the Jerseys and the Significance of Each. [N.p.], 1916. 26 p. Plates. Cloth. $35 American Revolution. 8. ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM CLINTON, ed. Patriotic Poems of New Jersey. [N.p., 1906]. [10], 248 p. Plates. Cloth. $50 Annotated anthology of poems pertaining to New Jersey in the American Revolution, with selections from Freneau to contemporary poets. Includes an appendix of biographical sketches of New Jersey poets. 9. [ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM C.]. Lord Stirling at Trenton. [N.p., n.d., but ca. 1910?] [4] p. Single sheet, folded. Old library stamp. $30 The text of a letter from Stirling to Washington, New Town, 28 December 1776. Attributed to Armstrong in a contemporary note on p. [4]. The main text is followed by a poem, "Battle of Trenton." "Reprinted from 'The Advocate,' New Brunswick, N.J." 10. BARBER, FRANCIS (1751-1783). Elizabethtown schoolmaster, Revolutionary War patriot, killed by a falling tree in 1783. Autograph letter signed, Little Duck Creek, 24 February 1774. To an unnamed recipient, on financial matters. 1 page, quarto. Very good. $150 11. BARTENSTEIN, FRED, and ISABEL BARTENSTEIN. A Report on New Jersey's Revolu- tionary War Powder Mill .... Morristown, [1975]. vi, 194 p. Illus. Cloth. $40 An in-depth study of the Jacob Ford powder mill at Morristown, as well as an archaeological site survey report by Edward J. Lenik. 12. BILL, ALFRED HOYT. The Campaign of Princeton, 1776-1777. Princeton, 1948. ix, 145 p. Maps. Cloth. $35 Still one of the basic popular works on the subject. Despite the title, the book treats the entire Trenton-Princeton campaign. 13. BILL, ALFRED HOYT. New Jersey and the Revolutionary War. Princeton, 1964. xiii, 117 p. Illus. Cloth. $30 A good general treatment. 14. 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. 15. BOUDINOT, ELIAS. Journal or Historical Recollections of American Events During the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia, 1894. viii, 97 p. Folding facsimiles of period broadsides. Later cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. Wax seal of original owner George Banta at base of spine. Light overall soiling, but a very nice copy. $200 One of 290 numbered royal octavo copies. The first printing of this important journal recording events from April 1775 to the end of the war. Howes B-642. 16. BOYD, GEORGE ADAMS. Elias Boudinot. Patriot and Statesman, 1740-1821. Princeton, 1952. xvii, 321 p. Plates. Cloth. $50 The best biography of Boudinot--an excellent book with much on his activities in New Jersey as well as his important role in the American Revolution. 17. BOYLE, JOSEPH LEE. "What Can't Brave Americans Endure?" The New Jersey Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment. [Baltimore, 2001.] xvii, [1], 157 p. Wrappers. $30 Alphabetical list of New Jersey men at Valley Forge, with rank, regiment or company, and remarks. 18. BUNCE, FLORENCE de la M. Washington along Familiar Roads. New York, 1930. [2], 32 p. Illus. Wrappers. $20 Useless D.A.R. drivel about Washington in New Jersey. DEFENDING THE AMERICAN COLONIES 19. CHAUNCY, CHARLES. A Letter to a Friend, Containing Remarks on Certain Passages in a Sermon Preached by ... John Lord Bishop of Landaff ... in which the Highest Reproach is Undeservedly Cast upon the American Colonies. Boston: Kneeland and Adams, for Thomas Leverett, 1767. 56 p. Untrimmed and stitched, as issued. Half title loose and with a part of the lower blank margin torn off. Light soiling and chipping at fore-edge. With the signature of Abraham Hill, 1767, on the half title. $550 First edition. The first response from America to Landaff's sermon deploring the heathenism and infidelity in America and urging the appointment of American bishops. Chauncy defends the American colonies and emphasizes their piety and missionary zeal. The next five years saw one of the largest pamphlet controversies in our history, drawing in such notables as Chauncy, William Livingston, Thomas Bradbury Chandler, and many others. Adams, American Controversy, 67-3a; Nelson, American Episcopate Controversy, 2; Felcone, New Jersey Books, 50; Evans 10579. 20. CINCINNATI, SOCIETY OF THE. Historical Papers Read Before the Society of the Cincin- nati in the State of New Jersey, 1897 .... [N.p., 1897?]. 37 p. Wrappers. Old library stamp. $40 Papers by Wm. S. Stryker, Geo. S. Mott, and Wm. S. Pennington. George Washing-ton, organization of the Cincinnati, &c. 21. CLARK, BARBARA LOUISE. E.B. The Story of Elias Boudinot IV, his Family, his Friends, and his Country. Philadelphia, [1977]. xiv, 472 p. Illus., facsims. Cloth. $40 Biography of Elias Boudinot (1740-1821), the Revolutionary War statesman and resi-dent of Elizabethtown and, later, Burlington. 22. CLARK, MARY SHERRERD. In the Olden Days. Papers Colonial and Revolutionary. Greenwich, Ct., 1905. [10], 120 p. Boards. $75 One of 100 copies, privately printed. Eight essays, many pertaining to New Jersey. Includes "The New Jersey Signers," "An Echo from Old Salem," "Poor Huddy," and "The Surprise at Princeton." 23. COAD, ORAL S. New Jersey in the Revolution: A Bibliography of Historical Fiction, 1784–1963. [New Brunswick], 1964. 39 p. Wrappers. $25 24. CONFLICT AT MONMOUTH COURT HOUSE. Proceedings of a Symposium Commem- orating the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Battle of Monmouth. Trenton, 1978. 4to. 64 p. Illus. Wrappers. $25 Edited by Mary R. Murrin and Richard Waldron. Several scholarly papers. 25. COWART, SAMUEL CRAIG. Address, The Battle of Monmouth, and Poem, Patriot Sires of Monmouth.... Freehold, [1928]. 11 p. Wrapp. $35 One of two variant issues printed in 1928. 26. DAVIS, T.E. The Battle of Bound Brook. An Address Delivered before the Washington Campground Association ... February 22, 1894. Bound Brook, 1895. Small 4to. 28 p. Illus. Wrappers (chipped at extremities). $50 Somerset County. 27. DUER, WILLIAM ALEXANDER. The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling; Major General in the Army of the United States, during the Revolution: with Selections from his Correspondence. New York, 1847. xv, [2], x-xii, 272 p. Cloth (spine chipped). $125 The papers and first biography of William Alexander, self-styled Lord Stirling, edited by his grandson. Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, II. See Felcone, New Jersey Books, 606, for additional comments on the book. 28. DWYER, WILLIAM M. The Day is Ours! November 1776-January 1777: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. New York, [1983]. xiii, 426 p. Cloth-backed boards. $30 Fine account of the Trenton-Princeton campaign. 29. (ELIZABETH). Revolutionary History of Elizabeth, New Jersey. [Elizabeth, 1926]. 40 p. incl. map. Wrappers. $30 Series of articles on battles, prominent residents, historic houses, education, etc. 30. FARRIER, GEORGE H., ed. Memorial of the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Paulus Hook ... with a History of the Early Settlement and Present Condition of Jersey City, N.J. Jersey City, 1879. 182 p. Plates. Contemporary half leather (extremities scuffed, but very tight). $125 31.
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