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PRINTING IN NEW JERSEY, 1754–1800
1. FELCONE, JOSEPH J. Printing in New Jersey, 1754–1800: A Descriptive Bibliography . Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2012. 4to. lii, 487, [2] p. Cloth. Dust jacket. New. $125
The first printing office in New Jersey was opened by James Parker in Woodbridge in 1754. At Parker's death in 1770, Quaker Isaac Collins moved from Philadelphia to Burlington and established the colony's second press. At the conclusion of his military service, Shepard Kollock set up the third press at Chatham in early 1779. With the return to peace in the early 1780s, printing expanded rapidly, and by 1790 New Jerseyans had seen the establishment, and in some cases rapid demise, of almost a dozen printing offices. In the decade of the 1790s, printing spread throughout the state, from Sussex County to Cumberland County, and by the end of the century, forty individuals had either been proprietors or partners in New Jersey printing offices. This bibliography records the books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, and broadsides issued from each of these presses. Part One treats all printing known with certainty to have come from an eighteenth-century New Jersey press. Each entry provides the full title, format, collation, pagination, expanded contents, paper and watermarks, type size, binding, references, inventory of copies located, and copy-specific notes describing each located copy. Finally, each entry concludes with extensive notes (which, in the case of important works such Smith's history of New Jersey, the Collins Bible, and Paterson's laws, &c., run to several pages in length). Part Two records in detail items that may have been printed in New Jersey but for which insufficient documentation has been found to permit a clear attribution to a New Jersey press. Most are broadsides and small pamphlets that pertain to New Jersey but do not bear a printer's imprint. Part Three contains items incorrectly assigned to a New Jersey press by earlier bibliographers. In each case the misattribution is explained and the item is removed from the New Jersey printing canon. Following the bibliography are three appendixes. The first consists of tables listing the alphabetical, chronological, and geographical distribution of printing offices in eighteenth-century New Jersey. The second is a New Jersey book trade register that records printers, publishers, booksellers, newspaper proprietors, bookbinders, papermakers, and others engaged in any aspect of the book trade or allied arts in New Jersey from 1754 through 1800. The third appendix contains six concordances. The work concludes with three indexes: an index of printers and publishers, a provenance index, and a comprehensive general index. The author has collected, studied, and written about the early New Jersey book trade for forty years, and all that he has learned in those years has gone into this exhaustive work. Beautifully designed by Jerry Kelly and handsomely printed in an edition of 325 copies, Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800 is both a major contribution to New Jersey and American book trade scholarship and proof that a modern book can still be beautifully designed and printed and sold at a reasonable price. The book was published by the American Antiquarian Society on the occasion of their 200th anniversary. The distributor is Oak Knoll Press. Copies may be purchased either from us or Oak Knoll.
VIEWS OF NEW JERSEY, 1761–1898
2. FELCONE, JOSEPH J. Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761– 1898, from the Collection of Joseph J. Felcone . Princeton: Morven Museum & Garden, 2012. 4to. 75, [2] p. Fully illustrated in color. Wrappers. New. $20
The most comprehensive illustrated catalogue to date of pre-1900 views of New Jersey. One hundred and nineteen paintings, drawings, and separately issued prints of New Jersey, each of which is illustrated in color and described in considerable detail. Included are eighteenth-century English aquatints and engravings, early nineteenth-century watercolors, mid-nineteenth-century lithographs by Currier & Ives and others, and late nineteenth-century birdseye views, all depicting identifiable New Jersey scenes. From Sussex County to Cape May County and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Delaware River, the catalogue includes views from every county in New Jersey. An exhaustive index concludes the text and makes the catalogue one of the most important reference sources for the pre- 1900 iconography of New Jersey. [Note: The entire collection is on view at Morven Museum in Princeton until January 13, 2013.]
3. (ACKERMAN FAMILY). Ackerman Homesteads. A Saga of Ackerman Lives and Times . [N.p.], 1990. xvii, 159 p. Illus. Wrappers, bound in later cloth. $40
Second printing. Edited by Rosa A. Livingston and Hazel A. Lampe. Early Ackerman houses and their owners, largely in and around Bergen County.
THE FIRST NEW JERSEY REGISTER
4. 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. 5. (ATLANTIC CITY). Views of Atlantic City . Portland, Me.: L. H. Nelson Co., c1905. Obl. 4to. [48] p. Illus. Wrappers. $45
Apparently the original printing of this popular viewbook, reprinted numerous times over the next few years.
THE BERGEN COUNTY ATLAS
6. (BERGEN COUNTY). Atlas of Bergen County, New Jersey. Made from Actual Surveys of Each Township and Village, and from Historical Facts ... under the Supervision of A.H. Walker . Reading, Pa.: C.C. Pease, [1876]. Folio. 167 p. Lithographed views and handcolored maps (one folding). Leather-backed decorated cloth (covers worn at extremities and spine broken, as usual). First few leaves very slightly chipped at fore-edge, else a very good, clean copy internally. From the library of Thomas Barbour (1832-1885), with his ownership stamp: "Thomas Barbour, Warren Point." $1200
The Bergen County atlas is the most elaborate and attractive of all the New Jersey county atlases of the 1870-1880 period. It is also one of the most difficult to find, as many copies have fallen victim to the breakers and plate peddlers.
EARLY NEW JERSEY TRADE CATALOGUE OF BICYCLES
7. (BICYCLES). White Cycle Co. Catalogue of the Best Makes of Bicycles. 1893 . Trenton: White Cycle Co., 1893. 40 p. Illus. Wrappers. Front wrapper with two small dark spots in upper margin and one short tear, else very good. [4] p. illus. insert laid in. $225
Trenton firm's sixth annual catalogue. Each page contains a full-page illustration of a bicycle with specifications below. Contains cycles of numerous manufacturers.
8. BOYER, CHARLES S. Early Forges & Furnaces in New Jersey . Philadelphia, 1931. xv, 287 p. Plates. Cloth (light overall soiling). James M. Ransom's copy, signed by him and extensively anno- tated throughout with marginal notes, and with many inserted notes, photostats, a few letters, some clippings from mid-19thC newspapers, an 1825 bank note with an engraving of Delaware Furnace, &c., &c. $200
First edition, and a superb association copy. Boyer's book is still the standard general work on the subject, covering forges and furnaces throughout the state, chiefly in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Ransom was the author of Vanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos (1966), and his notes and insertations add much to the Boyer text.
9. CASE, HOWARD E. Sussex County, New Jersey, Marriages . [Bowie, Md., 1992]. vi, 358 p. Wrappers. $35 Full alphabetical transcription of Sussex County marriage books A and B, 1795-1878.
10. CONNIFF, JAMES C. G., and RICHARD CONNIFF. The Energy People. A History of PSE&G . Newark, [1978]. [8], 392 p. Illus. Cloth. $25
Chiefly a history of the utility's early years under Thomas N. McCarter.
11. COOK, GEORGE H. Geology of New Jersey . Newark, 1868. xxiv, 899, [1] p. Illus. Folding maps and plates. Cloth. An unusually clean, tight copy. With an 1869 presentation inscription by Marcus L. Ward, governor of New Jersey. $350
The classic work, and as nice a copy as one could find. The book was printed on poor paper, and the binding was not much better, and copies found today are invariably loose and shaken. This one is lovely.
12. DIETZ, ULYSSES GRANT. The Ballantine House and the Decorative Arts Galleries at the Newark Museum . Newark: Newark Museum, 1994. 4to. 77, [2] p. Illus. in color. Wrappers. $20
The Victorian splendor of the Ballantine house in Newark.
13. DOUGHTY, ENOCH (1792-1871; prominent resident of Gloucester and, later, Atlantic County. Collection of six partly printed commissions, 1820-1825, each signed by Governor Isaac H. Williamson with his large wafer seal. Several with condition issues like splitting along folds and soiling and discoloration. The lot, $100
Commissions as militia colonel and later brigadier general; high sheriff of Gloucester County; and justice of the peace. Doughty was a prime mover in the development of Atlantic City.
14. ELMER, LUCIUS Q. C. (1793-1883). Autograph document signed, being a record of duties on retailers of wines and spiritous liquors in Cumberland and Cape May Counties, 31 March 1816. Signed by Elmer as deputy collector. Two pages, quarto. Fine. $50
Listing seven individuals and firms in the two counties.
15. ELMER, LUCIUS Q. C. (1793-1883). Autograph document signed, being a record of duties on carriages and harness in Cumberland and Cape May Counties, 31 January 1816. Signed by Elmer as deputy collector. Eleven pages, folio. Outer blank leaves soiled, else fine. $100
An interesting record of over 110 residents of Cumberland and Cape May Counties, their place of residence, the type of wagons they owned, the number of wheels, and the duties on the wagon. Chairs, light waggons, coachees, sulkies, &c. PRINTED ON FRENEAU'S OWN PRESS
16. FRENEAU, PHILIP. Poems Written Between the Years 1768 & 1794... . Monmouth, (N.J.): Printed at the press of the author, at Mount-Pleasant, near Middletown-Point, 1795. [5], x-xv, [1], 455, [1] p. Contemporary sheep. Sporatic dampstaining (particularly heavy on front free endpaper and flyleaf), many gatherings variously foxed or browned, as always with this book, else an unusually nice copy in a lovely tight contemporary binding. With the attractive early American printed book label of George Warren Chapman, M.D., of Connecticut. $1200
The only edition of Freneau's poetry printed by Freneau himself, on his own press, and the only full-length book to come from this very short-lived New Jersey press. The paper is poor, the presswork is poor, and there are numerous typographical errors and mis-paginations, some of which were corrected by stop-press alterations, resulting in slight differences between copies. See Felcone, Printing in New Jersey, 1754–1800 , 762, for a detailed account of the printing of the book. Stoddard 498; BAL 6445; Evans 28712; ESTC W28921.
17. (GEOLOGICAL SURVEY--MAPS). Geological Survey of New Jersey. Maps--1868 . [N.p., 1868]. 8 maps on 13 sheets, folded and laid loosely into green cloth portfolio, as issued. Complete. Maps in remarkably fine, fresh condition, with just an occasional small split at a fold intersection. Some light wear on spine of portfolio. $800
These maps were issued in a separate portfolio to accompany the volume Geology of New Jersey , published in 1868 under the general editorship of George H. Cook. The portfolio is rarely found today, as the maps were printed on poorish quality paper and most copies have turned to crumbs. This set is remarkably fine and fresh, and quite desirable thus.
18. HAGEMAN, JOHN F. History of Princeton and its Institutions . Philadelphia, 1879. 2 vols. Plates. Cloth. Spines worn at extremities, inner hinges a trifle cracked but very sound. A good, tight copy of a work that is often loose and shaken with broken inner hinges, &c. $275
Still the only general history of the town of Princeton, and much sought-after. Fully indexed in Joseph J. Felcone, An Index to John F. Hageman's History ... (1976).
19. HASENCLEVER, PETER. The Remarkable Case of Peter Hasenclever, Merchant, Formerly one of the Proprietors of the Iron Works Pot-ash Manufactory, &c. Established, and Successfully Carried on under his Direction, in the Provinces of New York, and New Jersey, in North America, 'till November 1766... . London: Printed in the year 1773. [2], 97 p. Photostatic facsimile , carefully made and neatly bound as a book, with the spine neatly lettered in gilt, &c. James M. Ransom's copy, with many marginal and endpaper notes in his hand. $90
Ransom probably had this photostat made and bound in the 1960s, when he was working on his Vanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos . The original work is essentially unobtainable: ESTC records only two copies, at CSmH and NN. 20. HOFFMAN, EUGENE AUG'S. Ministers of Christ and Stewards of the Mysteries of God. The Sermon in Christ Church, New Brunswick, N. J. 16 January, 1883, in Commemoration of the Rev. Alfred Stubbs... . New York, 1883. 43 p. Wrappers. $25
Stubbs was the longtime rector.
21. HONEYMAN, A. VAN DOREN. Joannes Nevius. Schepen and Third Secretary of New Amsterdam under the Dutch ... and his Descendants, A.D. 1627-1900 . Plainfield, 1900 [i.e., n.p., ca. 1990]. 732 p. Illus. Cloth. $75
Higginson reprint of an important and very scarce New Jersey genealogy.
22. HOOPES, PAUL C. The Story of Culver Lake . Roselle, 1955. 23 p. Illus. Wrappers. $35
Sussex County.
THE SCHUYLER COPPER MINE
23. HORNBLOWER, JOSIAH. Letter from Mr. Hornblower to Mr. Kitchell, on the Subject of Schuyler's Copper Mine, in New-Jersey. April 18th, 1800 . [N.p., 1800]. 4 p. Removed. Fine. $600
On the quantity of copper that might be produced by the Schuyler mine at Belleville, New Jersey, if the operation was supported by the government. The mine was discovered about 1719 by Arent Schuyler, who began shipping the raw ore to England. About 1761 Hornblower, a mining engineer from Staffordshire, England, was brought in to develop a steam engine at the mine. In the mid-1790s the mining company was leased by Nicholas J. Roosevelt, who also purchased a tract of land called Soho, on the Passaic River near present-day Belleville, to refine and manufacture the copper. In 1800 Roosevelt and several associates petitioned Congress to incorporate a Mine and Metal Company. This letter to Aaron Kitchell, a New Jersey congressman from Hanover, Morris County, supports that petition. Evans 37648, 38754; Rink 3357.
24. HOSKINS, BARBARA. Men from Morris County, New Jersey, who Served in the American Revolution . [Morristown, 1979]. 197 p. Plates. Wrappers. $45
Alphabetical listing, with biographical and genealogical data. A highly useful work.
25. (HUNTERDON COUNTY). Vanishing Landscapes of Hunterdon County . [Flemington, 2003.] 4to. [3], 73 p. Color photographs throughout. Cloth. $30
Lovely photographic essay on rural Hunterdon County, mostly photographs of barns, farm- steads, and various aspects of agriculture. 26. (KEYPORT). Asparagus crate label, "New Jersey Green Tip Asparagus. Grown by Furman Mason, Keyport, N. J. Freshest, because grown within two hours of New York City." 8 x 9 1/2 in. Printed in red. Fine. $25
Monmouth County.
27. [LATOURETTE, GUY S.] A North Jersey Jaunt . [N.p., n.d., but ca. 1873.] 88 p. Cloth (some rubbing at extremities). James M. Ransom's copy, with his signature, bookplate, and several marginal notes in his hand. $175
Delightful privately printed account of a wagon trip from Piermont and Nyack, New York, through northern New Jersey, apparently taken in the summer of 1871. The anonymous author is Guy Seguine LaTourette (b. 1849); his traveling companions are Berckley T. Wood and DeWitt ____. There is considerable description of the routes travelled and the hotels in which they stayed. The most detailed descriptions are of Greenwood Lake, Franklin Furnace, Sparta, Newton including Moody's Rock and Devil's Hole, Schooley's Mountain and the Heath House, and Newfoundland. LaTourette was a native of Bergen Point.
THE SCHUYLER COPPER MINE
28. [LATROBE, BENJAMIN HENRY]. American Copper-Mines . [Philadelphia? 1800]. 8 p. Removed. Foxed. $1200
Latrobe's letter to the chairman of a Congressional committee in support of a petition by Nicholas J. Roosevelt and others to incorporate a Mine and Metal Company, followed by a history and description of the Schuyler copper mine at Second River, Belleville, New Jersey. The mine was discovered about 1719 by Arent Schuyler, who began shipping the raw ore to England. About 1761 Josiah Hornblower was brought in to develop a steam engine at the mine. In the mid-1790s the mining company was leased by Nicholas J. Roosevelt, who also purchased a tract of land called Soho, on the Passaic River near present-day Belleville, to refine and manufacture the copper. The petition was granted by Congress, and the Mine and Metal Company was incorporated in January 1801. Evans 33987, 37785; Rink 3358; ESTC W37198, recording four copies in America and a fifth at the BL.
29. M'DOWELL, JOHN. Questions on the Bible, for the Use of the Schools . Elizabeth-Town: Mervin Hale, 1822. 152 p. Contemporary blue paper-covered boards, undecorated sheep spine. Lacks rear free endpaper, extremities rubbed, else a very good, tight copy. $90
Stereotyped edition of this highly popular school text. M'Dowell (1780-1863) was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown from 1804 to 1833. Shoemaker 9316.
THE FIRST BOOK OF NEW JERSEY ROAD MAPS
30. MOORE, JOSHUA J., and THOMAS W. JONES. The Traveller's Directory, or a Pocket Companion: Shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York, and from Philadelphia to Washington. With Descriptions of the Places through which it Passes, and the Intersections of the Cross Roads ... By S. S. [sic ] Moore & T. W. Jones . Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1802. 8vo. [6], 52 p. 38 engraved strip maps on 22 plates. Later cloth-backed boards. Half title and title darkened and slightly soiled, text lightly foxed and with minor offsetting of the maps, as always with this book. A good-plus copy of a book never seen in fine condition. $8500
First edition of the second American book of road maps, following Christopher Colles' exceedingly rare Survey of the Roads of the United States (1789), and the first road map book to provide detailed maps of the road from Philadelphia north through New Jersey to New York, and from Philadelphia south through Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia to Washington. Joshua John Moore and Thomas W. Jones were young surveyors in the employ of the Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey. From several letters they wrote to Carey during the course of the survey (Lea & Febiger papers, PHi), a clear picture emerges of the extremely difficult task they had undertaken. On June 29, 1801, they wrote from New York: "We should have written to you before this, had not fatigue of our daily Journies rendered repose indispensable after the finishing of our Notes and Traverses. After twelve days driving our way through an immense multitude of Questioners, Observers, laughters, & Critics, who generally thronged around us at every place, to our great discomposure at first ... we are at length arrived here. If astonishment would ensure success to a work, we may entertain strong hopes indeed of ours; but it has nearly exhausted our health, as every violent effort naturally must...." Upon completion of the surveys, the maps were drawn by the surveyors. They locate crossroads, streams, taverns, churches and other public buildings, and occasionally private houses. Carey employed four engravers to produce the plates: William Harrison, Jr., and Francis Shallus, who did the bulk of the work, and John Draper and James Smither, Jr. The text, also assembled by Moore and Jones, describes the various towns through which the roads pass, including sites of interest to the traveler. The book is very scarce. In the past 35 years only three copies have appeared at auction. The last, an ex-library copy at Christie's in 2007, brought $10,625. Carey printed a second edition in 1804, with revised and expanded text, but the maps were printed from the same plates and are identical to those in the first edition, with no alterations. Copies of the second edition appear periodically on the market. For a highly detailed account of the production of this important early American map book, see Felcone, New Jersey Books , 886. Howes M-778; Streeter sale 3969; S&S 2686.
31. (MORRIS CANAL). New Jersey. Attorney General. Opinion of the Attorney General in Reference to the Abandonment of the Morris Canal and Appointment of Commissioners . Trenton, 1921. 7 p. Wrappers. With library stamps on title and inside front wrappers. $45
Opinion of Thomas F. McCran on abandonment matters.
THE FIRST NEW BRUNSWICK DIRECTORY
32. (NEW BRUNSWICK). A Directory of the City of New-Brunswick, for 1855 . New Brunswick: J. Terhune, 1855. [13], 96, [36] p. Leather-backed printed paper-covered boards, very skillfully rebacked in perfect period style. Other than very light soiling of the boards, a remarkably fine, fresh copy. $650
The first New Brunswick city directory, compiled by (or at least for) Augustus Fitz Randolph Taylor, a New Brunswick physician. The next New Brunswick directory was not issued until 1865. In forty years of specializing in New Jerseyana, this is only the second copy of this directory that we've handled. And this is the finest copy one could hope for. Felcone, New Jersey Books , 531.
33. NEW JERSEY. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of the State of New Jersey for the Year 1854. Trenton, 1855. 103 p. Colored frontis., plates. Wrappers (a few small chips). $150
The first report of the second geological survey of New Jersey. The frontispiece is a colored lithographic view of the Delaware River valley from Dingman's Ferry. A New Brunswick printing of this same report also exists. See Felcone, New Jersey Books , 947, for considerable information on this geological survey.
34. NEW JERSEY. GEOLOGIST, STATE. . . . Annual Report of the State Geologist, for the Year 1885 . Trenton, 1885. 228 p. Illus., folding plates. Cloth-backed boards. $50
The folding frontispiece is a map of Sandy Hook. At head of title: Geological Survey of New Jersey.
35. NEW JERSEY. GEOLOGIST, STATE. . . . Annual Report of the State Geologist, for the Year 1890 . Trenton, 1891. 305 p. Illus., folding maps and plates. Cloth-backed boards. Front cover and endpapers a trifle browned, else very good. $45
Includes much on iron mines and iron mining in New Jersey. At head of title: Geological Survey of New Jersey.
36. NEW JERSEY. GEOLOGIST, STATE. Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey . Trenton, 1910. 512 p. Maps and plates, including a separate portfolio of large folding maps, "Maps Accompanying Report...." Cloth (some wear, inner hinges loose). James M. Ransom's copy, annotated with marginal notes and addenda and with numerous laid-in notes, clippings, letters to Ransom, &c. $300
Compiled by William S. Bayley. Still the most comprehensive single work on iron mines in New Jersey, and much sought after, particularly with the separate portfolio of maps which is usually missing. Includes descriptions of scores of mines. Ransom was the leading authority on iron mining in New Jersey and the author of Vanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos (1966). Final Report of the State Geologist, Volume VII.
BOUND VOLUME OF THE NEWARK DAILY ADVERTISER: 1843
37. NEWARK DAILY ADVERTISER : A bound half-year run, from 3 January to 30 June, 1843. Neatly and sturdily bound in canvas-backed boards, lettered on the spine. Clean and very good. $300
One of the leading Newark dailies.
38. OPDYKE, CHARLES WILSON. The Op Dyck Genealogy, Containing the Opdyck-Opdycke-Opdyke- Updike American Descendants of the Wesel and Holland Families . New York, 1889. ix, [33], 499 p. Plates. Half leather. Spine very dry, front outer hinge broken. Internally fine and tight. $400
The very rare illustrated edition, with scores of inserted plates depicting original manuscripts, portraits, photographs of early Opdyke family homes, &c. An important early New Jersey genealogy, with much on the family in Hunterdon, Warren, Somerset, and Mercer Counties, and elsewhere. The standard edition of the book is unillustrated. However a few copies were produced containing many dozens of inserted plates of Opdykes/Updikes and their homes and ancestral seats and related documents. In forty years of handling rare New Jerseyana, this is the first of the illustrated copies we're ever had, and only the second one we've seen.
THE DUNHAM ATLAS OF PLAINFIELD: 1894
39. (PLAINFIELD). Atlas of the City of Plainfield, Union County, and Borough of North Plainfield, Somerset County, New Jersey. 1894 . Plainfield: F.A. Dunham, 1894. Folio. Title leaf, double-page index map, and 12 double-page colored maps, all linen-backed. Original cloth, leather spine and corners. Spine and corners worn, outer hinges split, else a very clean and desirable copy. $900
The highly detailed maps locate private houses and public and commercial buildings, streets and roads, and show landowners' names.
40. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the College of New Jersey, for 1845-1846 . Princeton, 1846. 24 p. Frontis. Removed. $40
41. (ROCKAWAY). A Brief History of the Church at Rockaway, New-Jersey; with the Manual, Confession, and Covenant of the said Church; and a List of the Officers and Members... . Newark, 1833. 32 p. Wrappers (a few edge chips). $90
Includes a catalogue of church members and a sermon by Rev. Barnabus King at the dedication of the new church. Morris County.
42. STEVENS, STEPHANIE B. Beneath these Waters. A History of Round Valley, Hunterdon County, New Jersey . [Flemington, 2009.] [2], viii, 82 p. Illus. Wrappers. $20
Local history, with much on the early agricultural tradition of the area and good photos of houses and barns. ROBERT STEWART, TRAVELLING BOOKSELLER
43. STEWART'S WASHINGTON ALMANAC, for the Year of our Lord 1810 ... Calculated for the Meridian of New-Jersey. By Andrew Beers . [N.p.]: Printed for Robert Stewart, travelling bookseller, Monmouth County, New Jersey, [1809]. [36] p. Crude woodcut portrait on title. Stitched. Some minor chipping at extremities of blank margins, very slightly toned, else very good. $325
A rare almanac published for the shadowy Robert Stewart, traveling bookseller of Monmouth County. See Felcone, New Jersey Books , 1317, for a discussion of Stewart and his almanacs. S&S 18688; Drake 5273; Felcone, New Jersey Books , 1319.
44. STORMS, JOHN C. The Story of Wampum. How Indian Money was Manufactured by the Early Settlers of the Pascack Valley . Park Ridge, 1939. [1], 34, [1] leaves. Illustrated with actual photographs taken and mounted within the text by Storms. Cloth. New Jersey folklorist Henry C. Beck's copy, and Bergen County historian James M. Ransom's copy. $225
"Second edition, revised and enlarged." Storms was a Bergen County folklorist and historian who produced his books by hand, in most cases reproducing the text from typewritten copy and then neatly mounting the photographs. These books were done in very small editions and are quite scarce. The present copy contains a mounted photograph at the end that is not in other copies of the book. In addition this copy has a wonderful double association.
UNIQUE J. C. STORMS VOLUME
45. STORMS, JOHN C. Three original typescript books by Storms, bound together into one volume, each illustrated with original photos taken (or copied by) Storms and neatly mounted within the text. Titles and captions of all photos neatly lettered in pen and ink by Storms. James M. Ransom's copy, with a brief reminiscence of Storms on the front endpaper. Homemade cloth binding worn along spine. $300
Contains: "The Col. Baylor Massacre at Rivervale, Bergen Co."; "The Wampum Industry in the Pascack Valley"; and "Park Ridge Schools Past and Present." Each of these texts was later reproduced by Storms and made into small handmade editions with original photos taken and mounted by Storms. The present work, however, is original and may have been made by Storms as a prototype for his later "editions."
46. (SUFFRAGE). New Jersey. Laws, &c. ... An Act to Ascertain, by Proper Proof, Citizens who Shall be Entitled to the Rights of Suffrage. Approved April 4, 1866 . Trenton, 1866. 13 p. Wrappers. Marks from prior folding, overall light soiling. Good only. $75
At head of title, State of New Jersey . The election registry law.
47. TOBEY, BARBARA W. The Ackerman Family . N.p.: David Ackerman Descendants, 1980-88. 4to. 2 vols. [2], 123 p.; [14], 318 p. Cloth. $175 The standard genealogy of this prolific New Jersey and New York family, recording the first seven generations descended from David Ackerman and Lysbet Bellier in America from 1662. Compiled for the Ackerman Family Association.
48. TOSIELLO, LORRAINE. A History of the Medical Profession in Westfield, New Jersey: From Origins to 2000 . Westfield, [2009]. 79, [1] p. Illus. Wrappers. $20
Union County.
49. UNCLE BEN'S NEW-JERSEY ALMANAC, for 1844... . Princeton: R. E. Hornor, [1843]. [64] p. Stitched. Final leaf torn but without loss, some dogearing. $90
This and another almanac of the same year were the first almanacs published in Princeton. Considerable pro-Henry Clay next. Felcone, New Jersey Books , 1375; Drake 5482.
THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY WAR CHATHAM ALMANAC
50. THE UNITED STATES ALMANACK, for the Year of our Lord 1780 . Chatham: Shepard Kollock, [1779]. 15 [of 16] leaves, lacking the final leaf, D4 (present in photostatic copy). Stitched as issued. Some staining and light browning, gutter tear on the title leaf, else a very good copy. $1500
The first Revolutionary War Chatham almanac, and one of the first products of the Chatham press. Shepard Kollock had completed his Revolutionary War service and opened the third printing office in New Jersey, in Chatham, earlier in the year. He remained in Chatham for a little over four years before moving to New Brunswick briefly and then Elizabethtown. Imprints from Kollock's Revolutionary War Chatham press are very rare and almost never come on the market. This first Kollock almanac was calculated by the distinguished early American mathematician and scientist David Rittenhouse, and is the only New Jersey almanac calculated by Rittenhouse. Slightly imperfect, but a very rare and desirable almanac. Felcone, Printing in New Jersey, 1754–1800 , 291, locating only five copies; Bristol B4980; Drake 5118; ESTC W22844.
RARE REVOLUTIONARY WAR CHATHAM ALMANAC
51. THE UNITED STATES ALMANACK, for the Year of our Lord 1782 ... By Andrew Ellicott . Chatham: Shepard Kollock, [1781]. 16 [of 18] leaves, lacking the final two leaves, C5-6. Stitched as issued. Some staining and flyspecking, but a good-plus copy. $1000
Shepard Kollock completed his Revolutionary War service and opened the third printing office in New Jersey in early 1779. He remained in Chatham for a little over four years before moving to New Brunswick briefly and then Elizabethtown. Imprints from Kollock's Revolutionary War Chatham press are very rare and almost never come on the market. His almanac for 1782 was calculated by Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820), a distinguished surveyor and mathematician who, in his younger years, produced a series of almanacs, of which this is one of the first. It also contains a lengthy contribution by Uzal Ogden, "The Libertine Reclaimed," on pages [5-19]. Slightly imperfect, but a very rare almanac. Felcone, Printing in New Jersey, 1754–1800 , 353; Evans 17379; Drake 5125; ESTC W22845.
52. WINFIELD, CHARLES H. The Block-House by Bull's Ferry ... Including the "Cow Chace" by Major André . New York, 1904. [8], 61 p. Plates, map. Cloth (dust-soiled). $100
No. 6 of 50 copies on large paper, of a total edition of 250. A Bergen County Revolutionary War incident.
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