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Donald Heald Rare Books a Selection of Rare Books Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books Donald Heald Rare Books A Selection of Rare Books Donald Heald Rare Books 124 East 74 Street New York, New York 10021 T: 212 · 744 · 3505 F: 212 · 628 · 7847 [email protected] www.donaldheald.com Fall 2015 Americana: Items 1 - 28 Travel and Cartography: Items 29 - 51 Natural History: Items 52 - 76 Color Plate & Illustrated: Items 77 - 91 Miscellany: Items 92 - 100 All purchases are subject to availability. All items are guaranteed as described. Any purchase may be returned for a full refund within ten working days as long as it is returned in the same condition and is packed and shipped correctly. The appropriate sales tax will be added for New York State residents. Payment via U.S. check drawn on a U.S. bank made payable to Donald A. Heald, wire transfer, bank draft, Paypal or by Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover cards. AMERICANA 1 [AFRICAN AMERICANA] - Worthington G. SNETHEN. The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848. New York: The A[merican] and F[oreign] Anti-Slavery Society, 1848. 8vo (8 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches). 61, [1, blank], [1], [1, blank] pp. Ad leaf in rear. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco over period marbled paper covered boards. Rare printing of the antebellum laws relating to African Americans in Washington, D.C. The author, a Washington D.C. attorney and the former solicitor of the General Land Office, notes on an advertisement leaf in the rear that he has “nearly completed the Black Code of each of the States of the Union. That of Maryland will next make its appearance.” However, no further publications beyond the present digest of the laws relating to African Americans in Washington, D.C. were published. Scarce. Sabin 57332; Work, p. 343. (#29711) $ 4,750 2 [AFRICAN AMERICANA] - John Belton O’NEALL (1793-1863). The Negro Law of South Carolina, collected and digested by ... Columbia, SC: John A. Bowman, 1848. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 56pp. Errata on verso of p. 49. 6pp. index in rear. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco over period marbled paper covered boards. The black code of South Carolina in the antebellum years. Judge O’Neall was born in Newberry County, South Carolina and was admitted to the bar in 1814. After serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives, he became a judge, remaining on the bench for thirty-five years including a period as the chief justice of the state’s highest court. He prepared the present digest of the state’s black code on behalf of the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina for presentation to the members of the state legislature. Organized in chapters by subject with legal citations in the margins, the work includes a detailed index in the rear. Scarce. Sabin 85445. (#29368) $ 5,250 3 AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Cambridge, June 14, 1775. The following is a Copy of an Infamous Thing handed about here Yesterday, and now reprinted to satisfy the Curiosity of the Public. As it is replete with consummate Impudence, the most abominable Lies, and stuffed with daring Expressions of Tyranny, as well as Rebellion against the established, constitutional Authority of the AMERICAN STATES, no one will hesitate in pronouncing it be the genuine Production of that perfidious, petty Tyrant, Thomas Gage ... [Watertown: Benjamin Edes, 1775]. Letterpress broadside (14 x 6 1/2 inches). Seven-line publisher’s note at the head of the broadside [title as above] surmounting a ruled line, five- line caption title (“By his Excellency / The Hon. THOMAS GAGE, Esq; / Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over His Majesty’s Province of Massachusetts- / Bay, and Vice Admiral of the same. / A PROCLAMATION.”), text in two columns (beginning “Whereas the infatuated Multitudes...”). Signed in print by Gage. (Expert restoration repairing tears, reinstatement of approximately eight words). The very rare “patriot printing” of General Gage’s proclamation against the “Infatuated Multitudes” of Massachusetts. The Patriot printing of Gov. Thomas Gage’s notorious proclamation of martial law in Massachusetts was originally issued on June 12, 1775 in Boston, and reprinted, with a sarcastic preface, by the patriot printer Benjamin Edes two days later in Watertown, the headquarters of the American resistance. Issued less than two months after Lexington and Concord, and shortly before Bunker Hill, Gage castigates the Minutemen who fought the British troops on April 19 “from behind walls and lurking holes,” but offers pardon to those who would lay down their arms, except John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Although issued under Gage’s name as commander-in-chief, the proclamation was written by Gen. John Burgoyne. Its insulting language and arrogant tone did more harm than good, and the American side immediately recognized the propaganda value of spreading the text, hence this printing. Open war began in Massachusetts at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. On May 5, the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts resolved that since the military governor, General Thomas Gage, had “utterly disqualified himself to serve this colony as Governor... he ought to be considered and guarded against as an unnatural and inveterate enemy to this country.” Against this background of open opposition to British authority, Gage wrote to Lord Dartmouth on June 12, “I see no prospect of any offers of Accomdation and have issued a Proclamation for the Exercise of the Law martial.” At the outset of his Proclamation Gage acknowledges that a state of open rebellion exists in the colony that is ostensibly under his authority: “The Infringements which have been committed upon the most sacred Rights of the Crown and People of Great-Britain, are too many to enumerate on one Side, and are all too atrocious to be palliated on the other. All unprejudiced People who have been Witnesses of the late Transactions, in this and the neighbouring Provinces, will find upon a transient Review, Marks of Premeditation and Conspiracy that would justify the fulness of Chastisement....The Authors of the present unnatural Revolt never daring to trust their Cause or their Actions, to the Judgment of an impartial Public...have uniformly placed their chief Confidence in the Suppression of Truth: And while indefatigable and shameless Pains have been taken to obstruct every Appeal to the real Interest of the People of America; the grossest Forgeries, Calumnies and Absurdities that ever insulted human Understanding, have been imposed upon their Credulity....The Press, that distinguished Appendage of public Liberty...has been invariably prostituted to the most contrary Purposes....” Gage proceeds to characterize the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord as cowardly guerillas: “The Minds of Men having been thus gradually prepared for the worst Extremities, a number of armed Persons, to the amount of many Thousands assembled on the 19th of April last, and from behind Walls, and lurking Holes, attacked a Detachment of the King’s Troops who not expecting so consummate an Act of Phrenzy, unprepared for Vengeance, and willing to decline it, made use of their Arms only in their own Defence. Since that Period the Rebels, deriving Confidence from Impunity, have added Insult to Outrage; have repeatedly fired upon the King’s Ships and Subjects,...have possessed the Roads, and other Communications by which the Town of Boston was supplied with Provisions; and...carry Depredation and Distress wherever they turn their Steps. The Actions of the 19th of April are of such Notoriety, as must baffle all Attempts to contradict them....” Feigning magnanimity, and “to spare the Effusion of Blood,” the Governor offers a royal pardon “to all Persons who shall forthwith lay down their Arms and return to the duties of peaceable Subjects, excepting only from the Benefit of such Pardon, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock, whose Offences are of too flagitious a Nature to admit of any other Consideration than that of condign Punishment.” For his part, Samuel Adams wrote to his wife from Philadelphia, on June 28, 1775, “Gage has made me respectable by naming me first among those who are to receive no favor from him. I thoroughly despise him and his Proclamation. It is the Subject of Ridicule here....” (Quoted in Smith [ed]., LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO CONGRESS, 1:552). The net effect of the Gage proclamation seems to have been to stiffen the resolve of the colonists against the Crown. The first, official, printing of this broadside was executed in Boston in the shop of the Loyalist printer, Margaret Draper, and her young assistant John Howe, under Draper’s imprint. There was a general exodus of printers from Boston in the spring of 1775, and by the summer she was the only one still publishing a newspaper. Draper had taken over the shop after her husband’s death in 1774, and only operated it under her own imprint for a year. This Draper printing is very rare, with only four copies known - at the Public Record Office in London, at the Huntington Library, the Clements Library at the University of Michigan, and at the University of Virginia (the copy listed at the American Antiquarian Society is an electrostatic copy of the one held at the Public Record Office). The rebellious Americans, as well, recognized the pivotal importance of the Gage proclamation, and the propaganda value of its sometimes insulting and overheated language. The present broadside is that printing, almost certainly done by Benjamin Edes at Watertown, where the Massachusetts Provincial Congress sat. It has an explanatory note in a single column at the top of the sheet, with the Gage text in two columns below.
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