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William Reese Company 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is devoted to a broad range of new acquisitions. These include a large part of the great atlas, The Atlantic Neptune; the first London edition of Thomas Jef- ferson’s first book; Daguerre’s first pamphlet on photography; and a series of American color plate books by Beauclerk, Cassin, Elliot, Heade, and Heine. Also present are such classics as the narrative of the first Russian circumnavigation, by Krusenstern; a primary French and Indian War work, by Jefferys; Downing’s book on American fruits, with the seldom seen color plates; important Abraham Lincoln items; a number of rare Civil War pieces; and much more.

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On the cover: 38. [Connecticut Carriage Advertisement]: Lawrence, Bradley & Pardee, Carriage Manufacturers, Nos. 61 and 67 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn. Hartford. [ca. 1860]. Contemporary News of the Lincoln Assassination

1. Abott, Abott A.: THE ASSASSINATION AND DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AT WASHINGTON, ON THE 14th OF APRIL, 1865. New York: American News Company, [1865]. 12pp. Self-wrappers. Stitching perished. Very good.

According to Midland Notes, this is the “first separately published account of the assassination.” Each leaf is edged in black to represent mourning. The text covers events of the evening of the 14th of April and through the morning of the 15th, including the events at Ford’s Theatre and the attack on Secretary Seward. It was probably printed within a few days of Lincoln’s death, certainly prior to the capture of any of those connected with the plot. “Employs the garbled and conflicting deathbed dispatches, and possibly their earliest appearance in pamphlet form” – Eberstadt. FISH 3. MONAGHAN 372. McDADE 607. MIDLAND NOTES 4:1. EBERSTADT 165:451. $2250.

With Frederick Douglass and Others

2. [African-Americana]: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CON- VENTION OF COLORED PEOPLE, AND THEIR FRIENDS, HELD IN TROY, N.Y., ON THE 6th, 7th, 8th AND 9th OCTO- BER 1847. Troy: J.C. Kneeland & Co., 1847. 32pp. Dbd. Light foxing to final leaf. Very good.

A scarce pamphlet recording the proceedings of the 1848 National Convention of Colored People, attended by Frederick Douglass and other notable African Americans. Included here are reports by committees on the possibility of establishing African American Commerce with Jamaica and the West Indies, agriculture, and the best approaches toward abolition. Looming large at the convention was the question of whether it would be advisable to establish a National Press as a vehicle for the movement – a newspaper “that shall constantly point out the principles which should guide our conduct and our labors, which shall cheer us from one end of the land to the other, by recording our acts, our sufferings, our temporary defeats and our steadily approaching triumph – or rather the triumph of the glorious truth ‘Human Equality,’ whose servants and soldiers we are.” In attendance at the meeting was Frederick Douglass, who argued with many others that a press on that scale would be unsustainable: “A paper started as a national organ, would soon dwindle down to be the organ of a clique....He was in favor of sustaining the Ram’s Horn, National Watchman, and Northern Star.” Scarce. Unrecorded by Blockson or Sabin. OCLC locates fewer than ten copies. $2750.

3. Agassiz, Louis: Cabot, J. Elliot: LAKE SUPERIOR: ITS PHYSICAL CHARACTER, VEGETATION, AND ANIMALS, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF OTHER AND SIMILAR REGIONS...WITH A NARRATIVE OF THE TOUR...AND CONTRIBUTIONS BY OTHER SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMEN. ELEGANTLY ILLUS- TRATED. Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850. x,[2],[9]-428pp. plus advertisements and seventeen plates. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Small repairs to spine and corners. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Partially unopened. Very good.

First edition of this scarce and celebrated account of the natural life and landscape of the Lake Superior region, by Swiss biologist and geologist Louis Agassiz. He was renowned for his innovative scholarship of natural history, eventually emigrating to the U.S. where he became a professor of zoology and geology at Harvard. “Considered to be the most authoritative work on the Lake Superior region for that time” – Lande. HOWES A88, “aa.” TPL 3044. SABIN 506. LANDE 1531. $750.

4. Alcedo, Antonio de: THE GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORI- CAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES. CONTAINING AN ENTIRE TRANSLATION OF THE SPAN- ISH WORK...WITH LARGE ADDITIONS AND COMPILA- TION FROM MODERN VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, AND FROM ORIGINAL AND AUTHENTIC INFORMATION. London. 1812-1815. Five volumes. [2],xl,[16],574; [4],597; [4],512; [4],636; [4],462, [2],105pp. Modern black cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges of several volumes cracking, shelf numbers in white ink on spine, institutional stamps and mark- ings on titlepages, top edges, and rear pastedowns. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Good plus.

First English translation, after the first Madrid edition of 1786. An important reference work on colonial Spanish America, arranged as an alphabetical gazetteer of places, with a wealth of statistics and data on each, as well as a dictionary of terms peculiar to the Americas in the last volume. Contains descriptions of all the major provinces of Latin America, as well as Spanish outposts in the present-day Southwest and Southeast, including Florida and California. Borrows from most of the reliable contemporary and earlier accounts of travel and exploration. Translated from the Spanish by G.A. Thompson. Sabin quotes Lowndes as stating that this edition, because of its additions, is far superior to the original Spanish version. SABIN 683. $2500. Susan B. Anthony Charged for Illegally Voting

5. [Anthony, Susan B.]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRIAL OF SUSAN B. ANTHONY, ON THE CHARGE OF ILLEGAL VOTING, AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NOV., 1872, AND ON THE TRIAL OF BEVERLY W. JONES, ED- WIN T. MARSH AND WILLIAM B. HALL, THE INSPECTORS OF ELECTION BY WHOM HER VOTE WAS RECEIVED. Roch- ester, N.Y. 1874. vii,212pp. Bound to style in half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Titlepage repaired in outer margin. Light tanning, otherwise internally clean. Very good.

The scarce published transcript of the famous 1873 trial in which Anthony was convicted of illegal voting and fined $100. She had cast a vote in the 1872 presidential election in Rochester (voting for Ulysses S. Grant). After her conviction she told the court, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty,” and true to her word, she did not. The work also includes an account of the trial of the three election workers who accepted the votes of Anthony and fifteen other women. $3500.

6. [Armstrong, James L.]: REMINISCENCES; OR AN EXTRACT FROM THE CATALOGUE OF GENERAL JACKSON’S ‘JUVE- NILE INDISCRETIONS,’ BETWEEN THE AGES OF 23 AND 60. [N.p. 1828]. 8pp. Folded half sheet. Some foxing. Very good. Untrimmed and unopened.

A scarce anti-Jackson pamphlet from the 1828 presidential campaign. According to the preface the author, Dr. James L. Armstrong, is “A gentleman of irreproach- able character in the State of Tennessee, near the place where Gen. Jackson himself resides. Dr. Armstrong served in the last war, and is a highly respected member of the Methodist church.” In this short screed he demonstrates Jackson’s “intemperate life and character” by describing more than a dozen duels, challenges, and other altercations, including detailed descriptions of the fight with Thomas Hart Benton and the notorious Dickinson duel. He claims that these are “only a short extraction” of Jackson’s belligerence, and that he has evidence of “nearly one hundred fights or violent and abusive quarrels.” WISE & CRONIN 143. $950.

7. Audubon, John James: ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY, OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ACCOMPANIED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS REPRESENTED IN THE WORK ENTITLED THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, AND INTERSPERSED WITH DE- LINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND MANNERS. Ed- inburgh: Adam Black, 1831. xxiv,512,15pp. Lacks half title. Large octavo. Original cloth, rebacked, paper label. Boards lightly scuffed, corners and edges worn. Light dampstaining to initial leaves, scattered foxing. Good plus. Un- trimmed.

First volume of the first edition of the separately-issued text for the elephant folio Birds of America. The genesis of this work is interesting: as early as November 1826, Audubon had begun thinking about the text which should accompany his engraved illustrations of birds. He noted in his journal: “I shall publish the letterpress in a separate book, at the same time with the illustrations and shall accompany the descriptions of the birds with many anecdotes and accounts of localities connected with the birds themselves...” (quoted by M.R. Audubon). Audubon had taken the decision to publish the letterpress separately (and give it free to the subscribers to the plate volumes) because, according to British copyright law, had the letterpress accompanied the engravings, Audubon would have been obliged to deposit a copy of the work in each of the nine copyright libraries in the United Kingdom. This would have placed a strain on the economics of the production of the book. Work on the text did not begin in earnest until the end of 1830, just as Havell was nearing the completion of the engraving of the first 100 drawings. Between 1831 and 1837 Audubon and his family made three trips to America. Audubon was back in London between 1837 and 1839, where he completed the descriptions of the last two volumes of the Ornithological Biography. On Nov. 20, 1838, Audu- bon wrote to Bachman: “My fourth Vol. is finished and in 10 days I will have 200 copies of it at London where I hope you will be and receive several Copies to take over with you, for yourselves and others as then directed” (quoted by Fries, p.111). This copy includes the separately issued prospectus and list of subscribers for the elephant folio edition, bound into some copies. HOWES A389, “aa.” MEISEL III, p.406. SABIN 2366. CLARK II:179 (ref ). SERVIES 1532. Waldemar H. Fries, The Double Elephant Folio the Story of Audubon’s Birds of America (Chicago, 1973), pp.20, 21, passim. M.R. Audubon, Audubon and His Journals 1897, Vol. I, p.163. $2500.

8. [Banvard, John]: DESCRIPTION OF BANVARD’S PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, PAINTED ON THREE MILES OF CANVAS: EXHIBITING A VIEW OF COUNTRY 1200 MILES IN LENGTH, EXTENDING FROM THE MOUTH OF THE MIS- SOURI RIVER TO THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS; BEING BY FAR THE LARGEST PICTURE EVER EXECUTED BY MAN. Boston: John Putnam, 1847. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit soiled and dusty, front joint partially split, spine a bit chipped. Foxed and toned. Good plus.

An extensive promotional description of John Ban- vard’s famous three-mile panorama of the Missis- sippi River, the most successful exhibition of its kind. Large-scale visual exhibitions built around a single theme had been gaining in popularity since Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre’s development of the diorama in Paris in 1822, but when Banvard’s landscape behemoth arrived in Boston in 1846, a new age in public entertainment based on a shared visual event arrived with it. Banvard chose a topic with wide public appeal, and his scrolling profile of the romantic Mississippi River captured the attention and opened the purse strings of numerous patrons in Boston, New York, London, Paris, and beyond. Banvard’s success was not grounded in any real artistic talent, but rather in the charming tales and anecdotes he told on stage that brought his collection of river scenes to life. The present text, in addition to the expected testimonials, includes scene-by-scene descriptions of the panorama itself. These descriptions offer textual evidence of Banvard’s narrative performance and contain the real source of the panorama’s power. These charming vignettes of provincial life along the mighty Mississippi set his visual extravaganza in context and ultimately made Banvard a wealthy man. HOWES B110, “aa.” EBERSTADT 133:652. SABIN 3223. DAB I, p.582. GROCE & WALLACE, p.27. $1250.

9. Bartlett, John Russell: BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. A CATA- LOGUE OF BOOKS RELATING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA IN THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE JOHN CARTER BROWN OF PROVIDENCE, R.I. PART I. – 1482 TO 1601. Provi- dence. 1875. ix,[1],526pp. plus facsimiles (some folding). Color titlepage vignette. Large, thick quarto. Original pebbled cloth, paper label. Minor edge wear, corners worn, minor chipping to spine label. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. [with:] BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. A CAT- ALOGUE OF BOOKS RELATING TO NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA...PART II. – 1600 TO 1700 Second Edition. Providence. 1882. viii,[2],647pp. plus facsimiles. Color titlepage vignette. Original cloth, paper label. Minor edge wear, some chipping to spine label, corners bumped. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very good.

The limited edition printing of the first two volumes of the John Carter Brown Library catalogue, comprised of the first part (which covers 1482-1601) and the second and the greatly expanded edition of Part II (which covers 1600-1700). Each was printed in an edition limited to 100 copies. The third part, which completed the set and took the catalogue up to 1800, was not completed until years later. These two volumes, beautifully printed in very small editions, stand among the rarest examples of 19th-century American bibliography. They are made especially sumptuous by the inclusion of beautiful facsimile illustrations from the earliest of Americana rarities. One of the first major references for early Americana. $1750.

Superb Panoramic Steel Engraving of Gettysburg

10. [Battle of Gettysburg]: [Bachelder, John]: GETTYSBURG. REPULSE OF LONGSTREET’S ASSAULT. Boston: James Drummond, 1876. Pan- oramic steel engraving on thick paper, 19½ x 40 inches. Some tanning, with some darker vertical columns of browning. A very good example of this remarkable engraving.

A superb panoramic steel engraving capturing in fantastic detail John Bachelder’s conception of the climactic event of the Battle of Gettysburg: Longstreet’s assault, including Pickett’s Charge, on the third day against the Union center at Cemetery Hill. On July 3, 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered Lieut. Gen. Longstreet and his commanders (including Pickett) to assault Union general Meade’s positions on Cemetery Ridge. Over 12,000 Confederate soldiers marched across the battlefield in an attempt to breach the Union lines but were caught out in the open, taking heavy losses, suffering approximately a 50% casualty rate. This advance marked the “high-water mark of the Confederacy” and is arguably the turning point of the Civil War; as the war would continue for another two years, the Confederates never launched another offensive campaign. This fascinating engraving was executed by H.B. Hall, Jr., based on a larger painting by James Walker under the supervision of John Bachelder. Bachelder was a portrait and landscape painter, lithographer, and photographer. During the Civil War he accompanied the Army of the Potomac and made many sketches of military life and important battles. He is best known as the historian of the Battle of Gettysburg and was a dominant factor in the preservation of the Gettysburg Battlefield. $1750.

Color Plates of the Papineau Rebellion in Lower Canada

11. Beauclerk, Lord Charles: LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF MILI- TARY OPERATIONS IN CANADA UNDER HIS EXCELLENCY SIR JOHN COLBORNE...DURING THE LATE INSURREC- TION. FROM SKETCHES BY LORD CHARLES BEAUCLERK, CAPTAIN ROYAL REGIMENT. London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, published by A. Flint, 1840. Lithographic map, six handcolored lithographic plates after Lord Beauclerk, drawn on stone by N. Hartnell. Folio. Publisher’s cloth-backed letterpress brown stiff paper wrappers. Very good. In a black morocco box.

A rare color plate book, containing “the most comprehensive set of prints dealing with the Papineau Rebellion in Lower Canada” (Spendlove). There is an immediacy about this set of prints that is particularly compelling. Lord Beauclerk, the third son of the Duke of St. Albans, was an eye-witness to the events described, serving as an officer in the British army, and made on-the-spot sketches from which the images were drawn on stone by Hartnell. “The most valued account of the Rebellion of 1837 is the set of seven...lithographs after sketches made by...Beauclerk....The views are attractive in both coloring and composition, and depict various actions in November and December 1837” – Allodi. GAGNON II:124. LANDE 1559. SABIN 4164. SPENDLOVE, p.85. TPL 2037. Mary Allodi, “Prints and Early Illustration” in The Book of Canadian Antiques, p.304. $17,500. Blood in the Streets of New Haven: May Day at Yale, 1970

12. [Black Panthers]: WHAT DO THE PANTHERS STAND FOR.... THE PEOPLE CHARGE YALE WITH COMPLICITY IN THE FRAME-UP OF THE NEW HAVEN 9 [caption title]. New York. 1970. [8]pp. Large folio. Previously folded. Tanned. About very good.

A newspaper published by the Committee to Defend the Panther 21 that broadly states the goals of the Black Panther movement and prints a long letter about the unfairness of the charges against the Panthers, addressed to the judge in charge, John Murtagh. The Panther 21 were accused of conspiring to kill police officers and bomb a number of buildings in New York City in 1970. Although at the time the trial was the longest and the costliest in the history of the state of New York, the twenty-one accused were acquitted on all charges. The newspaper was also printed in the context of the Black Panther trials that were occurring at the same time in New Haven, Con- necticut, where nine Panthers were charged with involvement in the murder of one of their members, Alex Rackley, who had been suspected of being an FBI informant. The back page of the paper publicizes a three-day event for the beginning of May to protest the trial, with a headline that reads: “The People Charge Yale with Complicity in the Frame-up of the New Haven 9.” The program from the boasted speeches from Artie Seale, wife of Black Panthers president Bobby Seale (who was one of the accused on trial), and French writer Jean Genet, and music performed by Santana. These events led directly to the May Day riots in New Haven on May 1, 1970, the height of student unrest at Yale in the period, famously alluded to by the Doors in their song “Peace Frog”: “Blood in the streets of the town of New Haven....” $750.

13. [Blagge, Samuel]: COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT BY THE HOUSE OF REPRE- SENTATIVES...AGAINST SAMUEL BLAGGE, ESQ. A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND A NOTARY PUBLIC...TOGETHER WITH THE RESPONDENT’S ANSWER. Boston. 1826. 34,3pp. 20th-century tan buckram, gilt morocco labels. Shelf mark on spine. Institutional ink stamps on titlepage. Some foxing and toning. Good plus.

A most interesting government document detailing the charges of “misconduct and mal-administration” against Massachusetts notary public Samuel Blagge. Blagge is accused of falsely certifying the citizenship of several men, described variously as “free black,” “free mulatto,” “free yellow,” and “free Indian” men. Contains a short response from Blagge, who is eager to be “dismissed and acquitted of all the matters utterly alleged against him.” The implications seem to point to one of two possibilities: Blagge was either an incompetent administrator, or more likely some kind of abolitionist who was alleging individuals to be free citizens. Scarce, with only eight copies spread over several records in OCLC. SHOEMAKER 25257. $750.

Educating Freed Slaves

14. [Board of Education for Freedmen]: [Slavery]: REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR FREEDMEN, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, FOR THE YEAR 1864. New Orleans. 1865. 25,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Light chipping. Spine reinforced with older tape. Light toning. Pencil annotation on titlepage and some pages of text. Internally very clean. Very good.

A report on the state of education for the freed slaves of Louisiana. The report, compiled by the Board of Education, provides a short history of the state of education for African American communities before the Civil War. It then details the process of building public schools for freedmen during the war, including the difficulties faced during this pursuit. Anecdotes from teachers of these schools demonstrate the opposition and, at times, the danger they faced. It closes with a positive portrayal of the integrity of the pupils and the influences of the schools on the community. Also included are progressive lists, separated by month, showing the growth of schools, teachers, and pupils from each district. $850.

15. Brinton, Daniel: NOTES ON THE FLORIDIAN PENINSULA, ITS LITERARY HISTORY, INDIAN TRIBES, AND ANTIQUITIES. Philadelphia: Joseph Sabin, 1859. viii,[13]-202pp. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Head of spine chipped. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Inscription from author on front flyleaf. Minor toning to edges. Very clean. Very good plus.

A presentation copy (“To Dr. J.V. Ingham with the compliments of the Author”) of this charming intellectual and ethnographic history of Florida, published by the dean of American bibliography, Joseph Sabin, and written by an early expert on Indian mythology. “An appreciative survey of the State by a young student and future anthropologist, based on his own extensive reading and a visit to the State in the winter of 1856-57....While not the first bibliography of Florida, Brinton’s work is by far the best of its time” – Servies. Servies also doubts the veracity of the common understanding that only 100 copies were printed. SERVIES 4357. FIELD 189. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 481. HOWES B779. SABIN 7999. $850. 16. Brownlow, William G.: A POLITICAL REGISTER, SETTING FORTH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE WHIG AND LOCOFOCO PARTIES IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HENRY CLAY. Jonesborough, Tn. 1844. [6], [9]-349pp., as printed. Cloth backstrip and plain paper-covered boards. Con- temporary ink notations on rear board. Some tanning and foxing, a few unobtrusive contemporary ink notations in text. Very good. In a half morocco box.

A rare Jonesborough imprint, with a lengthy political biography of Henry Clay at the outset of his 1844 presidential campaign. Clay lost narrowly to James K. Polk, with the election turning on the question of slavery expansion in Texas. Coleman describes the work as “one of the rarest of the Polk-Clay campaign documents. It presents a conspectus of Whig and Clay policies and action since 1832.” Also contains several crude type-metal political cartoons printed in the text, such as “That Same Old Coon,” “Lay on Nancy,” “Ex-Gov. Polk ‘On His Winding Way,’” and “A Locofoco Rooster.” ALLEN 2039. HOWES B883, “aa.” AII (TENNESSEE) 114. MIDLAND NOTES 93:68. COLEMAN 1308. SABIN 8703. $1500.

17. Burgoyne, John: A LETTER FROM LIEUT. GEN. BURGOYNE TO HIS CONSTITUENTS, UPON HIS LATE RESIGNATION; WITH THE CORRESPONDENCES BETWEEN THE SECRE- TARIES OF WAR AND HIM, RELATIVE TO HIS RETURN TO AMERICA.... Dublin. 1779. 96pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Minor toning and soiling to titlepage, internally clean. Very good.

After his capitulation at Saratoga, Burgoyne returned to England where he was elected to Parliament. In this letter he explains his conduct to his constituents in the face of orders from the King that he return to American and rejoin his captive army. The appendix contains the King’s orders as transmitted by Lord Barrington, and Charles Jenkinson’s letters, informing Burgoyne that the King accepted his resignation. This is the first Irish edition. HOWES B962. SABIN 9251. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 79-12g. ESTC T181704 $1000.

Boston Slave Riot

18. [Burns, Anthony]: BOSTON SLAVE RIOT, AND TRIAL OF AN- THONY BURNS.... Boston. 1854. 86pp. plus [12]pp. of advertisements. Early 20-century buckram, leather label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, spine label slightly chipped. Remnants of paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. An occasional fox mark. Lacking original pictorial wrappers. Good.

Burns was an educated African American who fled from slavery in Virginia to Boston in 1854, where he was arrested for theft. “The excitement in Boston during the following week was said to have been without parallel since the days of the Revolution” – DAB. The court house was attacked and one deputy marshal was killed. Military forces were called in by President Pierce and the Mayor of Boston to prevent another attack. Burns was unsuccessfully defended by Richard Henry Dana (whose argument occupies more than nine pages of this work), among others, and Burns was sent back to Virginia amid staunch protest from the public. This pamphlet covers all aspects of the fugitive’s plight and the proceedings of his trial. SABIN 6505. BAL 4442. DAB III, p.308. $1250.

The Siebert Copy

19. Buttrick, Daniel Sabin, Rev.: ANTIQUITIES OF THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. Vinita: Indian Chieftain, Publish- ers, 1884. [6],20pp. printed in double columns. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly smudged, small chip in fore-edge of front wrapper. Institutional blind stamp on front wrapper. Internally clean. Very good.

This is the Siebert copy of this work, bearing the blind stamp of the Choctaw nation on the front wrapper. Daniel S. Buttrick was a missionary among the Cherokee Indians from 1817 to 1847, and the contents of this volume were taken from his notes on Cherokee history. Buttrick was also the author of The Cherokee Spelling Book (1819), the first book in the Cherokee language. “A valuable contribution to ethnology” – Gilcrease-Hargrett. SIEBERT SALE 924 (this copy). GILCREASE- HARGRETT, p.68. HARGRETT 522. HOWES B1072. GRAFF 5238. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.23. ALLEN, TENNESSEANA 150. $750.

A Scottish View of the American Revolution

20. Campbell, George: THE NATURE, EXTENT, AND IMPORTANCE, OF THE DUTY OF ALLEGIANCE: A SERMON, PREACHED AT ABERDEEN, DECEMBER 12, 1776, BEING THE FAST DAY AP- POINTED BY THE KING, ON ACCOUNT OF THE REBELLION IN AMERICA. Aberdeen: Printed by J. Chalmers and Co., 1778. [2],74pp. Half title. 20th-century plain wrappers. Minor foxing and toning. Very good.

“The second edition, with notes and illustrations” following the first of the previous year, also printed in Aberdeen. Campbell, of Aberdeen, a Church of Scotland minister, argues that the rebellion in America is both contrary to scripture and unreasonable, but that the misguided Americans must be allowed the freedom to discover the errors of republicanism. “The general tenor of this sermon may be gathered from the relish with which he quotes from Burke’s speech of March 22, 1775, describing North Americans as a ‘proud, fierce, jealous, restive, intractable, suspicious, litigious and chicaning race of pettifoggers’” – Lathrop Harper. A scarce Scottish tract on the Revolution. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 77-23b. LATHROP HARPER 201:79. ESTC T39691. SABIN 10217. $2000.

21. [Canadian Laws]: A COLLECTION OF THE ACTS PASSED IN THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN, PARTICULARLY AP- PLYING TO THE PROVINCE OF UPPER-CANADA, AND OF SUCH ORDINANCES OF THE LATE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, AS HAVE FORCE OF LAW THEREIN. [bound with:] STATUTES OF HIS MAJESTY’S PROVINCE OF UPPER CANADA. PASSED IN THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE EIGHTH PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT OF UPPER-CANADA. York. Printed by R.C. Horne / Printed by Charles Fothergill, 1818, 1824. 32,[2],168pp. Quarto. Contem- porary three-quarter calf, gilt leather labels. Extremities worn, spine ends chipped, joints tender. Minor foxing. Good plus.

An interesting collection of British laws governing the dominion of Canada in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, then still under the control of George III. The first work contains session laws from the Canadian Parliament from 1768 to 1803. Acts proposed during this session pertain to “more effectual provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec...” with subsequent revisions, and acts regarding legal jurisdiction and funds for running the Justice Administration in Quebec. The second work covers one very busy session in 1824. Acts include those regulating trade with the United States, administering elections, establishing schools, providing infrastructure, and more. $1000.

One of the Most Important Early Atlases Printed in the United States

22. Carey, Henry Charles, and Isaac Lea (publishers): A COMPLETE HISTORICAL, 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 DISCOV- ERY, SETTLEMENT, 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, 1823. Letterpress title (copyright notice on verso), 1p. advertisement (verso blank), 1p. table of contents (verso blank). Forty-six double-page handcolored engraved maps of the United States, 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 world- wide; five letterpress tables (four double-page [three of these handcolored]); 18pp. of letterpress text. Mounted on guards throughout. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, leather label. Dampstaining along lower edge, causing chipping to initial leaves. Closed tear in bottom margin of first map, repaired with tissue. Very light offsetting from maps. Some dust soiling, light tanning and foxing. Good plus.

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, with substantial historical background text accompanying each map. Field- ing Lucas, the major Baltimore printer, was the principal engraver. 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 includes a smaller map with similar detail, titled “Country drained by the Mississippi Western Section.” Carey & 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 in 1822; this is the second issue, with revised states of three maps (Maine, North Carolina, and Louisiana), with the same printing of the remaining maps and a cancel title. HOWES C133, “aa.” PHILLIPS, ATLASES 1373a. SABIN 15055. WHEAT TRANS- MISSISSIPPI 348, 352. $12,500.

Legendary Civil War Rarity

23. Carter, Robert Goldthwaite: FOUR BROTHERS IN BLUE OR SUN- SHINE AND SHADOWS OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A STORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR FROM BULL RUN TO APPOMATTOX. Washington: Press of Gibson Bros., 1913. xiii,509pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered. Wear to spine ends and corners, gilt fad- ing. Front hinge cracking, text block a bit cocked. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Internally clean. About very good.

One hundred copies printed. “Perhaps the best of personal reminiscences” – Union Bookshelf. “Singularly unique, for this volume is composed largely of the letters from the field of four Massachusetts brothers; all served in the Army of the Po- tomac” – Nevins. HOWES C191, “aa.” NEVINS I, p.67. DORNBUSCH II:1646. UNION BOOKSHELF 12. $2000.

Superb Illustrations of Natural History from the Wilkes Expedition

24. Cassin, John: UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION. DURING THE YEARS 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. UNDER THE COMMAND OF CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N. ATLAS. MAM- MALOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1858. Letterpress title and list of plates, otherwise engraved throughout. Fifty-three engraved plates, with tissue guards, fifty handcolored (forty-two of birds, eleven of mammals), occasional heightening with gum-arabic, by W.H. Dougall and others, after T.P. Peale (32), G.G. White (12), W.E. Hitchcock (6), and E. Sheppard (3). Folio. Contemporary three-quarter green morocco and black cloth, rebacked with original labels preserved. Minor scuffing and rubbing. Endpapers renewed, two modern bookplates on front pastedown. Closed marginal tear to wolves plate, minor foxing to text leaves, scattered occasional light foxing and minor spotting to plates. Very good.

“Masterpieces of hand-colored engraving” (McGrath). This is the plate volume to the first illustrated edition of this important and rare American natural history work, probably limited to no more than 150 copies. The complete work forms Volume VIII of the full set of reports on the United States Exploring Expedition, published in twenty- four volumes between 1844 and 1874. A text volume by Titan Ramsey Peale, published (without plates) in 1848, was suppressed, and although “Peale was the chief zoologist of the expedition his work was utilized by J. Cassin (under Government instruction) and little credit was given him in the elaborate report...on Mammalogy and Ornithology” (Wood, p.606). Bennett reports that “it is said that only 150 sets were issued. The number was certainly small” (p.21). The government employed the best available engravers to work on the plates. The majority of the work was carried out by W.H. Dougall, with other plates by Hin- shelweed, McRae, W.G. Newton, the firm of Rawdon, Wright, Hutch & Edson, and a number of other individual engravers. Not surprisingly, the majority of the original drawings were by Peale, but there were significant contributions from Wil- liam E. Hitchcock, George C. White, and Edwin Sheppard. This atlas includes Hawaiian content. “The ornithology plates of Hawaii interest in this atlas are plate 4, ‘Pandion solitarius (Peale)’ and plate 6 ‘Corvus Hawaiiensis (Peale).’ Plates 4 and 6 are after drawings by Titian Ramsay Peale. Plate 4 shows a bird with a fish in its claws and includes a background view of the Waialua Falls, Kauai; plate 6 has a background depiction of a thatch house and cliffs, probably at or near Kealakekua, Kona” – Forbes. In the company of other great American 19th-century color plate works, the present work is described by Daniel McGrath as “typical of these Editions de Luxe....The best artists, the most skilled engravers and the most delicate colouring combined to make these illustrations masterpieces of hand-coloured engraving.” BENNETT, p.21. FORBES 2240. McGRATH, pp.19, 48-49. NISSEN, ZBI 834. WOOD, p.607. ZIMMER, p.675. FERGUSON 3954. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 85 (note). $27,500.

25. [Civil War]: [Confederate Imprint]: THE CONFEDERATE STATES ALMANAC. AND REPOSITORY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, FOR 1862. Vicksburg, Ms. [1861]. 176pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine perishing, interior chips to front wrapper, some wear at edges. Small patches of dampstaining on initial leaves, light tanning and foxing throughout. Good.

First edition printed in Vicksburg of the Confederate almanac for 1862. With documents relating to the foundation of the Confederacy, plus a lengthy appendix denouncing abolitionism as the cause of disunion, and a screed on the states’ right to secede. CRANDALL 4987. DRAKE 14278. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 5287. $900.

Civil War Telegraph Lines

26. [Civil War]: WAR TELEGRAM MARKING MAP [caption title]. Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1862. Lithographic poster, 38 x 26 inches. Backed with later paper. Old fold lines, some minor soiling and wear. Minor loss at a few folds. Nearly very good.

A handsome and large-scale map of Virginia, from Norfolk to Lynchburg and north to Baltimore and Harper’s Ferry. The explanatory cartouche indicates:

The extraordinary large scale on which this map is drawn has been adapted to make it just what we designed it to be, namely, 1st. The most distinct map ever published of the whole Virginia Territory; 2nd. A Marking Map, that is a map to mark the change of positions of the Union Forces in red pencil and the Rebel Forces in blue, on the receipt of every telegram from the seat of war; for this latter purpose we want plenty of space and a distinctness combined with enough detail, not to crowd but to enable us to follow the march of the army as advised by the telegrams. The pencils which we also furnish should be used with a light hand to enable obliterating the marks with the aid of a little soft bread, if found necessary. These pe- culiarities combined with extreme cheapness will make this Map a welcome companion to every person interested in the pending struggle of our nation.

$2500. A Rare Lithograph by the Famous Illustrator of Colorado

27. [Civil War]: Mathews, Alfred Edward: THE SIEGE OF VICKS- BURG. MAJOR GENERAL U.S. GRANT, COMMANDING. REP- RESENTING THE POSITION OF THE SEVENTH DIVISION OF MAJ. GEN. J.B. McPHERSON’S ARMY CORPS. Cincinnati: Middleton, Strobridge & Co., 1863. Colored lithograph, image area 18¼ x 24 inches, overall 24¾ x 29¾ inches. Minor toning, a couple repaired tears in imprint area. Very good. Matted.

A striking color lithograph of one of the most important battlefields of the Civil War, executed by one of the most notable American viewmakers of the period. A.E. Mathews is most famous for his later views of the West, some of which are the most sought-after depictions of the frontier, but this image of Vicksburg is an excellent work, as is the sum total of Mathews’ views of the Civil War. As a member of the 31st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Mathews had firsthand knowledge of the War which he translated into images for at least two companies in Cincinnati. The present scene of Vicksburg, Mississippi shows several officers in the foreground, observing an explosion at upper right, possibly at the Confederate Fort Hill, during a bombardment of the Union encampment and earthworks just outside the city. Also visible are Union soldiers, tents, cannons, and earthworks in the middle ground. Other Confederate earthworks can be seen along a ridge in the background. Major features are identified by letter with a corresponding “Description of the Position” printed at the bottom, including the 12th Wisconsin Battery at center and the 6th Wisconsin Battery at right-center. Mathews’ work drew high praise from those in a position to know. On Aug. 9, 1863, Gen. U.S. Grant wrote to Mathews, a private in the Ohio Volunteers: “Sir – I have examined the Lithographs of views taken by you of the ‘Siege of Vicksburg,’ and do not hesitate to pronounce them among the most accurate and true to life I have ever seen. They reflect great credit upon you as a delineator of landscape views.” “Another artist who, like Homer, gained later fame also produced a little-known group of Civil War images. Although the work of Alfred E. Mathews is well known to collectors of prints of the American West, his name is not as familiar among students of the Civil War, although he produced some 35 lithographs of scenes of the conflict. Yet many know the early work of Mathews in the Civil War without realizing that they do....A.E. Mathews’s series of Civil War prints anticipated not the camp life portfolios of Edwin Forbes, but the gaudier battle series later con- cocted by the lithographers of the postwar era. Mathews did not offer images of the soldier’s life that he knew from close personal experience. He opted instead for sweeping images of combat, of which he as a common soldier could have seen but a tiny and likely confusing fragment. But his works proved rather different from the patriotic lithographs of the popular sort offered by Currier & Ives and other printmakers, and they were more accurate” – Neely & Holzer. Mark E. Neely & Harold Holzer, The Union Image (Chapel Hill, 2000), pp.70-77. PE- TERS, AMERICA ON STONE, p.273. Taft, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, pp.74-75, 304 (giving a list of Mathews’ Civil War views). $3000.

28. [Civil War]: TO RETURNED SOLDIERS AND OTHERS! CAPT. ALEX. MANN, HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY AUTHORIZED TO RE-ENLIST FOR THE THIRD REG’T. N.Y. VOLUNTEERS, (INFANTRY), FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE OR TWO YEARS.... Newburgh, N.Y. [ca. May 1863]. Broadside, 28¾ x 20½ inches. Archivally mounted and matted on acid-free board. Minor loss to top edge, with small remnants of a pasted-over handbill remaining in the top margin but barely touching the top letters. Old folds, mild adhesive dis- coloration at corners, slightly tanned, small vertical closed tear to middle fold at bottom edge. Overall good condition.

An exceptionally rare and possibly unique surviving example of this large recruiting poster for the Third Regiment in Newburgh, New York. Alexander Mann mustered into the Third Regiment, Company “B” as an Ensign in Albany on May 14, 1861 after being recruited from Newburgh or one of several surrounding towns. Less than a year later Mann was promoted to captain. Third Regiment, Company “B” was the first recruited and first ready for muster in the state of New York during the early months of the Civil War. They fought at Big Bethel, Fort Wagner, Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, Fort Gilmer, Chapin’s Farm, Fort Fisher, and Wilmington, among other places, and spent much time protecting Fort Monroe in Virginia during their first enlistment from 1861 to 1863. In May 1863 the unit was reorganized; some current soldiers reenlisted, and new recruits were mustered. The present broadside emanates from Capt. Mann’s recruitment efforts for the reorganization and reenlistment of his regimental company during this time. As compensation to new recruits, Capt. Mann is authorized to give a bounty of $250 for a two-year enlistment or $100 for one year. Recruits are invited to visit Capt. Mann at 144 Water Street in Newburgh. The Third Regiment would continue to provide valiant service to the Union, although Capt. Mann was mustered out at the end of August 1864. A substantial recruitment poster for a proud and active Civil War unit. $2000.

Enlisting African-Americans in the Confederate Army

29. [Civil War]: [Slavery]: [Confederate Imprint]: CIRCULAR. AD- JUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE, GENERAL ORDERS, No. 32....AN ACT TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMY BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF FREE NEGROES AND SLAVES IN CER- TAIN CAPACITIES [caption title]. Richmond. March 11, 1864. Broadside, 18 x 12 inches. Printed in three columns. Previ- ously folded, with a couple small separations along old fold lines. Light toning and foxing. About very good.

A very scarce and quite interesting broadside circular printing of the act which allowed slaves and free blacks to be used in certain tasks by the Confederate Army during the Civil War, as well as instructions for the conscription and induction of those men into the armed forces. The Confederacy was loath to arm any of its slave population, but by 1864 could not spare any further man- power from their infantry to perform menial tasks, and the government therefore passed a law allowing slaves to be used “in certain capacities,” such as the construction of fortification, the production of arms, and the transport of materiel. The first column of this broadside comprises a full printing of that law, while the remainder sets forth the rules for the impressment of slaves into military service, for their care while in service, and for the compensation of their owners. A fascinating piece that lays bare the desperation of the Confederacy for labor and supplies in early 1864. Not in Parrish & Willingham. $5000.

30. [Civil War]: [Confederate Imprint]: OFFICIAL REPORTS OF BAT- TLES. PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF CONGRESS. Richmond. 1864. 98pp. Gathered signatures, stitching perished. Old stamp on titlepage and several other pages. Titlepage and final blank detached. Several leaves chipped, affecting text only of final leaf. Dust soiling at edges, tanning. Good.

Scarce Confederate battle report concerning operations in Virginia, Kentucky, and Georgia, including reports on battles at Fort McAllister, Fayette Court House, Seven Pines, and Stone River. This report covers Confederate military operations between August 1862 and September 1863. HOWES O31. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 2348. $1000.

The End Game of the Civil War

31. [Civil War]: SOUTHERN WATCHMAN – EXTRA. Athens, Ga. May 6, 1865. Broadside, 15½ x 11¾ inches. Minor edge wear, some toning and spotting, two small dark stains, old folds. Overall good condition.

An interesting broadside newspaper extra concerning the Union occupation of Athens, Georgia at the end of the Civil War. The paper was printed nearly a month after the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered, and ten days or so after Gen. Joseph Johnston surrendered to Sherman the Confederate forces active in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. The first two columns include passages on “Teachings of the War,” “Armistice,” and “Good Advice.” Each of these articles struggles to find meaning in the end of the recent conflagration, providing an important glimpse into the minds of the Southern sympathizers. The third column begins: New Arrival! The Federal forces, under command of Brig. Genl. Palmer, entered our place on the 4th inst. The conduct of the troops since their occupation of the town, has been good, and reflects great credit upon Genl. Palmer as a strict disciplinarian. We hope that our citizens will endeavor by kind and courteous treatment toward the soldiery, to encourage a continuance of the protection which they seem willing to afford. The editors of the Southern Watchman argue for peaceful acceptance of the Recon- structionist Union forces, and mince no words in their harangue on other southern newspapers calling for the continuation of the War: Below we give extracts from the Salisbury Watchman and Carolina Spartan – two papers that have from the beginning of the war advocated the policy of fighting on until the last man and dollar were exhausted, and by their vile, traitorous and insidious words exerted a strong influence over the minds of the South and thousands of widows and orphans who are now suffering every privation and horror connected with the war, can attribute them to the false and unscrupulous arguments set forth and spread out in these papers. It is an easy thing, and one that requires but little valor or manly spirit, to cry out “War to the last!” when comfortably ensconced at home surrounded by every luxury and comfort that civil life affords, and where no Yankee bullets can reach. Such has been the position of those who govern the Southern press, who keeping their devoted carcasses at a respectable distance in the rear, still cry out for more lives to sacrifice and more money to squander, to enable them to secure a foundation for their weak and rotten Confederacy to stand upon.... The paper then quotes a long passage from each of these other newspapers. The editors of the Salisbury Watchman call for armed resistance before reporting that they themselves are preparing to “leave you for some spot on earth where Yankees cannot come.” The Carolina Spartan incites the people to lay their lives “on the altar of Southern independence” before insisting in the last sentence that “[we] advise our friends to refrain from hostilities.” A rare broadside relating to the delicate psychological condition and tenuous state of feelings among groups of Southerners who have been forced to realize that the fight for the Confederacy is over, and they have lost. $2000.

Printed on an Army Field Press in Hilton Head

32. [Civil War]: [THREE SEPARATE WORKS CONTAINING GEN- ERAL ORDERS AND A CIRCULAR FROM THE UNION AR- MY’S DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH, PRINTED JUST AFTER THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR, REGARDING ISSUES RELE- VANT TO THE END OF AN ARMED CONFLICT, INCLUDING ONE THREATENING PUNISHMENT OF SOUTHERNERS FOR CONTINUED RESISTANCE]. Hilton Head, S.C. May 31, June 6, June 16, 1865. [1],[1],[3]pp. Each disbound from a larger volume, with two stab holes along the left margin. Overall, very good.

A fascinating trio of printed general orders and circulars issued from Hilton Head by the Union Army’s Department of the South in the two months after Lee’s surrender. The three publications include a total of six general orders and a circular. Each touches upon a subject related to the end of war, and the various issues that must be dealt with to ensure peace and settle military enrollment and business matters. The three works here include:

1) “Headquarters Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C., May 31, 1865.” General Orders No. May 11, 1865, and General Orders No. 90, May 11, 1865. The latter reads, in part:

Punishment of Guerrillas. All the forces of the enemy, east of the Mis- sissippi river, having been duly surrendered...under agreements of parole and disbandment...it is Ordered that from and after the first day of June, 1865, any and all persons found in arms against the United States, or who may commit acts of hostility against it...will be regarded as guerrillas and punished with death....

2) “Headquarters Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C., June 6, 1865.” General Orders No. 83, signed in type by Secretary of State William H. Seward, May 29, 1865. Also signed in ink by acting Assistant Adjutant General T.D. Hodges. The order reads, in part:

A copy of the President’s Amnesty Proclamation...is herewith appended... so as to insure its benefits to the people and guard the Government against fraud....[T]he oath prescribed in the proclamation may be taken and sub- scribed before any commissioned officer, civil, military or naval, in the service of the United States....All who receive such oaths are hereby authorized to give certified copies...to this department, where they will be deposited and remain in the archives of the Government....

3) “Headquarters Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C., June 16, 1865.” General Orders No. 94, May 29, 1865; Circular No. 23, June 5, 1865; General Orders No. 100, May 28, 1865; General Orders No. 101, May 30, 1865 and June 10, 1865. General Orders No. 94 includes a telegram concerning returned prisoners of war. It reads, in part: “The Secretary of War directs that returned Prisoners of War (enlisted men) who have endured the hardships of Andersonville, Florence, Salisbury, and other rebel prisons, be mustered out as soon as possible, and allowed three months extra pay....” General Orders No. 100 reads, in part: “Commanding officers of regiments will, at once, muster for commutation of rations all men of their respective commands who have been prisoners of war, and have not been mustered for or paid commutation of rations for the time they were in the rebel hands.” The final order allows for soldiers to buy their “arms and accoutrements” from the Ordnance Department.

An interesting assortment of documents dealing with immediate post-Civil-War issues. $900.

A Rare American Chromolithographic Book

33. [Civil War]: Harlow, Louis K.: ARMY MEMORIES. New York: Koch, Sons, & Co., 1887. Index leaf plus twelve lithographic plates (ten in color) mounted on illustrated heavy card stock, with caption labels mounted on ver- sos. Large folio. Expertly bound to style in three-quarter morocco and original cloth boards with central embossed and gilt emblem on front board, four red cloth ties. Boards lightly scuffed, a few spots of edge wear. Corners of card mounts chipped, but plates in fine condition.

This wonderful portfolio of Civil War illustrations was sold by subscription only. The lithographs are after watercolors by Louis K. Harlow, an artist of the late 19th century whose New England scenes, lithographed by Prang, enjoyed considerable popularity. The illustrations, which confine themselves mostly to Union Army scenes, are as follows:

1) “Army Memories.” 2) “Farewell: The Soldier’s Departure.” 3) “General Grant: At Vicksburg.” 4) “Topographical Engineer.” 5) “Defense of the Colors.” 6) “The Zouave.” 7) “General Sherman.” 8) “A Spirited Dash.” 9) “In Battery.” 10) “General Sheridan: The Shenandoah Valley.” 11) “The Outpost.” 12) “Welcome Home: The Soldier’s Return.”

OCLC locates just nine institutional copies. Not in Dornbusch, Nevins, Bennett, or any of the other standard bibliographies. A notable Prang-produced American color plate book, displaying the master’s control of the medium. Rare. $8500.

34. Clarke, F.W.: VIEWS AROUND ITHACA: BEING A DESCRIP- TION OF THE WATERFALLS AND RAVINES OF THIS RE- MARKABLE LOCALITY. Ithaca. [1869]. 155,[2]pp. plus ten original mounted photographs. Original blue publisher’s cloth, spine gilt. Spine slightly faded, head and foot of spine chipped, corners rubbed. Minor scattered foxing. Photographs sharp and clear, some with faint offsetting from text. Very good.

A handsome photographically-illustrated volume depicting waterfalls around Ithaca. Several of the photographs are signed in the negative by local photographer J.C. Burritt, whose photographs were also featured in other books about the scenery and landscape of the Ithaca region. Relatively scarce. Not in The Truthful Lens. SABIN 13401. $1000.

The Clinton-Cornwallis Pamphlet War, Reprinted in Handsome Quarto Editions

35. Clinton, Henry, and Charles Cornwallis: NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGN IN 1781 IN NORTH AMERICA. [with:] ANSWER TO SIR HENRY CLINTON’S NARRATIVE OF THE CAMPAIGN IN 1781 IN NORTH AMERICA. [with:] OBSERVATIONS ON EARL CORNWALLIS’ ANSWER. Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1866. Three volumes. [6],115; [10],xvi,260; [6],34,113,[1]pp., plus folding table in second and third volumes. Large quarto. Original three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt, raised bands, t.e.g. Boards and spines rubbed, edges shelfworn, front hinge cracking on second volume, bookplate on rear pastedown of each volume. An occasional bit of light foxing, but on the whole quite clean internally. Very good overall.

Fine limited edition printings of three of the controversial texts at the heart of a “pamphlet war” between Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis occasioned by the British defeat at Yorktown. Essentially, Clinton blamed Cornwallis for the American victory, while Cornwallis maintained that he was simply following Clinton’s orders. Philadelphia publisher John Campbell issued handsome reprints of the three main works in the controversy in a total edition of 250 copies. These are the quarto issue, of which only seventy-five copies were printed. The pamphlets were all originally printed in London in 1783 by J. Debrett, with the original titles given below:

1) Clinton, Henry: The Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. Relative to His Conduct During Part of His Command of the King’s Troops in North America.... Clinton touched off the fire-storm by publishing this condemnatory account of Cornwallis’ actions, placing the blame for the Yorktown defeat squarely on his shoulders. If Clinton had his druthers, Cornwallis would never have been in Virginia. “Lord Cornwallis’s quitting of the Carolinas where I had left him in command, and marching into Virginia; a measure, I must say, determined upon without my approbation, and very contrary to my wishes and intentions...the danger of which, without a covering fleet, I had constantly represented to him.” 2) Cornwallis, Charles: An Answer to That Part of the Narrative...Which Relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis, During the Campaign in North America, in the Year 1781. Cornwallis felt his orders from Clinton, as well as as- surances that he would be relieved, excused him from blame. He writes: “When the arrival of the French Fleet, and the approach of General Washington, were known to Sir Henry Clinton, it will by the Correspondence, that his promises of relief in person were uniform; without giving me the smallest particle of dis- cretionary power, different from holding the posts that I occupied.” 3) Clinton, Henry: Observations on Some Parts of the Answer of Earl Cornwallis to Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative.... Clinton responds by claiming that whether or not Cornwallis expected relief, he still mismanaged his own defense. For example, Clinton labels Cornwallis’ purposeful destruction of his supply train to speed their retreat from Cowpens a “Tartar move.”

Handsome editions of the primary texts in the Clinton-Cornwallis pamphlet war. HOWES C496, C781, C499. SABIN 13751, 16811, 13754. $750.

A Confederate New Testament

36. [Confederate Imprint]: [Bible]: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANS- LATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. Nashville: Graves, Marks & Co., 1861. 225,14pp. Original green cloth, boards blind stamped, spine gilt lettered. Front hinge loosening, cloth chipped, edges and spine ends worn. Contemporary presentation bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing and tanning. A good copy in original condition.

A rare Confederate imprint of the New Testament, published in Nashville in the second half of 1861. “An early Tennessee Confederate imprint, with the final fourteen pages including instructions for Confederate soldiers, entitled ‘I Am a Soldier,’ and hymns” – Allen. Allen and Parrish & Willingham together locate only eight copies of this work. ALLEN 5341. ALLEN, MORE RARITIES 533. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 8357. $1850.

37. [Confederate States of America]: [Virginia]: [UNCUT SHEET OF FOUR EARLY CONFEDERATE ELECTORAL TICKETS FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA]. [N.p., likely Richmond. late 1861]. Broad- side, matted to 7 x 11 inches, framed to 12 x 15 inches overall. Small marginal adhesive stain at top and bottom center, some wrinkling, small chip to lower right corner, contemporary ink signature in bottom margin. Very good. Mat- ted and framed.

An intriguing and exceedingly rare relic from the early days of the Confederacy – an uncut sheet of four Confederate electoral tickets for the Nov. 6, 1861 election for president and vice president of the Confederacy, along with the electors, Confeder- ate Congress, and the state convention for the state of Virginia. Each ticket lists Jefferson Davis for president, Alexander Stephens for vice president, two at-large state electors, sixteen district electors, John Brown Baldwin for the Confederate Congress, and John H. Hendren for the state convention. Davis, Stephens, Baldwin, and Hendren were each elected to his post, presumably along with most or all of the state electors listed on the tickets. Parrish & Willingham records two 1861 Virginia Confederate electoral tickets, but both are smaller than the present example, the text of which begins: “Electoral Ticket. Freedom and Independence. Election Day, Wednesday, Nov’er 6th. For President, Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi.....” Rare, especially as an uncut sheet of four. OCLC lists no physical copies of even a single ticket. $3000.

When New Haven Was the Detroit of the Carriage Industry

38. [Connecticut Carriage Advertisement]: LAWRENCE, BRADLEY & PARDEE, CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS, Nos. 61 AND 67 CHAPEL STREET, NEW HAVEN, CONN. COACHES, COUPES, BAROUCHES, BRETTS, CHARIOTEES, PHAETONS, ROCKA- WAYS, BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT THE FACTORY AND ALSO AT THE REPOSITORY, NEW YORK. Hartford: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, [ca. 1860]. Broadside, approximately 20¾ x 27½ inches. Matted and framed. Old fold lines. Scattered light foxing. Very good. See the cover of this catalogue for a larger illustration.

A large and impressive lithographed advertisement for a New Haven, Connecticut carriage company. The promotional broadside depicts forty-eight different types of carriages manufactured by Lawrence, Bradley & Pardee. These carriages are particularly designed for the use of Students in Colleges & Schools, combining exercise and amusement. They are admirably suited for Regatta clubs, the carriage being substituted for the boat, the crank for the oar and land for water. They are also especially appropriate for Agricultural Fair Grounds where thousands can test their strength and skill, thereby securing a source of profit and pleasure. They may be used single or in trains, and can be changed to suit convenience. The potential of carriage trains is illustrated in the center of the broadside, with a chain of five manned contraptions. The lower portion of the broadside is dedicated to the advertisement of a new type of carriage track, with an example depicted and its virtues extolled. $1750.

A Classic Crockett Almanac

39. [Crockett, Davy]: “GO AHEAD!!” THE CROCKETT ALMANAC 1840 [wrapper title]. Nashville: Published by Ben Harding, [1839]. 33,3pp. including illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers, string-tied. Wrappers slightly dust soiled, a bit worn at edges. Scat- tered foxing. A very good copy.

Volume 2, No. 2 of the Crockett almanacs, with the usual stories of mayhem and heroism in the West, graphically illustrated. The illustration on the front wrapper shows the great scout being startled by an owl while the rear illustration, captioned “The Way They Travel in the West,” shows a man in a boat being wildly pulled by two sea serpents. Other illustrations include “Col. Crockett beat at a shooting match,” “Account of a goose pulling,” “Indian notions,” “Ben Hard- ing’s account of a shipwreck,” “The Heroine of Kaintuck,” and “Col. Crockett and the bear and the swallows.” STREETER SALE 4189. HOWES C897, “aa.” DRAKE 13416. ALLEN IMPRINTS 1545. AMERI- CAN IMPRINTS 55899. $6000.

Trying to Grab Cuba

40. [Cuba]: [Buchanan, James]: [THE “OSTEND DOCTRINE.” PRAC- TICAL DEMOCRATS CARRYING OUT THE PRINCIPLE]. [New York: Nathaniel Currier, 1856]. Broadside, 10 x 13 inches. Foxed, bottom right corner chipped. Lower margin trimmed, costing the title. Good only. Framed under glass.

A scarce political cartoon regarding the controversial Ostend Manifesto, the initially- secret attempt by the United States to purchase Spanish-controlled Cuba. Earlier, President Franklin Pierce had instructed Pierre Soulé, upon his appointment as minister to Spain in April 1853, to negotiate to buy Cuba. Three American foreign ministers serving in Europe – James Buchanan, John Y. Mason, and Soulé – met secretly at Ostend, Belgium in late 1854 to draft a plan to either buy Cuba from Spain or force Spain to give up Cuba by inciting a Cuban revolution. The plan met with overwhelming opposition once it was made public in America. In the present political cartoon Buchanan is attacked for his role in the Ostend controversy. He is surrounded by four armed ruffians seeking to rob him of his coat, hat, watch, and money, a particularly sharp turn-about on the American minister to Great Britain. The muggers’ demands include quotations from the manifesto, which is pasted to the fence at right. Buchanan calls out: “Why! Why! This is rank robbery! Help! Help! All honest men!” The fallout from the Ostend controversy was widespread. President Pierce’s Democratic Party split asunder after he refused to continue any discussions of the plan or any other expansionist ideas; Soulé understandably resigned; and the international community saw it as a threat to Spanish sovereignty in the region. Oddly enough, James Buchanan was not too hurt by the controversy; he was easily elected president in 1856 and still harbored hope for Cuban annexation. He was smart enough, however, to table the Cuba question for the foreseeable future after meeting with both popular opposition and increasingly bitter sectional conflict, the latter only spurred on by incidents like the Ostend controversy. GALE, CURRIER & IVES: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ 5021. $2000.

The American Occupation of Cuba, with Numerous Additions

41. [Cuba]: Ludlow, William: ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1899, FROM DECEMBER 22, 1898. [bound with:] REMARKS ON THE INDUSTRIAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS EXISTING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HAVANA. [with:] [SCRAPBOOK OF HENRY OWEN HOLT, CONTAINING NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS REPORTING ON THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE ACTIVITIES OF THE VIRGINIA MILITARY]. [Havana. 1899]. Two volumes. 282pp. plus thirty-five photographic plates (eight folding), five maps; 19pp. Scrapbook: [51] leaves, plus printed gift leaf, with many additional blank leaves. Printed volume: Original blue cloth, spine gilt, owner’s name stamped in gilt on front board. Ownership inscription in pencil on titlepage. Contents shaken, hinges cracked, light shelf wear. Significant water damage to rear board, with final leaves dampstained. Closed three-inch tear from gutter margin of one chart. Light tanning. Good. Scrapbook: Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Moderate shelf wear. Initial leaves somewhat wrinkled. Some tanning. About very good.

A rich source document of the United States’ occupation of Cuba after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. Ludlow’s report cited a number of serious issues in the country, including rampant disease, a lack of sanitation and medical facilities, a lack of structure for civil authority, and a resulting absence of social order. The work describes the general situation in Havana as of 1898, beginning with the American military takeover, and it contains sections on the care of troops in tropical countries, the organization of policing, the organization of civil government, sanitation in the capital, and general recommendations, plus transcriptions of civil and military order issued during this period, and reports from other U.S. military officials. In addition to this wealth of information, the report contains an excellent visual record of the occupation, with the inclusion of thirty-five photographic prints, including two panoramas, plus five maps of Havana and the surrounding region and four charts tracking deaths in the city, particularly those caused by yellow fever. This volume is accompanied by a scrapbook that belonged to Henry Owen Holt, a member of the Second Regiment of Virginia infantry that saw action in the Spanish-American War. The book contains numerous newspaper clippings tracking the participation of Virginian military units in the conflict, with a focus on the Second Regiment. An excellent, informative report with much firsthand information, and rare on the market. $2500. The Earliest Published Description of Photography

42. Daguerre, Louis-Jacques Mande: HISTORIQUE ET DESCRIPTION DES PROCÉDÉS DU DAGUERRÉOTYPE ET DU DIORAMA, PAR DAGUERRE.... Paris: Susse Frères, 1839. [4],79pp. plus six lithographed plates. Half title. Contemporary black and grey paper-covered boards, green label lettered in manuscript. Extremities a bit worn. Occasional mild foxing, with the contemporary ownership signature of Ed Hagenbach, presumably the noted Swiss physician and chemist. Very good.

The rare first edition, first issue, second imprint (the first Susse Frères issue) of this landmark work in the invention of photography. The first issue is known in only three copies, so this is practically the earliest obtainable edition of the first account of the invention of Daguerre’s process. The first issue of this work and the production of the first commercially-available apparatus had been entrusted to Giroux, Mdme. Daguerre’s kinsman and Daguerre’s partner. The text was clouded in secrecy and publication was dated Aug. 18 to coincide with the unveiling of the first commercially-produced daguerreotype cameras. The entire supply sold out in the first few hours. The present issue was published the next month, on Sept. 14, presumably to coincide with a new batch of equipment which Daguerre’s team also supplied. Such was the demand for Daguerre’s cameras that by the end of 1840, almost forty versions of this work had been published in at least eight different languages. Interestingly, Pierre G. Harmant argues convincingly in an article in History of Photography: An International Quarterly ( January 1977, pp.79-83) that the first copy Daguerre saw of his manual on Sept. 7, the date of his first public presentation, actually bore the imprint of Susse Freres, not the slightly earlier imprint from Giroux. Daguerre’s groundbreaking manual describes his invention of the daguerreotype process, the first widely popular photographic method, involving the creation of a direct positive image on a sheet of polished copper which was coated with a solution of light-sensitive silver halide. This process is illustrated in the six plates contained herein. Along with official documents relating to the French government’s review of Daguerre’s procedure, it includes a transcription of Niepce’s own description of his heliographic process, submitted to Daguerre in 1839. The Daguerreotype remained the most popular photographic medium until it was supplanted by the collodion wet-plate process in the 1850s. “Perhaps no other invention ever captured the imagination of the public to such a degree and conquered the world with such lightning rapidity as the daguerreotype” – Gernsheim. “No one individual can be called the true inventor of photography, but Daguerre’s technique of fixing photographic images on a metallic surface was the first to capture the public’s curiosity and imagination, bringing photography out of the laboratories of a few researchers into the mass market” – Norman. A true incunable among the early literature relating to photographic processes. HORBLIT 21a. NORMAN COLLECTION 569. NORMAN SALE 1004. EN FRAN- ÇAIS DANS LE TEXTE 255. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 318b (ref ). DIBNER, HERALDS OF SCIENCE 183. Helmut & Alison Gernsheim, L.J.M. Daguerre (London: Secker & Warburg, 1956), pp.191-98). Helmut & Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography (London: Thames and Hudson, 1969), pp.65-74. Beaumont Newhall, An Historical & Descriptive Account of the Various Processes of the Daguerreotype & the Diorama by Daguerre (New York: Winterhouse, 1971), pp.269-77. Beaumont Newhall, “Chronicle of the Birth of Photography” in Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. VII, No. 2, Spring 1953, pp.208-20. $32,500.

Handsome Copy

43. Davis, Jefferson: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. New York. 1881. Two volumes. xxi,[3],707,[3]; xvii,[3], 808,[4]pp., plus nineteen engraved plates, including a frontispiece portrait in each volume, and fourteen maps. Original sheep, black morocco labels stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear and light abrasions to boards, slightly over-opened at Dedication page of first volume. One map with fold separation along blank edge, not affecting map contents. Overall, very good.

Jefferson Davis’ argument for the right of the southern states to withdraw from the Union, in the rare original sheep binding. “As President Davis’ own account this book is obviously of great importance” – In Tall Cotton. “...An argumentative disserta- tion on secession and states’ rights” – Nevins. A handsome copy, nicely illustrated with steel engravings and maps, and dedicated to the women of the Confederacy. HOWES D120. IN TALL COTTON 34. NEVINS II, p.51. WRIGHT 257. $1500.

A Superb and Monumental Atlas, with Many Views

44. Des Barres, Joseph F. Wallet: [THE ATLANTIC NEPTUNE...Vol. II]...THE SEA COAST OF NOVA SCOTIA; EXHIBITING THE DIVERSITIES OF THE COAST AND FACE OF THE COUN- TRY NEAR IT: THE BANKS, ROCKS, SHOALS, SOUNDINGS &c. TOGETHER WITH REMARKS AND DIRECTIONS OF THE CONVENIENCY OF NAVIGATION AND PILOTAGE. SURVEYED BY ORDER OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF THE ADMIRALTY. London: The Admiralty, [ca. 1781]. Engraved, printed on laid paper and mounted on guards throughout. Engraved title, engraved and handcolored references sheet, 4 text leaves (“Contents of the Charts” [folding], “Tables” [letterpress and folding], “Directions for Canso Harbour,” “Remarks on the Isle of Sable”). Thirty-three engraved and aquatint charts and views, most handcolored. Folio. Bound to style in 18th-century half russia with marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red and black morocco labels. Very good.

The eastern Nova Scotia section of Des Barres’ masterpiece, The Atlantic Neptune, here with many of the rare views seldom found in copies, and with period hand-coloring throughout. One of the greatest achievements of 18th-century cartography, Des Barres charted the Nova Scotia coastline with a degree of accuracy not seen before and with a level of artistry not seen since. A major cartographic landmark, and the best depiction of the North American coast during the American Revolution. Joseph Des Barres was born in Switzerland in 1721 and educated in Basel before emigrating to England and entering the Royal Military College, where he learned engineering and the art of surveying. In 1756, Des Barres was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment and despatched to North America. He served in America during the Seven Years’ War under Col. Bouquet, Lord Howe, and Gen. Amherst, and participated in the Quebec campaign as Gen. Wolfe’s engineer. The end of the French and Indian War opened much of Canada to British trade; surveys of the region were immediately ordered, as the waterways were deemed of vital economic importance to the inland fur trade. Des Barres, having proven himself during the war, was selected to survey the coasts of Nova Scotia, at the outset, and eventually much of the coastline of the American colonies. The work was difficult and at times dangerous, but he persisted and repeatedly rechecked his surveys to ensure their accuracy. Returning to England in 1774, and upon the urging of Lord Howe, publication of Des Barres’ surveys was begun on a scale not previously attempted in Great Britain. Beginning with his surveys of Nova Scotia, over a ten-year period Des Barres would publish his Atlantic Neptune, comprised of maps and views from his own surveys and those of other military officers (including Maj. Samuel Holland, for example), depicting the entire North American coast, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. It would prove to be “the most splendid collection of charts, plans and views ever published” (Rich). The publication history of Des Barres’ great work is extraordinarily complex. The atlas was published in four sections: Nova Scotia, New England, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the coast from New York to the Gulf of Mexico. The atlas was published in two forms: in large flat volumes with the maps largely unfolded (as here), or as tall volumes with folded maps and plates (the latter being a form more conducive to shipboard use). The four sections were offered for sale both together and separately. The charts and views within the volumes were sold individually as well. Copies of The Atlantic Neptune are generally found with titlepages dated 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, or 1781. However, these do not necessarily comprise specific editions, due to their bespoke nature and the fact that the contents evolved considerably over the course of publication. Des Barres continually updated his charts and views, yielding an incredible number of variants and states. Perhaps the greatest variations are seen, however, within the views. The views were not included in all copies of the Neptune, with many extant examples being merely a collection of the charts. The views are found as line engravings with elaborate hand-coloring, as uncolored aquatints, or as aquatints printed in sepia. For many of the views Des Barres reworked the plates over the publication history, adding shading, ships, or in some cases hammering out the copperplates and beginning the engraving entirely anew. It is believed that copies of The Atlantic Neptune were compiled on a bespoke basis, or based on the sheets available at the time of purchase; in other words, as the charts and views were for sale individually, the stock of sheets with which to make up copies of the Neptune changed frequently. Furthermore, as Des Barres was continuously reworking plates, some charts and views were not available at all times. During the course of publication, some views were dropped entirely, some were replaced by others, and new charts and views were inserted into copies when- ever they were ready regardless of “edition.” Copies of the Neptune with similarly dated titlepages, therefore, are infrequently comprised of identical contents, and no copy of The Atlantic Neptune can possibly include all known views (unless views were added as extra illustrations at a later date). The present second half of Nova Scotia section (i.e. the eastern half, including both the south east and north east coasts, as well as the Gut of Canso and Sable Island) includes thirty-three charts and views, most with period hand-coloring. The charts are, without exception, beautifully presented and of an accuracy that was unheard of in the 18th century. This section also includes views and coastal profiles. Des Barres wished to give accurate depictions of the towns, harbors, and views to be found all along the east coast of North America, and he personally executed most of the drawings on which the original engravings were based. The present volume contains some of the most lavish of Des Barres’ aquatint engravings. Many of the most interesting points of the entire coast are covered. Of particular interest are the fine views of Sable Island, whose shallow shifting shoals of sand were a graveyard for unwary ships. Des Barres spent two seasons here, and his aquatints show the island, his camps, and his team at work. The present collection comprises:

1) The South East Coast of Nova Scotia. On four sheets, joined. STEVENS 44f. 2) Halifax Harbour. On three sheets, joined. STEVENS 45i. 3) [Plan of Halifax]. Double-page sheet. Minor restoration to losses at corners. STEVENS 46e. 4) [Six views of Halifax Harbour]. Double-page sheet, lower view handcolored. STEVENS 48e. 5) [Chart of Egmont Harbour, with inset views]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 49g. 6) [Chart of Keppell Harbour and Knowles Harbour, with inset views]. Two double- page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 50e. 7) [Six views of Cape Egmont, Egmont Harbour, etc.]. Double-page sheet, two views handcolored. STEVENS 51e. 8) [Chart of Spry Harbour, Port Pallisser, etc.]. Two double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 52g. 9) [Chart of White Islands Harbour, Port Stephens, etc.]. Two double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 53e. 10) [Chart of Sandwich Bay]. Two double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 54g. 11) [Chart of Torbay, with inset view of Berry Head]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 55f. 12) [Chart of White Haven, with inset view]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 56g. 13) [Chart of Canso Harbour, with inset view of Port George]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 57g. 14) [Chart of Crow Harbour]. Single-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 58f. 15) [Chart of St. Peters Bay, with inset view of Cape Round]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 59f. 16) [Chart of Milford Haven, with inset view]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 60f. 17) [Chart of Conway Harbour & Port Aylesbury]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 62g. 18) [Eight views, From White Islands to St. Mary’s River, Entrance of Milford Harbour, etc.]. Two double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 61e. 19) [Chart of Lennox Passage, Richmond Isles, &c.]. Three double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 63d. 20) [Chart of the North East Coast of Nova Scotia]. Three double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 67e. 21) [Chart of the Gut of Canso]. Three double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 66g. 22) [Chart of Port Hood]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 69i. 23) Entrance of Port Hood. Double-page view printed in sepia. Unrecorded scratch proof. STEVENS 70A. 24) A View of the Plaister Cliffs on the West Shore of George’s Bay. Double-page view printed in sepia. STEVENS 70Ba. 25) [Chart of Frederick Bay, Pictou Harbour, etc.]. Four double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 71g. 26) [Chart of the Coast from Bay Verte to Bugtush]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 68e. 27) [Chart of Port Shediack and Cocagne]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STE- VENS 72h. 28) The Entrance of Louisbourg Harbour on the Island of Cape Breton. Double- page sheet, printed in sepia. STEVENS 65c. 29) [Chart of the Isle of Sable]. Two double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 73h. 30) [Five views of the Isle of Sable]. Double-page sheet, handcolored. STEVENS 74f. 31) The Isle of Sable. Four double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 76d. 32) [Seven views or elevations of the Isle of Sable]. Two double-page sheets, handcolored. STEVENS 75c. 33) A View from the Camp at the East End of the Naked Sand Hills, on the South East Shore of the Isle of Sable. Double-page sheet, printed in sepia. STEVENS 77b.

The copper plates for the charts and views would continue to be used following the American Revolution, with some copies of The Atlantic Neptune found with charts on wove paper from the 19th century. In 1784, Des Barres, who had large land holdings in the Maritimes, became lieutenant governor of Cape Breton and in 1804, the lieutenant governor of Prince Edward Island. He died in Halifax in 1824 at the age of 103. John Carter Brown Library, Charting the East Coast of North America, The Atlantic Nep- tune (Providence, 1972). Robert Lingel, “The Atlantic Neptune” in Bulletin of the New York Public Library ( July 1936), pp.571-603. Augustus P. Loring, “The Atlantic Neptune” in American Maritime Prints (New Bedford, 1985). NMM III, p.380. PHILLIPS, ATLASES 1198-1205, 3654-3659. STREETER SALE 706. $72,500. An Early Example with Pochoir Plates

45. Dewey, Dellon Marcus: THE COLORED FRUIT BOOK: FOR THE USE OF NURSERYMEN, CONTAINING ACCURATE SPECI- MENS OF COLORED FRUITS AND FLOWERS.... Rochester, N.Y.: D.M. Dewey, 1860. Fifty-eight chromolithographic and stenciled plates, plus broadsheet order form, and with 4pp. of advertisements laid in. Quarto. Origi- nal three-quarter calf and cloth boards, gilt, neatly rebacked. Corners neatly repaired. Several ownership inscriptions on front and rear endleaves and titlepage. Name of original nursery owners stamped in gilt on front board. Several plates closely trimmed with slight loss of text, a bit of occasional offsetting and stray color. All plates with bright, fine coloring. Very good.

D.M. Dewey was among the first of the Rochester nurserymen to produce elaborate plates depicting fruit and flower types for sale by dealers. Albums were generally made up especially for individual firms (the present album has the name of the firm, J.B. Pullen & Son, stamped on the front cover). Plates were produced both by chromolithography and by colored stencil or pochoir work. The latter are particularly beautiful and, as Charles Van Ravenswaay noted, are “more akin to folk painting than to the commercial art of their time.” The plates collected here are devoted to the depiction of various fruits, principally apples, pears, plums, cherries, and berries. The album also contains an order form for Dewey’s available list of plates bound in, as well as a four-page leaflet advertising trees for sale from “Franklin Nurseries” in Illinois. Albums such as this are quite scarce. The Oak Spring Garden Library has a Dewey album of circa 1866, on a similar format but with only thirty-eight plates. Oak Spring also has another Dewey album of a later date on a smaller format which is comprised mainly of chromolithographs. As time went on, more and more of the Rochester plates were chromolithographs, as opposed to the more appealing pochoir plates of the present album. A rare piece of American color plate printing. OAK SPRING POMONA 64 (ref ). $5500. Early Pochoir Plates

46. Dewey, Dellon Marcus: [Rochester Nursery Specimen Book]: THE SPECIMEN BOOK OF FRUITS, FLOWERS AND ORNAMEN- TAL TREES. CAREFULLY DRAWN AND COLORED FROM NATURE FOR THE USE OF THE NURSERYMAN. Rochester, N.Y.: D.M. Dewey, [1865]. Forty-nine pochoir plates, plus chromolithographic titlepage. Quarto. Original gilt cloth, rebacked and recornered in modern calf. Name of original nursery owners stamped in gilt on front board. Manuscript descriptions on a number of plates. Scattered foxing, occasional dampstaining to plates, which retain bright, fine coloring. About very good.

An early example of a Rochester nursery specimen book with forty-nine pochoir plates, produced by the father of the city’s mid- to late-19th-century cottage industry, D.M. Dewey. He was among the first of the Rochester nurserymen to produce elaborate plates depicting fruit and flower types for sale by dealers. Al- bums were generally made up especially for individual firms (the present album has the name of the firm, S.V. Mills, stamped on the front cover). Plates were produced by colored stencil or pochoir work. These are particularly beautiful and, as Charles Van Ravenswaay noted, are “more akin to folk painting than to the commercial art of their time.” The plates collected here are devoted to the depiction of various fruits, principally apples, pears, plums, peaches and grapes. Albums such as this are quite scarce. The Oak Spring Garden Library has a Dewey album of circa 1866, on a similar format but with only thirty-eight plates. Oak Spring also has another Dewey album of a later date on a smaller format which is comprised mainly of chromolithographs. As time went on, more and more of the Rochester plates were chromolithographs, as opposed to the more appealing pochoir plates of the present album. A rare piece of American color plate printing. OAK SPRING POMONA 64 (ref ). $4500.

47. Dickert, D. Augustus: HISTORY OF KERSHAW’S BRIGADE, WITH COMPLETE ROLL OF COMPANIES, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, INCIDENTS, ANECDOTES, etc. Newberry, S.C. 1899. 583,5pp. plus ten photographic plates. Lacks the two-page errata. Original printed wrappers bound into modern brown crushed morocco, spine gilt. Rear wrapper lacking, minor foxing, last leaf of Index repaired. Overall very good.

An excellent and rare regimental history of Kershaw’s Brigade, a famous South Carolina brigade, and one of the widest-ranging and most active Confederate units of the Civil War. Kershaw’s Brigade fought at Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettys- burg, Chickamauga, Knoxville, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor, among other places, before surrendering to Sherman at Durham Station. “This is a good narrative, full of descriptions of army life....Each reader can decide for himself whether Dickert was generous in detail or merely garrulous” – In Tall Cotton. “A full, thick account of a famous South Carolina brigade; the author gives personal descriptions of campaigns in both East and West” – Nevins. A handsome copy with a full complement of ten plates (Howes only calls for eight). Rare, with only four copies listed in OCLC. HOWES D323, “aa.” IN TALL COTTON 41. NEVINS I, p.81. DORNBUSCH III:1211. COULTER 126. OCLC 166632110, 476335354. $2000.

First Major American Color Plate Sporting Book

48. [Doughty, John and Thomas]: THE CABINET OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS WITH ILLUS- TRATIONS. Philadelphia: J. and T. Doughty, 1830-1833. Three volumes. vii,[1],298,[2]; vii,[3],292; 96pp. Text in two columns. Three uncolored steel- engraved titlepages with vignettes, two uncolored steel-engraved portrait frontispieces, and fifty-seven plates (three uncolored). Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt; the third volume rebound to style in a modern binding. Extremities lightly worn; head of spine on second volume slightly chipped. Bookplate on front pastedowns of first two volumes. Light scattered foxing and toning to text. Very good.

A scarce complete set of American Rural Sports, containing the “first colored sporting prints made in America” (Henderson) and including twenty-three original lithographs by Thomas Doughty, the founding father of the Hudson River School. The Cabinet of Natural History, “an amalgam of natural history, sporting accounts, travel narratives, and practical advice for the countryman” (Reese), was started by brothers Thomas and John Doughty in Philadelphia. It was issued in monthly parts and ran from the end of 1830 until the spring of 1834, when it abruptly ceased publication. The first volume (made up of twelve parts) was certainly the work of both Doughty brothers, with virtually all the plates being the work of Thomas, but by the time the third part of the second volume had been issued, the partner- ship had been disbanded. Thomas had moved to Boston to pursue his career as a painter, and as of May 17, 1832, John Doughty was the sole proprietor. Evidently Thomas’ input was sorely missed, and by mid-summer John was advising his subscribers that unless the level of support improved, he would have to discontinue the publication. In the end, the periodical continued for almost another year before John Doughty’s prediction was realized, and the publication came to a sudden halt with part IV of the third volume. The abrupt termina- tion of the third volume accounts for its great rarity, with most extant sets comprised of only the first two volumes. Despite its relatively short life, The Cabinet of Natural History left behind an important legacy as the “first major sport print color plate book produced in America” (Bennett). The prints contained within the work are among few by Thomas Doughty, a significant American artist. “Of all the predecessors to [Thomas] Cole and his followers, the single artist who could most reasonably claim Cole’s mantle as the founder of the [Hudson River] school is the appealing figure of Thomas Doughty, who at one juncture was hailed as ‘the all-American Claude Lorrain’”’ – Howat, p.31. As a painter Doughty “holds a place unique among artists of this country as having initiated the American discovery of the American landscape” (Looney). His importance as a printmaker, however, has yet to be fully recognized or adequately defined, for although “there are many prints to which Doughty’s name is attached as artist only, there are only a few for which he was initially completely responsible....These are the 23 lithographs made specifically for Volume I of...The Cabinet of Natural History” (op.cit.). Doughty initially trained as a leather currier, but by 1820 he was listing himself in the Philadelphia City Directory as a landscape painter. “He was restless...energetic...gifted...[and] was popular almost from the start. People obviously liked his vision of a benevolent natural world....He exhibited frequently in Philadelphia and elsewhere” (op.cit.). His work was engraved for use in various publications from the early 1820s on. His “major contribution to the world of printmaking, however, lies not in the 40- odd illustrations taken from his paintings and drawings but rather in the plates he himself made for [the present work]” (op.cit). American lithography was still in its infancy when the Doughtys began their periodical, and it is not clear where Thomas learned the art. “He proved himself an able practitioner in the plates of Volume I of the Cabinet, which are important as the first sporting prints in color made in America” (op.cit.). This volume also has the distinction of being the first major book of any kind with colored lithographic plates printed in America. There were two earlier minor works, but “their lithographic illustrations, being chiefly diagrams, have not the same artistic quality as those of the Cabinet of 1830 with its studies of birds and animals in natural settings and dramatic landscapes. Moreover, the Cabinet was widely distributed, and the first eight issues at least were a popular success. In this way, introducing the colored lithograph to a wide audience, it made an important contribution to the development of American lithography...1830 was thus crucial in the history of American lithography for the lithographic print came of age, and this was largely through the work of Thomas Doughty” (Looney). “It marks the beginning of dominance of lithography in book illustration” – Reese. BENNETT, p.35. McGRATH, p.187. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.69. HEN- DERSON, p.37. GEE, pp.48-49. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARAC- TER 12. HOWES D433. MEISEL III, p.404 (vols. I and II only). SABIN 9795 (vols. I and II only). WOOD, p.275. Robert F. Looney, “Thomas Doughty, Printmaker” in Philadelphia Printmaking (West Chester, 1976), pp.130-48. J.K. Howat, The Hudson River and Its Painters (1972), p.31. $9500.

With Beautiful Color Plates of American Fruits

49. Downing, Andrew Jackson: THE FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES OF AMERICA; OR, THE CULTURE, PROPAGATION, AND MAN- AGEMENT, IN THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD, OF FRUIT TREES GENERALLY.... New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. xiv,594pp. plus sixty-seven colored lithograph plates. Modern black morocco, spine gilt. Light scattered foxing, but plates generally clean, with tissue guards. Very good.

The first edition to contain colored plates of “the standard American pomological authority” (Hedrick). A.J. Downing and his brother Charles revolutionized both American landscape gardening and American fruit-growing in the 1840s, the latter with the publication of this book in 1845. This 1847 edition employs the same plates, but it is printed on larger paper and adds the handsome color plates which only appear in this edition and one issued in 1850. After A.J. Downing’s death, the book went through some twenty editions in the 19th century under Charles’ editorship. The text makes no reference to the lovely plates of apples, pears, cherries, plums, berries, and other fruits, and as Plesch says, they “seem to have crept into the volume by stealth.” The Plesch copy and the one recorded by Bennett each contain only sixty-nine plates; however, we have handled copies with varying numbers of plates, and this copy has sixty-seven. The plates were actually produced in Paris and shipped to America to be bound with the book. The final product is a lovely and important volume. BENNETT, p.35. PLESCH SALE 219. OAK SPRING POMONA 60. MEISEL III, p.441. HEDRICK, p.486. $12,000.

By the Natural Successor to Audubon

50. Elliot, Daniel Giraud: A MONOGRAPH OF THE PITTIDAE, OR, FAMILY OF ANT THRUSHES. New York: D. Appleton & Co., [1861]-1863. 1p. dedication to Philip Lutley Sclater, 1p. list of subscribers. Thirty-one fine handcolored lithographic plates, heightened with gum arabic, after Elliot (24), Paul Louis Oudart (4), E. Maubert (1), A. Mesnel (1), and one unsigned, drawn on stone by C.P. Tholey and others, printed and colored by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia. Folio. Expertly bound to style in half dark green morocco and green cloth, spine gilt with raised bands. Expert repairs at margins of frontispiece plate. Very good.

A fine copy of the first edition of this rare and spectacular ornithological work, the first book by Elliot with his own illustrations, and the scarcest of his major monographs. “El- liot was not his own painter, except among the Pittas. Early in his career, in 1863, he had brought out his book on the Pittidae, or Ant-Thrushes with plates of a delightful... character, after his own drawings” – Fine Bird Books. Elliot’s chosen illustrator, Paul Louis Oudart, died after completing only three or four plates, and rather than risk a hurried instruction to another artist, Elliot “felt compelled to turn draughtsman myself ” (Preface) and executed all of the other drawings, bar one each by Maubert and Mesnel. The illustrations and indeed the birds themselves represent the pinnacle of Elliot’s pictorial work. The Pittidae described are native to Borneo, Nepal, Ceylon, the Philip- pines, New Guinea, and Cambodia, among other places. Their plumage is rendered in vibrant shades of blues, greens, and reds, and the birds (many of whom are shown feeding their young) are placed against beautifully drawn landscapes. Elliot was also careful to ensure that the flowers and foliage shown in detail with the birds were appropriate for the species shown. When a second edition of this work was issued, most of the plates were redrawn by John Gould’s artist, William Hart, and the text was completely rewritten. BM (NH) I, p.522. FINE BIRD BOOKS (1990), p.95. NISSEN, IVB 292. SABIN 22228 (noting only 200 copies were printed). WOOD, p.332. WHITTELL, pp.225-26. ZIMMER, p.208. $22,000.

One of the Greatest American Color Plate Books

51. Elliot, Daniel Giraud: THE NEW AND HERETOFORE UNFIG- URED SPECIES OF THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA. New York: Published by the Author, [1866]-1869. Two volumes. 1p. list of seventy- one subscribers. Seventy-three handcolored lithographic plates (including the additional “Parus occidentalis” plate bound between plates I and II in vol. I): one plate by and after Elliot and Joseph Wolf, printed by D. McClellan & Brothers of New York; seventy-two plates printed and colored by Bowen & Co. of Philadelphia, after Elliot [55], Joseph Wolf [15], or Edwin Sheppard [2], drawn on stone by Ch. P. Tholey [11], “M.P.” [14], “H.J.S.” [3] or “L.H.” [1] and others). Twenty-one wood-engraved vignette illustrations, on india paper mounted, by W.J. Linton after Edwin Sheppard. Large folio. Contempo- rary 19th-century green half morocco over green cloth-covered boards, spines lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Very good.

A spectacular work with very fine, generally life-size handcolored lithographs of species not previously pictured by either Alexander Wilson or John James Audubon, here with an additional plate that is not recorded by the standard bibliographies. Elliot describes his aims in the preface:

Since the time of Wilson and Audubon, no work has been published upon American Ornithology, containing life-size representations of the various species that have been discovered since the labors of those great men were finished. The valuable productions of Cas- sin, as well as the revised edition of the ninth volume of the Pacific Rail Road Report, the joint labor of Messrs. Baird, Cassin and Lawrence had indeed appeared... but no attempt had been made to continue the works of the first great American naturalists in a similar manner [i.e. with the birds represented full-size where possible].... It was, therefore, with the desire to contribute...towards the elucidation of the comparatively little known species of the Birds of North America, their habits and economy, as well as to render their forms familiar so far as life-size representation of them might serve to do, that I undertook the present publication.

As in the case of that other great American ornithologist, John Cassin, the plates for Elliot’s work (with the exception of plate 17 in the second volume) were executed by Bowen of Philadelphia. This was to prove to be the swan song for the firm, who closed down shortly after the present work was completed. It is an interesting commentary on color work in the United States in this period that, without Bowen, there was literally no firm for Elliot to use who could achieve the quality he was seeking. The single plate by McClellan & Bros. (a New York firm that operated between 1865 and 1867) may represent, in Elliot’s eyes, an unsuccessful attempt to find an alternative American printer for his plates. All of his books after this, despite their imprints, were produced in Europe, including his book on pheasants, which Bennett mistakenly classes as an American color plate book. The plates are taken from originals by Elliot and one of the greatest ornithological artists working in the second half of the 19th century, Joseph Wolf. In particular, Wolf ’s image of the Iceland Falcon (the second plate in the second volume) must rank as one of the great bird portraits of all time, and is a worthy successor to the images in Audubon’s own masterpiece. The story behind the additional plate is perplexing and illusive. Auction records show that copies with an additional plate have been sold at auction nine times in the past thirty years. These nine appearances represent at least three different copies of the book and possibly as many as eight, so the presence of the seventy-third plate in the present copy is not unique. In the text (which does not call for a plate) Elliot notes that the bird which the additional plate depicts (“Parus Occidentalis”) is not a new species at all, but a mis-identified Black-capped Chickadee (“Parus Atricapillus”). If this conclusion was reached by Elliot at a late stage in the book’s production, then he could have been in the position of having a supply of the plates completed but with no reason to include them in a book on birds that had not been pictured before. Strangely, none of the standard bibliographies mention the existence of this additional plate. ANKER 129. BENNETT, p.39. FINE BIRD BOOKS (1990), p.95. NISSEN, IVB 294. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 44. SABIN 22227. WOOD, p.331. ZIMMER, p.205. $36,000.

Early English Treason Pamphlets

52. [English Law]: [Popish Plot]: [SAMMELBAND OF FIFTEEN 17th-CENTURY BRITISH TRIAL ACCOUNTS FOR SERIOUS CRIMES AGAINST THE KING, PLUS ONE LATER TRIAL AC- COUNT FOR THE LAST BRITISH SUBJECT TO SUFFER EX- ECUTION BY BEHEADING]. London. 1679-1686, 1747. Publication details and pagination are provided below. 20th-century tan buckram, spine gilt, leather label. Minor edge wear, soiling and staining, small gouge in top of front joint, binding broken after p.2 of first work. Library stamp on first titlepage, some short edge tears. Good.

An interesting collection of 17th-century English trial accounts. Some of the works touch on or directly involve the Popish Plot, a fictitious anti-Catholic conspiracy that resulted in the executions of over twenty people. Titus Oates was the instiga- tor of the conspiracy, and his trial for perjury is present here. The trial of William Scroggs here also relates to the Popish Plot, as Scroggs was the chief justice of the court during the trials of those accused in the Popish Plot and is largely responsible for their convictions. The trials involving the Popish Plot here come towards the end of the hysteria. Also included are two works relating to the trial of Elizabeth Cellier. Known as the “Popish Midwife,” Cellier also suffered the vehement anti-Catholic sentiment prevalent in England at the time. She was acquitted of attempting the King’s kidnapping in the “Meal-Tub Plot;” but her exposé of that matter, “Malice Defeated” led to her trial for “Scandalous Libel,” for which she was fined, pilloried, and her book burnt. A full list of imprints is as follows, in bound order:

1) The Tryal of Tho. Pilkington [et al.] for the Riot at Guild-Hall, on Midsommer-Day, 1682. London. 1683. [4],28,27-34,31-34,39-58pp. ESTC R14605. WING T2231. 2) The Tryal and Conviction of John Hambden...for Contriving and Practising to Dis- turb the Peace of Our Soveraign Lord The King, and Stirring Up Sedition in This Kingdom.... London. 1684. [2],56pp. ESTC R7137. WING T2160. 3) The Tryal of Henry Baron Delamere for High Treason.... London. 1686. [2],87pp. ESTC R23568. WING T2189. 4) The Tryals of Thomas Walcot [et al.] for High-Treason, for Conspiring the Death of the King, and Raising a Rebellion in This Kingdom.... London. 1683. [2],81pp. ESTC R21861. WING T2265. 5) The Arraignment, Tryal & Condemnation of Algernon Sidney, for High-Treason. For Conspiring the Death of the King, and Intending to Raise a Rebellion in This King- dom.... London. 1684. [2],67pp. ESTC R23343. WING A3754. 6) An Account of the Tryal of Charles Bateman, Chirurgeon, for High Treason, in Con- spiring the Death of the Late King and the Subversion of the Government. London. 1685. [2],18,[2]pp. ESTC R42633. WING A415. 7) The Tryals, Convictions & Sentence of Titus Otes...for Willful, Malicious, and Corrupt Perjury.... London. 1685. [2],17,17-94,60pp. ESTC R34667. WING T2249. 8) Articles of Impeachment of High Treason...Against Sir William Scroggs Chief Justic of the Court of King’s Bench, by the Commons in Parliament.... London. 1680. [4],161- 171pp. ESTC R233671. 9) The Trial, Conviction and Condemnation of Andrew Brommich and William Atkins, for Being Romish Priests, Before the Right Honourable The Lord Chief Justic Scroggs.... London. 1679. 20pp. ESTC R18341. WING T2176. 10) The Tryal and Conviction of Thomas Knox and John Lane, for a Conspiracy, to Defame and Scandalize Dr. Oates and Mr. Bedloe, Thereby to Discredit Their Evidence about the Horrid Popish Plot.... London. 1680. [2],68pp. ESTC R21831. WING T2165. 11) The Tryals and Condemnation of Lionel Anderson [et al.] for High Treason, as Romish Priests.... London. 1680. [2],53pp. ESTC R1255. WING T2243. 12) The Tryal of Elizabeth Cellier, the Popish Midwife...for Printing and Publishing the Late Notorious Libel, Intituled, Malice Defeated.... London. 1680. [4]pp. ESTC R22378. WING T2187A. 13) [Malice Defeated: Or a Brief Relation of the Accusation and Deliverance of Elizabeth Cellier...]. [London. 1680]. 48pp. Lacks titlepage. ESTC R203665. WING C1661. 14) The Tryal and Process of High-Treason and Doom of Forfaulture Against Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood Traitor. London. 1685. [2],33-61pp. ESTC R19066. WING M208. 15) The Tryal of Sr. Tho. Gascoyne Bar. For High-Treason, in Conspiring the Death of the King, the Subversion of the Government, and Alteration of Religion...Before the Right Honourable Sir William Scroggs.... London. 1680. 67pp. ESTC R6828. WING T2219. 16) The Whole Proceedings in the House of Peers, upon the Impeachment...Against Simon Lord Lovat, for High Treason.... London. 1747. [2],188pp. ESTC T114300.

$4000.

53. [English Pamphlet Tracts]: [FIVE SAMMELBANDS CONTAINING FORTY-ONE PAMPHLETS ON POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS IN LATE 17th- TO EARLY 18th-CENTURY GREAT BRITAIN, INCLUDING MATERIAL CONCERNING THE JA- COBITE REBELLION AND ANTI-CATHOLIC SENTIMENT]. London; Edinburgh. 1681-1735. Five volumes. Slightly later calf bindings. Good plus.

An assemblage of five sammelbands collecting over forty English and Scottish pamphlets addressing religious and political issues in Britain at the beginning of the 18th century. Published during a period of renewed strife, they contain much immediate reaction and strong opinion to contemporary events such as the Jacobite Rebellion, and present varying arguments concerning sectarian disagreements of the era.

Sammelband A: Jacobite Rebellion

1) [Pittis, William]: Jus Sacrum, or, a Discourse Wherein It Is Fully Prov’d and Dem- onstrated That No Prince Ought to Be Depriv’d of His Natural Right on Account of Religion, &c. 2nd Edition. London: John Baker, 1712. 44pp. ESTC N36438. 2) [Merke, Thomas]: The Late Bishop of Carlisle’s Speech Against the Deposition of Kings; and in Vindication of Hereditary Right, and the Lineal Succession to the Crown of These Realms. London: John Morphew, 1714. 23pp. ESTC T37588. 3) [Toland, John]: [Defoe, Daniel]: The Jacobitism, Perjury and Popery of High-Church Priests. London: J. Baker, 1710. 15,[1]pp. ESTC T29031. 4) [Defoe, Daniel]: And What If the Pretender Should Come? Or, Some Considerations of the Advantages and Real Consequences of the Pretender’s Possessing the Crown of Great-Britain. London: J. Baker, 1713. 40pp. ESTC N16439. 5) [Burnet, Thomas]: Some New Proofs, by Which It Appears That the Pretender Is Truly James the Third. London: J. Baker, 1713. [10],28pp. Lacks half title. ESTC N23541. 6) [ James, Prince of Wales]: Memoirs of the Chevalier de St. George: with Some Private Passages of the Life of the Late King James II, Never Before Publish’d. London. 1712. 78pp. Lacks title and second leaf. ESTC T39134. 7) [Defoe, Daniel]: Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover, with an Enquiry How Far the Abdication of King James, Supposing It to Be Legal, Ought to Affect the Person of the Pretender. London: J. Baker, 1713. [2],45pp. ESTC T65926. 8) [Dunton, John]: Seeing’s Believing: or, K—g G——rge Prov’d an Usurper; and His Whole Reign One Continu’d Act of Cr-ty and Op-n, and Other Notorious Fail-ngs. London: S. Keimer, [1716?] xiv,[14],51,[1]pp. Lacks titlepage. ESTC N21067. 9) [Quevedo, Francisco de]: The Controversy About Resistance and Non-Resistance, Discuss’d in Moral and Political Reflections on Marcus Brutus.... London: J. Baker, 1710. 95pp. ESTC T34049. 10) [Resistance Theory]: St. Paul and Her Majesty Vindicated. In Proving from the Apostle’s Own Words, Rom. XIII. That the Doctrine of Non-Resistance, as Commonly Taught, Is None of His. London: A. Baldwin, 1710. [2],6pp. ESTC T143636. 11) [Divine Right]: The Prerogative of Primogeniture. Shewing the Right of Succession to an Hereditary Empire, Depends Not upon Grace, &c. But Only upon Birth-Right.... London: W. Boreham, 1718. 44pp. ESTC T89361. 12) [Wake, William]: The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Speech to the King in Parliament.... London: W. Boreham, 1720. [2],32pp. Lacks half title. ESTC N16111. 13) [ Jacobite Rebellion]: A Full Answer to the Depositions, and to All Other the Pretences and Arguments Whatsoever, Concerning the Birth of the Pretended Prince of Wales.... [London]. 1712. 56pp. plus folding map. ESTC T146455. 14) [ James, Prince of Wales]: The Memorial of the Chevalier de St. George, on Occasion of the Princess Sobieski’s Retiring into a Nunnery.... London: W. Wilkins, [1726?] viii,24pp. ESTC T124385. 15) [Defoe, Daniel]: A Journal of the Earl of Marr’s Proceedings, from His First Arrival in Scotland to His Embarkation for France. London: J. Baker, [1716]. xvi,32pp. ESTC T69396.

Sammelband B: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy

1) [Garden, George]: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy, and Those of the Episcopal Perswasion, Considered, as to the Granting Them a Toleration and Indulgence. 2nd Edition. [Edinburgh]. 1703. 40pp. ESTC N16050. 2) [Garden, George]: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy, and Those of the Episcopal Per- swasion, Considered, as to the Granting Them a Toleration and Indulgence, the Second Part. [Edinburgh]. 1704. [2],100pp. ESTC T79512. 3) [Garden, George]: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy, and Those of the Episcopal Per- swasion, Considered, as to the Granting Them a Toleration and Indulgence, the Third Part. [Edinburgh]. 1705. [8],184pp. ESTC N16051.

Sammelband C: William Pulteney & Robert Walpole

1) [Pulteney, William]: The Politicks on Both Sides, with Regard to Foreign Affairs, Stated from Their Own Writings, and Examined by the Course of Events....2nd Edi- tion, Corrected. London: H. Haines, 1734. 72pp. ESTC T10149. 2) [Pulteney, William]: An Enquiry into the Conduct of Our Domestick Affairs, from the Year 1721, to Christmas 1733....3rd Edition, Corrected. London: H. Haines, 1734. 72pp. ESTC T32735. 3) [Walpole, Robert]: Some Considerations Concerning the Publick Funds, the Publick Revenues, and the Annual Supplies, Granted by Parliament.... London: J. Roberts, 1735. 110pp. ESTC T49251. 4) [Pulteney, William]: The Case of the Sinking Fund, and the Right of the Publick Credi- tors to It Considered at Large.... London: H. Haines, 1735. 138,[2]pp. ESTC T20277.

Sammelband D: Jean-Baptiste Girard Affair / English Anti-Catholic Tracts 1) [Cadiere, Marie-Catherine]: The Case of Mrs. Mary Catharine Cadiere, Against the Jesuit Father John Baptist Girard. [Edinburgh. 1730]. [2],vi,80pp. Titlepage defective. ESTC T45814. 2) [Girard, Jean-Baptiste]: The Defence of F. John Baptist Girard....Part I. 3rd Edition. London: J. Roberts, 1732. iv,40pp. ESTC N43731. 3) [Girard, Jean-Baptiste]: The Defence of F. John Baptist Girard....Part II. 2nd Edition. London: J. Roberts, 1731. [2],82pp. ESTC T32227. 4) [Girard, Jean-Baptiste]: The Defence of F. John Baptist Girard....Part III. London: J. Roberts, 1731. vi,105,[1]pp. ESTC 32228. 5) [Campbell, Archibald]: The Case Restated; or an Account of a Conversation with a Papist.... [London]. 1713. [4],100pp. ESTC T149928. 6) [Hutchinson, Francis]: A Compassionate Address to Those Papists, Who Will Be Prevail’d with to Examine the Cause for Which They Suffer.... London: D. Midwinter, 1716. [2],viii,[3-]176pp. ESTC T72525.

Sammelband E: Miscellaneous English Religious Tracts

1) [Higden, Wiliam]: The Case of the Admission of Occasional Conformists to the Holy Communion, Before They Renounce Their Schism, Consider’d....2nd Edition. London: Samuel Keble, 1708. 20,46pp. ESTC T200086. 2) Mackenzie, George: A Vindication of the Government in Scotland, During the Reign of King Charles the II.... Edinburgh: James Watson, 1712. 62pp. Final two leaves defective. ESTC T58742. 3) [Church Polity]: Primitive Church Government, in the Practice of the Reformed in Bohemia. Or, an Account of the Ecclesiastick Order and Discipline Among the Re- formed.... [Edinburgh?] 1703. [16],56pp. ESTC 114573. 4) [Garden, George]: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy, and Those of the Episcopal Perswasion, Considered, as to the Granting Them a Toleration and Indulgence. 2nd Edition. [Edinburgh], 1703. 40pp. ESTC N16050. 5) [Ramsay, James]: A Letter from a Gentleman, to a Member of Parliament; Concerning Toleration. Edinburgh. 1703. 13pp. ESTC T63770. 6) [Skene, J.]: Plain Dealing with the Presbyterians, by Way of Answer to a Letter from a Gentleman to a Member of Parliament Concerning Toleration. [Edinburgh?] 1703. 27[i.e. 24]pp. ESTC T61158. 7) Hay, Richard: An Essay on the Origine [sic] of the Royal Family of the Stewarts.... Edinburgh: William Adams, 1722. [4],39pp. ESTC T117169. 8) Barclay, John: John Barclay His Vindication of the Intercession of Saints, the Veneration of Relicks and Miracles, Against the Sectaries of the Times. London: Mary Thompson, 1688. [2],20pp. ESTC R215790. 9) Ford, Simon: Baptism for the Dead. A Sermon Preach’d Before the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen of the City of London, on June the 5th 1692. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1692. [4],29pp. ESTC R13623. 10) Turner, Francis: A Sermon Preached Before the King on the 30/1 of January 1680/1. Being the Fast for the Martyrdom of King Charles I. Of Blessed Memory. London: J. Maycock, for R. Royston, 1681. 47pp. ESTC R4027. 11) [Lockhart, George]: The Case of Mr. Greenshields, Fully Stated and Discuss’d, in a Letter from a Commoner of North Britain to an English Peer. London. 1711. 23pp. ESTC T20083. 12) Burnet, Gilbert: A Sermon Preached on Fast-Day, Decemb. 22, 1680. At St. Margarets Westminster, Before the Honourable House of Commons. London: Richard Chiswell, 1681. [2],42pp. ESTC R19858. 13) [Garden, George]: The Case of the Episcopal Clergy, and Those of the Episcopal Perswasion, Considered, as to the Granting Them a Toleration and Indulgence, the Second Part. [Edinburgh]. 1704. [2],100pp. ESTC T79512. $5250.

Four Handsome Frontier Views

54. Fasel, G.W.: HEROIC DEEDS OF FORMER TIMES.... New York: Nagel & Weingartner, 1851. Four folio prints, each 42 x 35 cm. Some edge wear and minor repairs. Generally good.

A set of four handcolored lithographs, drawn by G.W. Fasel and published by the New York lithographic firm of Nagel & Weingartner. The series depicts famous scenes from the Kentucky Indian wars of the American Revolutionary period, episodes which appear in a number of histories and accounts of the period, and including some of the most celebrated incidents of frontier Indian warfare in American history. This set includes four of a total of six issued. The complete story behind the episodes depicted can be found in American Battle Art. The images are:

1) “Daniel Boone & His Friends Rescuing his Daughter Jemina.” 2) “McCulloch’s Leap. In the Year 1777 Major McCulloch, hotly Pursued by Indians, saved his life by boldly leaping down a precipice about 150 feet high into the Wheeling Creek.” 3) “Benjamin Logan saving Harrison from being Scalped...May 1777.” 4) “Heroism of Miss Elizabeth Zane during an attack by the Indians in 1777 upon Ft. Henry....”

A fine series of lithographs, illustrating in graphic form an already active strain of American mythology. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, AN ALBUM OF AMERICAN BATTLE ART, pp.34-37, 60-61. $2500.

55. Fergusson, Adam: PRACTICAL NOTES MADE DURING A TOUR IN CANADA, AND A PORTION OF THE UNITED STATES, IN MDCCCXXXI. Edinburgh & London. 1834. [iii]-xvi,426pp. plus folding map in front pocket. 19th-century polished calf, gilt. Minor soiling, corners worn. Contemporary bookplate. Internally clean. Map backed on linen. Very good.

Second edition, with additional “notes made during a second visit to Canada in MDCCCXXXIII.” “Visited Baltimore, Washington, Western N.Y. and devotes 32 pages to Michigan Territory. 2nd (and best) Edition containing Notes of a Second Visit, made in 1833” – Wright Howes. The map shows the British North American provinces and the adjoining states in 1833. TPL 1641. SABIN 24102. WRIGHT HOWES 45:148. HOWES F86. $850.

Very Rare, Detailed Map of the Coal Region in East Central Pennsylvania

56. Fisher, Samuel B.: MAP OF THE FIRST AND SECOND AN- THRACITE COAL FIELDS. Pottsville, Pa.: Watson’s Litho., Philadel- phia, 1836. Lithographed folding map, handcolored in outline, sectioned and linen-backed at a contemporary date. Sheet size: 47 x 88½ inches. Folds into half calf and period marbled portfolio binding. Very good. In a half blue morocco box. Provenance: William Rawle (early signature).

Samuel Fisher served as a civil engineer working in the coal region. In 1834 the Pennsylvania Board of Trade commissioned this map, as detailed in a report on the coal trade within Hazard’s Register of Pennsylvania:

The Board have long been desirous of procuring a correct map of the Coal Region, and have exerted themselves to secure the talents of a gentleman qualified for that undertaking: and they feel gratified that they are able to an- nounce to you that such a work is in progress and will soon be completed.... [The map] on a scale of 1 5/8 inches to the mile, will take in the Coal Fields of the Schuylkill, Little Schuylkill, Lehigh, Beaver Meadow, Mahony, Lykens Valley and Swatara, covering a space of fifteen miles from North to South and forty miles from East to West; and will lay down each tract with the original patentee, the number of acres, date of survey, and as far as possible the names of the present owners.

The actual map in the end would be on a scale of 200 perches to the inch (approximately .625 miles to the inch), and ranging approximately thirty miles north to south and fifty miles east to west. The map depicts the region in central northeastern Pennsylvania, bounded by the Susquehanna River to the west and north, as far south as Pottsville, and as far east as the Lehigh River. Individual land owners are named, and colored lines and symbols depict the coal deposits, railroads (existing and proposed), county and turnpike roads, as well as county and township borders. “This must be one of the earliest maps of this type, and we can find no record of it. Watson’s Lithography produced other coal maps during this period, and this is earlier than any that were listed. This is an unusual thematic map showing coal deposits and ownership” – Rumsey. RUMSEY 4304. $9500.

57. Fletcher, John: AMERICAN PATRIOTISM FARTHER CON- FRONTED WITH REASON, SCRIPTURE, AND THE CON- STITUTION: BEING OBSERVATIONS ON THE DANGEROUS POLITICKS TAUGHT BY THE REV. MR. EVANS, M.A. AND THE REV. DR. PRICE. Shrewsbury. 1776. [2],viii,130pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light tanning. Very good.

First edition of this pro-British pamphlet in which the author uses scripture to prove the British right and authority to tax and control the American colonies. Fletcher writes that although the British may subdue the colonies by the sword, they will inevitably remain unconvinced of their wrongs until they are persuaded by reason and scripture. “The duty of paying taxes to the protective power, is so strongly connected with christianity, that the Colonists must practically give up the scriptures, or submit to the reasonable demands of the British legislature....Beasts and savages can be conquered by fire and sword; but it is the glory of men and christians to be subdued by argument and scripture.” Relatively scarce. ESTC T98714. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 76-47a. HOWES F191. $1750.

First African-American at West Point

58. Flipper, Henry O.: THE COLORED CADET AT WEST POINT.... New York. 1878. [3]-322pp. plus engraved portrait. 20th-century black half morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor toning, occasional foxing, faint library stamp on titlepage. Very good. Lacks the frontispiece portrait.

Flipper was born a slave in Georgia in 1856. There was great hue and cry when he was appointed to West Point in 1873, and even more when he graduated fiftieth out of seventy-six in 1877. While at West Point he took a tremendous amount of abuse, all recorded herein. Written a year after his graduation, this book expresses support for the Academy and the Army. His first four years out were spent in the worst posts available in Texas, and in 1882 he was convicted of embezzling funds – it would seem a frame-up – and dismissed from service. The engraved portrait of Flipper in his West Point dress uniform, opposite page 238, reveals a handsome young man who blazed a trail for all of the African-American cadets who followed him. $1000.

New Haven Murderer and Seminole War Veteran

59. Foote, Henry Leander: A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND ADVEN- TURES OF HENRY LEANDER FOOTE, SENTENCED TO BE HUNG IN NEW HAVEN, JUNE 19, 1850, (REPRIEVED BY THE LEGIS- LATURE TILL OCTOBER 2, 1850,) FOR THE MURDER OF MISS EM- ILY H. COOPER....TOGETHER WITH HIS ADVENTURES AS A U.S. DRAGOON DURING THE FLORIDA WAR....WITH...HIS CONFESSION OF THE RAPE AND MURDER OF MISS COOPER, AND HIS ADDRESS ON THE GALLOWS. New Haven: T.J. Stafford, [1850]. 56pp. Original plain wrappers, stitched as issued. Wrappers somewhat soiled and slightly chipped, with one small closed tear from front fore-edge. Title in contemporary manuscript on front wrapper, later institutional bookplate inside front. Tanning and foxing. Good. In original condition.

A lurid autobiography written by a Connecticut murderer who also served as a Dragoon in Florida during the Second Seminole War. He claims to relate in the present work “a description of the horrid massacre of two families, and some battles, never before published,” and his detailed account of his service from 1835 to 1837 occupies most of the first part of the pamphlet. The Appendix contains his confession to the rape and murder of Emily Cooper, his twelve-year-old cousin, and the address he planned to give at the time of his hanging, in which he blames (among other things) “licentious novels” for leading him astray. This is the second edition, with three added pages containing details of his execution, published after his hanging. OCLC locates only three copies of this edition, at the New-York Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Clements Library; and two copies of the first edition, at Yale and Trinity College. Not in Servies. McDADE 310. COHEN 12568. $5000.

Crazed Black Man Murders Family

60. [Freeman, William]: THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM FREEMAN, FOR THE MURDER OF JOHN G. VAN NEST, INCLUDING THE EV- IDENCE AND THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL, WITH THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT GRANTING A NEW TRIAL, AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE PRIS- ONER, AND OF THE POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF HIS BODY BY AMARIAH BRIGHAM, M.D. AND OTHERS. Auburn, N.Y.: Derby, Miller & Co., 1848. iv,[17-]508pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, label chipped, front hinge loosening. Institutional ink stamp on titlepage, blind stamps on titlepage and second leaf. Light to moderate foxing. Good plus.

A scarce account of a sensational 1846 murder case in upstate New York that involved multiple trials, pleas of insanity, and a defense argued by a former governor. “Freeman was a demented negro who murdered John Van Nest, his wife, and child at Auburn, New York, one night with an ax. His trial, and particularly his defense by former Governor William H. Seward, aroused great excitement because of the plea of insanity. His second trial resulted in a death sentence which was reversed, and Freeman died shortly thereafter. An autopsy disclosed a diseased brain of long standing. The case did much to insure a better hearing for the insane, who, until then, received small consideration in the courts” – McDade. McDADE 324. $2500.

A Classic American Color Plate Book

61. Frémaux, Leon J.: NEW ORLEANS CHARACTERS. [New Or- leans]: Peychaud & Garcia, 1876. Lithographed and mounted on cloth guards throughout, titlepage with oval handcolored vignette, sixteen handcolored plates, each with title beneath. Folio. Publisher’s half black morocco and pebbled-cloth boards, front cover ornately stamped in gilt: “New Orleans Characters.” Front joint starting. Very good. In a black half morocco box.

A rare collection of handcolored portraits of 19th-century life in New Orleans, ac- corded a “b” in Howes, and only the second copy handled by this firm in forty years. “Costume books and illustrations of typical trades and occupations, so common in European color plate books, are comparatively rare in America. This book of New Orleans street characters may be the best example of the genre printed in the United States” – Reese. It clearly helped that Frémaux, a Louisiana native, empa- thized with his subjects. He has managed to truly capture not only the individuals but also to embody the varied and colorful character of the city of New Orleans itself. His training as an engineer and cartographer would have served Frémaux well when it came to recording the details that make an image memorable: the pearl earring of Rose Nicaud, the first coffee vendor in New Orleans in the final plate; the drummer’s toeless shoe (plate six of the man who drummed up business for auctioneer Placide J. Spear). Three of the plates are of characters from the “professional” classes and are probably all portraits of individuals whom their contemporaries would have recognized: the first plate, “A Cotton Classer,” is of Jules Lemairé, while the second plate, “Sugar broker & Weigher,” is apparently a double portrait of people named Buck Miller and O’Connell. The remaining plates are of street vendors or workers, and while they are all drawn from life, they are more generic in nature – the two exceptions of identified individuals are the drummer and coffee seller already mentioned. The captions beneath each plate are in English (7) or English and Louisiana patois (5). Each plate is numbered, nine with a small number in the lower left corner of the image, but seven have the number incorporated into the image itself (“1” is stamped onto the cotton bale, “2” is on the weighing machine, “10” is on the side of the hand-wagon, etc.). A classic American color plate book which offers a new and improved take on the twin European traditions of suites of plates of regional costumes and street cries. HOWES F362, “b.” BENNETT, p.44. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 93. $10,000. 62. [Fugitive Slave Act]: Frazee, George: FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE. DIS- TRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTH- ERN DIVISION OF IOWA. BURLINGTON, JUNE TERM, 1850. RUEL DAGGS, vs. ELIHU FRAZIER, et als. TRESPASS ON THE CASE. Burlington, Ia. 1850. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, rear lacking, removed from a bound volume. Later institutional ink stamps on titlepage, contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. An occasional fox mark. Good plus.

A scarce account of a civil suit brought in an Iowa federal court over the issue of nine slaves escaped across the border from Missouri. Elihu Frazier, an anti-slavery Quaker, and several others had assisted the slaves in escaping the ownership of Ruel Daggs. When Daggs could not recover his slaves through the employment of slave catchers, by intimidation via a large posse of angry Missourians, or through criminal prosecution owing to an unsympathetic judge, he lodged this suit. Eventually four of the nine slaves were returned to Daggs’ possession with the aid of pro-slavery elements in Iowa, and the defendants in this case were fined $2,900 in damages, although this was apparently never paid. “This pamphlet appears to be the only known record of this trial in the federal district court....This was one of the last cases argued solely on the basis of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. It was also one of the few fugitive slave cases heard in Iowa. Because this case was not officially reported, this pamphlet presents unique information on the fugitive slave issue in this western border state” – Finkelman. COHEN 11847. FINKELMAN, pp.79-80. SABIN 18270. $1000.

A Critical Fugitive Slave Case

63. [Fugitive Slave Case]: REPORT OF THE CASE OF EDWARD PRIGG AGAINST THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVA- NIA. ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES...IN WHICH IT WAS DECIDED THAT ALL THE LAWS OF THE SEVERAL STATES RELA- TIVE TO FUGITIVE SLAVES ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND VOID; AND THAT CONGRESS HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE POWER OF LEGISLATION ON THE SUBJECT OF FUGITIVE SLAVES ESCAPING INTO OTHER STATES. Philadelphia. 1842. 140pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, labels slightly chipped. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning and foxing. Good plus.

A rare report of this important fugitive slave case, leading to the Supreme Court decision to grant Congress exclusive power in such cases. Edward Prigg, a professional slave catcher, was indicted for kidnapping Margaret Morgan, a fugitive slave residing in Pennsylvania. “Northerners and Southerners of all political viewpoints realized [the case’s] importance. It affected all of the ‘personal liberty laws’ of the North, which had been passed to protect free blacks from kidnapping and which were often used to hinder the return of fugitive slaves....This pamphlet...represents an unusually rare instance of ‘instant’ mass communication in the mid-nineteenth century” – Finkelman. This case came several years before the explosive Dred Scott decision, and the decision was written by Justice Joseph Story. SABIN 61207. COHEN 13856. FINKELMAN, pp.60-63. $1250.

64. [Fugitive Slave Law]: Robbins, James J.: REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF CASTNER HANWAY FOR TREASON, IN THE RESISTANCE OF THE EXECUTION OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF SEPTEMBER, 1850.... Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1852. [4],[9]-275pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, labels chipped. Front hinge cracked, front free endpaper detached, preliminaries detaching. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamps and blind stamps on titlepage. Light tanning at edges, otherwise internally clean. Good.

An account of a famous treason trial stemming from resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Pennsylvania. Edward Gorsuch, a Maryland slave owner, crossed into Pennsylvania with a federal warrant in 1851 in pursuit of four escaped slaves. When he reached Christiana, Pennsylvania his party was attacked by a group that included Castner Hanway, and in the ensuing gun battle Gorsuch and a number of others were killed. At the urging of the Governor of Maryland, President Fillmore sought to make an example of those who resisted the enforcement of the law, and Hanway and forty other participants were indicted on federal treason charges. After a two-week trial in November and December of 1851, Hanway was acquitted and the rest of the indictments were dropped. COHEN 14181. SABIN 78120. $750.

The Capture of Pensacola During the Revolution

65. Galvez, Bernardo de: DIARIO DE LAS OPERACIONES DE LA EXPEDICION CONTRA LA PLAZA DE PANZACOLA CON- CLUIDA POR LAS ARMAS DE S.M. CATOLICA, BAXO LAS ORDENES DEL MARISCAL DE CAMPO D. BERNARDO DE GALVEZ [caption title]. [Madrid. 1781]. 48pp. Small quarto. Modern red three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Light toning and soiling to first leaf, minor foxing and soiling, else very good.

An important document of the American Revolution in the South, with important ramifications for the history of Florida. In 1779, Spain joined France in aiding the Americans against the British in the Revolution; however, Spanish goals were mainly self-serving, and she particularly wished to regain Florida, lost to Britain in the Peace of 1763 which concluded the French and Indian War. With this in mind, the energetic Viceroy Bernardo de Galvez organized an expedition from Havana against the British base at Pensacola, the capital of the Province of West Florida (including the present Florida panhandle, southern Alabama and Mississippi, and Louisiana as far as the Mississippi River). The expedition set out in November 1780. but it was scattered by storms and launched again in February 1781. The Spanish secured Baton Rouge, Natchez, and Mobile before turning on Pensacola. Despite difficulty in coordination (the Spanish admiral was not under Galvez’ direct command and at first refused to run the bar at Pensacola under the British guns), Galvez was able to land his forces and effect a siege, resulting in British capitulation on May 9, 1781. The loss was a major setback to the British in the South and insured that the Floridas were returned to Spain in the Peace of 1783. Spanish control of the Floridas was a thorn in the side of the United States until they were sold to the U.S. under the conditions of the Adams- Onìs Treaty of 1819. This account is Galvez’ detailed report of the entire expedition, with the last part dated at Pensacola on May 12, 1781. Also included is the treaty of capitulation and a schedule of troops involved. Medina believed this pamphlet was published first in Havana and later in Madrid. We have compared two copies which we believe confirm this. While the same in pagination, and indeed with the same text per page, the line settings within each page vary considerably. One is crudely printed and looks like Spanish colonial printing; the other, with a different type face, is much more elegantly printed. The present copy matches the latter description, which we believe to be the Madrid printing. The easy way to tell the two apart is the first (of many) different paragraph settings: on page 3 the first paragraph at the top has five lines in the Havana edition and only four in the Madrid edition. Accompanied by a copy of Jose Porrua Turanzas’ (editor) Diario de las Operaciones Contra la Plaza de Panzacola 1781... (Madrid, 1959). Eberstadt paid $350 for the Streeter copy in 1967. SABIN 26475. PALAU 96980. MEDINA, HAVANA 68 (ref ). STREETER SALE 1191. HOWES P59, “b.” $7500.

66. Gardiner, W.R., Jr.: THE TRIAL OF LIEUTENANT HETHER- INGTON, U.S.N., FOR SHOOTING GEORGE GOWER ROB- INSON, ESQ..... Yokohama. 1892. 303pp. 20th-century buckram, spine gilt lettered. Original printed front wrapper bound in, detached and chipped. Institutional blind and ink stamps on wrapper recto, bookplate on verso. A number of leaves nearly detached from center of text block. Light tanning. Good.

An unusual Japanese imprint in English that recounts the trial of James Hether- ington, a United States Navy lieutenant. Hetherington was charged with shooting an Englishman, George Gower Robinson, on the streets of Yokohama for paying unwanted attentions to his wife. He was acquitted. Perhaps as few as one hundred copies were printed, and only a handful recorded by OCLC. Not in McDade. ROGALA, BOOKS ON JAPAN IN ENGLISH 376. $750.

A Great Monument of American Photography

67. Gardner, Alexander: GARDNER’S PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCH BOOK OF THE WAR. Vol. II. Washington: Philp & Solomons, [1865]. [53]pp. of text. Mounted on guards throughout, tinted lithographic titlepage with lettering within integral pictorial borders. Fifty original albumen silver print photographs (each approximately 7 x 9 inches), each mounted on card within a lithographed frame with letterpress caption, each image accompanied by a page of letterpress description. Oblong folio. Original publisher’s black morocco, gilt, spines gilt, a.e.g. Corners slightly worn. Light dampstaining. About very good. In a half morocco clamshell case.

The second volume of this work, the most famous collection of Civil War photographs which was published in an edition of no more than 200 sets. It includes many of the most celebrated and recognizable images of the war. The photographs in this volume are organized chronologically, beginning after Gettysburg and Vicksburg in September 1863 and ending with the dedication of the monument at Bull Run to commemorate the Union soldiers who had died there. Unlike Brady, who was in the habit of placing his name on images made by his field operators, Gardner specifically credits each image to the particular photographer responsible, shedding light on the work of some of the most distinguished American photographers of the day. In addition to Gardner, the Sketch Book includes work by Timothy O’Sullivan, William Pywell, D.B. Woodbury, David Knox, Barnard & Gibson, J. Reekie, and others. These images form perhaps the most important pictorial record of the Civil War. According to Taft, this work “Is one of the most important sources of information that we have on the subject, as from it we learn the names of many men who actually made the photographs of the Civil War, and were employed by Brady and Gardner.” “The photographs show the terrain of the battles..., encampments, headquarters of the troops, officers and enlisted men, soldiers in drill formation and in the field under fire, and the ruins left after the battles. Limitations in the process of photography did not permit work during the battles; the photographs are remarkable documents of the circumstantial evidence for war. Recent investigations suggest that not every site was recorded just as found by the photographer, but that a certain amount of rearranging, including actually moving the corpses, was undertaken in some situations. The captions, conceived in poetic rather than terse journalistic terms, suggest that the authors saw their work as having the human significance we see in many of the photographs of today” – Goldschmidt & Naef. Gardner’s work was published by the Washington, D.C. firm of Philp & Solo- mons and carried the rather hefty price of $150. The one hundred photographs that were included were selected from a collection of over 3,000 negatives, and the lithographic titlepages were designed by Alfred R. Waud (although designated “A.R. Ward” on the titlepages), one of the most important illustrators of the day. The publishers issued two slightly separate versions of the book, one in 1865 and the other in 1866. This volume is from the 1865 issue, with the caption “Incidents of the War” on each mount. HOWES G64. SABIN 26635. GOLDSCHMIDT & NAEF, TRUTHFUL LENS 68. NEVINS II, p.14. Julie L. Mellby, “Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War” in Princeton University Library Chronicle (Winter 2006), pp.435-40. $50,000.

With the Ultra-Rare Second Volume

68. Gatschet, Albert S.: A MIGRATION LEGEND OF THE CREEK INDIANS.... [with:] TCHIKILLI’S KASI’HTA LEGEND IN THE CREEK AND HITCHITI LANGUAGES, WITH A CRITICAL COMMENTARY AND FULL GLOSSARY TO BOTH TEXTS.... Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1884. Two volumes. [2],251; [2],207pp. Original publisher’s cloth, spine gilt. Light wear to spine ends and edges. Light tanning and occasional very faint foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.

An important work on the Creeks, with considerable linguistic information, place names, Creek myths, etc., published in a small edition by the well-known ethnolo- gist, Daniel G. Brinton. This set is complete with the extremely rare second volume, which according to Howes was issued in St. Louis by a different publisher in 1888 and only in a few copies. Howes further calls this work a “highly important contribution to the history of the Southern Indian” and calls the title “misleading and totally inadequate.” HOWES G81. $1250.

The Proposed Georgia Reconstruction Constitution of Fall 1865, in Its Earliest Printing

69. [Georgia]: SUPPLEMENT TO THE DAILY CONSTITUTIONAL- IST. AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1865. Augusta, Ga. Sept. 3, 1865. Broadsheet, approximately 21¾ x 14 inches. Previ- ously folded. Light tanning at edges, a few stray ink marks. Very good plus.

An exceedingly rare newspaper printing of an early draft of the proposed Georgia state constitution of 1865. This document attempted to fulfill the requirements placed on Confederate states by the federal government after the end of the Civil War, including the repeal of secession, the abolition of slavery, and the repudiation of war debts. Although this constitution addressed several of the obligations for readmission, the Georgia legislature refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amend- ment, and the state was placed into Re- construction and military rule. Only after federal control under Reconstruction was established did an acceptable constitution receive passage in 1868. This supplement to the Daily Consti- tutionalist prints the proposed constitution almost in its entirety on the recto of the broadsheet and the remainder in one half column on the verso. Numerous advertisements fill the rest of the space on the verso. This draft was printed in September, but Georgia’s Constitutional Convention did not commence until the next month in Milledgeville, and the final draft of the document was not adopted until Nov. 6, 1865, just over two months after this printing. As a result, this version of the document exhibits numerous differences from the final one. An enormously rare imprint, we locate only one potential copy, at the American Antiquarian Society. $6750. 70. [Georgia]: [African Americana]: RECORD CASE No. 13,727. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. OCTOBER TERM, 1892. TERM Nos. 146 AND 147. THE GEORGIA INFIR- MARY FOR THE RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AGED AND AFFLICTED NEGROES, APPELANT, vs. HARRIET C. JONES AND FRANK C. JONES...BRIEF FOR RESPONDENTS [wrapper title]. [N.p., either New York or Washington, D.C. 1893]. 45pp. Original printed front wrapper (lacking rear wrapper). Unobtrusive institutional ink stamp on front wrapper. Minor toning to paper. Good.

A rare pamphlet comprising the defendant’s response to the United States Supreme Court in a case regarding funds for the care of former slaves that were supposed to be paid out of the estate of Gazaway B. Lamar, according to his will. The plaintiffs argue for the $100,000 bequeathed to them in Mr. Lamar’s will, funds intended “to be devoted to establishing and sustaining one or more hospitals [in Augusta and Savannah] for colored persons...who have been slaves and their descendants, giving preference to those which once belonged to or were hired by me....” The respondents’ attorney, Joseph H. Coates breaks his argument down into five points, and in summation, states that there simply is not enough left in the estate to satisfy the claim. The plaintiff ’s circuit court appeal is present in OCLC in only one copy, but there are no physical copies in OCLC of this response from the defendants. OCLC 576732450 (digital reproduction). $1000.

British Literature Printed in Frontier Tennessee

71. Goldsmith, Oliver: THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD; A TALE. Knox- ville: Printed at the Knoxville Republican Office, 1831. 208pp. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Binding lightly worn but quite sound. Contem- porary ownership inscriptions on front flyleaf. Light to moderate foxing. Very good.

“Long considered to be the first novel printed in Tennessee, until dealer George Webb uncovered a copy of a previously unknown book, titled Elizabeth, or Exiles in Siberia, by a ‘Madame de Cottin’, printed in Fayetteville in 1825” – Allen. Rare, with fewer than ten copies listed in OCLC. A handsome copy in contemporary condition. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 7282. ALLEN 920. ALLEN, MORE TENNESSEE RARI- TIES 296. $2250.

With Unusual American Color Plates

72. Good, Peter P.: A MATERIA MEDICA ANIMALIA, CONTAIN- ING THE SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS, NATURAL HISTORY, AND CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL PROPERTIES AND USES OF SUBSTANCES THAT ARE THE PRODUCTS OF BEASTS, BIRDS, FISHES, OR INSECTS. Cambridge: Published by the author, [1853]. xxiv pp., twenty-four parts (usually 8pp. each, separately paginated), 55pp. glossary, [8]pp. advertisements, plus twenty-four handcolored plates, engraved half title, and frontispiece portrait. Original dark brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind. Rubbed at extremities; lower corners and foot of spine worn. Light dampstaining to front board. Bookplate on front pastedown; contemporary ownership inscription on flyleaf. Light scattered foxing and soiling. About very good.

An interesting American color plate book of medical natural history, each section treating a different animal and its useful medicinal qualities or productions. Among the creatures described and illustrated with a colored plate are the sponge, the hen, the ox and cow, the honey bee, the sperm whale, the hog, bloodsucking leeches, the snail, the coral, the rattlesnake, and others. The well-executed color plates are by the firm of E.C. Kellogg of Hartford. BENNETT, p.47. McGRATH, pp.44, 84. MEISEL III, p.466. $850.

73. Hall, James: ILLINOIS MONTHLY MAGAZINE...Vol. I. Vandalia, Il.: Robert Blackwell, 1831. [2],576,ii pp. Modern half green morocco, stamped in gilt. Lacks pp.571-575, else very good.

An early and scarce Illinois periodical compiled by James Hall, who would go on to publish the famed Native American plate book, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Thomas McKenney. Hall moved to Vandalia in 1827, where he founded the state’s first historical society and was involved in several publishing ventures, including the Illinois Intelligencer newspaper. The present work focuses on “the resources, literary and literal, of Illinois” (ANB) and contains twelve issues, dating from October 1830 to September 1831. BUCK 221. SABIN 34261. ANB (online). $1000.

74. Hardee, William J.: RIFLE AND LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS; FOR THE EXERCISE AND MANOEVRES OF TROOPS WHEN ACTING AS LIGHT INFANTRY OR RIFLEMEN.... Nashville: J.O. Griffith & Co., 1861. Two volumes. 250; 232pp., plus frontispiece and plates. Original publisher’s cloth, blind stamped, spines lettered in gilt. First volume in green cloth and second volume in brown cloth. Hinges cracked, spine ends chipped on second volume. Contemporary presentation and ownership inscriptions in endpapers of second volume. Light foxing and tanning. Good.

The only Nashville edition of this important manual for the Confederate infantry. A very popular book for the southern military, which saw many printings during the existence of the Confederacy, in a number of locations, including Richmond, Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis, and Raleigh. ALLEN 5273. ALLEN MORE RARITIES 328. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4865. HARWELL, CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 40 (note). $2000. An Epic Exploration of Alaska: The Harriman Expedition

75. [Harriman Expedition]: Curtis, Edward S.; Louis Agassiz Fuertes; et al: C. Hart Merriam [editor]: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. HAR- RIMAN ALASKA SERIES...HARRIMAN ALASKA EXPEDITION WITH THE COOPERATION OF WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institution, 1902-1914. Thirteen volumes. Half titles, all but the last two volumes with two titlepages per volume (one titlepage in each of these volumes printed in red and black). 452 plates including one tinted lithograph, two lithographs printed in two colors, fifty-five chromolithographs), and ten chromolithographic maps (five folding). Quarto. Original green cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, t.e.g. Very good. Provenance: University of London (armorial bookplate in each volume, the last two volumes with small discrete ink stamps on verso of titlepages).

A very rare complete set of the Harriman Alaska Expedition publications. These volumes record the findings of perhaps the largest private expedition to Alaska ever undertaken, that backed by Edward Harriman in 1899 in cooperation with the Washington Academy of Sciences. The party, which included three artists, two photographers, and twenty-five distinguished scientists and naturalists (e.g. ornithologist and author Daniel G. Elliot, proto-conservationist John Muir, William H. Brewer of Yale, George Bird Grinnell, Prof. William Ritter of the Uni- versity of California, etc.), sailed from Seattle on May 30, 1899 aboard the chartered steam- ship, Geo. W. Elder. They sailed along the Northwest Coast, through the Bering Sea with stops at various islands, visited Eskimo settlements on the Asiatic and American coasts, and went through the Bering Strait to Siberia before heading home, travelling nine thousand miles in all. The first two volumes constitute the entire narrative section and are fully illustrated, with significant contributions from Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) (fourteen beautiful chromolithographs of birds) and the expedition’s official photographer, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) (forty-five evocative landscape and ethnographic photogravures), as well as other images after artists R. Swain Gifford, Fred S. Del- lenbaugh, Frederick A. Walpole, and Charles R. Knight, and photogravures from photographs by various other expedition members, but primarily C. Hart Merriam. The remaining volumes (ten in total, as volumes VI and VII were never published, and volume XIV was published in two volumes) include all the scientific articles and monographs to result from the expedition. It is very rare to find a complete set of these, and they were published over a twelve-year period. Following Harriman’s death in 1910, the publishing rights were transferred by his widow to the Smith- sonian, who issued titlepages to the first eleven volumes, and went on to publish the final two volumes in 1914. The scientific results are also well-illustrated with handsome plates and maps, including chromolithographs. The individual volumes are as follows:

1) John Burroughs, John Muir, and George Bird Grinnell: Harriman Alaska Series Volume I Narrative, Glaciers, Natives. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1902-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Two chromolithographic maps (one folding); sixty plates including thirty-nine photogravures after photographs (twenty-one of these by Curtis), one photogravure after a painting, twenty colored plates (six of these after Fuertes, five after R. Swain Gifford, three after F.S. Dellenbaugh, four after Walpole, two after Knight); and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 2) William H. Dall, Charles Keeler, B.E. Fernow, Henry Gannett, William H. Brewer, C. Hart Merriam, George Bird Grinnell, and M.L. Washburn: Harriman Alaska Series Volume II History, Geography, Resources. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1902-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Chromolithographic map; sixty-one plates including forty-three photogravures after photographs (twenty-four of these by Curtis), one photogravure after a painting, seventeen colored plates (eight of these after Fuertes, two after R. Swain Gifford, three after F.S. Dellenbaugh, three after Walpole, one after a photograph by Merriam), one tinted lithograph after Fuertes, one uncolored plate after Fuertes; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 3) Grove Karl Gilbert: Harriman Alaska Series Volume III Glaciers and Glaciation. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian In- stitute, 1903-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Six chromolithographic maps (two folding); twelve plates including two folding and uncolored, five photogravures after photographs (three of these by Curtis), one photogravure after a painting, four heliotypes after photographs; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 4) Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Charles Palache, William H. Dall, E.O. Ulrich, and F.H. Knowlton: Harriman Alaska Series Volume IV Geology and Paleontology. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Insti- tute, 1904-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Folding chromolithographic map; thirty-four plates including one chromolithograph, three photogravures after photographs, fourteen heliotypes after photographs, fifteen uncolored plates; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 5) J. Cardot, Clara E. Cummings, Alexander W. Evans, C.H. Peck, P.A. Saccardo, De Alton Saunders, I. Thériot, and William Trelease: Harriman Alaska Series Volume V Crypotgamic Botany. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Forty-four plates including five chromolithographs, six uncolored lithographs, two heliotypes after photographs, thirty-one uncolored heliotypes after drawings (twenty after Eva M. Saunders, eleven after I. Thériot; one illustration. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 6) Not published. 7) Not published. 8 & 9) William H. Ashmead, Nathan Banks, A.N. Caudell, O.F. Cook, Rolla P. Currie, Harrison G. Dyar, Justus Watson Folsom, O. Heidemann, Trevor Kin- caid, Theo. Pergande, and E.A. Schwarz: Harriman Alaska Series Volume VIII [IX] Insects Part I [II]. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-1910. Two volumes. Each volume with two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Twenty-one plates including one chromolithograph, eight uncolored lithographs, one heliotype after a photograph, eleven uncolored heliotypes after drawings (five of these after J.W. Folsom, three after L.L. Howenstein); and numerous illustrations. Issues with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 10) Mary J. Rathburn, Harriet Richardson, S.J. Holmes, and Leon J. Cole: Harriman Alaska Series Volume X Crustaceans. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Twenty-six plates including three uncolored lithographs, eleven heliotypes after photographs, twelve heliotypes from drawings; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 11) Wesley R. Coe and Alice Robertson: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XI Nemerte- ans by...Coe. Bryzoans...by Robertson. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Twenty-five plates including ten chromolithographs, ten uncolored lithographs (seven after Coe), five heliotypes from drawings by Coe; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 12) Gustav Eisen and Katherine J. Bush: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XII Enchtraeids by...Eisen. Tubicolous Annelids by...Bush. New York & Washington: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1904-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Forty-four plates including one chromolithograph after Eisen, two two-color lithographs after Eisen, seventeen uncolored lithographs after Eisen, eleven heliotypes after photographs, thirteen heliotypes from drawings; and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 13) William H. Dall and C.C. Nutting: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XIII Land and Fresh Water Mollusks by...Dall. Hydroids by...Nutting. New York & Washing- ton: Doubleday, Page & Co. and the Smithsonian Institute, 1905-1910. Two titlepages, the second printed in red and black. Fifteen plates including thirteen uncolored lithographs (eight of these after Elizabeth B. Darrow from drawings by Nutting, two heliotypes after photographs); and numerous illustrations. Issue with the addition of the “Smithsonian titlepage,” dated 1910. 14) Addison Emery Verrill: Harriman Alaska Series Volume XIV Monograph of the Shallow-Water Starfishes of the North Pacific Coast from the Arctic Ocean to Cali- fornia...Part 1. Text [...Part 2. Plates]. Washington: The Smithsonian Institute, 1914. Two volumes (including plate volume). Text: occasional illustrations. Plate volume: 110 heliotype plates including ninety-one heliotypes after photographs, nineteen heliotypes from drawings.

RICKS, p.116. TOURVILLE 1950. $13,500.

76. Harris, William C.: THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERICA THAT ARE CAPTURED ON HOOK AND LINE. WITH EIGHTY COL- ORED PLATES MADE FROM OIL PORTRAITS OF LIVING FISHES BEFORE THEIR COLOR TINTS HAD FADED. Vol. I [all published]. New York: The Fishes of North America Publishing Co., 1898. Forty chromolithographic plates by Armstrong & Co. (24), Geo. H. Walker (4), and others after John L. Petrie (four plates mounted, as issued); one full-page uncolored illustration; numerous uncolored illustrations of fish in text. Folio. Bound to style in green half morocco and contemporary green cloth, covers ruled in gilt and stamped with the gilt arms of a British Ducal family, spine gilt with raised bands. Old repairs to three text leaves and one plate: “Spanish Mackerel.” Very good.

A very rare work with forty “very beautifully drawn and color-printed plates of fishes” (Bennett). The original intention was that this work should be complete in two volumes with a total of eighty plates. Only this first volume was ever published, yet it ranks along with Kilbourne and Goode’s Game Fishes of the United States (New York, 1879) as one of the two greatest illustrated ichthyological works of the 19th century. The plates were printed by at least two firms: the majority is by Armstrong & Co. (The Riverside Press) of Cambridge, Massachusetts; a few others are signed by Geo. H. Walker & Co of Boston. Twelve are without an imprint. As the preface makes clear, this work was a labor of love for both the author and artist:

I have been engaged nearly a quarter of a century in gathering the notes from which the text of this book has been written, and twelve years in procuring the oil portraits of living fish, caught from their native waters, that I might obtain lithographic facsimiles... The aggregate distance travelled was 28,558 miles, and the days occupied in transit and in catching and painting the fishes numbered nine hundred and seventy-two, or eighty-one working days of each angling season during twelve years. Mr. John L. Petrie, the artist, has been my steadfast companion during this protracted but pleasant task. He has painted the portraits of each fish represented...from living specimens caught on my own rod, with the exception of the Pacific Salmons, which were taken alive in traps.

BENNETT, p.51. BRUNS H80. McGRATH, p.197 (parts issue). NISSEN, ZBI 1840. WETZEL 153. $7500.

A Harrison Campaign Newspaper

77. [Harrison, William Henry]: [Tennessee Newspaper]: SPIRIT OF ’76. No. 1 [– 34] [caption title]. Nashville. 1840-1841. 536pp. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. Leather and boards rather worn, hinges loosening. Faded contemporary ownership inscription on first leaf of each issue, often trimmed. Tanning and foxing. Good.

A complete run of this Nashville Whig periodical, published during the presidential campaign of 1840 in support of William Henry Harrison. The run consists of thirty-three issues published from March to October, 1840, and one additional issued published in January 1841 providing complete election results. The articles chiefly concern themselves with defending Harrison’s record, promoting his agenda, and publishing favorable articles about the popularity of his candidacy, as well as printing the text of pro-Harrison speeches. Contemporaneously reprinted from an Indianapolis newspaper of the same title. ALLEN 1723. $1750.

The Inaugural Which Did in the President

78. Harrison, William Henry: INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESI- DENT HARRISON. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER....EXTRA. THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1841. [Washington. March 4, 1841]. Broadside, 24 x 19½ inches, printed in five columns. Matted, well suited for framing. Pre- viously folded, with a couple of small separations along old fold lines. Slight marginal paper loss along top edge, not affecting text. Some dust soiling at edges and along folds. About very good.

The very rare first printing of William Henry Harrison’s inaugural address, the longest in United States history and what many believe caused his death after only thirty-two days in office, the shortest ten- ure of any American President. On a cold and wet March 4, 1841, newly-elected President William Henry Harrison famously delivered this address without coat or hat. Harrison took well over two hours to deliver his anti-Jackson, pro-Whig agenda, the longest speech ever for the occasion. In the days following the address and inaugural balls, Harri- son caught a cold, which developed into pneumonia and pleurisy. He died on April 4, 1841, becoming not only the shortest- serving president, but also the first to die in office. We locate only five surviving examples of this broadside extra, with none at the Library of Congress. $7500.

79. Harrisse, Henry: THE DISCOVERY OF NORTH AMERICA A CRITICAL, DOCUMENTARY, AND HISTORIC INVESTIGA- TION, WITH AN ESSAY ON THE EARLY CARTOGRAPHY OF THE NEW WORLD.... London; Paris. 1892. xii,802pp. plus twenty-two plates. Thick quarto. Half title. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and paper boards, spine gilt. Hinges rubbed, light edge and corner wear. Contem- porary bookplate on front pastedown; autograph letter, signed, laid onto front free endpaper. Good plus. Untrimmed.

One of the great works by Henry Harrisse, eminent bibliographer and historian of New World cartography, and a most important contribution to the history of North American exploration and maps. This copy belonged to James Ellsworth, American industrialist and president of the Caxton Club, with his bookplate on the front pastedown, and a signed letter to him from Harrisse on a front free endpaper, inquiring about a portrait of Christopher Columbus in his possession. One of 340 copies printed on English toned paper, from a total edition of 380. $1500.

An “Atmospheric View” of Concord New Hampshire

80. Harvey, George: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE. FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY G. HARVEY, A.N.A. London: V. Bar- tholomew, 1853. Tinted lithograph with hand-coloring, printed by M. & N. Hanhart, after G. Harvey. Sheet size: 20 1/8 x 29 7/8 inches. Good condition apart from one expert repair in lower margin and one in lower right corner.

The state capitol of New Hampshire, Concord, located on the west bank of the Merrimac River, about seventy miles northwest of Boston, is depicted in this excellent lithograph by M. & N. Hanart, one of the top printmakers of 19th-century London. The print is based on a painting made in 1852 by George Harvey. “The Merrimac dominates the foreground of this charming view, where one of the large log rafts making its way down river bears two female travelers and their dog. Beyond them, nearer the shore, a catboat is shared by three passengers. In the distance loom four cupolas. The first, beginning at the left, belongs to the Unitarian Church, erected in 1829 and destroyed by fire in 1854, just a year before the lithograph was published. The next is part of the First Baptist Church, erected in 1824-1825 and later remodeled. Moving further to the right, the next cupola belongs to the South Congregational Church, erected in 1836-1837 and destroyed by fire in 1859. The large cupola at the right is atop the State House...Just below the houses grouped on the hill to the left, a train with three passenger cars chugs along...” – Deák. George Harvey (1800-78), an artist of British birth who immigrated to the United States in 1828, often indicated after his name (as he does here) that he was an Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York. He specialized in landscape painting and miniatures. While maintaining a presence in the London art world, Harvey established a home and studio near Hastings-on-Hudson, near New York City, where he conceived the idea of painting a series of “atmospheric views” of the Northeast. “He is known for his particular attention to the shifting subtleties in color caused by outdoor atmospheric change” – Deák, much in evidence in this lithograph. A fine print of a quintessential American scene. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 646. FOWBLE, p.87, no. 35. REPS, VIEWS AND VIEWMAKERS 2206. Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Ct.: Sound View Press, 1999) II, pp.1483-84. $7500.

The Gems of Brazil

81. Heade, Martin Johnson: [PAIR OF EXQUISITE CHROMOLITHO- GRAPHS OF BRAZILIAN HUMMINGBIRDS INTENDED FOR HEADE’S ABANDONED BOOK PROJECT, Gems of Brazil]. [London. ca. 1863]. Chromolithographed plates, image areas 11½ x 9¾ inches. Very minor surface wear, else fine condition. Matted and framed.

A sensational pair of chromolithographs featuring Brazilian hummingbirds. After his journeys in South America, Martin Johnson Heade planned a chromolithographic work to be entitled Gems of Brazil, which would translate twenty of his paintings of hummingbirds and orchids into prints. In 1863 he executed the paintings of hummingbirds against a Brazilian background and sent them to London to be chromolithographed. For some unknown reason the project was dropped. Only four of the plates survive in proof form; these are two of them. In The Democratic Art, Peter Marzio states that five colors plus a tint stone were used, with traces of oil paint in the highlights. This firm owned two of the proofs about twenty-five years ago, and these are the only other ones we have seen on the market. Simply stunning works, as rare as they are extraordinarily beautiful. Sixteen of the original Heade paintings came into the private collection of famed English art historian Kenneth Clark, who later gave them to his son Alan. Alan Clark sold them in the 1970s to help finance his political career and taste for exotic cars; they went into the collection of the American art collector Richard Manoogian, who sold them to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, where they can be seen today. $20,000.

The Opening of Japan: Deluxe Handcolored Issue on Card

82. Heine, Wilhelm: GRAPHIC SCENES OF THE JAPAN EXPEDI- TION. New York: G.P. Putnam & Company, 1856. Twelve leaves of letterpress text. Ten lithographic prints: one tinted portrait of Perry from a daguerreotype by P. Haas; nine handcolored views by Heine (two of them chromolithographed, seven printed in two colors on india paper mounted); all printed by Sarony & Co. Folio. Text in the original yellow pictorial wrappers, expertly rebacked to style with purple cloth. The plates loose as issued. The text within a half purple morocco and period purple cloth portfolio, yellow pastedowns and flaps, cloth ties. All within a black half morocco box.

An important work recording Commodore Perry’s expedition to Japan, here in the very rare deluxe, handcolored issue on card. William Heine was the official artist on Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan in 1853-54. On returning to the United States he produced several series of prints commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant folio prints appeared in 1855, and the following year the present volume was issued, in a smaller format, with different images and with explanatory text. Both projects employed the New York lithographic firm of Sarony, probably the best lithographers in the United States at that time. “As artistic productions, the pictures speak for themselves...none superior to them have been executed in the United States, and they have no cause to shun comparison with some of the best productions of Europe” – Introduction. Copies were produced tinted (although with some plates with several colors) on regular paper and a very rare deluxe handcolored issue on card, as in the present example. The plates are numbered and titled as follows:

1) [Portrait of Perry] 2) “Macao from Penha Hill” 3) “Whampoa Pagoda” 4) “Old China Street, Canton” 5) “Kung-kwa at On-na, Lew-Chew” 6) “Mia or road side chapel at Yokuhama [sic]” 7) “Temple of Ben-teng in the harbor of Simoda” 8) “Street and bridge at Simoda” 9) “Temple of the Ha-tshu Man-ya-tshu-ro at Simoda” 10) “Grave yard at Simoda Dio Zenge”

Bennett describes the plates as “many times finer than those in the regular account of the Perry expedition.” His remarks on the work’s great rarity are confirmed by its absence from both of Cordier’s Japanese bibliographies. Two distinct issues of Heine’s work were published: a regular issue with handcolored plates on thick card; and the deluxe issue, of which the present copy is an example, with more elaborate hand-coloring and on thick cards with glossy paper backings. The deluxe issue is considerably rarer than the regular issue. BENNETT, p.53. McGRATH 123. $32,000.

83. Hervey, Augustus John, Earl of Bristol: THE EARL OF BRISTOL’S SPEECH, TAKEN EXACTLY DOWN AS SPOKEN, IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. London. 1779. [2],22pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Light staining to lower edge, minor foxing. Very good.

The Earl of Bristol’s speech on the state of the British Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Hervey provides financial information on the cost of operating the Navy, as well as how many ships they have and where they are deployed. He specifically mentions the delay in sending Vice Admiral Byron to America and the losses which ensued based on that decision. Fewer than ten copies in ESTC. ESTC T108441. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 79-11. $1750. The George Brinley Set

84. Hildreth, Richard: THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1849-1852. Six volumes. Original publisher’s cloth, boards blind stamped, spines gilt. Spines of final two volumes heavily chipped. Spine ends and corners lightly worn, spine cloth a bit faded. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown of first volume. Volumes four through six with double titlepages. Light foxing and dust soiling. Good plus.

The George Brinley copy, with his first bookplate, of Richard Hildreth’s classic work on the history of colonial America and the early United States. The first three volumes, published in 1849, cover the history of America from Columbus to the adoption of the Constitution. The final three volumes discuss the United States during the first five presidential administrations, from Washington to Monroe. An exhaustive and pioneering historical work on America, owned by one of the greatest 19th-century pioneers of Americana book collecting. HOWES H472. $900.

85. Hills, Chester: THE BUILDER’S GUIDE; OR A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE SEVERAL ORDERS OF GRECIAN AND ROMAN ARCHITECTURE, TOGETHER WITH THE GOTHIC STYLE OF BUILDING...ILLUSTRATED AND EMBELLISHED WITH SEVENTY FOLIO PLATES, DRAWN ON A LARGE SCALE. Hartford: D.W. Kellogg, 1834. Two volumes bound in one. 20pp. plus thirty-six plates; 55pp. plus thirty-four plates. Large folio. Contempo- rary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, skillfully rebacked. Boards rubbed, edges worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper and titlepage, three institutional stamps across lower edge of titlepage, plus another on front pastedown. Clean internally. Very good.

First edition of this excellent architectural reference, with much on carpentry and joinery, highlighted by the plates representing different styles and examples of molding, structure, decoration, roofs, domes, etc. An important American architectural work. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 24936. HITCHCOCK 590. $850.

86. [Howells, W.D., and John L. Hayes]: LIVES AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HANNIBAL HAMLIN. New York. 1860. 406pp. plus two portraits. Original cloth, boards blind stamped, spine gilt. Spine somewhat faded, cloth lightly worn. Internally clean. Very good.

The extended version of the text, after the very rare 179-page version published in Columbus, Ohio, the same year. Sabin notes the present edition, although Howes does not. This appears to be variant B of the text and variant C of the binding, with no priority, according to Blanck. The book was published to acquaint the public with the pair in the election year of 1860. HOWES H735 (ref ). BLANCK 9538. SABIN 33354. $1000.

87. [Humor]: [ Johnston, David Claypoole]: THE AURORA BOREA- LIS, OR FLASHES OF WIT; CALCULATED TO DROWN DULL CARE AND ERADICATE THE BLUE DEVILS. WITH ORIG- INAL ETCHINGS, DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY D.C. JOHNSTON. Boston. 1831. 216pp. plus fourteen plates. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Extremities lightly worn. Minor foxing. About very good.

Humorous and satirical sketches, illustrated by David Claypoole Johnston (1798- 1865), an artist known as the “American Cruikshank.” William 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 5826. $750.

88. [Indiana]: Chandler, W. H.: DIRECTORY OF THE CITY OF EVANSVILLE FOR 1858. Evansville: W.H. Chandler, printer, 1858. 188pp. plus frontis. Original brown cloth, sheep spine; cover gilt. Spine mostly perished, boards detached. Corners worn, cloth lightly frayed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, a few contemporary notations in text. Lightly foxed, but text generally quite clean and sturdy. Good.

Stated first issue. The first directory for the city of Evansville, listing citizens and businesses. The frontispiece shows the Evansville public school, and the final eighty pages contain local advertisements. Scarce, with only four copies located in OCLC (Cornell, Evansville Public Library, University of Southern Indiana, and Indiana Historical Society). SPEAR, p.128. $750.

Attacking Jackson’s Conduct in Florida: A Rare Anti-Jackson Periodical

89. [ Jackson, Andrew]: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CIVIL ADMIN- ISTRATION OF GOVERNOR JACKSON IN FLORIDA. [Wash- ington, D.C.: National Intelligencer, June 21 – Sep. 23, 1828]. 48pp. (printed in nine numbers in five pamphlets, continuously paginated). Modern plain paper wrappers. Institutional withdrawal stamp on first leaf, minor fore-edge tape repairs to initial leaves. Some browning and foxing, heavier to initial leaves. Good.

The complete run of this anti-Jackson pamphlet series issued in nine parts during the heated 1828 Presidential campaign, which pitted Jackson against the incumbent, John Quincy Adams. Printed by the National Intelligencer, the work outlines a variety of supposed malfeasances committed by Jackson in his brief but controversial term as military commissioner of Florida. In the grand tradition of American political discourse, the articles are presented as letters, each previously published in the National Intelligencer and signed “Henry.” The letters demonstrate Jackson’s typically “violent, arbitrary, and rapacious dis- position” as military governor of Florida, a position he held from March 10 to Dec. 31, 1821. Possible authorship of the letters is attributed to Henry M. Brackenridge by Servies. The letters describe Jackson’s actions in Florida as “rivalling the bold but impious pretensions of King Henry the 8th.” Jackson’s legislative record during this period is assessed in despotic terms, accusing him of seeking to “regulate the forms of secret devotion” by declaring a day of Sabbath observance. He is also accused of seizing private property without authority, placing it under his personal control, prohibiting liquor sales to soldiers, and committing other, equally heinous acts. “Includes notes on the ordinances of 1821, and correspondence demonstrating Jackson’s unsuitability as President” – Servies. The National Intelligencer was founded by Samuel Harrison Smith in 1800. The paper reflected Jeffersonian Republican sentiments, supported Jefferson for president, and enjoyed the significant privilege of printing Jefferson’s first inaugural address before it appeared in any other periodical. Joseph Gales bought the paper in 1810. Under Gales the Intelligencer supported Madison in 1812 and Monroe in 1816. At this time the paper received many government printing contracts, as it would later enjoy during the John Quincy Adams administration, whom the paper also supported. And to be pro-Adams was, of course, to be anti-Jackson, thus explaining the present work. These pamphlets were likely issued separately, as here, and also printed in a single pamphlet later in 1828. Each part is rare, and complete runs are practically unheard of in the market. WISE & CRONIN 276. SERVIES 1366. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 33107. $1500.

Early 19th-Century Jamaica Almanac, with an Early Jewish Calendar

90. [ Jamaica]: THE NEW JAMAICA ALMA- NACK, AND REGISTER, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1806. Kingston: Stevenson and Smith, [1806]. 184,[16]pp. The calendar interleaved with blank, plus additional blanks in rear. 12mo. Con- temporary green wallet-style morocco. Very good.

Some early Jamaica almanacs, like the present, include a page showing the Jewish calendar, which “would seem to be an indication of the importance of Jewish residents in the eyes of Christian Jamaicans” (B. W. Korn, “The Haham DeCordova of Jamaica” in American Jewish Archives 18:2 [Nov. 1966]). These Jamaican calendars represent some of the earliest appearances of Hebrew font in the Western Hemisphere, in a publication intended specifically for Jews. Earlier works with Hebrew type, such as Judah Monis’ Hebrew Grammar, were intended for a Gentile audience. Beyond the calendar, this almanac is filled with information about the colony, including pages devoted to each parish with details on population (including slaves), public office-holders, court sessions, etc. $3500.

Jefferson’s First Book: The Copy of a Prominent English Politician of the Revolutionary Period

91. [ Jefferson, Thomas]: A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. SET FORTH IN SOME RESOLUTIONS INTENDED FOR THE INSPECTION OF THE PRESENT DEL- EGATES OF THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA, NOW IN CONVEN- TION. By a Native, and Member of the House of Burgesses. Williams- burg, Printed by Clementina Rind. London, Re-Printed for G. Kearsly, 1774. xvi,[5]-44pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Contemporary ownership inscription Light dust soiling to titlepage, light tanning throughout. Very good plus.

Thomas Jefferson’s first book, a central document of the Revolution. This is the second of two textually identical British editions that appeared in 1774, the same year as the Williamsburg first and a Philadelphia edition printed by John Dunlap. “This is Jefferson’s first separately printed book and, according to Randolph Adams is one of the four fundamental works relating to the Revolution....The Summary View should be required reading for those who today are inclined to minimize and excuse the conduct of the British towards our ancestors” – Streeter. Jefferson submitted this petition to the Virginia convention, with the intent that it be sent to King George. Because of its strong tone it was never sent, but printed copies circulated in America, and this London edition appeared as well. It was an extraordinary debut, and its success was probably responsible for Jefferson’s election to the Second Continental Congress and his role in drafting the Declaration of Independence. This edition contains an added address “To the King,” attributed to Arthur Lee. This copy bears a significant provenance, having belonged to Sir Richard Grenville, Second Earl Temple (1711-79), with his ownership inscription on the titlepage. He was the older brother of George Grenville, who as Prime Minister of Great Britain led the institution of the Sugar and Stamp Acts, the initial provocations to American colonists after the French and Indian War that would eventually lead to the Revolution. Richard Grenville himself was an important cabinet minister and briefly First Lord of the Admiralty during the administrations of William Pitt (who was his brother-in-law) in the 1750s and early 1760s. Such was his loyalty that in 1761 he resigned from the cabinet in protest with Pitt. The first edition of A Summary View was printed in a small edition at Wil- liamsburg, also in 1774, and according to Streeter not more than five copies are known of that rarity (the last copy at auction, in 1991, realized $231,000). Any of the other 1774 editions are also rare on the market. HOWES J79. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 119d. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 74-37c. STREETER SALE 754 (another ed). SABIN 35918. REESE, REVOLUTIONARY HUNDRED 19 (ref ). $60,000.

92. Jefferson, Thomas: NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. Boston. 1829. [4],280pp. Antique-style half calf and old marbled boards, leather label. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Very good.

An uncommon later Boston edition of Jefferson’s famous work. This is the only book-length work by Jefferson to be published in his lifetime, and has been called “one of America’s first permanent literary and intellectual landmarks.” The book was largely written in 1781, and was first published in Paris, in French, in 1785. Written in the form of answers to questions about Virginia, it supplies a description of the geography, and an abundance of supporting material and unusual information. As J.M. Edelstein notes, “Jefferson wrote about things which interested him deeply and about which he knew a great deal; the Notes, therefore, throws a fascinating light on his tastes, curiosities, and political and social opinions.” The story of the creation of this book and its publishing history is an interesting one. It is told fully by Millicent Sowerby in her catalogue of Jefferson’s library, where it occupies some thirty pages in small type. The late editions, especially those issued after Jefferson’s death, are among the rarest editions of the work. HOWES J78. SABIN 35907. SOWERBY, JEFFERSON’S LIBRARY 4167 (ref ). Coolie Verner, A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia (Charlottesville, 1950), p.22. REESE, FEDERAL HUNDRED 6 (ref ). $850.

“A monumental geographical work important equally for its text as well as its maps” – Streeter

93. Jefferys, Thomas: THE NATURAL AND CIVIL HISTORY OF THE FRENCH DOMINIONS IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA. London: Printed for Thomas Jefferys, 1760. Two parts bound in one volume. [8],168; [4],246pp., plus eighteen engraved folding maps and plans by Jef- ferys. Titlepages printed in red and black. Folio. Publisher’s blue paper-covered boards, sympathetically rebacked to style. Minor foxing. Very good. Uncut.

An important mid-18th-century work on French Canada, Louisiana, and the French colonies in the Caribbean. The introduction to the first part makes clear the reasons for the publication of the work at the end of the French and Indian War:

The Possessions of the French upon the Continent of North America, were always an interesting object to Great-Britain, as it is always necessary to know the Situation, Strength and Resources of contiguous Dominions that belong to a powerful State, whose Opposition of Interest makes her a natural Enemy, and whose military and commercial Knowledge makes her formidable as well in Peace as in War. But the Knowledge of this Territory is now become yet more important, as Providence has thought fit by a Series of Successes almost miraculous, to make it our own.

The editor goes on to note that the text is compiled from the “best Accounts that are already extant, either in our own or other Languages, and improved by Mate- rials that have from Time to Time been communicated to the Editor.” The text includes notes on the geography and history of the area described together with useful notes on the natural history and economic potential of the newly acquired lands. The maps by Thomas Jefferys are justly celebrated for their accuracy as well as aesthetic appeal. First edition, corrected second issue. This copy matches the second issue in that it includes the inserted pages *129-*138 which give an account of the French attempt to retake Quebec in 1760, and includes the overslip on page 80 in the second part that lists the parishes of Guadeloupe. LANDE 471. SABIN 35964. FIELD 775. HOWES J83. STATON & TREMAINE/ TPL 319. STREETER SALE I:128 WALDON, p.454. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 9. $30,000. Black Cook Stabs Captain

94. [ Joseph, Henry]: THE TRIAL OF HENRY JOSEPH AND AMOS OTIS, FOR THE MURDER OF JAMES CROSBY, CAPTAIN OF THE BRIG JUNIPER, ON THE HIGH SEAS.... Boston: Light & Horton, 1834. 44pp. Early-20th-century buckram, gilt leather label. Cloth somewhat dust soiled. Institutional ink stamp and ownership inscriptions on titlepage, blind stamps on titlepage and initial leaves. Scattered foxing to final leaves. Good plus.

Account of a trial held at the United States Circuit Court in Boston in 1834 for a case of murder at sea. “Joseph, a colored cook, stabbed the captain with a dirk while the vessel was en route to Surinam. He was hanged on December 2, 1834; Otis was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson” – McDade. Scarce on the market. COHEN 12761. McDADE 541. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25162. SABIN 36663. $850.

The First Russian Circumnavigation

95. Krusenstern, Ivan Federovich: VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE FAIT DANS LES ANNEES 1803, 1804, 1805 ET 1806...SUR LES VAISSEAUX LA NADIEJEDA ET LA NEVA. Paris: Gide fils, 1821. Two octavo text volumes, and folio atlas with thirty plates (including nine maps and portraits). Text volumes in original boards, expertly rebacked, folio atlas with matching modern paper boards, all with printed paper labels. Light wear to boards. Light tanning and dust soiling. Atlas plates generally clean, with an occasional marginal fox mark. Very good. Text leaves untrimmed.

First French edition, with the very rare atlas not published with the English edition. This is the narrative of the first Russian circumnavigation, written by its commander, of great importance to Pa- cific history for Krusenstern’s account of the attempt to open Japan to commerce, and for his notes on the Russian-Chinese trade. The two ships sailed from Kro- nstadt on July 19, 1803, and were together until reaching the Marquesas and Hawaii. They visited Hawaii in the summer of 1804, touching briefly on the Big Island to trade for needed supplies. From there Krusenstern sailed by himself for Kamchatka, where he made extensive surveys and ethnographic inquiries. Japan was the main focus of the expedition. They arrived at Nagasaki on Aug. 30, 1804, with the emissary from the Tsar, and gifts that included looking glasses and a portrait of Catherine the Great. Hoping to open a trade mission and expecting more freedom than was granted the Dutch, they found themselves “greatly mistaken.” They were kept in confinement and suspense, and at the audience the following April the negotiations collapsed. The ships’ repairs were put to the Imperial account, all gifts were sent back, and they were politely but firmly asked not to return. The narrative contains a detailed account of the negotiations and includes a view of Nagasaki Harbor, one of the first views of Japan published in the west. Krusenstern charted much of the west coast of Japan, made a short stop at Hokkaido, and at Aniwa Bay, and gives an account of his contact with Ainu people. The fine atlas is illustrated with twenty-one lithographic plates by Engelmann and nine engraved maps (three folding). Although unsigned, O’Reilly says the plates are probably the work of Tilesius, one of the naturalists on the voyage. They include a portrait of Krusenstern, four views of Nukuhiwa and eight of Japan (including the Ainus). The maps include three of the Marquesas and four of Japanese interest. “The atlas volume is very important and is difficult to obtain” – Hill. The work was translated and revised by J.B.B. Eyries, who also wrote part of the text for Choris’ Voyage Pittoresque. HILL, pp.167-68. FORBES 530. KROEPELIEN 695. SABIN 38382. O’REILLY & REITMAN 732. $31,500.

Owned by a Lincoln Descendant: Slavery Must Proceed to “Ultimate Extinction”

96. [Lincoln, Abraham]: SPEECH OF HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, DELIVERED IN SPRINGFIELD, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1858 [caption title]. [Springfield, Il. 1858]. 8pp. printed in double columns. Folded octavo sheet. Unobtrusive reinforcement along spine, small paper repair at bottom left corner. Later ownership inscription at head of first leaf recto. Light dust soiling along fore-edge, light dampstaining along lower margin. About very good. In a chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The only separate printing of this address given by Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, with an outstanding provenance. Lincoln’s speech, which preceded his debates with Stephen Douglas, puts forth the great themes that marked his political philosophy during the last ten years of his life. Urging that slavery be placed on course for “ultimate extinction,” he repeats his “House Divided” warning, first given at the State Republican Convention a month earlier. He insists that the Kansas-Nebraska bill was “the beginning of a conspiracy” to nationalize slavery. Attacking Douglas and defending himself against the charge that he would “invite a war of sections,” he stands on “the principles of our Declaration of Independence.” Although blacks are not the equal of whites “in all respects,” the Declaration “does mean to declare that all men are equal in some respects; they are equal in the right to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’” Most significantly, “In the right to put into his mouth the bread that his own hands have earned, he is the equal of every other man, white or black.” This copy was owned and is inscribed by Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the great-grandson and last direct descendent of Abraham Lincoln. His mother, Jessie Harman Beckwith, was the daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln. MONAGHAN 12. BYRD 2960. $8500.

97. Lincoln, Abraham: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY VINDICATED – THE DEMANDS OF THE SOUTH EXPLAINED. SPEECH OF HON. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS, AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY [caption title]. [N.p., likely New York City. 1860]. 8pp. on a single folded sheet. First leaf detached, some tanning, minor edge chipping. Good. Untrimmed and unopened.

An early printing of Lincoln’s famous Cooper Union speech, given in New York in February 1860, in which he demolishes Stephen Douglas’ claim that the Framers and Constitution granted no authority at the federal level to restrict slavery’s expansion into the western territories. The speech catapulted Lincoln into the public eye and made him a viable presidential candidate. This printing of the speech concludes with a note that Lincoln finished his oratory “amid the loud and uproarious ap- plause of his hearers...cheering with the full power of their lungs.” This copy has the ownership signature of mid-19th-century New York Democratic politician Adin Thayer at the bottom of the first page. A rare printing, both in institutions and on the open market, of Lincoln’s momentous Cooper Union speech. MONAGHAN 55. EBERSTADT 160:320. WRIGHT HOWES 64:139. MIDLAND NOTES 24:146. HEARTMAN 120:1112. FISH 533. SABIN 41160. $750.

Copperhead Attack on Lincoln in the 1864 Election

98. [Lincoln, Abraham]: THE LINCOLN CATECHISM WHEREIN THE ECCENTRICITIES & BEAUTIES OF DESPOTISM ARE FULLY SET FORTH. A GUIDE TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELEC- TION OF 1864. New York. [1864]. 46,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine nearly perished, small losses at edges of wrappers. Contemporary annotations on wrappers. Else good.

Billed as “A Guide to the Presidential Election of 1864,” this odious little pamphlet is filled with racist anti-Lincoln propaganda for the Copperhead audience. It is presented in the form of a satirical catechism, alleged to be written by the Republicans: “What is the Constitution? A compact with hell – now obsolete. By whom hath the Constitution been made obsolete? By Abraham Africanus the First.” The Ten Commandments are listed on page 12, the first being “Thou shalt have no other God but the negro.” MONAGHAN 324. $1750.

Lincoln’s Final Proclamations

99. Lincoln, Abraham: [RARE FIRST PRINTING OF TWO OF PRESI- DENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FINAL THREE PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATIONS]. Washington, D.C. April 11, 1865. Broadside, 13 x 8¼ inches. Faint dust soiling, minor edge wear, with a few short marginal tears repaired on verso. Very good.

A rare first broadside printing announcing two of President Lincoln’s three final proclamations, “Closing Certain Ports” and “Port of Key West to Remain Open,” both issued on April 11, 1865. President Lincoln issued these proclamations just three days before he was cut down by the assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Both proclamations are signed in type by Lin- coln and Secretary of State William H. Seward. The first proclamation, “Closing Certain Ports,” shut down a large number of Confederate ports, all listed on the proclamation, and indicated that “all rights of importation, warehousing, and other privileges, shall, in respect to the ports aforesaid, cease until they have again been opened by order of the President; and if, while said ports are closed, any ship or vessel from beyond the United States, or having on board any articles subject to duties, shall attempt to enter any such port, the same, together with its tackle, apparel, fur- niture, and cargo shall be forfeited to the United States.” It was President Lincoln’s 126th proclamation. The second proclamation, “Port of Key West to Remain Open” was issued to amend the previous proclamation. It stated that “the port of Key West, in the state of Florida, was inadvertently included among those which are not open to commerce” and declared that “said port of Key West is and shall remain open to foreign and domestic commerce....” It was President Lincoln’s 127th proclamation. These two documents constitute the antepenultimate and penultimate proclamations issued by President Lincoln; his last, entitled “Claiming Equality of Rights with All Maritime Nations,” was promulgated the same day. An important pair of proclamations, among the last acts of the Great Emancipator before his untimely demise. $10,000.

Georgia Scenes

100. [Longstreet, Augustus B.]: GEORGIA SCENES, CHARACTERS, INCIDENTS, &c. IN THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC. By a Native Georgian. Augusta, Ga. 1835. 235pp. Original plain paper-covered boards, cloth backstrip, remnants of paper label. Moder- ate rubbing and soiling, extremities worn, joints tender. Bookplate on front pastedown, ownership ink signature, minor scattered foxing. Good plus. In a brown half calf and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

The rare first edition of a classic of southern literature and manners, Georgia Scenes... is written in the form of a series of sketches set in frontier Georgia at the beginning of the 19th century. Although in fictional form, the book is such realistic social history that it presents one of the best pictures of life in that time and place, and straddles the line between fact and fiction. Longstreet said that his purpose was “to supply a chasm in history which has always been overlooked – the manners, customs, amusements, wit, dialect, as they appear in all grades of society to an ear and eye witness of them...there is scarcely one word from the beginning to the end of the book that is not strictly Georgian.” The book stands at the beginning of a long line of southern humor. Goodspeed’s bought the Streeter copy for $375 in 1967. HOWES L448, “b.” STREETER SALE 1168. DE RENNE I, p.445. GEORGIANA 28. SABIN 41936. WRIGHT I:1721. BAL 12946. $7500.

Broadside of Slave Sales, Flights, and Emancipations in Louisiana

101. [Louisiana]: [Slavery]: BATON ROUGE GAZETTE EXTRA. Baton Rouge. Dec. 8, 1827. Broadside, 17 x 12 inches. Minor edge wear, light foxing, one small hole in the fourth column costing a few letters. Very good.

A rare early 19th-century newspaper extra providing unique insight into life in the Deep South thirty-four years before the start of the Civil War, containing a number of advertisements for the public auction of slaves as well as several calls for runaways. One prominent advertisement lists the names of twenty-four slaves who will be offered for sale by the Honorable Ch. Tessier. Names include On- esime, Azor, Cojo, Thalie (described as a “negro girl, aged 11 years, a creole”), and Josephine (“negress aged 30 years good domestic, Angel, her daughter aged 9 years, Basile, her son aged 7 years, Julienne, her daughter aged 3 years”). Conditions for payment are listed at the bottom. This issue of the Gazette reports on a number of runaway slaves, detailing the escaped slave’s name, physical appearance, and owner. Public notice is also given in reference to George Killian, Senator of St. Helena Parish, who was not going to proceed to pass “an act of emancipation in favor of his negro woman slave named Philis, aged 50 years.” A column headed “New Orleans Price Current” details the going price of commodities ranging from “Bale Rope” to “Wine” and includes large advertisements promoting the “Louisiana Catholic Church Lottery” and “Public School Lottery.” An interesting footnote in the history of the Baton Rouge Gazette: in 1843, the Gazette’s editor, John Hueston, was killed in a shotgun duel with a candidate for Congress, Alcee Labranche, who believed Hueston had insulted him. An uncommon newspaper extra with important information regarding the commerce of slavery in early 19th-century Louisiana. $900.

Confederate Spy or Martyr?

102. [Lucas, Daniel]: MEMOIR OF JOHN YATES BEALL: HIS LIFE; TRIAL; CORRESPONDENCE; DIARY; AND PRIVATE MAN- USCRIPT FOUND AMONG HIS PAPERS, INCLUDING HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF THE RAID ON LAKE ERIE. Montreal: John Lovell, 1865. 297pp. plus frontispiece portrait and three engraved plates. Half title. Original three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Edges and corners worn, hinges starting, spine rubbed. Half title repaired and mounted on last front free endpaper. Contemporary presentation inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. Light dampstaining, somewhat heavier to outer leaves. About very good.

An account of the life of John Yates Beall, together with several of his own writings, that focus on the raid carried out by him and his group of Confederate Navy irregulars on Lake Erie in late 1864, and his resulting trial and execution. Beall and his men had hoped to free Confederate prisoners held by the Union at Johnson’s Island off the coast of Ohio, but succeeded only in sinking several nearby boats. After Beall was captured, he was tried for sabotage in January 1865, sentenced to hang, and executed on Feb. 24, 1865 after President Lincoln refused to commute his death sentence. HOWES L546. DORNBUSCH II:2579. NEVINS I, p.228. $1750.

A Scarce Travel Narrative with Mormon and Southern Interest

103. Mackinnon, Captain: ATLANTIC AND TRANS ATLANTIC SKETCHES, AFLOAT AND ASHORE. London: Colburn and Co., 1852. Two volumes, xv,228; ix,292pp. plus 16pp. of advertisements in first volume and 26pp. of advertisements in second volume. Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth, spines gilt, neatly rebacked with original spines laid down. Slight bumping to corners. Titlepages in both volumes signed: “Donald S. MacKinnon.” Very good.

Unlike many of his countrymen, Capt. Lauchlan Bellingham Mackinnon liked the U.S. and its citizens, and his account of his travels there from late 1850 through 1851 are largely favorable. Arriving in New York, he went south to Washington, which he describes in detail, then sailed north to Boston. From there he went west to Buffalo and Detroit, across Michigan, through Chicago, of which he gives a good description, and north to Milwaukee and Green Bay. There he visited the Beaver Islands and gives an account of the followers of Jesse Strang whom he met there, as well as commentary on Mormonism in general. He spent considerable time shooting and travelling in Wisconsin, and considered it wonderful country. The second volume describes being in a hurricane in Antigua and cruising from Jamaica to Panama. The last hundred pages are devoted to Mackinnon’s experiences occupying the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic for Great Britain in 1846. An interesting book, evidently quite scarce, by a very commonsensical Royal Navy captain. Not in Clark but should be. This copy is signed at the top of each titlepage by Donald S. MacKinnon, presumably a relative. SABIN 43461. FLAKE 5214. BUCK 475. $750.

104. [Magic]: DE LA MANO IS COMING! THE CHAMPION PRESTIDIGITATEUR ABI- DEXTROUS [sic] COMEDIAN, ARCH IL- LUSIONIST AND HUMORIST [caption title]. Buffalo: Courier Company Show Printing House, [1875?] Broadside, 42½ x 14 inches. Fold line near center. Two minor chips in right edge, two very small holes near left edge. About fine.

An illustrated broadside printed on yellow paper announcing and describing a performance by the Austrian magician and showman, De La Mano. His real name was Zell Dreitzehn, and he performed for several years in the United States before he himself disappeared in upstate New York in 1882. A central engraving depicts Dreitzehn performing before a crowded theater audience, while several smaller images show some of his various acts, which are also listed. These includes tricks such as “The Enchanted Cross,” “The Great East India Dagger Mystery,” and “The Magic Omelet,” among others. “This is no exhibition of Doubtful Merit but a permanently established and legitimate entertainment, exhibited with pride and pleasure.” An entertaining and scarce example of 19th- century magic ephemera. $850.

Cherokee Author, Early Imprint

105. Mahoney, James W.: [Foreman, Richard Bark]: THE CHEROKEE PHYSICIAN OR INDIAN GUIDE TO HEALTH, AS GIVEN BY RICHARD FOREMAN, A CHEROKEE DOCTOR.... Chattanooga, Tn.: Printed at the “Gazette Office,” 1846. [v]-xv,416pp. plus [2]pp. errata. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Light foxing and soiling. Scattered wear. A few pencil marks. Very good.

The exceedingly rare first edition of this practical guide to medical remedies, the first book published in Chattanooga, as related by Cherokee doctor Richard Bark Foreman. Foreman, whose Cherokee name was Oo-ya-lu-gi, was born about 1779 to Scotsman John Anthony Foreman, an Indian trader, probably born in Scotland, whose family settled in Pennsylvania. Foreman’s mother was a Cherokee of the Paint Clan, named Susie Gourd “Kah-tah-yah” (Rattling Gourd). The book is divided into three different sections: part one is on the human anatomy and general rules of illness prevention; part two contains descriptions of different diseases and their treatments; part three has a list of botanical remedies used by the Cherokee. Interestingly, in many instances the Cherokee name is given for certain ailments or botanical remedies, i.e. “Influenza or Malignant Sore Throat (On-eh- tlah-tsu-ni-sik-wah-his-lee).” Not in the Siebert Collection or any of the standard biographies. Sabin recorded neither this first edition nor the second edition (printed in Asheville, North Carolina in 1849); he only included the third edition, printed in New York in 1857. A truly rare work. ALLEN, SOME TENNESSEE RARITIES 44. AII (TENNESSEE) 204 (locates 5 copies). SABIN 43875 (3rd ed). $4500.

The Very Rare Addenda to Malthus

106. Malthus, Thomas Robert: ADDITION TO AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION, &c. &c. Georgetown, D.C.: Charles Cruikshank, 1831. [2],230pp. Half title. Original half cloth and paper boards, printed paper label. Front hinge cracked, label chipped, light edge wear. Light foxing. Very good.

Malthus elaborates on his essay concerning checks to population growth in the different states of modern Europe, and discusses prospects for mitigating the “evils Arising from the Principle of Population” and other matters. The appendix is Malthus’ rebuttal of Wayland and Greene, whose works disagreed with his thesis. The first American edition of Malthus’ main work was issued by the same printer in Georgetown and is rare; this addenda is even rarer. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 8122. $1000.

In Original Boards

107. Martin, François-Xavier: THE HISTORY OF NORTH-CAROLINA, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD. New Orleans. 1829. Two volumes. [12],325, [1],[blank leaf ],[114]; [4],411,[1]pp. Original blue boards with white paper spines, printed paper labels. Slight wear to spines with some sunning, boards bit bumped, but a quite fine set in as-issued form, uncut and untrimmed. In a half morocco and cloth slipcase and chemises.

An important early history, quite scarce, the first devoted entirely to the state, by prolific lawyer-historian François- Xavier Martin, issued the same year as his history of Louisiana. Jumonville locates only five copies. Copies in original boards are very seldom seen. The Streeter copy was sold to Seven Gables for $150 in 1967. HOWES M333. STREETER SALE 1140. JUMONVILLE 671,672. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 39436. $4500.

108. Mason, Richard: THE GENTLEMAN’S POCKET FARRIER, COMPRISING A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NOBLE AND USEFUL ANIMAL THE HORSE.... Richmond: Printed by Pe- ter Cottom, 1833. 415,[1]pp. plus five plates. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Hinges repaired. Some light wear and scuffing. Moderately tanned. Good plus.

Sixth edition, after the first of 1811. The fourth edition included the first Ameri- can stud book, and this edition has an expanded version, as Annals of the Turf, and American Stud Book, on pages 289-403. Contains an appendix discussing treatments for disease in livestock; and Samuel W. Pomeroy’s “Essay on Mules,” reprinted from The American Farmer. Also includes the “Rules and Regulations of the Richmond Jockey Club.” The plates depict horses in various modes of work and activities, including “A Virginia Race Horse.” AMERICAN IMPRINTS 19997. $1000. Important Illustrated American Travel Account

109. McKenney, Thomas L.: SKETCHES OF A TOUR TO THE LAKES, OF THE CHARACTER AND CUSTOMS OF THE CHIPPEWAY INDIANS, AND OF THE INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE TREATY OF FON DU LAC...ALSO A VOCABULARY OF THE ALGIC, OR CHIPPEWAY LANGUAGE. Baltimore. 1827. 493,[1]pp. plus twenty-nine lithographed or engraved plates. Half title. Origi- nal paper boards, paper label. Spine chipped and cracked, hinges starting, edges worn. Initial leaves dampstained in upper right corner, light foxing and moderate tanning throughout, occasional offsetting from plates. Good, in original condition. Untrimmed.

A classic work by the noted Indian commissioner, describing his travels among the Chippewa on the Great Lakes in 1826. “The author was for many years superinten- dent of Indian affairs at Washington, and was brought in constant association with the principal men of the nations and tribes which sent representatives to the seat of government. In this tour he formed a more intimate association with the great mass of the Indian population, and was able to present much valuable information regarding it” – Field. As a joint commissioner with Lewis Cass, McKenney nego- tiated a treaty at Fond du Lac with the Chippewa, Menominee, and Winnebago tribes, which is described in this book. HOWES M132. SABIN 43407. FIELD 994. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 2383. $2500.

The McLeod Case

110. [McLeod, Alexander]: TRIAL OF ALEXANDER MCLEOD, FOR THE MURDER OF AMOS DURFEE; AND AS AN ACCOM- PLICE IN THE BURNING OF THE STEAMER CAROLINE, IN THE NIAGARA RIVER, DURING THE CANADIAN REBEL- LION IN 1837-38. [bound with:] TRIAL OF ALEXANDER McLEOD FOR THE MURDER OF AMOS DURFEE. [Contained in:] Gould’s Stenographic Reporter. Vol. II. New York; Washington. 1841. 32; 416pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt labels. Front hinge cracked, initial leaves loose. Shelf label at foot of spine, institutional ink stamp on titlepage. First work with light vertical tideline, light tanning and foxing through second work. Good.

Two trial accounts, one brief, the other extensive, of this celebrated case of international law which resulted from the Canadian Rebellion. “In 1837 an attempted insurrection in Canada was put down, and the group fled to an American island in the Niagara River. A small steamer, the Caroline, brought provisions to them, and the British sent a force out to destroy it, which they did, killing Amos Durfee in the effort. The incident led to a controversy between the United States and England. McLeod, while in Buffalo, boasted of being Durfee’s killer. He was arrested and charged by New York State with the murder. The United States government tried to prevent the trial, and failing, the United States Attorney successfully defended McLeod, who probably had no part in the event” – McDade. The case touched on delicate points of international law as well as the great friction caused by the Rebellion of 1837. Howes puts both of these titles under one heading, describing the larger, Washington edition of this work as the “enlarged edition.” TPL 2469, 2470. LANDE 1954. McDADE 661, 662. COHEN 12860, 12861. HOWES M157, “aa.” SABIN 43531, 43531n. $750.

The Beginning of the Famed Meserve Collection

111. Meserve, Frederick Hill: [Lincoln, Abraham]: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN....AN ADVERTISEMENT OF A BOOK WHICH WILL CONTAIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS OF ALL KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .... New York. 1910. [6],5pp. plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original printed wrappers. Corners somewhat worn. Internally clean. Very good.

Prospectus for the quite rare visual biography, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, made up of prints from the photograph collection of Frederick Hill Meserve. Meserve purchased nearly the entire Brady archive of Lincoln material and arranged for facsimiles of the numerous photographs to be published in the advertised volume, which was limited to 102 copies. The book was published the following year. Meserve is considered to be the first great American photograph collector, and he amassed the definitive collection of Abraham Lincoln photographs during his pursuits. The collection is now at Yale. A rare piece of printing in and of itself, with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Lincoln. $1250.

112. [Michigan]: HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKETCHES OF MICHIGAN. COMPRISING A SERIES OF DISCOURSES DE- LIVERED BEFORE THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHI- GAN, AND OTHER INTERESTING PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE TERRITORY. Detroit: Stephen Wells and George L. Whitney, 1834. 215pp. Contemporary brown cloth, printed paper label. Extremities worn, hinges tender. Contemporary notations to front flyleaf. Early library stamps on titlepage and several text leaves; bookplate on rear pastedown. Minor scattered foxing. Good.

A rare collection of historical sketches relating to the early settlement of Michigan. This work prints the text of the four annual discourses delivered before the Histori- cal Society of Michigan, being those by Lewis Cass, Henry Whiting, John Biddle, and Henry Schoolcraft. Cass’ remarks consist of general observations on the early condition of North American Indians in the region, the French expedition to the sources of the Mississippi, Pontiac’s attack at Detroit, Indian hostilities, events during the Revolution, etc. Schoolcraft’s discourse consists of an account of the Iroquois, Algonquin, Chippewa, Ottawa, Foxes, etc., with some discussion of their relations with the French. Also includes extracts from a lecture given before the Detroit Lyceum by Schoolcraft upon the natural history of Michigan. Whiting and Biddle add further material relating to Indian hostilities, the War of 1812, the early political division of Michigan, mining, public lands disposal, etc. A trove of early Michigan history. “Now very scarce” – Sabin. SABIN 32062. HOWES M582, “aa.” MICHIGAN IM- PRINTS 203. GREENLY, MICHIGAN 64. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25738. $1250.

113. [Minstrel Broadside]: COMING SOON! PARSONS & POOL’S ORIGINAL UNCLE TOM’S CABIN AND TENNESSEE JUBI- LEE SINGERS [caption title]. [Providence? ca. 1880]. Broadside, 24 x 9¼ inches. Several small holes at bottom of sheet, else fine.

Illustrated broadside for a performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with woodcuts showing scenes from the book. The text continues: “The only company on the road to-day presenting the old-time manuscript version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Wait for us, watch for us, as we will positively appear in your city soon. Watch for day & date.” The Jubilee Singers originated at Fisk University, and from 1871 to 1878 toured the United States and Europe as fundraisers for the University. In 1879 the Singers were organized into a joint stock company. This broadside is presumed to be from this later period. $750.

Moravian Missionaries Among the Eskimo

114. [Moravian Church]: JESUSJB KRJSTUSIB AJOKERTUTINGITA PIJARIAKARNERPÂNGÔNINGIT. A SUMMARY OF CHRIS- TIAN DOCTRINE. ODER: HAUPTINHALT DER CHRISTLI- CHEN LEHRE. [Loebaume: E. Bastaniermullo Dunskymullo, 1867]. 112pp. Original cloth backed marbled boards. Some light shelf wear. Very good plus.

The story of the missionary work of the Moravians (a.k.a. the Bohemian Brethren) among the Labrador Eskimos (Inuktitut) is well-known. Their publications in the Inuktitut language are scarce and now much sought. The work present here is one of Christian doctrine and, despite its trilingual titlepage, is entirely in Inuktitut. Questions are posed, answers are given, and supporting passages from the Bible are supplied. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (ESKIMO) 73. BANKS, p.73 EVANS 293. PILLING, ESKIMO, p.48. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 1983. LANDE, MORAVIAN MISSIONS 40. $1750.

Uncommon State Guide

115. Morris, Eastin: THE TENNESSEE GAZETTEER, OR TOPO- GRAPHICAL DICTIONARY; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, POST OF- FICES, RIVERS, CREEKS, MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, &c. IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.... Nashville: W. Hasell Hunt & Co., 1834. 4, cxvi,178,[18]pp. Original printed boards, rebacked in later morocco. Corners worn, boards heavily rubbed. Lightly foxed. About very good.

A complete directory for the state of Tennessee, including much historical and agricultural information. The index of towns includes a brief description of each locality, and railroad arrivals and departures are also provided. The directory as a whole is indexed by locality and profession. Quite scarce. ALLEN 1153. HOWES M824, “aa.” $2250.

Virginia Woman Murderer: A Salacious Tale

116. Murdock, William C.: TRIAL, CONVICTION, AND CONFES- SION OF MARY B. THORN, WHO WAS SENTENCED TO BE HANGED AT PORTSMOUTH, VA., DECEMBER 22d, 1854, FOR THE MURDER OF THOS. BRADY & FAMILY. WRITTEN AT HER REQUEST, AND ACCORDING TO HER DICTATION, AND PREPARED BY THE PUBLISHER. Norfolk, Va.: [William C. Murdock], 1854. 32pp., with frontispiece and full-page illustration. Original plain wrappers, rear lacking. Removed from a bound volume, stitching perished. Later institutional stamps on front wrapper and blank recto of frontispiece. Initial leaves slightly chipped, with short closed tear in outer margin. Tanning, scattered foxing and staining. Good.

Third issue, following the first of the previous year and the second of the same, also printed in Norfolk. A rare murder narrative, possibly fictional, in which Mrs. Thorn was accused of poisoning Brady, his wife, and their four children by putting laudanum in their coffee. The first third of the text gives the background to the crime, the next third the details of the trial, and the final portion the confession of the accused. “This exotic tale, opening in Jamaica, has a miraculous birth, villainy, romance, and murder. DLC and some other libraries have treated this as an actual trial, in spite of its fictional nature, lack of a court designation, and the various editions having different execution dates” – Cohen. The frontispiece shows a mar- riage proposal in a wooded setting, and is signed as being engraved by “Bellman.” The other illustration shows a grisly murder scene in a cemetery and is captioned “Sacrilege and Murder. See Confession.” Of this 1854 edition, in which Thorn’s execution date is given as Dec. 22, OCLC locates four copies, at Harvard Law, Wil- liam & Mary, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Connecticut State Library. Another 1854 edition gives the date of demise as May 17, 1854, while the 1853 first edition states Nov. 28, 1853. All editions are scarce. McDADE 980 (note). COHEN 5198. $2000.

With Portraits of Many Important Figures

117. Murray, James: AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AMERICA; FROM ITS FIRST COMMENCEMENT, TO THE PRESENT TIME; TOGETHER WITH THE CHARTERS OF THE SEVERAL COLONIES, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC INFORMA- TION.... Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed by and for T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market..., [1782]. Two volumes. iv,[5]-152,151-573 (as printed); 576pp., plus twenty-three portrait plates (including frontispiece) and one folding plan. Includes extra R1 and R2 leaves in first volume, but lacks R3 and R4. Con- temporary speckled calf, spines gilt, gilt leather labels. Extremities worn, some rubbing to boards, joints tender. Occasional minor foxing, some portraits in second volume with manuscript caricature embel- lishments. Good plus.

The first English edition of Murray’s important work on the American Revolution to appear with the slightly altered title of An Impartial History of the War in America, dropping the “Present” that appeared in all previous editions of the book. The first Boston edition dropped the word the previous year, and the English printers followed suit. The war was coming to a close, so perhaps Murray felt the work needed a more lasting title, as the Treaty of Versailles brought an official ending to the American Revolu- tion the following year. This also appears to be the last English edition of the work to be printed in the 18th century. The text is similar to the reset sheets of the 1779-80 edition, as it carries the same pagination error at page 152 of the first volume, although the dedication to King George III on page iv of the first volume here is dated Jan. 25, 1782. Not in Adams. ESTC N7791. HOWES M916, “aa.” $2750. Rare Eskimo Biography of a Franklin Search Participant

118. Murray, Thomas B.: KALLI, THE ESQUIMAUX CHRISTIAN. A MEMOIR. New York. 1861. 70,2pp. including frontispiece portrait. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt. Light soiling and wear to boards. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor dampstain to lower edge of text block. Very good.

The Church Book Society edition of this description of an Inuit member of the Franklin Search. Kallihirua joined the expedition under Horatio Thomas Austin searching for the lost Franklin team, acting as an interpreter and eventually sail- ing back to England with the Assistance – becoming the first Greenlander to visit Europe. He was enrolled at St. Augustine’s missionary college in Canterbury, where he also helped Capt. John Washington revise his Esquimaux-English vocabulary. Capt. Ommanney continued to act as his mentor and was present at his baptism. SABIN 51542. $2500.

119. Myers, Frank M.: THE COMANCHES: A HISTORY OF WHITE’S BATTALION, VIRGINIA CAVALRY, LAUREL BRIG., HAMP- TON DIV., A.N.V., C.S.A. Baltimore: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1871. 400pp. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Cloth rubbed, front hinge a bit loose. Later pencil ownership inscription and annotation on front endpapers. Light foxing, moderate in places. Good plus. In a half calf and cloth slipcase.

A rare Confederate regimental history, covering the entire course of the Civil War. Myers was a captain in Company A of the 35th Virginia Cavalry in the Army of Northern Virginia. “A light, witty study of a cavalry unit; comparable in spirit and charm to John Casler’s narrative” – Nevins. “Myers might be called the Casler of the cavalry. This is an account written with realism and tempered with wit” – Harwell. HOWES M930, “aa.” IN TALL COTTON 129. NEVINS I:135. DORNBUSCH II: 1272. $2500.

The Criminals of New York

120. [New York City]: [Crime]: THE ROGUES AND ROGUERIES OF NEW-YORK. A FULL AND COMPLETE EXPOSURE OF ALL THE SWINDLES AND RASCALITIES CARRIED ON OR ORIGINATED IN THE METROPOLIS. New York: J.C. Haney & Co., 1865. [2],4,[7]-118,[1]pp. Original salmon-colored printed pictorial wrappers. Spine perished, some chipping and wear to wrappers. Light dampstaining to first and last few leaves. Minor scattered foxing. Still, very good.

“Rogues and Rogueries is a book that will interest everybody. No one need be imposed upon or victimized if he will only read this volume carefully. It is written in a readable style and is both entertaining and instructive” (text begins). Includes chapters on lotteries, policy dealers, matrimonial advertisements, fortune telling (“The Witches of New York”), hackmen, pickpockets, quacks, gamblers, professional beggars, and more. With illustrations to highlight the author’s point. SABIN 72772. $950.

121. Nicholas, Samuel S.: A REVIEW OF THE ARGUMENT OF PRES- IDENT LINCOLN AND ATTORNEY GENERAL BATES, IN FA- VOR OF PRESIDENTIAL POWER TO SUSPEND THE PRIVI- LEGE OF HABEAS CORPUS. Louisville, Ky.: Bradley & Gilbert, 1861. 38pp. Later brown wrappers. Ink library manuscript notations on titlepage. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Very good.

A tract by a Kentucky jurist in opposition to President Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus. Samuel S. Smith was a judge on the Kentucky state Court of Appeals who had an involvement in the revision of the Kentucky legal code in 1852 and was also briefly the president of the University of Louisville. In this essay he argues against Lincoln’s decision, despite the fact that he is “A thorough and devoted Unionist” and “The first Union man in Kentucky who publicly advocated for any sort of coercion as a remedy for the rebellion of the Southern states.” Nicholas maintains that while the continuation of the Union is important, of still greater significance is the sanctity of the Constitution: “The preservation of the Union is worth a high price, an immense price, but it is not above all price. We cannot afford to give the destruction of the Constitution as that price.” MONAGHAN 112. SABIN 55179. $1100.

122. Noyes, John H., editor: THE CIRCULAR. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEVOTED TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF JESUS CHRIST...Vol- ume I. No. 1 [– 52] [caption title]. Brooklyn. 1851. 208pp. Folio. Stitched. Light tanning. Very good. Untrimmed.

A complete run of the first volume, comprising fifty-two issues spanning from November 1851 to October 1852, of The Circular, “a publication of the utopian Oneida and Wallingford communities, edited by J.H. Noyes” (Lomazow). “The author, educated at Dartmouth, Andover, and Yale, became an advocate of Perfec- tionism, and finally the founder of a community, in 1848, at Oneida, N.Y. A man of education and force, he developed this community to considerable success” – Larned. “Oneida’s system of governance took the form of mutual criticism rather than written laws; individuals underwent scrutiny of their attitudes and behaviors by a committee or the whole community. The living and economic arrangements at Oneida were designed to further a new vision of family. Members lived together in the mansion, held property communally, shared in the raising of children as well as domestic and outdoor labor, and participated together in recreation and education. All of these practices emerged from Noyes’s conviction that perfectionist theology must give rise to a radical restructuring of ‘family’ that would in turn reform the broader society” – ANB. “The Oneida Circular was the chief organ of the perfectionist communities founded by J.H. Noyes. It in Noyes expounded his doctrines of spiritualism, com- munism, and free love; though uneven in its editing, it was often well written and interesting” – Mott. The Circular also discusses the organization and tenets of the community, the religious doctrines of Swedenborg, Brownson, and others, and much other material. LARNED 2882. LOMAZOW 568. MOTT II:207. Mary Farrell Bednarowski, “Noyes, John Humphrey” in American National Biography, http://www.anb.org/articles/08/08-01877. html. $2750.

123. O’Donovan, Jeremiah: A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHOR’S INTERVIEW WITH HIS COUNTRYMEN, AND OF THE PARTS OF THE EMERALD ISLE WHENCE THEY EMIGRATED, TO- GETHER WITH A DIRECT REFERENCE TO THEIR PRESENT LOCATION IN THE LAND OF THEIR ADOPTION, DURING HIS TRAVELS THROUGH VARIOUS STATES OF THE UNION IN 1854 AND 1855. Pittsburgh. 1864. 382pp. Original half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Front hinge cracked, spine chipped, boards worn. Contem- porary ownership inscriptions on front free endpapers. Light tanning and an occasional fox mark. Good.

O’Donovan travelled extensively in the United States in 1854 and 1855, using Pittsburgh as a home base. He went west to St. Louis in the first section of journey, including a stop in Nauvoo, and afterwards spent the majority of his time in Philadelphia, elsewhere in Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington, D.C. Donovan’s interests are almost exclusively focused on the relation of his encounters with various fellow Irishmen and Irishwomen during his travels, and his work is an interesting document of the quickly growing Irish diaspora in the United States during the mid-1850s. HOWES O24, “aa.” $1000.

18th-Century Cuban Imprint

124. O’Farril, Joseph Ricardo: Lanz, Juan Bautista: [Cuba]: MEMORIA SOBRE LA CRIA DE GANADO MULAR Y CABALLAR, Y ME- JORA DE SUS CASTAS.... [Havana: Imprenta de la Capitanía, 1799]. [2],12pp. Dbd. Loose sheets. Heavily tanned, outer leaves slightly chipped. Good.

A short tract on equine husbandry with its own titlepage but published as a part of a royal decree entitled “Gracia concedida por S.M. à los habitantes de esta isla para la introduccion de caballos frisones de ambos sexôs desde las provincias del Norte de América,” which approved the importation of horses to Cuba. Initially presented to government officials in 1797, the report by Joseph Ricardo O’Farril and Juan Bautista Lanz laments poor breeding practices in Cuba that have led to weaknesses in the horse stock, and recommends the introduction of North American horses and different breeding methods. Until the suggestions of this work were implemented by the decree in 1798, horses were not allowed to be imported from other sources in greater numbers than they were from Spain. According to Trelles, this is the first Cuban imprint to address issues related to livestock and animal husbandry. Very rare, with OCLC recording only five copies. SABIN 56747. MEDINA, HABANA 162. TRELLES, pp.177-78. OCLC 19860506. $2500.

125. O’Meara, Frederick A.: MISSIONS TO THE HEATHEN. No. VI. REPORT OF A MISSION TO THE OTTAHWAHS AND OJIB- WAS, ON LAKE HURON. London. 1845. 35,[1]pp. Publisher’s self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Minor wrinkling, small unobtrusive ink notations on rear wrapper. Very good.

The rare first edition of the first report sent back by Rev. O’Meara as a result of his missionary work with the native tribes at Sault St. Marie and Manatoulin Island from 1839 to 1845. The work was printed for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, under whose direction O’Meara was working. TPL only lists an 1846 edition, this copy being published a year earlier. Rare, with only two copies listed in OCLC, at the Keller Library and the Clements Library. TPL 2300 (later ed). JONES CHECKLIST 1112. ROSENBACH 16:172. OCLC 80563437. $850.

126. [Pennsylvania]: Barnes, R.L.: BARNES’S RAIL ROAD, CANAL & COUNTY MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA NEW JERSEY & ADJOIN- ING STATES. Pennsylvania: R.L. Barnes, 1865. Engraved folding pocket map, 26 x 36 inches. Publisher’s blindstamped cloth, gilt, rebacked. Corners worn. Handful of minor separations at crossfolds. Very good.

A detailed large-format railroad map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey divided by counties, with some representation of southern New York (including Manhat- tan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Long Island), Delaware, northern Virginia, and northeastern West Virginia. Lake Erie appears at top left, and bottom right shows the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean. The Allegheny River and its headwaters in Venango County are outlined in red, “probably indicating oil activity,” according to David Rumsey. The pastedown of the binding contains a population table of Pennsylvania broken down by county, with the total population of the state tallied at the bottom, which in 1865 totaled 2,906,370 people (the population today sits just under 13,000,000). Rare, with only three copies in OCLC, at Harvard, the American Antiquarian Society, and the British Library. $750. 127. [Pennsylvania]: Clark, J.A., editor & publisher: WYOMING VALLEY, UPPER WATERS OF THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE LACKA- WANNA COAL-REGION, INCLUDING VIEWS OF THE NATU- RAL SCENERY OF NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA.... Scranton: J.A. Clark, 1875. Text in two columns. Twenty-six mounted albumen photographs, single-page map. Large octavo. Publisher’s purple pictorial cloth. Spine faded. Very good.

Rare photographically-illustrated history of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, with biographical sketches and portraits of its leading citizens. “This volume is largely a compilation from the histories of Chapman, Miner, Pearce, Hollister, &c., with a few original biographical sketches. It was first published by subscription, to be issued in 15 parts....But only about 10 parts were issued, when the work ceased, and about 100 copies were bound as above. Published, with 25 photographs, $5.00; with 14 photographs, $3.50” – Hayden. HOWES C436 (calling only for 25 photos). HAYDEN, WYOMING VALLEY, 1885, p.10. $900.

128. [Pennsylvania]: ART WORK OF VENANGO COUNTY. [Chicago]: W.H. Parish Publishing Co., 1898. Nine parts. Folio. Original gilt-printed wrappers. Rear covers for parts seven and nine lacking. Spines perished; parts one and eight repaired with black tape. Ink ownership inscription on first page of each part. Light scattered foxing and soiling. Good.

Part of the “Art Work of...” series, featuring photogravure images of various locales. This volume primarily covers Oil City and Franklin in this northwestern Penn- sylvania county, with full-page photographic views of local buildings and scenery. The series was issued serially, likely by subscription, and seemingly produced in very limited numbers. Fewer than ten copies listed in OCLC, almost entirely in Pennsylvania institutions. $800.

129. Percival, James G.: CLIO. No. I [– III]. Charleston; New Haven; New York. 1822, 1827. Three volumes bound in two. 108; 132; 203,[1]pp. 12mo. Dbd. Light tanning and foxing. About very good.

A rare and complete set of these collections of poetry and essays by a transplanted northerner, inspired by the example of Washington Irving. These early literary works by Percival followed several collegiate publications in New Haven. The first two volumes were published during his hiatus as a journalist between his Yale medical education and his embarkation on a career as a self-educated geologist. The first volume, an early South Carolina imprint, is particularly rare. The third volume, published five years later, completes the series. BAL 15888, 15889, 15908. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 9874, 30202. $1250. A Critical Constitutional Case

130. Peters, Richard: THE CASE OF THE CHEROKEE NATION AGAINST THE STATE OF GEORGIA; ARGUED AND DETER- MINED AT THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, JANUARY TERM 1831. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1831. [8],286pp. Half calf and marbled boards, bound to period style, leather label. Contemporary ownership inscription on titlepage and second leaf. Tanning, light foxing. Else very good.

A collection of important documents relating to Indian removal in Georgia. Prints the argument before the Supreme Court of the Cherokees under John Ross, against the state of Georgia, and includes other documents relative to the case, such as treaties, laws, etc. FIELD 1206. COHEN 11485. HOWES P260. SABIN 61206. DE RENNE, p.422. $1750.

Insanity Defense Works

131. [Pierce, Aratus F.]: TRIAL OF ARATUS F. PIERCE, AT LOCK- PORT, N.Y., FOR THE MURDER OF WM. BULLOCK. Lockport, N.Y. 1871. 101pp. Dbd. Titlepage detached, initial leaves nearly so. Institu- tional ink and blind stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good.

“At Lockport, New York, Pierce killed his sister’s seducer, who had refused to marry her. He was acquitted, his defense being ‘the law of mania transitoria’” – McDade. McDADE 748. $750.

The Last Book Published in the Confederacy

132. Pollard, Edward A.: OBSERVATIONS IN THE NORTH: EIGHT MONTHS IN PRISON AND ON PAROLE. Richmond. 1865. 142pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards. Leaves tanned. Old stamps on titlepage and other leaves. Else good.

Generally considered to be the last Confederate imprint, this memoir was published in Richmond in March 1865, and many copies must have been destroyed in the burning of the city at the end of the war. Pollard was a journalist, best known for his southern history of the war. He was captured when the blockade runner he was on was seized. He was imprisoned in Fort Warren in Boston, and later paroled and allowed to travel in the city. A fascinating account. HOWES P457. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 68. IN TALL COTTON 149. PAR- RISH & WILLINGHAM 4994. SWEM 14273. $750. A Very Fine Tree-Peddler’s Sample Book

133. [Pomology and Horticulture]: [Brunswick, M. & Co, publisher]: [BOUND COLLECTION OF COLORED BOTANICAL SPECI- MEN PLATES]. Rochester, N.Y.: M. Brunswick & Co., [ca. 1890]. 129 color pochoir or chromolithographed plates, bound accordion-style with the plates generally mounted in rows of three, joined by cloth ribbons, each row joined by a second row of three so that six plates are visible on each opening. Bound to style in black morocco. Very good. In a black cloth box.

This album has a greater number and variety of plates than usually encountered: in the pomological section there are depictions of twenty-five kinds of apples, three pears, seven cherries, seven plums, one apricot, two peaches, twenty-six berries and currants, six grapes, two vegetables; the horticultural section includes twenty-two trees, flowering shrubs or climbers, twelve roses and other flowering plants, and more. “Mina (or Minnie) Brunswick (1849-1925) is listed in the Rochester city directories as a producer of fruit plates or nurserymen’s plates from 1888 through 1920. Her first advertisement, in the 1889 directory, reads in part: ‘M. Brunswick & Co., (Formerly with D.M. Dewey), Manufacturers of Hand Painted Fruit and Ornamental Plates. All of Mr. Dewey’s artists have been retained by us’...Brunswick, by the 1910s, appears to have been the last producer of hand-painted (stenciled) plates in Rochester” – Kabelac. Nearly all the plates include the Brunswick imprint, which suggests that this album was sold ready-made. The more usual practice was for the salesman to make up his sample-book from individual plates from a number of different publishers. The album can be dated approximately from dates in the descriptions of a handful of plates between 1888 and 1893, which is consistent with the firm’s starting date. Karl Sanford Kabelac, “Nineteenth-Century Rochester Fruit and Flower Plates” in The University of Rochester Library Bulletin (1982), Vol. XXXV, pp.93-114. OAK SPRING PO- MONA 65. $5750. Striking French Views of the American Revolution

134. Ponce, Nicolas: RECUEIL D’ESTAMPES REPRESENTANT LES DIFFERENTS EVENEMENS DE LA GUERRE QUI A PROCURE L’INDÉPENDANCE AUX ETATS-UNIS L’AMÉRIQUE. Paris: chez M. Ponce et chez M. Godefroy, [1784]. Engraved throughout: titlepage with integral text and vignettes, fifteen plates and maps with integral explanatory text (twelve views, two maps, and a final plate celebrating the peace of 1783). Quarto. 20th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners lightly bumped. Some light foxing. Very good.

This collection of views is one of the few contemporary publications to illustrate scenes from the American Revolution. The first leaf is an engraved titlepage with explanatory text and vignettes of battles. The plates illustrate the tarring and feathering of a tax collector; the battle of Lexington; the surrender at Saratoga; the attack of French forces on the island of Dominica; the surrender of Senegal; the capture of Grenada; Galvez capturing Pensacola; the capture of Tobago; the surrender of Cornwallis; three more scenes of fighting on Guadeloupe; two maps; and the final plate is a series of vignettes commemorating the Treaty of Versailles in 1783. Howes notes that this is the first French book to name the United States in the title. HOWES C576, “aa.” SABIN 68421. CRESSWELL 303-307, 333-342. BEINECKE, LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION 359. $4000.

Very Unusual American Color Plates

135. [Quarré, F.]: [Color Plate Books]: THE ARTIST. A MONTHLY LADIES’ BOOK. Vol. I [– II]. New York: F. Quarré, 1842-1843. Twelve issues, with thirty-five color plates. Large octavo. Contemporary red sheep, boards gilt ruled, spine gilt. Front hinged cracked, boards rubbed, edge and spine wear. Binder’s ticket on front pastedown, slightly later pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Edges dampstained, light tanning and scattered foxing. About very good.

A complete run of an early and little-known American periodical illustrated with color plates. Overlooked by both Bennett and McGrath, The Artist... is an important work in the history of American color printing and in the development of color printing techniques. The publisher, an artist named F. Quarré, states in the introduction that the plates for the new periodical would be accomplished by “a process hitherto unknown.” Quarré further states that the plates are “engravings in color...the invention and the means of execution are our own exclusive property... we shall have been the first to trace out a new line which has not as yet been attempted in any other country....” The plates appear to be aquatints, with different portions of the plate inked in different colors, and some of them closely resemble the color-printed plates of Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany of 1817-21. Quarré is not completely unknown – he is listed in Groce and Wallace, as well as in Jay Last’s The Color Explosion. The Artist was printed at the Herald Printing Establishment, at the corner of Nassau and Fulton streets in New York, and was produced in only a small number of copies. In most, including the present one, in addition to purely color printed plates there are plates that are partly color printed and partly handcolored, plates that are entirely and conventionally handcolored, and plates that are embossed (of which one is handcolored). Finally, there are several plates with simulated lace borders. “Quarré’s most distinctive productions were flower aquatints embellished with engraved white lace, in the manner of the later valentine” – Groce & Wal- lace. “These plates exemplify the experimentation with color printing techniques in book illustration which paralleled the beginnings of chromolithography in the 1840s” – Reese. A rare and important periodical, never encountered as a complete run. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 48. $3000.

136. [Robinson, John]: THE SAVAGE. By Piomingo, a Headman and Warrior of the Muscogulgee Nation. Knoxville: Republished at the “Scrap Book” Office, 1833. 324pp. Original sheep. Spine chipped and worn, hinges cracked, front board nearly detached, foxing throughout. Withal in decent condition. In a cloth case, leather label.

Robinson’s essays are written in the guise of the thoughts and debates of a Creek sage named Piomingo. Much of the text consists of arguments between whites and Piomingo over differing philosophies, making this a fascinating view of the Noble Savage and a satire on contemporary mores. First published in Philadelphia in 1810, it was evidently popular enough to go through several editions, of which this frontier-ish printing in Knoxville, at the time of Indian removal, is both exotic and notable. ALLEN, TENNESSEE RARITIES 31. AII (TENNESSEE) 499. SABIN 77255. $2750.

137. [Robinson, R.P.]: A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF R.P. ROBINSON, THE ALLEGED MURDERER OF HELEN JEWETT; CONTAIN- ING COPIOUS EXTRACTS FROM HIS JOURNAL. New York. 1836. 24pp. Dbd. Two small, faint institutional stamps on titlepage, notice- able foxing throughout. Good.

A rare publication relating to the infamous murder of lady-of-the-night Ellen (sometimes reported as Helen) Jewett in New York in 1836. McDade records eleven separate publications related to the Robinson-Jewett tragedy. This sketch of the alleged murderer, Richard P. Robinson, was one of the earliest printed, “issued before the trial,” according to McDade. “The 1836 murder of Ellen Jewett, very beautiful prostitute in a house of ill fame in New York, was one of the sensations of the times. Robinson, a nineteen-year-old youth and sweetheart of the girl, was identified as her companion of the evening. Miss Jewett had been struck with a hatchet, and an attempt had been made to burn the premises. Robinson was acquitted in the face of a seemingly strong case. The trial was a field day for the newspapers, and James Gordon Bennett himself had a peep at the famous bordello and wrote an account of his visit” – McDade. OCLC records fifteen total copies of this work in institutions; McDade records an additional two copies, one of which is the present example from the library of the New York Bar Association. McDADE 820. SABIN 72167. OCLC 22038222, 79379354. $850.

With Color Plates of Arctic Scenes

138. Ross, John: A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, MADE UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE ADMIRALTY, IN HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS ISABELLA AND ALEXANDER, FOR THE PURPOSE OF EX- PLORING BAFFIN’S BAY, AND INQUIRING INTO THE PROB- ABILITY OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. London: John Murray, 1819. [6],xxxix,[1],252,[2],cxliv pp. Thirty-two maps, coastal profiles, plates, tables, or graphs comprising engraved folding frontispiece general chart; two engraved folding maps by J. Walker after J. Bushnan and others; twenty-five aquatint or engraved plates and coastal profiles by D. Havell, R. Havell & Son, Thomas Lewin after A.M. Skene, Ross, H.P. Hoppner, Thomas Lewin and others (15 handcolored, 7 folding); engraved table; three folding engraved meteorological graphs; wood-engraved illustrations (one full-page). Quarto. Contemporary blue cloth, rebacked with original spine preserved, red morocco label. Repaired tears in first three leaves; small tear in frontispiece map with small area of loss affecting a few words of the Remark at top right. Very good. Uncut.

The official account of Ross’ first voyage. Ross “commanded the Isabella and the expedition, with Sir W.E. Parry in command of the Alexander. The vessels sailed from England Apr. 18, to Davis Strait and north along the west coast of Greenland to the entrance of Smith Sound; thence southward past Jones Sound to Lancaster Sound; after exploring it, the vessels continued southward, making a test of the breadth of Davis Strait, and returning to England by Nov. 14” (Arctic Bibliography). The expedition is credited with confirming the earlier discoveries of Bylot and Baffin, although they failed to probe deeper into Lancaster Sound, for which Ross was criticized on his return. Geographic discoveries included Melville Bay, Cape York, Prince Regent’s Bay (Dedodes Fjord), Whale Sound, and Carey’s Island. The scientific work produced some notable results, and the present work also provides an account of an important encounter with “Arctic Highlanders” (i.e. Eskimos). In retrospect, Ross’ voyage was the first of an important series of British northwest passage expeditions, which explored the Arctic regions in the period between 1818 and 1845. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY 14873. HILL 1488. TPL 1152. ABBEY 634. SABIN 73376. LANDE 1425. $5000.

Hungarian Plate Book on America

139. Rosti, Pál: UTI EMLÉKEZETEK AMERIKÁBÓL. Pest: Kiadja Heckenast Gusztav, 1861. [6],198,[2]pp. printed in double columns, including in-text illustrations, plus sixteen plates, consisting of twelve tinted lithographs, color lithograph frontispiece and titlepage, one engraved plate, and one further color plate. Half title. Folio. Original three-quarter red morocco and cloth boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and slightly soiled. Corners and spine extremities worn, hinges reinforced. Contemporary ownership inscription on printed titlepage. Light foxing and tanning to text, plates with light dampstaining along top edge. Very good.

A rare Hungarian account of a tour through the Caribbean, Mexico, and Latin America, lavishly illustrated with lithographs. Pál Rosti (1830-74), a Hungarian naturalist and pioneering photographer in Latin America, visited the Americas between 1856 and 1858, retracing the steps of Alexander Humboldt. His experiences are recorded in this wonderfully illustrated account. Rosti’s observations contain useful documentation on social history, natural sciences, and ethnology. His visit to Venezuela was the first photographic register of the country. Humboldt visited Rosti to see the first photograph taken of the Samán de Güere and exclaimed that the tree was the same as when he and Bonpland had seen it some sixty years earlier in 1800. Humboldt died a few days later. The plates include a scene in the Plaza de Armas in Havana, a fine view of Caracas, Venezuelans at rest in the rain forest, the small village of San Juan de los Morros, and bamboo plants in Trinidad. The Mexican illustrations include the Plateau of Puebla, the Ravine of Santa Maria with the Orizava volcano in the distance, a large cathedral in Mexico City, Mount Popocatepetl, and the village of Pachuca. The several in-text illustrations add much in the way of details of the flora and fauna of the region, as well as local dress and customs. Rare and informative, with wonderful plates. PALAU 279201. $9500.

140. Scudder, Samuel Hubbard: THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE EAST- ERN UNITED STATES AND CANADA WITH SPECIAL REF- ERENCE TO NEW ENGLAND. Cambridge, Ma.: Published by the Author, November 1888 – October 1889. Three volumes. Frontispiece portraits (two chromolithographed), four maps (three folding, two colored), with eighty-nine other maps and plates, including twenty-one chromolithographs, plus [2]pp. list of subscribers. Half titles. Quarto. Contemporary blue cloth, spines gilt. Hinges a bit loose, light edge and corner wear. Later owner’s blind stamp on initial leaves. Light tanning, otherwise internally clean. Very good.

Scudder produced this privately printed work in an elaborate fashion. It is one of the most important books about butterflies produced in the U.S. in the 19th century. The work illustrates the rapidly changing world of illustration technol- ogy, with finely executed chromolithographs by Thomas Sinclair and Julius Bien of Philadelphia, as well as more precise images in black and white using gelatin process photographs, photogravures, and electrotypes. BENNETT, p.96. McGRATH, pp.46, 148. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NA- TIONAL CHARACTER 106. $2200. 141. Seward, William H.: ARGUMENT OF WILLIAM H. SEWARD, ON THE LAW OF CONGRESS CONCERNING THE RECAP- TURE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES [wrapper title]. Albany. 1847. 40pp. plus errata slip. Dbd., retaining original front printed wrapper. Minor dust- soiling to front wrapper, light edge wear. Mild foxing to a few leaves. Overall good plus.

A rare Supreme Court argument against the Fugitive Slave Law, given before the Supreme Court by William H. Seward in 1847. The work is variously listed under its wrapper title, as we have it, or by the information on the titlepage, which reads: “In the Supreme Court of the United States, John Van Zandt, ad sectum Wharton Jones. Argument for the Defendant. By William H. Seward.” Here, Seward represents the defendant, John Van Zandt of Ohio, who was sued by Wharton Jones of Kentucky, who claimed Van Zandt was harboring a fugitive slave who right- fully belonged to him. The text records Seward’s argument before of the Supreme Court, which he divides into four points. In the first two points Seward argues specific aspects of the case before him. In Seward’s last two points, he challenges the constitutionality of the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act itself. The titles of points three and four are, respectively, “The Law of 1793 is in Conflict with the Ordinance for the Government of the Territory Northwest of the Ohio, passed in 1787, and is therefore void” and “The Law of 1793, so far as its provisions affect the questions now before the Court, is Unconstitutional and Void.” William H. Seward was a prominent lawyer from New York who served as governor of the state from 1839 to 1842. He served as the Senator for New York in 1849-61 before serving as President Lincoln’s Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869. In between his governorship of New York and serving in the Senate, Seward continued to practice law, and the present work concerns one of his more notable cases during that time. Seward and his wife, Frances, were ardent abolitionists who participated in the Underground Railroad, opening their home in Auburn, New York to escaped slaves. This earlier case, in which Seward argues not only against enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act but against its very existence, is consistent with his later activities against slavery itself. Salmon P. Chase had represented Van Zandt in this case at the circuit level. Chase was unable to travel to Washington, however, to argue the case in front of the Supreme Court. Chase employed Seward to present his brief to the court, entitled Reclamation of Fugitives from Service, along with Seward’s own argument, represented in the present work. “Seward’s brief is almost devoid of the antislavery arguments offered by Chase. He is somewhat more legalistic and much briefer in his points and citations” – Finkelman. Scarce in institutions, and rather rare in the marketplace. DUMOND, p.101. FINKELMAN, pp.70-75. SABIN 79504. $1250.

Glory: The Death of Colonel Shaw at Fort Wagner

142. [Shaw, Robert Gould, Col.]: STORMING FORT WAGNER. Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph, 18¾ x 26 inches. Matted and framed to 24½ x 31 inches. Clean and near fine. Not examined out of the frame.

A dramatic rendering of the first major battle in the Civil War to involve African- American troops, the attempted storming of a Confederate fort near Charleston, South Carolina on July 18, 1863. Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was killed, along with fifteen other officers and nearly 300 of his men. The print shows the Union troops charging the ramparts of Fort Wagner, into the oncoming Confederate rifle and cannon fire. A Union officer, likely intended to be Shaw, stands atop the first rampart, sword held high, the flag waving boldly next to him. Union ships float off the coast in the background, shells bursting above them. Shaw (1837-63) came from a wealthy Massachusetts family noted for uphold- ing reform and abolitionist causes. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Shaw distinguished himself in combat, surviving the bloody battles of Antietam and Cedar Mountain. After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed in 1863, Mas- sachusetts governor John Andrew organized the army’s first black volunteer unit, the 54th Massachusetts. Despite his initial refusal, Shaw was ultimately persuaded by his family to accept the command. Sent to fight in the Union effort to seize the border islands off the Carolina coast in the late spring of 1863, the regiment proved its valor that summer by holding off Confederate troops at James Island, South Carolina. “Two days later [ July 18, 1863], on Morris Island, Shaw proudly volunteered his regiment to lead the assault on the impregnable Fort Wagner, the first step in an offensive on the Confederate stronghold of Charleston, South Carolina. When the Fifty-fourth charged the fort, 272 were killed, wounded, or captured. One of those who fell was Shaw, leading his African-American troops in battle. Although the assault failed, the bravery of the Fifty-fourth proved the ability of black troops, and in death, the young Shaw was ennobled as a martyr to freedom and as a symbol of enlightened sacrifice” – ANB. The soldiers of the 54th impressed Shaw with their dedication and valor, which they demonstrated during the Fort Wagner assault. Shaw was buried with his troops by the Confederates in a mass grave on the site of the assault. Shaw and his troops are the subject of one of the most celebrated works of public sculpture in the United States, Augustus St.-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial, on the corner of the Boston Common nearest the State House. Shaw’s leadership of the regiment is best known to many people today through the film, Glory (1989), which culminates in the attack on Fort Wagner and Shaw’s death. A dramatic portrayal of this important historic moment. BLOCKSON 111. $6000.

143. [Shelton, Azariah]: SHELTON’S AMERICAN MEDICINE; OR IMPROVEMENT IN UNITING HIS NEW STEAM SYSTEM, AND THE OLD PRACTICE OF MEDICINE...AND REMEDIES SUITED TO ALL CLIMATES, CONSTITUTIONS AND CIR- CUMSTANCES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.... Madisonville, Tn.: Henderson & Johnston, 1834. xii [i.e. viii],400pp. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Toned, moderate foxing. Good plus.

First and only edition of this book of remedies and cures made for the use of average people at home. The contents include a discussion of human anatomy, but the bulk of the book is a lengthy review of diseases and treatments, including remedies for gonorrhea (called “the clap”), nephritis, epilepsy, jaundice, rheumatism, and much more. Shelton apparently led a varied life in the forty years before this book’s publication. He was born in Virginia in 1795, emigrated to Tennessee at a young age, was largely self-educated, worked in the Superior Court of Blount County, Tennessee, and then studied medicine with the “excentric, but skillful and self-made Dr. Isaac Wright,” whose daughter he married. He also participated in the Creek War before settling down in Alabama. Many of Wright’s medical cures are incorporated in this work, as are the tenets of the then-popular “Thomsonian” system. Scarce. CORDASCO 30-0798. AII (TENNESSEE) 547. ALLEN, TENNESSEE IMPRINTS 1165. ALLEN, MORE TENNESSEE RARITIES 667. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 26756. $1500.

144. [Slavery]: [Commonwealth vs. Aves]: CASE OF THE SLAVE- CHILD, MED. REPORT OF THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL, AND OF THE OPINION OF THE COURT, IN THE CASE OF COMMONWEALTH vs. AVES; TRIED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS. Bos- ton. 1836. 13,[13]-40pp. Dbd. Minor edge wear, institutional ink stamp on titlepage, trimmed close along fore-edge, occasionally just touching letters on the last leaf. Good.

A scarce pamphlet recording each side’s argument, plus the court’s opinion for one of the most important anti-slavery cases to ever appear in Massachusetts courts. Med, a six-year-old Louisiana slave girl, accompanied her master’s wife, Mary Aves Slater, to Boston in 1836. After learning of her presence, abolitionists brought a case against Thomas Aves, Mary’s father, at whose house Med was staying. Aves’ attorney, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, argued that the girl should remain slave property under the doctrine of comity. Ellis Gray Loring, arguing for the abolitionists, characterized slavery as immoral and stated that the doctrine of comity was not applicable “in doubtful cases” such as those involving slavery. The court agreed with Loring, issuing a unanimous opinion that Med was to be free since her owners “voluntarily” brought her into a free state. A landmark decision, and one that would be cited by abolitionists throughout their struggle to end slavery altogether. LIBRARY COMPANY, AFRO-AMERICANA 739. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 35849. SABIN 2490. $1250.

145. Smith, J. Gray: A BRIEF HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL AND DE- SCRIPTIVE REVIEW OF EAST TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEVELOPING ITS IMMENSE AGRICULTURAL, MINING, AND MANUFACTURING ADVANTAGES, WITH RE- MARKS TO EMIGRANTS.... London. 1842. xii,71pp. plus large folding map. Original cloth, printed label on front board. Cloth slightly worn, spine and top edge sunned, boards detaching. Later small bookplate on front pastedown. Light tanning, occasional faint foxing throughout, slightly heavier to plate. A good copy in original condition. In a three-quarter calf clamshell box.

“The author claims to have resided some years in the valley of east Tennessee... includes numerous statistics, lists the types of occupations that would insure ready employment, gives advice to prospective emigrants” – Clark. It appears that the book was issued to promote the sale of 179 farms in East Tennessee by the East Tennessee Land Company. The large scale map shows the valley of the Tennessee and Holston rivers, with a projected “Branch Railroad to Knoxville” running up the valley. Sanders paid $650 for the Streeter copy in 1967. HOWES S605, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1671. CLARK III:239. SABIN 82755. $2850.

Rare Alabama Directory

146. Snedecor, V. Gayle: A DIRECTORY OF GREENE COUNTY FOR 1855-6, EMBRACING THE NAMES OF VOTERS IN THE COUNTY GENERALLY, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, THEIR OCCUPATION, RESIDENCE AND POST OFFICE.... Mobile: Printed by Strickland & Co., 1856. [2],74pp. including errata, plus [24]pp. of advertisements at rear. Original brown cloth, large printed paper label on front board. Cloth and label somewhat rubbed and soiled, boards lightly shelfworn. Some foxing and tanning, as usual. Very good, in original condition.

Scarce and early directory for this west-central Alabama county. Aside from the lengthy directory of residents, there is information on birthplaces of Greene County residents and religious denominations, as well as several pages of advertisements giving information on commercial houses in Mobile and other parts of the state. Howes mentions a map, and notes that it was “not issued in all copies.” As Owen notes, the map was issued separately, and is not to be found with the book. It is not mentioned by Spear, and Owen describes it separately in his section on Alabama maps. “The whole work abounds in detail, and possesses an interest that does not usually attach to such an effort” – Owen. Antebellum southern directories are notoriously scarce. SPEAR, p.138. OWEN ALABAMA, p.1167. HOWES S736, “aa.” SABIN 85375a. $2750.

147. [Snelling, William J.]: TALES OF THE NORTHWEST; OR, SKETCHES OF INDIAN LIFE AND CHARACTER. Boston. 1830. viii,288pp. 12mo. Contemporary plain cloth, rebacked in matching cloth, paper label. Moderate foxing and dampstaining. Very good.

A classic semi-autobiographical account of experiences as a fur trapper among the Dakotas of the northern Missouri River, told in narrative form. “After leaving West Point, Snelling gravitated westward toward his father’s outpost at Fort Anthony (later renamed Fort Snelling) near present-day St. Paul, Minnesota. After spending a winter among the Dakota Indians, he arrived at the fort in 1821 and for the next five years led an adventuresome life as fur trader and explorer. His knowledge of the Dakota’s habits and language evidently made him useful as an interpreter; he took an active part, for example, in mediating outbursts of tribal warfare between the Chippewa, Dakota, and Winnebago tribes” – ANB. This book was published in 1830, after Snelling had travelled back east and begun a career as an author and journalist. Scarce on the market, with only three appearances in auction records in the past fifty years. The Streeter copy sold for $100 in 1967. HOWES S738, “aa.” SABIN 85428. STREETER SALE 1790. $1500.

148. [Society of Cincinnati]: OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PAM- PHLET, ENTITULED, “CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE SOCI- ETY OR ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI,” CLEARLY EVINCING THE INNOCENCE AND PROPRIETY OF THAT HONOUR- ABLE AND RESPECTABLE INSTITUTION. Philadelphia. 1783. 28pp. plus [4]pp. of advertisements. Dbd. Light foxing. Very good.

This work is of particular interest in a book publishing sense. The advertisements are made up of titlepages of other publications by Robert Bell, the printer. This pamphlet defending the Society of the Cincinnati was probably written by Stephen Moylan, one of the founders of the Society. He calls a free press “the pillar that supports the whole fabric of freedom”; but, he observes, “The fairest blossom is the reptile’s food,” and a licentious press has gorged itself on a slander of the noble Society. That slander, Howes informs, was a pamphlet published anonymously by Aedanus Burke earlier in 1783, attacking the Society. “The Plan for Establishing the Society or Order of the Cincinnati,” created in the year of this publication, is reproduced here, and the author defends the Society with skill and wit. SABIN 56486. HOWES O9. EVANS 18073. HILDEBURN 4330. $1250.

149. [South Carolina]: [Slavery]: REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE SENATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ON SO MUCH OF GOV. ADAMS’ MESSAGE AS RELATES TO THE SLAVE TRADE [cover title]. Charleston. 1858. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, held together with brass tacks; light chipping and soiling. Paper lightly and evenly toned. Good.

Report submitted to the South Carolina Senate, which concludes that slavery is essential to the agricultural production of the South. Additionally, the committee felt that the slave trade helped relieve Africa from “the pressure of a redundant population, as might be afforded by emigration in the only form in which its benefits can be extended to them.” $1250.

A Key Document in South Carolina Secession

150. [South Carolina Convention]: THE ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ASSEMBLED IN CONVENTION, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SLAVEHOLDING STATES OF THE UNITED STATES. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, 1860. 16pp. Original printed yellow wrappers. Light wear to spine, minor wear and soiling. Inter- nally clean. Very good.

“Following the Ordinance of Secession itself, which the Carolinians regarded as a latter-day Declaration of Independence, the Address is the most important and most interesting of the several documents of the Secession Convention. It was drawn up by Robert Barnwell Rhett, fire-eating publisher of the Mercury. The Address cleverly compares the relation of the Southern States to the North to the relation of the American colonies to England, states that all confidence in the North has been lost, asserts the right of secession, and presents a defense of slavery. It is both a justification of the actions of the Convention and an invitation to the other Southern states to join in a new nation” – Harwell. Institutionally common, but scarce in trade. HARWELL, CORNERSTONES OF CONFED- ERATE COLLECTING 1. PARRISH & WILL- INGHAM 3749. $4500.

Tried for Losing Tobago

151. [Stanhope, Henry Fitzroy]: THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS ON THE TRIAL OF THE HON. MAJOR HENRY FITZROY STAN- HOPE, AT A COURT MARTIAL HELD AT THE HORSE GUARDS, IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1783. London. 1783. 44,59, 1pp. 20th-century tan buckram, spine gilt, leather labels. Minor shelf wear and soiling, shelf mark on spine. Faint library stamps on titlepage, light foxing. Very good.

The account of the court martial of Henry Fitzroy Stanhope, one of the British commanders serving on Tobago when the French successfully invaded and gained control of the island in June 1781 under the command of Comte de Grasse, during the American Revolution. The testimony provides a detailed account of what went on during the invasion, an interesting sideshow to the dramatic events unfolding in North America. Stanhope was acquitted of any wrongdoing. Rare, with only four copies in ESTC. ESTC N26151. $1250.

An Iconic Image

152. Stieglitz, Alfred: THE STEERAGE. [N.p. N.d., but taken in 1907, printed in 1911]. Photogravure, 7¼ x 6 inches. Fine. Matted and framed.

The Steerage is one of the most acclaimed photographs ever taken, and its influence on the development of the medium cannot be understated. The image represents a turning point in the evolution of photography as well as a landmark moment in the career of celebrated photographer Alfred Stieglitz – many have hailed it as the artist’s first truly “modernist” picture. After an illustrious career, Stieglitz recognized The Steerage’s importance in his oeuvre: “If all my photographs were lost, and I’d be represented by just one, The Steerage, I’d be satisfied.” Alfred Stieglitz was an extremely influential figure in the history of photography. From the beginning of his career in the late 19th century, Stieglitz was dedicated to elevating the medium of photography to the status of a fine art. He believed photographs to be aesthetic works, not simply documentary records, and that the photographer was more akin to a craftsperson than to a machine operator. To this end, he founded the Photo-Secession exhibition society, and its associated periodical, Camera Work, to promote photography as an artistic medium. The Steerage in particular is evidence of Stieglitz’s tireless advocacy for his medium. He reproduced it not only in Camera Work but also in popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and the Saturday Evening Post. Stieglitz himself oversaw the printing of this image when it was reproduced for Camera Work, creating a special link between this particular print and the artist himself. Stieglitz captured this image during a 1907 sea voyage from New York to Bre- men, Germany. It depicts the steerage-class passengers – most likely immigrants who were denied entry into the United States and who were making the solemn journey back to Europe – aboard the ocean liner, Kaiser Wilhelm II. Although the image has historically been viewed as a monument to the immigrant experience, Stieglitz was actually more interested in the formal elements of the composition than any social message. Reflecting on his experience making the image, Stieglitz said: As I came to the end of the [deck of the ship] I stood alone, looking down. The whole scene fascinated me....I saw a picture of shapes and underlying that the feeling I had about life....Here would be a picture based on related shapes and on the deepest human feeling, a step in my own evolution, a spontaneous discovery. Abandoning his previous Pictorialist style that favored a single, central subject, and a clear narrative, The Steerage focuses instead on shape and line and thus represents a critical moment in the development of Stieglitz’s art. Describing the scene, Stieglitz recalled: A round straw hat, the funnel leading out, the stairway leaning right, the white drawbridge with its railings made of circular chains – white suspenders crossing on the back of a man in the steerage below, round shapes of iron machinery, a mast cutting into the sky, making a triangular shape. I stood spellbound for a while, looking and looking. $15,000.

153. Strong, Asa B.: THE AMERICAN FLORA, OR HISTORY OF PLANTS AND WILD FLOWERS: CONTAINING A SYSTEM- ATIC AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION, NATURAL HISTORY, CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF OVER SIX THOUSAND PLANTS, ACCOMPANIED WITH A CIRCUM- STANTIAL DETAIL OF THE MEDICINAL EFFECTS, AND OF THE DISEASES IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN MOST SUC- CESSFULLY EMPLOYED. New York: Published by Strong and Burdick (Vol. I), and Green and Spencer (Vol. II), 1847-1848. Two volumes. Vol. I: 137,[1],iv pp.; lithographic additional titlepage, frontispiece, and fifty plates, printed in colors and finished by hand. Vol. II: 192pp.; lithographic additional titlepage, frontispiece, and forty-six plates, printed in colors and finished by hand. Quarto. Original pictorial gilt cloth, spines richly gilt in vine pattern, a.e.g. Boards lightly rubbed, corners worn and bumped, worn at spine ends. Scattered foxing, confined largely to the text but with a few fox marks on some plates, but with the plates generally clean and brightly colored. A very good set.

The first two volumes of this four-volume work. The last two volumes are quite rare. Asa Strong, a physician, was one of the most popular natural history writers of his day. The qualities of each plant are given and its medicinal uses explained. Several of the plates were drawn by the noted illustrator, Edwin Whitefield, and others are by D.W. Moody. A definitive collation for this work is problematic, as Stafleu notes: “The copies listed in The National Union Catalog show a great variation.” According to Stafleu, there are three issues of volume I, dated 1846, 1847, and 1848. The present set includes the 1848 third issue of volume I, which should have a frontispiece, engraved titlepage, and fifty plates. The present copy includes all those and is therefore complete. The second volume contains one more plate than called for by Stafleu (who notes only an additional titlepage, frontispiece, and forty-five plates). Bennett writes: “The publisher clearly did not count pages of color plates when listing the numbers on the title pages, but counted every separate item on each page. It has even been suspected that he counted fly-specks” (p.103). Bennett further notes that complete sets of Strong’s American Flora... are “extremely difficult to locate.” Strong is particularly interesting as one of the first publications to include introduced exotics, including plants from Africa. BENNETT, p.103. BRADLEY BIBLIOGRAPHY III, p.58. McGRATH, p.218. B.A. Norton, Edwin Whitefield, p.145. STAFLEU & COWAN TL2 13.290. $2500.

154. Stuart, Alexander: REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF PETER HEA- MAN AND FRANCOIS GAUTIEZ OR GAUTIER, FOR CRIMES OF PIRACY AND MURDER.... Edinburgh: Charles Guthrie, 1821. [4], 183pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Very good.

A scarce trial account for a bizarre piracy case in which the crime happened off the coast of Brazil, but the case ended up in Scottish jurisdiction. The work includes a list of witnesses, almost 100 pages of accounts (including those of the defendants), the closing arguments of both the prosecutor and the defendant’s lawyer, plus the verdict and sentence. Heaman and Gautiez, serving as mate and cook respectively of the schooner, Jane, brutally murdered its captain and first mate off the coast of Brazil in an attempt to terrorize the remaining crewmen into joining their conspiracy. They succeeded, and sailed the vessel with its bounty to Ross County, Scotland. They were found guilty and ordered to be executed. A court order assigned possession of their dead bodies to Dr. Alexander Munro of the University of Edinburgh for dissection. Scarce in institutional holdings (OCLC locates about thirty copies under numerous entries), but positively rare in the marketplace. NMM IV:518. $2000.

155. [Tennessee]: [Episcopal Church]: [A SIGNIFICANT RUN OF AN- NUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS FOR THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN TENNESSEE, CONSISTING OF FORTY REPORTS PRINTED BETWEEN 1832 AND 1877]. Nashville; Columbia, Tn.; Clarksville, Tn. 1832-1835; 1837-1841; 1843-1860; 1866-1877. Forty imprints, various paginations. Stitched, as issued; many in original printed wrappers. The final ten imprints bound in 20th-century red buckram. Contemporary ownership inscriptions and scattered other annotations in several volumes. Occasional chips and a few closed tears. Overall, very good.

An extensive and impressive run of journals reporting on the proceedings of the annual Episcopal Church conventions in Tennessee. The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee was founded in 1829 at a Nashville meeting of three clergy, six laymen, and the Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina, John Ravenscroft, and the resulting organization immediately began to publish reports of their annual meetings. In the time span covered by this collection, this run lacks only two antebellum issues and those printed during the Civil War. The only institutions with holdings approaching the coverage of this period provided by this present run of imprints are the University of the South, the University of Tennessee, Louisiana State, and Yale. ALLEN, passim. $3000.

Tennessee Constitutional Convention, 1834

156. [Tennessee]: JOURNAL OF THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, CONVENED FOR THE PURPOSE OF RE- VISING AND AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION THEREOF. HELD IN NASHVILLE. Nashville. 1834. 415pp. Original three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Hinges cracked, nearly detached, boards scuffed, edges and spine extremities worn. Early 20th-century ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Some foxing and tanning. Good, in original condition.

Journal of the convention for the second Tennessee constitution. The principal alterations that arose from the convention were the establishment of a state supreme court and the enshrinement of suffrage only for white males. The separate printing of the 1834 constitution, the text of which appears here, is a notorious rarity, and this volume is quite scarce in and of itself. ALLEN 1136. ALLEN MORE RARITIES 404. AII (TENNESSEE) 550. $1250. 157. [Tennessee]: [Clay, Henry]: Norvell, C.C., editor: WHIG BANNER. No. 1 [– 20] [caption title]. Nashville. 1844. 320pp. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Initial leaf chipped at fore-edge. Sev- eral headlines trimmed close, affecting pagination. Tanning, light foxing and dampstaining. Very good.

Norvell and Zollicoffer edited the Nashville Whig, which published this election supplement first biweekly then weekly during the presidential campaign of 1844. The paper urged the election of Whig candidate Henry Clay and the defeat of Democrat (and fellow Tennessean) James K. Polk. It supported the re-establishment of a National Bank, protectionist tariffs, and federal aid for internal improvements, and it denounced supporters of free trade such as John Calhoun and opponents of the bank such as Polk. An excellent and scarce source for abundant commentary on local and national politics in 1844. Allen locates one complete run, at the Knoxville Public Library; only several incomplete runs located in OCLC, and not in Lomazow, Mott, or noted by the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America. ALLEN 2126. $2250.

158. [Tennessee]: NASHVILLE CITY AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY, FOR 1860-61.... Nashville. 1860. [8],278,[2]pp. plus folding map two-color lithograph advertisements. Original printed boards, rebacked with buckram, original gilt label laid down. Boards rubbed, corners and edges somewhat worn. Later ownership inscriptions on front endpapers, a couple scattered later annotations. Map with three-inch separation and closed tear along old fold line from gutter margin. Faint dampstaining internally. Good.

A scarce Tennessee directory, the sixth printed for Nashville overall and the fifth in this series, issued on the verge of the Civil War. “Contains an historical sketch of Nashville and several woodcut views of buildings” – Spear. Includes numerous advertisements, with two color lithographs bound into the front matter, and a folding map of Nashville. Spear and Allen call for 303 pages in their collation for this imprint; this volume has only 278 pages numbered, but the directory listings contained in it are complete. Spear and Allen locate only five copies of this directory, and OCLC adds one more. ALLEN 5059. SPEAR, p.204. $2500.

Tennessee Establishes Its Own Army

159. [Tennessee]: REGULATIONS ADOPTED FOR THE PROVI- SIONAL FORCE OF THE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS, TO- GETHER WITH THE ACT OF TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE OF 1861, ORGANIZING SAID PROVISIONAL FORCE. Nashville: J.O. Griffith & Co., 1861. xxiii,457,21,12pp. plus two inserted plates printed on each side of one sheet. Publisher’s embossed brown cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends a bit chipped, extremities worn. Contemporary ink ownership signature from a member of the Tennessee Ordnance Department, 20th-century Con- federate bookplate, text mostly clean. Very good.

A scarce early Confederate imprint relating to regulations for the Tennessee state army, organized by Gov. Isham Harris in the spring and early summer of 1861. It was a short-lived title for the state army; as soon as Tennessee seceded in late summer, the state forces were turned over to the command of the Confederate government. The rules, regulations, proceedings, and forms contained in the work are based on similar, corresponding examples in regulation books published by the United States military. The plate illustrates the organization of a camp of a regiment of infantry on the recto, and the same for five squadrons of cavalry on the verso. The last section, an addenda, prints the “Act to Raise, Organize and Equip a Provisional Force, and for other purposes” passed in the Tennessee state legislature on May 6, 1861. Tennessee was gearing up for the Great Civil War. This copy belonged to Col. George Henderson Monsarrat, head of the Ordnance Department of Tennessee in 1861, evidenced by his signature on the front pastedown. Colonel Monsarrat was a prominent Memphis citizen and businessman. According to the Public Ledger, Monsarrat was “a citizen of Memphis fifteen years, and was always a leading spirit in public enterprises and every measure that promoted the general weal of the community.” From his obituary in the Memphis Daily Appeal, Dec. 12, 1869: When the war begun Col. Monsarrat was appointed by Gov. Harris Chief of the Ordinance Bureau of Tennessee. He held this position several months, abandoning it to take command of a battery organized in Nashville. For some months he was Post Commandant at Knoxville, while George Crittenden, Leadbetter and Kirby Smith, at different times, commanded the Department. Gov. Brownlow was incarcerated by Leadbetter, and in the charge of Monsar- rat, when he surrendered himself on condition that he should be sent North in safety...Col. Monsarrat’s personal kindnesses to Brownlow began a friendship surely honorable to our Senator and illustrative of Monsarrat’s generosity. At the close of Monsarrat’s term of enlistment he abandoned the service, was married and lived during two years of the war in Montgomery, Ala. He returned, after peace, to Memphis, and, as the times permitted, prosecuted his business as a real estate broker. A scarce Tennessee military manual published at the brink of the Civil War. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 4141. CRANDALL 2146. ALLEN 5351. $1100.

160. [Tennessee]: [McKee, John Miller]: THE GREAT PANIC: BEING INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH TWO WEEKS OF THE WAR IN TENNESSEE.... Nashville: Johnson & Whiting, 1862. 36pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Wrappers detached, chipped. Mild staining, some wrinkling to text. Good.

A vivid account of the immediate aftermath of the capture of forts Henry and Do- nelson in western Tennessee, the first significant Union victory of the Civil War. This success forced the abandonment of Nashville by Confederate authorities, and opened up the Cumberland River as an important pathway to a subsequent invasion of the South. The narrative in this pamphlet begins with dispatches received in Nashville from Fort Donelson on Feb. 12, 1862, describing the gallant resistance by Confederate forces in the face of superior numbers; over the next few days, however, the tide of battle turned, and in the ensuing “great panic” all those with the means to do so fled from Nashville, leaving the city in chaos until order was restored by the arrival of Union troops. It was this episode of the war which first brought to prominence the hitherto obscure and untested Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, whose reply to a plea for the cessation of hostilities by the commander of Confederate forces at Fort Donelson brought him immediate fame: “Sir: Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.” More than 12,000 Confederates did in fact surrender under these terms on Feb. 16, and Grant and his army proceeded to occupy Nashville. The author describes this reversal in considerable detail, and ends his account on a subdued note:

Thus, after ten days, and they were days of much anxiety to many, were we turned over to Federal authorities. The agony was over, and so far nothing had occurred which seemed to justify the course of those who had so franti- cally torn themselves from their houses when the news of the reverse to the Confederate arms at Fort Donelson reached here....The occupation of Nashville by the Federals was a bloodless achievement, but it forms a memorable epoch in the history of the war.

The authorship of this remarkable pamphlet was first revealed in Edwin L. Drake’s Annals of the Army of the Tennessee, printed in Nashville in 1878 (Howes D470), where the text is reproduced in full. John Miller McKee (ca.1800-1973) was a professional newspaperman who had joined the Nashville Union and American as commercial and city editor in 1858, having previously worked at the Knoxville Register (1849-55). Earlier in his career McKee had edited a temperance newspaper called the Southern Monitor, and had been part owner of the Ashville Messenger. As a journalist McKee frequently engaged in political controversy with Parson Brownlow, the former Meth- odist circuit rider turned radical Whig and newspaperman who became governor of Tennessee from 1865 to 1869, and a Senator from 1869 to 1875. Very little was printed in Nashville in the period immediately following the city’s occupation by Union forces, and the few titles that were published are all rare. ALLEN 5458. HOWES G348, “aa.” $1500.

161. [Tennessee]: [Confederacy]: [Election Ticket]: FOR GOVERNOR. HON. ROBERT L. CARUTHERS. [Winchester? 1863]. Broadside, 5 x 3¾ inches. Toned, minor soiling and wrinkling. Very good.

An exceedingly rare Confederate Tennessee state election ticket from 1863, nominat- ing Robert L. Caruthers for governor and eleven others as state senators. In 1863 state elections were due in Tennessee. The state was fractured by war and secession, and both Unionists and Confederates expressed the desire to hold elections for state government. Confederate supporters held a convention in Winchester and nominated a governor, the State Legislature, and members for the Confederate Congress. It was a bit of a fool’s errand. Isham G. Harris, who still considered himself the governor of Tennessee, issued a proclamation calling for the election to be held on the first Thursday in August. Just who voted, and how many or how few, will probably never be known. Accord- ing to historians, the State Archives in Nashville are scant and inconclusive; returns from only thirty-two counties are found, some of which reported the vote of only one civil district. Not a single report was from West Tennessee counties, and only eight Middle Tennessee counties made returns. Robert L. Caruthers was elected governor on the face of returns, but he was never inaugurated and thus never served a day as governor of Tennessee. No Confederate State Legislature ever convened, either. The Confederate Congressmen were the only lucky ones. Those who were elected in 1863 took their seats in Richmond, however briefly. George Webb notes this copy in his Not in Allen bibliography in 2013. Not in Parrish & Willingham. The only other copy, or shall we say copies, resides at the Library of Virginia, in an uncut sheet of six tickets. This will likely be the only copy ever available in the marketplace. WEBB, NOT IN ALLEN 199 (this copy). OCLC 31767987. $850.

The 1865 Election in Tennessee

162. [Tennessee]: [Reconstruction]: [Election Ticket]: [Brownlow, William G.]: LOYAL UNION STATE TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR, WM. G. BROWNLOW. [N.p., likely Nashville. 1865]. Broadside, 11¾ x 2¾ inches. Toned, small hole affecting just a few initials in three names. Very good.

An unrecorded and important Unionist election ticket for the state offices in Re- construction Tennessee in 1865. The Republican newspaper editor and staunch Unionist, William Gannaway Brownlow, is listed as the nominee for governor. The ticket also includes the nominees for the Tennessee General Assembly, the senators listed by district. Tennessee Unionists had nominated Brownlow for governor, and offered two important state constitutional amendments at their convention in Janu- ary 1865: one to outlaw slavery, and the other repealing the Ordinance of Secession. On March 4 the two amendments passed easily, and Brownlow won the election by a popular vote of 23,352 to 35. William G. Brownlow, who worked in his early life as a Methodist minister, was one of the most important and controversial southern anti-secessionists. Previously the editor of the Tennessee Whig and later the Knoxville Whig (the last pro-Union newspaper operating in the Confederacy), Brownlow was a loud voice against secession, believing that the Confederacy would establish nothing more than a southern planter-class aristocracy. At the outset of the Civil War he refused allegiance to the Confederacy, and fled to the mountains on the border with North Carolina in November 1861. After he was found the next month, he was arrested on suspicion of burning railroad bridges and initially charged with treason. With his jailers under intense political pressure, Brownlow only spent about a month in incarceration before being released and sent into Union-controlled territory near Nashville on March 3, 1862. He spent the next few years traveling back and forth from the North to the South, agitating against the war. Towards the end of the war, Tennessee Unionists decided to hold an election for governor and put forth Brownlow as their only nominee. Brownlow’s election as the first Recon- struction-era governor of Tennessee resulted both in the state being the first to leave the Confederacy, and the first to be formally readmitted to the Union in 1866. His only term as governor was marked by some controversy. Once Brownlow decided to align himself with the Radical Republicans, some of his policies were seen as draconian. And decisions such as empowering freed slaves to vote in Tennessee elections helped give rise to the Tennessee Ku Klux Klan. Not in Mitchell’s checklist nor in any standard reference. A seemingly unique copy of an important political artifact from Reconstruction Tennessee. $850.

163. Ternaux-Compans, Henri: BIBLIOTHEQUE AMERICAINE OU CATALOGUE DES OUVRAGES RELATIFS A L’AMERIQUE. Paris. 1837. viii,191pp. plus 16pp. of bookseller advertisements. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, rebacked to style with original leather label preserved. Text interleaved with blanks. Internally clean. Very good.

An early and highly important American bibliography, based on Ternaux’s own extraordinary collection, which passed almost entirely into the libraries of James Lenox and John Carter Brown via the hands of Obadiah Rich and Henry Stevens. The Streeter copy sold for $130 in 1969. STREETER SALE 4394. $1000. The Littell Copy

164. Tome, Philip: PIONEER LIFE; OR THIRTY YEARS A HUNTER. BEING SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF PHILIP TOME, FIFTEEN YEARS INTERPRETER FOR CORNPLANT- ER AND GOV. BLACKSNAKE CHIEFS ON THE ALLEGANY RIVER. Buffalo: Printed for the Author, 1854. 238pp. plus frontis. Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends slightly chipped, cloth lightly worn. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper, bookplates on front pastedown, later advertisement laid in. Light toning and foxing. Very good. In a morocco solander box.

A very rare book, here present in the Littell copy, from his 1941 sale. “Charles Sheldon had a note in his copy reading ‘This is one of the prize books in my library. At present, June 10, 1914, it is the only known copy.’ Whitman Bennett...describes it as ‘extraordinarily rare, especially in original condition’” – Streeter. Graff also had a copy, and he remarks, “Tome’s association with Cornplanter was particularly interesting; his volume is an important account of pioneer life in the Old West.” Tome was born in 1782 and grew up on the Pennsylvania frontier. Much of this book is concerned with his hunting and association with the Indians in western Pennsylvania and New York from the 1790s to the 1820s. He had a close relationship with Cornplanter, and his book casts interesting light on the Indian situation on the frontier before and after the War of 1812. HOWES T288, “b”. GRAFF 4162. STREETER SALE 4088. HENDERSON, p.91. PHILLIPS, SPORTING BOOKS, p.377. $4000.

The Most Detailed American Coastal Atlas to This Date

165. [United States Coastal Survey]: Bache, Alexander D.: [MAPS AND CHARTS OF THE UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY]. [Washing- ton. 1855]. Sixty large folding maps, varying sizes. Large folio. Contemporary pebbled cloth boards, rebacked with modern calf, spine gilt lettered. Boards slightly rubbed, light edge wear. Internally clean. Very good.

A volume of detailed United States coastal charts, issued under the supervision of Alexander D. Bache, second director of the United States Coastal Survey. These charts detail the American coastline from Maine south to Florida, along the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, and the California coast. Included are vital topographical, magnetic, wind, and tidal observations. Printed in the margins of the charts are a detailed key and explanatory text, describing the coastline, lighthouses, bays, and harbors, etc., of the particular region. The charts, as described in a two-page manuscript table of contents, are as follows:

1) A, Progress sketch, Section 1, (primary triangulation). 2) A bis, Progress sketch, Section 1. 3) A No. 2, Portland Harbor, (chart showing city wharf line). 4) A No. 3, Ipswich and Annisquam harbors, (preliminary chart). 5) A No. 4, Stellwagen’s Bank, entrance to Massachusetts Bay. 6) A No. 5, Muskeget channel, (preliminary chart). 7) B, Progress sketch, Section II. 8) B No. 2, Hudson River (lower sheet) (preliminary chart). 9) B No. 3, Sandy Hook changes. 10) C, Progress sketch, Section III. 11) C No. 2, Seacoast of Virginia & entrance to Chesapeake bay. 12) C No. 3, Delaware & Chesapeake bays, (preliminary chart). 13) C No. 4, James river. (Upper sheet) (preliminary chart). 14) D, Progress sketch, Section IV. 15) D No. 2, Albermarle sound, (preliminary chart). 16) D No. 3, Cape Fear river, (lower sheet) (preliminary chart). 17) D No. 4, Gulf Stream explorations. 18) E, Progress sketch, Section V. 19) E No. 2, Winyah bay & Georgetown harbor, (preliminary chart). 20) E No. 3, Comparative chart, Maffett’s channel. 21) E No. 4, Comparative chart, Charlestown bar. 22) E No. 5, Port Royal entrance. 23) E No. 6, Savannah River (preliminary chart). 24) E No. 7, Romerly marshes, (reconnaissance). 25) E No. 8, Doboy bar and inlet, (reconnaissance). 26) F, Progress sketch, Section VI. 27) F No. 2, Progress sketch, Florida reefs. 28) F No. 3, Legaré anchorage, (preliminary chart). 29) F No. 4, Florida reefs, 1/200000, (preliminary chart). 30) F No. 5, Beacons on Florida reefs. 31) F No. 6, Tampa bay, (reconnaissance). 32) G, Progress sketch, Section VII. 33) G No. 2, Cedar keys and approaches. 34) G No. 3, Ocilla River, (preliminary chart). 35) G No. 4, St. Andrews bay, (preliminary chart). 36) H, Progress sketch, Section VIII. 37) H No. 2, Biloxi Bay, (preliminary chart). 38) H No. 3, Deep sea-soundings, Gulf of Mexico. 39) I, Progress sketch, Section IX. 40) I No. 2, Entrances to Vermilion bay & Calcasieu river (reconnaissance). 41) I No. 3, Galveston bay, (preliminary chart). 42) J, Progress sketch, Western coast, 1/700000. 43) J No. 2, Progress sketch, Sections X and XI. 44) J No. 3, Progress sketch, Washington sound & vicinity, Washington Territory. 45) J No. 4, San Pedro anchorage & vicinity of Santa Barbara. 46) J No. 5, South Faralon island. 47) J No. 6, Point Reyes and Drakes bay. 48) J No. 7, Alden’s reconnaissance of Western coast from Umpquah river to northern boundary. 49) J No. 8, Co-tidal lines, Pacific coast. 50) J No. 9, Earthquake waves – Pacific coast. 51) Diagrams to illustrate secular variation in Magnetic Declination. 52) Boutelle’s apparatus for measuring preliminary bases. 53) Boutelle’s scaffold for stations and Farley’s signal. 54) Sand’s gaspipe tripod. 55) Sand’s specimen sounding box & Revolving Heliotrope. 56) Lines of equal Magnetic Declination on the coast of the U. States. 57) Geological map Point Reyes & vicinity. 58) Geological map vicinity of the Golden Gate. 59) Geological map vicinity of Monterey bay. 60) Geological map of the country between San Diego & the Colorado river.

A fine volume of American coastal cartography. $5000. First American Uniform Book for the U.S. Navy

166. [United States Navy]: REGULATIONS FOR THE UNIFORM & DRESS OF THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT AND DRAWINGS IN THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Philadelphia: Printed for the Navy De- partment, by T.K. and P.G. Collins, 1852. 15,[1]pp. plus fifteen lithographed plates, of which thirteen are colored. Large quarto. Later grey paper backstrip, chipped. Two small chips at margins of titlepage, not affecting text. Some tanning at edges, an occasional fox mark. Very good. In a half morocco box.

A rare color plate book describing and illustrating the uniforms and dress of officers in the United States Navy and Marines. The lithographs were executed by Duval & Co. of Philadelphia and show full dress uniforms as well as details of epaulets, hats, belts, swords, and other accoutrements. This copy corresponds to the Paul Mellon copy at Yale, having a total of fifteen plates, of which thirteen are colored. The text gives very detailed regulations on the dress of officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates in the Navy and Marines. Bound into the present volume is a manuscript copy of a Circular dated Oct. 7, 1853 regarding the uniform of officers on Revenue Cutters. Also, bound onto a single sheet at the rear of this volume are four printed Navy Department regulations, all dated 1852 or 1853, regarding caps, uniforms for chaplains, and uniforms for surgeons and pursers. Not in Bennett or McGrath (who only lists post-Civil War volumes of uniforms for the Army and Navy). OCLC 54629701, 3863420. $6750. 167. [Updike, Wilkins]: [Mexican-American War]: [Slavery]: ELECTORS OF THE WESTERN DISTRICT! READ AND CONSIDER!! AT A MEETING OF GENTLEMEN OF THE WHIG PARTY, AND OF CITIZENS GENERALLY, FAVORABLE TO THE ELECTION OF HON. WILKINS UPDIKE, TO CONGRESS, HELD AT KINGS- TON COURT HOUSE, AUG. 11, 1847 [caption title]. [N.p., likely Kingston or Providence, R.I. 1847]. Broadside, 19 x 12½ inches. Old folds, some toning in lower region, mild edge wear. Very good. [with:] [ J.W. Rich- mond]: FACTS RELATIVE TO THE POLITICAL AND MORAL CLAIMS OF WILKINS UPDIKE, FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE WHIG ELECTORS OF THE WESTERN DISTRICT. Providence. 1847. 16pp. Gathered signatures, stitched. Mild toning and foxing. Very good.

A rare anti-Mexican-American War and anti-slavery broadside touting the Whig candidacy of Rhode Island historian Wilkins Updike for Congress in 1847. The broadside summarizes various speakers at an anti- political rally, and rails against the Mexican-American War and slavery. It reads, in part:

What then are the measures of the democratic party, which you vote for and endorse by giving a vote for Gov. Thurston? Do you not by so doing approve of the present unjust and wicked war with Mexico, a war begun by President Polk alone without the sanction of Congress, and which Congress were afterwards reluctantly brought to vote supplies for?....But it was not merely the amount of public money squandered in this war, it was not even the great danger to the liberties of the country from the enormous and unconstitutional powers claimed by the President, and from the system of corruption which prevailed in the administration – there was a more momentous consideration than even all these – that was the object for which the war was carried on – the exten- sion of slavery!!

The text continues by giving an accounting of the costs of the Mexican-American War – both the appropriations already spent and what the Congress might be expected to spend to continue the war in the future. In short, the war has cost over $80,000,000 so far, and Congress should expect to spend more than $50,000,000 more just in the next session, should the war continue. The accompanying pamphlet, Facts Relative to the Political and Moral Claims of Wilkins Updike, for the Support of the Whig Electors of the Western District, provides a counter-argument to Updike’s candidacy for Congress. Just half of one paragraph on the first page sums up the writer’s opinion of Updike:

It will first be shown by incontrovertible evidence, that from political considerations alone, he is unworthy of the support of the electors of the state of Rhode Island. What has been the political life of Mr. Updike? Has he been true and consistent on any political principle? Has he been true to any political party? It is known full well to every man, that he has not. So frequent have been his political somersets, that all have feared to trust him with office.

The broadside is particularly rare, with only three copies in OCLC, at the New-York Historical Society Library, the American Antiquarian Society, and Williams College. The pamphlet is rather common but provides an interesting political counterpoint to the broadside. Taken together, an interesting pair of political campaign documents that encapsulate the roaring debate on the Mexican-American War and what it meant for the expansion of slavery in 1847. Electors: OCLC 58787939. Facts: SABIN 71144. OCLC 23352383, 504352127. $750.

168. Vernon, B.J.: EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF JAMAICA, WITH THE PARTICULARS OF AN EVENTFUL PASSAGE HOME VIA NEW YORK AND HALIFAX, AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN 1812; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, TRI- FLES FROM ST. HELENA RELATING TO NAPOLEON AND HIS SUITE. London. 1848. [6],vi,200pp. plus [8]pp. autograph letter bound in. 12mo. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards, spine ornately gilt, expertly recased. Contemporary ownership inscription and later ownership stamps on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good.

The Reverend B.J. Vernon served as a Chaplain to the Honourable East India Com- pany at Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, before which he had lived in Jamaica and travelled through the United States. This memoir is full of personal recollections of encounters with the natural history of Jamaica. There is also a considerable cover of the enslaved Africans on the island, fugitive slaves, and rebellions. The “Trifles from St. Helena” section contains many anecdotes of encounters with the exiled Napoleon, and an intimate firsthand account of his burial. The work also contains a section on Cuba, and an account of Vernon’s experiences in New York and Boston and on his voyage home to England. Bound into the front matter is an eight-page autograph letter, signed, from the author to his second daughter, Elizabeth Dorrill Hodson, born on Saint Helena in 1820. This letter corrects errors in the text and provides the true identities of various characters, a satisfying indiscretion between father and daughter. This copy also bears her ownership inscription on the titlepage, as well as the ownership stamps of her son, Hubert Courtney Hodson. CUNDALL 304. $2000.

169. [Vinton, Samuel]: SUBSTANCE OF AN ARGUMENT OF SAM- UEL F. VINTON, FOR THE DEFENDANTS, IN THE CASE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA vs. PETER M. GAR- NER AND OTHERS, FOR AN ALLEGED ABDUCTION OF CERTAIN SLAVES...[wrapper title]. Marietta, Ohio. 1846. 32pp. Dbd., with original printed front wrapper (rear lacking). Later institutional ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning. Good plus.

A presentation copy, inscribed at the top of the titlepage: “For the Honbl. R.G. Winthrop, with the authors respects.” An uncommon transcript of arguments made by the defense attorney, Samuel Vinton, for three Ohio men abducted into Virginia and tried there for assisting fugitive slaves in an 1845 case. He successfully argued that Virginia state courts did not have jurisdiction over crimes allegedly committed in Ohio. “By directing the Virginia court to the boundary issue, and away from the slavery issue, Vinton succeeded in defusing what could have been a very serious interstate conflict. Vinton was correct that the simple boundary issue was complicated by the issue of slavery. But, it seems unlikely that any other issue could have led to the seizure of people in Ohio by Virginians who claimed that acts committed in Ohio were indictable in Virginia” – Finkelman. COHEN 13727. FINKELMAN, pp.177-79. SABIN 99836. $1250.

170. [Virginia]: JOURNAL, ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS OF A GEN- ERAL CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, ASSEM- BLED AT RICHMOND, ON MONDAY, THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY. Richmond. 1850. 424,[533]pp. 20th-century tan buckram, gilt leather labels. Shelf mark on spine. Institutional ink stamp and blind stamp on titlepage. Mild toning. Good.

The rare account of the Virginia state constitutional convention of 1850. The first 424 pages comprise the journal of the convention, followed by an appendix to the journal and hundreds of pages of committee reports and amendments on a myriad of subjects relevant to mid-19th-century Virginia. A rare work. $850.

A Key Confederate Railroad

171. [Virginia]: [Tennessee]: [Railroads]: [SAMMELBAND OF NINE CIVIL WAR AND EARLY RECONSTRUCTION ERA TENNES- SEE IMPRINTS RELATING TO THE VIRGINIA AND TENNES- SEE RAILROAD CO.]. Lynchburg. 1861-1867. Nine works bound in one volume. Pagination details in individual listing below. Modern quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Occasional minor foxing. Very good.

A collection of works relating to the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company, an important rail line that served to supply food and troop movements for the Confederate States Army between Richmond and Chattanooga. The imprints consist mostly of annual reports but also include a couple of documents relating to other financial matters. The first four publications are Confederate imprints; the remainder were published just after the war and in during the early years of Reconstruction in Tennessee. Robert L. Owen was president of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co. throughout the Civil War period, thus all of the works here include passages authored by him. The contents of the sammelband are as follows:

1) Fourteenth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co. September 11-12, 1861. Lynchburg. 1861. 124pp. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6026. 2) Fifteenth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad Co. October 15, 1862. Lynchburg. 1862. 140pp. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6027. 3) Sixteenth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad Co. October 15th, 1863. Lynchburg. 1863. 123pp. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6028. 4) Seventeenth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad Co. October 12th, 1864. Lynchburg. 1864. 112pp. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6029. 5) Eighteenth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Virginia and Tenn. Railroad Co. October 11th, 1865. Lynchburg. 1865. 111pp. 6) An Act to Authorize the Virginia and Tennessee Rail Road Company to Borrow Money. Passed January 19th, 1866 [caption title]. [N.p., likely Lynchburg. 1866]. 12pp. 7) President’s Office, Virginia and Tenn. Rail-Road Co., 4th June, 1866. The Follow- ing Additional Statement Is Made in Reference to the Company [caption title and beginning of text]. [N.p., likely Lynchburg. 1866]. 3pp. 8) Nineteenth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Va. & Tenn. Railroad Co. October 10th, 1866. Lynchburg. 1866. 143pp. 9) Twentieth Annual Report of the President and Directors to the Stockholders of the Va. & Tenn. Railroad Co. October 9th, 1867. Lynchburg. 1867. 143pp. $1850.

172. [Walker, Francis A.]: STATISTICAL ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE NINTH CENSUS 1870.... [New York]. 1874. [4],5,4,14,13,8,3,4pp. plus sixty plates and maps. Large folio. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and cloth, gilt lettered label on front cover. Spine ends and corners significantly rubbed and chipped. Hinges starting, joints very tender. Titlepage torn and nearly detached (text affected, but no paper loss), else internally clean and good.

A landmark of cartography, the atlas to the ninth census of the United States, prepared under the auspices of its director, Francis A. Walker. The importance of this atlas has best been described by John B. Jackson in his book, American Space:

...Walker introduced to America the official use of what is now called thematic cartography. Maps with super-imposed symbols and colors are now of course very common, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that they came into general use...many of these were used by Walker in his atlas and others were invented, notably the “pie”....Walker undertook to illustrate certain population statistics from the census by means of varying intensity of color on maps. His efforts were shown at a meeting of the American Geo- graphical Society in 1871, where they aroused such interest that the Secretary of the Interior was persuaded to issue a special atlas where both of the novel techniques were used: shades of color, and symbols. There were maps of the physical features of the United States – rivers and forests and geological for- mations and rainfall; and there were maps illustrating population distribution and industry and vital statistics. There were maps of the incidence of deaf mutes and intestinal diseases, of foreign born, of illiteracy – not only by state but by county – all in varying intensities of one color. To us there is nothing unusual about the procedure, but Walker was the first American to try to show the spatial dimension of social and economic facts, to relate social problems to their physical setting and thereby throw new light on them.

Walker was an extraordinary man, serving as director of the ninth census at the age of thirty, then as a Yale professor, and finally president of M.I.T. from 1881 until his death in 1897. He made landmark contributions to statistics, cartography, economics, and education, especially in his building of M.I.T. into a great institution. This early achievement contained some of his most lasting and widely pervasive ideas, ways of visually displaying knowledge which are now part of daily life. John B. Jackson, American Space, passim. DAB XIX, pp.342-44. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 84. $800. “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”

173. Webster, Daniel: SPEECH OF DANIEL WEBSTER, IN REPLY TO MR. HAYNE, OF SOUTH CAROLINA: THE RESOLUTION OFFERED BY MR. FOOT, RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC LANDS, BEING UNDER CONSIDERATION. DELIVERED IN THE SEN- ATE, JANUARY 26, 1830. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1830. 76pp. 12mo. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Tanning and foxing, stain in upper portion throughout. Good.

The first edition, second issue, with “reply” spelled correctly on the titlepage, apparently printed from standing newspaper type by Gales, who was present for the speech and transcribed it as it was given. One of the most important American political speeches of the 19th century. Webster’s speech was technically a response to a bill restricting western land sales, but in reality it was prompted by South Carolina’s recently propounded theory of “nullification” – that the individual states had the authority to resist federal legislation, and to secede from the Union if the federal government used force against a state to execute its laws. The speech enunciated Webster’s theory of a united, national identity. As such, it exemplified the progress toward that identity that had been made over the previous fifty years, and foreshadowed the fractures and fissures that would develop over the next thirty years, culminating in the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln called it “the very best speech that was ever delivered” (quoted in David Herbert Donald, Lincoln, p.270). Webster’s speech was prompted by the response to a resolution offered by Senator Samuel Foot of Connecticut, which would have limited the sale of public lands in the West. This riled western and southern senators, who contended that it curtailed western immigration, and favored the Northeast over other sections of the country. On Jan. 19, 1830, Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave a speech on the bill that tied the question to states’ rights. Webster responded to Hayne’s remarks the next day with brief remarks of his own, using the opportunity to inject the issue of slavery and the question of nationalism versus sectionalism into the debate, which prompted a powerful reply from Hayne. This initial contretemps set up the occasion for the present speech, which Webster delivered to an overflowing Senate chamber on Jan. 26. The speech that Webster gave that day was the greatest of his career, and it is one of the most important American political speeches. Biographer Robert Remini calls it “an exalted paean of praise to personal liberty and national sovereignty,” and historian Merrill Peterson calls Webster’s exchange with Hayne “the greatest debate in the history of the Senate.” Webster, referring to a few pages of notes but speaking largely extemporaneously, began by attacking the institution of slavery, but put it on the southerners themselves to emancipate the slaves. Webster then went on to defend the Constitution as the creation of the American people, not the states: “It is, Sir, the people’s Constitution, the people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people” (a phrase echoed by Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address). In this vein, Webster contended that the Constitution was the supreme law of the law, and that the Supreme Court rendered the final decision in interpreting the Constitution. Webster went on to say that a state’s assertion of its right to nullify a federal edict might ultimately lead to civil war: “direct collision, therefore, between force and force, is the unavoidable result” of nullification. He concluded by saying that he did not want to know what an America beyond the Union may be like, that for him liberty and Union could coex- ist: “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” Robert Remini says of the speech and Webster’s conclusion: “this noble utter- ance was Webster’s supreme gift to the American people. With poetry of language, majesty of sentiment, and sublimity of thought, he embodied in his address many of the beliefs and feelings of the American people, who, for the past two decades, had experienced a surge of nationalism they had never known before. They needed to have these new emotions properly expressed in a way that would add to their pride in the nation’s glory. Webster did it for them. With this oration ‘the God- like’ became, without exaggeration, a living legend.” Webster invited Joseph Gales of the National Intelligencer, who was known for his shorthand expertise, to report the speech personally. Gales then prepared a readable manuscript and delivered it to Webster, who revised it for publication. Gales’ newspaper printed it in its editions of Feb. 23, 25, and 27, 1830, and it appears that the present first edition was published by Gales & Seaton from that setting of type, as the printed text appears to be in the size and shape of newspaper columns. This is the second issue of the first edition, with the word “reply” spelled correctly on the titlepage, and with some portions of the speech reset. Webster’s speech was immediately popular and went through dozens of printings in 1830 alone. This first printing, second issue, is quite scarce, however. A landmark American oration. HOWES W200. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 5383. SABIN 102272. THE PAPERS OF DANIEL WEBSTER, SPEECHES AND FORMAL WRITINGS, VOLUME 1, 1800- 1833, pp.285-393. Robert Remini, Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time (New York, 1997), pp.314-34. Merrill D. Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (New York, 1987), pp.170-83. $1000.

With a Version of the Bonner Map of Georgia

174. White, George, Rev.: HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF GEOR- GIA: CONTAINING THE MOST INTERESTING FACTS, TRA- DITIONS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, ANECDOTES, etc. New York. 1855. 4,xvi,688,41pp. plus folding colored frontispiece map, twenty-two plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine richly gilt. Corners slightly edgeworn. A few plates darkened, else bright, clean, and very good.

A standard Georgia history, here in the third edition. The second and third editions were enlarged by the addition of statistical tables at the conclusion, the folding frontispiece map, and four pages of endorsements at the beginning. “[White’s] accumulation of obscure traditions is elsewhere unmatched, and, whether factual or romanticized, provides insight into the early days of rural Georgia” – Willing- ham. The large, colorful folding map of the state, on tissue, is by Bonner, and was engraved by Sherman & Smith in New York. WILLINGHAM GEORGIANA 40. DE RENNE II:576-77. HOWES W353, “aa.” $900.

175. Williams, John Lee: A VIEW OF WEST FLORIDA, EMBRACING ITS GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. WITH AN APPENDIX TREATING OF ITS ANTIQUITIES, LAND TITLES, AND CA- NALS. AND CONTAINING A MAP, EXHIBITING A CHART OF THE COAST, A PLAN OF PENSACOLA, AND THE ENTRANCE OF THE HARBOUR. Philadelphia. 1827. 178pp. Original quarter cloth and paper boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, original paper label (slightly chipped). Corners bumped. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper, minor foxing. Lacks the frontispiece map. Else very good. Untrimmed.

A rare work on the developing territory of Florida in the early 19th century. Wil- liams, a Pensacola lawyer, describes the rapidly increasing population of Florida and the resultant growth in land speculation. Most of his attention is focused on the area between the Perdido and Suwanee rivers, and includes much information on the plants, animals, and agriculture of the region. He also discusses Walton, Escambia, Washington, Jackson, Gadsden, and Leon counties, and the social life of Pensacola. SERVIES 1357. HOWES W468, “aa.” STREETER SALE 1217. RADER 3673. SABIN 104285. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 31760. EBERSTADT 165:256. $1250.

An Iconic Mid-19th-Century American Image

176. [After] Woodville, Richard C.: Jones, Alfred, engraver: MEXICAN NEWS. New York: American Art Union, 1853. Engraving, sheet size: 25 x 21½ inches. Very good.

Woodville’s 1849 original painting, “War News from Mexico,” was originally purchased by the American Art Union, who shortly thereafter commissioned this engraving by Alfred Jones, among the most talented engravers of the mid-19th century. The work depicts a group of men on the porch of the “American Hotel” of an unidentified American southern town, with the central figure holding a newspaper extra containing news from the Mexican-American War. The original painting, among the most recognizable of the American genre, is now in the collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. $1875. New Publications by William Reese

THE BEST OF THE WEST: 250 CLASSIC WORKS OF WESTERN AMERICANA. New Haven: William Reese Company, 2017. vii,321pp. Illus- trated. Leatherette spine with rust-colored cloth, gilt. New. This work describes 250 classic works of Western Americana. Based on nearly fifty years of experience, it spans the whole of early literature of the American West, from Cabeza de Vaca to J. Frank Dobie, and everything in between. It is arranged chronologically and indexed by author and title. An essential reference guide for any collector or student of Western Americana. $125.

THE REVOLUTIONARY HUN- DRED. New Haven: William Reese Company, 2016. viii,236pp. 100 color illustrations. Cloth, stamped in gilt. New. A guide to the most significant printed works on the era of the American Revolution, discussing publications from the first Peace of Paris at the end of the French and Indian War, to the second Peace of Paris and the end of the wars of the American Revolution, in 1783. The one hundred entries were selected on the basis of their historical importance, their impact at the time of publication, their representative nature in the spectrum of writings about the Revolution, and their interest to collectors. $125. THE FEDERAL HUNDRED. New Haven: William Reese Com- pany, 2017. vii,255pp. 100 color illustrations. Cloth, stamped in gilt. New. A guide to the most significant printed works on the Federal Era, discussing events from the end of the American Revolution in 1783 to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The one hundred entries were selected on the basis of their historical importance, their impact at the time of publication, their representative nature in the spectrum of writings about the period, and their interest to collectors. $125.

COLLECTORS, BOOKSELL- ERS, AND LIBRARIES: ESSAYS ON AMERICANISTS AND THE RARE BOOK MARKET. New Ha- ven: Overland Press, 2018. viii,[2],231, [1]pp. Cloth-backed patterned boards. In dust jacket. New. A collection of essays addressing two distinct themes: notable figures in the world of printed and manuscript Americana, including collectors, booksellers, bibliographers, and librarians; and the contemporary rare book market from World War II to the present day. Essential reading for Ameri- canists, bibliophiles, book dealers, librarians, and anyone else interested in the modern book trade. $45.