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BROOKLYN BOOK FAIR 2019 Yesterday’s Muse Books, ABAA 32 W Main St Webster NY 14580 585-265-9295 www.yesterdaysmuse.com [email protected] All items subject to prior sale. Orders can be placed by phone or e-mail, or directly through our website. Payment is expected at the time of your order and may be made by check, credit card, or PayPal direct transfer. Institutions, fellow booksellers, and repeat customers may request to pay on invoice, with payment due upon receipt unless other arrangements have been made prior to purchase. All items are guaranteed to be as described with respect to edition, condition, and authenticity. Returns will be accepted for any reason, though we ask that you provide notice within a reasonable timeframe. Our usual trade courtesies extended (please inquire). Shipping: All prices include free shipment with tracking by USPS Media Mail. Upgrades to USPS Priority Mail, FedEx Ground, etc., as well as international shipping, are available, and will be charged at cost (please inquire for quote). All orders are carefully wrapped and packaged in sturdy shipping boxes. Catalogs: To receive future catalogs by e-mail, please contact us to be added to our mailing list, or join directly on our website. Printed versions of all our catalogs are also available upon request. Previous catalogs are archived on our website. 3 1. [Americana] Incidents of the Revolution. Tales Illustrating the Events of the American Revolution. R.L. Underhill & Co., Bath, 1841. First edition. A collection of historical vignettes of the American Revolution, including mentions of George Washington and Benedict Arnold. 2. [Americana] [Eastman, Edwin] Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches. Clark Johnson, M.D., Jersey City, 1873. First edition (Sabin 79352). SOLD A firsthand account of time spent among the native Americans, including time spent on the Western frontier. 3. [Americana] A Citizen of the West [Owen, Robert Dale]; [Mackay, Robert W. Stuart] $125 Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts; with an Introductory Essay and Notes George Dearborn, New York, 1837. First edition (Sabin 58021). A historical drama focused on the life of Pocahontas, the Native American daughter of chief Powhatan famous for saving the life of John Smith. She later converted to Christianity and wed John Rolfe. 4. [Americana] American Antiquarian Society; Manning, William; $500 Hennepin, Lewis; Atwater, Caleb Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. I. [Discovery of the River Mississippi and the Adjacent Country; $450 Description of the Antiquities Discovered in the State of Ohio and Other Western States. Communicated to the President of the American Antiquarian Society. William Manning, Worcester, 1820. First edition (Sabin 1049). Includes fold-out map of Ohio, 14 plates (7 folding). The first volume in a series printed 1820-1911. 5. [Americana] Arfwedson, C.D. The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834 Richard Bentley, London, 1834. First edition (Howes A-304, Sabin 1943). Engraved frontispieces of the source of the Hudson River and the first Dutch governor’s house in Albany, New York. Rebound in purple half leather over marbled boards, with new end sheets. 6. [Americana] Blake, J.L. $600 The American Revolution, Including Also the Beauties of American History. Derby & Jackson, New York, 1856. First thus (Sabin 5783). Two books in one volume. Includes biographical sketches of Daniel Boone, Samuel Adams, Abigail Adams, General Robert E. Lee, Martha Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette, as well as accounts of famous battles, the Boston Massacre, etc. 7. [Americana] Brooks, Noah; Elder, Karen; Luke, John A.; $125 Bridges, Jeff First Across the Continent: The Story of the Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1803-4-5 Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1901. First edition. An account of one of the most important exploring expeditions in American history, the Lewis and Clark Expedition (A.K.A. the Corps of Discovery Expedition). Brooks details their progress from Pittsburgh through the Continental Divide to the Pacific Coast. They passed through a great deal of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, mapping the area as they went, and established a practical route to the western half of the continent that allowed westward expansion of the United States to outpace the ambitions of Great Britain and other imperial powers. Includes black-and-white photographs, maps taken from $125 Clark’s original survey, and illustrations from drawings by F.C. Yohn, George Catlin, A.B. Frost, St Memin, and Boy Scouts of America co-founder Ernest Seton-Thompson. www.yesterdaysmuse.com 4 8. [Americana] Clampitt, John W. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains. Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of the Romantic and Golden Age of the Great West, with, a Graphic Account of Its Discovery, Settlement and Grand Development American Mutual Library Ass’n, Chicago, 1890. Engravings throughout. Includes: several chapters on Mormons and Mormonism, discussion of the Pony Express and the Overland Mail lines, settlement of California and Northwest Territory, the telegraph, Yosemite and Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, railroads, Native Americans, etc., etc. $150 9. [Americana] Davis, Thulani My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books, New York, 2006. First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A mixture of memoir and genealogical adventure, in which the author describes discovering a wealth of unknown, and often unexpected, details about her heritage. 10. [Americana] De Puy, Henry W. $45 Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of ‘76., with a Sketch of the Early History of Vermont. Phinney & Co., Buffalo, 1853. First edition (Sabin 19651; Howes D-265). Map, frontispiece, and view of Ticonderoga all included. Ethan Allen was a co-founder of the state of Vermont, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia organization, and an American Revolutionary War hero best known for capturing Fort Ticonderoga from Benedict Arnold. $75 11. [Americana] Earle, Alice Morse Two Centuries of Costume in America MDCXX - MDCCCXX [1620-1820], in Two Volumes. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1903. First edition. An illustrated history of two hundred years of American clothing and associated customs, with portraits of important colonial figures throughout. 12. [Americana] Esquemeling, John; Powell, Henry $70 The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years upon the Coasts of the West Indies by the Buccaneers of Jamaica and Tortuga (Both English and French), Wherein are contained more especially the Unparalleled Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican Hero, who sacked Porto Bello, burnt Panama, etc., Now Faithfully Rendered into English, with $400 Facsimiles of the Original Engravings. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London, 1893. First thus. A history of pirate and buccaneer activity in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Reprinted from the edition of 1684, to which is added a reprint of the very scarce fourth part, by Basil Ringrose (1685), containing the ‘Dangerous Voyage and Bold Attempts of Captain Bartholomew Sharp and Others’, edited, with an introduction, by Henry Powell. Engraved frontispiece of Henry Morgan, six engraved plates in text (including an excellent panoramic view of the destruction of the Spanish Armada), and a fold-out map. 13. [Americana] Foner, Eric $15 Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2015. First edition. A scholarly history of the Underground Railroad by the Pulitzer Prize winning who has published numerous works on the Civil War era, slavery, and African-American history. www.yesterdaysmuse.com 5 14. [Americana] Hamor, Raphe; [Barney, Charles Gorham] A Trve Discovrse of the Present Estate of Virginia, and the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of Iune. 1614. Together. With a Relation of the Seuerall English Townes and Fortes, the Assured Hopes of That Countrie and the Peace Concluded with the Indians. The Christening of Powhatans Daughter and Her Marriage with an English-man. [Joel Munsell], [Albany], 1860. Privately printed limited large paper edition, a facsimile of the rare 1615 original. One of 200 copies. Published and signed by Charles Gorham Barney, a direct descendant of John Carver, who was the first $650 governor of the Plymouth Colony. The author, Hamor, was the secretary to the Council of Virginia, and provides detailed information from personal experiences during nearly three years in the earliest days of the colony. Most notably, Hamor describes the marriage of Pocahontas (Powhatan) to John Rolfe - the original edition remains the primary source for this event. Sabin 30121. 15. [Americana] Hathaway, Benjamin The League of the Iroquois, and Other Legends. From the Indian Muse. S.C. Griggs and Company, Chicago, 1882. An exploration of the mythology of Native Americans in verse form. The author asserts in the introduction that there are numerous similarities between native culture and religion, and that of European settlers. 16. [Americana] Hill, George Canning Benedict Arnold. A Biography. (American Biographical Series) E.O. Libby and Company, Boston, 1858. First edition (Sabin 31816). $250 Frontispiece of Major Andre from a pen sketch by himself the day before his execution, engraved title page precedes plain printed title, seven engraved plates in text. At the time it was released, this was the only complete published biography of Benedict Arnold. 17. [Americana] Paine, Thomas $250 Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. [with] Rights of Man: Part Second. Combining Principle and Practice. Published for D. Jordan, Piccadilly, London, 1792. Ninth edition, printed in the same year as part two’s original release, and just a year after the first appearance of part one. $1,500 ESTC T5876 and N13105. Howes P31 and P32. Both parts of Paine’s famous work in defense of political revolution, which he wrote in response to Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolutions in France.