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(203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is a general assortment of new acquisitions in Americana, mostly catalogued by us in the last few months. Included is a substantial section of colonial Americana, including some interesting and important material from the Revolu- tionary era; some significant American color plate books with works by Audubon, Wilson, Birch, and McKenney and Hall; and major publications of early American law. There are great rarities by Benjamin Rush and Thomas Paine, a presentation copy of Kent’s Commentaries, a royal binding for George III, a nice selection of early American imprints, and a series of the works of the gambler, Jonathan Green. Besides these there is a broad range of unusual and interesting material relating to the early history of the United States.

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On the cover: 165. Wilson, Alexander: American Ornithology.... Phila. 1808-14.

Striking Abolitionist Broadside

1. [Abolitionist Broadside]: [Western Anti-Slavery Society]: UNION WITH FREEMEN – NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS. AN- TI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! [caption title]. Salem, Oh.: Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10¾ inches. A few short closed edge tears, light toning and foxing. Very good plus.

A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio, the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and a small but important center of progressive movements through much of the 19th century. As suggested by their advertisement’s headline, “Union with Freemen – No Union with Slaveholders,” the members of the Western Anti-Slavery Society were radical Garrisonian abolitionists who believed the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally a pro-slavery document and therefore unfit to bind together a morally just nation. Formed in the mold of Garrison’s New England Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1832) and American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society first assembled in 1833 in Putnam, Ohio, and in 1839 moved its headquarters to Salem and became known as the Western Anti- Slavery Society. From 1845 to 1861 the Society published a weekly newspaper, The Anti-Slavery Bugle, printed for the first five weeks in New Lisbon, Ohio, and for all subsequent issues in Salem. The text of the broadside, a printed blank form for advertising abolitionist meetings, reads in full as follows:

Union with Freemen – No Union with Slaveholders. Anti-Slavery Meetings! Anti-Slavery Meetings will be held in this place, to commence on [blank] in the [blank] at [blank] To be Addressed by [blank] Agents of the Western Anti- Slavery Society. Three millions of your fellow beings are in chains – the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! And learn your duty to yourselves, the slave and god. Emancipation or dissolution, and a free northern republic!

OCLC lists only two copies, at Yale and Williams College; the Library of Congress holds an additional copy, which may be viewed online at the American Memory web site (see below). OCLC 59557224. “An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera.” Library of Congress, American Memory website, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc. rbc/rbpe.13700400. $4750.

The Fruits of John Adams’ Diplomacy

2. [Adams, John]: A COLLECTION OF STATE-PAPERS, RELA- TIVE TO THE FIRST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE SOV- EREIGNTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.... London. 1782. [2],100pp. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, leather label. Very good.

An important collection of official papers relating to the official recognition by the Dutch of American Independence. The different states of Holland were all called upon to individually affirm their support for a Dutch treaty with the United States, and almost all of the papers express a desire on behalf of the provinces to ratify a treaty. The Dutch had by this time joined in the general war against the British on the French, Spanish, and American side. Published while Adams was still in Amsterdam as the American representative, its appearance speaks to Adams’ constant effort to speed foreign recognition of the United States in light of British attempts to broker a peace agreement without recognizing outright independence. “This edition also contains the division in Parliament on peace with America, Feb. 27, 1782” – Sabin. Scarce. HOWES C581. SABIN 229. BRINLEY SALE 3931. OCLC 5357219. $4500.

Adams Defends the Constitution

3. Adams, John: A DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOV- ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AGAINST THE ATTACK OF M. TURGOT IN HIS LETTER TO DR. PRICE, DATED THE TWENTY-SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1778. Phila- delphia. 1797. Three volumes. 6,xxxiii,[3]-392; [4],451; [2],528,[44]pp. With a leaf of manuscript bound in as frontispiece in first volume (see below). Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Light foxing. Very good, with contemporary ownership signature of John Lorimer Graham on titlepages.

Styled the “third edition.” The first volume was originally published in London in 1787. The second and third volumes, issued later than the first, contain descriptions of the Italian republics of the Middle Ages as well as a lengthy analysis of “the Right Constitution of a Commonwealth.” This work is one of the most important and widely read of the many writings of the important Revolutionary figure and second president of the United States. At the time Adams wrote this work he was serving as the first United States ambassador in England, an uncomfortable position for a recent rebel, but he was ever ready to argue the American point of view. Herein he forcibly states the principles on which he perceived the United States to be founded. The book was popular and went through numerous editions. Its issuance as the Federal Constitutional Convention was assembling added to its popularity and resulted in several American reprintings, and according to the DAB, “its timeliness gave it vogue.” Adams’ detractors later sought to find in it a hidden desire for a monarchy. This copy belonged to John Lorimer Graham, a distinguished New York City attorney and at times Postmaster of the city, who has signed and dated the titlepage of each volume. Graham acquired the volumes in 1817, when he was a law student. He also wrote out at some later point an appreciative appraisal of the work, bound in the front of the first volume. HOWES A60, “aa.” EVANS 31689-31691. SABIN 235. GEPHART 8687. $4500.

Letters Between the Adams Family

4. [Adams, John]: [Adams, Samuel]: FOUR LETTERS: BEING AN INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THOSE EM- INENTLY DISTINGUISHED CHARACTERS, JOHN ADAMS, LATE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES; AND SAMUEL ADAMS, LATE GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS, ON THE IMPORTANT SUBJECT OF GOVERNMENT. Boston: Printed for Adams & Rhoades, 1802. 32pp. Dbd. Minor wear and soiling. Very good. In a cloth slipcase.

The first appearance in print of four quite interesting letters written in 1790 between John and Samuel Adams. They focus on the political structure of early national America and Massachusetts in particular, and are fine examples of the philosophical, classically inspired political discourse characteristic of the Founders. Scarce. HOWES A61. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 1713. SABIN 242. $1250. Settling Currency Exchange Rates in Colonial America

5. [American Currency]: [Anne, Queen of Great Britain]: BY THE QUEEN, A PROCLAMATION, FOR SETTLING AND ASCER- TAINING THE CURRENT RATES OF FOREIGN COINS IN HER MAJESTIES COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS IN AMER- ICA. London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas New- comb, 1704. Broadside, 16¾ x 13 inches. Some soiling, creasing, and chipping; a few expert repairs to the margins, one just touching the historiated initial. Good. Matted and framed.

A printed proclamation by Queen Anne establishing uniform currency rates for coins circulating in the American colonies, with mentions of exchange rates in Peru and Mexico. One of the printers was Ruth Raworth, the widow of Thomas Newcomb (“Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas’d”), constituting a very early imprint relating to America printed by a woman. Also of interest for its obvious numismatic content. Rare. ESTC records just seven copies. SABIN 9698. STEELE 4373. HANSON 412. ESTC T19764. $4000. Important Collection of Diplomatic Correspondence

6. [American Diplomatic Affairs]: THE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPON- DENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM THE SIGNING OF THE DEFINITIVE TREATY OF PEACE, 10th SEPTEMBER, 1783, TO THE ADOPTION OF THE CONSTI- TUTION, MARCH 4, 1789. Washington, D.C.: Francis Preston Blair, 1833-1834. Seven volumes. Half titles. 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Minor edge wear, one label chipped, library shelf labels on spines. Old library stamps on half titles and titlepages, minor foxing. Very good.

A substantial compilation of American diplomatic correspondence between 1783 and 1789, including letters from presidents of Congress, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, American ministers at foreign courts, and foreign ministers, as well as reports of Congressional committees and from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs on various letters and communications. Correspondents include Richard Henry Lee as President of Congress, John Jay as Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis de Lafayette, Robert Morris, Benjamin Franklin as Minister Plenipotentiary to France, John Adams as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague, Thomas Jefferson as Minister Plenipotentiary to France, Señor Don Diego de Gardoqui as Chargé d’Affaires of Spain, and C.F.W. Dumas, an informal source on Dutch affairs living in an American-owned house in the Hague. There is an especially large number of letters from both Jefferson and Adams. Also includes numerous extracts from the Secret Journal of Foreign Affairs and the Secret Journals of Congress. A vital work for the study of early American foreign affairs. $2500.

An Unrecorded Broadside Attacking Governor Thomas Hutchinson and British Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn for Their Attack on Benjamin Franklin

7. [American Revolution]: [Hutchinson, Gov. Thomas]: [Wedderburn, Al- exander]: [Franklin, Benjamin]: UPON THE EXECUTION OF AL- EXANDER WEDDERBURNE, ESQ. AND THOMAS HUTCHIN- SON, ESQ. CONVICTED OF TREACHERY TO THE AMERI- CANS [caption title]. [Boston]: Sold at Kneeland and Davis’s Printing- Office in Queen-Street, [1774]. Broadside, 13½ x 17 inches. Docketed on verso. Old fold lines. Some minor tissue reinforcement on verso. Slight loss at right edge, not affecting text. A few small stains. Very good.

A wonderful, unrecorded broadside detailing the burning in effigy of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson and British Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn by the people of Philadelphia. The left side of the broadside contains a report from Philadelphia about the event, edged in black, while the right side contains a sarcastic epitaph for each man. Between 1767 and 1769, Hutchinson, along with several others including Lieut. Gov. Andrew Oliver, wrote a number of letters to Thomas Whately, Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grenville, regarding their opinions about the late disturbances in the colonies. These letters were sent in confidence, and in them Hutchinson betrayed little sympathy for the would-be revolutionaries, even going so far as rec- ommending more troops be sent to unruly Boston. When Thomas Whately died in 1772, his effects passed to his brother, William, a respected London banker. In 1773 the text of these letters was published in Boston. Public outcry was enormous. The mistrust of colonial intentions revealed in the letters created a firestorm of criticism in Boston and led to Hutchinson’s literally fleeing the colony. How these letters came into hands sympathetic to the colonies remains unknown to this day, although someone delivered them to Benjamin Franklin, who was then still in London as agent for Pennsylvania and assistant Post Master for the American colonies. Franklin sent them to Massachusetts, believing that they would expose Hutchinson and Oliver as having misled the ministry regarding colonial affairs, thus clearing the way for the colonies to mend their relationship with the mother country. He gave explicit directions that they not be made public, though this was disregarded and the letters soon appeared in print. Ultimately Franklin was hauled before the Privy Council to answer for his actions, on Jan. 29, 1774. To add fuel to the situation, news of the Boston Tea Party had arrived in London on Jan. 19. Franklin was grilled mercilessly and very publicly slandered. “British solicitor general Alexander Wedderburn excoriated and denounced Franklin in an hour-long diatribe, demanding that he be marked and branded as a criminal and calling him not ‘a man of letters’ but (in a well-known classical allusion) ‘homo trium literarum’ i.e., a man of three letters, fur, or thief. ‘The muscles of Franklin’s face had been previously composed, so as to afford a placid tranquil expression of countenance, and he did not suffer the slightest alteration of it to appear during the continuance of the speech’ (Papers, Vol. 21, pp.41, 49). Britain’s greatest officials, many of whom, like Wedderburn, Franklin knew well, sneered and snickered while he stood silent, America’s scapegoat. It was the most dramatic ignominy of Franklin’s life” – ANB. Afterwards Franklin was stripped of his post office sinecure and his position in London was made difficult. The whole incident provoked a major escalation of the Revolutionary tensions in the American colonies, and it was the cause of Franklin’s final disillusionment with the British ministry. This broadside refers to the attacks upon Franklin’s character by Wedderburn. Writing of Wedderburn, the text reads: “But the base-born solicitor, who attempted to turn his learning, benevolence, and patriotism, into ridicule, is (like Hutchinson) a Parricide of the first rank, who would sacrifice his country, his liberty and his God, and delight in the carnage of the most faithful British subject in America, to gain promotion at Court.” The epitaphs describe the mock execution of Wedderburn and Hutchinson respectively, noting the date of death as May 3, 1774 in Philadelphia. The mock execution of the villains attacking Franklin took place against the anticipation of British retaliation for the Boston Tea Party. That was not long coming, as news of the Boston Port Bill, closing the port of Boston as of June 1, arrived there on May 13 and in Philadelphia not long afterward. By the time this broadside was issued in Boston, news of the Port Bill would have been there. This, the first of the Intolerable Acts, quickly led to the escalation of colonial tensions. By June the First Continental Congress was being organized, to meet in October. The event seems to have been memorialized in at least two other broadsides and one pamphlet. A presumed Philadelphia broadside (held by Massachusetts Historical Society) provides merely the text of the epitaphs; a New York printing contains both the narrative text and the epitaphs (held by New-York Historical Society). Neither are executed in such handsome style as the present piece, which is not known in any other copies. Given the nature of these broadsides, they were likely tacked to walls and circulated amongst the populace, and later discarded, rendering them quite rare today. A unique, fascinating, and highly displayable piece, recording an important step on the road to Revolution, closely connected to the escalation of tensions, and in particular the radicalization of Benjamin Franklin. Sold The English Voices of Reason on the Verge of the American Revolution

8. [American Revolution]: Burke, Edmund: Pitt, William: [SAMMEL- BAND OF THREE IMPORTANT WORKS BY EDMUND BURKE AND WILLIAM PITT REGARDING AMERICAN INDEPEN- DENCE]. London. 1775. Three volumes bound in one. Quarto. Bound to style in half period russia and period marbled boards, spine with raised bands, red morocco label. Very good. Provenance: Francis Maseres (contemporary ink marginalia and signatures).

An important association copy of three important works, including first editions of two famous speeches by English orator Edmund Burke. One speech, on American taxation, urges the Crown to repeal the tax on tea (published January 1775). His masterful March 1775 speech urges reconciliation with the colonies. Both of these works are especially rare in their first editions, each accorded a “b” rating in Howes. The third work is a plan put forth by former Prime Minister William Pitt the Elder proposing the recall of British troops from Boston and a conciliatory policy toward the colonies. Both statesmen, in opposition to the prevailing English administration, hoped to prevent the war which was on the verge of outbreak; needless to say, their voices of reason did not prevail, but these speeches are among the most famous ever given by English statesmen. The half title of the first work (bound before the titlepage of the second work) is signed “F. Maseres. May 25, 1775,” and this first work includes some ink marginalia in his hand. The titlepages of the second and third works are signed “F. Maseres.” From 1766 to 1769, Francis Maseres was attorney general of the new British province of Quebec and was involved in colonial affairs in Quebec after the revolution. The works included here are as follows (in the order in which they are bound):

1) Burke, Edmund: The Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. [2],65,[2]pp. Half title bound after the text. “Contains the famous sentence: ‘Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of government, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquest and civilizing settlements, in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in a single life’” – Sabin. HOWES B979, “b.” AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 75-17a. SABIN 9296. 2) Burke, Edmund: Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. on American Taxation, April 19, 1774. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1775. iv,57,[1]pp. Burke’s famous argument for the repeal of the duty on tea. HOWES B980, “b.” AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 75-16a. SABIN 9295. 3) Pitt, William: Plan Offered by the Earl of Chatham, to the House of Lords, Entitled, A Provisional Act, for Settling the Troubles in America, and for Asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies. London: Printed for J. Almon, 1775. 14,[1]pp. William Pitt was one of America’s staunchest supporters before the Revolution. This was his grand plea for conciliation, presented in February 1775. Pitt argued for complete sovereignty of Parliament over the colonies, but at the same time requested the King to recall the troops from Boston. His plan was defeated. Rosenbach called the work rare in his seventh catalogue in 1913. Not in Adams. ROSENBACH 7:480 (“rare”). NEBENZAHL 12:136. SABIN 63071.

An important assemblage of three key conciliatory efforts by two of the most noted American sympathizers of the pre-Revolutionary period, once belonging to a British official in Revolutionary-era Quebec. $17,500.

Important Contemporary Source for the Revolution

9. [American Revolution]: [Almon, John, editor]: A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING, AUTHENTIC PAPERS, RELATIVE TO THE DISPUTE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA; SHEWING THE CAUSES AND PROGRESS OF THAT MISUN- DERSTANDING, FROM 1764 TO 1775. London: J. Almon, 1777. 280,[4]pp., printed in double columns. Expertly bound to style in calf-backed marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands, red morocco label. Very good.

Almon, a British publisher, was the primary source for British publications concerning American political and military affairs throughout the Revolution. “Usually cited as Prior Documents, from its running title, these papers were intended to accompany the seventeen volumes of The Remembrancer...” – Howes. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 77-13. HOWES A179, “aa.” SABIN 951. GEPHART 3102. CHURCH 1141. JCB 1(III):2377. ESTC T58130. $1500.

Publication of the Peace of Paris

10. [American Revolution]: [Treaty of Paris]: ORDONNANCE DU ROI, POUR LA PUBLICATION DE LA PAIX. DU 3 NOVEMBRE 1783. DE PAR LE ROI [caption title]. Caen. 1783. 2pp. Quarto. Antique-style marbled boards, gilt leather label. Near fine. Untrimmed.

A regional printing of the official French proclamation of “bonne, ferme, stable & solide” peace between France and Great Britain, bringing an end to the war of the American Revolution and warfare in other colonies and Europe. Although a preliminary peace had been negotiated in Paris as of Nov. 30, 1782, with an armistice in effect as of Jan. 20, 1783, the final treaty took many more months to conclude, both because of last minute wrangling over fishing rights on the Grand Banks and delays in Trans-Atlantic ratification. The final treaties between France, England, and the United States were originally proclaimed on Nov. 3, 1783, and this version of the announcement was printed at Caen on Dec. 27, 1783. As a Channel port, the notice of peace would have been of particular interest there. $1000. The Rare Final Octavo Edition

11. Audubon, John James: THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAW- INGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRI- TORIES. New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870-1871]. Eight volumes. 500 handcolored lithographic plates. Half titles. Contemporary half green morocco and marbled boards, spines gilt with raised bands, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very good.

The rare final octavo edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America, an important monument of American color plate books and natural history, and one of the most desirable books produced in 19th-century America. The present set is an unusually tall copy, with wide margins to both text and plates. In Audubon’s Great National Work Ron Tyler quotes a letter by the publisher’s son, Richard B. Lockwood, noting that sometime after 1870 the lithographed octavo plates were destroyed when they fell through the floors in a Philadelphia building. The date of the disaster at the Lockwood firm suggests that this final octavo edition was produced in 1871. The octavo edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America is certainly the most famous and accessible of American color plate books. It served many purposes for Audubon. First, it was a moneymaker, successfully marketed throughout the United States on a scale that the great cost of the original Birds made impossible. Second, it was another step toward proving himself as good a scientific naturalist as the “closet” naturalists who had scorned him, combining a detailed text with careful observations next to his plates. Third, it allowed a more reasonable arrangement, by genus and species, than the headlong production of the original project had allowed. All of these steps were improvements, amply repaid by the book’s success. The octavo Birds was originally issued in 100 parts, each containing five plates executed by Philadelphia lithographer J.T. Bowen. Changes in subscribers and increased press runs created numerous states of plates as they were reprinted. The whole story of the production of the book, with detailed information about every aspect of the project, is told by Ron Tyler in Audubon’s Great National Work (Aus- tin, 1993). The story Tyler tells of the difficulties of production and marketing is revealing of the whole world of color printing in mid-19th-century America. Ron Tyler, Audubon’s Great National Work, pp.129, 165, note 10. First octavo edition: BEN- NETT, p.5. NISSEN IVB 51. SABIN 2364. McGRATH, p.50. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 35. $27,500.

Among the Best Folio Flower Books Produced in America

12. Badger, Mrs. C.M.: FLORAL BELLES FROM THE GREEN- HOUSE AND GARDEN. PAINTED FROM NATURE. New York: Charles Scribner & Company, 1867. Lithographed frontispiece and fifteen lithographed plates, all handcolored by Mrs. Badger. Publisher’s full black morocco, elaborately gilt, spine gilt, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Very good.

Mrs. Badger was an illustrator with an intu- itive feeling for the decorative, as she amply demonstrates in this book, a companion to her Wild Flowers published in 1859, although here focused on the greenhouse and garden. “Contains 16 very beautiful full page flower plates in many colors and shades. Each flower portrayed is also the subject for a poem which serves as text for the illustration” – Bennett. Species represented include Azalea, Geranium, Roses, Jasmine, Bretia (frontispiece); Camellia and Begonia, Night Blooming Cereus; Fuchsias, Cactus, Scarlet Geranium; Calla and Poinc- ettia; Passion-Flowers, a bouquet of Roses, Narcissus, Hyacinth, Lily of the Valley, Tulip, and Dielytra; Salvia and Dielytra; Pansies, Moss Rose; Tulips, Rose of Geth- semane; Larkspur and Japan Lily; Asters. The plates, handcolored by Mrs. Badger over very light lithographed lines and without captions (thus giving the plates the appearance of original watercolors), were executed in an era when chromolithographs were fast replacing such skilled hand work. A contemporary advertisement for the work by the publisher, who priced the book $30 when issued, describes it as follows:

The volume is a stately folio, elegantly bound in Turkey morocco and the paper and presswork, and the whole mechanical execution are perfect. There are sixteen pictures in the volume – favorite or representative flowers – and each of them is painted from nature by the patient and laborious hand of the artist, and with such exquisite care and taste, and delicacy of touch as to vie with nature herself.

A review of the work in a December 1866 issue of Hours at Home proclaimed the work “without exaggeration, a most unique, highly artistic and gorgeous affair – a work that reflects great credit on the artistic taste of the country, as well as on the genius and industry of the author.” “Though little is known about her life other than the landmark dates of her birth, marriage and death, Mrs. Badger’s fine drawings and talented hand have survived to keep her name alive” – Kramer. BENNETT, p.6. McGRATH, p.57. NISSEN, BBI 56. J. Kramer, Women of Flowers (New York, 1996). $5750.

Rare Work in the Ottawa Language

13. [Baraga, Frederic]: JESUS OBIMADISIWIN OMA AK- ING, GWAIAKOSSING ANAMIEWIN EJITWADJIG MI SA CATHOLIQUE-ENAMIADJIG GEWABANDANGIG. Paris: E.J. Bailly, 1837. [8],211,[1]pp. Entirely in the Ottawa language. Lithographed folding frontispiece map, full-page woodcut on verso of half title. 12mo. Con- temporary half green morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco label, paper shelf label affixed to spine. Very good.

A life of Jesus written in the Ottawa language by Baraga, a Michigan-based missionary, and published during a visit to Paris to raise funds for the missions. It bears a printed approbation by Frederick Rese, the Bishop of Detroit. The frontispiece map of the Holy Land includes place names in the Ottawa language. Baraga first came to America in 1831, arriving the following year at the Ot- tawa Indian mission at Arbre Croche (present-day Cross Village, Michigan), where he mastered the Algonquian dialect of the Ottawa tribes. Living among Native Americans until his death in 1868, he became known as “the Snowshoe Priest” because of his extensive winter travels on snowshoes among the tribes of Michigan and Wisconsin. Rare, with the Siebert copy being the only other example selling at auction in the last twenty years in North America (selling for $4887). AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (OTTAWA) 1. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 256. PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, p.26. SIEBERT SALE 503. SABIN 3247a. $3800.

A Cornerstone of Ojibwa Language Scholarship

14. Baraga, Frederic: A DICTIONARY OF THE OTCHIPWE LAN- GUAGE, EXPLAINED IN ENGLISH. PART I. ENGLISH- OTCHIPWE. A NEW EDITION.... [bound with:] ...PART II. OTCHIPWE-ENGLISH.... Montreal: Beauchemin & Valois, 1878-1880 [wrapper of part II dated 1882]. Two volumes. [6],301,[1]; viii,422pp. Con- temporary black morocco-backed cloth (Part I) and publisher’s lettered wrappers (Part II). Very good. In a black half morocco box. Provenance: Jesuit Mission Library, Upper Canada (ink stamp in Part II).

Scarce Chippewa dictionary, written by the famed Snowshoe Priest, complete with both parts. Baraga first issued his Otchipwe dictionary in 1853 in Cincinnati. The present second edition was issued between 1878 and 1880 after his death, with additional material and a rearrangement of the original text. A Roman Catholic missionary, Baraga arrived in Cincinnati in 1831, residing at the Ottawa Indian mission at Arbre Croche (present-day Cross Village, Michigan), where he mastered the Algonquian dialects of the local tribes. In 1835 he was transferred to the western shores of Lake Superior to minister to the Chippewas. “During the long winters of this northern clime, Father Baraga applied himself to the study of the Chippewa language, the universal dialect of the Northwest. He prepared several religious books in this dialect, some of which were published in Paris, others in Detroit and Cincinnati. But his most useful works, still depended upon by all Chippewa scholars, are his Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language (Detroit 1850) and his Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language (Cincinnati 1853)” – DAB. Living amongst Native Americans until his death in 1868, he became known as “the Snowshoe Priest” because of his extensive winter travels on snowshoes among the tribes of Michigan and Wisconsin. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHIPPEWA) 6. PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, p.28. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 250, 251. $2250.

The Laws of Barbados, Signed by the Editor

15. [Barbados]: Hall, Richard, editor: ACTS, PASSED IN THE ISLAND OF BARBADOS. FROM 1643, TO 1762, INCLUSIVE; CARE- FULLY REVISED, INNUMERABLE ERRORS CORRECTED; AND THE WHOLE COMPARED AND EXAMINED, WITH THE ORIGINAL ACTS, IN THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE...TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN INDEX; AND ABRIDGMENT: WITH MANY USEFUL NOTES, REFERENCES AND OBSERVATIONS, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.... London: Printed for Richard Hall, 1764. xi,[1],iv,526,[2],84pp. Half title. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. A few older repairs to half title and titlepage verso, ownership signature on half title and titlepage, dampstain in bottom corner of first quarter of the text block, small stain in upper margin of two leaves in the Abridgment, minor foxing. Very good.

A noticeably expanded edition of the laws of Barbados from the earlier printings in 1721 and 1730s. The verso of the half title is signed by the editor, Richard Hall, “to authenticate this Impression; and to prevent spurious Edi- tions.” Includes a four-page list of subscribers. “The ‘late Richard Hall Esq.’ was one of the Representatives in the General Assembly for the Parish of St. Michael [Barbados] according to the title-page” – Higgs. ESTC records only eight copies in the United Kingdom and ten copies in the United States. Auc- tion records reveal only one sale, in 1948 at Sotheby’s. A rare collection of laws for the island of Barbados. BARTLETT 1383. HIGGS 3196. SABIN 29840. ESTC T19072. $4000. One of the Earliest Printed American Judicial Proceedings

16. [Bayard, Nicholas]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE COMMITMENT, AR- RAIGNMENT, TRYAL AND CONDEMNATION OF NICHOLAS BAYARD ESQ; FOR HIGH TREASON, IN ENDEAVORUING TO SUBVERT THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK IN AMERICA, BY HIS SIGNING AND PROCURING OTHERS TO SIGN SCANDALOUS LIBELS.... London: Printed at New York by order of his Excellency the Lord Cornbury, and reprinted at London, 1703. 31,[1]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Title-leaf neatly lined on verso, several small marginal tears carefully repaired, light overall browning. Else a very attractive copy.

The first British (and earliest obtainable) edition of one of the earliest printed Ameri- can judicial proceedings. Nicholas Bayard (1644-1707), nephew of Peter Stuyvesant, was mayor of New York and a member of the governor’s council. When Jacob Leisler seized control of the government of New York in 1689, Bayard was a prime target, and he fled to Albany, where he was seized, brought back to the fort, and imprisoned. Finally Gov. Sloughter arrived from England and had Bayard released. In 1697 the new governor, Bellomont, accused Bayard of complicity with the previous governor in the encouragement and protection of pirates. Bayard was removed from office and later accused of encouraging sedition and mutiny and of being a Jacobite. Tried for high treason, he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. The present work contains the entire text of the 1701/2 proceedings, which were subsequently declared to have been illegal. The first edition, printed in New York in 1702, is known in only a few copies, in the usual institutions. This British edition, which contains additional text, is almost as scarce. HOWES B256, “b.” CHURCH 809. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 703/12. SABIN 53436. RITZ, AMERICAN JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS 1.05(2c). $6000.

17. Beaven, James: RECREATIONS OF A LONG VACATION; OR A VISIT TO INDIAN MISSIONS IN UPPER CANADA. London & Toronto. 1846. [4],196pp. including eight engraved plates. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. Light shelf wear. Bookplate of Frank Deering on front pastedown, contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Very minor scattered foxing. Very good.

Beaven, an Anglican minister, accepted an appointment as professor of divinity at Kings College in Toronto. This book describes his visits to missions among the Chippeway Indians at Sault Ste. Marie, and other tribes along Lake Superior. In addition Beaven provides interesting observations about Canadian roads and conditions of travel. The plates depict missionary churches, schools, Indian lodges, and homes. Not in Field. LANDE 26. SABIN 4213. WATERSTON, p.76. TREMAINE 2752. SIEBERT SALE 26. $1000.

The Delaware Militia Supports the President Against France, 1798

18. Bedford, Gunning: [MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM THE DELA- WARE MILITIA TO PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS, EXPRESSING SUPPORT DURING THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE]. Chris- tiana Bridge, De. May 1, 1798. [3]pp. on a folded sheet. Folio. Old folds. Near fine.

Fair copy of a letter sent by Gen. Gun- ning Bedford on behalf of the Delaware militia, expressing support for the Presi- dent and the country at the outbreak of the Quasi-War with France. The Quasi- War was an undeclared conflict between the United States and France during the Adams administration in the late 1790s, manifested mostly in naval engagements between the two nations. The war was the outgrowth of deteriorating Franco- American relations, which had been weakened earlier in the decade by the “Genet Affair” and the “XYZ Affair,” and it wreaked havoc on commerce between the two nations. The letter is signed in the same secretarial hand by Brig. Gen. Bedford Gunning, possibly Bedford Gunning, Jr. (1747-1812), the Delaware politician and lawyer who served in the Continental Congress and as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The letter opens:

A number of the officers of the militia of New Castle County in the State of Delaware, impressed with the importance of the present crisis of public affairs to the happiness and independence of the United States; and conscious of the injust and imperious conduct of the Republic of France towards America... feel ourselves constrained by every consideration of duty to the constituted authorities, to ourselves and to our country, to repel the insinuation which thus attempts to dishonour the American character.

The letter pledges patriotic support, closing with:

Be assured, Sir, of our grateful approbation of the conduct heretofore pursued by you, to preserve peace and friendship with foreign nations; and our confidence in the wisdom and patriotism of every branch of the Government; and we pledge ourselves as citizens and soldiers firmly to support those measures which may hereafter be thought necessary to secure the Constitution, freedom and independence of the United States. $2000.

First Architecture Book by a Native of America

19. Benjamin, Asher: THE COUNTRY BUILDER’S ASSISTANT, FULLY EXPLAINING, THE BEST METHODS FOR STRIKING REGULAR AND QUIRKED MOULDINGS: FOR DRAWING AND WORKING THE TUSCAN, DORIC, IONIC AND CORIN- THIAN ORDERS...CORRECTLY ENGRAVED ON THIRTY- SEVEN COPPERPLATES WITH A PRINTED EXPLANATION TO EACH. Boston: Spotswood and Etheridge, 1798. [36]pp. plus thirty- seven engraved plates (two folding). Contemporary sheep. Expert repair at front joint. Plate 33 with top portion in expert facsimile. Else very good. In a black morocco box.

Second edition, after the exceedingly rare and virtually unprocurable Greenfield first edition printed the previous year, of the first original American book of architecture. Earlier architectural works printed in the United States were simply compilations or reprintings of British material (e.g. John Norman’s Town and Country Builder’s Assistant of 1786). A classic and important American architectural treatise by the man who was most responsible for disseminating late colonial details throughout New England, beautifully illustrated with engravings of colonial buildings, elevations of churches and homes, ornaments, cornices, etc., reflecting the influences of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders. “[T]here is scarcely a village which in moulding profiles, cornice details, church spire, or farm-house does not reflect his influence” – DAB. Benjamin was a prolific architectural writer who published The American Builder’s Companion (1806), The Rudiments of Architecture (1814), and the very popular Practical House Carpenter (1830). “The career of our first American architectural writer, Asher Benjamin (1773-1845), covered several decades of the early nineteenth century. Both the books he wrote and the buildings he designed had an influence on building in New England that is still visible. He probably will be best remembered for his popularization of the federal style through his early books (and the Greek revival in his later ones)” – Thompson. The first obtainable edition of the earliest architectural book written by an American and printed in the United States. DAB II, pp.179-80. RINK 2484. EV- ANS 33399. HITCHCOCK 112. Nev- ille Thompson, “Tools of Persuasion: The American Architectural Book of the Nine- teenth Century” in The American Illustrat- ed Book in the Nineteenth Century (1987), p.142. $9500.

The Second Saur Bible

20. [Bible in German]: [Saur, Christopher]: BIBLIA, DAS IST: DIE HEI- LIGE SCHRIFT ALTES UND NEUES TESTAMENTS, NACH DER TEUTSCHEN UEBERSETZUNG D. MARTIN LUTHERS MIT JEDES CAPITELS FURTZEN SUMMARIEN, AUCH BENGEFÜGTEN VIELEN UND RICHTIGEN PARALLELEN.... Germantown: Christoph Saur, 1763. [4],992,277,[3]pp. printed in double columns. Quarto. Contemporary calf over wooden boards, metal clasps lacking. Dampstaining and wear to edges of first and last few leaves. Some light soiling to text. Contemporary manuscript notations on endpapers. Very good to near fine. In a cloth box, gilt leather label.

The second edition of the first European language Bible printed in America, after the first of 1743. The text is based on Martin Luther’s version by way of the thirty- fourth edition of the Halle Bible, with Book Three of Edras, Book Four of Edras, and Book Three of Mac- cabees supplied from the Berlenburg Bible. The present edition, rumored to have been issued in 2000 copies, was printed by Christopher Saur II, son of Christoph Saur the elder, a native of Wittgenstein, Germany. The elder Saur emigrated to Germantown, Pennsylvania and practiced medicine before turning to printing. It was he who printed the 1743 first edition. A nice copy of an important early American Bible. SEIDENSTICKER, p.61. ARNDT 269. O’CALLAGHAN, p.25. EVANS 9343. HIL- DEBURN 1877. NAIP w018552. SABIN 5192. $6000.

A Selection of Views from the First American Book on Native Scenery

21. Birch, William: [COLLECTION OF NINE PLATES FROM THE FIRST EDITION OF The Country Seats of the United States of North America, with Some Scenes Connected with Them]. Springland, near Bristol, Pa.: William Birch, 1808-1809. Nine stipple and line engraved views (of twenty [i.e. eighteen, plus two engraved titles]). Each uniformly matted. With letterpress descriptions of five of the plates, cut from the original text leaves, each matted. Oblong small folio. Very good. In a dark blue half morocco box.

The Country Seats..., Birch’s second book published in America, principally depicts views near Philadelphia (13), but also shows estates in Virginia (most notably Mount Vernon), New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Louisiana. “Birch and his sons, Thomas and George, collaborated on the work, combining line and stipple engraving....The conception of Country Seats was primarily decorative, a handsome series of views aimed at an audience such as might possess country estates themselves” – Stamped with a National Character. Snyder similarly argues that while Birch’s The City of Philadelphia... (1800) was inspired by a burst of civic pride and enthusiasm: “The Country Seats was much more a work born of Birch’s individual background, ambitions, and failures. It was, in fact, the product of a desire to raise the prevailing levels of taste in homes and of a desire to identify himself with the leisurely and wealthy life externally portrayed in his pictures.” The work was first issued in four parts for a very limited number of subscribers and the it met with little commercial success. Each part contained five plates (the first part containing two titles with vignettes and three plates). Upon completion, three letterpress leaves of text printed on recto only were issued, with captions for the twenty scenes depicted. Interestingly, five of those captions, trimmed from the sheets, accompany the present views. When published the work was sold at $3 plain (as present) or $5 handcolored, per part. The entire work, with some changes to the plates (e.g. Mendenghall corrected to Mendenhall) was reissued as a one-volume trade edition in 1809, and further restrikes were published into the mid-19th century. However, very few sets of prints from the original parts issue now exist. The plates present here comprise the entire final fourth part, with four further plates from the second and third parts of the original subscriber’s issue.

From part two:

[Plate 7] “Mount Vernon, Virginia, the Seat of the late Genl. G. Washington” [Plate 9] “Solitude, in Pennsylvania, belonging to Mr. Penn” [Plate 10] “Devon, in Pennsylvania, the Seat of Mr. Dallas”

From part three:

[Plate 13] “Montibello the Seat of Genl. S. Smith Maryland”

From part four:

[Plate 16] “View from Belmont Pennsyla. the Seat of Judge Peters” [Plate 17] “York-Island, with a view of the Seats of Mr. A. Gracie, Mr. Church, &c.” [Plate 18] “Mendenghall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania” [Plate 19] “China Retreat, Pennsyla., the Seat of Mr. Manigault” [Plate 20] “View from the Elysian Bower, Springland, Pennsylva. the residence of Mr. W. Birch”

HOWES B460, “c.” REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 2. SABIN 5531. Snyder, “William Birch: His Country Seats of the United States” in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 81, No. 3. $15,000.

First American Edition

22. Blackstone, William: COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENG- LAND. IN FOUR BOOKS...RE-PRINTED FROM THE BRITISH COPY, PAGE FOR PAGE FROM THE LAST EDITION.... [with:] AN INTERESTING APPENDIX TO SIR WILLIAM BLACK- STONE’S COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND.... Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1771 (Vols. 1-2) – 1772 (Vols. 3-4), 1772[-1773] (Appendix). Five volumes. Commentaries: [8],ii,[6],485,[1]; [8],520,xix; [1], [8],455,[1],xxvii,[1]; [22],[8],436,vii,[1],[39],[1]pp., plus two engraved plates (one folding). Appendix: [4],iv,5-119,[1]; xii,155,[1]pp. Publisher’s advertisements in front of first volume preceding title-leaf, list of subscribers in front of fourth volume, appendices in rear of second and fourth volumes. Index in fourth volume. With a separately-issued advertisement leaf tipped into the fourth volume, being a prospectus for an American edition of Ferguson’s Essay on the History of Civil Society and call for subscriptions to a quarto edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries (Evans 12671). Expertly bound to style in period tree sheep, gilt, spines gilt, red and black morocco labels. Very good. Provenance: Roger Sherman (early signature on endpaper of first volume).

The very rare first American edition of the single most important work on Eng- lish law and among the most influential works on the political philosophy of the Founding Fathers, complete with the fifth volume as well as all appendices, list of subscribers, and advertisement leaves. “Blackstone’s great work on the laws of England is the extreme example of justifi- cation of an existing state of affairs by virtue of its history....Until the Commentaries, the ordinary Englishman had viewed the law as a vast, unintelligible and unfriendly machine; nothing but trouble, even danger, was to be expected from contact with it. Blackstone’s great achievement was to popularize the law and the traditions which had influenced its formation....If the English constitution survived the troubles of the next century, it was because the law had gained a new popular respect, and this was due in part to the enormous success of Blackstone’s work” – PMM. Blackstone’s work is considered the definitive pre-Revolutionary source on the Common Law, doing much to de- fine conceptions of personal rights and the relationship between the English citizen and his government. The philosophical issues addressed in the work, especially the concepts of personal rights and the obligations of a subject to authority, were obviously of great importance to American colonists in the years just before the outbreak of the Revolu- tion. The philosophy of the Dec- laration of Independence, asserting the self-evident, unalienable rights of people, is arguably based on Blackstone’s description of the rights of Englishmen. Indeed, the list of grievances against the Crown within the Declaration refers to many of the absolute rights of individuals covered by Blackstone. Interestingly a contemporary owner has annotated the section within the first volume, which deals with taxation in the American Colonies. Following the passage which states that the colonies “ought to be, subordinate to and dependent upon the imperial crown and parliament of Great Britain; who have full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever,” the contemporary owner has simply added: “not submitted to by the colonies.” The present first American edition, published by Bell in Philadelphia, is a line- for-line reprinting from the fourth Oxford edition of 1770. The twenty-two-page list of subscribers contains 839 names spread throughout the colonies, with a total of 1,557 copies ordered (at the cost of $2 per volume). This included John Adams, John Jay, and other notable Americans, including a total of sixteen future signers of the Declaration of Independence. Complete sets with the appendix are very scarce on the market. EVANS 11996 (vols. 1-2), 12327 (vols. 3-4), 12328 (Appendix). HILDEBURN 2635, 2749, 2750. ESTC W30416, W12870, W13024. $24,000.

23. Blunt, Edmund M.: THE AMERICAN COAST PILOT; CON- TAINING THE COURSES AND DISTANCES BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL HARBOURS, CAPES, AND HEADLANDS, ON THE COAST OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA; WITH DIREC- TIONS FOR SAILING INTO THE SAME...TO WHICH IS AN- NEXED, THE SHIPMASTER’S ASSISTANT; CONTAINING DIS- BURSEMENTS AND OTHER SHIP ACCOUNTS, &c. New York: Edmund Blunt, 1822. xvi,497,114pp. plus eighteen plates (eleven folding), and 9pp. of advertisements. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Corners bumped and lightly worn. Light wear to boards. Contemporary advertisement pasted to front pastedown. Manuscript note regarding a lighthouse tipped in at p.128. Moderate foxing, though plates are generally bright and fresh. A very good copy in unsophisticated condition.

The self-styled tenth edition, being the second issue with the highly important annexed “Shipmaster’s Assistant.” A new chart, “the Isles of Shoals,” was added since the previous edition. Originally published in 1796 under the name of the author, Lawrence Furlong. Includes sailing directions to many of the east coast harbors and ports, with a number of them depicted in maps, listing courses and distances from Cape Cod and Cape Ann to George’s Bank, and a tide table. “It is believed that very few copies of the second issue were printed because a deci- sion was made to bring out the Shipmaster’s Assistant as a separate publication” – Campbell (p.109). Edmund Blunt published the first independent edition of his son Joseph’s The Merchant’s and Shipmaster’s Assistant in the same year, 1822. This copy has a full-page advertisement for Henry Whipple’s Salem bookshop on the front pastedown. This issue is scarce on the market. HOWES F421. SABIN 6025. RINK 3959. SHOEMAKER 8115. $2000.

24. Bowen, Nathan: MDCXXVII. THE NEW-ENGLAND DIARY, OR, ALMANACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1727... APPLYED TO THE HORIZON OF BOSTON, N.E. WHERE THE NORTH POLE IS ELEVATED EQUAL TO AN ANGLE OF 42 GR. & 25 M BUT MAY INDIFFERENTLY (TIDES EXCEPTED) SERVE ALL NORTH AMERICA. By a Native of New England. Bos- ton: Printed by B. Green and sold at the booksellers shops, 1727 [i.e. 1726]. [16]pp. with a single woodcut diagram illustrating an eclipse. Dbd. Moder- ately age-toned. Edges worn and slightly chipped. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of “Nathaniel Cutter” on titlepage and pp.[8] and [11], and of “John Cutter” on p.[12]. Additional contemporary inscriptions on pp.[9], [13], and [16]. Good.

An early 18th-century New England almanac by Nathan Bowen, who issued a series of almanacs published in Boston between 1721 and 1737. In addition to the calendar year, this New-England Diary includes predictions for the year’s eclipses and brief religious reflections by the author. The text concludes with an advertisement for a ferry newly opened at Charlestown, “called Penny-Ferry, which is the best and highest road from Boston to the Eastward, and also good entertainment for man and horse at the said Ferry.” EVANS 2732. DRAKE 3020. NAIP w022681. $1000.

25. Bowen, Nathan: MDCCXXXIII. THE NEW-ENGLAND DIARY, OR, ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST, 1733...CALCULATED TO THE HORIZON OF BOSTON, N.E. WHERE THE ARTICK POLE IS ELEVATED, AND THE AN- TARTICK POLE IS DEPRES’D, EQUAL TO AN ANGLE OF 42 DEG. 25 MIN. AND UNDER A MERIDIAN OF 4 H. 25 MIN. WEST FROM LONDON. By a Native of New-England. Boston: Pub- lished by B. Green, and sold at the booksellers shops, 1733 [i.e. 1732]. [16]pp. Later sewing along spine. Old stab holes in inner margin. Moderate browning, minor wear at edges. Good.

A scarce 18th-century New England almanac by Nathan Bowen, who issued a series of almanacs published in Boston between 1721 and 1737. In addition to the calendar year, this New-England Diary includes predictions for the year’s eclipses and a brief account of the leap year. In his preface Bowen includes his thoughts on the life and lot of the almanac compiler: “Having the last year finished twelve of these my annual papers, I proposed to lay down my pen, and leave the drudgery of calculation to those who have more leisure, and a clearer brain than I can pretend to. Indeed the contempt with which a writer of almanacks is looked on, and the danger he is in, of being accounted a conjurer, should seem sufficient to deter a man from publishing any thing of this kind. But when I consider that all this is the effect of ignorance, and therefore not worth my notice or resentment, and that the most judicious and learned part of the world have always highly valued and esteemed such undertakings...I am induced to appear again in the world; and hope this will meet with the same kind acceptance with the former.” EVANS 3508. DRAKE 3041. NAIP w035459. $850.

Laws for the British Colonies

26. [British Colonies in America]: AN ABRIDGEMENT OF THE LAWS IN FORCE AND USE IN HER MAJESTY’S PLANTA- TIONS; (VIZ.) OF VIRGINIA, JAMAICA, BARBADOES, MARY- LAND, NEW-ENGLAND, NEW-YORK, CAROLINA, &c. London: Printed for John Nicholson, 1704. [4],284,80,65-71,100 [i.e. 104],285-304pp. Expertly bound to style in period calf, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco label. Very good.

An important early 18th-century compilation of the laws of British dominions in North America and the Caribbean. While there is much information on slavery and tobacco, the laws are wide- ranging, laying out fines and/or pun- ishments for killing fish, fornication, shooting of guns, piracy, and much more. In the section on New-England laws, the punishment for either blasphemy or bestiality is death. Interestingly one of the laws in Virginia states: “No Eng- lish Man shall for any Consideration whatsoever purchase or buy any tract or parcel of Land now justly claim’d or actually possest [sic] by any Indian.” That attitude, as with many expressed here, would change. A rare and fascinating collection of British colonial law during the heyday of their control over North America and the Caribbean. HOWES A22, “aa.” SABIN 81. JONES 379. $6000. 27. [Burke, Edmund, et al (attributed to)]: AN ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS IN AMERICA. IN SIX PARTS...THE THIRD EDITION, WITH IMPROVEMENTS. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. Two volumes. [10],3-324,[10]; [14],3-308pp., plus two folding maps. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt, gilt leather label. Scattered foxing. Near fine.

The authorship of this work, at least in terms of primary credit, still remains open, with William Burke (Edmund’s cousin) and Richard Burke (his brother) frequently being given credit as collaborators. Burke himself told Boswell that he only “revised” it. Whoever the ultimate responsible party, the work was nonetheless extremely popular, frequently reprinted and translated. The two maps (whose re-engraved state in this edition constitutes its chief “improvement”) are general maps of North and South America. HOWES B974. CLARK I:208. TODD 4c. HILL, p.39. SA- BIN 9282. PALAU 37503. $1000.

Provincial Edition

28. [Bushe, Gervase P.]: THE CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND AMERICA, ADDRESSED TO THE KING AND BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. Dublin. 1769. [4],43pp. Half title. 20th-century blue morocco, gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Spine slightly faded. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good plus.

Third edition. This tract urges that England abandon the idea of colonial taxation and allow America greater self government, arguing that this policy would benefit England more in the end. Only a handful of copies located in ESTC. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 68-4c. HOWES B1039. ESTC T109830. $1000.

29. [Canada – Ontario]: [Meachem & Co.]: ILLUSTRATED HISTORI- CAL ATLAS OF THE COUNTIES OF FRONTENAC, LENNOX AND ADDINGTON ONTARIO...MAPS MADE FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS BY AND UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF BY C.R. ALLEN, CIVIL ENGINEER. Toronto: J.H. Meacham & Co. [Engraved by Worley & Bracher, printed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia], 1878. Engraved title, numerous handcolored maps and plans, views and portraits, printed on both sides of each sheet from pp.20-97 (plus two general maps preceding the county ones). Folio. Contemporary half morocco and cloth, gilt. Very good. Provenance: L.B. Stinson (inked stamps).

Scarce Canadian county atlas, with numerous maps and views. Devoted to Fron- tenac, Lennox, and Addington counties in Ontario, this atlas includes over fifty maps and town plans, and nearly a hundred views of houses, farms, and businesses, and portraits of the counties’ inhabitants. The preliminary text provides a historical sketch of the region and the “Patron’s Directory” in the rear includes places of residence, occupation, place of birth, and year settled in each of the counties treated. As with most 19th-century county atlases, this was published strictly by subscription. Given the relatively small size of the county in terms of population, the atlas would not have been published in a large print run, resulting in its rarity today. “Despite their limitations and inaccuracies, nineteenth-century county atlases nonetheless preserve a detailed cartographical, biographical, and pictorial record... in the Victorian age” – Ristow. RISTOW, p.424. $1500.

30. [Canada – Ontario]: [Belden & Co., H.]: ILLUSTRATED HISTORI- CAL ATLAS OF THE COUNTIES OF HASTINGS AND PRINCE EDWARD ONT[ARIO]. Toronto: H. Benden & Co. [lithographed by Toronto Lith. Co.], 1878. Engraved title, numerous maps (handcolored), views, and portraits, printed on recto and verso of 84 pages. Folio. Publisher’s black morocco backed cloth, gilt. Very good. Provenance: Thomas Sarles (inscription dated 1878).

Scarce Canadian county atlas, with numerous maps and views. Devoted to Hast- ings and Prince Edward counties in Ontario (roughly half way between Toronto and Ottawa, with the latter and the southern portion of the former on Lake On- tario), this atlas includes fifty maps and town plans, nearly a hundred views of houses, farms, and businesses, and over fifty portraits of the counties’ inhabitants. The preliminary text provides a historical sketch of the region and the “Patron’s Directory” in the rear includes places of residence, occupation, place of birth, and year settled in each of the counties treated. The original owner of this example, Thomas Sarles, is listed within the Patron Directory as a Canadian-born farmer in Rawdon Township. His inscription reveals that he paid $12.50 for the atlas. As with most 19th-century county atlases, this was published strictly by subscription. Given the relatively small size of the county in terms of population, the atlas would not have been published in a large print run, resulting in its rarity today. “Despite their limitations and inaccuracies, nineteenth-century county atlases nonetheless preserve a detailed cartographical, biographical, and pictorial record...in the Vic- torian age” – Ristow. RISTOW, p.424. $1450.

31. 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 1826.... Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1827. Mounted on guards throughout. Letterpress title (copyright notice on verso), 1p. “Advertisement” to Third Edition dated “January 1827” (verso blank), 1p. “Contents” and “Index” (verso blank), plus forty-six double-page handcolored copper engraved maps, most with descriptive letterpress in margins, and many with supplementary text pages following; one double-page engraved plate of mountains (uncolored); and one double-page colored plate of river lengths. Folio. Later 19th-century three-quarter calf and original plain paper boards, later gilt morocco label. Boards slightly rubbed. Titlepage remargined, minor foxing, some faint staining along bottom edge. Good.

“Third edition, Corrected and Improved.” This 1827 edition of Carey & Lea’s historic atlas, first published in 1822, includes much new material, with all the maps and text updated except for the Washington, D.C. and Michigan maps. This was the first American atlas that was modeled on Le Sage’s plan of having explanatory text surrounding the maps. The maps, for the most part by Fielding Lucas, are beautifully drawn and colored. PHILLIPS ATLASES (1827 3rd ed. with only 4 charts). SABIN 15055. $9500. 32. Charlevoix, Pierre François-Xavier: JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO NORTH-AMERICA...CONTAINING THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THAT COUN- TRY, PARTICULARLY CANADA. TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE CUSTOMS, CHARACTERS, RELIGION, MANNERS AND TRADITIONS OF THE ORIGINAL INHAB- ITANTS.... London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley..., 1761. Two volumes. viii,382,[24]; viii,380pp., plus folding map. Half title in each volume. Hand- some 19th-century polished calf, gilt, morocco label stamped in gilt. Joints rubbed, endpapers renewed. Mild toning, internally very clean. Very good.

Charlevoix was sent to Canada by the Jesuits at the age of twenty-three. After four years of missionary work he returned to France, whereupon he accepted the commission for this trip from the regent of France. In 1720-22 he travelled in the Great Lakes region and down the Mississippi. Although his trip was publicly stated to be for the purpose of inspecting interior posts and settlements, he was actually under orders to seek out information relating to the existence of a passage to the Pacific via continental North America. During his travels Charlevoix questioned the Sioux and traders he found returning to the Mississippi via the Missouri River. Although he hoped to return up the Mississippi in 1723, he fell ill at Biloxi and was forced to return to France from there. This work was originally published in French in 1744 as part of Charlevoix’s larger work on New France; the present edition is the first separately published edition in English. “...One of the most interesting of 18th century travel books” – Graff. HOWES C308, “b.” GRAFF 651. SABIN 12139. CLARK I:60. FIELD 283. SERVIES 419. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 758. GREENLY MICHIGAN 12. SERVIES 419. $2500. 33. [Chicago]: SMITH & DU MOULIN’S CHICAGO DIRECTORY, FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 1, 1860. Chicago: Smith & Du Mou- lin, 1859. Half cloth and original printed boards, neatly rebacked with original gilt cloth laid down. Ex-library, with blindstamp and early ownership inscription on titlepage. Corners worn, minor tanning at edges. Else very good.

Mid-19th-century Chicago directory of residents (listed alphabetically) and businesses (organized by interest). Numerous advertisements throughout. Also contains a street index and an appendix of “all necessary information of the City, its Government, Churches, Police, Fire Department, Military, Educational Interests, Railroads, etc.” An interesting document of pre-Civil War Chicago. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 376. SABIN 12641. SPEAR, p.98. $1250.

A Wonderful American Color Plate Book

34. [Chromolithography]: [Connecticut]: [COMMERCIAL PROMO- TIONAL ALBUM CONTAINING ADVERTISEMENTS AND NUMEROUS BEAUTIFUL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS OF SPORTING SCENES, WOMEN’S DRESS, ORNITHOLOGICAL SCENES, AND MORE]. New Haven: George S. Lester, [n.d., ca. 1890s]. [22]pp. printed on verso only, plus twenty chromolithograph plates. Large folio. Original brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, rebacked with original cloth laid down. Minor edge wear. Light thumb-soiling and occasional very minor foxing. Very good.

An attractive collection of advertisements and chromolithographs from the late 19th century, the advertisements mostly related to Connecticut or Boston companies. The advertisements are mostly single-company, full-page ads, with a few featuring more than one company per page. Carriage makers, organ and piano manufacturers, chain makers, lithographers, and more are among the advertisers, with locations ranging from Boston to Bridgeport, New Haven, Middletown, Meriden, and other cities in Connecticut. The chromolithographs, which are most likely printed in Europe based on the style of the subjects and the printing, feature men in military dress, women in fine clothing, various sporting scenes, a few ornithological views, some rural scenes featuring children, and more. A bookplate from New Haven publisher George S. Lester affixed to the front pastedown indicates the book was the property of a hotel and “is presented for the guests of the house, and should not be removed from this room.” “At different times book publishing has been very active....George S. Lester and William Gay have also done much to make New Haven a center of book publishing” – Rockey. A handsomely-produced commercial promotional book, with beautiful chro- molithographed scenes. J.L. Rockey, ed., History of New Haven County, Connecticut (New York: W.W. Preston & Co., 1892). $2500.

Classic of New England Indian Wars, with Revere Engravings

35. Church, Thomas: THE ENTER- TAINING HISTORY OF KING PHIL- IP’S WAR, WHICH BEGAN IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1675. AS ALSO OF EXPEDITIONS MORE LATELY MADE AGAINST THE COMMON ENEMY, AND ALL INDIAN REB- ELS, IN THE EASTERN PARTS OF NEW-ENGLAND.... Newport: Solomon Southwick, 1772. 198,[1]pp. plus two plates including frontis. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Lacks the final page of text, containing the text of a poem, “Ode Heroica.” Titlepage and “To the Reader” leaf faintly printed. Upper margin of titlepage and leaf G3 with repaired closed tears, several other leaves with skillfully repaired closed tears. Portrait of King Philip soiled on lower part of plate, trimmed close in outer margin. Overall, still a good copy.

The second edition, after the exceedingly rare first published in Boston in 1716. One of the most popular narratives of King Philip’s War, mainly narrating the prowess and adventures of Benjamin Church, one of the most important officers in the war, by his son, Thomas. This edition is notable for its two engravings by Paul Revere. The frontispiece portrait of Church is not based on any original image of him, but lifted by Revere from a 1768 portrait of Charles Churchill, with a powder horn added. One of Revere’s most famous engravings is the portrait of King Philip, actually based on one of Verelst’s engravings of the Indian Kings of Canada. Despite this it is notable not only as a Revere engraving but also as the first portrait of an Indian actually printed in America. This second edition contains a sketch of the life of Benjamin Church, not found in the first edition. VAIL 611. HOWES C405, “b.” CHURCH 1091. EVANS 12352. SABIN 12997. $4000.

Missouri Civil War Newspaper

36. [Civil War] [Missouri Newspaper]: DER LUTHERANER. GOTTES WORT UND LUTHERS LEHR VERGEHET NUN UND NIM- MERMEHR [Vols. 17-19]. St. Louis: Wiebusch und Sohn, 1861-1863. Three volumes bound in one. [4],208; [4],208; [2],200pp. Folio. Later three- quarter morocco and marbled boards. Hinges cracked, spine perished, corners heavily worn. Light foxing, heavier to first few leaves. Minor dampstaining. Good.

Lutheran German-language newspaper founded in 1844 by Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther (1811-87). The paper and its founder were key components in introducing the idea of a an umbrella church for Lutherans in America and the Midwest, founding in 1847 the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States. In the 1840s and 1850s, Germans were the largest immigrant group in America, settling heavily in the Midwest. The present piece contains three complete volumes of Der Lutheraner, each with index and titlepage leaves. $1000.

37. [Civil War]: Hicks, David F.: EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRIT- TEN WHILE IN ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC AND THE ARMY OF THE GULF, DURING “OUR CIVIL WAR” [manuscript title]. [N.p., likely Massachusetts. ca. 1866]. 121pp. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards. Tape reinforcements at spine ends. Internally clean. Very good.

An intriguing post-Civil War journal of transcribed letters and extracts of documents, containing assorted anecdotes and reminiscences relating to Union soldier David F. Hicks. Most of the contents were transcribed by Hicks’ wife, though it seems to have been a collaborative effort with a couple of different hands in evidence. A summary by Mrs. Hicks on pages 68-69 gives a fine overview of Hicks’ career. Sgt. David F. Hicks served in Co. B, 13th Reg., Massachusetts Volunteers. He enlisted at the start of the war in April 1861 and was mustered out in July 1864 as a lieutenant, after much illness and being wounded in battle multiple times. Towards the end of his service Hicks was with the 7th Infantry Corps d’Afrique, Ullman’s Brigade, which was subsequently consolidated as the 79th Reg. Colored Infantry. The journal does not cover all aspects of his army life, such as the battles of South Mountain and Chantilly, nor does it include letters from 1861. It does include personal descriptions of numerous battles, including Aquia Creek, second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and the Siege of Port Hudson. There are also references to Warrenton, Winchester, and Harper’s Ferry. Hicks apparently liked generals Banks, Hooker, and Burnside, in addition to his idol, McClellan, but spoke ill of Pope and Porter. Before being discharged he spent some time in New Orleans (avoiding Confederate guerillas) and Texas, where he engaged in recruiting. Hicks took disability in 1866 and died shortly thereafter. The entries for the present notebook run from Jan. 30, 1862 to Dec. 8, 1863 and detail the sweep of Hicks’ experience in the war. A detailed description is available on request. $3000.

38. [Coffee]: [Compagnie des Indes]: ARREST DU CONSEIL D’ESTAT DU ROY, QUI DECLARE LES CAFFES VENANS POUR LE COMPTE DE LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES, EXEMPTS DE TOUS DROITS DE PEAGES, & DES FERMES GENERALES. DU 20 AOUST 1726 [caption title]. Paris. 1730. 8pp. Quarto. Very mi- nor foxing. Light soiling along spine edge on last page; small separation along bottom of spine. Contemporary inscription. Very good.

A French royal decree exempting coffee from being taxed. “By this decree coffee, of which the Compagnie des Indes enjoys the monopoly, is exempt from Customs and duties” – Maggs. “The Compagnie des Indes flourished from 1726 to 1746, paying handsome dividends, and bringing wealth to the ports of Bordeaux, Nantes, Marseille, and, in particular, its home port of Lorient (L’Orient), although it lost its rights in the western hemisphere. It established trading offices in many parts of India, also Canton, Yemen, Persia, Basra and North Africa. The main sources of its wealth were porcelain, wallpapers, lacquer and tea from China, cotton and silk cloth from China and India, coffee from Mocha (Yemen), pepper from Mahé (South India), gold, ivory and slaves from West Africa” – Shakespeare. Wroth locates only one copy, in the John Crerar Library; OCLC identifies only one more, at the University of Minnesota. Rare. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727-94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 323 (this copy). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1129. OCLC 47950282. Howard Shakespeare, “The Compagnie des Indes” in the Journal of the International Bond & Share Society (February 1997). $900.

America’s Magna Charta

39. [Constitutions]: CONSTITUTIONS DES TREIZE ÉTATS-UNIS DE L’AMÉRIQUE. A Philadelphie; et se trouve à Paris.... 1783. [4],540pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, original gilt spine laid down. Contemporary inscription on titlepage. Light dampstaining and wear to top edge, first three and last two leaves reinforced with tissue at stain. Very good.

The Franklin-inspired French edition of the constitutions of the original thirteen states of the newly created United States of America. Only 600 copies were printed for Franklin, of which 100 were on large paper. Franklin was then ambassador to the French Court and had just completed negotiations with Great Britain for the independence of the United States. The work was translated by the Duc de la Roche- foucauld at Franklin’s suggestion and includes over fifty footnote annotations by the latter. “Franklin’s grand gesture in publishing and distributing these constitutions, about which there was an intense interest and curiosity among statesmen, was one of his chief achievements as propagandist for the new American republic” – Streeter. Also included are the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the treaties between the United States and France, the Low Countries, and Sweden. The titlepage bears the first appearance in a book of the seal of the United States designed by Franklin (the eagle, stars, and stripes). The inscription on the titlepage of the present copy reads: “Donnépar M. le duc de la Rochefoucaut traducteur de cet ouvrage.” In translation: “Given by M. the duke de la Rochefoucaut, translator of this work.” HOWES C716, “aa.” SABIN 16118. LIVINGSTON, FRANKLIN & HIS PRESS AT PASSY, pp.181-88. STREETER SALE 1035. COHEN 3033. $4000.

“Congress shall make no law”

40. [Constitutions]: THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST AMENDMENTS: TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPEN- DENCE; AND THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION; WITH THE AMENDMENTS THERETO. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1791. [4],176pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on fly leaves and titlepage. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

The 1791 edition of The Constitutions..., the very scarce first collection of state constitutions published after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first to assemble a printing of the U.S. Constitution together with twelve proposed amendments, and the first to include the constitution of Vermont along with those of the thirteen original states, including that of Massachusetts. Writing from Paris in December 1787, Thomas Jefferson responded to a letter from Madison that outlined the newly constructed federal constitution. Though unhappy with its “omission of a bill of rights,” Jefferson approved of this “government which should go on of itself peaceably” (LOA). Londoners had earlier hailed a 1781 collection of state constitutions (issued six years before the framing of the U.S. Constitution) as “the Magna Charta of the American States” (Monthly Review). This scarce volume was the first to assemble the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of the original thirteen states. It “contains the constitution of Vermont, not in any previous edition” (Ma- tyas). Within are the colonial charters of Rhode Island (1662) and Connecticut (1663); the 1776 constitutions of Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, New Hampshire, Maryland, and North Carolina; the 1777 constitution of New York; the 1789 Georgia constitution; the 1790 constitutions of South Carolina and Pennsylvania; as well as the 1780 Massachusetts constitution authored by John Adams, “one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution...the oldest functioning written constitution in the world” (McCullough). Also contains the twelve constitutional amendments proposed by Congress in 1789 (with a printed note dated August 1791 on the failure of the first two to be ratified). EVANS 23887. NAIP w030537. SABIN 16097. HOWES C716. MATYAS 91-01. Mc- CULLOUGH, JOHN ADAMS 225. ROSENBACH 65:38. LOA, CONSTITUTION I:210. $7500.

First Edition of The Navigator with Charts

41. [Cramer, Zadok]: THE NAVIGATOR: OR THE TRADERS’ USE- FUL GUIDE IN NAVIGATING THE MONONGAHELA, AL- LEGHENY, OHIO, AND MISSISSIPPI RIVERS...ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTEEN ACCURATE MAPS OF THE MISSISSIPPI, AND ONE OF PITTSBURGH. Pittsburgh: From the Press of Zadok Cramer, 1806. [2],94pp. Original limp paper-covered boards. Noticeably worn, spine perished and reinforced with later sewn thread, corners worn. Damp- stain to first few leaves, contemporary notations and marginalia, minor foxing. Good. In a blue calf slipcase with chemise.

The rare and important fifth edition, the first to contain navigation charts, covering the Mississippi River from the junction of the Ohio to New Orleans. This is an especially interesting copy for the ownership inscription and notations found on the front endpapers and fly leaves, and in the marginalia on four pages of the text. The book is signed: “John Seelye Book Cape Girardeau upper Louisiana now State of Masoura [sic] December 11th, 1807.” Then, in a striking narrative that encompasses five lines on the front free endpaper and the entirety of the next three fly leaves, the owner relates a perilous journey down the White River from Missouri to New Orleans with “but this book...for my guide to N. Orleans,” during which he almost lost his life and his horse after misjudging the depth of the river and falling into frigid white water. He made his way to a house after his “cloth[e]s were frozen as stiff as possibly could be.” There the locals told Seelye the waters of the river “are so transparent that you may see the smallest fish at its bottom when the waters are at the highest.” Apparently the house at which he stopped belonged to a family who owned dogs that Seelye had shot for “evil [?] conduct.” He thanks his “creator” that they were not at home to exact revenge and gives praise for his “miraculous escape from the icy waters of White River,” then signs his name. On the next leaf is a note stating he bought the book for 75¢ in Pittsburgh on Dec. 26, 1805. Considering this book was actually utilized for the purpose for which it was created, used by someone traveling downriver to New Orleans, some of the condition factors can be understood. In fact, the dampstains on the preliminary pages are likely from his accidental fall into the White River. Seelye was no armchair navigator. He journeyed down the White River to the Mississippi, making extensive notes in the margins of the section of the book on the Mississippi River, mainly about the trees and plants he found along the way, namely cedar, mulberry, tobacco, hemp, flax, sugar, and fruit trees. He also mentions Indians and complains about the lack of prepared wine found in the region. A short note on page 14 reads: “The Cotton tree is of all kinds most useful and numerous.” “Most widely used guide to western waters in the early period, both before and after the application of steam in 1807” – Howes. A wonderful copy with contemporary provenance. STREETER 991. HOWES C855. BRADFORD 1112. SABIN 17384. JONES 713. MIDLAND NOTES 89:145. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 10225. $10,000.

Attempting to Remove a Colonial Governor of New York over Disputes About Mohawk Land

42. De Peyster, Johannes: PETITION TO HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE SECOND PRAYING THE REMOVAL OF GOVERNOR COSBY [manuscript docket title]. [Albany. 1733?] [3]pp. Folio. Old folds, light foxing and soiling. Separation nearly complete at central vertical fold, starting at the edges of several others. Good.

Retained manuscript copy of “The humble petition of John Depeyster late mayor of the City of Albany and of several other persons inhabiting the said city” to the British Crown, requesting that the King remove colonial governor William Cosby due to misbehavior regarding a land transaction with the local Mohawk Indians. De Peyster (1694-1789) came from an Albany family and rose to prominence in that city, becoming a businessman and local politician. He served as mayor from 1729 to 1733, sometime after which he submitted this petition to the Crown (a contemporary though different hand has written “1733” on the docket). In 1734, De Peyster became one of the Commis- sioners for Indian Affairs, and was an advocate for fair treatment of Native Americans on most occasions. Wil- liam Cosby (1690-1736) was gover- nor of the province of New York from 1732 to 1736. Unpopular and viewed with suspicion by the populace of the colony, Cosby allied himself with the merchant factions, alienating the landowners, which certainly would not have won him any points with De Peyster. Cosby is most noted for bringing libel charges against John Peter Zenger, resulting in the first trial over freedom of the press, which Zenger won. “William Cosby, only one in a series of inept governors, damaged imperial relations and, in the long run, weakened the royal prerogative” – DNB. His term ended when he died in office. In the present document the author writes that the city of Albany desired “to purchass of the Indian natives, one thousand acres of cow or meadow land lying at a place called Tyennondrogue in such part of the said Tyenondrogue or the lands adjacent on both sides of the river as by the said corporation should be thought convenient....” This they did, agreeing that the local Indians could pay rent, which they also did. De Peyster continues, discussing the care with which the local settlers have cultivated the friendship of the Mohawk Indians, lest they turn their loyalties instead to the French. He writes that in order to secure their current place on the land, the natives did, “by the unanimous consent and apropation [sic] of their whole nation men women and children (the method used by them in most or all cases where the whole is conserned) apply to the corporation of Albany to take a deed from them for these lands by which deed the said land was intayled upon the said Indians and their posterity and failing their posterity upon the corporation of Albany which deed was made and executed by the Indians in due forme to the intire satisfaction of their whole nation who by that conceived they had secured to themselves and posterity the quiet injoyment of these lands and the preservation and continuance of their name and nation under the protection of Your Majestie without being dispersed and forced to wander from their abodes....” Unknown to De Peyster, other parties claimed to have already acquired possession of the land, and they convinced the local native people that they had been deceived by the city of Albany. They made application to Gov. William Cosby to read the deed to them. Cosby asked De Peyster (who had the deed in his possession) to send the deed to him, promising to return it. “But so it may please Your Majestie that when the said deed had been read and interpreted to the said Indians and they fully satisfied that the contents thereof were agreeable to the intent of their nation and not such as had been represented to them they the said Indians desired that the said deed might be returned to the custody of the said mayor and that they might have an authentick copy of it to preserve among themselves, which the said mayor promised to give them.” Rather than send the Indians home with a copy of the deed, however, the Gov- ernor or his emissaries told them that it properly should be destroyed, which they accordingly did. De Peyster’s complaint is that this was unjust and unlawful and that it has left the city of Albany without any proper recourse or proof of the agreement. This is clearly a retained or draft copy, containing significant corrections toward the end. It is not signed or dated, though it is docketed and is written in a highly legible hand. An interesting look into the colonial machinations of what would be a long series of mistreatment and deception of native peoples. $4500.

43. [Decker, Matthew]: AN ESSAY ON THE CAUSES OF THE DE- CLINE OF THE FOREIGN TRADE, CONSEQUENTLY OF THE VALUE OF THE LANDS OF BRITAIN AND ON THE MEANS TO RESTORE BOTH. BEGUN IN THE YEAR 1739. London: Printed for John Brotherton, 1744. [8],112pp. Quarto. Dbd. Minor scattered foxing. Very good.

An important economic tract by Matthew Decker (1679-1749). “[Decker’s] principal fame rests with two anonymous treatises of the 1740s which have been attributed to him....The treatises attracted considerable comment, particularly for their bold advocacy of free trade and the introduction of an all-embracing single tax” – DNB. ESTC T76961. GOLDSMITHS 8052. HANSON 5780. KRESS 4691. $1500.

44. [Defoe, Daniel]: THE DREADFUL VISITATION IN A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS AND EFFECTS OF THE PLAGUE, THE LAST TIME IT SPREAD IN THE CITY OF LONDON IN THE YEAR 1665 EXTRACTED FROM THE MEM- OIRS OF A PERSON WHO RESIDED THERE, DURING THE WHOLE TIME OF THAT INFECTION. Germantown: Christopher Sower, 1763. 16pp. Dbd. Minor foxing. Good plus.

First American edition of this abridgement of Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, and notable for its imprint. Christopher Sower (Sauer) was an early American publisher based in Germantown who took over his father’s publishing business in the mid-18th century. By 1754 the English publications of the Sauer press began to bear his imprint. He became a bishop of the Dunkers, or German Baptist Breth- ren, and as such was suspected of treason during the Revolution. His property was seized and sold “at auction” for a pittance, and, Sabin states, “The British used the poor fellow’s books for making cartridges!” This Sower imprint is scarce, with only twenty-five copies recorded in ESTC, and rarely encountered in the marketplace. EVANS 9373. HILDEBURN 1885. AUSTIN 632. ESTC W6026. $1250.

45. [Delaware Laws]: [LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, 1700 – 1813]. New Castle & Wilmington. 1797, 1816. Four volumes. 590,101,3; [591]-1376,2,128; 399,5,30; 671,6,83pp., with several gaps in the pagination and some blanks reckoned in the pagination of the third and fourth volumes, as issued. 20th-century buckram. Some shelf wear and dust soiling, some labels scuffed. Text block of first volume detached, a few leaves loose. Ink library stamps on titlepages, a few small tape repairs, but mostly clean internally. Good to very good.

The rare four-volume set of Delaware laws covering the years 1700 to 1813. The first two volumes were printed in 1797 and the second two in 1816. Rare, with only five complete four-volume copies listed in OCLC. EVANS 32030. RINK 438. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 37423, 37424. OCLC 18551345. $1000. Remarkable Nature-Printed Work

46. Denton, Sherman Foote: MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF THE UNITED STATES EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Boston: J.B. Millet Co., [1900]. Two volumes. Fifty-six nature-printed and handcolored plates, approximately 400 illustrations. Large octavo. Publisher’s crushed olive morocco, gilt, spines tooled in gilt with butterfly decorations, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Expert repairs at joints. Very good. In contemporary slipcases.

One of 500 numbered sets of this sumptu- ous color plate book on the butterflies of the United States east of the Rockies. The color plates in this work are quite remarkable: whilst the bodies are handcolored engravings, the wings are impressions from the actual insects’ wings pressed onto the paper. In the preface Denton describes his labors as he travelled widely in search of specimens: “The colored plates, or Nature Prints, used in the work, are direct transfers from the insects themselves; that is to say, the scales of the wings of the insects are transferred to paper while the bodies are printed from engravings and afterward colored by hand....I have had to make over fifty thousand of these transfers for the entire edition, not being able to get anyone to help me who would do the work as I desired it done....I will say, however, that there was never a laborer more in love with his work.” BENNETT, p.33. McGRATH, p.177. NISSEN ZBI 1079. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NATIONAL CHARACTER 107. $3200.

From The Atlantic Neptune

47. Des Barres, Joseph F. Wallet: [A SERIES OF FIVE VIEWS ON A SINGLE PLATE:] THE WOLVES, A CLUSTER OF ISLES LYING S.E. NEAR 3 LEAGUES FROM PASAMAQUODY BAY.... [and:] GRAND MANAN ISLAND...EIGHT MILES DISTANT...THE SOUTH POINT OF CAMPO BELLO ISLAND. [and:] A VIEW OF THE SHORE WESTWARD OF THE RIVER ST. JOHN... GREVILLE COVE...DISTANT FOUR MILES...THE ENTRANCE OF THE RIVER ST. JOHN...FOUR LEAGUES. [and:] A VIEW OF THE COAST AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE RIVER ST. JOHN, IN THE BAY OF FUNDY...PARTRIDGE ISLE...SEVEN MILES DISTANT. [and:] A VIEW OF THE ENTRANCE OF PASAM- AQUADY BAY.... London: Published by J.F.W. Des Barres in The Atlantic Neptune, July 26, 1777. Etching with aquatint, printed in sepia, contemporary hand-coloring. Sheet size: 22 x 29 3/8 inches. Printed on laid paper with “J Bates” watermark and “JB” countermark. Fine.

A fine series of profile views, with full period hand-coloring, of the coastline of New Brunswick and Maine, from the remarkable marine atlas, The Atlantic Neptune. These views were intended by Des Barres as an aid to navigation, but also offer some very fine marine landscape panoramas. The views range from Saint John, New Brunswick in the north, westward and slightly south to Passamaquoddy Bay and the border between Canada and the United States, including Grand Manan Island (twenty-two miles off the coast of New Brunswick, and now a popular holiday destination) and a group of three islands in Passamaquoddy Bay known as The Wolves: Eastern Wolf Island, Flat Wolf Island, and Southern Wolf Island. Des Barres, of Swiss-Huguenot extraction, studied under the great mathemati- cian, Daniel Bernoulli, at the University of Basel before immigrating to Britain, where he trained at the Royal Military College, Woolwich. Upon the outbreak of hostilities with France in 1756 he joined the British Royal American Regiment as a military engineer. He came to the attention of Gen. James Wolfe, who appointed him to join his personal detail. During this period he also worked with the legendary future explorer, James Cook, on a monumental chart of the St. Law- rence River. From 1762, Des Barres was enlisted to survey the coastlines of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, while his colleague, Samuel Holland, charted the New England coast. He also managed to gain access to some surveys of the American South, Cuba, and Jamaica. In 1774, Des Barres returned to England, where he began work on The Atlantic Neptune. His dedication to the project was so strong that often at his own expense he continually updated and added new charts and views up until 1784, when he returned to Canada, where he remained for a further forty years, becoming a senior political figure and a wealthy land owner, living to the advanced age of 103. The Atlantic Neptune, the most celebrated sea atlas, contained the first systematic survey of the east coast of North America. Des Barres’ synergy of great empirical accuracy with the peerless artistic virtue of his aquatint views created a work that “has been described as the most splendid collection of charts, plates and views ever published” (NMM). Upon the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, Britain’s empire in North America was greatly expanded, and this required the creation of a master atlas featuring new and accurate sea charts for use by the Royal Navy. Des Barres was charged with this Herculean task, publishing the first volume in London in 1775, which was soon followed by three further volumes. Des Barres’ monumental endeavor eventually featured over 200 charts and views, many being found in several states. Des Barres’ charts were immensely detailed, featuring both hydrographical and topographical information, and in many cases remained the most authoritative maps of the regions covered for several decades. SPENDLOVE, THE FACE OF EARLY CANADA, “J.F.W. Des Barres and The Atlantic Neptune,” pp.18-22. Debard, “The Family Origins of Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres: A Riddle Finally Solved” in Nova Scotia Historical Review Vol. 14, No. 2 (1994), p.15. NMM, HENRY NEWTON STEVENS COLLECTION 14B. $1500.

48. [Dulaney, Daniel]: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE PROPRIETY OF IMPOSING TAXES IN THE BRITISH COLONIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING A REVENUE BY ACT OF PARLIA- MENT. North America [i.e. Boston]. [1766]. [2],ii,[5]-47pp. with pasted down encomium. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Title- page trimmed and mounted on stub, contemporary inscription. Very good.

The Boston edition of this pamphlet, published the year after the very rare first edition. Dulaney, a Maryland lawyer, opposed the Stamp Act on the grounds that the theory of virtual representation did not apply to the colonies. His work was of importance in raising further opposition to the internal taxation of the British North American colonies, and with that of Otis was considered the most forceful argument of colonial rights at the time. William Pitt is said to have been strongly influenced by Dulaney’s opinions, and their author was publicly acknowledged by him. EVANS 9959 (dated 1765). SABIN 21170. WROTH 257. AMERICAN INDEPEN- DENCE 11e. HOWES D550. BAILYN, PAMPHLETS OF THE AMERICAN REVO- LUTION 13. $3000.

49. Edwards, Jonathan: AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE REVEREND MR. DAVID BRAINERD, MINISTER OF THE GOS- PEL, MISSIONARY TO THE INDIANS, FROM THE HONOUR- ABLE SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND, FOR THE PROPAGATION OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE, AND PASTOR OF A CHURCH OF CHRISTIAN INDIANS IN NEW-JERSEY...CHIEFLY TAKEN FROM HIS OWN DIARY, AND OTHER PRIVATE WRITINGS, WRITTEN FOR HIS OWN USE; AND NOW PUBLISHED. Bos- ton: D. Henchman, 1749. [2],xii,[18],316,[2]pp. including publisher’s advertisements. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style. 19th-century ownership inscription on titlepage. Very good.

A biography of the famed Indian missionary adapted from his own diary, by the renowned New England divine, Jonathan Edwards. Expelled from Yale for sym- pathizing with the Whitefield revival and for remarking that a college tutor had “no more grace than this chair,” Brainerd was nevertheless successful as a missionary to various Indian tribes in the Massachusetts-New York border region and in New Jersey. He died at the age of twenty-nine in the home of Edwards, to whose daughter he was engaged to marry. Brainerd was subject to periods of depression, and it has been suggested that many of his emotional religious experiences among the Indians were pathological in origin. NAIP w010110. EVANS 6311. DAB II, pp.591-92. SABIN 21927. HOWES E56. $1750. 50. [Election of 1828]: [ Jackson, Andrew]: TRUTH’S ADVOCATE AND MONTHLY ANTI-JACKSON EXPOSITOR. Cincinnati. 1828. [4],400pp. printed in double column format. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards, neatly rebacked with original leather label. Ownership signature on titlepage and several pages throughout. Pencil notes on front fly leaf. Scattered foxing, very good.

A complete run of the ten monthly issues of this forty-page journal, published from January to October, 1828. True to its name, this journal supported the re- election of President John Quincy Adams and published all manner of attacks on the character and competency of Andrew Jackson. Among the charges against Gen. Jackson: support for Aaron Burr’s conspiracy, wife stealing, engaging in the slave trade, and a militaristic temperament that makes him unfit as a civic leader. The frontispiece portrait depicts John Quincy Adams. “Planned from the beginning to be continued for ten months only” – Sabin. SABIN 97272. $1500.

51. [Eliot Indian Bible]: [ORIGINAL LEAF FROM THE OLD TES- TAMENT OF THE ELIOT INDIAN BIBLE, THE FIRST BIBLE PRINTED IN AMERICA]. [Cambridge: Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson, 1663]. [2]pp., printed in double columns. Small quarto. Dbd. Minor edge wear and soiling. Very good.

This leaf is from the first edition of the Eliot Indian Bible, the first Bible printed in North America and the first Bible in an American Indian language. The printing of this Bible was a monumental undertaking, and it took more than two and a half years to set the type and print the work. The recto of this leaf contains Ezekiel, chapter six, verses eleven to the end; and chapter seven, verses one through twenty, and the first few words of verse twenty-one. The verso contains the final six verses of chapter seven and the first sixteen verses of chapter eight. $1350.

The First Printing of the English Bill of Rights, with Other Critical Acts Establishing the Modern English System of Government, and the Theoretical Basis for the American Revolution

52. [English Bill of Rights]: William III (King of England, 1689-1702) and Mary II (Queen of England, 1689-1694): AN ACT DECLAR- ING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN. [bound in:] [SAMMELBAND OF EIGHTY PARLIAMENTARY ACTS]. Lon- don. 1685-1692. Various paginations. Small folio. Later suede, gilt leather label. Corners rubbed, boards a bit scuffed. Later ownership inscription and modern bookplate on front pastedown. First leaf backed with tissue. Light scattered tanning and foxing, a few marginal dampstains. Last few leaves dampstained, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

A sammelband containing eighty Parlia- mentary Acts, from the end of the reign of King James II and the early portion of the reign of William and Mary, including the first printing of the English Bill of Rights passed by Parliament in December 1689. The English Bill of Rights was the culmination of the coup d’état known as the Glorious Revolution in which James II was deposed and William of Orange and his wife Mary (daughter of James II) were brought in to replace him. James II, a Catholic monarch, fathered a legitimate son in 1688, creating the possibility of a Catholic succession in Protestant England. James II had already ruffled quite a few feathers by trying to reestablish Catholi- cism, displacing Anglicanism as the only official church in England; he was also considered to be too pro-French and was highly autocratic. The leading Whig noblemen, joined by a few key members of the Tory party, called on William of Orange to lead an army from the Netherlands to claim the throne. James II fled England in December 1688, leaving the Protestant William and Mary to rule the kingdom jointly. The “Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...” provides for several immutable political and civil rights, including the freedom from unilateral royal interference with the law, including the imposition of new taxes; freedom to petition the monarch; freedom of election of Parliamentary members, and freedom for those members to speak out freely and without reprisals while in Parliament; freedom for Protestants to bear arms; and freedom from a standing army in times of peace, requiring Parliament’s consent to convene the army. It also specifically overturns several of the Acts passed by James II as unlawful and unjust. Not only did the English Bill of Rights add to the rights set forth in the Magna Carta, it also established very clearly the order of succession to the reign of William and Mary. The throne would go to any of Mary’s heirs or issue, thence to her sister Anne of Denmark, and finally to any of William’s heirs by later marriages. It also specifically barred a Catholic from the throne, stating:

Whereas it hath been found by experience, that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom, to be governed by a Popish Prince, or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist...it may be enacted that all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold com- munion with the See or Church of Rome, or shall profess the Popish religion, or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever uncapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of this realm....

The monarch was also now required to swear an oath to uphold the Protestant religion. The enactment of this new set of laws was the beginning of modern-day British Parliamentary government, moving power out of the hands of the monarch and into those of Parliament and a ministerial system. The English Bill of Rights also served as a model for the founding documents of both the United States and Canada. Some of the other Acts in the sammelband which led up to the passing of the Bill of Rights are of particular note, as well as key pieces of legislation in establishing the new relationship of the Crown, the Parliament, and the people:

“An Act for Removing and Preventing All Questions and Disputes Concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this Present Parliament.” Feb. 23, [1689]. Passed just after Parliament passed the Declaration of Right on Feb. 13, which declared that the throne was vacant and thus free to be offered to William and Mary, this act declares the current Parliament is a valid body and its decisions, such as offering the throne to outsiders after ousting the King, are true and lawful. “An Act for Establishing the Coronation Oath.” April 9, 1689. A new coronation oath was needed in order to remove the absolute power from the hands of the monarchy. Under the new oath the monarch swears “to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same.” Under this new oath the monarchy was answerable to and bound by the laws passed by Parliament, rather than having free license to act on any tyrannical whim which may occur. “An Act for the Abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and Ap- pointing Other Oaths.” April 4, 1689. Negates legal loyalties to the previous sovereign, swearing fealty to the current rulers, William and Mary, and also swearing to “abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical” the position that persons excommunicated or otherwise condemned by the Pope may be murdered by their subjects with impunity. “An Act for the Better Securing the Government by Disarming Papists and Reputed Papists.” May 11, 1689. Mandates the disarming of anyone subscribing to the Roman Catholic faith, removing from their possession “any Arms, Weapons, Gunpowder or Ammunition.” “An Act for Exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects, Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws.” May 4, 1689. Though Catholics were not guaranteed freedom from persecution, this act did provide for the protection of other Protestant religions outside the Anglican church, such as the Quakers, who to this time had been heavily persecuted. “An Act for Impowering Their Majesties to Commit without Bayl, Such Persons as They Shall Find Just Cause to Suspect Are Conspiring Against the Govern- ment.” May 28, 1689. Empowers the monarchy to imprison persons suspected of treason, though the act notes that “nothing in this Act shall be construed to extend to the prejudice of the ancient Rights and Privileges of Parliament.” “An Act for the King and Queens Most Gracious, General, and Free Pardon.” May 20, 1690. Having been on the throne for more than a year and feeling secure in their position, William and Mary issued this general pardon to their subjects who might have supported James II, with quite a few exceptions, including a list of thirty-one specific individuals (one of them already deceased).

The other acts in this volume cover a wide range of subjects. Some repeal previous acts passed by James II, while others govern trade or the military. One specifically provides for the “Rebuilding, Finishing and Adorning” of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Another deals with the complete cessation of trade with France. At least half a dozen acts deal with the taxation on wine, beer, or spirits, and two with the taxation of tobacco. Overall, an illustrious collection of English laws, including the foundational document of British and American government. ESTC R236544. $22,500.

Noted Horses of America

53. [Equine Photographica]: [Schreiber & Son]: SCHREIBER & SON’S PORTRAITS OF NOTED HORSES OF AMERICA [cover title]. [Philadelphia. 1874]. [1]p. preface, followed by twenty-four leaves of mounts, each with a mounted albumen photograph and printed text on the recto and verso, for a total of forty-eight photographic prints, each print approximately 5½ x 8 inches. One related photographic print loosely laid in. Original tissue guards present. Oblong folio. Original three-quarter morocco and pebbled cloth, front board and spine gilt, raised bands. Original brass affixed to foredge of front board, but clasp lacking. Boards rubbed, leather scuffed. A front fly leaf loosely laid in. Some light foxing, mostly on the mounts but occasionally affecting a print. About very good.

The first and only volume published of this scarce and important collection of photographs of noted American racehorses. Issued by Schreiber & Son, the leading photographers of animals in Philadelphia, the volume showcases the leading racing and trotting horses in the United States, giving their pedigree, size, ownership information, and stud fees, where applicable. Included are portraits of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian (namesake of the Hambletonian Stakes and sire of many of the other horses featured herein), stallion Jay Gould, trotting stallion George Wilkes, Woodford Mambrino, Lady Thorne, Lucy, Morgan horse Ethan Allen, and many more. The work was issued without a titlepage or publisher’s imprint, but the photographs are copyrighted between 1871 and 1874, hence our attribution of a date. We note three copies at auction in the past twenty-five years, one of those selling at Sotheby’s in 2003 for $3000. OCLC locates a total of ten copies, the record noting twenty-four leaves of photographs, as in our copy. The three copies at auction, however, each recorded fifty total photographs. KEENELAND ASSOCIATION LIBRARY CATALOGUE, p.194. OCLC 4254541. $2000.

A Primary Text in Colonial Geography

54. Evans, Lewis: GEOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND MECHANICAL ESSAYS. THE FIRST, CONTAINING AN ANALYSIS OF A GENERAL MAP OF THE MIDDLE BRITISH COLONIES IN AMERICA; AND OF THE COUNTRY OF THE CON- FEDERATE INDIANS.... Philadelphia: Printed by B. Frank- lin, and D. Hall, 1755. iv,32pp. Small folio. Contemporary paper wrappers. Some light wear and chipping. Light dampstaining to lower right corner of text. Other- wise quite clean. Very good. In a large folio box.

Second edition, published the same year as the first, with only minor re- visions. A pioneering American geographical work of the greatest importance, giving a detailed geographical description of the middle and southern colonies, particularly notable for an early description of the Ohio country, and with a good description of the Carolina back country. Evans was also eager for the British to expand into the South, especially West Florida, to chal- lenge the French and Spanish in the Gulf. Miller notes the map was sold separately and thus should not be considered an integral part of the book. CAMPBELL 126. HOWES E226, “b.” EVANS 7413. MILLER 606a. SERVIES I, p.18. SABIN 23175. THOMSON 234. CLARK I:232. $14,000. The Gettysburg Address

55. Everett, Edward: ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT, AT THE CONSECRATION OF THE NATIONAL CEMETERY AT GETTYSBURG, 19th NOVEMBER, 1863, WITH THE DEDICATORY SPEECH OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, AND THE OTHER EXERCISES OF THE OCCASION.... Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1864. 87,[1]pp. plus two maps. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear to spine. Toning on two pages, else internally very clean. Very good.

“First authorized edition of Lincoln’s address” – Howes. Here, as was the case at the dedication, President Lincoln’s immortal words are placed second to Everett’s rambling, damning speech about Confederate hostilities. Everett’s speech takes up more than fifty pages, while Lincoln’s is printed on a single page. This edition was published for the benefit of the cemetery monument fund. The frontispiece map shows the battlefield, and the folding plate gives a map of the grounds of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. HOWES E232. MONAGHAN 194. $2250.

An Important Hungarian Account of Travel to the United States

56. Farkas, Sandor Boloni: UTAZAS ESZAK AMERIKABAN. Kolozsvartt. 1834. [6],346,[5]pp. plus errata. Contemporary three-quarter cloth and boards. Slightly rubbed. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Minor foxing. Very good.

One of the few early Hungarian travellers to the United States, and one of the few early works on America in Hungarian. This seems to be the first edition, not listed in the NUC, which records an edition with the same printer and collation but dated 1835, and an evidently abridged 1834 edition of less than half the pagination of the present edition. Farkas is omitted by Howes, Clark, and every other bibliographer of travel literature consulted; however, he is given prominent mention in Abroad in America, the exhibition on European travellers in the United States put on by the National Portrait Gallery in 1976. Farkas came to the United States full of hope, as a political idealist from the middle level of the nobility who hoped to find a democratic model to aid the Hun- garians in their struggle for freedom from the Austrian empire. Other prominent Hungarians had been denied permission to travel in the U.S., and his pioneering work made him the “Columbus of Democracy” to many in his native country. Anna Katone writes in Abroad in America:

In spite of the danger of strong censorship, he expressed his admiration for the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence...with the obvious wish that they might provide political guidance for his own country. In those days, this was a revolutionary gesture. Together with the Hungarian translation of Tocqueville...it became a textbook on democracy for progressive minds and was eagerly quoted in parliamentary arguments.

Farkas was struck by all aspects of American life: the freedom, openness of society, religious toleration (he was a Unitarian), and economic opportunity. His enthusiastic book became an important text of Hungarian freedom, but at a cost. The author was now suspect, watched by the oppressive government, and died a disappointed man in 1842. Farkas landed in New York in the fall of 1831, went up the Hudson, then east to Boston, north through New Hampshire to the St. Lawrence, up the river and through Ontario to Niagara and Buffalo. From there he went to eastern Ohio, Rapp’s settlement in Economy, Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, and Philadel- phia, returning to Europe in the fall of 1832. His preface is dated May, 15, 1833. He reports many details of his trip, but his overall focus is on institutions and the country in general. An important and influential, although little-known, book. ABROAD IN AMERICA, pp.43-51. $2750.

Rare Germantown Imprint, with a Colonial Woman’s Provenance

57. Fenelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CAMBRAY’S DISSERTATION ON PURE LOVE, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LADY, FOR WHOSE SAKE THE ARCHBISHOP WAS BANISH’D FROM COURT, AND THE GRIEVOUS PERSECUTIONS SHE SUFFER’D IN FRANCE FOR HER RELIGION.... Germantown: Christopher Saur, 1750. xcvii,120pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Titlepage and first few leaves with neat paper repair in upper right corner. Light foxing and wear, contemporary ownership inscriptions in text, contemporary notations on front fly leaf. Very good.

A Germantown, Pennsylvania printing of Fenelon’s work, a selection of his Oeuvres Spirituelles, first published under this title in London in 1735. Fenelon (1651- 1715) was a French archbishop, theologian, and writer, best known for his work, The Adventures of Telemachus, first published in 1699. The title refers to Fenelon’s banishment from court for friendship with a lady, Madame Guyon, whose Quietist views were considered heretical. Despite Fenelon’s protestations that he did not share such beliefs, that in combination with his publication of Telemachus earned him the ire of Louis XIV. Later in life Fenelon wrote several anti-Jansenist works as well. This edition is notable for emanating from the press of Christopher Saur. In 1738, Saur established the first German-language press in America in Germantown, near Philadelphia, and his family continued printing there through the end of the century. Interestingly, this work is in English, one of the first of his English language imprints. Rare. This copy is further distinguished by having the ownership inscriptions of three women. The first, on the front fly leaf, reads: “This book Ann Cooper’s in the year 1751 Price three shillings.” The second inscription reads: “the gift of Ann Cooper’s daughter Ann Whita [several letters lost].” Finally, the top of the titlepage is inscribed in what would appear to be an early 19th-century hand: “Joseph and Hannah Whitall.” This would seem to indicate descent through three generations of the same family. EVANS 6498. HILDEBURN 1174. ESTC W19461. $4750.

A Poor Richard Almanack

58. [Franklin, Benjamin]: POOR RICH- ARD IMPROVED: BEING AN AL- MANACK AND EPHEMERIS OF THE MOTIONS OF THE SUN AND MOON...FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1752. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, [1751]. [36]pp. Several in-text woodcut ornaments and vignettes. 12mo. Dbd. Light foxing and soiling, some light wear. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth box.

The first Poor Richard Almanack was printed in 1732. The early almanacs are extremely rare, and all from the period when Franklin himself was printing them are very rare in commerce, although there are many institutional holdings. In this almanac one of the woodcuts applies astrological elements to the human anatomy and another depicts a solar eclipse. The final two leaves list courts in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York, as well as post road routes and Quaker meetings. Miller locates twenty-two complete copies. MILLER 529. EVANS 6670. CAMPBELL 476. DRAKE 9738. HILDEBURN 1239. $25,000.

“The most important scientific book of 18th century America” – PMM

59. Franklin, Benjamin: EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON ELECTRICITY, MADE AT PHILADELPHIA IN AMERICA...TO WHICH ARE ADDED, LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PHILO- SOPHICAL SUBJECTS. THE WHOLE CORRECTED, METH- ODIZED, IMPROVED, AND NOW FIRST COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER PLATES. London: Printed for David Henry, 1769. [2],iv,[2],496[i.e. 504],[16]pp. including leaf of errata and advertisement “concerning this fourth edition,” plus seven engraved plates (four folding). Half title. Quarto. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked retaining original red morocco label. Very good.

The fourth, first collected, and by far most desirable edition, containing for the first time complete notes on all the experiments, as well as correspondence between Peter Collinson, Franklin, and other collaborators. Franklin began experimenting with electricity as early as 1745, demonstrating the electrical property of lightning and inventing the lightning conductor. This volume includes summaries of his work with Leyden jars, charged clouds, and lightning rods, as well as his famous kite and key experiment. In addition to the electrical experiments it contains the important discovery of the course of storms over North America and other important meteor- ological observations. “America’s first great scientific contribution” – Howes. The work caused a sensation in the scientific world when first published in 1751, and ranked in the eyes of many of Franklin’s contemporaries as far beyond any of his political achievements. Harvard and Yale awarded him honorary degrees in 1753; he received the highest award of the Royal Society, the Copley Medal, the same year; and he was elected to the Society in 1756, the first American to be so honored. This fourth edition is the first complete edition of the original work. The earlier editions were issued in separately published parts. Franklin edited this new one-volume edition himself, significantly revising the text, adding for the first time a number of his own philosophical letters and papers, introducing footnotes, cor- recting errors, and adding an index. This copy includes the errata/advertisement leaf which is often lacking. HOWES F320, “b.” PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 199. SABIN 25506. FORD 307. MILESTONES OF SCIENCE 69. $32,500.

60. [Franklin, Benjamin]: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE LATE BEN- JAMIN FRANKLIN, LL.D....ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY HIM- SELF, AND NOW TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.... Lon- don. 1793. xvi,324pp. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards in antique style. Light foxing. Very good.

First English translation of Franklin’s Mémoires de la Vie Privée..., containing many vivid descriptions of his early life in the two great cities of colonial English America, Boston and Philadelphia. There is a wealth of detail of daily life and characters, as well as Franklin’s role in founding some of the first great civic institutions in America. A classic piece of Americana. HOWES F323, “aa.” SABIN 25573. $7500. Uncut in Boards

61. Franklin, Benjamin: WORKS OF THE LATE DOCTOR BENJA- MIN FRANKLIN: CONSISTING OF HIS LIFE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, TOGETHER WITH ESSAYS, HUMOROUS, MORAL & LITERARY, CHIEFLY IN THE MANNER OF THE SPECTA- TOR. London: Printed for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1793. Two volumes. [iii]-x,[1, blank],[1, contents],[1, blank], 317,[1, errata]; [v],290pp. Original paper boards, rebacked with paper at an early date. Very good. Provenance: Mary Lodge (signature dated 1796); Anne Bray (early signature).

Second English edition, including part of Franklin’s autobiography translated into English for the first time. Rare, especially uncut in boards. “A collection of the ‘popular’ pieces of Franklin, together with a re- translation of the autobiography from the French translation of Gibelin, and Stuber’s continuation. The editing was done by Benjamin Vaughan, who has clearly made use of his MS. copy of the autobiography in the re-translation. The work was prepared for publication in 1791, but withheld on account of Temple Franklin’s announcement of an edition of his grandfather’s writings. An additional volume of Franklin’s scientific writings was also announced, but never printed” – Ford. This edition contains three essays not in the first edition. ESTC records only eighteen copies in institutions worldwide. A rare work. FORD 438. HOWES F323. SABIN 25600. GOODSPEED 524:88. ESTC N26015. $7500.

62. [French Colonies in America]: [Compagnie des Indes]: ARREST DU CONSEIL D’ESTAT DU ROY, QUI ORDONNE QU’IL SERA PASSE A LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES UN CONTRACT D’ALIENATION, A TITRE D’ENGAGEMENT, DES DROITS COMPOSANS LE DOMAINE D’OCCIDENT. DU 23 MARS 1723. Paris. 1723. 4pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Light dampstaining and soiling. Contemporary inscription. Very good.

A French royal decree pertaining to the rights of the Compagnie des Indes regarding taxes in New France. In 1721 the Compagnie had declared bankruptcy and was reorganized after the Mississippi Bubble burst. Wroth records only the copy at NYPL, and OCLC adds two more, at Harvard and the John Carter Brown Library. Rare. From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727- 94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 991. MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 258 (this copy). $1250.

News Reaches America of Peace Between Napoleon and the British

63. [French Revolutionary Wars]: COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, EX- TRA. MONDAY MORNING, NOV. 16, 1801...VERY IMPORTANT NEWS. SIGNING OF THE PRELIMINARIES OF PEACE.... [Bos- ton]: Russell and Cutler, [November 1801]. Letterpress broadside, 18 x 11 inches. Printed in three columns. Very good.

Three lines of text below the date- line read: “The subsequent important and highly interesting News, was exclusively received at the Chronicle Office, yesterday, in a sealed packet, and by the Printers of that paper kept locked until this morning. We em- brace the earliest moment to present it to our respectable readers.” After giving the particulars of the preliminary agreement between Lord Hawsbury and Louis-Guillaume Otto, which would shortly thereafter lead to the Treaty of Amiens and the end of the War of the Second Coali- tion, the American editors note: “the Preliminaries of a Peace, between the two countries, are without doubt, signed; but innumerable difficulties, long delays and insurmountable bar- riers will probably arise to prevent final ratification. It will indeed be a phenomenon in the political world if these difficulties should not appear.” Although the final treaty would be ratified, the editor’s comment would prove prescient, with the peace between France and Great Britain proving only temporary, lasting but a single year before the renewal of hostilities. $1200.

64. Gordon, William: THE HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND ESTABLISHMENT, OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATE WAR; AND OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES, FROM THEIR ORIGIN TO THAT PERIOD. London: Printed for the Author..., 1788. Four volumes. [26],504; [8],584; [8],499; [8],445,[35]pp., plus nine engraved folding maps and plates. Contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style retaining original labels. Very good.

A handsome set of the “first full-scale history of this war by an American; to its preparation Jefferson contributed some aid” (Howes). “Gordon is deservedly reckoned as the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution” – Sabin. Gordon was a dissenting minister in England, who like many of his class sympathized with the contention of the Thirteen Colonies. Going to America during the disturbances and becoming pastor of the church at Jamaica Plain, now a district of Boston, he was throughout the Revolution a spectator close at hand of many important events, and the associate of many of the chief patriots. Later scholarship has shown that a good part of Gordon’s history was taken from the Annual Register. This work is noted for its folding maps, engraved by T. Conder, which include a general map of the United States as well as maps of New England, New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas, and the areas surrounding Boston and New York City, plus battle plans of Fort Moultrie and Yorktown. HOWES G256, “aa.” SABIN 28011. LARNED 1341. GEPHART 996. NEBENZAHL, BATTLE PLANS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 23, 63, 86, 105, 201. $10,000.

In a Full Royal Binding for George III, with an Astounding Provenance: Two Kings, a Royal Duke, a Royal Bastard, and a Wig Maker

65. [Great Britain]: [George III]: [Royal Navy]: ANNO REGNI GEOR- GII II. REGIS MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ, FRANCIÆ, & HIBERNIÆ, VICESIMO SECUNDO. AT THE PARLIAMENT BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, THE TENTH DAY OF NOVEM- BER, ANNO DOMINI 1747...AN ACT FOR AMENDING, EX- PLAINING, AND REDUCING INTO ONE ACT OF PARLIA- MENT, THE LAWS RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIPS, VESSELS, AND FORCES BY SEA. Lon- don: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1780. 62pp. Small quarto. Dark blue morocco, gilt, gilt inner dentelles; cover embellished with gilt-tooled Star, Garter, Royal Motto, and royal initials of King George III. Light wear to extremities. Multiple bookplates and remarkable provenance, as detailed below. Very good. In a clamshell box, gilt leather label.

Two Acts of Parliament concerning the Navy and Naval Affairs which have been specially bound for King George III. The first act, passed under George II, explains and condenses several acts of Parliament into one clearer and more manageable act. The second act, paginated continuously but with its own titlepage, is an act to explain and amend the previous act. We locate one copy on OCLC, at the Society of the Cincinnati. This work does not appear to be listed in the ESTC. This copy is remarkable due to its provenance. The binding is stamped with the arms and initials of King George III, tooled in the Star and Garter and topped with a crown. The front endpapers bear many bookplates, beginning with the bookplate of the Duke of Sussex, son of George III and the most famous book collector among his sons, with a clipping from the Sussex auction. Here it was evidently bought by his brother, the Duke of Clarence, and has his bookplate (a naval officer most of his life, he would have been particularly interested in the subject). Clarence later became William IV, and the volume passed to the First Earl of Munster, il- legitimate son of William IV and his mistress, Dorothy Jordan. Although he was treated well and made a member of the Privy Council by his cousin, Victoria, the Earl killed himself in 1842. The volume was acquired by the 2nd Lord Stanley of Aderley, a prominent political figure and well known collector. From the Stanley family the volume passed to another famous English book collector, Robert Hovenden, who made a fortune in the wig business and spent his profits on books. After him it was owned by Dr. Francis Gray Smart, another collector and antiquary. Sometime after Smart’s death in 1913 the volume came into the hands of the great English collector, Maj. J.R. Ab- bey, best remembered for his great bibliographies of English illustrated works (his collections now reside at the Yale Center for British Art). Abbey’s penciled notes are on the fly leaf. This volume was sold with his remaining books and manuscripts at auction in the late 1960s. A wonderful volume with a truly stupendous provenance. OCLC 70821711. $8500. Famous Gambler

66. Green, Jonathan H.: AN EXPOSURE OF THE ARTS AND MISER- IES OF GAMBLING; DESIGNED ESPECIALLY AS A WARN- ING TO THE YOUTHFUL AND INEXPERIENCED AGAINST THE EVILS OF THAT ODIOUS AND DESTRUCTIVE VICE... REVISED BY A LITERARY FRIEND. Philadelphia. 1847. 336pp. plus six plates. Publisher’s black cloth, stamped in blind, featuring a horn spilling items such as players’ cards, chips, a clock, and weapons, surrounded by a floral border; rebacked in red calf, gilt leather label. Corners scuffed. Mild foxing and toning, scattered dampstaining. Good plus.

The first of a series of books on this subject written by Green, and the first book by a professional gambler exposing the tricks of the trade. Green, “the reformed gambler,” is the most important figure in the early literature of American gambling. A famed gambler in his youth, he was known for his talents from Texas to Boston and all points in between. He abandoned gambling just shy of age thirty and became an advocate against it, seeking to expose the tricks of the trade. The present title, here described as “Revised by a Literary Friend, Fourth Edition, Improved,” is not listed in Howes, although three of Green’s books are. This volume includes chapters on horse racing, card games, “The Depravity of Vice of Rapid Growth,” cheating techniques, and many stories of the terrible and untimely deaths of gamblers by murder and suicide, especially in the southern states, most notably Arkansas and Louisiana. Green’s works are some of the most elusive and important devoted to early American gambling. $1750.

One of the Gambling Classics

67. Green, Jonathan H.: GAMBLING UNMASKED! OR THE PER- SONAL EXPERIENCE OF J.H. GREEN, THE REFORMED GAMBLER, DESIGNED AS A WARNING TO THE YOUNG MEN OF THIS COUNTRY. Written by Himself. Philadelphia. 1847. [2],312pp. plus frontispiece and five plates. 12mo. Original brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. Scattered fading, spine and edges chipped, front hinge tender. Bookplate and ownership stamp on front and rear pastedowns, penciled notations on fly leaves. Foxing and toning, lower margin stained on some pages. About good.

The second edition, after the first of 1844. “A reformed gambler’s adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana” – Howes. One of several works by Green, the most important early writer on gambling in America. This book is the most famous of his works and reveals various forms of card-sharking and cheating. HOWES G365. $2750. One of the Author’s Rarest Books

68. Green, Jonathan H.: TWELVE DAYS IN THE TOMBS; OR, A SKETCH OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS OF THE RE- FORMED GAMBLER’S LIFE. New York. 1851. 259pp. 12mo. Publisher’s embossed cloth, spine gilt. Spine and edges faded, corners scuffed. Mild foxing. Good.

Green’s memoirs, detailing his life as a gambler, and of his swift reformation after twelve years as one of the most skilled players in the United States. After his reformation he became an active crusader against illegal gambling, writing several important works exposing the tricks of the trade and encouraging re- habilitation from vice. His works are some of the most elusive and important devoted to early Ameri- can gambling. Sabin incorrectly lists this edition as published in 1850. Rare. SABIN 28535 (ref ). $5000.

Iconic Source on American Gambling

69. Green, Jonathan H.: GAMBLING EXPOSED. A FULL EXPOSI- TION OF ALL THE VARIOUS ARTS, MYSTERIES, AND MIS- ERIES OF GAMBLING. By the “Reformed Gambler”.... Philadelphia. [1857]. 312pp. plus 10pp. publisher’s advertisements and six plates. Original brown publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Cloth lightly faded, tail of spine scuffed. Mild foxing to plates, else very clean. Very good plus.

One of the classics in American gambling literature, written by Jonathan H. Green, renowned professional gambler and later reformer. Green is the most important figure in the early literature of American gambling, a gambler who became a crusader against illegal gambling and wrote many works devoted to exposing crime, cheating, and vice. “A reformed gambler’s adventures among brother card-sharps, counterfeiters, etc., along the lower Mississippi, from Kentucky to Louisiana” – Howes. This is probably the third edition of Green’s work originally published in 1844 as Gambling Unmasked.... Green’s works are some of the most elusive and important devoted to early American gambling. HOWES G365. $2000. Gambling and Sleight of Hand

70. Green, Jonathan H.: ONE HUNDRED TRICKS WITH CARDS. GAMBLERS’ TRICKS WITH CARDS, EXPOSED AND EX- PLAINED. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [ca. 1880]. 114,[46]pp. including illustrations. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Minor shelf wear, upper spine repaired with tape, rear wrapper similarly repaired. Internally very clean. Very good.

Herein Green, “The Reformed Gambler,” offers the inside scoop on games such as Dog Loo (played on the Red River), Whist, Thimbles (or cups), Poker, and Euchre, and on techniques such as palming, lapping, forcing cards, shuffling, cutting, dealing, stocking the pack, and cogging dice. Many other interesting subjects are also discussed, including horse racing and nailing a card to a wall by a pistol shot. Green adds numerous tales of personal experience, and the illustrations offer the reader the ability to recognize common sleights of hand. By offering detailed information on how to recognize gamblers’ tricks, Green is also providing an advanced tutorial for the aspir- ing gambler or cheat. The copyright date on the verso of the titlepage appears to read 1850 (the first year of publication), but the worn type throughout, as well as the other titles advertised as available by Dick and Fitzgerald, indicates this edition was likely produced around 1880. In any edition, a rare and significant work. TOOLE-STOTT 324. $1500.

First Edition to Name the Authors

71. [Hamilton, Alexander; James Madison; and John Jay]: THE FEDER- ALIST, ON THE NEW CONSTITUTION; WRITTEN IN 1788, BY MR. HAMILTON, MR. JAY, AND MR. MADISON. Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818. 504pp. plus three portraits. Contemporary tree calf, neatly rebacked, original gilt spine laid down. Light to moderate foxing, most noticeable on the plates, as usual. Very good.

Later edition, improved from the edition of the previous year by the addition of an appendix, and notable as the first edition of the work to name the authors. Simply one of the most important texts in United States political history. With portraits of the three famous authors. SABIN 23984. $2500.

The Great Quaker Schism in America

72. [Hannay, Robert]: A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS, SENCE AND ADVICE OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS. AT THE YEARLY MEETINGS OF FAITHFUL FRIENDS AND BRETHREN BEGUN IN LONDON ON THE 28th OF THE 3d MONTH, 1694, AND HELD BY ADJOURNMENT UNTO THE 11th OF THE MONTH FOLLOWING, IN ORDER TO PUT AN END TO THE DIVISIONS AND DIFFERENCES AMONG SOME OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS IN AMERICA.... London: R. Levis, 1694. [4],16pp. Small quarto. Early 20th-century three- quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly rubbed. Minor soiling and wear to text. Very good.

A major rarity of 17th-century Phila- delphia and New Jersey, this pamphlet relates details of the schism amongst the Quakers caused by George Keith. Keith (1639?-1716) was an early and important convert to Quakerism, but then began an attempt to reform Quaker theology in the early 1690s during an extended sojourn in America. This sparked a famous controversy in Philadelphia which fueled some of the earliest productions of the press in Philadelphia and New York, and led to the first trial of freedom of the press in America, decades before Zenger. Disowned by the Friends on both sides of the Atlantic, Keith returned to England and entered the Anglican church in 1700, later returning to America as an Anglican missionary. “Whether it was a long-brewing dispute or a short-term conflict is debated, but at the yearly meeting of Quakers in Philadelphia in 1691 a row occurred that caused much acrimony between Keith and his Quaker brethren. William Stockdale, one of the early Quaker settlers, accused Keith of heresy, of preaching two Christs because he overemphasized the two separate natures of the Saviour” – DNB. Tensions and events escalated in 1692 and 1693, fueled by Keith’s published attacks, printed by Philadelphia’s first printer, William Bradford. Keith and Bradford were then tried for sedition, but the case against them collapsed when the evidence (Bradford’s set type of an inflammatory broadside) was dropped by a juror. Keith and Bradford then moved to New York, where the former wrote and the latter printed a summation of the whole business, Truth Advanced in the Correction and Many Gross and Hurtful Errors, the first book published in New York. In the present work the author condemns the schism as detrimental to the Quaker faith as a whole, and he urges Keith to do everything in his power to smooth things over. The text includes a missive from the Yearly Meeting in Burlington, New Jersey, addressed to “Our Friends and Brethren in Truth, both in Pennsylvania, East and West-Jarsey, and elsewhere, as there may be occasion, to be read in their Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, as they in the Wisdom of God shall see meet.” The letter exonerates Keith from charges leveled against him and is signed in type by thirty-nine members of the Meeting. The present work is of the greatest rarity. We can locate copies at the Hun- tington Library, Library of Congress, New York Public Library (imperfect), and the British and Bodleian libraries in England. This would appear to be the only copy in private hands. ESTC R12805. WING H656. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 694/80. SABIN 30235. $12,500.

The Extremely Rare First Edition

73. Harbison, Massy: A NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERINGS OF MASSY HARBISON, FROM INDIAN BAR- BARITY, GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF HER CAPTIVITY, THE MURDER OF HER TWO CHILDREN, HER ES- CAPE, WITH AN INFANT AT HER BREAST; TOGETHER WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CRUELTIES OF THE INDIANS, ON THE ALLEGHE- NY RIVER, &c. DURING THE YEARS, 1790, ’91, ’92, ’93, ’94. COMMUNICAT- ED BY HERSELF. Pittsburgh: Printed by S. Engles, 1825. 66pp. 12mo. Contemporary blue paper boards, rebacked with linen at an early date and restitched. Dampstaining. Else good. In a chemise and tan half morocco slipcase. Provenance: John Crawford (inscriptions and signature dated 1827).

The very rare first edition of this classic Indian captivity set on the Ohio-Pennsylvania frontier. Harbison and her infant child were kidnapped from their home on the Allegheny River by Indians in 1792. Her two young sons were scalped and she was held captive for two days before making a daring escape with her child, eventually reaching Fort Pitt. Following her account is a description of St. Clair’s defeat in 1791 based on otherwise unpublished dispatches. This is the extremely rare first edition, not to be confused with the more common 1828 second edition. Only one other copy has sold at auction since 1952, being the Siebert copy in 1999 ($18,400). SABIN 30291. HOWES H179, “b.” AYER 335. FIELD 650. CHURCH 1332. GRAFF 1775. THOMSON 502. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 20806. SIEBERT SALE 980. $9500.

A Beautiful Copy of Hepplewhite’s Guide

74. Hepplewhite, Alice: Hepplewhite, George: THE CABINET-MAKER AND UPHOLSTERER’S GUIDE; OR, REPOSITORY OF DE- SIGNS FOR EVERY ARTICLE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, IN THE NEWEST AND MOST APPROVED TASTE.... London: I. and J. Taylor, [1789]. iv,24,[2]pp. plus 127 plates (including one double-page plate, counted as two in numbering). Folio. 20th-century red morocco, gilt, dentelles, a.e.g. Corners slightly bumped. Bookplates on front pastedown. One plate neatly repaired in the margin, else internally clean. Near fine.

A key furniture pattern book of the late 18th century. This is the revised second edition, published the year after the first. Issued by the Hepplewhite family firm, the work was published by George Hepplewhite’s widow, Alice, the year after his death. “No compendium of furniture designs had appeared since 1762, when Thomas Chippendale issued the third edition of his Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Direc- tor. In publishing the Hepplewhite Guide the Taylors were filling a yawning gap. The plates were issued in batches at the beginning of July, September, and October 1787. In January and February 1788 a subscription was promoted in such papers as the Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury and Williamson’s Liverpool Advertiser. The price was 2 guineas. The preface adopts a modest tone: ‘To unite elegance and utility, and blend the useful with the agreeable, has ever been considered a difficult but an honourable task.’ It stressed the Guide’s utility to ‘the mechanic,’ to ‘young workmen in general, and occasionally to more experienced ones.’ A successful subscription ‘enabled us to exceed the number of plates originally proposed’” – DNB. BRUNET III:105. DNB (online). $6500.

A Classic Massachusetts History

75. Hutchinson, Thomas: THE HISTORY OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY, FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT THEREOF IN 1628. UNTIL ITS INCORPORATION WITH THE COLONY OF PLYMOUTH, PROVINCE OF MAIN, &c. BY THE CHARTER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY IN 1691. [with:] THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHU- SETS-BAY, FROM THE CHARTER OF KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, IN 1691, UNTIL THE YEAR 1750. [with:] A COL- LECTION OF ORIGINAL PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE HIS- TORY OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETS-BAY. Boston: Thomas & John Fleet, 1764, 1767, 1769. Three volumes. [4],iv,566; [4],iv,539; [2],ii,576pp., plus later wood-engraved frontispiece of “Hutchinson House.” Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Title- page of second volume with some slight loss, affecting several letters, neatly repaired; titlepage of third volume with minor loss of blank corner, neatly repaired. Minor foxing and toning. Very good.

The first edition of this classic Massachusetts history, published in three separate volumes. The first volume discusses the early years of the colony from first settlement in 1628 until 1691. The second volume covers Massachusetts from the 1691 charter until 1750 and includes an index to both volumes. The third volume was published by Hutchinson to support and elucidate the principal facts related in the first two volumes of the history of Massachusetts Bay, and may serve as an appendix to it. According to Sabin, this third volume is “a necessary adjunct to Hutchinson’s History.” “Hutchinson’s History of Massachusetts-Bay accurately recounted these events and contained sympathetic accounts of Puritanism; the Antinomian heresy of Hutchinson’s ancestor, Anne Hutchinson; and Massachusetts opposition in the 1680s to the ‘tyrannical disposition’ of the royalist governor, Sir Edmund Andros, and his administration’s ‘harpies.’ Hutchinson’s History acknowledged the mul- tiplicity of jostling interest groups in Massachusetts and the duty of government to protect the public interest from the demands of self-interested groups” – ANB. Besides being a colonial historian, Hutchinson was governor of Massachusetts from 1771 to 1773 and a staunch Loyalist. He left Boston for London in late 1773, after he had helped cause the Boston Tea Party, and remained in exile in England until his death in 1780. The first two volumes of Hutchinson’s work on the Massachusetts colony are complete unto themselves, but the third volume acts as a valuable appendix. Each volume is rare; rarer still to find all three together. An important and early colonial history. HOWES H853. EVANS 9705, 10658, 11300. ESTC W20456, W20464, W31190. SABIN 34075, 34078, 34069. $3750.

The Most Desirable Edition

76. Imlay, Gilbert: A TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN TERRITORY OF NORTH AMERICA: CONTAINING A SUCCINCT ACCOUNT OF ITS SOIL, CLIMATE, NATURAL HISTORY, POPULATION, AGRICULTURE, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS...THE THIRD EDITION, WITH GREAT ADDI- TIONS. London. 1797. xii,598,[28],[2]pp. plus plan and three folding maps. Half title. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Light foxing, pencil marginalia, and underlining throughout. Good.

“The most complete version of this work, in which form it was the most infor- mative compilation on the West at the end of the 18th century” – Streeter. “... The most complete information on the trans-Allegany frontier...” – Howes. The third edition of Imlay’s work adds so much material to the earlier editions as to make it a completely different book, embellished with important maps. Here he gives the complete texts of Filson’s famous work on Kentucky, and Hutchins on Florida, Louisiana, and Virginia, as well as an account of Indians, Indian corn, ancient earthworks, the soil in the Genesee country, Patrick Kennedy’s journal up the Illinois River, a reprint of A Short Description of the State of Tennassee [sic] which first appeared in Philadelphia the previous year, the act creating Knoxville, the 1796 treaty with Spain, and the plan of association of the North American Land Company. All of this is illuminated by “A Map of the Western Territories of the United States,” “A Map of the State of Kentucky from Actual Survey by Elihu Barker of Philadelphia,” and “A Map of the Tennassee [sic] Government....” The folding plan shows the falls of the Ohio. One of the most important pieces of Americana of the late 18th century. STREETER SALE 1525. HOWES I12, “b.” FIELD 747. THOMSON 632. SABIN 34358. VAIL 1130. BUCK 43. CLARK II:41. GRAFF 2091. RADER 2003. $3000. A Presentation Copy of “the foremost American institutional legal treatise” (DAB)

77. Kent, James: COMMENTARIES ON AMERICAN LAW. New York: Printed by O. Halsted, 1826-1830. Four volumes. vi,[2],508; viii,528; viii,413; viii,550pp. Contemporary calf, gilt leather labels. Spines with neat repairs on ends and hinges. Presentation inscription from the author on front fly leaf of first volume. Minor scattered foxing, but internally quite clean and fresh. Very good.

A presentation set of the first edition of one of the most important American legal treatises, written by the most influential and prolific ju- rists of his era. Kent’s Commentaries... “continued his efforts as a judge to transplant the English common law to America, and its reli- ance on precedents had the two-prong effect of helping to maintain the primacy of judge-made law in contrast to codification by legislatures, while providing the legal profession with the degree and kind of certainty it craved” (ANB). It remains an incredibly readable and interesting work. James Kent (1763-1847) was a lawyer, politician, and legal educator. In 1798 he was appointed judge of the New York Supreme Court, and became chief judge in 1804. In 1814, Kent was appointed chancellor of the New York Court of Chancery. At the beginning and end of his career he taught law at Columbia University. These four volumes draw on his legal teachings and were written in his retirement. Divided into sixty-seven lectures, the work covers international law (the first American work on that subject, and especially important on the subject of neutral commerce), the U.S. Constitution, municipal law, personal rights, personal property, and real property. The fourth volume contains an index to the entire text. Kent’s work, published initially at his own expense, found such instant demand that the entire set was sold out by the time the fourth volume appeared in 1830, and several subsequent editions soon followed. “During Kent’s lifetime, the work was almost extravagantly praised, but the eulogies were not without foundation, for the work still remains the foremost American institutional legal treatise” – DAB. A complete set in first editions such as these is rare. This copy contains a warm presentation inscription by Kent: “To Looe Baker, Esq. in testimony of the respect which I bear to him & the love which I feel for the memory of his deceased son G.W. Baker who died the 8th April last & was my pupil. I beg his acceptance of this volume from his friend & obet. sevt. James Kent. 11 July 1827.” COHEN 5398. SABIN 37473. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 25026. DAB X, pp.344-47. ANB 12, pp.596-99. $10,000.

78. [Knox, William]: THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN GREAT- BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES REVIEWED; THE SEVERAL PLEAS OF THE COLONIES. IN SUPPORT OF THEIR RIGHT TO ALL THE LIBERTIES AND PRIVILEGES OF BRITISH SUBJECTS, AND TO EXEMPTION FROM THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT.... Boston: Main and Fleming, 1769. 100pp. Early 20th-century marbled boards, gilt leather label. Corners worn. Dampstaining and wear to titlepage, minor loss to margin repaired with early paper. A few contemporary notations in text. Minor soiling and light wear. Good. Untrimmed.

First American edition, after the first London edition of the same year. A pro- British treatise on the misbehaviors of the American colonies. Knox served as British agent for Georgia and Florida, and secretary of state for American affairs in 1770-82. In this work he estimates the impact of the Stamp Act and other problems that increased conflicts between Britain and the colonies. “Ascribed also to Thomas Whately, M.P. and former secretary to Lord Grenville, but probably by Knox, who was Under Secretary of State for America at this time” – Howes. John Hancock is said to have bought up debts of the printer, Main, and as a reprisal for publishing this work, to have forced the printer into bankruptcy by making an unexpected demand for their repayment. HOWES K226. EVANS 11305. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 65c. SABIN 38180. ESTC W37599. $900.

West Indian Trade Archive

79. [Latimer, John Richardson]: Israel, Joseph and William: Souffront, Jean Mathieu: [ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE AND MANU- SCRIPT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO OVERSEAS TRADE IN THE WEST INDIES IN THE EARLY 19th CENTURY]. [Mostly St. Thomas, also Lower Bethel, Pa.] 1819-1821. Thirty-one letters and documents, all one or two pages. Original folds, some seals removed, minor staining and toning. Very good.

Archive of documents relating to the Latimer family’s trade activities in the West Indies in the early 19th century. The Latimers were a prominent family from Dela- ware. John Richardson Latimer (1793-1865) was the grandson of James Latimer, the president of the Delaware Constitutional Convention in 1787; and son of Dr. Henry Latimer, a Revolutionary War surgeon who served under George Washington and was also a member of the Continental Congress. John Richardson Latimer concentrated his efforts on overseas shipping and trade in Canton, China and the West Indies (specifically St. Thomas and St. Barths), as well as India, England, and Turkey. Latimer was a prominent opium dealer in China, but traded flour, nankeen, lumber, and other products in the West Indies, as evidenced in the present archive. The archive is composed of letters and documents addressed to Latimer from his Jewish agents in St. Thomas, brothers Joseph and William Israel, as well as another agent named Jean Mathieu Souffront, the proprietor of J.M. Souffront, Son & Co., a long-standing trading company (including slaves) and forwarding agent located in St. Thomas. The most important portion of the archive lies in the fourteen letters written by Joseph Israel and J.M. Souffront between October 1819 and July 1820, all from St. Thomas. The letters address issues of trade such as the types of goods traded, prices, insurance, the transmittal of bills of lading, and more. Joseph Israel’s letter of Nov. 19, 1819 mentions the possibility of extending trade to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Israel died sometime before Jan. 11, 1820, since Souffront reports sales of nankeen left to him by “the late W. Joseph Israel.” Souffront’s letters tend much towards the reporting of affairs taken over from Israel, with Souffront referring to himself as a “broker” for Latimer. On several occasions Souffront mentions payments of Spanish dollars being sent to Philadelphia. Among Souffront’s letters is an auction receipt from St. Thomas for fifty pounds of nankeen, dated Nov. 22, 1819. In addition there are five documents recording sales account figures, two from Joseph Israel and three from Souffront, dated between November 1819 and November 1820. William Israel has written eight letters from Pennsylvania, dated between Jan. 7, 1820 and Feb. 24, 1821. Israel acknowledges his brother’s death in his letter of Feb. 3, introduces another brother to Latimer in February 1820, and attempts to settle his brother’s affairs with Latimer throughout the correspondence. Among William’s manuscripts is an unsigned, detailed accounting of figures relating to settling Joseph’s account. Lastly, there are two later documents not related to the St. Thomas business, but rather to a Latimer estate issue and to the sale of some Latimer stock, respectively. A fantastic collection of documents related to trade in the West Indies in the early 19th century. $2750.

A Woman’s Account Book from Jefferson-Era Delaware: A Little Thread, a Little Opium

80. Latimer, Sarah R.: [DAY BOOK AND ACCOUNT LEDGER RE- CORDING HER PERSONAL AND HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS]. [Wilmington?] 1806-1809. [73]pp. Quarto. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. Light soiling to wrappers. Internally clean. Near fine.

Day book and accounts of Sarah R. Latimer, daughter of Delaware physician and Congressman Henry Latimer (1752-1819). Sarah Latimer’s day book contains expense notations for items such as quills and various kinds of papers; copy books; coffee, raisins, and almonds; cheeses, bacon, butter, and oats; silk, cotton, and “Irish cloth,” as well as thread, ribbon, and lace; kid gloves and coat buttons; cochineal, opium, and mercury; and other household necessities. A significant number of her transactions are for paper and books. She also notes amounts paid to the steward, for bookkeeping, and for personal loans. Numerous lines indicate cash paid in part or full with no other designation. She includes an index to the volume. A useful source for providing some insight into the daily life and expenditures of a woman in America in the early 19th century. $1250.

81. [Lee, Arthur]: A SPEECH, INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN DELIV- ERED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, IN SUPPORT OF THE PETITION FROM THE GENERAL CONGRESS AT PHILADEL- PHIA. London: J. Almon..., 1775. [4],67pp. Half title. 19th-century three- quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Morocco rubbed, especially along spine, worn at spine ends. Light foxing. Good. In a cloth chemise and half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt.

Lee speaks in favor of the pleas of the American petition to the King and suggests conciliation on the part of England. A firm and extensive defense of American rights and explanation of American grievances. Rather scarce. HOWES L189, “aa.” AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 75-73a. $850.

82. [Lind, John]: AN ANSWER TO THE DECLARATION OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS. London. 1776. 132pp. Half title. 20th-century blue morocco, gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Spine lightly faded. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very minor foxing and soiling. Very good plus.

Styled third edition on the titlepage, after other editions all of the same year and an earlier very rare edition printed for private circulation. This work presents a detailed response to the Declaration of Independence, quoting in full each of the twenty-eight objections to the policies of the British Crown, and followed by harsh comments, with a separate section at the end discussing the famous opening lines. Howes errs in calling this a reply to the 1775 Congressional resolutions, which outlined “the causes and necessities of taking up arms.” HOWES L349. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 76-87d. SABIN 41281. ESTC T22050. $1000.

83. Logan, James: NOTES OF A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE WEST IN- DIES. Edinburgh. 1838. xii,259pp. plus folding frontispiece map. Half title. Contemporary textured cloth, printed paper label. Extremities lightly worn, corner bumped, label soiled. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

A rare travel account pertaining to a trip in the 1830s on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. “The emphasis in this travel work is upon information that might prove useful to emigrants. After traveling in Canada and visiting his brother there, Logan came to St. Louis, and in October 1836 he worked his way up the Ohio River loading wood and pig iron on a steamer. A few weeks later he traveled to New Orleans....He left New Orleans for Cuba...” – Clark. “The author, a British lawyer, was in Detroit and Mackinac in 1836, having traversed most of the Great Lakes. Crossing Lake Michigan to Chicago, which he describes, he continued on down the Mississippi to Cairo, thence back by the Ohio river to Pittsburgh and on to the East. At times Logan is severely critical of the United States” – Decker. “Includes excursions to the Western states, the Mississippi River, Indians of the Columbia River, corrupt legislation in the South, etc.” – Libbie. TPL 1979. LANDE S1309. HOWES L431. CLARK III:197. SABIN 41798. DECKER 40:141. LIBBIE 958:297. $1250.

Scarce 18th-Century New York Directory

84. Longworth, David: LONGWORTH’S AMERICAN ALMANACK, NEW-YORK REGISTER, AND CITY DIRECTORY...CONTAIN- ING MOST THINGS USEFUL IN A WORK OF THE KIND. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1798. [2],86,[220]pp. 12mo. Expertly bound to style in period tree calf, spine gilt, red morocco label. Very good.

The first New York directory appeared in 1786, but all such works printed before 1800 are rare survivals. In 1796, David Longworth (ca. 1765-1821) published the first number of Longworth’s American Almanack, a New York City directory that appeared annually thereafter and continued by Thomas Longworth into the mid- 19th century. Within the Directory over 9,000 residents of the city are listed, with their occupations and addresses. Among them is Alexander Hamilton, counselor at law, located at 26 Broadway. EVANS 34012 (incorrect collation). SPEAR, p.235. SABIN 41939. NAIP w013645. $1500.

Rare Western Address Directory

85. Lyford, William G.: THE WESTERN ADDRESS DIRECTORY: CONTAINING THE CARDS OF MERCHANTS, MANUFAC- TURERS, AND OTHER BUSINESSMEN...TOGETHER WITH HISTORICAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, & STATISTICAL SKETCH- ES, (FOR THE YEAR 1837,) OF THOSE CITIES, AND TOWNS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, INTENDED AS A GUIDE FOR TRAVELLERS. Baltimore. 1837. 468pp. 12mo. Antique-style half morocco and marbled boards. Old stamp on titlepage and a couple other pages, minor scattered foxing. Very good.

The directory covers towns from Pittsburgh west (especially along the Ohio River) as far as St. Louis. Besides Lyford’s essays on the towns of the West, there are large sections of advertisements on colored paper (pink, yellow, brown, and green) advertising trades and merchants, arranged by category. An extensive and invalu- able directory. HOWES L576. GRAFF 2560. CLARK III:200. THOMSON 737. $1750.

86. MacTaggart, John: THREE YEARS IN CANADA: AN ACCOUNT OF THE ACTUAL STATE OF THE COUNTRY IN 1826-7-8. COMPREHENDING ITS RESOURCES, PRODUCTIONS, IM- PROVEMENTS, AND CAPABILITIES; AND INCLUDING SKETCHES OF THE STATE OF SOCIETY, ADVICE TO EMI- GRANTS, &c. London. 1829. Two volumes. xi,347,[1]; vii,[1],340pp. 19th- century three-quarter calf and cloth, spines gilt, leather label. Light rubbing and wear. Minor soiling and foxing. Very good. With bookplate and ownership inscription of Alexander Trotter.

MacTaggart, British engineer and geologist, was engaged as a clerk of works on the Rideau Canal from 1826 to 1828. In addition to giving an account of the undertaking, including the clearing of the wilderness for 160 miles from the Ottawa River to Lake Ontario, he offers varied and interesting observations on the economic and social conditions of the Canadas, natural history, and resources, stressing min- ing potential, transportation, and the importance of improving navigation of the St. Lawrence River. He is especially critical of the colony’s immigration and land policies, sharply commenting on the ineptness of the government clerks, who were more than likely to mislead emigrants into settling on poor sites. TPL 1500. LANDE 592. SABIN 43665. DIONNE II:1047. $900.

87. Mall, Thomas: THE HISTORY OF THE MARTYRS EPITO- MISED. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES; OR, THE SUFFERERS MIRROUR, MADE UP OF THE SWANLIKE SONGS, AND OTHER CHOICE PASSAGES OF A GREAT NUMBER OF MAR- TYRS AND CONFESSORS, TO THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.... Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1747. Two volumes. [16],267,[2]; [4],xi,[1],292,[3]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Very light scattered foxing, else bright and clean. Very good.

First American edition of this mammoth compilation of “Swanlike Songs” by martyrs and the like, first published in England in 1665. Mall was one of the ministers deposed after the Restoration, and an account of his life and publications prefaces the second volume. Of particular interest to the Americanist is the prefatory essay to the first volume by Samuel Lee, minister of Bristol, New England. This copy preserves the original terminal blank for the first volume, as well as the half title for the second. The first volume was issued without a half title. As well, an extra leaf bearing the publisher’s advertisement for three other titles appears at the end. This advertisement leaf is not noted in the collations given by Evans or Sabin. “A good specimen of American printing” – Sabin. EVANS 5991. SABIN 44124. $1500.

The First American Horse Book

88. Markham, Gervase, [et al]: THE CITIZEN AND COUNTRYMAN’S EXPERIENCED FARRIER. CONTAINING, I. THE MOST BEST APPROVED METHOD OF ORDERING, DIETING, EXERCIS- ING, PURGING, SCOURING, AND CLEANSING OF HORSES... TO ALL WHICH IS ADDED, A VALUABLE AND FINE COL- LECTION OF THE SUREST AND BEST RECEIPTS IN THE KNOWN WORLD FOR THE CURE OF ALL MALADIES AND DISTEMPERS...BY J. MARKHAM, G. JEFFERIES, AND DIS- CREET INDIANS. Baltimore: Samuel Sower, 1797. 317pp. Contempo- rary tree calf. Moderate edge wear and rubbing. Minor spotting and toning in text. Very good.

Second American edition of the first American work on horses to be composed, at least in part, from American experience. Although British agricultural writer Gervase Markham’s work served as a basis for this compilation, it was only the starting point. A letter from American editor John Millis to printer James Adams survives, in which Millis describes how he combined “many things of his own experience” as well as lore collected from other farriers, presumably including the “discreet Indians.” “The author concerns himself with the running horse and the hunter as well as with the ordinary horse of daily usefulness” – The Colonial Scene. This popular handbook was published in at least six editions by 1840. A rare and interesting work. EVANS 32419. AUSTIN 1192. HENDERSON, p.169. $1500.

89. [Massachusetts]: THE COUNTY AND TOWN OFFICER: OR AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETS-BAY, RELATIVE TO COUNTY AND TOWN OFFICERS. Boston: T. and J. Fleet, 1768. [2],ii,149,[3]pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Ink library stamp and ownership inscription on titlepage. Some tanning and foxing. Very good.

An abridgment of Massachusetts laws pulled together from two earlier sources, intended for quick, everyday reference. The signature on the titlepage reads “Chief Justice Oliver,” indicating this copy was owned by Peter Oliver, Chief Justice of the Superior Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1772 to 1775. Oliver was an ardent Loyalist during the Revolution and left for England in 1776. For the rest of his days he categorized the American Revolution as a rebellion, and wrote scathing pamphlets on the revolutionaries, whom he saw as instigating the rebellion for economic reasons. Rare, with only fifteen copies in OCLC. EVANS 10967. CUSHING 753. SABIN 45700. OCLC 26870557. $950.

The Laws of Massachusetts During the French and Indian War

90. [Massachusetts Laws]: TEMPORARY ACTS AND LAWS OF HIS MAJESTY’S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN NEW-ENGLAND. [with:] [CONSECUTIVE RUN OF MASSA- CHUSETTS COLONIAL LAWS, 1755 – 1763]. Boston. 1755-1763. Folio. Three-quarter calf and marbled boards in antique style. Title-leaf with closed tear, neatly repaired; p.455 mounted and partially supplied in manuscript. Some tanning and foxing, mild occasional marginal dampstaining. Very good.

An exceedingly rare collection of Massachusetts colonial laws with much content relating to the French and Indian War. A 1755 act encourages and facilitates removal of “French Encroachments on his Majesty’s North American Territories.” Numerous acts prevent the exporting of provisions and “War-like Stores” from leaving the Massachusetts colony in order to keep them from the French, with one act specifically forbidding any subjects of “the French King” from being supplied with provisions. Some laws from 1755 and 1756 provide soldiers for the skirmishes near Crown Point, and also provide instructions for preventing and punishing desertion amongst the troops during the “Expedition against Crown-Point” and during the general defense of the “Frontiers of this Government.” Other French and Indian War-related acts include “An Act for providing and maintaining two armed Vessels to Guard the Coast” (1756); “An Act for the more speedy levying Eighteen Hundred Men inclusive of Officers, to be employed in his Majesty’s Service” (1757); “An Act to prevent the Desertion of Soldiers during the present War with France...” (1757); “An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen to enlist...during the present War with France” (1757); “An Act making Provision for the Quartering and Billeting Recruiting Officers and Recruits in his Majesty’s Regular Forces, employed for the Protection and Defence of his Majesty’s Dominions in North-America” (1757, 1759); “An Act providing for the Reception and Ac- commodation of His Majesty’s Forces within this Province” (1758); “An Act for the speedy Levying of Soldiers, for an intended Expe- dition against Canada” (1759); “An Act to prevent Soldiers and Seamen in his Majesty’s Service from being Arrested for Debt” (1760); and more. These types of demands by the British Crown on the local citizenry during the French and Indian War, especially the quartering acts, created tensions between the colonists and the Crown that grew over the next two decades into rebellion. Includes laws providing supplies, regulating trade, and preventing abuse to the eastern Indians, and for laws “better regulating the Indians.” In addition there are laws covering debtors and creditors, roads, schools, militia, several acts governing livestock grazing, and more. Also includes the usual laws granting tax revenue to the colonial governor and the Treasury. A list of the individual imprints is available on request. $8500.

Cotton Mather Exhibits a Scientific Bent

91. Mather, Cotton: THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER: A COL- LECTION OF THE BEST DISCOVERIES IN NATURE, WITH RELIGIOUS IMPROVEMENTS. London. 1721. vi,304,vii-[1]pp. Con- temporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked in matching style, spine gilt, leather label. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

This is one of the most curious controversial books in the vast Mather canon. Al- though Mather’s exploration herein of the wonders of nature is intended to exhibit God’s presence in the world, the book is essentially scientific and was apparently written with a self-aggrandizing motive. Mather had a flair for science, having helped to in- troduce smallpox inoculation into America, and in 1714 he began using the initials of a Fellow of the Royal Society after his name. According to Stevens, Mather wrote a letter of thanks to the Society and continued correspondence, but there was much con- temporaneous skepticism about whether he had the right to use the august “F.R.S.” This work, written while the controversy was still hot, was apparently intended to demonstrate Mather’s competence and eagerness to be America’s first Royal Society member. This is Mather’s most substantial and personally significant work of science. HOLMES, COTTON MATHER 52-A. SA- BIN 46253. $4250.

Scarce Mather Title

92. [Mather, Cotton]: A GOOD OLD AGE. A BRIEF ESSAY ON THE GLORY OF AGED PIETY. Bos- ton: Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, for S. Gerrish, 1726. [4],42pp. Half title. Con- temporary marbled wrappers, sewn. Moderate edge wear, soiling, and rubbing to wrappers, corners worn. Near-contemporary ink ownership signature on front pastedown, titlepage, and last text page; slightly later gift inscription on verso of half title. Minor foxing and toning. Half title present but partly utilized as front pastedown, torn and still partially adhered to front wrapper. Very good.

A rare later work from the pen of eminent Ameri- can minister Cotton Mather as attributed by Holmes. A contemplation of aging, especially as it relates to the afterlife. The subtitle reads: “Humbly Commended and Presented unto Them, whose Arrival to, or near, sixty, ranks them among, the aged.” Mather was sixty-three years old at the time. One of the more difficult to find of Mather titles, with only seven copies reported in OCLC. Holmes locates eight copies, but two of them are imperfect. EVANS 2768. HOLMES 155. SABIN 27834, 46346. BRINLEY 1130. GOODSPEED 488:343 (“Rare”). $6000.

Cotton Mather Reviews Church Principles

93. [Mather, Cotton]: RATIO DISCIPLINÆ FRATRUM NOV-AN- GLORUM. A FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF THE DISCIPLINE PROSESSED AND PRACTISED; IN THE CHURCHES OF NEW=ENGLAND. WITH INTERSPERSED AND INSTRUC- TIVE REFLECTIONS ON THE DISCIPLINE OF THE PRIMI- TIVE CHURCHES. Boston: Printed for S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1726. [2], iv,10,207,[3]pp., including contents leaf. Contemporary calf, tooled in blind, neatly rebacked in matching style. Some light scattered soiling, but generally quite clean internally. Very good.

One of Cotton Mather’s most important works, and an “important exposition of the tenets of Congregationalism that carefully reaffirms the principles of the Cambridge Platform” (Streeter). Holmes reveals that although published in 1726, the work was actually written in 1701, quoting from Mather’s diary from Oct. 3 of that year:

About this Time I finished a Work, which cost me much Time, and Care and Study. I wrote in a Book of above an hundred pages in Quarto, an account of the Principles and Practices of the Churches of New England. But I embellished it all along, with a further Account of what was done in the primitive Churches, which required some exquisite labor. I concluded, that a Book of this Importance, would have a mighty Tendency, to preserve the holy Discipline in our own Churches, from the Dangers of the Apostasy which may threaten it, and promote the Designs of Reformation abroad in the world.

Holmes reviews and explains the many delays in Mather publishing the work, the addition of Increase Mather’s “Attestation” dated 1719, and the eventual publication in 1726. The final publication was nearly derailed as the original manuscript was scattered by a strong gust of wind, with the loose sheets finding their way into the garden, the wood pile, and strangers’ hands. That every page was recovered without the loss of a single sentence was, as Mather reveals in a letter to Thomas Prince, a sign that the “Angel of the Lord Look’d after it...I don’t wonder that such a work must be brought forward with a Struggle. Tis a sign, tis for the Kingdome of God!” (quoted in Holmes). EVANS 2775. SABIN 46474. HOLMES 318. STREETER SALE 672. CHURCH 903. $4500.

94. Mather, Cotton: DR. COTTON MATHER’S STUDENT AND PREACHER. INTITULED, MANUDUCTIO AD MINISTERIUM; OR, DIRECTIONS FOR A CANDIDATE OF THE MINISTRY. WHEREIN....Republished by John Ryland, A.M. of Northampton. London. 1781. xx,216pp. Final page adhered to final blank leaf. [bound with:] THE CHRISTIAN PREACHER DELINEATED. London. 1757. [2], 22pp. plus 3pp. of manuscript notes. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Minor toning and foxing. Very good.

One of Cotton Mather’s final works, first published in Boston in 1726, and here in its second edition, a manual of practical and inspirational instructions for the ministry. The second title, bound at the end of the Mather text, is an anonymous work on the nature and character of ministers. A rare work, this copy is particularly interesting for the manuscript notes which continue the end of the text, which equate religion and science. The author of the manuscript notes writes: “By ye help of a large microscope we may find in the minute works of God perpetual improvement & new pleasures to ye end of life. In fine, what preacher of sense, spirit, & virtue, can ever want the finest diversions, whilst he has in his possession a good microscope?” Fewer than ten copies in ESTC. ESTC T56534, T165504. HOLMES, COTTON MATHER 220-B. $900.

95. Mather, Increase: THE DUTY OF PAR- ENTS TO PRAY FOR THEIR CHILDREN, OPENED & APPLYED IN A SERMON, PREACHED MAY 19. 1703.... [bound with:] Mather, Cotton: THE DUTY OF CHIL- DREN, WHOSE PARENTS HAVE PRAY’D FOR THEM. OR, EARLY AND REAL GODLINESS URGED.... Boston: Printed by B. Green and J. Allen. Sold at the Booksellers shops, 1703. [2],17-54; [6],66pp. 12mo. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Titlepage lightly chipped. First ten text leaves supplied in expert facsimile. Leaf B5 with neat repair to closed tear. Lower corner of leaf E1 with loss to a few letters, supplied in expert facsimile. Outer half of leaf E2 with loss to outer edge of leaf, also supplied in expert facsimile. Lower corner of leaf E3 with loss to several words, supplied in expert facsimile. Light wear and soiling. An expertly conserved and presentable copy of a very rare book.

A scarce and early sermon by the important Puritan minister, Increase Mather (1639-1723), together with a complementary sermon by his son, Cotton Mather (1663-1728). Holmes notes that the two Evans entries for this work seem to be based on imperfect descriptions of the present edition. In the first work Increase Mather writes: “Now that sinful nature which is in Children is derived from their Parents: There are natural diseases which be hereditary; Spiritual Diseases to be sure are so.” “A dreary book” – Holmes. Only a handful of copies in ESTC. EVANS 1132, 1133. ESTC W38267. HOLMES, INCREASE MATHER 47-A. HOLMES, COTTON MATHER 99-A. $4750.

96. Mather, Nathanael: TWENTY-THREE SELECT SERMONS, PREACHED AT THE MERCHANTS-LECTURE, AT PINNERS- HALL, AND IN LIME-STREET. WHEREIN SEVERAL CASES OF CONSCIENCE AND OTHER WEIGHTY MATTERS, ARE PROPOUNDED, AND HANDLED. London. 1701. [8],480pp. Con- temporary calf, tooled in blind. Hinges tender, corners worn, boards scuffed. Internally quite clean and fresh. About very good.

A collection of sermons by the brother of Increase and uncle of Cotton Mather. Relatively scarce. HOLMES, MINOR MATHERS 33. SABIN 46773. ESTC T77810. $850.

97. Mather, Samuel: AN APOLOGY FOR THE LIBERTIES OF THE CHURCHES IN NEW ENGLAND: TO WHICH IS PREFIX’D, A DISCOURSE CONCERNING CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH- ES. Boston: Printed by T. Fleet, for Daniel Henchman, 1738. [8],ix,[3],216pp. (last page mistakenly numbered 116). Contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down. Front blank fly leaf with loss in lower outer corner. Scattered foxing. Very good.

This copy bears two contemporary ownership inscriptions on the front fly leaf, one of “Benjamin Dickinson” and the other of “D. Fuller.” Manuscript notes on the front and rear endpapers, apparently in Dickinson’s hand, offer some further thoughts on the subject of the book. This is one of Samuel Mather’s earlier works, attempting to explain the peculiarities of New England Congregational churches, “that they are means for the edification and spiritual advantage of the faithful... in this we have a sort of politicks, which are spiritual and all divine; a government that is founded on charity, the public good being the sole end of it.” Samuel was the son of Cotton Mather and, at the time of this publication, was pastor of Second Church in Boston. EVANS 4275. HOLMES, MINOR MATHERS 60. SABIN 46791. NAIP w037808. $900. Important Illustrated American Travel Account

98. 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. Contemporary tree calf, morocco leather label. Front inner hinge cracked, half title separating at spine. Several pages with small tears but no loss to text. Mild foxing and toning. Else very good.

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 superintendent 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 negotiated 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 Most Famous Work of American Indian Portraits

99. McKenney, Thomas Loraine, and James Hall: HISTORY OF THE IN- DIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS. EMBELLISHED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY POR- TRAITS. Philadelphia: T.K. & P.G. Collins for D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1854. Three volumes. 120 handcolored lithographic plates by J.T. Bowen of Phila- delphia, most after Charles Bird King. Contemporary American red morocco gilt, covers elaborately blocked with a paneled design, a.e.g. Extremities lightly rubbed. Internally clean. Colors bright and fresh. Very good to near fine.

Fine copy of the second octavo edition of McKenney and Hall’s classic work, after the first octavo edition of 1848-50, reduced from the folio format first published between 1836 and 1844. The plates for the first four octavo editions were all produced by the same lithographer, J.T. Bowen, and the same high quality of printing and coloring of the plates is found throughout. McKenney and Hall’s History of the Indian Tribes of North America has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portrait plates are based on paintings by artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Depart- ment to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington, D.C., forming the basis of the War Department’s Indian Gallery. Most of King’s original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall’s magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the 19th century. Num- bered among King’s sitters were Se- quoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the sur- vival of the western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the American Indians for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827 he travelled west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee, and Winnebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with American Indian tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the West. Both authors, not unlike George Catlin, whom they tried to enlist in their publishing enterprise, saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. McKenney provided the biographies, many based on personal interviews, and Hall wrote the general history of the North American Indian. HOWES M129. McGRATH, p.206. MILES & REESE, AMERICA PICTURED TO THE LIFE 53 (1st octavo ed). SABIN 4341 (ref ). SERVIES 4028. $17,500. Rare First American Edition of Arguably the Greatest Work in American Literature

100. Melville, Herman: MOBY-DICK; OR, THE WHALE. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. xxiii,[1],635,[1]pp. plus 6pp. publisher’s advertisements in the rear. 12mo. Publisher’s blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very good.

The first American edition followed the three-volume English edition by a month and contained some thirty- five passages which had been edited out of the English edition. “[Melville’s] great book, Moby-Dick, was a complete practical failure, misunderstood by the critics and ignored by the public; and in 1853 the Harpers’ fire destroyed the plates of all of his books and most of the copies remaining in stock [only about sixty copies survived the fire]....Melville’s permanent fame must always rest on the great prose epic of Moby-Dick, a book that has no equal in American literature for variety and splendor of style and for depth of feeling” – DAB. “Moby-Dick is the great conundrum-book. Is it a pro- found allegory with the white whale the embodiment of moral evil, or merely the finest story of the sea ever written?” – Grolier American Hundred. This example is complete with the six pages of advertisements in the rear, and in the publisher’s dark brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped with heavy rule frame and publisher’s circular device at the center. BAL 13664. GROLIER AMERICAN 100 60. JOHNSON, HIGH SPOTS 57. WRIGHT II:1701. $25,000.

101. [Mexican-American War]: [Scott, Winfield]: OFFICIAL LIST OF OFFICERS WHO MARCHED WITH THE ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT, FROM PUEBLA UPON THE CITY OF MEXICO...AND WHO WERE ENGAGED IN THE BATTLES OF MEXICO. Mexico: American Star Print, 1848. [24]pp., errata slip pasted to verso of the title listing two officers whose “names were accidentally omitted.” Lithographic map. Oblong small quarto. Original oatmeal-colored paper wrappers, upper cover with letterpress title. Repaired tears in upper cover. Very good.

First and only edition of a scarce work. The text, in the form of detailed tables, lists the officers with Scott, where they were employed, and whether they were killed or wounded or distinguished themselves. “Printed on the occupying army’s own press” – Howes. This copy includes the plan of the battles in the vicinity of Mexico City which is often lacking, and it includes the extra two lines of errata. The inside lower cover includes a letterpress printed “extract” of Scott’s summary of the casualties and the magnitude of the victory. HOWES S243, “aa.” GARRETT, p.131. HAFERKORN, pp.53-54. $1500.

Pioneering Michigan Laws

102. [Michigan]: SOME OF THE ACTS OF THE TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN, WITH THE TITLES AND A DIGEST OF ALL THE ACTS OF THE SAID TERRITORY, NOW IN FORCE. MARCH 29th, 1816. Detroit: Printed by Theophilus Mettez, 1816. 138,[5]pp. Small quarto. Slightly later three-quarter sheep and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Title struck through with a single line in a contemporary hand, with additional title words added in the same hand. Some light toning and soiling. Very good. In a cloth clamshell box.

An early Michigan imprint from the famed press of Father Richard. This was a major production and contains the so-called Cass Code, superseding the Woodward Code of 1801.

The preceding compilation contains the titles, a digest or a copy of all the acts of the Territory of Michigan, which can now be ascertained to be in force.... Where the contents of the law are sufficiently indicated by the title, or where the objects are not of comparative general importance, the title only has been printed. Those laws have been digested, whose structure admitted it, and whose practical operation upon the community would not be affected by the process.

Father Richard’s press was the first generally effective press in the Detroit area and the upper Midwest. A press had been set up in Detroit in 1796, but its production was limited to one known sixteen-page pamphlet and some blank forms. Father Richard established his press for the production chiefly of textbooks, religious items, and a few odd political items, and employed several different pressmen, including James M. Miller, A. Coxshaw, and Mettez, from 1809 through 1816. All of Father Richard’s pioneer imprints are of considerable rarity. GREENLY MICHIGAN 50. SABIN 48797. $6750.

103. [Michigan]: CHARLES F. CLARK’S ANNUAL DIRECTORY OF THE INHABITANTS, INCORPORATED COMPANIES, BUSI- NESS FIRMS, etc., OF THE CITY OF DETROIT FOR 1863 – ‘4. Detroit: Charles F. Clark, 1863. 308pp. plus color plate and folding map. Original half leather and printed boards, spine gilt. Spine rubbed, corners worn. Ex-library, with blindstamp on titlepage and canceled bookplate on front pastedown. Early ownership inscription on titlepage. Map with two-inch tear near bound edge. Internally clean. About very good.

Second in this series of Detroit directories published through the early 1870s by Charles Clark, with an alphabetical listing of residents, and businesses organized by interest. Includes over seventy-five pages of advertisements, including a color lithographic plate for Aetna Insurance Co. and a folding map of the city. STREETER (MICHIGAN) 1421. $1000.

Laws of Montserrat and the Leeward Islands

104. [Montserrat]: ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, PASSED IN THE ISLAND OF MONTSERRAT; FROM 1668, to 1740, INCLUSIVE. [bound with:] ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, PASSED IN THE CHARIBBEE LEE- WARD ISLANDS, FROM 1690, TO 1705. London: John Baskett, 1740. Two volumes bound in one. x,146; v,24,[4]pp. Folio. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Light dampstaining in gutter margin of first few leaves. Very good.

Laws of the island of Montserrat from its early settlement through the first half of the 18th century. Settled by the British in the mid-17th century, Montserrat was, like most islands in the West Indies, a plantation colony producing sugar and cotton. It was also heavily Irish, many Irish being transported there as indentured servants and laborers during Crom- well’s reign over the British Isles, although it also had African slaves. Laws herein include those pertaining to trade, roads, and other commonplace matters. There are also acts regarding slaves, such as “An Act for restraining the liberty of Negroes, and to prevent the running away of Christian servants.” Also present are the laws of the Leeward Islands, passed from 1690 to 1705, likewise printed by John Baskett. These pertain to the islands in general, governing general assem- blies, and trade, as well as the slave population, such as “An Act for the finding Supernumerary Arms, to be proportionable according to the number of every person’s Negroes, within these his Majesty’s Leeward Charibbee Islands in America,” which allows an extra gun for every ten slaves owned. ESTC T72510, T72509. $5000. The Most Complete Known Copy

105. Moodey, Samuel: JUDAS THE TRAITOR HUNG UP IN CHAINS, TO GIVE WARNING TO PROFESSORS, THAT THEY BE- WARE OF WORLDLY-MINDEDNESS, AND HYPOCRISY: A DISCOURSE CONCLUDING WITH A DIALOGUE; PREACH’D AT YORK IN NEW-ENGLAND. Boston: Printed by John Allen: Sold by the Booksellers, 1714. [2],81,[3]pp. Lacks pp.67-70. 12mo. Contemporary calf over birch boards. Upper portion of front board lacking (calf intact). Worn at edges, head and foot of spine heavily so. Modern bookplate inside front cover, contemporary ownership inscription on verso of titlepage and final leaves. Light to moderate foxing and soiling. Six leaves with some worming in top margin, affecting a few letters in headlines. Good.

The second recorded and most complete copy of this printing of Samuel Moodey’s sermon on Judas Iscariot and the evils of hypocrisy. The work was written for young people. Moodey (1676-1747) was a minister in York, Maine and a Harvard graduate of the class of 1697. Three editions of this work were issued in Boston in 1714, with imprints by B. Green, T. Green, and the present item, whose imprint was uncertain before now, as the only other copy extant, at the American Antiquarian Society, lacks the titlepage and numerous other leaves. Of those three editions, seven total copies are noted in ESTC. This edition was previously attributed to Boston booksellers Nicholas Buttolph, Eleazer Phil- lips, and Nicholas Boone, since the advertisements at the end are primarily for their establishments. Incredibly rare and highly desirable in such wonderful contemporary condition. Practically unique. BRISTOL B458. SHIPTON & MOONEY 39600. ROSENBACH, AMERICAN CHIL- DREN’S BOOKS 11. SABIN 30301. $11,000.

106. Morton, Nathaniel: NEW ENGLAND’S MEMORIAL: OR, A BRIEF RELATION OF THE MOST MEMORABLE AND RE- MARKABLE PASSAGES OF THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD, MANIFESTED TO THE PLANTERS OF NEW-ENGLAND.... Boston printed; Newport reprinted. 1772. viii,208pp. plus 8pp. list of subscribers. Slightly later polished calf, spine gilt, leather labels, gilt dentelles, a.e.g. Hinges tender, discreet older repairs to spine, rubbed at extremities. Minor scattered foxing and toning. Small repair to edge of p.205, minutely affecting a few letters of text. Very good plus.

The third edition of the first secular work printed in English America, preceded by the extremely rare editions of 1669 and 1721. The history of the Plymouth colony from 1620 to 1668, based on the author’s personal experiences and the then unpublished journals of Bradford and Winslow, with the list of signers of the Mayflower Compact. EVANS 12469. SABIN 51014. VAIL 614. HOWES M851, “aa.” $850.

Early Hungarian Travel to America

107. Nendtvich, Karoly: AMERIKAI UTAZÁSOM. Pest: Heckenast Gusztáv, 1858. xiv,[1],292; [8],264pp., plus handcolored frontispiece and folding map. Two volumes bound in one. Original violet cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine faded, corners bumped, light wear to boards. Ownership inscription on titlepage of first volume. Minor soiling internally. Very good.

Early Hungarian travelogue focused on American political, social, economic, and education systems, as well as the scientific achievements of the United States. Károly Nendtvich (1811-92) was a Hungarian physician, geologist, chemist, and traveller who made a two-month journey in the Eastern United States in 1855. He visited the most important scientific centers to meet fellow professors, including those at Yale, Harvard, and the Smithsonian Institution, among many others. In Philadelphia he met with geologist Isaac Lea and visited the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Nendtvich praises the Medical College as the first medical institution in the world established to train women in medicine. He also lauds the achievements of the U.S. in the field of human rights and expresses his sympathy toward the abolitionists of the northern states. Beside the scientific and educational system, Nendtvich reports about the development of industry in St. Louis, discussing the Fairmount Water Works of the recently established Fairmount Park, and the fair and exhibitions held there. One of the earliest American travelogues by a Hungarian, together with János Xántus, Ágoston Haraszthy, and Sándor Bölöni Farkas. Besides the folding map of the American East, the book contains a frontispiece depicting several Dakota Indians, resplendent in feathers and sporting a peace pipe. Scarce. $2500.

The First Laws of Independent New Hampshire

108. [New Hampshire]: ACTS AND LAWS OF THE COLONY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE...AN ACT FOR ESTABLISHING COURTS OF LAW FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE WITHIN THIS COLONY.... [bound with:] AN ACT FOR ENCOURAGING THE FIXING OUT OF ARMED VESSELS.... [bound with:] AN ACT FOR FORMING AND REGULATING THE MILITIA WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.... [bound with:] AN ACT FOR REGULATING THE PRICES OF SUNDRY ARTICLES.... [bound with:] AN ACT, FOR REGULATING THE CHOICE OF COUNTY TREASURERS AND RECORDERS OF DEBTS.... Ex- eter, N.H. 1776-1777. pp.3-50. Without a titlepage, as issued. Folio. Antique- style half calf and marbled boards. Closed tear in first leaf repaired with tissue, contemporary ink notations to a few leaves; some fold lines, toning, and edge wear. Good overall. Uncut.

The first acts of an independent New Hamp- shire, drawn at the outset of war, and beginning the continuously paginated series of acts and laws that would be issued through 1778. The first imprint (pp.3-18) contains a total of ten acts, the first establishing law courts for an independent government: “Where as the cruel and unnatural War commenced and prosecuted by Great-Britain against the United Colonies hath rendered it necessary for the protection and security of the Lives and Interests of the Inhabitants of this Colony to assume and establish a new Form of Government therein....” Other laws address courts and legal powers, taxation, voting, highways, credit and currency, and relief of the poor and the mentally unsound. A total of seven additional acts are included in the four additional imprints, including an act encouraging ships to arm themselves for protection of the coastline, one to form a militia, and one to regulate prices, among others. A rare and important series of laws. EVANS 14899, 14900. BRISTOL B4524, B4525. WHITTEMORE 188, 189, 204, 205. SHIPTON & MOONEY 43302, 43303. $5000.

William Bradford’s Laws of New York

109. [New York]: THE LAWS, OF HER MAJESTIES COLONY OF NEW-YORK, AS THEY WERE ENACTED THE GOVERNOUR, COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, FOR THE TIME BE- ING, IN DIVERS SESSIONS, THE FIRST OF WHICH BEGAN APRIL THE 9th, ANNOQ; DOM. 1691. New York: William Bradford, 1713. [6],88,151-245 [i.e. 253]pp. Folio. Early 20th-century pebbled morocco, gilt. Leaves of opening table appear to be cancels, with pages pasted over the first printings, as issued. Very good.

A major early New York imprint from the press of William Bradford, the “pioneering printer of the English middle colonies” (DAB) and first printer of New York. Bradford (1663-1752) originally settled in Pennsylvania, where he began operating a printing press in 1685 and a bookstore in 1688. Controversies within the Quaker community, with Bradford supporting the dissident, George Keith, led to the temporary seizure of his types and paper in 1692, and in 1693 he moved to New York. The present documents are among the earliest official New York imprints. The present example of The Laws... is the third collection of New York laws, after those of 1694 and 1710, and covers legislation passed from 1691 to 1713. Laws herein include acts “for quieting and settling the Disorders that have lately happened within this Province” (1691), “for restraining and punishing Privateers and Pyrates” (1693 and 1698), and “against Jesuites and Popish Priests” (1700), as well as numerous acts “for Regulating Slaves” and one for “Baptizing them” (1706). The index reflects the odd pagination in the volume, which skips from page 88 to page 155. This is due in part to the fact that they are a composite of Bradford’s various separately issued official publications of New York laws. The two leaves following the titlepage are an index, the present copy being comprised of individually printed pages pasted together to form one double-sided leaf. A major early New York imprint, from the press of its first printer. EVANS 1636, 1637, 1638. $30,000.

Large Paper Edition, One of Twenty-five Numbered Copies

110. [New York]: Butler, William Allen: THE REVISION OF THE STAT- UTES OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE REVISERS... AN ADDRESS BEFORE THE ASSOCIATION OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, JANUARY 22, 1889. New York & Al- bany: Banks & Brothers, 1889. [2],ii,100pp. Three engraved portraits. Extra- illustrated with ten letters (nine autograph letters signed, one typed letter signed) on legal matters. Quarto. Three-quarter dark blue crushed morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands. Very good. Provenance: Adrian Hoffman Joline (bookplate).

The present issue is a rare large paper edition, limited to twenty-five numbered copies (this being number 19). The 1828 revision of the statutes of New York, undertaken by John Duer, Benjamin F. Butler, and John C. Spencer, holds a celebrated status in the legal history of the state. It “was the first attempt to create and establish for any commonwealth governed by the English Common Law and by legislative statutes...of a body of written law systematically arranged, based on the principles of law as a science, regulating the exercise of public and private rights, establishing domestic, property and contract relations and covering the administration of every department of the government, without touching the integrity of the unwritten law, or transcending the proper bound of legislative control” – Goodrich. Fearing that the importance of the revision would be lost on future generations, William Allen Butler (B.F. Butler’s son and a noted New York lawyer) organized portraits of the revisers to be commissioned and the present work published to detail the history of their project, as well as provide biographical details on their lives. An early owner of this copy has extra-illustrated the work with letters by Wil- liam Allen Butler (3), Benjamin Franklin Butler (3), Duer (1), Spencer (1), Francis L. Stetson (1), and Thomas Addis Emmet (1), all on legal matters, some written to each other. Goodrich, Restatement and Codification, p.253. $1500.

A Famous New York Scene

111. [New York City]: Bennett, William James: BROAD WAY FROM THE BOWLING GREEN. New York: Henry I. Megarey, [1834]. Aqua- tint, 12½ x 16 inches. Framed to 20 x 23 inches. Very minor toning. Fine. A fine view of Broadway in New York City, drawn and engraved by notable Ameri- can artist William Bennett (1784-1844). “The splendid aquatint serves as an introduction to William James Bennett, who conceived the view and rendered it on copper. His work, full of radiant harmonies and contrasts, makes a lasting impression on any initiate gaining familiarity with collections of topographic views of American cities. He was America’s leading master of aquatint in the first half of the nineteenth century....In all likelihood, Bennett’s view of New York as seen from the Bowling Green, prepared for Henry Megarey’s Street Views, is one of the earliest he executed upon coming to America” - Deák. The scene shows an idyllic upper class neighborhood, the street lined with handsome brownstones on the left and a park on the right. The steeple of a church can be seen in the background. A handsome view, perfect for display. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 350. $3500.

112. [New York Laws]: LAWS OF NEW-YORK, FROM THE YEAR 1691, TO 1751, INCLUSIVE, PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. New York: Printed by James Parker, 1752. [4],iii,488pp. Large folio. Antique-style calf, leather label. Title- page and following three leaves repaired along gutter. Contemporary ink signature on titlepage, moderate age-toning, light occasional foxing. About very good.

This compilation, prepared by William Smith (author of The History of the Province of New-York) and William Livingston, was “the first digest of the colonial statutes in force at that time,” according to the DAB. An important and handsomely produced volume. BENEDICT 345. TOWER 624. EVANS 6897. ESTC W6326. $2400.

A Set of the Peabody Views of New York, in Parts

113. [New York Views]: Fay, Theodore S.: VIEWS IN NEW-YORK AND ITS ENVIRONS, FROM ACCURATE, CHARACTERISTIC & PICTURESQUE DRAWINGS, TAKEN ON THE SPOT.... New York: Peabody and Co., 1831[-34]. Title-leaf, [i]-58pp. Without the final two leaves of text (misnumbered [43]-46), and lacking pp.35-36 and rear wrapper of Part IV. Thirty-seven (of thirty-eight) engraved views on fourteen (of fifteen) sheets, plus folding colored map. In the original seven parts. Quarto. Printed paper wrappers. Minor wear and chipping. Very good. In a clamshell case.

An extremely rare set of the “Peabody Views” of New York, in the original parts as issued, with text by the editor, Theodore Fay. The parts were issued from 1831 to 1834, published by Peabody & Co. in New York and bookseller Obadiah Rich in London. The views were engraved and the text printed entirely in New York, Rich acting as the London distributor. The Peabody Views “offer fascinating glimpses of New York in the 1830’s” – Deák. Together with the Bourne series issued in 1830-31, they are the first series to show a broad spectrum of American urban life. At least seven artists contributed to the series, with the views showing a mixture of topographical scenes and elevations of important buildings. Deák notes the plates are “energetically conceived, with a thrust towards a painterly effect...a combined process of etching and engraving, requiring prolonged and meticulous craftsmanship, was used in transferring the drawings for both the Peabody and the Bourne views to the plate...the two sets of New York views represent American printmaking at a high level.” A complete list of the views is given in Deák, but scenes include “Broadway from the Park,” “Bowling Green,” “City Hall,” “Navy Yard Brooklyn,” “Short Tower,” “Elysian Fields Hoboken,” “Merchants Room Exchange,” “Hudson River from Hoboken,” “Park Theatre – Park Row,” “Holt’s New Hotel,” “Webb’s Congress Hall,” “Deaf and Dumb Asylum,” among others, as well as the large colored map of New York. This work is bibliographically complex, and various misprints and misunder- standings, coupled with the great rarity of complete sets, has further muddied the picture; however, we think we have figured it out. The work was originally intended to be issued in ten parts, of which only eight were actually issued; however, the last “part,” not present here, consisted of just two supplementary leaves of text, misnumbered [43] through 46. This has led Howes and others to state the book has only forty-six pages, when in fact it should collate: preliminary leaf, [i]-58,[43]-46pp. There is a folding map and there should be fifteen plates. Deák mis-states this and claims there are sixteen plates, but her own listing reveals this to be incorrect, and it is evident that she misread Stokes, who describes sixteen plates including the map. Of the fifteen plates, two (those of the Episcopal Seminary) and three other scenes (including the Penitentiary and Oil Cloth Manufactory), and the plate of LaGrange Terrace, are almost always missing (they are the final two plates in the series). The Episcopal plate is in this set, but the LaGrange plate, is lacking. The original seven parts are complete except for pages 35-36 of the text, which is lacking, as well as the final pages 43-46. Stokes notes complete sets at The New York Public Library and New-York Historical Society, while the NUC locates sets at the Library of Congress and Boston Public Library. This set of the Peabody Views in the original parts is an exceptionally rare American view book from an early period, and a most important series of New York views. DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 399. STOKES, ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHAT- TAN 102. $7500.

114. [Nursery Specimen Book]: [Fruit Color Plates]: [SPECIMEN BOOK FOR THE ROCHESTER NURSERY CO., CONTAINING EIGHTY-TWO CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS]. Rochester, N.Y.: Vredenberg & Co., [ca. 1890]. Forty-one leaves of chromolithographs. Oblong. Original black cloth, stamped in gilt on cover. Light wear and soiling to binding. Minor dampstaining to contents. Very good.

Salesman’s specimen book for the Rochester Nursery Co., advertising a wide selection of apples, plums, grapes, trees, roses, and several varieties of berry, all shown in eighty-two full color plates. The book is marked as “No. 101” on the inside of the front cover. A nice example of chromolithographic fruit plates. $1250.

115. [Oldmixon, John]: THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA, CON- TAINING THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY, SETTLE- MENT, PROGRESS AND PRESENT STATE OF ALL THE BRITISH COLONIES, ON THE CONTINENT AND ISLANDS OF AMERICA...WITH CURIOUS MAPS OF THE SEVERAL PLACES, DONE FROM THE NEWEST SURVEYS. BY HERMAN MOLL, GEOGRAPHER. London. 1708. Two volumes. xxxviii,[2],412pp. plus five folding maps; [2],382,[34]pp. plus three folding maps. Contemporary paneled calf, spines gilt. Minor wear to extremities, spines expertly rebacked with original spines laid down. Later ownership inscription on pastedowns and titlepage of first volume. Occasional minor foxing, else internally very clean. Very good. In a half morocco slipcase and chemises.

Oldmixon’s name is signed to the dedication of this first edition only, and Sabin suggests authorship should be attributed to Moll, who produced the maps. In many other respects the editions are different. There is much material on Pennsylvania that is contained in the first edition and not the second, “apparently derived from personal communication with William Penn” ( JCB). The British possessions in North America are described in the first volume, while those in the West Indies are described in the second. The maps depict North America; New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; Virginia and Maryland; Carolina; Barbados; St. Christopher’s; and Jamaica, among others. HOWES O61. SABIN 57156. JCB (III)1:117. HANDLER 19. EUROPEAN AMERI- CANA 708/95. LANDE 690. TPL 38. KRESS 2597. RICH, p.64 (later ed). $6500.

116. Paine, Thomas: LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBÉ RAYNAL ON THE AFFAIRS OF NORTH-AMERICA. IN WHICH THE MISTAKES IN THE ABBE’S ACCOUNT OF THE REVOLUTION OF AMERICA ARE CORRECTED AND CLEARED UP. Philadel- phia. 1782. 77pp. Antique-style calf. Minor marginal chipping to first few leaves, not affecting text; slight foxing and toning. Very good.

First edition of Paine’s response to French historian Raynal’s The Revolution of America (London, 1781), in which the Abbé, who was sympathetic to England, made a number of false statements which angered Paine. SABIN 58222. HOWES P25. ESTC W13412. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 82-66a. EVANS 17651. $4800.

A Late and Very Rare Paine Item

117. Paine, Thomas: THOMAS PAINE TO THE CITIZENS OF PENN- SYLVANIA, ON THE PROPOSAL FOR CALLING A CONVEN- TION. Philadelphia. 1805. 30pp. Antique-style calf. Minor toning and foxing. Very good. Untrimmed.

Paine’s thoughts on the proposed convention to form a new state constitution in Pennsylvania. The first state constitution, of 1776, was among the most democratic of state constitutions. It was replaced in 1790 by a conservative constitution drawn up by the ascendant Federalists. The 1805 movement was a Jeffersonian reaction. In this pamphlet Paine makes an argument attempting to prove the unconstitutionality of the power assumed by the New York legislature to grant charters. Paine was by this time a resident of New Rochelle, New York, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Paine writes: “As I resided in the capital of your state (Philadelphia) in the ‘time that tried men’s souls,’ and all my political writings, during the revolutionary war, were written in that city, it seems natural for me to look back on the place of my political and literary birth, and feel an interest for its happiness.” Rare, with only six copies reported in OCLC. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9089. SABIN 58240. OCLC 19939222. $12,500.

118. Penn, John: THOMAS PENN AND RICHARD PENN ESQUIRES TRUE AND ABSOLUTE PROPRIETARIES AND GOVERNORS IN CHIEF OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA...[caption title]. [Pennsylvania]. May 19, 1764. Broadside, manuscript on vellum, 15¼ x 27 inches. Seal removed. Original folds, mild toning. Very good. Matted and framed.

A colonial American indenture, boldly penned at the top “Thomas Penn and Richard Penn” and signed by John Penn at the bottom. It is a land grant to John Jennings, Isaiah Jennings, and Nicholas Scull, parceling the estate of Solomon Jennings in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. John Penn was the last governor of colonial Pennsylvania, and his signature itself is quite rare, especially on Pennsylvania related documents such as this. $1500. An Important Penn Work

119. [Penn, William]: THE PEOPLES ANCIENT AND JUST LIBER- TIES ASSERTED, IN THE TRYAL OF WILLIAM PENN, AND WILLIAM MEAD, AT THE SESSIONS HELD AT THE OLD- BAYLY IN LONDON.... [London: Andrew Sowle], 1670. 62pp. Small quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Titlepage backed with archival paper, with slight loss to margins. Very good.

First edition, second issue (with “Hats” justified on page 7) of this important work reporting the events of the trial of William Penn, although Penn himself did not write the text. He is, however, quoted verbatim from the trial record, and Bronner and Fraser venture that Penn may have been the author of some of the material printed in the second half. Penn and William Mead were tried in the Old Bailey in 1670 on charges of unlawful assembly and disturbing the peace, arising out of a speech made on Gracechurch Street. The bench attempted to intimidate Penn and Mead during the trial, and then tried to do the same with the jurors, who ultimately decided in favor of the defendants. The account of the trial takes up the first part of the work, followed by a commentary on the illegal actions of the bench and a summary of legal precedents. This account of the trial went through several printings in 1670 and later years. A dramatic and important trial, and one of the more familiar and important episodes in the life of the founder of Pennsylvania. BRONNER & FRASER 10B. WING (2nd ed) P1334A. SABIN 59723. $2500.

120. [Penn, William]: GOOD ADVICE TO THE CHURCH OF ENG- LAND, ROMAN CATHOLICK, AND PROTESTANT DISSENT- ER. IN WHICH IT IS ENDEAVOURED TO BE MADE APPEAR [sic] THAT IT IS THEIR DUTY, PRINCIPLES & INTEREST TO ABOLISH THE PENAL LAWS AND TESTS. London. 1687. [4],61pp. Small quarto. Antique-style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Very good. Untrimmed.

Second edition, published the same year as the first. Written shortly after William Penn returned to England from his first journey to Pennsylvania. “Good Advice was a wringing declaration for religious toleration in the name of English liberty and Christian principles addressed to the three separate segments of the population in the months following James II’s Declaration of Indulgence” – Bronner & Fraser. Penn argues for toleration on both ethical and practical grounds. It was this steady appeal to toleration that encouraged many religious dissenters to emigrate to Pennsylvania. BRONNER & FRASER 82B. WING P1296A. SMITH, FRIENDS’ BOOKS II:304:2. WHITING 121:11. $2250. 121. [Pennsylvania]: Thompson, John: CHART, OR NAVIGATOR OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER FROM TIOGA POINT TO MARI- ETTA. THIRD EDITION: REVISED, IMPROVED & EXTEND- ED. Corning, N.Y.: Thomas Messenger, 1851. 13,[1]pp. Contemporary limp calf. Front cover moderately stained, corners worn. Manuscript pencil notations on titlepage verso and rear blank leaf. Moderately foxed and tanned. Good.

Step-by-step instructions for navigating the Susquehanna River through almost its entire course in Pennsylvania. Tioga Point lies near the modern-day town of Athens on the New York- Pennsylvania border, while Marietta is located between Harrisburg and the state’s border with Maryland. The notes at the rear record floods from 1853 to 1865. Although it is the stated third edition, no prior editions are recorded. Exceedingly rare, with only one copy recorded on OCLC, at Cornell University. Not in Sabin or Howes. OCLC 20040218. $1500.

The Second Laws of Pennsylvania

122. [Pennsylvania Laws]: THE LAWS OF THE PROVINCE OF PENN- SYLVANIA: NOW IN FORCE, COLLECTED INTO ONE VOL- UMN [sic]. Philadelphia: Andrew Bradford, 1728. [4],352,280-281pp. Lacks pp.[3-4] of the initial table. Folio. Half calf and marbled boards in antique style, leather label. Lightly tanned, foxing, dampstained along margin of lower edge. Final leaves with slight worming in margin. Very good.

Edited by Chief Justice David Lloyd, this is the second major compilation of Pennsylvania laws, printed by Andrew Bradford, the fourth printer in Philadelphia and son of William Bradford, the first printer in Philadelphia and in New York. The younger Bradford became Philadelphia’s sole printer when he returned there in 1713, and remained so until Samuel Keimer arrived in 1723. He immediately obtained the lucrative contract to print the colony’s laws, and produced the first collected volume in 1714. It is virtually impossible to obtain any Philadelphia imprints from before the Keimer-Franklin period of circa 1730, and almost no imprints by the first three printers (William Bradford, Reynier Jansen, and Andrew Bradford) have been on the market in the last fifty years. Scarce and important. EVANS 3086. HILDEBURN 336. $4500. Collection of Pamphlets on the Popish Plot

123. [Popish Plot]: Oates, Titus; John Dryden, [and others]: [COLLEC- TION OF THIRTEEN ENGLISH PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE POPISH PLOT]. London. 1672-1683. Thirteen separate imprints. Small folio or folio. Dbd. Some contemporary ownership inscriptions. Very good.

A collection of contemporary London imprints regarding the Popish Plot, a fabricated conspiracy that claimed to discover a Catholic plot to assassinate King Charles II in 1678. The hoax was concocted by Titus Oates, an Anglican priest who grew to despise the Jesuit order, whom Oates claimed were responsible for carrying out the assassination. The furor over the Popish Plot gripped London between 1678 and 1681, resulting in the execution of over twenty people and increasing long-lasting and deep divisions between Protestants and Catholics in England. The first work in the group, Charles II’s His Majesties Declaration to All His Loving Subjects (1672), provides interesting background on the King’s views on religious tolerance and public worship. Most apropos to the Popish Plot is the King’s refusal to provide places of public worship to the “Recusants of the Roman Catholick Religion.” He only ensures Catholics “the common Exemption from the execution of the Penal Laws, and the Exercise of their Worship in their private Houses onely [sic].” Such anti-Catholic sentiment certainly contributed to the environment that allowed for the success of a phenomena such as the Popish Plot. The authors of the remaining works include figures directly involved with the Plot, such as Titus Oates, John Smith, Lawrence Mowbray, and Stephen Dugdale, along with another title issued by King Charles II and a rare defense of the King’s work written by John Dryden, the dominant literary figure of Restoration England. Both of these latter works touch on the religious state of the country and the Plot itself. An engaging collection of rare Popish Plot material that would be very difficult, perhaps impossible, to assemble individually. The detailed list of the imprints is available on request. $3500.

First Traveller’s Guide Printed in America

124. [Prince, Thomas]: THE VADE MECUM FOR AMERICA: OR A COMPANION FOR TRADERS AND TRAVELLERS.... Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, 1732. iv,[2],220pp. Very narrow octavo. Antique-style calf, leather label. Bottom half of titlepage in expert facsimile, else very good.

The second edition of the earliest guide to outline the routes of transit in the North American colonies from the Kennebec to Jamestown, Virginia. The first edition was published the previous year. The first part of the work is comprised of tables of currency conversion and interest. The text then lists “Counties and Towns in New England” and “Courts in the Provinces and Colonies,” including court dates. A section follows which lists roads and routes, with mileages, from Boston to Ken- nebec, Brunswick, Londonderry, Yarmouth, Northtown (Massachusetts), Springfield, Hartford via Windham, Cape Cod (with assorted directions on the Cape), Bristol and Rhode Island, Providence, New London, and New York. Also listed are routes and mileages from New York to Philadelphia, and Philadelphia to Jamestown, Vir- ginia. At the end is a list of the “Streets, Lanes, and Alleys in the City of Boston.” EVANS 3598. HOWES P616. SABIN 98274. $1250.

125. Prince, Thomas: A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF NEW- ENGLAND IN THE FORM OF ANNALS: BEING A SUM- MARY AND EXACT ACCOUNT OF THE MOST MATERIAL TRANSACTIONS AND OCCURRENCES RELATING TO THIS COUNTRY.... Boston: Printed by Kneeland & Green for S. Gerrish, 1736. [10],xi,[1],20,104,[2],254pp. Titlepage printed in red and black. 12mo. An- tique-style calf. Early ownership signature on titlepage. Lightly tanned. Very good.

Prince was one of the first great collectors of American history and literature, and this book reflects his antiquarian interests. His “New England Library” contained five Bay Psalm Books. This is a basic work for any collection along similar lines. “Prince spent seven years in the preparation of this work...it was carefully compiled from a large number of authentic records and relations, mostly in the exact words of the respective authorities...” – Church. Complete in and of itself, though a “Volume II” was published in 1755 as ANNALS OF NEW ENGLAND. “Our most scholarly colonial work” – Howes. CHURCH 925. EVANS 4068. SABIN 65585. HOWES P615. $1500.

Very Rare First Collected Edition of the Provincial Statutes of Quebec: Among the Earliest Canadian Imprints, Published on Quebec’s First Press

126. [Quebec – Laws and Statutes]: ORDINANCES MADE FOR THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, BY THE GOVERNOR AND COUN- CIL OF THE SAID PROVINCE, SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT. Quebec: Brown & Gilmore, 1767. [2],3-81,[1, blank]pp. Title in English and French (recto and verso of the same leaf ), text in English and French throughout. Woodcut royal arms on the titlepages. 9pp. period manuscript index in French at the rear. Folio. Ex- pertly bound to style in half russia and period marbled boards. Very good. Provenance: Jean Ariail (1735-1800).

William Brown, following an apprenticeship to William Dunlap in Philadelphia and a brief period of printing in Barbados, began printing in Quebec in 1764 on the first press in the province and among the earliest in all of Canada. Brown’s press is described by Tremaine as “the most important printing office in 18th-century Canada both in the amount and variety of its production and as a source of supplies and personnel for other printers.” Printed in French and English, the work includes the text of twenty-seven statutes passed between Sept. 14, 1764 and Jan. 27, 1767, comprising all the ordinances since the establishment of the Province. The work was advertised in the Quebec Gazette on Dec. 1, 1766, explaining that it would print the ordinances “which have hitherto been printed in this [news]paper, as those printed separately during its intermission” (i.e. a six-month period in which the Quebec Gazette did not publish due to the Stamp Act). Four hundred fifty copies of these collected ordinances were printed, including two hundred for the use of the government. This example with provenance to Jean ( John) Ariail, a French merchant in Quebec who would leave the British Province for Massachusetts in 1774. Ariail has signed the titlepage (subsequently crossed out) and included a manuscript index in French in the rear. We trace only the Brinley copy at auction of this rare early Canadian imprint, selling for $17 in 1879. TREMAINE 116. FLEMING & ALSTON, EARLY CANADIAN PRINTING 116. SABIN 67029. $14,500.

A Complete Run of Our Catalogues: 334 and Counting

127. Reese Company, William: [COMPLETE RUN OF RARE BOOK CATALOGUES OF THE WILLIAM REESE COMPANY, FROM CATALOGUE 1 TO 334]. New Haven, Ct. [1980-2016]. 334 catalogues. Numerous illustrations, some in color. About ten catalogues in photocopied facsimile. Original printed or pictorial wrappers. Condition varies but generally fine or as new.

William Reese Company issued its first catalogue in January of 1980 (Bill worked with other dealers and wrote a number of other catalogues from April 1975). Some thirty-six years later we are at catalogue 334, and a run takes up approximately eleven linear feet of shelf. A recent reorganization of our warehouse allows us to offer a few complete sets of our catalogues for sale. In these catalogues we have issued tens of thousands of books for sale in our fields of Americana, travels and voyages, natural history, and American and English literature, with side excursions into photography, painting, and the graphic arts. Many of the catalogues are thematic by place (such as a given state), time period (such as Americana before 1700), events (such as the American Revolution), genre (such as broadsides), or reference work (such as our well-known Streeter Sale Revisited catalogues). Thousands of books which appear in these catalogues were never offered for sale in other formats. Many have found these catalogues valuable reference tools, and we can certainly say they provide an important record of the rare book market in our generation. $1850.

A Remarkable New York Legal Archive from the Federal Era

128. Remsen, John Henry: [New York Law]: [ARCHIVE OF NOTA- RY PUBLIC BOOKS AND REGISTERS FOR THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BELONGING TO JOHN HENRY REMSEN]. New York. 1796-1798. Eleven volumes, each approximately 300pp. Nine folios and two quartos. Folios in contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label, later paper labels. Some volumes with cracked hinges or chipping to spines. Corners worn, some wear to boards. Internally clean overall, written in a legible hand. Quartos bound in contemporary suede. Hinges cracked, front cover lacking on one volume, spines heavily chipped. Internally clean and legible. One quarto volume in a cloth clamshell box. Overall, about very good.

An extensive archive of notary public ledgers created by John Henry Remsen of New York City. Remsen was a prominent New York City attorney who studied law with and worked for a time as assistant to John Jay. He was one of the seventeen notaries licensed to practice in the city in the Federal era. These ledgers cover his most prolific period before his death in 1798 and contain a number of notable New York names and cases. The volumes consist of the retained copies of partially printed documents bearing Remsen’s notary public heading and accomplished in manuscript by him and others and repeatedly signed by Remsen as notary public. Many volumes also include laid-in “Alphabets” or alphabetical directories of the contents, most of which concerns the collection of payments on promissory notes and bills of exchange. Also included in the archive are two of Remsen’s registers for the State Supreme Court. Both of these volumes are entirely in manuscript. The first volume contains a manuscript title-leaf dating the contents from September 1796 to December 1797, and the second volume covering December 1797 to August 1798. These volumes contain manuscript descriptions of varying lengths, recording the details of each case recorded. The defendant and plaintiff are both listed, as well as the amount of damages sought, if applicable. Occasional notes on court fees and outcomes are also present. Each volume includes an index bound in at the front. An additional register for the Supreme Court, not belonging to Remsen, is included here as well, dated 1798 to 1807 and containing information similar to that in the other two volumes. Though worn, its contents are legible. A fascinating archive of New York legal history, and a substantial opportunity for research. $12,500.

129. Reynolds, John: MY OWN TIMES, EMBRACING ALSO, THE HISTORY OF MY LIFE. [Belleville] Il. 1855. 600,xxiii,[1]pp. Portrait. Thick 12mo. Original publisher’s cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Corners worn, head and foot of spine heavily chipped, wear to spine. Minor foxing, contemporary pencil notations throughout text. About very good.

Howes notes that of this first edition of 400 copies, 300 were destroyed in the Chi- cago fire of 1857. Reynolds spent the early part of his life in Kentucky, travelling to Illinois with his parents in 1800. He became a lawyer, politician, and the governor of Illinois. An autobiography, the work is also an essential history of Illinois since 1800. Three chapters of this work are devoted to Mormonism, including its history, doctrine, and the murder of Joseph Smith and his brother in a Carthage, Illinois jail in 1844. “The book deals extensively with social, economic, and political conditions in the pioneer period and with the Black Hawk War...a good picture of frontier society” – Buck. “Best picture of Illinois pioneer life” – Howes. BYRD 2343. HOWES R236, “b.” CLARK II:57. BUCK 57. GRAFF 3479. STREETER SALE 1510. FLAKE 7122. SABIN 70420. $1250. 130. Rogers, John: A MID-NIGHT CRY FROM THE TEMPLE OF GOD TO THE TEN VIRGINS SLUMBERING AND SLEEPING, AWAKE, AWAKE, ARISE, AND GIRD YOUR LOYNS, AND TRIM YOUR LAMPS, FOR BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH, GO YE THEREFORE OUT TO MEET HIM. [New York: Printed by William Bradford, 1705?] [2],179,[9],88[of 90?]pp. First eight leaves and final two leaves in facsimile. 19th-century half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Spine abraded and worn, removing title; corners worn. Contents darkened at edges, first few leaves lightly dampstained; some light soiling and foxing. Good.

First edition, with the addition of “An Epistle to the Churches of Christ, called Quakers.” Rogers, who lived mainly in New London, was a convert to the Baptist faith. He later developed his own particular ideas and followers, called Rogerines. For this he was vigorously persecuted, and he gives a long account of his tribulations in this work, including floggings, imprisonment, and fines. All of the works relating to the Rogerines are quite rare, having been issued in small editions, and often destroyed. ESTC locates fewer than ten copies of this work, almost all in various states of incompleteness. Shipton & Mooney notes that all known copies of the text seem to be lacking the last leaf (pp.89-90), as though the leaf was canceled before binding. EVANS 1232, 1233. ESTC W26021. SABIN 72687. $6000.

One of Benjamin Rush’s Rarest Works, in a Wonderful Association Copy

131. Rush, Benjamin: INFORMATION TO EUROPEANS WHO ARE DISPOSED TO MIGRATE TO THE UNITED STATES [bound with three other works]. Philadelphia: Carey, Stewart, & Co., [1790]. 16pp. Early 20th-century red cloth, spine gilt. Head of spine and frayed, extremities rubbed. Later manuscript contents list on front fly leaf. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Inscribed “From the Author” on the titlepage.

A most interesting pamphlet volume, consisting of four works connected by medicine and Scotland, most notably a quite rare work by Dr. Benjamin Rush in an interesting association copy. Benjamin Rush was a delegate to the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. He later served as surgeon general for the Middle Department of the Continental Army, though he resigned in outrage over the disorganization and corruption in army hospitals. He established several medical facilities in Philadelphia, including the College of Physicians in 1787. “Writing prolifically over nearly half a century, Rush was the first American physician to become widely known at home and abroad. More than any other physician, Rush established the reputation of Philadelphia as a center for medical training....His drive to understand mental illness and render the treatment of mental patients more humane earned Rush the title ‘father of American psychiatry’” – ANB. Rush studied at the University of Edinburgh in 1767-69 and maintained a correspondence with many medical and literary men in Scotland and England, especially among the figures of the “Scottish Enlightenment.” Written in the form of a letter to a Quaker friend in London, Rush’s work outlines those types of people who should think better of emigrating (namely those people interested in pursuing culture and society) and those who should consider emigrating (farmers, mechanics, and other useful persons). He further discusses the favorable differences of the newly-formed American government.

From the numerous competitions in every branch of business in Europe, success in any pursuit, may be looked upon in the same light as a prize in a lottery. But the case is widely different in America. Here there is room enough for every human talent and virtue to expand and flourish. This is so invariably true, that I believe there is not an instance to be found, of an industrious, frugal, prudent European, with sober manners, who has not been successful in business, in this country.

The ESTC locates fewer than ten copies of this work. It would appear that the same hand has written “from the author” inscriptions on both the Rush and another pamphlet by James Beattie. It is possible that both tracts were inscribed by the same recipient – likely one of the men who was a part of the enlightened circle with whom Rush and Beattie would have been in communication. Alternatively, both inscriptions could be in the hand of James Beattie, who was certainly in contact with Rush, based on a letter written by Rush in 1786 (cited below). James Beattie (1735-1803) was a Scottish poet and philosopher. He co-founded the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1783, and on Aug. 1, 1786, Rush wrote to Beattie inviting him to be a member of the American Philosophical Society: “The American Revolution, which divided the British empire, made no breach in the republic of letters. As a proof of this, a stranger to your person, and a citizen of the country lately hostile to yours, has expressed his obligations to you for the knowledge and pleasure he has derived from your excellent writings, by procuring your admission into the American Philosophical Society....The stranger, alluded to, finished his studies in medicine in Edinburgh in the year 1769, and has ever since taught chemistry and medicine in the College of Philadelphia. His name (with the greatest respect for yours) is [signed] Benjamin Rush.” Given Rush’s admiration for Beattie, it is likely that he sent Beattie a copy of this pamphlet. The three other Edinburgh-related titles are as follows:

1) Falconer, William: A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon Disorders of the Body. The Second Edition. London: C. Dilly, 1791. iv,148pp. plus frontispiece portrait. ESTC T57172. 2) Codex Pharmaceuticus, In Usum Medicinae et Chirurgiae in Nosocomio Regio Edinbur- gensi Studiosorum. Edinburgh. 1790. iv,64pp. ESTC N14839, noting only three locations. 3) Beattie, James: A Short Account of the Life and Character of the Late Dr. Thomas Liv- ingston [caption title]. [Edinburgh? 1785]. 7pp. Inscribed at the top of the page: “A present from the author / Dr. Beattie to T.P.” Reprinted from the Aberdeen Journal of May 30, 1785. ESTC T148406, noting one copy at the University of London.

An interesting collection of pamphlets and a notable appearance of one of Benjamin Rush’s scarcest works. EVANS 22390. ESTC W12996. SABIN 34702. $12,500.

132. Russell, Andrew J.: [Union Pacific Railroad]: [Utah]: [THREE STE- REOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS IN UTAH, FROM RUS- SELL’S UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD “VIEWS ACROSS THE CONTINENT” SERIES]. [New York. 1869]. Three stereoscopic albumen prints by Russell, on original orange card mounts (3¼ x 6¾ inches), with the printed series title on verso. Slight corner wear and soiling. Very good.

A.J. Russell worked as the primary photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad while under construction, producing the images for F.V. Hayden’s Sun Pictures of Rocky Mountain Scenery, the large folio Great West Illustrated, and the famous “Golden Spike” photograph showing the meeting of the Union and Central Pacific lines in 1869. He also created a series of stereoscopic images, all quite scarce. These three examples are all from the Utah section of the line, just north of Salt Lake City.

1) No. 47. “Echo Canon, looking east from Death’s Rock” 2) No. 64. “Devil’s Gate, Weber Canon, Rocks 2000 feet high” 3) No. 91. “Weber Canon, before Devil’s Gate” $1250.

133. Rutty, John: THE LIBERTY OF THE SPIRIT AND OF THE FLESH DISTINGUISHED: IN AN ADDRESS TO THOSE CAP- TIVES IN SPIRIT AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS, WHO ARE COMMONLY CALLED LIBERTINES. Dublin, Printed: Philadelphia, Re-printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, 1759. 64pp. Antique- style three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Evenly tanned, moderate foxing. Very good.

Benjamin Franklin, who printed this edition, knew a bit about the spirit of liberty, the spirit of the flesh, and about being called a libertine (although he was no Quaker). The author, Dr. John Rutty, was a Quaker and a prolific writer. In this, his only American publication, he criticizes the worldliness of some of his fellow Quakers and advises moderation in food, dress, recreations, and corporeal pursuits. This title was first published in Dublin in 1756, and Miller notes that the Society of Friends in Philadelphia ordered an edition of 4,000 copies from Franklin and Hall in 1759. EVANS 8486. ESTC W13598. MILLER 719. CAMPBELL 640. HILDEBURN 1642. SABIN 74499. $1250.

Rare Vermont Imprint and Indian War History

134. [Sanders, Daniel Clark]: A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN WARS WITH THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE UNITED STATES, PAR- TICULARLY IN NEW ENGLAND. Montpelier. 1812. 319pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf. Hinges worn and slightly cracked. Corners heavily worn. Light soiling to titlepage, minor toning to text. A good, sound copy. In a larger blue half morocco and cloth clamshell case, spine gilt.

A rare work on the history of the Indian Wars in New England, written by the president of the University of Vermont. “This book aroused bitter criticism because of its strictures on colonial bigotry and cruelty to the natives...” – Streeter. It was long believed to have been suppressed by its author because of his mortification at the attacks made on it by reviewers, and both Field and Church give long accounts of its supposed destruction. While there certainly were bitter reviews, and the work is quite rare, more modern bibliographers, notably Marcus McCorison in Vermont Imprints, have suggested the suppression story may be exaggerated. Later writers have also praised the book as one of the best written histories of the Indian Wars of New England. CHURCH 1306. HOWES S84. PILLING, PROOF-SHEETS 3474. FIELD 1351. GILMAN, p.240. SABIN 76366. McCORISON 1420. STREETER SALE 727. $1250.

135. [Scott, Thomas]: ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX HIS GHOST, SENT FROM ELIZIAN: TO THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND COM- MUNALTIE OF ENGLAND. [issued with:] A POST SCRIPT, OR, A SECOND PART OF ROBERT EARLE OF ESSEX HIS GHOST.... Printed in Paradise [i.e. London]. 1624. [2],18; [2],11pp. Small quarto. An- tique-style speckled calf, spine gilt. Light dust soiling, heaviest to titlepage. Very good. Untrimmed.

First edition, second issue. An imaginary diatribe issued from heaven by the ghost of the 2nd Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux, against Spanish and Austrian Catho- lics. “Contains references to the Spanish cruelties in America, as described in the works of Las Casas” – Sabin. The works of Scott, chaplain to James I, made a deep impression on the public mind during the early years of the English settlement in America and stimulated fear that English colonial interests would fall under Spanish domination. Only a handful of copies recorded by ESTC. ESTC S123283. STC 22084a. SABIN 78369. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 624/135. $2000.

Early American Sermons

136. [Sermons]: [SAMMELBAND OF SIX MID-18th-CENTURY SER- MONS PRINTED IN BOSTON AND NEW HAVEN]. Boston & New Haven. 1745-1770. Six sermons, detailed below. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Corners bumped and worn, top compartment of spine perished. Titlepage of first sermon lacking; final advertisement leaf of last sermon torn, with some loss. Some light toning and soiling, minor dampstaining on later leaves, a few contemporary ownership inscriptions. A good, solid volume in a contemporary binding.

Sammelband of 18th-century American imprints, comprised of six sermons printed in Boston and New Haven, preached near the end of the First Great Awaken- ing. The running theme seems to be controversial ministers espousing ideas that may have been less than conformist with the views of American colonial religion. The volume bears the contemporary ownership inscription, dated 1776, of Rufus Lathrop, an official for the town of Norwich, Connecticut. Includes the following relatively scarce works:

1) Niles, Samuel: [A Vindication of Divers Important Gospel-Doctrines, and of the Teachers and Professors of Them...]. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1752. 14,120pp. Lacks titlepage. EVANS 6902. NAIP w028582. 2) Cogswell, James: The Necessity of Piety, Wisdom and Labour, in Order to Acceptance with God in the Work of the Gospel Ministry. A Sermon Delivered at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Josiah Whitney.... New Haven: James Parker, 1757. 27pp. Only three copies located by NAIP, at Connecticut Historical, Yale, and Harvard. EVANS 7875. NAIP w027863. 3) Bellamy, Joseph: That There is But One Covenant, Whereof Baptism and the Lord’s- Supper are Seals, viz. the Covenant of Grace.... New Haven: T. & S. Green, 1759. 16,iv,[5]-80pp. EVANS 11174. NAIP w014445. 4) Hervey, James: The Time of Danger and the Means of Safety; to Which is Added, the Way of Holiness. Being the Substance of Three Sermons, Preached on the Late Public Fast-Days. Boston: Edes & Gill, 1758. 80pp. EVANS 8150. NAIP w030120. 5) Judson, David: On Church Discipline; Shewing, the Reasons of the Author’s Renouncing the Part of the Say-Brook Platform, Intitled, Articles for the Administration of Church Discipline. In a Sermon, Preached at Newtown, August 5, A.D. 1770. New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, [1770]. 22pp. Sermon against a portion of the Saybrook Platform, which sought to stem disunity among the Congregationalist churches. Judson, a chaplain with the Continental Army, died during the first years of the American Revolution. Only five copies located by NAIP, three of those in Connecticut institutions. EVANS 11692. NAIP w035684. 6) Croswell, Andrew: What is Christ to Me, If He is Not Mine? Or, a Seasonable Defence of the Old Protestant Doctrine of Justifying Faith; with a Particular Answer to Mr. Giles Firmin’s Eight Arguments to the Contrary. Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1745. 46,[2]pp. EVANS 5568. NAIP w029701. $1500.

An African-American West Indian Writes About His Life and Social Theories

137. Sixto, Adolph: TIME AND I, OR LOOKING FORWARD. [San Juan: News Power Print, ca. 1899]. [4],vi,168,[44, advertisements]pp. plus nine plates. Original illustrated wrappers printed in green and red. Spine partially perished, wrappers noticeably soiled, some chipping. Light scattered foxing, minor mildewing at bottom edge, minor chipping to gutter at bottom edge of first few and last few leaves, last few leaves of advertisements partially detached. Still, a good copy. In a cloth box, red label.

Presentation copy of this rare West Indian book by a major contributor to the early cultural development of the region and a significant African-American author. In- scribed by Sixto on the recto of his portrait plate: “St. Thomas 25/1/24 Honorable Mr. A.G. Brown V.I. Commissioner When you read this work please think of me at my best the Author Adolph Sixto.” Sixto was born on the small island of Vieques, just to the east of Puerto Rico and adminis- tratively part of it, in 1858. He spent most of his adult life in the neighboring island of St. Thomas, part of the Danish West Indies until 1917 (Puerto Rico was taken over by the U.S. in the Spanish-American War in 1898). He established the first repertory theatre on St. Thomas, as well as being the founder of the Carnival in 1912. He remained a prominent citizen until his death in 1930. This book is in the form of a history of St. Thomas, but is actually Sixto’s argument for socialism in the governing of the island. His narrative is both a promotion of the interests of the island and a development of his political and cultural theories. It is interspersed with many first-person observations on administration and political organization, agricultural and industrial activities, geography, and culture. The plates include a photographic portrait of Sixto, a photographic view of the harbor of St. Thomas, an illustrated view of the Soap and Match Factory, and more. The last section is essentially an early business directory of St. Thomas, with numerous listings for photographers, general merchants, cigar dealers, Riise rum and other liquor dealers, insurance agents, and many others. OCLC locates only four copies: New York Public Library, Harvard, and two at Tulane. OCLC 16788299. $3500.

138. [Smith, William]: A BRIEF VIEW OF THE CONDUCT OF PENNSYLVANIA, FOR THE YEAR 1755...WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SHOCKING INHUMANITIES, COMMITTED BY IN- CURSIONS OF THE INDIANS UPON THE PROVINCE.... Lon- don: R. Griffiths, 1756. 88pp. Late 19th-century three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities rubbed. Titlepage lightly soiled, else generally clean. Very good.

In this sequel to William Smith’s Brief State... the author continues his exposé of the political factions operating in Pennsylvania. The lack of unity weakened the leadership and provided opportunities for the French and Indians to wage more damaging warfare. Smith is especially hard on the Quakers and the Popular Party, claiming they are promoting the French interest and are a “dead Weight upon his Majesty’s service.” STREETER SALE 962. HOWES S687. SABIN 84594. TPL 6440. FIELD 1446. $1250. 139. St. Clair, Arthur, Maj. Gen.: A NARRATIVE OF THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE INDIANS, IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY- ONE, WAS CONDUCTED UNDER THE COMMAND OF MA- JOR GENERAL ST. CLAIR. Philadelphia: Printed by Jane Aitken, 1812. xix,[1, blank],273,[1, blank],20,[2, blank],[4],[2, blank]pp. With the extended list of subscribers not found in all copies. Half title. Period blue paper boards, rebacked to style. Very good. Uncut.

St. Clair’s self-defense against the charges and investigation which followed the defeat and slaughter by the Ohio Indians of eight hundred soldiers under St. Clair’s command. “All of St. Clair’s voluminous defense is rendered nugatory and futile by the passionate ejaculations of Washington, when Major Denny called him from a dinner-party, to announce the defeat. Overcome with surprise and indignation, Washington cursed the beaten general with exceeding fervor, adding, ‘Did not my last words warn him against a surprise’” – Field. Printed by the daughter of Robert Aitken, printer of the first American Bible. HOWES S24, “aa.” FIELD 1349. SABIN 75020. EBERSTADT 115:892. THOMSON 1012. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 26682. $1000.

A Rare Work of Dutch Land Speculation in Federal America

140. Stadnitski, Pieter: VOORAFGAAND BERICHT, WEGENS EENE NEGOTIATIE, OP LANDEN IN AMERICA. Amsterdam. 1792. 37pp. Contemporary pink wrappers, stitched. Stitching loosening. Negligible soiling. Near fine.

A rare pamphlet on European investment in the Federal-era United States. Pieter Stadnitski was one of several investors in the Holland Land Company syndicate, purchasing land in western New York State and seeking to remarket it to settlers. Stadnitski also invested in the American federal debt, which Alexander Hamilton’s reforms of 1790 had made into a reliable and secure investment. Not in Goldsmiths’ catalogue, and with fewer than ten locations noted in OCLC. KRESS B.2417. $3000.

Fundamental to Any Collection on the American Revolution

141. Stedman, Charles: THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN WAR. London: Printed for the Author, 1794. Two volumes. xv,[1],399; xv,[1],449,[14]pp., plus fifteen engraved maps and plans (eleven folding, one of these with an over-flap). Half title in second volume, lacking half title in first volume. Quarto. Expertly bound to style in 18th-century tree calf, gilt, spines gilt, morocco labels. Minor scattered foxing in text. Very good.

This work is “generally considered the best contemporary account of the Revolution written from the British side” (Sabin). Stedman was a native of Philadelphia, a Loyalist who served as an officer under Howe, Clinton, and Cornwallis, and later became an examiner of Loyalist claims for the British government. He had first- hand knowledge of many of the campaigns and persons involved in the effort. He is critical of Howe and describes all the major theaters of war, as well as individual battles from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. The beautifully engraved maps (the largest of which is approximately 20 x 30 inches) constitute the finest collection of plans assembled by an eyewitness. They depict the sieges of Savannah and Charlestown, plus the battles of Saratoga, Camden, Guilford, Hobkirk’s Hill, and Yorktown. HOWES S914, “b.” JCB II:372. LOWNDES V, p.2504. SABIN 91057. WINSOR VI, p.518. $15,000.

The Principal Military Manual of the American Revolution

142. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von: REGULATIONS FOR THE ORDER AND DISCIPLINE OF THE TROOPS OF THE UNITED STATES. PART I [all published]. Hart- ford: Nathaniel Patten, [1783]. 108pp. plus eight engraved folding plates. 12mo. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style, red morocco label. Very good. Provenance: George Remsen (signature dated 1789).

The German-born Steuben, well trained in the highly disciplined military system developed under Frederick the Great, served as inspector general of the Conti- nental Army. In this capacity he wrote his Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States on orders from the Continental Congress. First published in 1779, the work became the standard text for the Continental Army and the United States Army into the early 19th century. Fifty editions, abridge- ments, extracts, and adaptations were printed before 1800. Steuben’s contribution to American independence cannot be underestimated. “He was unrivaled among the citizens of the new nation as an expert on military affairs. His introduction of European military concepts to the Continental army marks the beginning of a truly professional military tradition in the United States” – ANB. Rarely found with the folding plates intact and in good condition, as in the present example. EVANS 18267. SABIN 91395. HOWES S951, “aa.” ESTC W22971. $6000.

143. Stiles, Ezra: A HISTORY OF THREE OF THE JUDGES OF KING CHARLES I...WHO, AT THE RESTORATION, 1660, FLED TO AMERICA, AND WERE SECRETED AND CONCEALED, IN MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT, FOR NEAR THIRTY YEARS.... Hartford: Printed by Elisha Babcock, 1794. 357,[1]pp. plus nine plates and maps (two maps folding and backed on linen), including frontispiece portrait. Errata slip pasted on last page. Extra-illustrated with twenty- two additional plates, many with tissue guards. 12mo. Early 20th-cneutry elaborately gilt morocco, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. Quite browned and foxed, else very good.

The Frank Deering copy, with his bookplate. The frontispiece portrait of Stiles was executed by Amos Doolittle, as were the small local maps of New Haven and the area where the judges hid. When his classic history of the regicide judges was published in 1794, Stiles was president of Yale College, a position he held from 1778 until his death in 1795. The extra illustrations, so typical of books from the Deering library, are mostly engravings of individuals mentioned in the text. HOWES S999. EVANS 27743. NAIP w020469. $1000.

Important Work on the Medical Qualities of American Plants

144. Strong, Asa B.: THE AMERICAN FLORA, OR HISTORY OF PLANTS AND WILD FLOWERS: CONTAINING A SYSTEM- ATIC AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION, NATURAL HISTO- RY, CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF OVER SIX THOUSAND PLANTS, ACCOMPANIED WITH A CIR- CUMSTANTIAL DETAIL OF THE MEDICINAL EFFECTS, AND OF THE DISEASES IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN MOST SUCCESSFULLY EMPLOYED. New York: Green & Spencer, 1851/1849/1849/1850. Four lithographic frontispieces only (uncolored portrait of the author, handcolored portrait of Linnaeus, two handcolored plates); four handcolored lithographic additional titles; 186 lithographic plates, some printed in colors, all finished by hand, by Edwin Whitefield, David W. Moody, and others. Publisher’s red morocco, gilt, spine gilt, a.e.g. Very good.

A complete set of this important American flora with charming plates, including the very rare fourth volume. The collation for this work changes from issue to issue in a bewildering fashion, as Stafleu notes: “The copies listed in The National Union Catalog show a great variation.” The dates of the first and second volumes of the present set do not correspond with any of the combinations suggested by Stafleu, but he does record copies of the third and fourth volumes with the same dates but variant numbers of plates. Present here: Volume I dated 1851 with an uncolored portrait of the author, colored additional titlepage, and forty-eight plates; Volume II dated 1849 with colored frontispiece, additional titlepage, and forty-six plates; Volume III dated 1849 with colored frontispiece, additional titlepage, and forty-six plates; Volume IV dated 1850 with colored frontispiece, additional titlepage, and forty-six plates. “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” – Bennett. BENNETT, p.103. BRADLEY BIBLIOGRAPHY III, p.58. McGRATH, p.218. B.A. Norton, Edwin Whitefield, p.145. STAFLEU & COWAN TL2 13.290. $6000.

Printing and the Mind of Man Classic

145. Taylor, Frederick Winslow: THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. 77pp. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Corners slightly rubbed. Ownership inscription on front pastedown. Internally clean. Very good.

The rare first issue of the first edition of this origin of modern management theory. According to the statement on the title-page this “special edition” was printed in February 1911 for confidential circulation among the members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers “with the compliments of the author.” It precedes the trade issue, published later the same year, which omits the Foreword and the Appendix. As an engineer in the Bethlehem Steel Works in Philadelphia, Taylor developed an organizational system that he called “scientific management,” later known as “time and motion study.” “His system was based on what he estimated to be a fair day’s work and the best means of ensuring such a standard of production.” He was interested in any factor that hindered or helped in attaining this end, and besides studying factory conditions and methods in great detail, he was responsible for fundamental changes in machinery and machine tools. “The main lines of approach to increased efficiency were standardizing processes and machines, time and motion study, and payment by results...” – PMM. PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MAN 403. NORMAN LIBRARY 2059. $3750.

146. Thompson, Thomas S., compiler: THOMPSON’S COAST PILOT AND SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR THE NORTH-WESTERN LAKES, FROM OGDENSBURG TO BUFFALO, CHICAGO, GREEN BAY, GEORGIAN BAY AND LAKE SUPERIOR, IN- CLUDING ALL THE RIVER NAVIGATION, COURSES AND DISTANCES OF EACH LAKE, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR EN- TERING ALL THE PRINCIPAL HARBORS THEREON. Detroit. 1881. 210,[1]pp. Illus. Original three-quarter cloth and printed boards, rebacked, modern paper label. Printed boards carry an 1881 imprint date. Some edge wear, minor chipping to paper boards, hinges reinforced. Minor occasional foxing. Good.

Sixth edition of this rare navigational guide for the Great Lakes region, including a glossary of nautical terms and segments concerning rules for the management of open row-boats, the towing of life boats, and more. Only eight copies recorded in OCLC. Not listed in Thompson, Greenly, Streeter (Michigan), Howes, or Sabin. OCLC 23125311. $950.

147. [Tobler, John]: FATHER ABRAHAM’S ALMANACK, FOR...1772... BY ABRAHAM WEATHERWISE, GENT. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by John Dunlap, [1771]. [36]pp. including two woodcut illustrations. Dbd. illustrated self-wrappers, dbd. First page faded and stained, else very good.

A complete copy of John Tobler’s 1772 almanac, including the elaborate woodcut frontispiece illustration by Henry Dawkins. In addition to the calendar for the year, the almanac contains the anatomical depiction of the zodiac and substantial text, including several moral essays in prose and verse; a poem entitled “The Art of Printing”; lists of courts, roads, and Quaker meetings; and two pre-Revolutionary patriotic items: a four-line poem, “On the Liberty of the Press,” and a short essay, “The spirit of England with respect to commerce.” “Though the Tobler almanacs issued after his death in 1765 have been attributed to his son John, the publisher’s preface to the South Carolina and Georgia almanac for 1765 (Savannah) states that Tobler’s calculations had then been completed up to 1800. The later almanacs contain no indication that Tobler junior is the author” – NAIP. DRAKE 9956. EVANS 12276. HILDEBURN 2727. NAIP w010028. $900. Rare First Edition of the First Collection of Colonial Statutory Law

148. Trott, Nicholas: THE LAWS OF THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA, RELATING TO THE CHURCH AND THE CLER- GY, RELIGION AND LEARNING. COLLECTED IN ONE VOL- UME. London: B. Cowse, 1721. [4],[ix],[1],[2],[10],435pp. Title printed in red and black, woodcut printer’s device on the titlepage (rose and crown). Folio. Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, spine gilt with raised bands, morocco labels. Endpapers renewed. Very good.

Trott, the grandson of Bermuda founder Peri- ent Trott, first came to South Carolina in 1699 as the attorney general of the colony, and was appointed chief justice in 1703. During his time on the bench in South Carolina, he is perhaps best remembered as the Vice Admi- ralty Judge during the trial of the notorious pirate, Capt. Stede Bonnet. After retiring from public service, he spent the rest of his life as a legal scholar. With the present work Trott joined his interests in the law with his years of attempting to establish the Church of England within the colonies. Trott’s Laws comprise the collected ecclesiastical acts from South Carolina (pp.1- 77), North Carolina (pp.83-104), Virginia (pp.113-161), Maryland (pp.171-221), Penn- sylvania (pp.227-243), New Jersey (pp.249- 257), New York (pp.263-280), Connecticut (pp.285-298), Rhode Island (pp.303-304), Massachusetts-Bay (pp.311-337), New Hamp- shire (pp.343-348), Barbados (pp.353-370), Antigua (pp.375-380), Nevis (pp.385-390), the Leeward Islands (pp.395-403), Jamaica (pp.409-426), and Bermuda (pp.431-435). Each section devoted to a colony is preceded by its own sectional title. Importantly, in the preface Trott details his sources for each colony, and in many cases they were compiled from original manuscript records. For his work he was awarded a Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University in 1720 and a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Aberdeen in 1726. The 1721 first edition of this work is particularly rare; a second edition was published in 1725. We find no other example of this work on the market in the last half century. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 721/195. BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES 139. SABIN 97056. $8500. 149. [Trumbull, John]: [PRINTED RECEIPT FOR A SUBSCRIPTION FEE FOR SORTIE OF GIBRALTAR]. [London?] June 16, 1789. Single sheet, 3½ x 8¼ inches, mounted on cardboard. Old fold lines. Near fine.

Receipt for a print of one of Trumbull’s most famous historical paintings, “The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 27 November 1781.” The receipt reads: “Received the 16th Day of June, 1789, from Rev. Dr. Davis the Sum of Three guineas, being One Half of the Subscription for a Proof Print of the Sortie of Gibraltar, which We promise to deliver, according to the Proposals. [signed] J.Cracknell, Jno. Trumbull, Willm. Sharp.” The receipt bears an embossed notary seal. Trumbull had been, up to this point, primarily painting scenes from the American Revolution. Being in England and finding his Revolutionary scenes none too popular in that venue, he undertook to celebrate a British feat of arms, producing this masterful work. Hailed as the official painter of the Revolution, Trumbull studied painting and art in England and France. The youngest son of the governor of Connecticut, the elder John Trumbull very much wanted his son to go into law. Trumbull did study the law, but gladly joined the fight against the British when the Revolution broke out. He eventually served as Washington’s second aide-de-camp, having been brought to the General’s attention through some very accurate drawings he had made of British gun emplacements. He rose to the rank of colonel as a deputy adjutant-general, but resigned the commission he finally received because it was dated three months late, a slight his honor could not tolerate. He refused to return to the law, finding it quite distasteful, and chose instead to pursue his true passion, art, against his family’s wishes. Although he was never particularly wealthy in this pursuit, he did achieve a certain amount of success in his lifetime. Among his most famous works are those commissioned in 1817 by Congress to adorn the Capitol: “The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga,” “The Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown,” “The Declaration of Independence,” and “The Resignation of General Washington.” DAB XIX, pp.11-15. Helen A. Cooper, John Trumbull: The Hand and Spirit of a Painter (Yale, 1982), pp.10-11. $1000. First Photo-Lithographic Book Produced in America

150. Turner, A.A.: VILLAS ON THE HUDSON. A COLLECTION OF PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHS OF THIRTY-ONE COUNTRY RESI- DENCES. New York: D. Appleton, 1860. Three preliminary leaves, thirty-one photo-lithographic plates (most with two tints), twenty-one floor plans. Oblong folio. Contemporary green pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt, expertly rebacked preserving a portion of original cloth back- strip. Foxing, largely to the floor plans. Else very good.

This book is the first large-scale use of photo-lithography in the United States, a medium which did not come into general use for another two decades. Its views are based on photographs made by A.A. Turner of large homes along the Hudson from upper Manhattan Island to Dobbs Ferry, mainly summer or pleasure homes of wealthy New Yorkers, and often exhibiting extravagant or playful architecture. The villas are remarkably lavish, and some show considerable whimsy. Turner took the pictures in 1858 and 1859, and this work appeared on the eve of the Civil War. All the views have at least one additional color, and most have two (either brown or green, or both) applied by stencil, with the picture inside a gilt printed border. The images have a slightly surreal quality which adds to the appeal of this remarkable book. HITCHCOCK 1275. TRUTHFUL LENS 173. REESE, STAMPED WITH A NA- TIONAL CHARACTER 62. $7000. The First British Printing of the Constitution

151. [United States Constitution]: PLAN OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGREED UPON IN A CONVENTION OF THE STATES WITH A PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. London. 1787. [2],30pp. An- tique-style half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good.

The first British printing of the Constitution. Howes calls for eight pages of advertisements, which are not present here. This was presumably printed shortly after news of the American Constitution reached England in early November 1787. HOWES P413. SABIN 63294. ESTC T138351. $12,000.

152. [United States Laws]: ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, ON MON- DAY THE FOURTH OF JANUARY, IN THE YEAR M,DCC,XC; AND OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES, THE FOURTEENTH. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. New York: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, Print- ers to the Congress of the United States, [1790]. 226,[2]pp. (with p.[228] numbered ccxxviii). Folio. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Contemporary and later ownership inscription on titlepage. Minor scattered foxing and toning. Very good.

The official record of the acts of Congress passed during the second session of the first Congress, which “contains the Treaties and Conventions ratified with the several countries of Europe, and with the Indian tribes.” As during the first session of the first Congress, many more fundamental acts of legislation were passed in this term, including the Census, naturaliza- tion law, the copyright bill, the settling of the District of Columbia as the seat of the new government, and various tariff and fiscal laws. An important volume in the early history of the United States, recording the official acts passed in the earliest days of the federal government. This copy bears the ownership inscription of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1738- 1810), who served as a representative for New York during the First Congress. Van Rensselaer was a graduate of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), who settled in his hometown of Albany. He was active in local politics and was early on a supporter of the American cause against Britain, joining the Albany Sons of Liberty in 1766. He served as a paymaster during the Revolution and was an Antifederalist after the war, opposing the new constitution. After serving in the first Congress, he went on to direct the Bank of Albany and serve as lieutenant governor under George Clinton. EVANS 22952. NAIP w014343. $7500.

Early New York Colonial Governor

153. Van Dam, Rip: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM RIP VAN DAM TO RICHARD FLOYD, CONCERNING THE SALE OF SOME LAND AT PALORSQUASH]. [N.p., but possibly New York City. ca. 1733]. [1]p. plus integral address leaf. Folio, on a folded sheet. Light soiling and wear. Very good.

Rip Van Dam, New York merchant and briefly colonial governor, complains of his ill health and details financial transactions in this letter to Col. Richard Floyd. Floyd (1661-1737) was the son of the founder of Setauket, New York, and this letter is addressed to him there. He served as sheriff of Suffolk County in 1708-09 and was the grandfather of William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rip van Dam (ca. 1660-1749) was a Manhat- tan merchant and politician, serving as the acting governor of the Province of New York from 1731 to 1732. He quarreled with the incoming governor, William Cosby, and published several articles against the governor, leading to his implication in the Zenger trial. The top third of the sheet contains a brief accounting of the financial business between the two men, while the remainder of the sheet is comprised of Van Dam’s letter, which mostly details his struggle with gout. Interestingly, part of the balance due him was paid in rum. $1000.

A Primary Work on American Birds

154. Vieillot, Louis Jean Pierre: HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES OI- SEAUX DE L’AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE, CONTENANT UN GRAND NOMBRE D’ESPÈCES DECRITES OU FIGURÉES POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS. Paris: Desray, 1807[-1808]. Two volumes bound in one. [2],iv,90 [i.e. 94]; [2],ii,74pp., plus 131 engraved plates (uncolored, numbered 1-124, plus 2, 3, 10, 14, 57, 68 and 90 bis) by Bouquet after Pretre, printed by Langlois. Folio. Expertly bound to style in period half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt, red morocco label. Very good.

A handsome copy of this important work on the birds of North America, one of the primary specialized works to pre- cede Audubon, with beautiful engraved plates. Among the four hundred species described herein, the author claims fifty to be entirely new and never before described. This work was originally intended to be issued in forty parts of six plates each; however, only twenty- two parts were ever issued, so these two volumes comprise the complete work as published. “Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748- 1831) was one of the pioneers with Al- exander Wilson of a new kind of ornithology in which birds were no longer amassed merely as specimens but studied as living organisms, with careful observations of their life-histories and types of behaviour. Vieillot paid particular attention to the variations of plumage in any one species at different stages of its life-cycle....He was very gifted, and accomplished much solid work, but was always overshadowed by the brilliance of his contemporaries such as Buffon and Cuvier” – Lysaght. The plates bear all the hallmarks of the great French natural history books of the first two decades of the 19th century. They are individual works of art, while also being scientifically accurate pictorial documents of the highest order; and they are, invariably, carefully observed and beautifully printed. ANKER 515. NISSEN (IVB) 957. ZIMMER, pp.654-55. WOOD, p.612. FINE BIRD BOOKS, pp.149-51. LYSAGHT 127. $12,000.

From The Hudson River Port Folio

155. Wall, William Guy, and John Hill [engraver]: VIEW NEAR FORT MONTGOMERY. No. 18 OF The Hudson River Port Folio. New York: Henry J. Megarey, [1822]. Aquatint, colored by hand, by John Hill, after W.G. Wall. Sheet size: 18½ x 24 inches. Very good.

A superb example of one of the greatest and earliest works devoted to the American landscape. Wall and Hill demonstrate in this view their great talent for investing apparently simple and random scenes with grandeur and intrigue. The focal point of the image is an unadorned raft with a number of men shown from so far away that there are no distinguishing individual characteristics: they are mere figures floating down the calm, mirror-like river. The hills that slope down into the river are reflected to such a degree that it is difficult to discern exactly where the hills stop and the reflection begins. The succession of hills and the river recede into the distance beneath a grey sky, also reflected in the river. The hills, river, and sky seem to have a quiet liveliness of quite a different order than that of the active little figures on the raft. “The Hudson River Port Folio, a series of twenty views...celebrates the beauty of the Hudson and its surroundings. It is amongst the finest collections of New York State views ever published....The aquatints show us the region of the Hudson’s headwaters, the rapids it creates on its journey downstream, the bridges it makes imperative overhead, the trade that its navigability spawns, and, most of all, the ennobling topographic settings through which it passes. In the final view, New York from Governor’s Island, we see the Hudson at the end of its journey, where it joins the East River in New York Bay....William Guy Wall...was a native of Dublin who came to America in 1818....Beginning in 1826, he exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design....[He was skillful with atmospheric perspective in his landscapes, and he created almost spiritual effects with light, at a time when viewers were used to literal depictions. Between 1828 and 1835 he remained in America, but then returned to Dublin for twenty years. He came back to America for four years between 1856 and 1860, before again returning to Ireland where he lived for the remaining four years of his life.] Wall frequently worked in tandem with John Hill, whose emigration from England predated that of Wall by two years....According to Koke, ‘the artistic achievement for which Hill is best known... was the Hudson River Port Folio, a landscape series closely akin to the Picturesque Views of American Scenery recently finished for the Careys’ (John Hill Master Of Aquatint, p.86)....Hill, an aquatintist virtually without peer in America, was called in to fill the place vacated by John Rubens Smith, who dissociated himself from the Port Folio before he finished engraving the four plates of the first number.... Hill belonged to a small group of English-trained engravers who raised the level of American print-making to an extraordinary degree” – Deák (pp.217-18). Second state of three (with number “18” added in manuscript to title). DEÁK, PICTURING AMERICA 320. KOKE, CHECKLIST OF THE AMERICAN ENGRAVINGS OF JOHN HILL 82. $6000.

Popular Satire on Early New England

156. [Ward, Nathaniel]: THE SIMPLE COBLER OF AGGAVVAM IN AMERICA. WILLING TO HELP ‘MEND HIS NATIVE COUN- TRY, LAMENTABLY TATTERED, BOTH IN THE UPPER- LEATHER AND SOLE, WITH ALL THE HONEST STITCHES HE CAN TAKE.... London: J.D. & R.I. for Stephen Bowtell..., 1647. [4],80pp. Small quarto. 20th-century brown morocco, tooled in blind, gilt inner dentelles, a.e.g. Bookplate and label of Frank Cutter Deering on front endpapers. Ownership inscription (“William [?] Gable Altoona, Pa. June 1916”) on front fly leaf. Light toning, minor soiling. Very good.

“A prose satire of the times, which instantly became popular and will always associate [Ward’s] name with early American literature...” – Church. Ward came to New England in 1634 and was appointed minister at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts. Soon after he compiled the first code of laws established in New England, which was adopted but never printed in book form, as John Cotton’s code was mistaken for that of Ward. This was his next literary effort, containing many New England references. The work was extremely popular, going through five editions in the first year of its publication. Scarce. SABIN 101323. CHURCH 484. WING W787. JCB (3)II:360. EUROPEAN AMERI- CANA 647/200. ESTC R43813. $8500.

157. [Washington, George]: Sparks, Jared, editor: THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON; BEING HIS CORRESPONDENCE, ADDRESSES, MESSAGES, AND OTHER PAPERS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE, SELECTED AND PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS; WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Boston. 1834-1837. Twelve volumes. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Minor shelf wear, some rubbing. Mostly minor scattered foxing. Very good.

A mixed issue of arguably the most important work of prolific writer and historian Jared Sparks. The set contains many plates showing various important places and personages in Washington’s life. The Mount Vernon Digital Encyclopedia entry on George Washington’s papers notes: “In January 1827, Bushrod Washington gave editor Jared Sparks permission to publish some of Washington’s papers. During his work, Sparks moved many of the papers to Boston and he visited repositories in both the United States and Europe to search for letters and documents not represented in Washington’s own papers. Unfortunately he was also free with giving favors of Washington’s handwriting.” Attractive complete sets, as here, are hard to find. SABIN 101765. $1500.

Early American Wax Museum

158. [Wax Museum]: [Washington, George]: [ Jackson, Andrew, and others]: [INTRIGUING ADVERTISING BROADSIDE FOR A WAX MUSEUM EXHIBITION, FEATURING STATUES OF WASH- INGTON, JACKSON, LAFAYETTE, AND OTHERS, CIRCA 1825]. [N.p., likely Medford, N.Y. ca. 1825]. Broadside, 15 x 19 inches. Some foxing, edge wear, and wrinkling. A couple long closed tears and small holes, costing a small amount of text. Good.

A striking and fascinating advertising broadside for a traveling wax figure exhibition featuring statues of Gen. George Washington, Gen. Lafayette, Gen. Andrew Jackson, three famous early American commodores (William Bainbridge, Isaac Hull, and David Porter, all commanders at one point in time of the U.S.S. Constitution), “An Elegant Figure, Representing the Goddess of Liberty,” and Emperor Agustin de Iturbide, the late emperor of Mexico and his wife, both in elaborate dress. A manuscript addition identifies the time and location of the exhibit as the “Charles Stearnes Hotel in Medfard [Medford?] on Tuesday the 30 day of August 1825.” Based on the date, and the military nature of the wax figures, this seems to be an- ticipating the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence the following year. Possibly a unique copy, with no record found in OCLC. $4250.

159. Webster, Noah: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, ON POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS.... New York. 1802. viii,227,48pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Two faint ink library stamps on titlepage. Very good.

A scarce collection of essays by the noted lexicographer. The four essays herein included are “An Address to the President of the United States,” on the subject of his administration; “An Essay, on the Rights of Neutral Nations,” in vindication of the principles asserted by the northern powers of Europe; “A Letter,” on the value and importance of the American Commerce to Great-Britain; “A Sketch” of the history and present state of Banks and Insurance Companies in the United States. All put forward Webster’s Federalist views. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 3520. HOWES W206. SABIN 102369. SKEEL 733. $1500.

With the Plan of Fortifications Around Boston

160. [West, Benjamin]: BICKERSTAFF’S NEW-ENGLAND ALMA- NACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1776.... Norwich. [1775]. [24]pp. Gathered signatures, stitched, as issued. Minor foxing. Very good.

An important Revolutionary-era almanac, notable for the military plan of Boston showing the location of batteries, forts, and Bunker Hill. The description of the plan is found on the titlepage:

A very neat Plan of the Town of Boston, shewing at one View, the Provincial Camp, Boston Neck, Fortification, Commons, Bat- tery, Magazine, Charlestown Ferry, Mill Pond, Fort Hill, Corps Hill, Liberty Tree, Windmill Point, South Battery, Long Wharf, Island Wharfs, Hancock ditto, Charlestown, Bunker’s Hill, Winter Hill, Cobble Hill, Forts, Prospect Hill, Provincial Lines, Lower Fort, Upper ditto, Main Guard, Cambridge College, Charles River, Pierpont’s Mill, Fas- ciene Battery, Roxbury Hill Lines, Ministe- rial Army’s Lines, Dorchester Hill and Point, and Mystick River.

The text contains a detailed article on “The Method of making Gun-Powder, which at this Juncture may be carried into Execution in a small Way, by almost every Farmer in his own Habitations.” EVANS 14618. TRUMBULL 252. DRAKE 304. BRINLEY 7339. HAMILTON, EARLY AMERICAN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS 73. $2250.

With the Famous Abraham Panther Captivity

161. [West, Benjamin]: [Panther, Abraham]: BICKERSTAFF’S ALMA- NACK, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1788. BEING BISSEX- TILE OR LEAP YEAR, AND TWELFTH OF AMERICAN INDE- PENDENCE. Norwich. [1787]. [24]pp. Dbd. Minor toning, light foxing. Very good. In a blue cloth clamshell case, gilt leather label.

A rare and important Bickerstaff ’s almanac, containing the first printing of the famous Abraham Panther Indian captivity. Titled “A Surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1787, and after making her escape, she retired to a lonely Cave, where she lived nine years,” the captivity narrative covers pages 19-24 of the almanac. The captivity account was found to be fictional, but was nonetheless popular and reprinted more than twenty times between this first appearance and 1814. Rare, with only three copies reported in ESTC. EVANS 20875. DRAKE 416. TRUMBULL 1846. VAIL 767. SABIN 93891. AYER SUPPLEMENT 13. JONES CHECKLIST 608. ESTC W25617. $2500. 162. Whitefield, George: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. A SER- MON PREACHED ON FRYDAY FORENOON, SEPTEMBER 11th 1741. Boston: Printed & Sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1742. 28pp. 12mo. Later plain wrappers. Scuffed along spine, modern ink notation on front cover, minor soiling. Minor repair to bottom corner of titlepage, small marginal repairs to two other leaves. Ownership inscriptions on two leaves, minor foxing. Good. In a half calf and cloth slipcase.

A rare early American imprint of the famous minister. A sermon first delivered at Boston’s Old South Church in 1740, then revised for a Glasgow audience the following year. Rare, with only three copies in OCLC and only one copy known at auction. EVANS 5090. SABIN 103567. OCLC 29021012. $3750.

163. Wilkie, David: SKETCHES OF A SUMMER TRIP TO NEW YORK AND THE CANADAS. Edinburgh. 1837. [2],ii,ii,293,[1]pp. Original brown cloth, spine gilt. Some fading, edges lightly rubbed, hinges tender. Light scattered foxing. Very good.

This copy is inscribed by the author on the front fly leaf: “To Miss Leith, With best wishes and warm regards of the Author 7th May, 1838.” Wilkie travelled from his native Scotland to New York and north through Canada. This highly entertaining anecdotal narrative covers the Native community, society, and culture, and local history. The Yale library credits the author as Scottish painter Sir David Wilkie, but this attribution seems doubtful to us. TPL 1871. HOWES W421. SABIN 104015. LANDE 2301. $1250.

The Largest Book Printed in Colonial New England

164. Willard, Samuel: A COMPLEAT BODY OF DIVINITY IN TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EXPOSITORY LECTURES ON THE ASSEMBLY’S SHORTER CATECHISM.... Boston: B. Green and S. Kneeland, 1726. [2],iv,3,[3],158,177-461,462-468 (misnumbered 562, 463, 564, 463, 564, 465, 566),467-566,581-914,[1]pp. plus copper-engraved frontispiece portrait. Complete as issued. Folio. Contemporary suede, gilt leather label. Binding worn, with short splits in front joint, minor ink notations on front cover, modern shelf label on spine. Two old institutional bookplates on front pastedown. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Approximately one-sixth of frontispiece lacking, affecting text below image but not the image of Willard. Two small ink holographic corrections in margins of Preface, vertical closed tear in 3M3 affecting eleven lines of text, minor foxing and toning. Overall good.

A scarce posthumous publication of sermons by Samuel Willard, an early American- born Boston minister who served as the pastor of the Old South Church and vice president of Harvard College. In the Preface the editors praise Willard’s works, claiming they “drew many of the most knowing and judicious Persons both from Town and College, who heard them with so great a Relish, that they have ever since the Author’s Death, which was on Sept. 12, 1707, been earnestly desirous of this Publication, and given such a Character of them as has continually rais’d the same Desire in others....” They also state that the work is “the largest that was ever Printed Here, and the first of Divinity in a Folio Volume.” Evans describes the books as “the first folio volume, other than laws, and the largest work up to this time printed in the United States....Besides a catalogue of the Author’s works published in his lifetime, it contains a list of names of about five hundred subscribers. When the time, and the subject, extent, and size of the work is considered, this list is a remarkable tribute to the memory of the distinguished Author from his contemporaries; and has large genealogical value as representative of the helpful, public-spirited citizenship of the period.” Evans was indeed correct: the subscriber’s list reads like a who’s who among early Boston luminaries, including names such as Adams, Alden, Hancock, Holyoke, Quincy, and Benjamin Franklin’s father and brother, Josiah and James. Includes a short biography of the author extracted from the funeral sermon by Willard’s colleague, Ebenezer Pemberton. Although there seem to be plenty of copies in institutions, this work continues to be scarce in the market. While the frontispiece of this copy is damaged, in most copies, including the other copies presently on the market, it is lacking entirely. It is one of the earliest engraved portraits published in North America. EVANS 2828. SABIN 104075. STREETER 675. HOWELL 42:56. $2000.

The Classic American Ornithology Before Audubon, and One of the First American Color Plate Books

165. Wilson, Alexander: AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES: ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES; ENGRAVED AND COLORED FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TAKEN FROM NATURE.... Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1808-1814. Nine volumes. Seventy-six engravings, with excellent hand-coloring. Folio. Contemporary marbled boards, expertly backed to original style in red calf, spine gilt. Some light wear to text leaves. Moderate to heavy foxing and offsetting from plates, as usual with this work, but far better than typical. Very good. See the cover of this catalogue for another illustration.

Wilson’s work was the most important publication on American ornithology before Audubon and the most elaborate color plate book published in America up to its time. Wilson, a Scot, began work on American birds in 1802 with the encouragement of William Bartram. The feverish pace of his work, which began publication in 1808, weakened his constitution, and he died suddenly in 1813, with the eighth volume in press. His friend, George Ord, completed the work and wrote a memoir in the final volume. Although incomplete in scope because of Wilson’s narrow geographical travels and his early death, it was by far the most extensive work about American birds to that time. Likewise, the color plates set a new standard of achievement for those produced in America, even though Wilson’s artistry was sometimes crude, and the depictions of birds are stiff and out of scale compared to Audubon. In fact, as a self-taught poet and schoolmaster who came late to such work, he did a remarkable job, although he was fated to be outshone by Audubon. Wilson’s first volume appeared in September 1808. The present set is the second issue, with a different imprint than that of the first. The second volume came out in 1810, the third and fourth in 1811, the fifth and sixth in 1812, and the seventh and eighth in 1813. Ord produced the final volume in 1814. Wilson’s book is a great pioneering effort in both American bookmaking and science. It remained a standard book even after Audubon, and possibly went through more editions than Audubon’s octavo set, staying in print in one form or another until the 1880’s. Bennett calls it “the first truly outstanding American color plate book of any type.” MEISEL III, p.369. DAB XX, p.317. BENNETT, p.114. SABIN 104597. REESE, STAMPED WITH NATIONAL CHARACTER 3. $22,000. 166. Wilson, William: [MANUSCRIPT ACCOUNT BOOK OF WIL- LIAM WILSON, DELAWARE MERCHANT, 1785 – 1798]. Wilm- ington. 1785-1798. [242]pp. Oblong 12mo. Contemporary calf. Some rubbing and minor wear. Very good.

A substantial federal-period American manuscript account book kept by Wilm- ington, Delaware merchant William Wilson, containing an extensive number of entries, usually three per page, noting products or supplies sold, with prices and to whom the items were sold. Merchandise sold includes molasses, sugar, soap, candles, tobacco, salt, coffins, rum, tea, gin, “apple whiskey,” “apple brandy,” and more. The book is an important source for business dealings amongst prominent New Castle County colonials such as Robert Hamilton, Samuel Bush, James Gilpin, Vincent Gilpin, Samuel Hogg, John Hollingsworth, Charles Barret, William Clark, and Daniel Clark, all included in the “List of the Taxable Persons and Estates in Christiana Hundred, taken by Robert Hamilton...1787” in J. Thomas Scharf ’s His- tory of Delaware 1609-1888. William Wilson is noted as “a shop-keeper” (one of only a few whose trade is identified) in that same list. A significant early American account book with valuable research content for Delaware scholars and for those interested in federal-era American domestic trade. J. Thomas Scharf, History of Delaware 1609-1888 (Philadelphia, 1888), pp.882-85. $1200.

Against the Mathers

167. Wise, John: THE CHURCHES QUARREL ESPOUSED: OR, A REPLY IN SATYRE, TO CERTAIN PROPOSALS MADE, IN AN- SWER TO THIS QUESTION, WHAT FURTHER STEPS ARE TO BE TAKEN, THAT THE COUNCILS MAY HAVE DUE CONSTI- TUTION AND EFFICACY IN SUPPORTING, PRESERVING, AND WELL-ORDERING THE INTEREST OF THE CHURCHES IN THE COUNTRY? Boston: Reprinted: Sold by Nicholas Boone, at the Sign of the Bible in Cornhill, 1715. Testimonial leaf, title-leaf, 116pp. 12mo. Antique-style calf over original birch boards, with original waste sheet pastedowns. Minor binding wear, margins trimmed a bit close in places, shaving a few letters and catchwords, a bit tanned. Small paper repair to upper fore- corner of leaf C4, only evident on recto. Overall very good. With contemporary ownership signature of Samuel Whitwell; an 1802 notation by “Andrew Grimes,” who bought the book at auction; and 20th-century bookplate of Zion Research Library.

Second edition, after the virtually unobtainable first New York edition of 1713. The present pamphlet was issued in response to an attempt by the Mathers and others to initiate a movement to establish associations of clergy to exercise functions usually left up to individual churches. Wise has since been called the “first great American democrat” due to his argument that the ultimate power of the churches should rest with the congregation and not with their ministers or an association of ministers. “The People...are the first Subject of Power...a Democracy in Church or State is a very honourable Government.” Wise’s influential A Vindication of the Government of New-England Churches (Boston, 1717) is the famous statement of his belief in Congregational polity. EVANS 1795 SABIN 104897. HOWES W594, “aa.” DAB XX, p.427. $5000.

168. Woodward, Samuel: THE HELP OF THE LORD, IN SIG- NAL DELIVERANCES AND SPECIAL SALVATIONS, TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED AND REMEMBERED. A SERMON, PREACHED IN LEXINGTON, APRIL 19, 1779.... Boston: John Gill, 1779. 29pp. Half title. Antique-style half morocco and marbled boards. Small embossed library stamp on half title; reinforced at edges on verso, closed tear repaired with tissue on both sides, lightly soiled. Contemporary ownership inscription on half title: “Anna Bond April 19th 1779.” Good.

Sermon commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, which launched the American Revolution. “Our troubles now come from what we were once fond to call our parent state; who have assumed and exercised an unconstitutional, illegal, and unreasonable authority over us....But however in the midst of all the designs of our enemies to distress and enslave us, the help of the Lord has been very conspicuous; and that in innumerable instances.” EVANS 16685. ESTC W20436. HOWES W663, “aa.” SABIN 105164. $850.

169. [Zubly, John Joachim]: GREAT BRITAIN’S RIGHT TO TAX HER COLONIES. PLACED IN THE CLEAREST LIGHT, by a Swiss. London. 1774. [2],55pp. Half title. Modern buckram, spine gilt. Half title with contemporary ink date (“1774”) and tiny tape repair in gutter. Minor dust soiling to first and last leaves. Very good. Untrimmed.

First published in South Carolina in 1769 as An Humble Enquiry into the Nature of the Dependency of the American Colonies upon the Parliament of Great-Britain.... A Swiss-born Presbyterian clergyman in Georgia, Zubly (1724-81) served as a delegate of the provincial congress of Georgia and later as Georgia representative to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Unwilling to support the radical demands for independence, he was eventually banished from Georgia. He returned to the state in 1778, when the British recaptured Savannah, and resumed his Loyalist pamphleteering. “This Swiss is an advocate for the people of America, chiefly on grounds which have before been trodden by others” – Sabin. This is the second London edition, with a dated titlepage inserted between the half title and first page of text. Only five copies of this work are listed in ESTC. AMERICAN CONTROVERSY 69-34c. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE 74c. HOW- ES Z21, “aa” (American ed). SABIN 28437. ESTC T102874. $2750.