JOSEPH J. FELCONE INC. Antiquarian Booksellers Since 1972 post office box 366 • princeton, new jersey 08542 usa tel (609 ) 924-0539 • fax (609 ) 924-9078 e-mail felcone @felcone.com • web site www.felcone.com È New Acquisitions in New Jerseyana PRINTING IN NEW JERSEY, 1754–1800 1. FELCONE, JOSEPH J. Printing in New Jersey, 1754–1800: A Descriptive Bibliography . Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2012. 4to. lii, 487, [2] p. Cloth. Dust jacket. New. $125 The first printing office in New Jersey was opened by James Parker in Woodbridge in 1754. At Parker's death in 1770, Quaker Isaac Collins moved from Philadelphia to Burlington and established the colony's second press. At the conclusion of his military service, Shepard Kollock set up the third press at Chatham in early 1779. With the return to peace in the early 1780s, printing expanded rapidly, and by 1790 New Jerseyans had seen the establishment, and in some cases rapid demise, of almost a dozen printing offices. In the decade of the 1790s, printing spread throughout the state, from Sussex County to Cumberland County, and by the end of the century, forty individuals had either been proprietors or partners in New Jersey printing offices. This bibliography records the books, pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, and broadsides issued from each of these presses. Part One treats all printing known with certainty to have come from an eighteenth-century New Jersey press. Each entry provides the full title, format, collation, pagination, expanded contents, paper and watermarks, type size, binding, references, inventory of copies located, and copy-specific notes describing each located copy. Finally, each entry concludes with extensive notes (which, in the case of important works such Smith's history of New Jersey, the Collins Bible, and Paterson's laws, &c., run to several pages in length). Part Two records in detail items that may have been printed in New Jersey but for which insufficient documentation has been found to permit a clear attribution to a New Jersey press. Most are broadsides and small pamphlets that pertain to New Jersey but do not bear a printer's imprint. Part Three contains items incorrectly assigned to a New Jersey press by earlier bibliographers. In each case the misattribution is explained and the item is removed from the New Jersey printing canon. Following the bibliography are three appendixes. The first consists of tables listing the alphabetical, chronological, and geographical distribution of printing offices in eighteenth-century New Jersey. The second is a New Jersey book trade register that records printers, publishers, booksellers, newspaper proprietors, bookbinders, papermakers, and others engaged in any aspect of the book trade or allied arts in New Jersey from 1754 through 1800. The third appendix contains six concordances. The work concludes with three indexes: an index of printers and publishers, a provenance index, and a comprehensive general index. The author has collected, studied, and written about the early New Jersey book trade for forty years, and all that he has learned in those years has gone into this exhaustive work. Beautifully designed by Jerry Kelly and handsomely printed in an edition of 325 copies, Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800 is both a major contribution to New Jersey and American book trade scholarship and proof that a modern book can still be beautifully designed and printed and sold at a reasonable price. The book was published by the American Antiquarian Society on the occasion of their 200th anniversary. The distributor is Oak Knoll Press. Copies may be purchased either from us or Oak Knoll. VIEWS OF NEW JERSEY, 1761–1898 2. FELCONE, JOSEPH J. Portrait of Place: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints of New Jersey, 1761– 1898, from the Collection of Joseph J. Felcone . Princeton: Morven Museum & Garden, 2012. 4to. 75, [2] p. Fully illustrated in color. Wrappers. New. $20 The most comprehensive illustrated catalogue to date of pre-1900 views of New Jersey. One hundred and nineteen paintings, drawings, and separately issued prints of New Jersey, each of which is illustrated in color and described in considerable detail. Included are eighteenth-century English aquatints and engravings, early nineteenth-century watercolors, mid-nineteenth-century lithographs by Currier & Ives and others, and late nineteenth-century birdseye views, all depicting identifiable New Jersey scenes. From Sussex County to Cape May County and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Delaware River, the catalogue includes views from every county in New Jersey. An exhaustive index concludes the text and makes the catalogue one of the most important reference sources for the pre- 1900 iconography of New Jersey. [Note: The entire collection is on view at Morven Museum in Princeton until January 13, 2013.] 3. (ACKERMAN FAMILY). Ackerman Homesteads. A Saga of Ackerman Lives and Times . [N.p.], 1990. xvii, 159 p. Illus. Wrappers, bound in later cloth. $40 Second printing. Edited by Rosa A. Livingston and Hazel A. Lampe. Early Ackerman houses and their owners, largely in and around Bergen County. THE FIRST NEW JERSEY REGISTER 4. ALDEN, TIMOTHY. Alden's New-Jersey Register and United States' Calendar, for ... 1811 . Newark: William Tuttle, [1811]. 160, [4] p. Original sheep-backed boards (front hinge cracking). Early library markings of the Essex Institute, but otherwise a very nice copy. $300 First issue of the first New Jersey register. Contains a highly useful list of New Jersey civil and military officers, courts, post offices, churches and ministers, colleges and schools, libraries, and other societies. Alden's register folded after only one more issue, and several later attempts similarly failed after one or two issues. It was not until the manual of the legislature started in 1872 that an annual New Jersey register succeeded. For additional information on Alden and his register, see Felcone, New Jersey Books , 321. Drake 5275; S&S 22165. 5. (ATLANTIC CITY). Views of Atlantic City . Portland, Me.: L. H. Nelson Co., c1905. Obl. 4to. [48] p. Illus. Wrappers. $45 Apparently the original printing of this popular viewbook, reprinted numerous times over the next few years. THE BERGEN COUNTY ATLAS 6. (BERGEN COUNTY). Atlas of Bergen County, New Jersey. Made from Actual Surveys of Each Township and Village, and from Historical Facts ... under the Supervision of A.H. Walker . Reading, Pa.: C.C. Pease, [1876]. Folio. 167 p. Lithographed views and handcolored maps (one folding). Leather-backed decorated cloth (covers worn at extremities and spine broken, as usual). First few leaves very slightly chipped at fore-edge, else a very good, clean copy internally. From the library of Thomas Barbour (1832-1885), with his ownership stamp: "Thomas Barbour, Warren Point." $1200 The Bergen County atlas is the most elaborate and attractive of all the New Jersey county atlases of the 1870-1880 period. It is also one of the most difficult to find, as many copies have fallen victim to the breakers and plate peddlers. EARLY NEW JERSEY TRADE CATALOGUE OF BICYCLES 7. (BICYCLES). White Cycle Co. Catalogue of the Best Makes of Bicycles. 1893 . Trenton: White Cycle Co., 1893. 40 p. Illus. Wrappers. Front wrapper with two small dark spots in upper margin and one short tear, else very good. [4] p. illus. insert laid in. $225 Trenton firm's sixth annual catalogue. Each page contains a full-page illustration of a bicycle with specifications below. Contains cycles of numerous manufacturers. 8. BOYER, CHARLES S. Early Forges & Furnaces in New Jersey . Philadelphia, 1931. xv, 287 p. Plates. Cloth (light overall soiling). James M. Ransom's copy, signed by him and extensively anno- tated throughout with marginal notes, and with many inserted notes, photostats, a few letters, some clippings from mid-19thC newspapers, an 1825 bank note with an engraving of Delaware Furnace, &c., &c. $200 First edition, and a superb association copy. Boyer's book is still the standard general work on the subject, covering forges and furnaces throughout the state, chiefly in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Ransom was the author of Vanishing Ironworks of the Ramapos (1966), and his notes and insertations add much to the Boyer text. 9. CASE, HOWARD E. Sussex County, New Jersey, Marriages . [Bowie, Md., 1992]. vi, 358 p. Wrappers. $35 Full alphabetical transcription of Sussex County marriage books A and B, 1795-1878. 10. CONNIFF, JAMES C. G., and RICHARD CONNIFF. The Energy People. A History of PSE&G . Newark, [1978]. [8], 392 p. Illus. Cloth. $25 Chiefly a history of the utility's early years under Thomas N. McCarter. 11. COOK, GEORGE H. Geology of New Jersey . Newark, 1868. xxiv, 899, [1] p. Illus. Folding maps and plates. Cloth. An unusually clean, tight copy. With an 1869 presentation inscription by Marcus L. Ward, governor of New Jersey. $350 The classic work, and as nice a copy as one could find. The book was printed on poor paper, and the binding was not much better, and copies found today are invariably loose and shaken. This one is lovely. 12. DIETZ, ULYSSES GRANT. The Ballantine House and the Decorative Arts Galleries at the Newark Museum . Newark: Newark Museum, 1994. 4to. 77, [2] p. Illus. in color. Wrappers. $20 The Victorian splendor of the Ballantine house in Newark. 13. DOUGHTY, ENOCH (1792-1871; prominent resident of Gloucester and, later, Atlantic County. Collection of six partly printed commissions, 1820-1825, each signed by Governor Isaac H. Williamson with his large wafer seal. Several with condition issues like splitting along folds and soiling and discoloration. The lot, $100 Commissions as militia colonel and later brigadier general; high sheriff of Gloucester County; and justice of the peace. Doughty was a prime mover in the development of Atlantic City. 14. ELMER, LUCIUS Q. C. (1793-1883). Autograph document signed, being a record of duties on retailers of wines and spiritous liquors in Cumberland and Cape May Counties, 31 March 1816.