Yesterday’s Muse Books SEPTEMBER 2015 CATALOG Yesterday’s Muse Books, ABAA 32 W Main St Webster NY 14580 585-265-9295 www.yesterdaysmuse.com [email protected] Terms of Sale: All items subject to prior sale. Orders can be placed by phone or e-mail, or directly through our website. Payment is expected at the time of your order and may be made by check, credit card, or PayPal direct transfer. Institutions, fellow booksellers, and repeat customers may request to pay on invoice, with payment due upon receipt unless other arrangements have been made prior to purchase. All items are guaranteed to be as described with respect to edition, condition, and authenticity. Returns will be accepted for any reason, though we ask that you provide notice within a reasonable timeframe. Our usual trade courtesies extended (please inquire). Shipping: All prices include free shipment with tracking by USPS Media Mail. Upgrades to USPS Priority Mail, FedEx Ground, etc., as well as international shipping, are available, and will be charged at cost (please inquire for quote). All orders are carefully wrapped and packaged in sturdy shipping boxes. Catalogs: To receive future catalogs by e-mail, please contact us to be added to our mailing list, or join directly on our website. Printed versions of all our catalogs are also available upon request. Previous catalogs are archived on our website. 3 1. [Adventure] Peary, Robert E. [Edwin] Secrets of Polar Travel New York: The Century Co., 1917. First edition. ix, [5], 313 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece depicting the Stars & Stripes flying over the North Pole, photographic plates throughout text. Variant binding (grey cloth, blue stamped titles & ship with light green accents). Arctic Bibliography 13238: ‘An expansion of the author’s outline (in his North Pole, 1910, chapter 22) of the ‘Peary system’ of organizing and conducting an arctic expedition.’ Near fine. Endpaper just beginning to split along front hinge but no sign of weakness to binding, corners faintly pushed. $125 2. [Africa] Livingstone, David; Stanley, H. [Henry] M. Livingstone’s Africa. Perilous Adventures and Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa, from the Personal Narrative of David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L., together with the Remarkable Success and Important Results of the Herald- Stanley Expedition, as Furnished by H.M. Stanley, Esq... also, the Last Letters Penned by the Great Explorer, the Full Account of His Lonely Death, Return of the Remains to England, Burial, Etc., Etc., to which is added a Sketch of Other $60 Important Discoveries in Africa, Including the Celebrated Diamond Diggings at Colesberg Kopje. Hubbard Bros., 1872. xvi, 598, 4 pp. 8vo. Illustrated with numerous engravings. ‘The great explorer’s life history, from his birth to his burial.’ Very good. Corners rubbed, owner bookplate & ink stamp on front endpapers. 3. [Americana] [Abolition] Griffiths, Julia; Reason, Chas. [Charles] L.; Giddings, J.R.; Jay, Wm. [William]; Brown, Antoinette L.; Vashon, George B.; Marsh, Wm.; Parker, Theodore; Brown, Wm. Wells; Brisbane, W.H.; Adams, Chas. F.; Abbott, Jacob; Adams, Anne P.; Langston J.M.; Willis, Rev. Dr.; Watkins, W.J.; Brock, Wm.; Goodell, W.; Brown, David Paul; Abbott, John S.C.; Tappan, Lewis; Wilson, Wm. J.; King, Thos. Starr; Willard, S.; Elder, W.; Willard, Mary; Holly, J.C.; Higginson, T.W.; Henning, Thos.; Ellis, Rufus; Jay, John; Greeley, Horace; Watkins, Wm.; Seward, Wm. H.; Kirkland, C.M.; Bloss, C.A.; Smith, Gerit; Swisshelm, Jane G.; Emerson, R.W. [Ralph Waldo]; Sewell, S.E.; Smith, J. McCune; Chapin, E.H.; Greenough, H.H.; Clay, C.M.; Douglass, Frederick; Snow, William D.; Beecher, H. [Henry] $150 Ward; Stowe, Harriet B.; Irving, Mary Autographs for Freedom. Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1854. Second edition, expanded from the original published the previous year. ix, 309, 2, 4, 3 pp. 12mo. A collection of abolitionist writings by various authors, including Frederick Douglass, Gerit Smith, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Jay, Horace Greeley, William Seward, Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc. Edited by Julia Griffiths, a British abolitionist who worked directly with Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York, edited, publishing, and promoting his work. Sabin 28835: ‘A collection of articles from the pens of William H. Seward and numerous other persons of eminence, male and female, with their signatures in facsimile appended.’ Good. Edges rubbed, crude repair and a few stains to spine, moderately foxed throughout. 4. [Americana] [Abolition] Smith, Gerrit Sermons and Speeches of Gerrit Smith. New York: Ross & Tousey, 1861. First edition. 198 pp. 8vo. Flexible blind-stamped cloth boards, gilt titles. A collection of sermons and speeches by abolitionist Gerrit Smith, whose house was one of the stops on the Underground Railroad, and who was one of the ‘secret six’ who funded John Brown’s raid of Harper’s Ferry. Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Smith. Contents: The religion of reason [three discourses, Peterboro, Feb. 21st, 1858, Jan. 23 and June 19, 1859] $450 -- The one test of character, July 22, 1860 -- Bible civil government, Nov. 18, 1860 -- Miracles, April 14, 1861 -- Speech in behalf of Anderson, the alleged murderer, 4 January 15, 1861 -- Speech for human rights, Feb. 6, 1861 -- War meeting in Peterboro, April 27, 1861 -- Letter to Rev. Dr. G.C. Beckwith. Sabin 82656. A scarce title - no auction records in the past 30 years, only 1 copy found in the trade. Very good. Bottom margin of frontispiece lightly stained, boards may have been trimmed (they are flush with page ridges). 5. [Americana] [Presidential] Lincoln, Abraham; Corbett, Boston; Johnson, B.B. [Byron Berkeley]; Sessions, Charles H.; Atwill, Wm. H.; Wilson, Jas. H. Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett, with Personal Recollections of Each; John Wilkes Booth and Jefferson Davis: A True Story of Their Capture Byron Berkeley Johnson, Waltham, Mass., 1914. First edition. 71 pp. 8vo. A collection of short works including personal recollections of President Abraham, of Boston Corbett (who shot John Wilkes Booth), and of the captures of John Wilkes Booth and Jefferson Davis. Compiled, with a preface, by Byron Berkeley $40 Johnson, who also published the work. Very good. Ink date written underneath author portrait opposite title page. 6. [Americana] [Signed] Various Authors Memorial Addresses in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Late a President of the United States [TLS by Contributor Laid In] (88th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Document No. 59) United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1964. 911 pp. A collection of eulogies printed in dedication of John Fitzgerald Kennedy shortly $50 after his assassination. Near fine. A presentation copy from one of the contributors (Frank Horton) to someone with whom he shared a mutual friend. Inscribed & signed on front endpaper, with typed letter on Congressional stationery laid in, in which he mentions where his contribution appears in the book. Letter also signed by Horton. 7. [Americana] 34th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives Report of the Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas; with the Views of the Minority of Said Committee. (34th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Report No. 200) Washington: Cornelius Wendell, 1856. First edition. vii, 1206 pp. 8vo. An official political report of the events now referred to as Bleeding Kansas (a name coined by Horace Greeley), which involved a series of conflicts between Free-Staters and Border Ruffians (i.e., anti-slavery and pro-slavery factions) in reaction to the $125 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This act established popular sovereignty, which allowed territories to decide on an individual basis whether to legalize or prohibit slavery. This conflict is now viewed as a prelude to the American Civil War. Very good. Lacks errata slip on p. 132, minor loss from spine base, tiny tear to spine head, faint stain on top edge of endpapers, minor loss from front paste-down. 8. [Americana] Dellenbaugh, Frederick S. A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926. First thus. xxviii, 277 pp. 8vo. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for excellence in natural history in 1932. Includes color frontispiece of the Grand Canyon, black & white photographic plates throughout, and five maps. Originally published in 1908 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, it $150 is ‘the only detailed record of an expedition which completed the exploration and survey of the Grand Canyon region in a reconnaissance way, and executed the first maps of it.’ Near fine in very good jacket. Owner sticker on endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed. 9. [Americana] Ferrall, S.A. A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange., 1832. First edition. viii, 360 pp. 8vo. Sabin 24161. 5 Includes a facsimile of the first two paragraphs of the leading article in the Cherokee Phoenix, July 31, 1830. A detailed firsthand account of extensive travel throughout the United States, with mentions of: icebergs during the voyage from England; the Hudson and Genesee Rivers; Rochester, New York; Sam Patch; the Tuscarora Indians; Buffalo; Lake Erie; fugitive slaves escaping to Canada; Quakers and Shakers; ‘kidnapping free Negros’; Presbyterians; fur trapping expeditions and related companies; Indian burial mounds; Mississippi steamboats; New Orleans, Louisiana; yellow fever; cotton plantations; universal suffrage; taxation; shipping; the West Indies; etc. Fair. Front board loose, $225 significant loss from backstrip, binding shaken, owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink name on title page, pencil marginalia on just a couple pages. A good candidate for rebacking. 10. [Americana] Hart, Newell The Bear River Massacre: Being a Complete Source Book and Story Book of the Genocidal Action Against the Shoshones in 1863 and of Gen.