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Boston Book Fair 2017

Americana: Items 1 - 30Travel and Voyages: Items 31 - 51

Natural History and Gardening: Items 52 - 74Miscellany: Items 75 - 100

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ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848).

Oration on the Life and Character of Gilbert Motier de Lafayette, Delivered at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of the United States ... on the 31st December, 1834.

Washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1835. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches). 94pp. Contemporary full purple morocco, flat spine tooled and lettered in gilt, green endpapers.

First edition: thick paper issue in a full morocco presentation binding.

The former President of the United States and Harvard professor of rhetoric delivered this great oration to Congress to commemorate Lafayette’s important contribution to American Liberty. Adams’ oration was read before both Houses of Congress on 31 December 1834. The Appendix prints the proceedings initiated by Adams on 21 June 1834 “to consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States to express the deep sensibility of the Nation to the event of the decease of General Lafayette.” The resolution was passed unanimously.

Two issues of this work were published, on regular paper and on thick paper (as here), with the latter generally bound in elaborate full morocco bindings like the present.

American Imprints 29946; Sabin 295.(#30490)   $ 3,750

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AMERICANA

AMERICAN REVOLUTION - After Jean Baptiste LE PAON (1736-1785).

[Lafayette] Liberté. Conclusion de la Campagne de 1781 en Virginie. To his Excellency General Washington this Likeness of his friend, the Marquess de la Fayette, is humbly dedicated.

Paris: Chez Le Mire, [circa 1784]. Engraving by Noel Le Mire after Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, printed on thick laid paper. Sheet size: 20 x 14 inches. Old repairs to tears in the image.

Scarce portrait of Lafayette, with James Armistead, the Battle of Yorktown raging in the background.

Lafayette arrived in America in 1777 to join Washington’s army, but returned temporarily to France in 1779-80 to secure financial aid for the Revolution. During that time, he commissioned French painter Le Paon paint a portrait of Washington as a present. The portrait was based on Peale’s likeness, but with an elaborate military camp background and with numerous documents relating to the Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Alliance with France in Washington’s right hand, and the torn papers on the ground concerning Britain’s attempts at reconciliation with the colonies. Following the Battle of Yorktown and the American victory, Le Paon and Le Mire produced the present companion portrait of Lafayette, dedicating it to Washington.

The portrait depicts the French general in full Continental Army uniform standing beside his horse, with African American Continental Army spy James Armistead (who later changed his name to Lafayette) holding his horse to his left, with the battle of Yorktown raging in the background. Le Mire announced subscriptions in the Journal de Paris on Oct. 4, anticipating that the engraving would be issued in December, 1783. One of two variants, the other without dedication to Washington and with added verse in French. Le Paon’s original oil painting of this portrait is located at Lafayette College.(#34634)   $ 4,500

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BEAUCLERK, Lord Charles (1813-1861).

Lithographic Views of Military Operations in Canada under His Excellency Sir John Colborne ... during the late insurrection. From sketches by Lord Charles Beauclerk, Captain Royal Regiment.

London: printed by Samuel Bentley, published by A. Flint, 1840. Folio (14 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches). Lithographic map, 6 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates after Lord Beauclerk, drawn on stone by N. Hartnell. Publisher’s cloth-backed letterpress brown stiff paper wrappers. Housed in a full black morocco box.

A rare color plate book, containing “the most comprehensive set of prints dealing with the Papineau Rebellion in Lower Canada” (Spendlove).

There is an immediacy about this set of prints that is particularly compelling: Lord Beauclerk, the third son of the Duke of St. Albans, was an eye-witness to the events described, serving as an officer in the British army, and made on-the-spot sketches from which the images were drawn on stone by Hartnell. “The most valued account of the Rebellion of 1837 is the set of seven ... lithographs after sketches made by ... Beauclerk ... The views are attractive in both coloring and composition, and depict various actions in November and December 1837” (Mary Allodi, “Prints and Early Illustration”’ in The Book of Canadian Antiques p.304).

Gagnon II, 124; Lande 1559; Sabin 4164; Spendlove p.85; TPL 2037(#34197)   $ 17,500

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BIBLE IN ENGLISH - Robert AITKEN (printer & publisher).

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues; And with the former Translations Diligently compared and revised.

Philadelphia: printed and sold by Robert Aitken, 1781-82. 2 parts in one volume, 12mo (6 x 3 1/2 inches). [1452]pp., text in two columns. Complete with title-leaves to both the Old and New Testaments, along with the certification leaf from Congress (bound between the OT and NT). Contemporary sheep, spine in six compartments with raised bands (minor loss to lower portion of spine). Housed in a dark red full morocco box. Provenance: Joshua Coit (signature dated 1783); William L. Learned (signature dated 1856).

The Aitken Bible, first English Bible printed in America and a major rarity amongst American Bibles and American printing.

The Aitken Bible is one of the most celebrated American Bibles, being the first complete English Bible printed in America. During the colonial era, the monopoly on printing English Bibles belonged to the Royal Printer, and the colonies were supplied entirely with Bibles printed in England. The first Bible printed in the British colonies in America was the famous Eliot Indian Bible, in Algonquin, issued in Cambridge in 1661-63 and reprinted in 1680-85. The 18th-century saw the printing of Bibles in German. With the American Revolution, the British monopoly on English-language Bibles naturally ended, and the embargo on goods from England acted to create a shortage. Aitken, a Philadelphia printer, undertook the task, producing the New Testament in 1781 and the Old Testament in 1782. On completion, he petitioned the Continental Congress for their endorsement and received it in September 1782. Because of this official endorsement and the reasons behind its production, the Aitken Bible is often referred to as “The Bible of the Revolution.”

This highspot amongst printed Americana has become very difficult to find in any condition. The present example, despite minor faults, is a very good copy of a work usually found in poor condition, here in a contemporary American binding.

This copy with provenance to Joshua Coit (1758-1798), a graduate of Harvard who served several terms in the Connecticut House of Representatives before being elected as a representative of that state to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving in Congress from 1793-1798.

Darlow & Moule 928; Evans 17101,17473; Hildeburn 4126,4184; Hills 11; NAIP w004490; O’Callahan, p.31; Sabin 5165.(#28338)   $ 150,000

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BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838).

Chart of the Harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester from a Survey taken in the years 1804, 5, & 6.

[Salem, Massachusetts]: 1806 [paper watermarked 1804]. Hand-coloured engraved map, engraved by Hooker & Fairman, on laid paper watermarked “J. Whatman 1804” Minor tears in top margin repaired. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 27 inches.

An American cartographic rarity: the true first edition of Bowditch’s famed chart of the coasts of Salem, Beverly, Marblehead and Manchester. Bowditch’s separately-issued chart, the first accurate chart of those waters, was among the earliest nautical charts based on first-hand surveys by an American to be published in the United States.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of a local cooper and shipmaster, at a young age Nathaniel Bowditch was apprenticed to a local ship chandlery. With his intelligence and mathematical skills evidenced in abundance, he was encouraged by three local Harvard-trained scholars and inventors: Nathan Read, John Prince, and William Bentley. Under their tutelage, he studied Latin, French, mathematics, natural philosophy, astronomy, navigation and he constructed his own surveying equipment. In 1794, Bowditch assisted Bentley and shipmaster John Gibaut in a land survey of Salem. Gibaut shortly thereafter appointed Bowditch as his clerk on a voyage to the East Indies. Between 1795 and 1803, Bowditch sailed to the East Indies five times, continuing his studies on chartmaking and navigation on board. By his final voyage, Bowditch served as master and part-owner of the ship.

Practical sailing experience combined with his studies of astronomy made Bowditch one of the best navigators in America. In 1799, publisher and chartseller Edmund Blunt hired Bowditch to revise John Hamilton Moore’s New Practical Navigator. Bowditch added much in the way of additional information to the work and contributed so much in the way of revisions, that Blunt decided to completely redo the book, publishing it in 1802 with a new title and with Bowditch listed as the author. Bowditch’s American Practical Navigator would prove a fundamentally important work on the art of navigation, with scores of tables and diagrams, and a wealth of practical information, becoming known as the Seamen’s Bible.

Around the time of the first publication of Bowditch’s Navigator, while serving as the President of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company, it became evident that the existing charts of the waters around Salem and Marblehead were deficient. In a rare, separately-published 30-page text of sailing directions to accompany the present chart, Bowditch writes:

“The only chart of the entrance of the harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly and Manchester, is that published from the survey taken by Holland and his assistants, just before the American revolutionary war. That period was particularly unfavorable for obtaining an accurate survey of the sea-coast, as the Americans were generally opposed to its being done at that time, fearing that it would give the British the great advantage of being able safely to enter with their armed ships into any of our harbours. In consequence of this, Holland received but little assistance from our pilots, in exploring the sunken ledges and shoals off our harbours; and as it was almost impossible to discover them without such assistance, they were generally omitted by him. This deficiency renders those charts in a great degree useless, though they are accurate as respects the bearings and distances of the islands and the coast.

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From the time of Holland’s survey, till the year 1794, nothing was towards obtaining a more accurate chart. In that year a general survey of the state was ordered by the legislature; but it is to be regretted that this survey was not directed to be made in a manner calculated to ensure accuracy in the execution of it ... the laudable intentions of the legislature were very imperfectly carried into execution; and the map ... was such as was to have been expected.”

He continues by describing his first-hand surveys to produce this chart by himself, assisted by George Burchmore & William Ropes III: “To do this an excellent theodolite, made by Adams, furnished with a telescope and cross wires, was procured to measure the angles and a Rood chain to measure the distances. With these instruments, the bearings and distances of the shore from Gales point in Manchester, to Phillips point in Lynn (the two extremities of this survey) were carefully ascertained; and the necessary observations were taken for fixing with accuracy the situation of the islands. Soundings were taken throughout the whole extent of the survey, particularly round the dangerous ledges and shoals, several of which were explored, that were hardly known by our best pilots ... most of which were so little known, that names had not been given to them; and during the whole time employed on the survey, which was above eighty days, from two to five persons were hired to assist in sounding and measuring. From these observations the new chart was plotted off, and an accurate engraving of it made, &c.”

Bowditch’s original copperplate has survived and is located in the Peabody Essex Museum. Its survival, however, has resulted in later restrikes, as early as a second edition in 1834 (with additions by Charles M. Endicott listed in seven lines of text below the compass rose) but including others into the 20th century. However, the present first edition of the chart, without the Endicott additions and on paper watermarked 1804, is extremely rare. We find no other examples of the first edition chart on the market, and with only three institutional holdings (Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Library and Harvard).

Guthorn, United States Coastal Charts, p.34 (1834 edition); Garver, Surveying the Shore, p.51.(#34463)   $ 45,000

BRADMAN, Arthur.

A Narrative of the Extraordinary Sufferings of Mr. Robert Forbes, His Wife and five children. During an unfortunate journey through the wilderness, from Canada to Kennebeck River, in the year 1784.

Portland Printed, Reprinted at Exeter: Henry Ranlet, 1792. 8vo (7 x 4 3/8 inches). 23, [1]pp. Expert restoration with facsimile to half title and terminal leaf. Contemporary paper wrappers, restitched. Housed in a red morocco box.

Very rare narrative of a man and his family abandoned in the wilds of Maine.

Robert Forbes, an American residing with his family in Canada on the Chaudiere river, departed overland in mid-March 1784 with three Dutch guides, intending to relocate his family to a settlement on the Kennebec. Ten days into the journey, Forbes, his wife and five children were tricked, robbed and abandoned by their guides. Struggling on alone, they were assisted by a local Native American, who supplied them with moose meat and directions. But by April 12th, with supplies dwindling and terrain too difficult for his wife and all but his oldest child, Forbes made camp and left his wife to seek help. Travelling by raft and foot and surviving on a couple of ounces of moose meat and their leather shoes, Forbes and his eldest son were found by hunters on April 22. A rescue party for his wife and children was immediately raised, but the camp could not be reached until June 2, fifty days since being left at camp with little to no supplies. Emaciated and weak, remarkably, Forbes’s wife and one child survived.

Forbes’ tale evidently struck a chord with the locals, and his narrative was set to paper by Arthur Bradman. The work was first published in Portland in 1791, followed by the present Exeter printing the following year. Editions in Windsor (1792), Norwich (1793), Worcester (1793) and Philadelphia (1794) followed. All editions prior to the Philadelphia edition are very rare; only three institutional examples of this Exeter printing located in OCLC.

Bristol B7942; Shipton & Mooney 46397(#28761)   $ 12,500

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BROWN, William Henry (1808-1883).

Portrait Gallery of Distinguished American Citizens, with biographical sketches.

Hartford: E. B. and E. C. Kellogg, 1846. Folio (15 7/8 x 12 inches). 27 tinted lithographed silhouette portraits, 27 tinted lithographed plates of facsimiles of handwriting (some foxing, offsetting and oxidization as usual). Modern half calf and oatmeal cloth.

First edition of this impressive work, notable for its effective and evocative lithographed portraits of renowned Americans of the antebellum period, each depicted in full-length silhouette profile: “Almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare” (Harry Peters).

All the portraits, except for the George Washington allegorical frontispiece, are based on sketches made from life by Brown, who was widely celebrated for his scissor-cut silhouettes. Brown was born and died in Charleston, South Carolina, but in the interim traveled widely throughout the United States, his fame as a silhouettist gaining him access to many of the country’s leading citizens whose profiles Brown took which amazing speed and accuracy.

Alice Van Leer Carrick, an authority on silhouettes, notes that, rather than any existing original portraits, the present work is “the real memorial to Brown’s genius, [and it is] now almost rarer than any of the silhouettes themselves.” Brown prepared the biographical text himself, and the silhouettes (with appropriate tinted backgrounds) were transferred to stone and printed by one of the best known lithographic firms of the period: Kelloggs of Hartford, CT. The result is a valuable historical and visual record, with subjects including John Marshall, John Q. Adams, Richard C. Moore, Andrew Jackson, John Forsyth, William Henry Harrison, John C. Calhoun, De Witt Clinton, Richard M. Johnson, Joel Poinsett, Alexander Macomb, Martin Van Buren, Samuel Southard, Henry Clay, Henry Wise, Thomas Hart Benton, John Tyler, Levi Woodbury, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Webster, William White, Silas Wright, Nathaniel Tallmadge, Felix Grundy, Dixon Lewis, and John Randolph. Each portrait is accompanied by another plate displaying a facsimile of the subject’s handwriting.

According to Peters, “almost the entire edition was destroyed by fire, and copies are extremely rare.” Furthermore, the book is often found incomplete with plates lacking; the present example complete with all portraits and plates of handwriting.

Cf. Groce-Wallace, Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860, p. 90; Howes B871 (“b”); cf. Peters, America on Stone, pp., 116-117; Sabin 8578.(#31770)   $ 5,250

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COLLETT, After John (1725?-1780).

Paul Jones shooting a Sailor who had attempted to strike his Colours in an Engagement. From the original picture by John Collet [sic], in the possession of Carrington Bowles.

London: printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, nd [c. 1793]. Line engraving after the painting by John Collett and the mezzzotint by Carington Bowles Sheet size: 18 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches. Trimmed within platemark. Skillful restoration at left and bottom margins, and a skillfully repaired crease.

A fine example of an excessively rare print, depicting the pivotal moment of one of the most famous naval engagements of the Revolutionary War

This is an enlarged, re-engraving by Bowles & Carver of Carington Bowles’ mezzotint of Collett’s caricature of John Paul Jones. Carington Bowles II & Samuel Carver continued Carington Bowles’ print business after his death, re-issuing his most sought-after images.

This was one of three versions of this British satirical war print, each with the same title. Captain John Paul Jones is shown “preventing” one of his men from striking the American flag and surrendering to the British during the naval engagement between HMS Serapis and his U.S. fighting Ship Bonhomme Richard. Collett depicts an impassioned Jones, wearing a lavishly plumed hat and a bandana, four pistols stuck pirate-style in his belt, cutlass tucked under his left arm. The American naval captain wades through the wounded to shoot his chief gunner, Henry Gardner. It is probably based on an incident in which a shell-shocked American gunner shouted for quarter until Jones knocked him down with the butt a pistol.

“Near midnight on Sept. 23, 1779, just off the coast of Flamborough Head, England, hundreds of British stood in awe, watching ‘pirate Paul Jones’ destroy one of the finest ships in their fine Navy. The English viewed Jones as a criminal, equating his vicious attacks on British convoys with the fighting techniques of Blackbeard himself. On that clear warm autumn night, the shocked audience witnessed Jones in one of the most hard-fought battles of the Revolution. Meanwhile, the surviving seamen of the 42-gun Bonhomme Richard must have thought their commander, Capt. John Paul Jones, had gone insane. Separated by two feet, the double deck HMS Serapis, a well-made and brand new British escort ship, was shooting 18-pound cannon balls into the 14-year-old single deck Bonhomme Richard; cannon balls that from 200 yards could shoot through four feet of oak. Near the battle’s end, half the crewmates on each ship were dead ... and both ships were on fire. Capt. Pearson, commander of Serapis assumed Bonhomme Richard would be the first to surrender. He asked Jones, ‘Do you strike?’ According to battle expert Peter Reaveley, Jones screamed out, ‘No! I’ll sink, but I’m damned if I’ll strike!’ The following quotation is more famously noted as Jones’ retort: ‘I have not yet begun to fight!’. The battle established the Continental Navy as a powerful force and Capt. John Paul Jones as a hero” (Joanna Romansic, see online “NHC Joins Search for John Paul Jones’ Ship”).

“Principally a caricaturist, John [‘the second Hogarth’] Collett (British, ca.1725-1780) studied with the artist George Lambert and at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy, London. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1761, his last exhibit occurring posthumously in 1783. His caricatures owe a great debt to Hogarth ... His work was widely reproduced as prints by many of the leading publishers of the day, John Boydell, Carington Bowles, and others ... A

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large inheritance allowed him to live in some style in Chelsea, London. Examples of his work may be seen in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum” (Thomas Deans).

Cf. Grolier The United States Navy 1776 to 1815 269 (uncoloured issue); S.V. Henkels. Hampton L. Carson Collection of engraved portraits of American naval commanders... catalog and sale (Philadelphia, 1905), Lot 4297; Olds Bits and Pieces of American History 366; Shadwell American printmaking the first150 years 65; Smith American naval Broadsides 23.(#33875)   $ 4,500

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS - [John DICKINSON].

A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, setting forth the Causes and Necessity of their Taking Up Arms ... July 6th, 1775 [caption title].

[Portsmouth: Daniel Fowle, 1775]. Broadside (17 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches). Woodcut of Boston at head. Minor repaired separations at old folds. Matted.

Rare broadside printing of the Declaration of the Causes for Taking Up Arms, illustrated with a woodcut view of Boston.

Written by John Dickinson, based on a draft by Thomas Jefferson, issued after the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill, and promulgated by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 6, 1775, the present Declaration would become a famous precursor to the Declaration of Independence.

This is an extremely rare broadsheet printing, published at Portsmouth, New Hampshire by the first printer there, Daniel Fowle. The first edition printed in Philadelphia by William and Thomas Bradford was in pamphlet form. Three other single sheet editions are known, two printed in New York by John Holt, and one printed in Providence by John Carter. This Portsmouth edition was printed by Daniel Fowle, who began his printing career in Boston in 1740, but fled to New Hampshire in 1755 after being arrested for libel and sedition by the Massachusetts government. Upon his arrival in Portsmouth, he established the state’s first printing press and its first newspaper, the “New Hampshire Gazette,” and undertook all significant early New Hampshire printing.

The Declaration was issued by the Congress three weeks after the battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown, in defense of the armed resistance to the British forces in Massachusetts and martial law in Boston, and listed the injuries that had been inflicted upon the colonies. Even at this point, there was some small hope that a reconciliation might be possible, and the address depicts the Americans as a still potentially loyal population. Dickinson writes, “We for ten Years incessantly and ineffectually besieged the Throne as Supplicants; we reasoned, we remonstrated with Parliament in the most mild and decent Language. But Administration, sensible that we should regard those oppressive Measures as Freemen ought to do, sent over Fleets and Armies to enforce them. The Indignation of the Americans was roused it is true; but it was the Indignation of a virtuous, loyal, affectionate People ... We have not raised Armies with ambitious Designs of separating from Great Britain, and establishing independent States.-- We fight not for Glory or Conquest.”

Nevertheless, the numerous violations of the British and the Crown made the need for military confrontation plain: “His Troops have butchered our Countrymen; have wantonly burnt Charles-Town, besides a considerable Number of Houses in other Places; our Ships and Vessels are seized; the necessary Supplies of Provisions are intercepted and he is exerting his utmost Power to spread Devastation and Destruction around him.... We are reduced to the Alternative of chusing unconditional Submission to the Tyranny of iritated Ministers, or resistance by Force. -- The latter is our choice.”

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Finally, in the most well known passage of the Declaration, the righteousness of the American cause is passionately and eloquently described: “Our Cause is just. Our Union is perfect. Our internal Resources are great; and if necessary, foreign Assistance is undoubtedly attainable.... With Hearts fortified with these animating Reflections, we most solemnly, before GOD and the World declare, that, exerting the utmost Energy of those Powers, which our benificent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us the Arms we have been compelled by our Enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every Hazard, with unabating Firmness and Perseverence, employ for the Preservation of our Liberties, being with one Mind resolved, to die Freemen rather than to live Slaves.”

This broadsheet edition of the Declaration includes a woodcut image of Boston with several Native Americans in the foreground, and with a caption in reference to the British military occupation that reads, “A View of that great and flourishing City of BOSTON, when in its purity, and out of the Hands of the Philistines.” The cut bears the signature James Turner, who originally fashioned it for a 1745 issue of “The American Magazine,” which was published by Fowle and Gamaliel Rogers while Fowle was still in Boston. It made its way to Portsmouth with Fowle’s other printing supplies when he left Massachusetts, and was used by him in a 1759 publication as well as here. As such, this is the only version of the Declaration in which it appears. It is one of the earliest views of an American city created in the American colonies.

An important work in the history of the American Revolution, ESTC records copies of this edition in only four institutions: the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the New Jersey Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society, and the New York Public Library. OCLC notes a further copy at the Library of Congress.

American Antiquarian Society, Wellsprings of a Nation 144; American Woodcuts and Ornaments, 1046; ESTC W15198; Evans 14550; OCLC 62766350; Whittemore 184.(#31343)   $ 75,000

DICKENSON, Jonathan (1663-1722).

God’s Protecting Providence, Man’s Surest Felp and Defence, in Times of Greatest Difficulty, and Most Eminent Danger, Evidenced in the Remarkable Deliverance of Robert Barrow, with Divers other Persons, from the devouring Waves of the Sea, amongst which they suffered a Shipwreck; and also from the cruel devouring Jaws of the inhuman canibals of Florida ... The Fifth Edition.

London: Mary Hinde, [1772]. 12mo. [14],126,[4]pp. Contemporary calf, front joint cracked. Housed in a green morocco backed box.

Scarce 18th century edition of a noted Florida shipwreck and indian captivity narrative.

Dickenson, a Quaker merchant, departed from Port Royal in August 1696 with his family, a noted Quaker missionary named Robert Barrow, and more than 20 other passengers. Bound for Philadelphia, a storm shipwrecked their bark near present-day Jupiter Island Florida. Captured by Native Americans, they were stripped of their remaining possessions. The survivors endured an arduous journey by foot and canoe some 200 miles north to St.

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Augustine, where they arrived in starving and wretched condition. Taken in by the Spaniards, once recovered the group were sent on to Charleston, South Carolina, before eventually reaching Philadelphia.

The first edition, published in Philadelphia in 1699 -- being the first book of general interest printed in that city -- is a noted rarity of Americana, with only a handful of known copies. This was followed by the first English edition, printed in London the following year. Several 18th century editions, in both Great Britain and America followed. The 1772 date is ascribed to this fifth edition is based on the publication date of one of the books advertised in the rear. Scarce.

Howes D317; ESTC T138150; Ayer 68; Sabin 20015 (ascribing the date of 1759); Vail 612; Smith I, p. 529(#34574)   $ 4,500

DOUGLASS, William (1691-1752).

A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements; and Present State of the British Settlements in North America.

London: R. Baldwin, 1755. 2 volumes, 8vo (7 7/8 x 5 inches). Engraved folding map by Thomas Jefferys after D’Anville, hand coloured in outline. Contemporary calf, spines with raised bands, green morocco lettering pieces (expert repairs to joints and spine ends). Provenance: W. Dowdeswell (early signature).

First English edition of the “First American history of the whole country” (Howes).

Douglass was a Scottish physician living in Boston and first published his history serially in Boston. Although not a work noted for its accuracy, Wroth comments, “Modern critics of the Summary have overlooked the fact that its author was the first to attempt this story from the viewpoint of a resident American” and further quotes a contemporary critic in the Monthly Review as finding it “a fuller and more circumstantial account of North-America, than is any where else to be met with.”

This first English edition is desirable with the map, entitled “North America, from the French of Mr. D’Anville, improved with the back settlements of Virginia and course of Ohio, illustrated with geographical and historical remarks. May 1755. Published by Thomas Jefferys.” Sabin notes the work’s rarity with the map: “Although at the end of the contents of vol. I there is ‘Place the Map to face the Title of Vol. I,’ no copy has yet been found, in its original state, with the map.” Sabin also states that “the work is authentic and valuable, and should find its place in every American library. Adam Smith characterizes the author as ‘the honest and downright Dr. Douglass’.”

Howes D446; Sabin 20727; TPL 225; Clark I:226; Wroth pp. 87-91; ESTC T145903(#31524)   $ 4,000

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FISHER, George Bulteel (1764-1834), after; J. W. EDY, engraver.

[Six Views in North America, from Original Drawings Made on the Spot, by Lieutenant Fisher, of the Royal Artillery. Engraved in Aqua Tinta by J. W. Edy].

London: J. W. Edy, 1795-96 and 1809. Six colour printed aquatints, finished by hand. Housed in a blue morocco backed box.

A very rare complete series of stunningly beautiful aquatint views of North America: “Probably the most beautiful prints of Canada ever published “ (Spendlove).

Views comprise (titled as per titles on the prints):1) View on the St Anns or Grand River [1809]2) View of St Anthonys Nose, on the North River, Province of New York [1809]3) View of the River St Lawrence, Fall of Montmorenci from the Island of Orleans [1809]4) Fall of Montmorenci, 246 perpendicular feet [1809]5) View of the Falls of Chaudière [1795]6) View of Cape Diamond, Plains of Abraham and part of the Town of Quebec and River St. Lawrence [1795]

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A beautiful set of color aquatints produced by J.W. Edy, after the original artwork of George Buteel Fisher. Lieutenant Fisher had already established himself as a respected artist, having exhibited at the Royal Academy, when he came to Canada as aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief of the Canadian forces in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward (later the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria). These images of some of Canada’s most striking landscapes were executed during the four years of their tour of duty, and were dedicated by the artist to his royal patron. John William Edy, as talented in aquatint as Fisher was with a brush, first executed these prints in 1795-96 (with a very rare 6 page descriptive text, not present here), and with a second printing of the suite in 1809. Issued in both color (as the present set) and sepia, the series has long been considered among the most beautiful images of early Canada to be published.

These prints are renowned for their sweeping, dramatic portrayal of the Canadian landscape. In each are found Indians (engaged in various activities), ships, or other devices enabling the artist to add perspective to the romantic landscapes. Of particular note is the view on the St. Ann’s, about which the noted authority on early Canadian illustration, George Spendlove, says, “[t]his is probably the highest development of the Romance Landscape in the iconography of Canada.” Together, the six views provide an excellent sense of 18th-century Canada as it would appear to her colonists, being at once both harsh and intimidating, while still possessing a certain peace that Spendlove credits to “the Divine Almighty Architect.” A superb suite of color prints, virtually unobtainable.

Spendlove, pp. 22-25; Deak 186(#30700)   $ 42,000

[FRANKLIN, Benjamin] - Joh. Lorenz RUGENDAS, engraver.

Benjamin Franklin. Ne a Boston, dans la nouvelle Angleterre le 17 Janvier 1706.

Augsburg: Johann Lorenz Rugendas, [circa 1778]. Mezzotint portrait, 14¾ x 10 inches. Matted.

Lovely mezzotint portrait of Franklin, done during the American Revolution.

This portrait shows Franklin seated at a writing desk, wearing a fur hat and spectacles in a fur-trimmed robe, facing left in three-quarter length profile. In his left hand he holds a sheet of paper, while his right hand reaches inside his robe at chest level; an ink stand, quill, and pen knife are also on the desk, along with a stack of correspondence. One of the letters is addressed to “Monsieur Franklin, A Paris.”

Upon his arrival in France as a commissioner from the newly independent United States, Charles-Nicolas Cochin engraved a portrait of Franklin wearing his audacious fur cap. The famous image drew many imitators and variations. Sellers says of the image: “Because of it, the sensational fact of Franklin’s arrival in France and the sensational costume which so effectively dramatized his role as envoy from the New World to the Old reached every part of Europe, creating an image of tremendous value to Franklin’s purpose.” This variant of the image is not mentioned by Sellers.

Sellers, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture, pp.227-31.(#33137)   $ 6,000

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HANCOCK, John (1737-1793).

Partly-printed document signed by Hancock as President of the Continental Congress, commissioning John Nice a Captain in a Pennsylvania regiment.

Philadelphia: 14 March 1776. 8 1/2 x 12 3/8 inches. Countersigned by Charles Thomson, docketed on verso. Expert repairs to separations at folds. Matted.

Revolutionary war military commission signed by John Hancock, as President of the Second Continental Congress, just months before the Declaration of Independence.

At the time of this commission, the second Continental Congress was debating how best to defend New York City. The British were in the process of evacuating Boston, bested by Washington’s siege from the commanding position on Dorchester Heights. But New York City was seen as vulnerable to the British fleet, being a desirable base of operations. Indeed, on the day this commission was signed by Hancock, the second Continental Congress passed a resolution to raise 8,000 men for the defense of New York.

Nice (1739-1806) served during the French & Indian War. In March 1776, he was commissioned a Captain in Samuel Atlee’s Pennsylvania Musketry Battalion. In August 1776, he fought at the Battle of Long Island, was taken prisoner and exchanged later that year. In 1777, Atlee’s battalion would merge with another to become the 13th Pennsylvania Line of the Continental Army, seeing action at Germantown and Brandywine. In 1778, Nice was transferred to the Sixth Pennsylvania Line, and would be present at Yorktown. Nice’s orderly book survives at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.(#33744)   $ 9,500

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JOSSELYN, John (circa 1608-1704).

An Account of Two Voyages to New England.

London: Printed for Giles Widdows, 1674. 16mo. [8],279,[3] pp. License leaf (often lacking), errata and the leaf of advertisements at the end, woodcut printer’s device on leaf preceding title. Full brown 19th century morocco. Provenance: John Carter Brown (bookplate and duplicate stamp).

First edition of a scarce 17th-century description of New England, including valuable observations on the natural history of the region: “the earliest work on the Natural History of New England” (Rich).

Josselyn visited America in 1638-39, and again from 1663 to 1671. Though parts of his history are based on inaccurate references, the book is renowned for its first-hand observations of the natural history of New England and the description of the situation with the Indians prior to King Philip’s War in 1675.

Josselyn’s work includes an herbal, with numerous botanical, as well as medical and surgical descriptions and is considered the “first complete description of the flora and fauna of the Middle Atlantic and New England States” (Winsor). The cranberry, wild turkey, blueberry and other northeastern species are fully described here for the first time.

Besides its treatment of New England, the work is of considerable value for its fine contemporary English account of New Netherland, i.e. New York. The work also deals with the practicalities and provisions necessary for the long sea-voyage. It contains as well a catalogue of tools and supplies essential to begin a new life in the colonies.

Church 627; European Americana 674/105; Field 780; Howes J254; Jones 129; Sabin 36672; Siebert Sale105; Streeter Sale II:635; Vail 162; Wing J1019.(#31282)   $ 20,000

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JOUTEL, Henri (1640-1735).

A Journal of the Last Voyage perform’d by Monsr. de La Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the mouth of the Missisipi [sic.] River; containing an account of the settlements he endeavour’d to make on the coast of the aforesaid bay, his unfortunate death, and the travels of his companions for the space of eight hundred leagues across that inland country of America, now call’d Louisiana (and given by the king of France to M. Crozat,) till they came to Canada. Written in French by Monsieur Joutel, a commander in that expedition; and translated from the edition just publish’d at Paris. With an exact map of that vast country, and a copy of the letters patents granted by the K. of France to M. Crozat.

London: Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott and J. Baker, 1714. 8vo (7 x 4 1/2 inches). [2], xxi, [9], 205, [5]pp. Engraved folding map. Expertly bound to style in period speckled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.

First edition in English of this first-hand account of La Salle’s ill-fated expedition, and Joutel’s subsequent incredible journey north to Quebec, through Texas, Arkansas, the Mississippi, and Illinois.

Of the three major narratives of the journey, this record, by La Salle’s closest subordinate, is the most valuable. The party embarked in 1684, ostensibly to establish a French base at the mouth of the Mississippi as a headquarters for operations, but also to push as far as possible into the region in order to gain a foothold against the Spanish. In fact, through a conscious deceit, the base was established at Espiritu Santo Bay, in Texas, from whence the party spent two years making excursions into the surrounding territory. When promised reinforcements failed to appear, La Salle and his men determined to return to Canada via the Mississippi; however, one of the company assassinated La Salle when they reached the Trinity River, and the party split up. Some of the survivors, including Joutel, pressed on, reaching Canada by way of the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers.

“Most reliable eye-witness account of La Salle’s two-years wanderings in Texas” (Howes).

Field 808; Howes J266; Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 114; Raines pp. 130--131; Wagner Spanish Southwest 79 a; Greenly p. 21; Streeter sale 1:112; Church 859; Jones Adventures in Americana 150; Jones 399; Bell p. 274; Harrisse 750; Waterston p. 7; European Americana 714/70; Sabin 36762; Keynes p. 164; Clark Old South I:14; Field 808; Graff 2252.(#29987)   $ 12,500

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MAINE - George N. COLBY, compilor.

Atlas of Hancock County Maine Compiled and Published under the direction of Geo. N. Colby ... Drawn from official Plans, U.S. Coast Survey Charts, and actual Surveys by H. E. Halfpenny & J. H. Stuart.

Ellworth, Maine: S. F. Colby & Co [engraved by William Bracher, printed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia], 1881. Folio (16 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches). 96pp, including 5pp ads in rear. 39 hand coloured lithographed maps (17 double-page, some printed recto and verso of same sheets, numerous insets) [complete]. Contemporary black morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Provenance: Edward C. Burleigh (name in gilt on upper cover).

The first atlas devoted to Hancock County, Maine.

In 1881 cartographer/surveyor George N. Colby, assisted by J.H. Stuart and others, published the first atlas of Hancock County towns, villages, plantations and timber lots. The maps identify many property owners by name, and show the locations of homesteads, businesses, roads, schools, churches, mills and cemeteries in those plantations, towns and villages. Including all the insets, 87 maps were produced by Colby Halfpenny and Stuart, drawn on stone by William Bracher and printed by F. Bourquin of Philadelphia. The detailed town plans include Mount Desert Island, Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Bluehill, Southwest Harbor, and numerous others.

As with most 19th century county atlases, the work 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 of a large segment of rural America in the Victorian age” (Ristow, American Maps and Mapmakers, p. 424).

This copy with provenance to Edward C. Burleigh, the Governor of Maine from 1889-1893.

LeGear 14311.(#30409)   $ 4,500

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MASSACHUSETTS BAY, Colony of .

Acts and Laws, of his Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England ... [Bound with 42 separate session laws] ... [And with:] The Charter Granted by their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England ... [Bound with]: Acts and Laws, of his Majesty’s Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England ... [and bound with]: [27 separate session laws].

Boston: Samuel Kneeland and TImothy Green, 1742-1758; 1759-1768. 2 volumes, small folio. [2],28, 333, [1]pp., plus the session laws continuously paginated 335-493, [1]pp. [with pages 425-426 in facsimile]; [2],14,24,[2], 396pp, plus the session laws continuously paginated 397-560pp. Contemporary notations to front flyleaf, titlepage, and to table in second volume, reflecting additional session laws; at p.290, contemporary manuscript note bound in. Inked library stamps and later annotations. Late 19th-century black pebbled morocco, spine lettered in gilt.

A significant run of Massachusetts’s laws covering the French and Indian war period, and including the American edition of the Sugar Act of 1764 and one of the Townshend acts, as well as laws relating to the Stamp Act: the first steps on the road to revolution.

An impressive run of Massachusetts laws and session laws over a roughly twenty-five year period. The first volume was issued in 1742 with session laws through 1758; the second volume includes the Charter, the 1759 Acts and Laws and session laws through 1768. In all there are 69 additional session laws, nearly the entire legislative output of Massachusetts from 1742 to 1768, including all of the legislation relating to King George’s War in the 1740s and the French and Indian War, 1755-1763.

Of particular note, the second volume contains the first American printings of some of the key documents in the gathering American crisis prior to the Revolution. Of the greatest importance, on pp. 459-479 is the “Act for better securing the Trade of His Majesty’s Colonies in America”, usually known as the Sugar Act. This set of duties and commercial regulations, crafted by British minister George Grenville, sought to raise revenue and make the English colonies in North America pay for their own defense. The Act led to a wave of resentment and resistance in the American colonies, and the pamphlets and speeches opposing it are properly considered the beginning of the path to the Revolution. Interestingly, the Stamp Act was not printed in 1765, but the Act repealing it was the following year (pp. 507-518), as well as an Act giving compensation to those who had lost property in the riots provoked by the Stamp Act, and pardoning offenders in the same (pp. 519-520). Also included is the first American edition of one of the so-called Townshend Acts of 1767, which imposed duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea (pp. 535-542). An attack on this Act, in the form of a circular letter, written by Samuel Adams and sent to the representative bodies of other provinces, set off a new round of protests, and led to the forced dissolution of the Massachusetts Assembly in 1768, the terminal point of the session laws in this volume.

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A highly important collection of Massachusetts laws.

Evans 5003, 5236-5239, 5427-5429, 5626, 5627, 5798, 5995, 6180, 6353-6536, 6705, 6708, 6875-6877, 7047-7050, 7241-7244, 7463-7465, 7703, 7941-7943, 8175-8177; 8400, 8399, 8913-8916, 9173-9176, 9428-9429, 9721-9724, 10052-10054, 10370-10373, 10675-10677, 10959-10960.(#28946)   $ 14,500

OGILBY, John (translator and publisher, 1600-1676) - [Arnoldus MONTANUS (1625?-1683)].

America: being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World ... Collected from most authentick authors, augmented with later observations and adorn’d with maps and sculptures, by John Ogilby.

London: Printed by the Author, 1671. Folio. Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 56 maps, plates and portraits (6 single-page portraits, 31 double-page or folding views and plans, 19 folding maps), 66 engraved in text illustrations. Expert restoration to the map of Carolina and the list of plates. Nineteenth century smooth tan calf, arms of the Marquess of Bath on the upper and lower covers, spine with raised bands in seven compartments, tan morocco label in the second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt. Provenance: Beriah Botfield, Marquess of Bath (gilt arms).

A very fine, large copy of Ogilby’s first edition of this important work: a rare issue including Moxon’s First Lords Proprietors map of Carolina, the first large-format map of the newly established colony of Carolina.

The work is an English translation of Arnold Montanus De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, but with a number of additions concerning New England, New France, Maryland and Virginia The work is divided into three books or sections and an appendix: the first gives an overall survey of the most important voyages and expeditions to the Americas, the second book offers a description of Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Bermuda and North America, the third deals with South America and the appendix includes a miscellany of information including notes on the ‘Unknown South-Land’, the `Arctick Region’ and the search for the North-West passage.

The present copy is unusual in that it contains the so-called Lords Proprietors map by Moxon titled A New Discription [sic.] of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietors - a map that was commissioned by Ogilby for this work, but which was not included in the earlier issues of the book as it was apparently not available until 1672. The present complete copy is the second issue of the first edition, without the Arx Carolina plate or the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map, but with the Lord Proprietors map and a map of Barbados, and retaining the first issue list of plates.

The first three issues of the first edition are as follows:1. dated 1671, with both the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis map2. dated 1671, with the Lord Proprietors map of Carolina map replacing both the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis map, with the addition of a map of Barbados, with the plate list as in the first issue still listing Arx Carolina and Virginia pars Australis but not listing the Lords Proprietors Carolina or Barbados3. dated 1671, the plates as the second issue, but with a reset, cancel list of plates that no longer includes either Arx Carolina or Virginia pars Australis

The Moxon map is the first large format map of the newly established colony of Carolina, preceded only by the much smaller and relatively simple maps by Robert Horne (1666), John

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Lederer (1672) and Richard Blome (1672). The Ogilby-Moxon map, published to promote colonization in the region, would come to be known as The First Lords Proprietors Map, with a second Lords Proprietors Map appearing in 1682.

Prior to this map, only the small map by Robert Horne of 1666 had focused on the Colony. Moxon’s map was a significant improvement over the Horne map, both in size and the accuracy of its depiction of the Colony. The Albermarle and Pamlico Sounds are corrected, based upon information from and unknown source. The Cape Fear region is drawn from Horne’s map. The map also relies heavily on Lederer 1672 for information concerning the interior, and it was chiefly through this popular map that Lederer’s misconceptions became so quickly disseminated and so widely copied. Hilton’s and Sandford’s reports of the coast are also used. The inset is based on Ashley-Cooper 1671 manuscript, with some names taken from Culpeper 1671 manuscript and represents the earliest printed map of the region which would become Charleston. The map would serve as the model for a number of later derivatives, most notably A New Description of Carolina, engraved by Francis Lamb for the1676 Bassett & Chiswell edition of John Speeds’ s Prospect of the Most famous Parts of the World, published in London in 1676.

Arents 315A; cf. Baer (Md) 70A-C; cf. Borba de Moraes II, 626; Church 613; cf. European Americana 671/204-207; cf. JCB III, 227-228; Sabin 50089; cf. Stokes VI, p.262; K.S. van Eerde John Ogilby and the Tate of His Times p.107; Wing O-165. References for the Carolina map: Cumming Southeast in Early Maps 70; Degrees of Latitude 13.(#31668)   $ 35,000

PACIFIC NORTHWEST.

Manuscript ship’s log of the Boston Clipper Ship Triton on a circumnavigation trading voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, by way of the Sandwich Islands and Canton, China.

At sea (including the coasts off Hawaii, Alaska and Canton): August 1826 - July 1828. Tall 4to (12 x 7 1/2 inches). Written recto and verso on 41 unnumbered leaves. 1p. list of Northwest Coast native vocabulary and 1p. list of vessels on the Northwest Coast and Sandwich Islands, in the rear. (One leaf clipped along fore-edge with loss to text; at least one leaf lacking covering the period December 6, 1826 to January 20, 1827 while at sea near Cape Horn; newspaper clippings previously mounted within the journal removed but with some resulting residue; several leaves detached). Period calf-backed marbled paper covered boards ledger-style binding. Provenance: Anderson Galleries, December 3, 1923, lot 678 (selling for $325).

An extraordinary, newly re-discovered log of an American ship on the Alaskan Northwest Coast in the 1820s: a primary source on the maritime fur trade.

In the eighteenth century, Russian merchants dominated the maritime fur trade on the Northwest coast of America, trading goods to the native tribes in exchange for furs (predominantly otter skins), which in turn were sold in China for silks, porcelain, tea, spices and other valuable commodities. Following Captain Cook’s voyages, British and American ships began entering the trade, largely on the coast between the Columbia River and Sitka. Of the American ships operating in those waters, the trade was largely based out of Boston, and the wealth accumulated by the owners of such trading vessels contributed greatly to the industrialization of the New England economy. Between 1788 and 1826, American merchant ships made over one hundred voyages between the United States, the Northwest Coast and China. However, very few primary sources relating to those voyages, such as the present log, have survived.

Owned by the trading firm founded by John Bryant and William Sturgis, the Clipper Ship Triton, captained by the owner’s son William Bryant, departed Boston on 25 August 1826, en route to the Sandwich Islands. The present log of that voyage, written by an unnamed officer on board, includes almost daily entries while at sea, recording weather, bird, ship and land sightings, and describing the status of the sails and rigging. Rounding Cape Horn in December of that year, the Triton reaches the Sandwich Islands on 23 January 1827, sighting Mauna Kea: “It is one of the grandest and noblest sights I had ever seen. The immense height and size of this mountain struck every one with astonishment.” Reaching Woahoo [O’ahu] two days later, a pilot brings the ship into the harbor: “No idea can be found of the great number of canoes that are filled with natives, paddling in every direction. They are of strange model and the natives are perfectly harmless. Their huts are made of straw and of strange model.”

The ship stays in port at O’ahu until March 1, when the journal resumes with the voyage to the Northwest Coast. On March 29th, the Triton reaches the northwest coast [at Sitka? Fort Ross?]: “A pilot soon came off in a skin canoe, also two Russian boats, the latter to assisting us in towing our ship into the harbor. At 4 o’clock came to anchor in a river, well defended from every wind by mountains of great height and filled with trees and bushes. The tops of the mountains are covered with snow. This river is not more than 400 feet wide and is filled with fish and fowl of all description ... From all appearances it is one of the finest places

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in the world for fish & fowl. The river is filled with small fish and they are caught in great numbers by the savages who use a long pole filled with nails by which the fish are hooked. Their canoes are of strange model and they will paddle them with great swiftness through the water ... The Russians have a settlement here. They have a strong fort, also 9 or 10 armed brigs anchored in the river to defend the place. They have a place of public worship. Also a boat building and a lumber sawing establishment, a light house...”

The Triton spends the next five months traveling among the islands of the Alexander Archipelago on the southeast panhandle of Alaska, visiting Queen Charlotte Island, Tumgass Harbor [i.e. Port Tongass], French Harbor [on Prince of Wales Island], Hannegar Harbor, “Cue You” harbor [Coyah’s Harbor?], Dominus Harbor, and Norfolk [Sitka] Sound. The log carefully notes the other ships sighted, and often travels with other American ships, presumably for safety. An April 18 entry at Queen Charlotte Islands notes: “It is death for a white man to be found on shore. We had no communication with the shore, kept our boarding netting up all the time we lay here and kept a sharp lookout for savages, who appear to be a stout, strong gang of wretches in human form...”

A May 5 entry describes friendlier natives at French Harbor: “30 or 40 canoes filled with savages in sight and coming to us. They have their canoes filled with every thing, viz. dogs, cats, women, children, men, skins, guns, pistols, knives, casks of powder, the frames of their huts ... they paint their faces all manner of colors and the females have wooden lips.” The following day is spent trading with the natives: “Captain B. retailing out rum, rice & mollases by the quart and cloth by the yard and piece, also guns, blankets, powder, shot and every other little trifling article.”

By mid-September, the Triton departs the coast to return to the Sandwich Islands, anchoring at Owhyee on October 4. The journal begins again on December 17, with the ship departing the Sandwich Islands for Canton, China. Reaching the Whampoa River in mid-January, the log describes the numerous ships and long waits for pilots, reaching as far up river as they are allowed on January 24, 1828. The final part of the log resumes on March 17 with the ship’s departure from Canton en route home to Boston. Travelling across the Indian Ocean, the ship passes the Cape of Good Hope on June 2 and finally reaches Boston on July 28, 1828: “So ends a 23 month voyage & we are once more free from Ship Triton. I have once doubled the Noted & Blustering Cape Horn. I have once doubled the Cape of Good Hope and I have four times crossed the Line and so ends my journal, so ends, so ends.”

The penultimate page of the journal lists approximately 25 Northwest coast native words with their English equivalents, as well as five Hawaiian words. The final page lists seven Boston ships, including the Triton, operating on the Northwest coast, as well as eleven ships seen at O’ahu.

The rarity of such logs from this period of American commercial activity on the Northwest coast cannot be overstated. Bancroft cites only 14 such ships reaching the Northwest coast between 1819 and 1827. The present log last appeared on the market at auction at Anderson Galleries on 3 December 1923, selling for $325.

Coupled with Lewis and Clark’s expedition and the inland fur trade then developing, the maritime fur trade on the northwest coast in this early period proved an influential force in American westward expansion.

cf. James R. Gibson, Otter Skins, Boston Ships and China Goods (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992)(#29983)   $ 30,000

PAINE, Thomas (1737-1809).

[Sammelband of six works by Paine, including a printing of Common Sense].

Dublin: 1782-1792. Six volumes in one, 8vo. Collations as below. Contemporary calf, very worn. Housed in a cloth box. Provenance: Richard Burke, Gurteen Lodge (early Irish owner’s inscription).

Sammelband of Thomas Paine pamphlets, including an unusual Dublin piracy of a Philadelphia edition of Common Sense.

1) Common Sense addressed to the Inhabitants of America ... new edition, with several additions. Philadelphia [but Dublin?]: W. and T. Bradford, 1791. 99, [1]pp. Gimbel CS-66; Evans 23658; ESTC W20054.

2) Rights of Man: being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. Dublin: G. Burnet [and others],1791. 71, [1]pp. ESTC N13088.

3) Rights of Man. Part the second. Combining Principle and Practice ... third edition. Dublin: Byrne, 1792. viii, 75, [1]pp. ESTC N13106.

4) A Letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North-America. Philadelphia printed, Dublin reprinted: Lynch [and others], 1782. vii, [1], 76pp. ESTC T5831; Adams 82-66h.

5) [A letter to the Earl of Shelburne, now Marquis of Lansdowne, on his speech, July 10, 1782, respecting the acknowledgement of American independence. Dublin: Burnet (and others), 1791]. [1-2], [5]-48pp. With the half title, but lacks the title page. ESTC T5853.

6) Letter addressed to the Addressers on the Late Proclamation. Dublin: Burnet [and others], 1792. [4], 52pp. Minor loss to final leaf. ESTC N1628.(#34571)   $ 2,500

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PAPERMAKING, America.

Manuscript patent specification by J. B. Pignatelli for a papermaking machine.

[Np, but New York?: 1819]. 6pp., on three folio sheets of vellum. Unstitched. Housed in a red cloth four-fold chemise, with morocco label on the upper cover.

A fascinating contemporary manuscript description of among the earliest American papermaking machines.

Continuous papermaking machines were initially invented at the end of the 18th century and developed in England in the first decade of the 19th century, including the famed Fourdrinier machine. The first and most noted of the early American machines was the cylinder mould machine constructed by Thomas Gilpin for the Brandywine Paper Mill, which he patented in 1816 though was based on an earlier English machine by John Dickinson.

Although the U.S. Patent Office fire of 1836 destroyed the original records of the patents granted before that date, various official publications issued in the 1820s record John B. Pignatelli’s patent as having been granted on December 2, 1819 (see for example A List of Patents Granted by the United States, for the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences, Alphabetically Arranged from 1790 to 1820 [Washington: 1823], which identifies Pignatelli as being from New York). Pignatelli’s machine, described in great detail in this manuscript, would appear to be similar to Joshua Gilpin’s cylinder machine in use at the Brandywine Paper Mill in 1817, though with several differences. Pignatelli’s machine operated via a system of steam or water-powered bandwheels, agitators and iron bars, which drew the paper material from a cistern via buckets (with a system to return excess water and materials to limit waste) and a weighted waggon which moved back and forth, drawing the paper onto cloth-covered wooden rollers. It is unknown whether his machine was ever built or put into use.

cf. Bidwell, American Paper Mills, pp. xlvi-liii; cf. Clapperton, The Paper Making Machine (Oxford: 2014); Hancock & Wilkinson, “The Gilpin Papermaking Machine” in PMHB, vol. 81, no. 4 (Oct. 1957), pp. 391-405.(#34693)   $ 3,500

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PRANG, Louis (1824-1910, printer and publisher).

[Prang’s War Pictures].

[Boston: L. Prang & Company, 1886-1888]. Oblong folio (22 x 28 inches). 18 chromolithographs by Prang after Thulstrup or Davidson (each print approximately 15 x 21 1/2 inches), cut to the edge of the image (as issued) and tipped onto individual thin card mounts, each mount with printed title and imprint. Housed in a morocco backed box.

Complete set of Prang’s magnificent Civil War series

In his prospectus to this series of prints, Prang emphasised the care he had taken over the printing: “Each picture is a combination of over 300 colors and shades ... the flags and uniforms of the officers and troops are vividly reproduced, the fire and smoke of battle graphically portrayed, and all the surrounding represented in colors of nature and of actual war”. This was a grand-scale project and one of Prang’s masterpieces: McLinton rightly calls this series “some of the most interesting pictures of the civil war” (p.151), and Prang himself thought so highly of the images that he chose these prints to represent his work when he exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. They were very well received, drawing praise from many quarters including a letter from David Porter, the Secretary of the Navy.

Prang was a master at promoting his own work and to this end he also enlisted the help of a number of well-placed veterans to confirm the authenticity of his images: General John A. Logan (“marvellously well-executed”); Admiral David Dixon Porter (offered his “unqualified approbation”); General O.O. Howard (“the execution is admirable”); General William T. Sherman (“well-executed ... accurately depicting the scene”), General Alexander S. Webb (“one of the best war pictures I have ever seen”). This series divides naturally into land and sea battles: the naval battles are after pictures commissioned by Prang from the well-known marine painter Julian O. Davidson. He was born in Nyack, New York in 1853 and died in Cumberland, Maryland in 1893. Davidson studied under Mauritz Frederik Hendrick de Haas (1823-1895) before setting up his own studio at the Nyack Boat Club. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1874 until 1893. He was best known for his paintings of reconstructions of Naval battle but his interest in maritime matters was not purely artistic as he was also a champion rower. During the 1880s Davidson began writing and illustrating for Harper’s Magazine. The land battles, sub-divided into the eastern and western division, are after Thure de Thulstrup who was a Swedish-born painter with first-hand knowledge of military matters. He was educated at a military academy in Stockholm, served in the French Foreign Legion and saw action during the Franco-Prussian War. De Thulstrup turned to art, initially studying in Paris and, after his arrival in America in 1873, continuing his studies at the Art Students League in New York City. In New York he enjoyed a successful career as an illustrator, and, during the Spanish-American War, he worked in the field as both illustrator and correspondent. The other books he illustrated included works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

“Prang made every effort to produce chromos that would appeal to print-buying veterans of all branches of the military and all theaters of the war, Indeed there were scenes of twelve land battles, five naval engagements, and one naval-marine assault. Five of the prints depicted engagements in Virginia, three in Georgia, two each in Louisiana and Tennessee, and one

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each in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mississippi, Alabama, and North Carolina. Yet another print portrayed a fabled naval duel off the coast of France. There would be something for everyone.” (H. Holzer Prang’s Civil War Pictures [2001]p.38)

The individual plates are as follows:

Land Battles (Eastern Division)1. Thulstrup. Sheridan’s Final Charge at Winchester / September 19th. 1864. 15 x 22 inches. 18862. Thulstrup. Battle of Fredericksburg / laying ponton [sic.] bridges under fire. 15 x 21 5/8 inches. 18873. Thulstrup. Sheridan’s Ride / October 19th 1864. 15 x 21 5/8 inches. 18864. Thulstrup. Battle of Gettysburg / repulse of Pickett’s charge. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 1887 5. Thulstrup. Battle of Antietam / advance upon the rebel centre at Dunker Church. 15 x 21 3/8 inches. 18876. Thulstrup. Battle of Spottsylvania / The Bloody Angle. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 1887

Land Battles (Western Division)7. Thulstrup. Battle of Chattanooga / from Orchard Knob. 15 x 21 3/8 inches. 1886 8. Thulstrup. Battle of Kenesaw Mountain / charge of Logan’s Corps. 14 7/8 x 21 3/8 inches. 18879. Thulstrup. Battle of Allatoona Pass / Hold the fort. 15 1/8 x 21 3/4 inches. 188710. Thulstrup. Siege of Atlanta / Gen. Sherman and staff inspecting batteries. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 188811. Thulstrup. Siege of Vicksburg / the assault on Fort Hill. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 188812. Thulstrup. Battle of Shiloh / The Hornet’s Nest. 14 7/8 x 21 3/8 inches. 1888

Naval Battles13. J.O. Davidson. Capture of New Orleans / Farragut passing the forts by night. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 1886 14. J.O. Davidson. Monitor and Merrimac / first fight between ironclads. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 1886 15. J.O. Davidson. Battle of Mobile Bay / Passing Fort Morgan and the torpedoes. 14 7/8 x 21 3/8 inches. 188616. J.O. Davidson. Kearsarge and Alabama / hauling down the flag. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 188717. J.O Davidson. Battle of Port Hudson / passing the river batteries. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 188718. J.O. Davidson. Capture of Fort Fisher / Charge of the marines on the traverse. 15 x 21 1/2 inches. 1887

A famed suite of folio images published by renowned American chromolithographer, Louis Prang, depicting important battles of the Civil War. A beautiful suite of prints, memorializing the bloodiest conflict in our nation’s history.

Cf. L. Freeman Louis Prang: color lithographer. Giant of a man; H. Holzer (editor) Prang’s Civil War Pictures (2001); cf. Jay Last The Color Explosion p. 122; cf. K.M. McClinton The Chromolithographs of Louis Prang pp.147-151(#34470)   $ 22,500

PRINCE, Thomas (1687-1758).

Extraordinary Events in the Doings of God, and marvelous in pious Eyes. Illustrated in a Sermon at the South Church in Boston, N.E. on the General Thanksgiving, Thursday, July 18, 1745. Occasion’d by taking the City of Louisbourg on the Isle of Cape-Breton, by New-England Soldiers, assisted by a British Squadron.

Boston: D. Henchman, 1745. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches). 3-35pp; lacks half-title. (Repaired tears to terminal leaf). Modern red morocco backed marbled paper covered boards.

First edition of Prince’s famous sermon on the taking of Cape Breton, in which he provides the background and narrates the battle.

Fully one-half of this pamphlet is occupied by a very interesting historical account of the Island of Cape Breton, its eventful story; productions; the proceedings of the French against the Colonists, etc., with pages 7-33 devoted to an historical account of the campaign. One of the most famous of the Louisbourg sermons, five editions appearing in London in the following year, as well as later American editions.

Evans 5681; Sabin 65596(#28857)   $ 1,750

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SANSON d’Abbeville, Nicolas (1600-67).

L’Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactes; et en Divers Traittes de Geographie, & d’Histoire.

[Amsterdam: Halma, circa 1700]. Quarto (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches). 82, [2] pp. 15 double-page engraved maps. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands.

Rare issue of Sanson’s petite atlas of the Americas, first published in 1657.

The maps include detailed charts of North, South and Central America, the West Indies, Canada, Mexico, Florida and the southeast, and a map of New Mexico showing most of the Spanish southwest territory with California depicted as an island. The maps are titled as follows:

1) Americque Septentriole 2) Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c. 3) La Floride 4) Audience de Mexico 5) Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c. 6) Audience de Guatimala 7) Les Isles Antilles, &c. 8) Amerique Meridionale 9) Terre Ferme, Nouveau royme de Grenade, &c. 10) Guiane divisee en Guiane, et Caribane 11) Le Perou, et le cours de la rivre Amazone 12) Le Chili 13) Le Brasil 14) Le Paraguay subdivise en ses principales parties, suivant les dernieres relaons 15) Detroit de Magellan, Terre, et Isles Magellanicques, &c.

Various states of the maps have been identified by Burden, Kershaw and Cumming, though none conform definitively to this issue of the atlas. Grid lines were added to the plates for publication in Halma’s edition of Description de tout l’Universe (Amsterdam:1700), suggesting the place and date of publication for this unrecorded edition.

Sabin 76712; Phillps Atlases 1151 (first edition); Streeter Sale 68 (undated edition); Kershaw, Early Printed Maps of Canada 137; Burden 324-327; Cumming 97.(#33414)   $ 6,500

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SCOTT, Joseph.

The United States Gazetteer: Containing an Authentic Description of the Several States. Their Situation, Extent, Boundaries, Soil, Produce, Climate, Population, Trade and Manufactures. Together with the Extent, Boundaries and Population of their Respective Counties. Also, an Exact Account of the Cities, Towns, Harbours, Rivers, Bays, Lakes, Mountains, &c.

Philadelphia: F and R. Bailey, 1795. 12mo (6 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches). Engraved title, [iii]-vi, errata leaf, blank leaf, [292]pp. Nineteen engraved folding maps, including the large folding frontispiece map (4 with hand colouring). Contemporary tree sheep, flat spine divided into compartments with gilt fillets, red morocco lettering piece in the second, repair to front joint.

The first gazetteer of the United States with an important series of engraved American maps: an American cartographic cornerstone.

These, with the maps in Carey’s American Atlas that were issued the same year, represent a major step forward in American cartography. Scott’s maps cover the United States in general, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, the Northwest Territory, and the Southwest Territory. An important early work of U.S. cartography and among the earliest mappings of each state.

Howes S237; Sabin 78331; Evans 29476; Clark III:123; Wheat & Brun 125.(#29699)   $ 8,000

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VIRGINIA, Colony of.

A Collection of all the Acts of Assembly, Now in Force, in the Colony of Virginia. With the titles of such as are expir’d, or repeal’d. And notes in the margin, shewing how, and at what time, they were repeal’d. Examin’d with the records, by a committee appointed for that purpose.

Williamsburg: William Parks, 1733. Folio (16 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches). [2], 622pp. (Without the list of subscribers, found in few copies). Woodcut arms of Virginia on the title, ornamental headpieces and tailpieces throughout. Contemporary boards, spine perished. Housed in a black morocco box. Provenance: John Aspinall (1716-1784).

The first collection of Virginia laws published in Virginia and the first significant book published in the colony, issued by its first printer, William Parks: of the greatest importance for Virginia and the history of printing in America.

The beginnings of printing in Virginia can be traced to 1682, when William Nuthead arrived in Jamestown with a press, seeking to print the acts of the Assembly. Gov. Thomas Culpeper threw him out, and Nuthead left for Maryland without issuing a single publication. Culpeper’s successor banned printing altogether, and fifty years would pass before the establishment of printing in Virginia. In February 1728, William Parks, the official printer to the Maryland Assembly since 1726, seeking to expand his business, petitioned the Virginia Assembly for a similar position. Receiving the commission, Parks opened an office in Williamsburg in 1730. That year, he published what is generally credited as Virginia’s first imprint: John Markland’s Typographia: An Ode to Printing , a 15-page paean to Sir William Gooch, the governor who had approved the invitation to Parks. This survives on a unique copy, at the John Carter Brown Library. A handful of broadsides, almanacks and pamphlets followed, all surviving in single copies, until the publication of the present volume, the first work of any size published in the colony.

Edited and prepared for press by George Webb, this collection was the first collection of Virginia laws to be compared with the official scribal record by a committee of the General Assembly (John Holloway, John Clayton, Archibald Blair, John Randolph, and William Robertson) and is considered more accurate than any previous compilation, as well as being the first collection of Virginia laws to be published with legislative sanction. The work contains all the acts then in force from 1662 through the spring 1732 session of the Assembly. Most of the earlier laws would seem to have been copied from the London, 1684 collection of Virginia laws, with the rest set directly from the scribal record. This included, among many historic acts, the first printing of the infamous slave code of 1705 (4 Annae, Cap. 49, see pp. 218-228), the foundation of Virginia’s slave legislation which codified slave status, defining slaves as real estate, and acquitting masters who kill slaves during punishment, among other horrors. The work also includes the far reaching 1723 act passed in response to fear of slave insurrections (9 George I, Cap. 4, pp. 339-344), which all but precluded manumission, denied the rights of freed slaves to vote, prohibited assembly by slaves on pain of death and more.

Given the number of copies needed for official purposes (Justices of the Peace, members of the Assembly, clerks and justices of the county courts, etc.), plus the 230 known private subscribers, it is estimated that upwards of five hundred copies were printed; an astonishing task on a recently-established American colonial press. About twenty complete copies have survived. Almost all of these have been in institutional collections since the early 20th century.

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The quality of printing is impressive; this is perhaps the finest example of Virginia colonial printing, and among the most beautiful works published in all of colonial America. The type (similar to Caslon) and paper are believed to have been imported from Holland; ornamental headpieces, tailpieces and fleurons are evidenced throughout.

The present large paper example is more than three inches taller and an inch-and-a-half wider than other extant copies. Although we can find no reference to the work being issued in large paper, it was presumably done for presentation to important colonial officials. Besides Franklin’s Cato Major and the 1736 Lewis Timothy printing of the Laws of South Carolina, this is the only pre-1750 American imprint of which we are aware, published in a large-paper issue. This example with provenance to John Aspinall of Standen Hall, who was educated for the law and became one of the serjeants-at-law and Recorder of Clitheroe.

Evans 3728; Swem III:22517; Clayton-Torrence 124; Sabin 100385; Berg, Williamsburg Imprints 10; A. Franklin Parks, William Parks, The Colonial Printer In The Transatlantic World, University Park, 2012; ESTC W33283(#34524)   $ 45,000

WHEATLEY, Phillis (1753-1784).

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral.

London: Printed for A. Bell ... and sold by Messrs. Cox and Berry, King Street, Boston, 1773. 8vo (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches). 124,[4]pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Expert restoration to the portrait. Contemporary speckled calf, covers with a gilt floral roll tool border, expertly rebacked to style, period marbled endpapers.

Rare first edition of the first published volume of poetry by an African-American.

Phillis Wheatley was brought from Senegal to America at the age of about seven, and was purchased as a slave by Susanna Wheatley and her husband, John, in Boston. Showing signs of precocity, she was tutored by Mrs. Wheatley and her daughter, and was greatly influenced by the Latin classics and Pope. She began to write occasional verse and became a kind of poet laureate in the domestic circles of Boston. She published first in the Newport Mercury, but became widely known for her elegy on the death of George Whitefield. On a trip to England in 1773 she was taken up by the circle of the Countess of Huntingdon, and arrangements were made to publish Poems on Various Subjects. It was to be the only collection of her verse to appear in her lifetime.

The text conforms to Stoddard’s Edition 1, with the vertical distance between the “London” and “Printed” lines in the title-page imprint being 3 mm. and the chainlines in signatures [A], O-Q vertical, and in signatures B-N horizontal. In addition, on page 9, line 3 measures 75 mm.; page 10, last line ends “surprize;”; page 12, bracket measures 1.5 cm.; page 29, catchword is “Not”; page 41, line 190 is not numbered; page 71, line 45 is not numbered; page 96, line 23 begins “Their G_____y!”; page 105, line 84 ends “pay?”; and page 121, line 36 ends “around,”. The copyright statement on page [2] is State B, reading “Stationers” and the ads on page [128] are State B, beginning: “Lately Published in 2 Vols. Twelves (Price 5s. sewed).” The present example includes Stoddard & Whitesell’s state A of the portrait (without diagonal cross hatching in the background behind Wheatley).

Brawley 31; Sabin 10316; Wegelin 432; Blockson, 101; Books by or about People of African Descent, #68; Stoddard & Whitesell 236.(#32318)   $ 27,500

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WINTER, EGIDIUS.

Vassar Female College. Situated Near Poughkeepsie in Dutchess County, State of New York.

New York: Ferdinand Mayer, 1862. Large two-tone lithographed view with additional hand-coloring. Skillfully repaired tear, right side. Sheet size: 24 x 37 1/2 inches.

Magnificent view of Vassar College prior to opening

Vassar Female College was founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar. It opened in 1865 when the Main Building, pictured here, opened. The building, which housed the entire college: classrooms, dormitories, dining hall, administrative offices and library, was designed by James Renwick and is one of the finest Second Empire buildings in America.

Vassar, which soon dropped Female from its name, was the first higher educational institution to offer degrees to women in the United States. The view by Egidius Winter is unusually large and underscores the colossal nature of the undertaking as well as its significance.

In the title margin are listed the original trustees, which included Benson Lossing, the historian, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Franklin Roosevelt was at later trustee.(#33418)   $ 3,500

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[YOUNG, Arthur (1741-1820)].

American husbandry. Containing an account of the soil, climate, production and agriculture, of the British Colonies in North-America and the West-Indies; with observations on the advantages and disadvantages of settling in them, compared with Great Britain and Ireland. By an American.

London: J. Bew, 1775. 2 volumes, 8vo. [4], 472; [4], 319, [1], [16]pp. Half-titles. Contemporary calf.

First edition: an important description of American agriculture published on the eve of the American Revolution.

This interesting work is sometimes attributed to Arthur Young, an important writer of agricultural books, and the style and subject matter coincide with another work by him about America. Written on the eve of the Revolution, this work suggests that the ready availability of land would keep colonists happy and loyal to Great Britain. The book includes discussions of agriculture in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Louisiana, Illinois and Ohio. Tobacco growing is discussed, as is corn, buckwheat, rice, indigo, hemp, silk, and other products. The section on Louisiana is relatively favorable, with descriptions borrowed from Du Pratz. Includes an extensive section on Florida (second volume, page 42-61), describing it variously as “wretched,” “to be condemned,” “barren,” “sandy,” etc. On the whole the work tends to discourage emigration to America, pointing out all the deficiencies of American farming, disadvantages to the potential emigrant, etc. The author is most positive about the West Indies though, describing the Bahamas, Barbados, and other islands in glowing terms. Scarce.

Howes Y16; Sabin 106062; Bell A171; Servies 518.(#34525)   $ 4,000

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CARR, John.

The Stranger in Ireland; or, a Tour in the Southern and Western parts of that Country, in the Year 1805.

London: Richard Phillips, 1806. 4to. 16 aquatint plates printed in sepia (5 folding), hand coloured plan of the Lakes of Killarney. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper covered boards, spine with semi-raised bands in six compartments, lettered in the second, the others with an overall repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Provenance: Baron Northwick (armorial bookplate).

A fine copy of a noted English work illustrated with aquatints.

The beautifully printed aquatints in the present uncoloured issue are tinted in sepia.

Abbey Scenery 455(#33112)   $ 1,200

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TRAVEL AND VOYAGES

CEYLON - William Louis Henry SKEEN, photographer (1847-1903); and others.

Group 60 photographs depicting the people and landscape of Ceylon, and including a number of images documenting the visit by Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Ceylon: 1893. Mounted albumen photographs, many captioned in manuscript on the mounts, many signed in the negative by Skeen. Image sizes approximately 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches; card mounts measuring 14 7/8 x 12 inches. Housed in a contemporary full morocco box, by A. Guenther of Vienna, gilt patterned endpapers and edges, metal hinges and clasps.

Lovely collection of 19th century images of Ceylon’s people and landscape, including images of a royal visit by Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

In 1892, Archduke Ferdinand, the Prince and heir apparent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, departed on a 10-month journey around the world, including visits to India, Ceylon, Australia, New Guinea, Japan, and the United States. The voyage held a dual purpose: the Archduke was recovering from tuberculosis and needed a cover in which to convalesce; in addition, however, the 28-year-old Prince was an avid sportsman and travelled in search of exotic game. The Archduke and his large entourage arrived in Colombo on January 5, 1893; travelling overland to a hunting campe at Kalawewa, returning to India on January 13. The Archduke is best remembered for being assassinated in 1914 which would trigger World War I.

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Many of these images are by the important photographer William Skeen. Skeen, trained at the London School of Photography, arrived in Ceylon in 1862. His father, a noted printer on the island, had purchased an existing photography studio for him to operate. “During its existence W.L.H. Skeen and Co. was the premier firm in Ceylon, producing an extensive documentation of agriculture and industry (particularly tea and spices), landscapes