Printed & Manuscript Americana:

Lot: 1 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Lepelle, engraver. Early French printing, based closely on the famous Stone engraving. [Paris]: Kaeppelin, [1840]

Frédéric Lepelle, engraver. Early French printing of the Declaration of Independence, based closely on the famous Stone engraving. [Paris]: Kaeppelin, [1840] Engraved broadside, 34½ x 26½ inches, plus 1½-inch binding stub; folds as issued, repairs at intersection of folds, minor offsetting.  This printing was produced to accompany a French edition of the Jared Sparks biography of George Washington. Sparks was introduced to the translator François Guizot by none other than the Marquis de Lafayette. Lafayette had been the recipient of two of the original 200 William Stone printings of the Declaration of Independence. One of his Stones was quite possibly the source for this faithful engraved copy--there could not have been many other good facsimiles in France at that time. Not in Bidwell.

Lot: 2 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Two Acts of Parliament. Boston: Richard Draper, 1764

Two Acts of Parliament . . . for Encouraging the Trade of the British Sugar Colonies. Boston: Richard Draper for His Majesty's Council of the Province of Massachusetts, 1764 [2], 459-470, 469-477 pages. Folio, 11½ x 7½ inches, stitched; worn, faint staining, stitch holes in inner margin, professionally conserved; inked American Antiquarian Society stamp on title page.  First American printing of the Sugar Act of 1763, along with the Molasses Act of 1733. Evans 9682, 10323. 3 in ESTC (two of them at American Antiquarian), none traced at auction.

Lot: 3 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Mounted stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765

THE LITTLE PIECE OF PAPER WHICH STARTED IT ALL Mounted stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765. No place, circa 1765 Embossed stamp on blue-gray paper reading "II Shillings VI Pence," just over 1½ inches square, mounted as issued on a slightly larger piece of vellum, with a small period staple sealed on verso by a printed revenue cypher, just under 1 inch square, partly lacking; light soiling.  The Stamp Act of 1765 required expensive duty stamps to be affixed to many kinds of legal documents. The cost was higher in the colonies than in England, which sparked resistance from colonial legislatures and Sons of Liberty street protests in Boston, New York, and beyond. The act was repealed in March 1766, but the idea of liberty had taken root. "The embossed revenue stamp could be impressed upon ordinary paper; however, it was not possible to impress the stamp on vellum. Instead, for documents prepared on vellum, the revenue stamp was impressed upon either beige or dark blue paper, which had been glued and stapled to the vellum. The back of the staple was covered with a cypher bearing the Coat of Arms of George III, probably to prevent reuse of the embossed stamp. These cyphers are thought to be the inspiration for the first adhesive postage stamps."--Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Koeppel and the museum have traced only 42 surviving examples of these free-standing vellum stamp preparations, with only 11 on blue-gray paper as seen in the present example. Koeppel, The Stamps that Caused the American Revolution, pages 2, 20-22; Scott RM-31.

Lot: 4 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Embossed stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765, on the docket leaf of a marriage certificate. Quebec, 30 January 1766

Embossed stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765, on the docket leaf of a marriage certificate. Quebec, 30 January 1766 Manuscript docket leaf, 8 x 13 inches, on laid paper with large watermark, and ¾ x 1-inch embossed "America III Pence" revenue stamp with die letter B; minor wear, partial separation at one fold, minor soiling at folds and on one panel not affecting stamp. After the Stamp Act went into effect on 1 November 1765, these stamps were used throughout the British North American colonies, including the Province of Quebec which had been taken by the British in the recent settlement of the French and Indian War. The act was repealed six months later due to extreme resistance from the thirteen English-speaking colonies to the south.   This example was applied to the docket leaf of a marriage contract in Kamouraska on the St. Lawrence, far north of Quebec City, between François Dominique Damphous and Josette Caron. Adolph Koeppel counted 5 of these stamps in private hands for his 1976 survey, "The Stamps that Caused the American Revolution," pages 4-5 (not including the present copy). Edward Zaluski counted 4 of these stamps in private hands for his 1989 "Canadian Law Stamps" exhibit. Scott, RM-24. Provenance: purchased from Canadian dealer Erling van Dam. 

Lot: 5 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Repeal of the Stamp Act discussed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 15 May 1766

Repeal of the Stamp Act discussed in the Pennsylvania Gazette. Philadelphia: David Hall and William Sellers, 15 May 1766 4 pages, 16 x 10 inches; disbound, leaves tipped together with a bit of loss to inner gutter, horizontal fold, minor foxing; uncut. The despised Stamp Act was repealed by Parliament on  18 March 1766, and the news reached the American colonies in May. Benjamin Franklin, who spearheaded efforts to repeal the Stamp Act, had until recently been the longtime co-publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette. The front page of this  Gazette issue celebrates his role in the repeal. An introduction notes "the indefatigable Industry which Doctor Franklin has exerted, to obtain a Repeal of the Stamp-Act . . . and his unshaken Integrity in her Cause." It is followed by a piece republished from the London Gazette with Franklin's correspondence on the subject going back to 1754. Other pieces relating to the Stamp Act are on page 2 in the first column. A satirical note from an Amsterdam merchant to London expresses unease at the repeal: "Nothing can tend more to the promotion of our trade, than a disunion between Great-Britain and her colonies." A letter from London dated 1 March describes the ongoing Parliamentary debates over the repeal. 

Lot: 6 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Assault on patriot James Otis, as reported in the Boston-Gazette, 11 September 1769

Assault on patriot James Otis, as reported in the Boston-Gazette. Boston: Edes & Gill, 11 September 1769 4 pages, 15 x 9¼ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound. James Otis (1725-1783) was one of the leaders of the Bostonians who resisted British rule in the 1760s, remembered for the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny." If he had remained active in the fight through the end, he might be remembered alongside the likes of John Adams, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams. However, he seems to have struggled with mental instability even in his best days. In 1769, a tax collector named John Robinson took offense at an article by Otis, and in the resulting brawl, Otis received a head injury which seems to have pushed him over the edge.  The attack is covered in depth in this Boston newspaper. It begins with the offending letter by Otis, in which he quotes various Tories and then concludes that "the Affairs of this Cabal have for some Time worn so forlorn an Aspect, that they are of late grown desperate, and . . . intend to rely on Assassination as their last resort."   A whole half a column is devoted to the attack: "Mr. Robinson in the Presence of the publick Company in the Coffee-Room, suddenly turned and attempted to take him by the Nose; and failing in the Attempt, he immediately struck at him with his Cane. . . . Mr. Otis having disarmed his Antagonist, several Persons in the Room prevented Mr. Otis from having fair Play, some of whom held him, while others struck with Cutlasses, Canes, and other Weapons, and the Cry was, Kill him! Kill him!"  This is followed by a response by the recovering Otis, and also an advertisement Otis took out, regarding "the premeditated, cowardly and villainous attempt of John Robinson . . . last week, to assassinate me."  This attack marked the end of Otis's public life. He never played a significant role in the revolution to come. Heading the front page of this issue is a list of names of seven Boston merchants who disobeyed the non-importation agreement.

Lot: 7 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, [1772]

The Votes and Proceedings of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Boston. Boston: Edes and Gill, [1772] iv, 43 pages. 8vo, disbound; minor edge wear to first and final leaves; cropped early gift inscription on title page.  First edition of the inflammatory tract known in its day simply as "The Boston Pamphlet"--a printing of several key documents from Boston's decisive steps toward revolution in 1772. It starts with the minutes of the 28 October freeholders meeting appointing a Committee of Correspondence. Next are the long proceedings of 20 November, where John Hancock was chosen moderator as the Committee of Correspondence reported on "Natural Rights of the Colonists," followed by "A List of Infringements and Violations of Rights." The blandly named "Letter of Correspondence, to the other Towns" dated 20 November spreads word of "the Plan of Despotism, which the Enemies of our invaluable Rights have concerted." An appendix gives the correspondence between the committee and Governor Hutchinson. The gift inscription reads "For the Rev. Doct. Eliot, from the Co[mmittee?] of the Town." The recipient may have been the Rev. Andrew Eliot (1718-1778) of Boston's New North Church, a supporter of the patriot cause. He stayed behind in Boston during the British occupation, tending to the sick and wounded. After the British evacuated in March 1776, General Washington asked him to preach the Thanksgiving sermon.  Adams, American Independence 87a; Adams, American Controversy 72-1a (second state of the title page as described by Adams); Evans 12332; Howes B633 ("aa"); Reese, Revolutionary Hundred 13; Sabin 6568; Streeter sale II:744.5.

Lot: 8 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Supplement to the Newport Mercury, describing the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Newport, RI, 22 March 1773

Supplement to the Newport Mercury, describing the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. Newport, RI, 22 March 1773 2 pages, 13½ x 8½ inches; several closed tears with skillful tape repairs. The main article recounts the 5 March commemoration of the Boston Massacre in Boston, featuring an oration by Benjamin Church in the Old South Meeting House. "The capacious house was so thronged . . . that the orator, and the honorable John Hancock, Esq., a moderator of the meeting, were obliged to be taken in at a window." At the massacre site, a display of transparent paintings demonstrated "The Fatal Effects of a Standing Army, Posted in a Free City," with a monument to the 5 martyrs including Crispus Attucks "who were barbarously murdered." One large frame displayed a long poem which began "Canst thou, spectator, view this crimson'd scene / And not reflect what these sad portraits mean? . . . Ask not where Preston or his butchers are / But ask, who bro't those bloody villains here?"

Lot: 9 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Tea Act, printed in full in an issue of the Boston Evening-Post, 25 October 1773

The Tea Act, printed in full in an issue of the Boston Evening-Post. Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 25 October 1773 4 pages, 15½ x 9¾ inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes, horizontal fold, minor foxing and wear; uncut. The Tea Act passed into law on 10 May 1773, and news reached the American colonies in September, sparking a strong resistance. This Boston printing preceded the Boston Tea Party by less than two months. Most of the second page of this newspaper is filled with commentary on the Tea Act. A letter to the editor by "Z" defends the act. Another letter by "T. Young" denounces tea as "really a slow poison" and concludes that if people knew its dangers, "there need be little anxiety among the Sons of Liberty to prevent the landing or sale of the expected Tea; for it would be of little importance whether it rotted in warehouses on this or the other side of the Atlantic." A letter to New Yorkers hopes they resist a planned tea shipment and "never suffer an Act of Parliament to be so crouded down your Throats." A Philadelphia letter states plainly: "Send no TEA, it cannot be received here." On the other hand, we see the embargo was not absolute. On the back page, merchant John Head offers for sale "the best Hyson, Souchong and Bohea teas," and future secretary of the United States Senate Samuel Allyne Otis has "Best Hyson tea at 20s. per Pound" (presumably imported before the next tax was imposed). 

Lot: 10 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) Boston Port Act and the Tea Party, discussed in an issue of Rivington’s New-York Gazetteer, 9 June 1774

Boston Port Act and the Tea Party, discussed in an issue of Rivington's New-York Gazetteer. New York, 9 June 1774 4 pages, 18¼ x 11½ inches, on two leaves tipped together at fold; minor foxing. The Boston Port Act, one of the "Intolerable Acts" issued in reaction to the Boston Tea Party, took effect on 1 June 1774. A Boston news item on page 2 reads: "His Majesty's ships, frigates and schooners, are now placed in such a manner in Boston harbour, as to prevent any vessels going out, or coming in, agreeable to the act of Parliament for blocking up said harbour, which took place yesterday; so that we have reason to expect that in a little time the town of Boston will be truly in a distressed and melancholy situation--GOD send us speedy relief!" On the facing page is a resolution of support by the people of Baltimore, and also a message from the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence to Paul Revere dismissing reparations for the Boston Tea Party: "It is not the value of the tea, but the indefeasible right of giving and granting our own money, a right from which we can never recede, that is the matter now in consideration." 

Lot: 11 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) The Massachusetts Governing Act, in an issue of the Massachusetts Gazette, 14 July 1774

The Massachusetts Governing Act, in an issue of the Massachusetts Gazette. Boston: Draper and Boyle, 14 July 1774 4 pages, 15½ x 10 inches, on one folding sheet; worn, partial separations at folds, 2 tape repairs, light soiling to front page.  Filling the first page and part of the second is one of the dreaded Intolerable Acts, the Massachusetts Government Act, here given with its full official title, "A Bill Intituled An Act for the Better Regulating the Government of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England." The parliamentary debate on the subject fills half of page 4.  The other pages include other pre-revolutionary content: a proposed petition to the king, riots in Connecticut, and more.

Lot: 12 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Moses Hale. Almanac diary as a minister at the outset of the Revolution. Newbury, MA, January to December 1775

Moses Hale. Almanac diary as a Massachusetts minister at the outset of the Revolution. Newbury, MA, January to December 1775 [16] manuscript pages on 8 leaves, interleaved into an incomplete "Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for the Year of our Redemption 1775," plus a few entries inscribed directly onto 2 almanac pages. Almanac: 30 [of 32] pages. 8vo, stitched; title page detached with moderate wear, minimal wear to diary leaves, minimal dampstaining, lacking final leaf; uncut. With typed transcript of the diary. Moses Hale (1715-1779) graduated from Harvard in 1734, and was the minister of the Second Congregational Church of Newbury, MA from 1752 until his death.  The first hint of anything unusual in the Rev. Hale's diary is on 27 February, when he writes "An alarm in ye night at Salem . . . Soldieres marching by sunrise." The next day, "the training company met here."  The Revolution began in earnest with the diary entry of 19 April: "Ye alarm the ye Regulars march'd to Concord & doing mischief." The next day, "Company went off early. Soldiers marching off for Mistick or Winter Hill." The Mystic River flows past Winter Hill in Somerville, near Boston. On the 21st, "Strangeley alarm'd here with news that a body of Regulars were marching to N[ewbury] Port, etc. Women & children fled up here in ye evening. More or less in all our houses, but soon ye report was contradicted, &c. We lodged 9 women and children." The Battle of Bunker Hill is referenced on 18 June: "News of ye battle, and burning Charlestown."  Continental Congress declared that 20 July 1775 should be a "day of humiliation, fasting, and prayer." Hale observed the day: "Continental fast. I preached."  The printed almanac has some interest in its own right. Its authorship is credited to Benjamin West, and it was printed by Mills and Hicks of Boston. It features an engraving of Australian and New Zealand warriors on verso of the title page; a selection from the scarce "Concise Natural History of East and West Florida" by Bernard Romans; and "Maxims for a Prince": "A People may forsake their King, and still continue a people; but if a King loses his people, he is no more a King." Drake 3245 (variant with price line after imprint); Evans 13763. 

Lot: 13 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) A town meeting called days after Lexington regarding the steps "to be taken at this present difficult time." Ipswich, MA, 22 April 1775

A town meeting called days after Lexington regarding the steps "to be taken at this present difficult time." Ipswich, MA, 22 and 24 April 1775 Manuscript Document Signed by John Baker as Ipswich Town Clerk and on verso by Ezekiel Dodge as constable. 2 pages, 12¼ x 8 inches; fold, minor foxing and wear. A warrant issued by the selectmen of Ipswich three days after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. "To Ezekiel Dodge, constable . . . warn the inhabitants of s'd town to meet and assemble at the town house on Monday . . . to confer with the committees of the several seaport towns in this county & consider what steps may be most expedient to be taken at this present difficult time." On verso, Constable Dodge reports that "I have notifyed & warned the freeholders & other inhabitants of the town of Ipswich to assemble & meet at the time & place & for the purposes within mentioned." 

Lot: 14 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Oliver Ellsworth. Pay order for a Connecticut company which answered the Lexington Alarm. Hartford, CT, 10 June 1775

Oliver Ellsworth. Pay order for a Connecticut company which answered the Lexington Alarm. Hartford, CT, 10 June 1775 Manuscript Document Signed by Connecticut pay committee members William Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, and Oliver Ellsworth, a pay order addressed to Connecticut Treasurer John Lawrence. One page, 5¼ x 8¼ inches, with docketing and endorsement by payee Lemuel Stoughton on verso dated 20 June; folds, minimal wear. On the day of the Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775, post riders were sent throughout the colonies, urging that militia be sent to support the Massachusetts minutemen in their struggle. News reached East Windsor, CT the next day, and on 22 April, Captain Lemuel Stoughton's company was on the march. One of the soldiers later recalled: "On this expedition we bore our own expenses, and lived for the most part of the time on what our wives and mothers put into our knapsacks when we left home." The company returned home in May, although many of them went on to more extensive service in the Continental Army. Here a month after their return, the colony covers their "service & expence in the Alarm": "Pay to the Selectmen of East Windsor seventy-three pounds, sixteen shillings & three pence lawful money, it being the amount of what is all'd Capt. Lemuel Stoughton & his company for service & expence in the Alarm & charge the same to the acc't of the Colony of Connecticut."  Most notable among the signers is Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), a Founding Father who went on to serve in the Constitutional Convention and as a senator in the First Congress, and spent four years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Lot: 15 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Samuel Stearns. The North-American's Almanack . . . for 1776. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, [1775]

Samuel Stearns. The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for . . . 1776. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, et al., [1775] [24] pages. 12mo, original plain wrappers, lacking part of rear wrapper; minor dampstaining and minor wear; uncut.  Issued during the Siege of Boston, this almanac features William Gordon's "An Account of the Commencement of Hostilities between Great-Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay," which runs over each of the 12 monthly calendar pages in sequence. This eyewitness account of the Battle of Lexington is quoted at length in Sagendorph's America and Her Almanacs, 89-93 as "the most striking example of this kind of on-the-spot reporting." After that can be found "Sir Richard Rum's Advice to the Soldiers and Others" and "Directions for Preserving the Health of the Soldiers in the Camps." The almanac makes a prophetic prediction for the 4th of July, 1776: "Thunder." Drake 3260; Evans 14473; Sabin 90943.

Lot: 16 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) William Hubbard. Letter describing the fortifications of liberated Boston, and the exploits of patriot privateers, 9 June 1776

William Hubbard. Letter describing the fortifications of liberated Boston, and the exploits of patriot privateers. Boston, 9 June 1776 Autograph Letter Signed to brother-in-law Christopher Leffingwell of Norwich, CT. 2 pages, 12½ x 7½ inches, plus detached blank with address panel (no postal markings, delivered by favor of D. Coit); minor wear. William Hubbard (1740-1801) was born in New London, CT, and became a merchant in Boston.  Here he writes to his brother-in-law Colonel Christopher Leffingwell, a prominent innkeeper in Norwich, CT whose inn is now a museum. Their wives Lydia and Elizabeth were sisters from the Coit family. Hubbard describes his return to Boston less than three months after the British evacuation. The patriots had made progress in defending the city against any return of the British: "In the fortifieing way . . . they go on with much spirit & are makeing strong fortresses on Fort Hill, Noddles Island & the Castle."  He also makes a long report on privateering gleaned from a stop in Providence, RI on his way to Boston. One vessel commanded by a Captain Adams (apparently the sloop Chance) had captured three British merchant vessels; their cargoes are here described with enthusiasm. The ship of the Continental Navy, the USS Yankee Hero, had been captured two days earlier: "I am exceeding sorry to tell you of the misfortune of the brig'n Yankee Hero. She sailed from Newbury last Thursday, bound to Boston to compleat her compliment of men. . . . On Friday she was attacked by a frigate of 16 or 20 guns, & after a most gallant engagement of (it is reported) three hours, she struck."

Lot: 17 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Oliver Ellsworth. Order to pay members of a Connecticut militia company heading out to New York, 19 June 1776

Oliver Ellsworth. Order to pay members of a Connecticut militia company heading out to New York. Hartford, CT, 19 June 1776 Document Signed by Ezekiel Williams and Oliver Ellsworth as members of the Connecticut Pay Table, John Lawrence as treasurer, and by the recipient Cornelius Higgins on verso. One page, 5½ x 8½ inches, with receipt and docketing on verso; folds. "Pay Capt. Cornelius Higgins as paymaster of his company in a regiment raising for New York, five hundred eighty pounds, & charge the colony."  In June 1776, Cornelius Higgins Sr. (1722-1819) raised a militia company in Haddam, CT to help reinforce General Washington in New York. Serving under Colonel William Douglas, his company soon served at the Battle of Long Island (where his son Cornelius Jr. was taken prisoner).  Most notable among the signers is Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), a Founding Father who went on to serve in the Constitutional Convention and as a senator in the First Congress, and spent four years as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Lot: 18 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Thomas Simes. The Military Guide for Young Officers. Philadelphia, 1776

Thomas Simes. The Military Guide for Young Officers. Philadelphia: J. Humphreys, R. Bell, and R. Aitken, 1776 2 folding tables. [8], 384 pages. Volume 1 (of 2). 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; early owner's signature on title page.  First American edition of a work first published in London in 1772. Original owner James Milligan could be the officer listed in Heitman who served as a lieutenant in Pennsylvania regiments through the end of the war. Evans 15083; Rink, Technical Americana 2106; Sabin 81142.

Lot: 19 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1776.) Nathaniel Low. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for . . . 1777. Boston: J. Gill, [1776]

Nathaniel Low. An Astronomical Diary; or, Almanack, for . . . 1777. Boston: J. Gill, [1776] Map. [22] (of 24) pages. 12mo, disbound; small date painted on title page, minor dampstaining, edge wear, a few early manuscript notes, leaves 9-11 with slight loss, lacking final leaf; uncut.  Featuring a full-page map of the New York City area, "A View of the Present Seat of War, at and near New-York," which shows General Washington's position on Manhattan. Also Low's extended "Address to the Tories," and a poem beginning "Let tyrants rage." Drake 3264; Evans 14829; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators 77; Sabin 42402.

Lot: 20 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) John Hancock. Resolution of Congress revising the "Rules and Articles for the Better Government of the Troops," 14 April 1777

John Hancock. Resolution of Congress revising the "Rules and Articles for the better Government of the Troops." Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 14 April 1777 Letterpress broadside, 12¾ x 7¾ inches, signed in type by John Hancock as President of Congress; short separations at folds, 2 short tape repairs, foxing; uncut. This resolution changes 4 of the articles of the September 1776 "Rules and Articles for the Better Government of the Troops."  First, it states that "All Officers and Soldiers shall have full liberty to bring into any of the Forts or Garrisons of the United American States, any quantity of eatable provisions," unless specifically prohibited by a provisioning agent's contract.   Second, "If any Officer shall think himself to be wronged by his Colonel or the Commanding Officer of the Regiment . . . he may complain to the Continental General, commanding in the States where such regiment shall be stationed."  Third, "no Sentence of a General Court-Martial shall be put in execution" until approval by Congress or a commanding Continental General. Finally, the commanding Continental General in each state is given the power of "pardoning or mitigating any of the punishments ordered" by a court-martial under his jurisdiction.  Evans 15662. None traced at auction since 1976.

Lot: 21 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Journal of a Hessian soldier at the crossing of the Delaware, in the Boston-Gazette. Boston: Benjamin Edes, 25 August 1777

Journal of a Hessian soldier at the crossing of the Delaware, published in the Boston-Gazette. Boston: Benjamin Edes, 25 August 1777 4 pages, 15¼ x 10 inches, on one folding sheet, with masthead engraving by or after Paul Revere; stitch holes, toned at folds, possibly washed, edges worn with slight loss; subscriber's name inked in margin. On page 4, we find the translation of a December 1776 journal kept by a Hessian soldier stationed at Trenton, NJ at the time of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River. The journal ends suddenly, two days before the surprise victory of Washington's Continental Army. The transcript closes with a sarcastic note: "It is much to be lamented that this elegant Journalist was disturbed in his literary labours." The journal was first published in the Pennsylvania Evening Post of 26 July 1777, and has only rarely appeared in print since.  Also includes two reports from the Battle of Bennington, one written during the battle and another sent by General Lincoln two days later, plus extensive commentary. Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, page 201 (illustration of similar cut by Revere).

Lot: 22 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Issue of the Boston Gazette discussing the battles of Saratoga and Germantown. Boston, 27 October 1777

Issue of the Boston Gazette discussing the battles of Saratoga and Germantown. Boston: Benjamin Edes, 27 October 1777 4 pages, 15½ x 10 inches, on 2 detached leaves,  with masthead engraving by or after Paul Revere; dampstaining, foxing, tape repairs at folds; uncut; early subscriber's name in left margin.On page 2, we find the 16 October Articles of Convention which formalized Burgoyne's surrender of the British forces at Saratoga. This is followed by a letter from General Washington describing the Battle of Germantown, written the day after the battle.Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, page 201 (illustration of similar cut by Revere).

Lot: 23 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Bill to Baron von Steuben for his personal hair care. No place, circa 1778-1781

Bill to Baron von Steuben for his personal hair care. No place, circa 1778-1781 Autograph Document Signed by John Miller, 6½ x 7½ inches, blank on verso; folds; uncut.  Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was the author of the Continental Army's principal training manual and widely credited with bringing discipline to Washington's ragtag forces. Here we get a hint of his unsurprisingly fastidious grooming habits. He is billed for "15 times shaveing and dressing"; "6 pounds of hair powder"; "1 hair comb"; "a shaveing box"; "one stick of hard pomatum"; "3 yards of hair ribbons"; and "1 hundred of hair pins."  These goods and services were provided by one John Miller.  We don't know whether he was a Continental soldier, a private barber, or a sutler; knowing the answer might tell us whether this invoice was written up at Valley Forge or later. 

Lot: 24 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1777.) Papers of British officer Richard St. George on his enlistment and the head wound he suffered at Germantown, 1776-1781

Papers of British officer Richard St. George on his enlistment and the head wound he suffered at Germantown. Various places, 1776-1781 and undated 6 manuscript items, various sizes, variously worn, some with separations at folds and mount remnants on verso.  Richard St George Mansergh-St George (1752-1798), usually known more simply as Richard M. St. George, was an Anglo-Irish

Lot: 25 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1778.) James Warren. Letter negotiating the supply of cordage for the Continental Navy. Boston, 16 July 1778

James Warren. Letter negotiating the supply of cordage for the Continental Navy. Boston, 16 July 1778 Autograph Letter Signed as "JWarren" as a member of the Naval Board of the Continental Army, to John Langdon. One page, 13 x 8 inches, with docketing on verso; partial separation along bottom fold, otherwise minor wear. James Warren (1726-1808) was an important Boston patriot; he earned the rank of general as a paymaster for the Continental Army in its earliest years, and was the president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. His wife Mercy Otis Warren was an important pamphleteer for the cause. This letter was written to New Hampshire patriot John Langdon (1741-1819), who had served in the Continental Congress, outfitted Continental naval vessels, and later signed the Constitution. This letter arranges Langdon's visit to Boston on Navy Board business, trying to coordinate with fellow board member John Deshon's next visit to Boston. In full:  "We received yours of the 13th & find it is your intention to be here the middle of next week. I would wish it might, if convenient to you, be early in the week, as I must if possible be absent a few days after the middle of the next week, having been in town a long time. Mr. [William] Vernon's apprehension of the small pox prevents us from having the advantage of his assistance, Mr. [John] Deshon is at present absent but expected daily, & it will be necessary that two of us should be present on such business. I hope nothing will take place to prevent Mr. Deshon's return, & occasion a disappointment to you. With regard to cordage, I can't say certainly, but I think a sufficiency of it may be purchased here at £24 pr cwt [hundredweight]. If it is not necessary to return it immediately, we shall soon be able to ascertain what you may depend on. I am Sir, your most obed't humble serv't, J. Warren. PS. If it be in your power without much trouble to procure me a quintal of choice fish for my own table, you will much oblige me." Provenance: Remember When Auctions, 18 July 1998, lot 201; published in 2019 in Naval Records of the American Revolution, Volume XIII, page 400-401; Cowan's Auction 19 November 2020, lot 10.

Lot: 26 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) [Carl Guttenberg.], The Tea-Tax Tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution. [Nuremberg or Paris, 1778]

[Carl Guttenberg.] The Tea-Tax Tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution [Nuremberg or Paris, 1778] Engraving, 18½ x 21½ inches, with title in English, German, and French; large margins, minor mat toning, light diagonal fold in lower right corner. Leaning on a large terrestrial globe, Father Time projects a magic lantern display to a group of women personifying the four continents. The illuminated scene depicts Stamp Act documents set ablaze while a rooster, symbolic of France, fans the flames to such a degree that a teapot explodes with signifiers of Liberty spouting from its steam. The inspired Americans charge forward as the British cower and flee. 

Lot: 27 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1778.) Orders of the Council of War . . between the Sessions of the General Assembly, [of Rhode Island].

Orders of the Council of War . . . between the Sessions of the General Assembly [of Rhode Island]. Providence, RI: John Carter, [1778?] and [1779] 22, 12 pages. 2 volumes. Folio, matching modern full morocco gilt; partial restoration to first leaf in margin; folds, minor foxing, a few short early repairs, first volume with a bit of depredation in upper margin; uncut; signed on each final leaf by Henry Ward as secretary of the General Assembly. These orders cover the months after the Battle of Rhode Island, before the British evacuation of Newport. They are rich with detail on military action in revolutionary Rhode Island. The first volume contains orders dated 11 November to 22 December 1778. It begins with General Sullivan warning that the borrowed guard ship off Field's Point protecting Providence "is demanded by the Owners," and suggests purchasing a ship recently captured by Major Talbot. On 3 December, they discuss "the Committee appointed to appraise Negroes inlisting into Col. Greene's Regiment" (page 9). Two days later, General Sullivan complains that some of the locals were "buying and receiving from the Soldiery under his command, Powder, Lead, and many Articles of Cloathing."  The second volume is titled Resolves and Orders of the Council of War, and covers 26 January to 9 February 1779. In the first session, one Judah Cartwright complains that he had two boats impressed for the expedition to Newport, "one of which was returned in a very shattered Condition, and the other was lost." The last session orders Major Thomas Sheffield to defend himself against charges of "carrying on an illicit Commerce with Block-Island."  Alden, Rhode Island 728, 786; Evans 16048, 16496. Provenance: Charles F. Heartman Rare Americana auction, 31 May 1916, lots 24 and 25 ($50 and $42). None others traced at auction since both appeared in a 28 May 1895 Libbie sale (which brought $25 and $26).  With--"At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode-Island . . . Holden . . . at Newport . . . First Wednesday of May." 48 [of 50] pages. Folio, matching modern full morocco gilt; partial restoration to leaves A1 and M2, lacking final leaf. Shaw & Shoemaker 38794. [Providence, RI, 1816]. 

Lot: 28 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) Jesse Root. Letter from Continental Congress reporting on the Battle of St. Lucia, 9 February 1779

Jesse Root. Letter from Continental Congress reporting on the fall of Savannah and the Battle of St. Lucia. Philadelphia, 9 February 1779 Autograph Letter Signed to John Lawrence of Hartford, CT. One page, 13¼ x 8¼ inches, plus integral blank with address panel signed additionally by Root, delivered by favor of Capt. Tracy (no postal markings); mailing folds, minimal wear. Jesse Root (1733-1822) represented Connecticut in the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1782. He begins this letter with a brief but vivid note on the recent British capture of Savannah: "The enemy have the possession of Georgia and treat the inhabitants with great cruelty & savage brutality." He then forwards the latest reports on the Battle of St. Lucia: "The detachment of the enemy that went from New York under Gen'l Grant found means to elude the vigilance of the Count de Estaing, have surprized & taken the island of St. Lucia. The count thereupon recruited his land forces and proceeded to retake it. On his appearing off the harbour, the English sent a flag & offered  to deliver up the island if they might be permitted to go off with their ships, man & artillery, which the count refused, and attacked the island by land, attempted to storm the works, but was repulsed with considerable loss, and is now retired to Martinico [Martinique]." Root concludes with a note on Silas Deane's controversial expense accounts from his diplomatic mission to France: "Mr. Dean's matters remain undecided, which I dare say is thought very strange of, however I hope it will not be long before they will be bro't to a decision." 

Lot: 29 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) Capt. Paul Jones Shooting a Sailor who had Attempted to Strike his Colours. London, 1 January 1780

Capt. Paul Jones Shooting a Sailor who had Attempted to Strike his Colours in an Engagement. London: R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1 January 1780 Hand-colored mezzotint, 15¼ x 11¾ inches; worn and discolored in margins, only minor wear within image, professionally laid down and stabilized. Depicts one of the most dramatic naval battles of the Revolution, with John Paul Jones (armed with a sword and pistol) executing a treasonous sailor. This is a British depiction of an incident from the Battle of Flamborough Head off the British coast, in which Jones and his converted merchant ship Bonhomme Richard defeated the better-armed HMS Serapis--the battle where Jones allegedly yelled "I have not yet begun to fight!" The British, depicting Jones as a tyrant, claimed that he had shot one of his own men as depicted in this mezzotint. No evidence survives to support this claim, but one of Jones's men did call across to the Serapis to ask for quarter, and by some reports Jones did strike him in the jaw with his pistol butt. One of three prints by different publishers using different versions of the same scene. In this one, the artist and engraver are not identified. 

Lot: 30 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) Resolution of Continental Congress on clothing allotments. Philadelphia, 1779

Resolution of Continental Congress defining the clothing allotment for military officers. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 26 November 1779 Letterpress broadside, 16½ x 10¼ inches; mat toning, worn at edges, closed separation along horizontal fold, two words corrected in manuscript; uncut.  The body of the text begins: "Whereas Congress, by sundry resolutions, have provided that cloathing be furnished to officers of the line and others at prices proportioned to their pay . . . resolved, that the following articles be delivered as a suit of cloathes, for the current and every succeeding year of their service, to the officers of the line and staff . . . one hat, one watchcoat, one body coat, four vests . . . four pairs of breeches . . . four shirts, four stocks, six pairs of stockings, three pair thereof worsted and three of thread, four pair of shoes." Evans 16583. ESTC lists only 2 copies; no others known at auction since 1952.

Lot: 31 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1779.) Bill for a recruiting meeting that ended with a "door broke to pieces." Portsmouth, NH, 18 March 1779

Bill for a Rangers recruiting meeting that ended with broken glass and a "door broke to pieces." Portsmouth, NH, 18 March 1779 Autograph Document Signed, 4 x 7 inches, with receipt signed by John Cutt and docketing on verso; folds. A Portsmouth resident named John Cutt made his house available for a military recruiting meeting held by Colonel John Langdon (1741-1819), one of New Hampshire's founding fathers. The meeting did not go smoothly. Here Cutt presents his bill for "the use of my house for the Rangers rendezvouz per agreement" (so far, so good), but also "three squares of glass, 8 by 10"; "one door broke to pieces"; and "destroying the paper in two rooms." On verso, Cutts signs for the receipt of the £40 the following day. 

Lot: 32 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1781.) French broadside ordering thanksgiving in honor of Washington and Rochambeau's victory at Yorktown, 2 December 1781

French broadside ordering thanksgiving in honor of Washington and Rochambeau's victory at Yorktown. Chalon, France: Delorme Delatour, 2 December 1781 Letterpress broadside, 19¼ x 14 inches, headed "Mandement de Monseigneur l'Évéque-Comte de Chalon"; folds, 2-inch dampstain, docketing on verso. This broadside is headed "Mandement de Monseigneur l'Évéque-Comte de Chalon, qui ordonne qu'il sera chanté un Te Deum, en actions de graces des avantages qui ont été remportés, tant sur Terre que sur Mer, par les Toupes de Sa Majesté Très-Chrétienne, sur les Anglois."  In English: "Mandate from His Grace the Bishop-Count of Chalon, ordering that a Te Deum be sung in thanksgiving for the victories achieved—both on land and at sea—by the troops of His Most Christian Majesty over the English." It begins with the text of a letter from King Louis XVI to the Bishop of Chalon, applauding the recent victory at Yorktown ("la Ville d'York") with the combined forces commanded by "du Général Washington & du Comte de Rochambeau" making the entire British force prisoners of war. This is followed by a proclamation by the bishop that hymns be sung in celebration of the victory. No other copies traced in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 33 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1782.) Spanish salute to Bernardo de Gálvez, hero of Pensacola

Spanish salute to Bernardo de Gálvez, hero of Pensacola. Havana, 4 March 1782 25 printed pages. Folio, 11½ x 8 inches, bound without wrappers; folds, long worm track in outer margin not affecting text. Proclamation in honor of the recent promotion of Bernardo de Galvez as Governor and Captain General of Louisiana and West Florida, including a summary of his military exploits by his uncle José de Galvez as President of the Council of Indies.  Galvez had served as governor of Louisiana since 1777, and led a series of successful operations against the British army in Louisiana and Florida from 1779 to 1781. He is regarded as the leading hero of the Spanish alliance with the Continental Army.  One traced in OCLC (plus one example of a separate Guatemala printing); none traced at auction.

Lot: 34 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1782.) Jonathan Trumbull. Commission for John Chapman as "captain of the guard on board the prison ship." Hartford, CT, 25 May 1782

Jonathan Trumbull. Commission for John Chapman as "captain of the guard on board the prison ship." Hartford, CT, 25 May 1782 Partly printed Document Signed as governor of Connecticut with his paper seal, and by George Wyllys as secretary. One page, 7½ x 11¾ inches, plus docketing on verso; two short repairs on verso, folds, minor foxing. "To John Chapman, you being by the Governor & Council of Safety of this state appointed to be Captain of the Guard on board the prison ship taken up by a number of merchants in this state for the purpose of confining naval prisoners."  This commission was issued to John Chapman (1738-1788) of New London, CT, a veteran sea captain who had served as an officer on the Connecticut Navy ship Oliver Cromwell earlier in the war. He was captured in 1779 and imprisoned on the infamous HMS Jersey prison ship, and was fortunate to be exchanged a month later. Records show that the prison ship Retaliation was placed in the Thames River harbor at New London in May 1782, with 116 prisoners. Chapman's service as its captain was brief and disastrous. Eight days after this commission was signed, the bulk of the prisoners rose up against the guards, took muskets, and fled by the boats (New London Gazette, 7 June 1782). About 80 prisoners escaped and 26 of them remained at large in the Connecticut countryside. Chapman was relieved of his duties on 10 June, and the remaining prisoners were transferred to nearby Fort Trumbull.  Chapman drowned six years later, while attempting to land a boatload of Irish immigrants on nearby Fishers Island for quarantine. Provenance: autograph collection of Edward A. Crowninshield (1817-1859); his Leonard & Co. auction in Boston, 1 November 1859, lot 92.  With--an 1863 engraving of Governor Trumbull.  

Lot: 35 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1783.) A Declaration of the Cessation of Arms, in an issue of the Independent Gazetteer, 26 April 1783

A Declaration of the Cessation of Arms, in an issue of the Independent Gazetteer. Philadelphia: E. Oswald and D. Humphreys, 26 April 1783 4 pages, 16¼ x 10 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, horizontal fold, minor wear and dampstaining. The 20 February treaty which ended the war appears on page 2. News first reached the United States on 10 April. A report from New York suggests that its Loyalists felt betrayed by the treaty: "His gracious Majesty King George the Third, is the most odious and detestable name that can be mentioned to the Loyalists at New-York; they execrate him as the author of their ruin, who hath so basely deserted them." 

Lot: 36 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Collection of colonial and continental currency, 1771-1780

Collection of colonial and continental currency. Various places, 1771-1780 28 items, various sizes and conditions, most worn. 6 notes printed for the Continental government by Hall & Sellers [successors to Benjamin Franklin] of Philadelphia. Most are denominated as "Continental Currency," with some issued by the United States and some by the United Colonies: From the 29 November 1775 issue: Five Dollars From the 17 February 1776 issue: Half a Dollar; Two Thirds of a Dollar From the 22 July 1776 issue: Three Dollars From the 26 September 1778 issue: Thirty Dollars From the 14 January 1779 issue: Sixty Dollars, printed in red and black, in particularly strong condition. 22 pieces of colonial currency:   Connecticut, 19 June 1776, 2 shillings (torn and stitched) Connecticut, 1 July 1780, 10 shillings (large cancel hole) Delaware, 1 January 1776, 1 shilling (2 examples) Delaware, date illegible, 10 shillings (torn and repaired) Maryland, 10 April 1774, $2 Maryland, December 1775, "Half Dollar" Maryland, 14 August 1776, "One Dollar and One Third." Massachusetts, 16 October 1778, 9 pence New Jersey, 25 March 1776, 6 shillings and 12 shillings New York, 16 February 1771, 5 pounds New York Water Works, 25 August 1774, 4 shillings New York, 5 March 1776, "Half a Spanish Milled Dollar" (torn and repaired) New York, 13 August 1776, "Five Spanish Milled Dollars" (torn) North Carolina, 1771, 2 shillings+6 pence North Carolina, 2 April 1776, "One Fourth of a Dollar" Pennsylvania, 1 October 1773, 5 shillings Pennsylvania, 25 October 1775, 2 shillings+6 pence Pennsylvania, 10 April 1777, 1 shilling Virginia, 6 May 1776, "One Third of a Spanish Milled Dollar" (2 examples, one of them torn) 

Lot: 37 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Very early Independence Day celebration described in an issue of the Pennsylvania Packet. Philadelphia, 6 July 1782

Very early Independence Day celebration described in an issue of the Pennsylvania Packet. Philadelphia, 6 July 1782 4 pages, 15½ x 10 inches, on one folding sheet; worn, archivally silked and stabilized at a recent date. Includes a short news item on the commemoration of the 4th of July, the first after the British surrender at Yorktown: "Thursday the last being the anniversary of the declaration of independence, his excellency the president of congress . . . received the compliments of his excellency the minister of France. . . . At noon a salute was fired, the bells of the city were rung, and other demonstrations of joy exhibited on the occasion."  Also includes a report on the selection of officers of the Massachusetts Medical Society, which had been founded just the past November, electing Edward Holyoke as their first president. 

Lot: 38 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Mercy Warren. History of the . . . American Revolution. Boston, 1805

Mercy Warren. History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution. Boston, 1805 xii, 447; vii, 412; vi, 475 pages. 3 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, minor wear, one joint starting; minor foxing.  "First important historical work by an American woman"--Howes W122. "The eminent author, as the sister of James Otis and wife of James Warren, had uncommon facilities for information relating to certain phases of the Revolutionary movement. . . . One of the earliest connected narratives of the struggle"--Larned, Literature of American History 1537. Sabin 101484.

Lot: 39 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) James Thacher. Manuscript speech on his revolutionary service. Barnstable, MA, 1839

James Thacher. Manuscript speech on his revolutionary service. [Barnstable, MA, 3 September 1839] Autograph Manuscript titled "Memorandum from Dr. James Thacher of Plymouth." 2 pages, 9½ x 7¾ inches; mounted on stub on left edge with paste staining in margins, manuscript numbers in upper margin.  James Thacher (1754-1844) was a surgeon with the 16th Massachusetts Regiment during the war, and then practiced in Plymouth, MA. This speech was given at the bicentennial celebration of  his birthplace, Barnstable, on Cape Cod. Much of it discusses going off to war back in 1775: "The first sound of the Revolutionary War interrupted my peaceful pursuits & with the ardor natural to that age, I joined my countrymen at arms. . . . My spirit is animated by a view of your meeting house or training hill, & the recollection that on its summit your patriotic fathers who composed the militia of the parish were arrayed on the day when the tidings were received, that the blood of their countrymen had been shed at Lexington. The company immediately marched for the post of danger, & passing from the village an elderly man, Mr. John Annable, came tottering down the hill near the jail, where his house stood, to bid adieu to his only son who was a soldier in the ranks, & . . . said 'Joseph, my son, if you go into battle, behave like a man or never see my face again.'" Dr. Thacher's oration was published in "The Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable" (pages 55-56), along with other speeches from the day. The numbering on the top edge and the mount remnants on the left edge of this manuscript suggest that it may have been compiled into an album which served as a manuscript for the book. The handwriting matches Thacher's from a diary leaf held by the Society of the Cincinnati tipped into his published "Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War."

Lot: 40 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Elias B. Hillard. The Last Men of the Revolution: A Photograph of Each from Life. Hartford, 1864

Elias B. Hillard. The Last Men of the Revolution: A Photograph of Each from Life. Hartford, 1864 6 mounted albumen photographs, 6 hand-colored plates, engraved facsimile letter. [2], 64pp. 12mo, publisher's ½ morocco gilt, minor wear; minor foxing, hinge starting before title, skillful repair to one photo mount.  Biographies of the last surviving American Revolution veterans, with photographic portraits and lithographs of their homes, published during the Civil War. Includes the scarce Edward Everett letter facsimile. Goldschmidt, Truthful Lens, page 86; Howes H490; Sabin 31871.

Lot: 41 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) Ole Erekson. Portraits & Autographs of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1876

Ole Erekson. Portraits & Autographs of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. New York: H.A. Thomas & Co., 1876 Lithograph, 27 x 34 inches to sight; minimal dampstaining and wear. Not examined out of tasteful modern frame. Portraits of each of the signers, paired with their facsimile signatures. Bidwell, Declaration in Script and Print 89, tracing only one example (Library of Congress, in lesser condition); no others traced at auction.

Lot: 42 - (AMERICAN REVOLUTION--HISTORY.) 1776 1926 Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia.

1776 1926 Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1926 Die-cut chromolithograph, 12 x 9½ inches; 1¾-inch closed tear, minor abrasions. This image was also featured in the official exposition poster, credited to Dan Smith (1865-1934). We have traced no other examples of this die-cut version in the shape of the Pennsylvania keystone symbol. The copyright here is credited to "E.B.," and in the poster to Elliott Brewer.

Lot: 43 - (ALASKA.) John Muir. Stickeen, signed, 1909

John Muir. Stickeen, signed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909 [10], 73, [3] pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear; signed "John Muir" on front free endpaper, with additional ink-stamped signature of astronomer George Ellery Hale (the original owner?) below. First complete edition. Recounts Muir's experiences with a beloved dog on an Alaskan glacier in 1880. An earlier abridged version had appeared as "An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier" in Century Magazine in 1897. BAL 14759; Kimes 281.  

Lot: 44 - (ALASKA.) Photo album of an Alaskan adventure, bulk 1915-1918

Photo album of an Alaskan adventure. Alaska, bulk 1915-1918 and undated 358 photographs laid down on 64 album leaves, a few of them with manuscript captions, some captioned in negative. Oblong 4to, 6½ x 11 inches, original string-bound gilt calf, minor wear; a few leaves detached, a few photos torn out, otherwise generally minor wear. In custom cloth folding case. A mix of commercially available views and personal snapshots.  The opening snapshots show 5 young adults on a camping trip by car, with signs placing them in Hysham and Whitehall, Montana before their arrival in Juneau. Other photographs are from Skagway, Seward, the Mendenhall Glacier, Haines, Anchorage, Ketchikan, and Knik. A few are from Alert Bay, British Columbia including one shot captioned "Indian Women" in the negative. Other snapshots show a woman named Effie posing in traditional clothing with snowshoes; packers on the Chitina River; a man playing a mandolin; and hundreds of seals on a beach. One photo randomly shows the Minnesota Prison Farm and another is dated 1925, but the great bulk of identifiable photos show Alaska from 1915 to 1918. A worn example of a widely distributed 1911 tourist sticker is affixed to the front pastedown: "Fairbanks, Alaska's Golden Heart, there's a soft spot in it for you."

Lot: 45 - (ALASKA.) H.C. Fassett. Americanizing the Pribilof Island Natives. San Francisco, CA, 30 April 1936

Harry Clifford Fassett. Americanizing the Pribilof Island Natives of St. Paul, with 4 related photographs. San Francisco, CA, 30 April 1936 [1], 15 loose typescript carbon pages, 11 x 8½ inches; punch holes, uneven toning, minimal wear.  The Pribilof Islands are located in the Bering Sea, more than 200 miles from the Aleutian Islands and the Alaskan mainland. St. Paul is the largest of the islands and the most populous, with a present-day population of 413. Harry Clifford Fassett (1870-1953) headed the Bureau of Fisheries at St. Paul from 1914 to 1919, making him the ranking government official of the islands. He composed this unpublished narrative of his experiences 17 years later. He discusses the Aleut-Russian population, their expertise in managing the endangered seal population, their Christmas pantomime performances, efforts to shift the primary language from Russian to English, the creation of the island's first hospital, and the illicit brewing of Russian-style quass ale. A compelling description of one of the most remote corners of the United States. With--4 photographs of St. Paul, each 8 x 10 inches, with minor wear and light curling. Two are captioned in manuscript, "North [South] End of St. Paul Village, October 1914, GDH." The other two are similar but uncaptioned.  and--2 copies of a letter of recommendation written for Fassett by the Bureau of Fisheries in 1925. 

Lot: 46 - (ALASKA.) Lillian Johnson. Diary of the evacuation from Kodiak in the wake of Pearl Harbor, 15 to 26 December 1941

Lillian Johnson. Diary of the evacuation from Kodiak, Alaska in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Kodiak, AK, 15 to 26 December 1941 [15] manuscript diary pages, on 8 loose sheets, 5¼ x 4 inches; horizontal fold, a couple of short separations and minor wear. This diary was written by Lillian Estelle Kirkeberg Johnson (1888-1970), born in North Dakota and residing in the island community of Kodiak off the southern Alaska coast, home of a United States naval base. In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the Daily Alaska Empire noted on 13 December that the Kodiak Naval Base was on blackout, and that "plans have been made for the evacuation of women and children." Her diary begins on 15 December: "Evacuation notices were given us today." The next day, she laments: "My misfortune to be assigned to the Lakima. Had hoped to sail on the G, because everyone I know is on that boat. Imagine how I felt when I was assigned to steerage--10 of us in one tiny room, damp and cold, but I guess we are not choosers in an emergency. Very fortunate in having congenial room-mates. If there was a bunch of hard-boiled crabbing women my misery would be complete." The ship departed on the 18th: "Heart-breaking good-bye. I have shed so many tears that I feel empty inside."  The ship steamed across the Gulf of Alaska, with "nearly everyone aboard seasick." Johnson found one advantage to steerage: "Dread another night in the 'hole,' altho we do have one break: we have lights all night, and the others are entirely blacked out." On Christmas Eve: "It means so little to hear 'peace on Earth, good will to man' in a world that is war-mad. . . . Big Christmas party for the kiddies downstairs tonight. 47 children, 6 tiny babies, 71 women."  The ship passed through the Wrangell Narrows, stopped briefly in Ketchikan for an immigration check, and was in Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia when the diary ends, presumably bound for Seattle. 

Lot: 47 - ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: The Story of How More than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York, 1939

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: The Story of How More than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939 viii, [2], 400 pages. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, minimal wear, 3-mm stain on rear board; minimal wear to contents.  First edition, first printing of the AA "Big Book," one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. The redemption of one hundred men as described in the title is impressive enough, but the group has now grown to more than a million members. This is a nearly flawless copy of the first printing.

Lot: 48 - (AMERICAN INDIANS.) A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson . . . with the Indians and French. Walpole, NH, 1796

A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson . . . with the Indians and French. Walpole, NH: David Carlisle, Jr., 1796 144 pages. 12mo, contemporary ¼ calf, minor wear; hinges split, repaired closed tears to leaves A2-5, intermittent foxing and dampstaining; 1826 gift inscription on front free endpaper. First edition of a popular captivity narrative. It recounts the story of Susannah Willard Johnson (1730-1810), her husband, and three children, who were captured by Abenakis during a 1754 raid on Charlestown, NH. They were held for ransom in Quebec and then sold into servitude and imprisonment to the French Canadians. They did not regain their freedom until 1757; her husband died the following year. Susannah remarried in 1762; as Susannah Hastings, she dictated this narrative, supplemented with notes she and her husband had taken in captivity. Ayer, Indian Captivities 117; Howes J153 ("b"); Evans 30641; Sabin 36324. 

Lot: 49 - (AMERICAN INDIANS.) George Catlin. North American Indians. Philadelphia, 1913

George Catlin. North American Indians. Philadelphia, 1913 [printed by Oliver & Boyd of Edinburgh] 3 color maps (one folding) among 180 numbered color plates. ix, [3], 298; xii, 303, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minimal wear; minor wear to folding map, otherwise minimal wear to contents; title pages in red and black; early bookplates on front pastedowns. 

Lot: 50 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Martin's Gallery. Three early stereoviews of Minnesota Indians. St. Paul, MN, 1864

Martin's Gallery of Stereoscopic Views. Three early stereoviews of Minnesota Indians. St. Paul, MN, July-August 1864 Albumen prints, various sizes, on plain mounts measuring 3¼ x 6¾ inches, captioned in manuscript on verso, two with photographer's label on verso, the other with embossed stamp of Whitney, St. Paul; minor wear. "Aw-Ke-Wen-Yee (Old Man), Chief of Lac Contre Onille Band of Chippewas"; "Sha-Kpe (Little Fox), Sioux Chief engaged in massacre of 1862, boasts of having killed thirteen women & children"; "Indian Teepees (tents)." 

Lot: 51 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) David F. Barry. Catalogue of Noted Indian Chiefs. Bismarck, ND, circa 1886-1890

David F. Barry. Catalogue of Noted Indian Chiefs. Bismarck, ND: Tribune Print, circa 1886-1890 16 pages. 16mo, original illustrated wrappers, staining and minor wear; short tear to fore-edges. A list of 320 Barry portraits available for sale, each available as cabinet cards, 8 x 10s, or panels. The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn is discussed on the final pages; Barry asserts that photos of the battlefield were taken on its tenth anniversary. Issued before Barry's 1890 return to Wisconsin. We trace none of these catalogues with the Bismarck imprint line in OCLC or at auction. 

Lot: 52 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) 7 portraits commissioned by Prince Roland Bonaparte. [Paris, 1883]

7 portraits commissioned by Prince Roland Bonaparte. [Paris, circa 1883] 7 albumen photographs, 8¾ x 6½ inches, on 16 x 12¼-inch mounts with printed captions "Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte" and numbered in manuscript; minimal wear and light soiling to mounts, each archivally hinged into 5 modern mats; each with Bonaparte's embossed seal in image, and small inked "J. Nisberg" stamps on verso from private collector. Some or all of these photographs are of members of the Omaha nation who visited Paris in September 1883. 

Lot: 53 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Dana Chase, photographer.] Boudoir card portraits of two American Indians, circa 1890

[Dana Chase, photographer.] Boudoir card portraits of two American Indians. [New Mexico], circa 1890 Albumen photographs, each about 7 x 4½ inches, captioned in negative, on original card mounts advertising the Santa Fe Route on verso; minor wear. One shows a man holding a bow and arrows, captioned "No. 84. Puerta, Apache from Jicarilla." The other is captioned "67. Pueblo. Sonora, from San Ildefonso." 

Lot: 54 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Yuma Scouts. Tombstone, AZ, circa 1885

Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Yuma Scouts. Tombstone, AZ, circa 1885 Albumen photograph, 4¾ x 7¾ inches, on original mount, with manuscript caption and photographer's inked stamp on verso; deep-toned print, minimal wear, hinged to modern mat. Shows 5 young soldiers wearing partial army uniforms and long hair. Two wear camouflage on their heads. All wear ammunition belts, and one holds a pistol. The caption reads in full: "'Masher' Yuma Scouts. Indians used by the U.S. Army for hunting down the rebel Indians." 

Lot: 55 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Geromino and Natches Mounted. Tombstone, AZ, 1886

Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Geronimo and Natches Mounted. Tombstone, AZ, March 1886 image Albumen photograph, 4¾ x 8 inches, on original mount, with inked photographer's copyright statement stamp, and his printed sticker on verso, image #171 from Fly's "Scene in Geronimo's Camp" series; moderate foxing.  In March 1886, the Arizona photographer Camillus Fly accompanied General Crook's forces for their negotiations with Geronimo's band of Chiricahua Apache, who were holding out in the Sierra Madre mountains about 20 miles south of the New Mexico border. Mounted on the left is the famed Chiricahua Apache leader Geronimo. The man standing at far left (holding a baby) is Geronimo's son. On the other horse is Naices (here spelled Natches), the hereditary chief of the Chiricahua Apaches. Geronimo and his band escaped shortly after surrendering.

Lot: 56 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Geronimo, the Apache Chief. Tombstone, AZ, 1886

Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Geronimo, the Apache Chief. Tombstone, AZ, March 1886 image Albumen photograph, 7¾ x 5 inches, on original mount, with inked photographer's copyright statement stamp, and his printed sticker on verso, image #187 from Fly's "Scene in Geronimo's Camp" series; minor foxing.  The sticker on verso explains that the photo was taken "before the surrender to Gen. Crook in the Sierra Madre mountains of New Mexico. Escaped March 30, 1886. The most fiendish, cruel and bloodthirsty of the Apaches now defying the United States and Mexico." 

Lot: 57 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) John C.H. Grabill., The Interview. Sturgis, SD, 1887

John C.H. Grabill. The Interview. Sturgis, SD, 1887 Albumen photograph, 6¼ x 8¾ inches, on photographer's printed mount, captioned in negative; minimal wear, red "I" inked on verso. The caption explains: "Three Cheyenne chief and interpreter visit Col. Oelrichs, Dak., on July 4th, 1887." The chiefs are named as Standing Elk, Running Hog, and Little Wolf.

Lot: 58 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Edward and William Henry Jackson, photographers. Portrait of a rifle-wielding Ute or Pawnee man, circa 1868

Edward and William Henry Jackson, photographers. Portrait of a rifle-wielding Ute or Pawnee man. Omaha, NE, circa 1868 Albumen photograph, 3½ x 2¼ inches, on original mount with Jackson Bro's "Views of Omaha" backmark, captioned "Ute" in pencil on verso; minimal wear. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the best-known early photographers of the American West. He went west in 1866, and with his brother Edward established his first studio in Omaha in 1867. The business was re-launched under his own name in 1870; he later relocated to Denver. The British museum holds another example of this image on a Jackson Brothers mount, with a caption describing the sitter as a "Pawnee scout" in 1868. The Museum of Nebraska Art also has an example captioned "Pawnee Indian." 

Lot: 59 - (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) S.W Ormsby. Group of 9 Indian portraits and views, including his famous "Peace." Montana, 1900 and undated

S.W. Ormsby. Group of 9 Indian portraits and views, including his famous "Peace." Montana, 1900 and undated 9 silver prints, some captioned, signed and/or dated in the negative, each just under 8 x 6 inches except as noted, each variously chipped or creased along lower edge, mounted to album leaves or removed from same. With the original album which once housed these photographs, limp pictorial felt-covered paper with embossed monogram "G.F. McK" on rear cover.  Sanderson Woodruff Ormsby (1858-1929) was a photographer best known for his work among the Assiniboine and Sioux people of Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana. He was best known for one acclaimed photograph.  On the morning of 10 August 1897, Ormsby got a local Assiniboine named Yellow Boy to pose in the traditional gesture of peace, standing with his weapons on the ground and one hand lifted to his forehead. The shot won first prize in an amateur photography contest held by the Minneapolis Tribune, which pronounced that "we do not remember ever having seen so good an illustration of the Indian as he appears in poetry and romance" (7 November 1897). They later declared it "the finest Indian photograph ever made" (4 September 1898). This opportunity thrust Ormsby briefly on the path to photographic stardom. Variously titled as "Peace," "Chief Yellow Boy Giving the Peace Sign," or "The Real Indian," his masterpiece was published in Cosmopolitan Monthly (January 1898, page 330), "Photograms of '98" (page 41), and several newspapers. A life-sized painting of the photograph on glass by Marion Graves was displayed across the country, including the expositions at Omaha (1898) and Buffalo (1901).  Included here are 9 original prints by Ormsby, including: "Walks on the Ground, Assiniboine," signed in negative, mount remnants on verso. "Two Hawk, Sioux," mounted on an album leaf with an untitled full-length portrait of a young man holding a hatchet mounted on verso, both signed and dated 1900 in negative. Untitled view of tipis being set up, just under 5 x 8 inches, mount remnants on verso. Another portrait of "Walk on the Ground, Assiniboine," 1900, signed in negative, with the bottom half inch detached but present, mounted on an album leaf with an untitled portrait of a woman mounted on verso. Untitled print of Ormsby's masterwork "Peace" or "The Real Indian" (illustrated), mounted on an album leaf with an untitled portrait of a woman on verso. Untitled view of tipi and 5 occupants (attributed elsewhere to Ormsby), 1-inch closed tear in center of image, mounted on album leaf.

Lot: 60 - (ANTARCTICA.) Presentation lighter given to the captain of a ship on Admiral Byrd's first Antarctica expedition, 25 December 1928

Presentation lighter given to the captain of a ship on Admiral Byrd's first Antarctica expedition. Great Ice Barrier, Antarctica, 25 December 1928 Brass and alloy "Beacon Lighter," 2 x 1¼ x ½ inches, with patent 1,022,140 dating to 1912; functioning cap lever, light tarnishing and wear; engraved on one side "Presented by Mrs. R.E. Byrd, Christmas Day 1928, Great Ice Barrier, Antarctica" and on the other "Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Base at Great Ice Barrier 1928-1930, Captain G.L. Brown, S.S. Eleanor Bolling," with a view of a polar base camp. A memento of Admiral Richard Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica, during which he led the first flight to pass over the South Pole.  The explorer's wife Marie Ames Byrd did not accompany the expedition; she bid them farewell from the dock in Los Angeles in October 1928. The advance party of the expedition, including the S.S. Eleanor Boling supply ship commanded by Captain Gustav Leon Brown (1892-1950), sailed from Dunedin, New Zealand on 2 December, and by Christmas was frozen "within sight of the Ross sea ice barrier" according to an Associated Press report. The lighter was apparently engraved on shipboard and presented in Mrs. Byrd's honor. We have traced two other examples of this model lighter being engraved for presentation by Mrs. Byrd on Christmas 1928, both of them dated Dunedin, New Zealand in a less decorative style, without illustration. 

Lot: 61 - (ARCTIC.) Watson Smith. Sketch of an iceberg in Baffin Bay, with related papers, 4 September 1855

Watson Smith. Sketch of an iceberg in Baffin Bay, with related papers. Baffin Bay, 4 September 1855 Pencil and wash, 5 x 6¼ inches; toning, minor wear and dampstaining. With worn original caption slip affixed to original backing board. This sketch was drawn aboard the USS Release, which was in the Baffin Bay between Canada and Greenland searching for the lost Elisha Kane expedition, which in turn was searching for the lost Franklin expedition. Kane and his men were later found alive on the coast of Greenland. The caption of this sketch reads: "At midnight on the 4th of September 1855, during a snow storm and a stormy gale, the Release suddenly found herself afoul of an immense iceberg. The collision was so great, that the bows of the vessel were smashed, and the front work notwithstanding it was double planked and covered with thick iron, was broken in. The scene was a terrible one. For a time it seemed as tho the vessel was doomed. The ice was cleared by the 11th of September."  The artist Watson Smith (1825-1864) was a career naval officer from New Jersey who reached the rank of Lieutenant Commander during the Civil War (see lot 125).  With--6 documents from the artist's naval career during this period, 1854-1858.  Retained draft of a letter requesting to be on this mission: "In the event of relief being sent by the government  to . . . E.K. Kane, U.S. Navy, I respectfully request that I may be considered as an applicant for duty in that service," 11 December 1854.  Pair of Letters Signed by Secretary of the Navy J.C. Dobbin, stating that Smith would be considered, 13 December 1854 and 16 February 1855. Letter Signed by Dobbin appointing Smith as a Master backdated to 14 September. Washington, 23 October 1855. Pass issued to Smith as a lieutenant in Sardinia, 4 September 1858. Smith's French passport, 5 September 1858.

Lot: 62 - (ART.) William Sidney Mount. Carte-de-visite portrait, signed and inscribed, circa mid-1860s

William Sidney Mount. Carte-de-visite portrait, signed and inscribed. New York, mid-1860s Hand-colored albumen photograph, 3½ x 2 inches, on original mount with backmark of photographer John H. Grotecloss; minimal foxing; inscribed and signed on verso "Miss M.C. Nicoll, with the compliments of Wm. S. Mount."  William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) of Setauket and Stony Brook, NY is considered the first notable American genre artist, creating an enduring body of paintings featuring the rural musicians, fishermen, and farmers of his native eastern Long Island.  The portrait likely dates from toward the end of Mount's life. The first reference we find to John Henry Grotecloss (1833-1902) as a photographer was as secretary of the Photographers' Protective Union in 1865-1866; he ran a real estate classified advertisement using this 226 Bleecker Street address in 1867.  We have not identified the inscribee Miss M.C. Nicoll, but Nicolls Road is today the major north-south road near Mount's area of Long Island. Mount painted merchant Edward H. Nicoll. Would a famous artist do the hand-coloring on his own carte-de-visite portraits?  We have no way to know with confidence, but it can't hurt to plant the idea in your head.

Lot: 63 - (ART.) [Henry Elis Mattson, artist.] Sketchbook of North Carolina and Florida watercolors, 1940-1942

[Henry Elis Mattson, artist.] Sketchbook of North Carolina and Florida watercolors. Various places, 1940-1942 and undated 28 full-page watercolors, plus 7 pages of pencil sketches and notes, on 25 leaves. Oblong 8vo, spiral-bound with original boards, an additional small watercolor affixed to the cover, moderate staining; lone worm hole in upper corner not affecting art, pencil captions mostly over-written in pen. Henry Elis Mattson (1887-1971) was born and raised in Sweden, first came to America in 1913, and settled in Woodstock, NY, where he built a successful career as an artist. Many of these watercolors depict rural or small-town life, including several with African-American subjects. Florida scenes include "Florida 41-42"; "Hogs, Florida '42"; "Wallace at Sarasota '42"; "Pond at Jessamine '42"; "Lake at Trilby '42"; "Near Dade City, Fla. '42"; "Winter Quarters, Sarasota '42" (two giraffes); "Dade City Backyard '42"; "Blanton '40"; "Stepping Out, Main St., Dade City, '40"; "Bird Flight, Fla., '42"; "Matriarch, Dade City, '42"; "Farmer, Blanton, '42"; "Afternoon Diversion, Fla. '42"; "Sultry Afternoon, Fla. '42"; and "Young Fla. Matron '42."  North Carolina scenes include "Campus at Chapel Hill"; "Carolina Farm in March"; "In the North Carolina Woods" (featuring a blues singer playing guitar); "Mule Stable, N.C., Students from Duke"; "Old Carolina Smoke House 40-41"; and "At Morehead N.C."  Scenes from New York state include two views of "Coney Island, 41"; "Woodstock, Dec 41"; and two views of the village of Rondout. Provenance: unsigned but acquired from the artist's home in Woodstock, NY. 

Lot: 64 - (ART.) Robert Berks. Archive of drawings and documents for his Linnaeus monument at the Chicago Botanic Garden, 1981-1983

Robert Berks. Archive of drawings and documents for his Linnaeus monument at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Various places, 1981-1983 and undated Several hundred items (0.6 linear feet); condition generally strong, a few items folded, intermittent foxing, wear and offsetting. The sculptor Robert Berks (1922-2011) of Orient, NY created numerous monuments, most famously the large bust of John F. Kennedy which graces the Kennedy Center in Washington. One of his  other notable commissions was an enormous monument to the botanist Carl Linnaeus for the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, IL, completed in 1983. This lot includes: 40 large sketches, most pencil with some other media, up to 24 x 25 inches. 26 smaller sketches, up to about 12 x 18 inches. Pair of duplicate transparencies titled "Footprint of the Linnaeus Monument," 19¾ x 26 inches, 24 May 1982. Pencil drawing of Berks modeling the Linnaeus sculpture, inscribed "To Bob, of whom I stand in awe. Rosalind," 21 x 18 inches. The artist may be sculptor Rosalind Cook, who also had a large Linnaeus monument on her resume.  The Botanic Garden's blueprints for the site, and official press kit for the monument's unveiling. Approximately 300 photographs of the monument in progress, most about 8 x 10 inches and a few larger; light curling. With--a folder on the relationship of Berks with the Clinton White House, 1993-2000. He presented small busts of Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy to the White House over the years. Includes 3 Autograph Letters Signed to Berks from Rex Scouten, Curator of the White House, 1993-1995; several holiday cards and notes with Bill Clinton's printed signatures; 4 official White House photographs of Berks and Clinton in the Oval Office; and 2 two retained drafts of letters from Berks to Clinton.

Lot: 65 - (AVIATION.) Papers of early dirigible pilot Horace B. Wild. Various places, circa 1906-1940

Papers of early dirigible pilot Horace B. Wild. Various places, circa 1906-1940 31 items, condition varies with a few items worn. Horace Barnebee Wild (1879-1940) was an early dirigible pilot and engineer, known for participating in the 1907 Bennett International Aeronautic Club Race (the first held in America). He was a founder of the Early Birds, a group of pioneers who preserved the

Lot: 66 - (AVIATION.) F. Trubee Davison. Boyhood diary of the future aviator, including a meeting with Wilbur Wright. Various places, 21 August to 17 October [1908]

F. Trubee Davison. Boyhood diary of the future aviator, including a meeting with Wilbur Wright. Various places, 21 August to 17 October [1908] [49] manuscript diary pages, signed "T. Davison" at end, with a few pages dictated to a family member, plus [4] pages of memoranda at rear. 12mo, original limp calf, worn; minimal wear to diary contents. Frederick Trubee Davison (1896-1974) was

Lot: 67 - (CALIFORNIA.) Alexander Forbes. California: A History of Upper and Lower California. London, 1839

Alexander Forbes. California: A History of Upper and Lower California. London, 1839 Folding map hand-colored in outline, 10 plates. [16], 352 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, backstrip faded, minimal wear; minimal wear to contents; binder's tag on rear pastedown. In modern cloth folding case.  First edition. "This book is of value as being the first one printed in English to relate exclusively to California"--Zamorano Eighty 38. "One of the most important upon the subject"--Cowan 1933, page 217. Graff 1377; Howes F242 ("b"); Sabin 25035.

Lot: 68 - (CALIFORNIA.) Lovegrove & Murray, publishers. "View of Sutter's Fort" letter sheet. Sacramento, CA, 30 April 1851

Lovegrove & Murray, publishers. "View of Sutter's Fort, Near Sacramento City" illustrated letter sheet, with letter. Sacramento, CA, 30 April 1851 Autograph Letter Signed from J.A. Benton to his cousin [Susan Elliot Root] of Clinton, Oneida County, NY. 2 pages, 10¼ x 8¼ inches, plus integral blank with full-page engraving; mailing folds, several pinholes on top and bottom edges. We trace no other examples of this Lovegrove & Murray letter sheet, showing the 1841 fort which launched the city of Sacramento. The author of the letter, Joseph Augustine Benton (1818-1892), arrived in California as a Congregational minister early in the Gold Rush, in July 1849. He later became a professor at the Pacific Theological Seminary in San Francisco. He writes:  "This view of the old fort is a tolerably fair one. I do not think it is taken from the best point of observation. . . . I have no prospect of anything but another year of intense labor. . . . I am a regularly settled pastor in California. I have the largest church & congregation in Sacramento. I have the reputation of writing a fair sermon & of being a poor speaker. . . . We have a good church & Sab. School. . . . Our ladies got up a fair which paid over 1000 dollars profit."

Lot: 69 - (CALIFORNIA.) Arguments . . . at the Trial of Alfred A. Cohen. San Francisco, CA: Whitton, Towne & Co., 1856

Arguments of the Hon. Edward Stanly . . . at the Trial of Alfred A. Cohen on a Charge of Embezzlement, in the Case of Adams & Co. San Francisco, CA: Whitton, Towne & Co., 1856 8 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minimal wear; minor foxing. A lawsuit by the failed Adams & Company of California express company against Alfred Andrew Cohen (1829-1887). An early Jewish Gold Rush settler of California, Cohen was jailed on these dubious charges, studied law in prison, was acquitted, and went on to become a prominent lawyer and railroad financier. Greenwood 769. 

Lot: 70 - (CALIFORNIA.) Transcontinental Railroad celebration, described in the San Francisco Daily Morning Call. San Francisco, CA, 8 May 1869

Transcontinental Railroad celebration, described in the San Francisco Daily Morning Call. San Francisco, CA, 8 May 1869 4 pages, 23¾ x 17¾ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound; private collector's embossed stamp in lower corner. Not examined out of Mylar enclosure.  The front page discusses that day's impending grand "Railroad Celebration" for the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, including an artillery salute, a military parade, and a performance of the Star-Spangled Banner. The day before, the committee received a telegram from Promontory, Utah that the Golden Spike would not be driven until 10 May, but they went ahead with plans for the parade.

Lot: 71 - (CALIFORNIA.) Thomas Houseworth & Co. Catalogue of Photographic Views of Scenery on the Pacific Coast. San Francisco, CA, 1870

Thomas Houseworth & Co. Catalogue of Photographic Views of Scenery on the Pacific Coast. San Francisco, CA, 1870 Frontispiece plate. 70 pages (erratically paginated as issued but complete). 16mo, original printed wrappers on coated pink stock, moderate wear to backstrip. In custom ½ morocco folding case. Sixth edition. A catalogue of mostly stereoscopic views by one of San Francisco's leading photographers. Includes sections on the coast counties, San Francisco, miscellaneous California views, Sacramento, Stockton, the mining regions, the recently completed Central Pacific Railroad, Lake Tahoe, wagon roads over the Sierras, mammoth trees, Yosemite Valley, and a few from Nevada. More than a thousand views are listed, but the only illustration shows the medal which the company won at the Paris Exposition.

Lot: 72 - (CALIFORNIA.) John Muir. The Mountains of California, 1894

John Muir. The Mountains of California. New York: The Century Co., 1894 Frontispiece plate, plus 2 maps and 50 full-page illustrations paginated with text. [12], 381 pages. Large 12mo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear, backstrip toned; minimal wear to contents.  First edition (but without the "Folio I" on first page designating the first issue). A compilation of Muir's early periodical writing. "He skillfully prefaced his selections with an overview of the Sierra Nevada Range, preparing the reader for the more detailed aspects that follow. The book contains much of Muir's finest writing between 1875 and 1882, and is considered by many Muir admirers to be his finest book. New material is found in chapters I, III, and XII"--Kimes 189. BAL 14746; Cowan 1933, page 446; Howes M880; Zamorano 80 #56. 

Lot: 73 - (CALIFORNIA.) John Muir. Our National Parks, signed and inscribed, 1902

John Muir. Our National Parks, signed and inscribed. Boston, 1902 Map, 11 pates. [10], 370, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minimal wear; Autograph Quotation Signed by Muir tipped in before the preface; gift inscription on front flyleaf, library bookplate on front pastedown, perforated library stamp to title page, inked date stamp on contents page. First edition, 4th printing with date updated from 1901 per BAL 14752. Includes a chapter on Yellowstone National Park, but most of the volume is devoted to the Yosemite and the sequoias. Kimes 237. Muir's signed quotation reads "To make room for wandering is it, That the world was made so wide. John Muir, Martinez, California, Feb. 1, 1902."  Provenance: original gift inscription from "S.E.B." to wife Marion Paddock; Clifford H. Lyman autographed book collection; 1927 gift to the Forbes Library of Northampton, MA.

Lot: 74 - (CALIFORNIA.) John Muir. The Yosemite, 1912

John Muir. The Yosemite. New York: The Century Co., 1912 3 folding maps, 32 plates. x, 284 pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minimal wear; top edge gilt. First edition. An impressionistic guidebook to Yosemite National Park, dedicated to Robert Underwood Johnson who had partnered with Muir to create the park in 1890. BAL 144767; Cowan 1933, page 447; Kimes 308.

Lot: 75 - (CALIFORNIA.) John Muir. John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals, with a manuscript leaf from his writings tipped in.

John Muir. John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals, with a manuscript leaf from his writings tipped in. Boston, 1938 8 plates. [24], 459 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear; folding manuscript leaf in Muir's hand, 8¼ x 8½ inches, tipped to rear pastedown. With clipped pictorial dust jacket, moderate wear. First edition of a collection of Muir's journals from his travels in California and Alaska. BAL 14781; Kimes 379.  The manuscript leaf, bearing page number 25, is apparently a draft of his November 1875 Harper's article titled "Living Glaciers of California." It reads in full: "snowfields are really residual glaciers still grinding the rocks over which they flow & thus completing the sculpture of the summit peaks so grandly blacked out by their giant predecessors. The more I observed, the more interesting the subject became & I set out to seek the acquaintance of every glacier left alive in the range, pushing my way into the heart of the Alps from one end of the chain to the other."  

Lot: 76 - (CALIFORNIA.) John Muir. Group of 7 titles, one of them inscribed, 1901-1916 and 1935

John Muir. Group of 7 titles, one of them inscribed. Various places, 1901-1916 and 1935 7 volumes, all 8vo, publisher's cloth, generally minimal wear. Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr. One of 300, unopened; with dust jacket. First edition (BAL 14770). Boston, 1915. The Mountains of California. Photogravure laid down on front pastedown. Later edition, New York, 1901. Our National Parks. Later impression, Boston, [1901]. Stickeen, signed and inscribed on front free endpaper "To Mrs. A.R. Sargent, with sincere regard, John Muir, June 7, 1911." It is inscribed to botanist Charles Sprague Sargent's daughter-in-law Maria Cecelia de Acosta Sargent (1886-1970), a.k.a. Mrs. Andrew Robeson Sargent, described elsewhere as "an exceptionally pretty girl of Spanish origin" (Sutton, "Charles Sprague Sargent and the Arnold Arboretum," page 318). Eighth impression, Boston, 1910. A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. First trade edition (BAL 14773). Boston, 1916. Travels in Alaska. First trade edition (BAL 14771). Boston, 1915. The Yosemite. With dust jacket. Later edition, New York, 1935.

Lot: 77 - (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Conflicting orders regarding the admission of white students to a segregated school. Barbour County, WV, 1932

Conflicting orders regarding the admission of white students to a segregated school. Barbour County, WV, 1932 Two handwritten messages concerning school integration in West Virginia, 1932: The first note is from Bretsel Harris, the Superintendent of Barbour County Public Schools in West Virginia to one of his teachers, Miss Blanche Smith of the Upper Spaw Lick school. "Please admit the following pupils to yours school: Dempsey Howell, Marvin Howell, and Ruth Howell." Philippi, WV, 30 January 1932. The second note is two days later from Blanche Smith to Mr. Arnett, who was apparently principal of her school: "Please find enclosed a note to me from Mr. Harris. . . . I have orders from you to not teach them, & I have orders from Mr. Harris to admit them. I shall act upon your orders until further advised." No place, 1 February 1932.  In a third hand (presumably Principal Arnett's) is an envelope: "This contains a note from Co. Supt. of Schools Mr. Harris to admit White Pupils to a Colored School, Upper Spaw Lick. Please keep for future reference." We find the three named white students (Marvin, Dempsey and Ruth Howell) living in Elk District, Barbour County in the 1930 census, on Route 57 near the Spaw Lick creek. 

Lot: 78 - (CIVIL RIGHTS.) San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council. An Arsenal of Answers in the Field of Inter-Group Relations and Civil Rights, circa 1952

San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council. An Arsenal of Answers in the Field of Inter-Group Relations and Civil Rights. San Francisco, CA, circa 1952 [4], 24, [1] photocopied pages, 11 x 8½ inches, in original brad-bound folder with typescript label; minor wear, library catalog number on cover; inked American Jewish Committee library stamp on verso of title page. This packet asks and answers 48 questions regarding the civil rights movement, from the perspective of those within the Jewish community of San Francisco who hoped to support the movement and find common cause. Subjects include "Why is discrimination expensive?"; "How does bigotry weaken our national strength?"; "Is civil rights a Communist issue?" (the answer being no); "What is a scapegoat?"; "What are the methods of the professional bigot?"; and "Does non-segregated public housing work?" It recommends twenty pamphlets on civil rights, none of them published later than 1952. The title page features a cartoon of a sword-wielding Uncle Sam fighting off discrimination and race hate with the shield of democracy and brotherhood.  None in OCLC, none traced at auction. 

Lot: 79 - (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Martin Luther King. Stride Toward Freedom, signed and inscribed. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY KING Martin Luther King, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, [1958] 230 pages including 8 pages of illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear; in original illustrated unclipped dust jacket with slight wear; inscribed on front free endpaper "To: Hulan Jack, In appreciation for your outstanding contribution in the area of human rights. Martin L. King Jr."  Signed first edition, first printing of King's first book, with "H-H" on copyright page and $2.95 price on dust jacket. Published just three years after his leadership of the Montgomery bus boycott first brought him national attention. It was inscribed to Hulan Jack (1906-1986), the Borough President of Manhattan, who was one of the highest-ranking Black elected officials in the United States at the time. Blockson 4119.

Lot: 80 - (CIVIL RIGHTS.) Louis Lo Monaco. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: We Shall Overcome. New York: Urban League, 1963

Louis Lo Monaco. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963: We Shall Overcome. New York: Urban League, 1963 Pictorial paper portfolio, 11 x 9¼ inches, moderate wear, split along fold, with seven leaves: introduction leaf, contents leaf, and five collage prints by Lo Monaco; minimal wear to contents.  From the introduction: "This collection of graphic collages has been created specifically as a memento for those who participated in the historic March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963. It depicts man's inhumanity, his cruelty to his fellow human being. This memento, we believe, will inspire us to assert man's decency and goodness through an understanding of anguish." The introduction is signed in facsimile by the march leaders including Martin Luther King Jr., A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, and Whitney M. Young Jr.

Lot: 81 - (CIVIL WAR.) Broadside for an exhibition featuring an early "stereopticon of the Southern Rebellion." Philadelphia, 1861

Broadside for an exhibition featuring an early "stereopticon of the Southern Rebellion." [Philadelphia], 9 September [1861] Letterpress broadside, 17¼ x 5¼ inches, with 2 x 3½-inch admission ticket laid down over part of the text; full separation at horizontal fold, 2-inch stain from ticket, mount remnants on verso. "Sanderson's Gigantic Representation of the Russian War" had been touring the United States with a "gigantic moving dioramic panorama" of the Crimean War from 1857 through early 1860. With the advent of the Civil War, the show added a "stereopticon of the Southern Rebellion" and was newly exhibited in Philadelphia starting in late May 1861. This broadside promises the chance of "witnessing the horrors of war! and ruthless bloodshed!!", with all of the key scenes from early months of the war: Fort Sumter, the assassination of Ellsworth, Bull Run, and more. 

Lot: 82 - (CIVIL WAR.) Group of patriotic paper cuffs and collars, circa 1861

Group of patriotic paper cuffs and collars. [Philadelphia]: [Lockwood Manufacturing Company], circa 1861 8 items in 6 different formats, each printed in red and blue with flags or patriotic motifs, ranging from 7 to 15½ inches across; one collar with a hard fold, 2 cloth-covered paper armbands(?) folded with scrapbook mounts and tape repairs, one with a pencil note, otherwise minimal wear. Two of these pieces bear copyright dates of 1854 and 1859, but the "Union" on one suggests a production date during the Civil War. Other examples and a related promotional pamphlet for "Ladies' Patent Electro 'Union' Collars and Cuffs" appeared in Swann's 27 September 2018 auction, lot 415. "Ladies' Electro Collars" were advertised widely in American newspapers from late 1860 through early 1863.

Lot: 83 - (CIVIL WAR.) Attention! The Volunteer's Manual / Independent Rangers! Company Arrangement. Philadelphia, [1861]

Attention! The Volunteer's Manual / Independent Rangers! Company Arrangement. Philadelphia: King & Baird, [1861] Double-sided illustrated advertising slip, 10x 3¼ inches; horizontal folds. One side is a straightforward advertisement seeking sales agents for D.W.C. Baxter's newly published "The Volunteer's Manual": "It is approved of officially. Agents wanted in every town, village and hamlet."  The other side is a satirical piece titled "Independent Rangers! Company Arrangement," probably intended to draw attention to the book circular. It is a list of articles every soldier should carry in his knapsack, including two boxes of cigars, a rat terrier, and two blue silk umbrellas. A toothbrush appears on the list, suggesting that it was just as preposterous on the march as four pairs of silk hose. A pianoforte is to be supplied by the government. The illustration shows a soldier with a foot for a head.

Lot: 84 - (CIVIL WAR.) The Compound Aromatic Stomach Belt, advertising slip. Philadelphia, circa 1861

The Compound Aromatic Stomach Belt advertising slip Philadelphia: Evans, circa 1861 Illustrated advertising circular, 2 pages, 2¾ x 4¼ inches, on one folding sheet; slip with agent's name laid down over the manufacturer's, minimal wear. The Aromatic Stomach Belt was a sort of flannel cummerbund which was marketed to Union soldiers as a protection from cholera and other ailments endemic to the southern climate.  It seems to have disappeared by early 1862, so it may not have been terribly effective, but they at least had a nice advertising circular.  Here, a healthy soldier greets a decidedly unhealthy one clutching at his bowels: "them Hot days, Damp Nights, and Bad Water have played the deuce with me." He is advised to order the stomach belt with no delay.

Lot: 85 - (CIVIL WAR.) Group of 5 military books from the library of Major General W.B. Hazen, 1852-1861

Group of 5 military books from the library of Major General W.B. Hazen. Various places, 1852-1861 5 volumes, various sizes, generally minor to moderate wear, each with signature or markings of General Hazen.  William Babcock Hazen (1830-1887) graduated from West Point in 1855, served as a lieutenant in the 4th Infantry, became a captain in the 8th Infantry early in the Civil War, commanded the 41st Ohio Infantry as colonel, and then rose to major general before the war's end. Includes: George McClellan. "Manual of Bayonet Exercise, Prepared for the Use of the Army of the United States." 8vo, publisher's cloth; Signed and inscribed on front pastedown "Col. W.B. Hazen, 41 O.V. No. 8." Philadelphia, 1852. Sammelband volume with 4 issues of "Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy," 1852-1855; and 6 issues of "Official Army Register," 1855-1860, each listing Hazen. 8vo, ½ calf, moderate wear, with Hazen's name gilt-stamped on spine. Brackett. "General Lane's Brigade in Central Mexico." 8vo, publisher's cloth; inscribed on page [iii] "Wm. B. Hazen, Lt U.S. Army." Cincinnati, OH, 1854. "Regulations for the Army of the United States." With an introduction by the Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis. 8vo, cloth-backed marbled boards; signed and inscribed on front free endpaper "W.B. Hazen, Lt. 8th Inf'y." Washington, 1855.  Winfield Scott. "Infantry Tactics . . . of the United States' Infantry," Volume III. 12mo, ¼ calf; inscribed on front endpapers "Rec'd Sept 18th 1861, Lt. Hazen, 8th U.S. Inf'y." New York, 1861.

Lot: 86 - (CIVIL WAR.) John R. Stickle[?], , Letter which seems to be describing the Battle of Malvern Hill, 9 July 1862

"Bulets ware flying as thick as hale and the men falling all around me " John R. Stickle[?] Letter which seems to be describing the Battle of Malvern Hill. "Camp Starvation," 9 July 1862 Autograph Letter Signed (somewhat illegibly) to nephew George Hunt. 4 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; mailing folds, minor wear. With partial typed transcript. This is a great combat letter, but we have not yet fully identified the author, his regiment, or where he was writing from. Given the date, it seems as if he's describing the Battle of Malvern Hill from the losing Confederate side. We don't know where "Camp Starvation" was; the name was used a few times throughout the war by sardonic soldiers on both sides.  Our letter-writer did not have strong penmanship, and his spelling was completely phonetic; he does not employ a single period or comma. We offer these quotes first as he wrote them, and then in something like standard English. "I cannot give you the fool detale of the hart rendering senes that I have bin through in the last tenn dase but one thing I can say I never want to se the same sights agane I helpt to carey of som the wounded and in some places tha ware piled up like wood and we hade to pool the ded of from the wounded so we could get them I walked over ground ware the bload was half shoos deepe and the shell grape canester & bulets ware flying as thick as hale and the men falling all around me but thank god I was spared and what saved me I cannot tell I gess I was not bornd to be shot. . . . We was falling back and fighting for 6 dase and had nothing to eat but hard crackers and tha was scarse fore we could not get to the wagon trane fore tha was shoved on ahed out of the way of the shels . . . we lost our colnel & major Kiernan[?] 2 capt quite a lot of officers in fact our brigade is half gon and wat is left of us is all used up we are weak tired & wore out." The same with standardized spelling and punctuation: "I cannot give you the full detail of the heart-rending scenes that I have been through in the last ten days, but one thing I can say: I never want to see the same sights again. I helped to carry off some of the wounded, and in some places they were piled up like wood, and we had to pull the dead off from the wounded so we could get them. I walked over ground where the blood was half-shoe deep, and the shell, grape, canister, and bullets were flying as thick as hail, and the men falling all around me, but thank God I was spared, and what saved me I cannot tell. I guess I was not born to be shot. . . . We were falling back and fighting for 6 days, and had nothing to eat but hard crackers and they were scarce, for we could not get to the wagon train, for they were shoved on ahead out of the way of the shells . . . We lost our colonel & Major Kiernan[?], 2 captains, quite a lot of officers. In fact, our brigade is half gone, and what is left of us is all used up. We are weak, tired, and worn out."

Lot: 87 - (CIVIL WAR.) Edward Powers. Letters of a quartermaster's clerk complaining of "our jackass generals," 1862-1864

Edward Powers. Letters of a quartermaster's clerk complaining of "our jackass generals." Various places, 1862-1864 5 Autograph Letters Signed, various sizes; minor wear.  In these letters, a clerk in the Army Quartermaster's office writes home to his friend Henry A. Collin (1817-1892), a Justice of the Peace in Mount Vernon, IA.  He describes war-torn Harpers Ferry on 21 April 1862: "This town is almost ruined, and when we first came here was almost uninhabited. Some families however have returned since the troops passed through here. Our troops have destroyed a good deal of the property that remained here, have put horses in the houses, pulled buildings to pieces for firewood &c."  On 28 September 1862 from Frederick, MD he opines on the Union leadership: "Our jackass generals are--a good portion of them--good for nothing but to strut around in their uniform, drink whiskey, and draw their pay. Pope is nothing but a bag of wind. McDowell is believed by the soldiers who served under him to be a traitor."  Describing Hagerstown, MD in the wake of Gettysburg campaign on 20 September 1863, "the Rebel army when it was here played the deuce with the fences. . . . They also stole from the farmers great numbers of horses. A good many of the people about here are secessionists, but I think that but few of them wish to see the Rebel army here again." 

Lot: 88 - (CIVIL WAR.) Josiah B. Kinsman. Letter on the wild reception for Benjamin Butler on his return from New Orleans to New England, 11 January 1863

Josiah B. Kinsman. Letter on the wild reception for Benjamin Butler on his return from New Orleans to New England. Lowell, MA, 11 January 1863 Autograph Letter Signed to mother Eliza Page Kinsman of Cornville, ME. 3 pages, 8 x 4¾ inches, on one folding sheet; mailing folds, minor foxing.  President Lincoln ordered General Butler back north in late 1862 after his controversial stint as the military governor of New Orleans. While Butler was *cough* somewhat unpopular in New Orleans, he was regarded as a hero in the abolitionist north for his aggressive tactics against Confederate slaveowners. This letter by his staff member Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Burnham Kinsman (1824-1912) describes the wildly enthusiastic reception Butler met in his native New England on the train ride home.  "Thousands of people flocked to the depots in Bridgeport. We had a little accident . . . which detained us for half an hour as the crowd was terrible, completely covering the Gen. on through the depot . . . . At last I made a stand and got him through a door into a coffee saloon, and we made out to get back into the depot again when he shook hands with some thousands, and we got into the car and locked the door. . . . At Springfield as we entered the cannons were roaring and the mob cheering and yelling so that it seemed as though the depot would be torn to pieces. . . . The mayor of Lowell met us last night . . . amidst the ringing of bells and the firing of cannon and the city was illuminated."

Lot: 89 - (CIVIL WAR.) Telegraph message reporting on Sherman's capture of Atlanta. Jamestown, VA(?), 3 September 1864

Telegraph message reporting on Sherman's capture of Atlanta. Jamestown, VA(?), 3 September 1864 Manuscript, 2 pages, 8½ x 5¼ inches, from S.K. Ripley, on United States Military Telegraph letterhead; edge wear, uneven toning, folds, one short repair. Samuel Kendig Rupley (1843-19119) of Poughkeepsie, NY was a military telegrapher. He sent this message to Major George G. Briggs (1838-1912) of the 7th Michigan Cavalry (part of Custer's Michigan Brigade). In part: "Official reports from Sect'y of War says that Gen'l Sherman has taken Atlanta, Ga., the enemy destroyed, guns, ammunition, engines, cars, &c that were in the city at the time. Gen'l S fought a battle beyond Atlanta near or at Eastport Ga. in which he was successful, having cut the enemies forces in two. Reports say Gen'l Hardie was killed." He was wrong on this final point; Confederate General Hardee survived the war. 

Lot: 90 - (CIVIL WAR.) Lew Wallace. Letter allowing passage to the front to historian Benson Lossing, 5 December 1864

Lew Wallace. Letter allowing passage to the front to historian Benson Lossing. Baltimore, MD, 5 December 1864 Autograph Letter Signed as Major General commanding the Middle Department and Eighth Army Corps, to the officers under his command. One page, 8 x 5 inches, on Middle Department letterhead; folds, minimal wear. Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891) was already one of America's most popular historians by 1864, and was researching his "Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War" (published in 1866). He obtained this pass from his friend and brother-in-law General Lew Wallace (their wives were sisters). Wallace had dabbled in writing historical fiction in his free time, and later wrote the best-selling novel of the 19th century--Ben Hur. In this pass, Wallace writes: "Commandants of Posts, Guards &c in Mid[dle] Dep't: Will admit the bearer, Mr. Benson J. Lossing into the lines and pass him out at his pleasure. As his investigations are for historical purposes, they will furnish him every possible aid therein."  Lossing was said to be "quietly gathering materials for his great History of this gigantic rebellion" as early as 1 June 1864 (Daily Evening Express of Lancaster, PA). Newspapers show him with the Union Army not long after this pass was written. The Poughkeepsie Eagle-News shows him as a guest of Admiral David Dixon Porter en route to Wilmington (26 December 1864). 

Lot: 91 - (CIVIL WAR.) Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, January 1861 to December 1865

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, January 1861 to December 1865 Volumes 5-9, covering the period of the Civil War. Profusion of illustrations and maps. Folio, unmatched period or early bindings, variously worn; lacking at least two issues (27 December 1862 and 9 January 1864), various wear to contents (most issues with minimal to minor wear, 1863 especially fresh), minor foxing, centerfolds mounted on stubs. With--Guernsey & Allen. "Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion," Part First. [2], 836 pages. Folio, 16 x 11 inches, contemporary ½ calf, worn, detached from text block. Numerous illustrations, including a large folding "Map of the Southern States" (separations at folds).[New York, 1866].

Lot: 92 - (CIVIL WAR.) Samuel M. Bowman and R.B. Irwin., Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography, 1865

Samuel M. Bowman and R.B. Irwin. Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography. New York, 1865 5 maps, 8 portrait plates. 512 pages. 8vo, fine modern gilt pictorial calf with inlaid map on front board; minor foxing, intermittent toning; all edges gilt. First edition. "A defense and vindication of Sherman against those (notably Stanton) who criticized his truce agreement with J.E. Johnston in 1865"--Nevins, page II:40.

Lot: 93 - (CIVIL WAR.) [The Myriopticon, a Historical Panorama of the Rebellion], with its accompanying booklet. Milton Bradley & Co., [1866]

[The Myriopticon, a Historical Panorama of the Rebellion], with its accompanying "Myriopticon Lecture" booklet. Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley & Co., [1866] Printed hand-colored box, 5¼ inches tall, 8¼ inches wide, 2¼ inches deep, with long hand-colored paper scroll on two spindles within, a metal handle for turning, rear cover, and pamphlet; lacking illustrated top cover, minor wear to case, some early tape repairs to scroll, most minor, with two closed vertical tears across scroll. Pamphlet: 7, [1] pages, 8 x 4¾ inches; heavy wear, tape repairs, foxing.  Milton Bradley was only 29 years old but already a successful toy producer when he offered this panorama just before Christmas in 1865. It was advertised in newspapers across New England as early as 9 November 1865. Scenes include the defense of Fort Sumter, the death of Ellsworth, an adaptation of Winslow Homer's famous sharpshooter, contrabands coming into camp, and much more. See Burns and Greene, "The Toys of War," in the New York Times, 27 February 2014. The pamphlet includes a script for the young owner of this toy, allowing him to present a Barnumesque lecture for his family. It describes each of the 22 panel scenes in order. Illustrated: the United States Colored Troops occupying Charleston, SC in February 1865.  We have found no mention of two different editions of the Myriopticon, but this one has a different assortment of scenes than the one we've offered before, although the case is identical.

Lot: 94 - (CIVIL WAR.) Extract from Col. R. G. Ingersoll's Speech at Soldier's Reunion, 21 September [1876]

Extract from Col. R. G. Ingersoll's Speech at the Soldier's Reunion. Chicago: Chicago Evening Journal Mammoth Show Printing and Engraving House, 21 September [1876] Letterpress broadside, 71 x 36 inches, printed on 3 conjoined sheets; worn and stained with substantial loss not affecting legibility; professionally stabilized and laid down on linen. Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) had commanded the 11th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry during the war, and was an attorney during peacetime. He was also one of the nation's most renowned orators. In this speech he addressed the National Veterans Reunion, one of the largest assemblages of Union veterans ever convened. Ingersoll delivered the keynote speech on the reunion's closing day. The next day's Indianapolis News reported that he was introduced as "that dashing cavalry officer, that thunderbolt of war, that silver-tongued orator, Bob Ingersoll," and that he "justified all expectations by delivering a speech, bitter perhaps in arraignment, but comprehensive, eloquent, and inimitable."  This mammoth broadside, six feet in height, shares a long extract from Ingersoll's poignant speech, reflecting on the departed Union soldiers: "The past rises before me like a dream. . . . We see them all as they march proudly away under the flaunting flags, keeping time to the wild, grand music of war . . . down to the fields of glory, to do and to die for the eternal right. We go with them one and all. We are by their side on all the gory fields. . . . We are with them in the prisons of hatred and famine; but human speech can never tell what they endured." Ingersoll also reflects on the great cause they died for: "The past rises before us, and we see four millions of human beings governed by the lash--we see them bound hand and foot--we hear the strokes of cruel whips. . . . Four million bodies in chains--four million souls in fetters.  All the sacred relations of wife, mother, father and child beneath the brutal feet of might. And all this was done under our own beautiful banner of the free."  Ingersoll concludes: "I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead--cheers for the living--tears for the dead."  None others traced in OCLC or at auction. 

Lot: 95 - (CIVIL WAR.) Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York, 1911

Francis Trevelyan Miller, editor. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York, 1911 Profusely illustrated. 10 volumes. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; internally clean. 

Lot: 96 - (CIVIL WAR--ART.) Alfred Waud. Pencil sketch of a Wisconsin colonel, with Waud's notes and his military pass, circa November-December 1862

Alfred Waud. Pencil sketch of a Wisconsin colonel, with Waud's notes and his military pass. [Virginia], circa November-December 1862 3 items, various sizes, tipped into a modern mat for display.  Pencil sketch: Pencil on paper, 10¼ x 7½ inches, unsigned but in Waud's style; uneven edges, mat toning, tape re-enforcement on edges verso. Depicts a man fleeing a town on horseback, with civilians running in the background. Caption slip: Manuscript in pencil, 2 pages on one leaf of lined paper, 7½ x 5 inches, unsigned but in Waud's hand; horizontal fold. The first portion of this slip appears to describe the drawing: "Lt. Col. Cutler[?] of Wisconsin at the capture of Rappahannock Falls got a scare, turned his horse, and ran away, and never came back. It was said has not turned up since. To that time had ever been brave." We cannot link this story with any actual Wisconsin officer. Colonel Lysander Cutler briefly commanded his brigade at Fredericksburg before retiring due to injuries, but served with distinction through the end of the war. A second portion appears to be a different anecdote altogether: "After first crossing Fred'ks, a battery commanding a point up Deep Run. . . . A regiment or more was observed to deploy swiftly into the ravine, and plunging out of sight advance rapidly to attack the batt'y. Commander loaded with cannister . . . but could not depress pieces to cover the ravine. In much alarm he ran with Major Keith &c to the edge of knoll. Looking over, they perceived a Vermont reg in a sort of cove formed in one side of ravine, muskets stacked, resting, cooking coffee. They had pickets out, and a shot from one of these aroused the Col. . . . Looking out, comprehending situation, gave in a high voice 'Take Arms." It was no work preparing for the enemy. His columns of companies hove into view. Fire, said the Col. It was oblique upon the column, and killed 5. . . . The whole ran back. Stack arms, said the commander as if this was a matter of daily routine, and back they returned to their cooking." This appears to describe an incident in the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, in which the 3rd Vermont hid behind a rise near Deep Run and then drove back two North Carolina regiments with a surprise volley. Pass: Partly-printed Document Signed by Captain Henry R. Todd as aide-de-camp for General Wadsworth. One page, 6 x 7¾ inches; folds, short tape repair on recto, minor wear, mat toning. "Pass, Mr. A. Waud within the lines of the Army to the Headquarters of Gen'l McClellan in Virginia and return." Washington, 17 November 1862.

Lot: 97 - (CIVIL WAR--CALIFORNIA.) Military Ball at Drum Barracks, 5 November 1864

Military Ball at Drum Barracks. [Los Angeles, CA], 5 November 1864 Printed handbill, 6¼ x 4 inches; folds, toning, moderate wear, laid down on a trimmed album leaf. Drum Barracks in the Wilmington area south of Los Angeles was the main base for Union troops in southern California, protecting the area against potential threats from Confederates, Indians, and Mexico. This program lists the five members of the Committee of Reception, who greeted guests with a white rosette on their left breast; and three floor managers who wore a red rosette on their left breast. The ball was held three days before the presidential election. Several of the officers listed here belonged to the 4th California Infantry. Two of them served in the First Battalion, California Native Cavalry, an unusual lancer unit composed mostly of Californios  who had been born during the Mexican period. Captain Antonio María de la Guerra had served as mayor of Santa Barbara. Lieutenant Porfirio Jimeno later led his company to Camp Low to defend against the bandits of the Mason Henry Gang.

Lot: 98 - (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) George E. Purvis. Letter describing Nashville a few days before Union occupation, 13 February 1862

George E. Purvis. Letter describing Nashville a few days before Union occupation. Nashville, TN, 13 February 1862 Autograph Letter Signed to friend Mal. 2 pages, 12½ x 7¾ inches, on one page; small repair at intersection of folds. With typed transcript. George Edward Purvis (1835-1908) of Nashville, TN was a lieutenant in Rutledge's Tennessee Light Artillery Battery. Here he describes the nervous mood in his hometown as the battle of Fort Donelson raged not far to the west: "There is a great deal of excitement here. Regiments are being formed for city defence, composed in great measure of old men and middle-aged men. . . . [Albert Sidney] Johnston with his force has left Bowling Green, with the purpose I suppose of coming to the defence of Nashville. . . . The city is full of cannon, and I never saw such bustle and confusion, such a moving among wagons, drays and vehicles in the busiest season. There is a perfect din of noises. Fortifications progress in almost every direction." Fort Donelson fell two days later, and the Confederates evacuated Nashville a week after that, leaving Tennessee largely under Union control.

Lot: 99 - (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Mann Page. Description of 2000 captured Union soldiers being marched to prison. Charlottesville, 19 June 1862

Mann Page. Description of 2000 captured Union soldiers being marched to prison. Near Charlottesville, VA, 19 June 1862 Autograph Letter Signed to his uncle David Coupland Randolph (1804-1886). 3 pages, 10 x 7¼ inches, on one folding sheet, with docketing on final blank; mailing folds, minimal wear. Mann Page (1831-1904) was a member of one of Virginia's leading extended families. His grandfather was a first cousin of Thomas Jefferson. He was a lieutenant in the 21st Virginia Infantry. His regiment had been serving under Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley campaign, and had been tasked with bringing a large body of Union prisoners southward from Winchester toward Richmond.  He describes a "long and tedious march from Winchester, with about two thousand prisoners, and I can assure you that it was no child's play for our little reg't (not over 300 strong) to gard so many Yankeys for three weeks, up every night and marching all day long, and from the time we left Winchester until we crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains at Rock Fish Gap, they could hear the firing and knew that the fight was goin on between Old Jack & the Yankeys, and they were just as certain that they would be recaptured, for they saying to us that we were marching them along now, but by tomorrow, old Shields & Freemont would have the hole of Jackson's army marching to Fort McHenry. When we crossed the bridge at Port Republic they could see their Cavalry just across the other branch of the river, which made them feel so certain that some of them refused to go any farther, but I let them have it with my sword, rite & left, and they soon found out that we were not to be frightened by the prospect of being attacked, but I can tell you that it was ticklish times with us, and if they had southern men they would have all gotten away, but providence protected us."

Lot: 100 - (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) J.E.B. Stuart. Telegraph message inviting Confederate women to attend his cavalry review. Virginia, 3 June 1863

J.E.B. Stuart. Telegraph message inviting Confederate women to attend his cavalry review. Culpeper Court House, VA, 3 June 1863 Manuscript telegraph message on printed form of the Southern Telegraph Companies, with secretarial signature as Major General, addressed to Miss Sue Maupin of Charlottesville, VA. One page, 4¾ x 7¾ inches; mounted on board, light mat toning. A few days before the Battle of Brandy Station, Confederate cavalry leader J.E.B. Stuart staged a grand cavalry exercise with thousands of mounted troops on 5 June 1863. It was criticized as a display of vanity. Here he invites the ladies of Charlottesville, many miles from Culpeper, to attend the review. In full:   "Please inform the ladies represented in confidential dispatch received by mail that there will be a review here on Friday ten 10 o'clock, providence permitting. I would be glad to see any or all of them on that or any other occasion." 

Lot: 101 - (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Pre-printed pass from the Army of Northern Virginia. Orange, VA, 2 September 1863

Pre-printed pass from the Army of Northern Virginia. Orange, VA, 2 September 1863 Partly-printed Document Signed by David B. Bridgford as Major and Provost Marshal of the Army of Northern Virginia, "By order of Gen. R.E. Lee," completed in manuscript for a Mr. Sey[?], a sailor, to Richmond, VA.  4 x 6 inches on lined paper; folds, moderate wear, faded manuscript, uneven toning. We can find no other examples of this printed pass, which was issued within the lines of the Army of Northern Virginia two months after its defeat at Gettysburg. 

Lot: 102 - (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Group of Confederate currency, obsolete banknotes, and other southern financial paper, 1838-1865 and undated

Group of Confederate currency, obsolete banknotes, and other southern financial paper. Various places, 1838-1865 and undated 34 items, various sizes and conditions. 9 Confederate notes:  $5, 2 September 1861, Columbia, SC, J.T. Paterson & Co., second series. Criswell 278 (rarity 3).  $20, 2 September 1861, B. Duncan, Columbia, SC.  Criswell 139 (rarity 5) $100, 11 September 1862, Columbia, SC, J.T. Paterson & Co.  Criswell 298 (rarity 4). 6 notes , 17 February 1864 ($10, $10, $10, $20, $50, $100).  7 state notes: Florida, 25¢, 2 February 1858. Criswell 26 (rarity 5). Georgia, $10, 15 January 1862. Criswell 4 (rarity 3). Georgia, $10, 20 March 1865. Criswell 32 (rarity 7).  Missouri, $1, 1 January 1862, with portrait of Jefferson Davis, printed on back of bill of exchange. Criswell 14A (rarity 6). North Carolina, $2, 4 October 1861. Criswell 21 (rarity 3). North Carolina, $1, 11 October 1861. Criswell 30A (rarity 2). North Carolina, 50¢, 1 September 1862.  Criswell 96 (rarity 4). 11 obsolete banknotes: Citizen's Bank of Louisiana, $3 and $5 and $100, undated Canal Bank, New Orleans, LA, $20, undated Canal & Banking Co., New Orleans, LA, $100, undated Wilcox Mining Co. Store, Emory Mines, TN, $25, undated Bank of the State of South Carolina, 50¢, 1 July 1861 Mississippi Central Railroad Company, Holly Springs, MS, 1 January 1862 Ocmulgee Bank, Macon, GA, $5, 1 October 1838 City of Albany [GA?], 50¢, engraved by Gavit & Cowell of Alabama, 17 July 1862 Bank of Augusta, GA, $5, date illegible. Group of 7 bills of exchange from New Orleans, St. Louis, and Mobile, 1841-1854

Lot: 103 - (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Sketch of Capt. Edward Barker Ross, circa 1912

Sketch of Capt. Edward Barker Ross (wrapper title). No place, circa 1912 Illustrated with two photographic portraits. 8 pages. 12mo, original printed wrappers; minimal wear. A short biography of a veteran of the 3rd Kentucky Infantry who had served as an officer under Nathan Bedford Forrest. Most of the text relates to his military service. After the war he was a tobacco farmer and Episcopalian minister in Clarksville, TN.  None traced in OCLC, at auction, in Nevins, or elsewhere. A slightly shorter version of this text, illustrated with the same two portraits, appeared in Confederate Veteran magazine, April 1912, page 176-177.

Lot: 104 - (CIVIL WAR--CONNECTICUT.) Seth [Plumb?]. Letter describing the capture of Beaufort and Battle of New Bern. Beaufort, NC, 19 April 1862

Seth [Plumb?]. Letter describing the capture of Beaufort and Battle of New Bern. Beaufort, NC, 19 April 1862 Autograph Letter Signed as "Seth" to friend named Theodore. 12 pages, 8 x 4¾ inches, on 3 folding sheets; minor wear and soiling, short separations at folds. Describing the 14 March 1862 Battle of New Bern: "As we came near the battery, we came upon a portion of the 21st Mass who were being driven back by a large boddy of the Rebels. . . . The balls flew very thick about us here, and Capt. Upham was wounded. Soon after this, we were ordered to fix bayonets and charge the battery. We went in to the battery on the rail road, yelling like Indians. As we went in, the Rebels fell back into the woods and gave us a shower of lead which we avoided partially by lying on the ground, but some of our men were hit here. . . . As we came in sight of the city we could see nothing but the spires through the black smoke and flames. . . . The city was saved by our men and the Blacks."  This letter was written to be read at a meeting of his hometown library. 

Lot: 105 - (CIVIL WAR--CONNECTICUT.) Charles Warren. Letter describing skirmishing with guerrillas south of New Bern.

Charles Warren. Letter describing skirmishing with guerrillas south of New Bern. New Bern, NC, 26 June 1862 Autograph Letter Signed to friend Albert L. Norris of Boston. 8 pages, 7¼ x 4¾ inches, on 2 folding sheets; mailing folds, minimal wear. With stamped postmarked envelope.  Sergeant Charles Warren (1835-1920) was a currier from Stafford, CT before the war. Here he describes service at New Bern, NC, and skirmishes along the picket line south of the town: "The owner of the plantation & mills is an officer in the rebel service & it is expected that he is the commander of the rebel cavalry that has been harassing our pickets lately. . . . He had about 100 slaves here when New Bern was captured but has succeeded in removing nearly all of them. I suppose the object of the rebels here is to burn the saw mill. The boys . . . thought the force of the enemy was about 100 men & pictured to us how they dismounted & came creeping cautiously up, hiding themselves behind some old buildings & other things. . . . The first attack was about 1 o'clock & they did not retreat untill nearly morning. After supper I detailed a sergeant & corporal & 12 men to reinforce the outposts about 3/4 mile from the headquarters. . . . Our men had torn up the bridge across the road & made a sort of barricade with two pairs of wheels with a couple of camp kettles placed on them so as to resemble cannon, to frighten the enemy, I suppose. Well, we had quite a jolly laugh over these scare crows."  Warren rose through the ranks and mustered out as colonel of the 11th Connecticut. After the war he was a successful grocer in Stafford, and wrote the regimental history. 

Lot: 106 - (CIVIL WAR--CONNECTICUT.) John Lee Powell. Letter describing Sheridan's dramatic return at the Battle of Cedar Creek.

John Lee Powell. Letter describing Sheridan's dramatic return at the Battle of Cedar Creek. Shenandoah Valley, VA, 25 October 1864 Autograph Letter Signed to sister Mary Jane Powell of Stepney Depot, CT. 4 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; mailing folds, minimal wear. With stamped envelope bearing Martinsburg, WV postmark. John Lee Powell (1836-1876) of Monroe, CT served in the 9th Connecticut Infantry. He begins this letter with a brief recap of the last month of Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign: Third Winchester ("gave the rebs a decent whipping") and Fisher's Hill ("whiped them again and drove them down the valley").  The Confederate surprise attack at Cedar Creek in the morning of 19 October looked like a rout. Early "attacked us in camp. We had strong brestworks but they flanked us and drove us out of them. Sheridan had gone to Washington at the time they drove us back five or six miles. The fighting was hard." The momentum shifted with a twist worthy of Hollywood: "At about noon, Sheridan came up and turned the tide of battle. The army cheered him. He about faced his boys and ordered a charge, and drove the rebs to Fisher's Hill . . . then the cavalry took them and gave them a run. . . . They took some of our artillery in the morning. We got that back that night and over 40 of their own. . . . I was wounded slightly in the head, but I am all write." With--another less momentous letter from Powell to his sister, Opequon Creek, VA, 19 December 1864. 

Lot: 107 - (CIVIL WAR--ILLINOIS.) Thomas F. Elliott. A sergeant's diary on the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns, November 1863-April 1864.

"They shot our brave men down like dogs, even after they had surrendered." Thomas F. Elliott. A sergeant's diary on the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns. Various places, 1 November 1863 to 30 April 1864 [113] manuscript diary pages. 12mo, 5½ x 3½ inches, original limp cloth, worn and nearly disbound; minor wear to contents.  Thomas Frank Elliott (1836-1927) was born

Lot: 108 - (CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.) Erastus F. Hunt. Letters of an Indiana soldier in what soon became West Virginia, September-December 1861

"We sent them howling back to their holes" Erastus F. Hunt. Letters of an Indiana soldier in what soon became West Virginia, early in the war. Various places, September to December 1861 5 Autograph Letters Signed to friend Enos Hadley of Plainfield, IN. 5 letters ranging from 2 to 6 pages, various sizes, two of them on patriotic stationery; generally minor wear. With envelopes (some of them patriotic covers), none stamped, most franked. Erastus Frederick Hunt (1830-1880) was a farm hand in Hendricks County, IN before the war. With the 7th Indiana infantry, he reached the rank of sergeant.  These letters were written from what is now West Virginia in the early months of the war. He shows a wry sense of humor at points. On 20 September from Beverly, WV, Hunt alludes to an early fight: "I suppose you have the news of the Cheat Mountain skirmish. The Rebbles are still retreating. They are as wild as ever." On 25 September from Camp Elk Heart, WV, "the Rebbles force is reported at 20,000 at the highest. I think we have them surrounded, or nearly so." On 6 October from Camp Elk Water, WV, three days after participating in the Battle of Greenbrier River: "The 9th & 7th soon run them in to their holes, then the 9th crossed the river. . . . We were ordered to lay down behind the fence, where we lay for some time. . . . They undertook to flank us, but the old colonel is never asleep in time of battle. . . . We sent them howling back to their holes. . . . They gave us a warm reception, fed us heavy on grape, bombs & canister. Their bombs I did not fear much, but I did not like their grapes. I would prefer to gather my own." The 28 October letter reports on nearby rebels "scouting through the country . . . stealing & destroying everything that they come to."  Finally, on 12 December from Camp Gavin at Big Capacon, WV, he reports that "it is expected here by the citizens that General Jackson is expecting to meet us here, though I think it very unlikely." He reported that a scouting expedition was accompanied by "our little bulldog as the advance guard. Our little dog's name is four pound cannon & was well fed, ready to go to biting at any time." 

Lot: 109 - (CIVIL WAR--INDIANA.) Autobiography of Major William C. Shaw, circa 1904

Autobiography of Major William C. Shaw. [Chicago, circa 1904] 19 typescript or carbon pages, 10½ x 8 inches, bound at top with brads, signed on final page; minor wear, heavily edited in pencil. William Cookman Shaw (1844-1922) joined the 38th Indiana Infantry as a sergeant in September 1861, re-enlisted, and survived numerous battles as he rose to the rank of major by the end of the war.  Here he recounts working in Kentucky as a young telegraph operator when Confederates began recruiting in his area. He fled home to New Albany, Indiana to join a Zouave regiment. On page 3, he describes being summoned to meet the intimidating General Sherman "with my heart in my mouth," but Sherman only wanted to draw upon his telegraphic expertise, and then sent him back to camp with "two great slabs of buttered home-made bread, having thick cuts of ham inside, and two big red apples," saying "there, Sergt., that will put some fat on your ribs." He shares personal anecdotes from the battles of Perryville and Chickamauga, and Sherman's Atlanta campaign.  After the war, Shaw wrote the first regimental history of the 38th, settled in Chicago as an agent selling bank punches, and also became an "expert on handwriting, forgeries, and changes in written instruments." Sounds like our kind of guy. Indiana Historical Society holds a small collection of his letters, but this memoir appears to be unknown and unpublished. 

Lot: 110 - (CIVIL WAR--IOWA.) Two letters by Iowa sergeant Joseph Miller, his portrait, and other family photographs and letters, 1840s to 1894

Two letters by Iowa sergeant Joseph G. Miller, his portrait, and other family photographs and letters. Various places, circa 1840s to 1894 24 items (14 letters and 10 photographs); condition varies but generally strong. Joseph G. Miller (1836-1862) was born in New Jersey and came west to Iowa with his parents; he worked as a silversmith in Boonesborough. He enlisted as a sergeant in the

Lot: 111 - (CIVIL WAR--MAINE.) H.A. Johnson. Letter on his capture at Gettysburg, and imprisonment at Belle Isle.

H.A. Johnson. Letter on his capture at Gettysburg, and imprisonment at Belle Isle. Annapolis, MD, 1 September 1863 Autograph Letter Signed to friend Samuel [Valpey, of Lynn, MA]. 7 pages, 7¾ x 4¾ inches, on 2 folding sheets; short separations at folds, minimal dampstaining. Hannibal Augustus Johnson (1841-1913) of Hallowell, ME was a sergeant in the 3rd Maine Infantry when he was captured at Gettysburg.  Here he recounts his capture, while on parole after being exchanged.  "I was taken prisoner on the 2nd of July at Gettysburg, and rather than being taken again, I would die in trying to escape from the enemy, but this time they got me cornered and I had to be surrendered or be shot. . . . We went into the fight with 197 men and lost 111 of them. . . . We did not know the rebels were whipped until the 5th, for on that day there army passed us going for the river as fast as they could go. . . . The Rebels told us that Gen'l Lee was going to give the Potomac army one of the worst whippings that ever an army got, that there army was going to winter in New York & Philadelphia. . . . When there army was retreating, we had fine times asking the guard if that was the way to these northern cities. If it was, it would be the long way. . . . They said that they expected to fight nothing but militia in Penn . . . but Gen'l Mead was up & dressed, and also the men under him."  He arrived in Richmond on 21 July after a grueling march with the retreating rebels. Confederate prison in Richmond, as expected, draws poor reviews here: "For what little time I was with them, I lost 26 pounds of flesh, for they did not give us enough to keep a cat alive. . .  We were at once put into Libby Prison and here again were searched, . . . taken on to Belle Island in the James River, and the worst place I think in the Confederacy, for here we were crowded together like cattle and had but little to eat." Each afternoon 100 men were given to share "6 buckets of rise soup, which was less than a pt to a man, and for 6 weeks this was my food. Now, do you wonder I lost flesh? . . . If ever I have charge of any prisoners, I will take everything of value from him, and if his boot are better than mine, off they come, for this is the way we were treated. . . .  There are now about 4000 men on the island, and they come on faster than they are taken off."  Johnson later rejoined his regiment, was captured again, escaped, and mustered out as a first lieutenant. After the war, he was a dry goods dealer in Massachusetts. In 1906, he published his memoir, "The Sword of Honor; a Story of the Civil War."

Lot: 112 - (CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) Robert S. Williamson. Sketch of the Defences of Newbern, circa March 1862

Robert S. Williamson. Sketch of the Defences of Newbern. New Bern, NC, circa March 1862 Manuscript map, 22½ x 13½ inches, in red and black on thin tracing paper; folds, minor foxing, 2 closed tears, missing a 2-inch section not substantially affecting the map. This map shows the known Confederate defenses of the coastal city of New Bern, NC. It was most likely done in preparation for the 14 March 1862 Battle of New Bern, in which Union forces routed a small group of defenders and then remained in possession of the city through the end of the war.  The map covers a large swath of land extending from New Bern southward about 15 miles, including a stretch of the Neuse River down to Slocum's Creek and much of what is now Croatan National Forest. Notable Confederate positions are numbered in red, with an explanatory key, including batteries, entrenchments, and field pieces; a few are noted as blown up or deserted. The Union place of landing and dragoon camp are also noted. The site of the actual 14 March battle about 5 miles south of the city is most heavily annotated, showing "detached lunettes guarded by riflemen," "13 gun battery and long entrenchments, enemy in force," and in the river "submarine chevaux de frise." The city to the north had been served by a "R.R. bridge, burned by the enemy," and was guarded by "cotton bale batteries" and "4 32s on platform cars."  The map was prepared under the direction of Captain Robert S. Williamson of the United States Topographical Engineers, assisted by H.C. Fillebrown and E.S. Waters. Another very similar tracing of the same map is held by the National Archives.

Lot: 113 - (CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) Henry L. Abbot. Plan of the First Battle of Bull Run. No place, 14 March 1862

Henry L. Abbot. Plan of the First Battle of Bull Run. No place, 14 March 1862 Salt print, 15¾ x 13½ inches, with manuscript and watercolor additions; folds, tipped to mat board on top edge, mount remnants on verso, 1½-inch closed tear; inscribed "with respects of Gen'l J.G. Barnard."  Henry Larcom Abbot was a topographer with the Army Corps of Engineers before, during, and after the Civil War. He was wounded at Bull Run. This manuscript map was later published with the title "Reconnaissance of the Battle Field at Bull Run, Va." It shows relief with hachures, names of some local property owners such as Mrs. Henry (Henry House Hill), and is annotated with troop positions and engagements such as "Confederate stand made on this ridge." The Library of Congress holds another copy of the salt print. Provenance: the personal and military papers of General John Gross Barnard (1815-1882), the chief engineer under General Grant from the Siege of Petersburg through Appomattox and the end of the war. 

Lot: 114 - (CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) Portions of Virginia and North Carolina. New York, 1864

Portions of Virginia and North Carolina, Embracing Richmond & Lynchburg, VA, and Goldsboro & Salisbury, N.C. New York: J. Schedler, 1864 4 unjoined sheets, each 19 x 23 inches including wide untrimmed margins; folds, minimal wear, one section marked in blue pencil on verso "V. & N.C."  Large lithographed map intended for strategic military planning in southern Virginia and central North Carolina during the American Civil War.  Stevenson 501.3 (without oval border around the title). Provenance: from a small cache found among the personal and military papers of General John Gross Barnard (1815-1882), the chief engineer under General Grant from the Siege of Petersburg through Appomattox and the end of the war. 

Lot: 115 - (CIVIL WAR--MAPS.) H. Lindenkohl Map of the City of Richmond, Virginia. No place: U.S. Coast Survey Office, 1864

H. Lindenkohl and Charles G. Krebs, lithographers. Map of the City of Richmond, Virginia. No place: U.S. Coast Survey Office, 1864 Printed map, 21 x 24¾, with bodies of water printed in blue and urban area in orange; folds, moderate offsetting, minimal wear. Derived "from a survey by I.H. Adams, Assist., U.S. Coast Survey, 1858, with additions from Smith's Map of Henrico County, 1853." Libbey [Libby] Prison is shown along the eastern part of the riverfront, the Tredegar Iron Works along the river to the west, "House of Jeff. Davis" at center, and a powder magazine in the hills to the north.  Provenance: the personal and military papers of General John Gross Barnard (1815-1882), the chief engineer under General Grant from the Siege of Petersburg through Appomattox and the end of the war. 

Lot: 116 - (CIVIL WAR--MARYLAND.) John M. Stevenson. Letters describing service under the famous Colonel Tevis, 1864

John M. Stevenson. Letters describing service in what sounds like the worst regiment in the Union Army, under the famous Colonel Tevis. Louisiana, 15 April and 21 June 1864 Pair of Autograph Letters Signed as surgeon of the 3rd Maryland Cavalry to friend William B. Hill, Secretary of State of Maryland. 4 and 6 pages, 10 x 7¾ inches, on folding sheets; partial separations at folds,

Lot: 117 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) William J. Dinsmore. Letters describing the inn where Colonel Ellsworth was shot, with a flagstaff fragment. Georgetown, DC, 1861

"I was in the house where Elsworth was shot." William J. Dinsmore. Letters describing the inn where Colonel Ellsworth was shot, with a flagstaff fragment. Georgetown, DC, 30 June and 4 July 1861 Pair of Autograph Letters Signed to wife Lizzie. 3 and 4 pages, each about 7½ x 49 inches on a folding sheet; mailing folds, minor foxing. With two original envelopes bearing free franks of C.H. Van Wyck, and a wood fragment about 1¾ inches long and less than ¼ inches across. On 24 May 1861, Colonel Elmer Ellsworth removed a Confederate flag from the roof of an inn in Alexandria, Virginia, and was shot by the innkeeper. He was the first Union officer killed in the war,  and the first great martyr of the Union cause. Fragments of the flagstaff and the stairs where he was killed were widely distributed as relics. Dinsmore wrote these letters a few weeks later while stationed in nearby Georgetown with the 1st Massachusetts Infantry. "Take good care of this little peice of wood I send in this letter, as it is a peice of the flagstaff from which the late Colonel Elsworth took the secession flag when he was shot. I also had a peice of the stairs where he stood when he was shot but I have lost it somewhere. The stairs of the hotel where he was shot is all cut to pieces and carried away as relics, as is also the flagstaff. There is some folks that would give 2 dollars for that peice that I send in this letter, of such value is every thing connected with Ellsworth death considered." Enclosed is the splinter of wood. Four days later, Dinsmore tells about how he obtained the specimen, while visiting a friend from another regiment stationed in Alexandria: "I was in the house where Elsworth was shot. It was an awful looking house with a guard of soldiers round it, and a sentry at the door to keep folks out. I got a pass from the provost marshall, so I had liberty to go all over. It is all tore to peices inside. The stairs where Elsworth was shot is all cut away, so is the floor, and every thing around the stairway that could be taken as relics." 

Lot: 118 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Reception of the Returning Troops! Lynn, MA, 29 July 1861

Reception of the Returning Troops! Lynn, MA, 29 July 1861 Letterpress broadside, 26½ x 12 inches; moderate foxing, conserved and silked. Celebrates the return of two Lynn militia companies which had answered the call to defend Washington and completed their three months of service. Their arrival in Lynn could only be narrowed down to a 48-hour window, but the plan was to announce their arrival in Boston with church bells, which would allow time for the parade to assemble. Many of these troops soon re-enlisted in the 19th Massachusetts Infantry.  None traced in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 119 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Sons of the Sires of '76. [Boston], circa October 1861

Sons of the Sires of '76. [Boston]: Keenan's Job Press, circa October 1861 Illustrated broadside, 26½ x 21¼ inches; light soiling, two areas of loss in upper corners, one of them about 10 x 1 inches with loss of one letter, laid down on linen at an early date, with mounting grommets in upper corners. "Now is the Time to Enlist. Ready with Musket, Rifle and Canno[n]. Arm for the Liberty Cap." A recruiting poster for seven Massachusetts infantry regiments, the 23rd through 28th. "Irishmen of Massachusetts you have two Regiments to choose from, the 28th Col. Thomas S. Murphy, and the 29th Col. Matthew Murphy." A cavalry regiment and a light artillery battery were also recruiting. The 28th fought in all the great battles of the Army of the Potomac as part of the Irish Brigade. Illustrated with an engraving of a charging zouave by Tyler. No other examples traced. A recruiting advertisement with very similar text appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript of 11 October 1861.

Lot: 120 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Every Able-Bodied Man . . The Time has Come! Let None Who Love their Country Falter! Cambridge, MA, September 1862

Every Able-Bodied Man . . . The Time has Come! Let None Who Love their Country Falter! Cambridge, MA, 16 September [1862] Small letterpress broadside, 6¾ x 9½ inches; small puncture in upper margin, light toning, right edge uncut, mount remnants on verso. A call to organize the militia of Cambridge, MA.  One in OCLC (Harvard).

Lot: 121 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Charles A. Smith. Letter describing the Battle of Fredericksburg, 20 December 1862

"Our colors were shot down three times" Charles A. Smith. Letter describing the Battle of Fredericksburg. Falmouth, VA, 20 December 1862 Autograph Letter Signed to father [Emmons Smith]. 4 pages, 9¾ x 7½ inches, on one folding sheet; folds, minor wear, 2-inch repaired closed tear. With typed transcript. Charles Austin Smith (1836-1910) was a shoemaker from Barre, MA who served as a corporal in the 21st Massachusetts Infantry. He writes a few days after the bloody Union defeat at Fredericksburg, and alludes to the heroism of his regiment's Medal of Honor winner Thomas Plunkett, who picked up the regimental flag, had both hands blown off by cannon fire, but continued forward with the flag tucked under what was left of his arms. Smith, writing for a family audience, makes it sound not quite that awful. "We were ordered into the fight and we charged across an open field for about half a mile in front of the rebel batteries, and they were a shelling us as fast as they could, but it did not drive us back. Our colors were shot down three times, but did not stay down but a short time. We were under the fire of the rebels for about five hours, and as hard fighting as I have ever seen." The next day, he was sent to the front on picket: "If a man showed his head in sight, the rebel sharpshooters would fire at him."  After participating in the butchery of Fredericksburg, Smith has a few words for the armchair warriors back home: "I hope the old hotheads at home will be satisfied now, for they are all the time wanting to know why the Union forces do not advance. Tell them to come out here and try it, and they will find that it is easyer to stay at home and talk. . . . I have been in eight fights, and have come out without a scratch as yet, but . . . it is by the goodness of my God." Smith survived the war, married, and raised a family in Hubbardstown, MA.

Lot: 122 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Freeman B. Shedd. Letter describing the Chancellorsville campaign with the 33rd Mass., 9 May 1863

Freeman B. Shedd. Letter describing the Chancellorsville campaign with the 33rd Mass. Near Stafford Court House, VA, 9 May 1863 Autograph Letter Signed as "Freeman" to mother and sisters. 10 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on 3 folding sheets; mailing folds, small stain on final leaf. Freeman Ballard Shedd (1844-1913) worked for a druggist in his native Lowell, MA before the war.  He enlisted in the 33rd Massachusetts as a private, but parlayed his modest medical knowledge into a new position: "I have been appointed hospital stew'd of the 33d Reg't."  This letter describes the Chancellorsville campaign from the initial troops movements of 27 April. The regiment has been in service for six months, but never faced fire until a few errant shells passed over their heads on the 29th: "Some of the boys were badly scared, but all escaped." They passed a blacksmith shop with a sign reading "Wurk dun at short notis an fur kash onli," which he considered "a remarkable specimen of southern orthography." On 2 May, while the regiment was out on a reconnaissance, the Confederates broke through the lines and captured all of their knapsacks and supplies, except for Shedd's valise in the hospital wagon which escaped in the retreat. The regiment found themselves near the front on 3 May: "Such cannonading I never heard before, & do not wish to hear again. It was fearful to hear the tremendous vollies of musketry, the booming of cannon, & the bursting of the shell, the cheers of the victorious & the groans of the wounded." Shedd sums up his long account of the campaign thus: "A tremendous slaughter, an infernal licking, and an inglorious retreat."  Shedd had a notable life after the war, becoming a successful cologne manufacturer. He donated the land for Lowell's Shedd Park in 1910. 

Lot: 123 - (CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) [Frank T. Leach.] Valley Campaign diary, Battle of New Market, 1 May to 15 August 1864

"We could count the buttons on Reb's coat." [Frank T. Leach.] Valley Campaign diary of the captain who led the skirmishers against the VMI cadets at New Market. Various places, 1 May to 15 August 1864 [98] manuscript diary pages, 16mo, original ¼ sheep, moderate wear, joints starting; minimal wear to contents, all entries in pencil. We sometimes see diaries of soldiers who

Lot: 124 - (CIVIL WAR--MUSIC.) Group of songsheets from the war era, some of them unrecorded, most circa 1861-1865

Group of songsheets from the war era, most of them unrecorded. Various places, most circa 1861-1865 13 printed songsheets (no music), most about 9 x 5 inches except as noted; each with adhesive spots bleeding through at corners, a few short repairs. Matilda Pettit. "Dedicated for the Wheatley Guards." None in OCLC. No place, undated. "Song of Gideon's Band, Company F, Gray Reserves." ½-inch repaired tear. None in OCLC.  [Philadelphia]: Crissy & Markley, undated.  "A Soldier's Dream on the Battle Field, by a One Leg Soldier." None in OCLC. [Philadelphia]: Kretschman Bros., undated. John Y. Wren. "The Union Soldiers Address to the Flag." None in OCLC. Camden, NJ: W.W. Pell, circa 1864. "Our Flag's Come Back to Tennessee." None in OCLC. [Philadelphia]: Johnson, undated. John W. Slack. "Union Prisoners from Dixie's Sunny Land." None in OCLC. Philadelphia: Johnson, undated. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." Philadelphia: Johnson, undated. T. Buchanan Read. "Sheridan's Ride!" None in OCLC. Philadelphia: Johnson, undated. "Peter Peppercorn." "The Winchester Gallop," 11¾ x 8¾ inches. None in OCLC. No place, undated.  "Ibex." "Song of the 214th Regt. P.V." A humorous tribute to a regiment which mustered on 8 April 1865, just as the war was ending. None in OCLC. Philadelphia: Johnson, undated. C.H. Readel. "The Union Flag Waves Triumphant." None in OCLC. Philadelphia, 4 July 1865. C.H. Readel. "The Union Eagle Soars on High." Dedicated to President Johnson. None in OCLC. Philadelphia, 4 July 1865. Francis D. Janvier. "God Save Our President," in manuscript facsimile. Composed in 1857; printed circa 1877.

Lot: 125 - (CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Papers of Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith, 1861-1864 and 1888

Papers of Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith. Various places, 1861-1864 and 1888 20 items, condition varies; some items with ring binder holes, tape repairs, and/or mount remnants.   Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith (1825-1864) was a career naval officer from New Jersey; during the war he served in the Mississippi River Squadron. This family archive includes:  Salt print photograph, 3¼ x 3 inches, mounted on paper; inscribed with Smith's name on mount.   5 Letters Signed by David Dixon Porter, 1862-1863, most notably a 2-page "Night Orders for the Yazoo River" (full separation at fold): "The ironclads in the Yazoo will keep a bright lookout in front or up river, and show no lights. They will open fire with solid shot on any steamer they may see coming down, supposed to be an enemy. . . . If the enemy should get past the ironclads (which I deem impossibly), the rams will run into them with all their force." 23 January 1863. Letters Signed with orders signed by officers Andrew Hull Foote (one from April 1861), Brigadier General Leonard F. Ross (2 from March 1863 as commander of Yazoo Expedition), Major General Nathaniel P. Banks (2 from 1864, concerning the danger of rising waters to the Mississippi Squadron, and ordering a patrol of the Atchafalaya); and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles (one from 1864).  Condolence letter from Captain Kidder Randolph Breese to Smith's niece Miss Ashmore, upon Smith's death. Flag ship Malvern, 28 December 1864. Autograph Letter Signed from Watson Smith to A.R. Langthorne of the steamer Cricket.  Helena, AR, 15 February 1863. "List of Officers of the Mortar Flotilla, Commander D.D. Porter." 3 pages, circa January 1862 "Regulations for the Uniform of the United States Navy." 10 printed pages, 1864.  Farewell order from Admiral David Dixon Porter to the Mississippi Squadron, 4 printed pages. One in OCLC, among Porter's papers at Ohio History Connection. Mound City, IL, 28 September 1864. "Life of Watson Smith, Lieutenant-Commander in the United States Navy." 2 volumes. 59; 15, [55] manuscript pages. 4to, cloth backed boards, minor wear, coming disbound. Consists largely of transcriptions of letters and diaries found among Smith's personal papers after his death. Written in 1887 and 1888 by Smith's teenaged grand-nephew Henry Watson Armstrong (1875-1960), who later became an Episcopalian minister. Armstrong's grandmother Catherine Lalor Smith Ashmore (1816-1901) was Watson Smith's older sister, which explains why she had Watson Smith's papers after he died.  More detailed inventory available upon request. See lot 61 for a sketch of a Baffin Bay iceberg and other papers from Smith's earlier career. 

Lot: 126 - (CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Rifled-Guns, broadside. Hampton Roads, VA, 10 November 1861

Rifled-Guns broadside. Hampton Roads, VA, 10 November 1861 Letterpress broadside, 14 x 8¼ inches; folds, minimal wear. This order was issued early in the war from the USS Minnesota, the flagship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Louis M. Goldsborough. It specifies the ammunition and powder to be used in the squadron's 80-pound guns, whether solid shot, hollow shot "of Dahlgren's design," or "shells designed by both Cochran and Hotchkiss." Instructions for safely cleaning fragments from the vents are also provided. None others traced at auction or in OCLC. 

Lot: 127 - (CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) D.F. Mosman. Description of the very sloppy capture of a blockade runner heading to Charleston, 7 July 1862

D.F. Mosman. Description of the very sloppy capture of a blockade runner heading to Charleston. Aboard the U.S. Steamer Flag, 7 July 1862 Autograph Letter Signed as Acting Master to Commander James H. Strong, partly in a secretarial hand. 7 pages, 9½ x 7½ inches, on 3 sheets; mailing folds, minor wear and foxing. Daniel Francis Mosman (1827-1882) commanded an expedition of two cutters in "Bull's Bay in search of stm'r supposed to have run the blockade . . . in the channel leading to Charleston." They nearly fired upon two boats from the USS Restless "who had entered the bay about two hours in advance before us on the same errand." The boats all joined forces and easily captured the steamer, which flew English colors.  However, the crew was undisciplined and broke the window into the cabin of the prize steamer. Mosman found the men "capsizing and breaking up things promisquily about the cabin . . . liquor had been distributed among the crew. . . . Drawing my cutlass I drove them out and cleared the cabin." After dumping cargo overboard, the prize was towed out toward sea with prisoners. "A man named Taylor belonging to the Flag fell overboard out of the second cutter. Stopped the engine and sent a boat after him, but before reaching him he sunk." One of the Flag's men tied to repair the prize's engine, but "received a serious scalp wound." Finally, "the U.S. Schooner Blunt commenced shelling us, and continued for nearly an hour. Fortunately for us, she was unable to reach us."  A 16 July 1862 article in the Rochester Times and Union named the English steamer as the Emily, and the drowned crew member as Frederick Taylor, but they omitted the drunken crew members ransacking the Emily's cabin.

Lot: 128 - (CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Group including orders signed by Welles, Du Pont, and Dahlgren, 1862-1865

Group including orders signed by Welles, Du Pont, and Dahlgren. Various places, 1862-1865 9 items, most addressed to naval officer James Cara Williamson (1813-1871); condition generally strong. 4 Documents Signed by Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles, 1862-1865 (one additionally signed by Commander John A. Dahlgren). Letter Signed by Samuel Francis Du Pont. "I do not feel satisfied as to the enquiry I made in reference to Wesley Wilson. . .  I wish you to ascertain if any colored man was received on board as servants." Port Royal, SC, 21 July 1862. Letter Signed by John A. Dahlgren, appointing Williamson to a court martial. Port Royal, SC, 15 August 1864. Circular letter signed in type by Gideon Welles, forbidding the use of distilled spiritous liquor on naval vessels. Navy Department, 16 September 1862. Manuscript copy of an act of Congress "to establish and equalize the grades of line officers of the U.S. Navy," 16 July 1862. Autograph Letter Signed by Captain Joshua W. Crosby, listing offices of  small expedition, 8 August 1864.

Lot: 129 - (CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) David J. Shepherd. Diary of an officer of the schooner Abby B. South Carolina, 1864-1865

David J. Shepherd. Diary of an officer of the schooner Abby B in government service. Off South Carolina and elsewhere, 5 June 1864 to 23 January 1865 27, [40] manuscript diary pages including numerous illustrations. 8vo, 7½ x 4¾ inches, original limp calf, worn, rebacked; illustrated title page worn and tipped to first diary page, minor wear to diary pages with a few tasteful repairs.  David J. Shepherd (1836-1897) of New Bedford, MA served as first mate on the schooner Abby B of Providence, RI, a private vessel in the government service under Captain Leander Smith.  His log begins laying off Hilton Head, SC. Moving up the coast toward Charleston, he reports on the minor Battle of Burden's Causeway on James Island, SC on 2 and 3 July 1864: "There is heavy fighting on James Island today. They have been boating the wounded all day by us." On 9 September 1864 he noted that "all the vessells in the harbor set there colors in honor of Shearman's capture of Atlanta." Similarly, "the city of Savannah was evacuated Dec 22d 1864. Bully for Sherman, he is the man for Uncle Sam."  Shepherd was a good artist and begins the volume with an elaborate armorial title page showing crossed cannons and a ship. At the rear is a sketch of a Parrott artillery piece titled "the pet parrot." His other illustrations include a pipe-smoking skeleton, a cannon, a small ship. As a former New Bedford mariner, Shepherd brought a whale stamp aboard and randomly decorated 4 pages with impressions from it. Provenance: purchased by Greg Gibson of the Ten Pound Island Book Company at the Florida Book Fair per his March 2012 "Bookman's Blog" entry, and then sold to the consignor. 

Lot: 130 - (CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry, to investigate the fatal wreck of the transport steamer Quinnebaugh, July 1865

Proceedings of a Court of Inquiry to investigate the fatal wreck of the transport steamer Quinnebaugh. Morehead City, NC, July 1865 30 manuscript pages, 12½ x 7¾ inches, on 8 unbound folding sheets, the first 7 sheets apparently a secretarial transcript and the final report in a different hand, signed by H.A. Oakman as president of the court; folds, minor wear. With full typed transcript.  On 20 July 1865, the fighting was long over. The battered 76th Pennsylvania Infantry was ready to go home from garrison duty in North Carolina, and was loaded onto two transport steamers. The seas were a bit choppy as they cruised out of the Beaufort Inlet to the open ocean. The engine died on the USS Quinnebaugh, it drifted toward the rocks, and began to sink. The soldiers panicked and swamped the lifeboats; 13 men were lost. Offered here are the minutes of the court of inquiry which was convened in nearby Morehead City the next day. Testimony is heard from the officers of both the Quinnebaugh and the 76th Pennsylvania, as well as the harbor master, maintenance crew, and participants in the rescue. A 76th captain testified that "when the boat became unmanageable, the captain left the wheel, and no one took his place, and no discipline was observed among the crew" (page 3). The Quinnebaugh's captain asserted that the boats were taken contrary to my orders . . . overloaded with men who did not understand handling them. . . . The ship did not go to pieces until during the night" (page 7). A pilot who had recently been on the ship pronounced that "I do not think she was a safe vessel for all weather in sea service . . . on account of her age and size" (pages 13-14). A local blacksmith testified that he had recently put a patch on the engine's steam drum, adding that "it was a common remark that she ought not to go to sea . . . I never heard so many remarks made about any other transport" (pages 15-16). An officer who examined the wreck the next day noted "the condition of the deck timbers lying on the beach" and their "rotten condition . . . pieces of it could be broken off with the hands without difficulty. . . . I never saw a vessel come ashore in so many pieces before" (page 26-27). The court concluded that the wreck was due to "unseaworthiness of the ship," and that the "panic which existed among a portion of the men we find to be largely owing to the belief generally existing aboard that they were on an old and weak ship." 

Lot: 131 - (CIVIL WAR--NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Calvin M. Burbank. Diary of a corporal with the Peninsular Campaign and Fredericksburg, 1862-1863

Calvin M. Burbank. Diary of a corporal with the Peninsular Campaign and at Fredericksburg. Various places, 1 January 1862 to 24 February 1863 [122] manuscript diary pages, plus [12] pages of memoranda. 16mo, 4¾ x 2¾ inches, original limp cloth, worn; minor dampstaining, some entries faint or overwritten; signed on front free endpaper. Calvin Morris Burbank (1832-1866) of Boscawen, NH served in the 2nd New Hampshire Infantry. He was promoted to corporal in May 1862.  Burbank kept this daily diary in ink through May 1862, and then added entries in pencil through early 1863. Most of his entries are very brief, with a bit more detail after a battle. The regiment served on the Peninsular Campaign starting in April 1862. On the 5 May Battle of Williamsburg: "Started at sunrise on the march in pursuit of the Rebels. Come up with them at Williamsburgh at 6 o'clock. One division held the enemy in check for 9 hours when, reinforcements coming up, we drove them back into their entrenchments." Preceding Malvern Hill, 29-30 June: "Evacuated our camp and retreated towards James River. Hard fighting all day.  . . . Still retreating towards James River. Rebels in hot pursuit." On 8 July 1862, he noted: "President Lincoln arrived at the landing and reviewed the troops." At Second Bull Run, 27-29 August: "Engaged the enemy near Manassas at Bristow Station. . . . Started in retreat, camped 4 miles from Manassas. . . . Moved forward to Bull Run and camped. Severe fighting all day." The regiment fought at Fredericksburg, 11 to 15 December 1862: "Marched toward the river to take part in the attack on Fredericksburg, which commenced at 5 today. . . . Action commenced at 9 o'clock A.M. and raged till dark with great vigor and but little success. . . . The fight recommenced at daylight, and we carried on in front of our division, mostly by skirmishing till night. . . . Relieved from the front and fell back to the rear. At dark, ordered to the front again, and at 12 o'clock fell back across the river." Burbank was later wounded at both Gettysburg and Drewry's Bluff, and mustered out in 1864. He then died of smallpox in 1866.

Lot: 132 - (CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Merrick Stowell. Letter describing the "shameful" retreat from Bull Run. VA, 31 July 1861

Merrick Stowell. Letter describing the "shameful" retreat from Bull Run. Arlington Mill, VA, 31 July 1861 Autograph Letter Signed "M Stowell" to unidentified friend. 4 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; mailing folds, minimal wear. With typed transcript. Merrick Stowell (1838-1921) was a teacher from Scriba, NY. His regiment, the 24th New York Infantry, was recruited in Oswego County, mustered in on 17 May, and arrived in Washington on 3 July. Like almost all of the Union regiments, they were new to the army.  The regiment was late to the party for the catastrophic defeat at Bull Run: "We marched into Vir. the next morning, just in time to meet part of the army retreating. . . . We met two whole regiments retreating, the rest of the army having gone by other roads. . . . It was shameful the way our army retreated. It was no disgrace to be repulsed by the batteries, but it was a disgrace to retreat from Fairfax. . . . It made me angry, ashamed of our troops, to see them retreating as they did. It was simply a panic."

Lot: 133 - (CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) A.S. Bodine. Three Months Experience at the Commencement of the Union War, 5 March 1862

A.S. Bodine. Three Months Experience at the Commencement of the Union War. Brooklyn, NY, 5 March 1862 32 manuscript pages, 8 x 6¾ inches, stitched. 4to, original patterned cloth-backed boards with manuscript label, moderate wear, detached from text block; minor wear and toning to contents. With complete typed transcript.   Augustus Stanton Bodine (1834-1908) wrote this as a memoir of his service as a corporal in the 71st New York Infantry, one of the first militia units which rushed to defend Washington in the early weeks of the war. It is dated a few months after his return to New York, although the lined paper suggests that it may have been transcribed into this notebook a few years later. Bodine's regiment mobilized after hearing the news of the attack on the 6th Massachusetts in Baltimore. They arrived in Washington on 25 April, marching 28 miles of the journey because of threats to the rail lines. He comments on one of the most dramatic episodes of this early period: "The remains of Colonel Ellsworth, who was shot by the traitor Jackson at Alexandria, Va., were brought into the yard, casting another cloud over us. The body was taken in charge by our guard, and remained until removed to the White House, where the funeral took place, our regiment acting as a guard of honor." They spent the next weeks occupying Alexandria across the Potomac.  On the day after their three-month mobilization officially ended, they fought at the Battle of Bull Run: "The Fourth Alabama Regiment made three separate charges upon our lines, but were as often repulsed with great loss, our men loading while lying on their backs and firing on their knees. The bullets fell thick and fast into our ranks, dealing death to some of our brave comrades." On the retreat, Cub Run Bridge was "filled with artillery carriages and ambulances all entangled together. Just at this point a battery opened upon us its belching fire of shot and shell. Many of our men were compelled to wade through the creek up to their waists." A few days later, they were back in New York: "We landed amid cheering and firing of cannon." 

Lot: 134 - (CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) John Clemence. Letters describing Second Bull Run and Antietam, 5 and 23 September 1862

"I never seen dead men lay so thick as the Rebels did." John Clemence. Letters describing Second Bull Run and Antietam. Various places, 5 and 23 September 1862 Two Autograph Letters (one signed) to mother Sarah Clemence. Each 4 pages, about 8 x 5 inches, on a folding sheet of illustrated letterhead; minor wear. John Clemence (1841-1882) was born in Canada, and was a salt packer in

Lot: 135 - (CIVIL WAR --NEW YORK.) Luther L. Benson. Describing the Battle of Hatcher's Run with the 8th New York Heavy Artillery, 23 February 1865

Luther L. Benson. Describing the Battle of Hatcher's Run with the 8th New York Heavy Artillery. Hatcher's Run, VA, 23 February 1864 [1865] Autograph Letter Signed to brother Jesse Benson of Shelby, NY. 4 pages, 12½ x 7¾ inches, on one folding sheet; minor wear at intersection of folds. With stamped envelope bearing Washington postmark. Before the war, Luther Lee Benson (1843-1915) worked on the family farm in Shelby in western New York. He served as a corporal in the 8th New York Heavy Artillery. This letter recounts the 5-7 February 1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run which preceded the fall of Petersburg. "We advanced the fifth of February and drove in their pickets. . . . About two o'clock the Rebs began to shell us. They kept it up untill nearly dusk, and then they ataced on our right flank and made three charges and was driven back each time. . . . The next night they ataced us on the left flank and in the rear, which made it rather gloomy. They was within 20 rods of us at one time, but the old Six Corps came up just in time to save us from Richmond."

Lot: 136 - (CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) John W. Fessenden. Letter describing the Battle of Shiloh in gory detail, 10 April 1862

"Old Gen. Grant ought to be choaked." John W. Fessenden. Letter describing the Battle of Shiloh in gory detail. No place, 10 April 1862 Autograph Letter Signed as "J.W.F." to his wife Mary Righter Fessenden. 6 pages, 7¾ x 5 inches, on two sheets; mailing folds, minimal wear. With typed transcript. John White Fessenden (1821-1899) of Twinsburg, OH was a married music teacher and carriage painter with seven children when he enlisted as a private in the 49th Illinois Infantry. Fessenden offers a dramatic narrative of the Battle of Shiloh. On the first day, Grant's Army of the Tennessee was caught by surprise and badly routed: "They advanced without a check, making our men flee before them like sheep. They had artilery, & we had non. . . . In less than an [h]our they were in our camp. . . . You never saw such excitement. There were more than five thousand able-bodied men that could fight, but they could not be ralyed. Some swam the river. . . . If our men had not got frightened on the start, there never would have been this defeat, but it was a perfect surprise to our armey, then there was no generalship display on our side. Every reg't fought on its own hook. Old Gen. Grant ought to be choaked." Overnight, Buell's Army of the Ohio arrived to reinforce Grant. On 6 April, "the Rebels, drunk on the success of the day before, were sure of victory, but Buell took command & things went differant . . . driving them back untill about ½ past 2 o'clock, when they were put to flight, and as they fled they slashed our tents and cut the roofs." Fessenden's unit was soon able to return to the camp they had fled from the day before. "Look to your right & left, you can count 20 dead men, mostly laying on their backs, some with heads blown off, some with a bawl through the eyes & head, others with the lower part of their faces blown off. . . . Now this will give you an idea what I saw for 2 miles every way. . . . Others who were wounded in the head & had begun to decay were frightful-looking objects. I presume they will not all be buried for a week to come." All of the regiment's personal effects were found to be ransacked or destroyed. With--a slip of paper signed by the 49th Illinois commander William R. Morrison, 1862; and 3 documents relating to Fessenden's disability pension application, 1879. They are rich in biographical and medical detail.

Lot: 137 - (CIVIL WAR--OHIO.) Francis D. Morris. A surgeon's letter describing his regiment's injuries at Peachtree Creek. Georgia, 7 August 1864

"From the front, from the right, from the left, the bullets whistled & hissed" Francis D. Morris. A surgeon's letter describing his regiment's injuries at Peachtree Creek. Vining's Bridge, GA, 7 August 1864 Autograph Letter Signed to A.H. Landis of Chattanooga, TN. 4 pages, 10 x 7¾ inches, on one folding sheet; mailing folds, minimal wear. With envelope lacking stamp and bearing Nashville postmark.  Francis "Frank" Dunlevy Morris (1830-1864) of Hamilton, OH was the surgeon of the 35th Ohio Infantry. The letter was written to his assistant surgeon Abraham Hoch Landis (1821-1896), then recovering at home from a wound suffered near Kenesaw Mountain (he would later famously name his son after the mountain). Writing as one surgeon to another, the letter is rich in medical detail. "We were ordered to occuppy some deserted rebel entrenchments in our front. . . . Companies A, B, & D were thrown out as skirmishers. They did not move far away from the entrenchments. They all testify that it was a hotter place than any they have been in since Chicamauga. They were exposed to a direct fire and also to a double enfilading fire. From the front, from the right, from the left, the bullets whistled & hissed. How any of them escaped is a marvel. Poor Capt. Daugherty was shot through the heart! Black of Comp. D was struck about the middle of the tibia of right fore leg, and the ball was divided in halves, and the sections passed around the bone at either side and lodged under the integument over the belly of the gastrocnemius. . . . The men were without any means of erecting defenses and had to take advantage of inequalities in the ground when they were in the open field, and where they were in the woods, a tree afford them a slight protection. Slight, because it was impossible to tell upon which side to take refuge." Dr. Morris was soon sent home to Ohio due to illness, and died just a few weeks after writing this letter.

Lot: 138 - (CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) James Carroll. Letter on his regiment's near-disaster at Cold Harbor, 10 June 1864

James Carroll. Letter on his regiment's near-disaster at Cold Harbor. Dick Burnett's plantation, VA, 10 June 1864 Autograph Letter Signed to friend Henry A. Breed of Pittsburgh, PA. 4 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; mailing folds, minimal wear. With stamped envelope bearing Washington postmark, and typed transcript. James J. Carroll (1841-1896) of Pittsburgh served in the 155th Pennsylvania Infantry. Writing from the Battle of Cold Harbor, he recalls that after 2 June, "the rebs broke through Burnside's men and caused our right to give back. We stood a narrow escape of being taken prisoners, as a good many of our brigade did. . . . Lieut. Bell went up to top of the hill to see if there was anyone in our front, when he seen the Rebs coming out the double quick. One of the aids came up and ordered the reg't to right face, file right, double quick, follow me, so that saved our reg't from being taken or cut up, as there was none joining on either side of us . . . Both shot & shells coming thick, so we formed on the pike, and all the rest came up to us."

Lot: 139 - (CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Photograph of a Civil War officer, signed by Mathew Brady. Washington, 30 October 1861

Photograph of a Civil War officer, signed by Mathew Brady. Washington, 30 October 1861 Albumen photograph, 8 x 6½ inches, on original plain mount, captioned enigmatically "Raised March 17th 1857" on recto, and signed and inscribed by the photographer on verso "Brady, Washington, Oct. 30 1861"; uneven toning to mount, one-inch length of string trapped under the photograph while mounting.  Brady did not routinely sign his work. We are aware of only two other photographs signed by Brady at auction: a cabinet card of Ulysses S. Grant inscribed "To J.E. Kelly from M.B. Brady" (Christie's, 15 November 2005, $10,500); and a portrait of Canadian Prime Minister John A. MacDonald (Swann, 27 June 2024, $4,250). The sitter, photographed in full dress uniform, with epaulettes, gloves, and sword, is not identified, but bears a strong resemblance to Major Charles Peleg Chandler (1835-1862) of Foxcroft, ME, a graduate of Bowdoin College (1854) and Harvard Law (1857) who served as major of the 1st Massachusetts Infantry, and fought at the Battle of Bull Run. On the date Brady signed this portrait, Chandler's regiment was stationed at Budd's Ferry, MD, about 25 miles south of Washington. A Brady portrait of Chandler from a different sitting survives in carte-de-visite form. Major Chandler was killed at Glendale in June 1862. 

Lot: 140 - (CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Mathew Brady. Photograph of his darkroom "What-Is-It" wagon. City Point, VA, circa summer 1864

Mathew Brady. Photograph of his darkroom "What-Is-It" wagon. City Point, VA, circa summer 1864 Albumen photograph, 3¼ x 4 inches, on early mount, with manuscript caption "Photographer's Outfit, City Point, Va.", with later caption stickers on verso; pinhole and minor wear to mount. This photograph appears in Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, page 8:25, with the caption "In the early years of the war the soldiers were so mystified by the peculiar-looking wagon in which Brady kept his traveling dark-room that they nicknamed it the 'What-Is-It?' wagon, a name which clung to the photographer's outfit all through the war. [This] photograph, with the two bashful-looking horses huddling together before the camera, shows Brady's outfit going to the front, in 1861." It also appears as image 97 in Roy Meredith's 1974 compilation, "Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady," placing the date as summer of 1864. That date seems more likely than 1861, as City Point was a major Union base during the siege of Petersburg toward the end of the war.

Lot: 141 - (CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHY.) Group of Civil War-era cartes de visite, most circa 1861-1865

Group of Civil War-era cartes de visite. Various places, most circa 1861-1865 34 items: 18 carte-de-visite photographs, 5 carte-de-visite photographs of engravings; and 11 carte-de-visite-sized engravings; generally minor wear. 8 generals are represented here by carte-de-visite photographs: Grant, McClellan (one alone, one with wife), Burnside,  Hooker, Dix, Garland, and Confederate John Johnston. One shows Kaiser Wilhelm.  You know what the generals look like; we'll illustrate a few of the others. 9 other photographs are unidentified or of lesser-known figures. One confident young officer is captioned simply "A hero & knows it"; another pose from the same sitting at the Maine State Archives identifies him as Captain Benjamin Rollins of the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery. Another bears the name Joseph Statler. One of a young officer holding his hat is on a Brady's National Portrait Gallery mount. 

Lot: 142 - (CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) Sacred to the Memory of Poor Trust, circa 1863

Sacred to the Memory of Poor Trust. Hartford, CT: E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, circa 1863 Hand-colored lithograph, 16¾ x 11½ inches; ¾-inch repaired closed tear and tiny ink spot in upper margin.  This print shows two Union recruits who have been lured into the service by large bounties but "unfortunately fell on the Island of Deception under the command of General Bad Pay." The text plays off an old English tavern sign which was sometimes printed in the humor section of newspapers.  Not in OCLC, no other examples traced at auction. 

Lot: 143 - (CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) John Henry Bufford, lithographer. Group of 13 of his Civil War view cards, circa 1864

John Henry Bufford, lithographer. Group of 13 of his Civil War view cards. [Boston], circa 1864 Chromolithograph cards, each about 2¼ x 3¾ inches; each cropped along one edge. Includes: "In the Trenches Before Richmond"; "Bivouac of Gen. Meade's Army"; "Gen. Meade at his Headquarters"; "Forced March in a Snow Storm"; "Story of a Battle"; "In the Hospital"; "Bull Run"; "The Sentinel"; "Midnight Assault"; "Our Artist in the Field"; "Officer & Dog"; "Foraging Party"; "Crossing the Rapidan, May 1864." 

Lot: 144 - (CIVIL WAR--PRINTS.) John Cameron, lithographer. The Capture of an Unprotected Female, or The Close of the Rebellion. New York: Currier & Ives, 1865

John Cameron, lithographer. The Capture of an Unprotected Female, or The Close of the Rebellion. New York: Currier & Ives, 1865 Hand-colored lithograph, 13 x 17¼ inches; mat toning, ½-inch loss at one corner, 3 minor repairs in margins, mount remnants on verso. A satire on Jefferson Davis, who was captured on 10 May 1865 while wearing his wife's cloak. Here he is mocked by Union troops while his wife defends him. Davis, who had famously declared the Union naval blockade to be a blessing in disguise, here announces "I plainly perceive that this is another blessing disguise!! and the greatest of them all!!!" Peters 1618.

Lot: 145 - (CIVIL WAR--PRISONS.) Pass issued to Dr. Lincoln Stone as prisoner of war granted "the privilege of the town." Winchester, VA, 26 May 1862

BY ORDER OF STONEWALL JACKSON. Pass issued to prisoner Dr. Lincoln Stone as prisoner of war granted "the privilege of the town." Winchester, VA, 26 May 1862 Autograph Document Signed by Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lawson Botts, 4 x 5 inches; folds, minor wear. With a period envelope reading "Miscellaneous papers, parole, et cet., L.R. Stone."  Lincoln Ripley Stone (1832-1930) of Salem, MA graduated from Harvard in 1854, and enlisted early in the war as an assistant surgeon with the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry. While tending to injured soldiers at the 25 May 1862 First Battle of Winchester, he was captured by the Confederates.  This pass was written at the Confederate headquarters in Winchester the day after he was captured: "Dr. L.R. Stone, 2nd Mass, has the privilege of the town of Winchester till further orders, by command of Major Gen'l Jackson." It was signed by Lt. Col. Lawson Botts, commander of the post. During the American Revolution, captured officers were sometimes allowed the gentleman's privilege of roaming freely through the town. However, we have rarely seen this privilege extended by either side during the Civil War. Dr. Stone likely received gentler treatment because of his role as a physician. Stone was soon paroled and released. In May 1863, he joined the famous 54th Massachusetts as their surgeon, serving with them at Fort Wagner.

Lot: 146 - (CIVIL WAR--PRISONS.) W.B. Stevens. Letter discussing life at Libby Prison and the escape of 109 prisoners, 8 April 1864

W.B. Stevens. Letter discussing life at Libby Prison and the escape of 109 prisoners. Annapolis, MD, 8 April 1864 Autograph Letter Signed to friend Nancie Abbie Harriman of Boston. 11 pages, 7¾ x 4¾ inches, on 3 folding sheets; faint dampstaining. With stamped envelope bearing Annapolis, MD postmark.  William Byrd Stevens (1837-1864) of East Montpelier, VT was a sergeant in the 4th Vermont Infantry, was captured by the Confederates in October 1863, and was released from Richmond's infamous Libby Prison in March 1864. This letter was written on parole the following month as he recovered his strength. "You will never realize the sufferings federal prisoners undergo . . . from filth, starvation and vermin. It is almost too revolting to speak of. . . . While I was in the hospital, there were one thousand six hundred deaths."  He describes the explosives rigged to kill the prisoners in the event of a Union raid on Richmond: "Think of the mine under the Libby, when, if Kilpatrick was successful, and made an entry to the city, two hundred pounds of powder was to be exploded under those nine hundred federal officers."  He also discusses stricter conditions after the famous Libby escape of February 1864: "After the escape of the hundred and nine with Colonel Streight, all communications between the officers on different floors was cut off by removing the staircases, so that in a case of fire, few of them could have made an escape." After the horrors of Libby Prison, Stevens was soon able to rejoin his regiment, and was mortally wounded at the Battle of Cold Harbor in June. 

Lot: 147 - (CIVIL WAR--PRISONS.) Alban Jeremiah Klapp. The Andersonville Stockade, 1903, owned by a survivor

Alban Jeremiah Klapp. The Andersonville Stockade, owned by a survivor. No place, 1903 Print, 15½ x 22½ inches; minor foxing and wear. In period wood frame bearing a worn plaque: "George H. Lamb, Co. L, 5th N.Y. Calvery, Captured June 29, 1864, released April 29th 1865."  George Lamb (1846-1926) was a carpenter from Cornwall in Orange County, NY, and served as a corporal in the 5th New York Cavalry.  He was captured on 28 June 1864, and his name appears on the Andersonville monument. 

Lot: 148 - (CIVIL WAR--RHODE ISLAND.) Charles Thayer. Two letters from a cavalry officer on the Valley Campaign, October-November 1864

Charles Thayer. Two letters from a cavalry officer on the Valley Campaign. Various places, October-November 1864 Pair of Autograph Letters Signed to his mother Caroline Thayer in Franklin, MA. Each 4 pages on one folding sheet, the first 12½ x 7¾ inches, and the second 10 x 7¾ inches; each with mailing folds and repaired closed tears. With two stamped envelopes bearing Martinsburg, WV postmarks. Charles Henry Thayer (1840-1903) of Franklin, MA enlisted just over the border with the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry.  His first letter describes the Union's romp at Tom's Brook, toward the end of Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. "We fought the enemy's cavalry & drove them in confusion through Woodstock, Edinburgh, to Mt. Jackson, one of the greatest cavalry fights in which I ever participated. We captured 11 pieces of artillery, 40 wagons, & two hundred prisoners."  He also describes a less happy skirmish the following day: "Col. Nott of Gen. Sheridan's staff, while coming from Winchester today with 25 men, was attacked by a large party of guerillas, and his party dispersed, most of his men being killed & wounded. He was so severely wounded that he lived only 12 hours after getting to camp." He also describes at length the execution of a deserter named John Gatz after a rapid "drum head court martial." Near Strasburg, VA, 14 October 1864. Thayer's 17 November letter describes large numbers of Confederate deserters coming into the lines, who were then enlisted into Union regiments, and proved no more enthusiastic after switching sides: "Out of 50 conscripts, over half deserted." Kernstown, VA, 17 November 1864.

Lot: 149 - (CIVIL WAR--U.S.C.T.) Silas Casey. Infantry Tactics, Vol. II, owned by an officer in the famous 54th Massachusetts. New York, 1862

Silas Casey. Infantry Tactics, Vol. II, owned by an officer in the famous 54th Massachusetts, last Union officer killed in the war. New York, 1862 35 plates. 279, 6 pages including publisher's ads. 12mo, publisher's cloth, cocked and worn; minor foxing and dampstaining; inscribed on front free endpapers "Lieut. E.L. Stevens, 54th Mass. Vols.," with a list of the regiment's locations including Morris Island, SC (site of the Battle of Fort Wagner).  Edward Lewis Stevens (1842-1865) was a Boston native and Harvard student who enlisted as a private in a 9-month regiment, returned to Boston, and then joined the 54th Massachusetts Infantry in April 1864 as one of their white officers. The regiment had already earned enduring fame for their role at the Battle of Fort Wagner (featured in the film Glory). On 18 April 1865, Lieutenant Stevens was killed at the Battle of Boykin's Mill in South Carolina, after Lee's surrender and the Lincoln Assassination. It was one of the last battles of the war, and Stevens was the last Union officer killed in the war. 

Lot: 150 - (CIVIL WAR--U.S.C.T.) Daniel R. Smith. Letters of a captain in the 2nd Corps d'Afrique Engineers, 1863-1865

Daniel R. Smith. Letters of a captain in the 2nd Corps d'Afrique Engineers. Various places, 1863-1865 3 Autograph Letters Signed to mother Jane French Smith of Turner, ME. Each 3 or 4 pages on one folding sheet, various sizes; partial separations at folds. With stamped envelopes bearing New Orleans postmarks. Daniel French Smith (1839-1875) of Turner, ME was listed as a student in the 1860 census (at Bowdoin College?). He was a captain in the 13th Maine Infantry before transferring to the 2nd Engineers Regiment, Corps d' Afrique, which became the 96th United States Colored Troops in 1864. His first letter was written from Brashear, LA on 13 October 1863 with the Corps d'Afrique still in training: "I am superintendent of instruction for the 2d Engineers, so you will readily perceive that I have five hundred pupil, scarcely one of whom know the first letter of the alphabet. We have a school room where the First Sergeants will attend six hours and the other non-commissioned officers three hours per day," with "all necessary books for those who prove themselves able to learn."  His 27 November 1864 letter was written from Mobile Point, AL: "There are any quantity of chaplains in the ranks. . . . I wish you could hear some of the preaching. These religious Negroes do well so far as they know, but the loudest preachers & prayers will get drunk frequently . . . and do many other things which New England society have long considered inconsistent with a strict Christian life. . . . Often their thunder tones are heard in the neighboring camps." He quotes from one prayer: "O lord God, Jesus Christ! Whichever of you is boss today, mount thy white horse and shamrock through all the regions of Hell and bring up all the unconverted to thy Grace."  On 2 January 1865 from East Pascagoula, MS, he describes some combat at Franklin's Creek: "The Rebels came out from Mobile and met us. We had two fights & whipped them each time. The second fight was quite desperate. The cavalry met hand to hand & fought with sabers altogether. Two Rebel officers were captured, one of whom had received a cut on his forehead laying bare the skull full three inches. . . . Ad. Farragut has two sisters living here who are very 'secesh,' yet they treat the soldiers very well. The daughter of one of them cooked  us a turkey for New Year's dinner." After the war he married and went west to Portland, OR. His wife Louise Humphrey Smith became a notable educator, profiled in Julia Ward Howe's "Sketches of Representative Women of New England."

Lot: 151 - (CIVIL WAR--U.S.C.T.) T.J. Wright. Pair of letters by the surgeon of the 64th U.S.C.T., 1863-1864

T.J. Wright. Pair of letters by the surgeon of the 64th U.S.C.T. Memphis and Vicksburg, 1863-1864 Pair of Autograph Letters Signed to sisters Caroline and Felicitous Wright of Cincinnati, OH.  Each 4 pages on one folding sheet, one of them 8 x 5 inches and the other 12 x 7¼ inches; mailing folds, minimal wear. Each with stamped envelope (one Memphis postmark and one Vicksburg). With typed transcripts. Thurlow Joseph Wright (1817-1877) was a Cincinnati physician and served in his local home guard early in the war. In December 1863 he was appointed as the surgeon of the 7th Louisiana Regiment Infantry (African Descent), which became the 64th United States Colored Troops in March 1864.  His first letter was written at the Holly Springs Contraband Camp in Memphis, TN on 9 December 1863: "I shall in all probability be ordered to report for duty to one of the contraband camps below Memphis, perhaps Vicksburgh. . . . Yesterday a fire broke out in the smallpox hospital connected with our department which reduced the building to ashes. Though full of patients at the time, not one of whom was injured by the fire. It is rather remarkable that fires do not more frequently occur than they do, for they (the colored people) are the most careless creatures I ever saw."  Dr. Wright's 10 July 1864 letter from Vicksburg describes a company of the 64th being threatened with death if they did not unconditionally surrender to a large guerrilla band, which caused the death of Captain James B. Rogers: "His death was brought about by fear. He was stationed at a place called Ashland on the Louisiana side of the river opposite Davis's Bend to protect the plantations, and all the men he had to protect them with was two companies of colored troops who at best could not muster much over one hundred men fit for duty. Reports say the guerrillas who infest that part of the state number several hundred. . . . They were attacked there by a superior number and fought the enemy for an hour or more when the enemy demanded an unconditional surrender or they—the guerrillas—would return in an hour or two with additional numbers and put all to death. The captain refused to surrender as was demanded of him. In consequence of having no means of escape but by water, and the only boat connected with the command had been taken away from its moorings a few days . . . it acted upon the mind of the captain with so much force as to bring on a nervous fever which terminated his existence." The official records state that Captain Rogers died of "disease" on 1 July 1864.

Lot: 152 - (CIVIL WAR--U.S.C.T.) Edwin M. Stanton. Commission for a lieutenant in the 2nd United States Colored Troops. Washington, 12 September 1863

Edwin M. Stanton. Commission for a lieutenant in the 2nd United States Colored Troops. Washington, 12 September 1863 Document Signed as Secretary of War, completed in manuscript for Lieutenant George Hicks. One page, 10 x 8 inches, plus integral blank leaf.

Lot: 153 - (CIVIL WAR--U.S.C.T.) John A. Reynolds. An officer describes the 11th U.S. Colored Artillery as "affable, courteous, and kind." Plaquemine, LA, 1 September 1864

John A. Reynolds. An officer describes the 11th U.S. Colored Artillery as "affable, courteous, and kind." Plaquemine, LA, 1 September 1864 Autograph Letter Signed to friend Frederic Vinton at Brown University, Providence, RI. 4 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; full separations at both vertical folds, minor foxing. With stamped envelope bearing New Orleans postmark. John A. Reynolds (1839-1866) served in two Rhode Island regiments, briefly enrolled in Brown University, and then left in December 1863 for a lieutenant's commission in the 11th United States Colored Heavy Artillery, a.k.a. 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery.  Here he records his impressions of his troops: "I was happily disappointed in the battalion. The boys make excellent soldiers. They are obedient, respectful to their officers, affable, courteous, and kind. They are certainly more cheerful in performing what is required of them than the generality of white troops. This I positively affirm, from personal knowledge and experience." Reynolds also has a few words about New Orleans: "A very large but not very pretty city. It is much more vicious, I think, than either New York or Boston. Grog shops, billiard halls and prostitutes in countless numbers meet the eye at every gaze."

Lot: 154 - (COLONIAL WARS.) Thomas Weld. Diary kept during the French and Indian War, 28 April to 1 October 1756

Thomas Weld. Diary kept on the Saratoga front during the French and Indian War. Various places, 28 April to 1 October 1756 [63] manuscript diary pages. 12mo, 6 x 3¾ inches, original plain wrappers, minor dampstaining, signed on front wrapper "Thos. Weld Journal"; moderate wear to contents, one leaf removed without loss of diary text. With complete typed transcript. Thomas Weld

Lot: 155 - (COLONIAL WARS.) Easton and Hough. A Narrative of the Causes which Led to Philip's Indian War. Albany, NY, 1858

John Easton; Franklin Hough, editor. A Narrative of the Causes which Led to Philip's Indian War. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1858 Folding hand-colored map. [2], xxiii, 207, [1] pages. 4to, contemporary ½ morocco over marbled boards, 2-inch closed tear to map, light offsetting, otherwise minimal wear. One of 125 copies.  First printing of a contemporary 17th-century account. "Easton is the only early writer upon the wars of the New Englanders with the Indians who ventures to doubt that the Almighty was on the side of the slaughtering Puritans"--Field 479. Howes E21 ("aa"); Sabin 21694.

Lot: 156 - (COLONIAL WARS.) William Hubbard. The History of the Indian Wars in New England. Roxbury, MA, 1865

William Hubbard. The History of the Indian Wars in New England. Roxbury, MA: W. Elliot Woodward, 1865 Folding map. xxxi, [3], 292; 303 pages. 2 volumes. 4to, contemporary ½ morocco over marbled boards, rejointed, minor wear; minor wear, 1-inch tear to folding map, title pages in red and black, #269 of 350 copies; small bookplates of S.M.L. Barlow on front pastedowns. Howes H756 ("best edition"); Sabin 33453. 

Lot: 157 - (CONNECTICUT.) [Samuel A. Peters.] A General History Of Connecticut. London, 1781

[Samuel A. Peters.] A General History Of Connecticut. London, 1781 x, 436 pages, plus starred leaf between pages 2 and 3. 8vo, original boards, minor wear, rebacked in paper in period style; uncut. In modern cloth slipcase with Jay Snider ex-libris bookplate. First edition. Peters was a Connecticut Loyalist who, after retreating to England in 1774, wrote this hostile account of his home stage as a sort of revenge. He lists the repressive Blue Laws of early New Haven colony at length on pages 63 to 69, and then refers back to them frequently throughout the book. Peters invented these Blue Laws from scratch, but many readers believed him, and historians are still trying to set the record straight.  Howes P262 ("b"); Sabin 61209. Provenance: Christie's Jay Snider sale, 21 June 2005, lot 76. 

Lot: 158 - (CONNECTICUT.) Group portrait of the incoming members of Yale's Skull and Bones Society, circa 1910s

Group portrait of the incoming members of Yale's Skull and Bones Society. [New Haven, CT], circa 1910s Photograph, 10 x 16½ inches, on original plain heavy mount, uncaptioned; minor wear and toning. The secretive Skull & Bones Society selected 15 new members from the Yale junior class every May. They took a similar group portrait of their incoming members each year: 15 members arrayed in the same pattern, the grandfather clock set to 8:00, and of course the skull and crossed bones on the table at center.  Prescott Bush of the Yale Class of 1917 appears in a very similar Skull and Bones photograph from 1916, with the same photo studio backdrop. The young man standing third from left bears some resemblance to famous member Averell Harriman of the class of 1913, and the one standing fifth from left resembles Albert Burr Darling of the class of 1916, but we haven't been able to match the other members who joined from either of those classes.

Lot: 159 - (CONNECTICUT.) Alfred C. Bossom. Morgan Memorial Building and the Colt Gallery. Hartford, CT, 1907

Alfred C. Bossom, artist. Morgan Memorial Building and the Colt Gallery. Hartford, CT, 1907 Pen and ink on board, 25½ x 35¾ inches; mat remnants and wear in the margins, the image with a few pencil marks and minimal foxing; auction sticker in margin.   A rendering of a large addition to the Wadsworth Atheneum art museum, as designed by architect Benjamin Wistar Morris. 

Lot: 160 - (CONNECTICUT.) Lucius B. Bradley. Ledger of a Connecticut animal trap manufacturer. Watertown, CT, 1850-1856

Lucius B. Bradley. Ledger of a Connecticut animal trap manufacturer. Watertown, CT, 1850-1856 [6], 22, 27-33, [39] manuscript pages. Narrow folio, 12¼ x 3¾ inches, original ¼ calf over marbled boards, spine splitting; lacking at least two leaves, otherwise minimal wear to contents.  This account book was kept by Lucius Brown Bradley (1800-1870), a manufacturer of paper boxes in Watertown, CT who made animal traps on the side. He was listed in the 1850 census for Watertown as a "manufacturer of paper boxes," and the Hartford Courant of 31 August 1855 notes that he was also granted a patent for an "improvement in traps for catching animals."  Many of the accounts are for delivering large quantities of shipping boxes to three customers in the Watertown area: thread manufacturer Merritt Heminway; sewing machine manufacturers Warren, Wheeler & Woodruff / Wheeler & Wilson; and Warren & Newton Manufacturing Company, who made suspenders. These accounts are followed by weekly labor accounts with employees, almost all of them women. They were paid in cash or by credit at the Warren & Newton store.  Toward the rear of the volume are several pages relating to a separate business making "traps," described variously as for rats or mice; and with levers, or "plain." Several of the buyers are named, most notably the Smithsonian Institution's legendary founding curator Spencer Baird in three batches. Was Baird buying traps to procure animal specimens in the wild, or was he trying to keep vermin out of the new museum's storage areas? 

Lot: 161 - (CONSTITUTION.) John Adams. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. London, 1797

John Adams. A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. London, 1787-1788 [2], xxxi, [1], 3-392; [2], 451; [2], 528, [36] pages. 3 volumes. 8vo, early marbled boards, rebacked with early spine titles laid down; intermittent foxing.  First complete edition, with the stand-alone first volume and the two supplementary volumes issued within the next year. Adams wrote this work on constitutional theory while serving as Minister to the Court of St. James. It was a response to the liberal French statesman Turgot, who had criticized the new American state constitutions for their conservative economic framework. Adams's Defence was often cited in the debates of the Constitutional Convention. "A work marked by insight, breadth of views, conviction, courage, and—we may venture to add—much wisdom"--Larned, Literature of American History 2287. Howes A60 ("aa"), Sabin 234.

Lot: 162 - (CONSTITUTION.) The United States Constitution, excerpted from the Columbian Magazine. Philadelphia, September 1787

FIRST MAGAZINE PRINTING OF THE CONSTITUTION? The United States Constitution, excerpted from the Columbian Magazine. [Philadelphia, September 1787] Pages 659 to 666 on 4 disbound leaves, 8 x 4¾ inches; minimal dampstaining.  The full text of the Constitution as passed by the Convention on 17 September, along with George Washington's note of the same date transmitting the text to the Continental Congress. As it is set in different type from the rest of the issue, we can assume it was inserted at the last moment. With the contemporary American Museum, this was one of the first two magazine printings of the Constitution--priority has not been determined. Lomazow 19c.

Lot: 163 - (CONSTITUTION.) Thomas Lloyd, compiler. Debates of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania on the Constitution, 1788

Thomas Lloyd, compiler. Debates of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania on the Constitution Proposed for the Government of the United States. Philadelphia: Joseph James, 1788 Volume I (all published). 147, [4] pages. 8vo, original boards, boards detached and worn, lacking paper backstrip, disbound; a few early inked notes in margins, minimal dampstaining; uncut; signature of early owner R.E. Griffith on front flyleaf. First edition, second issue with page numbers 21-24 corrected and cancel title bearing 1788 date.  Consists mostly of arguments in favor of the proposed Constitution by Pennsylvania legal scholar James Wilson (1742-1798), who soon became a founding member of the United States Supreme Court. Contains an early book printing of the proposed Constitution. "The Federalists were able to prevent publication of a projected second volume giving anti-constitution views"--Howes L407. Evans 21365; Sabin 60040.

Lot: 164 - (CONSTITUTION.) Very early printing of the House version of the Bill of Rights, in the New-York Journal, 27 August 1789

ONE OF THE EARLIEST PRINTINGS OF THE HOUSE DRAFT OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS Very early printing of the House version of the Bill of Rights, in the New-York Journal. New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 27 August 1789 4 pages, 19¼ x 12 inches, on two detached sheets; stitch holes in left margin, minor foxing; uncut.  The 24 August House of Representatives draft of the Bill of Rights appears on page 3. This version was sent to the Senate for consideration. Seventeen proposed amendments appear here, some of which would be later combined by the Senate. Two amendments were also later rejected by the Senate--Articles XIV and XVI, as they appear here. The Senate and House later agreed on twelve amendments for the final submission to the states on 30 September, of which ten later gained passage as the Bill of Rights. The New-York Journal's publisher Thomas Greenleaf also produced the official House printing of this 24 August draft, one day earlier before his newspaper printing on August 26. One of them sold in a 2002 Swann Americana sale for $299,000, which is still a department record.

Lot: 165 - CREVECOEUR. Letters From an American Farmer. London, 1783

[Michel Guillaume St. Jean de CREVECOEUR.] Letters From an American Farmer. London, 1783 2 folding maps (Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard). [16], 326, [2] pages including publisher's ad leaf. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, rejointed, backstrip worn; early owner's signature on front free endpaper, early 20th-century New York bookseller's tag on front pastedown. 3rd edition, "a new edition, with an accurate index." A classic depiction of early America. Subjects range from sociological observations, natural history, Nantucket Quakers, whaling, the evils of slavery in South Carolina, and the early years of the American Revolution. Clark, Old South I:218 (2); Howes C883; Sabin 17496.

Lot: 166 - CREVECOEUR. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain. Paris: Chez Cuchet Libraire, 1787

Michel Guillaume St. Jean de CREVECOEUR. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain. Paris: Chez Cuchet Libraire, 1787 5 folding maps, 4 plates including frontispiece, 3 engraved title pages. 3 volumes. xxxii, 478, [2]; 438, [6]; 592, [1] pages. 8vo, modern ¼ calf; minor scattered foxing; marbled edges.  Second Paris (and best) edition of this classic depiction of early America. "This edition is greatly enlarged, the whole of the third volume being added. This translation was made by the author himself. . . . Boucher de la Richarderie says that the author had been so long unaccustomed to his native language that his translation abounds with Anglicisms"--Sabin 17495. Clark, Old South I:218 (9); Howes C883 ("aa").

Lot: 167 - (CURRENCY.) Binder of paper currency and other financial paper, 1779-1928

Binder of paper currency and other financial paper. Various places, 1779-1928 Approximately 141 items, various sizes and conditions; inserted in plastic sleeves (a few being PVC sleeves which are beginning to degrade).  Includes approximately 36 obsolete banknotes, 7 pieces of fractional currency, 2 pieces of 20th century currency, 4 early lottery tickets, 15 stock and bond certificates, 3 manuscript receipts and notes, and 74 other pieces of financial paper (such as promissory notes, checks, bills of exchange, receipts and checks).  Highlights and oddities include: Massachusetts State Lottery certificate, 1 June 1779 Rhode Island obsolete banknote, six shillings, Newport, RI, 1786 Manhattan Company check signed by the former French ambassador Edmond-Charles Genêt, 29 September 1802 Cuban lottery ticket, 21 June 1826 Stock certificates from the Bank of the United States, 1827; Mutual Benefit Life, 1865; East Boston Drydock 1852; Baltimore & Ohio Rail Road, 1841; New York Canal Department,, 1865; Kensington National Bank, 1871; Eclipse Gold Mining, 1910; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail Road, 1908; Peoria & Bureau Valley Rail Road, 1862; Ohio & Pennsylvania Valley Rail Road, 1855; Mutual Habana Segar, 1868; and New York Cooperative Cigar. Receipt for material "bought of August Belmont," 1 May 1857 Two pieces of federal currency ($5, 1928-F and $20, series 1914); we're pretty sure you can actually spend these two, at least.

Lot: 168 - (DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.) Early newspaper printing of the Congressional act establishing the capitol district. New York, 17 July 1790

Early newspaper printing of the Congressional act establishing the capitol district. New York, 17 July 1790 4 pages, 15¾ x 10 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, light folds, minor foxing. Much of this newspaper is devoted to the "Act for Establishing the Temporary and Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States," also known as the Residence Bill, which was passed in New York the previous day.  It includes an extended summary of the Residence Bill debates from 7 July, and the full text of the final act, signed in type by President Washington. The bill mandated that the district be less than ten square miles, located somewhere on the long stretch of the Potomac between its eastern branch and the mouth of the mighty Conococheague Creek up near Hagerstown. The precise location was to be determined by three commissioners.

Lot: 169 - (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Thomas Prince. A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals . . Vol. I. Boston, 1736

Thomas Prince. A Chronological History of New-England in the Form of Annals . . . Vol. I. Boston: Kneeland & Green, 1736 [10], xi, [1], 20, 104, [2], 254 pages. Small 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, minor wear; lacking free endpapers, minor worming, intermittent minor foxing; title page in red and black.  First edition. The second volume was not issued until 1755, and then only in incomplete parts. Thus, Volume I is generally considered as a complete and separate work. "Our most scholarly colonial work"--Howes P615. Evans 4068; Sabin 65586.

Lot: 170 - (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) John Campbell, A Treatise of Conversion, Faith and Justification. Boston, 1743

John Campbell A Treatise of Conversion, Faith and Justification. Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1743 214, [1] pages. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, joints split, moderate wear; original owner's inscription on front free endpaper. These discourses were "delivered at Oxford" in late 1741 and early 1742. No, not THAT Oxford. The Rev. Campbell was a minister in Oxford, MA, south of Worcester. He was an opponent of the Great Awakening, and here refers to its adherents as "giddy Zealots. . . . These Cockatrices and their Followers, do not consider what they do; and the Guilt they bring upon themselves" (pages 213-214). Evans 5149.  Provenance: original owner William "Guil:" Williams (inscription); collection of Edward A. Quattrochi; his Hindman sale, 12 November 2020, lot 229.

Lot: 171 - (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) Thomas Barton. [Unanimity and . . . after General Braddock's Defeat.] [Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1755]

PRINTED BY FRANKLIN Thomas Barton (1730-1780) [Unanimity and Public Spirit. A Sermon Preached at Carlisle . . . Soon after General Braddock's Defeat.] [Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1755] iii-xx, 16 pages. 8vo, 7½ x 4¾ inches, disbound; lacking title page, unevenly trimmed, contemporary inked notes throughout (some cropped). Thomas Barton was a newly ordained missionary sent to the western Pennsylvania frontier. After the rout of Braddock Expedition in the early part of the French and Indian War, Barton delivered this sermon as part of his efforts to rally the disheartened settlers during a perilous moment on the frontier.  Begins with a long introductory letter by William Smith (1727-1803), founding provost of the College of Philadelphia, who denounces the Quaker legislators who withheld military aid to the frontier.  See James P. Myers, "Thomas Barton's Unanimity and Public Spirit," in Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 119:3 (July 1995), pages 225-248. Evans 7354; Miller 603; Sabin 3849. No others traced at auction since 1954. 

Lot: 172 - (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT.) "John Anderson." An Almanack, and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1776. Newport, RI, [1775]

"John Anderson." An Almanack, and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1776. Newport, RI, [1775] 12mo, stitched; unopened; slightly soiled and spotted; discreet library deaccession stamp on last page.  Second edition. A preface to the reader offers congratulations on "the success which has hitherto attended the measures adopted for securing the liberties of his vast continent." Alden, Rhode Island 574; Drake 12844; Evans 13811.

Lot: 173 - (EXPLORATION.) John Ogilby, America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World. London: [J. Ogilby], 1671

John Ogilby, after Arnoldus Montanus. America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World. London: [J. Ogilby], 1671 One (of 19) maps, 8 (of 39) plates, numerous illustrations in text. [8 of 10], 674 pages. Folio, modern ½ calf over marbled boards; lacking one preliminary leaf as usual, lacking all of the maps except the plan of Santo Domingo, lacking the majority of the plates, title and preliminaries worn and repaired as well as final two leaves, other scattered paper repairs, minor dampstaining, lacking final plate list leaf; title page in red and black.  Essentially Ogilby's expanded translation of Montanus's 1671 "De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld." This copy has the later state of pages 197-200, in larger type, without the illustration.  Also with the variant "Directions" leaf omitting the Barbados print from its list, although this map does appear in its proper place on page 377. With the scarce plates of "Arx Carolina" on page 205 and "Virginie partis australis et Floride" after page 213.  Borba de Moraes, page 626 (his first issue); European Americana 671/208; Howes O-41 (does not match either of his two issues); JCB III:227; Palau 177493; Sabin 50089; Stokes Manhattan VI:262. 

Lot: 174 - (FAMILY PAPERS.) Thomas Lamb Eliot. Family letters by the Portland clergyman and founder of Reed College. Portland, OR and elsewhere, circa 1886-1932

Thomas Lamb Eliot. Family letters by the Portland clergyman and founder of Reed College. Portland, OR and elsewhere, circa 1886-1932 Approximately 168 Autograph Letters Signed to his son Samuel E. Eliot and family; generally minor wear, a small number on brittle newsprint. Thomas Lamb Eliot (1841-1936) was part of the first graduating class of Washington University in St. Louis, and went west to Portland, OR in 1869 as a Unitarian minister. He became an important figure in the city's early spiritual and civic life, and played a central role in the establishment of Reed College in 1908.  The letters are addressed to his son Samuel Ely Eliot (1882-1976) and his family. Samuel attended Washington University in St. Louis circa 1905, and then ran a settlement house in Pittsburgh. Some are addressed jointly or solely to Samuel's wife Elsa Von Manderscheid Eliot, and a few to their son Mather. A group of additional T.L. Eliot papers includes: a 6-page typescript of his 1905 diary; a list of his pamphlet publications; and a manuscript prayer from 1902. A 1938 letter accompanying the typescript states: "I  feel sure that a representative selection perhaps a hundred of characteristic letters of different sorts from father to various members of the family or intimate friends would be a precious legacy."  With--additional correspondence of Samuel Ely Eliot and his family circa 1890s-1950. Includes 28 letters from mother Henrietta Mack Eliot (1845-1940). Two letters are from Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño, 1908-1909. More than 1000 items (0.8 linear feet) including the T.L. Eliot letters.

Lot: 175 - (FLORIDA.) Theodore de Bry. Der ander Theyl de Newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae . . in Floridam. Frankfurt, 1591

Theodore de Bry. Der ander Theyl de Newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae . . . in Floridam. Frankfurt: Joannis Wecheli, 1591 [8], XLII, [24] pages including illustrated title page, XLII illustrated leaves, [6] pages. Folio, 13 x 9 inches, late 19th century ½ vellum by Dutch binder C.W. Dhuij with his ticket on front pastedown; lacking the map, finger soiling, moderate foxing and dampstaining, early repairs to many leaves, many of the illustrated leaves. First German edition of Volume II of De Bry's Great Voyages, consisting of René Laudonniére's  1586 Florida narrative "L'histoire Notable de la Floride." Features the same engraved title pages as De Bry's Brevis Narratio Eurum Quae in Florida (Church 145), with new letterpress title slips pasted over the old, as issued.  Church 179; European Americana 591/38. Provenance: Swann sale, 11 June 1981, lot 61, to the consignor.

Lot: 176 - (FOOD & DRINK.) Richard Briggs. The New Art of Cookery. Philadelphia: H. & P. Rice, 1798

Richard Briggs. The New Art of Cookery. Philadelphia: H. & P. Rice, 1798 xxiii, [25], 444 pages. 12mo, contemporary sheep, worn, rebacked; contents worn, heavily foxed, pages xxi-xxiii and final 2 leaves defective with loss, lacking leaves L3 and L4; name of early owner Mrs. Frances Channing[?] in gilt on front board.  "Second American Edition, Improved" of the 1792 first American edition. Evans 33459; Lowenstein 26.

Lot: 177 - (FOOD & DRINK.) Michael Krafft. The American Distiller; or, The Theory and Practice of Distilling. Philadelphia, 1804

Michael Krafft. The American Distiller, or, the Theory and Practice of Distilling. Philadelphia: Archibald Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1804. 2 folding plates. [13], 10-151, [22], 152-219 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, a bit bowed, minor wear; foxing; inscriptions on front free endpaper and flyleaf by early owner Colonel Philo Mills (1774-1863), a tavern keeper in Kent, CT.  Krafft, a distiller from Bristol, PA, dedicates this work to President Thomas Jefferson, in hopes of "opening a vast field to the agriculturalist to transport his superfluous grain in a different form to a market, to which the raw material could never get." He patented the stills described here in 1801, and notes proudly that "there are at this time, not less than two hundred and seventeen distilleries working on my plan, and numbers of others now preparing." Chapters are dedicated to "Cider-Spirits, or Apple-Brandy"; Geneva (also known as Jenever or Dutch gin); and "Compound Waters and Cordials." The book concludes with 72 recipes for a variety of spirits, including "Strong Cinnamon Water"; "Epidemic, or Plague Water"; "Saffron Cordial"; and "the celebrated Irish Usquebaugh" (whiskey).  Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 265; Cagle & Stafford, Books on Food & Drink 424; Shaw & Shoemaker 6606; Sabin 38294.  

Lot: 178 - (FRANKLIN.) Jean-François Janinet. Benjamin Franklin, né a Boston le 17 Janvier 1706. [Paris, 1789]

Jean-François Janinet. Benjamin Franklin, né a Boston le 17 Janvier 1706. [Paris, 1789] Color mezzotint[?], 14 x 11½ inches; folds, 3 repaired closed tears in margin, lower right corner restored. Variant state without imprint lines below title: "Avec Privil. du Roi / A Paris chez Janinet rue haute Feuille, No. 5." Other cataloguers who have handled this print (both for museums and in the trade) seem equally divided in asserting that this is either an aquatint or a mezzotint. Though uncredited, the source image was a painting by Joseph Siffred Duplessis. Fowble, Two Centuries of Prints in America, 84.

Lot: 179 - FRANKLIN. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Edited . . . by John Bigelow. Philadelphia, 1868

Benjamin FRANKLIN. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Edited . . . by John Bigelow. Philadelphia, 1868 Frontispiece portrait. 409 pages. Large 12mo (quarto-sized), publisher's cloth, minimal wear; minor foxing to plate; #49 of 100 copies on large paper; early collector's bookplate on front pastedown.  "This is not only the first appearance of the autobiography from Franklin's own copy, but also the first publication in English of the four parts, and the first publication of the very important outline autobiography. It is therefore the first edition of THE autobiography. . . . Mr. Bigelow has so thoroughly told the story of the history and recovery of this original MS. of Franklin . . . that nothing is left to say"--Ford, Franklin 423. Howes F323 ("aa").

Lot: 180 - (FREEMASONRY.) Alexander Anderson, engraver. Masonic membership certificate from New Hampshire. Concord, NH, 9 February 5813 [1813]

Alexander Anderson, engraver. Masonic membership certificate from New Hampshire. Concord, NH, 9 February 5813 [1813] Engraving on vellum, 17¼ x 10¾ inches, completed in manuscript, with paper seal attached with ribbon; minor wear, laid down in a 20¾ x 16¼-inch custom folding mat. This example is completed in manuscript for Joseph M. Harper of the Blazing Star Lodge No. 11 of Concord, NH, and signed by its secretary L. Spalding and two other lodge officials. The member Joseph Morrill Harper (1787-1865) later served as acting governor of New Hampshire, and in the United States House of Representatives. The designer and engraver Alexander Anderson (1775-1870) was one of the most popular illustrators of his day.  

Lot: 181 - HAMILTON. His first report as Secretary of the Treasury, in the Gazette of the United States, 10 October 1789

Alexander HAMILTON. His first report as Secretary of the Treasury, in the Gazette of the United States. New York: John Fenno, 10 October 1789 4 pages, 15¾ x 10 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, moderate foxing.  Secretary Hamilton delivered this address to the House of Representatives on 19 September 1789, on his ninth day in office. The Department of Treasury had only been created by Congress just 17 days earlier. He summarizes the year's total expenditures for the civil list, Department of War, and pensions for invalids, and notes money still due "for supplies furnished to the American Prisoners during the war."  In a charming bonus, the front page prints Benjamin Franklin's 1768 letter on "Early Marriage." He compares bachelors to "the odd half of a pair of scissars."

Lot: 182 - (HAMILTON.) Extensive coverage of Hamilton's death and funeral, in an issue of the New-England Palladium. Boston, 20 July 1804

Extensive coverage of Hamilton's death and funeral, in an issue of the New-England Palladium. Boston, 20 July 1804 4 pages, 20 x 13¼ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, slightly cropped. Issued eight days after the death of Alexander Hamilton, with mourning borders and extensive Hamilton content. Includes a letter by Bishop Benjamin Moore, describing the administration of  communion to Hamilton on his deathbed; an account of the funeral procession; the correspondence between Hamilton and Burr leading up to the duel; and plans for a Hamilton observance in Boston.

Lot: 183 - (HUMOR.) "Herman Thwackius" (pseudonym). Fragments of the History of Bawlfredonia. [Maryland?]: Printed for the American Booksellers, 1819

"Herman Thwackius" (pseudonym). Fragments of the History of Bawlfredonia. [Maryland?]: Printed for the American Booksellers, 1819 [4], 164 pages. 8vo, later ½ calf, minor wear, joints rubbed, with binder's tag of W.G. Johnston of Pittsburgh, PA; foxing; early owner's inscriptions on flyleaf and title. The author of this political satire is given as Herman Thwackius, which we can safely say is a pseudonym. The copyright holder is given as Jonas Clopper, who is usually attributed as the author. However, no man by that name is listed on ancestry.com, nor was he ever mentioned in the millions of newspapers indexed on newspapers.com. We suspect that "Jonas Clopper" is also a pseudonym.  This copy may have belonged to the actual author and his family. It bears the ownership signature "Jas R Willson" at the head of the title page, and "by Herman Thwackius" is amended in manuscript to read "alias Jas R. Willson." James Renwick Willson (1780-1853) was a prolific and controversial author; he was at one point burned in effigy at the New York State House.  Provenance: Facing the title page, the book is additionally signed "Renwick Z. Willson, Phi'a 1838." Renwick Zaccheus Willson (1813-1872) was the son of the author James Renwick Willson. Below that is a note reading "Given to me by Dr. John Hamilton, Sept. 3 1874," perhaps by Renwick's nephew David Burt Willson (1842-1919). It was later part of the collection of David Burt Willson's son James Burt Willson (1891-1978), and then was given by Willson's son to the consignor. Sabin 13770. None traced at auction since 1982.

Lot: 184 - (HUMOR.) William T. Peters, artist. The College Experience of Ichabod Academicus. No place, circa 1850

William T. Peters, artist. The College Experience of Ichabod Academicus. No place, circa 1850 48 lithographed cartoon plates, plus 4 duplicates bound in. 6 leaves of text, including section headers for the four years of college. Oblong 8vo, stitched, lacking wrappers; lacking upper corner of title page with partial loss of two letters, moderate foxing, one plate detached and another slightly defective; uncut. An early American comic book or graphic novel about college life at Yale, one of the first comic books in America. It came after "The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck" (first separately published in 1847, but adapted from a French work) and the purely American "Journey to the Gold Diggins" (first advertised in June 1849), but precedes "The Fortunes of Ferdinand Flipper" (1851) and "Adventures of Mr. Tom Plump" (circa 1855). Our hero is shown being hazed as a freshman, playing football (i.e. rugby) and baseball, being inducted into a secret society by a skeleton, entering a failed courtship, brawling with townies, and finally speaking at Commencement. The story was by Hugh Florien Peters (Yale 1849) and Garrick Mallery (Yale 1850), in the spirit of Cruikshank.  We find the earliest newspaper references to Ichabod Academicus in the Boston Evening Transcript of 14 January 1850. It was published just 6 years after the earliest known reference to baseball at Yale (discovered in the diary of James Brinsmade sold at Swann in 2010).  This copy has 4 duplicate plates and one duplicate text leaf, bound consecutively: "Engages in the match between Sophs & Fresh" (the baseball image); "Returns Home a Lion"; "He Feels Himself a Soph"; and "Succeeds in a Second Trial at Smoking," plus the "Sophomore Year" section title leaf. 58 leaves are present here; it appears to be complete with 48 plates plus the duplicates and text leaves. OCLC calls for 53 leaves in total; other examples at auction have advertised 44, 46 or 48 plates.  

Lot: 185 - (IMMIGRATION.) Carte-de-visite of pioneering Burmese medical student Shaw Loo, circa mid-1860s

Carte-de-visite of pioneering Burmese medical student Shaw Loo. Cleveland, OH: Foljambe Brothers, circa mid-1860s Albumen photograph, 3¼ x 2 inches, on photographer's mount; corners clipped, inscribed on verso in three early hands "Mong Shaw Loo, Maulmain, Burmah, India," and apparently signed in Burmese below photograph. Shaw Loo (1839-1929) was the first student from Burma to study in the United States, working as a cabin boy to earn passage in 1858 so he could study at Bucknell University and then Cleveland Medical College. In 1867, he returned as the first western-trained Burmese physician, and spent decades practicing in his home city of Moulmein (now known as Mawlamyine, Myanmar).  

Lot: 186 - (IMMIGRATION.) Papers of Syrian-American immigrant Assad Joseph Fogaley, 1930-1963

Papers of Syrian-American immigrant Assad Joseph Fogaley. Various places, 1930-1963 55 items in 3 folders; mostly moderate wear, a few paper clip stains and tears. Assad Joseph "Joe" Fogaley (1890-1963) was born in Wadi Chahrour in what is now Lebanon; he variously gave his birthplace as Lebanon or Syria. He came to the United States at age 13, served as a sergeant in the United States

Lot: 187 - (JAPANESE-AMERICANS.) Toichiro Harada. Nyuyoku, a memoir of a Japanese man's years in New York. Tokyo: Seikyosha, 1914

Toichiro Harada. Nyuyoku, a memoir of a Japanese man's years in New York. Tokyo: Seikyosha, 1914 46 plates, one in color. [2], 5, 1, 18, 498, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth with title "New York" on front board, minor wear; intermittent foxing.  A Japanese-language memoir of a man who lived in New York City in the early 1910s. We don't know what brought him to the States, but he was apparently a newspaper editor in Osaka in the 1920s. The book is illustrated with views of the Statue of Liberty, the Flatiron Building, Grand Central Station, the Washington Square Arch, Grant's Tomb, Central Park, and more.  Karen Kelsky's 2001 book "Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams" discusses Harada's frustration with American women, noting that "Harada's memoirs treat women as the objects of a kind of sexual rage" (page 54). She translates some of his observations from his pages 282 to 286 into English: "Because their society has indiscriminately raised them up far too high, all American women are arrogant and full of themselves. . . . The greatest faults of New York's women are their rudeness and their bad manners. A woman came to New York who said she had previously acted as tutor to the British royal family, but I was so disgusted with her display of these faults that walking down the street with her, I lost my patience again and again, and wanted to grab her and give her a piece of my mind." He describes suffragists as "cheerful and intelligent, and quite astonishingly skillful in their ability to charm a man," and New York women generally as "geisha in training" who "view every man as either a manservant or a customer." He then quotes a journalist who concludes that New York women "are lacking in the display of all the unique essentially womanly qualities such as grace and poetics." What New York's women thought of Toichiro Harada is unrecorded. 6 in OCLC, and none traced at auction.

Lot: 188 - (JAPANESE-AMERICANS.) Civilian Exclusion Order No. 16 broadside, with related material. San Francisco, CA, 24 April 1942

Civilian Exclusion Order No. 16 broadside, with related material. San Francisco, CA, 24 April 1942 Letterpress broadside, 22 x 14 inches, signed in type by Lieutenant General J.L. DeWitt; minimal wear. "It is hereby ordered that . . . all persons of Japanese ancestry, both alien and non-alien, be excluded from . . . all of the County of Santa Cruz, State of California." A "responsible member of each family" in the county is ordered to report to a Civil Control Station in Watsonville for further details. Anyone in violation of the order after 30 April would be found "liable to the criminal penalties . . . and alien Japanese will be subject to immediate apprehension and confinement." Civilian Exclusion Orders for other areas have appeared before at auction, particularly order No. 41 from San Francisco. However, none of this specific order have been traced at auction; only one appears in OCLC (Cal State Dominguez Hills).  With--documents showing the provenance. Stanford University acquired the remaining surplus posters shortly after the war, retained a complete set of 200+ posters, and gave sets to other libraries. The remainder were sold to "a book scout," and then circa 1970 to the San Francisco Center for Japanese American Studies, who sold them individually to their members in a mail auction. This lot includes the 7-page auction catalogue, a 3-page list of prices realized for each item and their buyer, and a receipt for two posters (including this one) shipped to a buyer in Montebello, CA.  Also included are a 1981 flier for a "Commission Hearing on Wartime Relocation" sponsored by the National Coalition for Redress/Reparation in Los Angeles; and several newspaper clippings about the internment dated 1981. 

Lot: 189 - (JAPANESE-AMERICANS.) New York Japanese American Directory, 1948-1949

New York Japanese American Directory. New York: Japanese American News Corp., 1948 [2], 33, B16, A13, 99, [25], 33, [3], 53, [5] pages including rear endpapers. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, dampstained; Japanese inscriptions on front board and front pastedown, dampstaining to last few leaves.  Includes an English-language business and residential directory for New York and other eastern states; Japanese-language advertisements and listings; and long "Pictorial History" and "Who's Who" sections with parallel text in both languages. The pictorial section includes several images of the segregated Nisei 442nd Infantry Regiment returning to New York Harbor.  Among the notable New Yorkers listed here are photographer Takuma Kajiwara; civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama (as Mrs. W. Kochiyama); dancer Sono Osato; and artists Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Isamu Noguchi, Miné Okubo, and Taro Yashima. Yoko Ono would not arrive with her parents for another five years.

Lot: 190 - (JAPANESE-AMERICANS.) 1951 Hokubei Mainichi Year Book

1951 Hokubei Mainichi Year Book. No place: Hokubei Mainichi Inc., 1951 770 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, minor wear; moderate wear to a few leaves, pages 741-744 defective or lacking.  A national directory of Japanese-Americans and their businesses, issued by a bilingual newspaper in San Francisco. The first 562 pages are for Californians, with a few on the east coast and Canada at the end. This was apparently the first; others were issued in 1952 and 1966. 

Lot: 191 - JEFFERSON., Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies. Charlottesville, VA, 1829

Thomas JEFFERSON. Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies. Charlottesville, VA, 1829 Frontispiece portrait; 4 folding plates of facsimiles (frayed a bit at fore-edge as usual). [iii]-viii, [ii], 466; [ii], 500; [ii], 519; [ii], 532 pages. 4 volumes. 8vo, contemporary tree calf, minor wear; intermittent foxing, lacking final index leaf in Volume I.  First edition. Edited by the president's grandson and executor Thomas Jefferson Randolph, later a Confederate colonel. Begins with Jefferson's 89-page autobiographical sketch, written in 1821. Includes the first printed facsimile of Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. "Displays details that have been obliterated over time"--Bidwell, The Declaration in Script and Print, pages 93-94. Howes R60; Sabin 35891.

Lot: 192 - (JUDAICA.) Joshua Montefiore. Commercial and Notarial Precedents. Philadelphia, 1803

First law book by a Jewish author published in America Joshua Montefiore. Commercial and Notarial Precedents. Philadelphia, 1803 xvi, 350, [2] pages including publisher's ad leaf. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; minor foxing; early owner's inscriptions on front free endpaper and elsewhere. First American edition, after the 1802 London edition, revised for American use. Joshua Montefiore (1762-1843) was a Jewish attorney and notary public in London; he practiced in Jamaica from 1787 to 1791, and then lived in Philadelphia and Vermont from 1811 onward. See Nathan Dorn's 24 May 2022 Library of Congress blog post, "Joshua Montefiore, First Jewish Author to Publish a Law Book in America."  Shaw & Shoemaker 4671; Wolf, Unrecorded American Judaica 22. None traced at auction since a Swann auction, 16 May 1968, lot 76.

Lot: 193 - (JUDAICA.) Henry Lacey. The Principal Events in the Life of Moses. Philadelphia: D. Dickinson, 1817

Henry Lacey. The Principal Events in the Life of Moses. Philadelphia: D. Dickinson, 1817 84 pages including frontispiece. 12mo, original pictorial cloth-backed boards, minor wear; light toning.  First American edition. Shaw & Shoemaker 41218; Singerman 0273 (3 examples traced). None traced at auction since 1871.

Lot: 194 - (JUDAICA.) Group of early Jewish-themed sheet music. Various places, 1837-1869 and undated

Group of early Jewish-themed sheet music. Various places, 1837-1869 and undated 4 items, each about 13½ x 9½ inches; foxing, minor wear as noted.  "Jerusalem, a Hymn, Written & Composed by a Lady." 3 pages on 2 detached leaves (numbered 165-167 in manuscript); 1-inch closed tear on first leaf. Apparently a later edition for Carr's Musical Miscellany (first printed in Baltimore in 1818). Philadelphia: G. Willig, circa 1820s. S.B. Pond. "We Wept When We Remembered Zion." 7 pages on 4 detached leaves, including illustrated lithographic title page; cropped with loss of imprint line on title. New York: [Firth & Hall, 1837].  George J. Webb. "The Sorrowing Jew, a Hymn . . . Dedicated to the Ladies Jew Society of Newburyport." 4 pages on 2 detached leaves including illustrated lithographic title page by Bufford; 1-inch closed tear on first leaf, vertical fold to second leaf. Apparent first edition; 3 in OCLC, with a stated third edition more commonly seen. Boston: Matthew A. Berk, 1841.  Anthony Reiff. "Hebrew Maiden." 5 pages including color lithographic title page; middle leaf trimmed on fore-edge. New York: William A. Pond, [1869].

Lot: 195 - (JUDAICA.) Banner for a mutual aid association for Jewish immigrants from a Polish town, 1907

Banner for a mutual aid association for Jewish immigrants from a Polish town. No place, 1907 Embroidered crimson silk over cloth, 53 x 34 inches plus tassels; wrinkling, separating from backing cloth along top edge, other minor wear.   The Petrikower Young Men's Benevolent Association was founded in 1907 as a mutual aid and burial society for New York-area Jewish immigrants from a large town in central Poland near Lódz which has been variously anglicized as Pietrokover, Pietrokower, Piotrokow, Petrokov, Petrikau, or Piotrków Trybunalski. This was one of hundreds of similar Jewish town societies, or "Landsmanshaftn," formed on the American east coast and elsewhere during this period. With the inevitable passing and dispersal of the immigrant generation, this group was legally dissolved in 1996. The banner reads "Progressive Pietrokover Young Men's Aid Ass'n, Org. Dec. 22 '07, made by Garechtman's" with decorative floral patterns and scrollwork. The reverse side has the same text in "Yinglish" (English words transcribed into Yiddish characters). We are not aware of any other Landsmanshaft banners at auction.  The banner maker may be impossible to identify with confidence, but Garechtman as spelled here was not a common name.  We find a musician named Adolph Gerechtman (1881-1961)  living at 309 5th Street in Manhattan in the 1910 census and 1911 and 1912 directories. In the 1912 directory, his wife Anne was listed as a hatmaker. They were listed in the census as Yiddish speakers who emigrated from Russia in 1907 and 1908. By the time of the 1915 census and 1917 draft, they had shortened their name to Grecht, and he was manager of ladies' hats at the Pokress Hat Company. 

Lot: 196 - (JUDAICA.) Group of 3 pamphlets on international aid for Jews. Various places, 1925

Group of 3 pamphlets on international aid for Jews. Various places, 1925 3 volumes, all illustrated. 8vo, each about 9 x 6 inches, original printed wrappers, staple-bound; minor wear except as noted. Joseph A. Rosen. "Founding a New Life for Suffering Thousands: Report . . . on Jewish Colonization Work in Russia" (wrapper title). 47, [1] pages; uneven toning and small chip to wrapper. New York: United Jewish Campaign, [September 1925]. David A. Brown. "The New Exodus: The Story of the Historic Movement of Russian Jewry Back to the Soil." 32 pages; crease to wrapper fore-edge. New York: American Jewish Distribution Committee, May 1925. Felix M. Warburg. "Sixty Million Dollars and Eleven Years: Report on Activities and Expenditures of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1914 to 1925." 8 pages; crease to front wrapper, lacking rear wrapper. Philadelphia: United Jewish Campaign, September 1925.

Lot: 197 - (JUDAICA.) High Holy Days 1943 5704 (wrapper title), late 1943

High Holy Days 1943 5704 (wrapper title). No place, late 1943 10 photographic plates, plus one text leaf. Oblong 12mo, 4¾ x 6 inches, illustrated wrappers; backstrip repaired with tape, minor foxing and wear, minimal wear to contents. This booklet documents Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services as observed by Jewish American soldiers in the South Pacific. An introductory page headed "For God and Country" reads in part: "For many, this was the second Rosh Hashana overseas. They were on an island with no synagogue or temple, no Rabbi or cantor, no Sefer Torah or even prayerbook for each worshipper. But they have not forgotten that they are Jews, that they are the living Israel. . . . Let us, all Jews, at home and abroad, work and fight to uphold America and her institutions . . . for in the principles of freedom, tolerance and humanity lie the hopes not only of minority groups, but of all the peoples of the world."  The photographs are credited to Henry Van Westrop. A few soldiers are named in the captions, which include "Rosh Hashana: Just Before Blowing the Shofar, T/5 Harry Korengold"; "Reading of Torah by Capt. Shair"; and "Before an Evening Service: Nigun and Hebrew Melodies, Pvt. Harry Shub." One of the images is annotated in manuscript, naming a soldier in the front row of a Yom Kippur service as 1st Lt. Solomon Goodman (said to have been stationed in Mariana Islands). None traced in OCLC, at auction, or elsewhere. With-- a standard Jewish World War Two chaplain's banner from the same source, showing the stone tablets and Star of David on both sides, extremely worn, 23 x 37 inches.

Lot: 198 - (JUDAICA.) Jewish Parents! Do You Want Your Child to: Be Happy, Be Faithful Jews, Be Good Americans, circa 1940s

Jewish Parents! Do You Want Your Child to: Be Happy, Be Faithful Jews, Be Good Americans. New York: Shulsinger Brothers, circa 1940s Letterpress broadside in Yiddish and English, 22 x 14 inches, on light board; toning, moderate corner wear. Urges Jewish parents to enroll their children in yeshivas. Sponsored by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America and Canada, and the Rabbinical Board of Greater New York. The printers were at this 23 East 4th Street address from at least 1942 to 1955. No other examples traced.

Lot: 199 - (KENTUCKY.) James Hughes. A Report of the Causes . . . for the District of Kentucky. Lexington, 1803

James Hughes. A Report of the Causes Determined by the late Supreme Court for the District of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: John Bradford, 1803 41 plates (some folding). xv, [1], 236 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, worn, front board detached; foxing, intermittent dampstaining, minor wear; signature of early owner John Eccles on title page, bookplate of frontiersman and War of 1812 veteran Nimrod H. Moore of Yellow Banks (Owensborough) on front pastedown, and later name of Thomas D. Evans on front board. Kentucky County was founded as the westernmost portion of Virginia in 1776, and gained statehood in 1792. Overlapping land claims from royal grants, Revolutionary War bounties, Indian treaties, and a disputed southern boundary with Tennessee all tended to make property ownership unsettled. One famous example was Abraham Lincoln's family, which left three farms in succession due to property disputes, before moving to Illinois to find greater stability. This book was an effort to untangle some of these problems by documenting 41 court cases from 1785 to 1801. It was also a very ambitious piece of printing for its time and place, including what are believed to be the first maps engraved west of the Alleghenies, one for each of the 41 cases. David Humphries was the engraver. The first map in the volume includes an inset engraving of a buffalo. Several of the cases refer to Daniel Boone's brother Squire Boone. In a 1799 case described on page 103, one settler claims pre-emption of 1000 acres on Elkhorn Creek "including an old camp made by Daniel Boone." Kentucky Imprints 180; Shaw & Shoemaker 4409 (listing 3 locations); Streeter sale, III:1637. One traced at auction since the 1967 Streeter sale.

Lot: 200 - (KOREAN WAR.) Psychological warfare leaflets for distribution behind the North Korean lines. Korea, 1952-1953

Psychological warfare leaflets for distribution behind the North Korean lines. Korea, 1952-1953 30 American leaflets printed for distribution to North Korean and Chinese soldiers, 21 of them stapled to mimeograph or carbon-copy English-language explanations of their contents; generally minor to moderate wear. The leaflets were produced for distribution behind enemy lines by the Psychological Warfare Division of the Eighth United States Army. They attempted to exploit the hunger and poor conditions on the North Korean lines. Usually illustrated and featuring a combination of Chinese, Korean and English text, they encouraged surrender and defection, and promised safe treatment on the other side. Some targeted civilians, advertising the better living conditions in South Korea.  The accompanying English-language descriptions often detail the genesis of the leaflets: which army units requested them, how they were distributed, and even the specific enemy units they were intended to reach. One shows an American officer with two Chinese POWs, smiling and sharing a cigarette, with an explanation of how to surrender on verso. Another states plainly in bold red Chinese characters: "While peace is so near, why must you be forced to die?" Three are safe conduct passes, granting "good treatment to any enemy soldier desiring to cease fighting."  

Lot: 201 - (LAW.) First meeting of Congress, as described in the Daily Advertiser. New York, 5 March 1789

First meeting of Congress, as described in the Daily Advertiser. New York, 5 March 1789 4 pages, 19¼ x 12 inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes in margin, horizontal fold; uncut.  A local report of the first session of Congress. The mood in New York was festive: "The day was ushered in by the firing of cannon and the ringing of bells. . . . A general joy pervaded the whole city on this great, important, and memorable event; every countenance testified a hope that under the auspices of the new government, commerce would again thrive--the farmer meet a ready market for his produce--manufactures flourish--and peace and prosperity adorn the land."

Lot: 202 - (LAW.) Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America. New York: Greenleaf, 1789

Journal of the First Session of the Senate of the United States of America. New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1789 172 pages. Folio, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked and conserved; minor wear and intermittent foxing to contents; inked stamps of later owner on pages 3, 5 and endpapers. The first Senate journal. It features a very early book printing of two versions of the proposed Bill of Rights: an early 17-article version on pages 103-106; and the 12 articles approved for ratification on pages 163-164. It also includes sessions from 4 March through 29 September 1789. Once a quorum was reached, the Senate's first order of business was to confirm the election of George Washington as president (page 7), followed by his opening address to Congress (pages 23-25). The Senate kept up an impressive pace, creating the Department of State, Department of War, and Department of the Treasury in the following months. Evans 22207; Reese, Federal Hundred 25; Sabin 15551.

Lot: 203 - (LAW.) Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America. Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin, 1791

Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America. Hartford, CT: Hudson and Goodwin, 1791 [10], [3]-327 pages, plus [44] blank leaves bound in at rear. 8vo, contemporary calf, backstrip head chipped, otherwise minor wear; minor foxing; inscription on front pastedown of original owner Nehemiah Waterman Jr. (1736-1802), Justice of Peace for New London County, CT. Early printing of the acts passed by the First Congress, covering all three sessions from March 1789 to March 1791. The acts cover the creation of the federal government: the "Department of Foreign Affairs" (page 79), Treasury Department (119), Post Office (124), and much more. Also included are the Constitution, treaties with France and the Netherlands, the peace treaty with Great Britain, several Indian treaties, extracts from the journals of the Continental Congress, and the Articles of Confederation. This edition not in Evans, but recorded in Bristol B7862.

Lot: 204 - (LAW.) The Laws of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, 1796-[1797]

The Laws of the United States of America. Philadelphia: Richard Folwell, 1796-[1797] 494, [1]; 576; 477, [130] pages. 3 volumes. 8vo, unmatched contemporary calf, worn, Volume I rebacked; Volume I with moderate dampstaining, Volume II and III lacking free endpapers; volumes II and III with early signatures of J.F. Burr and inked stamps of "Coats Ridgway 1800." Includes the Constitution, the Acts of the First through Fourth Congresses, treaties, and a long detailed index. A fourth volume (not present) was issued in 1799. Evans 31356, 32973.

Lot: 205 - (LAW.) Acts Passed at the First [Second, Third] Session of the Fifth Congress, 1797-[1799]

Acts Passed at the First [Second, Third] Session of the Fifth Congress. Philadelphia: William Ross [and Richard Folwell], 1797-[1799] 240, vii, [1], [241]-561, [1], iv, [48] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear, rear joint starting; minor dampstaining toward end. Also includes acts passed in the second session (starting page 49) and third session (starting page [241]). These three parts were issued separately with their own title pages, but are here bound together without the title pages, and without the 26-page printing of the Constitution which was originally appended to the first part.  The most enduring act published in this volume is "An Act for the Establishing and Organizing a Marine Corps" (pages 199-201), passed as part of the preparation for the Quasi-War with France. Also in the same session were the Alien and Sedition Acts, which have been in the news lately: The Naturalization Act of 1798 (133-139); "An Act Concerning Aliens" (143-146); "An Act Respecting Alien Enemies" (160-162); and the Sedition Act (202-204).  Evans 32951, 34688, 36479. 

Lot: 206 - (LAW.) The House's own copy of "Journal of the House of Representatives." Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1826

The House's own copy of "Journal of the House of Representatives." Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1826 831 pages. 8vo, contemporary tooled polished calf, minor wear, inscribed on front board; minor foxing, early inked marks.  A later printing of the earliest House journals from 1789 to 1793, notable mainly for its provenance. It is inscribed on the front board in an early hand "Library, House of Representatives." Laid in is a 19th-century bookplate, "To Be Returned to the Senate Library."

Lot: 207 - (LAW.) Papers on the premature death of law professor Leon Tulin, 1927-1934

Papers on the premature death of law professor Leon Tulin. Various places, 1927-1934 80 items in 5 folders; a few with minor wear. Leon Arthur Tulin (1901-1932) was raised in Hartford, CT, attended Yale, and became a professor of criminal law in the Columbia University Law School before his death of leukemia at 31.  Most of this collection consists of 52 condolence letters written to his widow Justine Wise Tulin (1903-1987), who later as Justine Polier became the first woman to serve as a judge in New York. 4 more letters are written to Tulin's father-in-law, the influential Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise (1874-1949).  Among those sending their condolences are future Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas; current Supreme Court justice Benjamin N. Cardozo and Louis D. Brandeis; future Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins; and Senator William Borah, chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Finally, the collection includes Leon and Justine's 1927 marriage certificate signed by Rabbi Wise; two eulogies given by Rabbi Wise and Jerry Michael; 7 newspaper clippings on his death; a printed Supreme Court decision inscribed to Tulin by Justice Brandeis on 25 May 1932; and offprints of two of Tulin's law articles.

Lot: 208 - (LEWIS AND CLARK.) Patrick Gass. A Journal . . . under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke. Pittsburgh, 1807

Patrick Gass. A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Capt. Lewis and Capt. Clarke. Pittsburgh, PA, 1807 262 pages. 12mo, contemporary ½ calf, moderate wear; moderate foxing, moderate dampstaining to a few pages, lacking most of rear free endpaper; early "Great Valley Library" inscription on title page. First edition of the earliest first-hand account of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was the only authentic source for detailed information on the travels until the official History was published in 1814. "The first printing of a journal by a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition"--Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 3.1. "One of the essential books for an Americana collection"--Streeter sale V:3120. Graff 1516; Howes G77; Sabin 26741; Wagner-Camp 6:1.

Lot: 209 - (LINCOLN.) Letter describing a new Lincoln Wigwam in Ohio, and ordering copies of the Cooper Union speech. Fremont, OH, 6 June 1860

Letter describing a new Lincoln Wigwam in Ohio, and ordering copies of the Cooper Union speech. Fremont, OH, 6 June 1860 Autograph Letter Signed by Theodore Clapp as chair of the Executive Committee of the Fremont Republican Club, to John Carey. 2 pages, 8 x 5 inches, plus integral blank with docketing; mailing folds, minimal wear. This letter from a small Ohio city orders Lincoln campaign material in German (including the famous Cooper Union speech), and describes the kickoff of the local Lincoln campaign in the town's newly constructed Wide-Awake wigwam. "You would oblige us by sending the following doc in German. . . . Carl Schurz, Douglas & Pop Sov; W.R. Seward, State & Country; Land for the Landless. . . . Lincoln's speech at the Cooper Inst., N.Y. if it is in Ger. We have built a Wigwam and the campain was opened by Hon. D.K. Carter on Thursday of last week. Wigwam is 30 x 80 & well seated, built in two days. I wish you would send the German doc immediately on receipt of this, as we want to get them into the hands of the Germans before the other party make their nominations." Theodore Clapp (1818-1890) was a confectioner, later a friend and neighbor of Rutherford B. Hayes. His star speaker was former congressman David Kellogg Cartter (1812-1887). The letter was written to John Carey (1792-1875), then serving as a Republican congressman for Ohio.

Lot: 210 - (LINCOLN.) The Fremont Journal, an illustrated Lincoln campaign newspaper, 15 June 1860

The Fremont Journal, an illustrated Lincoln campaign newspaper. Fremont, OH, 15 June 1860 4 pages, 23½ x 18 inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes in margin, horizontal fold, moderate dampstaining not affecting Lincoln portrait. The Fremont Journal had been publishing since 1852, and as suggested by the town's name, was a partisan Republican operation, billing itself as a "Campaign Journal." This paper contains some local news, but also at least ten pro-Lincoln pieces: speeches, a poem, and a 3 x 2-inch engraved portrait described as "a very fair likeness of Honest Old Abe," less than a month after he received the presidential nomination. The portrait is a flattering rendering of the beardless 27 February 1860 Brady photograph (Ostendorf O-17) which was frequently used in the campaign. Next to it is a patriotic cut of an eagle and shield headed "Throw out the Banners!! For president, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois."

Lot: 211 - (LINCOLN.) “Departure of the President Elect” for Washington, in his hometown newspaper. Springfield, IL, 12 February 1861

"Departure of the President Elect" for Washington, in his hometown newspaper. Springfield, IL, 12 February 1861 4 pages, 23¼ x 16¼ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, minimal dampstaining. The Daily Illinois State Register was one of Abraham Lincoln's home town newspapers. This issue has a paragraph on "The Departure of the President Elect" on page 3: "A large crowd of his personal and political admirers assembled at the depot to bid him God-speed on his journey to the seat of government. As he entered the car he was greeted with three cheers, which he acknowledged in a few appropriate remarks that were made inaudible to a large portion of the crowd by the incorrigible hissing of the locomotive."  The Register was a Democratic paper. On the facing page is a lead editorial on "Mr. Lincoln as a Prophet." Examining his declaration that "The Union cannot permanently endure part slave and part free," they hoped that he was not a prophet.

Lot: 212 - (LINCOLN.) Proclamation of Emancipation. New York: A. Kidder, [1864]

Abraham LINCOLN. Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States. New York: A. Kidder, [1864] Engraved broadside, 20 x 16 inches; slightly cropped on top edge, 3-inch closed tear, 1-inch dampstain, laid down on heavy paper. Third state of the Kidder engraving of the Emancipation Proclamation, featuring a vignette portrait of Lincoln with a full head of hair, and 5 other vignettes. Eberstadt 28. 

Lot: 213 - LINCOLN. The President's Dedication Address at Gettysburg. [New York]: Miller & Mathews, [1864]

FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING? Abraham LINCOLN. The President's Dedication Address at Gettysburg. [New York]: Miller & Mathews, [1864] Printed card, 5½ x 3¾ inches, in red and blue; minimal foxing and wear. When Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on 19 November 1863, it was not instantly recognized as an important speech. We have no firm evidence of any separate printing in the four months after it was delivered. Two early printings have been identified--a broadside titled "Oration of Abraham Lincoln at the Dedication of the Gettysburg National Military Cemetery," and the small card printing offered here. The larger broadside was undated, and it is unclear whether it was issued during Lincoln's lifetime. However, this card certainly was. On 23 March 1864, the publishers Miller & Mathews sent President Lincoln a note reading in part "We have had printed as part of our contribution to the Metropolitan Fair, your dedicatory address at the Gettysburg Cemetery. . . . Enclosing a few specimens." This letter, still preserved at the Library of Congress, proves that the card was printed by March 1864. Furthermore, it was produced to support one of the great charitable events of the Civil War, the Metropolitan Fair held in Manhattan on 4 April 1864. Carbonell, Gettysburg Address 8.

Lot: 214 - (LINCOLN.) Elijah C. Middleton; lithographer. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in "warranted oil colors." Cincinnati, OH, 1864

Elijah C. Middleton; lithographer. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln in "warranted oil colors." Cincinnati, OH, 1864 Chromolithograph, about 17 x 14 inches oval, mounted on canvas and affixed to wooden stretcher as issued; faint ink lithographer's stamp on verso. With original frame, gilt on plaster and wood, some repairs; not examined outside of frame.  The original image for this portrait was a photograph by Anthony Berger in Mathew Brady's Washington studio on 9 February 1864. You may recognize it from the five-dollar bill. Middleton had a copy sent to the president, who offered this critique in a 30 December 1864 letter: "Your picture . . . is, in the main, very good. From a line across immediately above the eye-brows, downward it appears to me perfect. Above such a line I think it is not so good--that is, while it gives perhaps a better fore-head, it is not quite true to the original." Lincoln also suggested that Middleton should study a photograph, apparently not realizing that this was a faithful rendition of one. See Holzer, Lincoln Image, page 136; Meserve 87; and the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, page VIII:191. Provenance: inscribed on verso " From Arbor Hill, Home of John D. Clarke" in an early hand. John Davenport Clarke (1873-1933), who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He died in a car crash near his Arbor Hill estate in Fraser, Delaware County, NY, while still in office.

Lot: 215 - (LINCOLN.) 19 numbers of the New York Tribune concerning the Abraham Lincoln assassination. New York, 17 April to 18 May 1865

19 numbers of the New York Tribune concerning the Abraham Lincoln assassination. New York, 17 April to 18 May 1865 Each 8 pages, 21 x 16 inches, on one uncut sheet; moderate foxing, some edge wear, and a few closed tears, one repaired with cello tape. 

Lot: 216 - (LINCOLN.) Lavinia "Vinnie" Ream. Letter concerning her medallion portrait of Lincoln, 3 April 1866

Lavinia "Vinnie" Ream. Letter concerning her medallion portrait of Lincoln. [Washington], 3 April 1866 Autograph Letter Signed as "your little friend Vinnie Ream" to Mrs. Governor Fletcher. One page, 8¼ x 5¼ inches; mailing folds. With hand-carried envelope. Lavinia Ream (1847-1914) was a sculptor, most famous for getting President Lincoln to sit for her while still in her teens, and then winning a Congressional commission for a life-sized Lincoln sculpture in July 1866, which still stands in the Capitol rotunda. "My dear Madam: Will you be kind enough to accept a small medallion likeness of President Lincoln, executed by myself, as a testimonial of my sincere personal regard, and as a memento of that departed patriot and statesman. Be pleased to present me kindly to the Governor."  The sitting Missouri governor Thomas Clement Fletcher was not in Washington at that time, to our knowledge.

Lot: 217 - (LINCOLN.) Papers of the Hall family of Illinois, part of Abraham Lincoln's extended family, bulk 1863-1942

Papers of the Hall family of Illinois, part of Abraham Lincoln's extended family. Various places, bulk 1863-1942 Several hundred items (1.7 linear feet); condition varies. A remarkable multi-generational archive of photographs, manuscripts and ephemera kept by Abraham Lincoln's extended family. Abraham Lincoln was raised in what we now call a blended family. He was born in 1809. After

Lot: 218 - (LITERATURE.) Correspondence of abolitionist Abigail Hopper Gibbons and her literary circle, 1834-1889

Correspondence of abolitionist Abigail Hopper Gibbons and her literary circle. Various places, 1834-1889 25 letters and manuscript poems; generally minor wear.   Abigail Hopper Gibbons (1801-1893) was an important New York abolitionist, founded the Women's Prison Association, and served with the Sanitary Commission during the Civil War. Her husband James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892) was an abolitionist poet, best known for his Union anthem "We Are Coming Father Abraham, 300,000 More." One of their daughters married into the Emerson family, and they had a wide circle of literary friends. This lot includes: Letter to Abigail by the noted novelist Catharine M. Sedgwick (1789-1867) a few months before her death. Her children "have brought home delightful recollections & hearts full of gratitude for all your kindness. I am delighted that they have seen you in your own home, your 'sphere,' a home sphere  that you have extended to as wide limits as the most ambitious aspirant for women's rights could desire." Woodbourne, [Jamaica Plain, MA], 20 December 1866.  Letter to Abigail from her future son-in-law William Emerson Jr. (1835-1864), a nephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson describing a party with most of the notables of the Transcendentalist scene. He writes: "We stopped at Lincoln to tea, and found Mrs. Stowe's daughter, nick-named Marny. . . . Yesterday was a great day at Uncle Waldo's. Mr. Whittier, as you know, came in the morning, and Mr. Thoreau, Mr. Hawthorne, Mr. Alcott. . . . in came Miss Cushman, the actress, & Miss Peabody, with some friends, and Miss Cushman, having asserted that Lowell was a great poet, was of course called on to prove it by reading some of his poems." Concord, MA, 16 September 1860. Retained draft letter from James Sloan Gibbons to William Emerson (1801-1868), the father of William Emerson Jr., concerning the young man's severe illness, and opposing his marriage to daughter Sarah.  Jeffersonville, IN, 8 October 1860. 4 letters from James to Abigail.  On 26 June 1834 in Philadelphia, he notes that "we hold an Anti-Slavery meeting this evening." Philadelphia and New York, 1834-1836 4 letters relating to the death of Abigail's brother Josiah Hopper in Aspinwall [Colon], Panama, 1854-1855. 4 other family letters to Abigail, 1860-1872 and undated.  Letter from James to young son Isaac Gibbons (1841-1846) circa 1845, with a manuscript poem addressed to Master Isaac dated 14 February 1846. 4 family letters addressed to James, 1845-1855 and undated. One letter from daughter Lucy Gibbons Morse (1839-1936) to the extended family.  She was a noted illustrator; she married poet James Herbert Morse (1841-1923). The letter concludes with a small sketch of her holding her baby. Boston, 1 May 1876. Another letter from Lucy Gibbons Morse to sister Sally Emerson. "Julia & I passed a lovely evening with Mrs. Sedgwick. . . . Mrs. S told us about Gen. Lockwood's order concerning the contrabands at which we were delighted." 

Lot: 219 - (LOUISIANA.) Jean Bernard Bossu. Travels through. . . Louisiana. London, 1771

Jean Bernard Bossu. Travels through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana. London, 1771 2 volumes. viii, 407; iv, 432 pages. 8vo, unmatched contemporary calf, moderate wear, rejointed; minor wear to contents.  First English edition of the travels of a French officer from New Orleans inland as far as the Ohio River from 1751 to 1762.  "An important chapter in early Louisiana social history. He describes conditions of travel inland, the outlandish things that could and did happen to a European, his experiences among the Indians. . . . This book may be considered a major travel account"--Clark, Old South II:5(6). The translator John Reinhold Forster added "A Systematic Catalogue of All the Known Plants of English North-America," and an abstract of the Latin American plants described by Peter Loefling, which together comprise most of Volume II. Field 157; Graff 363; Howes B627; Hubach, page 13; Monaghan French Travellers 264, Sabin 6466.

Lot: 220 - (LOUISIANA.) The Louisiana Purchase treaty, in an issue of Thomas's Massachusetts Spy, 2 November 1803

The Louisiana Purchase treaty, in an issue of Thomas's Massachusetts Spy. Worcester, MA, 2 November 1803 4 pages, 20 x 12¾ inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes, moderate foxing, folds, subscriber's name written above masthead; uncut. Part of the first two pages are devoted to the "Treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic," and the related conventions. The 20 October ratification by the Senate is also  announced. The ratification gave the United States control over not just most of modern Louisiana, but also a vast expanse of land west of the Mississippi River. 

Lot: 221 - (MARITIME.) Articles of association for a Barbados-bound ship, with a George Washington broadsheet on verso, 1807

Articles of association for a Barbados-bound ship, with a George Washington broadsheet on verso. Alexandria, VA, 19 September 1807 Partly printed document completed in manuscript, 19 x 15¼ inches, with broadside signed in type by Adams and Washington on verso; folds, two short tape repairs.  This agreement lists the 7 men of the schooner Adventure of the District of Columbia under master John McKnight, bound for Barbados. The cook William Talbot signed by mark; he drowned on 2 October, two weeks after joining the crew. That same day, the ship brought on another cook who "shipped at Norfolk." Each crew member's wages were added to the form upon returning to port 2 months and 22 days later.  On verso is a printed broadsheet, "An Act for the Government and Regulation of Seamen in the Merchant's Service," dated 20 July 1790 and signed in type by John Adams and George Washington. 

Lot: 222 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) John Josselyn. An Account of Two Voyages to New-England. London, 1675

John Josselyn. An Account of Two Voyages to New-England. London: G. Widdowes, 1675 [8], 279, [3] pages. Small 8vo, modern calf in period style; minimal worming in upper margins, soiling to pages 203, 210-213. Woodcut printer's device on first page. [8], 279, [3] pages. Small 8vo, modern calf in period style; minimal worming in upper margins, soiling to pages 203, 210-213. First edition, second issue. From the same setting of type as the 1674 first issue, but with a cancel "Second Addition" title page with new date, and a tiny remnant of the original torn-out 1674 title page behind it.  Discusses the author's travels in 1638-1639 and then 1663-1671. It includes a 12-page description of the 1638 sea voyage to Boston, "which then was rather a Village, than a Town, there being not above Twenty or thirty houses; and presenting my respects to Mr. Winthorpe the Governour, and to Mr. Cotton the Teacher of Boston Church" (pages 19-20). He spent time in the frontier community of Black Point, Maine. He took a particular interest in natural history, but be warned that he has passed on numerous tall tales from the locals, such as a "Triton or Mereman . . . in Cascobay" (page 23). The Indians of New England are discussed on pages 123-149. An appendix titled "Chronological Observations of America" has its own 1674 title page.  Church 627n ("contains many curious particulars regarding medicine and surgery"); European Americana 675/94; Howes J254 ("b"); Sabin 36672.

Lot: 223 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) Document signed by three key officials from the Salem witch trials. Salem, MA, 21 December 1691

Document signed by three key officials from the Salem witch trials. Salem, MA, 21 December 1691 Manuscript Document Signed by John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin as assistants, and by George Herrick as marshal. 2 pages, 7 x 5¾ inches; tipped to window mat on top edge, minor ink burns.  This summons was issued just two months before the first accusations started flying in the

Lot: 224 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) Newspaper notice on the ongoing Salem Witch Trials. London, 24 December 1692

Newspaper notice of the forthcoming book "Wonders of the Invisible World" on the ongoing Salem Witch Trials. London, 24 December 1692 The Athenian Mercury, Volume 9, number 4. 2 pages, 12½ x 7¾ inches; disbound, minor dampstaining. This English newspaper contains a large advertisement for the Cotton Mather's forthcoming book "Wonders of the Invisible World," the primary contemporary account in support of the Salem Witch Trials, to be published the following Thursday. The book offers "Observations as well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of the Devils. Accompany'd with some Accounts of the grievous Molestations by Daemons and Witchcrafts, which have lately Annoy'd the Countrey of New-England, and the Tryals of some Eminent Witches. . . . Published by the Special Command of His Excellency, the Governour of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay."  At this time, the trials were still ongoing in Salem. No newspapers were published in the English colonies at this time.

Lot: 225 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) Daniel Neal. The History of New-England. London, 1720

Daniel Neal. The History of New-England Containing an Impartial Account of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Country. London, 1720 Hand-colored folding map, illustrations. [2], vi, x, [2], 330; [4], 331-712, xv, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf, rejointed; intermittent foxing; title pages in red and black. Neal used Mather's Magnalia as a starting point, but Larned notes that "he used also contemporary pamphlets and letters, and obtained by inquiry some private information. His work was, therefore, superior to anything of the kind that preceded it. . . . His style is often sprightly and he displays a sense of humor." The map depicts the entire coast from Long Island to the Bay of Fundy, with nice insets of Boston Harbor and Newfoundland. It is believed to be the first map naming New Hampshire (see Krieger, Mapping Boston, page 28). Howes N26 ("aa"); Larned, Literature of American History 991; Sabin 52140.

Lot: 226 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1788

The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1788 [4], 389 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; minor foxing; early owner's inscription on free endpapers, two clippings laid down on rear pastedown. The first compilation of Massachusetts state laws, covering from 1781 through 1787. Evans 21245; Sabin 45932. 

Lot: 227 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) Duties of Innkeepers &c., Extracts from the Laws of . . Massachusetts, circa 1810s

Duties of Innkeepers &c., Extracts from the Laws of . . . Massachusetts. No place, circa 1810s Letterpress broadside, 12¾ x 7½ inches; mat toning, minimal wear; uncut. An early printing of the 1787 state laws for innkeepers. Restricts Sunday alcohol sales to guests, and forbids gambling and dancing. 2 in OCLC. Provenance: acquired by the consignor from the estate of noted collector Edna Hilburn Little Greenwood (1888-1972).

Lot: 228 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) George Hathaway. A satirical drawing of the mythical Gerrymander, 20 September 1842

George Hathaway. A satirical drawing of the mythical Gerrymander, which had re-emerged in Massachusetts. Windsor, MA, 20 September 1842 Autograph Letter Signed to cousin George D. Colburn of Hamden, CT. 3 pages, 10 x 7¾ inches, on one folding sheet, plus address panel on verso of one page; address panel leaf with full separation on one fold through the Gerrymander, 1-inch seal tear in the Gerrymander's neck, soiling to address panel, other moderate wear. This letter was written by George Hathaway (1821-1903), a farmer in Berkshire County, MA. It includes a drawing of the Gerrymander, the horrible creature in the shape of a convoluted new congressional district, which was introduced to the world in an 1812 issue of the Boston Gazette. It was named in honor of Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry, who was held responsible for the special redistricting to benefit the Democratic-Republican Party.  Hathaway notes "the appearance in this state of a remarkable species of reptile. . . . A creature of infernal origin. . . . Many other powerful causes must have combined to give it existence, among which must be reckoned the present combustible and venomous state of affairs." He traces its birth to "firey ebolutions of party spirit, many explosions of Whig wrath . . . composed of the fag ends & disaffected of all partys, Cooniytes, Ciderites, Clayites, Scotites, Tylerites & Harrisonians and Grumbletonians, which makes it rather speckled." The state's Whig legislature had recently arranged to pack the state's Democratic voters into one Boston mega-district, so the revival of the Gerrymander was a frequent topic of newspaper commentary.  

Lot: 229 - (MASSACHUSETTS.) Group of three Lynn political broadsides, 1848-1851

Group of three Lynn political broadsides. Lynn, MA and elsewhere, 1848-1851 "Democrats of Lynn!" Letterpress broadside, 16¾ x 11½ inches; foxing, folds, conserved and laid down on Japanese paper. Announces that the Cass and Butler Club is holding a series of "Democratic Social Meetings": "The time has now come to make a united and vigorous charge." None in OCLC. Lynn, MA: J.B. Tolman, 14 October 1848. "Grand Rally!! of the Friends of Good Order & a City Charter." Letterpress broadside, 23¾ x 17 inches; folds, minor dampstaining and offsetting. Announces a meeting to work for a new city charter. "Equality in taxation and disbursement must become the order of the day. . . . Freemen of Lynn, defeat the City Charter, and your 'rock-bound shore' is yours no longer!" None in OCLC. Lynn, MA: J.B. Tolman, 19 April 1849. "Control Your Workmen!" Illustrated broadside, 18 x 11 inches; foxing, folds, conserved and laid down on Japanese paper. This one may not be Lynn-specific. A cartoon shows a Whig statesman pronouncing that "the lower classes ought to be restrained by the gravity of eminent persons," while working-class voters mock him. Excerpts from a Boston Whig circular highlight that party's elitism. No place, circa 1851.

Lot: 230 - (MEDICINE.) Aristotle's Master-Piece Completed. New York: Company of Flying Stationers, 1793

Aristotle's Master-Piece Completed. New York: Company of Flying Stationers, 1793 Frontispiece plate, text illustrations. 130 pages. 18mo, contemporary ¼ calf, minor wear; dampstaining in lower margin scarcely touching text. Second New York edition of a text which was first published in London in 1684, and remained in print through at least 1931. An extraordinarily popular work on midwifery and gynecology which doubled as a general sex education manual for the information-starved members of both sexes. The Greek philosopher Aristotle had nothing to do with the production of the book, which was often sold surreptitiously at taverns or hidden behind the counter at bookshops.  The book pops up in culture in odd places. In 1744, the Rev. Jonathan Edwards attempted to reprimand some young boys in Massachusetts who had got hold of the masterpiece and were using its secret knowledge to tease girls. In Ulysses, James Joyce has his protagonist thumb through Aristotle's Masterpiece in a book stall. The book "provided a kind of sex education to the masses long before the concept of sex education was invented"--Mary Fissell, "When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle's Masterpiece," in the Public Domain Review, 29 August 2015. A full-page woodcut on page 15 shows "the Form of a Child in the Womb, disrobed of its Tunicles proper and common." The frontispiece and six smaller woodcuts in the text depict "monstrous births," placing the blame in part to "the Imagination of the parents." The three earliest American editions appear to be Boston in 1766, New York in 1788, and this 1793 New York edition, all produced by printers who chose to remain anonymous. We trace no other 18th-century American printings at auction since 2015. Austin, American Medical Imprints 61; Evans 25120. 

Lot: 231 - (MEDICINE.) Joseph Brevitt. The Female Medical Repository / The History of Anatomy. Baltimore, MD, 1810 and 1799

Joseph Brevitt. The Female Medical Repository / The History of Anatomy. Baltimore, MD, 1810 and 1799 2 volumes in one. 252; [3]-29 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; leaf O2 defective, foxing, moderate wear, History of Anatomy lacking half-title and has leaf A5 bound out of order; early owners' signatures of Abraham Jessop and John S. Buck. First and only editions of each. "The Female Medical Repository" bills itself as "adapted to the use of the Female Practitioners and Intelligent Mothers," and includes "a Treatise on the Primary Diseases of Infants." It is most often cited today for its chapter on "Abortion & Miscarriage" (pages 116-120). Brevitt notes that induced abortions were common in his day, and expresses his disapproval: "I feel constrained to note here the horrid depravity of human weakness, in wretches lost to every sense of religion . . . seek the means to procure abortion; nor are there wanting, in the other sex, infernals wicked enough to aid their endeavors." Austin, Early American Medical Imprints 271, 272; Evans 35232; Shaw & Shoemaker 19633. No examples of either title traced at auction; ESTC lists 7 of the History of Anatomy in institutions.

Lot: 232 - (MEDICINE.) Lecture tickets issued to a student at New York University, with notebook New York, 1857-1859

Lecture tickets issued to a student at New York University, with notebook New York, 1857-1859 15 cards, various sizes but most 3½ x 4¾ inches, most made out to student Wallace S. Weeks and signed by the lecturer; minor wear.  12 cards are for medical lectures at the University of New York (a.k.a. New York University), signed by professors including Alfred C. Post, John T. Metcalfe, Thomas C. Finnell, John W. Draper (President of the Faculty), William H. Van Buren, Gunning S. Bedford, and Martyn Paine. Finnell's Practical Anatomy ticket advises us: "Ignorance is a Voluntary Misfortune." One illustrated card for a lecture on operative surgery by Valentine Mott names the institution as University of the City of New York (another name for NYU).  In addition, we find two of the school's matriculation tickets (one illustrated, the other much smaller), both bearing the signature of President Draper. Finally, one ticket is for a lecture at an outside institution, Aylett's Medical and Surgical Institute. The student Wallace S. Weeks (1835-1860) later practiced medicine briefly in Collinsville, CT. He married in December 1859 and died of tuberculosis in March 1860 aged 25. With--a notebook of recipes (medical and otherwise) copied from magazines, 39 manuscript pages, 5¾ x 3½ inches, 1857-1858; and an apparently unrelated letter by Dr. W.A. Scott of Palmyra, IA on the treatment of diphtheria, undated.

Lot: 233 - (MEDICINE.) Papers of Jack "Doctor Death" Kevorkian relating to his campaign for legal euthanasia, 1982-2007

Papers of Jack "Doctor Death" Kevorkian relating to his campaign for legal euthanasia. Various places, 1982-2007 46 leaves; generally minimal wear. The physician Murad Jacob "Jack" Kevorkian (1928-2011) was America's leading proponent of euthanasia in the 1980s and 1990s, earning the nickname "Dr. Death." He was prosecuted several times for assisting in suicides, and was jailed from 1998

Lot: 234 - (MEXICAN WAR.) The 2nd Division of Regulars, as Drawn-Up at Cerro Gordo, under the Command of Gen. Twiggs, circa 1847.

The 2nd Division of Regulars, as Drawn-Up at Cerro Gordo, under the Command of Gen. Twiggs. No place, circa 1847 Lithograph, 21½ x 28½ inches; 8-inch and 5-inch repaired closed tears, other minor wear and foxing, laid down on linen; inscribed in pencil "To my mother, with the love of F." A view of the main body of American troops lined up in preparation for the 18 April 1847 Battle of Cerro Gordo under Major General David E. Twiggs, en route from Vera Cruz to Mexico City. The city of Xalapa can be seen on the horizon. The caption lists all of the dozens of officers in the 2nd Division, many of whom went on to greater prominence on both sides in the Civil War. Listed on the division staff are future generals Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee, while John B. Magruder is listed as a captain in the First Artillery, and Edward R.S. Canby is on the staff of the Second Brigade. 3 in OCLC; one traced at auction since 2004.

Lot: 235 - (MEXICAN WAR.) Occupation of Veracruz described in a broadside extra of the Daily Chronicle. [Philadelphia?], 22 April 1847

Occupation of Veracruz described in a broadside extra of the Daily Chronicle. [Philadelphia?], 22 April 1847 Illustrated broadside, 20¼ x 14¼ inches; repair at horizontal fold, minor edge wear, minor dampstaining. The headlines read "Exciting News from Vera Cruz . . . Santa Anna Again in the Field . . . Americans Murdered by Rancheros." Offers reports as late as 6 April from the recent occupation of the Mexican seaport. Illustrated with a large patriotic emblem. The broadside was likely printed in Philadelphia. It includes a note on Frederick Engle, who "we are gratified to state, is a native of Pennsylvania." A local note discusses Burlington, NJ and Lancaster, PA. The Philadelphia Daily Chronicle merged into the Daily News that September. 

Lot: 236 - (MORMONS.) John Whitmer. Signed letter affirming the Book of Mormon, by one of the Eight Witnesses. Far West, MO, 6 May 1877

"I have never denied my testamony as to the Book Mormon." John Whitmer. Signed letter affirming the Book of Mormon, by one of the Eight Witnesses. Far West, MO, 6 May 1877 Autograph Letter Signed, 7 x 4½ inches; folds, two early marks in blue pencil, laid down on a scrapbook leaf headed in early Pitman shorthand, numbered as page 39 in an album kept by Joseph R. Lambert. Album:

Lot: 237 - (MORMONS.) Group of Joseph R. Lambert manuscripts and ephemera, 1875-1914.

Group of Joseph R. Lambert manuscripts and ephemera. Various places, 1875-1914 9 items, various sizes and conditions, acquired in 2001 with the Joseph R. Lambert album containing the John Whitmer testimony (previous lot): 5 publications of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), now Community of Christ:  Joseph R. Lambert. "Objections to the Book of Mormon . . . Answered and Refuted." 120, 4 pages. Lamoni, IA, 1894. Joseph R. Lambert. "What Is Man? His Nature and Destiny." 249 pages. Lamoni, IA, 1914. "Sermon Series, Supplement to the Saints' Herald." 13 issues bound in one volume. 208 pages, numbered continuously; worn. Lamoni, IA, 1892-1893.   "Findings of Lake County, Ohio, Court, in Kirtland Temple Suit." Letterpress broadside, 11 x 6 inches, undated printing of 1880 case. Issue of "The Saints' Herald," 4 pages, 12 x 9 inches; worn. Plano, IL, 15 December 1879. 4 manuscript documents in old Pitman shorthand (one of them with clippings from the Old Testament laid down), with translations showing that they are notes on Church history and biblical interpretation, 1875-1886.

Lot: 238 - (MORMONS.) The Scottish Tourist, signed and dated by Wilford Woodruff while on mission in Scotland, 1842

The Scottish Tourist, signed and dated by Wilford Woodruff while on mission in Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1842 8 maps and 12 plates.  xxxii, 432 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; minimal wear to contents, signed and inscribed on front free endpaper "Wilford Woodruff, Edinborough March 22d AD 1845."   8th edition. In 1844, Wilford Woodruff (1807-1898) was one of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and one of the Church's most accomplished missionaries. He had already led a very successful mission to England from 1839 to 1841. After the death of Joseph Smith, he was sent overseas once again from late 1844 to 1846, to establish Church authority and continuity in the United Kingdom. While in Scotland in March 1845, he acquired this tourist guide. His decorative inscription is a close match for the handwriting in his 1845 mission journal at the Church History Library, which can be examined on line on the Wilford Woodruff Papers website. This date's entry in the journal reads in part "This was an interesting day to our feelings in visiting the splendid city of Edinborough. . . . We all called upon one of the brethren & took dinner, after which we visited other portions of the city." He spent the day visiting Edinburgh's main tourist attractions: the castle, the John Knox House, Holyrood Palace, and the Sir Walter Scott monument.  Woodruff remained a leading figure in the church for the rest of his life, and was president from 1889 to 1898.  Provenance: purchased from Benchmark Books of Salt Lake City.

Lot: 239 - (MORMONS.) Brigham Young and the First Presidency. Commission dated at "Great Salt Lake City, California." Salt Lake City, 16 October 1849

Brigham Young and the First Presidency. Commission issued to two Church representatives, dated at "Great Salt Lake City, California." Salt Lake City, 16 October 1849 Document Signed by Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball and Willard Richards as the First Presidency, and additionally by Thomas Bullock as clerk. One page, 12¼ x 7½ inches, docketed simply "Heywood & Woolley" on

Lot: 240 - (MORMONS.) [Orson Pratt.] The True Faith, and 7 other tracts. [London: L.D.S. Book and Star Depot, 1856-1857]

[Orson Pratt.] The True Faith, and 7 other tracts. [London: L.D.S. Book and Star Depot, 1856-1857] 128 pages. 8vo, disbound; additional page numbers added in upper corners, final leaf detached. These 8 tracts were issued separately with continuous pagination, and were intended to be bound together. Includes "The True Faith," "True Repentance," "Water Baptism," "The Holy Spirit," "Spiritual Gifts," "Necessity of Miracles," "Universal Apostacy, or the Seventeen Centuries of Darkness," and "Latter-Day Kingdom, or the Preparations for the Second Advent." The volume was issued without a title page, but a caption and publication date are visible in the outer gutter of some tracts.  A long pencil note on page 49 explains that the first half of "The Holy Spirit" was not approved by the First Presidency, and similarly on page 65 that objections were raised to "Spiritual Gifts." Flake 6548. 

Lot: 241 - (MORMONS.) C.W. Hyde. Patriarchal blessing granted to Peter Hansen, with Hansen's citizenship certificate. Salt Lake City, UT, 1868 and 1876

"A right to the fulness of the Priesthood with wives" C.W. Hyde. Patriarchal blessing granted to Peter Hansen, with Hansen's citizenship certificate. Salt Lake City, UT, 11 August 1868 and 1 February 1876 Blessing: one page, 12½ x 7¾ inches, docketed on verso; folds, minor dampstaining. Certificate: 8¼ x 10½ inches, signed by Utah Territory deputy clerk, with United States District Court embossed seal; folds, minor wear. These documents belonged to Peter Hansen (1836-1916), a Danish immigrant to Weber County, Utah. The blessing by patriarch Charles Walker Hyde (1814-1891) reads: "Peter, I place my hands upon your head & I seal upon you a patriarchal blessing for the eye of the Lord is upon you. . . . No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, & thou shalt have great faith & wisdom that even the prisons shall open at thy command & thine enemies shall flee before you. . . . Thou shalt have faith like unto Mormon of old. Thou art of Joseph, & a right to the fulness of the Priesthood with wives & a great kingdom in due time upon the earth. Thou shalt have great inheritances upon Mount Zion & thou shalt accomplish every desire of thine heart, in righteousness partake of all the glories of Zion." 

Lot: 242 - (MORMONS.) Collection of stereoviews, some annotated by a Utah pioneer, circa 1870s-1890s

Collection of stereoviews, mostly Utah views from C.R. Savage's "Views of the Great West" series, some annotated by a Utah pioneer. Various places, circa 1870s-1890s Albumen photographs on 33 4 x 7-inch mounts (a few smaller), most with C.R. Savage labels on verso, many with long manuscript captions on verso; moderate wear and occasional dampstaining. Fourteen of these views have long captions on verso by a Mormon named William Wood (1837-1916). He signed as "W.W.," notes the location of his second house in Salt Lake City, describes his mission to St. George in 1867, and mentions sons Arthur (born in the desert near St. George) and Willy, and his Gentry in-laws. Includes: 8 Savage stereoviews of Salt Lake City and Mormon life: "Baptism of 250 Indians of the Shebit Nation by the Mormons of St. George, Utah"; "Central Part of Salt Lake City, Looking South"; "President B. Young"; "Brigham Young's Grave"; "Exterior of Parent Co-Operative Store"; "Interior of Tabernacle, West End"; "View from City Hall, Looking East"; "Wahsatch Mountains from top of New Residence of Pres. B. Young."  16 Savage stereoviews of the Utah countryside and scenery, such as "Old Telegraph Mine, Bingham Canon"; "The Old Shingle Mill, American Fork Canon"; "Shore of the Great Salt Lake . . . from Black Rock Hotel: "Devil's Gate, Weber Canyon"; and more. 6 other Savage stereoviews from the "Views of the Great West" series, extending beyond Utah: "Digging Out a Train from a Snow Drift"; "Centennial Rocks, near Red Buttes"; "Lake Mary"; "Gateway at the Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak in Distance"; "Outlet to Surprise Valley, Kanab Canyon"; and "Indian Home, near Soda Springs, Idaho." The latter is captioned in manuscript: "The Indians have been taught by the Latter Day Saints to settle down like white men to till the soil." 3 miscellaneous stereoviews: 2 by T.H. O'Sullivan for the War Department ("Navajo Boys and Squaw" and "Jicarilla Apache Brave"), 1873-1874; and "Breakneck Steps, Quebec" by Arks of Montreal.

Lot: 243 - (MORMONS.) Anderson & Crandal, Temple Memorial, a composite photograph in memory of Brigham Young. Springville, UT, 1893

Anderson & Crandal, photographers. Temple Memorial, a composite photograph in memory of Brigham Young. Springville, UT, 1893 Albumen photograph, 16 x 10 inches, on original mount, captioned in negative; 2 small punctures and 1-inch scratch in image. This composite photo tribute shows a ribbon reading "Salvation for the Dead," the Salt Lake Temple, a portrait of Brigham Young, a printed "Book of Life" with a Young memorial card, and an open manuscript memorial book, all over an elaborate floral display.  This photograph was created by longtime Springville photographer George Edward Anderson (1860-1928) as part of a partnership which ran from about 1890 to 1893.

Lot: 244 - (MORMONS.) Joseph F. Smith and the First Presidency. Letter refusing to seal a widow to her wayward late husband. Salt Lake City, UT, May 23 1902

Joseph F. Smith and the first presidency. Letter refusing to seal a widow to her wayward late husband. Salt Lake City, UT, 23 May 1902 Typed Letter signed in carbon by Joseph F. Smith as President and John Rex Winder and Anthon Lund as Counselors, to James Steele, president of Idaho Falls Stake. 2 pages, 10¾ x 8¼ inches, on 2 sheets, one on First Presidency letterhead; folds, minimal wear.  This letter was written in response to the story of Sarah Storer, who sought to have her late husband sealed to her: "Her husband was baptized when eight years of age, and re-baptized when he was twenty eight, but fell away from the Church, although he was loyal in his support to it; that he was addicted to drink, and while in a troubled state of mind and under the influence of drink, he shot a man and committed suicide the same day."  The First Presidency ruled: "While we have naught but feelings of charity towards all of the unfortunate of our Father's family, it at the same time becomes us to preserve the sanctity and sacredness of His temple from anything and everything that savors of unworthiness. . . . We neither condemn nor justify him. He has made his record, and in common with everybody else, must meet it. . . . We advise that Sister Storer be sealed to a good man of her choice, and have her children adopted to him. . . . By doing this she and her children will be protected, and at the same time her husband lose nothing by her taking this course."  The deceased was John George Storer (1850-1898), who killed a man "in a fit of desperation, excited by drink" according to the Blackfoot News of 8 October 1898. His widow Sarah Jackson Storer (1850-1930) did not remarry. Provenance: collection of Larry Faria.

Lot: 245 - (MUSIC.) [William Tans'ur.] [American Harmony, or Royal Melody Complete.] Newburyport, MA: Daniel Bayley, 1769

[William Tans'ur.] [American Harmony, or Royal Melody Complete.] Newburyport, MA: Daniel Bayley, 1769 bound with Aaron Williams, The American Harmony; or Universal Psalmodist. 2 volumes in one, as issued. Flyleaf, blank, [7-8], blank, 9-12, 96; [4], 96 pages. Oblong 8vo, contemporary sheep, both covers detached, nearly disbound; lacking first title page and at least one other initial leaf, first leaves crudely resewn, wear and finger-soiling throughout; several early owners' inscriptions on endpaper and flyleaf.  Fifth American edition, but first thus. Sabin's first issue, with Uppingham Tune on page 27. These scarce early singing books are usually found worn and incomplete, and this is no exception.  Britton, American Sacred Music Imprints 56 (issue not determined); Evans 11489; Sabin 94335. Provenance: Benjamin Roper, 1771 inscriptions (apparently served in the Revolution); Joshua Houghton, 1775 and 1777 inscriptions, both of Lancaster, MA.

Lot: 246 - (MUSIC.) Photographs of Los Angeles Philharmonic's tour of Asia, 1956.

Photographs of Los Angeles Philharmonic's tour of Asia. Various places, 1956 47 photographs, most about 10 x 13 inches, a few smaller, 18 of them with inked stamps of Leigh Weiner as Los Angeles Times staff photographer on verso; minor wear. A few are at military bases in Korea, others are identified as the Philippines or Malaysia, but most are uncaptioned. One shows the flags of Japan and United States hanging together, and another shows Bangkok Airport in Thailand. News reports show that the goodwill tour extended from April to early July 1956, and also included stops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Okinawa. 

Lot: 247 - (NATURAL HISTORY.) Romeyn Beck Hough. The American Woods, Volumes I through XIV. Lowville, NY, 1892-1916

Romeyn Beck Hough. The American Woods, Volumes I through XIV. Lowville, NY, 1892-1916 14 slipcases, containing a total of 13 (of 14) descriptive pamphlets and 1055 (of 1059?) wood samples inset in 354 printed cards. 8vo, publisher's cloth, variously worn; first booklet the 1893 second edition, second booklet lacking, other booklets are first editions with only minor wear, wood sample cards generally well preserved, almost all of them neatly laminated for stability (not as issued), a few wood samples with splits or chips, 4 samples missing from cards; boards and booklets each bear the bookplate and/or stamps of the Sweetser School Library, Saco, ME, with library markings on spine. Without question the definitive study of American wood types, of great interest to anyone working with fine wood, and fascinating solely on its aesthetic merits. Hough described the work as "an exhibition of nature itself." Arranged geographically, each card exhibits a different species in transverse, radial, and tangential section. The infrequently seen final Volume XIV was published after Romeyn Hough's death, 15 years after Volume XIII, with text by his daughter Marjorie G. Hough.

Lot: 248 - (NAVY.) James McHenry. Uniform for the Navy of the United States of America. [Philadelphia: William Ross, 1797]

James McHenry. Uniform for the Navy of the United States of America. [Philadelphia: William Ross, 1797] Letterpress broadside, 15 x 9¼ inches; folds, minimal dampstaining, closed seal tear in text area with minimal loss; docketed on verso.  Describes the regulation uniforms for captains, lieutenants, surgeons, sailing masters, pursers, midshipmen, and marines, as set forth by the Secretary of War. Evans 33100. 2 copies in ESTC, both at the American Antiquarian Society, and no others known at auction since a 1901 Henkels sale.

Lot: 249 - (NAVY.) A.R. Hanks. Manuscript journal of the USS Purveyor to Africa, 1868-1869

A.R. Hanks. Manuscript journal of the USS Purveyor from Florida to Angola. Various places, 6 July 1868 to 10 April 1869 [37] manuscript diary pages, plus 27 pages of notes on rigging a ship, and [16] pages of other memoranda (including the popular poem "The Mariner's Grave"). 4to, 7½ x 6 inches, original ¼ calf, worn and mostly disbound with boards present; minor wear to

Lot: 250 - (NEW HAMPSHIRE.) George P. Avery. The Duke of Gilford and his [Dog], 1830

George P. Avery. The Duke of Gilford and his [Dog]. Gilford, NH, 18 January 1830 Letterpress broadside, 15¼ x 7 inches, illustrated with a small woodcut of a dog; foxing, folds, minor wear; uncut. This broadside is, in the grand scope of history, entirely trivial, but gives us some amusement. Lyman B. Walker, one of the elite of Gilford, NH, suffered the death of his watchdog on 6 January 1830. Three days later, he published a long notice in the local Democratic Spy, a short-lived newspaper which was published in his basement. He offered a $10 reward for information leading to the dog's killer, and provided evidence suggesting that local butcher George P. Avery had poisoned the dog. Avery soon produced this broadside in response, repeating Walker's accusation, and unloading upon Walker in the harshest terms. "It is a truth the dog had but few friends. It is a truth his master has but few, and it an indisputable truth that the owner has no honorable principle to govern him, but is a wilful, malicious, beastly scoundrel as ever pushed himself into the society of decent men. . . . As long as life lasts, and one drop of blood runs in my veins, never will I humble myself to his Dukeship."  Unsurprisingly, we trace no other examples of this tirade in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 251 - (NEW YORK.) Laws of New-York. New York, 1752

Laws of New-York. New York: James Parker, 1752 [2], iii, [5], 457-488, 455, [1] pages. Folio, early ½ calf over marbled boards, rebacked with original spine label laid down; index misbound after preliminaries, minor foxing, lacking pages 315-318 and preliminary errata leaf, 5¾ inch closed tear to pages 373-374 affecting text; partial armorial bookplate of Scott of Balcomie laid down on front pastedown.  An early edition of New York's laws from 1691 to 1751, compiled by William Livingston and William Smith Jr. Evans 6897; Sabin 53740.

Lot: 252 - (NEW YORK.) Benjamin Torrey, artist. A Memorandum of Mr. Abraham Valentine's Family. Freetown, MA, circa 1792-1798

Benjamin Torrey, artist. A Memorandum of Mr. Abraham Valentine's Family. Freetown, MA, circa 1792-1798 Ink and wash, 16¼ x 11½ inches; dampstaining, early repaired tears. This decorative family register was created for Abraham Valentine (1754-1798) of Eastchester, NY.  It gives the birthdates for his parents, each of his three wives, and his seven children, surrounded by a decorative arch topped by an elegant parlor scene. It was likely done between the 1792 birth of final child Jane and Abraham's death in 1798. We have found nothing on the artist Benjamin Torrey of Freetown, MA. As Freetown is nowhere near Eastchester, NY, it seems possible that Torrey was an itinerant artist who went from town to town in search of commissions.

Lot: 253 - (NEW YORK.) Anti-Rent Lyrics: A Correct Likeness of an Anti-Renter Lecturing, circa 1845

Anti-Rent Lyrics: A Correct Likeness of an Anti-Renter Lecturing. No place, circa 1845 Illustrated broadside, 14¾ x 8 inches; folds, light wrinkling, minor wear, small dampstain in margin. A pair of anonymous poems to rally the insurgents in the Anti-Rent War which spread across upstate New York from 1839 to 1845. The Van Rensselaer family had exercised feudal dominion over the Manor of Rensselaerswyck surrounding Albany, NY throughout the colonial period, and for decades after the revolution. After the 1839 death of Stephen Van Rensselaer, his heirs attempted to collect back rent from the tenants to cover the estate's debts, resulting in a widespread and long-running insurrection, which culminated in the 1845 killing of an undersheriff by masked marauders at an eviction sale in Delaware County. The Anti-Renters consciously evoked the Boston Tea Party with their American Indian costumes and imagery, a connection drawn clearly in this broadside. The illustration is a crude woodcut showing one of their "brave Indian boys" in full regalia. The first poem begins "Ye sons of Tuscarora, to arms! to arms! advance /'Tis time to take your guns in hand, and make landholders prance / For sixty years our Rents we've paid / And not a word against it said / Now it's time a settlement's made / With brave Indian boys." "Lyric No. 2" similarly begins "With his mask upon his brow, and his rifle in his hand / The Indian marches forth to drive oppression from the land." (One suspects that large groups of actual Indians with rifles might not be embraced as brothers by these Anti-Renters.) Boston and Rhode Island are name-checked to recall the befeathered revolutionaries of the Tea Party and the Gaspee Affair. Several references are made to the tin horns famously used by guerrillas to communicate across the hills--and terrify the sheriff's men.

Lot: 254 - (NEW YORK.) The Western Transportation Co., steamship and canal broadside, 1857

The Western Transportation Co. steamship and canal broadside. New York: Hosford & Co., 1857 Illustrated broadside, 17½ x 13½ inches, in gilt on green coated stock; minimal wear. Advertises a New York shipping firm: "Merchandise and other property forwarded to and from the west via Erie Canal and lakes." Lists the company's officers in Buffalo, its agents in New York, and representatives in a dozen other cities. Illustrated with cuts of the steamer Plymouth, a canal boat, and smaller images. "Mark packages 'W.T.Co.' and ship daily from Pier 7 E.R." None traced at auction or in OCLC. 

Lot: 255 - (NEW YORK.) William A. Ritchie. Typescript illustrated report on archaeological expeditions in New York. New York, circa 1920-1929

William A. Ritchie. Report on archaeological digs at Algonquian sites in western New York. New York, 1919-1928 7 printed maps, 48 photographs, 36 manuscript leaves, 53 typescript leaves (some heavily annotated), and a 41-page manuscript notebook, unbound but laid into a spring-back binder with Ritchie's name in gilt on front board; moderate edge wear to the typescript leaves.  William Augustus Ritchie (1903-1995) was raised in Rochester, NY, and apparently had an interest in archaeology from an early age. He graduated from the University of Rochester and by 1925 was the curator of anthropology at the Municipal Museum of Rochester, and was soon serving as secretary of the New York State Archaeological Association. He was later the chief archaeologist at the New York State Museum in Albany for many years until his retirement. This packet, including a loosely drafted report which was apparently intended for publication but never published, documents some of his earliest work and collaborations. A section titled "General Field Notes" lists 45 "certain prehistoric sites intensively explored." 21 of these sites (#1-16 and #24-28) are accompanied by typescript or manuscript reports, including 47 photographs laid down or mounted with corners as "plates" numbered I through XXV. Most of the photographs show the site terrain, some with archaeologists at work; a few show excavated skulls. All of the sites are in western and northern New York, with almost all of them within 20 miles of Rochester.  A more miscellaneous section includes 7 folding printed maps, including a large folding 1920 map of New York, annotated with a color-coded count of known archaeological sites by county, with the highest red and blue counts clustered near Rochester. A series of topographical maps are annotated with different types of sites in red ink. A printed form for "Data Relative to Indian Sites and Relics" is completed for a site in Montour, NY.  A small 41-page manuscript notebook is headed "Catalogue of Indian Relics," listing 94 relics gathered from 1917 to 1920, mostly near Rochester. The finders of each artifact are noted in a key at the end, with the ones bearing a check mark found by "R" (presumably Ritchie).  Provenance: purchased from the estate of William Ritchie's son Galen Blaine Ritchie (1935-2023) of Delmar, NY. 

Lot: 256 - (NEW YORK.) Records of the Piping Rock casino connected to mafia figure Meyer Lansky. Saratoga Springs, NY, 1928-1933

Records of the Piping Rock casino connected to mafia figure Meyer Lansky. Saratoga Springs, NY, 1928-1933 5 items, minor to moderate wear. The Piping Rock casino was among the most prominent of the Saratoga Springs lake houses that  offered illicit gambling, and formed a gaudy vacation destination in the early 20th century. It opened circa 1928, was controlled by the famous gangster Meyer Lansky, and was destroyed by suspected arson in 1954. It should not be confused with the posh country club with a similar name which has operated on Long Island since 1911. This lot includes: Original stock certificate book of Piping Rock-Saratoga, Inc. Oblong folio, 8½ x 15 inches, original cloth with gilt lettering on front board, minor wear. Includes 13 completed transfer stubs, 4 with completed certificates still attached, 3 detached cancelled certificates, and 12 blank certificates still attached to the stubs. Stockholders included local lawyer Carleton J. King (later a congressman). Lansky is not listed as stockholder or officer. No place, August 1930 to September 1932. Bernard Audit Company. "Report of the Piping Rock." 3, [14] typescript carbon pages including folding tables, signed by accountant. Covers 1 August to 12 September 1933, including a balance sheet, lists of accounts payable and receivable, a detailed daily summary of casino income, and more. Over this six-week period, Piping Rock drew in $39,588 of gross income from its restaurant, $138,995 from the casino, but with $188,653 of operating expenses reported a $10,070 loss. The daily casino income is broken down for roulette, hazzard, craps, black jack, money wheels, bird cage, and chemin de fer, with roulette and craps generating most of the income. Categories which lost money on the day are typed in red. New York, 15 September 1933. Typescript list of daily liquor inventory purchases, 1928-1929. 3 leaves of miscellaneous account memoranda, 1928-1933. Newspaper clipping regarding an injunction granted to the club, 25 July 1932. With--Certified typescript record of the Saratoga Springs criminal docket for 10 September 1952, in case of "the People against Meyer Lansky," typed and certified on 6 September 1974; and other research materials. 

Lot: 257 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Records of the construction of the Harlem River Bridge. New York, 1863-1871 and undated

Records of the construction of the Harlem River Bridge. New York, 1863-1871 and undated The Harlem River Bridge was completed in 1868 and remained in operation through 1894; it was replaced by the current Third Avenue Bridge from the Bronx to Manhattan. These are the working papers of the bridge's designer, civil engineer Erastus W. Smith. They include: Summons to Smith by the Special Committee of the New Harlem Bridge to testify on the "affairs" of the Bridge Commission, 23 December 1863. A set of 15 "questions from Cheseborough pertaining to Harlem Bridge," 1863. 3 documents assigning the use of a marine steam engine from Norman Wheeler to Smith, October 1866. Smith's manuscript request for proposals for the removal of the wood superstructure, and accompanying specifications, 15 November 1867. Draft memorandum of understanding with a contractor to "remove all the stone . . . of the submerged foundations of the old wooden bridge at the terminus," 24 July 1868. Group of 10 budgeting documents listing supplies and costs for various sub-projects, circa 1863-1867. Letter from city official William H. Grant requesting a copy of the bridge plans, 2 June 1871. 21 other memoranda and sketches relating to the bridge.

Lot: 258 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Stereoview of a lesson at New York's Colored Orphan Asylum, circa 1862

Stereoview of a lesson at New York's Colored Orphan Asylum. New York, circa 1862 Hand-tinted albumen stereoview print, 2¾ x 6 inches, on original plain mount, captioned in manuscript on verso "Infant School, Colored Orphan Asylum," numbered "7" in the negative; minor wear. New York's Colored Orphan Asylum was founded by Quaker philanthropists in 1836, and in 1843 moved into a new building on 5th Avenue, just north of where the main branch of New York Public Library stands today. The building was destroyed by a racist mob during the July 1863 New York City draft riots. The children all survived the blaze, although some were beaten by rioters as they escaped. After several name changes and relocations, the institution remains in operation today as the Harlem Dowling--West Side Center for Children & Family Services. This image shows about 50 students in auditorium seats while an African-American teacher reads to them from a book. Only two other images from this series have appeared at auction, in a Swann sale on 19 April 2016, lot 14; and the following lot.

Lot: 259 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Stereoview of boys in the dormitory of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum, circa 1862

Stereoview of boys in the dormitory of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum. New York, circa 1862 Hand-tinted albumen stereoview print, 2¾ x 6 inches, on original plain mount, captioned in manuscript on verso "Boys Dormitory. A boy reading the Bible to others before retiring," numbered "1" in the negative; minor wear New York's Colored Orphan Asylum was founded by Quaker philanthropists in 1836, and in 1843 moved into a new building on 5th Avenue, just north of where the main branch of New York Public Library stands today. The building was destroyed by a racist mob during the July 1863 New York City draft riots. The children all survived the blaze, although some were beaten by rioters as they escaped. After several name changes and relocations, the institution remains in operation today as the Harlem Dowling--West Side Center for Children & Family Services. This image shows an older boy reading to about 12 others, along with some of their beds in a spacious dormitory room. Only two other images from this series have appeared at auction, in a Swann sale on 19 April 2016, lot 14; and the preceding lot.

Lot: 260 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Stereoview of children at the American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless, 4 July 1864

Stereoview of children at the American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless. [New York, 4 July 1864] Double albumen photograph, 3 x 6 inches, on original plain mount, uncaptioned; minimal wear. The American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless was a sprawling charitable institution which ran 12 industrial schools and a summer resort. Their main building at 29 East 29th Street served as an orphanage and homeless shelter. Here we see a multi-racial group of dozens of children and at least one overseer gathered in the home's rear courtyard, with laundry hanging overhead. The New-York Historical Society holds another example of this image, captioned "Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless, 29th Street, New York, July 4, 1864."

Lot: 261 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Heppenheimer & Co., printer., The Grand Procession in Honor of the Fenian Exiles in New York City. New York: Haasis & Lubrecht, 1871

Heppenheimer & Co., printer. The Grand Procession in Honor of the Fenian Exiles in New York City. New York: Haasis & Lubrecht, 1871 Hand-colored lithograph, 16 x 20 inches; dampstaining and repaired 3-inch closed tear in lower margin. Shows a group of green-clad Irish revolutionaries parading through New York before a cheering crowd. One traced in OCLC (at the Library of Congress), and only one other known at auction since 1919 (at Swann, 10 March 2020, lot 173). 

Lot: 262 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Statue of Liberty, American Committee Model. [New York, 1885]

Statue of Liberty, American Committee Model. [New York, 1885] Bronzed statue, with the detachable pedestal nickel-silvered, together 11¾ inches tall, 3 inches square at the base; minimal wear. These scale models were sold by the New York-based American Committee of the Statue of Liberty to raise funds for the erection of the statue. First offered in April 1885, a six-inch model sold for a dollar, while this twelve-inch version brought $5.00. The advertising circular (not included here) exhorted: "Every American citizen should feel proud to donate to the Pedestal Fund and own a model in token of their subscription . . . in this great work." At the bottom of the detached statue are the words "American Committee Model," and at the top of the base are the patent dates of 5 November 1878 and 18 February 1879. Inscribed onto Lady Liberty's tablet is the date "4th July 1776." Provoyeur & Hargrove, "Liberty: The French-American Statue in Art and History," pages 163-5, 296.

Lot: 263 - (NEW YORK CITY.) In Memoriam to the Hotel Royal Victims. No place, circa 1892

In Memoriam to the Hotel Royal Victims. No place, circa 1892 Illustrated broadside, 11¾ x 8¾ inches; worn, cello tape stains, professionally conserved. The 7 February 1892 Hotel Royal fire started with a maintenance man working by candlelight in an elevator shaft, and ended with 28 dead.  This memorial broadside dramatizes the fire in verse. "And thro' the night, like a banshee's cry / The L train whistle rises wild and high / Listen! ye sleepers, ye must fly or die!" One in OCLC (New-York Historical Society) and none traced at auction.

Lot: 264 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Coney Island Terminal . . Contract Drawings, 1916

Coney Island Terminal . . . Contract Drawings. New York: New York Municipal Railway Corporation, 1916 Approximately 73 folding plates, plus one text page. 4to, original printed wrappers, moderate wear. Includes plans not just for the Coney Island station, but also Stillwell Avenue, Gravesend, and Brighton Beach. None traced in OCLC or auction.

Lot: 265 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Caryl Keating. Photo album of an early Montessori educator in the Lower East Side. New York and elsewhere, circa 1917-1919

Caryl Keating. Photo album of an early Montessori educator in the Lower East Side. New York and elsewhere, circa 1917-1919 246 photographs mounted on 31 album leaves, with some captioning. Oblong 4to, 7 x 10 inches, original limp calf cover; minimal wear. Maria Montessori began training teachers in her distinctive system in Italy in 1901; her methods were imported to the United States in 1912. Approximately 60,000 Montessori schools are in operation across the globe today. Mary Carolyn "Caryl" Keating (1898-1972) was raised in an affluent Buffalo, NY family, and attended Columbia University. She also studied the Montessori method at the Child's Education Foundation Teaching School on West 74th St. The 1930 census shows that she was still teaching at a Montessori school in Manhattan. Perhaps 20 of these photographs relate to Keating's Montessori training, her students, and the Lower East Side circa 1918, just a few years after the method was introduced to America. She taught Montessori classes at the Clark Neighborhood House on Rivington Street.  At least 18 of her students are shown, aged 3-5, most with Jewish names and one of them Italian. Other shots give a flavor of street life in the Lower East Side, such as shots titled "Push Carts in the Slums," "Pickle Vendor," and "Characteristic Figure, Russian Jew."  The album is tidily composed, although the captions can be enigmatic. One shot of a man shown rowing during a Greenwich, CT yacht vacation is captioned simply "The Bolshevist."  With—3 other albums of similar size. Only one other album has much captioning; it shows Keating with friends and family, in Buffalo and on vacation circa 1914-1916. In one of the volumes, the leaves are neatly disbound. Also, a folder of correspondence, documents and loose photos, circa 1900-1961.

Lot: 266 - (NEW YORK CITY.) Papers of prominent politician and entrepreneur Hulan Jack, 1929-1986 (bulk 1959-1972)

Papers of prominent politician and entrepreneur Hulan Jack. New York, 1906-1986 (bulk 1955-1972) Thousands of items (7 linear feet) including manuscripts, printed ephemera, photographs, and award certificates; generally minor wear. Hulan Edwin Jack (1906-1986) was born on the island of Saint Lucia and was raised in British Guiana before coming to the United States in 1923. His first

Lot: 267 - (OHIO.) Good News for All: New Cash Store at Olive Green, Fresh Goods at Prices Suited to the War Times. Cincinnati, OH, circa 1861

J.N. Stark. Good News for All: New Cash Store at Olive Green, Fresh Goods at Prices Suited to the War Times. Cincinnati, OH: Times Print, circa 1861 Illustrated broadside, 25½ x 18½ inches; small dampstain in upper right corner, horizontal fold, minimal wear. A charming advertisement for a new general store opening in Olive Green in Delaware County, in central Ohio. A crowd gathers around an arriving train, exclaiming "A large stock has been received by J.N. Stark. It is astonishing at what low prices he is now enabled to sell Goods. . . . Well this arrival beats them all; I'll give him a call." Stark promises (with apparent contradiction) that "Country Produce of all kinds taken in payment for Merchandise. . . . Buying and selling for cash alone, I am enabled to give customers as good bargains as they can find anywhere else in the country." The engraving firm of Frazer & Denis which produced the woodcut was active mainly in the early 1850s; the "Times Print, Cincinnati" imprint was used from about 1861 to 1880. James N. Stark (1823-1899) was listed as a wealthy merchant in Delaware County in the 1860 census.  None in OCLC, and none others traced at auction. Provenance: from the stock of Ernest Wessen's Midland Books; see his 1959 catalog #74, item 390; Swann sale, 26 September 2019, lot 169.

Lot: 268 - (PERIODICALS.) Spirit of the Times. New York, 26 February 1848 to 8 February 1851

Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Agriculture, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. New York, 26 February 1848 to 8 February 1851 A few woodcut illustrations. 155 weekly issues, most 12 pages, bound in 3 volumes. Folio, 17¾ x 12¼ inches, contemporary 9 calf, minor wear; mailing folds, minor dampstaining to first volume, occasional wear to a few issues; a few marked above masthead for subscriber H. Smith. Not collated but apparently complete. New York's leading sporting newspaper from the 1830s through the mid-1850s, with coverage of cricket, boxing, horse racing, rifle clubs, and more. The famed Hyer-Sullivan championship boxing match is in the 1 February 1849 issue, and the British sport of golf is discussed on 29 September 1849. Coverage is not limited to sports; the California Gold Rush is covered frequently (as early as 16 December 1848, when special California cholera pills are discussed), and the closing of the Mexican War, as well as the first American tour of Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, for example. Fur trader Henry Hastings Sibley contributed pieces on American Indians and the wild west under the pen name "Hal, a Dacotah" (11 March 1848). Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, are discussed on 10 June 1848. 

Lot: 269 - (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Homes of American Statesmen, 1854

Homes of American Statesmen. New York, 1854 Frontispiece salt-print photograph, illustrated additional title page, 16 facsimile manuscripts, plus text illustrations. viii, 469 pages. 4to, contemporary embossed morocco, minor wear, rejointed; all edges gilt; early family ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper.  An original photograph is used as a frontispiece, as issued. It is captioned in pencil on the mount leaf, "Hancock House, an original sun print." Goldschmidt, Truthful Lens, page 27 ("first American book illustrated with an original photograph"). Provenance: inscription of Ernestine Chase Giddings (1833-1869); her husband, lumber merchant Moses Giddings (1816-1911) of Bangor, ME; gift inscription to his grandson Willis Train Giddings (1883-1969).  

Lot: 270 - (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Broadside for the Metropolitan Daguerrean Gift Company. Boston: People's Printing Rooms, circa 1856

Broadside for the Metropolitan Daguerrean Gift Company. Boston: People's Printing Rooms, circa 1856 Letterpress broadside, 14 x 9 inches, signed in type by George Clark Jr. as general agent; folds, 3 short tape repairs, minor dampstaining, moderate edge wear. This broadside advertises a sort of lottery to drum up business for a Boston photography studio. Anyone purchasing a portrait for one dollar was entered into a drawing for one of about 97,000 gifts. Most of the prizes were engravings or "miscellaneous gifts," with a handful of cash prizes of up to $5,000, plus 15 pieces of real estate, 7 pianos, and various pieces of jewelry. Several newspaper testimonials attest to the quality of the studio's work. George Clark Jr. operated a daguerreotype studio at 59 Court Street from about 1853 to 1861. As for the printer, the only reference we find to the People's Printing Office is a fire at this 14 Franklin Avenue address described in the 19 March 1856 Boston Evening Transcript. No other examples traced in OCLC or elsewhere.

Lot: 271 - (PHOTOGRAPHY.) James A. Cutting, a self-portrait of the photography pioneer, using his rarely seen photolithography process. Boston, circa 1858

Jas. A. Cutting, Photographer, Cutting & Turner, a self-portrait of the photography pioneer, using his rarely seen photolithography process. Boston: Cutting & Bradford, circa 1858 Photolithograph, 8½ x 6½ inches, on thin paper, tipped on top edge to printed 10½ x 8½-inch mount; light wrinkling, moderate foxing and toning, minor edge wear; small "Turner Lith" inked stamp on verso, inked over. James Ambrose Cutting (1814-1867) was responsible for patenting important improvements in the ambrotype photographic process, and helped popularize its spread--although the ambrotype was apparently not named in honor of his middle name Ambrose. In 1858, he and lithographer Lodowick H. Bradford patented a photolithography process which created a photographic image on a limestone printing plate.  This portrait of Cutting, credited to "Cutting & Bradford's photolithography," looks somewhat like a salt print photograph at first glance, and under a loupe looks much like a lithograph. It is a photographic image, rather than a lithographer's artful effort to copy a photograph. We can find no other examples of the Cutting & Bradford process at auction and very few in institutions. The American Antiquarian Society holds another example of the present portrait, as well as a similar one of the lithographer Bradford, and two other specimens of their work.

Lot: 272 - (PRESIDENTS--1792 CAMPAIGN.) Coverage of the re-election of George Washington, in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser, 18 February 1793

Coverage of the re-election of George Washington, in Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 18 February 1793 4 pages, 21½ x 13 inches, on one nearly detached folding sheet; stitch holes in margin, folds, minor dampstaining; uncut.  Includes the 13 February session of the Senate with a chart of the certified Electoral College results by state. At first glance, it looks like Washington had some substantial opposition, but in the earliest federal period each elector voted for two candidates, and the runner-up was awarded the vice presidency. Washington was named on every ballot unanimously, while the incumbent vice president John Adams outpaced George Clinton, with a few straggling votes to Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. "Whereupon the Vice President declared George Washington unanimously elected President of the United States, for the period of four years." 

Lot: 273 - (PRESIDENTS--1796.) George Washington. The Legacy of the Father of his Country. Boston, 1796

George Washington. The Legacy of the Father of his Country: Address . . . on Declining being Considered a Candidate. Boston: John Russell and David West, 1796 43 pages. 12mo, original marbled wrappers, minor wear including a light diagonal crease; minor foxing; signature of original owner Ebenezer Beckford on title page, with his grand-daughter's inscription facing on front free endpaper. First edition thus of Washington's famous Farewell Address, offering prescient warnings against sectionalism, foreign entanglements, and the formation of political parties.  The publishers admit that the address has already appeared in all the major newspapers, "but whoever contemplates, for a moment, the pure morality and political principles, the ardent patriotism, and useful information, contained in all the addresses of our endeared General in War, and President in Peace; and considers that this may be his valedictory, will readily see the propriety of its taking a form less perishable than the pages of a Gazette."  Evans 31530; Sabin 101553. 

Lot: 274 - (PRESIDENTS.) Miniature portrait of George Washington in a frame made from Mount Vernon wood. Washington: Horace Barnes & Co., 1859

Miniature portrait of George Washington in a frame made from Mount Vernon wood. Washington: Horace Barnes & Co., 1859 Engraving, just over 2 inches round, in original wood frame, 3 inches round, with printed explanatory label on verso; scrape to label on verso with loss of a few words.  The engraving includes a half-inch portrait of Washington superimposed over a view of Mount Vernon and his tomb, with patriotic emblems and the text "He lived for his country." It was produced by the American Bank Note Company, after a design by H. Billings, based upon Houdon's portrait of Washington. A note on verso by J. Crutchett explains that the frame was "manufactured at the Mount Vernon Factory from wood grown at Mount Vernon" by the authorization of John A. Washington. Hart 190.

Lot: 275 - (PRESIDENTS--1813.) Stay of execution for a mutinous seaman, signed by James Madison and James Monroe. Washington, 6 February 1813

Stay of execution for a mutinous seaman, signed by James Madison and James Monroe. Washington, 6 February 1813 Document Signed by James Madison as President and by James Monroe as Secretary of State. One page, 15¼ x 9½ inches to sight; worn, conserved with loss of a few letters including a 1-inch area in the main text. Framed with two smaller engravings of Madison and Monroe and a three-page summary of the document; not examined outside of frame. In 1811, young Uriah Philips Levy (1792-1862) became part-owner and master of a schooner called the George Washington. In January 1812, while heading homeward from the Canary Islands, Levy made a short visit to another ship. Two of his men, first mate Samuel Tully and seaman John Dalton, mutinied and made off with the George Washington, killing another seaman in the process. Levy caught up with them in the Caribbean and brought them to justice, and they were both sentenced to death. The appointed 10 December 1812 day at the gallows was dramatic, according to a Boston Centinel report. Tully was hanged, and the halter was around Dalton's neck when a presidential stay of execution was read. After being returned to prison, Dalton received this additional stay of execution from President Madison. In part: "Whereas sentence of death was passed by the Circuit Court . . . upon a certain John Dalton who was duly convicted of piracy, which sentence was to have been executed . . . on the 10th day of December last, and whereas the President of the United States did respite the [exe]cution of the said sentence, from time to time, until the 15th day of February inst., and has thought proper [to again?] respite the same. Now therefore be it known [that I?] Jame[s] Madison, President of the United States of America, for divers good causes and considerations, do hereby further respite the execution of the aforesaid sentence until the fifteenth day of March next ensuing."  Dalton later received a full pardon, per the Buffalo Patriot of 13 July 1813. As for Captain Levy, he soon joined the United States Navy, and became the first Jewish commodore in the service--one of the most prominent Jewish citizens of the early 19th century.   

Lot: 276 - (PRESIDENTS--1819.) James Monroe. Broadside printing of his State of the Union address issued by the National Intelligencer. Washington, 7 December 1819

James Monroe. Broadside printing of his State of the Union address issued by the National Intelligencer. Washington, 7 December 1819 Letterpress broadside, 21 x 15 inches; folds, minor foxing; uncut. Monroe welcomes Congress back to the Capitol building, newly reopened after being burned in 1815. The bulk of his address discusses the Adams–Onís Treaty with Spain which brought Florida into the United States, the Long Expedition to seize Texas, and the ongoing rebellion of Latin America against Spain. Some points seem like foreshadowing of the Monroe Doctrine which he promulgated four years later: "The distance of the colonies from the parent country . . . would be difficult for Spain to surmount. The steadiness, consistency, and success, with which they have pursued their object . . . give them a strong claim to the favorable consideration of other nations. These sentiments, on the part of the United States, have not been withheld from other powers."  The Panic of 1819 (the nation's first financial crisis) is also discussed.

Lot: 277 - (PRESIDENTS--1828 CAMPAIGN.) A Brief Account of the Execution of the Six Militia Men. [Philadelphia: Democratic Press, 1828]

COFFIN HANDBILL ISSUED TO OPPOSE ANDREW JACKSON A Brief Account of the Execution of the Six Militia Men. [Philadelphia: Democratic Press, 1828] Letterpress broadside, 16½ x 10 inches, illustrated with 6 coffins, with text in 3 columns; wrinkling, wear, folds, laid down on paper at an early date. One of a series of broadsides attacking candidate Andrew Jackson for an incident from late in the War of 1812. Jackson had ordered the execution of 6 soldiers who tried to leave the service at the conclusion of their three-month term of enlistment. Jackson was campaigning mainly on the strength of his war-hero resume, so these handbills were intended to undermine his main selling point. The strategy failed, as Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams.  Swann sold another issue of this broadside on 27 April 2017, with some paragraphs from the same setting of type, but adding two exclamation points to the title.

Lot: 278 - (PRESIDENTS--1829.) Andrew Jackson. First printing of his first State of the Union Message, featuring his Indian removal policy, Washington, 8 December 1829

Andrew Jackson. First printing of his first State of the Union Message, featuring his Indian removal policy. Washington, 8 December 1829 Extra of the United States Telegraph. Letterpress broadsheet, 2 pages, 21¾ x 15 inches, on one sheet, signed in type; folds, uneven toning; uncut. A complete "same day" printing of President Andrew Jackson's first State of the Union Message, delivered at noon of that day.  In this address Jackson announced his Indian removal policy, which would be codified into law as the Indian Removal Act on 28 May 1830. He presents it as a charitable mission. The subject is broached on the second page, in the middle of the second column. "I informed the Indians inhabiting parts of Georgia and Alabama, that their attempt to establish an independent government would not be countenanced . . . and advised them to emigrate beyond the Mississippi. . . . The fate of the Mohegan, the Narragansett, and the Delaware, is fast overtaking the Choctaw, the Cherokee, and the Creek. . . . Humanity and national honor demand that every effort should be made to avert so great a calamity. . . . I suggest for your consideration the propriety of setting apart an ample district West of the Mississippi . . . to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes, as long as they occupy it." The Trail of Tears soon followed. With--the regular daily edition of the United States Telegraph printed earlier that day. 4 pages, 23¾ x 17 inches, on one folding sheet. Two congressmen were "appointed a Committee to wait upon the President, to inform him that the House was in session, and prepared to receive any communication from him."

Lot: 279 - (PRESIDENTS--1844 CAMPAIGN.) A. Hoffy, lithographer; after W.B. Cooper. Lithograph portrait of James K. Polk.

A. Hoffy, lithographer; after W.B. Cooper. Lithograph portrait of James K. Polk. Nashville, TN: Barnard & Freeman, July 1844 Lithograph, 20 x 15¾ inches; minor foxing. First state; another December 1844 version reworks the background and names Polk as President Elect. P.S. Duval of Philadelphia is given as the printer. One example of this first state in OCLC (American Antiquarian Society).  The Swann Americana department does not generally weigh in on matters of fashion, but Polk's outfit here looks quite uncomfortable. 

Lot: 280 - (PRESIDENTS--1844 CAMPAIGN.) William Warner, engraver. Henry Clay . . . from the Original Bust Portrait, 1844

William Warner, engraver; after John Neagle. Henry Clay . . . from the Original Bust Portrait Painted from Life at Ashland. Philadelphia: W.B. Lane, 2 April 1844 Mezzotint, 21½ x 15½ inches; minor dampstaining on bottom edge.  A portrait of the senator and former Secretary of State, then campaigning for the presidency on the Whig ticket. Stated proof, printed by H. Quig. 2 examples traced in OCLC. 

Lot: 281 - (PRESIDENTS--1848 CAMPAIGN.) The Weekly Campaigner, unrecorded first issue of a Democratic paper, with a campaign cartoon. Louisville, KY, 18 May 1848

The Weekly Campaigner, unrecorded first issue of a Democratic paper, with a campaign cartoon. Louisville, KY, 18 May 1848 4 pages, 22¼ x 15¾ inches, on one folding sheet, unbound; folds, minor wear. The cartoon is headed "A Game that more than two can play at; called 'Seven's the Main.'" Three weeks before the Whig Party convention, the seven main candidates are satirized. At right is Winfield Scott (the "Duke of Cerro Gordo"). The "'rough' old gentleman in the blouse" must be Zachary Taylor, and "god-like Dan" is Daniel Webster. We haven't figured out which one is Henry Clay, though. Four other small illustrations appear within. OCLC traces only one holding of the Weekly Campaigner: the American Antiquarian Society has the 1 June issue.  This is apparently the only surviving copy of issue #1.  With--issue #1 of another Democratic party newspaper, the Oneida Democrat. Utica, NY, 21 May 1833.

Lot: 282 - (PRESIDENTS--1852.) Nathaniel Currier, lithographer. Grand National Democratic Banner. Press Onward. New York, 1852

Nathaniel Currier, lithographer. Grand National Democratic Banner. Press Onward. New York, 1852 Hand-colored lithograph, 14 x 10 inches; mat toning, minor dampstaining and wear, laid down in elaborate modern cloth mat. Not examined out of frame. Shows Democratic candidate Franklin Pierce and his running mate William R. King (after daguerreotypes by T. Dunlap), with the additional slogans "In Union is Strength," "The Union Must and Shall be Preserved," and "The Union Now and Forever." 

Lot: 283 - (PRESIDENTS--1860 CAMPAIGN.) Composite photograph of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, [1860]

Composite photograph of the 1860 presidential and vice-presidential candidates. Washington: Whitehurst Gallery, [1860] Salt print photograph, 7¼ x 5¼ inches oval, on photographer's 11½ x 9-inch mount; dampstaining to mount, with two bands across image.  Laid into custom oval mat.  Shows the four major candidates and their running mates. Lincoln is represented with the beardless 4 October 1859 Samuel Fassett portrait (Ostendorf O-16). 

Lot: 284 - (PRESIDENTS--1860 CAMPAIGN.) Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860

Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. New York: Currier & Ives, 1860 Hand-colored lithograph, 25 x 20 inches; 6-inch repaired closed tear with light staining, conserved and backed. Issued as Douglas campaigned against Lincoln in the 1860 presidential race.

Lot: 285 - (PRESIDENTS--1866.) Group of illustrated anti-Andrew Johnson handbills, circa 1866

Group of illustrated anti-Andrew Johnson handbills. No place, circa 1866 7 items, various sizes; most printed on one side only with minimal wear except as noted.  A few rare politicians can unite the people in support.  Then you have the ones who can unite both sides in their disdain.  Here we have a group of rare or unknown political handbills criticizing President Andrew Johnson--most of them issued by the abolitionist Unionists, and the last from the aggrieved  racist Copperhead wing of the Democratic Party. "Andrew Johnson's Speech to the Louisiana Delegation," 7¼ x 4¼ inches; ½-inch closed tear. "For Governor, Climber," 6¼ x 4½ inches. A parody on Johnson's support for white supremacist Hiester Clymer's campaign for governor of Pennsylvania, 1866. Shows Clymer preparing to board the next boat for Salt River. "Heister Climbed a Very Small Tree," 7¼ x 3¼ inches. "My Race is Almost Run," 3½ x 5 inches. Shows Johnson racing for the 1868 boat to Salt River. "Oh, My Policy / Slim Chance for a Pardon," 4 x 5 inches. Shows Johnson and Jefferson Davis in a panic over the 1866 Pennsylvania election returns. "Free Ticket to the Peace-ful Colony, Salt River! For Played-Out Democrats, & Peace-at-any-Cost Patriots," 3 x 4½ inches; foxing, mount remnants on verso. Does not attack Johnson personally; may date from the last months of the Civil War. "Johnson's Love for the Soldier" / "Cash for the Black Soldier. Promises Only for the White Soldier." Double-sized card, 3 x 4¼ inches. Depicts Johnson as overly partial to Black veterans.

Lot: 286 - (PRESIDENTS--1868.) Engraved signatures of the senators who voted on the Andrew Johnson impeachment. Boston, 1868

Engraved signatures of the senators who voted on the Andrew Johnson impeachment. Boston: James D. McBride, 1868 Small engraved broadside, 7¾ x 6½ inches, headed "Fortieth Congress U.S. Second Session, Senate Chamber, May 16th and 26th, 1868, the vote of the Senate sitting as a High Court of Impeachment for the trial of Andrew Johnson"; partial separation at fold. This was the first effort at a facsimile engraved document by publisher General James D. McBride (1842-1932), who used his military connections to gain access to the Senate during the proceedings and collected autographs from those who voted guilty or not guilty. This was a smaller version of his resulting broadside; at the bottom we are told that "Large copies of the engraving printed on heavy plate paper size 18 x 24 inches" can be obtained from the Boston Chromo Company." McBride later became the most prolific producer of souvenir Declarations of Independence during the Centennial. See Bidwell, The Declaration in Script and Print, pages 105-107. 

Lot: 287 - (PRESIDENTS.) Theodore Roosevelt. In Memory of My Darling Wife . . . and of My Beloved Mother. [New York, 1884]

Theodore Roosevelt. In Memory of My Darling Wife Alice Hathaway Roosevelt and of My Beloved Mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. [New York: Press of G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884] 45 pages. 8vo, contemporary soft calf with silk-covered endpapers, minimal wear; rehinged, tinting on fore-edges a bit worn, internally clean. In a modern ¼ morocco folding case with label stating "Samuel M. Roosevelt's Copy."  Roosevelt's mother and young wife both died in his home on the same day, 14 February 1884, just two days after the birth of his daughter. Typhoid fever took his mother, and Bright's Disease caused his wife's death. Roosevelt published this memoriam, featuring his tributes to both women, the funeral service by the Reverend John Hall, the resolutions offered in the New York State Assembly, and the newspaper coverage of the funeral. Roosevelt's tribute to his late wife is short but touching: "We spent three years of happiness such as rarely comes to man or woman. . . . She was beautiful in face and form, and lovelier still in spirit. . . . and when my heart's dearest died, the light went from my life forever."  The memoriam apparently had a very small print run. It is now probably the greatest printed Roosevelt rarity. One in OCLC (in the Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University's Houghton Library), and only two others known at auction. Cordingley, Extreme Rarities in the Published Works of Theodore Roosevelt, page 26-28.

Lot: 288 - (PRESIDENTS.) Deed to what became the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hyde Park, NY, 1 April 1843

Deed to what became the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hyde Park, NY, 1 April 1843 Partly printed Document Signed by Ephraim and Nancy Holbrook as grantors, and by various officials. 3 pages, 16 x 10½ inches, on one folding leaf, illustrated with a small pencil plat map sketch, with docketing on final blank; partial separations at folds, moderate wear, short tape repair. In this deed, Ephraim and Nancy Holbrook of Hyde Park, NY grant approximately 405 acres of Hyde Park land to James Boorman of New York City for $27,500. The land was between the Hudson River to the west and "Mariches Creek" (now known as Maritje Kill) to the east. Running through the land was the "Highland Turnpike" (now known as the Albany Post Road or Route 9). Bordering the land to the north was property owned variously by E. Butler, Benjamin Benson, and M.V.B. Schriver, and south by Dudley B. Fuller.   Ephraim Holbrook (circa 1782-1852) was a retired New York City merchant who had purchased most of the land in 1826 and later expanded his holdings to the north. The 1843 purchaser named here, James Boorman (1783-1866), was president of the Hudson River Railroad. Two years later, Boorman sold 94 acres of the land for $1 to his adopted daughter Mary Boorman Davenport Wheeler (1814-1896) and her husband Josiah. They expanded the holdings and sold 110 acres to James Roosevelt (1828-1900) in 1867, including the palatial home known as Brierstone or Springwood. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born there in 1882, and it remained his family home through the end of his life. It is now part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. See Kristin Baker, "Cultural Landscape Report for the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site," May 1999, which traces the land ownership history of this period on pages 19-35.

Lot: 289 - (RADICALISM.) John Pickering. The Working Man's Political Economy. Cincinnati, OH: Thomas Varney, 1847

John Pickering. The Working Man's Political Economy, Founded Upon the Principle of Immutable Justice, and the Inalienable Rights of Man. Cincinnati, OH: Thomas Varney, 1847 [6], 206 pages. 8vo, contemporary ½ calf over marble boards, lacking backstrip, boards nearly detached; moderate foxing, lacking free endpapers. First edition. Pickering denounces "the injustice of the present organization of society," and for the role of government in "first monopolizing the soil, subjecting it and human flesh to money value, contrary to the law of immutable justice and the common rights on humanity."  The book's printer boasted that it had been "stereotyped in Warren's new patent method." Pioneering American anarchist Josiah Warren, a kindred spirit, had patented his stereotype printing process in 1846. Pickering had earlier been a participant in Warren's small Cincinnati Time Store community, and a chapter of this book is devoted to Warren's book "Equitable Commerce."  "A systematic attempt to account for the distinctions between capital and labor, as well as the potential for class war"--Calvo, "Emergence of Capitalism in Early America" (2020). None traced at auction since a 1975 Swann sale.

Lot: 290 - (RADICALISM.) Signed photograph of James Abbe from his trip to Moscow. Moscow, 1932

Signed photograph of James Abbe from his trip to Moscow. Moscow, 1932 Photograph, 7¾ x 9½ inches; mounted on board; signed and inscribed "Two good(?) Reds in Moscow, 1932. To the other one! J Abbe."  James Edward Abbe (1883-1973) was an American photojournalist who was known for his work in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. He spent seven months in the Soviet Union. He is perhaps best known for managing to secure an April 1932 portrait session with Joseph Stalin, and somehow coaxing the ruthless dictator into a faint smile. In this photograph, Abbe (right) poses with an unidentified friend on the Moskva River, with the Kremlin in the background.  Provenance: found in a northern Virginia estate. 

Lot: 291 - (RADICALISM.) Langston Hughes. A New Song, signed. New York: International Workers Order, 1938

Langston Hughes. A New Song, signed. New York: International Workers Order, 1938 31 pages. 8vo, 8¼ x 5¼ inches, original illustrated wrappers, moderate wear; faint dampstaining to early pages; inked stamp of Peoples Book Shop of Richmond, VA on final blank, signed by Hughes on title page. A collection of political poems, including "Chant for May Day," "Kids Who Die," "Ballad of Lenin" (with a correction in the hand of Hughes), and "Song of Spain." Inscribed on the inner wrapper by the original owner, a College of William and Mary student who wrote "I met Langston Hughes when he came to visit our classroom. He was a very interesting and gracious man." 

Lot: 292 - (RADICALISM.) SDS Fire, a scarce newspaper from the Students for Democratic Society. Chicago, 6 December 1969

SDS Fire, a scarce newspaper from the Students for Democratic Society. Chicago, 6 December 1969 Volume 1, no. 3. 12 pages, 18 x 11½ inches, on 3 folding sheets; moderate wear including 6-inch closed tear to first leaf. A scarce newspaper produced by the Students for Democratic Society. "SDS Fire" took the place of the old SDS journal "New Left Notes" and the short-lived "Fire Next Time," and lasted for just four issues itself as the organization was splintered from philosophical debates.  The cover of this issue pronounces: "We now find the government guilty and sentence it to death in the streets." Articles cover the very recent killing of local Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and trial of Bobby Seale, as well as an article in support of the Palestinians, the trial transcript of Don Cavellini of the Weather Underground, and a reproduction of his illustrated message of defiance.    OCLC lists only 5 runs of Fire, none in the United States.

Lot: 293 - (RADICALISM.) Jayuya: Liberate Puerto Rico Now. [New York]: Taller Alma Boricua, 30 October [1970?]

Jayuya: Liberate Puerto Rico Now. [New York]: Taller Alma Boricua, 30 October [1970?] Silk screen print, 17½ x 23 inches, in 4 colors on glossy stock; minor wear and dampstaining. Outside the Young Lords' occupation of New York's First Spanish Methodist Church, this Liberate Puerto Rico Now Committee had an information table, per the Daily World of 22 October 1970. The United Nations rally promoted here was described in the New York Daily News of 31 October 1970. Civil rights attorney William Kunstler was the keynote speaker, telling the crowd of 4000 that "the fight to free Angela Davis and the fight to liberate Puerto Rico were part of the same movement." The rally took place on the twentieth anniversary of the nationalist Jayuya Uprising in Puerto Rico. None traced in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 294 - (RAILROADS.) Three letters concerning the original purchase of the historic locomotive John Bull, 1831

Three letters concerning the original purchase of the historic locomotive John Bull. Liverpool, England, March to July 1831 3 Autograph Letters Signed by Francis B. Ogden, each one or two pages, the first two with integral blanks and inked "6" postal stamps on the address panels, the last with a detached blank with docketing but no address; moderate wear variously including paper clip

Lot: 295 - (RAILROADS.) Records of the Union Railway Company of Memphis, 1890-1893

Records of the Union Railway Company of Memphis. Memphis, TN, bulk 1890-1893 Approximately 400 items (0.3 linear feet), including correspondence, agreements, reports, cancelled checks, vouchers (many with related invoices attached), and stock subscription receipts; condition generally strong.  The Union Railway was a freight line which encircled Memphis and was controlled by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It was incorporated in 1886 and reorganized in 1890.  This collection features the company's 30 September 1890 reorganization agreement, which hopes that "as many individuals as possible interested in the Cotton Trade of the city of Memphis should become stock-holders in the Enterprise." It is signed by 30 original partners. Some of them are also represented in stock subscription receipts from 1891.  Some of the correspondence and agreements relate to the acquisition of property rights. Some discuss the broader vision of the railroad, which intended to rationalize the transport of cotton. 3 Letters Signed are from notable engineer Elmer Lawrence Corthell, all dated 1890. In one, he praises the company's "proposed re-arrangement of the Memphis Cotton Business" which "will, in my opinion, revolutionize the handling of cotton in the United States." Some of the checks are also made out to Corthell. Other highlights include a draft agreement with the city of Memphis; and a packet of estimates and correspondence regarding the 1893 construction of the Larose Street Bridge. Almost all of the collection dates from 1890 to 1893. A permit from the city of Memphis for grading operations from 1904 and a financial statement from December 1916 are the only later documents. The cancelled checks and vouchers appear to be a nearly complete run from the company's 1890 reorganization through August 1892.  Additional material includes engineering estimates and reports from E.L. Corthell and financial memoranda relating to railroad infrastructure projects in Memphis, including track construction agreements.

Lot: 296 - (RAILROADS.) Records of a freight agent for the Philadelphia & Reading. Williamsport, PA, 1916-1934

Records of a freight agent for the Philadelphia & Reading. Williamsport, PA, 1916-1934 Thousands of documents (4 linear feet); many with filing punch holes in upper margins, incoming correspondence generally with minimal wear, the retained carbons generally brittle with moderate edge wear. These are the office files of station agent Charles Clayton MacMinn (1874-1939), the

Lot: 297 - (RECONSTRUCTION.) The Petersburg Platform: Gov. Wells and his Radical Court, 1869

The Petersburg Platform: Gov. Wells and his Radical Court. [Virginia], circa early July 1869 Illustrated broadside, 15¼ x 7½ inches; toned, worn at edges, a bit musty, several repaired tears and separations at folds.  Henry Horatio Wells (1823-1900) was a Union army colonel who was appointed as reconstruction governor of Virginia in April 1868. For the July 1869 election, he campaigned with a Black running mate. This broadside depicts radical reconstruction in two vignettes.  At the top, we see a courtroom with a Black lawyer interrogating a white woman as a witness: "A life-like picture of a county court, under Gov. Wells' administration. White men! See your fate!" At bottom, we see a desegregated school, with a Black teacher administering discipline to a white boy: "The free mixed school system, as administered by Henry Happy Wells, should he be elected. Matrons of Virginia, what say you to this?" Due in part to this toxic style of campaigning, a conservative candidate defeated Wells, which effectively ended reconstruction in Virginia earlier than in the other southern states.  This broadside was described in the 8 July 1869 issue of the Weekly Leader of Bloomington, IL. None in OCLC; only one other found at auction, in 2007. 

Lot: 298 - (REFERENCE.) Isaiah Thomas. The History of Printing in America. Worcester, MA, 1810

Isaiah Thomas. The History of Printing in America. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, Jr., 1810 Frontispiece portrait, 5 plates. 487, 576 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern ½ buckram; repaired tears and chips to plates, minor foxing; University of Chicago library markings, including bookplates, perforated stamps to title pages, and inked deaccession stamps.  First edition of the first history of printing in the Americas. Includes biographies of notable printers, a long history of early American newspapers, a chapter on early printing in Spanish America, and much more. Not all copies contain the frontispiece. Sabin hypothesizes that they were added to copies bound as remainders in the 1830s. Grolier Hundred 29; Howes T168 ("aa"); Sabin 95405.

Lot: 299 - (RELIGION.) Elaborate Board of Foreign Missions membership certificate, designed and engraved by women artists, 14 May 1859

Elaborate Board of Foreign Missions membership certificate, designed and engraved by women artists. Brandywine, PA, 14 May 1859 Engraved certificate, 13½ x 15½ inches, completed in manuscript and signed by the institution's secretary and president; minor foxing and wear. This certificate was given to Christiana Ralston of the Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church, in thanks for her $30 donation. The elaborate central engraving is credited to "Miss E.M." as artist, and "Miss M.K.L." as engraver. It depicts a missionary ship heading across the seas from west to east, headed "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel." 

Lot: 300 - REVERE. Bookplate engraved for Isaiah Thomas

Paul Revere. Bookplate engraved for Isaiah Thomas. No place, undated Engraving, 3½ x 2¾ inches, on laid paper; unmounted, unevenly cropped, light folds. In addition to Paul Revere's silver production and book illustration, he also engraved a small number of bookplates. His friend and customer Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831) was a patriot, publisher, and antiquarian. This was apparently the second bookplate which Revere engraved for him. Brigham, Paul Revere's Engravings, page 164 and plate 53.

Lot: 301 - (RHODE ISLAND.) Complaint of an "Indian woman" whose child was stolen from her during indentured servitude. Tiverton, RI, 1713-1719

Complaint of an "Indian woman" whose child was stolen from her during indentured servitude. Tiverton, RI, 1713-1719 3 manuscript documents, each about 6 x 8 inches; each with fire damage and substantial loss, each professionally conserved and stabilized. These documents tell a sad story. In 1713 in the town of Tiverton (then in Massachusetts, now in Rhode Island), an American Indian woman named Ruth Corkaway or Caukaway agreed to serve as an indentured servant for William Briggs (likely the man who lived from 1688-1761). She was likely a member of the Pocasset Wampanoags who remain in Tiverton today. After five years of service, Briggs took her five-year-old son Tobe and sent him out of the colony, presumably as a slave--although both Ruth and Tobe were free by law. These documents show how Ruth attempted to use the legal system to rescue her son. We do not know if she was successful. Included in this extremely early documentation of the internal slave trade: Fragment of an indenture agreement signed by Ruth Corkaway (by mark) and William Briggs, and two witnesses, 6¼ x 8¼ inches. Briggs agrees to provide "sufficiant drink, lodging & cloathing  . . . fitting for such a servant," while Corkaway agrees "that if I runaway att any time from my sd master within the time of my servitudes that what time I have then to serve shall be dubble or pay the charge thereof." No place, 1 May 1713. Writ issued by justice of the peace Job Almy to William Briggs upon the complaint of Ruth Caukaway, 8½ x 5½ inches. "Ruth Caukaway of Tiverton, Indian woman" complains that Briggs "hath sould her an unreasonable time & she hath had very hard usage & yt doth further complain yt ye above William Bridge hath sent out of ye province a boy called Tobe of about five years ould who was born of her body & was a free born child notwithstanding ye sd Bridge did presume to to send sd child out . . . . It is reported yt sd child is sould for a slave which is very unjust(?) & prayes for herself & child, she being a free born native of this province." The sheriff is ordered to bring Bridge to court to respond to these charges. Tiverton, 5 [January] 1718/19; docketed on verso 12 January, noting that the writ had been served. Bond issued by justice of the peace Job Almy to William Briggs for £100, 5½ x 8½ inches. Requires that he "answer the complaint of Ruth Caukaway, Indian, for [?]ting of her for an unreasonable time, and for sending of her son Tobe, born of her body, out of the province." Bristol County, MA, 12 [January] 1718/19.

Lot: 302 - (RHODE ISLAND.) Bill of lading for the sloop Sally owned by Nicholas Brown & Company. Providence, RI, 4 October 1766

Bill of lading for the sloop Sally owned by Nicholas Brown & Company. Providence, RI, 4 October 1766 Partly-printed Document signed by ship captain Jonathan Ward. One page, 6½ x 7¼ inches, with docketing on verso; folds, minimal wear. This document certifies the cargo of a small coastal vessel leaving Providence, RI for the port of Egg Harbor, NJ. It carried 6 blue caps, about 80 yards of textiles, a barrel of sugar, 6 tea kettles, an iron pot, and a kettle.  Nicholas Brown & Company was the partnership of the four Brown brothers who played a central role in 18th-century Providence. The company is infamous for the voyage of a different vessel named Sally: a disastrous slaving expedition by a brigantine of that name in 1764-1765. A sloop is a small vessel intended for the coastal trade, while a brigantine is a larger vessel suited for a trans-Atlantic voyage.

Lot: 303 - (RHODE ISLAND.) New York & Boston Steam-Boat Line, for New-Port and Providence. [New York?], 1834

New York & Boston Steam-Boat Line, for New-Port and Providence . . . the Splendid Steam Boat President. [New York?], 30 April 1834 Illustrated broadside, 17 1/2 x 12 inches, with the blanks for the departure time completed in manuscript; wear at folds and closed tears reinforced on verso, foxing.  An advertisement for a ship plying the Long Island Sound from Courtland Street in Manhattan to Newport, RI, continuing up the bay to Providence. This steamer line broadside advertises the ship President under Captain E.S. Bunker, but the illustration is for the steamboat Benjamin Franklin.

Lot: 304 - (RHODE ISLAND.) Toye & Holmes Marble Works broadside advertisement. Providence, RI, circa 1880s

Toye & Holmes Marble Works broadside advertisement. Providence, RI, circa 1880s Illustrated broadside, 11 x 12¾ inches, in blue and gilt on heavy paper; minor wear including chip on top edge. This business, offering "monuments, gravestones, mantel pieces . . . for cemeteries furnished to order," was in operation near Providence's North Burial Ground by 1872, and was using this 5 Doyle Avenue address by 1878. 

Lot: 305 - (RHODE ISLAND.) Plaque presented to Theodore Francis Green upon becoming the oldest senator in American history. Providence, RI: Gorham Co., 17 June 1956

Plaque presented to Theodore Francis Green upon becoming the oldest senator in American history. Providence, RI: Gorham Co., 17 June 1956 Bronze, 7 x 10½ inches, mounted on wooden base, 9¼ x 12¾ inches, with a total thickness of ¾ inches; minimal wear Theodore Francis Green (1867-1966) was a long-serving and much beloved Rhode Island politician: governor from 1933 to 1937, and then United States Senator from 1937 to 1961. He was a prominent supporter of New Deal and civil rights programs. The state's primary airport has been named in his honor since 1938. This plaque was presented to him on 17 June 1956 when he set a notable record, becoming the oldest senator in American history. The next day's Providence Journal described the congratulations he received from Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, and the reception where this plaque was presented to him by Congressman John E. Fogarty on behalf of "his fellow citizens of Rhode Island at Washington, D.C." The plaque was created at the foundry of Rhode Island's renowned Gorham Manufacturing Company. It describes Green as:  "Rhode Island's distinguished son, young in spirit and vigorous in endeavor, who this day has attained seniority in age among all members of the United States Senate since the foundation of the Republic."  Green remained in office through age 93, with this plaque hanging in his Senate office until his retirement. It is said to have been obtained from his estate.

Lot: 306 - (SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.) Lyman Spalding. An Inaugural Dissertation on the Production of Animal Heat. Walpole, NH: David Carlisle, Jr., 1797

Lyman Spalding. An Inaugural Dissertation on the Production of Animal Heat. Walpole, NH: David Carlisle, Jr., 1797 30 pages plus final blank leaf. 8vo, stitched; title page and final blank worn without loss of text, intermittent foxing; unopened. In modern cloth slipcase.  First edition of the Harvard degree thesis by the originator of the United States Pharmacopoeia; his first published work. Austin, Early American Medical Books 1804; Evans 32864; Sabin 88904. None traced at auction since a Swann sale, 5 November 1987, lot 147. 

Lot: 307 - (SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY.) Lyman Spalding. A New Nomenclature of Chemistry. Hanover, NH: Moses Davis, 1799

Lyman Spalding. A New Nomenclature of Chemistry. Hanover, NH: Moses Davis, 1799 6 leaves. Oblong 4to, 9¼ x 10½ inches, stitched; folded on vertical to 8vo size, minor foxing, final leaf worn at fold; uncut. In modern cloth slipcase.  Produced as a lecturer in Chemistry at Dartmouth, "as a guide to the young chemist." Includes 5 pages of tables. Evans 36347; Sabin 8890. None traced at auction since 1971. 

Lot: 308 - (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pair of pamphlets regarding the American colonists in Liberia, 1826 and 1834

Pair of pamphlets regarding the American colonists in Liberia. Various places, 1826 and 1834 Jehudi Ashmun. History of the American Colony of Liberia, from December 1821 to 1823. Washington, 1826.  Folding map. 42 pages. Octavo, 9 x 5¾ inches, disbound; minor foxing and wear, inked number on title page; uncut. [2], 32 pages. The first formal report on the Liberia colony, with information on the interaction of local tribes and colonists. Afro-Americana 686; Sabin 2204; Work, page 121. Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Maryland State Colonization Society . . . Constitution and Ordinances of Maryland in Liberia.  Baltimore, MD: J.D. Toy, [1834] [2], 32 pages. 12mo, 7¼ x 4¼ inches, disbound, title page detached and lacking bottom inch with loss of date, inked number on title page, minor wear, light vertical fold. The founding documents of "Maryland in Liberia," a neighboring colony to the east of Liberia. After its founding by the Maryland Colonization Society in 1834, it declared independence in 1854, and then merged into the nation of Liberia in 1857. The land is now the County of Maryland, in Liberia's southeast corner. No others traced at auction since 1866. Afro-Americana 6460; Sabin 45243. With--another partial copy of the same, consisting only of pages 9-32, containing in full the "Constitution of Maryland in Liberia."

Lot: 309 - (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Circular letter with four petitions issued by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. New York, February 1850

Circular letter with four petitions issued by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. New York, February 1850 2 printed pages, 13½ x 8¼ inches, on one folding sheet, with address panel on verso of one page, signed in type by Arthur Tappan and twelve others as the Executive Committee of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society; partial separations at folds, minor dampstaining, extensive unrelated manuscript written in margins and on blank versos; addressed to Charles Hurd of Londonderry, NH, with inked Concord, NH postmark dated 8 May.  This circular letter is addressed "to each Friend of Liberty in the United States." It urges opponents of slavery "to awaken our citizens to the momentous importance of the present crisis, and to unite them in one loud and urgent demand on their representatives to grant the prayers of our petitions." It accuses the slave states of the empty threat of secession: "To attain success, resort is had to threats of dissolution--threats which . . . if carried into execution would result in the ruin of the masters and the liberation of the slaves. Should the effort now fail, Slavery will never hereafter acquire sufficient strength to pass its present limits, and the world will in time be delivered from one of the direst scourges that has ever afflicted humanity."  Attached are the texts of four petitions, intended to each be attached to a sheet of lined paper, circulated, and sent to Congress: "To Secure to alleged Fugitives the Right of Trial by Jury"; "For the Repeal of all Laws . . . for the support of Slavery in the District of Columbia"; "Against the Admission of more Slave States into the Union"; and "For the Establishment and Protection of Freedom in the Territories of the United States." Some of these completed petitions were received in Washington and read into the official Congressional record.  New Hampshire farmer Charles Hurd was the recipient of this circular; we find no other evidence that he was involved in the anti-slavery cause. He did not use the circular to gather any signatures. Somebody (likely Hurd) used it as scrap paper to draft a letter to Abbott, Jenks & Co., who from 1852 onward were editors of the Manchester American & Messenger. The letter is a strident anti-Catholic screed, unrelated to the circular contents. No examples of this circular traced at auction, and only one found in OCLC (American Antiquarian Society).

Lot: 310 - (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pre-publication notice of Uncle Tom's Cabin in an issue of The National Era, 8 May 1851

Pre-publication notice of Uncle Tom's Cabin in an issue of The National Era. Washington, 8 May 1851 4 pages, 27 x 19 inches; minor foxing, folds, subscriber's name H. Bass of Wauconda, IL written above masthead; uncut. 19th-century newspapers and magazines often contained serialized novels, most of them of no great lasting significance. The reader of this Washington daily might be forgiven for glossing over this page 2 announcement of a new serial by a moderately-known author: "Week after next we propose to commence in the Era, the publication of a new story by Mrs. H. B. Stowe, the title of which will be, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin, or The Man That Was a Thing'. It will probably be of the length of the Tale by Mrs. Southworth, entitled Retribution. Mrs. Stowe is one of the most gifted and popular of American writers. We announce her story in advance, that none of our subscribers may lose the beginning of it, and that those who desire to read the production as it may appear in successive numbers of the Era, may send us their names in season." Note the long-forgotten original title for the book: "The Man That Was a Thing." The first installment appeared in the National Era on 5 June, and ran through the following April. In book form, it became the best-selling American novel of the century, and probably no work of fiction ever had as great an impact on American history.

Lot: 311 - (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Lewis Tappan, Frederick Douglass, et al. To the Radical Political Abolitionists, 4 April 1855

Lewis Tappan, Frederick Douglass, et al. To the Radical Political Abolitionists. No place, 4 April 1855 Printed circular letter, 10½ x 8 inches, signed in type by 8 abolitionists; mailing folds, moderate foxing. An invitation to the founding convention of the new Radical Abolitionist Party, which met at Syracuse, NY from 26 to 28 June 1855. While all of the American political parties at that time had some members who opposed slavery, this new party formed from the remnants of the 1840s Liberty Party and occupied the most absolutist end of the spectrum, beyond the comparatively moderate Free Soil and Republican parties. They never elected any candidates to office, but influenced the young Republican Party. The letter begins: "We are few--but we are not, therefore, to cease from our work. . . . Our undertaking, as radical political abolitionists, is to remove slavery from the national territories by means of our national political power, and to remove it from the States also, by means of the same power, whenever the States shall themselves refuse to remove it." It goes on to discuss the shortcomings of the existing anti-slavery efforts before proposing the Syracuse convention, and hoping ultimately to "sustain lecturers, and to extend the circulation of periodicals devoted to our cause."  Eight prominent abolitionists lent their names to this letter. Lewis Tappan, the  eldest of them, had helped secure the release of the Amistad captives in 1841. William Goodell had been the Liberty Party's nominee for president in 1852. Gerrit Smith was a prominent radical intellectual and one of the movement's main financial backers. Simeon Smith Jocelyn was a Black minister who worked with Tappan on the release of the Amistad captives. William Whiting would later write "War Powers of the President," arguing that Lincoln had the right to confiscate and free enslaved people in the south. James McCune Smith was a pioneering physician and pharmacist, and at the Syracuse conference would become the first Black man to chair an integrated public meeting. The Rev. George Whipple went on to help launch the Hampton Institute. Finally, Frederick Douglass was of course the movement's leading orator and thinker.  This letter was widely circulated in abolitionist circles. It appeared nine days later in Frederick Douglass' Paper on 13 April, in the National Era on 19 April, and in the National Anti-Slavery Standard of 21 April, and also appeared after the event in the "Proceedings of the Convention of the Radical Political Abolitionists." However, this circular letter appears to be the first and only separate printing. We trace only one example in OCLC (American Antiquarian Society), and no others at auction.

Lot: 312 - (SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Files of John Brown's prosecutor Andrew Hunter relating to the trial, circa 1857-1862

Files of John Brown's prosecutor Andrew Hunter relating to the trial. Various places, circa 1857-1862 11 items: one printed pamphlet and 100 manuscripts; generally minor wear, some mount remnants on verso. This remarkable collection was taken from the files of Andrew Hunter of Charles Town, WV, who prosecuted John Brown in the 1859 trial, and soon became a rabid secessionist who served

Lot: 313 - (SPACE.) Group of early space program photographs, 1957-1962 and undated

Group of early space program photographs. Various places, 1957-1962 and undated 21 items: 13 photographs (each about 8 x 10 inches) and 8 negatives (each about 29 inches square). Includes: 3 official Air Force press photos of spacecraft on the launch platform, with printed captions on verso, 25 September 1957, 18 December 1958, 19 February 1959. 3 photographs of President John F. Kennedy and his entourage, on the tarmac with Air Force One in the background, uncaptioned but said to be at Cape Canaveral on 20 February 1962 for the Mercury-Atlas 6 launch. 2 others from the same period, uncaptioned but apparently showing John Glenn. 2 NASA press release photos from the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission with typed captions on verso.  One shows Scott Carpenter in spacesuit, the other showing the spacecraft undergoing a weight and balance check, 13 and 15 May 1962. 2 uncaptioned photographs of astronauts in training session in jungle. Color photograph from the Apollo 14 mission signed by astronaut Edgar Mitchell (later print of 1971 photograph)

Lot: 314 - (SPORTS.) The Chicago Roller, issues 1 and 2, February 1885

The Chicago Roller, issues 1 and 2. Chicago, 10 and 17 February 1885 2 magazines, each 8 pages, 12½ x 9½ inches, on one unopened folding sheet; moderate dampstaining and wear to first issue, heavier dampstaining to second issue. This nicely produced magazine covers the latest news at Chicago-area roller rinks, and the briefly popular sport of roller polo, with advertisements for the latest roller skating gear. It appears to be almost entirely unknown today. Not in Lomazow's periodical catalogue. We trace no examples at auction, or in OCLC.

Lot: 315 - (SPORTS.) Henry Chadwick. Handbook of Winter Sports. New York: Beadle & Adams, [1879]

Henry Chadwick. Handbook of Winter Sports. New York: Beadle & Adams, [1879] 59, [9] pages including wrappers. 12mo, 6¼ x 4 inches, original pictorial wrappers, minimal wear. The author Henry Chadwick was an editor of the New York Clipper and known as the "Father of Baseball" for his early promotional efforts.  Here he turns his attention to winter sports: ice skating, roller skating, rink-ball, curling, ice-boating, and "American football," which was just starting to separate itself from rugby during this time on college campuses. Its rules and a diagram are given on pages 51 to 59. The rear wrapper has illustrations for three models of "English imported foot balls"; the "American Ball" is round and looks approximately like a basketball. Pages 30 to 33 are devoted to baseball played on ice skates, a fad which never really took hold, as it was apparently a terrible sport. 1860s box scores featuring the champion Atlantic Base Ball Club of Brooklyn and the famous Wright brothers on ice are featured. Those familiar with Chadwick's moralizing baseball reportage will be unsurprised to find an essay on "a Moral View of Skating."  None traced at auction since 1962.  

Lot: 316 - (SPORTS--BASEBALL.) John I. Rogers. Diary of the co-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, January to December 1890

John I. Rogers. Diary of the co-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies. Philadelphia, January to December 1890 [122] manuscript diary pages plus [15] pages of memoranda. Folio, 13¼ x 8 inches, contemporary ½ calf, rebacked in cloth at an early date; dampstaining to inner margins, a few early repairs, a few leaves coming loose. John Ignatius Rogers (1844-1910) was a Philadelphia

Lot: 317 - (SPORTS--BOXING.) Peter Jackson: Champion of Australia and the Pacific Coast. Chicago: Chicago Bank Note Company, circa 1889

Peter Jackson: Champion of Australia and the Pacific Coast. Chicago: Chicago Bank Note Company, circa 1889 Lithograph, 79½ x 41½ inches, on three sheets; toned, tack holes, edge wear, vertical fold, laid down on early heavy paper with some wrinkling and bubbling, moderate warping and dampstaining.  Peter Jackson (1861-1901) was one of the great boxers of the late 19th century.  Born and raised on the Danish island of Saint Croix, the great-grandson of freed slaves, he went to sea as a mariner and established himself as a boxing champion in Australia. He came to San Francisco in May 1888, was named world colored heavyweight champion that August, and became Commonwealth champion the following year. He spent most of the next ten years fighting in the United States and England. After being defeated by the great James Jeffries in San Francisco in 1898, tuberculosis ended his career, and he was reliant upon charity to return to Australia for his final days.  This poster, standing more than six and a half feet tall, was issued by "Chas. E. Davies (The Parson)" of Chicago, who managed Jackson from 1889 to 1894. While many 19th-century boxers did not approach modern standards of conditioning, Jackson looks like he could certainly step into a ring today. We trace no other examples of this dramatic nearly life-sized poster in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 318 - (TENNESSEE.) William H. Tabb. Letters and diary written as a student at Cumberland College shortly before the war. Mostly Lebanon, TN, 1856-1860

William H. Tabb. Letters and diary written as a student at Cumberland College shortly before the war. Mostly Lebanon, TN, 1856-1860 15 Autograph Letters Signed to parents and siblings, plus 2 letters from sister Mollie to William; various sizes, condition generally strong. Some with stamped and postmarked envelopes. William Henry Tabb (1837-1864) was the son of a minister at the Choctaw Agency in Oktibbeha County, MS.  His fragmentary diary covers his last days at home with his family before college, and the start of his journey northwards. "I bade my mother and father and brother goodbye. I felt a great deal, and was sorry to leave them, but after I got in the stage at Choctaw Agency I felt more easy." [23] pages. 4¾ x 2¾ inches, unbound, 24 May to 18 June 1857.  Tabb's first letter was written from Nashville, describing his journey northward: "I do not like Nashvill much, it looks too ancient and too much like a jail" (22 June 1857). On 25 July 1857 he describes his first impressions of the Cumberland College campus in Lebanon, not long before it was razed by Confederate troops: "a beautiful and wide-spreading campus, ever refreshed by cool mountain breezes, where all is as quiet as the sea when calm."  His 9 April 1859 letter describes the accidental shooting of student John Bark by his roommate Harvey Topp. One undated letter fragment describes a rally held by the Know-Nothing Party: "The Know-Nothings made quite a display here last night. . . . It is ridiculous the way they act. . . . They fixed up some transparencies, had several drums and fifes, which sounded like tin pans. . . . I could have collected the Negroes from several plantations around our house . . . and surpassed it a long ways."  With graduation looming and not knowing that his enlistment in the Confederate army was just a year away, he mused to his father: "I often think of next fall and my future life, which I anticipate spending with those to whom I am indebted for all that I am or ever shall be. . . . I have been blessed and favored all my life" (23 February 1860).  His final letter from Lebanon describes his participation in a mock Congress, in which he was assigned to play a Vermont Senator: "I  am going to make a speech today on a bill to erect a monument over John Brown." He asks "Does Pa read the newspapers much? Who is he going to vote for for president? The nominees of the Charleston Convention?" Also included are two letters from sister Mollie, from the Macon Institute in 1856 and the Calhoun Institute in 1857. A ninth-plate tintype portrait is thought to be of Tabb. Provenance: Tabb's sister Mary Frances "Mollie" Tabb Moore (1841-1921); her daughter Augusta Moore Bahner (1882-1960); her grandson Thomas Maxfield Bahner (1933-2023); by his estate at auction, July 2025.

Lot: 319 - (TRAVEL.) Robert Rogers. A Concise Account of North America. London, 1765

Robert Rogers. A Concise Account of North America. London, 1765 vii, [1], 264 pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear; front endpapers renewed, minor foxing, just a bit of vermin damage to upper corner; early owner's signature on title page, later bookplate on front pastedown.  First edition. A history and description of British North America, by a French and Indian War major from New Hampshire. Concludes with a 60-page chapter titled "Customs, Manners &c of the Indians." "Based largely on personal knowledge, this was the first geographical account of the American interior after England had wrested it from France, and, aside from those by Pittman and Hutchins, the most accurate of the period"--Howes R418 ("b"). Graff 3554; Greenly 17; Lande 761; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail 562

Lot: 320 - (TRAVEL.) François Jean Chastellux. Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. London, 1787

François Jean Chastellux. Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. London, 1787 2 folding maps, 3 folding plates. 2 volumes. xv, 462; xii, 432 pages. 8vo, 19th-century ½ calf over marbled boards, minor wear; 4½-inch closed tear to pages 171-172 affecting text, foxing; bookplates of James William Ellsworth on front pastedowns. First edition in English. Chastellux was a French general who served under Rochambeau during the American Revolution. He travelled extensively through the young country from 1780 to 1782, most notably throughout Virginia, where he was a guest of Jefferson and visited the Natural Bridge (subject of the three plates). The present work includes recollections of the American Revolution, as well as his travels after the war. "In its completed form constitutes the first trustworthy record of life in the United States"--Howes C324 ("aa"). Clark, Old South I:212-1; Monaghan, French Travellers 407; Sabin 12229.

Lot: 321 - (TRAVEL.) John Foss. A Journal of the Captivity and Sufferings . . . at Algiers. Newburyport, MA, 1798

John Foss. A Journal of the Captivity and Sufferings . . . Several Years a Prisoner at Algiers. Newburyport, MA: Angier March, 1798 189 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down; tear in upper margin of title page, foxing; partial signature and embossed library stamp on title page.  Second edition, after another of the same year. The memoir of a Newburyport man captured and enslaved by Barbary pirates. Includes, as an appendix with a separate title page, "The Algerine Slaves: A Poem." Howes F280; Sabin 25188. No others of either edition traced at auction since 1982.

Lot: 322 - (TRAVEL.) La Rochefoucault Liancourt. Travels through the United States of North America. London, 1799

François, duc de La Rochefoucault Liancourt. Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada. London, 1799 3 folding maps, 6 folding tables. xxiii, [1], 642, [12]; [2], 364, 321-686, [10] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, later ½ calf over marbled boards, rejointed, minor wear; minor worming to Volume II, minor foxing pages 287-297, moderate dampstaining. First English edition of the travels of a French nobleman in exile from the French Revolution. After a sojourn in the south including a week with Thomas Jefferson, he traveled in New England, New York, and Upper Canada (Ontario). Clark, Old South 103(2); Howes L106 ("b" mistakenly calls for 9 plates); Monaghan, French Travellers 924; Sabin 39057.

Lot: 323 - (TRAVEL.) Charles Wilkes. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia, 1845

Charles Wilkes. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845 11 maps, 64 plates, 3 folding tables, numerous text illustrations. lvi, 434; xi, 476; xi, 438; xiii, 539; xii, 558 pages. 5 volumes. Large 12mo (the size of an 8vo), contemporary speckled calf, minimal wear; minor foxing.  The six vessels under Wilkes's command surveyed thousands of miles of Pacific coast from 1838 to 1842, and made important natural history observations. Covers South America, the coast of Antarctica, the South Pacific, Hawaii, California, Manila, Singapore, and more. An entire bibliography by Daniel Haskell is devoted to Wilkes Narrative, listing 87 editions and variants. Despite having this wonderful resource to draw upon, the last three sets we have handled are this same variant printing which Haskell did not record.  This set is apparently an intermediary state between Haskell's first regular trade edition (2B) and his stereotyped second trade edition (3). It has the complete complement of 64 plates found in 2B, all eliminated in 3; it also includes the final blanks which were eliminated after 2B. However, it does not include the plate lists usually found in 2B, and it includes the additional signature markings in sixes, so it collates as Haskell 3 other than the presence of the plates. It contains the increased complement of 11 maps but no atlas, also corresponding with Haskell 3.  See also Ferguson 4209; Forbes, Hawaii 1574; Hill 1867; and Howes W414 ("The first United States scientific expedition by sea") for descriptions of the first regular trade edition.

Lot: 324 - (TRAVEL.) Extensive stereoview collection of T.R. Clapham from travels in Utah, California and elsewhere, 1862-1870

Extensive stereoview collection of T.R. Clapham from travels in Utah, California and elsewhere. Various places, collected 1862-1870 and undated 239 stereoviews, numbered in manuscript from 1 to 275 with 36 numbers not present, most on photographer's mounts, many dated and initialed  "TRC" or signed, some with manuscript notes or captions; generally minor wear. In original

Lot: 325 - (WAR OF 1812.) [Francis Scott Key.], The Star-Spangled Banner, an early printing in an issue of the National Advocate. New York, 27 September 1814

[Francis Scott Key.] The Star-Spangled Banner, an early printing in an issue of the National Advocate. New York, 27 September 1814 4 pages, 19½ x 13 inches, on one folding sheet; stitch holes, horizontal fold, toning, minor wear and foxing. An early printing of what became the national anthem, here bearing the title "Defence of Fort McHenry" and to be sung to the tune of "Anacreon in Heaven." The first newspaper printing was on 20 September 1814 in the Baltimore Patriot. It is here presented a week later with the Patriot's introduction, which calls it a "beautiful and animating effusion, which is destined long to outlast the occasion, and outlive the impulse which produced it." Filby, Star-Spangled Books N-13 lists this as tied for the 7th-earliest known newspaper printing.

Lot: 326 - (WAR OF 1812.) The War. Volume I, complete. New York, 27 June 1812 to 15 June 1813

The War. Volume I, complete. New York, 27 June 1812 to 15 June 1813 52 issues, each at least 4 pages, in one volume. [4], 218 pages. 4to, contemporary ½ calf, worn, rebacked and recornered; minor toning and foxing, minimal dampstaining; with additional index leaf and collective title page reading "The War: Being a Faithful Record of the Transactions of the War between the United States of America and . . . the United Kingdom"; original owner's inscription on collective title page.  Features coverage of the USS Constitution's defeat of the HMS Guerriere, the struggles for Detroit, the capture of the USS Chesapeake, and much more. "The most complete magazine account of the War of 1812"--Lomazow 105.

Lot: 327 - (WEST--ARIZONA.) [Camillus S. Fly], photographer. George Parsons, Just Back from Mexico; and two other photos. Tombstone, AZ, circa 1883

[Camillus S. Fly], photographer. George Parsons, Just Back from Mexico. [Tombstone, AZ, 1883] Albumen photograph, 7½ x 4¾ inches, on original plain mount, captioned in manuscript on verso; minimal wear. A portrait of George Whitwell Parsons (1850-1933) was a friend of Wyatt Earp and an important chronicler of early life in Tombstone. Other examples of this portrait are on the Camillus Fly mount, and state that he posed on returning from Sonora, Mexico on 2 January 1883. With--a pair of similar photographs thought to show Tombstone surgeon George E. Goodfellow with his horse, same size; each with Fly's inked stamp on verso.

Lot: 328 - (WEST--ARIZONA.) Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Cabinet card portrait of six Arizona cowboys titled "Upward." Tombstone, AZ, circa 1885

Camillus S. Fly, photographer. Cabinet card portrait of six Arizona cowboys titled "Upward." Tomstone, AZ, circa 1885 Albumen print, 5½ x 4 inches, on publisher's printed mount, with manuscript caption on verso; minimal wear. This portrait is featured in "The 100 Best Historical Photos of the American Cowboy," True West Magazine, 8 December 2015, citing Robert McCubbin's judgment that this is "the best group photo of real working frontier cowboys." These cowboys all worked on Texas John Slaughter's ranch near what is now Douglas, AZ. Standing are James Pursley, Walter Fife and James G. Maxwell. Seated are Billy Riggs, J.H. McClure and Judge John Blake.

Lot: 329 - (WEST--COLORADO.) Hand-Book of Colorado. Denver, CO: J.A. Blake, 1871

Hand-Book of Colorado. Denver, CO: J.A. Blake, 1871 [3], 139 pages including printed endpapers, plus ad leaf after page 24. Small 8vo, 6 x 4 inches, original gilt cloth over boards, minor wear; minor wear and a few light folds to contents; original owner's signature on front free endpaper. The first of an annual guide to Colorado Territory, which would not gain statehood for another five years. It includes descriptions of the territory's towns (Denver was already the largest at 8,000), stagecoach routes, a business directory, and more. Wilcox, page 55. One of this first issue in OCLC (Denver Public Library), and no complete copies traced at auction. Provenance: Warren C. Barrus (1853-1936), who was a Colorado prospector circa 1877 and spent his last days in Red Creek, NY; his step-grandson James R. Bennett (1916-1997), who recalled that "Warren would sit with me and talk about his experiences and adventures during his gold hunting days" (see note laid into book). 

Lot: 330 - (WEST--COLORADO.) Boxed set of stereoviews labeled "Colorado Scenery by Russell," circa 1880s

Boxed set of stereoviews labeled "Colorado Scenery by Russell." Colorado and elsewhere, circa 1890s 65 stereoviews, each with a pair of 3 x 3-inch albumen prints mounted on a 3¼ x 6½-inch yellow card with edges tinted red; uncaptioned, one creased, others with minimal wear. In original cloth and paper box with manuscript inscription on lid: "Colorado Scenery by Russell. Colorado"  None of these views are individually captioned. Most show ranching operations, mountain landscapes, and other rural scenes, all apparently on the Southwest. A few show named businesses, such as two views of First National Bank of Denver. Two show the Consolidated Land, Cattle Raising & Wool Growing Co. based in San Miguel, NM, which was controlled by land mogul Wilson Waddingham (1833-1899). Two show the office of the United States Land & Improvement Company; Waddingham's Consolidated Land settled a lawsuit in 1894 against the similarly named United States Land & Colonization Company. One shows an army captain with his wife and children at a frontier barracks. One shot of a bank interior shows stacks of $10 banknotes with Daniel Webster's portrait, issued from 1869 to 1880.  Accompanying the collection is a partial 1969 letter from an auction house evaluating the photographs for sale. They cite the opinion of Denver Public Library's Western History Department that the photographs may represent William Waddingham's property holdings in Colorado and New Mexico.  The photography is attributed on the box to a "Russell," probably not Andrew J. Russell of Golden Spike fame, whose western work was earlier than this. The photographs are undated. 

Lot: 331 - (WEST--DAKOTA TERRITORY.) Papers of Deadwood-area miner John Fortune, 1879-1884

Papers of Deadwood-area miner John Fortune. Various places, 1879-1884 16 items, various sizes, generally minor wear.  John Fortune (1846-1913) was a miner in the Custer-Deadwood area just after the peak of the Black Hills Gold Rush. Offers here are papers from the Penobscot and Montana Bar mines. He later was a successful miner in Colorado. This small archive includes: 8 weekly payrolls for Montana Bar, each listing between six and eleven miners (including John Fortune) with their daily pay rate and total wages, one of them on "Black Hills, Deadwood, DA" letterhead, May-July 1879. Letter from Belle Fortune to her husband John Fortune in Alma, CO. She is eager to hear how his mine sale went.  We must note that Belle Fortune is a world-class name for a miner's wife. Elk Valley, Dakota Territory[?], 28 September 1884. With envelope postmarked Rapid City, Dakota Territory. Letter from J.J. Sutherland to John Fortune in Alma, CO. Hopes an expert can visit the mine soon.  Penobscot, Dakota Territory, 8 May 1884.  With envelope postmarked Custer City.  Bond for the sale of the McCormick Mica Mine near Custer City, Dakota Territory, to John Fortune, 17 August 1881. 5 other checks and receipts, 1879-1881 and undated.

Lot: 332 - (WEST--DAKOTA TERRITORY.) John C.H. Grabill. In Market. Sturgis, SD, 1888

John C.H. Grabill. In Market. Sturgis, SD, 1888 Albumen photograph, 6¼ x 8¾ inches, on photographer's printed mount, captioned in negative; minimal wear, red "3" inked on verso. The caption reads: "Eight yoke of oxen haul five tons of hay to Deadwood. The largest load ever in market." 

Lot: 333 - (WEST--NEW MEXICO.) Francisco de Thoma. Historia popular de Nuevo México, [1896]

Francisco de Thoma. Historia popular de Nuevo México. New York: American Book Company, [1896] 185, [1] pages. 8vo, contemporary ½ morocco over marbled boards by Blackwell, minor wear, old tag remnant on spine; long 1896 inscription by the author tipped to flyleaf. "The first Nuevomexicano to narrate New Mexico's Spanish past and to encourage Nuevomexicano pride. . . . The first comprehensive Spanish-language history of New Mexico following the American conquest"--Nieto-Phillips, "The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico," page 188. Not in Howes or Palau; none traced at auction.

Lot: 334 - (WEST--TEXAS.) Stock certificate from the Republic of Texas, plus related banknote. Austin, TX, 1840

Stock certificate from the Republic of Texas, plus related banknote and warrant. Austin, TX, 1840-1841 Engraved stock certificate, 7¾ x 10 inches, signed 11 times by Charles DeMorse as stock commissioner, and once by J.W. Simmons as comptroller, with recipient's signature on verso; 9 closed cancellation punctures as usual. Certificate 996, issued to C. Conroy. Printed New Orleans, LA: Endicott and Hatch, undated; issued Austin, TX, 15 June 1840. $5 banknote, "The Republic of Texas Promises to pay Five Dollars to the Bearer," 3 x 7 inches, numbered 1590, signed by James H. Starr as secretary-treasurer and Mirabeau B. Lamar as president (and illustrated with his portrait); 3 closed cancellation punctures, light wrinkling. Criswell, Republic of Texas A4. Printed in New Orleans, LA, by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch, & Edson, undated; issued 15 January[?] 1840.  Naval appropriation pay voucher for $25, 3¼ x 7 inches, signed by James B. Shaw as comptroller and James Wright Simmons as treasurer. Texas had no cash to pay their sailors, so issued these vouchers instead. This one was signed for by Midshipman J.M. Livingston on verso. Austin, TX, 23 April 1841. Purchased from Ten Pound Island Books, 2011. 

Lot: 335 - (WEST--TEXAS.) Photo album from a New York National Guard unit activated for service on the Mexican border, 1915-1917 and 1925

Photo album from a New York National Guard unit activated for service on the Mexican border in 1916. Various places, 1915-1917 and 1925 Approximately 240 photographs, most postcard size or smaller, laid down mostly without captions on 20 album leaves. Oblong 4to, 11 x 14 inches, original cloth post binder, minimal wear, with typed label on front board, "First New York Cavalry, Mexican Boarder Service 1916-1917" [sic]; a few photos apparently removed, otherwise minimal wear to contents; signed by compiler on front pastedown with related clipping taped below.  This album was kept by Walter Bradnee Kirby (1885-1975) of Brooklyn during the Mexican Border War. He was serving in the 1st New York Cavalry when they were called up in reaction to troubles on the Mexican border--the first time the National Guard was called up and federalized as part of the United States Army. The first 26 photos in the album shows the militia unit on training trips to Pine Plains and Van Cortland Park, NY in 1915 and 1916. Later in 1916, they arrive by train in McAllen near the southern tip of Texas. The photographs show Spanish shop signs, Mexican-American families in rough thatch-roof houses, soldiers bathing in what we assume is the Rio Grande, and numerous other camp scenes. Befitting a cavalry regiment, many fine horses are seen, including an equestrian contest.  A few of the images are Real Photo postcards which are captioned in the negative. One sequence shows the final cavalry review staged for Generals John J. Pershing and Frederick Funston, who may be in the center of one crowd shot. Kirby was on active duty from June 1916 to March 1917. He was an architect during peacetime who spent most of his career in Connecticut. One final image shows Kirby in civilian clothes at the Fairfield County Hunt Club in 1925, mounted on a trusty steed.

Lot: 336 - (WEST--UTAH.) Charles André. Photographs of the Government Observatory and surrounding scenery in Ogden, [May 1878]

Charles André. Photographs of the Government Observatory and surrounding scenery in Ogden. Ogden, UT, [May 1878] 9 albumen prints, each about 4½ x 6½ inches, on plain heavy paper mounted, 10½ x 14 inches; minor wear to mounts; each captioned in manuscript "Souvenir d'Ogden" and signed "Ch André." The French astronomer Charles Louis François André (1842–1912) was the founder of the Lyon Observatory in 1878. That same year, he went overseas to Utah to observe the 6 May 1878 transit of Mercury. 4 of these images show Ogden's recently constructed Government Observatory. One shows a railroad trestle with the town in the background, another shows a railroad siding, and all of them show the Ogden area's natural scenery: sagebrush flats, rivers, and snow-capped peaks. 

Lot: 337 - (WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Coverage of a very early women's rights convention in Rochester. Philadelphia, 10 August 1848

Coverage of a very early women's rights convention in Rochester, in the Public Ledger of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 10 August 1848 4 pages, 22 x 16½ inches, on one folding sheet; neatly disbound, minimal wear. This convention was held in Rochester, NY on 3 August 1848, in reaction to the earth-shaking Seneca Falls convention held two weeks before. Includes commentary by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Frederick Douglass also offered "an eloquent and argumentative appeal for woman and woman's rights." Men had served as chairs of the Seneca Falls meeting; this Rochester meeting went a step further by choosing Abigail Bush as its presiding officer. She is thought to be the first woman to preside over a mixed group in an American public meeting.  This issue offers nearly a full column of coverage of the Rochester meeting, including the poem "The Times that Try Men's Souls" by Maria Chapman. The column is headed "Insurrection of the Ladies against the Lords of the Creation." 

Lot: 338 - (WOMEN'S HISTORY.) Petition for New York to adopt women's suffrage, presented to reformer George William Curtis. [Long Island, NY], [20 July 1867]

Petition for New York to adopt women's suffrage, presented to reformer George William Curtis. [Long Island, NY], [20 July 1867] One manuscript page, 12½ x 7½ inches, headed "Petition to the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York"; mailing folds, minimal wear. On 18 July 1867, the influential reformer George William Curtis (1824-1892) of Staten Island delivered an oration at the New York Constitutional Convention in favor of women's suffrage. Offered here is a transcript of a related petition to the convention, which was sent to Curtis as the state movement's most prominent supporter: "The citizens of New York pray your honorable body, that in amending the Constitution, you will . . . secure the right of suffrage upon equal terms to both men and women."  The 30 signatories are mostly from old Long Island families such as the Ludlams, Underhills, Cocks, and Robbins, and the petition was postmarked to Curtis from Oyster Bay, Long Island on 20 July (two days after his speech). By the time it arrived in Albany, Curtis had already left town and it was forwarded to his next stop at his family's summer home in Ashfield, MA.  With--an early printing of the convention speech by Curtis: "Equal Rights for Women." 4 pages, 9¼ x 6¾ inches, on one folding sheet; moderate wear, skillful repairs. 

Lot: 339 - (WORLD WAR ONE.) Papers of Captain John Rill, head of Standard Gauge Railway operations, 1917-1919

Papers of Captain John Rill, head of Standard Gauge Railway operations. Various places, 1917-1919 Approximately 200 items (0.3 linear feet), generally minor to moderate wear. Captain John Columbus Rill (1889-1982) was just one member of the enormous American Expeditionary Force in  Europe, but his role was more specialized than most. With extensive railroad experience, he served the Army Corps of Engineers as a staff officer in charge of Standard Gauge Railway operations. He managed much of the infrastructure which brought that enormous army and its supplies to the front. The feature of this lot is a comprehensive "Report of Operations, Standard Gauge Railways," produced for the Office of the Chief Engineer, First Army," covering operations from 10 August to 11 November 1918: the St. Mihiel and Argonne-Meuse campaigns. The volume was likely produced in multiples, but we find none others in OCLC or elsewhere. The worn wrappers are printed, with a stylized fortress hand-colored in red, and is signed in ink "by John C. Rill." The contents, bound with a leather boot lace, consist of 200 pages of typescript carbon plus 4 folding maps and 19 schematic blueprints. The volume is erratically paginated and missing some of the sections listed in its own table of contents. It contains copies of relevant memoranda and reports issued from September 1918 to January 1919, plus additional narrative material. It is accompanied by two folders of related reports and memoranda, some of them apparently used in the compilation of the report.   A typed transcript of Rill's diary on 3 pages covers 16 August to 8 September 1918. Sample entries: "Visited a French Captain De Courtiron, a very pleasant man relative to taking over light railway operations in the south sector of Verdun" (23 August). "In the morning went to Sorcy on motorcycle . . . in connection with the construction of normal gauge siding" (2 September). He makes one philosophical observation: "If it were possible to change the American Army in one night to the extent of removing all of the non-efficient officers and replacing them with efficient men who are now in the ranks, one would not recognize the American Army the next morning" (8 September).  Also included are a formal portrait photograph of Rill in uniform by Havercamp Studios of Chester, PA, April 1917; a pair of large folding printed maps of the Verdun and Clermont areas; two typescript essays on narrow-gauge railways by French officer Dr. Andre Salmont; and a folder of biographical essays and questionnaires describing Rill's war service.

Lot: 340 - (WORLD WAR ONE.) John J. Pershing. My Experiences in the World War. Signed on limitation page in first volume, 1931

John J. Pershing My Experiences in the World War, signed on limitation page in first volume. New York, 1931 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear; 347 of 2100 numbered copies in the "Author's Autograph Edition" signed by Pershing, top edges gilt; in original dust jackets with minimal wear, and publisher's original slipcase with minor wear. With--6 photographs, each 1¾ x 2¾ inches, mounted on one 5½ x 10-inch folding sheet and captioned in manuscript, minor wear. Some show Pershing meeting with other officers including General Charles Pelot Summerall or reviewing troops; others are captioned "Co. A", "The Last Review" and "Billy to Le Mans." 

Lot: 341 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) Keith [Jeffries]. Letter from a USS Arizona seaman who died on the ship at Pearl Harbor the next year, 1 April 1940

Keith [Jeffries]. Letter from a USS Arizona seaman who died on the ship at Pearl Harbor the next year. U.S.S. Arizona, 1 April 1940 Autograph Letter Signed as "Keith" to friends "Ma, Dad, and Aunt Jane." 2 pages, 10½ x 7¾ inches, on U.S.S. Arizona illustrated letterhead; mailing folds, minimal wear. "I don't condemn the Navy as much now as I used to. Just the first few weeks sure plays tough on the new 'boots.' . . . One fellow just up and took off. He never did show up again. . . . In time of war an act like that would mean death, and believe me, they don't fool around in Uncle Sam's Navy. So I guess you know this sailor won't go over the hill. . . . The baseball team is coming right along. . . . I expect to play when we get to Honolulu. I always wondered why Bing Crosby wanted to spend his vacations in Hawaii, so maybe now I'll find out. I was put on the anti-aircraft battery for a trial run last week. The mechanism involved is amazing. It really is interesting to operate a part of a gun. I honestly enjoy it. They say we'll be in the sea for 21 days before we arrive at Honolulu. I don't honestly know . . . whether we'll go straight to Pearl Harbor. . . . Six years is a long time, though, so I might as well make the best of it while I can, because you can rest assured I won't make the Navy my career. . . . Thanks, Ma, Dad, and Aunt Jane for your gift and card. . . . Say hello to Ruth for me."  This letter was written to the parents of Ruth Stout of Monmouth Junction, NJ. We see three Keiths on the list of Arizona Pearl Harbor fatalities. Only one of them was from the east coast, Keith Jeffries (1918-1941). He was born on 29 March 1918, played high school baseball and basketball near Wilkes-Barre, PA, and then lived in Cranford and Plainfield, NJ from 1938 until enlisting in the Navy as a coxswain in 1940. The Central New Jersey Home News of 24 November 1939 reported that Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Stout, the letter recipients, hosted Keith Jeffries and other friends for dinner at their home in Monmouth Junction, NJ. Our letter writer thanks his correspondents for the recent birthday wishes on 1 April, and notes that he will play for the Arizona's baseball team when eligible.  Jeffries was thought to be manning the Arizona's anti-aircraft guns when the ship exploded and sank at Pearl Harbor. His body was never recovered. Provenance: found in the estate sale of Ruth Stout Rose (1921-2024), daughter of Frederick and Phebe Rose of Monmouth Junction, NJ; her aunt Jane Stout lived with them in 1930.  With--an "Aloha Hawaii" patch and "Remember Pearl Harbor" sticker.

Lot: 342 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) "Battle Flag" and "Nats Fly High" posters produced by Edward Steichen's photo team.

"Battle Flag" and "Nats Fly High" posters produced by Edward Steichen's photo team. Washington: Chief of Naval Operations, circa 1942-1945 Pair of posters, each 60 x 39 inches; minor edge wear, rolled. The famed fashion photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was appointed as director of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit during World War Two. These posters were part of a series produced by Steichen and his team of six photographers. "Battle Flag: The Stars and Stripes fly over a U.S. Navy flat-top and one of her Grumman torpedo bombers. An escort destroyer follows astern."  "Nats Over Aleutians: A Naval Air Transport Douglas plane is outlined against the cloudy cloak of snow-clad, smoke-wisped Gareloi volcano / Nats Fly High: A Naval Air Transport Douglas plane clears the coastal range north of Rio de Janeiro." 

Lot: 343 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) Scrapbook from the USS Raleigh and other ships, including a report on Dorie Miller's heroism, 1936-1943

Scrapbook from the USS Raleigh and other ships, including a report on Dorie Miller's heroism. Various places, 1936-1943 7 photographs, 33 manuscripts and carbon typescripts, and 144 pieces of other ephemera, plus clippings, mounted on or laid into 59 scrapbook leaves. Folio, 13½ x 7¾ inches, original cloth, moderate wear, inscribed with dozens of ports of call; minor to moderate wear to contents. The light cruiser USS Raleigh was launched in 1924. Moored at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, she fared better than most. Despite taking heavy fire including a direct torpedo on the boiler room, she suffered no fatalities and her gunners brought down 5 Japanese planes. The Raleigh was back in action by February and was not decommissioned until after the war. This album was kept by Alexander Daubert (1912-1971) of Billings, MT, who served on the Raleigh from at least 1936 to 1939--probably until his 1940 re-enlistment. The extensive pre-war ephemera includes a picket for an "All Army--All Navy Boxing Meet" held in the Philippines, 15 March 1941; Daubert's 1937 passport; a black and gold U.S.S. Raleigh armband; and countless luggage tags, beer labels, theater programs, matchbooks, and tickets from across Europe and the Pacific.  Daubert preserved a page-long United Press mimeograph regarding the Pearl Harbor attack, including a mention of the the then-anonymous hero Dorie Miller: "Negro mess attendant who never fired gun manned machine gun on bridge until ammunition exhausted." This is followed by several folding clippings on ships lost in the attack. A fabric swatch is labelled "a piece from the Homeward Bound pennant flown by the U.S.S. Whipple on her return from Asiatic Duty, June 19, 1942." 

Lot: 344 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) The semi-published cruise book of the USS James O'Hara, a shipboard interrogation, and more, 1943-1944

The semi-published cruise book of the USS James O'Hara, a shipboard interrogation, and more. Various places, 1943-1944 9 items, various sizes, sleeved in a binder; generally minor wear. Alan John Grobecker (1915-1998) was a naval lieutenant on the USS James O'Hara. This lot includes the carbon transcript of a prisoner interrogation which Grobecker conducted aboard the James O'Hara, 17 June 1944: a Korean sugar farmer from Saipan Island, interviewed with the aid of a Japanese prisoner of war. The location of Japanese blockhouses on Saipan is described. Grobecker noted that the informant "seemed to dislike the Japanese intensely. The interpreter spoke English with difficulty. He seemed willing to help, but may have been obstructing the interrogation."  Also here is the ship's 1944 cruise book, "Saga of the James O'Hara" by P.C. Kirkpatrick and G. Roman. [7], 12 leaves, a mix of typescript, mimeograph, and pen illustrations (including a nice cover drawing of Donald Duck).  Only one copy is recorded in OCLC (San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park), and that does not seem to have the 7 introductory leaves found here.  Also included are a shipboard Thanksgiving menu, officer roster, poem on the O'Hara by John H. Dodd, printed map of Saipan, Grobecker's officer club card and service card, and more. 

Lot: 345 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) Albums of a naval lieutenant in Guam, 1943-1946 and undated

Albums of a naval lieutenant in Guam. Various places, 1943-1946 and undated Approximately 220 photographs, 100 manuscripts and memoranda, and additional ephemera and clippings, many mounted on album leaves and neatly sleeved in two binders; generally minimal wear.  Lieutenant John Edward Munson (1921-1998) of Vulcan, MI served with the 249th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit from 1943 to 1946, and was active in the Pacific Theater from October 1944 onward.  These two albums were neatly compiled well after the war by Munson's wife Mary Verwoert Munson. They document two stories in parallel: his military service in Guam, the Marianas and elsewhere, along with his courtship and marriage to Mary while she studied at Cornell and the University of California at Berkeley.  Two copies of the mimeographed Pacific Courant issued in Guam on 11 and 15 August 1945 each include columns on the atomic bombs recently used in Japan, as well as Japan's negotiation of surrender terms. Also included are 2 early reprints of the 7 December 1941 Honolulu Star Bulletin;  and an early copy print of the Rosenthal photo of the Iwo Jima flag raising, without photographer markings. The courtship angle is well documented with letters, postcards, and wedding materials.

Lot: 346 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) Artillery colonel's scrapbook, including field maps and death camp photos, 1944-1946

Artillery colonel's scrapbook, including field maps and death camp photos. Various places, 1944-1946 11 manuscripts, 20 photographs, 24 pieces of ephemera, and copious news clippings, mounted on or laid into 38 album leaves. Folio, 12 x 9 inches, original string-bound boards, generally minor wear. This album was compiled by Colonel Paul H. Weiland (1895-1975) and his wife, of Medford, OR. He commanded the 40th Field Artillery in the final offensive across France and Germany. Highlights include: Large hand-colored cartoon portrait captioned only "40," wearing a colonel's silver eagle on his collar; 20¾ x 16 inches, wear at folds, 1944. Likely Weiland; resembles his portrait in the 13 October 1917 Indianapolis Star, and snapshots in this album. Large printed map of Europe with 4 attached pages of detailed annotations by Weiland.  20 snapshot photos on 2 pages.  8 depict Weiland and his unit in France circa August 1944. 5 of the snapshots, all well-captioned, show bodies and aftermath at the liberated Gardelegen death camp on 29 April 1945 (images available upon request). With Allied forces approaching, the Nazis had evacuated prisoners from the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. On the retreat, the undermanned SS guard recruited the local fire department and Hitler Youth, and burned them alive in a barn at Gardelegen on 13 April. When American forces arrived soon after, it became one of the first concentration camp stories to hit the newspapers on 18 April. The troops forced the townspeople to help give all of the victims individual burials, as seen in one of these photographs. An irregular strip cut from a map of Europe is annotated with Weiland's route from Le Mans, France to near Berlin: "180 miles in 9 day's fighting. . . . Notice we went as close to Berlin as any American troops."  Letter home to wife Agnes, 23 February 1945: "A lone regiment of infantry was across the river with no weapons to speak of to stop tanks when the Germans launched a counter-attack of large proportions. . . . The heavy artillery fire laid them low and saved the day." "All For One Season's Greetings," mimeograph holiday sheet music from the 40th Field Artillery; "Safe Conduct" pass for German soldiers wishing to surrender; and a "G-2 Periodic Report" on counterintelligence gleaned from German civilians, 10 May 1945.

Lot: 347 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) Papers and maps of an officer with an attack transport at Okinawa, 1944-1945

Papers and maps of an officer with an attack transport at Okinawa. Various places, 1944-1945 14 items, various sizes and conditions. John Grant Robinson (1911-1967) of Old Saybrook, CT was a member of the naval reserves, and served as a lieutenant on the attack transport USS Monrovia in the Pacific theater from May 1944 through the end of the war. Includes: "Western Okinawa Beaches," printed in several colors on 2 double-sided 22 x 17-inch sheets, "Top Secret." Shows great detail on off-shore reefs, buildings, and even dozens of burial vaults (useful as landmarks and also perhaps as defensive positions).  Blue-line print, "Boat Screening Plan Enclosure A, Top Secret," annotated in pencil, 19¾ x 25¼ inches.  Aerial photograph captioned in negative, "Yontan A/F, Okinawa--Rest.," 1 March 1945. Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, moderate wear, captioned on verso "APA 31, crew of USS Monrovia on deck, Tokyo Bay, @ surrender by Japan." Two folding National Geographic maps of the Pacific Ocean, 1936 and 1944. 5 mimeographed memoranda, including a sheet of recognition signals, and a 7-page summary of "Intelligence Data," March 1945 and undated. "Mighty M." 53 illustrated pages. 4to, 12 x 9 inches, original wrappers; annotated. Cruise book of the USS Monrovia. No place, [1945.]   Postcard of an attack transport, 1945. 6 photocopies of Robinson's service papers, 1944-1950. Yellow and black "SP" shore patrol armband.

Lot: 348 - (WORLD WAR TWO.) Douglas MacArthur. Proclamation No. 1, to the People of Korea, establishing the 38th Parallel border in Korea, 7 September 1945

Douglas MacArthur. Proclamation No. 1, to the People of Korea, establishing the 38th Parallel border in Korea. Yokohama, Japan, 7 September 1945 Letterpress broadside, 21 x 14¾ inches; folds, dampstaining, minor wear; signed by 7 regimental officers with their home towns.  Three weeks after Japan's surrender ended their decades of colonial rule over Korea, this proclamation announced a new arrangement under MacArthur's rule: "Having in mind the long enslavement of the people of Korea and the determination that in due course Korea shall become free and independent, the Korean people are assured  that the purpose of the occupation is to enforce the Instrument of Surrender. . . . All powers of Government over the territory of Korea south of 38 degrees north latitude and the people thereof will be for the present exercised under my authority." The text is then repeated in Korean and Japanese. Although not explained here, the area north of the 38th Parallel was placed under Soviet control, in effect creating the nations of North and South Korea. The Korean War was fought over this border just a few years later, and the resulting Military Demarcation Line still runs near it. The senior officer among the signatures here is Lieutenant Colonel Hugh H. Bledsoe of the Army Air Force, who served as secretary of the civilian personnel section of the military government in Korea in November 1945 and remained there through early 1948. The other signers were lieutenants and sergeants. They apparently signed this as a souvenir, rather than in any official capacity. One traced in OCLC (in the MacArthur papers at the Library of Congress), and none traced at auction. 

Lot: 349 - (ANTIGUA.) A Dialogue between Robert Raymond and a Black Man, and other manuscript poems and essays, 1774-circa 1824

Robert Raymond. A Dialogue between Robert Raymond and a Black Man by the Name of Sambo, a Native of the Island of Antigua, and other manuscript poems and essays. Various places, 1774-circa 1824 [4], 67, 126 manuscript pages. 4to, 8 x 6 inches, stiff vellum over boards, bowed, moderate staining and wear; moderate wear to contents, a few sections coming disbound. Robert Raymond (circa

Lot: 350 - (BRAZIL.) Illustrated letter from an American sailor. Rio de Janeiro, 4 March 1855

Illustrated letter by an American sailor. Rio de Janeiro, 4 March 1855 Autograph Letter Signed from Christian Bennett to a friend. 2 pages, 11 x 8¼ inches, plus integral blank; mailing folds and wrinkling, moderate wear not affecting illustration. This letter by an American naval seaman is most notable for its lovely ink and watercolor view of the Rio de Janeiro coast. In the foreground are two ships, one bearing the American flag and the other Brazilian.  The content describes the search for the USS Bainbridge, a ship in the Brazilian Squadron which had not been heard from since an October trip to the Falkland Islands and was feared lost. He notes "some disturbance up the River de Plate among the Brazilians" regarding an effort to survey "the river further up than any other foreign vessell yet has been." Shots were fired which "killed the man at the steamer's helm and wounded eight or nine others." He also describes a shore visit to celebrate the Emperor's birthday.

Lot: 351 - (CUBA.) Posters promoting a Havana lecture in support of Soviet Jews. [Havana]: Rimsky and Pasiencier-Rua, 26 November 1941

Posters promoting a Havana lecture in support of Soviet Jews. [Havana]: Rimsky and Pasiencier-Rua, 26 November 1941 3 letterpress broadsides (2 illustrated with a small portrait of the speaker), each 18 x 12 inches; toning and foxing, repaired closed tears, extensive repairs and reinforcement on verso, 2 corners filled, other minor wear. These posters promoted a lecture organized by the "Cuban Jewish Aid Committee for Jews in Soviet Russia." The speaker was Bezalel Sherman (1896-1971), an American Jewish sociologist and lecturer. As a Labor Zionist, he was left-wing but not a Communist. In a later speech he warned: "The cultural and religious activities of the Jewish people would be curtailed under a totalitarian regime, such as the Communist" (Bridgeport Telegram, 23 October 1950). In 1941, however, Nazi Germany was the greater enemy to Europe's Jews. In translation: "Sisters and brothers! I bring you the news of those tortured in the ghettos and of the victims of the concentration camps." "Come demonstrate our solidarity with our brothers from Soviet Russia and the ghettos of the occupied countries!" "Long live Jewish solidarity! Down with the Nazi and Fascist regimes. . . . Help our tortured brothers and sisters!" "Do you want to help the Red Army to fight Hitler's gangs?" "Put an end to the beast's Hitler madness." 

Lot: 352 - (GUATEMALA.) Constituciones de la Real Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. [Madrid: Julian de Paredes, 1687]

Constituciones de la Real Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. [Madrid: Julian de Paredes, 1687] 84 leaves. Folio, 11½ x 7¾ inches, later plain wrappers; lacking title page, minor dampstaining and minimal worming on bottom edge. First edition. Palau 59956. 2 in OCLC. None others traced at auction. 

Lot: 353 - (GUATEMALA.) Convite de alabanzas divina. Guatemala: Christóbal de Hincapié, 1738

Convite de alabanzas divina. Guatemala: Christóbal de Hincapié, 1738 [100] pages. Small 8vo, disbound; final 5 leaves detached, foxing, moderate worming to first leaves, repairs to a few leaves with minimal loss of text, preliminaries cropped; edges tinted green.  First Guatemalan edition of prayers on the Feast of the Holy Trinity, compiled from the works of  Antonio de Fuente la Peña and Juan Eusebio Nieremberg. First published thus in Mexico in 1711. None traced in Medina, in OCLC, or at auction.

Lot: 354 - (GUATEMALA.) Agustin de la Caxiga y Rada. Breve relacion del lamentable estrago, que padecio . . . Goathemala con el terremoto. Mexico, [1751]

Agustin de la Caxiga y Rada. Breve relacion del lamentable estrago, que padecio . . . Goathemala con el terremoto. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo de Hogal, [1751] [6] leaves. 4to, disbound; edges tinted red. First Mexican edition, after a Guatemalan edition of the same year (Medina, Guatemala 225). Describes the violent earthquake which struck Guatemala on 4 March 1751. None of either edition traced in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 355 - (MEDICINE.) Nicolás Monardes. [Dos libros . . cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la medicina.] Seville, 1569

Nicolás Monardes. [Dos libros . . . cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de la medicina.] Seville, Spain: Hernando Diaz, 1569 per colophon [138 of 140] leaves (A-R8, S4). Small 8vo, later vellum, minor wear, detached from text block; lacking title page, with facsimile of first edition title crudely bound in, also lacking A8, dampstaining and moderate wear throughout, early inscriptions; partial marca de fuego on top edge.  Second edition of the important 1565 study of American herbal remedies, also known as "Historia medicinal de las cosas que se traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales." A second part was issued separately in 1571. An English edition followed in 1577, titled "Joyful News out of the New Found World." European Americana 569/36; Medina BHA 207; Palau 175485-II ("rara en comercio"); Sabin 49936 (re this second edition, which he describes as the first).

Lot: 356 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1589.) An early Mexican carta de poder, or power of attorney document.

An early Mexican carta de poder, or power of attorney document. Mexico, 4 August 1589 Partially-printed document signed, 2 pages, 12¼ x 8¾ inches, on one sheet, completed in manuscript; stitch holes in margin, moderate edge wear, minor foxing; uncut. A printed carta de poder (power of attorney) form completed in manuscript, stating that Florencio Ruiz of Mexico has granted power of attorney to Alonso de Leon and Alonso Debargas, with the signatures of Ruiz and a notary on verso. This exact form is not recorded in Szewczyk's "39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book," but is very similar to his #13, printed by 1584. The present copy has the comma after "vieren" in the first line, rather than before, and the second line concludes "ynegocios ceuiles y cri" rather than "y negocios ceuiles è cri-". While the typesetting is altered, the typeface remains the same, including the initial woodblock capital "S" carried over from similar forms in use since 1562, and here printed upside down. The printer was very likely Pedro Ocharte of Mexico City.

Lot: 357 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1612.) Luis Vallejo. Sermon que predico . . . en la muerte de su virey don Fr. Garcia Guerra.

Luis Vallejo. Sermon que predico . . . en la muerte de su Virey don Fr. Garcia Guerra, arçobispo de la dicha yglesia. Mexico: viuda de Pedro Balli, 1612 19 leaves plus final blank. 4to, early blank wrappers; small hole on title page; partial marca de fuego on bottom edge. A sermon preached upon the death of García Guerra (1547-1612) of the Dominican order, then serving as both viceroy and archbishop of New Spain. Illustrated with García Guerra's arms on the title page. Medina, Mexico 269; Palau 350745. None traced at auction, and one in OCLC (John Carter Brown Library).

Lot: 358 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1625.) Summario de las indulgencias, concedidas por nuestro muy S.P. Papa Gregorio XIII.

Summario de las indulgencias, concedidas por nuestro muy S.P. Papa Gregorio XIII. Mexico: [Juan de Alcaçar], 1625 [5], 22 pages. 8vo, disbound; lone worm hole in margin; early inscription on title page, partial marca de fuego on top edge. A summary of papal indulgences granted to a church in Mexico City in 1576. Full title: "Summario de las indulgencias, concedidas por nuestro muy S.P. Papa Gregorio XIII, a esta hermita é iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios desta Ciudad de Mexico de Nueva España, año de 1576." Illustrated with a woodcut of Virgin and Child on the title page. Medina, Mexico 379, citing Andrade; but none traced in OCLC or at auction.

Lot: 359 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1641.) Joseph Medrano. Forma de dar el habito, y profession solemne en la orden de la Hospitalidad de San Juan de Dios

Joseph Medrano. Forma de dar el habito, y profession solemne en la orden de la Hospitalidad de San Juan de Dios. Mexico: Juan Ruíz, 1641 [2], 8 leaves. 4to, disbound; slightly cropped, minor dampstaining. The regulations for the Knights Hospitaller, a Catholic military order, prepared by the head of the order in New Spain. The title reads in full: "Forma de dar el habito, y profession solemne en la orden de la Hospitalidad de San Juan de Dios. Segun la ordinacion appostolica, uso, y costrumbres de la dicha religion, puesto en orden con su declaracion por el Rmo. P. Fr. Joseph de Medrano, Commisario General de la dicha orden en las Indias de Nueva España." None traced in Medina, OCLC, at auction, or elsewhere.

Lot: 360 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1651.) Francisco de Burgoa. Sermon . . . en que se publicó con festiva pompa, y aplaudido culto el rosario perpetuo de Maria Señora nuestra

Francisco de Burgoa. Sermon . . . en que se publicó con festiva pompa, y aplaudido culto el rosario perpetuo de Maria Señora nuestra. Mexico: viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1651 [2], 18 leaves. 4to, later plain wrappers; two spots on title page,  cropped on top edge with loss of most page numbers and a bit of text, loss to upper corners of last 8 leaves, filled with some loss of text; partial marcas de fuego on top and bottom edges.  The author's name is spelled Burguoa on the title page. Medina, Mexico 719. None traced at auction; one in OCLC (New York Public Library). 

Lot: 361 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1656.) Juan de la Torre y Castro. Sacra dedicacion del templo de la Concepcion purissima de Maria

Juan de la Torre y Castro. Sacra dedicacion del templo de la Concepcion purissima de Maria. Mexico: Hipolito de Rivera, 1656 [6], 20 leaves. 4to, disbound; cropped on top edge, early inscription and stain on title page, final leaf defective; bottom edge tinted red. 4 in OCLC, none traced at auction. Medina, Mexico 837.

Lot: 362 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1675.) Martín del Castillo. Ars biblica sive herma memorialis sacra.

Martín del Castillo. Ars biblica sive herma memorialis sacra. Mexico: Francisco Rodriguez Lupertii, 1675 [12], 76, [16] leaves. 8vo, contemporary vellum, worn; no endpapers, moderate dampstaining and wear; marcas de fuego on all three edges. First edition (an edition appeared in Spain in 1778). A Latin summary of the Bible for student use. It boils down each chapter of the Bible to a mere three or four words, with the most important one in large type. It concludes with a catechism, and a list of citations. It might be a stretch to describe this as a Bible, but if you do, it would be the first Bible published in New Spain.  Medina, Mexico 1124; Palau 48165. 4 in OCLC; none sold at auction since 1986.

Lot: 363 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1731.) Angel Serra. Manual de administrar los santos sacramentos a los españoles, y naturales de esta provincia.

Angel Serra. Manual de administrar los santos sacramentos a los españoles, y naturales de esta provincia. Mexico: Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1731 Armorial engraving on verso of title page. [6], 134, 137-8, [4] leaves as issued. 4to, later ¼ calf over marbled boards, minor wear; minor foxing and worming; early inscription on title page. Second edition (first published in 1697) of a work for the Franciscans of Michoacán, in Latin, Spanish, and Tarascan. Medina, Mexico 3205; Palau 309782; Pilling 3572.

Lot: 364 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1738.) Ordenanzas, e instrucciones, que se han de observar en el Cuerpo de la Marina de España

Ordenanzas, e instrucciones, que se han de observar en el Cuerpo de la Marina de España. Mexico: Maria de Rivera, 1738 [2], 74 pages. 4to, disbound; additional page numbers added in manuscript; edge tinted red. First known Mexican edition of the 1717 Spanish naval regulations. Not traced in Medina, OCLC, or auction records. Palau 202619. 

Lot: 365 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1772.) Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa. Pair of proclamations on alcoholic beverages by the Viceroy of New Spain.

Antonio María Bucareli y Ursúa. Pair of proclamations on alcoholic beverages by the Viceroy of New Spain. Mexico, 1772 and 1776 "Respecto a que los medios que hasta ahora se han tomado . . . para el exterminio de las Bebidas prohibidas y principalmente la del Chinguirito." 3 pages, 11 x 7½ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, page number in manuscript. Restricts "chinguirito," a vernacular term for rum. Medina lists only a broadside version as #5505. None traced at auction. Mexico, 15 December 1772. "Habiendo el Juez del la Acordada y Privativo de Bebidas prohibidas." 4 pages, 12 x 8¼ inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, page number and marginal notation in manuscript; uncut. Orders the mayor of Tecali not to interfere in cases involving prohibited beverages. Not in Medina, Mexico. None at auction and one in OCLC (Texas A&M University). Mexico, 6 February 1776.

Lot: 366 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--1775.) Constituciones de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de Mexico.

Constituciones de la Real y Pontificia Universidad de Mexico. Mexico: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1775 [32], 238, [21] pages. Folio, contemporary patterned calf, moderate wear; worming, lacking rear free endpaper; edges tinted red; early inscription on front free endpaper, bookplate of Anastasio Sanchez on front pastedown. Second edition. The university was founded in 1551 and the first edition of this constitution was published in 1668. Medina, Mexico 5836; Palau 60067; Sabin 48662.

Lot: 367 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1782.) Martín de Mayorga. Ordenanza de la division de la nobilisima ciudad de Mexico en quarteles.

Martín de Mayorga. Ordenanza de la division de la nobilisima ciudad de Mexico en quarteles, creacion de los alcaldes de ellos, y reglas de su govierno. Mexico: Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1782 Hand-colored folding map of Mexico City. [2], 41, [1] pages. Folio, later marbled wrappers; additional page numbers and a few marginal notes in manuscript; secretary's signature on page 41. First edition. The map was done by Manuel Villavicencio, and is titled "La nobilisima Ciudad de Mexico dividida en quarteles." A key is provided on the facing page. Medina, Mexico 7346; Palau 203062; Sabin 47199.

Lot: 368 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS--1820.) Group of 4 independence-era pamphlets by or about El Pensador Mexicano

Group of 4 independence-era pamphlets by or about El Pensador Mexicano (the satirical journalist Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi). Mexico, 1820-1823 4 items, each 4to; disbound, most with manuscript additional page numbers: "La chanfaina se-quita. Carta al pensador mejicano." 8 pages. Mexico: Alejandro Valdes, 1820.  "Don Antonio siempre el mismo," by "Q.E.D." 4 pages. Mexico: Alejandro Valdes, 1820.  "Captitulo II: De como Don Antonio es siempre el mismo á pesar unas reumas que le cayeron en las piernas," by Q.E.D. 8 pages.  [Mexico]: Valdes, 1820.  "Por la salud de la patria se desprecia una corona," by "El Pensador." 8 pages. Mexico: Imprenta del autor, 7 March 1823.

Lot: 369 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 11 17th-century sermons. Mexico, 1667-1699

Group of 11 17th-century sermons. Mexico, 1667-1699 Each 4to, disbound or in modern plain wrappers; condition generally strong. Frias. "Sermon en la festividad del glorioso archangel San Miguel." [5], 14 leaves; one worm hole. Juan Ruiz, 1667. Mendoza Ayala. "Sermon en la dedicacion de la capilla, que se hizo en la Iglesia de Santa Maria la Redonda de Mexico." [15] leaves. Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1679. Avila. "Sermon de el primer dia de pasqua de espiritu santo." [14] leaves. Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1680. Avila. "Sermon de el glorioso martyr S. Felipe de Jesus, patron y criollo de Mexico." [18] leaves. Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1681. Robles. "Sermon que predico . . . en la ciudad de Santiago de Queretaro." [4], 8 leaves. Juan de Ribera, 1682. Avendaño. "Sermon del glorioso abbad S. Bernardo." [6], 12 leaves. Maria de Benavides, 1687. Ortiz. "Sermon . . . en la fiesta del . . . S. Ignacio de Loyola en la casa professa de Mexico." [4], 12 leaves. Maria de Benavides, 1689. Martinez de la Parra. "Sermon panegyrico a las virtudes, y milagros de el prodigioso apostol de la India, nuevo thaumaturgo del oriente, San Francisco Xavier." [4], 12 leaves; worming. Calderon, 1690. Contreras y Pacheco. "Sermon de la gloriosa virgen y martyr Santa Barbara." [1], 18 leaves; minor dampstaining. Calderon, 1695. Saldaña y Ortega. "Christo rey seguido, y perseguido de las turbas hebreas: Sermon su triunfal entrada en Jerusalem." [2], 41 pages; minor worming and dampstaining. Carrascoso, 1698. Avendaño Suárez de Souza. "Sermon del doctor maximo S. Geronimo." [16], 26 pages. Carrrascoso, 1699. Medina, Mexico 969, 1188, 1196, 1220, 1258, 1392, 1449, 1477, 1591, 1711, 1722.

Lot: 370 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 8 17th-century orations. Mexico and Puebla, 1671-1698

Group of 8 17th-century orations. Mexico and Puebla, 1671-1698 Each 4to, disbound or in modern plain wrappers; condition generally strong. Morales Pastrana. "Solemne, plausible, festiva pompa . . . a la beatificacion de la gloriosa Rosa de Sta. Maria." [26] leaves. Rodriguez Lupercio, 1671. Peña. "Signo eucharistico, predicado, en la festiva pompa, celebridad annual, que acostumbra hazer elconvento Imperial de Predicadores." [12] leaves; 6th leaf slightly defective. Rodriguez Lupercio, 1685. "Proporcion alegorica imagen emblematica, y militar especie de principe politico, que en el sumptuoso aparato del Arco Triumphal." [3], 19 leaves; minor dampstaining. Maria de Benevides, 1686. Trinidad. "Sagradas importancias . . . en la dedicacion de la iglesia de San Miguel de Chapultepec." [6], 10 leaves; slightly cropped. Calderon, [1688]. Millan de Poblete. "Patrocinio de Maria santissima discurrido." [6], 8 leaves. Calderon, 1693. Anduaga. "Milagrosa reedificacion que en su templo de la ciudad de Tetzcoco." [8], 12 leaves. Carrascoso, 1697. Perez. "Oracion funebre a las venerables memorias . . . Francisco de Aguilar . . . Arcobispo de Mexico." [12], 26 pages; manuscript notes in margins. Maria de Benavides, 1698. Montoro. "Sermon de la gloriosa S. Monica, madre del gran padre, de la Iglesia San Agustin." [14], 28 pages; cropped, dampstaining. Puebla: Diego Fernandez de Leon, 1693. Medina, Mexico 1046, 1356, 1387, 1428, 1547, 1661, 1706; Medina, Puebla, 162.

Lot: 371 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 3 university orations. Mexico, 1664-1692

Group of 4 university orations. Mexico, 1664-1692, 1761 Each 4to, disbound; condition generally strong. Herrera y Regil. "Initialis oratio, quam pro annuatim iterata literarum vicissitudine, annua ve stududorium in staratione in Regali Mexican Academia." [2], 6 leaves; title page cropped. Calderon, 1664. Avila. "Sagrado paradigma hallado . . . sermon que á la annual fiesta  dixo en la Real Universidad de Mexico." [22] leaves; dampstaining, lone worm hole. Rodriguez Lupercio, 1683. Hita. "Universidad florida de horladas voces diestra capilla . . . y Real Universidad de Mexico." [9], 9 leaves. Rodriguez Lupercio, 1692. Martinez Lazaro. "Sermon funebre que en las exequias . . . celebro la Real y Pontifica Universidad de Mexico . . . Ignacio de Padilla." [2], 22 pages. No publisher, [1761]. Medina, Mexico 919, 1272, 1519, 4810.

Lot: 372 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 3 18th-century imprints. Mexico, 1701-1723

Group of 3 18th-century imprints. Mexico, 1701-1723 Lopez Landaeta. "Sermon panegirico en accion de gracias . . . Carlos Segundo, Monarca poderoso de las Españas." [16], 23 pages. 4to, disbound. Oration on the death of King Charles II. Medina, Mexico 2040. None in OCLC. Calderon, 1701. Pope Innocent XII. "Officium immaculatae conceptionis SS. Virginis Mariae ex indulto SS. D.N. Innocentii XII. recitandum." 10 leaves. 4to, later wrappers. Medina, Mexico 2564. One in OCLC (Indiana University). Rodriguez Lupercio, 1719.  Paz. "Sumario del aranzel, aprobado por su magestad." 20 leaves. 8vo, later wrappers, stapled. This edition not in Medina, but see entries 2712 and 2713. [Mexico]: Por orden del Superior Govierno, 1723.

Lot: 373 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 5 18th-century sermons. Mexico and Puebla, 1712-1763

Group of 5 18th-century sermons. Mexico and Puebla, 1712-1763 Each 4to, disbound or in modern plain wrappers; condition generally strong. Senteno de Vera. "Sermon panegyrico, que en el plausible annual novenario . . . celebra la noble ciudad de Teztcoco." [5], 11 leaves; dampstaining on top edge. Ribera, [1712]. Lopez. "Piedra fundemental de la mystica sion, el nuevo convento de señores naturales, caziques, religiosas descalzas de Corpus Christi." [18], 22 pages; moderate dampstaining. Hogal, 1727.  Montañes. "Sermon panegyrico . . . de la ciudad de Queretaro al esclarecido S. Antonio de Padua." [22], 25 pages. Hogal, [1732]. Piedra. "El admirable por antonomasia, sermon panegyrico, que . . . San Ignacio de Loyola." [10, 18 pages; repair to title page. Colegio de San Ildefonso, 1759. Dallo. "Sermon moral de la Santa Veronica." [20], 11, [1] pages. Puebla: Portal de Borja, 1736. Medina, Mexico 2342, 2935, 3246, 4572, 4810; Medina, Puebla 419.

Lot: 374 - (MEXICAN IMPRINTS.) Group of 5 18th-century orations. Mexico, 1709-1746

Group of 5 18th-century orations. Mexico, 1709-1746 Each 4to, disbound or in modern plain wrappers; condition generally strong. Torres. "Desmedidos excesos de el mas fino amor . . . S. Pedro Nolasco." [8], 12 leaves. Rodriguez Lupercio, 1709. San Juan Bautista. "Funebre panegyrico, tierno llanto en la caida de un principe benevolo." [14], 10, [2] leaves; minor worming. Rodriguez Lupercia, 1717. Casas de la Mota y Flores. "Piae, et foelici memoriae ludovici i. hispaniarum gloriosissimi . . . in alma cathedrali Guadalaxarensi." [8], 14 pages. Hogal, 1725. Ruiz Guerra. "Oracion funebre, que en . . . Fr. Joseph Montes, Comissario General de el Sagrado Orden de N.P. S. Juan de Dios." [24], 14 pages. Maria de Rivera, 1736. Castro. "Imagen de la trinidad augustissima. el . . . S. Juan Nepomuceno." [24], 22 pages; some side-notes cropped. Maria de Rivera, 1746.  Medina, Mexico 2229, 2504, 2789, 3441, 3759.

Lot: 375 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Reglas de la Compañia de Jesus, 1698

Reglas de la Compañia de Jesus. Puebla: herederos de Juan de Villa Real, 1698 [2], 187, [5]; blank leaf; [4], 223, [8] pages. 16mo, contemporary vellum, minor wear; lacking free endpapers, minor dampstaining to early leaves, minor foxing; small private library tags on front pastedown and facing second title page.  First Mexican edition of the Jesuit manual, followed by the "Exercicios espirituales de San Ignacio de Loyala" with a separate title page, as issued. Medina, Puebla 196; Palau 256412. 3 in OCLC.

Lot: 376 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Pedro Antonio de Aguirre. Sentencia apostolica definitiva de la precedencia, 1701

Pedro Antonio de Aguirre. Sentencia apostolica definitiva de la precedencia. Puebla: Sebastian de Guevara, 1701 [4], 81, [1] pages. 4to, disbound; lone worm hole; edges tinted red; partial marca de fuego on top edge. Medina, Puebla 228.

Lot: 377 - (MEXICAN IMPRINT--PUEBLA.) Devocion en honor y obsequio del gloriosisimo Sr. S. Cayetano. Puebla: Pedro de la Rosa, 1792

Devocion en honor y obsequio del gloriosisimo Sr. S. Cayetano. Puebla: Pedro de la Rosa, 1792 Frontispiece plate. [23] pages. 12mo, original marbled rear wrapper, lacking front wrapper; minor foxing, dampstaining, and wear. Saint Cajetan / San Cayetano / Gaetano dei Conti di Thiene (1480-1547) was an Italian who never went to the New World, but he is the patron saint of Argentina, and in 1691 the Jesuit mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori was established in his name in what is now Arizona. The frontispiece portrait by Villavicencio shows San Cayetano holding an infant. Medina, Puebla 1239; 2 in OCLC.

Lot: 378 - (MEXICO.) Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra. The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. London, 1738

Antonio de Solis y Ribadeneyra. The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. London: John Osborn, 1738 2 folding maps, 7 folding plates. [6], x, 479; xii, 475, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, early stiff vellum, minimal wear; minor worming to first few leaves only, otherwise minimal wear; edges tinted red; early English armorial bookplates of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor (1722-1773) on front pastedowns.  2nd English edition. European Americana 738/223; Palau 318696; Sabin 86490. Palau and Sabin both call for a third plate in Volume II not found here, although not in the alternate issue published by Woodward; we find no third plate in the Oxford copy of this issue on Google Books, the Getty copy in the Internet Archive, or in any prior auction listings, so we suspect the Sabin entry was in error and followed by Palau. 

Lot: 379 - (MEXICO.) Agustín de Iturbide. Decree granting Indigenous people access to medical care, 28 March 1822

Agustín de Iturbide. Decree granting Indigenous people access to medical care. Mexico, 28 March 1822 Letterpress broadside, 17 x 12¼ inches, on sealed paper, signed in type by Anastasio Bustamante; small tape repair at one intersection of folds, otherwise minimal wear. Folded in a modern ¼ calf gilt slipcase. The public proclamation of a decree issued by President Iturbide on 6 March 1822, permitting the use of hospitals by indigenous peoples, and eliminating a tax used to create separate hospitals. In translation, it decrees that the additional tax would "unjustly burden the Indians," and that the hospitals should "admit sick Indians as any other citizen."

Lot: 380 - (MEXICO.) Henry George Ward. Mexico in 1827. London, 1828

Henry George Ward. Mexico in 1827. London, 1828 2 folding maps, 13 plates (one hand-colored), illustrations. xix, [1], 591, [1]; viii, 730, [2] pages including final ad leaf. 2 volumes. 8vo, original boards, moderate wear, rejointed; first volume and part of second unopened, foxing to plates as usual. With half-titles.  First edition. A few interesting pages are devoted to Texas: "The ultimate incorporation of Texas with the Anglo-American States may . . . be regarded as by no means an improbable event" (page 586). Abbey Travel 668; Palau 374005; Sabin 101302; Streeter, Texas 1104.

Lot: 381 - (MEXICO.) Order establishing the Legion Mexicana de Honor in the wake of the Alamo victory. Mexico, 27 April 1836

Order establishing the Legion Mexicana de Honor in the wake of the Alamo victory. Mexico, 27 April 1836 8 printed pages, 12 x 8½ inches, issued by the Secretaria de Guerra y Marina signed in type by José Maria Tornel and José Justo Corro; unbound with the two folding sheets tipped together; moderate wrinkling, minimal dampstaining and worming. This order was issued just 7 weeks after the victory at the Battle of Alamo, and just 6 days after the defeat at San Jacinto--of which news many not have even reached Mexico City. "No copy has been located of the first separate publication of this, or of a republication by any of the different states"--Streeter, Texas 877. None traced at auction since 2006. 

Lot: 382 - (MEXICO.) Photographs of the surrender of Cristero rebels in Ameca, 1929

Photographs of the surrender of Cristero rebels in Ameca. Ameca, Mexico, May to July 1929 17 photographs (8 larger photographs on heavy stock, 4½ x 6½ inches; 6 smaller ones on heavy stock, 3½ x 4½ inches; and 3 on lighter stock, 5¾ x 3½ inches), all well captioned in manuscript on verso; light curling, minor soiling and wear. Mexico's Cristero War was sparked when the federal government enforced restrictions on the Catholic Church. After two years of fighting and perhaps 250,000 deaths, a ceasefire was signed on 21 June 1929. Some pockets of rebels remained in the field. 9 of these photographs document the surrender of a group of 85 rebels a month after the ceasefire in the small city of Ameca, Jalisco, west of Guadalajara.  Two of the larger photographs show groups of leaders from both sides, including city officials, "General Concepción Verdin, Rebel Commander," and "Rebel Commander Telesforo Preciado" (who stands out with his wide-brimmed hat and long neckerchief). Another wider view shows "one part of the 85 rebels that surrendered in Ameca to General M.Z. Martinez." One of the smaller photos shows a group including Preciado standing in front of a Buick. The other 5 smaller views show the rebels marching into Ameca's central plaza for the surrender. These photographs come from the collection of Edward Seccomb Wallace (1897-1964), who served in World War One, graduated from Yale in 1920, taught history at Northeastern University and other schools, and wrote four books on southwestern history. He and his American friends Charles Hoyle and George M. McCormick appear in several of the photographs. 5 additional large photographs show the floats in Ameca's Flower Parade of 16 September 1929. The captions suggest Wallace was a bit grouchy that his float was not awarded first place: "It would not look good to give the 1st prize gold medal to the foreigners on the Mexican national holiday."  3 smaller photographs, captioned in a different hand, show Wallace and his American friends in Ameca on 29 May 1929. With--a guest pass to the American Club of Guadalajara issued to Wallace in 23 May 1929; and an English-language flier promoting daily flights from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City, circa 1929. 

Lot: 383 - (PERU.) A year-long run of the newspaper El Republicano, bound with related broadsides, 1825-1836

A year-long run of the newspaper El Republicano, bound with related broadsides. Arequipa and elsewhere, 1825-1836 102 items in one volume. Folio, 11¾ x 7¾ inches, contemporary marbled calf; minor wear; generally minimal wear to contents, a few cropped manuscript notes in margins; marbled edges; early owner's signature on flyleaf. Much of this volume relates to the founding on the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation under Andrés de Santa Cruz in 1836, with additional earlier material from Guayaquil in 1826 during the period when the city was part of Gran Colombia; it is now in Ecuador. Begins with 73 issues of "El Republicano": Volume 11, #1-4 (January 1836) and starting again with #1-69 (February-December) complete, each from 2 to 8 pages. Bound at the end are: "El Patriota de Guayaquil," 12 June and 23 June 1827. José de Lamar. "Proclama al departamento de Guayaquil." 18 July 1827. D. Noboa. "Al imparcial y respetable publico Guayaquileño." 22 July 1827. Antonio Obando. "Al pueblo y guarnicion de Guayaquil." 29 July 1829. "Un Centralisto." "Viva la libertad." Guayaquil, 14 July 1827. "Un Posta Guayaquileño." "Carrera de caballo, parada de borrico," 17 July 1827. "Un Federal." "Remitido." Guayaquil, 13 August 1827. "Representacion que a nombre del poder judicial de la Republica ha dirigido la Corte Suprema al Congreso Nacional." Lima, 26 April 1828. "El Republicano." Arequipa, 4, 11 and 18 February, 4 March 1826. "Gaceta del gobierno." Lima, 13 January 1825. "La estrella de Ayacucho." Arequipa, 24 September 1825. "Un Republicano Manuel Casimiro Morales, desde la obscuridad de su retiro habla a sus conciudadanos, en estos terminos." Arequipa, 1825. F.M. "Contestacion a la avutarda en su articulo contra el teatro." Arequipa, 1828. "Declaratoria solemne de la independencia del estado sud-peruano," the Declaration of Independence of the short-lived Republic of South Peru, folding broadside, 17 March 1836. "La Feria e Vilque." Arequipa, 20, 23 January 1836. Andrés Santa-Cruz. Proclamation as president of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, 8 February 1836. Andrés Santa-Cruz. "Gran Victoria. Ejercito unido." Arequipa, 7 February 1836. Andrés Santa-Cruz. "Ejercito unido, Boletin Num. 7." Arequipa, 8 February 1836. Luis José Orbegoso. "El Presidente provisorio de la republica a la nacion." Lima, 3 March 1836. M.Y. de Vivanco. "Boletin Num. 7." Arequipa, 14 November 1835. "Al Iris de la paz," La Paz, 12 and 17 January 1836. Felipe Santiago de Salaverry. "El jefe supremo del Peru a los Arequipeños." Arequipa, 31 December 1835. Andrés Santa-Cruz. Proclamation, 1 February 1836. "La gaceta de Arequipa," 26 January 1836.

Lot: 384 - (PIRATES.) Alexandre Exquemelin. Bucaniers of America. London, 1684

Alexandre Exquemelin. Bucaniers of America. London: William Crooke, 1684 Folding map; 4 portrait plates of pirates; 4 other plates; text illustrations. [12], 115; 151, [1]; 124, [11] pages. 3 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear; front hinge split, preliminaries coming detached, moderate dampstaining and wear to first few leaves, leaves Ggg2-3 detached and pinned in; bookplate and 1922 inscription of Donald & Katharine Miller on front endpapers. Offered without the second volume issued in 1685. First English edition. A tremendously influential source of pirate facts and legends. The great pirate Sir Henry Morgan, then retired from the privateering life in Jamaica, filed a libel suit against the publishers and won £20.  Includes portraits of Henry Morgan (after title page), Bartholomew Portugues (facing I:95), Rock Brasiliano (I:102), and Francis Lolonois (II:1). The other engravings include "The Cruelty of Lolonois" (II:37), "The Towne of Puerto del Principe taken & sackt" (II:80), "The Spanish Armada Destroyed by Captaine Morgan" (double-page, II:136); and "The Battel between the Spaniards and the pyrats or buccaniers before the citty of Panama" (double-page, III:54). The double-page "Map of the Countrey and Citty of Panama" faces III:30. Church 689; European Americana 684/54; Medina BHA 1714n, pages III:286-7; Palau 85733; Sabin 23479.

Lot: 385 - (PIRATES.) Lionel Wafer. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. London, 1699

Lionel Wafer. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. London: James Knapton, 1699 Folding map, 3 folding plates. viii, 224, xvi pages. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, minor wear, rebacked in period style; minor wear and soiling, minor repairs to plates, intermittent minor dampstaining; early inscription on front pastedown, 1840 inscription on title page.  First edition. Wafer was a Welsh physician who signed on for a privateering voyage and after suffering an injury found himself left behind on the Isthmus of Panama in 1681, where he remained for a year among the indigenous Guna people before reuniting with the pirate William Dampier. European Americana 699/223; Field 1617; Palau 373442; Sabin 100940.

Lot: 386 - (PIRATES.) William Hacke, compiler. A Collection of Original Voyages. London, 1699

William Hacke, compiler. A Collection of Original Voyages. London: James Knapton, 1699 3 folding maps, 3 plates, text illustrations. [16], 45, 100, 53, [3] pages. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, recased; several tasteful repairs to contents; inked stamp of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia on page 47 of the final part and elsewhere. A compilation of 4 exploration narratives, including "Capt. Cowley's Voyage Round the Globe" (Virginia, Cape Verde, Galapagos Islands, Philippines, and more); "Captain Sharp's Journey over the Isthmus of Darien" (Panama); "Capt. Wood's Voyage thro' the Streights of Magellan," and "Mr. Roberts's Adventures among the Corsairs of the Levant."  European Americana 699/96; Hill 741 ("original source material for the history of the buccaneers"); Sabin 29473.

Lot: 387 - (PIRATES.) Woodes Rogers. A Cruising Voyage Round the World. London, 1712

Woodes Rogers. A Cruising Voyage Round the World. London: A. Bell, 1712 5 folding maps. xxi, [1], 428, 56, [14] pages. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, minor wear, rebacked in period style; maps with a few short tears and repairs; early library gift inscription on title page. Rogers sailed down the coast of Brazil, rounded Cape Horn, rescued the castaway Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernández Island, thus helping to inspire Robinson Crusoe, raided the Peruvian coast, visited California, and captured a Manila galleon while crossing the Pacific.  Borba de Moraes, page II:744; Hill 1479 ("a buccaneering classic"); Howes R421 ("b"); Sabin 72753.

Lot: 388 - (PIRATES.) Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz. The History of Pirates, Free-Booters, or Buccaneers of America. London, 1807

Johann Wilhelm von Archenholz. The History of Pirates, Free-Booters, or Buccaneers of America. London, 1807 xiv, 240 pages. 12mo, original boards, minor wear, rebacked; moderate foxing, a few early inked notes; uncut; early owner's inscription on front pastedown. First edition in English of an 1803 work, translated by George Mason. Sabin 1906.