including American Prints | Lots 513-694

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Printed & Manuscript Americana, including American Prints

Lots 513-694

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513 ADAMS, John (1735-1826). Partly printed document signed (“John Adams”), as President, Philadelphia, 28 October 1799, countersigned by Timothy Pickering as Secretary of State.

1 page, folio, 371 x 320 mm, accomplished in manuscript, with paper seal, creased from folding, a few tiny holes along creases occasionally repaired or touching text, some soiling.

A military land grant issuing 400 acres northwest of the Ohio River between the little Miami and Sciota Rivers to Robert Jouitt (1756-1796), who served as Lieutenant, “in consideration of military service...to the United States, in the Virginia line on Continental Establishment, and in pursuance of an Act of the Congress of the United States.” Jouitt fought at the Battles of Monmouth and Brandywine, and was a Valley Forge under Washington, and was ultimately promoted to Captain. The Virginia Military District comprised a nearly four-million-acre tract of land in the southwestern part of Ohio. State officials used land grants to reward veterans for their military service in lieu of payment. In order to promote recruitment, Washington offered tracts of land in exchange for three or more years of service to the Continental Army during the war. $3,000 - 5,000

514 [AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. A group of 3 works about the Revolutionary War, comprising:

ADAMS, John Quincy. The Jubilee of the Constitution. NY, 1839. EXTRA ILLUSRTATED BY THE ADDITION OF 58 ENGRAVED PLATES OF PORTRAITS, SCENES, AND A DOUBLE-PAGE FACSIMILE. Later red morocco gilt and stamped in black by Charles E. Lauriat Co.; chemise and slipcase. Sabin 281. -- CARSON, Hampton L., editor. History of the Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Promulgation of the Constitution of the United States. Philadelphia, 1889. 2 volumes. -- MORRIS, Gouverneur. A Diary of the French Revolution 1789-1793. Boston, 1939. 2 volumes. Glassine for vol. II. -- Together, 3 works in 5 volumes, all 8vo, most in original cloth, ALL FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine. $400 - 600

515 AGRICOLA, Georgius (1494-1555). De Re Metallica Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556... Herbert Clark HOOVER and Lou Henry HOOVER, translators. London: The Mining Magazine, 1912.

Folio (343 x 213 mm). Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations reproducing the 1556 woodcuts. Original vellum, spine lettered in black (some spotting and soiling, a few tiny splits to upper joint). Provenance: Mrs. Hessenberg (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HOOVER to Mrs. Hessenberg: “To Mrs. Hessenberg from Lou Henry Hoover.” This first systematic treatise on mining and metallurgy was translated from the first Latin Edition of 1556. Duveen, p. 5; Hoover 28; Norman 21.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

516 [ALLIED FORCES]. OO, Monglou L. Simple Chinese specially compiled for the use of Allied Forces in China. Kweilin: n.p., 1943.

Oblong 8vo. Printed on accordion-folded rice paper. Original wrappers (spine repaired).

Presumed first edition, dedicated to Major General C. L. Chennault, and including a reproduction of a letter from Chennault to Colonel M. E. Chiang in which Chennault agrees that the book can be dedicated to him at Professor Oo’s request. Major General Clair Chennault led the Flying Tigers and the U. S. 14th Air Force against the Japanese in China and Burma during WWII. The work, not an official U. S. Government publication, was written by Monglou L. Oo, a professor in Guilin, who wanted to do something to be of help to the Americans and Allied Forces. RARE.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

518 [ALMANACS - BOSTON]. A group of 8 almanacs, published Boston by various printers, comprising:

LOW, Nathanael (1740-1808). An Astronomical Diary or almanack for...1787. Boston: Printed and Sold by T. & J. Fleet, [1786]. ESTC W22497; Evans 19760. -- LOW, Nathanael (1740-1808). An Astronomical Diary or almanack for...1797. Boston: Printed and Sold by T. & J. Fleet, [1796]. ESTC W22483; Evans 30707. -- LOW, Nathanael (1740-1808). An Astronomical Diary or almanack for...1798. Boston: Printed and Sold by T. & J. Fleet, [1797]. ESTC W22536; Evans 32391. -- LOW, Nathanael (1740-1808). An Astronomical Diary or almanack for...1799. Boston: Printed and Sold by T. & J. Fleet, [1798]. ESTC W14009; Evans 34020. -- Another copy (lacking leaves), bound with: LOW, Nathanael (1740-1808). An Astronomical Diary or almanack for...1800. Boston: Printed and Sold by T. & J. Fleet, [1799]. (Lacking quire D.) ESTC W14010; Evans 35746. -- Bickerstaff’s genuine Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode-Island, and Connecticutt Almanack, For...1792. Boston: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Covely, [1791]. ESTC W35408 (locating 5 copies in North America); Evans 23984. -- THOMAS, Robert Bailey (1766-1846). The Farmer’s Almanack...for...1795. Boston: for Joseph Belknap and thomas Hall, [1794]. ESTC W328; Evans 27792. -- CARLETON, Osgood (1742-1816). Carleton’s Almanack, for...1797. Boston: Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, [1796]. ESTC W22569 (locating 6 copies in North America); Evans 30163. -- Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, 8vo, some overall browning and soiling, a few leaves with tears, all stabsewn. 519 [ALMANACS - PHILADELPHIA]. A group of 7 almanacs, published Philadelphia by various printers, comprising:

517 [ALMANAC - BOSTON]. AMES, Nathaniel (1708-1764). An Astronomical Diary, or an Almanack For the Year of our Lord Christ, 1761. Boston [i.e. New London, CT]: John Draper et al [i.e. Timothy Green], [1761].

8vo (170 x 100 mm). Stab-sewn. A pirated issue, typographically distinct from the real Draper issue, lacking the phrase “Sold also by the booksellers” at the end of the imprint. ESTC W22464; Evans 8787.

[And:] AMES. An Astronomical Diary; Or, Almanack....1764. Boston: R. and S. Draper et al, [1763]. 8vo (170 x 106 mm). Disbound with old cellotape repairs (soiled and frayed). ESTC W587 (locating only two copies, both at the American Antiquarian Society); Evans 9231.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $400 - 600

COPERNICUS, Philo, pseud. The American Calender; or an Almanack...1768. Philadelphia: William and Thomas Bradford [1767]. (Defective, lacking leaves.) See ESTC W556 locating 3 copies in North America); see Evans 10741. -- WEATHERWISE, Abraham. Father Abraham’s Almanack...1771. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by John Dunlap, [1770]. (Defective, lacking leaves.) See ESTC W36916; see Evans 11927. -- [ANDREWS, William]. Poor Will’s almanack, for...1777. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Joseph Crukshank, [1776]. (Lacking one leaf, repairs.) ESTC W32683; Evans 14648. -- Poulson’s Town and Country almanac, for...1789. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Zachariah Poulson, [1788]. (Defective, lacking leaves.) ESTC W22810; Evans 21572. -- SAUNDERS, Richard, pseud. Poor Richard improved: being an almanack...for...1790. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Hall and Sellers, [1789]. ESTC W22797 (locating 6 copies in North America); Evans 22129. -- SAUNDERS, Richard, pseud. Poor Richard improved: being an almanack...for...1800. [Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Hall and Sellers, 1799]. (Portion of title torn away.) ESTC W21205 (locating 4 copies in North America); Evans 36277. -- [With:] The Virginia almanack for...1776. [Williamsburg: J. Dixon & W. Hunter, [1775]). (Defective, lacking most leaves.) See ESTC W33490; see Evans 14434. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo, all soiled and frayed with spine repairs, all stab-sewn.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $500 - 700

520 [ALMANACS - TRENTON]. SHOEMAKER, Abraham (1753-1818). The NewJersey and Pennsylvania Almanac, for the Year 1795. Trenton: Printed and sold by Isaac Collins, [1794].

8vo (180 x 110 mm). Stab-sewn (imperfect, lacking leaves, some old cello repairs, a few holes, a few repairs, soiled and frayed.) Not in ESTC; see Sabin 53165.

[And:] SHOEMAKER. The New-Jersey and Pennsylvania Almanac, for the Year 1800. Trenton: Printed and sold...by Sherman, Mershon & Thomas, [1799]. 8vo (185 x 112 mm). (Imperfect, lacking several leaves at end.) ESTC W15783 (locating 9 copies in North America); Evans 36305.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $200 - 300 521 [ALMANAC - WORCESTER, MA]. THOMAS, Isaiah (1749-1831). A group of 5 almanacks, all published in Worcester, Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas, comprising:

522 [ALMANACS - CARLISLE, PROVIDENCE, WILMINGTON]. A group of 4 almanacs published Carlisle, Providence and Wilmington by various printers, comprising:

TOBLER, John. The Pennsylvania Town and Country-man’s Almanack, for...1772. Wilmington: Printed and Sold by James Adams, [1771]. ESTC W36789 (locating 4 copies in North America); Evans 12248. -- THORNTON, Elisha (1748-1816). The New-England Almanack, or Lady’s and Gentleman’s Diary, For...1796. Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, [1795]. ESTC W22728; Evans 29630. -- BICKERSTAFF, Isaac, pseud. The New-England Almanack, or Lady’s and Gentleman’s Diary, For...1799. Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, [1798]. (A few tape repairs to spine.) ESTC W15189; Evans 35002. -- The Western Almanac, for...1798. Carlisle, PA: for Archibald Loudon by George Kline, [1797]. (Lacking 10 leaves.) ESTC W32777 (locating only 2 copies in North America); Evans 35008. -- Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, 8vo, some overall browning, soiling, and fraying, all stab-sewn.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $300 - 400 523 [AMERICAN HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY]. A group of 13 works, including:

Thomas’s Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, Newhampshire & Vermont Almanack, With an Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1795. Worcester, [1794]. (First two leaves torn horizontally, 12 leaves with 1 1/2-in. strip excised at head). ESTC W29842; Evans 27052. -- Thomas’s... Almanack...1796. Worcester, [1795]. (Lacking one leaf, a few marginal tears affecting text, 2 leaves with 1 1/2-in strip excised at head.) ESTC W29843; Evans 29624. -- Isaiah Thomas’s...Almanack...1798. Worcester, [1797]. Second edition. (One leaf torn with loss to lower margin.) Provenance: A few contemporary annotations. ESTC W29845; Evans 32919. -- Isaiah Thomas’s...Almanack...1800. Worcester, [1799]. (Lacking F1, tears with occasional losses.) ESTC W29795; Evans 36413. -- Isaiah Thomas’s... Almanack...1801. Worcester, [1800]. (Lacking several leaves, 2 leaves with 1 1/2-in. strip excised at head.) ESTC W10916; Evans 38628. -- Together, 5 volumes, all 8vo (each approximately 190 x 115 mm), all stab-sewn, all with some soiling or fraying.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $300 - 500

CAPPON, Lester Jesse. Atlas of Early American History the Revolutionary Era 1760-1790. Princeton: Princeton University Press for The Newberry Library & The Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1976. -- REMINGTON, Frederic. Men with the Bark On. NY & L, 1900. -- HITTELL, Theodore H. The Adventures of James Capen Adams. Boston et al, 1860. Howes H543. -- SERVICE, Robert W. The Spell of the Yukon and other Verses. NY, 1907. Partial glassine laid in. -- GARRETT, Pat F. The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid. Norman, OK, [1954]. First “New” edition, FIRST ISSUE. -- MERCER, Asa Shinn. The Banditti of the Plains. Norman, OK, [1954]. First “New” edition, second issue. -- McDONALD, John. Biographical Sketches of General Nathaniel Massie. Dayton, OH, 1852. 19th-century half calf gilt. Later edition. -- And 6 others. Together, 13 works in 13 volumes, various 8vo and folio sizes, most in original cloth, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Provenance: One book from the collection of Daniel Carter Beard, American illustrator, author, and social reformer (book plate). Complete list available upon request. $200 - 300

524 [AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY]. A group of 2 19th century American works in 4 volumes, comprising:

BROWNE, D.J. The Sylva Americana. Boston; William Hyde & Co., 1832. Illustrated. Contemporary calf. -- WALCOTT, Charles D. Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899. Includes two map volumes. Publisher’s brown cloth gilt. -- Together, 2 works in 4 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally good.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $300 - 500

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525 525 [AMERICAN REVOLUTION]. Explication de ce tableau touchant l’etat de la Nation d’Angleterre | Erklarung dieses Kupfer, in denen jezigen umstande der Engl. Nation. Amsterdam: n.p., [1780?].

Engraving with hand-coloring, 364 x 241 mm, with captions in French and Dutch in two columns lower margin, hinged to mount, matted and framed, some minor browning ,a few captions in pencil and one old crayon mark lower margin.

RARE REVOLUTIONARY WAR-ERA SATIRICAL ENGRAVING

Referencing the thread to British commerce posed by the avarice of England’s neighbors and controversial conduct of Richard and William Howe as commanders of the British land and sea forces in America. A cow, representing the commerce of Great Britain, stands at the shore while an American saws off her horns. A Dutchman milks the cow while a Frenchman and Spaniard wait for their share of the milk. The British lion sleeps in the foreground while a small dog befouls him. In the background, Lord Howe’s ship has run ashore at Philadelphia, and the Howe brothers are depicted in a drunken stupor at a table, representing the hollow victory of the capture of Philadelphia. An Englishman, wringing his hands in despair, watches the scene unaware of how to help.

We trace copies of this engraving in the Colonial Williamsburg collection, and at the John Carter Brown library; the present copy has captions which conform to the Williamsburg copy, while the captions of the John Carter Brown copy differ slightly. $500 - 700

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527 [19TH-CENTURY AMERICANA]. A group of 6 works, comprising:

ELLIOTT, Richard Smith. Notes Taken in Sixty Years. St. Louis: R. P. Studley, 1883. Contemporary green cloth gilt. -- FLINT, Timothy (1780-1840). The History and Geography of the Mississippi Valley. Cincinnati and Boston: E. H. Flint, and Carter, Hendee, and Co., 1833. 2 volumes, 8vo (217 x 131 mm). Third edition. Howes F200. -- GRAY, A. B. Mineral Lands on Lake Superior. Letter from The Secretary of War relative to the mineral lands on Lake Superior... 29th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: House of Representatives, War Department, 1846. Includes attached large folding map of Lake Superior with vignette of outpost. -- SAPPINGTON, John. The Theory and Treatment of Fevers. Revised and Corrected by Ferdinando Stith, M. D. Arrow Rock: Published by the Author, 1844. Contemporary calf pasted over modern calf. Provenance: Dr J.F. Snyder. -- THIERS, Adopphe. The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law. To Which are Added Authentic Accounts of the Darien Expedition, and the South Sea Scheme. Frank S. Fiske, translator and editor. New York: W. A. Townsend & Company, 1859. Contemporary brown cloth gilt. Provenance: Benjamin H. Lane. -- WALKER, C. B. The Mississippi Valley, and Prehistoric Events. Burlington, Iowa: R. T. Root, 1881. Contemporary sheepskin crudely rebacked. Provenance: Virginia Institute. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, 8vos, condition generally very good. $500 - 700

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528 [19TH-CENTURY AMERICANA]. A group of 7 works, comprising:

BURTON, Richard F. The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. Illustrated. Later cloth with marbled boards. -- COOPER, Susan Fenimore. Pages and Pictures, from the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, with Notes. New York: James Miller, 1865. Contemporary full calf gilt. Provenance: General and Mrs. George Custer (presentation inscription to Mrs. Custer, letter explaining the book was in Custer’s library). PRESENTATION COPY. -- FEARON, Henry Bradshaw. Sketches of America. Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America... London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Contemporary half calf with upper cover detaching. -- KIPLING, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. New York: The Century Company, 1897. Publisher’s green cloth gilt. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- MITCHELL, S. Augustus. Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography: Designed for the Instruction of Children in Schools and Families. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1846. Illustrated. Contemporary marbled wraps. -- WALTER, Richard. A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1740, 1741, 1742, 1743, 1744, by George Anson. Esq. Afterwards Lord Anson, Commander-in-Chief of a Squadron of his Majesty’s Ships, Sent Upon an Expedition to the South Seas. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1835- 1850. Folding map present. Publisher’s brown cloth gilt. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. $600 - 800

529 [AMERICAN WEST]. A group of 9 signed works, comprising:

BYRNE, P.E. Soldiers of the Plains. New York: Minton, Balch, & Company, 1926. Publisher’s red cloth. -- CARNEGIE, Andrew. An American Four-in-Hand in Britain. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891. Publisher’s red cloth. -- CODY, William F. Last of the Great Scouts. Chicago and Duluth: The Duluth Press Publishing Company, 1899. Publisher’s red cloth gilt. -- LAUT, Agnes C. The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1926. Publisher’s red cloth; original slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 67 of 926 copies. -- ROOSEVELT, Kermit. The Long Trail. New York: The Review of Reviews, 1921. Publisher’s beige cloth. Provenance: Frank E. Wade, Jr. -- Together, 9 works in 9 volumes, 8vo and 4to, condition generally very fine.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $500 - 700

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532A LEWIS, Meriwether, and William CLARK, William. History of the Expedition. NY, [1842]. 2 volumes. “First Harper edition.” -- SCHRADER, Frank Charles. [Collected Papers of Frank Charles Schrader 1898-1916]. Comprising various publications. Contemporary cloth. -- MITCHELL, Samuel Augustus. Accompaniment to Mitchell’s New Map. Philadelphia, 1925. Reprint. -- JEKYLL, Gertrude. Old West Surrey. L et al, 1904. -- SCHLEY, Winfield Scott. Report of… Greely Relief Expedition of 1884. Washington. 1887. -- And 4 others. Together, 9 works in 10 volumes, various 4to, 8vo, and 12mo, most illustrated, most in original cloth, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Provenance: one volume compiled by and from the collection of Frank Charles Schrader, American geologist (letter, annotations); subsequently loaned to and withdrawn from the Harvard University Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (bookplate, withdrawn stamps). Complete list available upon request.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

531 [AMERICANA]. A group of 10 works in 10 volumes, including a pair of Native American language works, comprising:

BUEL, J.W. Heroes of the Plains. St. Louis: N.D. Thompson & Co., 1881. Frontispiece, with illustrations. Contemporary calf. -- CRAVEN, Thomas (ed.) A Treasury of American Prints. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939. Publisher’s spiral bound cloth. -- CROOK, William H. Memories of the White House. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1911. Publisher’s blue cloth. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM H. CROOK, “With all good wishes.” -- NEVINS, Allan. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1937. Publisher’s red cloth. INSCRIBED BY ALLAN NEVINS, “With the sincere regards.” -- NORTH, S.D. (ed.) Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States, 1790. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. Publisher’s blue wrappers. -- RIGGS, S.R. Model First Reader, Wayawa Tokaheya. Chicago: George Sherwood & Co., [n.d.]. Publisher’s printed boards. -- TRUMBULL, John. Autobiography, Reminiscences, and Letters. New York and London: Wiley and Putnam, 1841. Publisher’s black cloth. -- Together, 10 works in 10 volumes, 8vo and 4to, condition generally fine.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

532 [AMERICANA]. A group of 8 works relating to American history, including:

BEVERLEY, Robert. Histoire de la Virginie. Amsterdam, 1712. Howes B410. -- MARSHALL, Humphrey. The History of Kentucky. Frankfort, KY, 1824. Vol. I only. Contemporary calf. Sabin 44780. -- LINCOLN, Mary Johnson. Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cook Book. Boston, 1884. Original cloth-backed boards. Second issue. -- The Constitution of the State of Massachusetts. Boston, 1805. Original sheep-backed boards. Sabin 45692. -- And 4 others. Together, 8 works in 9 volumes, various 8vo and 12mo sizes, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

532A AMES, Fisher (1758-1808). The Speech of Mr. Ames in the House of Representatives of the United States...on Thursday, April 28, 1796. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1796.

8vo (193 x 118 mm). Half-title. (Some spotting.) Modern brown paper wrappers. Provenance: Horatio Townsend (cropped signature on title-page).

Second edition of Ames’s famous Federalist oration. “Fisher Ames was one of the most distinguished thinkers of the Federalist party and a staunch supporter of Hamilton on the floor of the House. During the critical debate on Jay’s Treaty, his great speech ultimately carried the day in a close vote” (Federal). ESTC W3540; Evans 29985; see Federal Hundred 55; Sabin 1302. $400 - 600

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533 ANDREWS, John (1736-1809). History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland; Commencing in 1775 and Ending in 1783. London: John Fielding and John Jarvis, 1785-1786.

4 volumes, 8vo (206 x 125 mm). 31 plates and maps (6 folding, 7 with hand-coloring), list of subscribers in vol. IV. (Some offsetting or spotting, some soft creasing, marginal chipping to a few leaves.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, spines gilt (a few joints starting or repaired, lacking lettering-pieces, some light wear); slipcase. Provenance: John Parkinson (signatures, 1786).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE with double-rule heading on the first text leaf of each volume. Andrews’ work, compiled from contemporaneous newspaper and pamphlet accounts, was considered the most satisfactory account of the war by the Tories. The maps show the North American colonies as far west as the Great Lakes, and there are portraits of Burgoyne, Cornwallis, Franklin, Lafayette, and Washington. ESTC T88338; Howes A-259; Sabin 1501.

534 ARMSTRONG, Ambrose N. (b.1852). Oregon: Comprising a Brief History and Full Description of the Territories of Oregon and Washington. Chicago: Chas. Scott & Co., 1857.

8vo (186 x 111 mm). (Some spotting and browning.) Original blind-stamped green cloth gilt-lettered on upper cover and spine (some very slight staining, corners bumped, otherwise bright). Provenance: Alfred J. Cox (bookplate); a few annotations in pencil on rear pastedown.

FIRST EDITION. “It is apparent that Armstrong spent most of his time in Oregon west of the Cascade Mountains. Seven of his chapters are devoted to this area, with two chapters on the Willamette Valley alone. One chapter only is given to Eastern Oregon. Armstrong concludes the work with brief vocabularies of Chinook Jargon and the Nootka dialect” (Wagner-Camp 283a). Graff 87; Howes A-318; Streeter Sale 3330.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $300 - 400 535 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY]. BAGLEY, William Grant (1950-2021) et al, editors. [Kingdom in the West Series]. Spokane, WA & Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1997-2013.

11 volumes (of 14, lacking vols. XI and XIII-XIV), 8vo. Portrait frontispieces, numerous illustrations, vol. I with Mormon Pioneer Trail brochure in rear pocket. Original blue leather, stamped in silver.

LIMITED EDITION, number 46 of 55 copies. The first “Collector’s Edition,” of which 50 were for sale, EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY ITS AUTHOR: William Bagley, David L. Bigler, Roger Robin Ekins, Kenneth N. Owens, Michael W. Homer, B. Carmen, and William P. MacKinnon. With Vols IV and XII signed by both Bagley and BiglerThe “Kingdom in the West” Series explores the story of the Latter Day Saints and their history in and contributions to the Western Frontier. “The Mormons’ frontier experience, their religious vision and political ambitions will be revealed in the words of the pioneers, edited and illuminated by noted historians of the West” (preface).

[With:] Collector’s Edition Keepsakes for volumes I-X and XII. 11 volumes, 8vo. Original wrappers, stamped in silver or printed in blue. $300 - 400

536 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY] -- [SOUTHWESTERN AMERICANA]. BIEBER, Ralph B. and LeRoy Reuben HAFEN (1893-1985), editors. The Southwest Historical Series. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1931-1943.

12 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, numerous illustrations. Original maroon cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut and unopened (some minor rubbing).

FIRST EDITION of the important Southwestern Americana reference, including Index vol. XII and “The Southwest Historical Series” pamphlet from The Arthur H. Clark Company laid in. The first major series issued by the Arthur H. Clark company after their move to Glendale. In addition to southwestern travel accounts, The Southwest Historical Series also includes documents related to the Colorado Gold Rush, southern trail routes to California in 1849, and the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush. Howes S791. $400 - 600 537 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY] -- [WESTERN AMERICANA]. HAFEN, LeRoy Reuben (1893-1985) and Ann W. HAFEN (1893-1970), editors. The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954-1961.

15 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Original green cloth, spine gilt-lettered, top edges stained red, others uncut (slight wear to a few corners).

FIRST EDITIONS of this collection of primary documents related to the exploration of the American far west, including Heap’s Central Route to the Pacific, journals of the S.H. Long Expedition, diaries of W.H. Jackson, and letters of Rufus B. Sage. The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series was completed by Arthur H. Clark, Jr. and considered the largest undertaking by the Arthur H. Clark Company in the decade since the passing of its founder. Clark & Brunet 104.

538 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY] -- [MONTANA]. STUART, Granville (18341918). Forty Years on the Frontier. Paul C. PHILLIPS, editor. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925.

2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces, numerous illustrations. (Some light toning.) Original navy cloth gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light wear, corners lightly bumped).

FIRST EDITION of Stuart’s history of early Montana and who “had a knowledge of the far western frontier that was intimate and varied… he was a part of every development until its end,” (preface). Adams, Rampaging Herd 2195; Adams, Six-Guns 2160; Clark & Brunet 245; Howes S1096.

$200 - 300 539 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY]. WHITE, David A., compiler. News of the Plains and Rockies 1803-1865. Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 19962001.

8 volumes (of 9, lacking later-issued index volume IX), 8vo. Numerous maps, tables, facsimiles, and illustrations. Original tan cloth gilt, stamped in brown.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of important Western Americana reference, which includes “168 rare news reports of pioneers who epitomized the Western spirit… from the Louisiana Purchase to the end of the Civil War and the building of the Pacific railroad” (vol. I, p.[7]). $200 - 300

540 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY] -- [AMERICANA]. A group of 7 works published by the Arthur H. Clark Company, comprising:

FREDERICK, James Vincent. Ben Holladay: The Stagecoach King. 1940. -- MERRIAM, Clinton Hart. The Dawn of the World. 1910. -- RISTER, Carl Coke. The Southwestern Frontier, 1865-1881. 1928. -- ROTHERT, Otto A. The Outlaws of Cave-in Rock. 1924. -- FOREMAN, Grant. Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest. 1926. -- HALLENBECK, Cleve et al. Legends of the Spanish Southwest. 1938. -- ROBERTSON, James Alexander. Louisiana Under the Rule of Spain, France, and the United States 1785-1807. 1911. 2 volumes. -- Together, 7 works in 8 volumes, all 8vo, all illustrated, all in original cloth gilt, ALL FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine. $300 - 400 541 [ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY] -- [WESTERN AMERICANA]. A group of 7 works, comprising:

MORGAN, Dale Lowell, and Carl I. WHEAT. Jedediah Smith and his Maps of the American West. SF, 1954. LIMITED EDITION, number 26 of 530. -- DICKSON, Albert Jerome, editor. Covered Wagon Days. 1929. -- HAFEN, Le Roy R. The Overland Mail 1849-1869. 1926. Howes H11. -- PEAKE, Ora Brooks. The Colorado Range Cattle Industry. 1937. -- PELZER, Louis. The Cattlemen’s Frontier. 1936. Howes P187. -- BLAIR, Walter A. A Raft Pilot’s Log. Cleveland, 1930. -- HOUGHTON, Eliza Poor Donner. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate. 1920. Later edition. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, most published in Cleveland or Glendale by the Arthur H. Clark Company, various folio and 8vo sizes, all in original cloth gilt, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally fine. $400 - 600

542

542 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) and John BACHMAN (1790-1874). The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V. G. Audubon, 1849-1851-1854. 3 vols.

3 volumes, 4to. Half-titles with 155 hand-colored lithographed plates plates by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after original drawings by John James and John Wodehouse Audubon. (Some light spotting.) Contemporary calf gilt (some rubbing, hinges reinforced). Provenance: Bookplate.

FIRST OCTAVO EDITION. The Quadrupeds was first published between 1845 and 1848 in three folio volumes with 150 colored plates; a supplement, published in 1854, provided an additional volume of text and 6 plates. This first octavo edition, issued in response to the success of the octavo edition of The Birds of America, contains all of the original 150 plates and 5 of the 6 supplemental plates, reduced by means of the camera lucida. Bennett, p. 5; Nissen ZBI 163.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $2,500 - 3,500

543 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). PETERSON, Roger Tory and Virginia Marie PETERSON. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio Audubon’s Birds of America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1981.

Folio. Half-title, color frontispiece, profusion of color plates, numerous color illustrations. Original brown leather gilt (slight wear to extremities, a few minor scuffs to sides).

LIMITED EDITION, number 1592 of 2500 copies, SIGNED BY THE PETERSONS. Unlike early editions of Birds of America, this volume is organized in “a modern scientific classification sequence that somewhat parallels the evolutionary history of a genetically related group of organisms” (preface).

The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto $300 - 400

544 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Red-Shouldered Hawk (Plate LVI)

Falco Lineatus Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (1793-1878), on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1834, 950 x 628 mm, 2-in. tear crossing imprint repaired verso, some marginal chipping, some toning to extreme outer margin, a few spots. Low p. 54 (variant 1) $5,000 - 7,000 544

545 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Chestnut-Sided Warbler (Plate LIX)

Dendroica pensylvanica Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1835, 968 x 640 mm, one tiny marginal chip, a few mostly marginal soft stains or spots, some light toning from matting. Low p. 55 (variant 1).

Property from the Estate of Timothy Wehling, Seattle, Washington $800 - 1,200

546 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

House Wren (Plate 83)

Troglodytes aedon Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), circa 1830, on J. Whatman paper dated 1830, 960 x 636 mm, some toning, a few short marginal tears repaired, a few tiny spots. Low p. 63 (variant 2). $2,000 - 3,000

547 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Broad-winged Hawk (Plate 91)

Buteo platypterus Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), circa 1830, on J. Whatman paper dated 1830, 970 x 654 mm, 4-in. marginal tear not affecting image and some marginal chipping repaired verso, some darkening to extreme sheet edge, some mostly marginal spotting. Low p. 66 (variant 2). $5,000 - 7,000

548 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Plate CXXVII)

Pheucticus ludovicianus Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), on J. Whatman paper dated 1831, 955 x 638 mm, some toning from old matting, small surface abrasion in blank area of plate, a few pale spots. Low p. 78.

Property from the Estate of Timothy Wehling, Seattle, Washington $1,500 - 2,500

549 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Plate CXXVII)

Pheucticus ludovicianus Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), on J. Whatman paper dated 1831, 810 x 652 mm. Low p. 78. 32 x 25 3/4 inches.

Property from a Private Collector, Madison, Wisconsin $1,000 - 1,500

551 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Mountain Mocking bird. Varied Thrush (Plate CCCLXIX)

Sage Thrasher, Oreoscoptes montanus. Varied Thrush, Ixoreus naevius. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), circa 1837, on J. Whatman paper dated 1837, 698 x 584 mm. Low p. 158. Tiny abrasion to blank area in plate, crease to lower corner with small repair verso. 27 1/2 x 23 inches.

Property from a Private Collector, Madison, Wisconsin $1,000 - 1,500 550 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Great Crested Flycatcher (Plate CXXIX)

Myiarchus crinitus Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (17931878), on J. Whatman paper dated 1836, 940 x 628 mm, one tiny tear lower margin repaired. Low p. 78.

Property from the Estate of Timothy Wehling, Seattle, Washington $800 - 1,200

552 BARTRAM, William (1739-1823). Voyage dans les parties sud de l’Amerique Septentrionale; Savoir: les Carolines septentrionale et meridionale, la Georgie, les Florides orientale et occidentale, le pays des Cherokees, le vaste territoire des Muscogulges ou de la confederation Creek, et le pays des Chactaws. Translated from English into French by P.V. Benoist. Paris: Maradan, An IX [1801].

2 volumes, 8vo (211 x 138 mm). Half-titles and errata leaf in each volume; folding map “Carte des Carolines Meridionale et Septentrionale, la Georgie, la Floride, Orientale et Occidentale...” after J.B. Poirson by Blondeau, frontispiece portrait of Mico Chlucco engraved by Bovinet after Bartram, 3 engraved folding plates. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS, UNCUT (some wear, upper hinge split vol. II); modern chemises.

Second edition in French, preceded by an edition of 1799, of Bartram’s classic work on the Southern frontier. William Bartram’s father, John Bartram, was a noted botanist, and the present work details plant and animal life as well as various Indian cultures. The French editions of Bartram’s work are the only editions to include the map of the United States. Howes B-223; Sabin 3871; Stafleu & Cowan 329.

553 BATES, Katharine Lee. Autograph manuscript signed (Katharine Lee Bates”), a fair copy of the full four verses of “America the Beautiful.” N.p., n.d.

1 page, 4to, 32 lines in 4 stanzas, on her personal stationery, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Corinne Waldo (Bates’s friend, with signed note from Waldo’s granddaughter).

“O BEAUTIFUL FOR SPACIOUS SKIES, FOR AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN”

A fine copy of all four stanzas of the 1911 version of “America the Beautiful.” Bates was inspired to pen her patriotic hymn by a visit to Pike’s Peak. Bates was living in Colorado where she was teaching English at Colorado College. She would explain, “One day some of the other teachers and I decided to go on a trip to 14,000-foot Pikes Peak. We hired a prairie wagon. Near the top we had to leave the wagon and go the rest of the way on mules. I was very tired. But when I saw the view, I felt great joy. All the wonder of America seemed displayed there, with the sea-like expanse.” She returned to her room at the Antlers hotel, and wrote a few stanzas in her notebook.

The poem, which she originally entitled “Pikes Peak,” was first published with the title “America” in The Congregationalist to commemorate the fourth of July in 1893, and was amended in 1904 and again in 1911. In addition to her visit to Pike›s Peak, Bates was inspired by what she saw when she traveled from Massachusetts to Colorado: the World›s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and the wheat fields of the heartland in Kansas. Her poem was set to at least 75 different melodies, but it was Samuel A. Ward›s hymn tune which was generally considered the best setting as early as 1910. The song, often considered to be America›s «second national anthem,» is as easily recognizable as «the Star-Spangled Banner,» and several unsuccessful attempts have been made to give «America the Beautiful» legal status as a national hymn or anthem. The original manuscript is held by the Falmouth Historical Society.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $10,000 - 15,000

555 BINGHAM, George Caleb (1811-1879), after -- John Sartain, engraver

County Election. New York, 1854.

Line and mezzotint engraving, in a 19th-century butternut frame (ca 5-in. mostly closed tear in sky repaired, some minor spotting, unexamined out of frame).

Engraved in 1854 by John Sartain for the American Art Union after Bingham’s 1852 painting. $800 - 1,200 554 [BIBLE, in Dakota] -- [The Old Testament in the Dakota Language.] Woope Mowis Owa Kin Dakota Iapi En Pejuta Wicasta Kaga. The Laws Written by Moses, in the Dakota Language. New York: American Bible Society, 1872. -- Psalm Wowapi. The book of Psalms, in the Dakota Language: translated from the Hebrew by S. R. Riggs. New York: American Bible Society, 1871.

8vo. Printed in Dakota syllabics throughout. Original blind-embossed leather (rebacked preserving spine, hinges repaired).

Translation of the Old Testament by Dr. Thomas S. Williamson, “the father of the Dakota mission,” who received medical training at Yale and started his missionary work at Fort Snelling in present-day Minnesota. He remained among the Indians until the Sioux Outbreak of 1862. Translation of the Psalms by Rev. Stephen Return Riggs, who began working with the Dakota in 1837 at Lac qui Parle in present-day Minnesota. He also completed a translation of the New Testament and a Dakota grammar and dictionary.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $600 - 800

556 BOWDITCH, Nathaniel (1773-1838). The New American Practical Navigator. New York: Edmund M. Blunt for William Hooker, 1821.

8vo (220 x 126 mm). Folding engraved map frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, numerous illustrations. (Toned, some spotting or soiling.) Contemporary sheep gilt, red leather lettering-piece gilt (slight wear to extremities, some minor staining). Provenance: John B.L. Natson? (signature, 1827).

“Fifth Stereotype edition” of Bowditch’s popular navigational text, based on corrections Bowditch made for John Hamilton Moore’s The New Practical Navigator for America, first published in 1772. $200 - 300

557 BRACKENRIDGE, Henry Marie (1786-1871) Journal of a Voyage Up the River Missouri. Baltimore: Coale & Maxwell, 1816.

8vo. Publisher’s printed boards (rebacked, some dampstaining); modern leather folding box.

Second edition, second issue. In 1811 Henry Marie Brackenridge became the first recorded tourist to visit the Dakota territories. In subsequent years Brackenridge would work in various capacities, almost all of them related to land cultivation, through the Presidential administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

559 CATLIN, George (1796-1872). North American Indians, Being Letters and Notes on the manners, Customs, and Conditions... Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart and Company, 1913.

2 volumes, 8vo. 180 color-printed plates (including 3 maps, of which one folding). Publisher’s red pictorial cloth; original box with printed label (some light wear to edges with a few old repairs).

Later edition. A SUPERB COPY, RETAINING THE ORIGINAL BOX.

Catlin’s work, first published in 1841 and reprinted many times, served as “the basis for much Plains ethnology.... Today [Catlin’s] work is criticized for its unrelenting Romanticism, but it is treasured by historians and anthropologists alike, who value his attention to details and brave dedication to his task” (Tyler, Prints of the American West, pp. 46-55). See Howes C-241.

Property from the Collection of Forrest Fenn $3,000 - 4,000 558 BROWN, Samuel R. (1775-1817). The Western Gazetteer; Or Emigrant’s Directory. Auburn, NY: H. C. Southwick, 1817.

8vo (205 x 120 mm). (Some browning and staining.) Contemporary tree calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original morocco lettering-piece). Provenance: Early signature in pencil on front free endpaper.

FIRST EDITION, third issue, with 360 pages. “One of the earliest Americanprinted emigrant’s guides” (Howes B-867). Graff 433; Sabin 8558. $400 - 600

Al Capone

Lots 560-564

Chicago-area gangsters in the Prohibition era had close ties to Wisconsin – in addition to being an important avenue for bringing bootlegged liquor to Chicago and the Midwest, it was a refuge where they could escape for rest. “They love[d] to vacation in the Wisconsin Northwoods… The hoods of the Depression era enjoyed escaping to and from Wisconsin when the situation demanded… Enjoying gangster holidays of sorts in the Northwoods during the summers from 1925 to 1931 was ‘Scarface’ Al Capone whose refuge, ‘The Hideout,’ is in Couderay, Wis., 50 miles southwest of Manitowish Waters” (Chicago Tribune, “Northwoods’ Gangsters of Old: From Fishing Holes to Bullet Holes,” 2 March 1987).

William and Lowrene Sell, owners of Sell Improvement Company, a realty and insurance company, also owned and operated Sell’s Resort in Manitowish Waters from the 1920s to 1950s, where, in the early 1920s, Al Capone and his associates were regular guests. According to family lore, Capone was adored by those who knew him, and Lowrene would allow him to take over her kitchen to make his famous gravy. The Sells and Capone developed an intimate friendship over the years, as evidenced by correspondence retained by the family. Taking the Sells into his confidence, Capone maintained a correspondence with them over the years, asking for advice on finding bootleggers and real estate in the Northwoods, and even writing his friend two days after the 1925 assassination attempt to let them know he’s alright. The family kept the correspondence and related items for several generations, but offer it for sale now for the first time.

560 CAPONE, Alphonse (“Al”) (1899-1947). Autograph letter signed (as “Al Brown”), to Bill [Sells]. Chicago, IL, 14 June 1924.

1 page, 4to, on a ruled sheet, creased, some minor ink-smudging.

“I WANT YOU TO FIND THAT BOOTLEGGER...TELL HIM I WANT HIM TO COME RIGHT AWAY TO CHICAGO”

In 1923, Chicago voters elected reformer William Dever as mayor after 8 years under corrupt William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson, who was closely aligned with Johnny Torrio. Torrio decided he needed a second base of operations, and chose Cicero, a town just outside of Chicago city limits. Incumbent mayor of Cicero, Joseph Z. Klenha, facing a strong challenger in Democrat Rudolph Hurt during his reelection campaign, turned to Torrio; in return for securing his reelection, Torrio’s gang would be granted immunity from the law in Cicero.

The Chicago Outfit secured a favorable result for Mayor Klenha in the April 1 municipal elections, relying on brute force, and Capone and his men, including his brothers Frank and Ralph, roamed the streets. Chicago police officers, responding to an appeal to try to restore law and order, arrived at 22nd Street and Cicero Avenue, in the shadow of the Hawthorne Works facility of the Western Electric Company, and Al’s brother Frank Capone opened fire. The squad returned fire, killing Frank Capone, but Al Capone was uncaptured.

On April 2, the Chicago Tribune ran the headline “GUNMAN SLAIN IN VOTE RIOTS” reporting that the Cicero election had been “marked by shootings, stabbings, kidnappings, and other outlawry unsurpassed in any previous Cook County political contest.” Capone established his Cicero headquarters at the Hawthorne Inn (now demolished), located 4833 W. 22nd Street, just west of the intersection of 22nd Street and Cicero Avenue. In the aftermath, Cicero would remain the headquarters of the Outfit until after Capone was sent to prison in 1931 for tax evasion.

Cicero solidified as the new headquarters of The Chicago Outfit, Capone wrote to his friend Bill Sells: “Just a few lines to let you know that I am feeling fine... ‘Wall Bill’ I want you to find that Bootlegger that sold me the Wine and Wiskey [sic] went [sic] I was there and tell him to that I want him to come right away to Chicago because I have a big order for him, tell him to come over to 2242 Cicero Ave, Cicero, that is just a few miles outside of Chicago and when he gets there to ask for Fred Pope in case I am not there.” He includes a postscript instructing Bill to write him using Fred Pope’s name at 2242 Cicero Avenue, which was located just a half a block from the Hawthorne Inn; it was likely the location of the Hy-Ho Club, a popular haunt for John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. Capone signs the letter using his most common alias when doing business for the Outfit, “Al Brown”; he admitted at his 1931 trial that some people called him Al Brown, but that “wasn’t his name.”

CAPONE LETTERS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE: According to online records, only 4 Al Capone letters have sold at auction in at least the last 50 years, none of which was written during Prohibition or his years with the Chicago Outfit. CONSEQUENTIAL LETTERS FROM CAPONE’S PRIME PERIOD ARE VIRTUALLY UNOBTANABLE. $12,000 - 18,000

561 CAPONE, Alphonse (“Al”) (1899-1947). Autograph letter signed twice (“Al Capone”, “Al”), to Bill Sells (“Friend Sells”) Chicago, IL, 14 January 1925.

2 pages, 8vo, with original addresses envelope, creased, a few short tears.

DAYS AFTER AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE, CAPONE WRITES: “NO DOUBT YOU WILL BE SUPPRISED [sic] TO HEAR FROM ME. WELL PAL, THINGS HAVE BEEN SO DARN EXCITING”

On January 12, 1925, North Side Gang members Hymie Weiss, Bugs Moran, and Vincent Drucci, attempted to kill Al Capone at a South Side, Chicago restaurant. They fired at Capone’s car, missing Capone, but injuring his chauffeur. The ambush left him shaken but unhurt. Twelve days later, on January 24, Weiss, Moran, Drucci, and Frank Gusenberg ambushed Chicago Outfit leader Johnny Torrio, shooting him and his chauffeur, Robert Barton, several times, but as Moran was about to kill Torrio, his gun misfired. After Torrio recovered, he resigned, naming Al Capone the leader of The Chicago Outfit. He moved to Italy with his wife and mother, and on giving Capone control of the criminal empire, which grossed some $70 million per year, he told him: “It’s all yours, Al. Me? I’m quitting. It’s Europe for me.”

Following the attempt on his life, Capone writes a quick note to Bill Sells (who he calls “Friend Sells”) to let him know he’s alright: “No doubt you will be supprised [sic] to hear from me. Well Pal things have been so darn exciting that I haven’t even had time to change clothes. Well Sells old boy how are you doing and how is the Mrs and your dear little Slugger are you going to make a champion out of him if you are I’ll be his manager. And tell him I have got a big rocking horse so write me and let me know how the best way to ship it. Well Pal have no more to say only give my best of wishes to your dear wife and all of your brothers try and make a trip later. Your Pal & Friend Al Capone 7244 Prairie Ave. PS: Let me no [sic] if I can do anything for you. Al.”

CAPONE LETTERS ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE: According to online records, only 4 Al Capone letters have sold at auction in at least the last 50 years, none of which was written during Prohibition or his years with the Chicago Outfit. CONSEQUENTIAL LETTERS FROM CAPONE’S PRIME PERIOD ARE VIRTUALLY UNOBTANABLE. $10,000 - 15,000

562 CAPONE, Alphonse (“Al”) (1899-1947). Typed letter unsigned, to Bill Sells (“Friend Bill”). Philadelphia, PA, 13 December 1929.

1 page, 8vo, on an Eastern State Penitentiary form, creased, a few annotations in pencil and ink verso.

CAPONE WRITES HIS FRIEND SEEKING REAL ESTATE IN WISCONSIN: “LET ME KNOW OF SOMETHING...WITH PLENTY OF WATER, SOMETHING OUT OF THE WAY”

In May 1929, while driving to Chicago from Atlantic City, Capone stopped in Philadelphia where he was arrested in front of a movie theater for carrying a concealed, unlicensed .38 caliber revolver. Wanting to make an example of him, the Philadelphia courts sentenced him to the maximum sentence, one year, of which he served 9 months.

While serving his sentence, Capone writes to his friend in Wisconsin to see if he can help him buy some land: “ No doubt you are surprised to hear from me, because the old saying, Out of sight, Out of mind…Say Bill I am writing to you in regards to that big house that was being built on that Island of the property belonging to the Trostel people from Milwaukee...they also own a lot of land aroung [sic] that island. Please let me know if it is for Sale. If not, let me know of something else within two hundred or a thousand acres, with plenty of water, something out of the way.”

[With:] A carbon copy typescript of Bill Sell’s response, 18 December 1929. 1 page, 4to, a few stains and short tears. Sells responds to Capone’s letter: “We certainly were glad as well surprised to hear from you we have often talked about and thought of the good times we hadwhen [sic] you were up here in the woods. time [sic] sure passes by very quickly, just think Al it is five years since I saw you...As regards the Trostel property it is not for sale and could not be bought for any price. But I am enclosing a plat of a tract of land [not present] containing 2010 acres, taking in three lakes entirely...This spot is really at the trails end and the wildest country left in the North, and still it is only eleven miles from Mercer, there is a tote road running to an old set of lumber camps between Oak and Forest lakes, an ideal location good drinking water, good shore lines... I can get this entire tract for you at a price as low as $30.00 per acre which is a real buy.”

In the 1920s and ‘30s, Capone and other members of the mob sought property in Wisconsin, where it was easier to receive bootlegged alcohol from Canada by seaplane, which could then be easily transported by car into Illinois and elsewhere. Al Capone’s brother Ralph purchased a home in Wisconsin in the 1930s, and later managed a hotel (The Rex Hotel) and tavern (Billy’s Bar) in Mercer, Wisconsin. Al Capone’s supposed residence in Couderay, Wisconsin, “The Hideout,” was located on some 400 acres with frontage on a 40-acre lake; it was reportedly surrounded by 18-inch stone walls, and included guard towers along the lake where he would receive whisky deliveries from Canada.

CAPONE LETTERS OF ANY KIND ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE: although unsigned, this transmitted letter from prison is nonetheless significant in providing insight into Capone’s business operations while incarcerated. $3,000 - 4,000

564

563 CAPONE, Alphonse (“Al”) (1899-1947). An archive of ephemera, including photographs, original negatives, and related matchbooks.

A matchbook from Jim Colosimo’s Cafe, listing Al Capone as manager (“A. Capone, Manager”). Advertising The Cats Pajamas starting Al Jolson; Texas Guinan; Isham Jones; and the Ragtime Band. With an advertisement on the back: “vote for “Big Bill” Thompson.” William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson is the most recent Republican to have served as Mayor of Chicago; his open alliance with Capone earned him a reputation as one of the most unethical mayors in American history. Capone’s support was pivotal to Thompson’s campaign to return to the Mayor’s office in 1927.

A group of modern reprints from original negatives of photographs showing Capone and his associations horsing around with what appears to be a .41 Colt revolver at the Sell’s Resort in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin.

[Also with:] “Former Trostel Estate.” Upper half only of a printed map of the Former Trostel Estate, located along the Wisconsin and Michigan border. With annotations in ballpoint pen presumably in the hand of Bill Sells, and with lots colored in red and blue crayon indicating the ownership of Bill Sell and others, with lines in ballpoint pen delineating private roads. (See lot 560.) -- A matchbook, from Club Carnival, Hurley, Wisconsin. Reportedly, in the 1920s, Hurley was known as a town that ignored prohibition, and Silver Street gained notoriety. Capone and other gangsters were known to frequent establishments there. -- A collection of 20th-century newspaper articles and clippings relating to Capone. $800 - 1,200

.41 LC. 6” barrel length. SN: 75042. Double-action swing-out cylinder revolver with topstrap notch and front blade sights. Item displays a blued metal finish with polished hammer and trigger. Black hard rubber grips displaying “{Rampant Colt}” logos mounted to square butt frame without lanyard loop. The same logo within a circle is stamped to the rear left frame. Barrel marks include “DA 41” caliber marking to left barrel and the two-line patent and address mark to top reading, “COLT’S PT. F.A. MFG. CO. HARTFORD CT. U.S.A./PATENTED AUG. 5. 1884 NOV 6. 88. MAR. 5. 95,”. Assembly number “862” stamped to the cylinder area with rear of cylinder marked “15” beneath the star extractor. Serial number indicates item manufactured in 1896.

A .41 COLT REPORTEDLY USED BY AL CAPONE

“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word” (Al Capone).

Al Capone’s friendship with Bill and Lowrene Sell developed during his vacations to Sell’s Resort in Manitowish Waters in the 1920s. According to family history and stories from Bill and Lowrene, Capone brought a .41 Colt with him during one visit, and gave it to Bill to hold on to in case he should need it. As evidenced by the letters in the family’s collection, the Sells developed a close relationship with Capone: Bill Sells tried to help Capone find real estate in the Northwoods, and apparently introduced Capone to a bootlegger. For several years, Capone spent a great deal of leisure time at the Sells resort.

Accompanying the gun are several modern reprints of photographs also from negatives in the family’s collection showing Capone, his associates, and a female companion, fooling around at the Sell’s resort with what appears to be a .41 Colt. The gun remained in a safe with other Capone material at the Sell’s Resort in Manitowish Waters for several decades, and has been in the family since.

Provenance: Al Capone, by repute, given to Bill and Lowrene Sell; to present owner.

[Please note that this item is located on our Cincinnati premises. Hindman complies with all local, state, and federal firearms regulations in regards to the storage and shipment of firearms.] $5,000 - 7,000

565 [CAPONE, Alphonse (“Al”)] -- [NESS, Eliot (19031957)]. Partial draft typescript detailing Eliot Ness’s recollections of his time with “The Untouchables” as dictated to his secretary Miss Janet E. Boyd (1935-), [1956].

11 typed pages with holograph emendations in a secretarial hand, light toning and a few small tears, staple holes in upper left corner. Provenance: Janet E. Boyd, by descent to present owner.

PERHAPS THE EARLIEST VERSION OF ELIOT NESS’S RECOLLECTIONS WHICH LATER FORMED THE BASIS OF OSCAR FRALEY’S THE UNTOUCHABLES

The Eliot Ness Papers held in Cleveland’s Western Reserve Historical Society contain a 21pp typescript detailing Ness’s career in Chicago which is similar to the partial typescript offered here though not an exact copy. The WRHS copy appears to be a revised, later version.

In late 1955, Miss Janet E. Boyd of Parma, Ohio, responded to an ad in the Cleveland Plain Dealer seeking an applicant for a position with The Fidelity Check Corporation and Guaranty Paper Corporation. After initial employment with the CEO of the company, she soon assumed the role of secretary to Eliot Ness who was brought on to serve as president of the subsidiary corporations. According to Boyd’s oral history (oral history included in the lot), she accompanied Ness on his earliest business trips to and from Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. Predominantly traveling via train, Ness “came up with the idea of dictating to me on the train...the story of when he was with the government....” Taking shorthand while riding in the dining car, Boyd would then return to their office and type Ness’s recollections for his later review. After several months, Ness relocated to Coudersport, Pennsylvania, where he would embark on a collaboration with reporter Oscar Fraley, providing Fraley with a typescript of his recollections upon which the writer would base his 1957 best-selling book The Untouchables. He died of a heart attack in May 1957, just before publication of the book that would immortalize his image as the incorruptible crimefighter who helped topple Al Capone and his crime syndicate.

[With:] Additional correspondence related to Miss Janet E. Boyd and documenting her employment with North Ridge Industrial Corporation of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, and a small archive of related materials (complete list available on request). $2,000 - 3,000

566 CARVER, Jonathan (1732-1780). Three Years Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America....Philadelphia: Key & Simpson, 1796.

8vo (212 x 120 mm). 28pp. subscriber’s names at end. (Some spotting and staining.) 20th-century half green morocco (touch of wear to a few corners). Provenance: George: (faint signature on title partially effaced).

Seventh edition of Carver’s “valuable work...[which] attracted much attention from its description of parts near to the supposed North-West Passage” (Lowndes). Sabin 11185.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $200 - 300

568 [CHICAGO]. DANFORTH, S. Chester. A suite of 3 signed etchings.

Framed etchings depicting various Chicago landmarks including Admiral Richard Byrd’s South Pole flagship City of New York moored outside of the Tribune building for the 1933 World’s Fair, a view of the Chicago River with the Tribune Tower and Wrigley Building in the background, and a view of the Chicago Water Tower. -- Together, 3 etchings matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), ALL SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY DANFORTH in the lower margin, condition generally very fine. $300 - 500 569 [CHICAGO]. Jevne & Almini, Chicago Illustrated, 1866 33 prints (5? duplicates) $3,000 - 5,000

567 [CHICAGO]. ARNOLD, Bion J. (1861-1942). Cover title: Maps on the Chicago Transportation Problem. Chicago: n.p., 1902.

8vo. 14 folding maps, many with hand coloring. (Ca 5-in. tear to first map, a few maps with other short tears to folds.) Original green cloth gilt (some very slight rubbing to extremities).

FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION COPY with his compliments slip tipped in. This portfolio was published to accompany a report issued by the local transportation company of the Chicago City Council. Arnold developed a new method to convert alternating current from power plants to direct current in substations for the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway. He later assisted the New York Central Railroad and the Hudson River Railroad in converting their lines leading into Grand Central Terminal.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400

570 [CHICAGO]. VARIN, Raoul. A suite of 4 works depicting 19th century Chicago, including:

A Bird’s Eye View of Lake Shore Drive Chicago 1889. -- Michigan Avenue Looking North 1863 with a View of Michigan Terrace. -- Michigan Avenue Chicago Looking South at Van Buren Street 1889. -- Rush Street Bridge Chicago 1863.

Together, 4 works, none examined out of frame, all SIGNED BY ARTIST, all published by A. Ackerman & Son Co. 1929-1932, condition generally very fine.

$300 - 500

572 CLARK, Daniel. Proofs of the Corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson, and of His Connexion with Aaron Burr, with a Full Refutation of His Slanderous Allegations in Relation to the Character of the Principal Witness Against Him. Philadelphia: Wm. Hall, Jun. & Geo. W. Pierie, 1809.

8vo (214 x 123 mm). (Some browning and spotting). Contemporary half morocco gilt (some light rubbing and wear). Provenance: Dr. Edward Livingston (engraved bookplate, see below).

FIRST EDITION of Clark’s work, which published for the first time the text of documents demonstrating that the leader of America’s army was a secret Spanish agent. One of Wilkinson’s New Orleans associates, “Clark... broke with Wilkinson, with whom he had been intimate, and in this book gives much evidence of the General’s treachery” (Streeter Sale III:1694). Wilkinson was Burr’s co-conspirator in the so-called “Burr Conspiracy,” Burr’s attempt to detach the Western states and the Louisiana territory from the Union.

Edward Livingston acted simultaneously as U. S. Attorney for New York and the mayor of New York City from 1801-1803. He moved to New Orleans in 1804, and was falsely accused of abetting Aaron Burr in the Burr Conspiracy. He no sooner cleared himself of the charges before he was brought into controversy alongside President Jefferson over land rights in New Orleans. Livingston later organized the people of Louisiana in their resistance to the British invasion of 1814, and served as Andrew Jackson’s aide-de-camp in the Battle of New Orleans. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Howes C-431; Sabin 13265. $400 - 600 571 [CHICAGO]. SARG, Anthony Frederick (1880-1942). Century of Progress 1833-1933. A Geographical Map of the Century of Progress Exposition Held in Chicago, Illinois 1933. Chicago: The Lakeside Press for the Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation, 1933.

Pictorial side-by-side map “printed in watercolors” depicting the south and north ends of the Columbian Exposition, 1420 x 640 mm, mounted on a larger linen-backed sheet.

Sarg’s map depicts the Midway of the World’s Fair in the south, and the lagoon to the north. Included are the Goodyear Blimp, the General Motors pavilion, the Adler Planetarium, the Aquarium, the Field Museum, and Soldier Field, with cartoon-like fish and an octopus. Sarg shows visitors enjoying the fair, and highlights rickshaws and a fair patron with sore so-called “Exposition Feet.” A FINE BRIGHT EXAMPLE. $1,000 - 1,500

573 [WILKINSON, James, General]. Public Plunder. Documents Presented to Congress by the Committee appointed to inquire whether any Advances of MONEY have been made to the Commander in Chief of the Army, by the Department of War, contrary to Law; and if any, to what amount. With a few Remarks. Boston? 1809?

16pp. (Dampstaining, spotting.) Sewn into modern wrappers (repairs to folds).

Presumed FIRST EDITION. The anonymous author, taunting the Jeffersonians for their hypocrisy, presents documents relating to Wilkinson’s activities at Natchitoches, New Orleans. Wilkinson is singled out for receiving an illegal payment -- by “our Jeffersonian friends of economy” -- of more than $50,000 to General Wilkinson, “not only without any appropriation, but in direct violation of the express and formal terms of an Act of Congress, and with full notice of the illegality.” Wilkinson was eventually court-martialed and subjected to congressional inquiries for his suspicious activities. RARE: We trace no copy at auction.

$300 - 400

574

576 574 COGHLAN, Margaret (b. 1763). Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, (Daughter of the Late Major Moncrieffe,) Written by Herself... New York: T. & J. Swords for J. Fellows, 1795.

12mo (172 x 99 mm). Woodcut device at end. (Some spotting and soiling.) Late 19thcentury half morocco (some rubbing). Provenance: J. F. (early signature on title); James M. Bailey (signature, July 1877).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, WITH THE RARE PREFACE, comprising pp.iii-iv, which was suppressed and is frequently lacking. Finding herself alone behind Rebel lines in 1776 in New York City, Margaret Moncrieffe Coghlan sought protection among the Continental Army’s most senior officers, where she entered into a relationship with Aaron Burr. On her return to the British Army lines, her father, Major Moncrieffe, forced the 14-year-old to marry British Lieutenant John Coghlan. She despised him, and they soon separated. She suffered financial, legal and social problems throughout her life. Her memoir, in which she shares her political opinions, provides a glimpse into the plight of 18-th century women. Sabin 14208. $500 - 700

575 [COLONIAL HISTORY]. A group of 2 early works of Colonial American history, comprising:

COXE, Tench. A View of the United States of America in a Series of Papers. Philadelphia: William Hall, 1794. Includes tables relating to shipping and population. Later beige cloth gilt. -- MARSHALL, John. A History of the Colonies Planted By the English on the Continent of North America. Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1824. Contemporary calf. -- Together, 2 works in 2 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally very good.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $200 - 300

576 COX, Ross (1793-1853). The Columbia River; or, Scenes and Adventures During a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains, among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together with a Journey Across the American Continent. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832.

2 volumes, 8vo (206 x 133 mm). (Some light spotting.) Contemporary marbled boards with modern calf rebacking (some rubbing).

Second London edition of Cox’s narrative, which gives “an excellent firsthand account of the fur trade and of the Indian tribes in Montana, Idaho, and eastern Washington with whom the fur traders dealt and sometimes fought. While Cox was making this journey the tension between Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Companies had become very acute and he gives a good account of their rivalry” (Streeter, first edition). The first edition was published London 1831, and was followed by an American edition of the same year. Howes C-822; Sabin 17267; Wagner-Camp 43:3.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $400 - 600

577 [CRAMER, Zadok (1773-1813)]. The Navigator, containing Directions for Navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers...Containing an Account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, as Discovered by the voyage under Capts. Lewis and Clark. Pittsburgh: Cramer & Spear, 1821.

12mo (176 x 103 mm). 28 woodcut maps of rivers and creeks, including one plan entitled “Fall of Ohio.” (Some dampstaining and browning, portion of fore-edge of N6 torn away affecting portions of map and text.) Original boards, old leather backing (early rustic stitch repair to spine on front board, some overall wear). Provenance: John W. Sterne (signature, rear flyleaf).

Eleventh edition of Cramer’s navigational guide to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the “most widely used guide to western waters in the early period, both before and after the application of steam in 1807” (Howes). the Navigator first included an account of the discoveries of Lewis and Clark in the sixth edition of 1808, present also in this edition. The Appendix includes a summary of Lewis and Clark’s discoveries based on a letter written by William Clark to his brother in Louisville (see Wagner-Camp 4). According to Graff, no copies of the first two editions of the Navigator are known. See Graff 2954; see Howes C-855; see Literature of the Lewis & Clark Expedition pp.89-94; Sabin 17386. $600 - 800

577A [CREVECOEUR, Michel- Guillaume St. Jean de]. Letters from an American Farmer; Describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, Not Generally Known; and Conveying Some Idea of the Late and Present Interior Circumstances of the British Colonies in North America. London: Thomas Davies & Lockyer Davis, 1782.

8vo (210 x 124 mm). 2-page publisher’s advertisements at end. 2 engraved folding maps of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard. (Some pale spotting.) Modern quarter calf.

FIRST EDITION OF A WORK WHICH “HAD A GREATER INFLUENCE IN ATTRACTING ITS READERS TO AMERICA THAN ANY OTHER BOOK OF THE PERIOD” (Vail). The maps provide the first detailed descriptions of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. “The author was a native of Normandy, of noble birth, and came to the British Colonies at the age of sixteen. Having established himself on a farm near the frontier, he became one of the first victims of the War of Independence, the Indian allies of Great Britain setting fire and destroying his property. He wrote his letters during the different epochs of the war, in English. Returning to France, he translated them into French” (Sabin 17496). Howes C-883 (“As literature unexcelled by an American work of the eighteenth century”); Streeter II:711 (“These are a series of twelve charming letters, describing the life in America, four of them about Nantucket, and one about Martha’s Vineyard and the Whale Fishery”); Vail 674. $2,000 - 3,000

578 CREVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St. Jean de (1735-1813). Lettres d’un Cultivateur Americain. Paris: Cuchet, 1787.

3 volumes, 8vo (188 x 125 mm). Engraved title-pages, 4 engraved plates (including frontispiece, one folding). (Lacking engraved folding maps, some soiling or staining, some unidentified contemporary annotations or signatures, some wormholing to a few leaves.) Contemporary half calf gilt, vol. I: plain boards, edges sprinkled red, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt; vols. II and III: marbled boards (worn, some soiling, tiny wormhole to vol. I rear cover lower corner).

Second French Edition and considered the “best French edition” and “most complete of all editions” (Howes). The present edition is also “greatly enlarged, the whole of the third volume being added” (Sabin). First published in English in 1782, Crevecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer was one of the first works to explain a version of a unified American identity through descriptions of American frontier life to Europeans life in rather than comparing the identifies of each colony. Howes C883; Sabin 17495.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $500 - 700

579 CRONAU, Rudolf Daniel Ludwig (1855-1939). Von Wunderland zu Wunderland Landschafts- und Lebensbilder aus den Staaten und Territorien der Union. Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1886.

One volume only (of 2, lacking Vol. II), folio (450 x 307 mm). 25 mounted collotype plates bound in on stubs, text leaves disbound but laid in. (Some mostly marginal chipping.) Original light gray pictorial cloth gilt laid over modern cloth (some soiling). Provenance: D.? F.? Knapp (gift inscription from H. Virchow, January 12 1886).

FIRST EDITION, inducing views of the American West and portraits of American Indians. Cronau was sent to America as a correspondent for German newspaper Die Gartenlaube; he published his series of drawings and notes on his return to Germany.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $500 - 700

581 CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After George H. Durrie

Winter in the Country. The Old Grist Mill, 1862. (G.7275)

Large-format lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in white, on wove paper, visible area 21 x 28 1/4 in. (visible margin 1-2 1/4-in.), matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Sold The Old Print Shop (with label). A BRIGHT EXAMPLE.

This example exhibited, “Currier & Ives: Best Fifty Revisited,” 8 June to 16 September 1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, with label.

Property from a Private Collection $800 - 1,200 580 CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After George H. Durrie

New England Winter Scene, 1861. (G.4801)

Large-format lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in gum arabic, on wove paper, visible area 18 3/4 x 25 1/2 in. (visible margin 1-1 1/2-in.), matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some very pale spotting, minor marginal surface abrasion. Provenance: Sold The Old Print Shop (with label).

This example exhibited, “Currier & Ives: Best Fifty Revisited,” 8 June to 16 September 1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, with label.

Property from a Private Collection $1,000 - 1,500

582 CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After George H. Durrie

Winter in the Country. A Cold Morning, 1864. (G.7273)

Large-format lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in white, on wove paper, visible area 21 x 28 1/4 in. (visible margin 1/2-1 3/4-in.), matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Sold The Old Print Shop (with label). A BRIGHT EXAMPLE.

This example exhibited, “Currier & Ives: Best Fifty Revisited,” 8 June to 16 September 1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, with remnant of label.

Property from a Private Collection $1,000 - 1,500

583 CURRIER and IVES, publishers

The Great Race on the Mississippi. From New Orleans to St. Louis..., 1870. (G.2864)

Large-format lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in gum arabic, on wove paper, visible area 22 1/2 x 31 1/4 in. (visible margin 1-2 3/4-in.), matted and framed in an old frame (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Sold The Old Print Shop (with label).

Property from a Private Collection $500 - 700

584 CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After L. Maurer

Camping Out. “Some of the Right Sort.”, 1856 (G.0867).

Large-format lithograph with hand-coloring heightened in gum arabic, on wove paper, visible area 21 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (visible margin 3/4-1-in.), matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Provenance: Sold The Old Print Shop (with label). A BRIGHT EXAMPLE.

Property from a Private Collection $500 - 700

585 CURRIER and IVES, publishers -- After Arthur F. Tait

American Field Sports. “Flush’d,” 1857 (G.0162).

Large-format lithography with hand-coloring on wove paper, visible area 20 3/4 x 28-in. (visible margin 5/8 - 3/4-in.), some toning and some minor staining, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). $400 - 600

586 [WINTER SCENES] -- CURRIER and IVES, publishers

Winter Pastime, 1855. (G.7281) -- Winter Morning in the Country, 1873. (G.7280) -- Trotters on the Snow, n.d. (G.6648)

3 lithographs with hand-coloring on wove paper, comprising one mediumformat, and 2 small-format, visible area 13 1/2 x 17 1/4-in. or smaller, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), all sold The Old Print Shop with labels. BRIGHT EXAMPLES.

Property from a Private Collection $400 - 600

587 [HUDSON RIVER] -- CURRIER and IVES, publishers

The Hudson, From West Point. Grounds of the U. S. Military Academy, 1862. (G.3216) -- Hudson River-Crow Nest, n.d. (G.3222)

2 lithographs with hand-coloring on wove paper, comprising one mediumformat, and one small-format, visible area 14 3/4 x 18 1/2-in. or smaller, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), one with a few spots, both sold The Old Print Shop with labels.

Property from a Private Collection $500 - 700

588 [NEW YORK SCENES] -- CURRIER and IVES, publishers

City of New York and Environs, 1875. (G.1226). -- The Narrows, New York Bay. From Staten Island, n.d. (G.4760).

2 small-format lithographs with hand-coloring on wove-paper, 10 /8 x 14 1/16-in. or smaller, matted, some light soiling or toning, both with some tears and repairs verso. $300 - 400

589 [MISSISSIPPI RIVER] -- CURRIER and IVES, publishers

Floating Down to Market, 1870. (G.2183) -- A Home on the Mississippi, 1871. (G.3109).

2 small-format lithographs with hand coloring on wove paper, visible area 10 1/2 x 13 1/2-in. or smaller, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), one with marginal surface abrasion and marginal tear repaired, both sold The Old Print Shop with labels.

Property from a Private Collection $500 - 700

590 [LANDSCAPE SCENES] -- CURRIER & IVES

The Katz-Kills in Winter. Bastion Falls, n.d. (G.3592). -- Yo-semite Falls. California, n.d. (G.7384).

2 small-format lithographs with hand-coloring on wove paper, visible area 11 1/2 x 15 1/4-in or smaller, one matted, both framed (unexamined out of frame), both with toning, one with staining to upper portion affecting image. $300 - 400

591 [HUNTING & SPORTING SCENES] -- CURRIER and IVES, publishers

Deer Shooting. In the Northern Woods, n.d. (G.1672). -- And another copy. -- Partridge Shooting, No. 174, 1855. (G.5113). -- Partridge Shooting, 1870. (G. 5115). -- Wild Duck Shooting. On the Wing, 1870. (G.7213). -- The Rubber. “Put to His Trumps,” n.d. (G.5687).

6 lithographs with hand-coloring on wove paper, comprising one large-format, and 5 small-format, one heightened in gum arabic, visible area 26 3/8 x 21 1/8-in. or smaller, all matted, one framed (unexamined out of frame), some toning, a few with stab-holes, a few with some minor marginal chipping or staining, a few with soiling, a few with tear repairs or mount remnants verso. $400 - 600

592 [CURRIER and IVES, publishers]. A group of 42 reference works, including: 589

590

RAWLS, Walton. The Great Book of Currier & Ives’ America. 1979. -- PETERS, Harry T. Currier & Ives Printmakers to the American People. 1942. -- PETERS, Harry T. California on Stone. 1935. -- PETERS, Fred. J., compiler. Railroad Indian and Pioneer Prints. 1930. -- BLAND, Jane Cooper. Currier & Ives a Manual for Collectors. 1931. -- SIMKIN, Colin. Currier and Ives’ America. 1952. -- EBERT, John and Katherine EBERT. Old American Prints for Collectors. 1974. SIGNED BY BOTH EBERTS. -- BERKOFF, Marshall R., editor. Currier & Ives the New Best 50. N.p., 1991. LIMITED EDITION, 26 of 2,000, INITIALED. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED WITH AN ALS LAID IN. -- Currier & Ives Print Portfolio Series. Maplewood, NJ, [1976]. 6 volumes. -- WEAVER, Warren A. Lithographs of N. Currier and Currier & Ives. 1925. -- SCHURRE, Jacques. Currier & Ives Prints. 1984. Reprint. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- SLOBODY, Evelyn et al. Currier & Ives Present Trotting. 1984. LIMITED EDITION, 528 of 2500 , SIGNED BY ALL 3 AUTHORS. -- And 30 others. Together, 42 works in 48 volumes, most published in New York or Garden City, NY, various folio, 4to, 8vo, and smaller sizes, all in original bindings, some with dust jackets, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request. $200 - 300

593 [DAKOTAS -- KNIGHTS TEMPLAR]. A group of 2 volumes of proceedings of the Grand Commandery. comprising:

Proceedings of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar of the Territory of Dakota. [N.p.]: Published by Order of the Grand Commandery, 18841889. Six volumes in one. Contemporary half calf. -- Proceedings of the Grand Commandery of the Knights Templar of the Territory of Dakota. [N.p.]: Published by Order of the Grand Commandery, 1884-1893. Ten volumes in one. Contemporary half calf. -- Together, two volumes comprising 16 works, 8vo, condition generally fine. Provenance: Scottish Rite Cathedral Association Library.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

594A [DARROW, Clarence (1857-1938)] -- [LEOPOLD & LOEB]. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1899.

12mo. Title and marginal manicules printed in red, several printed underlinings in-text. (Browned, leaves brittle). Original salmon cloth (worn, hinges starting). Provenance: Clarence Darrow (bookplate): Nathan Leopold Jr. (1904-1971), criminal involved in the famous Leopold and Loeb case (gift inscription).

INSCRIBED BY CLARENCE DARROW TO HIS CLIENT, NATHAN LEOPOLD, JR.: “To Nathan Leopold Jr. from a friend. ‘God help you.’

Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, wealthy University of Chicago students, were charged with the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. They believed that their superior intellect would allow them to commit the “perfect crime” without consequences; the murder was characterized at the time as the “crime of the century.”

They retained the counsel of renowned criminal defense attorney Clarence Darrow, whose 12-hour summation at their sentencing hearing was notable for its criticism of capital punishment as retributive, rather than transformative, justice. Darrow’s conclusion of the hearing is considered to be the finest speech of his career. Ultimately, Leopold and Loeb were sentenced to life in prison plus 99 years. The New Testament is market with printed underlinings of passages of redemption. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. 594 [DAKOTAS]. MYERS, Frank (1833-1922). Soldiering in Dakota, Among the Indians in 1863-4-5. Pierre, SD: State Historical Society, 1938.

8vo. Publisher’s printed wraps (toning); slipcase.

Facsimile edition, reprinting the rare first edition of 1888. On October 15, 1862, Myers enlisted with Company E, 6th Iowa Cavalry. Expecting to be sent south, he was instead ordered to report to the Dakota Territory; he writes about his time in the Dakota territory and the warfare that occurred following the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota in 1862.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

595 DARROW, Clarence (1857-1938). A collection of works from Darrow’s library, some with presentation inscriptions, most with bookplates, and with several copies of his own works, including:

LIEB, Hermann. The Protective Tariff. What it Does for Us!. Chicago et al: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY LIEB. -- McINTOSH, William. Sermons from a Philistine Pulpit. East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1898. PRESENATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ELBERT HUBBARD. -- McGAFFEY, Ernest. Poems of the Town. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1901. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by McGaffey. -- SALT, Henry S. Cum Grano. Berkeley Heights, NJ: The Oriole Press, 1931. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED by Joseph Ishill, typsetter for The Oriole Press. -- CALVERTON, V. F. The Passing of the Gods. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CALVERTON. -- DARROW. A Persian Pearl. East Aurora, NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1899. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM DARROW to Gertrude Bassier?. -- DARROW. The Skeleton in the Closet. Riverside, CT: Frederick C. Bursch, 1914. With Darrow’s bookplate. -- DARROW. An Eye for an Eye. New York: Duffield & Co., 1920. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM DARROW to Fay Lenin. -- With 8 works in 9 volumes with Darrow’s bookplate, with 18 works in 18 volumes by Darrow, and with 13 works in 15 volumes. Together, 47 works in 50 volumes, various sizes

Clarence Darrow, defense attorney, leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and civil libertarian, most notably provided the defense for John T. Scopes (opposing William Jennings Bryan), Leopold and Loeb, and Ossian Sweet.

596 DAVIDSON, George (1825-1911). Pacific Coast: Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1869. 597 DIXON, George, Captain. (1755?-1800). A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America.... London: Geo. Goulding, 1789.

8vo (264 x 176 mm). 32 wood-engraved plates (3 folding); 262pp. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on cover and spine (some wear to joints and spine ends, some minor staining, corners bumped). Provenance: S. W. Bill (signature in pencil on flyleaf).

Third edition of Davidson’s important West Coast sailing guide, preceded by earlier appearances as appendices to various U. S. Coast Survey annual reports. From 1850 through 1857, Davidson headed a team tasked with providing an accurate survey of the Pacific Coast. His survey was first published in 1853 as the Directory for the Pacific Coast of the United States.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $300 - 400

598 DUNN, John (fl. 1845). History of the Oregon Territory and British NorthAmerican Fur Trade; with An Account of the Habits and Customs of the Principal Native Tribes on the Northern Continent. London: Edwards and Hughes, 1844. 4to (271 x 210 mm). 17 engraved plates (3 folding); 5 engraved folding maps (the large map with tear crossing image repaired verso). (One plate with tear, some spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf (worn, stained). Provenance: 18th-century annotations to a few leaves; armorial bookplate obscured; Oliver (bookplate on rear pastedown)

Second edition of this account of the Pacific Northwest, a voyage undertaken by the newly-formed King George’s Sound Company to establish a fur trade between the northwest American coast and China. The text of Dixon’s voyage is by William Beresford, the supercargo aboard the Queen Charlotte, written in the form of letters to a friend in London, but edited by Dixon who added the introduction, the appendix, and the maps. This copy with contemporary annotations, possibly by a member of the expedition, on 3 leaves discussing the positions of the voyages led by La Perouse and Mears, and later discussing a 1788 encounter: “August 1788 - Capt. Duncan met Capt. Mears and Capt D. said that Capt. Dixon would give him no stores, wh. the sloop (only 50 tons) was much in want of and same... The voyage of the Princess Royal 50 tons from England round the Horn to Vancouver was very wonderful.” Cox II: 27-28; Forbes 161; Hill 117; Howes D-365; LadaMocarski 43; Sabin 20364; Streeter VI: 3484; Wickersham 6574.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $500 - 700

602 FEATHERSTONHAUGH, George W. (1780-1866). A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay Sotor; With an Account of the Lead and Gold Deposits in Wisconsin; Of the Gold Region in the Cherokee country; And Sketches of Popular Manners... London: Richard Bentley, 1847.

8vo (223 x 137 mm). Lithographed folding map of the Oregon Territory. (Short tear to stub of map, some minor spotting.) Original blue-gray blindstamped cloth, spine gilt-lettered (corners and extremities slightly bumped, small separation to spine end at foot). Provenance: W. A. Shaw (signature, 1844, on title); Charles Durham (armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, “practically a history of the Hudson’s Bay Co. operations in the North-west; by one of their men” (Howes). The map depicts Oregon Territory, and New Caledonia and New Hanover (present-day British Columbia). Included at the end are specimens of the Millbank and Chinook languages. Graff 1182; Howes D-577; Wagner-Camp 106:1; Wheat Transmississippi West 477.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $500 - 700 2 volumes, 8vo (212 x 133 mm). 2 lithographed frontispieces; 2 lithographed folding maps. (Short tears to folds of maps.) Contemporary half calf gilt (rebacked preserving original spines, upper cover to vol. I detached, some light rubbing).

FIRST EDITION in which Featherstonhaugh, a geologist, writes in diary form, focusing his intense observation on the central states of the U. S. He focuses in particular on the Native Americans, about whom he contributes useful information. He began his journey at Washington, D.C. and traveled via Pittsburgh and Cleveland before arriving at Detroit. He navigated by canoe on Lake Huron and Lake Michigan to Mackinac and Green Bay, and from there via the Fox and Mississippi Rivers to Saint Anthony and Fort Snelling. The party negotiated the Minnesota River as far as Lake Traverse on the Dakota border, before returning to Galena, and St. Louis and then traveling through Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Howes F-67; Sabin 23959.

603 FISHER, William. An Interesting Account of the Voyages and Travels of Captains Lewis and Clark. Baltimore: Anthony Miltenberger, [1812].

12mo (168 x 93 mm). 2 woodcut portraits depicting Lewis and Clark. (Without the 4 plates showing views as often, publication year on title-page effaced, browning and spotting, a few leaves with tears, a few lower margins shaved.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (some wear, small tear to head of spine).

Counterfeit edition, one of several Lewis and Clark “Apocrypha” editions. “The preparation of Lewis and Clark’s authorized account of their expedition encountered a series of delays and the account was not complete and published until eight years after their return. in the meantime, curiosity continued unabated about the deeds of the ‘Corps of Discovery,’ the mysterious Rocky Mountains, and the tribes of Indians inhabiting the lands between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean” (Wagner-Camp p.46). Wagner-Camp, Sabin and Howes only call for two portraits in this edition, although copies of this edition appear with 4 additional views. Howes F-153a; Sabin 24508; Wagner-Camp 8:5.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $600 - 800

604 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Autograph note signed (“B Franklin”), to Col. Nathaniel Sparhawk. Philadelphia, 15 June 1748.

1 page, 8vo, creased with minor separations and tiny losses along folds, matted and framed. Provenance: Tobias Ham Miller; by descent to Helen Pearson; acquired from her estate by Joseph W. P. Frost.

In full: “I receiv’d yours per Mr. Baynton with the Money as therein specified; and have since deliver’d it to Mr. Warren (who is now here) with Mr. Pepperill’s Letter; of which please advise Mr. Pepperill. I am Sir, Your most humble Servant.” Franklin writes Nathaniel Sparhawk (17151776), merchant at Portsmouth and Boston and son-in-law of Sir William Pepperell, regarding funds to be sent to Louisbourg on behalf of the Province of Pennsylvania, of which Franklin is the Treasurer. “Baynton” is likely Philadelphia merchant John Baynton (1726-1773), and “Mr. Pepperill” is likely Andrew Pepperrell, business partner of his father Sir William. According to the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, “Warren” has not been identified, but a typescript note by a previous owner of the document identifies him as Admiral Sir Peter Warren, first governor of Louisbourg under English command.

According to the previous owner’s account, Tobias Ham Miller had this note attached to the first printing press in New Hampshire, which had been bought by Fowle from James Franklin, Benjamin Franklin’s brother. That press was apparently the press on which Franklin received his printing apprenticeship, and the letter was obtained by Miller from the Sparhawk or Pepperrell mansion while he was minister of the Congregational Church at Kittery Point ca 1838. Published in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin.

Property from the Frost Family Collection, New Hampshire $8,000 - 12,000

605 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). Manuscript document signed (“B. Franklin”), as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 9 May 1787, countersigned by James Trimble for John Armstrong, secretary.

1 page, oblong folio, 345 x 397 mm, on vellum, with paper seal, docketed and additionally sealed verso, creased from folding, some offsetting and staining, portion of paper seal lacking.

A land grant issuing 377 1/4 acres of land in Bedford County to Ranney Breathed, signed by Franklin as President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, a position analogous to governor. Acknowledging payment and granting a tract of land known as “Ranney’s Fancy,” situated on both sides of to the south branch of Brush Creek in Providence Township, Bedford County, adjacent to lands owned by Peter Smith and George Breathed; recorded in the Rolls Office.

Less than a week after signing this land grant, Franklin would attend the Constitutional Convention as delegate, where his closing speech would become “the most effective propaganda for [the Constitution’s] ratification. Franklin’s presence and argument contributed more than any other element to harmonize the delegates and to persuade thirty-nine of the forty-two members present to sign the formal document” (ANB). $5,000 - 7,000

606 FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706-1790). The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1898.

8vo. Numerous plates. Red crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, BY THE ROWFANT BINDERY (touch of rubbing to spine ends). Provenance: Edwin Babcock Holden (1861-1906), former President of the Grolier Club, member of the Rowfant Club (bookplate).

LIMITED EDITION, number 8 of 150 copies. With an introduction by Liberty Emery Holden, owner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and art collector. [Tipped in:] Rowfant Club Ex Libris with motto: “Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.” Designed by Will H. Low and printed in colors presumably by Bierstadt in a limited edition, labeled number 36 of 100 sets. $800 - 1,200

607 [FREEMASONRY]. HARRIS, Thaddeus Mason, Rev. Compiler. Constitutions of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons... Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1798.

4to. Engraved frontispiece, woodcut device on title-page. Later roan-backed boards (upper cover detached with a few leaves disbound, lower joint starting, some wear). Provenance: George G. Lee (contemporary signature on title-page); discreet library markings on foot of spine and title verso).

Second edition incorporating revisions of the first edition, which was printed in 1792 when Paul Revere was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. A committee comprised of Revere, John Cutler, Isaiah thomas, Timothy Whiting, and william Bentley approved the revisions and corrections published in the second edition.

[With:] SICKELS, Daniel, editor. The Freemason’s Monitor; containing the Degrees of Freemasonry.... New York: Masonic Manufacturing Company, 1868. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, printed music, woodcut illustrations. Original leather wallet-style binding gilt (a few repairs and minor losses, rebacked); cloth folding case. Provenance: George B. Munson (contemporary gift inscription from R. M. Palm).

608 FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890). Report of The Exploring Expedition to The Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-’44. Washington, D. C.: Printed by Order of the Senate, by Gales and Seaton, 1845.

8vo (229 x 139 mm). Large map folding in pocket at rear (a few tiny tears along folds); 4 lithographed maps (2 folding); 22 lithographed plates. (Dampstaining in lower gutter margin, some spotting and browning.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (some rubbing and staining, minor losses to spine ends). Provenance: Captain John Farnshaw (signatures title and flyleaf).

FIRST EDITION, the Senate issue, with the astronomical and meteorological observations omitted from the House issue and subsequent editions (see next lot). The two reports, written with the help of Fremont’s wife Jessie Benton, “caught the public imagination: images of Fremont’s guide, the then little-known Christopher ‘Kit’ Carson, riding bareback across the prairie, and Fremont himself, raising a flag on a Rocky Mountain peak, entered the national mythology” (Pamela Herr, ANB). Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter VI:3131; Wagner-Camp 115:1.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $600 - 800

609 FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890). Report of The Exploring Expedition to The Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-’44. Washington, D. C.: Printed by Order of the House of Representatives, by Blair and Rives, 1845.

8vo (230 x 143 mm). Large map folding in separate portfolio (separated along centerfold and repaired verso); 4 lithographed maps (2 folding); 22 lithographed plates. (Some spotting and browning.) Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (rebacked preserving most of original spine and endpapers). Provenance: Reverend Samuel A. Van Franken (presentation inscription from George Sykes, see below); David L. Dunkin (signature).

FIRST EDITION, the House issue, without the astronomical and meteorological observations present in the Senate issue and subsequent editions (see previous lot). “The year 1845...though otherwise somewhat cartographically barren, because of a single event is in fact one of the towering years in the story of Western Cartography. In that year John C. Fremont’s report of his journey to Oregon and California in 1843-44 was published. This report and the Fremont (Preuss) map which accompanied it, changed the entire picture of the West, and made a lasting contribution to cartography.” (Cowan pp.223-4). Inscribed by House of Representatives member from New Jersey, George Sykes. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter VI:3131; Wagner-Camp 115:1. $600 - 800

610 FREMONT, John Charles. The Expeditions. Donald JACKSON, and Mary Lee SPENCE, editors. Urbana, IL et al: University of Illinois Press, 1970-1973.

3 volumes (of 4, including supplement to vol. II and map portfolio, but lacking vol. III), 8vo. 11 separate folding maps, numerous illustrations (some folding). Original orange cloth gilt and stamped in maroon (slight wear to spine ends); dust jackets for 3 vols. (clipped, slight creasing to vol. II supplement); map portfolio in original folder and slipcase.

FIRST EDITIONS, including folding maps and “hitherto unpublished correspondence and financial records, together with valuable explanatory notes and comments.” WagnerCamp 115:25. $200 - 300

611 GALLATIN, Albert (1761-1849). Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting a Report, in part, on the Subject of American Manufactures. Washington City: Printed by Roger C. Weightman, 1810.

8vo. Disbound; remnants of old backstrip, sewing holes present.

FIRST EDITION, one of 1,000 copies printed, of the second American report on manufactures, published for members of the House of Representatives. Gallatin reaches the same pro-manufacturing conclusions, in many respects, as Alexander Hamilton does in his 1791 report on manufactures (see lot 615). The second American edition of Hamilton’s report was issued by the House to accompany this report. RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this report has appeared at auction in the last 45 years; OCLC locates only one copy of this edition, held by the American Antiquarian Society.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $800 - 1,200

612 GORDON, William (1728-1807). The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America... London: printed for the author, sold by Charles Dilly and James Buckland, 1788.

4 volumes, 8vo (213 x 128 mm). 9 engraved folding maps. Contemporary tree calf, spines in 7 compartments with 6 raised bands, gilt-decorated in 4, the rest gilt-lettered (a touch of wear to extremities). Provenance: W. Leuwen? (signatures, 1841).

FIRST EDITION in a fine contemporary binding of Gordon’s History, the “first full-scale history of this war by an American” (Howes). Howes G-256; Sabin 28011 (erroneously calling for 8 plates and 5 maps). $2,500 - 3,500

613 GORDON, William (1728-1807). The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America... London: printed for the author, sold by Charles Dilly and James Buckland, 1788.

4 volumes, 8vo (220 x 133 mm). 9 engraved folding maps. (Tear crossing image on map of New Hampshire & Vermont repaired verso, some minor spotting, a few stains). 20th-century half red morocco gilt, top edges gilt. Provenance: George Sens (note recording purchase 1901 in Vol. I).

FIRST EDITION. “Gordon is deservedly reckoned as one of the most impartial and reliable of the numerous historians of the American Revolution” (Sabin 28011). Howes G-256; Sabin 28011 (erroneously calling for 8 plates and 5 maps).

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $2,500 - 3,500

614 [GRAHAM ANDERSON PROBST & WHITE]. The Architectural Work of Graham Anderson Probst & White Chicago and their Predecessors D.H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co. London: Privately published by B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1933. 2 volumes, folio (410 x 295 mm). 385 photogravure plates. (Some very minor offsetting.) Brown crushed levant gilt, spines gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, signed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe (some very minor ribbing to spine ends and raised bands, otherwise fine); cloth slipcases (some light wear to extremities). LIMITED EDITION, number 277 of 300 copies SIGNED BY ERNEST P. GRAHAM for presentation (but naming no recipient). A FINE COPY. $1,500 - 2,500

615 [HAMILTON, Alexander]. Report of the Committee Appointed to Examine into the State of the Treasury Department Made to the House of Representatives of the United States on the 22d Day of May, 1794. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1794.

8vo (217 x 138 mm). (Some browning, a few short tears, lacking L4, blank.) Disbound; remnants of old backstrip, original sewing holes present.

FIRST EDITION, the issue with the pagination in signature H correctly imposed. By the elections of 1792, two distinct political parties were starting to emerge: the pro-administration Federalist Party, who retained control of the Senate, and the anti-administration Democratic-Republican Party, who took control of the House. The previous year, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had attempted to remove Hamilton from office for alleged misuse of foreign loans, and emboldened by their victory, Republican lawmakers continued their investigation into Alexander Hamilton’s alleged corrupt conduct as Secretary of the Treasury. “On February 24, the House assembled a select committee with sweeping powers to investigate the Treasury Department. ...The bulk of the committee was Republican. The members drew up an exhausting schedule to drain any energy Hamilton had left [following his recent bout with yellow fever]. Until their work was complete, they planned to meet every Tuesday and Thursday evening and Saturday morning. For three months, the committee stuck to this punitive schedule, and Hamilton testified at about half the sessions. ...He had to disclose all of his private accounts with the Bank of the United States and the Bank of New York, as Republicans tried to prove that Hamilton had exploited his office to extort credits from the two banks” (Chernow, Alexander Hamilton). Ultimately, Hamilton was exonerated of all of the allegations. Evans 27909; Ford Bibliotheca Hamiltoniana p.45 (“This examination was made at the request of Hamilton, in order to silence the charges of misappropriation and mismanagement of the public funds”); Sabin 69800. RARE: According to online records, only two copies of this report have sold at auction since 1950. See lot 611 for Gallatin’s 1810 report on American manufactures.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Felix Brejente, Schaumberg, Illinois $2,000 - 3,000 614 615

616 [HAMILTON, Alexander] -- [WEBSTER, Noah (1758-1843]. A Letter to General Hamilton, Occasioned by his Letter to President Adams. By a Federalist. [New York?: n.p., 1800?].

8vo (213 x 132 mm). 8pp. (Some spotting and browning.) Stab-sewn and tipped into modern marbled paper wrappers.

FIRST EDITION, Evans’s FIRST ISSUE, but Sabin’s second issue, with “By a Federalist” in black letter type and with 33 lines on p.1 (including two rules). Attributed to Noah Webster by Skeel-Carpenter, who calls for at least 6 printings. Webster’s rebuttal, signed “Aristedes,” to a pamphlet written by Hamilton in 1800 criticizing President John Adams, “a scathing attack on Hamilton for his secret maneuvers within the Adams administration & his support of a standing army” (Skeel-Carpenter).

Webster charges that Hamilton has succumbed to “the secret enmity which has long rankled in his breast,” citing as examples situations which are “mostly of a private and trifling nature.” Webster charges Hamilton that his “policy and your conduct have been the principal causes of the division among Federal men.” Evans 39045; Sabin 102361; Skeel-Carpenter 727. VERY RARE: We trace no copy of any issue of this pamphlet at auction in the last 30 years. $400 - 600

617 HINTON, John Howard (1791-1873), editor. The History and Topography of the United States of America. London et al: John Tallis and Company, [ca 1850].

2 volumes, 4to (297 x 185 mm). Engraved title-page in vol. I, portrait frontispieces, approximately 57 hand-colored engraved plates (one double-page), 7 double-page maps with color. (Some spotting especially to plates, engraved title-page detached with some chipping, some soiling or staining.) Contemporary half blue calf gilt (some minor wear or scuffing). Fourth edition of Hinton’s popular illustrated history of the United States first published in 1934. Double-page engraved maps with outlines in color depict North America, South America, the United States, British America, East Canada, West Canada, and Mexico. Howes H512.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $200 - 300

618 HOUGH, Romeyn Beck (1857-1924). American Woods illustrated by actual specimens: Commercial Species. Lowville, NY: prepared by the author, 1916.

2 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (227 x 150 mm). Text volumes with illustrations. 150 samples of wood, representing wafer-thin transverse, radial and tangential sections, illustrating 50 species, window-mounted in 50 card mounts. (A few wood samples with tiny chips or cracks, one mount creased.) Text bound in original printed wrappers, samples on card mounts unbound as issued, each text volume and accompanying sample cards loose in original green cloth covers (a few tiny separations along hinges), the covers in matching half morocco over green cloth slipcases, with metal catches. Provenance: bookplates.

FIRST EDITION of the text, presumably reissuing samples used in a contemporary edition of Hough’s American Woods (retaining the plate numbering from that edition): “In the issuing of American Woods as originally planned -- to cover all of the woods of the United States and Canada that are of economic or special botanical importance -- it has been found that many people limit their interest in the subject to the comparatively few woods that are recognized as of the greatest commercial value. It is to accommodate that class that we have decided to issue two special volumes...covering the fifty kinds of American woods with the U. S. Census returns report to have been most largely manufactured into lumber during the period of one year -- 1912” (Preface to Commercial Woods Part I, p.i.). Volume I includes examples of hard wood, such as ash, beech, birch, cherry, chestnut, elm, maple, oak and walnut; volume II includes examples of soft woods, such as cedar, cypress, fir, pine, redwood and spruce. Not in Stafleu & Cowan TL2.

619 IRVING, Washington (1783-1859). Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, 1836.

2 volumes, 8vo (218 x 132 mm). Folding map. (Some spotting.) Modern half red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with copyright notice on verso of title and garbled footnote on p.239 of vol.II. Irving’s “lengthy history of John Jacob Astor’s venture into the fur trade on the Pacific Coast is based in part on a revised transcript of the Journal of Robert Stuart and the journals of Wilson Price Hunt and Ramsay Crooks, which were for a time in the possession of Astor” (Wagner-Camp 61). BAL 10148; Graff 2158; Howes I-81; Sabin 35120. $300 - 400

620 JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826). Engraved document signed (“Th. Jefferson”), as President, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Virginia, 7 May 1805, countersigned by James MADISON (1751-1836) as Secretary of State

1 page, on vellum, 4to, 388 x 266 mm, accomplished in manuscript, with scalloped edge at top, paper seal, docketed verso, some fading of ink, creased from folding.

Ship’s passport for the Brig Triton of Norfolk, with captain David Frazer as Captain, to pass “without any hinderance, seizure or molestation.” The Triton was mounted with approximately 170 tons and a crew of 9 men.

$3,000 - 4,000

621 JEWITT, John Rodgers (1788-1821). Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings...During a captivity of nearly three years among the Savages of Nootka Sound. Richard Alsop, editor. New York: for the Publishers, [ca 1815].

12mo (170 x 96 mm). Woodcut device on title-page; woodcut frontispiece, woodcut illustrations in-text. (Some browning and fraying, frontispiece reinforced gutter.) 20thcentury red morocco; original wrapper (fully backed) bound in. Provenance: L. James West? (early inscription in pencil); Archie W. Shiels (bookplate).

Second edition, “with the exception of Dana’s book, the best-known and most popular of the early narratives of adventure on the western coast” (Hill). The Boston, a trading vessel, was seized by natives in the Nootka Sound after the captain insulted the chief; nearly the entire crew, excluding Jewitt and one other member, were massacred. Jewitt’s work includes information about the life and habits of his captors, and includes a vocabulary of the Nootka language. Hill 888; Howes A-189; Sabin 36123.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $300 - 400

2 volumes, 8vo (198 x 127 mm). Engraved folding map, 8 engraved plates (2 colored, including frontispiece), 3 folding tables. (Map split and tearing along folds, some spotting or minor soiling.) Contemporary half black roan (worn with some losses to vol. II spine cover, vol. I front cover detached and first few leaves detached, other covers detaching). Provenance: Louis S. Tiemann (ca 1869-1962) American banker (bookplates).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the account of Long’s Second Expedition. “Nothing escaped the attention or record of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statements respecting the Sioux and Chippeway tribes are among the most valuable we have” (Sabin). Howes K-20; Sabin 37137; Wagner-Camp 26b:2.

[With]: LUMHOLTZ, Carl (1851-1922). Among Cannibals. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1889. Translated by Rasmus B. Anderson. Portrait frontispiece, 2 color folding maps, 28 plates, numerous woodcuts. Publisher’s green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. -- PARDOE, Julia (1806-1862). The Beauties of the Bosphorus. London: George Virtue, 1838. Illustrations by W.H. Bartlett. One volume bound from 20 original parts, 4to (288 x 227 mm). Additional engraved title-page, 80 engraved plates. Later black pebbled cloth, printed cloth lettering-piece, uncut; original wrappers. FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS. Blackmer 1254. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally fine.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $300 - 400

623 LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and across the American Continent.... London: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. 3 vols.

3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 125 mm). Engraved folding route map (short tear at fold crossing image repaired verso); 5 engraved maps. (Dampstain gutter margin to a few leaves, some spotting and browning.) 20th-century half green calf gilt (some rubbing and light wear).

FIRST ENGLISH OCTAVO EDITION, edited by Thomas Rees. It is a reproduction in larger type and on better paper, of the Philadelphia edition of 1814, omitting the ‘Observations on the Government of the Indians,’ by Captain Lewis and the eight meteorological tables. Another edition was printed in Dublin with the same title with some additions” (Sabin 40830). Graff 24881; Howes L-317; Wagner-Camp 13:3.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $600 - 800

624 [LEWIS & CLARK EXPEDITION]. ALLEN, Paul, editor. “Review of and excerpts from Lewis and Clark’s History of the Expedition.” In: The Analectic Magazine. Pp. 127-149 and 210-234. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815.

6 monthly issues, January-June, comprising Volume V bound in one, 8vo (210 x 130 mm). Engraved general title. (Some spotting and browning.) Contemporary calf-backed boards (some soiling and wear, portion of a shelf label on foot of spine.)

A LENGTHY CONTEMPORARY REVIEW OF LEWIS AND CLARK’S HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION. “There is something peculiarly interesting in the narrative of the adventures of men, who, leaving the circle of civilized life, and cultivated nature, traverse unknown seas on a voyage of discovery, or break their way through the unvisited deserts of a continent, exploring the hidden sources of some immense river, or penetrating to the remote confines of an exterior ocean...”

The review was published in two installments: on pages 127-149 in the February issue and on pages 210-234 in the March issue. Allen’s is one of the earliest reviews recorded in the Lewis and Clark College bibliography and it is by far the longest. In addition to reviewing the work, extended excerpts are printed. Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 5a.1 (Notices). $400 - 600

626

625 LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and William CLARK (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark. Elliott Coues, editor. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893.

4 volumes, large 8vo. Titles printed in red and black; 2 portrait frontispieces; 8 maps (3 folding in rear cover pocket); 2 facsimile letters; 2 folding tables. (Lacking the facsimile letters in vol. I.) Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper labels on spines, uncut (some browning and rubbing, slight chipping to labels, endleaf in vol. I detached). Provenance: Thad. Huston (bookplate); C. A. Snowden (gift inscription from Huston, 1907); bookplate.

LIMTED EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY, number 178 of 200 copies on handmade paper of a total edition of 1,200. Coues’s “edition of 1893 ranks second in importance only to the original journals. his lengthy annotations, based on first-hand knowledge of the territory, are highly informative, and his biographical essay is a major contribution (Wagner-Camp). Graff 2484; Howes L-317; see Wagner-Camp 13:7 note.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $800 - 1,200

626 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Partially engraved document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”), as President, City of Washington, 26 July 1862, countersigned by Edwin STANTON (1814-1869), as Secretary of War.

1 page, folio, 498 x 402 mm, on vellum, accomplished in manuscript, with paper seal, docketed upper margin, creased from folding.

Military appointment promoting George F. Tennatt to “Additional Aide-de-Camp with the rank of Captain.” Tennatt was mortally wounded in the battle of Cedar Mountain, Culpeper Virginia, on 9 August 1862 after being shot. According to Brigadier General Henry Prince’s account of the battle, “Capt. George F. Tennatt, aide-de-camp, fell from his horse mortally wounded by a Minie ball passing through the bridle hand and through the body while advancing toward the enemy in the execution of his duty. His deportment and his death were alike heroic.” $4,000 - 6,000

627

627 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Engraved document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”), as President, countersigned by Secretary of the Interior John Palmer Usher, 16 March 1865.

1 page, oblong folio, 367 x 482 mm, with blind embossed seal of the Department of the Interior, creased, some minor staining, framed (unexamined out of frame).

Signed less than a month before Lincoln’s assassination on 14 April 1865, this document appointed Joel A. Potter of the Dakota territories to be the “Agent for the Ponca Indians in the Territory of Dakota.” $5,000 - 7,000

628 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Complete Works...edited by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. New York: Francis D. Tandy Company, 1905.

12 volumes, 8vo. Photogravure frontispieces with lettered tissue guards, numerous captioned plates throughout. Publisher’s morocco elaborately gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some chipping to a few spine ends, some slight rubbing). Provenance: bookplates.

The “Biographical Edition,” printed from the plates of the celebrated “Gettysburg Edition” of 1894.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $800 - 1,200

629 MacARTHUR, Douglas (1880-1964). Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1964.

8vo. Publisher’s cream-colored cloth stamped with five stars; original slipcase with paper label (toning).

LIMITED EDITION, 1076 of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. 628

630 MADISON, James (1751-1831). Partly printed document signed (“James Madison”), as President, Washington, D. C., 24 September 1812, countersigned by James MONROE (1758-1831), as Secretary of State.

1 page, oblong folio, 422 x 542 mm, with 2 paper seals, creased from folding, a few small losses or tears occasionally repaired verso and with occasional tiny losses.

Four-language ship’s passport, printed in French, Spanish, English and Dutch, granting permission to “J. B. Parker master and commander of the Brig called Hiram of the burthen of 219 tones, or thereabouts, lying at present in the port of Baltimore and bound for Lisbon and laden with Flour & Bread to depart and proceed.” Also signed by James McCulloch, collector of customs for the port of Baltimore. $1,000 - 2,000

631 [MAINE]. PARSONS, Charles, lithographer (1821-1910) -- After John William HILL (18121879). Bangor, Me. New York: Endicott & Co. for Smith, Brothers & Co., 1854.

Lithograph with hand-coloring, matted and framed, 640 x 1024 mm. (Unexamined out of frame, some minor toning). Provenance: acquired The Old Print Shop with their label.

A landmark view of Bangor, Maine. “The large and attractive views issued by the Smith Brothers in the 1850s, like that of Bangor Maine...received...recognition as works of art. A Bangor newspaper greeted the publication...with these works: ‘In the foreground the Penobscot is seen as it comes winding its course from ‘neath the extensive Toll Bridge that stretches across its proud waters on the north, filled with countless boats, rafts, logs, &c...The Kenduskeag...presents a most beautiful and pleasing effect. In fact, this picture gives a minute detail and striking likeness of every object that comes within the range of the Artist’s eye, and when spread out before you one can hardly realize that that they are beholding nature itself rather than a drawing on paper’” (Reps p. 64). RARE: according to online records, we trace only one other example of this print at auction in at least 50 years. Reps 1177; Stokes & Haskell, p.187. 23 x 39 inches.

$800 - 1,200

632 [MANUSCRIPTS - FARMING]. A group of 2 notebooks, comprising:

[Farm Account Book]. Rochester, Strafford County, New Hampshire, 1829-1858. 38 leaves, with an additional 32 blank leaves, 8vo. Written in black ink. Bound in contemporary sheep-backed boards. Accounts kept by James Y. Hayes, who maintained his family farm. Entries record transactions for cider, corn, apples, barley, and other foodstuffs as well as candles, cords of wood, and plank nails.

[With:] Cover title: “Stray Book.” Westfield Township, Ohio, 1856-1922. 15 leaves, with an additional 41 blank leaves. Written in black ink or pencil. Bound in contemporary sheep-backed boards. Records stray mares, ponies, and cattle including descriptions of the strays in various hands. Also includes Mortgages of Chattel.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

633 [MANHATTAN PROJECT]. An extensive archive including original laboratory notebooks, typed laboratory reports and drafts, and typed communications relating to the research activities in Princeton’s Frick Laboratories of the Princeton Analytical Group under the direction of Professor Nathaniel H. Furman for the Manhattan Project, ca 1942-1946.

The Manhattan Project, organized under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves, grew to employ more than 130,000 at a cost of nearly two billion dollars, and had project sites at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Los Alamos, New Mexico, Chicago, and Hanaford, Washington, with research taking place at a network of institutions across the United States and Canada. Organized under the “Madison Square Area” of the “Manhattan District, Corps of Engineers,” researchers at the Frick Laboratories in Princeton’s Department of Chemistry, under the direction of Professor Nathaniel H. Furman (1892-1965), worked to identify uranium in ores and to purify and measure trace contaminants in uranium concentrates, apparently to work toward discovering uranium deposits in the United States.

Included in the archive are: Carbon copy typescript. A letter from the War Department, signed (in facsimile) by Under secretary of War Robert P. Patterson (“Robert P. Patterson”), 7 August 1945, “To the Men and Women of Manhattan District Project.” 1 page, 8vo, marginal chipping. “TODAY THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THE SECRET WHICH YOU HAVE HELPED US KEEP FOR MANY MONTHS.” Written one day after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Patterson comments: “I am pleased to be able to add that the warlords of Japan now know its effects better even than we ourselves...No one of you has worked on the entire project or known the whole story. Each of you has done his own job and keep his own secret, and so today I speak for a grateful nation when I say congratulations and thank you all.”

Western Union Telegram, to Dr. Furman, 10 August 1945. “SURRENDER OF JAPAN APPEARS IMMINENT.” Instructions from the Madison Square Area, Manhattan Project, instructing “Cessation of hostilities does not repeal nor affect our program and our work should continue as scheduled. Continue present security measures.” Surrender would be announced by Emperor Hirohito 5 days later on 15 August 1945.

Furman’s manuscript ledger recording sample data from various locations including MIT, U. S. Engineers, Westinghouse and DuPont. Entries note the type and amount of the sample, as well as dates received and reported. With 4 additional ledgers kept by Furman, ca December 1942 through February 1946, recording samples, with two ledgers labeled “Special Defense Note Book.”

WITH: 4 of Nathaniel H. Furman’s notebooks. Each including handwritten data from several of the project’s other sites, including Ames, Iowa, Du Pont, Hooker Electro Metal Company, Linde Air Products Company, Harshaw Chemical, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, and U. S. Engineers. -- Three composition notebooks of student calculations and data from Bruce McDuffie and Roy J. Mundy -- Two dissertations, comprising: N. N. Furman, W. B. Mason, and J. S. Pekola. “The Use of Cupferron in the Estimation of Uranium.” June 1946. 65 pages, carbon copy typescript. A portion of the paper contributed by William Burkett Mason constituted his Doctoral dissertation. In board portfolio.; Another copy.; Clark E. Bricker. An Electrolytic-Polarographic Method. 1944. 47 pages, carbon copy typescript. Loose in folder. -- A notebook belonging to W. B. Mason including handwritten data relating to cupferron and uranium. -- 10 “spring” binders containing carbon typescript copies of papers and presentations prepared by the Princeton Analytical Group.

Many of the reports and typescripts are marked “confidential,” “classified,” or “secret,” but were declassified on May 18, 1954. The Seely G. Mudd Library at Princeton University holds a collection of papers and other materials relating to Frick Laboratory’s role in the Manhattan Project; the present archive was acquired by a previous owner in the 1970s during preparations for work to be done in the Frick Laboratories. The archive comprises some two linear feet, and more complete listings and information are available on request.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $5,000 - 7,000

633A [MANHATTAN PROJECT]. OPPENHEIMER, J. Robert (1904-1967). A group of works relating to Oppenheimer from the library of American scientist and chairman of the National bureau of Standards, Wallace R. Brode (1900-1974), comprising:

SMYTH, Henry DeWolf (1898-1986). Atomic Energy for Military Purposes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945. 8vo. Photographic plates. Original publisher’s grey cloth lettered in burgundy on spine (some soiling); original printed yellow and black dust jacket (lower portion of spine panel missing, some chipping and soiling). FIRST EDITION, trade issue, SIGNED BY J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, HENRY D. SMYTH, and NORRIS BRADBURY. Smyth’s work is a “remarkably full and candid account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the American-directed but internationally recruited team of physicists, under the code name of ‘Manhattan District’, which culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb” (PMM).

633

[With:] United States Atomic Energy Commission In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Transcript of Hearing before Personnel Security Board. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Original wrappers (hand-lettered on spine). Provenance: U. S. S. D. Reserve Collection (stamp front wrapper). -- Another copy. -- United States Atomic Energy Commission In the Matter of J. Robert. Oppenheimer. Texts of Principal Documents and Letters of Personnel Security Board General Manager Commissioners. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Original wrappers. -- Carbon copy typescript, 3pp., 16 June 1954. A press release comprising a “Statement by the Atomic Energy Commission,” and a list of witnesses, including Enrico Fermi, Leslie R. Groves, Edward Teller, and John Von Neumann.

[Also with:] OPPENHEIMER. The Open Mind. NY, 1955. Original wrappers. Fourth printing INSCRIBED BY OPPENHEIMER. -- One World or None. New York, 1946. Original wrappers. Introduction by Niels Bohr and with contributions by Albert Einstein, Walter Lippmann, Oppenheimer and others of this “report to the public on the full meaning of the atomic bomb. -- ALSOP. We Accuse! The Story of the Miscarriage of American Justice in the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer. NY, 1954. Original wrappers. -- And one other.

634 [MANUSCRIPT – MATHEMATICS]. Notebooks containing examples of practical arithmetic and arithmetical exercises. Halfmoon, NY, ca late-18th or early-19th century.

2 volumes, small folio (each approximately 318 x 195 mm). Volume I: 45 leaves, with an additional 10 leaves on bifolia laid in. Written in cursive in blue and black ink. (Several bound leaves excised at end, some spotting and staining.) Bound in calf-backed marbled boards (worn with a few manuscript annotations on covers). Volume II: 63 leaves. (Quire disbound at end, some chipping and tears.) Written in cursive in blue and black ink. Bound in paper covers (with all-over cursive writing, soiled, some minor chipping). Provenance: The Flynn Family (signatures).

These volumes were kept by members of the Flynn family of Halfmoon New York. John Flynn, the patriarch, was one of the earliest settlers in the area, and the Flynn family settled along the Hudson River from Ireland in the 1750s, where they opened a well-known tavern which the family operated well into the 19th century. Volume I was kept by John Flynn, and Volume II includes work by Mary Jane Flynn, Daniel Flynn, William Flynn, John Flynn, and David [George] Flynn. Included throughout are sections on compound multiplication, addition, subtraction, decimals, division, tare and tret, apothecary weights, other various weights and measures, Rule of Three, fellowship compound, and loss and gain.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $800 - 1,000

635 [MANUSCRIPT – MATHEMATICS]. Notebook containing examples of practical arithmetic and arithmetical exercises. [Virginia], ca 1800.

57pp, folio (330 x 200 mm). Written in cursive in black and brown ink, with decorative headings and borders. (A few leaves excised at end.) Contemporary linen over newspaper waste (manuscript annotations on lower cover). Provenance: Edward W. Scott (signatures).

Includes exercises and examples of simple and compound addition, federal money, troy weights, averdupois, apothecary weights, cloth measurements, land measurements, compound multiplication and division, dry and liquid measurements, single and double rules of 3, practice tables, insurance commission and brokerage, and the purchasing of stocks.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

636 [MANUSCRIPT – MATHEMATICS]. A mathematical textbook and practice book. Andover, MA, 1807-1809.

33 leaves, small folio. Written in cursive in brown ink. (Some spotting and ink show-through, marginal fraying to a few leaves.) Bound in modern half calf, marbled boards. Provenance: Dudley Watrous (signature on first leaf and throughout).

Dudley Watrous (1790-1867) was born in Hebron Connecticut, and attended school at Andover Massachusetts, where he kept this book. Lessons start out simply and include examples of simple addition, multiplication and division. The book progresses with degrees of difficulty, and includes examples of monetary exchanges and simple and compound interest problems.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400

637 [MANUSCRIPT – MATHEMATICS]. Notebook containing examples of practical arithmetic and arithmetical exercises. Oyster Bay, NY, 1808.

95 leaves, folio (324 x 197 mm). Written in cursive in black ink. (Some spotting and staining.) Bound in contemporary paper covers (stained and with a few annotations, one quire unglued from covers). Provenance: Charles Peters (signature and title-page).

Charles Peters attended Oyster Bay Academy, where he kept this book, likely a copy of his teacher’s exercises. Including information about the calculation of interest, calculation of American duties, equation of payment, loss and gain, “Reducing the Current money of Holland into Bank money,” the Double Rule of Three, and annuities.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400

638 [MANUSCRIPT – MATHEMATICS]. Notebook containing examples of practical arithmetic and arithmetical exercises. Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1813-1819.

150 leaves, folio (323 x 202 mm). Written in cursive in brown ink, with several separate title-pages, and elaborate headings; figures and decorations throughout. (Small losses to a few sheets, marginal chipping, soiling.) Bound in contemporary wrappers (soiled, with minor losses and a few annotations, front cover detached). Provenance: Seth B. Jones (signatures).

An extensive American arithmetic including information on land measure, the rule of 3 and double rule of 3, liquid measure, interest, rebate and discount, exchange, square root and cube root, annuities, leases and pensions, and American monies.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $800 - 1,200

639 [MANUSCRIPTS – REMEDIES]. Manuscript home maintenance and home remedy guide. Jamestown, NY, 1832.

58 leaves, 8vo (202 x 126 mm). Written in black ink. With 9 pp. table of contents at end, and with an additional approximately 60 blank leaves. Bound in contemporary boards with modern rebacking.

The manuscript comprises practical advice, formulas, recipes and remedies for use in the home. Included are formulas for the composition of alloys including brass, pinchback, printer’s types, steel joints, solder, silver solder, gold solder, ring gold, and yellow dipping metal. Also included are instructions on gilding wood, glass, porcelain, and other materials, and inkmaking, as well as formulas for lacquers of various colors, gums and resins, and cement, all with instructions for use. With recipes for preserving butter and for currant wine, and with several home remedies including a cure for jaundice using bitters, a recipe for a wash for diphtheria, and cures for snake bites. The manuscript also includes several “magical experiments,” biographical information from the life of General Francis Marion, and fair copies of verse. Laid in are several newspaper clippings and two notes with various additional remedies.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

640 [MANUSCRIPT - REMEDIES]. Manuscript home maintenance and home remedy guide. Chesapeake City and Elizabeth City VA, and later Little Rock AR, 19th-century.

103 leaves, with 17 blank leaves at end, 8vo (185 x 124 mm). Written in black ink or pencil. 13 ll. table of contents at beginning. Bound in contemporary sheep (wear to spine and extremities). Provenance: William P. Bainbridge (name on cover, signatures); Ray Staffien (signature).

Compiled by William P. Bainbridge, comprising nearly 300 recipes for beer, wine, chocolate cream, cleaning formulas, and insect repellents. Also included are remedies for diphtheria, rheumatism, and chapped lips as well as a mixture to strengthen and promote the growth of hair. Recipes for millefleurs perfume, perfumed soap, Columbian soap, tooth powders, and parchment glue are also included, as are recipes for yellow wall coloring, blue wash for walls, and dye for cashmere. William P. Bainbridge served as an Aide-de-Camp in the Civil War in Little Rock, and the 1890 federal census shows a William P. Bainbridge residing in Elizabeth County, Virginia.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $800 - 1,200

641 [MANUSCRIPT – SURVEYING]. Notebook containing surveying, navigation, and examples of practical arithmetic. Mystic River, CT, 1860.

50 leaves, folio (325 x 210 mm). Written in cursive in black ink in possibly two hands. Several ink diagrams. (Some staining and show-through.) 24pp. sewn into wrappers (staining and tears with losses); with additional 26pp. stab-sewn and laid in (several leaves becoming disbound). Provenance: Horatio N. Fish Jr. (inscription on cover).

Horatio Nelson Fish Jr. (1843-1864), was raised in Mystic, Connecticut, and was a member of one of Mystic’s founding families. He enlisted in the Connecticut Volunteer infantry in 1862, and died in Virginia in 1864 as a result of wounds he received. His manuscript, surveying the Mystic River on 12 January 1860, also includes notes and exercises relating to simple and quadratic equations, algebra, Mercator’s sailing, and plain and traverse sailing.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

642 MARSHALL, John (1755-1835). The Life of George Washington. Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1804-1807.

5 volumes 8vo (218 x 132 mm). Engraved portrait of Washington after Gilbert Stuart in Vol. I. (Some spotting to portrait, scant spotting to a few leaves, slight browning to a few leaves, without the 22-page subscribers list, as often.) Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt, tan morocco letteringpiece gilt (some rubbing or wear); Atlas: contemporary cloth-backed boards, printed label to upper cover. Provenance: Matthew Gregory (signatures on titles).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 1804 imprints in the first three volumes, octavo format. Marshall’s fundamental biography of Washington was compiled from the late President’s papers. “After the able, accurate, and comprehensive work of Chief Justice Marshall, it would be presumptuous to attempt a historical biography of Washington” (Sparks, Washington, I.12). Howes M-317; Sabin 44788 (one of “the only complete editions of this indispensable work”).

[With:] Atlas to Marshall’s Life of Washington. Philadelphia: J. Crissy, ca 1838. Engraved title, 10 double-page engraved maps, a few with handcoloring. (Some minor spotting.) Original cloth-backed boards, printed label to upper cover. Howes M-317; Sabin 44788.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $1,500 - 2,500

643 McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) -- HALL, James (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle (Vol. I); Daniel Rice and James G. Clark (Vol. II); 1836, 1842.

2 volumes (of 3, lacking volume 3), folio (508 x 356 mm). Text only (lacking all plates, offsetting to tissue guards, some spotting or staining). Contemporary half calf (rebacked preserving portions of original spines, some other repairs and light wear).

Mixed edition of the text only of History of the Indian Tribes of North America, which U.S. Superintendent of Indian Trade Thomas McKenney’s wrote to create a lasting record of the Native American tribes whom McKenney believed were vanishing as settlers moving west.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $400 - 600

644 MICHAUX, François-André (1770-1855), and Thomas NUTTALL (1786-1859). The North American Sylva; or, a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1865.

5 volumes, 8vo (263 x 167 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I, 277 hand-colored engraved or lithographic plates. (Some minor spotting or staining, some light offsetting or toning.) Original brown morocco, spines gilt-lettered and blind-stamped, edges gilt (rebacked preserving original spines, scuffing to sides, some light wear). Third American edition of Michaux, and second edition of Nuttall. “Few American color plate books had such lasting popularity as this classic work on American trees, or as tangled a publication history... In 1856 a fire destroyed the premises of the publisher of the joint edition. The Michaux plates were saved, but the Nuttall stones were evidently lost, and the later joint editions used new stones” (Reese, Stamped with a National Character: Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 21). Nissen BBI 1361 & 1458; Sabin 48695 & 56351 (“Of the two works united, it is no exaggeration to remark that it is the most complete work of its kind and is a production of unrivaled interest and beauty”).

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $2,000 - 3,000

645 [MILWAUKEE]. Panoramic View of Milwaukee Wis. Taken from City Hall Tower. Milwaukee: Gugler Lithographic Co., 1898.

Lithographed panoramic view with hand-coloring, 453 x 1310 mm, framed (unexamined out of frame, some soft creasing to margin).

With captions in lower margin identifying important landmarks such as the Pabst Brewing Company, Jos. Schlitz Brewing Company, Val Blatz Brewing Company, City Water Works, Milwaukee County Court House, the Masonic temple, Hotel Pfister, the Gas Works, Plankinton House , Bijou Theater, Germania, the Public Library, and the Exposition Building. Reps 4393. $2,000 - 3,000

646 [MILWAUKEE]. ELLSBURY, George H. (1840-1900) and Vernon GREEN. Milwaukee, Wis. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Lith. & Eng. Co., 1874.

Engraving with hand-coloring, 454 x 768 mm, matted and framed. (Some surface adhesions and some soft creasing, diagonal crease lower corner.) Provenance: Library of Congress Copyright 1874 stamp lower corner.

“Ellsbury did not use the bird’s-eye view perspective so popular with his contemporaries. Instead, he portrayed his cities as seen from the ground or from a slight elevation and some distance. He filled the foregrounds of these long panoramas with interesting and pictorially effective details” (Reps p.174). RARE: We trace no copy of this lithograph at auction. Reps 4383.

Property from a Private Collection $600 - 800

647 [MILWAUKEE]. A group of 6 prints, comprising:

Milwaukee. New York: Charles Magnus, ca 1850. Lithographed pictorial lettersheet with hand coloring. -- City of Milwaukee. New York: D. Appleton, 1872. Lithograph with hand-coloring. -- Vue de Milwankee, dans l’Etat du Wisconsin (Etats-Unis d’Amerique). N.p., n.d. Woodcut with hand-coloring. -- View of the City of Milwaukee. Published in Harper’s Weekly. New York, 30 December 1862. Woodcut with hand-coloring. -- Milwaukee River, at Milwaukee. Published in Picturesque America. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874. Woodcut with hand-coloring. -- City of Milwaukee. Published in Picturesque America. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874. Woodcut with hand-coloring. -- Together, 6 prints, all matted and framed (unexamined out of frame), condition generally fine.

Property from a Private Collection $300 - 400

648 MINOT, George Richards (1758-1802). The History of the Insurrections, in Massachusetts, in the Year mdcclxxxvi, and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1788.

8vo (225 x 132 mm). Engraved portrait of Minot inserted as a frontispiece. (Some minor spotting and browning.) 20th-century red morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (very slight rubbing to joints). Provenance: Frank C. Deering (1866-1939), Americana collector (morocco booklabel).

FIRST EDITION, THE FRANK DEERING COPY, of Minot’s definitive account of Shays’ Rebellion. At the time of Shays’ Rebellion, the newly-formed United States was governed by the Articles of the Confederation, which many felt was too weak to manage the nation. Shays’ Rebellion informed the debate about the framing of the U. S. Constitution, particularly among Federalists, who advocated for a stronger federal government and diminished states’ rights. Howes M-651. $400 - 600

650 MOUNT, William Sidney (1807-1868), after. -- Soulange Teissier, lithographer.

Coming to the Point. New York: William Schaus, 1855.

Color lithograph with hand coloring, sheet 21 1/2 x 28”. Toning, browning along margins. $600 - 800 649 MÖLLHAUSEN, Heinrich Balduin (1825-1905). Vandringer gjennem det vestlige Nordamerikas Prairier og Udorkener fra Mississippi til Sudhavets Kyster. [Copenhagen]: P.G. Philipsens forlag, 1862.

8vo (220 x 137 mm). Tipped-in portrait, 9 tinted lithographic plates (including frontispiece), folding lithograph map with color. (Some light toning or soiling, some minor chipping.) Modern half leather gilt, original blindstamped black cloth (rebacked, slight wear to extremities).

FIRST DANISH EDITION of “experiences and observations of the author while with the Whipple expedition, of which his is the best account” (Howes M-713). Sabin 49914; Streeter V 3134; Wagner Camp 305:5.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $200 - 300

651 MULLAN, John, Captain (1830-1909). Report on the Construction of a Military Road from Fort Walla-Walla to Fort Benton. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863.

8vo (225 x 140 mm). 4 folding maps (very short tears to folds, some minor toning); 10 lithographed plates.

FIRST EDITION, Senate issue. Captain Mullan’s report (appearing on pages 1-84) is followed by engineers’ reports and meteorological data. The maps are: “Map of the Mountain Section of the Ft. Walla Walla and Ft. Benton Military Wagon Road” -- “Map of the Military Reconnaissance from Fort Taylor to Coeur d’Alene Mission” -- “Map of Military Reconnaissance from Fort Dalles, Oregon, via Wallah-Wallah to Fort Taylor, Washington Territory” -- “Map of Military Road from Fort Walla Walla on the Columbia to Fort Benton on the Missouri.” Howes M-884; Sabin 51275; Wagner-Camp 393; Wheat Transmississippi V, pp. 85-95.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $500 - 700

652 [NATIVE AMERICANA]. A Collection of Chippeway and English Hymns. Peter Jones, translator. New York: Carlton & Porter for the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, n.d. [ca 1847].

24mo. With a second title-page printed in Ojibway; text in English and Ojibway throughout. Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (repairs to spine, hinges and corners, some light wear); slipcase. Provenance: Library Los Angeles County Museum (stamp on verso of title-page); Library Natural History Museum (discard stamp on pastedown).

Presumed second edition, with “Advertisement to the Second Edition” on p. 3 dated 1847. See Sabin 36589 (the edition published by Lane and Tippett). RARE: We find no copies of any edition of Jones’s translation at auction in 40 years.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $300 - 400

653 [NAVAL ACCOUNTS]. A group of 3 works, comprising:

JONES, John Paul. Life and Correspondence of John Paul Jones, Including His Narrative of the Campaign of the Liman. New York: D. Fanshaw, 1830. Frontispiece. Modern full calf with original errata slip. Howes S91. -- Lives of Illustrious Seamen, to Whose Intrepidity and good Conduct the English are Indebted... London: J. Cundee, Ivy Lane; for T. Hurst et. al, 1803. Frontispiece. Illustrated with pictures of prominent naval figures. Modern beige cloth. Provenance: John N. Macomb. -- [NEALE, William Johnstoun]. History of the Mutiny at Spithead and the Nore; with an Enquiry into its Origin and Treatment... London: Thomas Tegg, 1842. Portrait frontispiece. Half title. Contemporary cloth gilt. Provenance: The Admiralty Library. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo, condition generally fine. $400 - 600

654 OLMSTED, Frederick Law (1822-1903). The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations of Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. New York et al: Mason Brothers et al, 1861.

2 volumes, 12mo. Folding color map. (Some short tears or chipping to the map with cellotape repairs verso, some minor toning.) Original green waveembossed cloth, spines gilt-lettered (some wear to extremities, some soiling or staining, front hinge vol. I cracking). Provenance: F. Ritschl (signature).

FIRST EDITION. Best known as a landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted was also a journalist by profession. He was commissioned by the New York Daily Times, (now The New York Times) to embark on a research journey through the American south and Texas from 1852 through 1857. His dispatches for the Times were collected into three volumes: A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States (1856), A Journey Through Texas (1857), and A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853-4 (1860). In 1861, during the first six months of the Civil War, Olmlsted published this one-volume abridgement of those three works, Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom, at the suggestion of his publisher. Sabin 57240.

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655 PARKER, Samuel (1779-1866). Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains, Under the Direction of the A.B.C.F.M. in the Year 1835, ’36, and ’37... Ithaca: Mack, Andrus, & Woodruff, 1842.

8vo (194 x 122 mm). With large folding “Map of Oregon Territory” bound in. (Tear to fold of map, some spotting.) Original blind-embossed brown cloth, spine gilt lettered (some wear to extremities). Provenance: C. A. Parker (signatures in pencil).

Third edition, including Parker’s map, the “earliest showing accurately the Oregon interior” (Forbes). After exploring Oregon and Washington, parker joined the barque, Columbia, which was headed to the Hawaiian Islands in June 1836. Graff 3194; Howes P89; Sabin 58729; Wagner-Camp 70:3. $150 - 250

656 [PENNSYLVANIA]. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: McCarty and Davis et al, 1826-1850. -- Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: John Pennington & Henry C. Baird, 1853.

8 parts in 5 volumes (Memoirs 7 parts in 4 volumes, Collections vol. I only), 8vo (210 x 133 mm). (Some minor spotting or staining, some toning with a few leaves browned.) Uniformly in later quarter diced black calf, spines gilt-lettered, marbled boards, edges sprinkled brown (some light wear, a few joints tender). Provenance: unidentified early owner (annotations); with the bookplate of Isaac Norris, added by a later owner (1701-1766), Pennsylvania politician and merchant.

FIRST EDITIONS. Memoirs and Collections result from Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s devotion to preserving materials related to the early history of Pennsylvania, and include accounts of William Penn’s Treaty of Shackamaxon as well as Penn’s letters, a biography of former Governor Sir William Keith, proceedings of the earliest tribunal during the colonial period, and military journals of Ebenezer Denny regarding the Yorktown campaign in the American Revolutionary War. $300 - 400

657 PIERCE, Franklin (1804-1869). Engraved document signed (“Franklin Pierce”), as President, Washington, D. C., 17 October 1855, countersigned by James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy.

1 page, folio, 410 x 342 mm, on vellum, with paper seal, creased, dampstaining affecting signature.

Military appointment promoting William K. Mayo to “Master (in the line of promotion)” in the Navy. William Kennon Mayo (1824-1900) was an officer in the U. S. Navy, ultimately rising to the rank of Commodore. He was appointed midshipman for active service in the Mexican-American War, and then worked as an instructor at the U. S. Naval Academy. During the Civil War, he was appointed executive officer of the Housatonic during the Union blockade of Charleston. He stayed in the Navy after the end of the Civil War, attaching to various ships before being named commandant of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard from 1882 to 1885. $600 - 800

658 PURSH, Frederick Traugott (1774-1820). Flora Americae Septentrionalis. London: for James Black and Son, 1816.

2 volumes, 8vo (219 x 136 mm). 24 engraved plates (some browning and staining). Contemporary green cloth, paper labels to spines (some wear to labels, rebacked preserving original spines); folding case. Provenance: Bacon free Library (bookplate, remnants of label on spine of vol.I).

Second edition of “the most important work which had hitherto been published on the Botany of North America” (Sabin), which includes descriptions of plants from the Lewis and Clark expedition. Pursh worked with Bernard M’Mahon, one of the stewards of Lewis and Clark’s plant specimens, on the work, which includes nine plates engraved and signed by Hooker after drawings by Pursh. Sabin 66728.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $1,000 - 1,500

659 RAMSAY, David (1749-1815). The History of the American Revolution. Trenton: James J. Wilson, 1811.

2 volumes, 8vo (215 x 128 mm). 4pp. subscriber’s list at end (Some spotting and browning, leaf E2 in Vol. II torn across repaired with old stitching, dampstaining to a few leaves.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (some rubbing and wear). Provenance: William S. Wright (signature dated 1812).

Second American edition of Ramsay’s account of the Revolution, drawn from papers he studies while serving in the Continental Congress in 1782, 1783, 1785, and 1786. Howes R-35; Sabin 67687.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $200 - 300

660 RAMSAY, David (1749-1815). The History of the American Revolution. Trenton: James J. Wilson, 1811.

2 volumes, 8vo (213 x 128 mm). (Browned, some spotting or staining, some creasing.) Contemporary marbled calf, red calf lettering-pieces gilt (some wear, hinges starting); slipcase. Provenance: Daniel Gusailer? (signatures).

Second American edition of Ramsay’s account of the Revolution, drawn from materials collected by the author while he served as a member of the Continental Congress in the years 17821783 and 1785-1786. Ramsay’s work was first published in Philadelphia in 1789 and was followed London (1793) and Dublin (1795) editions prior to the publication of this second American edition. Sabin 67687.

$200 - 400

661 REED, William. Olaf Wieghorst. Flagstaff: Northland press, 1969.

4to. Color frontispiece, title-page printed in blue and black, numerous illustrations (many in color). Original quarter black leather gilt, spine stamped in puce (a touch of rubbing to spine ends); slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 37 of 200 copies, SIGNED BY REED WITH AN INITIALED ORIGINAL DRAWING BY WIEGHORST depicting the profile of an Indigenous man wearing in a feather headdress in pen on the limitation page. Denmark-born Weighorst worked with horses throughout his life in various jobs with the U.S. Calvary, as a wrangler, or breaking horses for the New York City Police Department. His knowledge of horses was later useful to him in Hollywood, where he painted from Gene Autry’s Champion and Roy Rogers’ Trigger and his art was featured in the open titles for the film El Dorado (1966). $300 - 400

662 [RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS]. Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends Towards the Indian Tribes... from the Time of their Settlement in American, to the Year 1843. London: Edward Marsh, 1844.

8vo (222 x 139 mm). Engraved color frontispiece, engraved folding map with outlines hand-colored. (Some light toning, some minor soiling, a few tears to folding map). Modern half red morocco gilt, marbled boards (some minor scuffing). Provenance: Albert Merritt (inscription), gifted to; Martha Bunting (inscription, annotations).

FIRST EDITION. The “Map of North America, Denoting the Boundaries of the Yearly Meetings of Friends and the Locations of the Various Indian Tribes” includes the depiction of a Texas as a large, independent area extending to the Rio Grande and small portion extending as far as the Oregon border. Sabin 86572.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $300 - 400

663 REMINGTON, Frederic (1861-1909), illustrator. -- GARLAND, Hamlin (18601940). The Book of the American Indian. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1923.

4to. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many in color) by Remington and others. (Some toning.) Original cloth-backed boards, top edge red-stained (some chipping). Provenance: London Public Library and Art Museum (stamps).

FIRST EDITION, with Remington’s illustrations reprinted from editions of Harper’s Weekly.

The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto $300 - 400

664 REMY, Jules (1826-1893) and Julius BRENCHLEY (18161873). A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City...With a Sketch of the History, Religion and Customs of the Mormons. London: W. Jeffs, 1861.

2 volumes, 8vo. Half-title and frontispiece portrait in each volume, 10 engraved plates, folding map. Original blue blindstamped cloth, Mormon tabernacle in gilt on front covers, spines gilt-lettered (spines darkened, some wear to spine ends and extremities). Provenance: bookplates.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, preceded by the French language first edition of the previous year, recounting Remy and Brenchley’s trip from San Francisco to Salt Lake City in 1855, where they stayed for one month. The Frenchmen “were fascinated by the Mormons, and much of this book is devoted to the new American religion” (Wagner-Camp). The folding map traces the authors’ route. Flake 6867; Forbes 2447; Howes R-210; Sabin 64594; Wagner-Camp 364:2.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $500 - 700

665 NO LOT

666 [SALESMAN’S CATALOGUE]. Nurseryman’s Plant Catalog. Rochester, NY: for J. W. Thompson & Co., ca 1880.

Oblong 8vo (213 x 136 mm). 92 chromolithographic plates signed J. W. Thompson; one plate signed D. M. Dewey. (Some overall toning and staining, a few captions shaved, a few plates excised.) Original morocco gilt (rebacked, lacking clasp).

Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates, comprising: 49 fruit plates including apples, pears, peaches, grapes, plums, currants, strawberries, and other berries; 35 flower plates including roses, clematis, wisteria, quinquefolia, honeysuckle, althea, hydrangea, lilies, quince; 9 tree and hedge plates including Judas’ tree, weeping birch, weeping willow, purple fringe, weeping linden, weeping elm, and spruce.

John Wrigley Thompson began producing color plates in approximately 1876; his advertisement in an 1876 directory reads: “We are prepared to manufacture first class plates for nurserymen, twenty percent less than any other establishment in town, and fully equal, if not superior in quality.” The plates include information about the fruit or plant’s common name and information about the properties of the plant.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $500 - 700

667 [SALESMAN’S CATALOGUE]. DEWEY, D. M. The Nurseryman’s Specimen Book of American Horticulture and Floriculture, Fruits, Flowers, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c. N.p., n.d. [ca 1880s?].

Oblong 8vo (212 x 137 mm). Chromolithographed title, 80 chromolithographed and stencil-colored plates. (Some minor toning, a few captions shaved, a few plates without captions or with pencilled captions.) Contemporary wallet-style morocco gilt (some wear, lacking clasp). Provenance: James M. Chambers (binding, signature).

Agricultural trade catalogue with an extensive collection of plates comprising: 58 fruit plates including apples, peaches, grapes, pears, plums, strawberries and other berries, currants; 11 flower plates including roses, honeysuckle, and hydrangea; 8 tree or bush plates including arbor vitae, weeping willow, ash, spruce, juniper and pine; and 3 landscape or scenery plates.

Dewey was the most successful of the nineteenth-century nurserymen from the Flower City. The plates his firm produced “were simple watercolours, but later, as demand grew, the technique of theorem paintings coloured with the help of stencils was used to multiply the number of copies as quickly and as cheaply as possible” (Oak Spring Pomona 64).

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $500 - 700

668 SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe (1793-1864). Information Respecting the History, Conditions, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States....Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853, 18521857.

6 volumes, 4to (315 x 244 mm). Half-titles; engraved frontispiece portrait of Schoolcraft; engraved title-pages; 329 engraved plates and maps (some with hand-coloring or printed in color) after S. Eastman and others; several woodcut illustrations in text. PUBLISHER’S RED MOROCCO elaborately gilt, upper covers with central gilt eagle, lower covers with vignette of an Indian gilt, 2 volumes with the name of the recipient, Henry M. Rice, gilt-lettered on upper cover (some light rubbing, a few joints starting, a few spine ends chipping). Provenance: Henry M. Rice (bookplates, binding).

FIRST EDITION, IN A PUBLISHER’S DELUXE BINDING, with the reissue of Part I incorporating a new title to be uniform with the other parts (see Sabin). Although it is somewhat haphazardly arranged, Schoolcraft’s work “contains a vast mass of really valuable material. It has indeed performed a very important service for Indian history, in collecting and preserving an immense amount of historic data....A very large number of beautiful steel engravings, representative of some phase of Indian life and customs, are contained in the work” (Field).

Henry Mower Rice was a fur trader with the Ho-Chunk and Chippewa Indians who was influential in negotiating the United States treaty with the Ojibwe Indians in 1847, as well as several other Indian treaties. He later served as delegate for the Minnesota Territory in 1853 through 1857. He was a member of the wing of the Minnesota Democratic party referred to as “Moccasin Democrats” because of their affiliation with the fur trade. Rice’s work on the Minnesota Enabling Act helped facilitate Minnesota’s statehood. Field 1379; Howes S-183; Sabin 77855.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $4,000 - 6,000

669 SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry Rowe (1793-1864). Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.... Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1851.

Volume I only (of 6), 4to. 75 lithographed plates, including 65 chromolithographed, after Captain S. Eastman. Original blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind (rebacked preserving original spine, some scuffing and soiling). Provenance: Charles E. Mix (1810-1878), chief clerk of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (gift inscription to); Josiah Minot (1818-1891), American jurist (presentation inscription).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CHARLED E. MIX: “Hon. Josiah Minot, with respects of Charles E. Mix, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs.” Josiah Minot, once the law partner of President Franklin Pierce, served as a judge in Concord, New Hampshire. Charles Mix served a brief term as commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1858, during which time he oversaw the signing of a treaty with the Yankton Sioux Tribe in Dakota Territory and oversaw the Treaty of Washington, which was ratified by the United States Senate on 16 February 1859.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $400 - 600

670 [SHAKERS]. Catalogue of Medicinal Plants, Barks, Roots, Seeds, Flowers and Select Powders.....Raised, Prepared, and put up in the most careful manner by the United Society of Shakers, at New Lebanon, N.Y. Albany: Van Benthuysen, ca 1851?

8vo. 35 pp. (A few blank corners torn away, some staining.) Original printed wrappers, stab-sewn (lacking lower wrapper, upper corner torn away, some soiling). Provenance: Baxter L. Knowlton (signature on cover, Syracuse, NY).

19th-century catalogue for the United Society of Shakers at New Lebanon, NY. Includes a list of abbreviations, a catalogue of seeds, information about pure vegetable extracts in fluid and solid form, ointments and essential oils, plant name synonyms, and remedies.

[With:] Two single-sheet letterpress advertisements, comprising: “The Shaker Vegetable Remedy” and “Shaker Hair Restorer”. [Mount Lebanon, NY?], ca 1889. 239 x 150 mm, printed recto and verso. (A few small holes.) -- “List of Garden Seeds Raised by the Society of Shakers, near Albany, NY.” [Albany, NY?]: n.p., n.d. 396 x 138 mm, printed recto only. [Also with:] Five 20th-century works about the Shakers, Shaker industries, and Shaker herbs.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400

671 [SHAKERS]. 6 seed packets from the Shakers’ Garden, Enfield, New Hampshire, comprising beets, cucumbers (early cluster, common, and early), lettuce, and turnip.

6 seed packets (66 x 58 mm - 88 x 87 mm). Letterpress labels, planting instructions, and codes printed within letterpress borders. Envelopes folded and pasted. (Some minor staining to a few envelopes, a few tiny holes with occasional repairs.)

The life and finances of the Enfield Shaker community revolved around agriculture, and their most important industry was their garden seed business. “Shaker-grown garden seeds, one of their best and most successful endeavors, were sold throughout the US. To facilitate sales, the Shakers packaged seeds in small packets or sold them by weight and measure for wholesale use. The packets, however, which were an Enfield Shaker innovation, defined the garden-seed business and are still used today” (connecticuthistory.org). Envelope labeling includes planting instructions, and occasionally includes information for cooking preparation methods (for example, describing the early cluster cucumber as “one of the very best varieties for family use, both for pickles and the table”).

[With:] A group of unused seed envelopes and letterpress labels, comprising: early cucumber and bassino red beet printed envelopes from West Pittsfield, MA; bassino beet and yellow onion printed envelopes from New Lebanon, NY; and horehound, motherwort, and wolf bane letterpress labels from New Lebanon, NY.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $400 - 600

672 SMITH, Samuel Francis (1808-1895). Autograph manuscript signed (“S. Fr. Smith”), a fair copy of the full five verses of “America” (“My country ‘tis of thee...”). N.p., 31 January 1893.

2 pages on a bifolium, 8vo, 28 lines in 4 stanzas, center fold reinforced verso, a few tiny stains, tipped to mat; cloth folding case.

THE FULL FIVE VERSES OF “AMERICA”

The poem begins with the familiar “My country , ‘tis of thee, / Sweet land of Liberty, / Of thee I sing...” and concludes: “Our fathers’ God, to Thee, / Author of liberty, / To thee we sing; Long may our Land be bright / With freedom’s holy light. / Protect us Thy might, / Great God, our King.” Beneath, Smith notes “Written Feb. 1832.” Smith describes the composition and publication of the poem in a clipping laid in, recalling: “[I] instantly felt the impulse to write a patriotic hymn of my own...Seizing a scrap of waste paper, I put upon it, within half an hour, the verses substantially as they stand to-day. I did not propose to write a national hymn. I did not know that I had done so.” After sending “America” accidentally among other poems to a colleague in February 1832, he recalls “To my surprise, I found later that he had incorporated it into a programme for the celebration of July 4, 1832, in Park Street Church, Boston.” In 1932, “America” became the national hymn of the United States. See James J. Fuld, The Book of World-Famous Music, pp. 249-251.

Property from the Collection of Ms. Lauren W. Henry $1,000 - 1,500

673 SNOW, Eliza, compiler (1804-1887). Correspondence of Palestine Tourists; comprising a series of letters by George A. Smith, Lorenzo Snow, Paul A. Schettler, and Eliza R. Snow, of Utah. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Steam Printing Establishment, 1875.

8vo (216 x 145 mm). Original morocco gilt (lacking portion of spine panel, text block detached, a few leaves sprung, overall wear). Provenance: Samuel P. and Mary W. Snow (presentation inscription from Eliza Snow); pencil drawings on two leaves by a previous owner; by descent to present owner.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ELIZA SNOW TO HER BROTHER: “To my beloved Brother & Sister, Samuel P. & Mary W. Snow, with affectionate regards. Eliza R. Snow. Salt Lake City May 14, 1879.” With a clipping of reddish hair laid in (presumably Eliza Snow’s?).

Eliza Roxcy Snow, one of the most celebrated Latter Day Saint women of the 19th-century, was married to Joseph Smith as a plural wife and was a plural wife of Brigham Young after Smith’s death. She was the second president of the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which she re-established in Utah Territory in 1866. Her brother, Lorenzo Snow, was the fifth president of the church. Samuel Pearce Snow was the youngest brother of Lorenzo and Eliza Snow; Mary Blair (nee Wilmot) was his second wife. Eliza Snow was an accomplished poet, and several of her hymns were set to music and included in the Mormon hymnal. According to Sabin, Correspondence of Palestine Tourists was compiled and published by Eliza Snow, and her brother, Lorenzo Snow, likely collaborated with her on its preparation. Sabin 85504. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. From the Private Collection of Tamara Frauenfelder-Stover

$1,500 - 2,500

674 [SPECIMEN ALBUMS]. A group of albums with samples collected in the United States, comprising:

[FLORA]. 2 albums of approximately 45 samples of common plants mounted on sheets, including daisies, ferns, laurel, ranunculus, and purslane among others, several with typed labels pasted lower right. Flexible board covers. Presumably collected by John Fetty in the Washington, D. C. area. Ca 20thcentury?

[SEAWEED]. Album of approximately 75 specimens of seaweed mounted on small sheets and laid or tipped in. Half morocco (some wear). Ca late1800s.

[HERBARIUM]. Cover title: “Herbarium and Plant Description.” 23 bifolium containing specimens tipped to right-hand sheet, with plant description, drawings and classification noted on the left-hand sheet. Specimens include wild currant, elderberry, gooseberry, dogwood, lily of the valley, and violet. Loose in folding cloth portfolio (lacking ties). Ca 1910. -- Together, 3 works in 4 volumes.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400

675 STANSBURY, Howard (1806-1863). An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah...including...an Authentic Account of the Mormon Settlement. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

2 volumes, 8vo, including text and atlas. 3 folding maps (2 large maps bound in atlas volume); 59 lithographed plates. (Some spotting throughout.) Original purple gilt-lettered cloth. Provenance: John Izard Middleton, Jr. (signature, April 1854); early 20th-century annotation recording purchase at auction; bookplate.

FIRST EDITION, published in the same year as Stansbury’s report to the Senate, Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, which was also published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Stansbury commanded a detachment of the Army’s Topographical Engineers which explored the Great Salt Lake Basin in 1849. “Of particular interest were the newly established Mormon settlements, and the routes and passes through the Rockies for emigrants” (Wagner-Camp 219:1). Graff 1490; Howes S-884; Sabin 90370.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $400 - 600

676 STEDMAN, Charles (1753-1812). The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War. London: For the author and sold by J. Murray, J. Debrett, & J. Kerby, 1794.

2 volumes, 4to (269 x 209 mm). Half-titles, 15 maps and plans (11 folding, one with overlay in vol. I). (A few short tears to folds of maps occasionally repaired, some offsetting of maps and charts, some light spotting.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, red and brown morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spines and recornered with a few other repairs, some light wear); slipcase. Provenance: Edward Monckton (1744-1832), British Whig politician (bookplate, signatures); R.F.B. Monckton, gifted to; Library of the Royal Empire Society London (presentation bookplates, withdrawn stamps).

FIRST EDITION of Stedman’s work, “generally considered the best contemporary account… written from the British side” of the American Revolutionary War (Sabin). Born in Philadelphia, Stedman was a loyalist who served the British during the war. He participated in major battles and was seriously wounded twice. He was captured and set to be hanged as a rebel two times but escaped each time. The present account covers all major military engagements of the war as well as many individual battles accompanied by accurate maps and plans, which are “the finest collection of plans assembled by an eyewitness” (Revolutionary Hundred 89). Howes S-914; Sabin 91057. $4,000 - 6,000

677 UDELL, John (1795-1874). Incidents of Travel to California, across the Great Plains; together with the return trips through Central America and Jamaica. Jefferson OH: Printed for the author at the Sentinel Office, 1856.

8vo (176 x 115 mm). Woodcut portrait frontispiece; 1p. errata at end. (Some spotting and staining.) 20th-century half calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf.

FIRST EDITION, containing Udell’s diary from 1 January 1850 through 5 July 1855. Udell made four overland journeys to California before settling there permanently; he was 55 when he began his first journey in May 1850. It was his practice to stay in California, working in the mines and doing odd jobs, and then return home by Nicaragua or Panama for a short stay, and then set forth again” (Kurutz Gold Rush 644). According to Howes, the portrait (present in this copy) was not issued with all copies. Graff 4230; Howes U-3; Sabin 97663; Wagner-Camp 281.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $600 - 800

678 TREVELYAN, George Otto, Sir (1838-1928). The American Revolution. -- George III and Charles James Fox. London, New York, Bombay & Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899-1907, 1912-1914.

12 volumes (extended from 6 volumes), 8vo (220 x 137 mm). Numerous illustrations, numerous folding maps (some with coloring), EXTRA ILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 456 PLATES AND 17 DOCUMENTS (see below). (Some light toning and offsetting, minor tears to a few leaves.) Contemporary brown crushed levant gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, STAMP-SIGNED BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY INC. (spines sunned, some minor scuffing, minor offsetting to endpapers). Provenance: Frederick Stanhope Peck (1868-1947), Rhode Island Legislator (bookplates). FIRST EDITIONS.

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS NEATLY BOUND IN THROUGHOUT, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE FROM SEVERAL SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND OTHER AMERICAN HISTORIC FIGURES, including: HANCOCK, John, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Former President of the Continental Congress and former Governor of Massachusetts. Clipped autograph signed (“John Hancock”). N.p, n.d. “Approved John Hancock True Copy,...” -- HART, John, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Partially printed document signed (“John Hart”), [New Jersey], [ca 25 March 1776]. Eighteen pence bill number 10562 for the Colony of New Jersey dated to 25 March 1776 with signatures of two others. -- HOPKINSON, Francis, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Printed document signed (“Fra.s Hopkinson”), [Pennsylvania], [ca 20 March 1771]. Twenty shillings bill number 2954 for Pennsylvania dated to 20 March 1771 with signatures of two others. -- MORTON, John, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Printed document signed (“John Morton”), [Pennsylvania], [1777]. Six pence bill number 27782 for the Pennsylvania. -- PAINE, Robert Treat, Signer of the the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence. Clipped autograph (“R.T. Paine”). N.p., n.d. -- SHERMAN, Roger, Signer of the Continental Association, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution. Clipped autograph signed (“Roger Sherman’s”). N.p., n.d. “R.T. Paine Agreeing to the above...” -- GATES, Horatio, controversial British-born American Army Officer during the Revolutionary war. Autograph document signed (“Horatio Gates”) as Major General to Pardon Grey. N.p., May 1779. Regarding various military officers. -- GREENE, Nathanael, Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Autograph letter signed (“Nath Greene”) to [Nehemiah Hubbard, Esquire]. Morris Town, January 1780. Demanding an estimate regarding the Quarter Masters expenditures for Congress and the Treasury Board. -- JAY, John, Signer of the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Autograph letter signed (“John Jay”) to unidentified recipient. London, 6 December 1794. Regarding copies of letter no. 23. -- MASON, George, one of 3 delegates to the US. Constitutional Convention of 1787 who refused to sign the U.S. Constitution. Autograph annotation signed (“G.M.”). N.p, n.d. Annotation on the half-title of Les Oeuvres de Virgile. Tome Premier: “Down a Danes’ anime pensatar.” -- MIFFLIN, Thomas, Signer of the U.S. Constitution and first governor of Pennsylvania. Autograph letter signed (“Thomas Mifflin”) to Gen. Thomas. N.p., 26 December 1785. Regarding delivery of 3-pound payment to George Lutz. -- [READ, Thomas], Pennsylvania Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Partially printed document signed (“Corland?”). [St. James’ Court], 9 July 1798. Appointing Read to Lieutenant in a Company of Infantry. -- And others. Complete list available upon request. $1,000 - 1,500

679 ULLOA Y DE LA TORRE GIRAL, Antonio de (1716-1773) and Jorge JUAN Y SANTACILLA (1712-1773). Voyage Historique De L’Amerique Meridionale Fait Par Ordre Du Roi D’Espagne. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert [but Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkestee and Merkus], 1752.

2 volumes, 4to (250 x 192 mm). 2 engraved frontispieces, 55 engraved maps, plans and views on 53 sheets. (Some occasional pale spotting, generally very crisp and clean.) Contemporary French calf, spines gilt, arms removed on sides (arms on sides effaced, a few short splits to joints, a few pale stains). Provenance: Frank S. Streeter (bookplate, his sale, Christie’s New York, 17 April 2007, Lot 507).

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH, THE FRANK S. STREETER COPY, with the Paris imprint on the title which appears in some copies. According to Sabin, no copies were printed at Paris, but all were printed in Paris and Leipzig by Arkesee and Merkus. Ulloa and Juan, officers in the Spanish Navy, were attached to a French expedition organized by the Academie des Sciences to South America, and on their return to Spain in 1746, they compiled the present work, with Juan writing the scientific observations, and Ulloa writing the historical aspect of the expedition.

THE WORK INCLUDES THE EARLIEST RECORDED REFERENCE TO THE “AURORA AUSTRALIS.” Sabin calls for only 45 plates, and copies are recorded in American Book Prices Current with totals ranging from 45-55. The large map of Quito is three joined plates. Hill 1740; Howgego U3; Palau 125473; Sabin 36812.

680 [UNITED STATES CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. Journals of the Congress...[Volume I] (Sept. 5, 1774-Jan. 1, 1776) through Volume X (from 1 November 1784). Philadelphia: R. Aitken, John Dunlap, David Claypoole, 1777-1785.

10 volumes (of 13, comprising volumes I-X), 8vo (each approximately 220 x 134 mm or smaller). (Some occasional browning and spotting.) Vols. I-V, VII uniformly bound in later half calf, fore-edge uncut (some wear, a few joints starting); Vol. VI in a variant half calf (minor loss to head of spine, some wear); Vols. VIII-X uniformly bound in 20th-century cloth-backed boards uncut, printed labels on spines (labels chipping with losses). Provenance: James Tilton (presumably, 1745-1822), Delaware delegate to the Continental Congress (18th-century signatures Vols. II-IV, VII); John Camer (18th-century signature Vol. V); manuscript note: “Mr. Lee’s motion on 8th Act of Cong. (final leaf Vol. VIII); Emmett Collection (duplicate stamp Vol. VIII).

CONTENTS: Vol. I, Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1 1776. Philadelphia: R. Aitken, 1777. (Bound without title-page.) Evans 15683 Vol. II, January 1, 1776 to January 1, 1777. York-Town, PA: John Dunlap 1778. Evans 16137 Vol. III, January 1, 1777 to January 1, 1778. New York: John Dunlap [1778]. (Bound without the “General Index to Volume I”, 12pp., at end). Evans 16138 Vol. IV, January 1st, 1778 to January 1st, 1779. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, [1779]. (With only 4pp. [of 7 called for by Evans] at the end.) Evans 16584 Vol V, January 1, 1779 to January 1, 1780. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1782. Evans 17766 Vol. VI, January 1st, 1780 to January 1st, 1781. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, [1781]. (With only 4pp. [of 6 called for by Evans] at the end.) Evans 17392 Vol. VII, For the Year 1781. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1781 FIRST ISSUE, with the index incorrectly numbered VIII. Evans 17767 Vol. VIII, First Monday in November 1782 to First Monday in November 1783. Philadelphia: David C. Claypoole, 1783. Evans 18266 Vol IX, Third Day of November 1783 to Third Day of June 1784. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, [1784]. (Without the rare August addendum as often.) Evans 18840 Vol. X, From the First Monday in November, 1784. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1785. Evans 19316

A CONSECUTIVE RUN OF THE JOURNALS OF CONGRESS, INCLUDING THE RARE SECOND VOLUME, INCLUDING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

The Journals were issued by the government’s printers Robert Aitken, John Patterson, John Dunlap and David Claypoole. The printing of Vol.II was interrupted when the British seized Philadelphia in the summer of 1777, and most copies of the volume were printed by both Robert Aitken and John Dunlap The set incorporates the full text of the Declaration of Independence including the names of the Signers, the minutes of the debates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and the proposed Constitution (pp.241-246, Vol. II). FOUR VOLUMES FROM THE COLLECTION OF A DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS. James Tilton served in the 1st Delaware Regiment of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, where he served with distinction and saw action in the battles of Brooklyn, White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton. On July 4, 1783, he was elected first president of the Delaware chapter of the society of the Cincinnati, an office he held until 1793. He was named a delegate to the Continental Congress three times from 1783 to 1785.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $10,000 - 15,000

681 [UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.] Growth and Manufacture of Silk. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury… of May 11, 1826, in Relation to the Growth and Manufacture of Silk. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828.

8vo (222 x 137 mm). 5 engraved plates (2 folding, one hand-colored), numerous tables (2 folding). (Some spotting or soiling, some minor creasing.) Later paper wrapper unattached (binding defective but sewing holding, some fading).

The present work is document number 158 from the 20th Congress, 1st session. With an additional folding plate laid in. Sabin 81010.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $200 - 300

682 VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798). A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World. London: G. G. 7 J. Robinson, 1798.

4 volumes, comprising: text, 3 volumes, 4to (295 x 233 mm); atlas, folio (517 x 425 mm). Text: half-titles in vols. II and III, 18 engraved plates and maps; atlas: 16 engraved maps and profiles (10 folding). (Some spotting to text, plates, and profiles Contemporary blind-stamped calf, later rebacking (worn, some damage, a few covers detached or detaching.) Provenance: John Waldie (1833-1907), Canadian politician and lumber baron (armorial bookplate); bookplate.

FIRST EDITION of Vancouver’s voyage, “one of the most important ever made in the interests of geographical knowledge” (Hill).

After serving on Cook’s second and third voyages, Vancouver was made commander of a grand-scale expedition to establish Britain’s territorial rights in the Pacific North West following the Nootka Convention at Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island in 1790. His orders were also to examine thoroughly the coast south of 60° in order to find a possible passage to the Atlantic. Over the course of three seasons, he surveyed the coast of California (visiting San Francisco and San Diego), met with the Spanish at Nootka, discovered the Strait of Georgia, circumnavigated Vancouver island, and proved that no passage existed between the Pacific and Hudson’s Bay. He died in 1798, and his narrative was completed by his brother and by Peter Puget. Hill notes that Vancouver undertook his surveys “with a thoroughness rarely equalled in the history of maritime exploration...completing the most arduous survey that it had fallen any navigator to undertake.” Forbes 298; Hill 1753; Howes V-23c; Lada-Mocarski 55; Sabin 98443; Streeter sale 3487. 682

683 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). Partly printed document signed (“Go: Washington”), as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, “HeadQuarters,” 7 June 1783. Countersigned by John TRUMBULL (1740-1809) (“J. Trumbull Gen Secy.”), as General Secretary.

1 page, 4to, 332 x 205 mm, docketed verso, separation to fold along portion of Washington’s signature, a few tiny holes, some staining.

Washington grants furlough and discharge to Elijah Knapp, Sergeant of the 2nd Connecticut Regiment, who served from 7 June 1777 until the close of the war and American victory in 1783. The signature of William S. Smith, Knapp’s Colonel, appears below a notice that Knapp will receive the Badge of Merit for six years’ service. Knapp and the 2nd Connecticut Regiment saw action in the New York Campaign, the Battle of Brandywine, the Battle of Germantown, and the Battle of Monmouth. The regiment was furloughed 15 June 1783 at West Point, and disbanded on 15 November 1783. $5,000 - 6,000

684 [WESTERN AMERICANA] A group of 3 works in 4 volumes, comprising:

FEATHERSTONHAUGH, George William. A Canoe Voyage Up the Minnay Sotor. London: Richard Bentley, 1847. 2 volumes. Contemporary half calf. -- FLINT, Timothy. Indian Wars of the West. Cincinnati: E.H. Flint, 1833. Contemporary half calf. -- SCHOOLCRAFT, Henry R. Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States. Albany: E & E Hosford, 1821. Contemporary calf. -- 8vo. Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, condition generally good.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $200 - 300 685 [WESTERN AMERICANA -- CALIFORNIA AND OREGON]. A group of 6 works, comprising:

686 [WESTERN FRONTIER]. TAYLOR, Joseph Henry (1844-1908). Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri. Pottstown, PA: By the Author, 1889.

8vo. Frontispiece, with illustrations. Modern half calf.

FIRST EDITION of Taylor ‘s account of living in North and South Dakota and the Northwestern territories between 1864 and 1889. The author printed this edition on an improvised hand-press. Howes T-68.

Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota $200 - 300 ALLEN, A. J. Ten Years in Oregon. Travels and Adventures. Ithaca, NY: Mack, Andrus, & Co., 1848. Contemporary calf. -- FREMONT, John Charles (1813-1890). Report of The Exploring Expedition to The Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843’44. Washington, D. C.: Printed by Order of the Senate, by Gales and Seaton, 1845. 4 lithographed maps (2 folding); 22 lithographed plates. Contemporary brown cloth. FIRST EDITION. Graff 1436; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter VI:3131; Wagner-Camp 115:1. Provenance: R. C. A. Prior (armorial bookplate). -- GREENHOW, Robert T. (1800-1854). The History of Oregon and California, and the other territories on the North-West Coast of North America. London: John Murray, 1844. Contemporary half calf. -- HINES, Gustavus. A Voyage Round the World: With a History of the Oregon Mission. Buffalo: George H. Derby and Co., 1850. Publisher’s brown cloth. -- PARKER, Samuel. Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains. Ithaca, NY: Published by the Author, 1840. Includes map of Oregon territory. Contemporary cloth. -- THORNTON, Jessy Quinn. Oregon and California in 1848.... New York, 1849. Vol I only. Publisher’s brown cloth. -- Together, 6 works in 6 volumes, all 8vo, condition generally very good.

Property from the Westland Library of the Frontier $500 - 700

687 WINTERBOTHAM, William (1763-1829). An Historical, Geographical, Commercial and Philosophical View of the American United States.... London: for the editor et al, 1795.

4 volumes, 8vo (217 x 127 mm). 5 engraved portrait frontispieces (including an additional frontispiece portrait of Washington in Vol. I); 11 engraved maps and plans (9 folding; a few tears to folds, the map of North America with tear crossing image); 19 engraved plates (one hand-colored); 7 letterpress tables on 4 folding sheets; with “Directions to Binder” leaf at end of Vol. IV. (Some offsetting and browning.) Contemporary calf, brown morocco letteringpieces gilt (overall wear, a few covers detached or detaching). Provenance: Susanna Arder (early signatures on flyleaves).

FIRST EDITION, with the large folding plan of Washington D. C. and with the hand-colored tobacco plate. Also with folding maps of North America, the United States, New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, Kentucky, South America and the West Indies. The list of plates erroneously calls for a plate of Niagara Falls rather than the plate of the Falls of St. Anthony present in all copies (see Howes and Sabin). ESTC T131074; Howes W-581; Sabin 104832.

6 volumes, 4to. Publisher’s red cloth gilt.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $200 - 300 689 [AMERICANA -- BIBLIOGRAPHY]. SABIN, Joseph (1821-1881) et al. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America. R.W.G VAIL, editor. New York: Joseph Sabin, 18681936.

27 volumes (of 29, lacking vols. IV and XIV), 8vo. (Some light toning, some minor soiling.) Original black cloth, spines gilt-lettered. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, unnumbered one of 525 copies.

[With:] MOLNAR, Joseph Edgar. Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin’s Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1974. 3 volumes, 8vo. Original blue cloth stamped in silver. FIRST EDITION.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $500 - 700 690 [AMERICANA -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 6 works, comprising:

CARRINGTON, Henry Beebee. Battles of the American Revolution. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1876. Later red cloth gilt. INSCRIBED BY HENRY B. CARRINGTON. -- COLE, George Watson. A Catalogue of Books Relating to the Discovery and Early History of North and South America. New York: Peter Smith, 1951. 5 volumes. Publisher’s salmon cloth. -- DECKER, Peter. Catalogues of Americana. Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1979. 3 volumes. Publisher’s buff cloth. -- FLAKE, Chad. A Mormon Bibliography 1830-1930. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978. Publisher’s blue cloth gilt. TLS LAID IN SIGNED BY CHAD FLAKE. -- MANCHESTER, Herbert. Four Centuries of Sport in America 1490-1890. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1931. Publisher’s red cloth. -- STEPHENSON, Richard W. (ed.) Civil War Maps. Washington: The Library of Congress, 1989. Publisher’s quarter calf gilt. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD W. STEPHENSON. -- Together, 6 works in 12 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, condition generally fine.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $300 - 400 691 [AMERICANA -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 7 works, comprising:

FORBES, David W. Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900. Honolulu et al, 1999-2003. 4 volumes. -- The Thomas Winthrop Streeter Collection of Americana. NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1966-1970. 8 volumes. Most with Glassines (chipped). -- McBRIDE, L.R. Petroglyphs of Hawaii. Hilo, HI, 1969. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian and the American Frontier. NY: Sotheby’s, 1999. 2 volumes. -- LADA-MOCARSKI, Valerian. Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published Before 1868. New Haven, CT et al, 1969. In dust jacket. -- And 2 others. Together, 7 works in 18 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, most in original bindings, most FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400 692 [AMERICANA -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 11 works, comprising:

DECKER, Peter. Catalogues of Americana. Austin, TX, 1979. 3 volumes. -- HARTLEY, William E., III, editor. Wright Howes: The Final Edition (of U.S.iana). Pine Mountain, GA, 1994. -- And another copy. -- WEATHERWAX, Paul. Indian Corn in Old America. NY, 1954. In dust jacket. FIRST ISSUE. -- HOWES, Wright. U.S.iana (1650-1950). NY, 1962. Second edition. -- HEDRICK, Ulysses Prentiss. A History of Agriculture in the State of New York. NY, 1933. In dust jacket. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- And 5 others. Together, 11 works in 14 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, all in original bindings, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $200 - 300 693 [AMERICANA -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 12 works, including:

WAGNER, Henry R. and Charles L. CAMP. The Plains & the Rockies. SF, 1982. 2 volumes. Fourth edition. -- COWAN, Robert Ernest, and Robert Granniss COWAN. A Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930. SF, 1933. 3 volumes. Slipcase. Second edition. -- BAER, Elizabeth. Seventeenth Century Maryland a Bibliography. Baltimore, 1949. Slipcase. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED. -- HOPKINS, Joseph G.E. et al, editor. Concise Dictionary of American Biography. NY, 1964. In dust jacket. -- ADAMS, Ramon F. The Rampaging Herd. Norman, OK, 1959. In dust jacket. -- California Spanish Exploration to American Statehood the Library of Jennie Crocker Henderson. SF, 1979-1980. 5 volumes. -- And 6 others. Together, 12 works in 21 volumes, various Folio, 4to, and 8vo sizes, most illustrated, all in original bindings, most FIRST EDITION, condition generally good. Complete list available upon request.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil $300 - 400 694 [CANADIANA -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES]. A group of 5 works, comprising:

ALSTON, Sandra, et al. A Bibliography of Canadiana, Second Supplement. Toronto: The Public Library, 1989. 4 volumes. Publisher’s red cloth. -- BOYLE, Gertrude M., et al. A Bibliography of Canadiana, First Supplement. Toronto: The Public Library, 1959. Publisher’s red cloth. -- LANDE, Lawrence. A Bibliography of Canadiana. Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, 1965. Publisher’s half calf; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 689 of 950 copies, SIGNED BY LAWRENCE LANDE. -- LANDE, Lawrence. Rare and Unusual Canadiana. Montreal: The Lawrence Lande Foundation for Canadian Historical Research, 1971. LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies SIGNED BY LAWRENCE LANDE, with laid-in ALS BY LAWRENCE LANDE. -- STATON, Frances M. and TREMAINE, Marie. A Bibliography of Canadiana. Toronto: The Public Library, 1934. Publisher’s red cloth. -- Together, 5 works in 8 volumes, various folio and 4to sizes, condition generally fine.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $200 - 400

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695 SPIRINX, Nicolas (fl. 1606-1643). [Celestial Globe Gore] -- [Terrestrial Globe Gore]. [Lyons:] dated 1610 (but later?).

Two engraved sheets, each 12 gores, making up a celestial and terrestrial globe, on laid paper with central watermark depicting a bunch of grapes, sheets 287 x 423 mm, diameter of each globe approximately 113 mm. Celestial: first gore with a dedicatory cartouche, third gore with mapmaker’s name and date. Terrestrial: first gore with a dedicatory cartouche, tenth gore with mapmaker’s name and date. (A few tiny marginal holes on Celestial gore sheet.)

Shirley records two sets of globe gores, including both celestial and terrestrial: one pair at the Newberry Library, the other at Yale University. Based on Shirley’s examination, he considered them both to be 18th-century pulls. The present examples are printed on half sheets of laid paper with chain lines running horizontally, and with a central watermark depicting a bunch of grapes. According to the Newberry Library, their gores are printed on “19th-century machine-made paper.” Spirinx’s cartography was based on Francois de Mongenet’s celestial and terrestrial globe gores. Examples of any strike of Spirinx’s gores are rare at auction: according to online records, we trace only 4 examples of Spirinx’s celestial gores, and no examples of Spirinx’s terrestrial gores at auction in the last 50 years. $2,000 - 3,000

696 PRICHARD, James Cowles (1786-1848). Six Ethnographic Maps, Illustrative of “The Natural History of Man” and “Researches into the Physical History of Mankind.” [London]: N.p., [ca 1850].

Folio (560 x 350 mm). Six double-page hand-colored maps. (Some occasional spotting.) Contemporary roan-backed marbled boards (covers detaching, some wear). Provenance: Mrs. M. O. Munroe (stamp).

Second edition, published to illustrate Prichard’s The Natural History of Man, which was first published in 1843. The maps illustrate the distribution of races in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The atlas, sold separately from the text, is rare in any edition. Sabin 65480.

Property from the Collection of Dorothy and Richard Fitch $500 - 700

697 BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638). Britannia Prout Divisa Suit Temporibus Anglo-Saxonum Praesertim Durante Illorum Heptarchia. Amsterdam, ca 1645.

Engraved map of Britain, text on verso in Latin, sheet 508 x 608 mm, with hand-coloring (a few tiny marginal chips, short tear lower margin repaired verso, small loss to upper margin repaired verso some tiny spots). Wide side borders decorated with 14 historiated scenes of the Saxon kingdoms including the shield of each kingdom.

[With:] HONDIUS, Henricus (1597-1651). Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula. Amsterdam, ca 1635. Engraved map of Britain, sheet 491 x 592 mm, with hand-coloring, compass rose gilt (map laid down, a few pale stains and tiny marginal chips). With small inset map of the Orkney Islands. $600 - 800 696

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