PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA LOTS 284-336

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[ASTRONAUTS]. A group of 5 works, comprising:

ALDRIN, Buzz. Men from Earth. New York: Bantam Books, 1989. SIGNED BY ALDRIN. -- DUKE, Charlie and Dotty. Moonwalker. Nashville: Oliver Nelson, 1990. SIGNED BY CHARLIE AND DOTTY DUKE. -- LOVELL, Jim. Lost Moon. The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. SIGNED BY LOVELL. -- COOPER, Gordon. Leap of Faith. An Astronaut’s Journey into the Unknown. New York: Harper Collins, 2000. SIGNED BY COOPER. -- CUNNINGHAM, Walter. The All-American Boys. New York: ibooks, 2003. Later edition, SIGNED BY CUNNINGHAM. -- Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, 8vo. FIRST EDITIONS (except where indicated) ALL SIGNED, original publisher’s bindings and dust jackets. Condition generally fine.

$500-700

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AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, [1839-] 1840-1844. -- AUDUBON, John James and John BACHMAN (1790-1874). The Quadrupeds of North America. New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849-1854.

Together, 2 works in 10 volumes, royal 8vo (264 x 162-172 mm). Birds: Half-titles, 500 HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES after Audubon by W. E. Hitchcock, R. Trembly and others, printed and colored by J. T. Bowen, wood-engraved anatomical diagrams in text; Quadrupeds: 155 HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHED PLATES by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J. J. and John Wodehouse Audubon. UNIFORMLY BOUND IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER’S BLIND-STAMPED BROWN MOROCCO, edges gilt (neatly rebacked to style). Provenance: Morgan Shepard (“John Martin”), (1865-1947) children’s book author (typed letters signed tipped in to:); R. M. Kaufmann (bookplate).

FIRST OCTAVO EDITIONS IN THE DELUXE PUBLISHER’S BINDINGS

Audubon’s double-elephant folio edition of The Birds of America (18271838) established his reputation as the greatest ornithological artist of his time. Though that edition was published in London to ensure the quality of the plates, he employed the Philadelphia firm of J. T. Bowen to produce this more commercially viable edition under the close supervision of his sons. The original subscription price was $100, and its commercial success granted Audubon financial security. To the original plate count included in the double-elephant folio edition, the octavo edition adds 65 new images for a total of 500 plates, making it “the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time” (Reese). 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. Ayer/Zimmer, p.22; Bennett, p.5; McGill/Wood, p.208; Nissen IVB 51; Nissen ZBI 163; Reese, American Color Plate Books 34; Sabin 2364, 2638. A FINE TALL SET.

$60,000-80,000

286 286 287

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Autograph letter signed (“John J. Audubon”) to Edinburgh bookseller Alexander Hill. London, 17 July 1830. One page, 4to (252 x 202 mm), with integral leaf addressed in holograph. Mailing folds, a few minor spots, remnants of mounting strip on integral address leaf.

AUDUBON WRITES AN EDINBURGH BOOKSELLER REGARDING PAYMENT FROM ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN SUBSCRIBERS TO THE BIRDS OF AMERICA.

“I have been in London a fortnight and am yet without any answer to my last letter sent to you from Liverpool about a month ago, in which I desire you to collect the money due to me by Miss Harriet Douglas of New York. I am extremely anxious to have your answer and some money from you and I again ask you to send in a regular list of my Subscribers with you and their respective residence to have the whole engraved in the sheets of my 1st Jany next plates of frontispieces. I hope you received the 19th number in good order…”

In a postscript he writes concerning a young artist, Joseph B. Kidd (1808-1889), whom Audubon employed to paint birds for display and advertisements: “Please let me know where Mr. Kidd is and if in Edinburgh, why has he not written to us?”

Harriet Douglas (1792-1833) was a New York heiress who spent time in Edinburgh. She was Audubon’s first American subscriber for The Birds of America. In his journal, Audubon mentions a visit to her at some later date and comments on the poor condition the plates had been maintained: “Called on Miss D—, the fair American. To my surprise I saw the prints she had received the evening before quite abused and tumbled. This, however, was not my concern, and I regretted it only on her account, that so little care should be taken of a book that in fifty years will be sold at immense prices because of its rarity…”

$4,000-6,000

287

AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851). Autograph letter signed (“John J. Audubon”) to his son Victor. Pittsfield, [MA], 11 September 1844. One page, 4to (234 x 194 mm), with integral leaf addressed in holograph. Some minor pale spotting, remnants of previous mounting at corners on verso, mailing folds.

ADDING SUBSCRIBERS FOR HIS NEW BOOK ON NORTH AMERICAN QUADRUPEDS.

Informing his son that he has obtained more subscribers for their Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America: “I have obtained three more subscribers since my last to you… The subscribers are follows. — 1. Hble. Henry Shaw, Lanesboro (Pittsfield) 2. L. Pomeroy… 3. Thomas Allen, St. Louis, Mo. I have some hopes of another this day…”

Also reporting on his sporting activities, “We went fishing for Pickerel and caught 10… We go again tomorrow morning at 4 o’clock…” He also gives his forthcoming travel plans through Hudson and Troy, New York. And concludes: “I hope to find you all quite well. God bless you all…”

Victor Gifford Audubon (1809-1862) assisted his father, along with his brother John Woodhouse Audubon, in the creation of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. While he did contribute some artistic work to the project, his main function was to handle the business of producing and selling the work, along with the earlier The Birds of America. After his father’s death, Victor continued to manage the business aspects in promoting his father’s work.

Of the subscribers he mentions, Henry Shaw had served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and was at the time in the MA legislature. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1845. Thomas Allen was a successful St. Louis banker and railroad executive who later was elected to Congress.

$3,000-4,000

BURTON, Richard Francis (1821-1890). The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862.

8vo (235 x 145 mm). Wood engraved frontispiece, folding map, folding plan, numerous engraved illustrations. (A few short mostly marginal tears to the map, signature effaced on Dedication page.) Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, giltstamped spine (spine ends, top and bottom edge discreetly repaired; some light wear to edges).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION of Burton’s travels in the American West. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. Howes B-1033; Sabin 9497; Wagner-Camp 370:2.

$400-600

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BURTON, Richard Francis (1821-1890), editor. -- MARCY, Randolph B. (1812-1887). The Prairie Traveler, a Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions, with Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes Between the Mississippi and the Pacific, and a Map. London: Trübner and Co., 1863.

8vo (179 x 117 mm). Half-title; engraved frontispiece, folding map, numerous engraved illustrations. 20th-century half green morocco gilt, top edge gilt.

Fourth edition, the first edited by Burton. “After half a lifetime spent on the western plains and in the Rocky Mountains, Captain Marcy was well qualified to advise the prospective emigrant…By 1859, the routes of overland travel had been well established, and Marcy set out twenty-eight of them, including one to the Pike’s Peak gold region which had recently been discovered. The book was then brought up to date in 1863 with a new edition, published in London by Trübner, and edited by Richard Burton, who had just returned from a visit to Salt Lake City” (Wagner-Camp 335:4). Graff 2677; Howes M279; Sabin 44515.

$600-800

290

CHASTELLUX, Franois Jean, Marquis de (1734-1788). Travels in North-America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782... translated from the French by an English Gentleman. Dublin: Printed for Messrs. Colles, Moncrieffe, and others, 1787.

2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 118 mm). 2 folding engraved plates and 3 folding engraved maps at end of vol. II. Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt, red and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (vol.II rebacked .

FIRST DUBLIN EDITION published in the same year as the London edition, which was the first edition in English. According to Howes, “In its completed form [Travels] constitutes the first trustworthy record of life in the United States.” Howes C-324; Sabin 12229.

$300-400

291

[CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE]. The International Competition for a New Administration Building for The Chicago Tribune. Containing all the Designs Submitted in Response to the Chicago Tribune’s USD 100,000 Offer Commemorating its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, June 10, 1922. [Chicago: The Tribune Company, 1923].

Small folio. Etched frontispiece, 281 plates of the designs. Publisher’s cloth-backed burlap, leather lettering-pieces gilt to upper cover and spine.

FIRST EDITION, with designs submitted to the controversial contest by the leading architects of the day, including Gropius, Loos, Adler, Bragdon, Burnham & Co., Saarinen, Goodhue, Holabird and Roche, and Phelps Stokes. John Howell and Raymond Hood (who would later build Rockefeller Center in New York) won with their gothic skyscraper design.

$800-1,200

292

[CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR – CENTURY OF PROGRESS]. Kaufman and Fabry Co., Photographers. A Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago 19331934. N.p.: n.p., n.d.

4to (347 x 272 mm). 60 sepia-toned photographs printed on heavy cream stock, pencil captions lower margin; two additional images of the International Harverster exhibit laid in. Original red morocco gilt, watered silk endpapers, stamp-signed by Arthur Hertzberg & Craftsmen (some light wear to joints); cloth slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 39 of 257 copies signed by Rufus C. Dawes and L. R. Lohr, President and General Manager, respectively, of the Exposition. A fine copy of this rare keepsake.

[With:] Chicago and the World’s Fair 1933. Chicago: F. Husum Publishing Company Inc. 4to. Illustrated. Original silver-stamped blue cloth; pictorial label upper cover.

$1,000-1,500

293

[CHICAGO]. HEFNER, Hugh (1926-2017). That Toddlin’ Town! A Rowdy Burlesque of Chicago Manners and Morals. Chicago: Chi Publishers, 1951.

8vo. Illustrated through. Original red pictorial wrappers (some light wear to spine and extremities).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HEFNER: “To Mr. McBride with regards Hugh M. Hefner.” “Of this book, and of the countless hours spent in its creation Mr. Hefner says: (Nasty four letter word deleted by publisher)” (blurb rear cover).

$600-800 (part lot)

294

CLINTON, William Jefferson (b. 1946). My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

8vo. Original blue cloth gilt; slipcase; original unopened shrink wrap.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY CLINTON.

$600-800

295

CLINTON, William Jefferson (b. 1946). My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

8vo. Original blue boards gilt; original dust jacket.

FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY CLINTON.

$400-600

296

CLINTON, William Jefferson (b. 1946). Typed letter signed (“Bill Clinton”), with one holograph emendation, as United States President, to Carlos J. Moorhead. Washington D. C., 17 November 1993. 1 page, 8vo, on White House letterhead, threehole punch.

Sent the same day NAFTA was passed by House of Representatives, Clinton thanks California Republican Congressman Carlos Moorhead, who crossed party lines to approve the bill. Clinton has crossed out the typed greeting (“Representative Moorhead”) and written “Carlos”. He assures Moorhead about the upcoming congressional elections: “We have come through a difficult debate with many competing pressures. The historic nature of NAFTA and the intense feelings on both sides of the issue and on both sides of the aisle mean it would be best for the House and for our political system if this issue were not re-fought in the 1994 Congressional elections... I will do my utmost to personally encourage a campaign in which anti-NAFTA candidates will no use this issue against pro-NAFTA members, regardless of party, in the coming election.”

[With:]

CLINTON, William Jefferson (b.1946). Typed letter signed (“Bill”), with holograph postscript, as United States President, to Sonny Callahan. Washington D. C., 29 September 1999. 1 page, 8vo, on White House letterhead.

Clinton writes to Sonny Callahan, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign, Export Financing, and Related Programs warning him of his impending veto of Callahan’s appropriation bill H.R. 2606 (106th): “The bill will not allow us to carry out critical foreign policy objectives, including our work to dismantle Russia’s nuclear weapons and to move forward on Middle East peace process commitments. I believe the bill seriously impairs U.S. interests and that I have no choice but to veto it.” Clinton adds an inscribed note near his signature, “I want to work this out with you.”

$800-1,200 295

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[CONSTITUTIONS]. Constitutional Law: Comprising the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation; the Constitution of the United States; and the Constitutions of several States composing the Union. Washington City: Gales and Seaton, 1819.

12mo (174 x 100 mm). Errata slip pasted to final leaf verso. (Browning and spotting throughout, some dampstaining.) Contemporary calf, smooth spine gilt, red morocco lettering-piece gilt (minor losses to spine, rubbed); cloth folding case. Provenance: Louis Dicken Wilson (1789-1847), North Carolina politician, General in the U.S. Army (signatures on fly-leaf and title, dated 1819, Raleigh, and 1826).

FIRST EDITION THUS, including constitutions of Vermont, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, Indiana, and Illinois in addition to the 13 original states. Louis Dicken Wilson represented Edgecombe County in the General Assembly of North Carolina from 1814-1819, and then in the North Carolina Senate in 1820, and again from 1824-1832, when he was chosen speaker. Shaw-Shoemaker 47716; see Sabin 16133 (listing only later editions).

$1,000-1,500

298

DARROW, Clarence (1857-1938). The Story of My Life. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932.

8vo. Color frontispiece portrait. Original white buckram; in original glassine dust jacket (minor chipping and tears at edges); original publisher’s board box (splitting at edges).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, unnumbered out-of-series copy SIGNED BY DARROW. [With:] A memorial card for funeral services for Darrow at the Bond Chapel, University of Chicago laid in. A VERY FINE COPY.

$1,000-1,500

299

DODGE, Richard Irving (1827-1895). The Hunting Grounds of the Great West. A Description of the Plains, Game, and Indians of the Great North American Desert. Introduction by William Blackmore. London: Chatto & Windus, 1877.

3 parts bound in 2 volumes, 8vo. Frontispiece portrait, folding map and 19 plates. Contemporary half calf (joints repaired). Provenance: Sir John Lubbock (bookplates, signed on half-title with ex-dono inscription from the translator William Blackmore, dated 20 November 1876, and presumably his pencil annotations at end).

FIRST EDITION. John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet (1834-1913), was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath. Lubbock worked in his family company as a banker but made significant contributions in archaeology, ethnography, and several branches of biology. He coined the terms “Paleolithic” and “Neolithic” to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively. He helped establish archaeology as a scientific discipline. He corresponded extensively with Charles Darwin, who lived nearby in Down House, and was influential in nineteenth-century debates concerning evolutionary theory. William Blackmore was translator and also the dedicatee of this work. Howes D-404.

$400-600

300

FORD, Gerald (1931-2006). Typed letter signed (“Jerry Ford”), as House Minority Leader, to Donald E. Wieringa. Washington D. C., 2 April 1971. 1 page, 8vo, on Office of the Minority Leader, House of Representatives letterhead, top edge lightly toned with small chip.

Ford responds to concerned constituent Donald E. Wieringa of Grand Rapids, regarding the court-martial of Lt. William Calley (b.1943) for his leadership role in the My Lai Massacre, writing the day after President Nixon released Calley to house arrest: “May I thank you for your expression of interest in the Lt. Calley case. Which has generated much comment both in and out of Congress. I share the grave concern which you expressed. Vietnam veterans with whom I have talked were astonished by the Defense Department’s decision to prosecute Lt. Calley. They are distressed and angered by the court martial verdict. I am sure this verdict will be appealed to higher authority, and I hope that Lt. Calley will benefit from equity and justice.”

$600-800

301

HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804). The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports; An Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, written in 1788; and Pacificus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793. New York: Williams & Whiting, 1810.

3 volumes, 8vo (193 x 110 mm). (Lacking engraved portraits of Hamilton, Jay and Madison, some browning or minor spotting.) Contemporary calf, smooth spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt (Vol. I p. 325 misbound, some minor rubbing, a few hinges starting); morocco folding case. Provenance: B. Taft Jr. (signatures in pencil).

FIRST EDITION of this collection of official reports, including the sixth edition of The Federalist Papers. The work was edited by John Wells, and incorporates changes based on Hamilton’s notes from his own copy of The Federalist; the names of the authors are appended to each essay. See Howes H-114; Sabin 29987.

$3,000-5,000

302

JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (1908-1973). Typed letter signed (“Lyndon”), as Vice President, to William J. McManus. Washington D.C., 28 April 1963. 1 page, 8vo, on Vice President stationary, with envelope, toning, adhesive residue to upper and lower margins. “It is always a pleasure to acknowledge such nice letters from old and good friends.”

[With:]

JOHNSON, Claudia “Lady Bird” (1912-2007). Typed letter signed (“Lady Bird Johnson”), as First Lady, to William J. McManus. Washington D. C., 29 December 1964. 1 page, 8vo, on White House letterhead, with envelope, minor toning at creases. A note of gratitude: “The orchid was just exquisite. How thoughtful of you to remember my birthday.”

$500-700

303

KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994). Typed letter signed (“Jacqueline Kennedy”), to Jonathan Agronsky. N.p., 10 February 1964. 1 page, 8vo, on Mrs. John F. Kennedy stationary with black mourning border, very light creasing.

Kennedy expresses her appreciation to Agronsky who sent an image of her son John at President Kennedy’s funeral: “How very kind of you to send me the portrait of John saluting on the steps of the church, and it is one of the most unusual ones I have seen. You can be assured that I will always treasure this and never forget your thoughtfulness in sending it to me.”

$800-1,200

304

[KENNEDY, John Fitzgerald]. Memorial Addresses in the Congress of the United State and Tribute in Eulogy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Late a President of the United States. Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1964.

8vo. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Original black gilt-stamped cloth; morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND JACQUELINE KENNEDY. Comprising the addresses and tributes given in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives on the life, character, and public service of John F. Kennedy.

$4,000-6,000

305

LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and CLARK, William (1770-1838). History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6. Philadelphia and Dublin: Bradford and Inskeep, J. Christie, 1817.

2 volumes, 8vo (208 x 127 mm). Folding map, 5 single-page maps, with the plate “Principal Cascade of the Missouri River.” (Lacking 12pp. prelims in vol. II, some spotting or browning throughout, a few short marginal tears, some minor offsetting.) Contemporary calf gilt, smooth spines gilt, red and black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spines, some minor rubbing, wear or soiling).

Scarce Dublin edition, which closely follows the first edition of 1814, and which includes Jefferson’s “Life of Captain Lewis” of 18 August 1813 (pp. vii-xxvii), Paul Allen’s “Preface” (pp. iii-v), as well as other text not found in the first London edition. There is disagreement about the preliminary matter in volume II; Howes calls for 18 preliminary pages, whereas Sabin and Wagner-Camp call for 12 preliminary pages. Volume II of the present copy is without the preliminary leaves, with text starting after the title-page on page [3].

“THE MOST IMPORTANT WESTERN EXPLORATION” (Howes). Nicholas Biddle edited the text of the first American edition with the assistance of Paul Allen, and the first edition was published in Philadelphia in 1814. “This reissue of the Bradford and Inskeep edition of 1814 was printed with larger, clearer type, thirty-two lines to the page instead of the earlier thirty-six, and contained other editorial changes. Coues considered it to be the best of the Biddle-Allen editions” (Wagner-Camp). Field 930; Graff 2482; see Hill, p.180 (“one of the most interesting narratives of North America in existence”); see Howes L-317; Sabin 856; Sabin 40831; Wagner-Camp 13:6.

$10,000-15,000

306

MARCY, Randolph Barnes (1812-1887). Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852: By Randolph B. Marcy, ... assisted by George B. McClellan. Washington, D. C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853.

8vo. 65 plates comprising: 12 lithographed views, 10 engraved geological plates (one hand-colored and folding, numbered 1-11, without plate No. 2 as issued), 6 lithographed paleontology plates, 18 lithographed zoology plates, and 19 botanical plates (numbered I-XX, without plate XVIII as issued); 2 folding maps (the larger map with short tear to fold repaired verso). Contemporary calf, red and black morocco lettering-pieces gilt (repairs to hinges and spine, some light wear).

FIRST EDITION, Senate issue, of “Marcy’s report [which] abounds in topographical and geographical detail” (Wagner-Camp). The larger of the two maps, Map of the Country Between the Frontiers of Arkansas and New Mexico, shows Marcy’s route from Fort Smith to Santa Fe in 1849, and “was an attempt not only to bring together information obtained from his own explorations, but to show the relation of that country to the areas lying to the north and south and to the west as far as the Colorado River...one of the best maps of the period.” (Wheat). The second smaller map shows the territory of the upper Red River explored in 1852. Howes M-276; Sabin 44512; Wagner-Camp 226:3; Wheat Transmississippi 791.

$400-600

307

McKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785-1859) -- HALL, James (1793-1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: D. Rice and A.N. Hart, 1855.

3 volumes, 8vo (260 x 169 mm). 120 hand-colored lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen, most after Charles Bird King (1785-1862). (Occasional spotting primarily to text, Moa-na-hon-ga plate with 1/2-in. marginal tear.) PUBLISHER'S DELUXE RED MOROCCO GILT, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, gilt turn-ins, edges gilt (scratch to rear board vol. III, very minor spotting to some boards, very light rubbing to extremities). Provenance: R.M. Kauffmann (bookplate), with gift inscription from “E.W.K.” dated 1947.

Early octavo edition. The first edition of 1836-1844 was published in folio format, and the first smaller-format edition of 1850 contained the additional plate “Red Bird” as the frontispiece to volume II. The plates, which Howes describes as “the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed,” are from King’s portraits previously held in the Indian Gallery, Department of War (Washington D. C.) before they were destroyed in the fire that ravaged the Smithsonian in 1865. Howes M-129; Sabin 43411. A FINE COPY IN THE DELUXE BINDING.

$15,000-20,000

308

MICHAUX, François-André (1770-1855). The North American Sylva. Paris: C. d’Hautel, 1819.

3 volumes, 8vo (249 x 160 mm). Half-titles, 156 color stipple-engraved plates and finished by hand by Gabriel, Bessin, Renard, Cailly, and others after Pancrace Bessa, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and Henri-Joseph Redouté. (Mostly marginal spotting, light toning to a few plates vol. III, gutter margin reinforced between pp.2-3 vol. III.) Contemporary half green calf backed marbled boards, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands decorated in gilt and blind, red morocco lettering pieces gilt (rebacked preserving original spines and endpapers, rubbing to extremities).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, translated by A.L. Hillhouse, containing the findings of François-André Michaux and his father André, who explored the southern Appalachians, Spanish Florida, the Bahamas, the Carolinas, and the midwest, as well as Canada (including Hudson’s Bay). The first edition contained 138 plates, and the present edition was enlarged to include 156 plates from the drawings by Pancrace Bessa (17721846), Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840), and Henri-Joseph Redouté (1776-1852). The work remained the definitive text on the subject until the publication of Charles Singer Sargent’s Silva of North America (1891-1902). Sabin notes that of the English editions “this, notwithstanding some typographical errors, is the best.” Sabin 48694.

$4,000-6,000

309

MICHAUX, François-André (1770-1855). -- NUTTALL, Thomas (1786-1859). The North American Sylva; or, A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1859.

5 volumes, large 8vo (265 x 175 mm). 277 hand-colored engraved or lithographed plates, additional engraved frontispiece portrait of Michaux in vol. I. (Occasional spotting, small wormhole in upper corner of a few leaves in vol. II of the Nuttall.) ORIGINAL DELUXE PUBLISHER’S BLIND-STAMPED BROWN MOROCCO, spines gilt-lettered, edges gilt (a few discreet repairs to joints, very slight rubbing to a few extremities). Provenance: Donald Scott (bookplate).

Later edition. “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). 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”).

310

[MORMONISM]. The Deseret First Book. -- The Deseret Second Book. [In Deseret]. [Salt Lake City, UT]: [Regents of the Deseret University], 1868.

2 volumes, 12mo (185 x 118 mm). Text printed in Deseret language throughout, pictorial title-page, numerous illustrations. Original salmon or brown cloth-backed printed boards (a few minor stains).

FIRST EDITIONS of this “new alphabet consisting of thirty-eight characters...[intended to simplify] the English language [and] to invent an entirely new and original set of characters” (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Historian’s Office pamphlet, laid in). Alfred L. Bush notes: “I find [volumes in the Deseret alphabet] a curious and interesting aspect of Brigham Young’s empire-building -- which went so far as to include an attempt at an alphabetic reformation” (qtd. in Streeter). Flake 2818; Streeter IV: 2309.

$200-300

311

[MORMONISM]. The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, Volume XII. Liverpool: Edited and Published by Orson Pratt, 1850.

Numbers 1-24 in one volume, 8vo (213 x 134 mm). General title, preface and index bound at front. (Minor marginal spotting or staining to a few leaves, a few mostly marginal annotations.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (some very light wear, bookplate removed from pastedown). Provenance: Matthias Cowley (1829-1864), British Mormon, early overland pioneer to the Salt Lake Valley (signature partially effaced on pastedown); Arthur W. North (gift inscription in purple pencil from Harriet B. Hasker, see below).

The complete run of Numbers 1-24 comprising Volume XII of The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, the final volume edited by Orson Pratt (see lot 315). Unlike earlier volumes in which a new number was released each month, numbers were issued twice per month. Numbers 1-8 include information about the pilgrimage from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City, adapted from the private overland journal of Orson Pratt. He began to report on the journey in Volume XI, Nos. 23-24, and the complete account was published as a separate work entitled Exodus of Modern Israel in 1947. Covering the most significant period of the migration west, Pratt details conditions faced by the emigrants, as well as information about the gold rush, the condition in the mines, and early government in California and Utah. In her gift inscription, Harriet Hasker notes that she is “Daughter of Pioneer John Binns, Utah 1847.” See Flake 4779; see Wagner-Camp 171. UNCOMMON WITH FINE EARLY LATTER DAY SAINT PROVENANCE.

$500-700

312

[MORMONISM]. Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly, at Their Session, begun and held at Springfield, on the seventh of December, one thousand eight hundred and forty. Springfield: Wm. Walters, 1841.

8vo. (Overall browning and spotting, dampstaining). ORIGINAL SHEEP-BACKED BOARDS, red morocco lettering-piece (overall soiling and wear, lettering-piece with slight chipping, a few early light annotations); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION. During the 1840-1841 session of the Illinois General Assembly, laws were passed incorporating Nauvoo as a city (pp.52-57), incorporating the Nauvoo House Association (pp.131-132), incorporating the Nauvoo Agricultural and Manufacturing Association (pp.139-145), and appointing a Notary Public to Nauvoo (p.190).

In addition to the significant features of the city’s corporate powers, elections, court system, and the right to establish a university system, the “Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo” includes an unusual provision allowing for the organization of a militia: “The city council may organize the inhabitants of said city subject to military duty into a body of independent military men, to be called the ‘Nauvoo Legion,’ the court martial of which shall be composed of the commissioned officers of said legion…with full powers and authority to make, ordain, establish and execute all such laws and ordinances… Said legion shall be exempt from all other military duty” (p.57). Additionally, an important attachment to the Road Act provided that “any citizen of Hancock county, may, by voluntary enrollment, attach himself to the Nauvoo Legion, with all the privileges which appertain to that independent military body” (p.223). Throughout, important principles are named, including Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Orson Pratt, Sidney Rigdon, Geroge Miller, Lyman Wright, John Snyder, and Peter Hawes.

$1,000-1,500

313

[MORMONISM]. Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the First Session of the Sixteenth General Assembly, begun and held at the City of Springfield, January 1, 1849. Springfield: Charles H. Lanphier, 1849.

8vo. (Light overall browning, dampstaining to a few leaves, a few spots or stains.) Original sheep-backed boards, black morocco lettering-piece (rebacked preserving original spine, some dampstaining or soiling); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION, including six laws passed to address the “Hancock Disturbances.” As tensions grew between the residents of Nauvoo and the residents of Hancock County, fighting broke out. Joseph and Hyrum Smith were imprisoned and later killed by a mob, Nauvoo was raided, and the Mormons agreed to leave Illinois. Among the pertinent laws: “An Act to Pay Certain persons the Balance Due the from the State,” including a list of persons who were called into service by the Governor to suppress the disturbances (pp.33-34); “An Act to compensate Porter Sergant for powder furnished in the Hancock War” (p.36); “An Act authorizing the removal of the county seat of Hancock county” (p.56); “An Act for the relief [of] certain persons therein named,” including Thomas H. Owen, who was paid $51.34 “for provisions furnished the troops…in the Mormon war,” and Thomas Wells, who received $5 “for provisions furnished by him to the troops aforesaid” (pp.118-119); “An Act to provide for the sale of lands and town lots in township four north, range nine west, in Hancock County” (p.181); and a report in the appendix containing expenditures relating to the disturbances at Nauvoo.

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[MORMONISM]. LINFORTH, James (1827-1899), editor. -- PIERCY, Frederick H. (1830-1891), illustrator. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley... Together With a Geographical and Historical Description of Utah, and a Map of the Overland Routes to that Territory, from Missouri River. Liverpool: Franklin D. Richards; London: Latter-Day Saints’ Book Depot, 1855.

4to (309 x 238 mm). Folding frontispiece map “Utah and the Overland Routes to it, from the Missouri River,” with the Utah border and routes hand colored in outline, 30 steel engraved plates, and woodcuts in text after Frederick H. Piercy. (Pale dampstain to lower margin, some browning or soiling.) Contemporary green half calf gilt (some minor rubbing or wear, library card pocket glued to front pastedown); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM OF “SOME OF THE BEST WESTERN VIEWS OF THE PERIOD” (Streeter). “One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of Western books. A large portion of the edition was water-damaged while in transit to New York. In some copies the map of Utah counties is hand-colored” (Howes).

In early 1853, Samuel W. Richards and Frederick Piercy decided to publish an illustrated travel book meant to encourage English Mormons to emigrate to Utah. Piercy, a 23-year-old convert of 5 years, was a skilled artist and engraver; Richards, the president of the British Mission, financed his trip to the United States in February 1853. Piercy visited Carthage and Nauvoo, where he drew Carthage Jail and the ruins of the Nauvoo temple as well as portraits of Lucy Smith and two of Joseph Smith’s sons. He set out on the overland route, sketching prominent landmarks along the way; arriving in Utah, he drew a panorama of the Great Salt Lake City and sketched Brigham Young’s portrait.

He wrote a detailed narrative of his travels, which he gave to James Linforth to edit on his return to England in early 1854. Linforth was an assistant editor of the Millennial Star (see lots 311 and 315), and he added extensive footnotes to Piercy’s narrative, including a comprehensive summary of the LDS emigration up to 1855. The book was originally published in 15 monthly parts beginning in July 1854. Flake 46; Graff 2501; Howes L-359; Sabin 4; Wagner-Camp 259.

$10,000-15,000

315

[MORMONISM]. [PRATT, Orson (1811-1881), his copy]. The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, Volume I. Manchester: W. Shackleton & Son, 1841.

Numbers 1-12 in one volume, 8vo (208 x 131 mm). General title, preface and index bound at front. (Inscription heavily bled with offsetting and inkburn, some browning or spotting.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece gilt on upper cover (rebacked, corners restored). Provenance: Orson Pratt (1811-1881), Mormon theologian, original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (gilt-lettered label on front cover); Orson Pratt Jr. (b.1837), (presentation inscription, see below).

FIRST EDITION, THE FIRST MORMON PERIODICAL OUTSIDE OF THE UNTED STATES, edited by Parley Pratt in its first year of publication, and continually published until 1970. “It is difficult to overestimate the value of the Millennial Star…Its pages contain a continuous record of the progress of the Church in every corner of the globe, in some instances the only such record” (Crawley). Parley Pratt was eventually replaced as editor, and was later succeeded by his brother, Orson Pratt, who served as editor from 15 August 1848 through 15 December 1850.

ORSON PRATT’S COPY, PRESENTED TO HIS SON ORSON PRATT JR.: “Presented to Orson Pratt Jr. by his Father, April 10th 1856.” Orson Pratt was ordained as a member of the original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, called in 1835 under the direction of Joseph Smith. After Joseph Smith’s death, Pratt supported Brigham Young, and was part of the first party to arrive in Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He was called to return to Europe as a mission administrator between 1848 and 1851, during which time he served as the editor of the Millennial Star. His son, Orson Pratt, Jr., was the first born of his 45 children. He did not follow in the footsteps of his father into the hierarchy of Mormon leadership, and publicly renounced his faith in 1864. Crawley 71; Flake 4779. A SIGNIFICANT ASSOCIATION COPY.

$1,000-1,500

316

[MORMONISM]. REMY, Jules (1826-1893) and Julius BRENCHLEY (1816-1873). 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 blind-stamped cloth, Mormon tabernacle in gilt on front covers, spines gilt-lettered.

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, after 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.

$800-1,200

317

NUTTALL, Thomas (1786-1859). The Genera of North American Plants, and a Catalogue of the Species to the Year 1817. Philadelphia: D. Heartt for the Author, 1818.

2 volumes, 8vo (199 x 119 mm). (Some soiling or spotting, dampstaining.) ORIGINAL CLOTH-BACKED BOARDS UNCUT, printed labels on spines (old repairs to spines, joints starting, minor losses to spine ends and extremities, some soiling or staining). Provenance: William Wagner (17961885), Founder of the Wagner Free institute of Science, Pennsylvania merchant and State Senator.

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY NUTTALL: “Wm. Wagner presented by Mr. Thomas Nuttall the Author Aug. 24th 1818.” Thomas Nuttall and William Wagner were both early members of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, which was established in 1818. Other notable 19th-century members included Thomas Jefferson, Richard Owen, Georges Cuvier, Alexander von Humboldt, and John James Audubon. Wagner founded the Wagner Free Institute of Science in Philadelphia to provide free lectures and demonstrations for the public, which also housed a fine scientific library. Pritzel 6772; Sabin 56347. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY.

$800-1,200

318

OBAMA, Barack. The Audacity of Hope. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.

8vo. Original publisher’s boards; dust jacket; cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY OBAMA on the title-page. A FINE COPY.

$500-700

319

OBAMA, Barack. Duplicated typescript of his 2004 Democratic Convention Keynote Speech, entitled “Audacity of Hope.” [c.2008]. 4 pp., 4to. SIGNED BY OBAMA at head of the first page. On “Obama ’08” stationery. Loose sheets; housed in cloth folding case. With small previous authenticator’s label on verso of first page.

The keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention was given by then Illinois State Senator, United States Senate candidate, and future President Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, July 27, 2004. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, Dreams from My Father. His convention keynote address was well received, which further elevated his status within the Democratic Party and led to his reissued memoir becoming a bestseller.

$600-800

320

OBAMA, Barack. Duplicated typescript of his speech entitled “A More Perfect Union,” delivered at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia, March 18, 2008. [N.d.]. 10 pp., 4to. SIGNED BY OBAMA at head of the first page. (A few minor creases at edges.) Loose sheets; housed in calf folding case.

Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech was delivered by thenSenator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic Party presidential nomination before an audience at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. It was prompted by the attention paid to controversial remarks made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and, until shortly before the speech, a participant in his campaign. Obama framed his response in terms of the broader issue of race in the United States. The speech’s title was taken from the Preamble to the United States Constitution.

In it he addressed the subjects of racial tensions, white privilege, and race and inequality in the United States, discussing black “anger,” white “resentment,” and other issues as he sought to explain and contextualize Wright’s controversial comments. His speech closed with a plea to move beyond America’s “racial stalemate” and address shared social problems.

It was considered by many to be the most persuasive piece of oratory on U.S. race relations since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.

$600-800

321

OBAMA, Barack. Keeping America’s Promise: Strengthening the Middle Class. [N.p.: n.p., 2008].

4to. Original wrappers, stapled; cloth folding case.

SIGNED BY OBAMA at the end of the introduction. Pamphlet outlining the Obama economic plan to jumpstart the economy at the start of his first term, produced by Obama for America. With small previous authenticator’s label on verso of signed page.

$400-600

322

OBAMA, Barack. Duplicated typescript of his State of the Union Address, delivered on January 27, 2010. [N.d.]. 13 pp., 4to. SIGNED BY OBAMA at head of the first page. Stapled at upper left corner; housed in calf folding case.

Obama’s first State of the Union Address, though he did give a non-State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking office in 2009.

The speech was delivered in the United States House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The theme for President Obama’s speech was “Rescue, Rebuild, Restore – a New Foundation for Prosperity”. Among the topics that Obama covered in his speech were proposals for job creation and federal deficit reduction.

$800-1,200

323

OBAMA, Barack. Photographic print official portrait of President Barack Obama, photo by Pete Souza, signed “Barack Obama”. [N.d., ca 2009]. 8vo, visible area 250 x 197 mm, matted and framed, unexamined out of frame.

$200-300

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OGILBY, John (1600-1676), translator. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus (ca 16251683)]. America: being the latest, and most Accurate Description of the New World... Collected from most Authentick Authors, Augmented with later Observations, and Adorn’d with maps and Sculptures, by John Ogilby. London: Printed by the Author, 1671.

Folio (401 x 258 mm). Engraved allegorical title, letterpress title printed in red and black. 56 engraved plates comprising: 6 portraits, 3 folding views and plans, 17 engraved double-page maps and 30 double-page views; 66 engraved illustrations in text; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. (Without the “Arx Carolina” view [see below], map of Virginia pars Australis apparently supplied and with marginal repair lower right corner, A3 with portion of lower corner margin torn away, O2 with rust-hole affecting a few letters, a few leaves with pale dampstain, otherwise fine.) Contemporary calf gilt, spine gilt, morocco lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original spine, corners renewed); cloth slipcase. Provenance: Charles Palmer, later Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, 1st Duke of Southampton (1662-1870), Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland’s illegitimate son (early letterpress gift bookplate dated 10 May 1707, engraved armorial bookplate).

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, second issue, without the “Arx Carolina” plate, and with the Lords Proprietor’s map and a map of Barbados. In place of the “Arx Carolina” plate (depicting the castle on the French settlement at present Paris Island) is Moxon’s map of Carolina, A New Discription of Carolina By Order of the Lords Proprietors (known as The First Lords Proprietors Map). The map was based on a manuscript map by philosopher John Locke, and is the first large-format map of the newly-settled Carolina colony. Also in the present copy is a copy of the Virginia pars Australis map found in copies of the first issue (likely supplied from another copy).

Ogilby’s text is, in part, a translation of Montanus’s De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld, with numerous additions about New England, New France, Maryland and Virginia from more reliable sources. He includes a short section, “New Netherland, now call’d New York,” which recounts the transfer of sovereignty from the Netherlands to England in 1664. Most of the plates were reprinted from the original Dutch atlas plates. Alden & Landis 671/207; Borba de Moraes II:626; JCB (3) III:227-8; Palau 177493; Sabin 50089; Stokes Manhattan VI:262; Wing O-165. A FINE WIDE-MARGINED COPY.

$30,000-40,000

325

[PRESIDENTS & POLITICS]. A group of 5 books signed by Presidents or American political figures, comprising:

CARTER, Jimmy. The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. FIRST EDITION. -- CLINTON, Hillary Rodham. Living History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY CLINTON. -- CLINTON, William Jefferson. My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1500 copies, SIGNED BY CLINTON. Original shrink wrap. -- OBAMA, Barack. Dreams From My Father. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2004. Later edition, SIGNED BY OBAMA; lacking dust jacket; with slipcase. -- ALBRIGHT, Madeleine. The Mighty and the Almighty. Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs. New York: Harper Collins, 2006. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY ALBRIGHT. -- Together, 5 works, 8vo, original publisher’s bindings and dust jackets except where indicated, condition generally fine.

$700-900

326

REAGAN, Ronald (1911-2004). An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990.

8vo. Original publisher’s cloth-backed boards; dust jacket; morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY REAGAN on the front flyleaf: “To Jerry & Barbara Weiner - With Best Wishes. Ronald Reagan / June 24 - ’91.” A VERY FINE COPY.

$2,000-3,000

327

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. A sammelband, comprising:

RAYNAL, Abbé. The Revolution of America. London: for Lockyer Davis, 1781. With final advertisement leaf N4. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. ESTC T1893; Howes R-85; Sabin 68104. -- PAINE, Thomas. A Letter addressed to the Abbe Raynal of the affairs of North-America. In which The Mistakes in the Abbe’s Account of the Revolution of America are corrected and cleared up. London: for C. Dilly, 1782. Half-title. Second English edition. ESTC N10833; Howes P-25; Sabin 58222. -- [WILKES, John]. The North Briton, from No. I. to No. XLVI. Inclusive. With Several useful and explanatory Notes, Not printed in any former Edition [London: at Wilkes’ house, 1763.] FIREST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. ESTC N26370. -- [LEONARD, Daniel]. Massachusettensis: or A Series of Letters, containing a faithful state of many important and striking facts, which laid the foundation of the present troubles in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay…. Boston: for J. Mathews, 1786. ESTC T121877; Howes L-258; Sabin 40100.

Together, 4 works in one volume, 8vo (193 x 120 mm). 20th century half calf antique preserving 18th-century flyleaves. Provenance: Samuel Robinson (signature, Newcastle[-under-Lyme], Staffordshire); Samuel Candland (signature, Barlaston, Staffordshire, 1804); 18th-century manuscript note on title of Massachusettensis identifying the author as “a Tory a Ministerialist & a Pensioner.”

A sammelband of four 18th-century pamphlets relating to the Revolutionary War, reflecting both Republican and Tory opinions. Raynal’s Revolution of America is excerpted from the Geneva 1780 edition of his Histoire philosophique et politique. The French edition and the English translation were likely both printed in London and issued simultaneously; both were reprinted several times before the first authorized English edition of 1782. The work elicited a response from Thomas Paine, who “objected to Raynal’s claims that the war arose entirely from a dispute over taxation and that peace efforts had been hampered by the Americans’ alliance with France. His Letter… is an exemplary piece of diplomacy” (DNB). Wilkes’ newspaper The North Briton included satirical attacks on the Earl of Bute, George III’s Prime minister, and reflected many of the debates over Britain’s relationship with the American colonies. Leonard’s Massachusettensis was the “most influential early Tory attempt to defend England’s conduct” (Howes).

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ROGERS, Robert (1731-1795). A Concise Account of North America: containing a Description of the several British Colonies on that Continent, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c.... also of the Interior or Westerly Parts... London: J. Millan, 1765.

8vo (206 x 125mm). (Short closed marginal tear on H2, leaf U1 with cut across text partially repaired with tissue, minor spotting.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, endpapers renewed, some wear to corners).

FIRST EDITION. “Based largely on personal knowledge, this was the first geographical account of the American interior after England had wrested it from France, and, aside from those by Pittman and Hutchins, the most accurate of the period” (Howes). Major Rogers was sent to receive the capitulation of Western French posts in 1760; en route he met Pontiac, the Ottawa chief, and received his submission to English supremacy. Rogers was also present at the siege of Detroit by Pontiac in 1763. Clark, Old South I:301; ESTC T131446; Greenly, Michigan; Howes R-418; Sabin 72723; Streeter sale II:1028; Vail 562.

$1,000-1,500

329

ROOSEVELT, Franklin Delano (1882-1945). Whither Bound? Boston and New York: The Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.

8vo. Original publisher’s blue embossed cloth (some very pale spotting to front endpapers); dust jacket (some overall pale spotting); morocco folding case.

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT on title-page. An address given on 18 May 1926 at the Milton Academy for its Alumni War Memorial Foundation.

$1,000-1,500

330

SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939.

4 volumes, 8vo. Illustrated. Original publisher’s blue cloth gilt, top edges stained yellow; original dust jackets.

FIRST TRADE EDITION of Sandburg’s influential biography of Abraham Lincoln focusing on the Civil War period.

$200-300

331

STANSBURY, Howard (1806-1863). Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Special Session, March 1851. Senate Executive Document, no. 3. Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, 1853.

8vo (225 x 136 mm). 50 lithographed plates (of 59) of which 3 are folding. (Lacking the folding map and the atlas of 2 maps, scattered spotting, a few stains, a few plates trimmed short). Contemporary half red morocco (rebacked preserving portion of original spine, slightly rubbed). Provenance: Howard K. Gloyd (1902-1978), American herpetologist credited with the discovery of several species of reptiles (bookplate, stamp on title-page).

FIRST EDITION, third (“Senate”) issue, the first extensive survey and an important pioneering botanical study of the Great Basin. Flake 8360; Howes S-884; Wagner-Camp 219:3.

$400-600

332

STEARNS, Samuel (1741-1810). The American Herbal or Materia Medica. Walpole, N.H.: David Carlisle for Thomas & Thomas, and the Author, 1801.

12mo (178 x 98 mm). (Some browning and spotting throughout.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt, green morocco lettering-piece gilt, edges sprinkled blue (hinges starting, some rubbing or wear); cloth folding case.

FIRST EDITION of “the first herbal both produced and printed in the United States, as opposed to those which were reprints of European works. Stearns’s homely remedies sometimes strayed beyond the boundaries of herbal medicine…The work also includes information on American Indian remedies” (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1838; Howes S-911; Sabin 90959; Norman 2008.

$1,500-2,500

333

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de (1805-1859). De la Démocratie en Amérique. Paris: Bourgogne and Martinet for Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840.

2 parts in 4 volumes, 8vo (209 x 127 mm). Half-titles; engraved folding map with hand-coloring. (Some overall browning particularly to vols.I & II as often, some spotting, slight printer’s error vol. II, p. 423.) Contemporary French calf-backed boards, green vellum corners, marbled edges, smooth spines gilt with brown and green morocco lettering-pieces gilt (some light rubbing to joints, a few hinges starting).

FIRST EDITION of part I, second edition of part II. De Tocqueville’s inquiry into the nature and institutions of American society was written and published in two parts. The first, comprising volumes I and II, was published in Paris in 1835. It was immediately popular, and two additional Paris editions and a Brussels edition appeared in the same year. The second part appeared in 1840. The first American edition was published in 1838 and 1840 (see next lot). de Tocqueville was the first to wrestle with the “new” society, and the first to address the connection between the extraordinary size and natural wealth of America. While he believed in the liberal commonplaces of his time, he was distrustful of a society based on individualism, and he deplored a politics dominated by self-interest. Howes T-278, T-279; Sabin 96060, 96061.

$30,000-40,000

334

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de (1805-1859). Democracy in America. New York: Adlard and Saunders, George Dearborn & Co., 1838; J. & H. G. Langley, 1840.

2 volumes, 8vo (224 x 139 mm). (Some spotting.) Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth, spines gilt (Vol.I: spine ends repaired, fading, some minor spotting; Vol.II: rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, corners rounded and repaired); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance: James W. Bacon (pencil signature in vol.I); John I. Mitchell (bookplate in vol.I); Hastypudding Library (gift bookplate from G. W. Hay, 1840, and shelf label in vol.II).

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with a new preface by John Canfield Spencer, who later served as Secretary of War and then Secretary of the Treasury under President John Tyler. (See previous lot.) Howes T-278, T-279 (“aa”); Sabin 96064, 96065.

$3,000-4,000

335

TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1892). North America. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862.

2 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles; folding engraved map (short tear to fold). Original publisher’s blind-stamped purple cloth gilt (spines sunned, a few minor stains, some minor rubbing, corners bumped). Provenance: Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, K.P. (1799-1868), member of the House of Commons (armorial Lord Farnham bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, written by Trollope after a visit to North America from August 1861 to April 1862, presenting the novelist’s view of Canada and the United States during the Civil War. “I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States Government had commenced…I should not purposely have chosen this period either for my book or for my visit” (Introduction, p.1). Sadleir 46.

$400-600

336

WILKES, Charles (1798-1877). Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, during the Years 1838-42. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845.

6 volumes, including atlas, imperial 8vo (280 x 180 mm). Half-titles in text volumes. 64 plates, 14 maps (5 folding and one hand-colored), and numerous vignettes in text (a few tears to maps along folds, some minor offsetting to maps). Original cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, uncut (some very minor wear to lower corners, spines slightly sunned, short separation to upper portion of lower joint vol. I, otherwise bright). Provenance: Edward Elbridge Salisbury (1814-1901), American Sanskritist and Arabist (bookplate) given to; George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947), American Anthropologist (ex dono inscription, stamps); American School of Prehistoric Research (stamps).

FIRST TRADE EDITION, limited to 1,000 copies, preceded by the official government edition, published in 1844 and limited to 100 copies, and the unofficial edition, published by Lea and Blanchard in 1845 and limited to 150 copies. Wilkes set sail on the first American exploring expedition with a team of scientists and artists in August 1838 to survey the remote regions of the South Pacific. Wilkes and his men explored the South Pacific Islands, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, California, Singapore, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. The United States Exploring Expedition “was the first American scientific expedition of any size, charged to ‘extend the bounds of Science and promote the acquisition of knowledge,’ and was one of the most ambitious Pacific expeditions ever attempted” (Forbes). Wilkes’s survey of the Pacific Islands resulted in over 200 new charts for 280 islands, and he was the first to use the term “Antarctic Continent.” Ferguson 4209; Forbes 1574; Haskell 2B; Howes W-414.

$8,000-12,000