Printed and Manuscript Americana | Lots 272-295

273 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851) 272 ADAIR, James (1709?-1783). The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. London: for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775.

4to (268 x 210 mm). Engraved folding map. (Some minor offsetting of map.) Contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving original spine).

FIRST EDITION of the “best 18th-century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them” (Howes). Adair lived and traded among several tribes, including the Cherokee, Catawba, and Chickasaw. ESTC T86841; Graff 10; Howes A-38; Sabin 155. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $2,000 - 3,000

Yellow-Crowned Heron (Plate CCCXXXVI) Ardea Violacea, L. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring by Robert Havell (1793-1878), 959 x 634 mm sheet, on J. Whatman paper dated 1838, a few short closed tears occasionally touching image repaired verso, a few tiny spots, some minor toning to extreme outer margins, matted and framed. Low p.147. $8,000 - 10,000

274 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851)

Goshawk & Stanley Hawk (Plate CXLI) Falco Palumbarius, Linn. & Falco Stanleii, Aud. Engraving with etching, aquatint and hand-coloring after Audubon by Robert Havell (1793-1878), 980 x 656 mm sheet, on J. Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 18?? [sheet trimmed into date], a little rippling and toning to outer margins, a few tiny spots, matted and framed. Low p.82. $2,000 - 3,000

275 BRAY, Thomas (1658-1730). Apostolick charity, its nature and excellence consider’d. In a discourse upon Dan. 12. 3. preached at St. Paul’s, at the ordination of some Protestant missionaries to be sent into the plantations. London: E. Holt for William Hawes, 1700.

8vo (200 x 150 mm). Title printed within double rule border. (Lacking final blank.) 20th century half morocco gilt.

Third edition, preceded by editions of 1698 and 1699, issued with “A circular letter to the clergy of Mary-land” (caption title, here pp. 31-32), which was previously published separately (see Wing B4291). The third edition also includes an unnumbered 8pp. section with the caption title, “Proposals for the encouragement and promoting of religion and learning in the foreign plantations”, which was also published separately.

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277 CATLIN, George (1796-1872)

Buffalo Dance (Plate 8). From The North American Indian Portfolio, London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall [but Chatto & Windus, ca. 1875]. Tinted lithograph finished by hand, 428 x 584 mm sheet, a few tiny pinholes, some minor marginal toning, sewing holes and thread from binding visible top margin, matted and framed. $300 - 400 Thomas Bray was the founder of parish libraries in the United States, and particularly in Maryland. He was the found of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He is considered the first advocate of the public library in America. SCARCE: According to online records, no copy of any edition of Bray’s pamphlet has appeared at auction in over 60 years. Church 770; ESTC R434; Sabin 7473. $800 - 1,200

276 CATLIN, George (1796-1872)

Buffalo Hunt, Chase (Plate 7). From The North American Indian Portfolio, London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall [but Chatto & Windus, ca. 1875]. Tinted lithograph finished by hand, 414 x 586 mm sheet, a few tiny pinholes, a short closed tear not touching image repaired verso, a few tiny spots, matted and framed. $300 - 400

278 CATLIN, George (1796-1872)

Wi-Jun-Jon. An Assinneboin Chief (Plate 25). From The North American Indian Portfolio, London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall [but Chatto & Windus, ca. 1875].Tinted lithograph finished by hand, 583 x 426 mm sheet, a few tiny pinholes, a few short closed tear not touching image, a few tiny spots, light toning to outer margins, matted and framed. $300 - 400

279 [CONTINENTAL CONGRESS]. The Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting forth the Causes and Necessity of taking up Arms. The Letter of the Twelve United Colonies by their Delegates in Congress to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, their Humble Petition to his Majesty, and their Address to the People of Ireland. Collected together for the Use of Serious Thinking Men, by Lovers of Peace. London: n.p., 1775.

8vo (200 x 122 mm). (Title very slightly soiled, a few leaves trimmed close just shaving catchwords.) 20th century calf gilt (small tear at head of spine, light wear, front flyleaf disbound). Provenance: A few early 20th-century annotations on flyleaves.

FIRST LONDON EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the balance of the text uncorrected, of one of the most significant precursors to the Declaration of Independence. The pamphlet reprints the Declaration of Causes and Necessity (first published by William and Thomas Bradford in Philadelphia in the same year), and three other texts first published by the Bradfords: The Twelve United Colonies...to the Inhabitants of Great Britain; The Olive Branch Petition; and An Address...to the People of Ireland. This issue was presumably subsidized by Richard Champion, an American sympathizer and ally of Edmund Burke, and the printer appeals to American sympathizers on the title-page: “Read with Candor : Judge with Impartiality.” RARE: According to American Book Prices Current, only 3 examples of this pamphlet have sold at auction in the last 45 years. Adams, American Controversy, 75-149b; Sabin 15522.

$5,000 - 7,000

280 DEARBORN, Henry (1751-1829). A group of 2 ALSs with a partially printed document accomplished in manuscript signed and countersigned signed from 1805-1814, comprising:

DEARBORN. Autograph letter signed (“H. Dearborn”), as Secretary of War to Col. Henry BURBECK. N.p., 10 June 1805. 1 page, 12mo, on paper, some offsetting, some staining, creased at folds, separation to upper right fold. Dearborn, an American Revolutionary War officer, was at Yorktown on George Washington’s staff, and later served as Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson. Dearborn writes Burbeck (1754-1848) regarding the payment of troops.

[With:]

DEARBORN. Partially printed document accomplished in manuscript signed (“M. Dearborn”) and countersigned (“J. Prentis”), Inspector. Marblehead, Massachusetts, 2 March 1810. 1 page, oblong 8vo, on paper, embossed stamped “United States of America” with eagle, browning, paper remnant attached to verso in middle upper edge. A customs inspector’s receipt of 29 gallons of “Malaya Wine” brought by an American ship. From March 1809 until 27 January 1812, Dearborn served as the collector of the port of Boston, appointed by President James Madison.

DEARBORN. Autograph letter signed (“H. Dearborn”), as Senior Officer of the United States Army to an unknown recipient. New York, 26 April 1814. 1 page, 8vo, 4 mounting remnants on verso with light showthrough in corners, creasing at folds. By April 1814, Dearborn has been reassigned to administrative command in New York City. He writes relating to July 1812 payments. $400 - 600

281

[THE FEDERALIST PAPERS]. -- [HAMILTON, Alexander (1739-1802), James MADISON (1751-1836) and John JAY (1745-1829)]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. New York: John and Andrew M’Lean, 1788.

2 volumes bound in one, 12mo (167 x 92 mm). (Lacking initial blanks, Vol. I E6 and Vol. II Q2 with marginal paper flaws not affecting letterpress, Vol. II 2b5 printing flaw affecting one line of letterpress, some minor browning or spotting as usual, a few early pencil or ink annotations or underlinings.) Contemporary sheep, smooth spine gilt-ruled, contemporary red morocco lettering-piece gilt (upper joint separating, front free endpaper becoming loose, small split to lower joint, some overall wear). Provenance: Thomas Evans, (presumably ca 1755-1815), member of the Virginia House of Delegates and elected as a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives (18th-century signature); Maggie Richardson (ownership inscription dated 9 July 1865); J. D. Belote (note indicating purchase in his sale, December 1912 by); John S. Tyler (pencil note).

“ONE OF THE NEW NATION’S MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF GOVERNMENT” (PMM)

FIRST EDITION, collecting the 85 seminal essays written in defense of the newly drafted Constitution and published under the pseudonym “Publius” in various New York newspapers; the complete text of the Constitution, headed “Articles of the New Constitution,” and the resolutions of the Constitutional Convention (signed in type by Washington) appear on pp.368-384 of vol.2.

“Justly recognized as a classic exposition of the principles of republican government” (R.B. Bernstein, Are We to be a Nation? The Making of the Constitution, 1987, p.242). The Federalist essays grew out of the heated pamphlet wars engendered by the question of the ratification of the Constitution. Hamilton enlisted John Jay and James Madison (a Virginia delegate) to collaborate on a series of essays supporting the new plan of government and refuting the objections of its detractors. “Hamilton wrote the first piece in October 1787 on a sloop returning from Albany...He finished many pieces while the printer waited in a hall for the completed copy” (R. Brookhiser, Alexander Hamilton: American, 1999, pp.68-69). Due to Jay’s illness and Madison’s return to Virginia, most of the 85 essays, in the end, were written by Hamilton. “Despite the hurried pace at which they worked-they ground out four articles nearly every week--what began as a propaganda tract, aimed only at winning the election for delegates to New York ratifying convention, evolved into the classic commentary upon the American Federal system” (F. McDonald, Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, p.107). Washington who had served as President of the Constitutional Convention, wrote that The Federalist “will merit the Notice of Posterity; because in it are candidly and ably discussed the principles of freedom and the topics of government, which will always be interesting to mankind.” Church 1230; Evans 21127; Grolier American 19; PMM 234; Sabin 23979. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $40,000 - 60,000

283 LINCOLN, Abraham. Partially-engraved document signed (“Abraham Lincoln”) as President, countersigned by Secretary of the navy Gideon Welles, 21 April 1864.

1 page, 490 x 395 mm on vellum, orange seal at bottom, creased, signatures slightly faded, matted and framed.

Naval commission for Charles W. Tracy appointing him Lieutenant.

Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $3,000 - 4,000 282 [CIVIL WAR] -- GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.

2 volumes, 8vo (230 x 147 mm). Engraved portrait frontispieces, numerous maps, numerous wood engravings, several facsimile letters (2 folding). (Some short tears, some spotting, slight offsetting.) Contemporary sheep gilt, red and black calf lettering-pieces gilt, edges marbled (joints starting with previous repairs, some soiling, rubbed). Provenance: shelfmarks from previous owner(s).

FIRST EDITION of Grant’s classic memoirs, written on his deathbed as a justification for his conduct in the Civil War.

Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $300 - 400

284 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Autograph note signed (“A. Lincoln”). [Washington, D. C.?], 3 Nov, 1864.

1-page, on a 2 x 3 1/4-in. card, a few letters smudged, with recipient’s name, “M. L. Cullen,” added in ink.

In full: “Allow the bearer transportation from Washington to Pittsburgh, Penn.” Written just 5 days before the 1864 election, in which Lincoln would defeat General George B. McClellan by an Electoral College margin of 212-21 to be re-elected as President. $3,000 - 5,000

285 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865). Autograph endorsement signed as President (“A. Lincoln”), 30 December 1864.

1 page, 56 x 76 mm, cut from a larger sheet, 9 partial lines in a different hand verso, some minor marginal staining. In full: “Let these men take / the oath of Dec. 8 / 1863 & be discharged. / A. Lincoln / Dec. 30, 1864.” One of hundreds of pardons Lincoln granted in accordance with his “Proclamation of Pardon” of 8 December 1863.

[Matted and framed with:]

LINCOLN. “Proclamation of Pardon.” Washington, D.C.: War Department, Adjutant General’s Office, February 18, 1864. 6pp.,16mo. A reduced contemporary reprint for circulation of General Orders, No. 64.

EXCEEDINGLY RARE CONTEMPORARY PRINTING of Lincoln’s Proclamation of Pardon in which he sets forth terms by which rebels could “resume their allegiance to the United States.” Included in the Proclamation is the wording of the oath itself. VERY RARE: According to online records, only one copy of this printing has sold at auction in over 100 years: The Benson J. Lossing copy, sold Anderson Galleries, 1912.

[Also matted and framed with:] LINCOLN. Carte-devisite. Providence, RI: Salisbury, Bro. & Co., n.d. Based on A. Berger’s 1864 portrait, mounted on a white mat blind-embossed with eagle, cannons, flags and palmfronds. Provenance: All of the above acquired at the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 1994; Gene Griessman, noted Lincoln scholar, author, and reenactor.

$10,000 - 15,000

286 LINCOLN, Abraham ( 1809-1865). Political Debates between Hon. Abraham Lincoln and Hon. Stephen A. Douglas. Columbus: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860.

8vo (231 x 155 mm). (Some light spotting.) Publisher’s blue-gray cloth (spine toned, small separation along upper joint, minor chipping to spine ends).

FIRST EDITION, later issue, with “2” on p.13 (rather than p.17). The first published edition of the debates between Lincoln and Douglas, conducted during their campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1858. Follett, Foster, and Co. would later publish Lincoln’s campaign biography. Howes L-338; Sabin 41156. Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana 287 [LINCOLN] -- SANDBURG, Carl (1878-1967). Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939.

4 volumes, 8vo. Photographic frontispieces, illustrated. Original publisher’s gilt, brown morocco lettering-piece gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few tiny stains or scuffs); original slipcase (some chipping). Provenance: William Patrick McGowan (embossed stamps).

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, number 203 of 500 copies SIGNED BY SANDBURG. Sandburg won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History for this work.

Property from the Estate of Timothy E. Burton, Brookfield, Wisconsin $400 - 600

288 [REPORTS] -- Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Washington, D.C.: George W. Bowman, 1861.

Volume XI only, 4to (289 x 216 mm). 13 engraved plates (5 folding), 32 maps and profiles (28 folding). (Dampstained, many of the folding plates and maps with splits and tears along folds, Warren’s General Map detached through the cartouche, but all parts present.)Spotting throughout, some stains, some tears to folds of maps.) Original publisher’s brown blindstamped cloth (defective with contents becoming loose).

Senate Issue including the RARE WARREN MAP. Considered to be the first accurate representation of the region, the “Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean,” commonly known as “Warren’s General Map,” was not present in all volumes of the present work. Warren’s General Map draws on decades of government sponsored explorations and surveys, starting with those of Lewis and Clark. While most of the map was complete by 1854, it was not fully finished by the time the railroad survey report was first published in 1855, explaining its absence in some editions.

Secretary of War Jefferson Davis proposed four routes of exploration to determine a route for a new railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. The present volume reports on the exploration of the fourth route, along the 32nd parallel from Central Texas to El Paso, following William H. Emory’s military reconnaissance of 1846-1847 to the Ghila River, Fort Uma, and San Diego. The House and Senate issues differ only in arrangement of constituent reports. Howes P-3; Wagner-Camp 266c. Sold with all flaws.

Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr., Bloomington, Indiana $600 - 800

290 [SAN FRANCISCO]. GIFFORD, Charles Braddock and William Vallance GRAY. Bird’s Eye View of the City and County of San Francisco, 1868. San Francisco: W. Vallance Gray and C. B. Gifford, 1868.

Three-color chromolithograph, visible area 520 x 748 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Three tears to side margins crossing image, some minor creasing to right margin, some overall browning or staining.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, showing a southwest view of the San Francisco peninsula, with Golden Gate in the upper right and Telegraph Hill bottom center. The view is based on a painting by Charles B. Gifford, which was copyrighted and published in 1868. A second state was published in the same year, and Reps records three additional states published in 1869, 1872, and 1873. VERY RARE IN ANY CONDITION: according to online records, we trace no example of this print at auction since 1918; we trace only 7 copies in institutions of any state. Reps 308. $5,000 - 7,000 289 [SAN FRANCISCO]. OTIS, Fessenden Nott (1825-1900). City of San Francisco from Rincon Point. New York: C. Parsons, 1855.

Lithograph with hand coloring, visible area 655 x 1150 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall browning, a few tiny spots, some white spots to upper right sky or margin.

A RARE EARLY VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO, lithographed immediately following the Gold Rush, showing the view from the corner of Fremont and Harrison Streets on Rincon Hill, with a panoramic view of the city including Nob Hill, Russian Hill, Mount Tamalpais, Telegraph Hill, Angel Island, and Yerba Buena Island. The foreground shows the gardens of William F. Babcock, who had arrived in San Francisco in 1852, and who gained control of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in 1854.

Fessenden Nott Otis, a New York landscape artist and topographical draftsman, was also a ship’s surgeon. He served the United States Mail Steamship Company on their Panama to California route from 1853 to 1859, during which he executed the drawing from which this lithograph was taken. VERY RARE: according to online records, only one example of this print has sold at auction in the last 40 years. Baird, Historic Lithographs of San Francisco, 33; Reps 274. $2,000 - 3,000

291 [SAN FRANCISCO]. SWASEY, William F., Captain. View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7. Before the Discovery of Gold. San Francisco: Bosqui Eng. & Print Co., ca 1884.

Lithograph with hand-coloring, 502 x 548 mm visible area, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall browning, some surface staining, a few mostly marginal tears or losses occasionally crossing image.

RARE BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO by noted California engraver Edward Bosqui, showing the early layout of streets, naming Clay, Kearney [sic], Washington and Montgomery Streets. A key in the lower margin identifies ships and early buildings, and two arrows mark the trails to the Presidio and Mission Dolores. Reps 343. $400 - 600

292 [SAN FRANCISCO]. San Francisco 1849. San Francisco: Max Burkhardt, 1886. 293 [SAN FRANCISCO]. COLLINSON, Richard?, Captain. View of the Town and Harbour of San Francisco, California from the Signal Hill. San Francisco: John Howell, 1982.

Lithograph with hand-coloring, visible area 495 x 877 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). Some overall toning, a few small spots, some staining from old framing.

First published in 1849 with several 19th-century reissues. Panoramic view of San Francisco, delineating the intersection of Montgomery Street and California Street. Key in lower margin identifying several ships, businesses, and ho mes. The present edition was “corrected by a committee of pioneers,” consisting of Richard M. Sherman, William Heath Davis, and Ferdinand Vassault. RARE: we trace only one copy of any edition of this view at auction in the last 45 years. Reps 344 (state IX). $800 - 1,200

294 SMITH, William (1728-1793). The History Of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXII. To which is annexed, A Description of the Country, with a short Account of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice of that Colony. London: printed for William Wilcox, 1757.

4to (252 x 189 mm). Copper engraved folding plate “The South View of Oswego on Lake Ontario.” (Short marginal tear to folding plate, some very slight browning.) 20th century blue panelled morocco gilt, spien in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt, STAMP-SIGNED BY THE CLUB BINDERY (very minor rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Edwin B. Holden (1861-1906), early member of The Grolier Club (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION OF “THE FIRST AND CLASSIC HISTORY OF NEW YORK” (Streeter). Smith’s based his work “chiefly on the Provincial Laws, the Minutes of the Council, the Journals of the General Assembly and other government records. He also acknowledges his indebtedness to Colden’s History of the Five Indian nations, and to Charlevoix. The history proper covers pp. 1-180, while a description of the province, geographical, political, etc., forms pp. 181-255” (Sabin). Church 1023; Howes S703; Sabin 84566.

THE EDWIN B. HOLDEN COPY IN A FINE CLUB BINDING. Facsimile of Collinson’s lithographed bird’s eye view of 1851. Visible area 345 x 710 mm, matted and framed (unexamined out of frame). $300 - 400

295 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799). The Writings of George Washington. Jared Sparks, editor. Boston: American Stationers’ Company, John B. Russell, 1837.

24 volumes, large 8vo (265 x 165 mm). Half-titles, illustrated. EXTRAILLUSTRATED BY THE ADDITION OF APPROXIMATELY 360 PLATES AND 87 DOCUMENTS (see below). 20th-century navy blue crushed levant gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Provenance: Mrs. D. C. Cleveland (presentation inscription window-mounted to half-title); H. W. L. Cleveland (note).

PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR JARED SPARKS: “Mrs. D. C. Cleveland, with the kind regards of Jared Sparks.” With an additional inscription of H. W. L. Cleveland memorializing the gift of these volumes from his mother to him. [Also with:] SPARKS. Autograph letter signed (“Jared Sparks”), to A. B. Durand. Cambridge, 26 July 1833. Sparks writes the engraver about the engraving of the plates for the work.

ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS NEATLY BOUND IN THROUGHOUT, INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE FROM SEVERAL AMERICAN HISTORIC FIGURES, including: WASHINGTON, Bushrod, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Autograph endorsement signed (“Bushrod Washington”), Richmond, July 4th 1795. -- MORRIS, Robert, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, and the U. S. Constitution. Autograph note signed. Philadelphia, 30 October 1794. -- McHENRY, James, Signer of the U. S. Constitution. Autograph note signed (“James McHenry”). -- PINCKNEY, Charles, Signer of the U. S. Constitution. Manuscript document signed as Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the Court of Madrid. -- STODDERT, Benjamin, first Secretary of the Navy. Autograph letter signed (“Ben Stoddert”), to an unnamed recipient. Georgetown, 7 January 1793. – And others. Complete list available on request.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery $6,000 - 8,000