Search COMPANY Homepage About Us Services Contact Information OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE Our Bookshop Our Bibliography Links COMMUNICATIONS Come Visit Us Calendar of Events Customer Wants Discussion Groups Sitemap		: Our Bookshop Robert P. Davis   Gadshill   (401) 273-9450   245 Waterman St.   Suite 400B   Providence, RI 02906-5215   gadshill@usa.net   Americana As America struggled through the 19th century to codify its principles and the democratic foundation of its society, there appeared a rich body of work in political and social thought. This work was expressed in the literature of the period, the public documents, narratives, biographies of both public leaders and common men, in formal writings and in the ephemera of the robust and exuberant society. Here we present a sampling of our holdings in this area.  Search    5015 Humboldt, Alexander de.- Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.. With Physical Section and Maps, Founded on Astronomical Observations, and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements. Volume I only (of Two). New York. I. Riley. 1811. Numerous tables. The American edition lacks the maps. First American Edition. 221 pp. 8vo. Contemporary full tree calf with decorated edges., . Originally publlished in France. The English and American editions, based on Black's translation, were both published in 1811. From about 1799 to 1804, Humboldt [1769-1859) toured extensively in Latin America, especially New Spain (Mexico) , making numerous scientific observations and accumulating much data on the customs, behavior, intellect and social arrangements of the indigenous population as well as investigating geographic, geologic, commercial and agricultural aspects of the society. He comments, moreover, on the political organization of that society. This is a milestone in exploration in that it set a standard for the new scientific exploration, testifying to Humboldt╒s rich intellect and capacity for critical analysis. Hinges cracked. Ex Libris (Miss Jordans' Circulating Library, Lancaster) with bookplate on front pastedown as only mark. Mild toning of some pages. Else, text block Very Good +. Price: $200.00 6230 Anonymous.[? Blake, Alexander V.].- Anecdotes of the American Indians, Illustrating Their Eccentricities of Character. Hartford. C. M. Welles. 1850. Illustrated with full page frontispiece, vignette on title page and numerous wood engravings set as tailpieces Early Reprint Edition (copyright 1843). 252 pp. 12mo Red publisher's cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling and decorations on spine. Not in Sabin. Not in Howes. AI 44-209 (1st Ed.). .By the Author of "Evenings in Boston" &"Ramon the Rover of Cuba"; [See Wright, I, 2088] &c. A contemporary analysis of the Native American character as illustrated by anecdotes of the time. Nice woodcuts and on pp. 12 ff a long poem with references to Andrew Jackson. Small waterstain on cover and early pages. Spine worn at hinges and ends. Corners worn . Else, Good +. Price: $125.00 10902 Myers, Albert Cook.- The Boy George Washington, Aged 16. His Own Account of an Iroquois Indian Dance, 1748. In Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of George Washington. 1732-1932. Philadelphia, PA. Albert Cook Myers. 1932. Illustrated. 79 pp. 12mo. Yellow publisher╒s cloth, titled and decorated in black on front cover and spine.. Illustrated D.J. A description of George Washington's trip over the western mountains as an apprentice surveyor, based upon his first journal. Grandly illustrated. Gives an account of an Indian dance observed in an encounter with the Iroquois. Inscribed by the author on copyright page in 1944 to Pusey Bancroft Heald and family in appreciation of their hospitality to him Damp stained D.J., extending to cover of book and preliminary pages. D.J. chipped, with closed tears on spine. Else, Book is Very Good. Price: $45.00 10954 [Sheet Music]. Dodworth, Allen.- The Jenny Lind Polka. As Played by Dodworth's Cornet Band. Arranged by Allen Dodworth. Teacher of Dancing, 448 Broome St. New York. Firth, Hall & Pond. 1846. Engraved by Frc. Wakelam. First Edition. 2 pp. Fo. Unbound. Richard K. Hansen, The American Wind Band American band music had a grand development in the period of 1820-70. Allen Dodworth was one of the leaders of this movement, creating in 1848 a Cornet Band, an orchestra and a school of brass band instruments. Band musicians were feeders for the brass sections of symphonic orchestras in this period, helping symphonic music to develop. The year 1848 was a seminal year in the development of band music in America because of the great unrest in central Europe, causing band musicians to migrate in droves to America, many from Germany and some from Ireland. Joseph Gung-l came with his whole band in 1848. The Germania Musical Society came on an extended tour, 1848-55. Of this group, Carl Bergman taught Charles Ives's father harmony and counterpoint, undoubtedly thereby influencing the great and quixotic American composer, who incorporated so much American folk and band music into his symphonic works. Another immigrant was Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore who came in 1849 to conduct many brass bands. While working for P. T. Barnum, Gilmore developed a taste for superlatives, especially in promoting the tour of Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale", for Barnum in America in 1850. The American public lionized her and the orchestras. Dodworth was one of the most prominent band leaders at this time. His band played at Presidential inaugurations. Moreover, Dodworth led his group at Zachary Taylor's inauguration on March 5, 1849, a program managed by Ball Coordinator, Abraham Lincoln. The music for the Jenny Lind Polka was originally composed by Anton Wallerstein (1813-92), who was famous both in Germany and America for his polkas. Hinge separated. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 7930 Preston, Howard W.- Washington's Visits to Providence. In Rhode Island Historical Society Collections. Vol. XIX, No. 4, pp. 97–116,October, 1926. Providence. The Rhode Island Historical Society. 1926. Illustrated. First Edition 21 pp. 8vo. Printed Paper Covers, as Issued. Library Bound in Hardboard Covers. A variant of this article was subsequently published separately by the the Rhode island State Bureau of Information in 1932 as Historical Publication Number Five (See ID # 7909). Very Good. Price: $35.00 8274 Smith, Robert. (Report from The Committee on Roads and Canals).- US Govt. Documents: Ho. of Reps., 29th Congress, 1st Session. Rep. No.676. Improvement of the Mississippi River [To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 67]. May 4, 1846. Washington, DC U. S. Government. 1846. First Edition. 10 pp. 8vo. Removed. The Committee on Roads and Canals had been referred a bill regarding the Des Moines and Rock River Rapids. In this report the Committee disposes of the constitutional argument whereby the Federal government has the right to make improvements on the Mississippi River. The retail cost of the vast quantities of lead mined in the State of Illinois and the Territories of Iowa and Wisconsin are augmented 25% by the need to pass these rapids at low water level. Also lost is the excessive cost and wastage of wheat and other produce due to seasonal need to pass the rapids. The value of local Federal and other lands is hence substantially reduced by the impact of the rapids. Tolls and local initiative are inadequate to the task. The committee recommends appropriation for the work in clearing the rapids and dredging by the Federal government. Appended is the engineering study supporting the feasibility of the project. Included tables document the required excavation. Minor spotting and offsetting. Else, Very Good. Price: $45.00 8277 Galbraith, Mr.- US Govt. Documents: Ho. of Reps., 24th Congress, 2nd Session. Rep. No.272. Notes of the Bank of the United States [To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 956]. February 22, 1837. Washington, DC. U. S. Government. 1837. First Edition. 10 pp. 8vo. Removed. The Select Committee had been referred memorials regarding an amendment to the U. S. Constitution in relation to banking corporations in the states and reissuance of notes of the late Bank of the United States. This is part of the continuing saga of the Bank of the United States, originally chartered by Congress but discharged by Andrew Jackson. Continuing under charter of Pennsylvania, the Bank was reissuing notes for obligations to the United States. Congress was displeased and in this report enjoins the Bank from carrying on with this practice. Minor soiling and offsetting. Else, Very Good. 75.00 8277 Price: $75.00 10807 Gallaudet, Thomas H.- A Sermon Delivered at the Opening of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, at the Request of the Directors, on Sunday Evening, April 20th, 1817, in the Brick Church in Hartford. Hartford, CT. Printed for the benefit of the Asylum, Hudson and Co., Printers. 1817. First Edition. 15 pp. Small 8vo. Two signatures, stab sewn. Self wrap. American Imprints 40885. Sabin 26408 A sermon at the opening of the first institution in America for the education of the deaf and dumb (Mark & Schwab, The Faith of Our Fathers, pp. 176–7). Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851), who was the first to advocate the education of the deaf, was the first principal of the Asylum. Gallaudet University in Washington, specializing in the advanced education of the Deaf was named after his son, Edward Miner Gallaudet. The text of the sermon is derived from the prophet Isaiah, as are the three hymns which follow the text, composed for the occasion. A seminal document in the history of the education of the deaf. Minor chip at front corner ends. Small faint stain on lower edge of front cover. Else, very clean and Very Good +. Price: $350.00 10841 [Broadside, Dorr War].- List of Committees, Appointed at a meeting of the friends of the present State Administration, held at the Court House, in this City, on Thursday Evening, April 10, 1834. N.P. [Providence, RI]. N.Pub. [? Committee of Certificate Voters]. 1834. Decorated. First Edition. 1 p. 6” W x 14 3/4” H Loose sheet. Elaborate printer’s devices form border surrounding entire text. Mowry. pp. 25–44. Gettleman, pp. 3–29 Signed in ink on reverse:”Walter R. Danorth Esq.”. After the American Revolution, Rhode Island continued to be governed by the Colonial Charter, given to Roger Williams by King Charles II in 1663. Suffrage limited to property holders, a weak Governor and judicial system and power strongly centered in the Legislature were its chief features. While the other colonies developed balanced constitutional systems with separation of powers, Rhode Island remained static, despite being the first locus of the Industrial Revolution in America. There was a progressive disappearance of agrarian landholders among the class of Freemen along with the increase in immigration, both in the northern cities, especially Providence. Voter eligibility declined to barely 3500 active voters in the state (Mowry, p.33). The early decades of the 19th century saw unrest among the disenfranchised citizens and agitation for extension of the suffrage and pursuit of greater democracy through replacement of the charter with a new constitution (Gettleman). In February–March, 1834 this agitation began to come to a head, leading to systematic action in the form of establishing a committee to consider the best approaches to a new constitution and extended suffrage. An “Address to the People” was prepared “masterfully” (Mowy, p. 38) written by Thomas Wilson Dorr, an activist lawyer, declaring suffrage to be a “natural right”. The Charter was severely criticized and a constitutional convention recommended as well as changes to the judiciary. In June, 1834 the legislature recommended a convention but chose the delegates from among the voting freemen and the issue gradually died. It was resurrected in 1842 with more agitation by Dorr and his associates, ultimately leading to the armed rebellion known as the Dorr War. This broadside appeared between Dorr’s “Address to the People” and the Legislative session and appears to be the formation of Committees by friends of the existing government to counter the suffrage movement. Among them, however, were some voters later in favor of the “Peoples Movement”, among them Barrington Anthony whose house became the headquarters of the armed rebellion, and Thoma F. Carpenter, a lawyer active in the “Committee of Nine Lawyers” who argued n 1842 for the legitimacy of a “People’s Convention” and constitutional reform. (Gettleman, pp. 64–9). An interesting broadside relating to the the early movements toward the Door Rebellion in Rhode Island (yet unrecorded in DeSimone & Schofield) listing the composition of various committees (including Vigilance Committees) in each ward of Providence) loyal to the Charter Government in 1834. Mild brownng Few small stains or ink marks in margins. Else, Very Good. Price: $2,200.00 10855 Anonymous [Broadside]. The Doony Song. Air, When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Sung by Matt Kelly. San Francisco, CA. T. C. Boyd. N.D. [1867] Printed vignette image of boxer and border composed of printer’s devices. First Edition 1 p. 4 9/16” W x 8” H. Loose sheet. A boxing broadside with San Francisco imprint, likely from 1867, celebrating the victory of the American middleweight, Tom Chandler, a Californian, over the favored English champion Dooney Harris. The celebrated victory was by knockout in the twenty-third round of the bareknuckle fight on April 13, 1867. The middleweight class first developed in the 1840’s and this was likely the first middleweight class American championship fight. Chandler became known as the American Middleweight Champion. Boxing gloves were not used till 1884. Dooney Harris was shot by “Billy” Clough, who was arrested for the attack by the New York City police on April 9, 1874, at a saloon in Greenwich Village, while playing cards with his cronies. He claimed he had shot Dooney in self-defense (New York Times, April 9, 1874). Dooney Harris survived to fight again and is recorded to have fought “Denver” Ed Smith ( née Edward Cororan) in 1884–5 in New York, as did Tommy Chandler. The tune of “The Doony Song” was “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”, whose music and lyrics were written by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (under the pseudonym Louis Lambert), a great Irish-born American bandmaster and composer. It was based on a traditional Irish air, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”, not on a Negro Spiritual as claimed by some. Soiled. Tidal mark at lower corner. Chips from 3 margins, not encroaching on printed border. Small chip from body with small loss from left border, up to, but not involving text. Else, Good. Price: $250.00 10856 [Peabody, Ephraim].- [Pamphlet]. Slavery in the United States: Its Evils, Alleviations, and Remedies. Reprinted from the North American Review, Oct., 1851. Boston. Charles C. Little and James Brown. 1851. First Edition. 36 pp. Large 12mo. Tan Printed paper wraps. Appl. Cycl. Am. Biog., Dumond, p. 90. Ephraim Peabody (1807–56), the author of this pamphlet was the son of a New Hampshire blacksmith. He became a prominent New England Unitarian minister, later the beloved minister of King’ Chapel in Boston. A graduate of Phillips Academy at Exeter, Bowdoin and Harvard Divinity School he was a strong supporter of rational Christianity, the liberal Unitarian position. He served in Pennsylvania, the West (Cincinnati) and married the granddaughter of Elias Haskett Derby, the first American millionaire. His daughter married Charles Eliot, later the President of Harvard. He suffered from tuberculosis and moved about to essay a cure, but failed. He died young of the disease. Peabody had helped plan the Boston public school system. He had a wide group of friends including Frderick T. Gray and the circle about William Ellery Channing. His sensitivity to the poor and deprived in society was heightened by this exposure and he founded the Boston Provident Society, to succor the poor. In 1849 he wrote an essay in strong support of Frederick Douglass and, here in 1851, an attack on slavery. He saw slavery as woven deeply into the fabric and institutions of our society. It had, accordingly a disastrous influence on our people, both Black and White. He showed his Enlightenment base in dealing with the issues on the basis of rights and duties. Peabody acknowledged that States Rights was the operant principle, but it would be too long to await the growth of an emancipation party in the South. The Border states showed increasingly a decline in slavery, but with economic concerns paramount and cotton being “king”, the growth of other industries should lessen the institution of slavery. Colonization in Africa, financed by the government, might help Emancipation, but it might remove those free Black leaders who might be helpful to lead the Black community out of slavery. Colonization n Jamaica might be more readily successful. However the preservation of the Union is critical to the welfare of both Blacks and Whites. The then current strife has heightened the sensitivity of all to notions of justice, personal rights and constitutional law. The author’s hope is that such attention, in a united nation will lead to the growth of notions of justice and of freedom for all. Loss of 1 1/2” from top of front cover without loss of text. Soiling of covers. Wear at lower end of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $245.00 10864 Harrison, William Henry.- Gen. Harrison’s Speech at the Dayton Convention, September 10, 1840 [Boston, MA} The Whig Republican Association of Boston. [Gould, Kendell & Lincoln]. [1840]. First Edition. 8 pp. 8vo. Self-wraps with title above text. Sabin 30573n, Am Imp 40-2970. An uncommon title, One of only the few of Harrison’s campaign speeches to be published. Annotated in textual parentheses with commentary on the immense or tremendous cheering, the great and lasting sensation, lending a charming verisimilitude. Harrison claims his past experiences stand in place of promises. He does promise to lessen the power of the Chief Executive, a power that then bordered on despotism. He favored paper money, but also a vigorous banking system. He supports strong States Rights. To strengthen the democratic spirit, Harrison calls for lesser power to and fewer demands from political parties. Paper toned and dusty. Held together by 2 later stitches. Tidal mark. Horizontal fold. Edges show a few short closed tears and tiny chips. Else, Good +. Price: $80.00 10865 Thome, Ja[me]s A[rmstrong] and J[oseph] Horace Kimball.- The Anti–Slavery Examiner, No. 7. Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837. New York. The American Ant-Slavery Society. 1838. First Edition. 128 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Double column format. Self wraps. Dumond, pp . 9–10. LCP/HSP AfroAmercana 10208. Sabin 95460. AmImp 53294. Cundall, Bib. West Indies, #2236. http://www.civilwar.si.edu/slavery_thome.html (for Thome). Appl. Cyclo. Am. Biog. (for Kimball). A later edition contains a 32 page “Extra”. A deluxe edition was published in boards and the contents in 489 pp. A critical review of the effects and problems encountered in the lead-up to and the processes of emancipation in the West Indies. The information was gathered in a 6 month tour of the islands of Antigua, Barbadoes and Jamaica. James A, Thome (1813–73) the son of a Kentucky slaveholder, was initially uneasy about slavery, but grew appalled in 1834 as a student of theology, after attending a debate on the moral aspects of slavery. As a traveling agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1837, he and Joseph Horace Kimball conducted this study of the emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies. Kimball (1813–38), a friend of Thome, resided in New Hampshire, where he edited “The Herald of Freedom”, an anti-slavery journal. They refuted the prevalent notion that slavery could be abolished only gradually so as to prepare the slaves for a new life of freedom. Consequently, the Society changed its platform to a demand for “unconditional freedom without delay”. In 1839 Thome escaped from Ohio to Connecticut to avoid arrest for helping a runaway slave to freedom. Lacks folding map frontispiece. Mild foxing of covers. Else. Very Good. Price: $155.00 6262 Anonymous (Editor), The American Minstrel [: Being a Choice Collection of the Most Popular Songs, Glees, Duetts, Choruses, &c., Many of Which Are Original; with Select Music]. Cincinnati, OH. [J. A. James and Co.] N.D. [ca. 1836] Engraved frontispiece of the Muse Cecelia, by W. Woodruff of Cincinnati. First Edition 318 pp. 24mo. Green publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt title and decoration on spine. Hay-Harris Collection at Brown, Songster Coll. AM5615. Complete with Index. A collection of popular songs, some with music. Includes some musical notation in shape notes. Quite scarce. Lacks title page.Mild soiling, foxing and tidal marking. Mild wear at ends of spine and edges and corners of covers. One signature shaken. Else, Very Good. Price: $375.00 6841 Keynes, John Maynard.- The Economic Consequences of the Peace. New York. Harcourt, Brace and Howe. 1920. First American Edition 298 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Publisher’s logo embossed in the blind on front cover. T.e.g. Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 423 J. M. Keynes (1883–1946) was one of the most prominent economists of the 20th century. Present to represent the British Treasury at the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I, he decried the reparations demanded of Germany. Largely on his complaints, the US rejected the final Treaty of Versailles. The book, thus, had a profound influence on post-World-War I reconstruction and established Keynes’s public reputation and credibility with governments. Front hinge starting internally. Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. Owner’s signature and date on front free endpaper. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 7282 Tourgée, Albion Winegar (pseudonym: “One of The Fools”),- A Fool’s Errand. New York. Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. 1880. First Edition. 361 pp. + 4pp. publisher’s ads at front and 4 pp at rear Brown publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Black titling and decorations on front cover; titling in the blind on rear cover. T.e.g. Coated end papers. Wright III, 5520. BAL 20346. A novel of The South under Reconstruction. published anonymously. Tourgée (1838–1905) wrote several pseudonymous novels about the South before and after the Civil War (see Wright II, 2523, e.g.) The last short chapter of this book is quite prophetic. Tourgée, an attorney, after the Civil War moved to North Carolina, where he met hostility and prejudice. He moved about thereafter. His books were known to Presidents Garfield and Harrison. Laid down on front pastedown is a newspaper clipping with a review of the novel and comments on Tourgée. His pseudonyms include Henry Churton, Edgar Henry and Siva. This issue is possibly the earliest reprint from the corrected plates. Front hinges cracked internally. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 7778 Root, George F.- The Young Men's Singing Book; a Collection of Music for Male Voices. Intended for Use in Colleges, Theological Seminariess, and the Social Circle> Consisting of Parts I- V. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Company. 1855. First Edition. 256 pp. Oblong. Blue printed paper covered boards with calf spine. Bound on tapes. By 1855 "The Star Spangled Banner," "Hail, Columbia'" "America" and other patriotic songs had crept into everyday collections like this one by a popular Boston music publisher. Root later moved to Chicago to work for his brother’s firm, Root & Cady, and to write much music, especially inspirational songs centering on the Civil War. Spine deteriorated. Hinges cracked. Text very good. Price: $150.00 7782 Saunders, J. H.- The Shakespearian Advertiser. Providence, RI H. P. Boyce. 1871. Copiously Illustrated. First Edition. Unnumbered pages. 4 3/4” (W) x 5 3/4” (H). Illustrated orange stiff printed paper wraps, as Issued. RI Historical Society, Manuscript Division: Records of the Ann Eliza Club. Numerous comic illustrations of quotations from Shakespeare's plays interleaved with full-page advertisements for various firms and industries, mostly in Providence, RI. A window into commercial Rhode Island at the three quarters point of the nineteenth century. A humorous view of a literate society. Edward S. Jones (1846–1909) was a prominent artist in Providence, a member (#34) of the Ann Eliza Club, a noted local group of artists and collectors founded in 1885. Members were required to present papers to one another and humor was a by-word of the organization. Small tear to lower margin of rear cover extending into last page. Cover lightly soiled. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 9360 [Sheet Music]. Root, George F.- Just after the Battle. Song and Chorus by Geo. F. Root. Chicago. Root & Cady. 1863. Cover engraving by Copcutt-Williams. Illustrations of Civil War scenes and popular song titles by George F. Root. First Edition. 5 pp. = publisher's ads on verso of both covers. Fo. Illustrated, heavily engraved front cover. Disbound and stab-sewn. Fisher, 150 Yrs. Music Publ. US, pp. 59, 60, 129, 132. Pre-fire Chicago imprint of Civil War music. A wounded soldier lies in pain thinking of his mother, but optimistic of his survival. Root & Cady, the pioneer music publisher of Chicago, was founded in 1858, became Geo. F. Root & Sons after the fire in 1871 and the catalogue then sold to John Church in 1873. George Root, originally from Boston where he was an active composer of anthems, choruses and sacred music, had joined Root & & Cady in 1859. Wear at edges. Foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 10728 Holcombe, W[illia]m H[enry].- Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery, Addressed to the Members and Friends of the Church of the New Jerusalem. New York. Mason Brothers. 1861. First Edition. 24 pp. Catalogue of Swedenborgian oamphlets on rear cover. 8vo. Blue printed paper wrappers. DAB. A justification of slavery by Dr. William H. Holcombe, a noted homeopathic physician practicing in Mississippi and New Orleans. A Swedenborgian, Holcombe, who had been trained in allopathic medicine, adopted homeopathy when that discipline seemed more effective in the treatment of yellow fever and cholera, after he had moved South. He felt that the different races had differing spiritual lives and that Blacks had a more primitive interior life as they ascended to an agricultural society from the stage of hunter-gatherers. He finds in the fact of enslavement of Blacks a self-justification of the institution of slavery and the inference of a more primitive state of Black spiritual life. He argues, further, that American slavery has enabled the highest moral and spiritual development of Blacks ever achieved. Holcombe, born in Virginia, was very well educated and encouraged by his parents, who were supporters of the emancipation of slaves and, in fact, liberated their slaves. Holcombe, who was a nationally renowned homeopathist, and his brother, James Philemon Holcombe, in contrast, became ardent supporters of slavery. Mild soiling o covers. Vertical soft creasing. Owner’s names on front cover: Daniel L. Webster (in ink) and R. Hancock (?) in pencil. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 10735 [Sheet Music]. Root, Geo[rge] F. (Words and Music).- On, On, On, the Boys Are Marching! Or the Prisoner Free. Song & Chorus. Sequel to “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” Chicago, IL. Root & Cady. 1865. Cover illustration engraved by Copcott- Williams First Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Elaborately illustrated and decorated paper wraps. Fisher, 150 Yrs. Music Publ. US, pp. 59, 60, 129, 132. An ante-fire musical issue by Root & Cady. Not in American Imprints Inventory, No. 4, Check List of Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints, 1851–1871. One of George Root’s famous Civil War songs in its first edition. Piano ads inside front cover. Ad for George Root’s music instruction manual on rear cover. Root & Cady, the pioneer music publisher of Chicago, was founded in 1858, became Geo. F. Root & Sons after the fire in 1871 and the catalogue then sold to John Church in 1873. George Root, originally from Boston where he was an active composer of anthems, choruses and sacred music, had joined Root & Cady in 1859. Foxing, principally near edges. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10742 [Dwight, Rev. E[dwin] W[elles].- Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of the Sandwich Islands, Who Died at Cornwall, Conn. Feb. 17, 1818, Aged 26 Years. New York. The American Tract Society. D. Fanshaw, Printer. N.D. [? 1832] Frontispiece portrait of Obookiah, engraved by Daggett, Hinman & Co., with tissue guard. Revised Edition. 124 pp. 16mo. Original brown calf spine with gilt titling andf gilt rules. Original marbled paper covered boards. Hill, pp. 91-2. Sabin,56429 (for first edition) Not in Howes. Am Imp 12243 (for this 1832 edition) Obookiah was born in Hawaii and came to the U.S. in 1809. "After witnessing the massacre of his family, Obookiah.decided to leave Hawaii. . . An American ship [the Triumph under Captain Brintnall ] touched at the islands, and Obookiah sailed by way of China to New York. Through Obookiah, interest was awakened in the Hawaiians, which led to the American mission in Hawaii in 1820." — Hill p. 91-92. (Quoted by Ten Pound Island) . In the US, he attended the Foreigh Mission School. He had translated the Book of Genesis into Hawaiian, but he died of typhoid fever before he could go back to Hawaii as a missionary.. "This book did more than any other work to interest the general public of New England in supporting a mission to the Hawaiian Islands proposed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It narrates the life of Henry Obookiah (or Opukakaia), born in Hawwaii about the year 1792. As a youth he sailed to America, arriving there in 1809, and for a period made his home with Captain Brintnall in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale College, his desire for knowledge was recognized, and he began instruction by private tutors, earning his support as a farm hand. -- Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 478. In the first edition, there are .... additional titles bound with the main text, which… are an integral part of the work. Forbes, Treasures, 58. First Edition." (Quoted by Lefkowicz). Originally published in 1819. Slight wear at ends of spine. Corners bumped. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $165.00 10749 Elder, William.- Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia; Boston. Childs & Peterson; Phillips Sampson & Co. 1858. Frontispiece portrait of Dr. Kane, engraved from a Brady Daguerreotype by T. Phillibrown, Sr. Engraved title page and vignette by J.Warr and 4 tissue-guarded plates, wood engravings (one signed as drawn by E. Moran, engraved by Van Ingen-Snyder) First Edition. 416 pp. + 2 pp. publsher’s ads @ front and 2 pp. ads @ rear Brown embossed publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Chocolate coated end papers. DAB. Sabin 22094. Elisha Kent Kane (1820–57) was a physician and American Naval Officer. After beginning his career as a physician in 1842, he enlisted as a Naval Surgeon and served in India, China, Africa, Europe, Mexico and elsewhere. He later explored the routes to the Northwest Passage. Having served as a physician on the First Grinnell Expedition (1850) to the North Pole in search of Sir John Franklin, he was in command of the Second Expedition to the Pole (1853–55), making significant observations on the nature of ice and glaciers and the magnetic pole, charting new areas, and showing extraordinary leadership qualities. After his ship had been trapped in ice for over a year, He brought his men “overland” 1300 miles to Greenland in 10 weeks, losing only one man. Wear at ends of spine, edges and corners of boards. Owner’s signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Minimal foxing of preliminaries. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 10752 [Anonymous].- Insurrection of the Blacks. In Niles' Weekly Register. Fourth Series. Nos. 1– 4 – Vol. V. Sept 3, 10, 17, 24, 1831. [Vol.XLI, Whole No. 1,041–4], pp. 4–5, 35, 66–7 Baltimore, MD. H. Niles. 1831. First Edition. 72 pp. 8vo. Self wraps. Disbound. Four complete issues of Niles’ Weekly Register, comprising the issues of September, 1831. Niles continues to report in three of these issues on the major insurrection by Black slaves under the leadership of Nat [Turner] in Southampton County, Virginia on or about August 21-23, 1831. The slaves, apparently hiding in the nearby swamps and numbering by various estimates from one to several hundred, possibly under white leadership, rose as an insurgency and attacked a number of white families, killing up to 70 persons. A militia of 300 persons was retreating. The author believes plunder to have been the motive, since "there is little disaffection in the slaves generally." He reports that all the rebels had been captured by the militias, the Army and the Navy. Details of the insurrection and murders are provided. Nat’s capture and return to Virginia are falsely reported and Dismal Swamp was scoured for participants in the insurrection. Most of the participants had been executed. Garrison and his paper, The Liberator, are criticized for promoting insurrection and massacre. Agitation in North Carolina consequent to the Virginia insurrection is discussed. All free Blacks in Raleigh had been arrested and examined. Many were evicted from the city and some executed. Also noted in this issue are: much political activity and elections, activities of legislatures, concerns over the Bank, etc. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10755 [Anonymous].- The American Songster; Being a Collection of the Most Popular, Patriotic, Naval, Military, and Sentimental American Songs. New York. Philip J. Cozans, Publisher. N.D. [ca. 1855] Numerous small wood engavings as head and tail pieces. Three full-page wood engravings depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill (frontispiece), Napoleon, Robin Hood and His Bride. First Edition. 242 pp. + 10 pp. Index. 32 mo. Blue publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling and decoration on spine. T.e.g Hay-Harris Coll. (Brown) A51271, 1858? A compendium of 18th and 19th century popular songs, divided into 5 sections, each with its own Index: Songs of the Ocean; Deck and Port Songs; American Songs; Uncle Sam’s Songs; and Pirate and Robin Hood Songs. It includes “The Star Spangled Banner”. Only a few songs are labeled with composer or singer, e.g., [Henry] Russell, Dickinson and Chapman, Henry Phillips, John Roddy Cunningham, et al. Cozans was a publisher of books and chapbooks, many with patriotic or abolitionist themes, active in New York ca. 1847–55 Owner’s signature at front: “Miss Mary Delaney, Age 50 in March the 21 Day”. Very uncommon; found only in Hay-Harris Collection (dated ?1858] among major libraries. Hinges cracked internally. Covers much abraded (but intact) and worn at corners and edges. Gilt worn. Foxing. Lacks rear end paper. Overall Fair. Price: $360.00 10760 Anonymous.- Revival Melodies, or, Songs of Zion, Dedicated to Elder Jacob Knapp. Twentieth Edition. Boston. John Putnam. 1842. Twentieth Edition. 64 pp. + 2 pp. Gilbert piano-forte ads. 16mo. Blue printed paper wraps. Tan cloth spine. Obituary of Knapp in NY Times, 3/5/1874. Hay-Harris (hMusic R4545s) at Brown. A collection of hymns gathered in the Revivalist spirit. Derived from the favorites of and dedicated to Elder Jacob Knapp (1799–1874), a mobile, much celebrated Baptist evangelist of the early and mid nineteenth century. Knapp was active in the temperance and abolitionist movements and favored his itinerant pulpit, stretching from New England to California, over an assigned parish. Born into the Episcopal Church, he converted at age 20. His early revivalist experience was in Watertown, NY, although he had earlier been recognized for his skill at conversions. In his career, he was sad to have converted 100.000 souls The rear cover boasts of 34,000 copies issued in 9 months. Dated 1842 on title page, 1843 on cover. In Hay-Harris Collection at Brown; also at Harvard, Chicago and several theological libraries. Uncommon. Mild soiling and wrinkling of covers. Mild wear at ends of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 10767 Tourgée, Albion W[inegar],- Bricks without Straw. A Novel. New York. Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. 1880. Frontispiec engraved on wood (with tissue guard). First Edition, Second Issue 521 pp. + 4pp. publisher’s ads at rear. 12mo. Brown publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Black titling and decorations on front cover; titling and decorations in the blind on rear cover. T.e.g. Wright III, 5516. BAL 20349. A novel of The South under Reconstruction. Tourgée (1838–1905) wrote several pseudonymous novels about the South before and after the Civil War (see Wright II, 2523, e.g.). Tourgée, an attorney, after the Civil War moved to North Carolina, where he met hostility and prejudice. He moved about thereafter. His books were known to Presidents Garfield and Harrison. His pseudonyms include Henry Churton, Edgar Henry, “One of the Fools” and Siva. This issue is the earliest from the corrected plates (on p. 343, l. 17. See Wright III, 5516). Mild wear at end of spine and corners. Owner’s signature on front free end paper. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10773 Phillips, Wendell.- [Pamphlet]. Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Reprinted from the "Anti-Slavery Standard," with Additions. Boston. Andrews and Prentiss. 1847. First Edition. 95 pp. 12mo in 6’s. Tan printed paper wraps. Stab Sewn. LCP 8173. Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was a prominent lawyer of Boston interested in constitutional matters. He was an ardent abolitionist, who was convinced of the unconstitutionality of slavery. He hoped to abolish that institution by judicial action and published a tract on this matter. Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), an orator of Boston, also an abolitionist as well as champion of labor reform and women's suffrage, wanted slavery abolished by legislative action since he considered the constitution to support it. In this pamphlet Phillips reviews Spooner's document and details his disagreements with him. Spooner's works have been republished in the modern era by M & S Press and are still in print from the publisher. Of interest, Spooner published another document supporting the unconstitutionality of the guilty verdict of Professor John W. Webster for the celebrated murder of Dr. George Parkman in 1849 on the basis that the jury had not been drawn from Professor Webster's peers, since they all had favored the death penalty (dissenters from that position having been excused).. Small chip fromedge of cover (present). Else, Very Good. Price: $280.00 10774 [Stereopticon Card] Curtis, Geo[rge] E. 233. American Falls from Canada. Niagara Falls, NY. Geo. E. Curtis, Photographer. N.D. [? 1874]. First Edition. 1 p. 2 7/8” x 6 15/16” Stereo photographs mounted on orange card with rounded corners and decoratve imprint. The mount is flat. Waldsmith, Stereo Views. Darrah, Stereo Views. On reverse, holographic signature: “C.J.P./ June 1874. Curtis was a Niagara Falls photographer, noted for his views of the Falls, various bridges across the Falls, etc. Actve 1868–78, he photographed Madame Spelterini on the high wire as she became the first woman to cross the Niagara Falls by wire in 1872. In the flowering of stereo views, when Curtis was active, Niagara Falls was one of the favorite subjects for stereo photographers, who photographed all aspects of the Falls in all seasons. Very good. Price: $150.00 10792 Elliott, Maud Howe.- This Was My Newport. Cambridge, MA. The Mythology Company, a. Marshall Jones. 1945. Second Edition with First Edition Titie Page, dated 1944. 279 pp. 8vo Red publisher’s cloth with black titling on spne and front cover. A charming bit of the social history of fashionable Newport, RI, by the daughter of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward howe. Very Good +. Price: $35.00 10796 Potter, Elisha R.- Considerations on the Questions of the Adoption of a Constitution, and Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island. Boston. Thomas H. Webb & Co. 1842. First Edition. 64 pp. Green printed paper wraps William M. Wiecek, Am. J. Legal History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 237–53. Mowry, p.81. Elisha Reynolds Potter (1811–82) was a noted Rhode Island jurist and politician, serving on the Rhode Island Supreme Court and in the US Congress, where his father had served before him. He was a propertied citizen in the politically overweighted area south of Providence, and a member of the conservative establishment of Rhode Island. Potter was a defender of the Freeholder’s Convention, based on the King Charles Charter, which still held in Rhode Island, against the People’s Convention, based on extended suffrage and championed by Thomas Wilson Dorr. These Rhode Island conservatives did not share the republican conservatism of the Whigs in post-Jacksonian America, but indulged in a non-republican “Peculiar Conservatism” (Wiecek). The Conservatives were proud of their anachronistic charter government with its limited suffrage and lack of social unrest. This was to be disrupted by the Dorr Rebellion. In this pamphlet, Potter argues that the Charter has yielded the most democratic government in America with its freehold qualification for voting, and calls the suffragist movement an unjustified revolution. He opposes the concepts of “natural rights” and the utilitarian precept of “the greatest good for the greatest number” and discusses the tyranny of the majority and limited rights of women, yet he defends the Rhode Island government as being as republican as any other state, although RI was one of only two states with property qualifications for voting. This is the most intellectual and authoritative defense of the anti-Dorr position. Tiny chip at foot of spine. Else, Very Good + Price: $325.00 10816 Webster, Daniel.- The Rhode island Question. Mr. Webster’s Argument in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of Martin Luther vs. Luther M. Borden and Others, January 27th, 1848. Washington. J. and G. S. Gideon, Printers. 1848. First Edition. 20 pp. 8vo. Removed. Self wraps. Harvard Law Cat. II, 883. Bartlett, pp. 105, 270–1. Not in Sabin. The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island came after attempts, beginning in 1841, to extend suffrage to citizens without real property. An armed uprising occurred as the government legitimized under the state charter resisted voting extension. A new regime was voted in by the rebellious citizenry. Webster argued to the Supreme Court that any change in government from the old charter government would have to occur in conformity with the existing ratified constitution and not through measures voted without such conformity. Chief Justice Taney ruled that the US Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in what was a political argument, relevant only to Rhode Island, whose courts had rightfully made their decision. (For a detailed summary of the case, see Mowry,The Dorr War, pp. 231.-237 and Gettleman, The Dorr Rebellion, pp. 174–199 ). The People’s Government of Rhode Island, then, were without standing. A 26 page edition with same text also exists (no priority). Minor foxing of title page and page edges. Vertical fold. Else, Very Good. Price: $160.00 10819 American Anti-Slavery Society.- Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Adopted at the Formation of Said Society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th Day of December, 1833. New York. American Anti_Slavery Society. N.D. [1844]. First Edition. 4 pp. 8vo. Self-wraps. Sabin 81825 A re-issue of the Declaration of Sentiments, which was originally published in 1835 with the Constitution of the Anti-Slavery Society, both from the 1833 organizational meeting (Sabin 81826, Am Imp 30019. LCP/HFC Afro-Americana, Hogg 3075). This pamphlet, with no date, but probably 1844 from internal evidence, conforms to Sabin 81825, and is labeled [Penny Tracts], [Number I] , the first in a series of important tracts issued by the American Anti-Slavery Society. It includes the Preamble to the Constitution and a short portion of The Address ( a manifesto) presented at the Tenth Anniversary of the Society in 1844. Very Good +. Price: $195.00 10612 [Broadside].- DEBATE on Spiritualism! ?La Porte, ? IN. C. W. Cathcart and F. Church. N.D. [?ca. 1845) First Edition. 1 p. 11” W x 9 1/2” H. The broadside announces a debate on Spiritualism at Allen’s Hall La Porte on July 28, at 7:30 PM. The Question for the debate is, “Does the Bible warrant us in believing that the principal phenomena of modern spiritualism are produced through the agency of human spirits formerly embodied on this earth.” The name of the “affirmant” is excised neatly from the document. (Did he or she “chicken out”?). The “respondent” is named as Rev, [sic!] F. H. Berrick of Lowell, Massachusetts. Admission was 10 cts. The location is uncertain, but there is an Allen’s Hall in La Porte, Indiana allegedly named after Colonel John Allen, a Kentucky lawyer, who was killed in the Massacre of River Basin in 1813. The county is in northwestern Indiana. There is also a published speech by a C. W. Cathcart of Indiana, on Rivers and Harbors, delivered in 1847 and published then by Washington Blair & Rives (printers). Despite the uncertainty of date and location, this is a fascinating mid-19th C. document on Spiritualism. Edges chipped. Old central fold. Name excised (half of one line of text). Toning. Else, Very Good, with dramatic textual impact. Price: $400.00 10642 [Stereoscopic View] Bierstadt, C[harles].- 150. Amer[ican] Falls from Below, Niagara, N.Y. Niagara Falls, NY. C. Bierstadt, Photographer. N.D. [ca. 1868-75] First Edition. 1 p. 3 3/8’ x 7” Images in black & white, mounted on orange card, with rounded corners and blank reverse Darrah, Stereo Views, 1864. Waldsmith, Stereo Views, 1991 A grand image of the American Falls in Niagara, NY by Charles Bierstadt, published by him in stereoscopic view. Bierstadt started out in New Bedford, MA, in partnership with his brother Edward, as photographers and publishers of stereoscopic views, from 1860 to 1866. Some of their earliest views were photographed by brother Albert Bierstadt, notably the Landers Expedition to the American West in 1859. They then separated, selling their negatives to S. F. Adams, Edward moving to New York City, while Charles and his sister Eliza moved to Niagara, NY and continued extensive stereoscopic publication. In the 1880’s, he sold his negatives to Underwood & Underwood, who continued to publish them into the 20th century. Charles Bierstadt’s views of Niagara Falls in all seasons are among the best published. Very Good. Price: $140.00 10643 [Stereoscopic View] Bierstadt, C[harles].- 141. Crystal Ice. Luna Island Winter. Niagara, N.Y. Niagara Falls, NY. C. Bierstadt, Photographer. N.D. [ca. 1868-75] First Edition. 1 p. 3 3/8’ x 7” Images in black & white, mounted on orange card, with rounded corners and blank reverse Darrah, Stereo Views, 1864. Waldsmith, Stereo Views, 1991 A grand image of the American Falls in Niagara, NY by Charles Bierstadt, published by him in stereoscopic view. Bierstadt started out in New Bedford, MA, in partnership with his brother Edward, as photographers and publishers of stereoscopic views, from 1860 to 1866. Some of their earliest views were photographed by brother Albert Bierstadt, notably the Landers Expedition to the American West in 1859. They then separated, selling their negatives to S. F. Adams, Edward moving to New York City, while Charles and his sister Eliza moved to Niagara, NY and continued extensive stereoscopic publication. In the 1880’s, he sold his negatives to Underwood & Underwood, who continued to publish them into the 20th century. Charles Bierstadt’s views of Niagara Falls in all seasons are among the best published. Very Good. Price: $110.00 10644 [Stereoscopic View] Bierstadt, C[harles].- 627. Ice Tree. Luna Island. Niagara, N.Y. Niagara Falls, NY. C. Bierstadt, Photographer. N.D. [ca. 1868-75] First Edition. 1 p. 3 3/8’ x 7” Images in black & white, mounted on orange card, with rounded corners and blank reverse Darrah, Stereo Views, 1864. Waldsmith, Stereo Views, 1991 A grand image of the American Falls in Niagara, NY by Charles Bierstadt, published by him in stereoscopic view. Bierstadt started out in New Bedford, MA, in partnership with his brother Edward, as photographers and publishers of stereoscopic views, from 1860 to 1866. Some of their earliest views were photographed by brother Albert Bierstadt, notably the Landers Expedition to the American West in 1859. They then separated, selling their negatives to S. F. Adams, Edward moving to New York City, while Charles and his sister Eliza moved to Niagara, NY and continued extensive stereoscopic publication. In the 1880’s, he sold his negatives to Underwood & Underwood, who continued to publish them into the 20th century. Charles Bierstadt’s views of Niagara Falls in all seasons are among the best published. Very Good. Price: $110.00 10645 [Stereoscopic View] Bierstadt, C[harles].- 1067. Three Politicians. Niagara Falls, NY. C. Bierstadt, Photographer. N.D. [ca. 1868-75] First Edition. 1 p. 3 3/8’ x 7” Images in black & white, mounted on orange card, with rounded corners and blank reverse. Darrah, Stereo Views, 1864. Waldsmith, Stereo Views, 1991 An image of a sculpture of three comic figures by Charles Bierstadt, published by him in stereoscopic view. Probably one of the popular Rogers Group of plaster casts collected by John Rogers and photographed by Charles Bierstadt. Bierstadt started out in New Bedford, MA, in partnership with his brother Edward, as photographers and publishers of stereoscopic views, from 1860 to 1866. Some of their earliest views were photographed by brother Albert Bierstadt, notably the Landers Expedition to the American West in 1859. They then separated, selling their negatives to S. F. Adams, Edward moving to New York City, while Charles and his sister Eliza moved to Niagara, NY and continued extensive stereoscopic publication. In the 1880’s, he sold his negatives to Underwood & Underwood, who continued to publish them into the 20th century. Charles Bierstadt’s views of Niagara Falls in all seasons are among the best published. Very Good. Price: $100.00 10647 Roelker, William Greene and Clarkson A. Collins, III.- One Hundred Fifty Years of Providence Washington Insurance Company. 1799–1949. Providence, RI. Providence Washington Insurance Company 1949. Illustrated. First Edition. 153 pp. 8vo. Red publisher’s cloth with gilt titling on front cover and spine. Glassine D.J. In red cardboard box (with brass cllps), as issued. The third oldest insurance company in America celebrates 150 years with the publlcation of this history of the company. Box lacks tongue of one of brass clips. Else, Very Good +. Price: $45.00 10651 Wayland, Francis.- [Pamphlet]. The Affairs of Rhode-Island, a Discourse Delivered at the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Providence, May 22, 1842. Providence, RI. R. Cranston & Co. and H. H.Brown. 1842. Third Edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Light brown printed paper wraps. J. R. Bartlett, p.269. Gettleman, pp. 117n, 147n, 246. A speech in opposition to the principles of Thomas Dorr and his party by the noted Baptist minister, social philosopher and president of Brown University, Francis Wayland. It was delivered as the most violent period of the Dorr War was evolving in 1842. The conservative Dr. Wayland argues against the threat of "anarchy," "lawless soldiery" and acts which "question the very existence of society." He argues against the adoption of a new constitution by declaring the existing one void. Rather he proposes the working of a new constitution through using the laws of the existing one. Wayland misses the fallacy of the then existing constitution of Rhode Island, a document descended from the early 17th century Carolingian charter of the colony, which restricted voting rights to the landed classes in a new industrial society where the holding of property was no longer the mark of investment in the social order. It took about 50 more years for the constitution of Rhode Island to begin to enlarge the franchise and, because of the unbalanced power of the legislature, the government of Rhode Island remains today a parliamentary system and some of the evils that Dorr contested persist today.Some of the violent anti-Dorr opinion by Wayland had a nativist basis. A letter from John Pitman, Judge of the US District Court, responding to the first issue of this address, is printed in this issue with a correction to Wayland’s argument that the authority for property ownership as a determinant of voting rights came, not from the King Charles Charter, but from an act passed by the General Assembly in 1724 and reaffirmed in 1798 and again in 1822. Ex libris with library stamps on recto of front cover and on title page. Later cloth spine applied. Else, Very Good. Price: $165.00 10652 Eaton, Amasa M.- Constitution-Making in Rhode Island. Providence, RI. Rhode Island Constitutional League. 1899. First Edition. 128 pp. 8vo. Grey printed paper wraps. The title page quotes Washington that “The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government”. this article explores the legal and historical precedents for the right of the people to change their constitution. It has cogent commentary on the Dorr rebellion and relevant citations and comments on the authority of constitutions and civll government in a democracy. Inscribed by Eaton to Henry S. Burrage in 1902. Burrage, a Brown University graduate and Baptist minister (D.D..) in Maine, wrote a history of Brown University in the Civil War, based upon his diary. He was also author of articles on Protestantism and its history, history of Maine, Roger Williams and Rhode Island history, etc. Eaton, a lawyer descended from John Brown, slave trader and early benefactor of Brown University, wrote for the Harvard and Yale Law Reviews and other publications on torts, Rhode Island history and vexing issues of the rights of states vs. cities and towns, on the need for uniform State constitutions, the rights of corporations (Dartmouth College) against the State’s assumption of property, etc. He declared bankruptcy at one point. This article is referred to in Patrick T. Conley’s “Democracy in Decline. Rhode Island Constitutional Development, 1776–1841”. Ex libris, with only modest markings. Later blue-grey cloth spine applied and sewn. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 10663 [? Pollock, Charles and/or Charles Seaver].].- [Stereoscopic View] Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall. Boston. Boston. Possibly Charles Seaver &/or Charles Pollock. N.D. [1872–76] First Edition. 1 p. Waldsmith, 50, 52. Darrah, Stereo Views. Albumen print. A stereoscopic view of Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall in Boston from the late 19th century. Yellow-faced card mounting. Part of the American Scenery series, published at 182 Washington St., Boston. Publisher not indicated, but style, subject and period suggest either Pollock or Seaver. Slight fading, but overall, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10670 Parsons, C[harles] W[illiam], M.D.- [Pamphlet]. Notice of the History of Population in the State of Rhode Island. N.P. [Providence, RI]. N.Pu. [State of RI. N.D. [1859] First Edition. 8 pp. 8vo. Tan paper covers with added blue-green linen spine ApplCycAmBiog. (for Parsons). A history and analysis of the population of Rhode Island, from mid-17th century, just after its founding by Roger Williams (1636) to the time of this publication (1858–9), using tax levies, the periodic census, starting in 1708 up to that of 1850. The analysis examines the effects of immigration, the effects of war, urbanization, and changes in the racial composition including the shrinkage of the black population and the disappearance by 1858 of pure-blood Native Americans. the data provided are extremely interesting and useful demographics. This report is part of the Sixth Registration Report of RI. C. W. Parsons, M.D.(1823–after 1882), was the son of Usher Parsons, the illustrious naval physician and historian of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812, a memoir of whom was published by his son, a professor at Brown and an active member of the Rhode Island Historical Society. Ex libris with stamped marking on cover and title page. Old vertical fold. Ink labels on front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $145.00 10679 Davis, Jefferson.- Speech of Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, On the Exercise of Civil Power and Authority by Military Officers; Delivered in the U. S. Senate, on Monday, August 5, 1850. [Washington, DC]. [1850] N.P. (? Govt. Doc.). First Edition. 16 pp. 8vo. Disbound... Brown, Hay Metcalf. LCCN 10025134. A defense of Zachary Taylor’s career in the Mexican War. Jefferson Davis (1808–89), Senator from Mississippi, considers it unjust for his colleagues in the Senate, notably the Senator from Texas, to criticize General Taylor for allegedly exceeding his authority in exercising Civil Power over a region of Mexico in dispute over the boundary of Texas and New Mexico in the uncertain time at the end of the Mexican War. Davis justifies the Battle of Monterey on the basis of an ineffectual Texas militia and a vacuum of authority. Damp stain at lower corner. ?Trimmed. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10681 Garrison, William Lloyd.- A Brief Sketch of the Trial of William Lloyd Garrison, for an Alleged Libel on Francis Todd, of Massachusetts. Baltimore, MD. William Lloyd Garrison. 1830. First Edition. 6 pp. 8vo. No covers. Titled on first page in 6 fonts of type. AmImp 1553 (1830); see also AmImp 24574 (1834). A. H. Grimké, W. L. Garrison (1891), Chapter III. Garrison, Liberator, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1, 1831) (for second trial). Abandoning gradualism, Garrison had published broadsides against slavery in the “Genius of Universal Emancipation”, a Baltimore journal which he co-edited with Benjamin Lundy. Baltimore was then a “slave emporium” (Grimké). One broadside was an attack on Francis Todd (and Nicholas Brown), a business man from Newburyport, Massachusetts for transporting slaves to be sold in the northern ship “Francis” from Baltimore to New Orleans. Todd sued Garrison for criminal libel and won in the kangaroo court of Baltimore and the abolitionist, unable to pay the $100 fine, was incarcerated. Garrison wrote this pamphlet in jail and it was circulated in 1830 (later published in 1834). The issue of slavery became enmeshed in th issue of freedom of the press. After 7 weeks of imprisonment, his fine was paid by Arthur Tappan, a generous New York businessman. Garrison returned to Boston and founded the abolitionist journal, the “Liberator”. In a second civil trial, Garrison was found guilty of libeling Todd and Brown and fined $1000, which was never paid. In 1831, the Georgia legislature called for his abduction and arrest, offering a $5000 reward, which was never claimed. Closely trimmed at lower margin with loss of last line of each page. Last leaf detached. Mildly foxed.Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 6530 De Tocqueville, Alexis.- Memoirs, Letters, and Remains of Alexis De Tocqueville, Author of Democracy in America. Translated from the French by the Translator of Napoleon’s Correspondence with King Joseph. With Large Additions. In Two Volumes. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1862. First American Edition 430, 442 pp. + 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end of Vol. I Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Titled in gilt on spine. Publisher’s monogram in cartouche, in the blind, on all covers. Labeled “Ticknor & Co.”, in gilt at foot of spine. Bookplate of James Douglas on front pastedowns, with his number on bookplates and on an early page of each volume. Published in England in 1861, this expanded American Edition was issued in 1862. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), trained as a lawyer, was a great sociological thinker, whose “Democracy in America” (1835, 1840) is arguably the most penetrating view of American society and democracy of the century. At his death he was working on “The Old Regime and the Revolution”. His literary collaborator on some of his work was Gustave de Beaumont, who assembled the material for these volumes, which included unpublished works and extracts of diaries of Tocqueville and others, as well as Tocqueville’s memoirs and letters. Wear at ends of spines and at corners. Else, Very Good Price: $295.00 6566 Dusenbery, B. M. (Compiler). Monument to the Memory of General Andrew Jackson: Containing Twenty-Five Eulogies and Sermons Delivered on the Occasion of His Death. To Which Is Added an Appendix, Containing General Jackson’s Proclamation, His Farewell Address, and A Certified Copy of His Last Will. The Whole Preceded by a Short Sketch of His Life. Philadelphia. Walker & Gillis. 1846 Portrait Frontispiece. First Edition. 412 pp. 6to. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine Wise & Cronin #255 ( Also Cites Another Edition, S. Hanna, Troy, as Publisher, 1846). Eulogies by Bancroft, Butler, et al. Biographical Sketch and Important Jacksonian Documents Browned and foxing, especially of preliminaries. Ends of spine worn, corners bumped, covers stained with hinges starting externally at ends. An early signature shaken Price: $125.00 9494 Peabody, Joel. R., M.B.- A World of Wonders; or Divers Developments, Showing the Thorough Triumph of Animal Magnetism in New England. Illustrated by the Power of Prevision in Mrs. Matilda Fox, and the Point of the Pencil by D. C. Johnston Boston. Robert S.Davis. 1838. With 7 illustrations by D[avid] C[laypool] Johnston. Third Edition. 158 pp. 12mo in 6's. One quarter brown calf with glt titling and ruling on spine , and printed paper covered boards. M. Johnson, D. C.Johnston, AAS, 1970. A witty and interesting work of the imagination, revealing charming discoveries about real and imagined worlds though the medium of Mrs. Fox, whose descriptive powers are unfettered by animal magnetism. Half the book is an early work of science fiction, with descriptions of lunar, Saturnian and asteroidal geography, inhabitants and behavior. There are seven illustrations by D. C. Johnston, called by Clarence Brigham "The American Cruikshank." Johnston (1798–1865), an artist, engraver and lithographer shows his skill as a humorist and his great imagination especially in the science fiction illustrations of this volume. The author claims to be a Fellow of the College of 'Pothecaries. Wear at corners and edges of boards and abrasion of printed covers. Inscription in ink on front and rear free end papers. Penciled calculations on rear pastedown. Scattered foxing and water staining. Margin trimmed on one illustration. Else, tight and Good + text and illustrations. Price: $525.00 9821 Hersey, John.- Hiroshima. New York. The New Yorker Magazine. 1946. First Edition. 68 pp. 8 1/2" x 11 1/2" Original colored illustrated magazine covers. The first appearance of "Hiroshima ," published as the entire issue of The New Yorker for Aug. 31, 1946. This was the first time in history that an entire issue of a magazine was devoted to a single article. The New York Times Book Review calls this the best of the books that have been written about the most spectacular explosion in human experience. John Hersey, a novelist whose subjects are events of contemporary history , visited Hiroshima in 1946 and interviewed survivors of the first atomic bomb attack. The six survivors he wrote about detailed their lives before and after the bomb, with personal assessment of their survival and subsequent illnesses and sorrow. It was a personally rewarding and a growth experience for Hersey. Also for his readers. Ex libris with modest stamp on front cover. Shaken. Browning of pages. Cover hinge starting. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 10534 [McHenry, James].- Meredith; or, The Mystery of the Meschienza. A Tale of the American Revolution. By the Author of “The Betrothed of Wyoming.” Philadelpha. Henry H. Porter. 1831. Second Edition. 260 pp. 12mo. Tan linen spine on tan paper covered boards. Printed paper label on spine Wright 1754. BAL 13593 (3 copies listed). AmImp #31-8064 McHenry was an Irish immigrant in 1817 who settled in Pennsylvania. He was a poet and novelist. In 1823, McHenry published “The Wilderness; or Braddock’s Times”(published in England as “The Youthful Days of Washington” by “Solomon Second-sight) (Howes M110). Washington was the hero of the novel. In its preface, McHenry wrote to the reader that “you will naturally feel to know who I am, to inform you, under the stipulation of profound secrecy, that I am by profession a book-worm, and by name, Your humble servant, Solomon Secondsight. In addition to his admiration of Washington, McHenry admired Andrew Jackson, writing in 1829, a continuation of Walsh’s biography of Jackson in “The Jackson Wreath” and a poem “Dirge to the Memory of Mrs. Jackson” in the same volume. Mild soiling of boards. Mld foxing. Lacks lower corner of pp. 143/4 without loss of text. Spine label intact. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10535 [McHenry, James].- Meredith; or, The Mystery of the Meschienza. A Tale of the American Revolution. By the Author of “The Betrothed of Wyoming.” Philadelpha. Henry H. Porter. 1831. Second Edition. 260 pp. 12mo. Tan linen spine on tan paper covered boards. Printed paper label on spine Wright 1754. BAL 13593 (3 copies listed). AmImp #31-8064 McHenry was an Irish immigrant in 1817 who settled in Pennsylvania. He was a poet and novelist. In 1823, McHenry published “The Wilderness; or Braddock’s Times”(published in England as “The Youthful Days of Washington” by “Solomon Second-sight) (Howes M110). Washington was the hero of the novel. In its preface, McHenry wrote to the reader that “you will naturally feel to know who I am, to inform you, under the stipulation of profound secrecy, that I am by profession a book-worm, and by name, Your humble servant, Solomon Secondsight. In addition to his admiration of Washington, McHenry admired Andrew Jackson, writing in 1829, a continuation of Walsh’s biography of Jackson in “The Jackson Wreath” and a poem “Dirge to the Memory of Mrs. Jackson” in the same volume. Mild soiling of boards. Mld foxing. Lacks lower corner of pp. 143/4 without loss of text. Spine label intact. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10536 Adams, Hannah.- A Narrative of the Controversy between the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, D.D. and the Author. Boston. Cummings and Hilliard, Bradford and Read, and Isaiah Thomas, Jun. 1814. First Edition. 42 pp. 12mo. Disbound. Sewn. AmImp #30627. DAB. Printed by John Eliot. Hannah Adams(1755–1831), a distant cousin of President John Adams. was unschooled but profoundly self-taught; she was the first American woman (and possibly man, too) to earn her living by her pen. In the Revolutionary War, she had supported her father, an improvident book-lover and failed book-dealer, by making lace and tutoring; she, in turn, was tutored by students living in her home. Most of her publications were on comparative religion and were purchased widely in both American and London editions. She wrote an extensive History of New England (1798) and contemplated an abridgement (published in 1805) for use in the schools, but she was anticipated by Rev. Jedidiah Morse, who managed to publish his work for the schools first. Adams’s sales suffered and there was bitterness in the rivalry as Morse was accused of pirating his short work from her larger edition. Prominent Bostonians, motivated by admiration of Adams and antipathy to the reactionary Morse, precipitated a public controversy over the matter, in which Morse conducted himself so poorly as to lose all public support. Adams herself took little part in the public controversy. An annuity was established for her and she continued to publish on religion. Her memoir appeared posthumously in 1832. (DAB). This pamphlet is Adams’s explanation of the controversy in response to Morse’s attack in “An Appeal to the Public...” (1814). Covers soiled.Number stamed on last page. Minimal foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $375.00 10537 Mather, Cotton.- Essays to Do Good, Addressed to All Christians, Whether in Public or Private Capacities. Bu the Late Cotton Mather, D. D. F. R. S. A New Edition, Improved by George Burder. From the Latest Boston and London Editions. To Which Are Added, Treatises, on Engagements, Religious Education and Sanctifying the Sabbath-Day. Johnstown. Asa Child. 1815. A New Edition. 195 pp. + table of Contents 12mo. Full contemporary calf. AmImp #35227, Holmes 112E. “The Essay to Do Good” was originally published by Cotton Mather (1663–1728) in 1710. Here it is slightly edited to bring the language into the “modern” form (1807) by the editor. Several essays not by Mather are added in this edition. Overall, a nice edition of Mather’s important essay. Uncommon. Lacks both front and back cover. spine present. Owner’s signature (”Eli Purdy/1833”) on front free end paper. Chips from corner of front free end paper and title page without loss of text.. Edges browned. Else Very Good. Price: $115.00 10538 Ashburner, John, M.D.- Facts and Observations on the Mesmeric and Magnetic Fluids. Offprint from The Zoist: A Journal of Cerebral Physiology and Mesmerism, April, 1846 London. Walton and Mitchell. 1846. First Edition. 16 pp. 8vo. Buff printed paper wraps. John Ashburner (1793–1878) was a noted English physician and authority on animal magnetism and spiritualism. In this seminal paper, which is a paradigm of contemporary “scientific mesmerism’, Ashburner uses his presumably physiologic experiments with subjects being mesmerized to infer that a mesmeric fluid passes from the mesmerizer to the object, typically from either the eyes or the hands, and that this fluid behaves like magnetic fluids which he infers to be the agency of magnetic effects. He discusses this in relation to various phrenological characteristics and to sundry therapeutic results. Ashburner, further, appeals to prior evidence of experiments with mesmerized metals and with the Okey girls, whose fraudulent behavior was later exposed and, as a result, mesmeric experiments banned from the pages of “The Lancet”. In 1861, he was visited by the American medium and rapper (since age 14), Charles Foster (1828–1904), later Governor of Ohio and Secretary of the Treasury (1891–3) to Benjamin Harrison. With Foster, Ashburner witnessed materialization of nine hands above the dining room table and a levitation of Foster and the piano on which he was playing. Dickens, Thackeray and other literary notables had sittings with Foster, who was later exposed as a fraud and died of alcoholism and dementia whose origins preceded his stint in the US cabinet. Ashburner also wrote the preface and notes to Baron Charles von Reichenbach’s 1850 treatise on experiments on magnetism and physical forces, and their relations to the Vital Force, (the volume was dedicated to John Elliotson), in which they touch on somnambulism. phrenology, clairvoyance and hallucinations. The Zoist was founded in 1843 by Elliotson (1791–1868), a noted physician, the first user of a stethoscope in Britain, who resigned his professorship when mesmerism was banned by the Royal Medical societies. Elliotson was a mesmerist, held scéances and founded The Phrenological Society. He was late to espouse Spiritualism, but then had a conversion to Christianity; he subsequently reconciled with Ashburner, from whom he had been earlier estranged because of Ashburner’s adoption of Spiritualism. Covers soiled. Owner’s signature (”E. Hussey”) on front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $275.00 10541 [Pamphlet]. [Jewett,Charles C.].- The Close of the Late Rebellion in Rhode Island. An Extract from a Letter by A Massachusetts Man Resident in Providence. Providence, R. I. B. Cranston & Co. 1842. First Edition, 16 pp. 8vo. Removed. Self-covered. Sewn. Gettleman, “The Dorr Rebellion”, pp. 116–7, Note 37. Mowry, 176, ff. AmImp 42–2672. The Dorr War was the most dramatic and angry political battle in America before the Civil War. It began as an attempt to ceate political reform in Rhode Island, a state which still operated under a 17th century charter with restrictive voting privileges. Residues of the radical spirit of the American Revolution stimulated efforts to expand the suffrage, as the Industrial Revolution led to decline in property ownership and loss of voting rights. This pressure grew and in the early 1840’s became a radical movement under Thomas Wilson Dorr. A People’s Convention elected Dorr Governor, in opposition to the Charter-elected Governor King. Dorr, in May, 1842 went to Washington to seek government help for his movement from President Tyler, Daniel Webster and others, without success. He had earlier sent Burrington Anthony, former US Marshal, to seek this help. On Dorr’s return, hoping for support from New York, he untruthfully promised the citizens such help as he marched in front of a crowd of 1000, 300 of them armed, with a military band blaring in front. He addressed the large crowd, unsheathed a sword and promised violent retribution. This parade helped radicalize the movement and armed conflict later broke out. The rebels were subsequently suppressed and Dorr imprisoned. The parade was a turning point in the rebellion and is best described in this anonymous pamphlet prematurely announcing the end of the rebellion, published by Charles C. Jewett. Jewett “was librarian of Brown University, a center of anti-Dorr sentiment. University President Francis Wayland and William G. Goddard , Professor of Moral Philosophy, were both ardent anrti-Dorrites.” (Gettleman) Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Uncommon. Price: $365.00 10542 Fowler, Prof. O[rson] S[quire].- Matrimony, As Taught by Phrenology and Physiology. In Three Parts. Part I. – Love: Its Nature, Laws and All-Controlling Power over Human destiny. Part II. – Selection: or, Mutual Adaptation. Part III. – Courtship and Married Life: Ther Fatal Errors, and How to Render All Marriages Happy. Boston. O. S. Fowler Publications. 1859. Phrenological map of head after title page. First Edition. 472 pp. + 4 pp. catalogue of Fowler’s Works at rear and 4 pp. catalogue of phrenologic works at front. 12mo. Green publisher’s cloth embossed in the blind. Gilt titling on spine. Yellow end papers. Not in Cooter. See Cooter, 425.1c for later British edition of Fowler’s earlier book (AmImp 42-1847) on the same subject. A more developed version of Fowler’s earlier 1840’s book n the same subject. The author states that his book provides the best counsel on matrimony, since it is derived from the principles of Phrenology, which is an “analysis of man’s social faculties.” Much space is devoted to sexuality and amativeness and to the significance of love to man as a social being. Marriage is based on a combination of social faculties, which are discussed in detail as factors in the success or failure of marriage. The mutuality of these qualities constitutes marriage. O. S. Fowler (1809–1887) was a graduate (in divinity) of Amherst in 1834, a classmate and pupil of phrenology with Henry Ward Beecher. He lectured with his brother , Lorenzo, on phrenology , established a publishing firm and put out The Phrenological Almanac and The American Phrenological Journal & Miscellany. Slight soiling of covers. Minimal wear at ends of spine and corners. Else, Very Good +. Price: $150.00 10544 Potter, Wm. B., M.D.- The Physiological and Phrenological Developments of [Allyn D. Schatz?] as Given by Wm. B. Potter, M. D. N.P. [US] Wm. B. Potter, M.D. N.D. [ca. 1840]. Probably First Edition. 16 pp. 32mo (2 1/2” x 3 1/2”) Blue plain paper wraps. Not in American Imprints or Cooter. A small chapbook to record the phrenological assessment of the recorded subject by the examiner, Dr. Wm. B. Potter. Dr. Potter also suggests in this printed booklet that he also offers advice on business, matrimony and phrenology as well as vocational guidance, all in confidence, of course. Yet subjects are invited to bring along children and friends, business and conjugal partners to learn how best to deal with them. He provides scores for the various phrenological properties as well as brief definitions of these qualities. Dr. Potter promises 40 closely written pages in a report for fees one-half those charged by the Fowlers in New York. The chapbook is judged to be American from internal evidence, idiom and spelling. Slight wrinkling ans soiling of covers. Some pencillings on charts. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 10551 Green, Frances Harriet McDougall (or Williams, Mrs. Catherine B.) (pseud.: A Rhode Islander).- Might and Right. Providence. A. H. Stillwell. 1844. Frontispiece Portrait of Thomas Wilson Dorr. First Edition. 324 pp. 6to. Brown publisher's cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Covers embossed in the blind. Sabin 48898. Not in American Imprints or Bartlett. DAB re Authorship. A sympathetic review of the Dorrites and their political movement for democracy in Rhode Island; especially important for discussion of the constitutional issues of legislative authority as allegedly derived from King Charles's Charter of 1663. Along with Mowry's modern history, a cornerstone of Dorr Collections. This Second Edition has added material in an Appendix entitled "A Sketch of the Life and Character of Thomas Wilson Dorr." Copy of Edward G. Slocum. Chips from Spine at Head and Tail. Corners Worn and Bumped. Foxing of Preliminaries. Text Tight and Very Good. Bright Gilt Title on Spine Overall, a Very Good copy. Price: $175.00 10552 Dusenbery, B. M. (Compiler). Monument to the Memory of General Andrew Jackson: Containing Twenty-Five Eulogies and Sermons Delivered on the Occasion of His Death. To Which Is Added an Appendix, Containing General Jackson’s Proclamation, His Farewell Address, and A Certified Copy of His Last Will. The Whole Preceded by a Short Sketch of His Life. Philadelphia. Walker & Gillis. 1846 Portrait Frontispiece. First Edition. 412 pp. 6to. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine Wise & Cronin #255 ( Also Cites Another Edition, S. Hanna, Troy, as Publisher, 1846). Eulogies by Bancroft, Butler, et al. Biographical Sketch and Important Jacksonian Documents Browned and foxing, especially of preliminaries. Ends of spine worn, corners bumped, covers stained with hinges starting externally at ends. An early signature shaken Price: $125.00 10553 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.- The Age of Jackson. Boston. Little, Brown & Company 1945. First Edition. 577 pp. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth with gilt ruling and titling on cover and spine. D.J. T.e.g. Soiling of page ends. Mild wear and soiling of covers. Else, Very Good. D.J. Poor with chips and missing pieces and tears, but almost all text present. Price: $50.00 10554 Burke, Edmund.- The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, In Twelve Volumes. Volume II [Only], On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; On Mr. Fox’s East India Bill, etc. Beaconsfield Edition. Boston. Little, Brown and Company. 1901. Frontispiece engraving of Trinity College, Dublin. Engraved title page with vignette illustration of Bristol in 1774. Printed title page in red and black. Illustrated. Beaconsfield Edition, Limited to 1000 sets. Copt No. 20 576 pp. 8vo. Three Quarters brown morocco on blue marbled boards and end papers. T.e.g. Page ends at foot and at fore untrimmed and uncut. Green ribbon page marker. Edmund Burke’s speeches and essays. Single volume of a de luxe set, containing his most famous essay in support of America, seeking conciliation at the time of the Revolution (March 22, 1775) as well as his prior (April 19, 1774) important speech on American Taxation. In this latter, he shows the hypocrisy of British taxation of the American colonies, especially the tax on tea, and the course adopted by Britain, which was leading to “loss of peace, of union and of commerce, but even of revenue...” Moderate wear at head, tail and edges of spine and at corners. Modest owner’s stamp on half-title and on title. Else , Very Good +. Price: $195.00 10577 [Sheet Music]. Russell, Henry (Music) and Morris, George P[ope] (Words).- Woodman! Spare That Tree! A Ballad, the Poetry by George P. Morris, Esq. by Whom the Song Is Dedicated to Benjamin M. Brown, Esq. The Music Composed by Henry Russell. New York. Firth & Hall. 1846–7. Cover Illustrated and signed (in the stone) by Fleetwood. Twelfth Edition. 7 pp. Fo. Disbound. Illustrated and decorated cover. BAL 14543. Ewen, Pop.Am.Comp., pp.148–50. Appleton's Cycl. Am. Biog. Concise DNB. Dichter, Handbook, #1823. Groce and Walace, pp. 213 (Endicott), 230–231 (Fleetwood). According to Dichter and to BAL, the words were copied from the New York Mirror. The cover illustration, a lithograph, portrays a country scene of a house and an old well. A man in city clothes addresses a man with an axe. A weathercock is present on the roof of the shed in the vignette. The illustration is enclosed by a border with elaborate corners. A letter from Morris (1802–1864), editor of the New York Mirror, to Russell is printed on p. 3, before the music (in earliest editions, the letter was on p. 2). The composer, Henry Russell (1812–1900) was born in England of Jewish parentage. He studied with Bellini and knew Rossini, Donizetti and Meyerbeer. To seek his fortune he moved to America from 1833 to 1841, where his income came from his concerts (piano and voice recitals), not from his immensely popular sheet music, for which he received no royalties. Among his famous works are this,"Woodman! Spare That Tree!", "The Indian Hunter", "That Old Gang of Mine", etc. He championed social causes, reform of mental asylums and temperance. He was closely associated with "The Musical Bouquet. The cover lithography was done by Anthony Fleetwood, who was also born in England ca. 1800 and was active in New York from 1827 to 1847, when he moved to Cincinnati, where he established a family dynasty of lithographers. Dichter and BAL ascribe the lithography of the earliest editions to [George] Endicott, who founded another family dynasty of lithographers, originally in Baltimore with Moses Swett, but active in New York 1831–1845. While this work is not listed specifically in Peters (America on Stone) under either Endicott or Fleetwood, Peters does call the work of Fleetwood scarce and excellent (p. 189). Endicott is similarly admired by Peters (p. 179). Originally published in 1837, this copy is dated from the publisher’s address. Mildly foxed. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 10579 Anonymous.- Outlines of Phrenology. Illustrated. New York. Fowler & Wells Co. N.D. [1884– 85] Illustrated with numerous wood engravings. First Edition. 28 pp. Publisher’s catalogue on rear cover, recto & verso. 16mo. Printed and illustrated paper wrap. Cover illustration is entitled “Heads and Faces Indicate Character”. A smalll pamphlet issued by the newly icorporated (1884) Fowler & Wells Company providing a brief compendium of phrenology. it begins with a synopsis of phrenological principles and the names and functions of the organs. Each of the characters is illustrated by a woodcut of famous people with those dominant characteristics, including, e.g., Verazzano, Beethoven, Sir John Franklin, Daguerre, S. F. B. Morse, Elisha Kane, Captain Cook, Longfellow, et al. The phrenological bust and examination are described and phrenological imposters excoriated. A glossary is provided. On he rear cover, thenames of Rufus Merritt and Holman Robbins are inscribed in pencil. A rare 19th century ephemeron. Mild soiling and minimal foxing. Pencil notations, “Phrenological Chart”, on front cover margins. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10586 Woolman, John. The Journal of John Woolman. Boston. James R. Osgood and Company. 1871. First Edition,as Such. 315 pp. 8vo. Brick red publisher's cloth with gilt decorations. Beveled boards. Coated brown end papers. Currier, p. 117. Howes II, W669. BAL, 21891. Journal of an 18th C. Anti-Slavery Quaker. He Visited Rhode Island in 1760 and Contributed Greatly to the Ending of Slavery There, at Least among Quakers. Woolman's Influence Extended Well beyond Quakers. He Wrote Extensively on Uncompensated Labor as Well as Slavery and Argued for Retrospective Compensation to Emancipated Slaves. He published a famous two-part essay entitled "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, 1754 and 1762. Howes considered the Journal "an autobiographical masterpiece." Ex libris (Sunday School) with owner’s signature on title page. part of bookplate on front pastedown and part of paper label on spine. Otherwise Very Good. Price: $125.00 6404 Casey, Brig.-Gen. Silas.- [By Authority.] Infantry Tactics, for the Instruction, Exercise and Manoevres of the Soldier, a Company, Line of Skirmishers, Battallion, Brigade, or Corps D’Armée. Vol. III [only]. Evolutions of a Brigade and Corps D’Armée. New York. D. Van Nostrand. 1862. Illustrated. 29 folding plates. First Edition. 183 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear. Small 12mo. Green embossed publisher’s cloth. Embossed in gilt on spine with gilt titling and eagle. Embossed in the blind on both covers with rules and American Eagle, shield and stars. Civil War military manual. A single volume of a 3 volume work. Bookseller’s tag (Washington, DC) on front pastedown. Lacks front free flyleaf. Hinges cracked internally. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Foxing. Owner’s name inked on front edge of text block. Few scattered ink marks. Else, Good+. Price: $135.00 6464 Cooper, Brevet Captain S. A Concise System of Instructions and Regulations for the Militia and Volunteers of the United States, Comprehending the Exercises and Movements of the Infantry, Light Infantry, and Riflemen; Cavalry and Artillery: together with the Manner of Doing Duty i Philadelphia Robert P. DeSilver 1836 Numerous illustrations. First Edition 282 pp. + 4 pp. recommendations. 12mo. Brown publisher’s cloth. Printed paper label on spine Am. Imp. 36933. A substantial manual of military manoeuvres and drills. It may be built upon Winfield Scott’s “Abstract of Infantry Tactics” of 1830. Each of the four parts is also separately paginated: 128, 48, 35, 70 pp. A large number of pages of drum beats and bugle calls are included. Owner’s signature, dated 1841, in ink on front pastedown. A large number of pages of drum beats and bugle calls are included. 4 pages of endorsements at front. 2 small chips from lower edge of label. Mild wear at edges of footElse, Very Good. Price: $275.00 6527 [ Pamphlet]. De Peyster, J. Watts.- Practical Strategy, as Illustrated by the Achievements of the Austrian Field Marshal Traun. Frederick the Great’s Preceptor in the Art of War. Catskill, NY. Joseph Joesbury, “Journal Office”. 1863. First American Edition 64 pp. 8vo. Pink printed paper wraps. Inspired by the difficulty of Lincoln in finding an active, successful general for the Union Army, the author, a military historian, reviews the practical precepts of Field Marshal Traun, tutor to Frederick the Great, and other military authorities in an attempt to elicit the core of their practical and successful teaching. List of references and errata on inside of rear cover. The outside of the rear cover contains the author’s exhortium to the populace hoping to evoke a leader like Traun to lead the country out of the rebellion and tyranny of the Civil War. Lower right corner off front cover, not involving text. Fading of covers. Chips from spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 7014 [Worcester, Noah] (pseudonym: Philo Pacificus).- The Friend of Peace, in a Series of Numbers: Together with a Solemn Review of the Custom of War as an Introduction to Said Work. Ballston Spa. J. Comsock. 1822. Full contemporary calf. Red leather label on spine with gilt titling and gilt ruling. ? First Edition. 308 pp. (continuous pagination) 12mo. Cushing, p. 232. Separate title pages for “The Friend of Peace” and “A Solemn Review of the Custom of War; Showing that War Is the Effect of Popular Delusion, and Proposing a Remedy”. Contains an interview between the President of the United States and an Officer, Omar, who had been dismissed for dueling. Pacifist. anti-dueling, anti-war. Engages arguments about slavery and its abolition, pro-war sentiments of authorities, the French-English war, Napoleon’s Russian engagements, etc. Originally published in 1817. Wear of covers, especially at corners and ends of spine. Foxed with staining of some pages and ends. Owner’s signatures on front free end paper (Henry H. Cranes) and on front second end paper (Annie Greene). Lacks triangular piece from lower edge of first title page encroaching only on text of biblical quotation near foot of page. Else Good+. Price: $150.00 7115 Scott, Winfield.- Abstract of Infantry Tactics; including Exercises and Manoeuvres of Light Infantry and Riflemen; for Use of the Militia of the United States. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins. 1830. Illustrated with 30 plates, including 2 folding plates. First Edition. 138 pp. 12mo. Full contemporary calf. Am. Imp. 3801. Published for the War Department under Congressional Authority. Covers and front free flyleaf detached (and worn), but present. Most of backstrip lacking. Foxing. Small water stain at foot of early pages. Plate XXX and half of Plate XI are lacking. Owner’s signature, dated 1832, at rear. Few pencil markings. Overall, a poor copy. Price: $65.00 8126 [Broadsheet].- Philadelphia Riots; or, I Guess It Wasn't De Niggas Dis Time. Philadelphia. J[oseph] Torr. [1844]. First Edition. 2pp. on 1 leaf. 6 1/2” x 9 5/8” Loose broadsheet In John Hay Library (at Brown University) Broadside Collection, HB39189 PA. Not in AAS. On May 3–10, 1844, there were anti-Catholic riots in Kensington, just outside Philadelphia. In this civil unrest Catholic churches were destroyed by fire. According to the” Pennsylvania Freeman”, n. 14 of July 18, 1844, 15 people were killed and 50 wounded. This broadsheet is a poem in dialect to the tune of "It'll Neber Do to Gib It up," exculpating Blacks from causing the Riot of 1844, placing the blame on Nativists and the opposing Irish. Ostensibly, the Nativists (Native American Party) were frightened by the prospects of excessive Catholic influence on prayers and Bible passages in public schools. However, likely the root cause was fear by the Nativists that the Irish would join the abolitionists to overthrow the institution of slavery. The “Freeman” chastises Philadelphia as being the strongest pro-slavery supporter of the South. The Irish, in fact, never joined the abolitionist camp. The Governor and the Attorney General also get roasted here, with a slur at newsmen who kept the riot going because they earned more money from it. The riots were stopped by government troops. The obverse has Whig songs, "Clay and Frelinghuysen", to the tune of "Yankee Doodle," and "The Whig Chief" by J[ohn] H[enry] Warland (1807–1872), campaign songs for the Whig candidates. Two small spots of foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 8769 Adams, William L.- A Melodrame Entitled "Treason, Stratagems, and Spoils." Hamden, CT. Archon Books for the Yale University Library. 1968. Comic frontispiece , facsimile of the title page and 3 other comic illustrations. First Edition. 163 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth with Illustrated D.J. A melodrama, written in verse in 1852, satirizing the Democratic Party leadership in Oregon at that time. They were written by William Lysander Adams of the Portland "Oregonian," who signed the articles "Junius," as he did a satirical Carrier's Address in the "Oregonian" also in 1852. Published originally serially in the "Oregonian," the parts were later collected in a pamphlet with few changes. The title is derived from "The Merchant of Venice" (Act V, Scene 1), also quoted by Carlyle. The play was attributed to "Breakspear." Adams was probably the best read Oregonian of his time and the play was a best seller at the frontier. A long introduction by Belknap discusses the setting in Oregon, the plot, the local patois, the Mormon themes and the author in some detail. A fascinating document from the pioneer West in America with the added insights of a modern scholar. Notes and Index are useful. Top edge of D.J. chipped. with no textual loss. Minimal foxing of page ends and end papers. Else, Very Good. Price: $50.00 10445 Scott, Winfield.- Abstract of Infantry Tactics; including Exercises and Manoeuvres of Light Infantry and Riflemen; for Use of the Militia of the United States. Boston. Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins. 1830. First Edition. 138 pp. 12mo. Full contemporary calf. Gilt rulings on spine. Am. Imp. 3801 Published for the War Department under Congressional Authority. An important manual of Infantry tactics, especially designed for militias of the United States by a committee headed by General Winfield Scott (1786–1886). Scott served prominently in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. He was still a force in the Civil War. On the dedication page, adjacent to the Scott listing is a holographic (? contemporary) signature in ink of Winfield Scott, not likely to be a signature by the General himself, according to my comparison with an authentic Scott signature. In Catalog No. 938 (p.12) of Lone Star Autographs is a quotation from an ALS by Scott reporting in 1835, that he had then received a Bank draft for $3000 “in part compensation for preparing and publishing a work on Tactics”. Few horticultural annotations in pencil on rear free endpaper. Mild foxing. Browning of end papers. Else, Very Good. Price: $275.00 10479 Goddard, William G[iles].- An Address to the People of Rhode-Island, Delivered in Newport, on Wednesday, May 3, 1843, in Presence of the General Assembly, on the Occasion of the Change in the Civil Government of Rhode-Island, by Adoption of the Constitution, Which Superseded the Charter of 1663. Providence, RI. Knowles and Vose. 1843. First Edition. 80 pp. 8vo. Printed paper self wraps. Disbound. Sabin 27647. Am Imp 43-2120. Gettleman, 45n, 117n. DiSimone & Schofield, Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion, 183. A defense of the Constitutional Convention and the new “Freemen’s” constitution of Rhode Island against the People’s Convention (the Dorr Rebellion) by a professor of moral philosophy at Brown University (also a legislator and journalist). He bases his argument on a respect for the rule of law. Goddard elsewhere ridiculed the People’s Convention and Constitution in Providence Journal articles under the pseudonym “Town Born”. Goddard, along with President (of Brown) Francis Wayland, was a vigorous anti-Dorrite. This copy bears the notation: ”from Wilkins Updike”. Updike was the author of “Memoirs of the Rhode-Island Bar in 1842 and also the history of the Episcopal Church in RI. A Whig and member of the Constitutional Convention, an opponent of Dorr’s People’s Convention, he was an unsuccessful candidate for US Congress. Ex libris with withdrawal stamp. Mildly foxed. Water stain at leading edge of early pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $160.00 10483 [US Government Document] Memorial of Auctioneers of Providence. Doc. No. 81. Ho. of Rep. 20th Congress, 2d Session. Washington, DC. Gales & Seaton, Printers to House of Reps. 1829. First Edition. 2 pp. 8vo. Disbound. A bill had been introduced into Co ngress to tax all sales at auction punitively, in effect to prohibit such sales.. The petitioners, from Rhode Island, argued that it was a matter for the States to decide: such a bill, if passed, would fall unequally on different States. The petitioners go on to argue that auctions are “the most open, fair, undeceptive, and satisfactory mode of transferring property”. The majority of goods sold at auction in Rhode Island were of foreign origin and the duties imposed by the State on such sales were used to support public schools. Auctions, they argue, relieve the consumer of the burden of supporting middle men, effectively lowering costs to consumers. This form of free trade is alleged to be opposed by competitors in business and does not interfere with Federal responsibilities in regulating foreign or interstate commerce. The proposed bill is a tax unrelated to any national census, but a direct tax upon only some states and upon only one legal occupation regulated and operated fairly for the public good. The bill (H.R. No. 361) was referred to the Committee of the Whole House for consideration. These same arguments have recently been restated in consideration of contemporary issues invoked by free trade agreements. Rear cover detached. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 10484 [US Government Document] Doc. No. 82. Ho. of Rep. 20th Congress, 2d Session. Act of the Legislature of the State of North Carolina. Incorporating the Roanoke Inlet Company, and for Other Purposes Washington, DC. Gales & Seaton, Printers to House of Reps. 1829. First Edition. 5 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Self wraps. This report to Congress refers to two North Carolina Acts: the first, in 1821, incorporates the Roanoke Inlet Company and charges it with opening an inlet at Nagg’s Head at lower Albermarle Sound, to improve the navigation of the Sound, the area surrounding Ocracock Inlet of the Outer Banks, charging the company to meet at Edmonton, permitting subscription for shares of value at least $150,000 for purchasing lands and creating embankments and charging fees based on tonnage of ships navigating the inlet; the second Act of 1828 amended the first, requiring completion in 10 years. Recognizing that these actions require US Congressional approval, the documents were referred to the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Roads and Canals for consideration. Very Good. Price: $75.00 10494 [Broadside Song Sheet]. [Hunt, George W.].- Up in a Balloon. New York. Henry de Marsan. N.D. [ca.1865–69] First Edition. 1p. 6 1/2” W x10” H Loose sheet. Hay-Harris Coll., HB 16797. AAS, Ballads U65i 01. An entertaining song of interplanetary voyaging printed as a broadside. The first line is: “One night, I went up in a balloon”; the story concerns a voyage through the galaxy in a balloon, a trip which turns out to be a dream caused by overeating. Published by Henry de Marsan of New York [active ca. 1865]. There is no date, but it likely gives its title to R. M. DeWitt’s “Up in a Balloon Songster”, DeWtt’s Song & Joke Book #66, dated 1869. The song, which according to AAS was written by George W. Hunt (1839–1904), ca. 1865–70. This copy was published by A. W. Auner of Philadelphia (at its address 1865–74). The poem is surrounded by an arabesque border illustrated with a woman in tears on the left, a contented man on the right and a uniformed man above blowing a bugle, all as described for the Hay-Harris item, also published by de Marsan. The tune for this song was used by Benjamin F. Butler as a campaign song in his political efforts in Massachusetts in the 1870–80’s (Hay-Harris HB4084 MA). Top edge with chips and tears, not involving text or images. Lacks 2” (on a side) triangular corner on lower right, encroaching only on lower corner of arabesque border. Few creases from old folds. Else, Very Good. Price: $235.00 6356 Branagan, Thomas.- Avenia, or a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species; and Infringement of the Rights of Man. In Five Books. With Notes Explanatory and Miscellaneous. Witten in Imitation of Homer's Iliad. -A New Edition- To Which Is Added the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. J, Cline. 1810. New (? Second) Edition. 324 pp. 16mo. Full contemporary calf. Gilt ruling on spine and gilt titling on red leather label. AI 19627, HSP/LCP Afro-Americana 1478. Sabin 7375 (for First Edition). Wegelin 878. James Basker, "Amazing Grace:, An Anthology of Poems about Slavery 1660-1810 (Yale). Not in Howes. An epic anti-slavery poem , written just after the American Revolution. Bookplate of James Coe on front pastedown and his signature dated 1813 on front free end paper. Includes "A Brief Acccount of the Bettering-House in Philadelphia", a racially integrated, Quaker-run hospital, as well as the constitution of Pennsylvania. Baranagan (1774-1843), an Irish slave trader and slave owner in the West Indies, repented and moving to America, wrote novelson the slave trade. His "The Penitential Tyramt" (autobiographical) and "Avenia" (first published 1805) were part of his strong statement about slavery. These two were kept by Thomas Jefferson in his library after Branagan sent him copies. This is a very good copy of a scarce item. Covers scuffed and chipped at the spine. Front hinge starting. Browning and foxing of text. Lacks frontispiece, but has frontispiece description. Else, Very Good. Price: $450.00 7295 Turner, George, and Burges, W. S.- Report of the Trial of Thomas Wilson Dorr, for Treason; Including the Testimony at Length, Arguments of Counsel-The Charge of the Chief Justice-The Motions and Arguments on the Questions of a New Trial and in Arrest of Judgement: together with the Sentence of the Court, and the Speech of Mr. Dorr before Sentence. From Notes Taken at the Trial. Providence. B. F. Moore 1844 First Edition. 115 pp. + errata. 12mo. Tan printed paper wraps. Sabin 20649. The transcript of the trial of Thomas W. Dorr for his leadership of the rebellion which followed his election as Governor of Rhode Island by the People's Convention, set up after Dorr's efforts to change the political system failed. This convention and election were in protest to the limited (to property owners) franchise in the State. Dorr was resisted by the conventionally elected Governor King, arrested. convicted and imprisoned. Extended franchise in Rhode Island, then still operating without a formal constitution on the colonial charter from King Charles, had to wait over 40 years for the changes proposed by Dorr. Turner and Burges were the defense attorneys. Front cover starting. Minimal foxing of rear cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $400.00 7479 [Pamphlet].- The Executive Acts of Ex-President Fillmore: with Reasons for HIs Election, and a Memoir of His Life and Administration. Accompanied with a Finely Executed Portrait on Steel, and a Sketch of the Life of Andrew Jackson Donelson, of Tennessee. New York. Edward Walker. 1856. First Edition 48 pp. including ads. 8vo. Pale yelllow printed paper wraps. Not in Sabin. A "pro-Union' Tract of the American Party. A plea to "Americans" for upport for Fillmore's candidacy on the American Party ticket. It claims to be pro-Union and in favor of immigration. Compromise is in its wind. A campaign biography and document of 1856 for the ticket of Fillmore and Donelson (of Tennessee), it reviews the political life and the statements of Fillmore. Covers and preliminaries soiled. Chips from front cover and from most of spine. Wrinkling of pages (? from former dampness). Else, Good +. Price: $145.00 8201 Yates, Robert (comp.).- Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Philadelphia, in the Year 1787, for the Purpose of Forming a Constitution of the Unites States of America. From the Notes Taken by the Late Robert Yates, Esq., Chief Justice of New-York, and Copied by John Lansing, Jun. Esq. Late Chancellor of That State, Members of That Convention. Including "The Genuine Information," Laid before the Legislature of Maryland by Luther Martin, Esq. Then Attorney General of That State, and a Member of the Same Convention. Also, Other Historical Documents Relative to the Federal Compact of the North American Union. Albany. Websters and Skinners. 1821. First Edition. 308 pp. 8vo. Full contemporary calf. Gilt rulings and titling on red leather label on spine. Howes, III, Y3. Sabin 78749. DAB for Yates. Notes from the Constitutional Convention, exposing the process in its development and who said what. An important item of contemporary monitoring from our constitutional history. Yates (1738-1801) was a New York attorney who ultimately became Chief Justice of the New York Court. Like his rellative Abraham Yates, he was violently anti-Federalist and a strong opponent to Hamilton. His anti-Federalist diatribes were written over the signature "Brutus" (and others). Hamilton's participation in the writing of the Federalist papers may have been provoked, in part, by the spoken and written words of Yates. This volume was published by Yates's widow, 20 years after his death. Foxing, chiefly of preliminary pages. Offsetting of text. Front free flyleaf loosening at tail with front hinge starting internally. Head of title and page 1 of Preface clipped without any loss of text. Only slight wear to covers. Bookplate on front pastedown. A Very Good copy, outstanding for age and usual fragility of such items. Price: $350.00 10313 Bingham, H[iram], Daniel Chamberlain, Samuel Whitney, Samuel Ruggles and Elisha Loomis.- Mission to the Sandwich Islands. In The Missionary Herald. Second Edition. Vol. XVII, No. 4, April, 1821, pp. 110-124 , and No. 5, May, 1821, pp. 129-143. Boston. Samuel T. Armstrong. 1821. First Edition. 32 pp., April issue, 40 pp. May issue.complete. 8vo. Gray printed paper wraps. B. Judd, Voyages to Hawaii before 1860. Here is an the first report by the missionaries to the Sandwich Islands, written by Hiram Bingham and others about their earliest experiences in Hawaii. This report was distilled from over 100 letters from missionaries and their journal from October, 1819 to July, 1820, all of which arrived in New York on the Ship Levant, out of China and Hawaii. The missionaries report on their arrival in Hawaii, their encounters with the natives, the beginning of their missionary work and its reception, their shock at polygamy and its incestuous consequences, the collapse of the Hawaiian government with the death of Tamehameha (Kamehameha), encounters at Kirooah (Kailua) and Mowee (Maui), the settlement of the gospel on the islands, the native customs (song and dance), and the missionary needs on Woahoo (Oahu). The second part takes up the settlement in Hanaroorah (Honolulu), Woahoo, the celebration of the Sabbath, the start of a school fund, the presentation of a copy of the book "Obookiah", pagan superstitions, and various visitations. An interesting first-hand compilation. The voyage of the Levant is not recorded in Judd, but the ship Thaddeus is. Both issues lack rear covers. Front covers chipped. Price: $825.00 10315 Hitchcock, Enos.- A Discourse on the Dignity and Excellence of the Human Character: Illustrated in the Life of General George Washington, Late Commander of the Armies, and President of the United States. In Commemoration of the AfflictiveEvent of His Death. Delivered February 22, 1800, in the Benevolent Congregational Church in Providence; and Published by Request of That Society. Providence, RI. John Carter, Jun. 1800. First Edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Stab sewn. Evans 37627. Sabin 32253. Alden 1673. A eulogy delivered by Enos Hitchcock, D.D. and member of the Society of the Cincinnati, about two monthsafter Wadshington's death Lacks covers and notes. Faint stain, probably from a small old label, on title page. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10319 [Cogan, Thomas]. A Layman (pseudonym).- Letters to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. on the Doctrine of Hereditary Depravity. Boston. J. Nancrede (Evans, p. 406). Printed by Manning & Loring (Evans, p. 405). 1799 First Edition. 125 pp. +7 pp. publisher's catalogue. 12mo. in 6's. Tan sheep, ruled on spinre in gilt with gilt titling on black leather spine label. DNB. Shipton & Moolney 35318. William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a Cambridge educated philanthropist, an early friend of William Pitt (later Prime Minister) and long time member of Parliament from a purchased borough. He was a fierce opponent of slavery and, beginning in1788, introduced bills for its abolition, repeatedly for years.He delivered stirring speeches in its support. His bills were all defeated, but in 1806, largely on another's bill, the slave trade was abolished. Four days before his death in 1833, slavery was finally completely abolished in Britain. Wilberforce was also an evangelical Christian. Thomas Cogan (1736-1818) was a philosopher, minister and physician (mostly in Holland till1795). He wrote novels, travel books, translations from the Dutch, treatises "on the passions", and commentaries on ethics. These critical letters take Wilberforce to task for his conservative Christianity, e.g., for attributing all defects of mankind to the fall of Adam, rather than to other causes, like heredity and the state of nature of man, common to all animals. Cogan appeals to a rational religion and the natural rationality of man. Truly a product of the Enlightenment. Lacks covers and end papers. Pages toned. A nicely printed very tight and clean issue. Very Good. Price: $375.00 10321 Crew, Danny O.- Presidential Sheet Music. An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the American Presidency and Those Who Sought the Office. Jefferson, NC and London. McFarland & Co. 2001. Illustrated. First Edition. 800 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth with silver titling on spine and on front cover. A wonderfully indexed treatise on presidential music. Some of the details are discussed scantily, however, but it is a very useful discourse on the music associated with the American Presidency. As New. Price: $45.00 10378 Fergurson (sic!), [? Ferguson,] Anna.- The Young Lady; or Guide to Knowledge, Virtue and Happiness. Nashua, NH. J. H. Fletcher. 1851. Second Edition. 128 pp. 3" x 4 5/8". Brown publisher's cloth with both covers embossed in gilt with a floral design.All pages ruled. At front is a presentation page also embossed in gilt. Spine with title and decoration embossed in the blind. A.e.g. A miniature book, original copyright 1848 and published then in Lowell by Dayton. An address to young women by Anna Ferguson(1778-1853), b. Orange County, NY, with homilies and parables and advice on conduct for women entering society. The author's husband was Elijah Hubbard Webster (1773-1854). Mild wear at corners. Mild foxing. Few minor stains. Pencil notation on presentation page: "Mary Drury from her sister Jane Drury". Else, Very Good. Price: $85.00 10400 Bartlett, W. H.- The Pilgrim Fathers; or, Founders of New England in The Reign of James the First. London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1863. Copiously illustrated with 28 full-page plates (with tissue guards) engraved on steel, including frontispiece and engraved title page, and 31 woodcuts inserted into text. ?Third Edition. 230 pp. 8vo. Full brown tree calf, ruled in gilt and blind tooled along edges of covers. Rebacked in tan calf with gilt titling. A.e.g. Gilt dentelles. Brown coated end papers. Sabin 3789. W. H. Bartlett, one of the 19th century's great artists, engravers and authors of travel books, wrote and illustrated this grand production. Using early period documents in America, Holland and England, he traces the history of the Pilgrims in the 17th century. Because of religious intolerance under James I (1603-1625), the Puritans left England and after a stay in Leyden, Holland, they traveled to Boston, England, and then to America on the Mayflower, landing at Plymouth. Here the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded and they endured much deprivation in their early settlements. Under some outstanding leaders and with help from Native Americans, until King Philip's War, they endured. Bartlett considers all these issues, as he considers especially the human elements of the narrative, avoiding religious doctrine and controversy. His sources are detailed in the Preface. Ex libris with the only markings stamped on edges under gilding. Lacks both free end papers. Almost all tissue guards present. Covers soiled. Moderate wear at edges and corners of covers. Mild age browning at edges. A few spots of foxing. Overall a very tight, Very Good copy. Price: $165.00 6252 Anonymous.- The Nebraska Question Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr. Douglas, Mr. Chase, Mr. Smith, Mr. Everett, Mr. Wade, Mr. Badger, Mr. Seward, and Mr. Sumner. Together with the History of the Missouri Compromise. Daniel Webster's Memorial in regard to It - History of the Annexation of Texas - the Organization of Oregon Territory - and the Compromises of 1850. First Edition. Pages 119 pp.8vo. Printed paper wraps. Complete with ads. Double columnformat. First Edition. Sabin 52200. LCP 7004. The Missouri Compromise set some limitation on the extension of slavery. By 1854, however, there was pressure to repeal it. The proposal, then, for the organization of the Nebraska and Kansas territories reopened the deep divisions on this subject. The admission of Missouri, the annexation of Texas, the 1850 compromise and the Nebraska-Kansas Bills bore heavily on the controvereial issues of Indian treaties, the extension of slavery as well as the organization of Nebraska and Kansas. This volume reviews this history and records in detail the contemporary speeches in Congress on the issues. It reprints Daniel Webster's 1819 pamphlet on the Missouri Compromise, not included in his Collected Works. From here on was the course of the break-up of the American Union. Signed by owner, M. W. Tappan (twice on cover, once, each, on title page and on p.9). Modest foxing of preliminary pages. Edges of covers worn and chipped without loss of text. Else, Very Good. New York. J. S. Redfield. 1854. Price: $125.00 10245 Cowell, Benjamin.- Spirit of '76 in Rhode island: or, Sketches of the Efforts of the Government and People in the War of the Revolution. Together with the Names of Those Who Belonged to the Rhode Island Regiments in the Army. With Biographical Notices, Reminiscences, &c., &c. First Edition. Pages 352 pp.8vo. Embossed brown publisher's cloth. Gilt titling on spine. First Edition. Bartlett, p. 81. Sabin 17235. Appleton/s Cycl. Am. Biog. (for Cowell). According to Cowell, Rhode Island, despite its penchant for independence in thought and behavior, provided more men , in proportion to population, and more money, in proportion to its wealth, to fight the American Revolution than any other colony. Here is a history of this effort by Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War. The lists of participants, including deserters, is accompanied by biographies (including women heroic in the conflict), and reminiscences ordinary citizens and some in the government and the militia. Cowell (1781-1860) was a distinguished jurist in Rhode Island. He was an1803 graduate of Brown University, a clerk of the Federal courts, and Chief Justice of the Court of Common pleas. He was noted for this work. Mild wear at ends of spine. Soiling and fading of the covers. Foxing of end papers and page edges. Pencil signatures of several members of the Smith family of Peacedalr, RI. Else ,Very Good. A tight copy, clean internally. Boston. A. J. Wright, Printer. 1850. Price: $150.00 7929 [Curtis, George William] (pseud.: Paul Potiphar).- Illustrated by A. Hoppin. Engraved by J. W. Orr and N. Orr. The Potiphar Papers (Reprinted from "Putnam's Monthly."). First Edition. Sixth Thousand. Pages 251 pp.12mo. Publisher's Cloth. Publisher's device embossed on covers. Titled in gilt on spine. T.e.g. First Edition. Sixth Thousand. Cushing, p. 238,400. Haynes, p. 78. Stonehill. Bartlett, Bibliography of Rhode Island. Wright 2, 676. BAL 4267. Curtis (b. 1824) was an American journalist, after 1857 editor of "Harper's Weekly." He was born in Providence, RI, whence, at age 15, he moved to New York. At 18 he joined Brook Farm for 18 months with his elder brother, then taking up farming in Concord. in 1846 he left for a tour of Europe, before working on the New York "Tribune" until joining Harper's. Curtis is cited by Bartlett for an address in rhyme on the Sons of Rhode Island delivered at the New York Historical Society in 1863. Shaken. Cover faded and worn. Small marginal stains. Else, Good. New York. G. P. Putnam and Company 1854. Price: $55.00 10292 Damrell & Moore, and, George Coolidge.- Boston Almanac for the Year 1856. No. XXI. First Edition. Pages 240 pp. + ads.16mo. Brown cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling on front cover First Edition. Numerous illustrated ads, some printed in gilt on red paper.. Folding map of Boston in front. A wonderfully informative almanac for Boston for 1856. Contains latest US Census, lists of Federal and state officers, the usual occupations, societies, organizations, omnibus stops, libraries etc. Covers fading. Few wormholes in front hinge. Map and all else Very Good +. Boston. John P. Jewett & Co. 1856. Price: $85.00 10246 Elizabeth, Charlotte.- The Wrongs of Woman. The Little Pin-Headers. First Edition. Pages 115 pp. + 8 pp. publisher's ads.12mo. One quarter black leather and marbled boards. Gilt titling on spine. First Edition. A spirited exhortation against child labor. Has a coterie of cruel overseers, pitiful and malnourished children, Irish orphans, money grubbing factory owners, etc. A church tract decrying the evil side of the industrial revolution. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Lacks front and rear free end papers. Foxing. Short closed tear at foot of pp. 35/36. Else, Very Good. New York. John S. Taylor & Co. 1844. Price: $90.00 8279 Frieze, Jacob.- A Concise History, of the Efforts to Obtain an Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island; from the Year 1811 to 1842. First Edition. Pages 171 pp.12mo. Brown Publisher's Cloth Embossed, with Gilt Titling on Front Cover. First Edition. Bartlett, p. 129. Heard & Hamsa, Bookman's Guide to Americana (9th Ed.),p. 160. Park, RI Biblio., #363.Gettleman, "The Dorr Rebellion." Sabin 25966. Jacob Frieze was an anti-Dorr pamphleteer, who had, in fact, voted for the People's Constitution in December, 1841, under the impression that it was an opinion without binding force. This volume is accepted as the standard Law & Order accountof the Dorr Rebellion. Foxed. Wear to Head and Tail and Edges of Spine and to Corners.Front Cover Stain.Else, Very Good. Providence. Benjamin F . Moore. 1842. Price: $250.00 6773 Houghton, Eliza P. Donner.- The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate. First Edition. Pages 375 pp.8vo. Publisher's Cloth with Gilt Lettering. T.e.g. First Edition. Portraits of author & her husband as frontispieces. Illustrated. Donald L. Hardesty, The Archaeology of the Donner Party, University of Nevada Press ( Review in AB, 11/3/97). An Insider's View of the Donner Party. Grafton Publishing Corporation Cancelled by Overlay Label of Arthur Clark Company. Illustrated. Author Was in the Donner Party as a Child under Her Father's Leadership. Ex Libris. Library Bookplate on Front Pastedown. Other slips and spine label as expected. Hinges cracking internally.Wear at ends of spine and corners.. Foredge untrimmed. Corner of pp. 343/4 torn with small loss of text. Else, Very Good. Glendale, CA. The Arthur H. Clark Co.(Grafton Publishing Co). 1920. Price: $85.00 6798 Irving, Washington (pseudonym: Diedrich Knickerbocker).- A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. Containing among Many Surprises and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong, The Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam. Being the Only Authentic History of the Times that Ever Hath Been or Ever Will Be Published. In Two Volumes. "A New Edition" Pages 276, 235 pp.12mo. Green publisher's cloth. Printed paper labels on spine. T.e.g. "A New Edition" Williams & Edge, p. 63 Originally published in 1809. Second printing of 1839 edition. Covers mildly abraded. Corners bumped. Spine labels chipped and soiled. Mild foxing. Lacks one of two front free flyleafs of Vol. II. Else, Good +. Philadelphia. Lea and Blanchard. 1840. Price: $145.00 6800 Jackson, Andrew.- Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Protest &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. Second Edition. Pages 272 pp. + 3 pp. publisher's ads at rear.8vo. Purple pebbled publisher's cloth. Printed paper label on spine. Second Edition. Not in Howes, AmImp, Sabin, Wise & Cronin or NUC. An unrecorded compilation of the Presidential writings of Andrew Jackson, from his Inaugural Address (for both terms), through his Messages to Congress (Annual and otherwise) and including his Veto messages during the contentious issues of his administration. The veto messsage on the Bank Bill is included. His message of Protest to the Senate for his having been censured by them for arrogation of powers is also here. A very revealing volume on the difficult issues faced by the President in the early 19th century. Mild foxing, chiefly of preliminary pages. Spine label chipped and soiled. Wear and cracking of hinges. Corners bumped. faint water stain at lower margin of late pages. Else, Very Good, with tight, clean text. Baltimore. Edward J. Coale & Co.. 1835. Price: $275.00 6901 Lossing, Benson J.- The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution; or, Illustrations by Pen and Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence. With Eleven Hundred Engravings on Wood, by Lossing and Barritt. Chiefly from Original Sketches by the Author. ?Second Edition. Pages 783, 772 pp.4to Original brown publisher's cloth, pebbled grain, with covers ruled in the blind and embossed front and back with US shield, eagle and motto., the rear cover in the blind, the front cover in gilt. Titled in gilt with illustration, also in gilt on spine. Elaborate decoration. T.e.g. ?Second Edition. Printed and engraved titles, the latter drawn by S. Wailin, engraved by Lossing and Barritt. Engravings in text, as noted. Engraved frontispiece of the signers in Volume 2. Howes L-477. Sabin 42129. Groce & Wallace (for Wallin). Lossing's famous illustrated history of the American Revolution. A lovely set, probably a later issue. Sabin values the books for their information, not to be found elsewhere, making this work "a cyclopedia of the American Revolution." 9Lossing was an author, editor and engraver, prolific in his output. Samuel Wallin was an engraver and draftsman active in New York , 1838-51. He exhibited at the National Academy. Gilt very bright. Minimal wear along edges and corners. Lacks frontispiece in Volume 1. Front hinge starting internally. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown of both volumes. Else, Very Good. New York. Harper Brothers. 1850-1855 Price: $295.00 10299 Mitchell, S[amuel] Augustus.- An Accompaniment to Mitchell's Reference and Distance Map of the United States; Containing an Index of the Various Counties, Districts, Parishes, Townships, Towns, &c. together with an Index of the Rivers; by Which Any County, District, Township, &c., or River, May Be Found on the Map, without Difficulty; Also. an Accurate Synopsis of the Population of the Union, according to the Census of 1840, Alphabetically Arranged; besides Statements of the Aggregate Amount of the Different Classes of the Inhabitants and Their Pusuits, the Value of the Produce of the Mines, Agriculture, Manufactures and Commerce, Lists of the Universities and Colleges, Canals, Railroads, &c. Third Edition (First Edition Based on 1840 Census). Pages 208 pp.Tall 12mo. Half black calf, ruled and titled in gilt on the spine. Marble covered boards. Third Edition (First Edition Based on 1840 Census). Howes reports 5 editions between 1835 and 1845 Howes M684. Sabin 49715. A series of helpful tables and charts, based on the decennial census of 1840. The volume, first published in 1834, was an accessory to Mitchell's map of America. This issue missed by Sabin. Wear at ends of spine, corners and edges. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Philadelphia. S. Augustus Mitchell. 1844. Price: $195.00 10300 [Mrs. Prism].- The Ladies Indispensable Companion and Housekeepers' Guide: Embracing Rules of Etiquette; Rules for the Formation of Good Habits; and a Great Variety of Medical Recipes. To Which Is Added One of the Best Systems of Cookery Ever Published. The Majority of the Recipes Are New and Ought to Be Possessed by Every One. Third Edition . Pages 136 pp.8vo. Brown publisher's cloth embossed in the blind and with gilt titling and decoration on front cover. Third Edition . Lowenthal 788, 789, 819. A wonderful example of a typical ladies' vade mecum for the mid-19th Century. the first section is the guide to a "Family Physician", who has advice for the raising of children, including the use of leeches for treatment of dropsy of the head, Lugol's solution (iodine) for rickets and scrofula, digitalis and opium for measles; the second section is a guide to domestic economy with a large selection of trusty recipes, cookery for the sick, advice about the ladies' workbox, household projects and etiquette for ladies and gentlemen ("a gentleman may hook a dress...with perfect propriety, and should be able to do so gracefully"), advice about the keeping of canary birds; etc. Covers worn at corners, edges and spine. Lacks 40% of spine. Covers soiled. Rear hinge starting at head. Foxing. Toning of pages. Else, Good +. New-York. H. Dayton. 1860. Price: $250.00 10192 O'Connell, Daniel, and Chase, S[almon] P[ortland].- [Pamphlet}. Liberty or Slavery? Letter of Daniel O'Connell on American Slavery. Letter of Hon. S. P. Chase in Reply to Daniel O'Connell. First Edition in Pages 15 pp.8vo. Yellow printed paper wraps. Portrait of Chase in a wreathed border appliqued to front cover. First Edition in LCP/HSP Afro-Americana #7263. In 1843, the great Irish patriot and leader, Daniel O'Connell, addressed a letter "to a Committee of the Cincinnati Irish Repeal Association, who had rebuked him for his Anti-Slavery opinions....This bold....protest of the great Irish Orator against the cruel injustice of American Slavery" remained unanswered by the Cincinnati group. However, Salmon P. Chase, later Secretary of the Treasury to Lincoln, was entrusted by a group of Irish Americans in Cincinnati to provide a reply, addressed to the Loyal National Repeal Association. Chase reviewed the history of slavery in America and calls for its abolition in ringing terms. He also calls for a repeal of the subjugation of the Irish by the British government. These two Irish and Irish-American appeals for the abolition of slavery were published by the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph in 1863, 20 years after their original writing. Chase fell out with Lincoln and later had Presidential aspirations. But he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Lincoln and served through Reconstruction and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Signature on front cover by I. / [?J.] A. Graham and (?) by S.P. Chase. Inscribed on p.1, possibly by Chase,: "1864, July 22. Gift of C. Sumner. (Class of 1830)." Sumner, a brilliant lawyer, a graduate of Harvard College (1830), and later famously a Senator from Massachusetts and the great orator of the anti-slavery movement, apparently owned this copy Chips from edges of covers without encroaching on text or image. Removed. Else, Very Good. Cincinnati, OH. (The Catholic Telegraph ) Chronicle Print. 1863. Price: $185.00 10282 [Pitman, John].- [Pamphlet]. To the Members of the General Assembly of Rhode-Island. First Edition. Pages 24 pp.8vo. Self wraps. Stab sewn. First Edition. Bartlett, pp. 83, 102, 205. M. E. Gettleman, The Dorr Rebellion, A Study in American Radic alism, 1833-1849, Random House, 1973.(especially pp. 57-58 and 73-74. Mowry, Dorr War, p. 28. NUC and Sabin attribute this anonymous pamphlet to Pitman. Not in American Imprints. Sabin 63054. One of the critical pamphlets relating to the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, a central issue of which was the limitation of the Suffrage to property owners in a changing society at the spearhead of the Industrial Revolution. Pitman was a prominent Federal District Judge, whose correspondence with Justice Story and addresses to the people of Rhode Island as well as this one to the General Assembly, laid out some of the issues of the Dorr Rebellion and the conservative point of view. Originally a supporter of the extension of suffrage, Pitman changed his mind after the People's Convention of 1841 and the election of a new government, which he felt lacked authority. In opposing free suffrage, Pitman appeals to the Founding Fathers, especially Washington, to States' Rights (especially for Rhode Island, which still operated upon its old pre-Revolution charter without ever having written a new constitution), and to xenophobia, lest a Federal immigration policy overwhelm the State. He attacks Orestes Brownson (mistaking his name in the process), a Massachusetts reformer, who, although hardly involved in the Rhode Island problem, was a convenient target for Pitman's wrath. Browning of pages. Water stains. Chip from tail of leaf 1/2, without encroaching on text. Last leaf detached. Good. N.P. [Providence]. N.Pub.[Knowles & Vose]. N.D. [1842] Price: $350.00 7063 Ramsay, David.- History of South Carolina, from Its First Settlement in 1670 to the Year 1808. Complete in One Volume. Two Volumes Bound in One Volume. Reprinted from 1809 Edition. Pages viii, 274, 307 pp.8vo. Half tan morocco with marbled boards. All edges marbled. Reprinted from 1809 Edition. Howes R34 (Howes III, R33). Evans 22090. Ex Libris. Two Maps. One Volume reissue of the two-volume original published in 1785. Evans notes that Ramsay petitioned Congress on April 15, 1789 for copyright protection on his two works, this volume and his proposed "History of the American Revolution." Congress granted his request on April 20, 1789. These were the first copyrights issued by the American government and antedate by more than a year the passage of a general copyright law, which became effective on June 1, 1790. Ramsay, a physician, was notoriously independent minded and was once caned on the streets of Charleston. Perforated title page with small chip missing at margin. Modest library labels.and markings. Wear to edges of spine and boards. Else a very good and tight copy without foxing or browning. Newberry, SC. W. J. Duffie. 1858. Price: $300.00 7099 Sanborn, F[ranklin] B[enjamin] (Editor).- The Life and Letters of John Brown, Liberator of Kansas, and Martyr of Virginia. First Edition. Pages 645 pp.8vo. Yellow publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Facsimile signature of John Brown in gilt on front cover. T.e.g. Light blue end papers. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Brown. Other portraits and illustrations as well as facsimiles of letters from Brown. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana #9086 (only English edition listed). DAB (for Sanborn) A biography of Brown by his friend and supporter, a New England abolitionist. Sanborn (1831-1917) was closely acquainted with Emerson, living in Concord and running a school there. He met John Brown in Boston in 1857, and, captivated by him, became his New England agent. He failed to dissuade Brown from the raid at Harpers Ferry, but aided him. The US Senate ordered Sanborn's arrest. Twice he ran to Canada, but was arrested in Concord. The arresting party was chased out of town by a posse. Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw (father-in-law of Herman Melville and presiding judge at the infamous trial of Professor John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman at the Harvard Medical School in 1850) ordered his discharge. Sanborn turned to newspaper work, public supervision of charities and writing, chiefly on Brown and the Concord luminaries, Emerson, Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, et al. "He never lost his passion for liberty and justice" (DAB). Slight soiling of cover. Slight wear at ends of spine. Owner's library stamp on title page. Small marginal water mark on front end paper, front end of text block and frontispiece page. Front hinge barely starting internally. Else, Very Good. Boston. Roberts Brothers. 1885. Price: $310.00 10276 [Sheet Music]. Russell, Henry (Music) and Mackay, Chas. (Words).- Long Parted Have We Been. First Edition. Pages 6 pp.Fo. Disbound. First Edition. Illustrated.Musical Bouquet Nos. 371 & 372. Ewen, Pop.Am.Comp., pp.148-50. Appleton's Cycl. Am. Biog. Concise DNB. Krummel & Sadie, p.212. Dichter Handbook, #1810. Composed and sung by Henry Russell in "The Emigrant's Progress".Front cover illustrations (woodblock engravings) entitled "Mr. Henry Russell's Panorama of America". The central image is of the composer seated at the piano, with a large sailing ship evident through the window. The surrounding images portray an American ship; a British ship; a bucolic domestic landscape with a father returning from a row, being greeted by wife and child, before a cabin in the woods, amidst mountains and lakes ; a view of Niagara Falls; a scene of white dudes in a tavern, one having his boots removed by a Black (?slave), with another Black standing by with his slippers; a view of a slave auction. A facsimile of Russell's signature on the front cover. Henry Russell (1812-1900) was born in England of Jewish parentage. He studied with Bellini and knew Rossini, Donizetti and Meyerbeer. To seek his fortune he moved to America from 1833 to 1841, where his income came from his concerts (piano and voice recitals), not from his immensely popular sheet music, for which he received no royalties. Among his famous works are "Woodman, Spare That Tree," "The Indian Hunter," "That Old Gang of Mine," etc. He championed social causes like abolition (as in this item), reform of mental asylums and temperance. he was closely associated with "The Musical Bouquet. This song expresses the loneliness of an emigré and his enthusiasm for an imminent visit by a countryman. Dr. Charles Mackay (1814-1889) often wrote the poems for Russell's music. As a subeditor for "The Morning Chronicle", 1834-44, he must have known Charles Dickens. Pages separated. A few small closed tears at edges.. Mildly soiled. Else, Very Good. London. Musical Bouquet Office. N.D. [ca. 1840-50] Price: $225.00 7157 Spear, Charles.- Essays on the Punishment of Death (Capital Punishment). Seventh Edition(So Stated; Same Year as First Publication). Pages 237 pp. + 14 pp. Ads, etc.6to. Brown Publisher's Cloth with Gilt Title. Seventh Edition(So Stated; Same Year as First Publication). Stipple engraving frontispiece by W. Thorp, engraved by Bouvé and Sharp. Sabin 89066. An important 19th Century view of capital punishment. Known to be in the library of Thomas Wilson Dorr while he was imprisoned for leading the armed "Dorr Rebellion" in Rhode Island in favor of popular voting rights not tied to property ownership. Includes among Appendices a compendium of capital çrimes in the United States and the several ßtates. ßtated Seventh Edition. Was there, in this case, inflation of the number of Editions declared , a common 19th Century publishing practice used to foster the notion of a Best Seller? Spear (1803- 1863) wrote critically of capital punishment, which he thought was a vengeful usurpation of divine power. In 1845 he was appointed General Secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. Minimal wear at ends of spine. Foxing of frontispiece, chiefly in margin. Else, Very Good. Boston. Charles Spear. 1844. Price: $165.00 10264 Swift, H.- [Sheet Music] Uncle Tom. Song and Chorus. Subject from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dedicated to W. H. J. First Edition. Pages 5 pp.Fo. Decorated printed paper wraps engraved by Gresne. Disbound. First Edition. Plate 2026. A lament of the slaves at the selling and removal of Uncle Tom. The chastising of the Massa for sending Tom away in the face of the loyalty of his entire retinue of slaves. Soiling of Covers. Title page reinforced at hinge. Chips from foot at hinge. Browning of page edges. Two small closed tears at leading edge of pp.3/4. Else, Very Good. New York. W. Hill. 1852. Price: $125.00 10256 [Temperance Broadside].- Certificate of Membership in Connecticut Cold Water Army. Pages 1p.7 1/2" x 9 3/4". Framed in gilt wood frame with ribbon carving on all sides. Illustrated with a woodcut, unsigned. A temperance broadside certifying that H. Russell Cosby had taken the Cold Water Pledge, which is printed on the certificate. Cosby's name is neatly inscribed on the certificate in blue ink, while the signatures of Th. S. Williams, President of the Connecticut Temperance Society, Chas. J. Warren, the Secretary and the countersignature of Saml. Mallett, Leader of the Bridgeport Division, are printed on the form, which bears the printed date of July 4th, 1842. The Cold Water Army Pledge, composed of short verses, each line of which is a biblical quotation (with references provided below in print). The image shows a parade of children past a drunkard and skeleton and bearing signs proclaiming "No Alcohol" and "Cold Water Army." The leader offers the drunkard a pen and a scroll calling for "Total Abstinence" for his signature. At top is an eagle bearing ribbons in his mouth inscribed with the praises of water and a shield with a Latin motto. All are surrounded by an elaborate decorative printed border. A grand production. The forerunner of The Connecticut Temperance Society, the first in America, was established in 1789, largely stimulated by Dr. Benjamin Rush's diatribe against alcohol excess 5 years earlier. Yale has a copy in its Temperance Collection (Box 1, Folder 3). Very Good +. New Haven.87878 Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers. 1842. Price: $550.00 10267 Wayland, Francis A Discourse Delivered at the Opening of The Providence Athenaeum. July 11, 1838. Published at the Request of the Directors of the Athenaeum. First Edition Pages 37 pp.8vo. Self wraps. trace of blue paper wraps(?). Sewn. First Edition Rev. Francis Wayland, President of Brown University, delivered this stirring address at the opening of one of our nation's oldest libraies, The Providence Athenaeum. It was a subscription library and had 300 subscribers. Wayland spoke of the development, through such institutions, of the intellectual, moral, scientific and economic capacity of a society. He thought that the religious aspects of humankind were well taken care of by other social institutions and was not the concern of the library. The library had the capacity, if used properly, to expand the attainments of all individuals, enhancing their knowledge and power. He urged the directors to expand the openness of their institution to thousands, so that Providence could be a beacon to the entire society of America. Minimal foxing of cover. Minimal browning of edges. Else, Very Good. Providence. Knowles, Vose & Company. 1838. Price: $101.00 10281 Work, Henry Clay.- [Sheet Music}. Ring the Bell, Watchman. Song and Chorus. First Edition. Pages 2 pp.Fo. Illustrated and decorated printed paper wraps. Disbound. First Edition. Plate 421-2. Fuld, World Famous Music, p.349. A pre-fire Chicago musical imprint by Root & Cady. The words and music are by the illustrious composer of "Marching through Georgia" and other war songs and of temperance songs, Henry C. Work, possibly in celebration of full Black emancipation and the end of the Civil War. According to Fuld, "Marching through Georgia" was the most hated song in the South. Work (1832-84) was trained as a printer. Born in Connecticut, he moved to Illinois at age 3, as his father, an ardent abolitionist, was working for the Underground Railway. Henry C. Work, still a printer and later an inventor of toys and machines, offered a song to George Root, who encouraged him to write music full-time and published many of his songs. On rear cover is a gloriously illustrated publisher's ad. Not in American Imprints Inventory No. 4, Checklist of Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints, 1851-1871. Repaired transverse tear across pp. 1/2 not encroaching on text.Dampstain along leading edges. Hinge separated. Else, Good Chicago. Root & Cady. 1865. Price: $140.00 10131 Seward, Theodore F., and White, Geo. L. (Compilers).- Jubilee Songs (Enlarged) As Sung by the Jubilee Singers. Part I. Originally copyright 1872. Enlarged in this edition by 16 pages with a second part also added (not in this pamphlet), the two parts also issued in one volume between boards. These constitute the songs of the popular Jubilee Band of Singers, identified with Fisk University and representing a high culture interpretation of popular Black American songs of the 19th Century. Of the nine original Jubilee Singers, from whom these songs were taken down, seven had been born in slavery. Second (Enlarged) Edition. Mild soiling of covers. Small chip from spine. Else, Very Good. New York. Biglow & Main. 1884. Price: $48.00 10105 Valentine, D[avid] T[homas].- Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. 1866. One of the famous New York City manuals prepared by Vaslentine, Clerk of the Common Council of the City of New York. These were published by Valentine between 1841 and 1868. He was paid $3500 per year for his effort. This copy given with the compliments of City Councilman (Seventh District) Christopher Pullman and signed by him on front free end paper. Late in the volume, in the chapter on the Great Fires of 1776 and 1778, is a second folding map on India paper, in facsimile of the map of 1778 which showed the area of New York City enclosed by the palisades (in 1745) and consumed by the fires. The map had originally been presented to the New York Historical Society by David Grim[m?]. The volumes contain detailed statistics about and history of the City. There are numerous illustrations of buildings and city scenes. Most desirable are the chromolithographs, which, like the text, are pristine in this volume. Bennet calls it "the most important of all illustrated annuals." First Edition. Sabin 54369. Bennett, US Color PLate Bks., p. 107. Small tear at one fold and closed tear in one segment of frontis map. Front hinge cracking. Few stains on cover. Folding map of the fires torn into two segments along folds with small closed tears on folds elsewhere on map. All present. Else, Very Good. New York. D. T. Valentine. Edmund Jones & Co. Printers. 1866. Price: $500.00 10129 Trienens, Roger J.- Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States. A catalogue of imprints with illustrations os an examle for each of fifty States. First Edition. Spine faded. Else, Very Good. Washington, DC Library of Congress. 1973. 50.00 10127 Lytton, Edward Bulwer.- The Last Days of Pompeii. In Two Volumes. With Illustrations. Bulwer Lytton's famous historical novel about Pompeii just prior to its burial. ? First Edition. (Preface dated 1891). Minimal foxing of preliminaries. Mild darkening of spine. Wear at edges of spine. Else, Very Good. Boston. Estes and Lauriat. N.D. [1891] Price: $60.00 10132 Seward, Theodore F., and White, Geo. L. (Compilers).- Jubilee Songs (Enlarged) As Sung by the Jubilee Singers. Part I. Originally copyright 1872. Enlarged in this edition by 16 pages with a second part also added (not in this pamphlet), the two parts also issued in one volume between boards. These constitute the songs of the popular Jubilee Band of Singers, identified with Fisk University and representing a high culture interpretation of popular Black American songs of the 19th Century. Of the nine original Jubilee Singers, from whom these songs were taken down, seven had been born in slavery. Second (Enlarged) Edition. Mild soiling of covers. Small chip from spine. Front hinge cracking on fold. Else, Very Good. New York. Biglow & Main. 1884. Price: $48.00 10163 [Sheet Music]. Bishop, T. Brigham.- Sounds from the Old Stone Mill. Respectfully Dedicated to the Citizens of Newport and Visitors of the Old Stone Mill. Ella Fay, Song & Chorus. Beautiful image of the Stone Tower of Newport, RI, from 1857. The image shows a number of people dressed fashionably for the period on the surrounding lawn. In the background is what may be an image of the Redwood Library. The cover bears a facsimile of the composer/author's signature. As sheet music, the item is defective, in lacking one sheet, pp. 3/4. The image, however is outstanding, with one of the finest views of the famed Newport stone tower, a construction whose origin has been obscure. Some have proposed early Norse origins, but most likely it is early colonial or late pre-colonial in dating. Studies of this question are on-going. Lacks pp. 3/4. Water Stain on lower part of cover Else Very Good -.. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Co. 1857. Price: $195.00 10164 [Sheet Music]. Sargent, Epes (Words), and Dempster, William R. (Composer).- The Death of Warren, A National Song Written by Epes Sargent, Esq. The Music Composed and Most Respectfully Dedficated to His Friend Abraham R. Thompson, M.D. of Charlestown, Mass. by William R. Dempster. On the cover is a beautiful image of Joseph Warren lying in the throes of death at the battle of Bunker Hill, in a lithograph after the famous 1786 painting of that scene by John Trumbull (in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society).. The image shows Engish soldiers and officers as well as minutemen surrounding Warren. the text quotes Warren's persistent refrain, "'Tis sweet to die for our country." Epes Sargent (1813-80) was a journalist, poet, dramatist and energetic collaborator of S. G. Goodrich in the Peter Parley volumes. Later in life he was a devotee of Spiritualism. The composer, Willaim Richardson Dempster (1809-71) was born in Scotland and died in London. A naturalized citizen of the United States, he was a successful composer and singer. His specialty was music set for the songs of Tennyson's longer poems. DAB (for Sargent). Appl.Cyc.Am.Biog (for Dempster). Few spots of foxing. Else, Very Good . Boston. Oliver Ditson. 1845. Price: $110.00 10170 [Anonymous].- Correspondence between Gen. Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, President James Monroe, John Quincy Adams concerning the Conduct of the Seminole Campaign. In Niles' Weekly Register. Fourth Series. No.1- Vol. IV. Vol.XL, Whole No. 1015, pp. March 5, 1831. The text of an extensive correspondence, chiefly between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun, President and Vice President, pertaining to Calhoun's alleged earlier criticism of Jackson's conduct of the Seminole Campaign in Florida in Cabinet Meetings. It consists of numerous accusations of misbehavior on each side with attempts in the controversy to engage President Monroe, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford and others. The allegation against Jackson was that he had exceeded his authority in taking Pensacola., a Spanish post. Calhoun ends this correspondence on a very hostile note, essentially calling Crawford a liar in a letter to him. Crawford, a recent Presidential candidate, had proposed that Jackson be disciplined for the invasion of Florida and later tried to make it appear that Calhoun was responsible for the criticism of Jackson. Other articles include a note on the still unsettled boundary between the United States and Canada, procedings of the Senate and House, an argument between Poland and Russia, notes on the formation of the country of Belgium, etc. A rich issue First Edition. Very Good. Baltimore, MD. H. Niles. 1831. Price: $75.00 10182 [Anonymous].- Insurrection of the Blacks. In Niles' Weekly Register. Fourth Series. No. 26 - Vol. IV. Aug. 27, 1831. Vol.XL, Whole No. 1,040, pp. 452-3 A reportof a major insurrection by Black slaves in Southhampton County, Virginia on or about August 21-23, 1831. The slaves, apparently hiding in the nearby swamps and numbering by various estimates from one to several hundred, possibly under white leadership, rose as an insurgency and attacked a number of white families, killing up to 70 persons. A militia of 300 persons was retreating. The author believes plunder to be the motive, since "there is little disaffection in the slaves generally." A.llso noted in this issue are: various notes on the cheating of the Cherokees of their annuity and further actions of Georgia to limit help to the Cherokees by the missionaries; moves by South Carolina toward nullification of Federal statutes; and early moves toward nomination of John C. Calhoun for the Presidency. First Edition. Last leaf possibly missing. Else, Very Good. Baltimore, MD. H. Niles. 1831. Price: $75.00 9991 [Broadside].- J. H. Bump's Atmospheric Attempering Churn. The Subscriber Calls Attention of Dairymen and All Other Persons Interested in the Art of Butter Making, to This Improved Atmospheric Churn. Patented by J. H. Bump, of Morris, Oswego County, New-York, the 26th of October 1858 ..... Morris, NY. A. S. Avery, Job Printer. 1859. 1 p. 17 1/2" x 24 1/8" Single Sheet. First Edition. A dramatic broadside announcing a new churn, important for the dairy industry of upstate New York in mid-19th century. Many type styles. It quotes "Scientific American" to describe the new churn's method of aerating milk and cream in the butter-making process. The text touts the cheapness of its manufacture, the efficiency of operation and its efficacy in increased yields of highest quality butter as boons to farmers and dairies. The claims are supported by a series of quoted testimonials from January, 1859, promptly after its patenting. A most attractive broadside. Few scant spots of foxing at margins. Else, Near Fine. Morris, NY. A. S. Avery, Job Printer. 1859. Price: $350.00 9986 Buell, P. L. & N. Sizer, Phrenologists.- A Guide to Phrenology, Designed to Illustrate the Science of the Human Mind as Manifested through the Brain, Embracing the Fundamental Principles of Phrenology; Its Utility to Parents and Teachers in Developing and Educating the Mental Faculties of the Rising Generation, and of Self Improvement, together with the Adaptation of Each of the Organs and a Phrenological Chart, in Seven Degrees of Development with Numerous Combinations, Illustrated by Engravings. Woodstock, VT. Haskell and Palmer (Mercury Press). 1842. 184 pp. 12mo. Purple finely pebbled publisher's cloth, with printed paper label, titled in black, on front cover. First Edition. A grand copy of an early text on Phrenology, an interesting 1842 imprint from Woodstock, VT. Illustrated appropriately with wood cuts and engravings. There is detailed analysis of phrenological characteristics, with references to Spurzheim, Gall, Combe, Fowler et al. The owners were Henry S. and Nancy B. Sandford and Elizabeth Shelton. Their phrenologica l character assessments were conducted by one of the authors, Nelson Sizer, on Dec. 8th 1843 as noted in ink on p. 179. The is a marginal set of scores in ink through the text, coded for each subject, as detailed on the rear free end paper. Summary scores for each subject and each characteristic are recorded in pencil on the rear flyleaf. Minimally foxed.Slightwear at ends of spine. Else, Very good +. Woodstock, VT. Haskell and Palmer (Mercury Press). 1842. Price: $275.00 9978 Carey, M[athew].- Letters on the Colonization Society; with a View of Its Probable Results, under the Following Heads: The Origin of the Society; Increase of the Coloured Population; Manumission of Slaves in This Country; Declarations of Legislatures, and Othef Assembled Bodies, in Favor of The Society;...........Addressed to the Hon. Charles F. Mercer, M.H.R.U.S. Philadelphia. Young, Printer. 1832. 32 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Self wraps. Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. A series of 10 letters on slavery to Charles Mercer, a U.S. Congressman. Some copies have a yellow printed wrapper. As frontispiece, there is a cross-section of a slave ship, showing how to maximize the human cargo by close-packing of the slaves in the hold of the vessel.. There are also two maps preceding the text, one of the Colony of Liberia in West Africa (attributed to Ashmun) and a second of the town of Monrovia. The text emphasizes the evils of slavery to both blacks and whites aand the advantages of recolonization. There are endorsements (qualified) by James Madison and John Marshall. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Sabin 10870. Dumond 35. Philadelphia. Young, Printer. 1832. Price: $500.00 10041 Cornelius, Mrs. [Mary Hooker].- The Young Housekeeper's Friend; or, A Guide to Domestic Edonomy and Comfort. Boston. Charles Tappan. 1846. 190 pp. 12mo. Original green printed paper covered boards. Brown cloth spine. First Edition. Thre scarce first edition of one of America's early books on domestic science. Although ragged in external shape, it can easily be restored. Owner's signatures in pencil on front free fly leaf, earliest dated August, 1847 Rear cover detached. Shaken. Foxed. Cloth spine heavily worn, cracked and chipped. Lacks rear blank end paper. Else Good. Lowenstein 399. Brown, Cul. Amer., 1491,1498,1500,1505 (all later editions than this one). Am. Imp. 46-1830 Boston. Charles Tappan. 1846. Price: $325.00 9661 Dwight, Edwin Welles].- Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School; Who Died at Cornwall, Conn. Feb. 17, 1818, Aged 26 Years. Bound with Four Items: (1) A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, February 18, 1818. By Lyman Beecher, A.M. (2) The Banner of Christ Set Up. A Sermon Delivered at the Inauguration of the Rev. Hermon (sic) Daggett, as Principal of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, May 6, 1818. By Joseph Harvey, A.M. (3) An Inauguration Address, Delivered at the Opening of the Foreign Mission School./ May 6, 1818. By Herman Daggett, A.M. (4) The Inaugural Address [to Herman Daggett of the Foreign Mission School] by the Hon. John Treadwell, Esq. New-Haven. Nathan Whiting, Agent of the Foreign Mission School. S. Converse, Printer. 1819. 129, 40, 32, 8, 6 pp. No frontispiece portrait in this issue. 12mo. Full brown contemporary calf. Gilt rules on spine. First Edition. Obookiah was born in Hawaii and came to the U.S. in 1809. "After witnessing the massacre of his family, Obookiah.decided to leave Hawaii. . . An American ship [the Triumph under Captain Brintnall ] touched at the islands, and Obookiah sailed by way of China to New York. Through Obookiah, interest was awakened in the Hawaiians, which led to the American mission in Hawaii in 1820." — Hill p. 91-92. (Quoted by Ten Pound Island) . In the US, he attended the Foreigh Mission School. He had translated the Book of Genesis into Hawaiian, but he died of typhoid fever before he could go back to Hawaii as a missionary.. "This book did more than any other work to interest the general public of New England in supporting a mission to the Hawaiian Islands proposed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It narrates the life of Henry Obookiah (or Opukakaia), born in Hawwaii about the year 1792. As a youth he sailed to America, arriving there in 1809, and for a period made his home with Captain Brintnall in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale College, his desire for knowledge was recognized, and he began instruction by private tutors, earning his support as a farm hand. -- Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 478. There are .... additional titles bound with the main text, which, although separately paginated, are contiguous in registration, and are an integral part of the work. Forbes, Treasures, 58. First Edition." (Quoted by Lefkowicz) Covers bruised. Pages browned. Lacks front free end paper. Gilt ruling faded.Else, Very Good. Hill, pp. 91-2. Sabin,56429 (Obookiah) and 4342 (Beecher); the last three sermons not recorded. Not in Howes. New-Haven. Nathan Whiting, Agent of the Foreign Mission School. S. Converse, Printer. 1819. Price: $325.00 7299 "Eminent Writers."- Current and Important Events Embracing a Chronological History of the Russo-Turkish War and Great Eastern Conflict. Also, History of the Temperance Movement, and the Irresistible Conflict with the Demon Alcohol. Opium, Its Intemperate Use and Cure. Life and Death of Pope Pius IX., with a Description of the Conclave of Cardinals and the Election of Pope Leo XIII., and Other Important Matter. St. Louis, MO. James H. Chambers. 1878. 304 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's ads. Illustrated. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth embossed in the blind and in gilt. Gilt titling and decorations on front cover and on spine. First Edition. Jingoist temperance Introduction. Articles on the Russo-Turkish War, Temperance Movement, Opium, Pope Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, “The Jewish Creed”, etc. Wood engraving portraits of the several authors, all, apparently, from St Louis. The engraving process includes photoengraving, according to at least one of the illustrations. The commentaries on Catholicism and Judaism all point to the unification of all religions with the coming of the Messiah. An interesting mélange of populist contemporary thought. Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. Mild soiling of covers. Else, Very Good. St. Louis, MO. James H. Chambers. 1878. Price: $95.00 7943 Fowler, L. N.- The Illustrated Phrenological Almanac. 1859. Providence, RI. Geo. H. Whitney. 1859. 26 pp. + monthly calendar + publisher's ads. 12mo. Printed Paper Self-Wrapper. First Edition. In addition to the almanac, there are narrative histories of phrenology, with notes on Gall, Spurzheim and Combe, a review of phrenology and physiology of the sexes, and illustrated discussion of the specific phrenology of James R. Lowell,Eugene Sue, Frank Leslie, Henry W. Longfelloiw, Alfred Tennyson, et al. Many Ads, especially on subjects dealing with phrenology, mesmerism, and the water cure. Very Good. Providence, RI. Geo. H. Whitney. 1859. Price: $125.00 10048 Lawrence, William R.- Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a Brief Account of Some Incidents in His Life. Edited by His Son, William R. Lawrence, M.D. Boston. Gould and Lincoln. 1855. 369 pp. Illustrated. Engraved portraits, scenes, etc. 8vo. Brown embossed publisher's cloth with gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Yellow end papers. First Edition. The life and good works of the early American merchant and industrialist, Amos Lawrence. These are revealed in his letters and diaries, as annotated by his son. He was the brother of Abbott Lawrence, his business partner, and William Lawrence. They helped start the American textile industry in the town subsequently named after them. Besides their own achievements and great benefactions (for they were, indeed generous philanthropists), they sired an important New England Family of the 19th and 20th centuries. Wear at ends of spine and corners.Small losses at head of spine. Both hinges starting. Foxing and browning of preliminaries. Illustrations with tissue guards. Leaves 119/120 and 121/122 torn with loss of a few letters of text (one piece separated, but present). Else, Very Good. Boston. Gould and Lincoln. 1855. Price: $110.00 10002 [Mattison, Hiram] (pseudonym: A Searcher after Truth).- The Rappers: or, The Mysteries, Fallacies, and Absurdities of Spirit-Rapping, Table-Tipping, and Entrancement. New York. H. Long & Brother. 1854. 282 pp. + 6 pp. publisher's ads. 12 mo. Illustrated red publisher's cloth. Embossed illustration ingilt on front cover, in the blind on rear cover. First Edition. Illustrated with 2 frontispiece wood engravings drawn by Thwaites and engraved by E. Hooper. An interesting debunking of rapping and kindred arcane spirits from direct contemporary experience. Hiram Mattison (1811–1868) was a prolific Methodist Episcopalian minister, anti-slavery, anti-Catholic, Trinitarian, Sabbatarian, who wrote widely on these subjects, as well as on spirit-rapping and astronomy (he produced an edition of Elijah Burritt's astronomical atlas and wrote astronomy texts, as well. William Thwaites was an engraver and landscape painter, active in New York in mid-century. Edward Hooper (1829–70), born in London, a wood engraver and watercolorist, came to America just before this publication and worked in New York City and Brooklyn, often with Albert Bobbett. He was a founder of the American Watercolor Society. The author is not listed in Cushing, Haynes or Stonehill. Front cover stained. Spine soiled. Minimal foxing of front free end paper, only. Gilt cover illustration of table-tipping very bright. Wear to ends of spine and to corners. Browning of yellow end papers. Owner's signature in pencil on front free end paper and on margin of frontispiece, dated 1862. Else, Very Good. Hamilton 1242a. For Thwaites: Groce & Wallace. p. 630; Hamilton, 213–4. For Hooper: Groce & Wallace, p.325; Fielding, p. 174. Hamilton. NUC: NM #0344405 New York. H. Long & Brother. 1854. Price: $275.00 7064 Randolph , Thomas Jefferson (Editor). - Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 4 Vols. Boston. Gray and Bowen. 1830. Portrait Frontispiece. 8vo. Second Edition. Ex Libris. Rebound in Cloth. First Published 1829. Very Good. Howes (III) R58. Boston. Gray and Bowen. 1830. Price: $1,000.00 9968 Webster, Daniel.- [Pamphlet]. The Rhode island Question. Mr. Webster's Argument in the Supreme Court of the United States in the Case of Martin Luther vs. Luther M. Borden and others, January 27th, 1848. Washington, DC. J. and G. S. Gideon. 1848. 20 pp. 8vo. Printed paper wraps. Sewn. First Edition. In 1841–42, there was in Rhode Island considerable agitation for extension of suffrage beyond property holders. Thomas Dorr headed the movement which, without sanction of the authorities, held elections and developed a new constitution. A rebellion ensued and Dorr was arrested and imprisoned for treason. The State of Rhode Island was sued in defense of Dorr and others. Daniel Webster, representing the State, reviewed the arguments for and against the rebels and concludes that the State did have the authority to arrest and imprison them. He finds his authority in the Constitution of the United States, leaving such decisions to the States without review by the Supreme Court. The Court agreed in an important decision and let it stand. Of interest, according to McLoughlin ("RI, A History", p 127), the national reaction to this decision contributed to the force of the rejection of Southern secession at the start of the Civil War. Small chips from eges of paper cover. Slight soiling of covers. Else, Very Good. Bartlett, Biblio. RI, pp. 270–1. Mowry, "The Dorr War," pp.232–56. Washington, DC. J. and G. S. Gideon. 1848. Price: $195.00 10006 Young, Alexander.- The Varieties of Human Greatness. A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Hon. Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D., F.R.S., Delivered in the Church on Church Green, March 25, 1838. Boston. Charles C. Little and James Btrown. 1838. 119 pp. 8vo. Light brown printed paper wraps. First Edition. Wood engraving by N. B. Devereux. A discourse on the life and character of Nathaniel Bowditch, the mathematician noted for authorship of "The New American Practical Navigator" in 1804. Bowditch achieved great fame and social status, becoming President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Trustee of the Boston Athenaeum and a member of the Board of Fellows of Harvard University. In this latter capacity, Bowditch, known for his impetuousnes and quick temper, was accused by the Rev John Gorham Palfrey (in an 1840 pamphlet), as being responsible for a stroke suffered by President Kirkland of Harvard, his later incapacity and resignation. A stirring defense of Bowditch was made by his children, all noted citizens, scholars or physicians. Alexander Young (1800–1854) was a Unitarian minister and an antiquary . A gifted story teller, he served as an Overseer at Harvard; published “Old English Prose Writers, ” historical works on the Plymouth and Mass. Bay Colonies. and other works. A bibliophile, he, with Charles Deane met daily with "Jared Sparks, Charles Sumner, Edward A. Crowninshield, James Savage, George Ticknor and sometimes Longfellow" (DNB) at the Old Corner Book Store for literary discussion. Appended to this essay is a bibliography of some of Bowditch's scientific papers and an anonymous poem signed “T” entitled “Elegy on the death of Doctor Bowditch” which had appeared in the Boston Daily Advertiser of March 22 , 1838. Nicholson B. Devereux (1813–?) was a wood engraver who worked in Boston and Philadelphia in association with his brother, George T. Devereux. Among others, he sometimes engraved for F. O. C. Darley (Hamilton) Lacks rear cover. Front cover chipped at margins and mildly soiled. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. DNB (for Young and Bowditch). Groce & Wallace, p. 177. Hamilton. Boston. Charles C. Little and James Btrown. 1838. Price: $235.00 8022 Bancroft, George.- Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866. Washington, DC. Government Printing Office. 1866 First Edition. Pages 69 pp.8vo. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt titling and decoration on front cover. First Edition. Protrait frontispiece of Lincoln, with tissue guard, engraved by the Treasury Department Monaghan, I 841. BAL 673D. Owner's Signature of Front Free End Paper: E. Countryman. This was the principal address before Congress, President Andrew Johnson, Gen. Grant, the Chief Justice and Foreign Ministers on Lincoln's birthday in 1866. It is a summary of Lincoln's Life and accomplishments. It is an intellectual hisory of attitudes toward slavery in America and Li ncoln's rise from his humble development to his role in eliminating this institution. The delivery of an address had been offered first to Edwin M. Stanton, but he had declined and Bancroft was then invited to deliver the memorial. The appendix is a journal of the funeral exercises in Congress. Misprint mid-page, under dividing mark, on p.60 in date of current exercises [1865, for 1866]. Slight Wear at Corners and at Head and Tail of Spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $160.00 7797 Jay, William.- A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery. New York. The American Anti-Slavery Society. 1839. Second Edition. Pages 240 pp.12mo. Brown Publisher's Cloth. Second Edition. LCP/HSP Afro-American Catalogue 5268. Rinderknecht 56584. Sabin 35866. Work 327. Am Imp 56584. Cancellation copyright statement pasted to rear of Title Page. A long Introduction by Jay, new for the Second Edition, on the abolitionist movement. Jay, the son of the first chief justice of the United States discusses the slave trade, fugitive slaves and the social pressures on free Blacks. Foxed. Wear to ends of spine. Otherwise, Very Good. A nice, tight copy. Price: $225.00 9919 [Pamphlet] The Manifesto. Published by the United Societies. Vol. XIII. No. 1. January, 1883. Shaker Village, NH. The United Societies (Shaker). 1891. First Edition. Pages Pp. 217-240.8vo. Illustrated grey printed paper wraps. First Edition. An especially interesting issue of the Shaker journal. Among many articles it contains a poem by Mary Whitcher (1752-97) entitled "Faithfulness," a defense of the Shaker practice of dancing, an argument against capital punishment, a tribute to Mary Whitcher and the music and words to the Shaker hymn, "Humble Petition." Numerous interesting ads. Mild soiling of edges of covers. One sheet roughly opened. Else, Very Good. Price: $85.00 8369 [Pamphlet] The Manifesto. Published by the United Societies. Vol. XXI. No. 10. October, 1891. Canterbury, NH. The United Societies (Shaker). 1891. First Edition. Pages Pp. 217-240.8vo. Blue Printed Paper Wraps. First Edition. An especially interesting issue of the Shaker journal. "The Kentucky Revival" by Richard M'Nemar, originally published in 1808 and entitled "New Lights and Schismatics" is reprinted. It details the origin of the dance from a series of involuntary exercises as part of Shaker doctrine which functioned to exorcise any tendency to carnal depravity and how dance led to visions and the spirit of prophecy. A second article on "The Shakers and the Cause of Peace" reports the origin of the doctrine of conscientious objection to war by the Shakers in the 1770 revelations to Ann Lee, a doctrine derived from that of the Quakers (Joseph Hoag's 1803 prophecy concerning redemption in part throught the abolition of war). Shakers avoided military service, not by paying bounties to substitutes or claiming medical exemption, but through an open appeal to conscience. This was expressed in America from the Revolutionary War on. Later, Wm. Henry Harrison petitioned the Ohio Legislature to give substitute service to conscientious objectors in place of military service. But it was Abraham Lincoln, in the Civil War, who, with Secretary of War Stanton, pushed through Congress an act exempting Quakers and Shakers from military service and giving them duty to care for sick and wounded soldiers. Very Good. Price: $85.00 8012 Phillips, Wendell.- [Pamphlet]. Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Reprinted from the "Anti-Slavery Standard," with Additions. Boston. Andrews and Prentiss. 1847. First Edition. Pages 95 pp.6to. Printed Paper Wraps. Stab Sewn. First Edition. LCP 8173. Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) was a prominent lawyer of Boston interested in constitutional matters. He was an ardent abolitionist, who was convinced of the unconstitutionality of slavery. He hoped to abolish that institution by judicial action and published a tract on this matter. Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), an orator of Boston, also an abolitionist as well as champion of labor reform and women's suffrage, wanted slavery abolished by legislative action since he considered the constitution to support it. In this pamphlet Phillips reviews Spooner's document and details his disagreements with him. Spooner's works have beeen republished in the modern era by M & S Press and are still in print from the publisher. Of interest, Spooner published another document supporting the unconstitutionality of the guilty verdict of Professor John W. Webster for the celebrated murder of Dr. George Parkman in 1849 on the basis that the jury had not been drawn from Professor Webster's peers, since they all had favored the death penalty. Water Stain. Soiled. Else, Very Good. Price: $250.00 9928 Scott,Job.- Journal of the Life, Travels and Gospel Labours of That Faithful Servant and Minister of Christ, Job Scott. New-York, NY. Isaac Collins. 1797. First Edition. Pages 360 pp. 12mo. in 6's. Full contemporary brown calf First Edition. Howes, II S228. Sabin 78287. Evans 32810. DAB. Job Scott, a Quaker minister, was born in Providence in 1751 and died of smallpox in 1793 on a visit to Ireland. He had an active life as a minister and teacher, having founded Friends' Schools in Rhode Island, and, beginning shortly after the end of the Revolution, traveled through most of the early stateson his ministerial missions. He often spoke and preached against slavery. A proponent ofquietism. he was often silent but, when so moved by his inner spirit, he was, on those occasions, a fine orator and preacher. He emphasized the spiritual nature of religion, rather than revelation, and inhis day was considered even heretical. Today he appears more of a prophet. His manuscripts and papers reside at the Moses Brown School in Providence. Shaken. Torn leaf pp. 95/96, oversewn for repair. Lacks free end papers. Front cover nearly detached with old oversewn repair. Rear cover detached. Spine and corners worn. Mild browning of page edges with mild foxing. Else Good +. Price: $395.00 9927 [Sheet Music, Confederacy) Bayley, T. E. (Composer).- Richmond on the "James." First Edition. Louisville, KY and Chicago, IL. D. P. Faulds. 1863. Pages 5 pp.Fo. Disbound sheet music. First Edition. Plate #1374-4. Not in Check List of Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints, 1851-1871. See Parrish & Willingham, Confederate Imprints, #7393-95 (for later imprints). Groce & Wallace, pp. 528, 583. Dichter, Handbook, #502. A Confederate song of the Civil War, published in Louisville in 1863, but also bears a pre-fire Chicago imprint. According to Groce & Wallace, Reed was a general engraver, active in Cincinnati, very near Louisville, in the 1850's, and Slinglandt was a music engraver, active in Louisville from about 1845 to 1870. Born in New Jersey, he had previously worked in New York. Throughout the Civil War, he was in Louisville working with his sons. This song, mourning the loss of a loved one in battle near the James River, far from home, was copyright in 1863, preceding the 1864 issues listed in Confederate Imprints. Dichter reports an 1865 edition by the same Louisville publisher. The notation of Chicago is interesting, for it may have been issued in both a Confederate and Union city. Edges browned Small closed tear in margin of cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $275.00 7376 Woolman, John. The Journal of John Woolman. Boston. James R. Osgood and Company. 1871. First Edition,as Such. Pages 315 pp.8vo. Green Publisher's Cloth with Gilt Decorations. First Edition,as Such. Currier, p. 117. Howes II, W669. BAL, 21891. Journal of an 18th C. Anti-Slavery Quaker. He Visited Rhode Island in 1760 and Contributed Greatly to the Ending of Slavery There, at Least among Quakers. Newspaper Review of Teignmouth Shore's Biography of Woolman (Macmillan, ?Date) Laid in. Woolman's Influence Extended Well beyond Quakers. He Wrote Extensively on Uncompensated Labor as Well as Slavery and Argued for Retrospective Compensation to Emancipated Slaves.He published a famous two-part essay entitled "Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, 1754 and 1762. Howes considered the Journal "an autobiographical masterpiece." Rear Free Flyleaf Missing. Wear to Spine Edges. Otherwise Very Good. Price: $125.00 9826 [Anonymous].- Discussion of the Withdrawal of U.S. Funds from the Second Bank of the U. S. in Philadelphia under Orders from President Andrew Jackson on October 1. 1833 and Their Deposit in State Controlled Banks. In Niles' Weekly Register. Fourth Series. No. 6 - Vol. IX. Vol.XLV, Whole No. 1,150, pp. 81-2. Oct. 5, 1833. First Edition. Baltimore, MD. H. Niles. 1833. Pages 16 pp.8vo. Self wraps. Disbound. First Edition. Andrew Jackson, in his first term as President of the U. S., became convinced that the Second Bank of the U. S., federally chartered, but under the controlof Nicholas Biddle of Philadelphia and with shares owned principally by foreign investors, was a monopoly unhealthy for the United States. There ensued the Bankwar, led in opposition chiefly by Jackson and Biddle and with many political overtones. Jackson threatened the charter of the Bank, but waited until early in his second term for action in the form of withdrawing the government's funds from the Second Bank and depositing them in many independent State-supervised banks. This withdrawal, very controversial because most of his cabinet objected, was led by Roger B. Taney, Jackson's only ally, who was formerly Attorney General, but was now Secretary of the Treasury after Jackson fired the former Secretary, who had balked at moving the government's deposits. This was one of the most controversial episodes inJackson's very controversial administration. Other articles in this issue include an extract of the debate in the British House of Lords on the Emacipation of the Jews, an anecdote about Dr. Benjamin Rush, etc. Very Good. Price: $75.00 9868 Anonymous- Mormons. The Mormons in Utah. In Littell's Living Age, Vol. XXXIII, No. 411, pp. 10-11, 93-94. April 3, 10, 1852 First Edition. Boston. E. Littell and Co. 1852. Pages 12 pp.8vo. Disbound. Rebound in grey library folder with black linen spine and typed titling on paper label. First Edition. Illustrated. Cornell, Making of America Web Site. Two ironic and critical articles, from British sources, about Mormons and Mormonism, reprinted promptly in this American magazine. The writers expect Mormonism not to survive, especially in Utah, but call for its forcible destruction to assure its fate. Near Fine. Price: $20.00 6350 Bowen, Emanuel.- A Map of the British American Plantations, Extending from Boston in New England to Georgia; including All the Back Settlements in the Respective Provinces; as Far as the Mississippi. Framed. First Edition. London. Gentleman's Magazine. 1754. Pages 1 p.11" x 9" + margins. Framed. Uncolored. '. First Edition. Gohm, "Antique Maps," p.24. Tooley, Maps aqnd Map-Makers, pp.56, 71. Engraved by Thomas Bowen in July, 1754. An outstanding map of the British Colonies in America. Emanuel Bowen (fl. 1700-60) was Geographer to His Majesty (George II and to Louis XV) (Tooley) and a prolific maker of maps in wide usage in mid-18th century. His business was continued by his son Thomas Bowen until shortly before he died in the Workhouse in 1790 (Gohm). This map is very detailed in the colonies east of the Mississippi. The territory west of the Mississippi is labeled Louisiana. Latitude is marked as is Longitude, based on the Greenwich meridien, not yet settled for the world. An elaborately detailed cartouche portraying a Native American family, the father with a bow and, nearby, a white man, appearing dead impaled by an arrow.. Very Good to Near Fine. Price: $975.00 7521 [Child, Lydia Maria]. (pseudonym: The Author of Hobomok). - The Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy. To Which Is Added Hints to Persons of Moderate Fortune. Third Edition. Corrected and Arranged by the Author. Boston. Carter and Hendee. 1830. Pages 128 pp.12mo. Original Printed Paper Covered Boards. Linen Spine Detached. Third Edition. Corrected and Arranged by the Author. Lowenstein, 131 A very popular household and cookery book, authored by Lydia Maria Child and aimed at an audience of limited means. It went through many editions. Its title was later changed to "The American Frugal Housewife," in order to avoid confusion with the English counterpart by Susannah Carter Covers loose, stained and ragged. Linen spine detached. Lacks front free end paper. Some foxing and staining of text. Neat tear of Index Pages. Recipes for varnish for soap boxes and for sponge cake handwritten (when?) on rear end papers. Else, Good + (considering a book that was much used). Price: $200.00 7619 [Child, Lydia Maria]. (pseudonym: The Author of Hobomok). - The Frugal Housewife. Dedicated to Those Who Are Not Ashamed of Economy. To Which Are Added Hints to Persons of Moderate Fortune.First Published in the Massachusetts Journal. Sixth Edition. Corrected and Arranged by the Author. Boston. Carter, Hendee and Babcock. 1831. Pages 120 pp.4to. Polished Contemporary Full Calf. Sixth Edition. Corrected and Arranged by the Author. Mantle Fielding, Enlarged Edition, pp.232-3. Lowenstein #131. Owner's signature in beautiful calligraphic hand on front free flyleaf: "Almira Towne/ Kennebunk Port 1831." A gorgeous large bookplate on front pastedown: Erasmus Hall no.599. An outstanding example of the work of [Peter?] Maverick (signed in engraving), the Master of three generations of a noted family of engravers and one of the founders of the National Academy of Design (Fielding). Peter Maverick (1780-1831) was one of three printmaker sons of a printmaker. He was noted as an engraver of bookplates, maps, bank notes and book and magazine illustrations. He established a partnership between 1817 and 1820 with his apprentice Asher B. Durand. Among others,he designed the plates for the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York using the then new process of lithography. A very popular household and cookery book, authored by Lydia Maria Child and aimed at an audience of limited means. It went through many editions. Its title was later changed to "The American Frugal Housewife," in order to avoid confusion with the English counterpart by Susannah Carter. The combination of this illustrious cookbook and a Maverick-engraved bookplate produces a book of extreme rarity. Covers Detached. Lacks Spine Cover. Some Foxing. First signature loose. Else Very Good. Price: $1,000.00 9853 Cobbett, William.- American Political Register. Volume XXX. From January to June, 1816, Inclusive. Copy Right Secured according to Law. First Edition. New York. H. Cobbett and G. S. Oldfield. Van Winkle & Wiley, Printers. 1816. Pages 818 pp.8vo. Half brown calf and blue marbled boards. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait of William cobbett Gaines 71a Cobbett's Weekly Register in its American version. Published in New York by William Cobbett's nephew, Henry Cobbett. William Cobbett (1763-1835), a pamphleteer of verbal and stylistic skill, lived in America from 1793 to 1800. He was a vocal and respected critic of America, but he was successfully sued for a libel of Dr. Benjamin Rush for the latter's therapy of yellow fever by blood-letting. He supported America in the War of 1812 and moved from America to England and back, several times, usually in advance of the authorities in consequence of his sharp-tongued pamphlets. Here are many "letters", actually essays, addressed to Americans, or to the British, or to Parliament, typically for Cobbett addressing their presumed errors and perfidies. Cobbett is a vigorous defender of a free press. Spine ends worn. Front cover nearly detached.. Board ends worn. Covers abraded. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 9807 Donald, David.- Lincoln's Herndon. Introduction by Carl Sandburg. First Edition, later printing (? book-club edition). New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1948. Pages 378 pp. + xxiii pp. Index.8vo. Light green publisher's cloth. First Edition, later printing (? book-club edition). A biography of William H. Herndon, who was Abraham Lincoln's close friend and his law partner. Herndon became Lincoln's biographer based on his first hand experience and his collected Lincolniana Herndon was "his companion of the boisterous circuit-riding days - mayor of Springfield - a political boss - a poet and a dreamer - a man of books and memories, whose reach was greater than his grasp".The author is David Donald, a Pulitzer prize winning (twice) biographer and recognized authority on Lincoln. Soiling of spine. Lacks D.J. Else, Very Good. Price: $12.00 9816 [Early Baseball Image]. Barrow, Frances Elizabeth (pseudonym: Aunt Fanny).- The Second Little Pet Book, with the Tasle of Puss and John. First Edition. New-York. W. H. Kelley & Brother. 1863. Pages 193 pp.12mo (4 3/4" x 5 1/2"). Embossed purple cloth. Image of boy holding baseball and baseball bat with girl bearing a hoop embossed on front and rear covers, with image gilt on front cover, in the blind on rear cover. Decorative gilt titling on spine. Orange end papers. T.e.g. First Edition. Illustrated with wood engravings. Appleton's Cycloped. Am. Biog. (for Aunt Fanny). Frances Barrow (1822-?), was born of a Boston mother and a Charleston father in South Carolina, but lived most of her life iin New York. She married in1841, and in1855 she began a very successful writing career. In the next fifteen years she produced 25 works, mostly juveniles, which were very successful and were put out by several publishers. She also wrote a novel, "The Wife's Strategem." Her work was translated into French, German and Swedish "and is characterized by a peculiarly bright and captivating way of presenting homely, every-day scenes and sayings." (App. Cycl.). This juvenile is very characteristic of her work. Somewhat harder to come by than most of her output, the volume is particularly desirable for its early image of baseball as a boy's sport, the game having been invented only recently. Covers faded except for rather bright gilt image on front cover. Covers cracking at hinges with uppermost inch of spine pasted down. Else, Good +. Price: $275.00 9866 Ely, Richard T.- Economic Aspects of Mormonism. In Harper's Monthly Magazine. Vol. CVI, No. DCXXXV, pp. 667-678. April, 1903. First Edition. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1903. Pages 12 pp.8vo. Disbound. Rebound in grey library folder with black linen spine and typed titling on paper label. First Edition. Illustrated. The author, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, argues that the strength of Mormonism as an institution is derived from its strength as a religion. Self-sacrifice for the good of the whole, discipline,dependence on education, cohesion and cooperation uniquely lead to the economic success of the organization. Near Fine. Price: $20.00 9869 Fitch, George Hamlin.- How California Came into the Union. In The Century Magazine. Vol. XL, No. 5, pp. 775-792, September, 1890 First Edition. New York. The Century Company. 1890. Pages 12 pp.8vo. Disbound. Rebound in grey library folder with black linen spine and typed titling on paper label. First Edition. Illustrated. Cornell, Making of America Web Site. Two articles on early California: the first a detailed illustrated history of California and its entry into the United states of America. A second article (pp. 792-797) highlights several notes on Californiana, including one by Lafayette H. Bunnell, one of the participants, on the discovery of Yosemite in March, 1851. Near Fine. Price: $20.00 6741 Hersey, John.- Hiroshima. First Edition. New York. The New Yorker Magazine. 1946. Pages 68 pp.8 1/2" x 11 1/2" Original colored illustrated magazine covers. First Edition. The first appearance of "Hiroshima ," published as the entire issue of The New Yorker for Aug. 31, 1946. This was the first time in history that an entire issue of a magazine was devoted to a single article. The New York Times Book Review calls this the best of the books that have been written about the most spectacular explosion in human experience. John Hersey, a novelist whose subjects are events of contemporary history , visited Hiroshima in 1946 and interviewed survivors of the first atomic bomb attack. The six survivors he wrote about detailed their lives before and after the bomb, with personal assessment of their survival and subsequent illnesses and sorrow. It was a personally rewarding and a growth experience for Hersey. Also for his readers. Hinge of cover starting. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 6790 Hyde, John, Jun.- Mormonism: Its Leaders and Designs. First Edition. New York. W. P. Fetridge & Co. 1857. Pages 335 pp. + 24 pp. publisher's ads.12mo. Embossed brown publisher's cloth with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt titling on spine. Other decorations in the blind. Yellow end papers. The images on the covers are presumably part of the Mormon Kabbalah. First Edition. Frontispiece portrait of Brigham Young. Illustrated with wood engravings on plates. Flake 4164. Sabin 34124. A biography of Brigham Young coupled with the author's commentary from personal experience as a Mormon. A commentary on church doctrine. Lacks free end papers, front and rear. Front hinge cracking internally. Modest pencil notations pp. 111-114. Plates browned. Mild foxing. Wear at head and tail of spine with 1 1/2" chip from head of spine. Text block tight and Very Good. Price: $195.00 9867 Ingersoll, Ernest.- Salt Lake City. In Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Vol. LXIX, No. 411, pp. 388-404. August, 1884. First Edition. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1884. Pages 17 pp.8vo. Disbound. Rebound in grey library folder with black linen spine and typed titling on paper label. First Edition. Illustrated. A history of the urban environment of Salt Lake City, intertwined, as it is, with Mormons and the history of Mormonism Near Fine. Price: $20.00 9836 Jeffries, John.- An Account of the Last Illness of the Late Daniel Webster, Secretary of State; with a Description of the Post-Mortem Appearences, &c. In the New-Hampshire Journal of Medicine, Vol. III, No. 4, January, 1853, pp.85-95, Reprinted from the Am. Journ. of Med. Sciemce. First Edition. Concord, NH. G. Parker Lyon. 1852-3. 8vo. Printed paper wrappers. Issues bound together on cords. First Edition. Fulton and Stanton, Centenn. Surg. Anesthesia. Jeffries expresses his appreciation to Dr. S. Parkman for editorial work on this paper originally read, from notes, to the Suffolk District Medical Society. Parkman was related to Dr. George Parkman, who had been murdered at Harvard Medical School by Prof. John White Webster in 1849. This issue of the New-Hampshire Journal of Medicine is part of a 12 issue run of this journal, from Volume 2, No. 10, June, 1852 to Volume 3, No 9, July, 1853. Ownership signature on each cover "Dr. D. R. Story." Some issues carry advertisements for medicinals and devices: e.g., for Thomas's American Mechanical Leech, including Breast Glass, Cupping Glass and Eye Glass; also for Leeches!, Sweedish Leeches. Another article of great importance is a reprint from the Boston Traveller (a newspaper) of an article on deaths from the use of chloroform, occurring at the Massachusetts General Hospital (where ether had been first used for anesthesia only 3 years earlier). The report was written by Dr. J[ohn] C[ollins] Warren, member of an illustrious Boston medical family and one involved in the earliest usage and reports on sujrgical anesthesia. Most interestingly, the editor asks several very cogent questions concerning the ethical issues raised by these deaths and their report in a newspaper. A third important article is a review of Lead Diseases, mostly translated from the French of L. Tanqurel des Planches with additions by Samuel Dana (Vol. III, No. 3, December, 1852, pp. 57-56), including a plea to abandon lead from the pharmacopoiea. Front wrapper of first number detached. Chipping of edges of frontmost and rearmost wraps. All else present and intact. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 6907 [Mackay , Charles].- The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints: A Contemporary History. With Memoirs of the Life and Death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mahomet". Illustrated. First Edition London. Office of the National Illustrated Library. 1851. Pages 326 pp. + 18 pp. illustrated publisher's catalogue8vo. Brown elaborately embossed publisher's cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and titling on spine. Yellow end papers. First Edition Illustrated with forty engravings. Flake 5179. Sabin 47126 . A good history of the Mormons in their westward movement. Printed by Henry Vizitelly. Has the engraved title page (vignette of "The Expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo") as well as the printed title page. Sabin attributes the volume to Henry Mayhew, claiming Mackay as the editor. Wear at ends of spine, very mild at corners. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Front hinge barely starting internally. Else, Very Good Price: $275.00 9870 Morse, Jedidiah, and Rev. Elijah Parish.- A New Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent; or, a Geographical Dictionary: Containing, in Alphabetical Order, a Description of All the Countries, Kingdoms, States, Cities, Towns, Principal Rivers, Lakes, Harbours, Mountains, &c. &c. in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Their Adjacent Islands. Carefully Compiled from the Best Authorities. Designed as a Second Volume, to the American Gazetteer. First Edition. Charlestown, [MA]. Samuel Etheridge. 1802. Pages Unpaginated. With Appendix, List of Subscribers and Directions to the Binder.8vo. Full contemporary tan speckled calf with red leather label titled and ruled in gilt on the spine. The numeral "2" embossed in spine panel. Printed in two columns. First Edition. Illustrated with seventeen folding maps, as called for in Directions to the Binder. DNB. Morse (1761-1826), the father of the painter-inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, is considered "The Father of American Geography" (DNB). Trained as a minister, he helped found the Andover Theological Seminary and The New England Tract Society, and he actively opposed the Unitarian Heresy. A staunch Federalist, he was as conservative in politics as in religion. While teaching school in New Haven, he became interested in geography. Among his early publications, and his most important, were "The American Gazetteer" in 1797 and this volume, "A New Gazetteer of the Eastern Continent. " in 1802. These books, in their multiple editions and abridgements, dominated their field in America. This copy of the first edition inscribed on Preface page in contemporary calligraphic hand, "Joseph Carver's Book 1803." Wear at head and tail of spine and edges of covers. Hinges starting. Mild browning of pages. Fold worn on map of Spain and Portugal. Else, a tight Very Good copy of this rare work. Price: $595.00 9865 Woolman, John.- Memoir of John Woolman, Chiefly Extracted from a Journal of His Life: Tract No. 1. Bound with Tracts Nos. 2, 5, 16, 24, 27, 29, 32, 43, 51, 54 and 60. Early Edition. Philadelphia. Tract Association of Friends. N.D. [ca. 1830-40] Pages 23, 12, 4, 16, 16, 4, 4, 12, 8, 4, 4. 8 pp12mo. Tan leather spine and marble covered boards Early Edition. A series of tracts published by the Tract Association of Friends. It includes the memoirs of the illustrious Quaker abolitionist, John Woolman. Other tracts discuss Divine Grace, The Christians' Principle, Biographical Notes of Quakers, Worship and Prayer, the Holy Scriptures, the Effects of Religion on Mind, the Government of the Temper, Conformity to the World and Baptism. The Tract Association of Friends was formed in Philadelphia in 1816 in order to publish tracts appropriate to Friends' interests and in order to stimulate a uniform corpus of beliefs among the Friends. In 1816, no Quaker literature was available. Initially itinerant ministers distributed them to their auditors. Tracts were printed to explain the scriptural basis of Friends doctrines. Later tractsdiscussed Quaker testimonies: plain living and dealing, the abolition of slavery, the equality of women, and the principles of peace. This cluster of tracts touches on both elements. Front hinge cracked. Corners bumped. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 9696 [Anonymous].- The Anti-Slavery Meeting. The Formation of the Anti-Slavery Society and the Constitution of the New-York Anti-Slavery Society. In Niles' Weekly Register. Fourth Series. no. 7 – Vol. IX. Vol.XLV, Whole No. 1,151, pp. 11–2. Baltimore, MD. H. Niles. 1833. 16 pp. 8vo. Self wraps. Disbound. First Edition. A notice had appeared in the New York Commercial Advertiser of Oct. 3,1833, reprinted in this issue of Nikes' Register, calling all Southerners then in New York to attend and disrupt the anti-slavery meeting. The meeting was barred from Clinton Hall and had to be transferred ultimately to Tammany Hall. Niles' Register quotes (with approbation) a diatribe against William Lloyd Garrison who had just returned from England. Further a meeting of those in favor of the immediate emancipation of slaves was reported to have been held at Chatham Street Chapel, where the formation of the Anti-Slavery Society was noted and a Constitution, here reprinted, was adopted. The larger meeting at Tammany Hall passed resolutions supporting slavery and the Southern States. In conclusion Niles satirized the meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society.Also in this issue is a report of the visit of Daniel Webster to Pittsburgh, the honors accorded him and the text of an address by Webster on various issues including his support of President Jackson despitediffering with him on the bank question, and his general support of mercantile and manufacturing interests, an issue important to Pittsburgh citizens. There is also a retelling of the Boston Tea Party by the last surviving witness to it and a report of the oppositionof the Duke of Wellington to the British emancipation of slaves in the West Price: $125.00 9727 Anonymous.- [Broadside} The Point of Pines Third Annual Midsummer Musical Festival under the Direction of J. Thomas Baldwin. Aug. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 [1886] -- Eight Days. Great Soloists! Hundreds of Musicians! Famous Bands! New Musical Novelties! Boston. Boston Job Print. 1886. 1 p. 10 3/8" (H) x 14 3/8"(W) First Edition. A 19th century broadside announcing a music festival at a popular resort near Boston (a part of Revere Beach). Train departure times announced as well at a call to the Bay State Agricultural Society's Cattle Show and Fair, scheduled for October. There is also an encouragement to purchase tickets early for the Firework Drama (The Pyrorama) scheduled for almost every evening and featuring the "Great Naval Combat between the Monitor , Merrimac," et al. The verso has the details of the programs featuring numerous bands and soloists and "Grand Opera Day" on Saturday. A good picture of popular entertainment in the latter part of the 19th century. Separated at center fold (easily repairabale). 3/4" closed tear in right margin into right printed border. Chips from right margin not involving text. Mild browning of page. Else Very Good. Price: $115.00 9602 Anonymous (? Stephen C. Foster).- [Broadside]. Uncle Ned, as Sung by De Colored Society in General. N.P. N.Pub. N.D.[ca 1850–55] 1 4 3/8" x 7 5/8" Unbound sheet. First Edition. A lament in memory of a beloved Black slave, deceased at advanced age, yet a hard worker to the end. Lamented even by his slavemaster. While undated, the text style, format, etc. show it to be in the period 1845–55. Variants of Uncle Ned were part of the early history of minstrelsy in America. Stephen Foster is credited with an 1845 (published 1848) variant of this song (se Walters, Stephen Foster), which may have been the basis of all other variants. Fuld claims that Foster, despite his debts to minstrelsy, had never incorrectly or improperly claimed originality for his music. The precise text of this broadside is printed with illustration in White's New Melodeon Song Book of 1848, where it is reported to have been "sung by that inimitable performer, Mr. Charles White, at his Melodeon Concert saloon, New York." White's Band of Serenaders were among the prominent group of singers that includes the Christys, the Campbells and the Sable Brothers. Charles White (1821–?), according to the biography in his New Ethiopian Song Book (1850), abandoning horse racing and work as a druggist's assistant, took up the accordion and singing with the Virginia Serenaders, the first band to introduce females to the business of minstrelsy. He claimed authorship of numerous songs including "Nelly was a Lady" and "Carry MeBack to Ole Virginia", most likely the production of James Bland (see Toll's "Blacking Up"; copyright was loosely observed in this period and rival claims to rights to songs by various minstrel groups were common). White had become the proprietor of the "Melodeon' theatre and saloon on the Bowery in New York about 1838–41. In possible confirmation of the dateof publication, we also have a Dickens novel published by Peterson in 1855 with publisher's ads for these songsters. 3/4" tear in upper right margin, not involving text. Two corners lack tiny chip. Else, Very Good. White's New Illustrated Melodeon Song Book (p. 24) and White's New Ethiopian Song Book (pp. vii–xii), both published in the period 1851–55, by T. B. Peterson (Philadelphia, 1854). Podeschi D25-26 (for Peterson) Price: $350.00 9661 [Dwight, Edwin Welles].- Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School; Who Died at Cornwall, Conn. Feb. 17, 1818, Aged 26 Years. Bound with Four Items: (1) A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, February 18, 1818. By Lyman Beecher, A.M. (2) The Banner of Christ Set Up. A Sermon Delivered at the Inauguration of the Rev. Hermon (sic) Daggett, as Principal of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, May 6, 1818. By Joseph Harvey, A.M. (3) An Inauguration Address, Delivered at the Opening of the Foreign Mission School./ May 6, 1818. By Herman Daggett, A.M. (4) The Inaugural Address [to Herman Daggett of the Foreign Mission School] by the Hon. John Treadwell, Esq. New-Haven. Nathan Whiting, Agent of the Foreign Mission School. S. Converse, Printer. 1819. 129, 40, 32, 8, 6 pp. No frontispiece portrait in this issue. 12mo. Full brown contemporary calf. Gilt rules on spine. First Edition. Obookiah was born in Hawaii and came to the U.S. in 1809. "After witnessing the massacre of his family, Obookiah.decided to leave Hawaii. . . An American ship [the Triumph under Captain Brintnall ] touched at the islands, and Obookiah sailed by way of China to New York. Through Obookiah, interest was awakened in the Hawaiians, which led to the American mission in Hawaii in 1820." — Hill p. 91-92. (Quoted by Ten Pound Island) . In the US, he attended the Foreigh Mission School. He had translated the Book of Genesis into Hawaiian, but he died of typhoid fever before he could go back to Hawaii as a missionary.. "This book did more than any other work to interest the general public of New England in supporting a mission to the Hawaiian Islands proposed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It narrates the life of Henry Obookiah (or Opukakaia), born in Hawwaii about the year 1792. As a youth he sailed to America, arriving there in 1809, and for a period made his home with Captain Brintnall in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale College, his desire for knowledge was recognized, and he began instruction by private tutors, earning his support as a farm hand. -- Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 478. There are .... additional titles bound with the main text, which, although separately paginated, are contiguous in registration, and are an integral part of the work. Forbes, Treasures, 58. First Edition." (Quoted by Lefkowicz) Covers bruised. Pages browned. Lacks front free end paper. Gilt ruling faded.Else, Very Good. Hill, pp. 91-2. Sabin,56429 (Obookiah) and 4342 (Beecher); the last three sermons not recorded. Not in Howes. Price: $325.00 9617 Goodspeed, Rev. E. J.- History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West. A Proud Career Arrested by Sudden and Awful Calamity; Towns and Counties Laid Waste by the Devastating Element. Scenes and Incidents, Losses and Sufferings, Benevolence of the Nations, Etc., Etc. With a History of the Rise and Progress of Chicago, the "Young Giant." To Which Is Appended a Record of Great Fires in the Past. New York. H. S. Goodspeed & Co. 1871. 676 pp. Numerous engravings including some double page spreads. Frontispiece folded map of Chicago, colored to show the burned area. 8vo. Embossed brown publisher's cloth with gilt decorative titling on spine. A.e. marbled. First Edition. A very early report of the Chicago Fire, attended by a description of early Chicago and comparisons with other great midwestern urban fires. Printed, apparently, while the embers were still smoldering. The map is a good view of the layout of the early city and the illustrations are outstanding views of Americana and urban Chicago, whose buildings, even in ruins, appear grand. This volume, usually found in terrible shape, is presented here with limited faults. Goodspeed was noted for his sermon /eulogy on Lincoln's death in 1865 (Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints, #941). Mild wear at edges of spine and boards. Boards warped. Cracks in cloth on rear board. one signature shaken, at appendix. Mild browning. Frontispiece torn at corner with mild wear at folds. Entire map present and otherwise clean. Else, Very Good Price: $135.00 9356 Paine, Thomas. Through the Hand of Horace G. Wood, Medium.- The Philosophy of Creation: Unfolding the Laws of the Progressive Development of Nature, and Embracing the Philosophy of Man, Spirit, and the Spirit World. Boston. Bela Marsh. 1860. 120 pp. 12mo. Printed grey paper wraps. Third Edition. A preface by H. A. Burbank reports that this volume started out to be a comprehensive multivolume review of natural science and human experience as revealed through the power of the spirits. The ill-health of the medium prevented its completion. Accordingly a séance was held consisting of the medium, H. G. Wood from Vermont, James Marsh (the President of the University of Vermont), Ethan Allen, Benjamin Day and Thomas Paine. The latter was selected to record the information resulting. Proof of Paine's participation is derived from graphological and stylistic study of the manuscript. Burbank claims this to be the best of Paine's writings. The publication was pressed by many distinguished Spiritualists. The material and spiritual composition of the universe are reviewed. Christ's appearance is discussed and the nature of the Spirit considered in detail. The organization of Spirit Land is detailed. Signature of E. Bartlett, in pencil, on front cover. Tucked in is a small bookplate imprinted: "Kennebec Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Presented by Erastus Bartlett. October, 1892." Slight wear with small chips from spine. Spine lettered with title in ink. Two stab holes at inner margin, probably from secondary binding. Pencil markings of some paragraphs in margins. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 9719 [Pamphlet] The New York Historical Society.- Proceedings and Addresses at the Presentation of The New York Historical Society's Gold Medal to Dr. Wilberforce Eames in Recognition of His Scholarship and His Unselfish Devotion to the Interests of All Researchers in the Field of American Historical Literature and the Unveiling of His Portrait Painted for the Society by Mr. DeWitt M. Lockman on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Anniversary of the Society. Friday, November 20, 1931. New York. Printed for The New York Historical Society. 1932. Illustrated. Grey printed stiff paper wraps. First Edition. The proceedings of the award ceremony from The New York Historical Society to Wilberforce Eames, Librarian tothe Society and the great bibliographer. Includes an address by Lawrence C. Wroth, entitled "Ezekiel, or the Good Bibliographer." In this, Wroth discusses Eames prominence as a bibliographer, in fleshing out the dry bones of hstory and literature, as well as his enormous influence on the major bibliographic works of his lifetime. Minor staining of edges of covers. Else, Very Good.. Price: $35.00 9732 Wayland, Francis.- [Pamphlet]. The Affairs of Rhode-Island, a Discourse Delivered at the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Providence, May 22, 1842. Providence, RI. R. Cranston & Co. and H. H.Brown. 1842. 32 pp. 8vo. Light brown printed paper wraps. Second Edition. A speech in opposition to the principles of Thomas Dorr and his party by the noted Baptist minister, social philosopher and president of Brown University, Francis Wayland. It was delivered as the most violent period of the Dorr War was evolving in 1842. The conservative Dr. Wayland argues against the threat of "anarchy," "lawless soldiery" and acts which "question the very existence of society." He argues against the adoption of a new constitution by declaring the existing one void. Rather he proposes the working of a new constitution through using the laws of the existing one. Wayland misses the fallacy of the then existing constitution of Rhode Island, a document descended from the early 17th century Carolingian charter of the colony, which restricted voting rights to the landed classes in a new industrial society where the holding of property was no longer the mark of investment in the social order. It took about 50 more years for the constitution of Rhode Island to begin to enlarge the franchise and, because of the unbalanced power of the legislature, the government of Rhode Island remains today a parliamentary system and some of the evils that Dorr contested persist today.Some of the violent anti-Dorr opinion by Wayland had a nativist basis. Owner's inscription at head of title page: Dear Thomas Kendall / With regards of / L. A. Lovell. Ex libris with library stamps on recto and verso of front cover and on title page. Modest library label at foot of front cover. Chips from two corners of cover and chips from spine. Beginning separation of covers. Else, Very Good. J. R. Bartlett, p.269. Gettleman, pp. 117n, 147n, 246. Price: $175.00 9035 Shaw, O[liver].- The Meeting, a Popular New Song from "Leisure Hours at Sea" as Sung by the Author at His Private Concerts. Composed and Inscribed to His Friend Miss Mary Ann Howard by O. Shaw. Providence, RI. Privately published by the Author. 1829. 4 pp. Fo. Disbound. First Edition. Appleton's Cycloped. Am. Biog. Dichter's Handbook. Wolfe, II, pp. 787–795. A charming song, in a rather florid style, of separation after a brief but very affectionate meeting . Written by Oliver Shaw (1779–1848) a musician, singer, psalmodist, composer, publisher and teacher who lived in Providence and wrote many very popular ballads. He was known as the "blind singer" having accidentally blinded himself in one eye as a youth and become totally blind at age 29. This song not in Wolfe's extensive bibliography of Shaw, nor in the website of the 19th Century Music Project, nor in the Lester S. Levey Collection at Johns Hopkins. Scant foxing. Short tears at spine and foot of pp.3/4. Else, Very Good Price: $65.00 9538 Davis, A[sahel].- A Lecture on the Discovery of America by the Northmen, Five Hundred Years before Columbus. Delivered in New York, New Haven, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Other Cities: also in Some of the First Literary Institutions of the Union. New York. Bartlett & Co. 1840 24 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Yellow printed and illustrated paper wraps. Fifth Edition. The author, born in Massachusettsin 1791, a former chaplain of the New York Senate, begins his popular lecture with a review of the highly developed culture of Palenque in what is now Mexico. His illustration, he feels, evokes the spirit of Spurzheim in its phrenological implications. He then ranges over topics like the origin of American Indians. He cites Danish and Icelandic sources as evidence that the Norseman Leif discovered American lands south of Greenland. He alleges that Benjamin Franklin was of this view, too. The Icelandic Norseman Leif supposedly reached Cape Cod and Narragansett Bay in contemporary Rhode Island. The possibility is raised that Columbus was aware of the voyages of the Norsemen to America before his 1492 voyage. There is a final note dating Christianity in America to antiquity long earlier than Columbus. On verso of rear cover are endorsements of the lecture by dfignitaries, including Mrs. [Emma] Willard of the Troy Female Seminary. Other publications by Davis include "Ancient America and Researches of the East." Owner's signature in ink on front cover ("Wm. H. Richardson-"). Slightly dusty. Else, Very Good +. App.Cycloped.Am.Biog. (for Davis). Sabin 18794 (attributed to Ashel [sic!] Davis). Price: $85.00 9540 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.- Oration Delivered before the City Authorities at Boston, on the Eighty-Seventh Anniversary of the National Independence of America. Philadelphia. N.Publ. [? Union League of Philadelphia]. 1863. 30 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Printed paper wraps. First Edition. This issue: "Printed in Philadelphia for gratuitous distribution." Also issued in Boston in several formats, one tras a Supplement to the Boston Advertiser on July 6, 1863. According to BAL, there is no priority among the various issues. This issue is also Type A, of BAL, without statement at head of front wrapper. On the anniversary of American independence from Great Britain, amidst the dark days of the Civil War, at a time when anti-draft riots were breaking out in New York, Boston and elsewhere, Holmes addresses, with facility and eloquence, the roots of the Civil War and the actions required of a free democracy. Very Good +. BAL 8826. Price: $110.00 9541 M'Clure, Alexander W.- [Chapbook] The Life-Boat: A Parable. Lowell, MA. A. Upton. 1841. 31 pp. 16mo. Tan stiff paper covers, with printed titling and decorative border on front cover and printed hymn to "Christian Warfare" in decorative border on rear cover. Decorated First Edition. A Christian parable with the tale of a ship enticed by a deceptive pirate to destruction on a rocky shore, with a lifeboat offered by the Captain of Salvation. Some are still enticed by presumptive treasures, some by blind concern for status in life. Some were almost persuaded but drowned with uncertainty or because of only half-hearted reach for salvation. For some salvation was never in question and its realization was complete. A rare early pamphlet, with only one copy recorded (in Lowell, MA). Spine chipped and cracking on 75% of length. Few faint stains. Else, Very Good. AmImprints 41-3217 (only one copy recorded; in Lowell, MA) Price: $145.00 9542 Whittier, John G[reenleaf] and Lowell, James Russell.- [Pamphlet]. No. 9. Read and Circulate. The Branded Hand. Salem, OH. The Anti-Slavery Bugle. N.D. [1845] 4 pp. (single folded sheet) Illustrated. 8vo. Self-binding. First Edition. An abolitionist poem by Whittier, based on the story of Jonathan Walker (1799–1878), captain of a fishing boat in his youth, but a railroad contractor in Florida after 1840. A reformer and abolitionist, in 1844 he helped slaves escape in an open boat headed to the West Indies. He took sick on the trip, was captured at sea and taken to Pensacola, where he was imprisoned. Convicted in a US court, he was fined, pilloried and branded "SS" (Slave Stealer) on his right hand.and jailed for 11 months, until his fine was paid by some abolitionists. For the next 5 years he lectured on slavery, then moved to Michigan, where a monument was erected to him in 1878. He was celebrated here by Whittier's poem "The Branded Hand" in this issue of The Anti-Slavery Bugle, an unusual Ohio imprint. Lowell contributes lines of another long poem decrying slavery on the occasion of the murder of a group of escaped slaves near Washington. Most bibliographers (e.g. Carroll Wilson, Currier) describe the Philadelphia printing, not being aware (according to Siegel, M & S Rare Books) of this Ohio Imprint. Small stain of foxing through the four pages. Else, Very Good. AmImp 45-6701. BAL 21740 (Whittier); BAL 13050 (Lowell). Appleton's Cyclope. Am. Biog. (for Walker). Cooke, p. 46 (for Boston edition of Lowell). Currier, pp. 56–8, 216–7. Not in LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue. Price: $225.00 9604 [Chapbook]. Anonymous.- The Bunker Hill Songster. New York. Wm. H. Murphy, Printer and Publisher. N.D. [ca. 1840]. 34 pp. Illustrated. 2 3/4" x 4 3/8". Blue printed paper wraps, illustrated with comic view of a Revolutionary War soldier. Sewn. First Edition. Bieber 172. A small chapbook of contemporary song dealing with war, patriotism, sentiment, blacks and comedy. References to contemporary singers, composers and patriots (e.g., the Ethiopian Singers). Contains “The Green Mountain Boys” by Wm. Cullen Bryant. Decorated with woodcuts of an eagle, butterfly, flowere and a row of soldiers, as wellas a fullpage woodcut and the comic cover illustration.. Small chip from spine over 1/2" at foot of spine. Else, Very Good +. Bright and tight. Price: $150.00 9627 Work, Frederick J. (Editor).- Folk Songs of the American Negro. Number Two. Introduction by John W. Work, M.A. Nashville, TE. Work Bros. & Hart Co. 1907. 64 pp. 8vo. Printed brown stiff paper wraps. Stapled. First Edition. A second collection of "Plantation Melodies," traditionally associated with Blacks in slavery. The first public singing of them was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, organized by the Latin teacher at Fiske, John W. Work and had been published in 1871. This second collection is edited, arranged and published by the Works. The introduction by John W. Work draws the reflection of these songs in the inner life of Black Americans and points out their closeness to Black spirituality. F. J. Work was also a composer Small faint stain at margin of frontcover. Else, Very Good +. M. N. Work, Biblio. Negro,p.436. Davis, Am. Negro Ref. Bk., p.733. Porter, Negro in US, #1617. Blockson 8005. Price: $125.00 9673 Root, Geo[rge] F[rederick].- [Sheet Music]. The Battle Cry of Freedom. Chicago. Root & Cady. 1862. 5 pp. Fo. Elaborately illustrated decorative cover. Engraving by Copcutt-Williams. Disbound. Publisher's ads on verso of front and rear covers. First Edition (second issue). Plate #225-4. One of the great marching songs for the Union Army written by George F. Root (1820–1895) and published early in the Civil War. An ante-fire Chicago imprint and immensely popular, it was also known as "Rally Round the Flag, Boys." It was written in 1861 in response to President Lincoln's second call for troops."During the Battle of the Wilderness in May, 1864, a brigade of the Ninth Corps broke the enemy's lines by assault, became exposed to a flank attack, and were almost routed. A soldier in the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania rallied the lines with this song." (Scribners, First Ed. Famous Am. Songs., Cat. #105). Root, a New Englander, wrote popular ballads and moved to Chicago in 1859 to join his brother's newly formed music publishing business. His Civil War songs becameextremely popular, especially this one, which was introduced publicly from manuscript in 1861 by Frank and Jules Lombard at a War rally in Chicago. This copy of the first edition has an elaborately engraved cover in contrast to the bland first issue printed cover. Minimal foxing of margins. Else, Very Good. V. B. Lawrence, pp. 362–3. Civil War songbook, pp. 1–4. Dichter, Handbook, 275–6. Ewen, Pop. Am. Comp., pp. 144–5. Dichter & Shapiro, p. 115. Not in Am.Imp. Inv., Chicago Ante-Fire Imp. Price: $175.00 9674 Russell, Henry.- [Sheet Music]. The Chase _ Set Every Inch of Canvas. Composed by Henry Russell for His New Entertainment "Negro Life" _ Words by Angus B. Reach Esq. London. Musical Bouquet Office. & J. Allen. N.D. 4 pp. Fo. Self wraps with illustrated cover. Disbound First Edition. Plate #370. An ironical song of the slave trade by Henry Russell. Russell (1812–1900) was born in England of Jewish parentage. He studied with Bellini and was acquainted with Rossini, Donizetti and Meyerbeer. To seek his fortune he moved to America from 1833 to 1841, where his income came from his concerts (piano and voice recitals), not from his immensely popular sheet music, for which he received no royalties. Among his famous works are "Woodman, Spare That Tree," "The Indian Hunter," "That Old Gang of Mine," etc. He championed social causes like abolition (this item), reform of mental asylums and temperance. This song celebrates the hypocrisy of the English who banned slavery in 1834, but continued the slave trade from Africa to the Americas (here, Cuba). The song reports two schooners flying the Union Jack and carrying a load of slaves chained below decks. When an English Man of War accosts them to search for contraband slaves, the shipmasters plan to throw the slaves overboard rather than sail without the Union Jack flying. The song, with an English publisher, appears to date from the late 1830's to 1840. It is magnificently illustrated on the front cover with wood engravings of the ships, their departure from what appears to be Land's End in Cornwall, a scene from America, pictures of the demeaning of slaves and a slave auction, a pianist at work as the ships are in port and a view of Niagara Falls with rainbows in the mist. All this is surmounted with a comic view of a Black face surmounting the publisher's label. Lacks a section of the inner margin of first page at foot, 1/2" x 6", without loss of text. Mild abrasion with a short tear involving musical instruction preceding the first bar. Else, Very Good. Ewen, Pop.Am.Comp., pp.148–50. Appleton's Cycl. Am. Biog. Price: $350.00 9678 Wood, George.- Peter Schlemihl in America. Philadelphia. Carey and Hart. 1848. 495 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's ads. 8vo. Brown buckram with black leather label on spine titled in gilt. First Edition. George Wood (1799–1870), born in Massachusetts, grew up near Washington where he worked from 1819 to about 1845 for the government, ultimately heading the navigation division of the Treasury Department. In addition to his novels, he contributed to the Knickerbocker Magazine and other periodicals. This, Wood's first novel, is based on a famous German story by von Chamisso (1824), but Wood relates it to important currents in American and Continental philosophy, especially Transcendentalism and Fourierism. The appendix expands on these considerations, with extended articles on Emerson, Brownson, Channing, Fourier et al. The author seems troubled by the conflicts between Unitarianism and Transcendentalism, perhaps viewing Emerson as an atheist (despite his denials) and considering Fourier's ideas on female independence and equality as lies and licentious behavior. Wear to head and tail of spine. Leather label scratched. Mild foxing and mild browning of page edges. Else, Very Good. Sabin. Wright I, 2753. Appleton's Cycl. Am. Biog. Price: $145.00 7737 Cram, George F.- 1886-7 Printed Color Map of Indian Territory [currently, Oklahoma]. Chicago. Geoge F. Cram Co., Gasked's Atlas of the West. 1886–7 1 p. 12" x 16" frame opening. Matted (Acid Free Mat) and framed. First Edition. A fascinating map of what was later to become Oklahoma in the latter part of the19th C., showing boundaries of Indian Reservations and Nations, towns, mountains, rivers, creeks and routes of the various railroads. A wax-engraved color map by the noted map maker of the 19th–20th centuries, George F. Crum. Interestingly, it charts the longitude west of Washington as well as west of Greenwich. Minorstain in left lower corner. Else, Near Fine. Price: $135.00 7979 Bill, Henry.- View of San Francisco. 1854. New York. Henry Bill. 1854? 1 p. 13" x 21" in mat. Matted. First Edition. From "History of the World" by Henry Bill. Colored view (Original Color) of San Francisco with important points numbered and index below. Entire map view surrounded by light orange border. An inconsistency in the Connecticut copyright notice by Henry Bill, as the date appears to be hand-corrected to 1852 at some early stage, possibly at engraving or lithography. Creases from former folding within text of book. In the margins are hand-written inked numbers and carets indicating locations of correspondingly numbered pointsof interest as designated in the index. Small faint stains in lower left margin, not involving the image. Price: $345.00 9453 L. M. N.- In Colonial Days. A Taleof Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Philadelphia. American Baptist Publication Society. 1886. 413 pp. Illustrated with full-page plates and one map. 8vo. Illustrated brown and gilt publisher's cloth with black lettering and illustration. A.e.g. Decorative end papers. First Edition. A Baptist novelistic narrative with much on Rhode Island College (Brown University), John Brown and President Manning. Good illustrations of University Hall, The Baptist Meeting House, etc. Wear at ends and edges of spine. Spotting of cover. Minor foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 9484 Anonymous.- Bemjamin Banneker, the Negro Astronomer. In The Atlantic Monthly, A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics. No. LXIII. Vol. XI, January 1863, pp.79-84. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1863. 8vo. Disbound. First Edition. A single monthly issue of The Atlantic Monthly, probably disbound from a bound volume with an important articleon the great Maryland Black, 18th century astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, much admiredby Thomas Jefferson and by Condorcet. It addresses the Civil War, then goingon, and cites Banneker in evidence of the Black man's potential. Largely self-taught, Banneker became interested in clocks and then in astronomy. He compiled the first of his many almanacs with a complete ephemeris for 1792, noticed even by Rittenhouse. Banneker sent a copy to Jefferson, then Secretary of State to George Washington. Jefferson congratulated Banneker, taking note of the equal intelligence of Blacks to Whites, blaming the apparent differences on the social degredation forced by slavery on the Black. Banneker helped draw the lines of the District of Columbia, observed that the speed of sound was greater than that of a bullet and made observations on locusts and bees. He was buried in an unmarked grave. Alsopresent in this issue is a long abolitionist statement by Harriet Beecher Stowe (pp.120–133), "A Reply to the Address ot the Women of England" to British women, asking for their support to the Union cause in pursuit of the abolition of slavery and decrying the disappearance of these sentiments and voices for emancipation among British women. Also present are the first printings of Hawthorne's "Recollections of a Gifted Woman," Longfellow's "The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi," and poems by Whittier and by Lowell. a very rich issue. Lacks covers. Else, Very Good. West and Lomazow, p. 19 Price: $75.00 9490 Goodwin, C. C.- The Mormon Situation. In Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 63, No. 377. October, 1881, pp. 756–763. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1881 pp. 642–800 (whole issue) + 12 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Illustrated Issue. 8vo. Pink printed and illustrated wraps. First Edition. An extensive diatribe against the Mormons and especially Brigham Young. The degradation of women by the church and its leaders is a major cause of the derogation of the Mormons. Brigham Young is labeled a hypocrite, an abuser of women and children and an inciter of murder. Polygamy is vociferously decried. To prove his argument, the author quotes from church authorities within his acquaintance. Mild soiling. Chips at edges without loss. Moisture staining internally without secondary effects. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 9372 9372 A Citizen (pseudonym).- To The Freemen of the State of Rhode-Island, &c., &c. Warwick, RI. N.P. 1817. 14 pp. 8vo. Self wrapppers. Stab-sewn. First Edition. Bartlett,, p.7 A pamphlet laying out the isues in the political campaign for Governor of Rhode Island between then Governor William Jones and Nehemiah R. Knight. Jones is supported because he protected the citizens of Rhode Island from the conscription of the militia in the War of 1812. The arguments are Rhode Island's continuing support of unbridled states rights over federalism, dating from their reluctance to adopt the US Constitution, through the twentieth century. The author adopts an anti-tax stand, when the taxes are to support Federal activities, like a standing army and navy. He is vitriolic in criticism of John Adams, much milder toward James Madison. Opposed to a national bank, the author is similarly disposed toward a Federal department of justice. Taxation, he claims, is a restriction of freedom, even enslavement. Knight is called the servant of the tax-gatherers of the Central Government. Small water stain on lowermost portion. mild offsetting. Pages untrimmed and uncut. Else, Very Good +. Price: $110.00 9067 Anthony, Henry B.- [Pamphlet]. Defense of Rhode Island, Her Institutions, and Her Right to Her Representatives in Congress. Speech of Hon. Henry B. Anthony, of Rhode Island, in the Senate of the United States, February, 1881. Washington, DC. 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