Item No. 1

1. [Boy Hez, The]: AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DEED OF SALE, BY MARTHA

FLUKER TO Z.G. NORWOOD, OF "ONE NEGRO BOY NAMED HEZEKIAH, SOME

TEN YEARS OLD SPARE BUILT AND A LITTLE TINGED WITH YELLOW." St.

Helena Parish, Louisiana: 17 May 1856. Neat ink manuscript, single leaf, 7-1/8" x 11-3/4," blue

lined paper. Sworn to and attested on verso, with red seal remnant. Very Good.

Located about fifty miles northeast of Baton Rouge, St. Helena Parish was briefly a part of

West Florida. "The Boy Hez," as he is colloquially described in this deed, is sold for $550,

without reference to any parent or other family member.

Martha A.E. Fluker [born c.1825] was married to George William Fluker [1820-1854], a St.

Helena farmer who died two years before this sale. Zachariah Gaulden Norwood [born 1819-

1866] was a St. Helena farmer who owned a plantation near Greensburg; he owned 17 slaves at

the time of the 1860 federal slave schedules.

(37650) $750.00

Item No. 2

2. Bradford, John: THE GENERAL INSTRUCTOR: OR THE OFFICE, DUTY, AND

AUTHORITY OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, SHERIFFS, CORONERS, AND

CONSTABLES, IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY. Lexington, KY: John Bradford, 1800.

12mo. xii, 252 pp. Attractive contemporary calf, red morocco spine label [lettering dulled]. With

the letterpress bookplate of George Cleveland (1760-1867), early Bourbon County pioneer; and

the ownership signature of William B. Branham, Bourbon County magistrate, and later

inscription of his descendant T.W. Hedges. Minor chips to front free endpaper, occasional light

wear. Very Good.

"An early and valuable legal guide for local and county officers of Kentucky" [Coleman]. It

was reprinted in 1820. "John Bradford was not only the first printer of the Blue Grass

Commonwealth. but he was also the founder of its first newspaper" [[Wilson, The 'Kentucky

Gazette' and John Bradford, its Founder. 31 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

102-131. 1937.] This early legal treatise, printed in the western frontier, has notable Kentucky

provenance,

After introductory remarks on the need for a guide explicitly relating to Kentucky, Bradford

explains the meanings of commonly used Latin legal terms. He then in alphabetical order

discusses the various topics likely "to come under the notice of Justices of the Peace, (out of

court) of Sheriffs, Coroners, and Constables, at as cheap a rate as possible." The topics run from

'Accessory' to 'Witnesses'. The modern reader may find most interesting the section on Slaves,

which enunciates a detailed Slave Code. The topics are followed by discussions of legal maxims,

actions and remedies, and a detailed Index.

FIRST EDITION. Evans 37034. Coleman 3261. Cohen 7970. McMurtrie 131. Jillson 27. ESTC

W12380 [7 locations].

(37293) $4,500.00

Item No. 3

3. [Brown University] Elton, Romeo?: "TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE

BOARD OF FELLOWS TO REVISE THE COURSE OF STUDIES IN BROWN

UNIVERSITY, THE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN & GREEK LANGUAGES &

LITERATURE BEGS LEAVE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REPORT IN ANSWER

TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH THEY HAVE PROPOSED..." [Providence, RI?: c. 1840].

[8] pp, written on two folded folio sheets in ink manuscript. A couple of closed tears, repaired

with a few letters affected. This is likely Elton's draft of a final Report, as it has lines which have

been crossed out and replaced with others. Very Good.

Our candidate for authorship, Romeo Elton, was the longtime Professor of the Latin and

Greek Languages and Literature at Brown. Elton identifies and analyzes the text books in use in

his Department. The "practice of frequently changing authors accords with the practice in the

most distinguished universities in Europe. It has been adopted in this Institution as far as

practicable & is attended with beneficial results "

He is critical of "the Greek Grammar now used in this Institution." It is "defective in many

points." He suggests adding Eschenberg's Manual of Classical Literature to the curriculum. Elton

lauds the study of the Classics, and denounces "the indolent student," who fails to understand

"the vigorous exercise which they furnish to the intellectual powers."

(37390) $450.00

Item No. 4

4. [Carrier Address]: ANNUAL GREETING OF THE CARRIER TO THE PATRONS OF

THE SCHENECTADY DEMOCRAT AND REFLECTOR, JANUARY 1, 1862.

[Schenectady: 1861]. Folio broadside, 10-5/8" x 20." Text surrounded by decorative border. Two

columns, separated by a rule. Very Good.

"Old time keeps on at steady pace," is the first line of this long poem deploring "The blight

that's fall'n upon this Nation."

"But in vain did Statesmen strive/ To quell the rage in Southern hive." The "base demand, in

haughty tone," of "traitors" and "treacherous foes" caused us "To rally round the good old flag."

The character "Old Abolition" is accused also of "trait'rous ways." His "hoary head and serpent

eyes / Sees only 'niggers' on the rise, / With missiles in their brawny hands / To crush the Whites

in Southern lands."

Not located on OCLC as of November 2020.

(37240) $650.00

Item No. 5

5. [Chase, J. Munsell (editor)]: THE DIRECTOR. A PACIFIC COAST AUTO-ROADS,

HOTEL & AMUSEMENT GUIDE. TRAVELING BY AUTOMOBILE? YOU WANT

THIS BOOK. TRAVELING BY RAILROAD! YOU NEED THIS BOOK. San Francisco:

1918 [August]. 64pp. 4-3/4" x 6." Stapled as issued in original printed and illustrated yellow title

wrappers. Advertisements, maps, illustrations. Near Fine.

"This Book is revised and published monthly." With eleven maps, ten of them colored, and

most of them double-page; detailed information on road conditions, banks, churches, hotels,

lodges, a business directory, public buildings, points of interest, "autostage," routes.

Not located on OCLC as of August 2021.

(37716) $250.00

Item No. 5

6. Checkley, John: THE SPEECH OF MR. JOHN CHECKLEY, UPON HIS TRYAL, AT

BOSTON IN NEW-ENGLAND, FOR PUBLISHING THE SHORT AND EASY

METHOD WITH THE DEISTS: TO WHICH WAS ADDED, A DISCOURSE

CONCERNING EPISCOPACY; IN DEFENCE OF CHRISTIANITY,

AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AGAINST THE DEISTS AND DISSENTERS. TO

WHICH IS ADDED, THE JURY'S VERDICT; HIS PLEA IN ARREST OF JUDGMENT;

AND THE SENTENCE OF COURT. THE SECOND EDITION. London: Printed by J.

Applebee, in Bolt-Court, Fleet-Street, [1738]. 40, [2] pp, as issued. Bound in attractive, modern

half red morocco and marbled paper over boards. Attractive ornamentation. Lightly foxed, Very

Good, with an 1882 inscription to Samuel Ames on the front free endpaper.

Although the trial occurred in Boston, there was no 18th century American printing. The first

edition issued from London in 1730. Checkley, a Boston bookseller, sailed to England in 1722 or

early 1723 in an unsuccessful quest for ordination as an Anglican minister. He returned to

Boston in 1724 with a stock of his pamphlet, 'A Short and Easy Method with the Deists,' "which

he had been forbidden to print in Massachusetts five years before. The Council ordered the

attorney general to prosecute the author. Checkley was brought to trial, convicted, and fined

L50" [McCoy].

This was one of several Checkley pamphlets urging recognition of the Anglican Episcopacy

as the established Church in the American colonies. [Bell: Anglicans, Dissenters and Radical

Change in Early New England 1686-1786, page 65 (2017)]. His views, expressed especially in

'A Short and Easy Method with the Deists', were anathema to ministers and others who nurtured

homegrown American religious institutions-- and, later, political institutions-- independent of

English domination.

"A somewhat dangerous notoriety began to attach to him from his expressions of religious

opinions" [DAB]. Disclaiming the intention to harm the government, Checkley argues that he

has "a right to explain his own Intentions; and obscure Expressions must not [I hope] have

Meanings put upon them, contrary to express Declarations." Checkley later became a missionary

of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which sought to render Anglican Episcopacy

the established church in the American colonies.

McCoy C293 [this edition]. ESTC N22547. Sabin 12365. Not in Marke or Marvin.

(37461) $2,000.00

Item No. 6

7. [Civil War]: THE FIRST OF MAY 1865 OR GENL MOVING DAY IN RICHMOND

VA. New York: Published by H. & W. Voight. Lith. by Kimmel & Forster, 254 & 256 Canal St.,

[1865]. Broadside illustration, 8-3/4" x 10"; mounted on 9-3/4" x 12" stiff backing. Short closed

tear at top blank margin, lower blank forecorner chipped [corrected with the backing]. Good+.

"From building inscribed, 'To let Apply Lincoln & Co.', Southerners, at whom Negro thumbs

his nose, are moving 'C.S.A. Treasury,' etc." [Weitenkampf]. Anticipating the end of the Civil

War in Richmond, the cartoon depicts Robert E. Lee collecting swords for placement in a cart

drawn by two skeletal dogs, Treasury Secretary Trenholm hauling away worthless Confederate

bonds, and a "Sheriff Sale" sign on the building. Bystanders look on. A dog urinates on a box

entitled "C.S.A. Treasury. Waster Paper."

Despite the title's date, the cartoon issued before May 1, that date being the artist's prediction

of the time of the Confederacy's collapse. The reference to Lincoln & Co. suggests the President

was still alive.

Weitenkampf 148 [recording a 1905 reproduction only]. Not in Reilly. OCLC 191119865 [3-

Clements, U VA, Williams] as of July 2021. Also located at the Library of Congress, Boston

Public Library, Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection.

(37670) $1,500.00

Item No. 7

8. Colden, Cadwallader: THE SPEECH OF THE HONOURABLE CADWALLADER

COLDEN, ESQ; HIS MAJESTY'S LIEUT. GOVERNOR, AND COMMANDER IN

CHIEF OF THE COLONY OF NEW-YORK, AND THE TERRITORIES DEPENDING

THEREON IN AMERICA. TO HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL, AND THE GENERAL

ASSEMBLY OF THE COLONY OF NEW-YORK, ON THE 22D OF NOVEMBER, 1769.

[New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, 1769]. Folio Broadsheet, 7-7/8" x 12-1/2." Light uniform

toning, pinhole in a blank portion, Near Fine. With an attractive ornament at the bottom of page

[2]. Signed in type at the end by Colden.

Colden [1688-1776] was Lieutenant Governor of the Province of New York. He became its

acting Governor from 1769-1770 after the death of Royal Governor Sir Henry Moore. Colden

addressed this Speech to the "Gentlemen of the Council and General Assembly" a little more

than two months after Moore's death. Lamenting "the Loss which the Province sustains in the

Death of the Governor in Chief," Colden expresses confidence in the "ready Assistance and

Support" from his audience,

He is pleased that "the late Duties imposed by the Authority of Parliament, which have

operated so much to the Dissatisfaction of the Colonies in general, will be taken off in the

ensuing Session." He urges the legislature "in the present critical juncture" to behave itself:

conduct business with "Moderation and Wisdom," in order to return to that "mutual Confidence

and Affection, on which the Glory and Safety of the British Empire depend." He urges the

establishment of "equitable Regulations" for trading with "the Indian Nations," all the more so

because England has left such matters to the Colonies.

Evans 11368. ESTC W16288 [National Archives only]. As of July 2021 not located on OCLC or

the online sites of AAS or NY Historical Society. The New York Public Library appears to have

this only as an ebook.

(37724) $3,500.00

Item No. 8

9. [Confederate Imprint] Polk, Leonidas: A PROCLAMATION. TO ALL SOLDIERS IN

THIS DEPARTMENT ABSENT FROM THEIR COMMANDS WITHOUT LEAVE.

Headquarters Demopolis [AL]: April 16, 1864. Printed Broadside, 8-3/4" x 10-3/4". Light

foxing. two old horizontal folds. Shallow blank margin closed tear expertly repaired on blank

verso. Signed in type by "Lieut. Gen. Polk" and "Thos. M. Jack, Lieut. Col. & A.A. General."

Very Good.

Polk, a founder of the University of the South and Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church

in Louisiana, doffed his clerical garb for a Confederate uniform when the Civil War broke out.

The transition was not totally unexpected: his undergraduate years were at West Point before a

religious transformation brought him to the clergy. Two months after issuing this Proclamation

Polk was killed by an artillery shell.

The Proclamation, which Polk says he issued against his better judgment, offers a pardon to

all who were AWOL. He hopes that "this last opportunity now presented for wiping out the

disgrace which attaches to the characters of these men, and must follow and brand their posterity

after them, will be availed of by them, and that he will thus be relieved from the painful duty of

making examples of those who in contempt of the claims of their country upon their services,

and in defiance of all law, have not only deserted their standards, but, by banding themselves

together, have rendered the property and lives of peaceable citizens insecure, and reduced society

to the condition of lawlessness and violence."

Hummel 144. Parrish & Willingham 951 [3- A-Ar, MBAt, NcD]. OCLC 29575961 [2- NcD,

MBAt], 903660831 [1- U AL], 14174872 [1- Lincoln Pres. Lib.] as of July 2021.

(37715) $2,500.00

Item No. 9

Item No. 10

10. [Confederate States of America]: ABSTRACT OF JOURNAL OF EXECUTIVE

SESSION OF THE CONGRESS, C.S.A. FEBRUARY 27, 1861. THE CONGRESS BEING

IN EXECUTIVE SESSION MR. RHETT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN

AFFAIRS, MADE THE FOLLOWING REPORT. [Montgomery, Alabama: 1861].

Autograph document, entirely in ink manuscript, in the hand of Alex. B. Clitherall, Assistant,

and signed "J.J. Harper, Secretary per Alex B. Clitherall Asst." Letter written by Clitherall, an

Alabama lawyer and assistant to Burton Harrison, Jefferson Davis's private secretary. Written on

the recto of first leaf; docketed, in the probable hand of Harrison, on recto of second leaf:

"Commn to European Powers. For the President." Blank verso of second leaf is laid down. Very

Good.

"The Congress being in Executive Session Mr. Rhett from the Committee on Foreign Affairs,

made the following report:

"The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the nominations by the President,

of W. L. Yancey, P.A. Rost, and A. Dudley Mann as Commissioners to the European Powers,

respectfully report, that they have had the same under consideration, and recommend that the

Congress do advise and consent to the nominations of W.L. Yancey, and P.A. Rost,'

"Which report was unanimously carried.

"So the Congress does advise and consent that William L. Yancey of Alabama, and P.A. Rost

of Louisiana, be commissioners to the European Powers, under the resolution of Congress of

February 13th 1861.

"I certify the above abstract to be correct.

"J.J. Harper Secretary per Alex B. Clitherall Asst."

President Davis had sent a Message to Congress on February 26, 1861, recommending the

appointment of Yancey of Alabama, Rost of Louisiana, and Mann, whose nomination was not

approved. But Mann's consolation was his later appointment as Commissioner of the

Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican.

Yancey and Rost would be replaced by Mason and Slidell, whose capture on a mission to

Europe nearly started a war between the United States and England.

(37669) $1,250.00

Item No. 11

11. Duffie, J.S.; & W.F. Hill: THE ARKANSAS JUSTICE. A TREATISE ON THE

POWERS AND DUTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. EMBRACED IN THEIR

CIVIL AND CRIMINAL JURISDICTION IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS; AND

INCIDENTALLY OF THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF CONSTABLES, JAILERS,

ETC., INCLUDING A LARGE NUMBER OF JUDICIAL AND PRACTICAL BUSINESS

FORMS. BY...LAWYERS, LITTLE ROCK, ARK.; CIVIL PART BY W.F. HILL;

CRIMINAL PART BY J.S. DUFFIE. Little Rock, AR: P.A. Ladue, Printer., 1876. [3], 550, [1]

pp. Bound in modern quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Clean text, Very

Good.

The first and rarest of several editions. "The primary object of this little compilation is to

furnish Justices of the Peace with a convenient manual to guide them in the performance of their

official duties. We have attempted an explanation of the elementary principles of the civil and

criminal law, to be administered in their courts."

A detailed Index, appearing at the end, indicates the wide array of functions that these judicial

officers performed.

FIRST EDITION. Allen 751. OCLC 41041452 [2- Central AR Lib., Hendrix College]. Not in

Marke, Harv. Law Cat.

(21671) $600.00

Item No. 12

12. [Faulkner, Charles J.]: IT IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE A SUBJECT OF COMPLAINT

ON THE PART OF THE WINCHESTER & POTOMAC RAILROAD CO. AGAINST

THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAIL ROAD COMPANY, THAT THE LATTER HAS

REGULATED ITS CHARGES FOR TRANSPORTATION UPON THE PART OF ITS

LINE WEST OF THE JUNCTION OF THE TWO WORKS, AT HARPER'S FERRY, SO

AS TO DEPRIVE THE WINCHESTER COMPANY OF A PART OF THE TRADE

WHICH IT ENJOYED PREVIOUS TO THE OPENING OF THE BALTIMORE AND

OHIO RAIL ROAD BEYOND THAT POINT... [np. Martinsburg?: 1843]. A rare Folio

Broadside, 17-1/2" x 8." Two columns, separated by a rule. Bright, unblemished, pristine copy

with a horizontal fold. Fine. The 1843 publication date is indicated from context.

Faulkner [1806-1884], the probable author of this broadside, represented the B&O on several

other occasions and was the most prominent lawyer in western Virginia. He built a successful

legal practice on his skills as a railroad lawyer. The Winchester line ran from Winchester,

Virginia to Harper's Ferry [now West Virginia], where it connected with the B&O. That

connection caused great anxiety in Virginia: it offered farmers and industries in Virginia's Great

Appalachian Valley the opportunity to ship from ports in Baltimore and Philadelphia, rather than

exclusively through Virginia ports.

Faulkner demonstrates that the Winchester Line's "complaint is not just." He displays the

"table of rates for passengers and principal articles of transportation on the two lines" [AAS

description].The B&O has adjusted its rates in accordance with accepted "and very simple and

intelligible principles." The Winchester Line's hard times are, as the Winchester Company itself

has admitted, "manifestly the result of the general decline in the business of the country." But if

the B&O's greater efficiencies and improvements have caused any dissatisfaction with the

Winchester's services, that's just the way markets work.

As a member of the House of Delegates Faulkner sought the abolition of slavery in Virginia

in the early 1830's, after the Nat Turner rebellion; served in Congress as a Buchanan Democrat;

and was attached to Stonewall Jackson's staff during the War. In his doomed battle to end

Slavery in Virginia, he allied with Thomas Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, to

enact a law freeing all children born of slave parents after July 4, 1840. Had Faulkner succeeded

Virginia-- and other border states-- would have been unlikely candidates for secession in 1861.

But he lost a close contest. Virginia remained a Slave State and the somewhat reluctant

cornerstone of the Confederacy.

AAS online catalogue [BDSDS. 1843]. Not in Hummel, BRE, Haynes, Sabin, American

Imprints. OCLC 24205737 [4- Appalachian State, Lib VA, U VA, VA Hist. Soc.], 694518431

[1- Johns Hopkins], 78144832 [1- AAS] as of June 2021.

(37660) $750.00

Item No. 12

Item No. 13

13. First Congress, Third Session: JOURNAL OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE

SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BEGUN AND HELD AT THE

CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 6TH, 1790. AND IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR

OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE SAID UNITED STATES. Philadelphia: John Fenno,

1791. 203pp. Folio. Modern leatherette, minor toning and light scattered foxing, Very Good.

This was an eventful Session of the first Senate. In late December 1790, the Journal records

the receipt from Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, of a report "containing a plan

for a national Bank." The Journal records the legislative history of the Bank's creation,

commencing with the introduction and reading of the 'Bill to incorporate the subscribers to the

bank of ---.' Yeas and nays are recorded on motions concerning the term of incorporation;

whether the United States should refrain from incorporating any other bank during that term;

and, finally, the Bill as passed by Congress [pp 124-131].

The establishment of Washington D.C. as the "seat of government" occurs, with President

Washington's directions "to survey and limit a part of the territory of ten miles square, on both

sides of the river Powtomac..." The Journal also records the detailed steps by which Vermont and

Kentucky were admitted to the Union. Constituent documents are printed relinquishing New

York's claims to territory in Vermont, establishing Vermont's boundaries, and Vermont's

ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Detailed material also appears on import taxes on distilled

spirits; reduction of public debt; creation of the general land office; and a host of other

foundation material before the March 4 adjournment.

President Washington warns of Indian depredations in the Northwest Territory and urges "that

the aggressors should be made sensible that the government of the Union is not less capable of

punishing their crimes, than it is disposed to respect their rights and reward their attachments."

The Session records much activity in confirming the titles of the settlers in that Territory to the

lands possessed by them, and raising an additional regiment to protect the frontiers.

FIRST EDITION. Evans 23901.

(37330) $3,500.00

Item No. 14

14. Fraenkel, Marx: FRAENKEL'S BATON ROUGE DIRECTORY. 1890. Baton Rouge:

Marx Fraenkel, Publisher, 29 & 31 Lafayette St. Printed by the Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA.,

[1890]. [24- advts], 56, [1 blank] pp. Original publisher's boards [rubbed, but not taking text],

with title printed on front cover, rear cover and pastedowns with advertisements. Final blank

with the pink rubberstamp of a local merchant. Very Good.

Fraenkel [1869-1935] is buried in Shreveport in the Hebrew Rest Cemetery. He had lived in

Shreveport for the last thirty years of his life, and was a member of B'nai Zion Temple,

Woodmen of the World, Elks, and Knights of Pythias [Shreveport Times, 11 March 1935].

After 24 pages of various advertisements from local merchants, some illustrated, and an 11-

page Baton Rouge Street Guide, Fraenkel introduces his book: "This is the first attempt to give

an accurate and complete personal, business, and general directory of the city of Baton Rouge. In

presenting it, the publisher desires to briefly outline the object in view and the method adopted in

preparing the publication. The work has been divided into four heads: Street Guide, General

Directory, Business Directory, and Appendix; giving names and locations of National, State,

Parochial, and Municipal buildings, together with those of the City Fire Department, secret and

other societies, etc. ... The rapid growth of our city justifies us in the belief that a second edition

will soon be demanded, in which errors, if any, may be corrected and the work presented in an

enlarged form."

Residents who are "colored" are so noted with the abbreviation "c." "White" and "Colored"

Schools are listed; as are the Catholic Cemetery and the Jewish Cemetery.

Not in Thompson. OCLC 9000568 [5- all in Louisiana] as of July 2021.

(37679) $750.00

Item No. 14

15. Frederick County, Maryland: ODE ON THE MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN

CONGRESS. [Charleston?: 1861]. Broadside, 8-1/4" x 10-1/2". Verse printed in two columns,

separated by a double rule. Four stanzas. Blank corners with light spotting suggest prior matting

on verso. Very Good.

BAL's photograph depicts this broadside poem in poor condition, with much chipping, and

thus does not do it justice. Timrod's poetic efforts lauding the southern Confederacy earned him

the title, 'Poet Laureate of the South.' Here he waxes rhapsodic on the birth of the new nation.

"...At last, we are / A nation among nations; and the world / Shall soon behold in many a distant

part / Another flag unfurled!" The poem was reprinted throughout the War in southern

newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. This, its first separate printing, is the paradigmatic

example of Confederate romantic nationalism. The poem celebrates the convening of the

Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Alabama, in early February 1861.

"In early 1861, Henry Timrod was a promising young poet and critic from South Carolina. He

had just published his first collection of poems after gaining acclaim as a regular contributor to

'Russell's Magazine', the Charleston-based literary journal edited by Paul Hamilton Hayne. With

the secession of the southern states, Timrod's romantic and formal poems would take on a

decidedly Confederate nationalistic cast" [Hutchison, 'Apples and Ashes: Literature,

Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America' page 4 et seq].

FIRST EDITION. BAL 20321. Parrish & Willingham 6577. Hummel 2468. Rudolph 189.

OCLC 191233672 [8] [as of January 2021].

(37365) $3,500.00

Item No. 15

Item No. 16

16. [Lake, W(illiam) A.]: TO THE VOTERS OF THE FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL

DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. [Vicksburg: 1861]. Broadside, 7 3/4 x 14 1/4". Light old folds.

Printed in two columns, signed in type at the end by Lake and dated Vicksburg, August 13, 1861.

Signed, 'Hon. W.A. Lake' in ink at the top blank margin. Very Good.

Lake started out in the Border State of Maryland, graduated from Pennsylvania's Jefferson

College, and then set up his law practice in Vicksburg. In pre-Confederate days, he was a Know-

Nothing: he won a seat in Congress as such, and participated prominently in his Party's 1856

Convention, which nominated Millard Fillmore for President.

Lake was not so lucky in this campaign: his opponent, Henry C. Chambers, killed him in a

duel in October 1861. The subject of the duel is unclear: "... A difficulty occurred and a blow

was given, and then a challenge." They fought with rifles at forty paces, each exchanging three

shots. On the fourth, Lake fell dead. [Montgomery, Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace

and War 82.]

This unrecorded Confederate broadside asserts that "we have but one object, namely: to

conquer a peace, and secure our national independence. Nor can there be any controversy as to

the means necessary to obtain this end. War! War! is the only way. It will, therefore, be seen that

there is no chance for party divisions and party issues." Calling for unity, he outlines his military,

fiscal, and monetary policies.

Not in Parrish & Willingham, Crandall, Owen, Sabin, Hummel, NUC, or on OCLC, the online

site of the Library of Congress, AAS, or other online resources.

(24873) $3,000.00

Item No. 17

17. [Liberty Party]: ADDRESS OF THE LIBERTY CONVENTION FOR THE EASTERN

AND MIDDLE STATES, OF 3,000 PEOPLE, HELD IN THE CITY OF BOSTON, OCT.

1, 2 AND 3, 1845. Hallowell, [ME]: Newman & Rowell, 1845. 4 printed pages, 16-1/4" x 11-

1/2", on a single folded sheet. Light discoloring and spotting. Good+. At head of title: "(Liberty

Standard, Extra.)"

The Liberty Party was the first national political organization to oppose slavery, "that most

stupendous fraud and most atrocious piracy on human rights." The precursor of the Free Soil and

Republican Parties, it was sufficiently powerful in 1844 to defeat Henry Clay's bid for the

presidency, as his tepid stand on the slavery question angered anti-slavery Whigs.

This rare "Extra" edition of the Liberty Standard abolitionist newspaper explains why it is

"Time to join the Liberty Party." Not only is Slavery sinful, but it has corrupted the foundations

of the national government. "Slaveholders are men of robbery, and violence and blood." The

Party argues for exclusion of Texas from the Union, declares "national repentance" as the

remedy for slavery, and warns that the Nation is "not too young to be destroyed." It also prints an

Address on "Aggressions of Slaveholders" by Samuel Fessenden, the Party's candidate for

Governor of Maine, demonstrating the Slave Power's iron grip on national policies.

Not located on OCLC, or the online sites of the Library of Congress, AAS, Newberry, NYPL as

of April 2021. Not in LCP, Dumond, American Imprints, Sabin, or Blockson.

(37492) $1,850.00

Item No. 18

18. [Lincoln, Abraham: THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, AT FORD'S

THEATRE WASHINGTON D.C. APRIL 14TH, 1865. New York: Currier & Ives. 152

Nassau Street, 1865. Lithograph print, oblong 13-1/2" x 18." Uncolored, depicting Booth

shooting Lincoln in the back of the head, Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Harris, and Major Rathbone sharing

the theater box with him. Minor dusting in the margins. Very Good plus.

A related print by Currier & Ives lists the names of the occupants in the theater box. See, 165

Eberstadt 460. This variant does not list the occupants' names.

"This lithograph records the shocking moment when Abraham Lincoln was shot by John

Wilkes Booth. As a famous actor, Booth had free access to Ford's Theatre and had gone there to

collect his mail on April 14, when he learned of the president's intention to attend a play that

evening. Booth was the leader of a group of pro-Confederate conspirators determined to prevent

the South's defeat and, when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, they

decided to kill Lincoln and other key Union leaders, hoping to destabilize the war effort and

allow Confederate armies still in the field to rally. Major Henry Rathbone, who rises at left to

restrain Booth, was subsequently stabbed but survived. Lincoln died the next morning" [The

MET online].

Currier & Ives Gallery C0291. Not in Reilly.

(37441) $2,000.00

Item No. 19

19. [Lucinda, A Slave]: SALE OF SLAVE LUCINDA JANE, PARISH OF DE SOTO,

LOUISIANA, 26 DECEMBER 1853, "NEGRO SLAVE WOMAN AGED FORTY-FIVE

YEARS OF DARK COMPLEXION AND A SLAVE FOR LIFE," FOR $350. De Soto

Parish, Louisiana: 26 December 1853. Folio sheet, folded to 8" x 12-1/2." [4] pp bifolium.

Entirely in neat ink manuscript, written on recto and verso of first leaf and docketed on page [4]:

"Caleb Pate to Spencer Adams Sale of Negro Slave." Old folds, Very Good.

Caleb Pate of De Soto Parish sold Lucinda Jane to Spencer R. Adams of De Soto Parish. The

document was written by William R. Jackson, "Parish Recorder and Ex Officio notary public,"

who also dockets the deed.

William Reuben Jackson [1828-1903] was an interesting fellow. He was born in Alabama; at

the age of eight, both parents died from separate accidents on the same day. He was raised by a

guardian and learned farming on his father's old Alabama plantation He moved to De Soto

Parish in 1851, where he bought a large farm and raised cattle, sheep, hogs, cotton, corn, and

various grains. The 1860 Census Slave Schedules show him owning at least 10 slaves. In 1862,

he enlisted with Company B, Shelby's Battalion, participating in several battles. After the war, he

returned to farming, eventually owning over 2700 acres; served twice as Parish Recorder; and

was engaged in a family mercantile business for 12 years.

Caleb Pate [born c.1820], a native of Tennessee, settled in De Soto by 1850, worked as a

carpenter and later as a grocer. His name did not appear on any slave schedules. Spencer R.

Adams [1818-c.1880s], a native of Kentucky, had settled in De Soto Parish by 1840 and was a

farmer. The 1860 census shows him owning five slaves, including two females and three

children; one of the females was about Lucinda's age.

(37647) $850.00

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Item No. 20

20. [Marshall, John]: REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CLAIMS, TO WHOM WAS

REFERRED ON THE NINTH OF NOVEMBER LAST, THE PETITION OF GEORGE

LITTLE. 20TH FEBRUARY, 1805. READ AND ORDERED TO BE REFERRED TO A

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE, TO-MORROW. [Washington: 1805]. 14, [2

blanks] pp. Disbound and lightly toned, Very Good.

President John Adams issued instructions purporting to enforce the Embargo Act against

France. Those instructions authorized the seizure of American vessels on voyages to and from

French ports. But the Embargo Act authorized seizures only of ships traveling TO French ports.

The unfortunate Captain Little had seized an American vessel leaving a French West Indies port

and taken it to Boston for confiscation proceedings. The question for the Supreme Court was

important: was Little, who had acted in accordance with presidential instructions, liable in

damages for the unlawful seizure?

Chief Justice Marshall wrote the Opinion in Little v. Baremme, printed here. Though counsel

argued it at December Term, 1801, the Court did not issue its opinion until February, 1804. The

decision, a significant limitation on the power of the Presidency, awarded damages against Little.

The Court held, "The instructions cannot change the nature of the transaction, or legalize an act

which, without these instructions, would have been a plain trespass." The Committee,

understandably sympathizing with Little, recommends that he be indemnified.

AI 9615 [3]. Servies, Bibliography of John Marshall 318. Not in Cohen. OCLC records five

locations under two accession numbers.

(23785) $500.00

Item No. 21

21. Mather, Samuel: A FUNERAL DISCOURSE PREACHED ON THE OCCASION OF

THE DEATH OF THE HIGH, PUISSANT AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS PRINCE

FREDERICK LEWIS,... PRINCE OF WALES... IN THE AUDIENCE OF THE

HONORABLE SPENCER PHIPS, ESQ; LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR AND

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, AND THE HONORABLE HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL, OF

THE PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY. ON MAY 22D. 1751. AT BOSTON,

NEW-ENGLAND. Boston: Draper, 1751. 31, [1 blank] pp. Bound in modern quarter morocco

and red cloth. Title page tanned, else light spotting. Very Good.

The death of the Prince of Wales is "a very darksome Event, and one of the mysterious Ways

of God which is not to be investigated by us."

FIRST EDITION. Evans 6716. Holmes, Minor Mathers 72.

(22844) $650.00

22. [McHenry, James]: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

TRANSMITTING A REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, ON CERTAIN

MEASURES WHICH APPEAR TO HIM TO BE NECESSARY FOR THE

IMPROVEMENT OF OUR MILITARY SYSTEM. 13TH JANUARY, 1800. REFERRED

TO THE COMMITTEE, APPOINTED ON THE 9TH ULTIMO, TO WHOM WAS

REFERRED SO MUCH OF THE SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT AS RELATES TO "A

SYSTEM OF NATIONAL DEFENCE, COMMENSURATE WITH OUR RESOURCES,

AND THE SITUATION OF OUR COUNTRY." [Philadelphia: 1800]. 41pp. [Pages 37

through 40 are oversized, folded charts]. Disbound. Very Good.

Secretary of War McHenry initiates his "indispensible" recommendations for creating

"military institutions capable of perpetuating the art of war, and of furnishing the means for

forming a new and enlarged army fit for service, in the shortest time possible, and at the least

practicable expense." He proposes the establishment of a Military Academy, whose purpose is to

teach "all the sciences necessary to a perfect knowledge of the different branches of the military

arts," with more specialized schools of engineers and artillery, cavalry and infantry, naval

warfare. His Report is a detailed explanation of his proposal. NAIP records ten locations.

Evans 38783. NAIP w026154.

(21363) $600.00

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Item No. 23

23. Montgomery, Zach: THE SCHRODER TRIAL. BOTTOM FACTS AND LEADING

INCIDENTS CONNECTED WITH THE KILLING OF DR. ALFRED LeFEVRE, AND

THE TRIAL AND DISGRACEFUL ACQUITTAL OF THE SLAYER. UNDOUBTED

INNOCENCE OF THE DECEASED. THE VEILED WOMAN THAT THREATENED TO

HAVE REVENGE, AND HOW SHE ACCOMPLISHED HER THREAT. TRUE

THEORY AS TO THE CAUSE OF THE KILLING, AS GATHERED FROM EVIDENCE

ADDUCED, EVIDENCE EXCLUDED AND EVIDENCE SUPPRESSED. WHY MRS.

SCHRODER WAS NOT CALLED AS A WITNESS. VALUABLE DISCOVERY IN THE

LAW OF EVIDENCE. AN ENTIRELY NEW, CONVENIENT AND PERFECTLY SAFE

MODE, OF PROVING BY ONE'S OWN WIFE, A CRIMINAL INTIMACY (WHICH

NEVER OCCURRED) BETWEEN HERSELF AND HER IMAGINARY PARAMOUR,

IN ORDER TO JUSTIFY THE KILLING OF THE LATTER: WITHOUT SUBJECTING

THE DEAR CREATURE TO THE MORTIFICATION OF A CROSS-EXAMINATION,

OR TO THE PERILS OF A PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY. THE AUTHOR'S

OBJECT IN PUBLISHING THIS PAMPHLET IS NOT TO VILLIFY GUILTY LIVING,

BUT TO VINDICATE THE MEMORY OF THE SLANDERED DEAD. DEDICATED TO

THE LOVERS OF TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE IMPARTIAL ADMINISTRATION OF

THE LAW. BY ZACH MONTGOMERY, OF COUNSEL FOR THE STATE. [Oakland

CA: 1881]. 21, 3 pp. Frontis portrait of Dr. LeFevre. Stitched in original printed pink wrappers.

Light wrapper wear [couple of closed margin tears, wear along spine, slight discoloration]. A

pristine text. Near Fine. The final three pages print the prospectus of Family's Defender, "An

Independent, Non-Partisan, Non-Sectarian, Monthly Magazine and Educational Review."

"This is another case of a husband's shooting a man suspected of being his wife's lover and

getting away with it" [McDade]. Montgomery, this pamphlet's author, was hired specially to

prosecute Schroder. He had recently retired after a long, successful career as a trial lawyer, in

order to devote his energies to reform in public education. But this case induced him to return to

the legal wars: "Dr. LeFevre had for many years been my dentist, my client, and my friend ... I

believed him to have been foully murdered by an assassin who, after killing him was seeking to

destroy his reputation by falsely charging him with the seduction of his wife in order to paliate

the murder." Angered by this libel upon his now defenseless friend, he decided to "assist in the

prosecution of the murderer." He did so without fee.

However, his efforts-- "to vindicate the good name of the slandered dead and to assist to the

extent of my humble ability in protecting society against a repetition of similar deeds of blood in

the future"-- failed: Schroder, a man "considerably addicted to playing cards and speculation in

stocks," was acquitted. In fact, says Montgomery, Schroder committed an "unmerciful beating of

his wife" to force her to testify to a "criminal intercourse with Dr. Le Fevre" that had never

occurred. And LeFevre, in his dying declaration, said that Schroder had murdered him "without

any cause!"

McDade 589. Rocq 923. Cowan 439.

(37661) $1,250.00

24. [More, Hannah]: THOUGHTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MANNERS OF

THE GREAT TO GENERAL SOCIETY. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1788. 12mo. 81, [1]

pp. Bound in contemporary plain wrappers. Scattered light spotting, Good+.

The first American edition, from the stated "fourth edition," all printed in 1788. The

Dictionary of National Biography attributes authorship to More. This work on manners and

etiquette, More says, "is recommended to the consideration of those who, filling the higher ranks

in life, are naturally regarded as patterns by which the manners of the rest of the world are to be

fashioned."

The last page is Dobson's advertisement for Sherlock's 'Trial of the Witnesses of the

Resurrection of Jesus.'

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 21271. ESTC W31120 [9].

(25572) $500.00

Item No. 24

25. [Morris, Robert]: PLAN OF ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN LAND

COMPANY, ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY, 1795. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken and

Son, Market Street, 1795. 25, [1 blank] pp, stitched into contemporary [or a bit later] marbled

wrappers [rubberstamp of Ten Mile Square Club of Washington DC on blank inner rear

wrapper]. Light spotting, Good+.

This is the Prospectus for the North American Land Company, the brainchild of Founding

Father Robert Morris, which he established in 1795. The Company, "at a great expence of money

and time, with much industry," had acquired "six millions of acres" of prime lands in

"Pennsylvania, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky." The Financier

of the American Revolution, Morris joined with John Nicholson of Philadelphia and James

Greenleaf of New York [formerly, for six weeks, American Consul to Amsterdam] as the

original Subscribers to the Company, whose twenty-eight Articles of Agreement are printed

here. The Company had 30,000 shares of stock, each share valued at $100.00. This document

itemizes, by County within each State, the Company's lands.

"From the beginning, the North American Land Company was plagued by serious financial

difficulties. Firstly, the authenticity of many of the titles to the lands were questioned. Secondly,

the land company owned more than 2 million acres in the Georgia 'Pine Barrens'. These large

tracts of barren wilderness were uninhabited, covered in sandy soil, and consequently difficult to

sell to land purchasers and settlers. Furthermore, Morris, a former delegate to the Continental

Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence, sent his son-in-law, James Marshall, to

Europe in order to sell shares in the company stock. Due to financial difficulties in Europe and

doubts about the value of the North American Land Company's holdings, Marshall was

unsuccessful.

"After Greenleaf was unable to secure loans from Dutch investors because of war and

political instability in Holland, he used the company's securities to pay off private debts.

Although Morris and Nicholson were heavily in debt, they bought out Greenleaf because he had

continued to embezzle company funds and to engage in corrupt business practices. Morris and

Nicholson soon became bankrupt and the promissory notes they used as payment to Greenleaf

for his share of the company defaulted. Greenleaf became bankrupt and in 1797 was sent to

Prune Street Prison in Philadelphia. Nicholson and Morris soon joined Greenleaf in the same

debtors' prison. Morris was released after serving three and half years, but was left penniless and

almost $3 million in debt. Nicholson died in prison, but Greenleaf was released in 1798 after

serving less than one year" [description from online Historical Society of Pennsylvania].

Evans 29220. Howes P-412. Sabin 55548.

(37674) $5,000.00

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26. New England Loyal Publication Society: [NO. 130.] NEW ENGLAND LOYAL

PUBLICATION SOCIETY. OFFICE, NO. 8 STUDIO BUILDING, BOSTON. OCTOBER

20, 1863. Boston: 1863. Folio broadside, 9-1/4" x 13-1/2". Printed beneath the caption in three

columns, each column separated by a rule. Blank upper left corner with a slight smudge. Very

Good plus.

The Society, founded in 1863, published numerous articles to promote support for the Union,

emancipation, and victory. Its folio broadsides are far scarcer than the octavo imprints of the

Loyal Publication Society in Philadelphia.

The first of several articles reports on the stunning election results in Pennsylvania and Ohio:

"The people of this country-- the great democratic masses-- without regard to parties or

prejudices, are determined to maintain their government in all its integrity and strength... Both

the peace men of the North and the war men of the South received a stunning blow yesterday." In

Ohio, the traitor Vallandigham "has been beaten by an unprecedented majority." And in

Pennsylvania the Copperhead Woodward has been repudiated. Another article expresses hope

that the small farmers of the South and "are thoroughly tired of the war."

The final article reports on Kentucky's Joseph Holt's advocacy of the use of Negro soldiers.

Sabin 52696 [reference].

(37487) $650.00

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Irem No. 26

27. [Oswald, Eleazer]: EIGHT 1787 ISSUES OF THE INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER;

OR, THE CHRONICLE OF FREEDOM. Philadelphia: Eleazer Oswald, 1787. All 1787:

February 14 and 17; July 18 and 26; August 22; November 3, 14, and 16. All folio, printed in

four columns per page. Disbound, with stitch-holes along left edge. Minor wear, several mended

closed tears, inner blank margins reinforced. Text clean and Very Good.

Each issue consists of four pages: the first and last contain advertisements and public notices;

the two inner pages print international and domestic news, often of a polemical nature. James

Bowdoin, smarting from recent setbacks in his taxation plan and attempts to create a private

militia, has a column denouncing the "insurgents" [February 17]. He writes again in the July 18

edition on the far less controversial subject of advantageous ways to grow corn, as learned from

the British.

The Gazetteer evidences a progressive bent, calling for free public education (July 18), a type

of early legal aid for the poor, and donations to alleviate the misery of public prisons (August

22). The paper prints a number of articles, primarily opposing Ratification of the Constitution.

Some writers object to Ratification without sufficient study of the document (November 3 and

14). Contributor Timothy Meanwell is distressed that the Constitution does not abolish slavery

and does not prohibit the slave trade for a further 21 years (November 3). The writer known as

"Plain Truth" claims that someone has illegitimately used his moniker in the October 30 edition,

and asks for help in identifying the "thief."

One "Cincinnatus" objects that the Constitution does not contain a Bill of Rights, noting that

"some material parts of it are so constructed-- that a monstrous aristocracy springing from it,

must necessarily swallow up the democratic rights of the union, and sacrifice the liberties of the

people to the power and domination of a few." He proceeds to zero in directly on the freedom of

expression and the press. The Constitution's proponents argued that a Bill of Rights was

unnecessary, because the proposed Constitution created a government of strictly limited powers;

the Framers had not granted the new government any such power to restrict freedom of speech or

religion, or to interfere with the right of trial or any other valued freedoms. However, objections

to the absence of a Bill of Rights were so widespread that James Madison and the Constitution's

other proponents promised to adopt a Bill as their first order of business.

(37219) $1,750.00

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Item No. 28

28. [Pacific Coast Steamship Company]: NINE MIMEOGRAPHED, ILLUSTRATED

LEAFLETS, ISSUED DURING AUGUST 1908, ADVISING PASSENGERS OF THE

PROJECTED ROUTE OF THE S.S. SPOKANE FOR THE NEXT TWENTY-FOUR

HOURS. Onboard the SS Spokane, Alaska: 1908. Each a broadside, 11" x 8-1/2," distributed to

passengers aboard the SS Spokane during its Alaska voyage. Cartoon illustrations, frequently

with captions, viz.: "WE WILL 'SEYMORE NARROWS' ON THE TRIP"; "SHAKING

HANDS WITH QUEEN CHARLOTT"; "HURRAH FOR MUIR"; "PATTERSON GLACIER

AND DEVIL'S THUMB." Light wear, Very Good.

The S.S. Spokane, constructed in 1901 at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco, was built

for the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. She was designed specifically for the growing Alaskan

tourist excursion trade. The Spokane was fitted out to carry 171 first-class passengers, generally

tourists, and 100 passengers in steerage, used for cannery worker transportation. On June 29,

1911, the Spokane struck an uncharted rock in Seymour Narrows, Alaska, partially sinking and

drowning one passenger. The Spokane was later refloated by the British Columbia Salvage Co.

See the entry on SS Spokane at wrecksite.eu.

(37717) $350.00

Item No. 29

29. Porteus, Beilby: A REVIEW OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ARCHBISHOP

SECKER. New York: Hugh Gaine, 1773. [4], iii, [1], lxviii pp. With the half title. Errata note at

bottom of final page. About Fine. The first American edition. Bound in modern calf-backed

modern boards, gilt spine rules and gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, with:

[Chandler, Thomas Bradbury]: AN APPENDIX TO THE AMERICAN EDITION OF THE

LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SECKER: CONTAINING HIS GRACE'S LETTER TO THE

REVD. MR. MACCLANECHAN, ON THE IRREGULARITY OF HIS CONDUCT.

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE. New York: Hugh Gaine. 1774. xx, 28 pp.

Horizontal closed tear at leaf 3-4 [archivally repaired, no loss]. Else Fine. This is the first edition.

Porteus was, as the Review's title page declares, "Rector of Lambeth and Chaplain in ordinary

to His Majesty." He was also a prominent voice in the British anti-slavery movement. His eulogy

of Archbishop Secker is the first American edition, reprinted from the 1770 London. Thomas

Secker was Archbishop of Canterbury and an unapologetic advocate of an American Episcopate.

He was thus the adversary of ministers like Jonathan Mayhew and Charles Chauncy, who

resisted his attempts to 'Episcopize' America. Porteus scolds them for their "unreasonable and

groundless Jealousies of the Church of England." Mayhew's opposition to "the Proposal for

appointing Bishops in some of the Colonies" wholly misunderstood Secker's motives for the

appointments, there being no intention to render the Church of England the established religion

in America.

Gaine apparently printed two slightly different title pages for Chandler's pamphlet. One prints

Porteus's name as author of the Life of Secker [Evans 12191]; the other [our copy] does not.

Chandler was a Connecticut-born Episcopal priest and Yale graduate. He, like Secker, entered

the pamphlet wars in the Church of England's dispute with Reverends Chauncy, Mayhew, and

others. Proof that politics follows religion, Chandler would bitterly attack the Continental

Congress. "The occurrences of April 1775 were too much for his Loyalist fervor and he departed

for England the following month" [DAB].

Porteus: Evans 12960. ESTC W29061.

Chandler: Evans 13192. ESTC W38291.

(37446) $1,250.00

Item No. 30

30. Preston, Mrs. Margaret J.: BEECHENBROOK: A RHYME OF THE WAR. Richmond:

J.W. Randolph [Macfarlane & Fergusson, Printers], 1865. 64pp, original printed brown

wrappers. Bound into later paper-decorated boards, with dark spine tape. Light wear, Very Good.

Prior owner's pencil date, "March, 1865."

"A northern woman married to a Southern man, Margaret J. Preston shared the sufferings and

passions of the South. Her book Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War was beloved throughout

the South as a tribute to the families devoted to the 'lost cause.' Throughout a life filled with loss

and disrupted by war, her faith in God and devotion to family gave her strength to persevere"

[article on Preston at web site timelessvoices].

Born in Pennsylvania in 1820, she died in Baltimore in 1897. This "well-known writer of

Southern war poetry... married Prof. J.T.S. Preston, of the Virginia Military Institute, who

afterward served on Gen. Stonewall Jackson's staff with the rank of Colonel. Her sister, Eleanor,

was Gen. Jackson's first wife" [obituary in Goldsboro Weekly Argus, 1 April 1897, page 2].

The book was reprinted a couple of times in the 1860s, but this is the first edition and the only

Confederate imprint.

FIRST EDITION. Parrish & Willingham 6467. Haynes 14468.

(37725) $750.00

Item No. 31

31. [Randolph, Edmund]: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, JULY 31, 1794. THE SECRETARY

OF STATE REQUESTS THE [blank] TO PERMIT ANY PERSONS INTERESTED AND

INQUIRING FOR THE LIST AT THE FOOT HEREOF, TO SEE THE SAME ...

FAITHFULLY EXTRACTED FROM THE RECORD OF THE CASES IN THE OFFICE

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. 31ST JULY 1794. J. WAGNER, CLERK.

[Philadelphia: 1794]. Folio, [4] pp bifolium, folded to 8" x 13." Caption title, as issued. Lightly

toned, Very Good plus.

This rare document, compiled by Secretary of State Randolph's aides, lists more than four

hundred vessels in three columns: "Vessels Names," "Master's Names," and "Names of Owners,

or Parties interested." Each vessel had been a target of "vexations, spoliations, &c."

Not in Evans, Bristol, Shipton & Mooney, or at the online AAS site. OCLC 171293876 [1-

Library Company] as of July 2021.

(37726) $2,500.00

Item No. 32

32. [Robeson, Paul]: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS DISTRICT OF

COLUMBIA. PAUL ROBESON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, AGAINST JOHN FOSTER

DULLES, DEFENDANT-APPELLEE. MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF AND

BRIEF AMICI CURIAE. [New York: The Hecla Press, 1956]. ii, 25, [1 blank] pp. Original

staples and printed title wrappers. Light dusting, Very Good.

[offered with] TYPED LETTER SIGNED IN FACSIMILE, ESLANDA GOODE

ROBESON, REQUESTING THE RECIPIENT TO PERMIT USE OF HIS/HER NAME

AS AMICUS CURIAE. DATED FEBRUARY 28, 1956, FROM 23 WEST 26 STREET,

DOWNSTAIRS, NEW YORK. WITH SEPARATE DOCUMENT GRANTING

PERMISSION, AND RETURN ENVELOPE TO ESLANDA ROBESON. Very Good.

The State Department agreed to issue a passport to Robeson only if he declared that he was

not a member of the Communist Party and that he was loyal to the United States. He refused to

do so. The Department thus denied him a passport. Robeson had been, in the State Department's

view, a liability in America's Cold War: he outspokenly protested American race relations and

praised Soviet Russia. He repeated these views during his many travels abroad.

Robeson filed suit in federal court. The district court upheld the State Department. Robeson

appealed. We offer here the brief of prominent Americans as amicus curiae in Robeson's behalf:

W.E.B. Du Bois, Herbert Aptheker, and others, including Eslanda Goode Robeson, Robeson's

wife and a respected anthropologist, author, and actress. The brief, written by New York lawyers

Milton Friedman and William Patterson, argues that "the right to speak out against the

oppression of Negro Americans" is an important aspect of the constitutionally protected freedom

of speech and right to travel.

The Court of Appeals ducked the issue: Robeson, the court held, had failed to exhaust his

administrative remedies. He did not request, and should have requested, an administrative

hearing. The Supreme Court refused to hear the case. But several years later, in a related case

involving Rockwell Kent, the Court held that the constitutional right to travel, invalidated

Dulles's actions. Robeson finally got his passport.

OCLC records six locations under several accession numbers as of March 2021.

(37471) $650.00

33. Rogers, William: AN ORATION, DELIVERED JULY 4, 1789, AT THE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, IN ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, BY THE REV.

WILLIAM ROGERS, A.M. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND ORATORY, IN THE

COLLEGE AND ACADEMY OF PHILADELPHIA. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A

PRAYER, DELIVERED ON THE SAME OCCASION, BY THE REV. ASHBEL GREEN,

A.M. JUNIOR PASTOR OF THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. PUBLISHED

AT THE REQUEST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI.

Philadelphia: Printed for T. Dobson, 1789. 32pp. Disbound, then bound into later marbled

wrappers. Except as noted, Very Good.

Rogers dedicates his Oration to the President [Thomas Mifflin], Vice President [Thomas

M'Kean], and members of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati. He calls July 4 "The

Sabbath of our Freedom! The animating rays of our new Constellation have been felt on the

exhausted soil of Europe, and have penetrated the barbarous shades of Africa!"

Rogers, rejecting criticism of the Society as an anti-democratic organization, lauds the

Society of the Cincinnati, "an institution founded upon a basis the most honorable, with views

the most friendly, humane, and patriotic!" Unlike European "orders of military merit," the

Society of the Cincinnati stands for "the rights of mankind." It expresses "the grace of simplicity

with the dignity of virtue," as opposed to European "pomp of pride."

The 1919 Huntington Auction called this "An important piece, upholding the Society of the

Cincinnati, at whose request it was published."

Evans 22120. Sabin 72741. ESTC W5774.

(37722) $600.00

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34. Roosevelt, Theodore: SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF FORMER PRESIDENT

THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND HIS FRIEND AND FISHING BUDDY RUSSELL J.

COLES ON A DEVIL FISH HARPOONING EXPEDITION OFF THE COAST OF

FLORIDA, 16 MARCH 1917. 7-1/2" x 9-1/2." Roosevelt and Coles, nearly full length,

standing together in their fishing outfits. "File Copy. Do Not Remove" embossed stamp. Verso

with printed endorsement of Underwood & Underwood. Very Good.

The photograph, on file at the Library of Congress [without the autographs], depicts the two

apparently satisfied fishermen. Each man has signed his name across his white-shirted chest.

The Underwood firm, according to Wikipedia, was "a pioneer in the field of news bureau

photography." The Company, founded in 1881, moved to New York City in 1887; in 1910 it

entered the field of news photography, and remained active until the 1940s.

(37314) $3,500.00

35. [Slavery in Cuba]: THREE MANUMISSION DOCUMENTS LIBERATING THREE

CUBAN SLAVE CHILDREN. Each document a single manuscript page, 8-1/2" x 12-1/2."

Each with official stamp, one also has a decorative illustrated green stamp at the head. Light

wear and toning, Good+.

Each document names the slaveholder and the enslaved person granted "libertad," and the

cost in escudos or pesetas of that liberty. The slaves liberated here are Saturnia, "morenita

criolla," age 14; Gabriela, "esclava mulata," age 15; and Dolores, "parda criolla," age 16.

(37208) $1,250.00

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Item No. 36

36. [Sowers, Eliza]: THE LIFE OF ELIZA SOWERS, TOGETHER WITH A FULL

ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL OF DR. HENRY CHAUNCEY, DR. WILLIAM

ARMSTRONG AND WILLIAM NIXON, FOR THE MURDER OF THAT

UNFORTUNATE VICTIM OF ILLICIT LOVE. CONTAINING THE EXAMINATION

OF WITNESSES, VERDICT, &C. &C. AT THE COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER,

JANUARY SESSION, 1839. SUPPRESSED EVIDENCE NOT OMITTED. PREPARED

BY THE REPORTERS. Philadelphia: Printed by P. Augustus Sage, 1839. [2], 37, [1 blank] pp.

Untrimmed, light wear [repaired closed tear, without loss, at last text leaf]. Disbound, Good+.

"Sowers died in Philadelphia, as the result of an abortion. Chauncey was found guilty of

second-degree murder; the others were acquitted" [McDade]. The case was not only sensational

in the mass media of the day; it also was the subject of more than a few essays, scholarly and

otherwise. See, e.g., Joseph, THE 'PENNSYLVANIA MODEL': THE JUDICIAL

CRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION IN PENNSYLVANIA, 1838-1850. IN 49 American

Journal of Legal History 284-320 [July 2007]; CemeteryofChoice - Eliza Sowers; Decidedly

Grim: The Sad Saga of Eliza Sowers

A paper mill worker, she was "the beautiful, innocent and unfortunate victim of a fatal

passion." When she found that she was pregnant, "Grief appeared to take possession of her soul,

the gay dreams of life vanished from her sight... The horrid thought of abortion suggested itself

to her mind." She broke off her engagement, telling her intended she was "unworthy" of him.

Nixon, her supervisor from the paper mill, was suspected "of forcing his attentions on several of

the women in his employ," evidently including Eliza. She attempted several self-help remedies

before placing herself in the care of Dr. Chauncey, a "botanical physician."

When Chauncey's abortion concoctions failed to accomplish their intended result, he stuck a

knitting needle in her uterus. After prolonged suffering for a week, which included Chauncey's

attempts to conceal his botched procedure, she died from "laceration of the uterus caused by an

instrumental abortion."

McDade 175. Cohen 12418. II Harv. Law Cat. 1041. OCLC records nine locations under several

accession numbers as of July 2021.

(37666) $2,500.00

Item No. 37

37. Stidger, J.M.: J.M. STIDGER & CO.'S LOUISIANA STATE GAZETTEER,

SHIPPING GUIDE AND CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR 1866-67. WITH

FULL SHIPPING DIRECTIONS TO EVERY POINT IN THE STATE, TOGETHER

WITH A CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY OF THE BUSINESS MEN AND FIRMS

THROUGHOUT THE STATE, AND OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION. WITH

INDEXES. [New Orleans]: J.M. Stidger & Co., 1866. 22 [advertisements], [4], [33]-487 pp

[as issued]. The Indexes at pages 33 through 39 accurately track the book's stated pagination.

Title page appears after the advertisements. Bound in publisher's calf, gilt stamped spine title,

gilt-stamped advertisements on covers; fore-edge advertisement for J.W. Petty's "Cheapest

Photography Gallery in the City." Occasional browning, Very Good.

Stidger's Preface, dated at New Orleans on 1 Jan. 1866, accurately explains the format and

contents of this rare book, which issued in the year after the close of the Civil War: From the

high volume of business activity recorded here, one would not have known that the preceding

four years had been utterly chaotic and destructive:

"In presenting to the public our first edition of the LOUISIANA STATE GAZETTEER AND

BUSINESS DIRECTORY, we deem it appropriate to make a brief allusion to the necessity for

such a work, and to the magnitude of the labor of procuring the material for this first book. It is

arranged with...A complete Index to every part of the work...A Shipping Guide, alphabetically

arranged showing the location of every town and place in the State, and how to ship to every

point, with the name of the Express Company, if any, running thereto...A Shipping Guide,

alphabetically arranged, showing the location of every town in the State of Texas...An

Alphabetical List of the names of every business firm and house, Profession and Trade in the city

of New Orleans...An Alphabetical Classification for New Orleans, giving the names of all firms,

business houses, Professions or Trades, under the head of the business in which they are

engaged... An Alphabetical List of the Principal Cities and Towns in the State, giving the names

of Business Men, in alphabetical order and their different business, Professions and Trades... An

Alphabetical Classification of Business outside of New Orleans, giving names of Business Men,

Professionals, Trades, classified under the head of the business in which they are engaged,

alphabetically arranged in Towns."

OCLC 558692635 [1- British Lib.], 47204385 [1- NYPL], 17802200 [1- U AL] as of July 2021.

Not in Thompson, Sabin, Eberstadt.

(37711) $2,500.00

Item No. 37

Item No. 37

38. Taney, Roger B.: AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED, AS ATTORNEY FOR

COMPLAINANT, "TO FREDERICK COUNTY TO WIT," IN THE CASE OF

FARMER'S BANK OF MARYLAND V. RACHEL DARNALL. Frederick County,

Maryland: [1813]. [4] pp. Folio sheet folded to 8-1/4" s 13-1/4." In Taney's hand, and signed

twice, "R.B. Taney | Plffs. Atty" and "R.B. Taney." Very Good.

Taney, born into a wealthy slaveowning family in Calvert County, began practicing law in

Maryland in 1799. Taney is best known for his infamous opinion in the Dred Scott Case. But In

an 1819 address to a jury he called Slavery "a blot on our national character." He insisted that

"every real lover of freedom confidently hopes that it will be effectually, though it must be

gradually, wiped away" [Huebner, 'Roger B. Taney and the Slavery Issue: Looking beyond - and

before - Dred Scott.' Journal of American History, June 2010, pp 17-38 [internal quotation marks

omitted]. He would free his own slaves before his appointment to the Supreme Court. Taney was

also the first Roman Catholic Justice of the Supreme Court. Loyal to Andrew Jackson, Taney

had been Jackson's Treasury Secretary before Jackson appointed him as John Marshall's

successor.

Taney represented the Farmer's Bank of Maryland in this suit for recovery on a sixty-day

promissory note signed by John Darnall on February 24, 1813. After several endorsements and

assignments the note became payable to the Farmer's Bank by Rachel Darnall, but remains

unpaid. Taney sues for recovery on the note.

It is unclear who the Darnalls were or their relationship to one another. The 1790 U.S. Federal

Census lists a John Darnall in Frederick County. The household consists of two white males and

two white females [all over the age of 16], and forty-five slaves. There is also a John Darnall,

possibly the same individual, mentioned in the 1800 USFC as having six white persons and ten

slaves in the household. The 1810 USFC lists a John Darnall [possibly John Jr.] who is living

with his wife and young son and one slave. The 1800 USFC has a Rachel Darnall listed as a

widow in Frederick County and apparently living with three young sons.

(37290) $1,250.00

Item No. 38

39. Volck, Adalbert: ETCHING OF STONEWALL JACKSON BASED ON A PENCIL

SKETCH THAT VOLCK HURRIEDLY MADE WHILE PASSING THROUGH A CAMP

DURING A BLOCKADE-RUNNING TRIP AND NOTICING JACKSON STANDING

AMONG A GROUP OF OFFICERS. [np: nd]. Small etching, 3" x 4-1/4". Full length portrait

of Jackson in full uniform, facing left. Accompanied with a small typed note which identifies the

piece [brittle and chipping]. The etching is Fine.

Volck described the circumstances of this engraving in a letter to McHenry Howard as

follows: "The drawing from which this hasty etching was made is from life. It was on one of my

blockade-running trips, not long after the second battle of Bull Run. I had crossed the Potomac

above Ball's Bluff, and carrying important papers, was making my way across the country to get

to a certain place, the name of which I have forgotten, but where I knew a person who would

push me forward. I came quite unexpectedly upon a camp, and not meeting the pickets, I walked

right through it. On the other side of the huts and shelters I saw some officers talking together,

among them Jackson. As I seemed unobserved I pulled out my sketch book and made what can

hardly be pronounced a striking likeness of the General. I was almost done with it when one of

the officers pointed me out, and General Jackson looked around at me with a pleasant smile and

turned away. . . An etching was made immediately after my return, some three or four days

afterward. . . "

Item No. 39 [unframed and framed views]

The engraving is accompanied by a typed note which identifies the piece. "The etching of

Stonewall Jackson was made by Dr. A.J. Volck of Baltimore ... It is the only likeness of Jackson

taken from life in existence and was made by Dr. Volck during the late Civil War. . . There are

but three or four copies of it and Dr. Volck still has the plate. . . About a year ago, an article on

Stonewall Jackson was published in Century and a copy of the etching was published by Century

... The likeness is considered perfect. ... The etching is quite valuable." The etching was

reproduced as an illustration to "The Battle of Gaines's Mill", by D.H. Hill, in The Century, v.

30, no. 2 (June 1885), p. 295; [Howard: RECOLLECTIONS OF A MARYLAND

CONFEDERATE SOLDIER AND STAFF OFFICER UNDER JOHNSTON, JACKSON AND

LEE. Baltimore: 1914, pp.131-133.]

"The etching is reproduced in G.M. Anderson, 'The work of Adalbert Johann Volck 1828-

1912' (1970), p. [53], with facing note: 'In a letter written years later to a Baltimore lady, Volck

described how he took a pencil and hurriedly made a sketch of Jackson. Later he made an

etching and a few copies were struck. In 1898 for the Great Confederate Bazaar in Baltimore,

more were struck from the original plate and sold'" [OCLC].

"Adalbert John Volck (1828-1912) came to the United States from Germany in 1848 and

eventually settled in Baltimore where he practiced dentistry. Volck was also a painter and

possessed a flair for caricature. Signing his work V. Blada, Volck is known as the only

Confederate cartoonist whose influence was on a par with Thomas Nast. His Confederate War

Etchings and Sketches from the Civil War in North America are stinging satirical depictions of

northern hypocrisy." [http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/cartoon/civil.html]

OCLC 371399383 [1-Brown Univ.] as of July 2021.

(37673) $4,500.00

Item No. 40

40. [Washington, George]: THE EFFECT OF PRINCIPLE BEHOLD THE MAN.

[Germantown: Germantown Print Works, ca. 1806]. Cotton glazed textile, 11" x 12". Lightly

toned, top edge a bit worn. Very Good.

The title is inscribed above a full-length portrait of Washington. A portion of the Farewell

Address is printed on the left, and a eulogy on the right. The Flag and Screaming Eagle emblem,

a square rigger labeled the 'Commercial Union,' and 'The British Lion' are across the bottom. The

Design is based on a mezzotint of General Washington. The figure of Washington is a copy of

Gilbert Stuart's painting for William Constable.

Collins, Threads of History 38. Hummel, More VA Broadsides 22. AAS 394364. OCLC

24417545 [1- NJHS], 15363312 [1- Lib. VA] as of August 2021.

(28676) $2,750.00

Item No. 41

41. Whittelsey, Chauncey: THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION IN THE CIVIL RULER,

CONSIDERED. A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, AT HARTFORD, ON THE DAY OF THE

ANNIVERSARY ELECTION, MAY 14TH, 1778. BY...PASTOR OF THE FIRST

CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NEW-HAVEN. New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1778. 23,

[1 blank] pp, with the half title [which is spotted at the blank lower forecorner]. Stitched and

disbound, lightly toned, Very Good.

Whittelsey reflects on "the present very critical situation of affairs...The hand of God has been

very conspicuous" in aiding "the now United Independent American States," formerly "thirteen

disconnected, and many of them distant provinces...When we consider the weak, defenceless and

unprepared state of the country when hostilities were first commenced, and in what an

unexpected manner, and how quick, a supply of military forces was obtained; when we consider

the mighty force that has come against us, both by sea and land, and the success that has attended

our young troops, and even our militia (reckoned by the enemy but a feeble folk), who can

refrain his astonishment."

Deploring the "want of wisdom, of human policy in the famous Politicians of the British

court," he sees "that a new Empire, under the providence of God, is now rising up, in this

western world."

FIRST EDITION. Evans 16170. Trumbull 1651. Not in Gephart.

(23947) $1,000.00

Item No. 42

42. Williams, Aaron: THE HARMONY SOCIETY, AT ECONOMY, PENN'A. FOUNDED

BY GEORGE RAPP, A.D. 1805. WITH AN APPENDIX. Pittsburgh: Printed by W.S. Haven,

1866. viii, [9]-182pp. Bound in publisher's black blindstamped cloth with gilt title on front board

[some extremity wear, rear inner hinge cracked, lacks rear endpapers]. Scattered foxing, first few

pages damped. Narrow tears at blank outer margins of pages 141-144. Good+.

Johann Rapp founded the Harmony Society, a Christian theosophy and pietist society, in

Germany in 1785. Persecuted by the Lutheran Church and the government, he moved the group

to the United States in 1803. Rapp's followers were called Harmonists or Rappites. They settled

in Pennsylvania for a time, relocated to Indiana for several years, and eventually resettled in

Pennsylvania in a town they named Economy after the idea of Divine Economy.

Rapp led the commune, with all property held in common and celibacy required. Eventually,

as seems inevitable for Utopian societies, arguments erupted, schisms followed, and the Society

splintered. This book gives a detailed history of the Society, its religious principles and customs.

It "includes a chapter on this Society's earlier establishment in Indiana" [Howes]. The Streeter

Sale copy brought $325.

FIRST EDITION. Howes W445. Streeter Sale 4278.

(25361) $650.00

Item No. 43

43. [Williams, John et al.]: A CONCISE SKETCH OF THE EXECUTION OF JOHN

WILLIAMS, PETER PETERSON, (ALIAS NILS PETERSON,) FRANCIS FREDERICK,

AND JOHN P. ROG, WHO WERE EXECUTED ON THE 18TH FEBRUARY, 1819, FOR

MURDER AND PIRACY. PREFACED WITH MORAL REFLECTIONS. TO WHICH IS

ADDED, A SOLEMN ADDRESS. Boston: Printed for N. Coverly, 1819. 23, [1 blank] pp.

Stitched. Original pale grey rear wrapper present. Corners rounded. Except as noted, Very Good.

With contemporary owner's inscription on final blank: "Henry Ward's Book 1821."

"The crew of the 'Plattsburg' mutinied and threw the captain, mate, and super-cargo

overboard, taking the vessel to Norway. These four were apprehended - Williams in

Copenhagen, where he was kept in jail for over two years waiting for a vessel to take him back to

the United States. The confessions paint a picture of the rugged life at sea in those times"

[McDade 1099].

The unknown author of this rare item, pondering the question of man's innate depravity,

laments the "deplorable fact" that "the progress of crimes, seems, in the present age of the world

to be in advance of the march of virtue." He is pleased that the pirates' executions were public, as

a lesson for those disposed to a life of crime. The pamphlet gives "an account of the solemn

ceremony preceeding [sic] and during the Execution," including the order of procession,

preliminary remarks to the crowd, the prisoners' garb, the Roman Catholic priest's final remarks

to the prisoners, and their expression of appreciation for the fine treatment they received in

prison. Pages 13-16, in 23 verses of four lines each, comprise "THOUGHTS On the Execution of

Williams, Peterson, Frederick and Rog."

AI 47690 [1- MB]. Not in McDade, Cohen, Sabin, or at AAS [which owns a 24-page variant

with folding plate, and does not own our printing]. OCLC records AAS's 24-page printing and

acknowledges the existence of our copy.

(37677) $1,250.00