AMERICANA TO 1820
AMERICANA TO 1820
“Oh,
C'mon . . . ”
Quincy, Josiah. [drop-title] Speech of Josiah
Quincey [sic], Representative in Congress for the state of Massachusetts,
on the joint resolution approving of the conduct of the executive of the United
States, in relation to the refusal to receive any farther communication from the
British Minister, 28th December, 1809. No place, [1810?]. 12mo. 24 pp.
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A very uncommon Quincy item. • Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Removed from a nonce volume; stapled and respined with archival tissue. Six-digit number stamped on title-page.
Printed
by
Lydia
BaileyRobinson, William Davis. Memoirs of the Mexican
revolution: Including a narrative of the expedition of General Xavier Mina....
Philadelphia: Pr. for the author, [by] Lydia R. Bailey, pr., 1820. 8vo (28.4
cm, 9.25"). xxxvi, 396 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Shoemaker 3035; Sabin 72202; this edition not in Palau. Contemporary boards, rebacked with paper in the style of the era; original paper label reapplied. Uncut copy with edges untrimmed. Library bookplate with stamps on it, but no other institutional markings.
British Words of Support for
Colonial Rights Rokeby, Matthew Robinson-Morris, Baron. Considerations on the measures carrying on with respect to the British colonies in North-America. London printed; Hartford reprinted: Eben. Watson, 1774. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). 63, [1] pp.
Click the interior image for enlargement. • Evans 13585; ESTC W30498; Howes R-372; Trumbull, Connecticut, 1305; Adams, Amer. Pamphlets, 134j; Sabin 72151; Allibone 1839. On Robinson-Morris, see: Oxford DNB online. Period-style quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and elegant small decorations at head and foot. Pages age-toned; three leaves with minor staining. Title-page with repaired chip to outer margin, traces of early inked inscriptions in center of page, and partially shaved inscription in upper margin. Last text page with inked inscription in lower margin, partially shaved at beginning of inscription. (24866)
An
ABOLITIONIST’s
Take onLorenzo
de’MediciRoscoe, William. The life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, called the Magnificent...the first American, from the fourth London edition, corrected, in three volumes. Philadelphia: Bronson & Chauncey, 1803. 8vo (22 cm, 8.75"). I: xxxi, [1], 426 pp.; illus. II: [4], 427, [1] pp.; illus. III: [8], 435, [13] pp. 
• Shaw & Shoemaker 4994. Contemporary treed sheep, rubbed; joints cracking and front cover of vol. 2 with a small circular patch in similar leather; back covers of all volumes stamped by a now-defunct institution, spines with 19th-century paper shelving labels, and pastedowns with old library bookplates. Pages foxed and with old waterstaining. A very few stray pencil marks; first signature of vol. I partially separated.
Early Evangelical DevotionsRowe, Elizabeth Singer. Devout exercises of the heart, in meditation and soliloquy, prayer and praise. Hartford: Pr. by J. Babcock, 1800. 12mo (14 cm, 5.5"). 180 pp. 
Provenance: On a rear blank, “Amos Clarke his book”; another signature with a plea to borrowers below that. Opposite, “Southington September 7th 179[?]” and the note, “Read your Book Every opportunity.”
• ESTC W37924; Evans 38424. On Rowe, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Quarter sheep over paste boards, covers much abraded and chipped; spine leather torn at base and lacking at head. Dog-ears, shallow chipping, and brownstaining—with loss of individual words in a few places. Early inked notations on endpapers.
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