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AMERICANA TO 1820
“All Published” — Boston Binding
With a Life of Miss Smith by Miss Bowdler 
Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in prose and verse, by Miss Elizabeth Smith. With some account of her life and character: by H.M. Bowdler. Boston: Munroe & Francis, and Samuel H. Parker, 1810. 12mo. 240 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped black leather title-label and very nice gilt-stamped decorations; this is, almost, “gilt extra.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 21358. Binding as above, rubbed and worn, leather chipped at spine foot and peeling from lower outer back corner. Varying degrees of offsetting and foxing. (27256)
Society
History
Society of
the Cincinnati. Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the
General Society of the Cincinnati, with the original institution of the Order....
Philadelphia: Pr. by John Ormrod, 1801. 8vo. 82 pp.
This publication demonstrates that change among many others, as it traces the Society via its own documents from its founding at the "Cantonment of the American Army, on Hudson's River, 10th May, 1783," through the incorporation of the Pennsylvania branch, to the death of Gen. Washington. Included here are the by-laws of the Pennsylvania chapter.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 1339. Sewn, as issued. Front wrapper missing, rear wrapper present. A few spots of waterstaining. Uncut copy. New protective paper corset provided and the whole housed in a cloth clam shell case with a leather spine label lettered in gilt. A very good copy.
Quaker Life in
Dutchess County, NY — 1779Society
of Friends. To the yearly meeting. Extracts taken from the
minnets of our quarterly meeting held at the Oblong by adjournments from ye 1st
of the 5 month to 3ed of the same inclusive. 1779. New York: Pr. by Melbert B.
Cary, Jr. at the Sign of the Woolly Whale, 1936. 8vo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). [12] pp.
Long, breathless, run-on sentences make the expected Quaker standards of behavior, in this place and time, quite clear.
• Sewn in publisher’s color-flecked paper wrappers. A crisp, clean copy.
War with England => Free Trade in American Corn & Wheat Spain. Laws, statutes, etc. Real provision de su magestad, y señores del consejo, por la que se declara que el comercio de granos ultramarinos debe quedar libre.... Zaragoza: Imprenta Real, 1771. Folio. [4] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Palau 239456ii. Half vellum with caramel cloth sides by Brugalla. Excellent copy. (20394)
A Truly PECULIAR Publication Spain. Sovereigns. (Ferdinand VII). El Rey ha expedido los decretos siguientes. Puebla: Impreso ... en la oficina del gobierno, 1820.
Click the image for an enlargement. 
a
boy in South Carolina who suffered severe burns and how the application of raw
cotton helped.
No
copy located via NUC Pre-1956 and WoldCat
locates only the copy at Yale.
• Medina, Puebla, 1842. Folded as issued; never bound. Light foxing. (29988)
“Take 500 Protestations . . . ” Spofford, Thomas. Astronomical diary, or almanack, for the year ... 1819. ... Calculated for the meridian of Andover ... but will serve without any error of consequence for any of the New-England states. Boston: Hews & Goss, [1818]. 12mo. [18] ff.
how to compose a “modern” love letter plus a (truly) humorous description of marriage. Two states of gathering C noted. In the second, a note has been added at foot of p. [34], correcting information given in the calendar pages about a solar eclipse on April 24th. This is a copy in the state without the correction.
• Drake 3819; Shaw & Shoemaker 43108. Uncut copy; old stitching. A very good copy. (9622)
For
more ALMANACS illustrated, click here!For
an unillustrated, PDF-format catalogue of
Putting DOWN the
REVOLUTION in Connecticut Steadfast, Jonathan [pseud. of David Daggett]. Count the cost. An address to the people of Connecticut, on sundry political subjects, and particularly on the proposition for a new constitution. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1804. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.25"). 21, ii, [1] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. First edition.
• Sabin 15716; Shaw & Shoemaker 610. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Title-page with small inked “pseud.” comment next to author's name. Pages age-toned with offsetting and some light spotting (darkest to title-page); one leaf with upper margin repaired some time ago. Page edges untrimmed; one signature unopened. (25211)
Dedicated to “Patrons of
Pure,Stiles,
Ezra. A history of three of the judges of King Charles I. Major-General
Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell: Who, at the Restoration,
1660, fled to America; and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and
Connecticut, for near thirty years. With an account of Mr. Theophilus Whale,
of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of the judges. Hartford: Elisha
Babcock, 1794. 12mo. 357, [5 (4 blank)], 357, [4 (3 blank)] pp.; 8 plts. (3
fold.); lacks the frontis. port.
Click the images for enlargements. • Evans 27743; Howes S-999; Sabin 91742; Trumbull, Connecticut, 1425. Period-style quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and blind-tooled floral decorations in compartments. Previous owner's signature on the title-page. Rubber-stamps of the Mercantile Library, and inked marks and underlining inside, with scattered marginalia. Frontispiece portrait lacking, with eight plates (three of which are fold-out) present; each of the three folding plates with a split along one fold. Occasional marginal tears and small chips to corners; waterstaining and foxing, yet paper strong and reading easy. (3996)
Englishmen
on theFrench
Revolution[Stone,
John Hurford, et al.]. Copies
of original letters recently written by persons in Paris to Dr. Priestley in America.
Taken on board a neutral vessel. Third edition. London: J. Wright, 1798. 8vo (20.7
cm, 8.1"). 36 pp.
• ESTC N1989; Sabin 92070. Removed from a nonce volume, with sewing holes; now in a Mylar folder. Half-title with small numerical stamp, pencilled notations, a bit of staining and two smears/blots of old red ink. Interior slightly age-toned but clean.
A Controversial NATIVE AMERICAN Figure — ILLUSTRATED Stone, William L. Life of Joseph Brant–Thayendanega, including the border wars of the American Revolution, and sketches of the Indian campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne. New York: George Dearborn & Co., 1838. 8vo (vol. I: 22.7 cm, 8.9"; vol. II: 23.8 cm, 9.4"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., engr. t.-p., xxxi, [3], 425, [3], lvii, [1] pp.; 1 plt., 1 fold. map. II: Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], viii, 537, [3], lxiv pp.; 1 fold. plt., 3 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. the “best biography of an American Indian.”
The two volumes are illustrated with six steel-engraved portraits, an oversized representation of the “Talk with the Indians at Buffalo Creek in 1793,” and an oversized, folding map.
Brant had famously translated the Book of Common Prayer into Mohawk; in 1784, he led his tribe into Canada to live by the Grand River north of Lake Erie.
• American Imprints 53125; Howes S1040; Sabin 92139. Olive-brown cloth, covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped title; vol. II in publisher's original binding and vol. I in recent reproduction of same (vol. I shorter than vol. II; vol. II with extremities rubbed, back cover discolored, back joint repaired and front joint starting). Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, rubber-stamp on each engraved title-page, pressure-stamp on each printed title-page, no other markings. Vol. I: Several early and a few subsequent pages with faint spotting; ten leaves with inner margins waterstained and subsequently slightly fragile, one with resulting tear extending into text without loss. Vol. II: some early outer margins waterstained. Folding plate with short tear from inner margin, touching image without loss. A more than serviceable copy of an essential work of American history, priced to reflect its previous service. (29415)
A Lot of“STORYS” for the Money! Storys of the bewitched fiddler, perilous situation, and John Hetherington's dream. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--]. 12mo. 24 pp. 
The
final page of the chapbook contains an anecdote about soldiers from an American
regiment making fun of a hunchback who gets back at them with a dig about Bunker
Hill where the regiment suffered heavy losses. "[No.]
28." printed at the foot of the title.
• Not located in RLIN. Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17584)
“The Details of the Late War” Subaltern (Georg Robert Gleig, attrib.).
A subaltern in America; comprising his narrative of the campaigns of the British army, at Baltimore, Washington, &c. &c. during the late war. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart; Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.25"). 266 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. 
A pencilled annotation in one margin of this copy reads “The author is not aware that the people in the Southern States are not called Yankees”; one particularly anti-American remark later in the volume has been lined through in pencil.
• Sabin 27570; Howes S1115. Publisher's speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; covers sunned unevenly, edge/extremities rubbed, head of spine showing traces of now-absent label. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, pressure-stamp on title-page. Title-page with supposed author's name inked in upper margin. Waterstaining to lower outer corners of first few leaves; scattered spots of foxing and staining; one signature much browned, showing the different effects of time and “life” on different papers. (26376)
His
ADDRESS
forVermonters
[Sullivan, George]. An
address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United
States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain.
Windsor, [VT]: Thomas M. Pomroy, 1812. 12mo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). 31, [1 (blank)]
pp. 
• Shaw & Shoemaker 24555; Sabin 393 (not listing this ed.); Howes A77 (not listing this ed.). Half morocco over marbled paper sides, worn and front cover off; library paper shelving label on front cover. Binder's ticket on back free endpaper. Title-page and one other stamped by a now-defunct institution; back free endpaper with pocket. Pages untrimmed, with some browning.
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