•  Original wrappers, illustrated in color on the front. Much paper loss over the spine. Front wrapper detaching, lightly soiled, with small chips to corners and fore-edge, and with several tears including one long tear extending halfway into the illustration but without loss. Three digit number pencilled in lower left corner of front cover. Back wrapper and final leaf (advertisement) chipped, torn, and detached. First leaf torn in inner margin and detaching. A couple of leaves with one or two short tears in margins, without loss. Fold mark along width of pamphlet. Bottom corners dog-eared, top corners curling a bit. Far from pristine butquite delightful. (8603)

At the heart of the controversy was Duane’s support of Jefferson for president and his exposure of the notorious Ross election bill by which the Federalists sought to thwart Jefferson’s bid for that office.

• Evans 38856; ESTC W021879. Removed from a nonce volume. Clean and in nice condition.

In this work printed in Philadelphia, Vidaurre calls for republican reforms in Peru. This was a major change of political stance for him, for he had loyally served the crown in both his native Peru and, after the commencement of the Wars of Independence, in Spain. His attack on the Spanish political system and call for liberal republican reforms involves passionate denunciation of slavery, and his "renuncia" (pp. 197-225) speaks at length about Cuba's current socio-political conditions and explains why Cuba should follow the lead of the former Spanish colonies of the American mainland. On the basis of this work, which is dedicated to Simón Bolívar, The Liberator appointed Vidaurre head of the supreme court at Trujillo.

•  Sabin 99491; Shaw & Shoemaker 14780. On Vidaurre, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 1012, frames 251-56 & 261-62. Modern quarter green morocco and marbled paper sides. Foxing, some staining. Complete with the errata leaf, and solid.

•  Sabin 101158; Shaw & Shoemaker 21936. 19th-century quarter green morocco with marbled paper sides; round spine with raised bands, gilt center ornaments in three compartments, title in gilt in one compartment.Ex–Library Company of Philadelphia, properly deaccessioned. Joints rubbed, top of spine pulled; foxing and staining. Uncut.

Sole edition.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 14179 & 12469. Recent gray-green paper over light boards; front cover with paper label, lettered in black. Uncut copy. Paper lightly age-toned and deckle edges with some light browning, waterstaining, and traces of soiling.

Other birds mentioned as seen here include ducks (including canvasback), ospreys (“listening, pensive, to the distant roar / Of yon white falls that down the mountain pour” (p. 50)), geese, partridges, robins, woodcocks, owls, pheasants, blackbirds, and jays — with many of the aforementioned species falling victim to the party's guns at least once.

The poem originally appeared in 1809–10 in serial form in The Port Folio magazine and made its first appearance in book form after Wilson's death, printed at the Bucks County press of Simeon Siegfried at behest of the author's nephew. Its index provides, in addition to clarifications regarding bird species, notes on the local flora, fauna, geography, and idiomatic expressions. By general consensus, the work is much longer than it needs to be as poetry; but it is wonderful to read Wilson's descriptions of (and reactions to) what are now lost landscapes or unbelievably changed places — and it is wonderful to see the ornithologist's vision presented here in words, knowing what birds would emerge from his burin. One realizes that this was, whether consciously or no, a scientific expedition!

Provenance:  William B. Keyser's inscription, dated 1819; Keyser was a teacher at the Newtown Academy.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 46824; Sabin 104599; Wegelin, American Poetry, 1209.   Period-style quarter calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands, binding signed by Starr Bookworks. Half-title with large inked ownership inscription of Keyser, as above, dated 1819. Title-page verso with affixed printed publication statement, as described in Sabin, with offsetting to recto. Pages age-toned and lightly spotted.  (24792)

•  Evans 36517. Recent cloth. Released from the New Hampshire Historical Society with its bookplate and one small, inoffensive rubber-stamped number in the upper margin of p. 1. No other markings. Stray stains (last third). A crisp copy.