(016.917 |H35s LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN OL G6 weiy H358s NOTICE: Return or renew all Library Materials! The Minimum Fee for each Lost Book is $50.00. The person charging this material is responsible for its return to the library from which it was withdrawn on or before the Latest Date stamped below. Theft, mutilation, and underlining of books are reasons for discipli- nary action and may result in dismissal from the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-8400 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 1 =p: GV a Lr61—O-1096 nr v2 A WH i i rey Ki , yi WN Yi A: q! . “J SIX HUNDRED PAMPHLETS :: BROAD- SIDES : AND A FEW BOOKS WRITTEN IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND RELATING TO AMERICA ISSUED PRIOR TO EIGHTEEN HUNDRED. BIBLIOGRAPHICALLY, HISTOR- ICALLY AND SOMETIMES SENTIMENTALLY DE- SCRIBED AND OFFERED FOR CASH : AT THE AFFIXED PRICES : BY Peo 2 OUWw. NEBR CHARLES F. HEARTMAN AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN BOOK- SELLER : ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE EAST TWENTY-FOURTH STREET INC BAWe axe OF RK Gleb cy Price of this catalogue: One Dollar Charles F. Heartman, American Antiquarian Book- seller, 129 East 24th Street, New York City, wishes to purchase material similar to the items offered in this catalogue. Also important or interesting material of later periods. Pamphlets, old Almanacs, News- papers, American poetry, American plays, early im- prints, etc., wanted. In quoting material kindly state your price for which it is for sale. No offers will be made, since that amounts to an appraisal, which only can be made against a charge for time, etc. I wish to emphasize this fact, since it has of late become a habit to use my time, reference library and experience for free information which can only be given to my regular clients or to librarians. My reference library on Americana is perhaps the best owned by any dealer in this country. Through sell- ing thousands of books at auction each year I have probably experience enough to appraise or catalogue Americana for whatever purpose this is wanted. Charges, Twenty Dollars a Day for Six Hours work. Larger or smaller lots by arrangement. In my Auction department I am always ready to sell Rare Americana, especially out-of-the-way items, Pamphlets, Newspapers, Broadsides, Almanacs, Laws and such items as are generally regarded as junk. There is no other auction house that will pay such careful at- tention to hitherto undescribed items as I do. The charges for selling are, one dollar per item, plus 15% for commission. These charges include every- thing, except transportation expenses. Single items of value accepted. a Greetings The book season, about to close, was one of the busiest this country has ever experienced, to be topped only through the next one. Selling of rare books in the United States has taken a turn which one does not know how to call it. Although the amount of volumes and the amount of money involved are very gratifying, the discriminating collector, the true librarian, is dissatisfied. A tendency to “put over” has crept into the “game” (as they call it), that is very discouraging to such book- sellers and bookbuyers as take the subject as one serious enough not to be trifled with. There has been no season like the one just about over, where more books of little value, intrinsic quality as well as rarity, have been sold for ridiculous high prices; prices so high that they were greeted with laughter and scorn. Many of them could have been purchased for a mere trifle of the prices they fetched. On the other hand, there is no doubt that a large number of real books were given away. Such conditions are certainly deplorable. The dealer who buys for stock, as well as for clients, or the collector himself, must feel dissatis- fied and worried when he sees a book selling one week for hundreds and the next week for tenths of dollars. There are many reasons to be advanced for the conditions men- tioned. The main reason is to be found in the lack of inclination on the part of the trade to support the market. Dealers who buy a certain book in one sale at a certain price, quite often let the same item go for a mere trifle the next time. What is one going to do about his stock? How does the collector feel about it? Of course, it is quite possible that the trade is not to blame for it. The trade might not be financially strong enough to swallow all the material offered. On the other hand, a number of sales held are offered on liberal credit terms, where others are strictly cash. In such cases, the cash sales suffer considerable. That, of course, could be abolished if a uniform modus was established, preferably cash. Of late a number of items have been catalogued by the owners; not always in accordance with bibliographical rules, and quite often over- catalogued, as far as the emphasizing of the rarity is concerned. Usu- ally such items have sold to a much better advantage than the ones cata- logued by the houses who sold them. The latter are not to blame at all, since they cannot spend a forenoon on cataloguing a twenty-dollar book, whereas the speculating owner can do so. In the interests of all concerned, it would be advisable to get to a more uniform standard in order to stabilize the value of books more. An item should not appear at one time with a three-line heading and a half-page note made by an untrained speculating owner whose bibliographical knowledge is so inferior, that to the man who really knows, such notes are ridiculous. And then, the same book appears again a few weeks later, this time i described by a professional cataloguer who has had the book a dozen times, and does not think anything of it, without any comment at all. Rules should be established to prevent any foolish over-cataloguing by owners who are not really acquainted with the subject and are imagin- ing rarity and value. It is heartbreaking to see items repeatedly catalogued as not being sold at auction since Brinley, and similar rubbish, when several copies have turned up within a few months. The tendency to catalogue books on the hand of early reference books can be traced everywhere. Of course, the consultation of bibliographies that have superseded the old material would produce facts in reference to the items that the sellers do not care to know. Mind you, my grievances are not against the auction houses, who rarely make such mistakes. But I do think they should occasionally verify what owners say about their books. That may sound as if I had any objection to descriptions, which, of course, is not the case. I am objecting to fool descriptions, which have nothing to do with the book or suppress the real facts. Anything that tends towards enlightening us, bibliographically and otherwise, about a book» is highly welcome. Of course, I could prove my statements with a large number of facts, which would, however, bring a personal element into this subject that, at least for the present, I do not desire. Besides, these facts are common talk; it only remains to put them once in black and white. I shall also not dwell on my personal grievances against collectors at large for the neglect of Americana. I think, too, that Americana is still a hobby of too few. When one considers the prices paid for first editions, English literature, fine bindings and many other special sub- jects, it is clear that they are in no proportion to their rarity. An un- known Americana item, or one of which very few copies are known, will bring still considerable less than a non-Americana item that per- haps appears a dozen times in a season. American literature, which, in spite of all the assertion contrary to it, exist, does not bring one-tenth of what English literature is selling for. Still, the American authors are much rarer, have, if really investigated, just as much merit as any corresponding authors of the world’s literature outside of Shakespeare, and should be much dearer to the heart of the Americana collectors than any others. Just the same, they bring small sums compared with non- American authors. I venture to say, if, for instance, McDonald Clarke was an Englishman, his books would bring hundreds of dollars. As it is, most American collectors of first editions of English authors do not even know the name of the “Mad Poet.” Of course, I could give dozens of examples. A really important historical pamphlet on the War of 1812, that perhaps is known in only a few copies, will bring less than a Napoleonic pamphlet, and still the American narrative is more interesting reading matter than the French. A Pioneer Narrative of an Overland Journey to the West, with its thrilling incidents; a pamphlet relating to the American Revolution, written in beautiful English by an American whose logic and reasoning cannot be surpassed by the wisest of statesmen in il the world; a Journal of a participant in the French and Indian War, a Hudson Bay Broadside printed before 1700, may interest a few, but will not create half the sensation that a Dickens arouses with a corrected “A” on page 19, or whatever other new point in question. Mind you, I have nothing against Dickens, and fully appreciate his literary import- ance. I just selected him at random. But the appreciation of the non- American item in preference to Americana is so unproportional in benefit for the non-American, that a change is badly wished for. We are talking so much lately of “Americanization.” Here is the field. Weare drawing altogether too much on European culture, which absolutely cannot improve ours, no matter from what quarters it is derived. The past history of the United States, taken as a whole, is so free from mistakes, that we can consult it freely. The social, artistic and human life of the American people, with its evolutionary struggle towards betterment, is so eminent, its ethical qualities latent everywhere, that only with the greatest regret one can witness the negligence of collecting Americana. . The perusal of a catalogue, like the one issued herewith, can only impress the intellect with one thing, namely, that American history really is a great epic on the evolution of a people towards political, historical and ethical perfection, and the more we draw on our own history, the better we will be able to solve the problems of the day. A course in American history means a course in training oneself towards becoming a better human being. But outside of these facts, which may not appeal to the people at large as being too sermonical, there is certainly no more interesting, thrilling and odd reading material to be had, than the early pamphlets relating to America. The Bibliomanic will have in no other field more chance to acquire “unique” and “only known” copies, than he has in the field of Americana. And when it comes to Variations, etc., they practically have not been investigated at all. The items offered on the following pages have been selected with great care as to their being perfect. When one considers that about five books out of eight purchased in the Americana line are imperfect, and that more books had to be rejected than included in this catalogue, the apparently high prices will look more reasonable. I have also taken a little more pains than usual in describing books. The descriptions are by no means perfect. There may be more mistakes than I suspect and the descriptions certainly could be, as far as the historical and senti- mental part is concerned, considerably improved. But that would re- quire another month or two, and would add to the cost to an extent, as to make the prices prohibitive. There are no duplicates in stock, and, with a few exceptions, items could not be duplicated for the same price, a great many not at any price. What I really would like to see is, that somebody would purchase the lot en bloc, and use it as a nucleus for a collection. The notes in this catalogue, as far as they are my own, have not been copyrighted, and are gladly presented to anybody who wants to use them, even if I get no credit for them. iii The past season was unusually rich in Americana offerings, and so will probably be the next. But when one considers how every attic is ransacked, how every library disposes of their duplicates, and how Europe is combed for Americana, it is no fool prophecy to say that Americana is going to become the rarest article on the book market, and that the wise man will take in now what he can get, immaterial of price. No use of the words “rare, etc,’ has been made in this catalogue, since its magnitude and importance does not require such descriptions. Whoever wants information to that effect on individual items, will be gladly supplied for the asking. Of course, anything ordered that is not satisfactory, can be returned. The terms are cash and the prices include delivery and insurance. And now I hope that this catalogue is read with as much pleasure as it is compiled by CHARLES F. HEARTMAN. P. S—To Collectors who always complain about not having room for books in modern apartments it may be interesting information that the six hundred items offered in the following catalogue do not quite fill a small safe of the size of 22 by 39 by 70 inches. | A. B. C. (The). With the Church of England Catechism. To which is annexed, Prayers used in the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Philadelphia. Also, A Hymn on the Nativity of Our Saviour; and another on Easter-Day. (Quotation.) Woodcut, a variation of the British-Arms, on title. Philadelphia: Printed by Young, Stewart and M’Culloch, M.DCC.LXXXV. (340) $15 Octavo, 12 pages. Half morocco, uncut and unopened. Evans 19208. This is the first Episcopal Catechism printed in America, after the separation of the American synod from the British Church. On page six, the answer to the question regarding “What is thy Duty towards thy Neighbour?” does not contain the word “king,” this space being left blank. : A. F. Considerations On Behalf of the Colonists, In a Letter to a Noble Lord. The Second edition. London: J. Almon, M.DCC.LXV. (354) $17.50 Octavo, 4, 52 pages. Sabin 15949; Rich page 150. This pamphlet is signed F. A., and dated, Boston, September 4, 1765. It was written in answer to “The Objections to Taxation,” by Soame Jenyns. The M. R. says: The author appears to be a staunch North American, fired with the glorious idea of Liberty and flaming with patriotic zeal for the rights of his native country, of which he appears to be neither an in- competent judge nor a weak defender. Abingdon, Earl of. Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq; To the Sheriffs of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. Oxford: for W. Jackson (1777). (169) $15 Octavo, 64 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Original edition. Sabin No. 61; Rich, vol. I, page 258. Wilkes describes the author as “one of the most intrepid assertors of liberty in this age.” The brief title gives no indication of the force of his arguments, which may be summed up in the following quotation: ‘If the liberties of our fellow subjects in America are to be taken from them it is for the idiot only to suppose that we can preserve our own.” On page 11 will be found the famous passage commencing: “That great philanthropist and friend of liberty, Doctor Franklin,’ which stirred the author (? Chalmers) of the pamphlet entitled: “Second thoughts; or, Observations upon Lord Abingdon’s Thoughts, London, 1777,” to the savage attack on the character of Franklin which occupies pages 18-23 of that publication. The present pamphlet attracted enormous attention for no less than eight editions appeared in less than three years. Abstract (An) from the Resolves containing the Encouragement offered by the Continental Congress, and by the State of Massachusetts Bay, To such as shall enlist into the Continental Army........ In the House of Representatives, Jan. 28, 1777. Sam. Freemen, Speaker, Pro Tem. In Council, Jan. 28, 1777. (Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes, 1777.) (138) $65. Folio 1 page. Folded, mounted on silk and bound in half morocco. Evans 15418. Not in Ford. Very fine revolutionary broadside issued during the period when Washington had to beg for troops. Contains the four resolves of Congress, passed August 26th, September 16th, 18th, and 19th, October 8th, and November 12th, 1776, relative to the pay and bounty of officers and men in the Continental Army as part of the Fifteen each assigned to this state, to continue during the war, or for a term of Three ears. Adams, John. Twenty-six letters, upon Interesting Subjects, respecting the Revolution of America. Written in Holland in the Year M.DCC. LXXX. By His Excellency John Adams, while he was sole minister 1 plenipotentiary from the United States of America,........ Never before published. New York, John Fenno, M.DCC.LXXXIX. (376) $15. Octavo 64 pages. Cloth. Evans 21625. Sabin 252. Although labelled ‘Never before published,,” this is really the third edition. These letters were written by John Adams to Dr. Calkoen, of Amsterdam, giving information regarding the American Colonies and the Revolution which enabled the latter to conduct a propaganda in Holland favorable to the American cause, and which “finally produced the acknowledgement of American Independency and a Loan of Money.” (Adams, Samuel). An Appeal to the World: or, a Vindication of the Town of Boston, from Many False and Malicious Aspersions con- tained in Certain letters and memorials written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood, the Commissioners of the American Board of Customs, and Others; And by them respectively transmitted to the British Ministry. Published by Order of the Town of Boston, And Reprinted in London, By the Direction of Dennys De Berdt, Esq; M DCCL AIX: (401) $40 Octavo, 2, 34 pages. Half red levant morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut by Bedford. Contemporary portrait of General Gage inserted as frontispiece. ‘The Holden copy with Bookplate. This issue not mentioned in Sabin. Resolved, at a Meeting of Free- holders of Boston: ‘That many of the Letters and Memorials are false, scandalous and infamous libels upon the Inhabitants of this town, that the wicked authors of these incendiary Libels may be proceeded with according to law, and brought to condign punishment.” Often attributed to William Cooper, but really by Samuel Adams. Adams, Samuel. An Oration Delivered at the State-House, in Phila- delphia, to a very numerous Audience; On Thursday the Ist of August 17/6; By. Samuel Adams, Member ofthe 0.7. oieuns cae the General Ronpress of “Phe olen ea of America. Philadelphia Printed; London, Reprinted for E. Johnson, M.DCC.LXXVI. (71) $40 Octavo, 2, 42 pages. Half mottled calf, gilt top by Riviere & Son. Sabin No. 344; Rich vol. I, page 245. Wells Life of Adams, vol. II page 439 and vol. III page 403. This is the original edition. There was no Philadelphia edition, nor was the oration ever delivered. Mr. Adams, the American Cicero, declaims with warmth and energy against kingly government and hereditary succession. There are passages in this oration which would have done honor to a Roman tribune, when the republican spirit of that Mistress of the worlds was at its greatest Height. Adams, Zabdiel. A Sermon preached before His Excellency John Hancock, Esq; Governour;....the Council....the Senate....and the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, May 29, 1782 Being the Diy of General Election. Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Printed by T. & J. Fleet and J. Gill (1782). (10) $27.50 Octavo, 59 pages. Stitched, uncut and enclosed in half morocco slip case. Sabin No. 361; Evans No. 17450. The author. was Pastor in the Church in Lunenburg. Con- tains the remarkable forecast of the future greatness of America:” Let us anticipate the rising glory of America. Behold her seas whitened with commerce, her capitals filled with inhabitants and resounding with the din of industry, etc.” Addison, Alexander. An Oration on the Rise and Progress of the United States of America, to the Present Crisis; and On The Duties Of The Citizens. By Alexander Addison, Esq. Philadelphia: John Ormrod, 1798. (575) $10 Octavo, 2, 41 pages. Sabin 379 does not mention the half title. Fine historical oration on the impending French-American War. 2 Addison, Alexander. Analysis of the Report of the Virginia Assembly on the Proceedings of sundry of the other States in Answer to their Resolutions. By Alexander Addison. Philadelphia: Zachariah Poul- son, jr., 1800. (231) $20 Duodecimo, 54 pages. Half morocco, old blue wrappers bound in. Swem 25. Not in Sabin. The “Proceedings” were the first discussion of the doctrines of State rights, which the author of the above criticises in his work. Address and Recommendations to the States by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: printed by David C. Claypoole, M.DCC.LXXXIII. (178) $55 Octavo, 14, 1, 9, 2, 3, 6, 5, 4, 26 pages and genuine blank leaf. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin No. 358; Evans No. 18224; Hildeburn No. 6264. Sabin cites the M. R. XLVIII; “Should we think ourselves little interested in the subjects of these American State Papers we may, however, be much gratified in perusing them as pieces of fine, energetic writing, and masterly eloquence. It would be a curious speculation for a philosophical enquirer to account for. the perfection to which the English language has been carried in our late colonies amidst the clamors and horrors of war.” This address was drawn up by James Madison. Accompanying the address are the following documents: HBsti- mate of National debt; Hamiltons report on the refusal of the State of Rhode Island to pay the impost duties (1782); Washington’s Newburgh Address; Extracts from Franklin’s Passy letters, ete. Ford, Hamiltonia No. 4. Address (An). From the General Court to the People of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts. Boston: Adams and Nourse, M.DCC. LXXXVI. (442) $40 Small quarto, 40, 1 pages. Half calf, uncut. Evans 19781. Sabin 45580. Printed on the final page is a copy of the Senate order to print 1,200 copies of this address; each member of the Legislature to be furnished with one, and one to be sent to each minister of the several parishes, and the Clerks of the several towns, districts and plantations, within the Commonwealth. It relates the measures taken by the General Court to relieve the people of Massachusetts from the intolerable burden under which they were suffering to such an extent that they had taken up arms in several counties, and the threat of vigorous measures to be taken against all malcontents continuing to subvert the laws and consitution to the danger of good government and the security of the State. Address (An) from the General Court to the People of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts. Boston: Adams and Nourse, M.DCC. LXXXVI. (6) $25 Small quarto, 40 pages, stitched, uncut enclosed in a half morocco slip case. Evans 19781; Sabin 45580. Relates largely to the debts of the State of Massachusetts made during the war for independence. This copy never had the final leaf. Address and Petition (The) of a number of the Clergy of Various De- nominations in the City of Philadelphia to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, relative to the passing of a law against Vice and Immorality. Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, 1793. (153) $9 Octavo, 16 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 61418. Interesting tract. “To which are sub- joined, some considerations in favour of said petition, so far as it relates to the prohibition of Theatrical Exhibitions.” Address (An) of the Convention For Framing a new Constitution of Government For the State of New-Hampshire, to the Inhabitants of the said State. New-Hampshire: Printed and to be sold, at the Print- ing Office in Portsmouth and Exeter, M.DCC.LXXXI. (1) $40 Octavo, 63, 1 pages. Stitched uncut enclosed in a half morocco slip case. Evans 17249; Sabin 52787 says: Rejected—probably it was too good. 3 Ex xX sa Octavo, 22, 2 blank, 7, 1 blank, 8 pages. Evans 17216; Not in Sabin. revolutionary pamphlet has two caption titles with new pagin belong to the item, namely: “An Act for repealing certain Parts oe payment of Government Securities,” 1781; Stitched uncut in a cloth protecting folder. Action «i. By. ca Philadelphian, Vous ERG for the Author, 1797. ? Octavo, 16 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges uthoritie ie breast may swell naa Ps at the faults of the pone of the poem is, that “Our structure of happiness is alone | of our actions; and virtue is the only basis which can supp act, entitled, “An act as establish an uniform rul and to repeal the act heretofore passed on that Ss date (1798). Folio, 2 pages folded and bound in half morocco. Not in be Philadelphia. Approved June 18, 1798. John Adams. Ar Allen, James. Considerations on the Present Stat oy United States of America. (London, 1784.) Octavo, 54 and 2 blank pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabi West India merchants and planters for distribution to the members of Parliam &e., and not sold. ; (Almon, John.) The Revolution in M DCC LXXXII impartially con- . sidered. London: J, Debrett, M- DCC LX XAIT (46) $30 Quarto, 35, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 70346. Not in Rich. Relates con- siderable to the American Revolution, and the conciliation with the Colonies. “During his (Lord North’s) administration a war was commenced or rather created in America, in which we lost the provinces of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, ete. ‘In this copy a contemporary hand has written: The Author John Almon. Alsop, Richard. A Poem; Sacred to the Memory of George Washington, Late President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States. Adapted to the 22d of Febr., 1800. By Richard Alsop. (Quotation.) Hartford: Hudson and Godwin, 1800. (524) $6 Octavo, 23 pages. Buckram. Sabin 964; Wegelin page 6. It is dedicated to Martha Washington and is the first poem after the death of Washington that was published as a separate item. It is a review of Washington’s service to his country and an eulogy on his character. American Gazette (The). Being a Collection of all the Authentic Ad- dresses, Memorials, Letters, &c., Which relate to the Present Dispute between Great Britain and her Colonies. Containing also many Origi- nal Papers never before published. No. 1. London: G. Kearsley, M.DCC.LXVIII. (563) $16 Octavo, 4, 68 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 1080; Rich page 163. This is the original issue of part one. It was republished with other parts 1770. Important for this history of the pre-revolutionary troubles. 4 og! me fe etteee (The). October and November, 1743. (Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1743.) (145) $100 Small quarto, half morocco. Evans 5113. The editor is supposed to be Jerimy Gridley. These two numbers are especially interesting as they contain: The Treaty held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, July 1742. This treaty was afterwards BS yates by Benjamin Franklin, but is here preserved in the first printing. The foll. Synopsis of the Treaty is taken from DePuy: ‘There were present at this treaty delegates from the Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneida, Sen- _ecas, Tuscaroras, Shawanese, Nanticokes, and Delawares. The Council was presided over by George Thomas, lieutenant-governer, with Conrad Weiser and Cornelius Spring as interpreters. The presents made to the Indians are specified. “The principal business was to settle the complaints that each side made against the other of encroachments of their lands. The whites promised to remove their people from the Indian lands and the Indians gave a like promise. One of the claims made by the whites was that fifty years before they had bought land at the Forks of the _ Delarawe from the Delawares which the latter now refused to vacate. After the Indians had investigated this claim Canassatego made his famous speech to the Delawares. ‘But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you; we made women of you; you know that you are women and can no more sell land than woman ; - nor is it fit that you should have the power to sell land since you abuse it. This land that you claim is gone through your guts. You have been furnished with clothes, meat and drink by the goods paid you for it; and now you want it agatn like children as rate you are,’ etc. “It was also at this treaty that the Indians expressed their good opinion of James Logan and Conrad Weiser. Of the latter they said: ‘The business of Five Nations transacted Pale ts 4 with you is of great consequence and requires a skillful and honest person to go -—~—s«ibetween us, one in whom both you and we can place confidence. We esteem our present Interpreter to be such a person, equally faithful in the interpretation of whatever is i ot said to him by either of us; equally allied to both; he is of our Nation and a member i of our Council as well as yours. When we adopted him we divided him into two equal # 55% parts. One we kept for ourselves and one we left for you. He has had a great deal of trouble for us, wore out his shoes in our messages and dirtied his clothes by being amongst us so that he has become as nasty as an Indian.’”’ " ? American Military Pocket Atlas (The); Being An approved Collection | of Correct Maps, both general and particular, of the British Colonies ; Especially those which now are, or probably may be The Theatre of War: Taken principally from the actual Surveys and judicious Obser- vations of Engineers De Brahm and Romans; Cook, Jackson, and Collet; Maj. Holland, and other Officers, employed in His Majesty’s Fleets and Armies. London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennet..... (1776). (281) $40 Octavo, 8 pages text and 6 large folding maps slightly colored. Original boards, leather label. Sabin 1147; Stevens No. 87. Two issues have been published, varying slightly in the title. The Atlas has been called “Holster Atlas’ from the fact that it was made for the use of the mounted British officer, for the campaign in America. These maps are of great historical importance as showing the basis on which later campaigns were planned by the British authorities during the Revolution. The maps, six in number, comprise,—North America, The West Indies, The Northern Colonies, The Middle Colonies, The Southern Colonies and Lake Champlain. American Taxation, Or the spirit of Seventy-Six exemplified in a song written in the golden days which tried men’s souls. (Boston ? 179-?) | (34 oo S40 Folio. One page. Folded and bound in half morocco. This interesting poetical broadside is only mentioned by Duyckinck and Otis, who attribute the item to Samuel St. John of New Canaan, Conn., who wrote the poem in 1781, after being taken prisoner and brought to Long Island. The above broadside is a later issue. It is a fearless denuncia- tion of the “Dirty cause” in which George III was engaged to over-tax the colonies. The American Leaders, Greene, Gates, Putnam and Washington, whom the author calls “the Second Alexander,” are eulogized and many events of the war are com- mented upon. There is a swing to this ballad like the drum beat, which stimulates the soldier to courage upon the march to battle. 5 Ames, Nathaniel. An Astronomical Diary; or Almanack for the year L260 pee By Nathaniel Ames. (Woodcut.) Boston: Ezekiel Rus- sell (1771). (481) $20 Duodecimo, 24 pages. Half morocco. Evans 11962; Nichols page 55; Briggs page 435 and foll. This interesting Almanac contains a portrait of John Dickinson, the famous Revolutionary patriot and of Mrs. Catharine Macauly, who engaged herself in the American Cause. Anderson, James. The Interest of Great Britain with regard to her American Colonies, considered. To which is added An Appendix, containing the outlines of a plan for a general pacification. By James Anderson, M.A. London: Printed for T. Cadell, M.DCC.LXXXII. (171) 2398 Octavo, VII, 1, 186, 36 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin No. 1400; Rich page 306. The author compares the British with the Spanish Colonies in America. Discusses the population and trade of the American colonies, and their effect upon the commerce, population and manufactures of Great Britain. Also the effect of the Colonies on Great Britain with regard to civil liberty, war and taxes. And of the effects of the monopoly of the American trade on the manufactures and Commerce of Great Britain, with miscellaneous observations on the importance of the Colonies generally. Anderson, James. An Essay on Quick-Lime as a cement and as a manure. By James Anderson, L.L.D. (Quotation.) Boston: Samuel Etheridge, 1799. (421) ° ee Octavo, 115, 1, 4 pages. Half morocco. Not in Sabin. Anderson, John. Anderson improved: Being an Almanac and Epheme- rius For the Year of our Lord 1775: Calculated for Newport, Rhode- Island. ... By John Anderson, Phil. Newport, Rhode Island: Solomon Southwick (1774). (508) $20. Octavo, 32 pages. Half morocco. Evans 13115; Winship page 31; Hammett jun. page 11 gives wrong colation. First page consists of a wood cut showing an astronomer (the author?) gazing through a telescope above which the following timely motto is rinted: , : . Pp Time, ever pressing on, admits no Stay, But bears down Kings and Kingdoms in its Way. Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiber- niae, Quinto. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Nineteenth Day of May, Anno. Dom. 1761, in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third ... And from thence continued by several Prorogations to the Tenth Day of Janu- ary, 1765, being the Fourth Session of the Twelfth Parliament of Great-Britain. London: Printed. And Reprinted by James Parker in the Province of New Jersey. (Woodbridge, 1765.) (14) $200. : Octavo, 40 pages. Stitched. Enclosed in a half morocco slip case. Evans 9989; Nelson page 54. The New Jersey Issue of the Stamp Act. Most of the copies were burned by the Common Hang Man. Without this act, the United States would be probably British today. . Answer to a Calumny, (An) with some remarks upon an Anonimous Pamphlet, addressed to his Grace the Duke of New-Castle, entitled, Some Observations on the Assinto Trade, as it has been exercised by the South-Sea Company, &c. In Two Parts. (Quotation.) Lon- don: W. Wilkins, M.DCC.XXVjiII. (461) $20. Octavo, 75 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 1653 gives no collation. Not in Rich, Cushing or Halkett & Laing. It was written “By the Factor to the South-Sea Company, at whom the Calumny was aimed and in which also “The Damage which has, or is likely to accrue to the British Commerce and Plantations is considered. 6 See oS = =e ee SS oe Answer to some Mistakes (An) offer’d to the Honourable House of Commons, by way of Objection against the Continuance of the Russia- Company, according to their Ancient Establishment. (London, about 1705.) (26a) $60. Folio.. One page. Folded and bound in half morocco. Unrecorded Broadside. The “Russia-Company,” composed of financiers from Russia and England, was organized for the purpose of exporting tobacco direct from Virginia and Maryland into Russia. For a time the efforts of the Company met with great success both in Virginia and the Hudson Bay district. In a Report from the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantation, presented at the Court of St. James, May 31, 1705, is a petition of several merchants of Virginia and Maryland complaining of “undue Practices in relation to vending and manufacturing tobacco there.’ On May 26, 1705, an Order from her Majejsty forbade certain individuals and th eRussia Co. “to forbear to send any person into Muscovy versed in the mystery of spinning and rowling tobacco.” June 15, 1705, Queen Anne issued an order absolutely forbidding the company “to send or cause or procure to be sent into the Dominions of the said Czar of Muscovy any of our subjects being skilled or able to make black Roll tobacco.” The above broadside is the “Answer” to the petition presented by the Lords. Commis- sioners, referred to above. In it, the company refers to the false charges in which it was suggested that they had been ‘at no Charge or Care in making new Discoveries,” stating that they “have discovered Cherry Island, Greenland, Nova Zemble, the Straights of Davis, Groondland, Hudsons-Bay, Newfoundland, the North of America, and several other places.”...... “And as for Tobacco, if the Great Czar will permit the Importation of it, they will send as much yearly as the Country can carry off.” Application, (An). Of Some General Political Rules, to the present state of Great-Britain, Ireland and America. In a Letter to the Earl Temple. (Quotation.) London: J. Almon, 1766. (83) $15. Octavo, 86, 2 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 1849; Rich page 156. Not in Cushing. An interesting Stamp Act pamphlet. Apthorp, East. Of Sacred Poetry and Music. A Discourse at Christ- Church, Cambridge, at the opening of the Organ August 21, M.DCC. LXIV, by East Apthorp, M.A., Missionary at Cambridge. (Quota- tion.) Boston: Green and Russell, M.DCC.LXIV. (34) $20. Quarto VIII, 22 pages and genuine blank. Half morocco, old blue wrappers bound in. Sabin 1857; Evans 9584; one of the earliest American treatise on the subject. The author was the son of a merchant in Boston and founded a Church in Cambridge, Mass. Owing to the opposition from the Congregationalists he left for Great Britain. Apthorp, East. The Constitution of a Christian Church Illustrated in a Sermon at the Opening of Christ Church in Cambridge on Thursday 15 October M DCC LXI. By East Apthorp, M.A. Late fellow of Jesus College in the University of Cambridge. (Quotation.) Boston: Green and Russel, M.DCC.LXI. (33) $12. Quarto, 4 IV, 27 pages. Half morocco. Old blue wrappers bound in. Sabin 1854; Evans 8789; Dexter 3411. This and the foregoing are very well printed. Apthorp, East. A Review of Dr. Mayhew’s Remarks on the Answer to his Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. By East Apthorp, M.A. Quotation.) London: John Rivington, M.DCC.LXV. (106) $5. Octavo, 2, 65, 1 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 1856. One of a number of pamphlets on the controversy. Arnold, Benedict. A Representation of the Figures exhibited and pa- raded through the Streets of Philadelphia, on Saturday, the 30th of September, 1780. (Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, 1780?) (31) $150. Oblong folio 1 page (small piece missing). Folded and bound in half morocco. Not in Hildeburn. Evans 16950 does not locate a copy and says: Reprinted in facsimile 7 in Smith’s Andreana in Philadelphia in 1865. The upper half of the broadside con- sists of a woodcut showing a stage raised in the body of a cart on which was an effigy of General Arnold sitting; this was dressed in regimentals, had two faces, emblematical of his traitorous conduct, a mask in his left hand and a letter in his right from Belzebub, telling him that he has done all the mischief that he could and now must hang himself......... In the front of the stage and before General Arnold was placed a large Lanthorn of transparent paper, with the consequences of his crime thus delineated......... and on the front of the Lanthorn was wrote the following: Major General Benedict Arnold, late Commander of the Fort West Point. The Crime of this man if High Treason......... etc. Then follows a poem with allusion to Andre, etc. Articles in Addition to and Amendment of the Constitution of the State of New Hampshire, agreed to by the Convention of said State, and submitted to the People thereof for their Approbation. Dover: Printed by E. Ladd for the State, 1792. (157) $17.50. Octavo, 31 pages, last one mounted on silk. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 52802. Evans 24578 differs from the above in imprint. Ashley, John. Memoirs and Considerations concerning the Trade and Revenues of the British Colonies in America. With Proposals for rendering those Colonies more Beneficial to Great Britain. By John Ashley. London: C. Corbett, 1740. (334) $20. Octavo VI, 154 pages. Half leather. Rich page 60; Sabin 2192. Interesting Colonial Tract relating principally to the produce of sugar in the West Indies, and the markets for it. At a Meeting of a number of Citizens of Philadelphia, at the Philosophi- cal Society’s Hall, November 2d, Samuel Howell, Chairman, It was unanimously Resolved to publish the following address to the Inhabi- tants of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia, 1787.) (480) $50. Quarto, 1 page. Broadside, folded and bound in half morocco. Not in Evans, Ford, ete. Interesting broadside relating to the Constitution. Authentic Account of the Proceedings of the Congress held at New- York, in MDCCLXV, On the Subject of the American Stamp Act. MDCCLXVII. (Price One Shilling.) (361) — $150. Octavo, 2, 37 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Not in Evans; Sabin 2444 thinks it being printed in London. A copy of this pamphlet was bought by me at an Auction and consequently resold in the Caplin sale and several other copies were sold with the following note: “Original Edition of the Earliest Printed Account of These Proceedings. Probably printed in America by James Parker of New York. The typography bears a very marked resemblance to Parker’s work, the ‘price caption’ being a feature used by but few American printers of the day, but which appears in similar form on various tracts issued by Mr. Parker.” My personal investigation makes me believe that the item is printed in London. This Congress assembled at New York, on October 7, 1765, to consider Lord Gren- ville’s scheme of Taxation. It was organized by the choice of Timothy Ruggles, of Massachusetts, and among the prominent members were James Otis, Henry Ward of Rhode Island, Robert R. Livingston and Philip Livingston of New York, John Dickin- son of Pennsylvania, Thomas M’Kean, of Delaware, Thomas Lynch and John Rut- ledge of South Carolina. The Congress continued in session fourteen consecutive days and adopted a “Declaration of Rights,” written by John Cruger; a “Petition to the King,” written by Robert R. Livingston and a “Memorial to Both Houses of Parlia- ment,” written by James Otis. Authentic Copies of Letters between Sir Henry Clinton, K.B., and the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts. London: Printed in the year M.DCC.XCII. (506) $12. Octavo, 41 pages. Cloth, uncut. The Holden-Robinson copy. Not in Sabin and Rich. Rather important revolutionary pamphlet which relates to the mode of supply during the war for independence. 8 Authentic Copies of the Provisional and Preliminary Articles of Peace signed between Great Britain, France, Spain and the United States of America. London: Printed for J. Stockdale, M.DCC.LXXXIII. (166) $30 Octavo, 4, 28 pages. Half calf, gilt top, other edges uncut. Sabin No. 2448; Rich page 818. It contains an authertic copy and translations of the Provisional and Pre- liminary Articles of Peace between France and England and America and England. Bancroft, Edward. Remarks on the Review of the Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies. In which the Errors of its Author are exposed, and the Claims of the Colonies Vindicated upon the Evidence of Historical Facts and authentic Records. To which is subjoined, A Proposal for terminating the present unhappy Dispute with -the: Colonies,.......... By Edward Bancroft. (Quotation.) London: Printed in the year 1769. New-London in New-England: Reprinted by T. Green, M.DCC.LXXI. (73) $50. Octavo, 132 pages and genuine blank leaf. Half calf, gilt top, other edges uncut. Sabin $111; Evans 11976; Trumbull 305. The author was a native of Suffield, Conn., and was in boyhood a pupil of Silas Deane. He was the confidential associate of Benja- min Franklin in England and subsequently of Franklin and Deane in Paris in behalf of the American cause. The item is a reply to ‘““The Controversy between Great Britain and her Colonies Reviewed.” This pamphlet is here sharply and successfully attacked by an able hand; who, attending to the obvious import of words in the characters of the principal colonies, and the general tenor of those transactions wherein they have been concerned, proves them to be distinct dependencies, not included within the realm of England, but having constitutions framed after the same model.— M. R. XLI, 49. Barbadoes Packet; (The.) Containing Several Original Papers: giving an Account of the Most Material Transactions that have lately hap- pened in a certain Part of the West-Indies. In a Letter from a Gen- tleman of the said Island to his Friend in London. (Quotation.) The second edition. London: S. Popping, 1720. (399) $30. Duodecimo, 12, 68 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 3256 does not mention a second edition. Not in Rich. Very interesting Colonial tract, the contents of which are covered best by the quotation on the titlepage: 36 ES ew This Governour. This Villain; The Disgrace of Trust and Place, And Just Contempt of Delegated Power. (Barlow, Joel.) The Hasty-Pudding: A Poem in three Cantos, by Joel Barlow, Written in Germany, in Savoy, January, 1793. He makes a good breakfast who mixes pudding with molasses. New York: Printed for the Purchaser. (About 1797.) (222) $40. Octavo, 12 pages. Half morocco, uncut. This is an undescribed issue not mentioned by bibliographers and may have been printed earlier. The most famous of Barlow’s poems. It contains the true spirit of New England life only equalled by Whittier. At the time of writing the poem, the author was sojourning in a little town in the Savoy, when one evening there was unexpectedly placed before him a dish of New England “Hasty Pudding,’ for which he had longed many a time in vain during his stay in Europe. Inspired by the thought of his home and boyhood days in Con- necticut, he forthwith wrote the best of his poems, simple, true and picturesque: Dear Hast Pudding, what unpromised joy Expands my heart, to meet thee in Savoy! Doom’d o’er the world through devious paths to roam, Each clime my country, and each house my home, My soul is soothed, my cares have found an end: I greet my long-lost, unforgotten friend............ 9 Barlow, Joel. The Hasty-Pudding, a Poem In three cantos. By Joel Barlow, Esq. (Quotation.) Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Fairhaven (about 1797). (289) $100. Sextodecimo, 16 pages. Sewn, enclosed in a half morocco slip case. Not in Gilman, Wegelin, Sabin, etc. Probably printed by James Lyon. (Barlow, Joel.) Hasty Pudding: A Poem in three cantos. Written at Chambery, in Savoy, January, 1793. (Quotation.) Salem: J. Cushing, 1799, (203) $30. Duodecimo, 21 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 3420; Wegelin page 10. Barlow, Joel. The Vision of Columbus; A Poem in Nine Books. By Joel Barlow, Esquire. Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, M.DCC. LXXXVIL. (490) $12. Octavo, 258, 12 pages. Original sheep. The Holden copy. First isssue. Sabin 3434; Evans 20220; Trumbull 309; Wegelin page 10 does not mention the list of subscribers, which include: His Most Christian Majesty (Louis XVI.) 25 copies; George Wash- ington 20 copies; Marquis de la Fayette, 10 copies, etc. The poem was not a great success although it found plenty of contemporary admirers. The author inflated it far beyond its original limits in its remodelled form “The Columbiad,” published in 1807. Barlow, Joel. The Political Writings of Joel Barlow. Containing advice to the privileged Orders. Letters to the National Convention. Letters to the people of Piedmont. The Conspiracy of Kings. A new edition corrected. New York: Mott & Lyon, 1796. (230) $20. Duodecimo, 258 pages. Portrait engraved by Tisdale. Sabin 3426 does not mention the portrait nor an earlier edition. The portrait is not mentioned in the Harris index. Barnes, Joseph. Remarks on Mr. John Fitch’s reply to Mr. James Rumsey’s pamphlet, by Joseph Barnes, formerly assistant, and now attorney in fact to James Rumsey. Philadelphia: Joseph James, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. (592) $65. Octavo, XVI, 16 pages. Full brown levant morocco, gilt borders uncut by Blackwell. Evans 20954: Sabin 3521. One of 5 pamphlets printed in the controversy relative to the priority of steamboat invention. On the title-page is written “Belonging to the Council.” See under “Rumsey” for another. (Barron, William.) History of the colonization of the free states of antiquity applied to the present contest between Great Britain and her American colonies. With reflections concerning the future settle- ment of these colonies. London: T. Cadell, M.DCC.LXXVII. : (57) $25. Quarto. Viii, 156 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin 3644 A; Rich page 254; interesting revolutionary tract which was answered by John Symonds. It refers to the ambitious views of the American Colonists and the Right of Britain to tax America. Barton, Benjamin Smith. A Memoir concerning the fascinating Faculty which has been ascribed to the Rattle-Snake, and other American serpents. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. . . . Professor or Natural History in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by Henry Schweitzer, 1796. (432) $15. Octavo, 70 pages. Half calf yellow edges. Sabin 3816. This edition, the first, was printed for private circulation only. 10 Bass, John. A True Narrative of an Unhappy Contention in the Church at Ashford (Connecticut): and the Several Methods used to bring it to a Period. By John Bass, A.M. Late Pastor of said Church. (Quo- tation.) Boston: D. Gookin, 1751. (277) $40. Small quarto, 28, 1 and three blank pages. Stitched uncut enclosed in cloth protecting cover. Evans 6686 (wrong collation.) Sabin 3889. Dexter 3293; interesting pamphlet relating to the Connecticut Church Controversy. Bateman, Edmund. A Sermon Preached before the Honourable Trus- tees For establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, and the As- sociates of the late Rev. Dr. Bray At their Anniversary Meeting March 19, 1740-1, at the Parish Church of St. Bride in London. By Edmund Bateman, D.D. . . . London: John and Henry Pemberton, M.DCC. erik (412) $18.50 Quarto, 21, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. From the library of Charles C. Jones, Jr., with his bookplate. Sabin 3918; Wegelin page 19. (Beaumarchais, Pierre Auguste Carob de.) Observations on the Justi- ficative Memorial of the Court of London. Paris: Printed by the Royal Authority. Philadelphia: F. Bailey, M.DCC.LXXXI. (478) $70. Small quarto, 129 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Autograph of James W. Henry on title page. Hildeburn No. 3066; Evans 17093; Sabin 68124, gives on the authority of Barbier the author’s name as J. M. Gerard de Rayneval. It is probably written by Beaumarchais. The above translation is by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. The Memorial to which the above relates deals with the assistance given by France to the Americans, written by Edward Gibbon. Beaumarchais during the American Revolution sent a fleet, at his own expense, to the United States carrying weapons and ammuni- tion for the colonists. The poverty of his old age was largely due to his inability to recover payment from the United States for these services. The Memorial and these Observations constitute the first example and precedent of regular discussion of the great Question—Under what Circumstances may a neutral government recognize the independence of the rebels or seceders of another government? (Bell, Robert.) Additions to Common Sense; addressed to the Inhabit- ants of America. Philadelphia Printed: London, Reprinted for J. Almon, 1776. (74) $12.50. Octavo, 47, 1 pages. Half morocco. Sabin No. 58215; Rich, page 238. Acc. to J. H. Trumbull, Thomas Paine had nothing’ to do with these “Additions.’””’ The pamphlet was made up by Robert Bell, the original publisher of Common Sense, who after his quarrel with Paine ordered the above to be bound up with the third edition of Common Sense in order to help the sale of his edition against the one published by Bradford. The above is the first English edition of the pamphlet. (Benezet, Anthony.) Some observations on the Situation, Disposition and Character of the Indian Natives of this Continent. (Quotation.) Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank, MDCC.LXXX.IV. (262) — $20. Duodecimo, 59 pages. Half morocco. Sabin, 4691; Hildeburn, 44383; Evans, 18356; Field, 130, says: “Anthony Benezet, born in 1713, of a French family, was driven from France and fixed his residence in Philadelphia. His humanity compelled him to attempt an amelioration of the conduct of both the Indians and the Negroes, by pub- lishing treaties exhibiting the unhappy state to which they had been reduced by the whites.” The appendix relates to Boquet’s Expedition against the Ohio Indians. Bernard, Francis. Letters to the Ministry from Governor Bernard, General Gage, and Commodore Hood, and also Memorials to the Lords of the Treasury, from the Commissioners of the Customs. With 11 Sundry Letters and Papers annexed to the said Memorials. Boston: Edes and Gill, 1769. (126) $30. Octavo, 108 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Evans, 11176; Sabin, 4923. First edition. This work contains letters from Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood and Lord Hillsborough, ete. These are followed by Memorials of the Commissioners of Customs in North America. Alderman Beckford obtained access to these letters addressed to the ministry and calumniating the colonists. He took copies of them which he subsequently delivered to William Bollan, who sent them to Boston, where they were printed. Their publication led to the printing of “An Appeal to the World; or, A Vindication of the Town of Boston from many false and malicious aspersions contained in certain Letters and Memorials, etc.” By Samuel Adams, which can be found in this catalogue. “ Bernard, Francis. Letters To the Right Honourable the Earl of Hills- borough, from Governor Bernard, General Gage, and The Honourable His Majesty’s Council for the Province of Massachusetts-Bay. Wiauth an Appendix containing divers Proceedings referred to in the said Letters. Boston: Printed. London: Reprinted, J. Almon (1769.) (543) $20. Octavo, 165 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin, 4924; Rich, page 173. “These two collections of letters commence in January, 1768, and reach to July, 1769. So that the two contain a complete view of the political contests and dissentions in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay during that period. The copies were obtained and sent to Boston by Wm. Bollan, at the time agent for the Council of Massachusetts. ‘In our opinion, the gentlemen of the council have greatly the advantage over the governor and the general, with respect to the solidity and force of the arguments used by them, and have completely vindicated themselves from the charges brought against them by the officers of the crown, in their letters to Lord Hillsborough.” Berriman, William. A Sermon Preach’d before the Honourable Trus- tees For Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America, and the Associates of the late Reverend Dr. Bray; at their Anniversary Meet- ing, March 15, 1738-9, in the Parish Church St. Bridget in London. By William Berriman, D.D. . . . London: Printed for John Carter, M.DCC.XXXIX. (413) $19.50. Quarto, 24 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, by Bradstreet. From the library of Charles C. Jones, Jr., with his bookplate. Sabin, 4985. Wegelin, page 19. Beveridge, John. Epistolae Familiares et Alia Quaedam Miscellanea. Familiar Epistles and Other Miscellaneous pieces. . . . Written originally in Latin Verse by John Beveridge. . . . To which are added several translations in the English verse, by different Hands, &C. (Quotation.) Philadelphia: Printed for the author by Wm. Bradford, M.DCC.LXV. (485) $45. Duodecimo, 1186 pages. Half brown levant morocco, gilt edges, by the Club Bindery. Holden copy. Evans, 9912; Sabin, 5108; Wegelin, page 11; Hildeburn, 2107. The list of subscribers includes Franklin, Penn, Hopkinson, etc. Text in Latin and Bng- lish. The translations are by Thomas Combs, Jun.; A. Alexander, Stephen Watts, Rev. J. Mayhew, Nath, Evans and others. (Beverly, Robert.) The History of Virginia. In Four Parts. I. The History of the First Settlement of Virginia, and the Government thereof, to the Year 1706. II. The natural productions and conve- niences of the country suited to trade and improvement. III. The Native Indians, their Religion, Laws and Customs in War and Peace. IV. The Present State of the Country, etc. By a Native and Inhabit- 12 ant of the Place. The Second Edition revis’d and enlag’d by the Author. London: B. and S. Tooke, 1722. (383) $60. Octavo, 8,284, 24,4 pages. Frontispiece and 14 plates. Original sheep. Clayton-Tor- rence No. 104; Sabin, 5113; Church, 885, where an issue with Fayram’s name is mentioned. The above is the first issue of the second edition. Beverly was the first native Historian of the colony, an important factor. The history was intended as a reply to Oldmixon’s inaccurate work. The narrative deals with the early settlement of the country, the political and economic facts of Virginia’s history, and the develop- ments of her social institutions. His study of the domestic and institutional life of the Indians is remarkable for its exhibitions of intelligent sympathy and observation. ‘The second edition differs from the first in many respects. Additions have been made, errors omitted. It is said that the plates in the book are after Harict’s relation in De Bry’s Voyages. A close comparison of the plates will show that Gribelin, who made the plates for Beverley’s History, did not in every instance follow DeBry, but frequently combined two or more of the original engravings. Bingham, William. A Letter from an American, now resident in Lon- don, to a Member of Parliament, on the subject of the restraining Proclamation ; and containing Strictures on Lord Sheffield’s Pamphlet, on the Commerce of the American States. To which are added, Mentor’s Reply to Phocian’s Letter, with some observations on Trade, addressed to the Citizens of New York. Said to be written by William Bingham, Agent for Congress. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third St., 1784. (431) $50. Octavo, 24 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Evans, 18367; Sabin, 5459; Hildeburn, 4434, lists a variation. The Reply by Mentor is written by Isaac Ledyard in answer to Alexander Hamilton. Bland, Richard. An Enquiry into the Rights of the British Colonies; intended as an answer to the “Regulations lately made concerning the Colonies, and the Taxes imposed upon them considered.” In a letter addressed to the author of that pamphlet. By Richard Bland of Virginia. Colophon: Williamsburg, Printed by Alexander Purdie, and Co. London: Reprinted for J. Almon, M.DCC.LXIX. (24) $150. Octavo. Caption title, page 5—19 and 20 blank as given by Sabin 5860; Clayton-Tor- rence No. 348 gives the same collation and is in error when he thinks that there were any preliminary leaves. Bland, familiarly known as “The Virginia Antiquary,’’ was one of the leaders in opposing the Stamp Act and a member of the Virginia House “which prepaired the memorials to the Commons . . .” His pamphlet was one of the first on the subject by an American. It is an answer to Dickinson’s “Late Regulations.” He was a very able advocate for his country. Tucker calls him ‘The best writer in Virginia.” Board of Treasure, (The). . . . All which is Humbly submitted. Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, Arthur Lee. January 12, 1786. (New York, 1786.) (48) $35. Folio, 1 page. Folded and bound in half morocco. Unrecorded broadside. ‘The Board of Treasury, to whom it was referred to revise the system adopted for the settlement of the accounts of the five great departments, and to report such alterations therein, or such other mode, as in their opinion may be more conducive to a speedy and just settlement of said accounts,” ete. (Bollan, William.) The Importance and Advantage of Cape Breton, Truly Stated, and Impartially Considered. With Proper Maps. (Quo- tation.) London: John and Paul Knapton, M.DCC.XLVI. (374) $50. Octavo, 8, 156 pages. Two folding maps. Half morocco, gilt top by Riviere and Son. Sabin, 6215. Taken principally from Charlevoix according to Rich, page 82. Em- bodies Dummer’s Memorial (1709), establishing the right of Great Britain, by prior discovery or conquest; and cites abundant and excellent testimony to the desirability 13 of enforcing that right. The tract also includes chapters on Canada and Nova Scotia ; on the Siege of Louisburg; a “True State of New England,” and an Account of Mr. Vaughan’s behavior. Boston Port Bill. Anno Regni Georgii III Regis Magnae Britanniae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, . . . At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster begun 1768 . . . and continued 1774. . . . Lon- don: Charles Eyre, MDCCLXXIV. (32) $100. Small folio, title and pages 515-522.517 misprinted 417. An Act to discontinue in such manner and for such time as are herein mentioned, the Landing and Discharging, Lading and shipping of Goods, Wares and Merchandise, at the town and within the Harbor of Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in North America. One of the most important documents relating to the American Revolution. This act, closing the port of Boston and making Salem the seat of government and Marblehead the chief port of entry, was approved March 31, 1774, and went into effect June 1. By its provisions no ships were to be allowed to enter or clear the port of Boston until the rebellious town should have indemnified the East India Company for the loss of its tea. On the 13th of May General Gage landed in Boston with his troops to see that the . law was duly enforced. This was England’s answer to the Boston Tea party, a pro- test against the taxation of the colonies. The measure destroyed the commerce of the town and caused great suffering, but so great was the sympathy of the neighboring colonies that ample assistance came from without. [Bouchard de la Poterie (Claudius Florent)]. A Pastoral Letter, from the Apostolic Vice-Prefect, Curate of the Holy Cross at Boston. (Cap- tion title, as issued.) [Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall? 1789.] (441) $20. Small quarto, 24 pages, half leather, uncut. Sabin, 6838; Evans, 21705. The Letter is followed by “The Order of the Publick Officers, and of the Divine Services, during the Fortnight of Easter, in the Catholick Church of the Holy Cross at Boston,” and “An Abridged Formula of the Priest’s Discourse, made every Sunday,” in the same Church. [Boucher, Jonathan]. A Letter from a Virginian to the Members of the Congress to be held at Philadelphia, on the First of September, 1774. Boston: Mills and Hicks, M.DCC.LXXIV. (435) $50. Octavo, 32 pages. Half levant morocco, uncut. Evans, 18168; Sabin, 40317. Does not mention the tract under the author’s name. Clayton-Torrence, 423. The writer points out the duties of Congress and endeavors to dissuade the members of that body from adopting the non-importation and non-exportation agreements. He compares the bless- ings of peaceful government under the protection of Great Britain with the uncertain outcome of war, invasions from Canada, incursions of savages, revolts of slaves, ruin of trade, and the misery of the whole country, and finally warns Congress of drawing the sword in defence of political problems, about which the best and wisest men, the friends, as well as the enemies, of America differ in opinion, lest while denying the mother country every right of taxation, it gives to her the right of conquest. Boucher, on account of his political principles, became a refugee and fled to England in 1775. (Bowdin, James.) Opinions respecting the Commercial Intercourse between the United States of America, and the Dominions of Great Britain, including Observations, upon the necessity and importance of an American Navigation Act. By a Citizen of Massachusetts. Bos- ton: Printed and sold by Samuel Hall, 1797. (494) S15? Octavo, 62 pages and genuine blank leaf. Half morocco, uncut, old blue wrappers bound in. Sabin, 7015. The author offers his objections particularly to merchants, and own- ers of vessels, feeling convinced that the Treaty of Commerce with Great Britain con- ceded important principles which never ought to have been relinquished. Bradbury, Thomas. The Ass; or, The Serpent. A comparison between the Tribes of Issachar and Dan, in their regard for Civil Liberty. 14 November 5, 1712. By Thomas Bradbury. (Quotation.) Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, M.DCC.LXXIV. = (505) $12. Octavo, 29 pages. Cloth (tiny hole in title). Evans, 10845; Sabin, 7208. This sermon was delivered on the anniversary of the Gun Powder Plot, and the American editor obviously published the same with the intent of calling attention to the injustice of Great Britain in Taxing the American Colonies. The notes refer to the rights of Americans and the duties imposed by the British Parliament. Preface is signed ‘‘Con- cionator” and dated December 24, 1767. Bray, Thomas. Bibliotheca Parochialis: or, A Scheme of such Theolo- gical Heads, Both General and Particular, As are More peculiarly Requisite to be well Studied by every Pastor of a Parish. Together -with a Catalogue of Books which may be Read upon each of these Points. Part I. By Thomas Bray. London: Printed by E. H. for Robert Clavel, MDCXCVII. (269) $35. Quarto (20), 180 pages (124 and 125 in error twice). Full sprinkled calf, yellow panel inlay, elaborately outlined in gold with corner ornaments; dentelle border, gilt top, uncut, by Morrell. Sabin, 7474. The author states that the object of this biblio- graphical treatise was to give those who went to Virginia, Maryland, and the American Plantations an idea of the books they should take. He speaks of having assisted in first founding a parochial library in Maryland. The work was never completed. Very fine copy. Brief account (A) of the causes that have retarded the progress of the Colony of Georgia in America, attested upon Oath: being a proper contrast to “A State of the province of Georgia, attested upon Oath,” and some other misrepresentations on the same subject. London: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XLIII. (121) $75. Octavo, IV, 101 pages. Full Spanish calf, gilt top, other edges uncut, gilt tooling by Morrell. Wegelin page 20. This invaluable book, which is an answer to “A State of the Province of Georgia,” is assigned to Thomas Stephens. The author was commis- sioned by the malcontents to petition for a redress of Grievances and the growlers among the colonists in this tract, labor diligently to refute the “State of the Province,” and the “Impartial Enquiry” (both to be found in this catalogue.) It is a violent attack upon General Oglethorpe, backed by seventy pages of depositions of the mal- contents, subscribed with a large number of names. Brissot de Warville, J. P., and Claviere, Etienne. The commerce of America with Europe; particularly with France and Great Britain; comparatively stated and explained shewing the importance of the American Revolution to the Interests of France. And Pointing out the actual situation of the United States of North America, in regard to Trade, Manufactures and Population. . . . Translated from the last French edition. . ... New York: T. and J. Swords, 1795. (430) $15. Duodecimo, 35,228 pages. Portrait engraved by Scoles. Half calf. Sabin, 8016. One of the most important books on the subject written before 1800. It also contains a life of Brissot by the editor. Britain’s Mistakes in the Commencement and Conduct of the Present War. By a Merchant and Citizen of London. (London) T. Cooper, NDCC XL, (353) $25. Octavo, 62 pages. Half morocco, uncut. Sabin, 8065. Not in Rich or Hallkett & Laing. Interesting colonial tract chiefly relating to America, especially the war with Spain in the West Indies. 15 Brooks, John. An Oration, delivered to the society of the Cincinnati in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, July 4th, 1787. By John Brooks, Esq; Boston: Printed by Edmund Freeman, M.DCC.LXXX- VII. (242) $20. Small quarto, 16 pages. Half roan. Evans, 21245; Sabin, No. 8357. Fine historical oration. Brown, Andrew. To the Public. (Philadelphia, 1788.) (304) $60. Folio, 2 pages. Folded and bound in half morocco. Unrecorded broadsheet. ‘The Sub- seriber having resigned the Charge of the Young Ladies Academy, intends to establish a Printing Office in this city. The Federal Gazette and the Philadelphia Hvening Post was conducted by him. . . . Though Gazette have met with uncommon encourage- ment the Gentlemen concerned with him did not incline to continue the publication of it. It was dropped on the 24th of last April. This paper the subscriber proposes to resume and now solices the Patronage and Encouragement of the Citizens of the U. S., etc. The second part of the broadsheet contains extracts of letters from General Heath, Samuel Adams, and others, as to his conduct during the American Revolution. Burke, Aedanus. An Address to the Freemen of the State of South- Carolina. Containing Political Observations on the following Sub- jects, viz. (VI Subjects). . . . By Cassius. Supposed to be written by Aedanus Burke, Esq. one of the Chief Justices of the State of South Carolina. (Quotation.) Philadelphia: Robert Bell, M.DCC.LXXXIII. (422) $50. Octavo, 32 pages. Half morocco. Sabin, 9278; Evans, 17861; Hildeburn, 4278. The subjects are: On the Citizens making a temporary Submission to the British Arms, after the reduction of Charlestown in 1780. II. On Governor Rutledge’s Proclamation of the 27th of September, 1781. On the Exclusion Act. On the Confiscation Act, ete. (Burke, Edmund.) A Letter from Edmund Burke, Esq; One of the Rep- resentatives in Parliament . . . to John Farr and John Harris Esqrs. on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, M.DCC.- LXXVII. (384) $15. Octavo, 2,75 pages. Half morocco. Sabin, 9290; Rich, page 257. Important revolu- tionary tract. Burton, Robert. The English Empire in America; or, a View of the Dominions of the Crown of England in the West Indies, namely :— Newfoundland, Maryland, Anguilla, Nevis, New-England, Virginia, Monsterrat, St. Christopher, New York, Carolina, Dominica, Barba- does, Pennsylvania, Bermudas, St. Vincent, Jamaica, New Jersey, Barbuda, Antegoa; to which is prefixed a Relation of the first Dis- covery of the New World called America by the Spaniards. TIllus- trated with Maps and Pictures. By Robert Burton. The seventh edition. London: A. Bettesworth, 1739. (324) $45. Sextodecimo, 192 pages. Half levant morocco, gilt edges, by Toot. Sabin, 9499. The book is supposed to be written by Nath. Crouch, a bookseller. (Bushe, Gervase Parker.) The Case of Great-Britain and America, Ad- dressed to the King, and both Houses of Parliament. (Quotation.) London: Printed. Philadelphia, Re-Printed by W. and T. Bradford, M DUC LE XLX: (410) $30. Octavo, 2, 16 pages. Sabin, 9637, attributes the pamphlet to George B. Butler; Evans, 11193, to Bushe. An important plea for the Colonies. The author writes: “They (the ee) are weak, by their circumstances let us not make them strong by their espair. 16 Byles, Mather. A Sermon, delivered Mar., 6, 1760. Being a day ap- pointed, By Order of His Majesty, as a Public Thanksgiving, for the late Signal Success granted to the British Arms. By Mather Byles, A.M. Pastor of the First Church of Christ, in New-London. (Quo- tation.) New-London: T. Green, M.DCC.LX. (102) $100. Sextodecimo, 22 pages and genuine blank leaf. Portrait of the author laid in. Sabin, 9718; Evans, 8560; Trumbull, 484. The author, for some time pastor of the First Church of Christ, New London, Connecticut, graduated at Harvard in 1751. As an ardent loyalist he left Boston and settled in St. John. In the above sermon he refers to the capture of Fort Niagara by the British, the surrender of Ticonderoga, Crown Point, and Quebec; regarding the latter he says: “This is Probably striking at the Foundation of the French Power in America.” Byrnes, Daniel. A short Address to the English Colonies in North America. Wilmington, Sixth Month 20th 1775. Wilmington, Del.: Printed by James Adams, 1775. (496) $60. Folio, 2 pages. Folded and bound in half moroceo. Evans, 13859. A Revolutionary and Anti-Slavery Address suggested by the day of fasting and prayer for the colonies appointed for July 20, 1775. ‘“‘How can any have the confidence to put up their ad- dresses to a God of impartial justice, and ask of him for success in a struggle for freedom, who at the same time are keeping others in a state of abject slavery.” (Cadwalader, John.) A Reply to General Joseph Reed’s Remarks on a late Publication in the Independent Gazetteer. With some Observa- tions on his Address to the People of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: T. Bradford, M.DCC.LXXXIII. (336) $60. Octavo, 54 pages. Half morocco. Sabin, 9836; Evans, 17867; Hildeburn, 4280. The item was reprinted four times in the last century whenever the controversy was revived. General Reed in his “Remarks to a late Publication’? (see this Cat.) charges Cad- walader with being the author of a paper in the Pennsylvania Gazette, in which Reed was accused of disaffection while in the army, just before the battle of Trenton. In the above work, which is Cadwalader’s reply, he denies that he was “Brutus,” the writer of the article in question, but reaffirms the statements made by that writer. He also charges Reed with having thought at one time of making peace with the enemy, and, in furtherance of that idea, with having actually entered into corre- spondence with Count Donop, a Hessian officer. To substantiate these charges he introduces the evidence of respectable contemporaries. Calef, Robert. More Wonders of the Invisible World; or, The Wonders of the Invisible World displayed in Five Parts. . . . To which is added, A Postscript, Relating to a Book entitled “The Life of Sir William Phipps.” Collected by Robert Calef, Printed in London in 1700. Re-printed in Salem 1796 By William Carlton. (397) $8 Duodecimo, 318, 2 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin, 9927. First American edition. The author gave great offence by opposing the popular belief concerning witches. In his discussion with Cotton Mather, he is as superior to him in reasoning as he was in good sense and courage. Callender, James Thomson. Sketches of the History of America, By James Thomson Callender. (Entered according to law.) Philadel- phia: Snoden & M’Corkle, 1798. (333) $10. Octavo, 263, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. The Barlow copy. Sabin, 10070; Ford, No. 68. Chapter V is devoted entirely to Hamilton and to the “Reynolds Pamphlet.” The author was an Englishman who fled from his country to escape from justice. He sided with Jefferson, who after being elected, however, refused him office, in conse- quence of which he changed his politics. As a libelous and untruthful pamphleteer Callender has never been equalled. a Callender, John. An Historical Discourse on the Civil and Religious Affairs of the Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations in New England in America. From the first Settlement 1638, to the End of first Century. By John Callender, A.M. (Quotation.) Bos- ton: S. Kneeland and T. Green, M.DCC.XXXIX. (332) $60. Octavo, 2, 14, 120, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Evans, 4347; Sabin, 10075; Bart- lett, page 71. The author was a Baptist minister in Newport. His book gives a concise history of Providence Plantation and was several times reprinted. Bancroft cites the author and his book as an authority for the history of King Phillip’s War. (Campbell, J.) Candid and Impartial Considerations On the Nature of the Sugar Trade; The Comparitive Importance of the British and French Islands in the West-Indies: With the Value and Consequence of St. Lucia and Granada, truly stated. Illustrated with Copperplates. London: R. Baldwin, M.DCC.LXIII. (94) $45. Octavo, 4, 228 pages. Folding map and folding colored plans of the harbour of Calivenie and Fort George, Canada. Half calf. Sabin, 10231; Rich, page 189. Interesting and quite important French and Indian War tract. The M. R. says: “Upon the whole we think it a masterly performance. Candid Examination (A) of the Objections tothe Treaty . . . between the United States and Great Britain, as stated in the Report of the Committee appointed by the Citizens of the U. S., in Charleston. By a Citizen of South-Carolina. Charleston: Printed. New York: Re- printed, James Rivington, 1795. (594) $12.50. Octavo, 43, 5 pages and genuine blank. Half morocco, uncut. Sabin, 10663; Griffin, page 188. Bound in: A Short History of the Nature and Consequences of Excise Laws; . . . (By James T. Callender.) Philadelphia, 1795. Sabin, 10071. The first pamphlet relates to Jay’s Treaty, the second to the Whisky Insurrection. — (Cartwright, John.) American Independence the Interest and Glory of Great Britain. A new edition, to which s added a copious eppendix, contaning two additional letters to the Legslature; a letter to Edmund Burke, Esq., controverting his principles of American Government; and a postscript, containing new arguments on the subject; a Draught for a bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for restoring Peace and Harmony between Great Britain and British America, and for perptuating the same; together with the essential materials for a pro- posed Grand British League and Confederacy to be entered into by Great Britain and the state of British America. . . . (Quotation.) London: For the Author, MDCCLXXV. (386) $35. Octavo, 2, XVI, IV, 73, 15. Half Spanish calf, gilt top, other edges uncut, by Riviere and Son. Folding map of British America divided into 19 new States with a new nomen- clature. Sabin, 11154. “Speaking of this publication, the author’s biographer says, at a time when no Member of Parliament had sufficient decision of mind to propose the Independence of America, Major Cartwright suggested the expediency of a Union between Great Britain and her Colonies under separate Legislatures.” In this new edition the author gives the names and boundaries of nineteen American States, to- gether with a map of the same.’’ The Letter to Edmund Burke, referred to on the title, is printed with a separate titlepage and contains 30, 52 pages. The latter 52 pages are not mentioned by Sabin, who lists the item separately ; 11157. Casas, Bartholeme De Las. An Account of the First Voyages and Dis- coveries made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most exact Relation hitherto publish’d of their unparallel’d Cruelties on 18 the Indians in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. With the propositions offer’d to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West Indies. To which is added, The Art of Traveling. Illustrated with Cuts. London, J. Darby. M DC XCIX. (404) $100. Octavo, 8,248.40 pages. Two double page engraved plates with six and sixteen small scenes (one skilfully repaired). Old calf rebacked. Helps says: “His career affords perhaps a solitary instance of a man, who being neither a conquerer, a discoverer, nor an inventor, has by the pure force of benevolence become so notable a figure that large portions of history can not be written without the narrative of his deeds. Take away all he said and did, and preached, and wrote, and preserved (for the early historians of the New World owe the records of many of their most valuable facts to him) and the history of the conquest would lose a considerable portion of its most precious material.” (Casas, B. De Las.) Old England for Ever, or Spanish Cruelty dis- play’d; Wherein the Spaniards’ Right to America is Impartially exam- ined and found defective, their pretensions founded in blood, supported by cruelty and continued by opression. . . . With an account cf their intolerable oppression and barbarous treatment of the Poor Indians, and the shockinng and tragical Methods used to depriving them of their country, and obtain possession of their rich mines. The whole intended to give a clear prospect of that remote part of the World, which is now the Seat of War. . . . London: by the Book- sellers. 1740. (377) $60, Duodecimo, 320 pages, old calf. Sabin, 57126. The John Carter Brown Catalogue gives the complete title. This is partly a translation of Las Casas republished for political reasons. Case and Claim (The) of the American Loyalists impartially stated and considered. Printed by Order of their Agents, London: G. Wilkie, 1783. (124) $40. Octavo, 2,388 pages. Sabin, No. 11306. Rich, page 315, does not give correct title. An important tract setting forth the claim of their right to indemnification for the losses the loyalists had sustained. Case of Henry Armistead. That Henry Armistead, Esq; who is a Native of Virginia. . . . (London about 1730.) (113) $60. Folio, 1 page. Folded and bound in half morocco. An undescribed broadside, which starts: That Henry Armistead, Esq., who is a native of Virginia and possessed of several considerable Plantations in that settlement hath during his time and to the utmost of his Powers given encouragement to all improvements of planting and culture as might tend to the benefit. . . . Relates then to growing vine in Virginia. With MSS. remarks at the bottom. Case of the Planters (The) of Tobacco in Virginia, as represented by themselves, signed by the President of the Council and Speaker of the House of Burgesses; to which is added a Vindication of the said Representation. London: J. Roberts. 1733. (369) $25. Octavo, 64 pages. Half calf, gilt top, by Morrell. Clayton-Torrence, No. 122; Rich, page 49. An interesting pamphlet illustrating colonial economic history. The first part of the pamphlet is a memorial from the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, complaining of the evil practices of the merchants of England . . . the second part is a vindication probably written by Sir John Randolph. Especially interesting is the full account of the cost of transporting colonial tobacco and passing it through the customs of England. 19 Case of the Present Possessors (The) of the French Lands in the Island of St. Christopher. Humbly offered to the consideration of His Maj- esty and both Houses of Parliament. Occasioned by a petition resolved upon at the last General Court of the South Sea Company, to be pre- sented to His Majesty, that he would be pleased to grant the Company that part of the Island of St. Cristopher which formerly belong’d to the French, in order to the better carrying on of their trade. London: Printed for the author, 1721. (379) $30. Octavo, 22 pages and genuine blank. Half morocco, uncut. Interesting undescribed Colonial tract, in which the unknown author gives his reasons why the lands on the island should not be granted to the South Sea Company, ete. Cathcart, John. A Letter to the Honourable Edward Vernon from John Cathcart, Director of the hospital in the late Expedition to the West Indies, under the command of the Honourable Gen. Wentworth, con- cerning some gross Misrepresentations in a pamphlet, lately published and intitled, Original Papers relating to the Expedition to the Island of Cuba. (Quotation.) London: M. Cooper. M. DCC. XLIV. (179) $17.50. Octavo, 55 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin, 11518; Rich, page 76. Contains a num- ber of interesting letters from Cathcart to Commodore Davers, General Wentworth, Brigadier General Guise, Admiral Vernon, Sir William Yonge, and others, dated from Kingston Harbour, Jamaica. This is a vindication of the Admiral. Characters. Containing an Impartial Review of the Public Conduct and Abilities of the Eminent Personages in the Parliament of Great Bri- tain, Considered as Statesmen, Senators, and Public Speakers. Re- vised and corrected by the Author, since the Original publication in the Gazetteer. London: J. Bew. M. DCC. LXXVII. (387) $17.50. Octavo, XVI, 152 pages. Half morocco. Sabin, 12015. Drawn with tolerable impar- tiality. Nineteen statesmen and political personages are the subjects of these critical notices; all of them are more or less prominent in connection with the American Revolution, the Stamp Act, the Quebec Act, etc. Charters (The) Of the following Provinces of North America; viz., Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Massa- chusetts Bay, and Georgia. To which is prefixed, A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings of the North American Colonies In Consequence of the late Stamp Act. London: Printed for W. Owen. MDCCLXVI. (22) ..g9e Small quarto, 1, 18, 15, 5, 4, 6, 5, 9, 7 pages. Folding map dated 1763, which is the correct one for the book. Half morocco gilt top. Sabin, 12163; Rich, page 152. “Collected from the Daily Gazetteer, both charters and narrative. There is no doubt of the authenticity of the former, and the latter being copies of the gazettes, etc., carry their own evidence with them.” Rich. The Proceedings relative to the Stamp Act fill pages 1-18 closely printed in two columns. Chauncey, Charles. All Nations of the Earth blessed in Christ. A Ser- mon preached at Boston at the Ordination of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Bowman, to the Work of the Gospel-Ministry, More especially among the Mohawk-Indians, on the Western Border of New England. Au- gust 31, 1762. By Charles Chauncy, D.D. (Quotation.) Boston: John Draper, 1762. : (87) $40. mae 4, 8, 50 pages. Half morocco. Evans, 9088; Sabin, 12331. Interesting Indian item. 20 Chauncy, Charles. A Letter to a friend, containing remarks on certain Passages in a Sermon Preached by the Right Reverend Father in God, John (Ewer) Lord Bishop of Landaff, Feb. 20, 1767, in which the highest Reproach is undeservedly cast upon the American Colonies. By Charles Chauncy, D.D. Pastor in Boston. Boston: Printed by Kneeland and Adams, 1767. (120) $12.50. Octavo, 56 pages. Half morocco. Evans 10579; Sabin 12348; Dexter 3509; The “Passage” related to the Stamp act and pre-revolutionary troubles of the time. Also considerable material relating to the Indians. Chauncy, Charles. The Appeal to the Public answered, In Behalf of the Non-Episcopal Churches in America; . . . By Charles Chauncy, D.D. Boston: N. E. Kneeland and Adams, 1768. (292) $12.50. Octavo, 204, 1 pages. Half brown morocco, gilt top other edges uncut. Nelson No. 10; Evans No. 10858; Sabin No. 12311. Relates to the American Episcopate Contro- versy. (Chetwood, W. R.) The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle, in several parts of the World. Intermixed with the Story of Mrs. Villars, an English Lady, with whom he made his surprising Escape from Barbary. Etc., etc. The Tenth Edition. (London): Printed in the Year M DCC LXXXI. (509) $10. Octavo, Vi, 369 pages. Half calf, yellow edges. This edition not in Sabin. Boyle’s Narrative is probably ficticious. Castleman’s Visit to Philadelphia took place in 1719. The work has been attributed to Benj. Victor and Daniel Defoe. Church, Benjamin. Elegy on the Death of the Reverend Jonathan May- hew, D.D. Who departed this life July 9th, Anno Domini. 1766. Aetatis Suae 46. Boston: N. E. Edes and Gill. (1766) (19) $150. Quarto, 15 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges entirely uncut, original blue wrappers bound in. Evans 10259; Sabin 12979; Wegelin page 17. This poem by the Boston Physician, poet, satirist, patriot and finally traitor is written with elegiac dignity sufficient to warrant its inclusion in American Literature. Church, Benjamin. An Oration; delivered March 5th, 1773, at the Re- quest of the Inhabitants Of the Town of Boston; To commemorate the Bloody Tragedy of the Fifth of March, 1770. By Dr. Benjamin Church. (Quotation.) The Fourth Edition. Salem: Samuel and Ebenezer Hall, 1773. (131) $50. Small quarto, 16 pages. Half morocco. Upper right corner of last leaf supplied. An undescribed issue of this famous Oration. Doctor Church was afterwards found trying to communicate with the enemy and was removed in disgrace from the army. Church, Thomas. The entertaining history of King Philip’s War, which began in the month of June, 1675. As also of expeditions more lately made against the Common Enemy, and Indian Rebels, in the Eastern parts of New England: with some account of the divine providence towards Col. Benjamin Church: By Thomas Church. Esq. His Son. The Second Edition. Boston: Printed 1716. Newport, Rhode-Island: Solomon Southwick, 1772. (156) $400. Octavo, 199 pages. 2 portraits. Full morocco, gilt edges. Winship page 27; Sabin 12297; Evans 12253; Hammet Jun. page 37. Rich page 189. The feature of this edition consists in the two portraits engraved by Paul Revere, one inscribed, ‘Philip, King of Mount Hope,” and the other, ‘Col. Benjamin Church,’”. It is claimed that the latter is taken from a picture of the poet, Charles Churchill, which was published in England in 1768. Revere has slung a powder horn around the neck of the poet. The picture of King Philip is also said to be fanciful. The edition is said to be edited by Dr. Stiles. 21 Circular. The Patriotic Society of New-Castle County, in the State of Delaware, To the Patriotic Societies throughout the United States. . . Signed by Order of the Society, James M’Cullough, President. (Wilmington About 1791.) | (18) $100. Folio, folded and bound in half morocco (Slight defect). This interesting broadside is evidently undescribed. An Anti-Hamiltonian address, of considerable importance. Circular Letter (A) addressed to the State Societies of the Cincinnati by the General Meeting convened at Philadelphia, May 3, 1784, to- gether with the Institution, as altered and amended. Philadelphia: E. Oswald and D. Humphreys. M,DCC,LXXXIV. = (567) $50. Octavo, 8 pages. Half morocco, uncut. The Holden copy. Evans 18187; Hildeburn 4457. Griffin page 47. Sabin 13117. This letter was drafted by John Dickinson, Henry Lee and David Humphreys. It is signed (printed) by George Washington. Contains also the Constitution of the Society As Altered and amended at their first General Meeting. Circular to the Collectors of the Customs. Treasure Department, March 21, 1798. (Signed in ink:) Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. (1798) (483) $20. Folio page. Bound in half morocco. Circular relative to modification of order arming merchant vessels. Clap, Thomas. An Essay on the Nature and Foundation of Moral Vir- tue and Obligation, being a Short Introduction to the Study of Ethics, for the Use of the Students of Yale College. By Thomas Clap, M.A. President of Yale College, in New-Haven. New-Haven: B. Mecom. MDCCLXV. (477) $15. Octavo, 4, 66, 2 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 15216; Trumbull 477; Evans 9931; Desler 3487. One of the earliest American treatise on Ethics. Clarke, William. Observations On the Late and Present Conduct of the French, With Regard to their Encroachments upon the British Col- onies in North America. Together With Remarks on the Importance of these Colonies to Great Britain. By William Clarke, M.D., of .Boston in New England. To which is added by another hand, On- servations concerning the Increase of Mankind. . . . Boston Print- ed: London Re-printed for John Clarke. 1755. (215) $60. Octavo, 10, 54 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 13471; Rich page 109. Of French and Indian War interest. The author (an M. D. of Boston) considers that the prior discovery by Sebatian Cabot in 1497, of the coast of a large part of the continent of North America, and the subsequent grants by English Sovereigns of Nova Scotia. Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia with their Western Limits of the latter three extending to the South Sea, gave the English Colonists a full right to the vast region embraced within these limits, and that the French in all. their possessions South of the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes were encroachments. The additions are written by Benjamin Franklin. (Clifton, William). The Group: or an Elegant Representation Illustrated. Embellished with a beautiful head of S. Verges, C.S., Philadelphia: Thomas Stephens, M. DCC. XCVI. (217) $25. Small quarto, 35, 1 pages. Portrait. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 13695; Wegelin page 17. A satyre in support of Jay’s treaty. The persons are thinly disguised. In the above offered copy the Keyplate has the persons identified in ink, and a typewritten statement laid in gives a brief account of the proceedings against the author. 22 Clinton, Henry. Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K. B., relative to his conduct during part of his command of the King’s troops in North America; Particularly to that which respects the unfortunate Issue of the Campaign in 1781. With an appendix containing Copies and Extracts of those Parts of His Correspondence with Lord George Germain, Earl Cornwallis, Rear Admiral Graves, &e. Which are referred to therein. London: J. Debrett, 1783. (164) $15. Octavo, 4, 115, 1 and a slip of errata. Half morocco. Sabin 138751: This embraces a most interesting period of the Campaign, the surrender of Earl Cornwallis. It’s a case of ““‘When thieves fall out honest men get their own,’’ and the Earl must have felt several inches shorter by the time Lord Clinton had finished with him. Clinton, Henry. Observations on some parts of the answer of Earl Corn- wallis to Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton. To which is added an appendix, containing extracts of letters and other papers, to which reference is necessary. London: Printed for J. Debrett. M.DCC.LXXXIII. (161) $15. Octavo, 4, 113, 1, folding table, 2 pages. Half calf uncut. Sabin 18754; Rich page 316; First edition. One of the most important of the Clinton tracts, containing the folding sheet at the end, with a view of the strength of the two armies, Regular and Pro-- vincial, &e. In these details Sir Henry Clinton acquits himself of all share in Lord Cornwallis’s mis- fortune, leaving that General to answer for misconceptions of the orders sent him, and for the choice of the post he was reduced to surrender. Clinton, Henry. A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, to the Commissioners of Public Accounts relative to Some Observations in their Seventh Report, Which may be judged to imply Censure on the late Commanders in Chief of His Majesty’s Army in North America. London: J. Debrett. MDCCLXXXIV. (167) $15. Octavo, 31, 1 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 18750. Sir Henry Clinton defends himself against charges brought against him in reference to Public Money spent during the American War. Wt Clinton, Sir. Henry. Memorandums, etc., etc. Respecting the Unpre- cedented Treatment which the Army have met with respecting Plun- der taken after a Siege, and of which Plunder, the Navy serving with the Army, divided their more than ample share, now fourteen years since. London, 1794. (129) $12. Octavo, 4, 106, 8 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut. Not in Sabin, Rich, etc. An important revolutionary pamphlet relating to the Clinton controversy. It was written by Sir Henry Clinton. It relates mainly to the Siege of Charleston, S. C. and was withdrawn from circulation almost at the moment of publication on account of the death of Admiral Arbuthnot, to whom it principally refers. Colden, Cadwallader. The Conduct of Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, late Lieutenant Governor of New York; relating to the Judges, Com- missioners, Appeals to the King and the Stamp Duty. Printed in (New York by James Rivington) in the Year MDCCLXVII. (118) $150, Octavo, 2, 66 pages. Sabin 14276; Evans 10582 thinks it printed by James Parker. It was secretly printed in New York and was without doubt written by Colden himself, who, after he had been succeeded in the administration by Sir Henry Moore, thought it his duty to vindicate his character from the calumnies of his enemies. While they 23 had confined their complaints against him to the newspapers he satisfied himself with laying the reasons of his conduct before the Ministers of the Crown, but when the General Assembly of New York passed a public censure upon him at their instigation, he felt he must resort to other and more public measures. Hence the appearance of this pamphlet, the authorship of which, the New York Assembly made vain efforts to ascertain. Coleman, Benjamin. Some of the Glories of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Exhibited in Twenty Sacramental Discourses, Preached at Boston in New England, by Benjamin Coleman, M.A., Pastor of a Church in Boston. London: Printed by S. Palmer, for Thomas Han- cock, at Boston in New England, 1728. (385) $50. Octavo, 12, 304 pages, and leaf of errata pasted on cover, Portrait. Autograph of Mary Hubbard on title page. Old calf. Sabin 14525 says that the leaf of errata is printed at Boston. He does not mention the engraved portrait frontispiece which belongs to the book. ‘Benjamin Coleman. V. D. M., Anno 1703. Aetat: 30. “The engraver’s name is not given.” Eolumbian Muse, The. A Selection of American Poetry, from various authors of established reputation. New York: Printed by J. Carey, 1794, (182) $12. Duodecimo, 4, 224 pages. Red straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, by Larkins. Sabin No. 14874; Wegelin page 63; Not in Otis, Not in Onderdonk. Poems by Trumbull, Dwight, Barlow, Freneau, Hopkinson, Humphreys, Dunlap and others. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the House of Representatives, November 27, 1780. (Boston, printed by Edes and Sons, 1780.) (251A) $50. Folio, 3 pages. Half morocco. Evans 16864. Resolved that the following persons be appointed in each County to muster the men that shall enlist into the Continental Army. . . .. followed by the Schedule. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In Senate, February 26, 1781. Where- as it is of the utmost importance that the quota of required by a resolve of the 2nd of December last, be speedily compleated; and as the mode of classing has been more successful in procuring the Men than any other measure: Therefore (Then follows the resolve to carry the same out). Jeremiah Powell, President. In the House of Repre- sentatives, February 26, 1781........ Approved, John Hancock. (Bos- ton: Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1781.) (305) $50. Folio, 1 page. Broadside. Folded and bound in half morocco. Evans 17219. The Assessors of the various town are authorized “to class their inhabitants and such others as are liable by law to pay taxes within the same, into as many classes as shall be equal to the number of men deficient in such town and plantation.” Committee, (The) consisting of . . . to whom was referred the Motion of Mr. Monroe, submit the following Report. (New York, 1785) (27A) $45. Folio, 2 pages. Folded and bound in half morocco. Evans 19301. “That the first paragraph of the ninth of the articles of Confederation be altered, so as to read thus, viz; “The United States in Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war.” . . .. ete. Conduct, (The). of a Noble Commander in America, Impartially re- viewed. With the genuine Causes of the Discontents at New-York and Hallifax. And The True Occasion of the Delays in that import- ant Expedition. Including A Regular Account of all the Proceedings 24 and Incidents in the Order of Time wherein they happened. The second edition. London: R. Baldwin, M DCC LVIII. (168) $50. Octavo, 2, 45 pages. Fine contemporary portrait of the Earl of Loudon in Highland costume inserted as frontispiece. Sabin 15197; Rich page 125. Important French and Indian War pamphlet, the design of which was to vindicate Lord Loudon from some imputation which was thrown out against him on account of his conduct in America. It was Loudon’s proposition to first take Louisbourg and then all Canada. His views and plans were approved of by the English ministers as well as those in authority in New York, and, no doubt, had Loudon been given the necessary ships in time, his expedition would have been crowned with success; but he, like many another, depended upon others, with the usual result. Conference (A) between the Commissaries of Massachusetts-Bay, and the Commissaries of New-York; at New-Haven in the Colony of Con- necticut, 1767. Boston: New England: Printed by Richard Draper, M DCC LXVIII. (388) $200. Small quarto, 2, 26, 2, 9 pages. Half morocco, inner margin of title supplied. Evans 10966; Sabin 15431. Very interesting Boundary conference. There is little doubt that the broadside following after page 26 was printed separately. Considerable Advantages (The) of a South Sea Trade to our English Nation. Humbly offer’d with other particulars to the consideration of this present Paliament, partly from the information of divers French Officers, lately taken by one of Her Mayjesty’s Ships, and who had sailed and traded in those Seas. London: S. Popping, N. D., (c. 1720). (295) $40. Duodecimo, 16 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 15923; This interesting tract relates to the trade of the whole of Spanish America and recapitulates important his- torical material. Considerations on the Mode and Terms of a Treaty of Peace with Amer- ica. (Quotation.) London Printed 1778: Philadelphia: Re-printed, Hall and Sellers M DCC LXXIX. (558) $45. Duodecimo, 16 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 15995; Evans 16245; Hildeburn 3869. Very interesting pamphlet in which the undisclosed author makes an appeal for an immediate peace and suggests, that the American Commissioners at Paris are made mediators between Great Britain and France. : I can say with truth that my mind has never been alarmed by any fears of a war with France. Pickman, Benjamin, jun. An Oration pronounced February 22, 1797, before the Inhabitants of the Town of Salem, in Massachusetts, assem- bled to Commemorate the Birth-Day of George Washington. By Benjamin Pickman, Jun. (Quotation.) Salem, Thomas C. Cushing 1797. (522) $6. Octavo, 22 and 2 blank pages. Cloth. Sabin 62674; Griffin, page 423. This is sup- posed to be the second Washington Birthday oration. (Pitt, William.) Lord Ch . . . m’s Prophecy, an Ode; Addressed to Lieutenant General G—ge. With Explanatory and Critical Notes. By the Editor. (Quotation.) London: J. Almon, M, DCC, LXXVI. (29) $50. Quarto, 16 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 63094; Revolutionary Poem on the policy of Lord Chatham, addressed to General Gage. An ode conceived in the spirit of the “Ode for the New Year.” Many of those who are styled ‘the King’s Friends,” are lashed, both in the poem and notes. A note on Admiral Graves reads,—‘‘To evince the practicability of taxing and coercing America, the Admiral (it is said) compelled the Bostonians to pay tribute, not to Cesar, but to himself, for permission to catch fish for the use of the Garrison.” Other notes refer to the Boston Port Bill, the Canada Bill, Battle of Lexington, the Address of the Twelve United Provinces to the Inhabitants of Great Britain, Lord Howe, General Gage, actions of the Quakers, ete. Plan, (A.) for establishing and Disciplining a National Militia in Great Britain, Ireland and all the British Dominions of America. London: A. Millar, M DCC XLV. (70) $15. Octavo, 2, XLII, 1, 106 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 63269. Not in Rich. The ap- pendix contains “Proposals For improving the Maritime Power of Great Britain.” Plan of Association of the North American Land Company: Established February, 1795. Philadelphia Printed: London Reprinted for C. Bar- rell, M.DCC.XCV. (545) $35. Duodecimo, 25, 1 pages and folding table. Frontispiece. Original wrappers enclosed in half morocco slip case. This issue is not mentioned in Sabin. It relates to the famous Morris-Nicholson-Greenleaf scheme involving over six millions acres of land in Virginia, Georgia, Carolina, Kentucky and Pennsy!vania. 81 Political Debates. “Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is, that the Stamp-Act be repealed abso- lutely, totally, and inmediately.” (sic!) The Great Commoner. A Paris, Chez J. W. Imprimeur, ...M DCC LX VI. (459) $40. Octavo, 4, 18 pages. Original blue wrappers uncut enclosed in a half morocco slip case. Sabin 63761; Rich, page 153. Nothwithstanding the imprint of Paris, this was prob- ably printed in London. It contains extracts from Pitt’s Speeches and is one of the finest of the sentimental documents relating to the Stamp Act. Political Duenna (The). A Comic Opera, in Three Acts, As it is per- formed by the servants of his Britannic Majesty, With Lord North’s Recantation, To which are added, I. A letter to Mr. John Wesley, II. A letter from an Irishman. Philadelphia: Robert Bell, M DCC- LXXV LT (603) $150. Octavo, 56 pages. Half morocco. Evans 16017; Sabin 63764; Hildeburn 3776. Not in Wegelin, Cushing, etc. Not in Biographica Dramatica and presumably of American Origin. A Revolutionary-Political Play in which George III appears in the cast of character as Don Lowis, Lord North as Boreas, Rev. John Wesley as Canting Tom, Lord Dartmouth as Dart-Ford, ete. Porteus, Beilby. A Review of the Life and Character of Archbishop Secker. By Beilby Porteus, D.D. ....New York: Hugh Gaine, M,DCC,LXXIII. (427) $15. Octavo, 4, 4, LXVIII pages. Portrait of Secker inserted. Old calf neatly rebacked. Evans 12690; Sabin 643828; Nelson No. 27; Ford, page 133. Porteus was Chap- lain to his Grace, and had exceptional facilities for gaining information on his sub- ject, of which he took full advantage. The publisher, in his advertisement to the reader, says that he has no need for any apology for this re-publication of the life of Archbishop Secker as hitherto it had few American readers, on account of its having only been previously published with seven volumes of sermons, to which it was prefixed. It has considerable reference to the part taken by the Archbishop in promoting the establishment of an American Episcopate for which he was soundly abused in almost every Province of the Colonies. (Pownall, Thomas.) A Memorial, most humbly addressed to the Sov- ereigns of Europe, on the present state of Affairs between the Old and the New World. London: J. Almon 1780. (517) $20. Octavo, 2, VIII, 127 pages. Buckram. Sabin 64826; Rich, page 284. First edition. According to the preface, this Memorial, which presupposes the independence of America, was written by a gentleman, lately deceased......... “It is written with so much clearness of information and strength of argument, that it is probably the work of some eminent master who chooses to conceal himself behind a peculiar style and a fictitious tale.” M.R. Prenties,S. W. Narrative of a Shipwreck on the Island of Cape Breton, In a Voyage from Quebec 1780. BY S. W. Prenties, Ensign of the 84th Regiment of Foot. London: Printed in the year 1782. are) $45. Duodecimo, 115 pages. Half calf. Sabin 65079; Rich, page 303. First edition of this interesting narrative related with moderation and good sense. It was often reprinted. The narrator was dispatched from Quebec with dispatches for Sir Henry Clinton at New York, in November, and in that latitude, and at that season, it may be con- ceived what dreadful hardships lay before them in the event of a shipwreck. A consort on which sailed another officer with a duplicate set of dispatches was lost, with all souls. After almost increditable labours, privations and dangers, the intrepid officer arrived at New York, with his dispatches safe, with the further reward of having gained information during his castaway adventures which proved valuable to his country, leading to the capture of several American privateers. 82 Present State (The) of the Revenue and Forces, by Sea and Land, of France and Spain, compared with those of Great Britain.......... To which is added an Appendix, containing a view of those ocuntries of the Spanish West Indies that will probably be the seat of the Present War. Dublin George Faulkner, M DCC XL. (101) $20. Octavo, 44, 4, pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin 65430. Not in Rich. Interesting old French and Indian War tract. Somebody wrote in pencil on the title page: By C. Morris. Not in Hallkett & Laing. Price, Richard. Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Prin- ciples of Government and the Justice and Policy of the War with America. To which is added an Appendix containing a state of the Nationa Debt. oo... - since the last War. (Quotation.) By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S. London Printed 1776, Philadelphia: Reprinted by John Dunlap. (1776) (60) $15. Octavo, 4, 71 (missprinted 61) pages and three blank pages. Half morocco, many leaves uncut. Evans 15030; Hildeburn 3450 (?). This issue probably not in Sabin. Next to Paine’s Common Sense the most reprinted book of its time. The author of these observations must be ranked among the most respectable writers on the affairs of America. In him we see the warm pleader united with the sound reasoner, the intelligent politician, and (above all) the independent man. Price, Richard. Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty (as before.) By Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S. London Printed 1776. Boston Re- printed T. and J. Fleet. (1776) (188) $15. Octavo, 71 pages. Half morocco, uncut. Sabin 65452; Evans 15032. In recognition of his services in the cause of Liberty, Dr. Price was presented with the freedom of the city of London, and it is said that the encouragement derived from this book had no inconsiderable share in determining the American Colonists to declare their inde- pendence. Price, Richard. Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty..(as be- fore) By Richard Price. D.D. F.R.S. London Printed: New York, Re-printed by S. Loudon 1776. (119) $25. Octavo, 107 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 65451; Evans 15033. Price, Richard. Additional Observations On the Nature and Value of Civil Liberty, and the War with America: .......... (Quotation) By Richard Price, D.D., F.R.S. London: T. Cadell, M,DCC,LXXVII. (426) $15. Octavo, XVI, 176 pages. Sabin 65444; Rich, page 256. First edition. Price, Richard. Observations on the Importance ot the American Revo- lution, And The means of making it a Benefit to the World. By Rich- ard Price, D.D. L.L.D. Printed in London in 1784. Re-printed in Boston in 1784. By Powars and Willis. (114) $12. Octavo, 4, 87, 1 pages. Half calf uncut. Sabin 65449; Evans 18739. Rich, page 331, gives a long note of this important book starting: “This tract was originally only intended for America. The Doctor speaks of the American Revolution as a revolution eee ise a new prospect in human affairs, and begins a new era in the history of mankind. 83 (Priestley, Joseph.) An Address to Protestant Dissenters of all De- nominations, on the approaching Election of Members of Parliament, with respect to the State of Public Liberty in General and of American Affairs in Particular. London: Joseph Johnson 1774. (393) $20. Octavo, 16 pages. Cloth. Sabin 65500; Rich, page 207. First edition of this fine revolutionary tract, which was many times reprinted. The first book of the author who sides here with the colonies in convincing phrases. Proceedings of a Board of General Officers, Held by Order of His Ex- cellency Gen. Washington, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States of America. Respecting Major John Andre., Adjutant General of the British Army. September 29, 1780. Philadelphia Francis Bailey, M DCC LXXxX. (500) $250. Octavo, 21 pages, A-B in fours, C in threes, last leaf blank. Half morocco uncut. Hvans 17047, mentions an issue in folio, and 170438 mentions one with collation [2], 21 pages. This is a different issue, for he says: “Page 7 is misprinted 19.” The copy offered has page 7 printed rightly 7. Ford No. 347. An interesting issue of what can be rightly termed the greatest item of sentimental character relating to American History. It contains not only the proceedings of the Board, finding Major Andre guilty as a spy, who ought to suffer death, but it contains also the letters written by Benedict Arnold to Washington asking him to spare the Life of Andre and threatening retaliation; and similar material. The copy measures 8% by 5% inches and is one of the finest and largest copies of any of the octavo editions in existence. Proceedings of a Court Martial, held at Cambridge, by order of Major- General Heath, Commanding the American troops for the Northern District, for the trial of Col. David Henley, accused by General Bur- goyne of Ill-treatment of the British Soldiers, etc., taken in shorthand by an officer who was present. London: J. Alman M DCC LXXVIII. (91) $75. Octavo, 4, 147, 1 pages. Half crushed leavant morocco, gilt top. Sabin 31848. After his surrender at Saratoga, General Burgoyne, with certain of his officers and men, were confined as prisoners of war at Cambridge, Mass. Colonel David Henley, the commanding officer of the American troops quartered there, was accused by Burgoyne of behaving with most indecent, violent and vindictive severity against the English soldiers at Prospect Hill Barracks, and of intentional murder, for which he demanded prompt and satisfactory justice. A Court Martial was appointed by order of Major- General Heath, to be held at Cambridge on January 20, 1778, under the presidency of Brigadier General Glover. General Burgoyne in his opening address to the Court stated that he acted not by personal resentment, but for the reason that the private men had nowhere to look for redress of injury, but to their own officers, and that he was too selfish to resign to any brother officer the pride and gratification of standing in the front for the defence of men, faithful comrades of honor and misfortune, who had fought under his orders, bled in his presence, and who were suffering oppression and persecution by the abuse of a treaty signed by his hand. A number of witnesses were produced by him to prove that Colonel Henley had not only incited his men to acts of violence against the British, but had himself on two occasions attacked them with bayonet and sword, grievously wounding Corporals Reeves and Hadley. Henley pleaded not guilty, and was ably supported by William Tudor, Judge Advocate, who repudiated with scorn the insinuation hinted at by Burgoyne that the Colonel was appointed Commandant of the garrison at Cambridge for the express purpose of executing the bloody designs of an irritated, vindictive, and sanguinary people. -His opinion was that the public and the Court would consider the prisoner alone interested, and that the trial which was rendered important from the distinguished rank of the very able prosecutor, would stand the clearest refutation to anyone hardy enough to repeat so injurious and false an asertion. Witnesses were brought forward to prove the insolence and insubordination of the British prisoners and that sufficient provoca- tion had been given to vindicate and justify the Colonel’s conduct. The Court found that the charges were not sufficiently supported, and ordered that Henley be dise charged from his arrest. ‘The Governor approved this opinion, and restored the Colonel to his command. This London edition is not a mere reprint of the Boston, 84 the evidence in the former being apparently worded to place the British case in the most favourable light, while the latter inclines more to the American side. Proceedings of the Council (The) and the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Relative to the Convening, Holding and Keeping the General Assembly at Harvard College in Cambridge: And The several Messages which passed between His Honor the Lieutenant Governor and the Two Houses, upon the Sub- ject. Published by Order of the House of Representatives. Boston: Edes and Gill. 1770. (59) $25. Octavo, 83 pages (A, 1 (blank) pasted on inside of front wrapper), half morocco, old wrappers bound in. Evans 11782. The Governor tried hard to keep the General As- sembly out of the town house of Boston, against which the house and the Council protested in the above proceedings, which were prepared by Mr. Hancock, Mr. Adams and Capt. Heath for the press. Proceedings of the Executive (The) of the United States respecting the Insurgents. 1794. Philadelphia: John Fenno. M.DCC.XCV. (446) $12.50. Octavo, 180 pages. Sabin 65844. Half morocco, gilt top. Interesting pamphlet relat- ing to the so-called Whisky Rebellion, which embodies the whole of the historical material. Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the Answers of Sundry States to their resolutions, passed in december, 1798. Philadelphia: James Carey 1800. (95) $25. Octavo, 59, 1 pages. Swem No. 7970. One of the first, if not actually the first discus- sion of the doctrine of State Rights. Proclamation. ..... Done in Congress, Twentieth Day of March 1779. John Jay, President. Philadelphia: Printed by Hall and Sellers. (1779). (321) $50. Folio, 1 page folded and bound in half morocco. Evans 16552; Hildeburn No. 3937. Ford 249. Fine revolutionary broadside in which the first Thursday in May is pro- claimed to be a Fast day........ “That he will bountifully continue his paternal care to the Commander in Chief...... that he will bestow on our great ally all those blessings, which may enable him to be gloriously instrumental! in protecting the rights Mes MOHKMG (ss cs sees ete. Proposals for Uniting the English Colonies on the Continent of America So as to enable them to act with Force and Vigour against their Enemies. London J. Wilkie, M DCC LVII. (185) $95. Octavo, 2, 6, 88 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 66040. Not in Rich. Although the Albany Congress as such is not mentioned, there are references to a Union of the Colonies for their general defence, the originator of which was Franklin. Consider- able historical material relating to the Indians and the West. Quincy, Josiah, Junior. Observations on the Act of Parliament com- monly called the Boston Port-Bill; with Thoughts on civil society and standing armies, by Josiah Quincy, Jun’r. (Quotation) Boston: Edes and Gill 1774. (181) $60. Octavo, 2, 82 pages. Half morocco. Evans No. 13561, gives long note. Sabin 6712. Presentation copy from the author. The author was one of the first patriots to say, in plain terms, that an appeal to arms and a separation from the mother country was inevitable. He was present in the Old South meeting-house on December 16, 1775, and as the men, disguised as Indians, rushed past the door on their way to the tea- ships, he exclaimed: ‘I see the clouds which now rise thick and fast upon our horizon, the thunder’s roll, and the Lightning’s play and to the God who rides on the storm and directs the whirlwind I commit my country.” Shortly after the publication of the above work he sailed for England as a confidential agent of the patriot party, to consult and advise with the friends of America there. After accomplishing his pur- pose he died on the return voyage within sight of his native land. 85 Quincy, Josiah, Junior... Observations on the Act of Parliament com- monly called the Boston Port Bill: with thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies. By Josiah Quincy, Jun. (Five Quotations.) Philadelphia: Printed for John Sparhawk, 1774. (433) $30. Octavo, 60 pages. Half morocco. Evans 18562; Sabin 67192. The statute which gave rise to these observations came into force in the early part of 1774, and was entitled “An Act to discontinue, in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, the landing or shipping of goods, wares, and merchan- dize, at the Town, and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachu- setts Bay in North America.” Quincy’s pamphlet was also printed in Boston and London in the same year and reprinted in the Memoirs of his life at Boston in 1825. Regarding the work the Monthly Review says: ‘One peculiarly unlucky circumstance attending our American disputes may be added to the rest, namely, that our fellow- subjects there are as well read in the nature and grounds of civil and religious liberty as ourselves; as appears by their late publications, in which they oppose British preten- sions on British principles, and this shrewd commentary on the Boston Post Bill will incline us to entertain a respectable opinion of their law pleaders.” Ray, Nicholas. The Importance of the Colonies of North America, and the Interest of Great Britain with regard to them, considered. To- gether with Remarks on the Stamp-Duty. By Nicholas Ray, now of London; a Native and formerly a Citizen of New-York. (Quotation.) London, printed; New-York, reprinted by John Holt, 1766. (606) $100. Quarto, 4, 16 pages. Sewn, uncut. Enclosed in a cloth protecting cover. Sabin 68031; HKvans 10471. This New York issue was brought out at the author’s own expense for the benefit of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Agricul- ture in New York. Chiefly intended to show how impolite as well as unreasonable it would be, in the dispute with the colonies, to have recourse to any improper exertion of power. (Raynal, G. T.) The Sentiments of a Foreigner, on the Disputes of Great-Britain with America. Translated from the French. Venit summa dies et ineluctabile Tempus. Virg. Philadelphia: Printed by James Humphreys, Junior; in Front-Street, M, DCC, LXXV. (280) $35. Octavo, 27, 1 pages. Unbound, inclosed in cloth protecting cover. Evans 14417; Sabin 68105; Hildeburn 3271. Forst edition. This is an extract from the author’s “L’ Histoire philosophique et politique.” As is well known the author’s sentiments are on the side of the colonies. Reasons Humbly offered To prove the Letter Printed at the End of the French Memorial of Justification is a French Forgery, and falsely ascribed to his Rou Te ss. (Quotation.) London: Printed for M. Collyer, 1756. (416) $100. Octavo, 2, 61 pages. Full calf, gilt top, other edges uncut by Riviere & Son. Sabin 68283; Rich, page 116. Interesting pamphlet on the French and Indian War which relates to.the Ohio Expedition, and the Crown Point campagne. The memorial to which the above pamphlet refers was the infamous piece issued by the French Goy- ernment in which Washington was charged with the murder of Jumonville. (Reed, Joseph.) Remarks on a Late Publication in the Independent Gazetteer ; with a Short Address to the People of Pennsylvania, on the many Libels and Slanders which have lately appeared against the author. Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, M DCC. L XXXIII. (337) $60. Octavo, 72 pages and slip of errata. Name on title. Dark green morocco. Sabin 68568. Evans 18147; Hildeburn 4355. First edition of this famous pamphlet. (See Cad- 86 wallader). During the Revolution Joseph Reed and John Cadwalader were com- panions in arms; after the War they become political opponents in Pennsylvania. The occasion of the dispute was the assertion, by General Cadwallader, in the ‘“‘Inde- pendent Gazette,” that in Dec. 1776, before the Battle of Trenton, General Reed was so much depressed by the sad state of American affairs as to meditate withdraw- ing from the service. This asertion General Reed denies in the above “Remarks.” It was proved later that the disaffected person referred to was a New Jersey officer of the same name. | Reflections on a Pamphlet, entitled, A Short History of the Opposition ; With some Observations on the views of the Minority ; And Reflections on the present State of Affairs. By A Country Gentleman. (Quota- tion.) (London): Printed M, DCC, LXXIX. (557) $30. Octavo, 4, 23 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, some other edges uncut. This important pamphlet is an answer to Macpherson’s “Short History of the Opposition” and is of considerable importance for the History of the Controversy on the Misconduct of the war. Evidently not mentioned by bibliographers. Remarks Occasioned by the late Conduct of Mr. Washington, as Presi- dent of the United States. M,DCC,XCVI. Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin Bache, 1797. (11) $25. Octavo, IV, 84 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges mainly uncut. Griffin, page 375; Sabin 69388. Nobody has disclosed the authorship. “The design of these re- marks is to prove the want of Claim in Mr. Washington either to the gratitude or confidence of his country.’’ Reply of a Gentleman, (The), in a select society, upon the Important Contest between Great Britain and America. London: J. Almon, M DCC LXXV. (564) $30, Octavo, 39 pages and slip of errata. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 69672; Rich, page 215. An important revolutionary tract in favor of the Americans delivered before a society composed of 50 members. Three-fourths voted in favor of America; among which majority, above two-thirds were Gentlemen of the Law. Report of a Constitution (The) or form of Government for the Common- wealth of Massachusetts: Agreed upon by the Committee to be laid before the Convention of Delegates, assembled at Cambridge on the First Day of Sptember A. D., 1779; And continued by Adjournment to the 28th day of October following. Boston: B. Edes and Sons, 1779. (389) $100. Small quarto, 50 pages (no halftitle and first leaf slightly repaired). Half morocco partly uncut. Evans 16352; Sabin 45985. Extremely important copy, being the one owned by Joseph Thaxter, who was a member of the Convention, with a large num- ber of corrections in ink by him. Report of the Commissioners appointed by the President of the United States of America to confer with the Insurgents in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Childs and Swaine, M, DCC, XCIV, (298) $15. Octavo, 38, 2 blank pages. Half morocco, gilt top, uncut. Sabin 60475. Interesting pamphlet relating to the so-called Whisky Rebellion. 87 Resolves of Congress concerning Trade, Together with the Act for establishing a Naval-Office In the State of Massachusetts-Bay. Also the Form established by the General Court to be used by the Naval- Officers in said State. Printed by Order of said Court. Boston: N. E. Printed by f. Gal) M, DCC UEXX Vil. (175) $50. Octavo, 27, 1 pages. Half morocco, uncut. Evans 15688; Ford 190. Not in Sabin. This is the act relating to the first establishment of a Naval office with detailed ac- count of the duties of the same and a recapitulation of the different acts relating to importation and exportation in that important period. Results of the Convention of Delegates Holden at Ipswich in the County of Essex, who were deputed to take into consideration the Constitu- tion and form of Government proposed by the Convention of the State of Massachusetts-Bay. Newbury-Port: Printed and Sold by John Mycall, 1778. (378) $30. Octavo, 68 pages. Half morocco. With authograph of W. Wetmore on title and numer- ous marginal notes by the same. Evans 15858; Sabin 58906. In June, 1777, the House of Representatives and the Council of Massachusetts formed a Convention for the purpose of preparing a Constitution or Frame of Civil Government for the State, and a Committee of twelve was chosen to consider that important subject. The Committee reported a draft of a Constitution in February, 1778, which the General Assembly submitted to the people, but which was not approved. The above pamphlet gives the result of a Convention of Delegates from certain towns in Essex County to consider the proposed plan. They met in April, 1778, and eighteen votes were cast against it. A Committee was then appointed by them to draw up a report of the “True Principles of Government” to be handed in to the adjourned meeting of the Convention to be held in the following May. The celebrated Theophilus Parsons, afterwards Chief Justice of Massachusetts, is said to have been the moving spirit in drawing up this report which is appended to the Results of the Convention, and oc- cupies almost the whole of the volume. (Richards, George.) The Declaration of Independence; A poem: accom- panied by Odes, Songs, &c. Adapted to the Day. (Quotation.) By A Citizen of Boston. Printed at Boston, Faust’s Statue, M DCC XCIII. (520) $35. Octavo, 24 pages. Boards, leather back enclosed in a board case. Sabin 70917; Wege- lin, page 45. Written by the Universalist Divine of Boston. There are many prose notes. In his poem the author has handed to the public every patriotic name from New Hampshire to Georgia, who dared to explain the wrongs of America and_ pro- nounce her independent of Great Britain. The poem was reprinted in 1870 in 50 copies. Right of Parliament Vindicated (The). On Occasion of the late Stamp Act in which is exposed the Conduct of the American Colonists. Ad- dressed to the People of Great Britain. (Quotation.) London: J. Almon, 1766. (347) $20. Octavo, 44 pages. Half moroceo. Sabin 71374. An interesting Stamp Act Pamphlet, in which the author claims the Right of Great Britain to impose Taxes. (Robinson, Matthew.) Considerations on the Measures carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America. (Quotation.) London: R. Baldwin. (1774). (394) $25. Octavo, 4, 160 pages. Old full calf. Leaf of errata pasted on half title, both of which are not mentioned by Sabin 72151. First edition of a very famous revolutionary tract, which was many a time reprinted. ‘‘The author is one of the most candid and ao informed writers on the interest of Great Britain and her Colonies.” Monthly eview. 88 (Robinson, Matthew.) Considerations on the Measures Carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North America. (Quotation.) Philadelphia: Benjamin Towne, M DCCLXXIV. (534) $40. Octavo, 60 pages and genuine blank leaf. Sabin 72151; Evans 13587; Hildeburn 3094. (Robinson, Matthew.) Considerations on the Measures carrying on with respect to the British Colonies (as before). London: Printed, and New-York Re-printed, By John Holt, 1774. (225) ae a0). Octavo, 2, 73 pages. Full polished calf, gilt edges by Riach for Henry Stevens of Ver- mont. Sabin 72151; Evans 13586. (Robinson, Matthew.) Considerations on the Measures carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies (as before). London: Printed. Hart- ford: Re-printed by Eben. Watson, M, DCC, _LXXIV. (149) $35, Octavo, 63 pages. Stitched, uncut in cloth protecting case. Sabin 72151; Evans 13585; Trumbull 1305 calls in error for 62 pages. (Robinson, Matthew.) Consideration on the Measures carrying on with respect to the British Colonies in North America. The Second edition. With Additions and an Appendix Relative to the present State of Affairs on that Continent. (Quotation.) London: R. Baldwin, (1774.) (491) $20. Octavo, 4, 176, 45 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 72152. Rich, page 203, says: The First Edition was kastily printed, and there were in it besides many errors of the press, considerable omissions, which are supplied in the present edition, to which has been added a large appendix, relating to events which have happened since. He shows how the coercive measures of the last seven months have only tended to en- large the breach and further exasperate the Americans. He blames Benjamin Franklin for the failure of all attempts at conciliation, saying, “Our Colonies might be well enough were it not for Dr. Franklin, who has with a brand lighted from the clouds, set fire to all America. (Robinson, Matthew.) A Further Examination of Our Present Amer- ican Measures and of the Reasons and the Principles on which they are founded. By the Author of Considerations on the Measures. (Quotation.) Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, M DCC LXXVI. (395) $25. Octavo, 2, 256 pages. Old full calf. Sabin 72154; Rich, page 237. The Monthly Review said: His former production (of 1774) justly obtained the applause of the public; the present is not less meritorious. (Roebuck, John.) An Enquiry; whether The Guilt of the Present Civil War in America, Ought to be imputed to Great Britain or America. London: John Donaldson, M DCC XXVI. (64) $60. Octavo, 2, 69 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 72581; Rich, page 240. First edition. The author throws the whole blame and guilt of the American war on the colonists, whom the author charges with the most notorious folly and wickedness and ingratitude. Rogers, Major Robert. Journals of Major Robert Rogers: containing An Account of the several Excursions he made under the Generals 89 who commanded upon the Continent of North America, during the late War. From which may be collected the most material Circumstances of every Campaign upon that Continent, from the Commencement to the Conclusion of the War. London: Printed for the Author, M.DCC. LAY: (484) $85. Octavo, 8, 286, 1, 2 pages. Full red morocco, gilt tooling by Lloyd. Sabin 72725; Rich, page 147. The author was a native of New Hampshire, and during the French and Indian War became one of the most noted Partisan Chiefs of that period. After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he joined the Royalist party, and made himself prominent as captain of the “Queens Rangers.” He died in obscurity in 1800. ‘The Journals of this celebrated partisan chief afford us many interesting details of border warefare, in the French and Indian War, which ended seventeen years before the Revolution. It was while associated with Rogers that General Putnam is said to have experienced those wonderful adventures, with the relation of which our youthful nerves have so often thrilled. It is, however, remarkable that Major Rogers does not even mention the name of Putnam. The last page (237) is unnumbered, and entitled ‘Advertisement.’ It announces a continuation or second part of the journal, which never appeared, as the subscriptions of a guinea a copy were not sufficiently numerous.” —Field. Rogers, Major Robert. A Concise Account of North America. Contain- ing a Description of the several British Colonies on that Continent, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton . .. to which is subjoined an Account of the several Nations and Tribes of Indians residing in those parts, as to their Customs, Manners, Government, Numbers, etc., containing many useful and entertaining facts never before treated of. By Major Robert Rogers. London: Printed for the Author, M DCC LXV. (539) $70. Octavo, VIII, 264 pages. Full red morocco, gilt tooling. Sabin 72723; Rich, page 146. First edition of the famous ranger’s account of North America. A good deal of space is taken up with the description of the various Indian Tribes, including an account of the White Indians of the Mississippi. In his historical and geographical portion he sems to have had a special antipathy to the Jews, for he finds them in New York, Rhode Island and other places, and speaks of them in contemptuous terms. Canadians should take a great interest in Rogers, who played such a prominent part in settling affairs after the old French War. Canada with all her dependencies had yielded to the British Crown, but it still remained to carry into full effect the terms of surrender, and take possession of those Western Outposts, where the Lilies of France had not as yet descended from the flagstaff. The execution of this dangerous task was assigned to Major Rogers, who, with his Army of Rangers, half hunters, half woodsmen, trained in a discipline of their own, and armed like Indians, were employed for this peculiar hardship. Their chief theatre of action was the mountainous region of Lake George, the debatable ground between the hostile Forts of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. (Rogers, Major Robert.) Ponteach; or, The Savages of America. A Tragedy. London: Printed for the Author, M, DCC, LXVI. (521) $100. Octavo, 110, 2 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 72729; Wegelin, page 67; N. Y. P. L. List page 41. This is the issue on thick paper. The query is: Does this item need a half title? None of the bibliographers make mention of it and every copy I saw is without it. Still the book starts with A2 and there must have been a leaf before the title. This must have been either a half title, or a blank leaf or may be the leaf of advertisement which is bound at the end and may, as this is occasionally the case, really belong in front of the book. This leaf is not mentioned by bibliographers. For an account of the play with extracts see Parkman’s “Conspiracy of Pontiac,’ I, 164; II, 821-357. 99 Rumsey, James. A Short Treatise on the Application of Steam whereby it is clearly shewn, from actual Experiments that Steam may be ap- plied to propel boats or vessels of any Burthen against rapid currents with great Velocity. The same Principles are introduced with Effect, by a Machine of simple and cheap construction, for the Purpose of raising Water sufficient for working of Grist-Mills, Sawing-Mills, etc., and for Watering Meadows and other purposes of Agriculture. By James Rumsey, Of Berkeley County, Virginia. Philadelphia: Joseph James, M, DCC, LXXXVIII. (405) $65. Octavo, 26, 2 blank pages. Full blue straight-grain morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut by Bradstreet. Evans 21442; Sabin 74128. The corrected issue. From the adver- tisement: “The following pages are taken from a pamphlet published in Virginia, to prove that the author’s prior right of applying steam, to propel boats, ete., as well as to establish the principles on which he has done it, few copies were then thought sufficient for that purpose, but as Mr. Fitch intends to answer the pamphlet, it is thought necessary to republish as much of it as respects Mr. Fitch, which is done with no other variations from the original than to correct a few omissions, ete.” S. I. “A brief and perfect Journal of the late Proceedings and Success of the English Army in the West Indies, continued until June the 24th, 1655; together with some Quaeres inserted, and answered,” by I. S., an Eye-witness. (Quotation.) London: Printed 1655. (279) $75. Small quarto, 27 pages. Sabin 74616; Rich, page 80. The object of the expedition un- der the command of General Venables and Admiral Penn was the conquest of all the Spanish West-India Islands. The expedition sailed from Portsmouth, 19 Dec. 1654, for Barbadoes. A fleet of about thirty sail (one half being victuallers), with 3,000 men in all. The recruits who joined them, on their arrival in the West Indies, the writer describes as “the very scum of scums, and mere dregs of corruption.” A day of Humiliation was ordered “for the good success of the Army, but one day was not effectual for the humbling of those who had remained so many years obdurate in wickedness.” The army landed in good spirits, promising themselves “mountains of gold.” But their hopes were quickly dispelled by a proclamation of a death penalty in cases of plunder. Improperly guided, lame and without water, a remnant only landed near Domingo, but retreated before the enemy. The General of the English was basely deserted by his troops, and slain; the “cow-hearted villains” flying from the lances of the Spaniards, who returned to the town, carrying with them seven English colours. Scientific and Descriptive Catalogue of Peale’s Museum, By C. W. Peale Member of the American Philosophical Society and A. M. F. J, Beau- vois. Philadelphia: Samuel H. Smith, MDCC XCVI. (553) $12. Octavo, 44 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut. There was evidently more published. Scotland’s Right to Caledonia. (Formerly called Darien) And the Legality of its Settlement, asserted in Three several Memorials pre- sented to His Majesty in May 1699 By the Lord President of the Ses- sion and Lord Advocate on behalf of the Company of Scotland, Trad- ing to Africa and the Indias. (Quotation.) (London) Printed in the year 1700. (225) $40. Duodecimo, 2, 34 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin 18570 and 78196. Rich, page 127. An important tract relating to the Scottish colony on the Isthmus of Darien. Scotland’s Grievances, Relating to DARIEN, &c. Humbly offered to the Consideration of the Parliament. (Quotation.) (Edinburgh?) Printed 1700. (226) $40. Duodecimo, 4, 54 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin 18568 and 78194. Rich, page 128. This tract gives practically a history of the settlement. The authorship has been attributed to George Ridpath. 91 (Seabury, Samuel). Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Con- tinental Congress, Held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1774: Wherein Their Errors are exhibited, Their Reasonings Confuted, And The fatal Tendency of their Non-Importation, Non-Exportation, and Non-Con- sumption Measures, are laid open to the plainest Understandings; and the only means pointed out For preserving and securing. Our present Happy Constitution in a Letter to the Farmers, and other Inhabitants of North America in General and those of the Province of New York In Particular. By A Farmer. (Hear me for I Will speak.) Printed in the year M DCC LXXIV (New York, James Rivington.) (591) $100. Octavo, 24 pages. Half morocco, gilt top other edges uncut. Evans 18602; Sabin 78574; Ford No. 1; Griffin, page 177. This pamphlet was the first of the productions of the ‘Westchester Farmer.’’ Not being able to lay their hands upon his person, they gathered up copies and burned them at the stake; or covering them with a coat of tar and feathers, they nailed them to a whipping post,—all as a dramatic intima- tion of the sort of treatment which the author might expect, should he be detected. The printers’ office was entered, his presses broken, and his type thrown into the street. This writer’s arguments were by far the ablest advanced from the Loyalist side. The above pamphlet was answered by Alexander Hamilton, then 17 years of age and a student in what is now Columbia College, in his “Full Vindication,” which in turn Seabury answered in his “The Congress Canvassed.” See Church, 1112 for more details. (Seabury, Samuel.) Free Thoughts on The Proceedings of the Contin- ental Congress, Held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1774; wherein Their Errors are exhibited, their Reasonings Confuted, and the fatal Tend- ency of their Non-Importation, Non-Exportation, and Non-Consump- tion Measures, are laid open to the plainest Understanding........ By A Farmer. Hear me, for 1 WILL speak! New York: Printed: London, Reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart. 1775. (469) S25; Octavo, 2, 50 pages. Half morocco. No half title. From the Library of Governor Hutchinson with slip in his handwriting inserted. Sabin 78575; Ford No. 1. On account of this, and similar publications, Seabury became very obnoxious to the American party. (Seabury, Samuel.) The Congress canvassed: or an examination into the conduct of the Delegates at their Grand Convention, held in Phila- delphia, September 1, 1774. Addressed to the Merchants of New York. By A. W. Farmer. Author of Free Thoughts, &c. (Quotation.) (New York:) Printed in the year M DCC LXXIV. (601) $100. Octavo, 27, 1 pages. Enclosed in cloth protecting case. Evans 18601; Church 1111; Sabin 78562. First issue of the first edition. An answer to Hamilton’s ‘Full Vindi- cation” and the second of the famous Loyalist’s tract by ‘‘A Westchester Farmer.” Variously attributed by Winsor, Tyler, Eames and other Authorities to Isaac Wilkins and Samuel Seabury. Of these pamphlets Professor Tyler says: “the purely literary merit of these Essays are such as to entitle them to a high and permanent reputation in the Literature of the American Revolution. Even now, no one can fail to find pleasure in them, who delights in genuine English—pure, Saxon, sinewy; in a style that moves straight to the mark,.every epithet a flash of fire, every sentence a spear- point; in pages all alive, and charged to the full with force of humor or satire, with telling illustration, with picturesqueness, with repartee, with outbursts of eloquent indignation, with bravuras of patriotic enthusiasm or scorn. Probably no pamphlets more readable, none more witty and brilliant, none argumentatively most effective, were called forth on either side of the question during the whole controversy.” 92 sw (Seabury, Samuel.) The Congress Canvassed, or an Examination into the Conduct of the Delegates at their Grand Convention held in Phila- delphia Sept. 1, 1774, addressed to the Merchants of New York. By A. W. Farmer. (Quotation.) New-York: Printed: London, Reprinted for Richardson and Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange, 1775. reds ys $45. Octavo, 4, 59 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 78563; Rich page 223. First English edition. (Serle, Ambroise.) Americans against Liberty: or, An Essay on the Nature and Principles of true Freedom, showing that the designs and conduct of the Americans tend only to tyranny and slavery. (Quota- tion.) London: J. Mathews, M DCC LXXV. (165) $25. Octavo, 64 pages. Half Spanish calf, gilt top by Riviere and Son. Sabin 79269; Rich, page 216. Important revolutionary tract. A very bitter attack on the bonafides of the Americans. Written by the Under-secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Dartmouth. Sewall, Joseph. Jehovah is the King and Saviour of his people. A Sermon Preached at Boston Aug. 17th, 1727, on the Death of King George. By Joseph Sewall, A.M. (Quotation.) Boston: B. Green, M.DCC. XXVII. (241) $27.50. Duodecimo, 4, 24 and three blank pages. Full calf. Evans 2927; Sabin 79422. Three pages of manuscripts of J. Sewall inserted. Seward, Anna. Monody on Major Andre. By Miss Seward. (Author of the Elegy on Captain Cook.) To which are added Letters adressed to her BY Major Andre, in the Year 1769. Lichfield: J. Jackson, M DCC LXXXI. (24a) $20. Small quarto, 4, 47, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 79478. Dedicated to Sir Henry Clinton. It is authoraphed by the author at the end. At the bottom of various pages are historical footnotes explanatory of allusions in the monody. First edition. Sharp (John). A Sermon preached at Trinity-Church in New York, in America August 13, 1706, at the funeral of the Right Honorable Kath- erine Lady Cornbury . . . wife of His Excellency Edward Lord Viscount Cornbury, Her Majesty’s Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Provinces of New York, New Jersey and Territories de- pending thereon in America, etc. (Quotation.) By John Sharp, Chap- lain to the Queens Forces in New York. London: Printed and Sold by H. Hills. For the benefit of the poor (1706). (211) $16. Duodecimo, 16 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 79889. The husband of Lady Cornbury was of such malodorous reputation that when, as Governor of New York, he made ap- plication to its General Assembly for a grant for a public funeral for his wife, they declined, but at the same time informed his Excellency that “they would readily re- spond at any time to a similar request for himself.” (Shaw, Samuel.) Immanuel: Or, A Discovery of True Religion. As it imports a living Principle in the Minds of Men......... Byam oy, (Quotation.) Boston: Rogers and Fowle, 1741. (519) $6. Duodecimo, 2, 259 pages. Original sheep. Autograph of Ezekiel Williams. Evans 4804 ; Sabin 79956. First printed in London 1667 or earlier, 93 (Shebbeare, John.) A Fourth Letter to the People of England on the Conduct of the M..... rs in Alliances, Fleet, and Armies, since the first Differences on the Ohio, to the taking of Minorca by the French. (Quotation.) London: M. Collier, 1756. (100) $40. Octavo, 4, 111 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin 80046. A well-written pamphlet, in which a reason is set forth, that is not usually given, for the English and French War in America. Some traders, subjects of the King of Great Britain, went to the Ohio to trafic with the natives. When the Canadian French heard of this, they took the traders prisoners, confiscated their goods, and finally imprisoned them at Rochelle. There they applied to the British Ambassador for immediate release and for indemni- fication. Instead of which he asked the French government for their release as a great favour, thereby suggesting that Ohio was French property. Under the circum- stances that nation began to build forts and blockhouses, which so alarmed the people of Virginia that Mr. Washington attacked them in those parts, and was defeated. In the face of this, the same ambassador had, in the meantime, granted the lands on the Ohio to a Quaker of the City of London, and his associates. To this, France took exception. Hence, the difficulty which afterwards arose. The pamphlet attacks the Ministry and Generals appointed by it for their incapacity in conducting the campaign against the French. ; Sherman, Roger. An Astronomical Diary, or an Almanack For the year 1760.....Calculated for the Meridian of Boston..... By Roger Sher- man. Boston: Printed for D. Henchman, etc. ..1760. (216) $30. Duodecimo, 24 pages. Half morocco. Evans lists the almanac in error under 1759 (No. 8491). Paltsits, page 25, lists 2 issues of the same. The above is the issue with the 4 line note after imprint. Morrison, page 49; Nichols, page 50. Contains a four- page account of the capture of Quebec, being one of the earliest printed accounts of the same. With the following caption,—‘Good News for New-England. Containing the most particular account that has yet come to Hand, of the Reduction of the City of Quebeck........ by the forces under the Command of Major Wolfe........ * Sherwood, Samuel. The Church’s Flight into the Wilderness: an Address on the Times. Containing Observations on Scripture Prophecies: shewing that sundry of them plainly relate to Great Britain and the American Colonies and are fulfilling in the present day. Delivered on a Public Occasion, January 17, 1776. By Samuel Sherwood, A.M. (Quo- tation.) New York: S. Loudon, M. DCC. LXXVI. (338) $50. Octavo, 54 pages. Half morocco. Evans 15082; Sabin 80455. The author addressed this interesting revolutionary Address to John Hancock and all the “respectable mem- bers” of the Continental Congress. (Shipley, Jonathan, Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.) A Speech, intended to have been spoken on the Bill for Altering the Charters of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay. London, Printed: Philadelphia: Reprinted Benjamin Towne, (1774). (548) $40. Octavo, 18 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Hildeburn, 3108; Evans 13621; Sabin 80522. “A golden speech unspoken, which illustrates the wisdom, justice, foresight and elo- quence of the good Bishop. It will not be unpleasant for Americans to hear his opin- ion, ‘My Lord, I look upon North America as the only great nursery of freemen now left upon face of the earth.’” This speech does equal honour to the understanding and the heart that dictated it. The author was a friend and correspondent of Frank- lin and Bigelow thinks that Franklin was concerned in its publication. Shirley, William. A Letter from William Shirley, Esq., Governor of Massachusett’s-Bay, To his Grace, the Duke of Newcastle: with a Journal of the Siege of Louisbourg, and other Operations of the Forces, during the Expedition against the French Settlements on Cape-Breton; drawn up at the desire of the Council and House of Representatives 94 of the Province of Massachusett’s-Bay ; approved and attested by Sir William Pepperrel, and the other Principal Officers who commanded in the said Expedition. Published by Authority. London: E. Owen, 1746. Boston in New England: Re-printed by J. Draper, (1746). (351) $100. Duodecimo, 31 pages. Full morocco, gilt edges. Evans 5863; Sabin 80546. Important French and Indian War tract and the best contemporary account we have of the event. This Journal was drawn up at the desire of the Council and House and Representatives of Massachusetts Bay and was approved by the Officers of the Expedi- tion. The Micmac Indians took part in this campaign. Shirley, William. A Letter from William Shirley, Esq;...... To the Duke of Newcastle: with a Journal of the Siege of Louisbourg..... (as before). Published by Authority. London: E. Owen, 1746. (133) $45. Octavo, 32 pages. Three-quarter morocco, gilt top by Morrell. Sabin 80545; Rich, page 82. First edition of this day-to-day account of the battles. (Shirley, William.) Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War between the English and French in North America. From the Commencement of it in 1744, to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle. Containing in Particular an Account of the Importance of Nova Scotia or Acadie and the Isle of Cape Breton to both Nations. London: R. and J. Dodsley, M, DCC, LVII. (501) $50. Octavo, VIII, 102 pages. Half morocco, gilt edges by Root and Son. Sabin 80550; Rich does not mention the item. Very important French and Indian War item that gives a history of the abortive Crown Point expedition in 1746 as well as all the other military events of the war and is some times attributed to Shirley who had a chief hand in instigating the preparations of the different expeditions. (Shirley, William.) The Conduct of Major Gen. Shirley: late General and Commander in Chief of his Majesty’s Forces in North America. Briefly stated. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. (373) $60. Octavo, 8, 130, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top by Morrell. Portrait and interesting document signed by Shirley and relating to American affairs inserted. Sabin 80544; Rich, page 125. The authorship is sometimes attributed to Shirley himself. It was probably, however, written by his secretary, William Alexander, afterwards Earl! of Stirling. On account of the various attempts made to traduce the conduct of Maj.- Gen. Shirley while in command in North America, this tract was issued with the in- tent to give a plain narrative of the measures pursued by him in the execution of his duty, that a right judgment might be formed of his behaviour in the discharge of it, and his conduct vindicated from all imputations of having been the cause of the mis- fortunes which had befallen the different British expeditions against the French. Full of information respecting the War on the New York frontier, the attack on Niagara, the French encroachments at Crown Point, the engaging the Indians of the Six Nations. General Braddock’s expedition to Oswego, Capt. Bradstreet to build two Sloops upon Lake Ontario, French encroachments upon Nova Scotia, Expedition to Crown Point. The dislodging the French from Fort Frontenac, The Operations upon Lake Ontario, ete. Shorter, Cathechism, (The). Agrees upon by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster. Boston: Thomas and John Fleet, 1765. (148) $15. Sextodecimo, 24 pages. Sewn uncut enclosed in a cloth protecting case. Evans 10206; Eames, page 73. 95 Short History, (A) of the Conduct of the present Minitsry, With Regard to the American Stamp Act. The Second Edition. London: J. Almon, 1766. (420) $12.50 Octavo, 21, 3 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 80638; Rich, page 157. ‘A most bitter, virulent, outrageous attack on the ministry.” Short View (A) of the political life and transactions Of a late Rt. Hon. Commoner; To which is added a Full Refutation of an invidious Pamphlet supposed to be published under the Sanction of a very popu- lar Nobleman, entitled, “An Enquiry into the Conduct of a late Rt. Hon. Commoner.” London W: Griffin, 1766. (110) $40. Octavo, 95 pages. Half calf, gilt top. First edition. Sabin 80699 mentions only a second edition. Not in Rich. A French and Indian war pamphlet which relates to the loss of Oswega, the reduction of Louisburg and St. John, the surrender of Fort Frontenac, ete., and deals also with the Stamp Act. Slater, Lionel. Instructions for the Cultivating and Raising Flax and Hemp: In a better Manner, than that generally Practis’d in Ireland. By Lionel Slater of Cabragh..... Printed at Dublin 1724. And now published for the benefit of the Inhabitants of New-England, and recommended to their perusal. Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1735. (194) The two, $30. Octavo, 4, 25 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 81701; Evans 3959. Bound in the same volume: Observations made by Richard Hall of the City of Dublin, Hemp and Flax Dresser on the Methods used in Holland, in Cultivating or Raising of Hemp and Flax. And Likewise, His Remarks on Mr. Slator’s Book......... Boston: S. Knee- land and T. Green. 1735. Evans 3911. Not mentioned in Sabin. Two interesting tracts. Smith, Cotton-Mather. A Good Minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the Words of Faith. A Sermon preached at New-Preston, at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Jeremiah Day,..... January 31, 1771. By Cotton-Mather Smith, A.M. Pastor of the Church in Sharon. Hart- ford: Green & Watson, M, DCC, LXX. (263) $20. Octavo, 30 pages. Half morocco. Evans 11861; Trumbull 1384. The mother of this author was the granddaughter of Increase Mather. Smith, Josiah. A Discourse delivered at Boston, on July 11, 1726. Then occasion’d by the Author’s Ordination. And now published at the re- quest of Several Gentlemen, who were present at the delivery of it. By Josiah Smith, B.A., and Pastor of a Church in Bermuda. Boston: Printed Sor Soo "Gertie ca 2 near the Draw-Bridge, 1726. (239) $20. Duodecimo, 2, 4, 22 pages. Half morocco. Evans 2818. Dexter 2878. The Preface by Benjamin Coleman gives interesting details about the life of the author. (Smith, William.) A Brief State of the Province of Pennsylvania, in which the Conduct of their Assemblies for several Years past is im- partially examined, and the true Cause of the continual Encroachments of the French displayed, more especialy the secret design of their late unwarrantable Invasion and Settlement upon the River Ohio. To which is annexed, An Easy Plan for restoring Quiet in the Province Pra Go. Letter from a Gentleman who has resided many years in 96 Pennsylvania to his Friend in London. The Second edition. London: R. Griffiths, 1755. (366) $32. Octavo, 45 pages. Half morocco. Rich, page 111. Important pamphlet considerably relat- ing to the French and Indian War especially to the French encroachments along the Ohio, St. Lawrence, Quebec, Oswega, etc., and the general state of affairs leading up to the old French War in Canada. It was continued in the following pamphlet. See Franklin for an answer. (Smith, William.) A Brief View Of the Conduct of Pennsylvania, For the Year 1755; So far as it affected the General Service of the British Colonies, particularly the Expedition under the late General Brad- dock. With an Account of the shocking Inhumanities, committed by Incursions of the Indians upon the Province in October and November. le eee eee Being a Sequel to a late well-known Pamphlet, intitled, A Brief State of Pennsylvania. In a Second Letter to a Friend in London. (Quotation from Shakespeare.) London: Printed for R. Griffiths . and Sold by Mr. Bradford in Philadelphia, 1756. (406) $70. Octavo, 88 pages. Full crushed leavant morocco, gilt edges by Mensing. Rich, page 117. Continuation of the former pamphlet and one of a series. With an account of the shocking inhumanities committed by Incursions of the Indians upon- the Province in October and November, which occasioned a body of the Inhabitants to come down, while the Assembly were sitting and insist upon an immediate Suspension of all disputes and the Passing of a Law for the Defence of the Country. Benjamin Franklin furnished to the English the supplies against the French in Canada. (Smith, William.) An Answer to Mr. Franklin’s Remarks, on a late Protest. Philadelphia: William Bradford, M.DCC.LXIV. (407) $50. Octavo, 22 pages. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges partly uncut by Bradstreet. Sabin 25577; Evans 9841; Ford 278. MHildeburn 1952. In the local elections in 1764 Franklin was defeated. His friends voted his appointment as agent for the Province to England. William Smith protested against this in a pamphlet, which Franklin an- swered in His Remarks, to which the Rev. made the above reply. He states in his opening sentences, ‘“‘A day or two after Mr. Franklin’s departure for England, having seen his remarks in the hands of a gentleman, I gave them a cursory perusal; but found them so replete with bitter calumnies and gross evasions, that I judged them unworthy of any further notice. But being since told his deluded partizans have begun to consider this neglect of his performance, as an argument of its unanswerable nature; I shall bestow a few hours in order to convince them, if possible, that the real design of this their redoubted champion, was not to elucidate, but to disguise and conceal the truth; which it must be allowed, according to his usual custom, he has very artfully, but not honestly done.” Smith (William). A | Sermon | on the present situation of | American Affairs. | Preached at Christ-Church, | June 23, 1775. | At the request of the Officers of the | Third Batallion of the City of | Philadelphia, and District of Southwark, | By William Smith, D.D. | Provost of the Col- lege in that City | Philadelphia: | Printed and sold by | James Hum- phreys, junior, | M, DCC, LXXV. (438) $20. Octavo, 4, 4, 32 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Evans 14459; Hildeburn 3288 mention but one Philadelphia edition. Two were published which can be distinguished by the different set up of the title page and in the instance of the above by its having on the title page a single rule above the date and a double rule below the author’s name. Two editions of this sermon were also printed in London and one in Wilmington, Del., and one in Bristol, Eng., and Belfast, Eng. Doctor Smith was born at Aber- deen in Scotland. He favored the American view of the differences with England and delivered the above sermon at the request of the officers of Colonel Cadwallader’s Batallion. This sermon produced a sensation both in America and England; but subsequently, owing to his marriage with Rebecca, daughter of Governor Moore, he lost popularity, and was looked upon by many as a Loyalist advocate. 97 Smith, William. A | Sermon | on the | present situation | of | American Affairs. | At the Request of the Officers of the | Third Battalion of the City of | Philadelphia, and District of Southwark. | By William Smith, D.D. | Provost of the College in that City. | Philadelphia: | Printed and Sold by | James Humphreys, junior, | M,DCC,LXXV. (437) $20. Octavo, 4, 4, 82 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Evans 14459 (?) Hildeburn 3288 (7). This variation can be distinguished by its having a single rule above and below the author’s name, and a double rule above the date. The entire set-up of the two edi- tions is also quite different. Smith, William. A Sermon on the present Situation of American Affairs, preached...(as before) By William Smith, D.D. Philadelphia Printed: London Re-printed, a Second Time, for Edward and Charles Dilly, MI DEC EARY. (248) $20. Octavo, 4, 4, 82 pages. Half morocco. Rich gives no details. Smith, William. A Sermon on the present situation of American Affairs ..(as before.) BY William Smith, D.D....Philadelphia: Printed: London Re-printed, a Third Time, for Edward and Charles Dilly, M, DECRLXAY: (392) $20. Octavo, 24 pages. Half roan, uncut. Rich gives no details. Smith, William. A Sermon on the present situation of American Affairs ...(as before.) Belfast: H. and R. Joy, M. DCC. LXXV. 7 (474) $20. Octavo, 23 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Smith, William. An Address from William Smith, of South Carolina, to his constituents. Philadelphia: Printed in the year M DCC XCIV. : (576) $10. Octavo, 32 pages. Half morocco. Relates to the Revision of the treaty of 1783 and Jays Treaty. (Smith, William L.) The Pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the Presi- dency Examined; and the Charges against John Adams Refuted. Addressed to the Citizens of America in General; and Particularly to the Electors of the President. (In two parts.) United States, October and November, 1796. (595) $25. Octavo, 64, 2, 42 pages. Half brown levant morocco. In part II the last signature is printed on a longer page than the rest of the book and two of the pages have been folded in, while the other two have been trimmed into the text. Tompkins 252. This tract has also been attributed to Noah Webster. Callender in the American Annual] Register defends Jefferson against the attacks of the author. (Smyth, David W.) A Short Topographical Description of his Majesty’s Province of Upper Canada, in North America. To which is annexed a Provincial Gazetteer. London: W. Faden, 1799. (444) $25, Octavo, 4, 164 pages. Folding table. Original boards. Rich page 414. Not in Dionne or Gagnon. Staehlin, J. Von. An Account of the New Northern Archipelago lately discovered by the Russians in the Seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir. By «Mir <)>) von) -otaehiins 32.5 Translated from the German Original. London C. Heydinger, M, DCC, LX XIV. (546) $15. Octavo XX, 118 pages. Colored folding map. Half calf, yellow edges. Charles W. Smith, page 160. Important book for the history of the Far North West. 98 Stanhope, George. The Easterly Conversion of Islanders, A Wise Ex- pedient for propagating Christianity. A Sermon Preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 19 Feb., 1713-14. By George Stanhope, D.D., Dean of Canter- bury. London: Joseph Downing, 1714. (300) $20. Small quarto, 55, 1 pages. Two folded plates containing plan and views of Codring- ton College, Barbadoes. Half morocco, gilt top. The Abstract (pp. 33-55) in this volume is particularly interesting, giving full particulars about the publishing of White Kennet’s Bibliothecoe Americanoe Primordia, the sending new Missionaries to S. Carolina and Pennsylvania, building churches at Piscatoqua, New York (for the Dutch), Staten Island, ete., the instruction of Indians and Negroes, together with very interesting letters from Aibany and Queen’s Fort, relating to the Mohawk Indians. State of Massachusetts-Bay. In the House of Representatives, April 30th, 1777. (at the end:) John Avery, Deo’y. Sec’y. (Boston: Peter Edes, 1777). (47) $60. Folio, 2 pages. Folded and bound in half morocco. Evans No. 15432. Interesting Revolutionary Broadsheet with corrections in ink made by a contemporanian. “Whereas this court have undoubted intelligence, that our enemies are determined to exert their utmost efforts to effect the purposes they have so long determined on to enslave the inhabitants of America and by ravages and devastations, with cruelty unheard of in a civilized nation, to revenge themselves on all ranks, ages and sexes, for the noble stand and opposition made to their lawless claims: and whereas the season is far advanced, and the enemy are already opening the campaign, with an evident design to wreck their vengeance upon New England, and by finding new scenes of desolation, have it in their power to indulge with greater latitude, that wan- tonness of cruelty which has marked their steps in some of our sister states: and the safety of the United States, and the danger we are immediately exposed to, as well as good policy, call loudly upon us to oppose with vigor and resolution this effort of our enemies, which probably may be the last they can make; it is therefore agreeable to the resolves of Congress and the safety of this State.’ (A resolution follows to enlist by draft a number equal to one-seventh of all male inhabitants of every town, place and plantation in the state.) State of New-Hampshire. By the Council and House of Representatives. A Proclamation for a General Fast. Given at the Council Chamber in Exeter, July 19, 1777, M. Weare, President the Council. God save the United States of America. (Exeter: Printed by R. L. Fowle, 1777). (27b) $100. Folio. One page folded and bound in half morocco. Evans 15455. An interesting proclamation issued after the evacuation of Ticonderoga and the defeat at Hubbard- ton. July, 1777. “Almighty God........ having been pleased in his wise Providence to wave the Banners of Slavery over our Heads, and try us by a destructive War, which now rages in all its Horrors within our Borders and lately suffered our Enemies to obtain considerable Advantages of our Forces in the Northern Department”........ State of New-Hampshire. In the House of Representatives, June 20th, 1783. An Address to the People of the State of New Hampshire..... Josiah Bartlett, President P. T. Printed at Exeter, 1783. (39) $50. Folio, folded and bound in half morocco. Evans 18046. ‘Whereas the United States in Congress assembled, have taken into Consideration so much of the eight Articles of the Confederation and perpetual Union between the Thirteen States of America, namely: All Charges of War, and all other Expences, that shall be incurred for the common defence...... shall be defrayed out of a common Treasury”...... The Broad- side then relates to the acceptance by the State of New Hampshire of the Resolution of Congress fixing the ratio of Payment by the States for the charges of the war. 99 State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, December 2d Session, 1776. Colophon: Providence: Printed by John Carter, (1777.) (571) $150. Octavo, 8 pages. Half morocco, uncut. Evans 15573; Winship, page 35. Important Revolutionary act. “An Act to prevent Monopolies and Oppression, by excessive and unreasonable Prices for many of the Necessaries and Conveniences of Life, and for preventing Engrossers and for the better Supply of our Troops and the Army with such Necessaries as may be wanted.” State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ; In General Assembly, August Session, A. D. 1785. Henry Ward, Secretary. (Providence: J. Carter, 1785.) (25) $100. Narrow folio. Broadside. Folded and bound in half morocco. Winship, page 49. Not mentioned in Evans. An Act for Granting and apportioning a Tax of Twenty Thousand Pounds, Lawfull Money, upon the Inhabitants of this State. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly December Session, A. D. 1786 (Colophon:) Providence: Printed by John Carter (1786). (20A) $100. Folio, 2 pages. Folded and bound in half morocco. Evans 19957; Winship, page 51. An Act laying Duties of Excise on certain Articles therein described. Among the articles on which duty was to be collected will be found Wine, Rum, Spirits, Tea, Cocoa, Chocolate. State of Rhode Island, &c. In General Assembly, October Session, 1787. Henry Ward, Secretary. (Providence, 1787.) (20) $100. Folio. Broaside. Half morocco. Not mentioned in Evans. Winship, page 52. An Act for the more effectually punishing Persons who shall be convicted of Larcenies, and for preventing of Thefts. State of South Carolina. At the General Assembly begun and holden at Charlestown, on Monday, the 4th Day of January........ 1779, and from thence continued........ To thirteenth day of February........ 1779. (Charles-Town: Peter Timothy, 1779). (53) $100. Folio. Four pages. Half morocco. Not in Evans and Tower and evidently undescribed. Impertant revolutionary act relating to the Regulation of the Militia of the State and giving authority to the Governor to assist with one-third of the militia any sister state, if invaded. Contains also an act relating to the penalty of anybody not properly armed, etc., ete. South Carolina was in the latter half of 1778 and later on the scene of many skirmishes and battles. Strongholds were taken and retaken. Just after the act was printed, General Provost went plundering and burning through parts of South Carolina, offering pardon and reward to Rebels who would join the British. His men certainly destroyed any publications of the “Rebels” that they would see. State of the Island of Jamaica, (The). Chieflly in relations to its Com- merce and the conduct of the Spaniards in the West Indies. By a Person who resided several years at Jamaica. Addressed to a Member of Parliament. London: H. Whitridge, 1726. (460) $30. Octavo, 79 pages. Half morocco. Sabin 356638; Rich, page 89. Contains also an Hx- tract from the treaty of 17138. A list of ships taken by the Spaniards. Extracts from the minutes of the assembly of Jamaica 1725, etc. Not in Cushing. Not in Halkett & Laing. 100 State of the Province Georgia, (A.) Attested upon Oath in the Court of Savannah, November 10, 1740. London: W. Meadows, M DCC XLII. (122) $75. Octavo, 4, 32 pages. Full Spanish calf, gilt edges, gilt tooling by Morrell. Sabin 27113: Wegelin, page 21. It was answered by “A Brief Account.” The tract is attributed to William Stevens and Patrick Graham by the historian and authority on Georgia, C. C. Jones, Jun. A copy in Harvard College without date is attributed to William Stephens in the Harvard College Library. It was reprinted in Force’s Tracts. Respectable witnesses bear testimony, from actual residence in the colony, to its promise of fertility of soil, and to the contentment of the worthier section of the colonists. Mr. Bolzius, a Lutheran minister, writes from Ebenezer, in Georgia, to a friend in Europe, that “the land is able to provide every good thing, and more parti- cularly is pasture very plenteous,’”’ with other favorable reports. Stearns, Charles. The Ladies’ Philosophy of Love. A Poem, in Four Cantos. Now first published, according to Act of Congress. Written in 1774. By Charles Stearns, A.B. Leominister, Mass. Printed by John Prentiss & Co., for the Author, 1797. (489) $25. Small quarto, 76 pages. Original sheep. The Holden copy. Wegelin, page 47. The author was born at Leominster in 1753, graduated at Harvard in 1773, became a Tutor at Cambridge 1780-81, called to the Pastorate of the Church in Lincoln, Mass., and ordained Nov. 7, 1781. Harvard conferred the degree of D.D. upon him in 1810. The Preface says: “When the poem was written the author was in his twenty-second year and under no obligation to any of the fair; since that time he has been a lover, a husband, a father of a numerous family, and a preceptor for many years to youth of both sexes. His experiences has not disproved, but confirmed his principles.” (Steele, Joshua.) An Account of a late Conference on the Occurrences in America. Ina letter toa Friend. London: J. Almon, M, DCC, LXVI. (85) $15. Octavo, 40 pages. Half roan. Sabin 90 gives date in error.as 1761. Cushing, page 4. Rich page 154 says: “An imaginary conference, managed with decency and good sense, but the strength of the argument lies altogether on the side of America. The author is supposed to be Joshua Steele.” Interesting Stamp Act Pamphlet, Steuben, Baron De. A Letter on the Subject of an Established Militia, and Military Arrangements, Addressed to the Inhabitants of the United States by Baron De Steuben. (Quotation.) New-York: Printed by J. M’Lean and Co., M DCC LXXXIV. (526) $100. Small quarto, 4, 16 pages. Cloth. Original wrappers bound in. Griffin, page 193; Church 1208 ; Evans 18796. Steuben’s Famous Address in which he declares that he has haz- arded his life for the blessings of liberty with which he must identify himself. He warns the people “‘no country ever risqued their political existence without one that did not fall a prey to the avarice or ambitions of her neighbours.” “The local situa- tion of America, happily removed from Europe and her wranglings, must long continue to make a large army unnecessary—it is, however, not without its difficulties and its dangers Beret ABE AS I am conscious in the opinion of many I am undertaking a difficult task in attempting to convince a free people, who have established their liberties ° by the unparlleled exercise of their virtues, that a permanent Military Estab- lishment is necessary to their happiness, absolutely to their foederal existence........ etc. His address is a plea for a standing army. Stevens, Benjamin. A Sermon Occasioned by the Death of The Hon- ourable Sir William Pepperrell, Bart. Lieutenant-General in his Majesty’s Service &C. Who died at His Seat in Kittery, July 6th, 1759. Aged 63. Preached the next Lord’s Day after his Funeral. By Benjamin Stevens, A.M. Boston: Edes and Gill, M, DCC, LIX. (440) $30. Small quarto, 24 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Evans 8497. Fine historical sermon with many references to Pepperrell’s Expedition against Louisburg in 1745. 101 Stevens, Benjamin. A Sermon preached at Boston before the Great and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, May 27, 1761, being the day appointed for the Election. By Benjamin Stevens, A.M., N.B.. Several Passages omitted in preaching are inserted. Boston: Printed by John Draper, 1761. (528) $10. Octavo, 72, 1 pages. Cloth, uncut. Evans 9017. An important historical discourse touching upon the trade of the Colonies, death of George II., acquisitions from the French, Accession of George III., etc., ete. Stiles, Ezra. The United States elevated to Glory and Honour. A Sermon preached before his Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Governour...... and ‘The Assembly of the State of Connecticut convened at Hartford, May 8th MDCCLXXXIII. BY Ezra Stiles, D.D., L.L., President of Yale college. (Quotation.) Second edition, Corrected. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, M DCC LXXXV. (235) $15. Duodecimo, 172 8 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Evans 19216. This fine historical sermon relates almost entirely to the American Revolution. Strictures on the Peace, with America, France, and Spain, Addressed to the Public at Large, Illustrated with a map of America and the West- Indies. London: Matthew Richmond (1783). (600) $45. Octavo, 2, 18 pages. Colored folding map. Half morocco. Very important discussion of the Peace treaty with comparison of former treaties. (Sullivan, James.) The Path to Riches. An Inquiry into the origin and use of Money and into the principles of stocks and banks. To which are subjoined some thoughts respecting a bank for the Commonwealth. By A Citizen of Massachusetts. (Quotation.) Boston: I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, M DCC XCII. (349) $15. Octavo, 77 pages. (Name on title in autograph of author?) Evans 24829. Important financial tract. Tennent, Gilbert. The Good Man’s Character...In a Funeral Discourse, with some Enlargements Occasioned by the Death of Captain William Grant of this City, who departed this life, September 30, 1756. And now published at the Desire of the Hearers. By Gilbert Tennent, A.M. (Quotation.) Philadelphia, William Bradford. (1756.) (605) $60. Small quarto, 2, 39 pages and genuine blank leaf. Enclosed in cloth protecting slip case. Evans 7797; Hildeburn 1502. Very fine Historical Discourse. Refers at length to the loss of Fort Du Quesne (Pittsburgh) and other Western territory to the French and scores the legislators of the day for not awakening to the seriousness of the Situation. Thomas’s Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont Almanack, for the year 1786. Printed at Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas. (1785) (57) $12. Duodecimo, 44 pages. Stitched as issued enclosed in half morocco slip case. Nichols, page 66; Morrison, page 59; Evans No. 19027. ‘The latter gives Ezra Gleason as author. Contains: ‘A Declaration of rights, of the inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.” Thomas’s Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont Almanack for the year 1788. Printed at Worcester, by Isaiah Thomas. (1787) (259) Se Duodecimo, 48 pages. Stitched as issued and enclosed in half morocco slip case. Nichols, page 68, call in error for 44 pages. Morrison, page 60, and Evans No. 20392 call in error for 36 pages. Contains the ‘Proceedings of the Federal Convention.” Not mentioned in Ford. 102 Thompson, Thomas. An Account of Two Missionary Voyages By the Appointment of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in For- eign Parts. The one to New Jersey in North America, the other from America to the Coast of Guiney. By Thomas Thompson, A. M. Lon- don: Benj. Dod, MDCCLVIII. (293) $57.50. Octavo 4, 87, 1 pages. Stitched uncut enclosed in half morocco slip case. Rich, page 126. The author complains of the prejudicial influence which the Quakers and Anabaptists had upon the progress of the Church of New England. He had under his charge churches in Freehold, Shrewsbury, and Middletown. He is much grieved with the neglected state of the unfinished church buildings, and praises George Keith, formerly a Quaker, but now one of the Society’s missionaries, and mentions several benefactors; his travels among the Indians, etc. (Thompson, Th.) A Letter from New Jersey, in America, giving some Account and Description of that Province. By a Gentleman, late of Christ’s College, Cambridge. London M. Cooper. M.DCC.LVI. (116) $165. Octavo, 26 pages. Full crimson levant morocco, gilt back, inside borders and edges by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd. The Crane copy with his bookplate. Rich, page 117, is the only reference I found relating to the book, which seems to be absent in most collections that I consulted. The book gives a short account of the present state of the colony of New Jersey with an interesting three-page reference to the Indians, ete. Thoughts of a Traveller (The) upon our American Disputes. London J. Ridley M DCC LXXIV. (146) $20 Octavo, 2, 27 pages. Half calf, gilt top, other edges uncut. Interesting pre-revolution- ary tract mainly relating to the Stamp Act. Rich, page 200, says: This pamphlet con- tains some good together with some inconsistent observations. Thoughts on the Origin and Nature of Government. Occasioned by the late Disputes between Great Britain and her American Colonies. Writ- ten in the Year 1766. (Quotation.) London T. Becket M DCC- ExLx, EVAN) Wales Pas Octavo, 64 pages. Half polished mottled calf, gilt top by Riviere. Rich, page 170, cites the M.R. as follows: The Writer of this pamphlet “resolves all right and law into power.” As it is by no means to be wished that Britons or British Americans will ever subscribe to our authors’ ideas, he may stand a better chance by publishing his future thoughts on government at Morocco, under the emperor’s imprimatur. Thoughts on the Peace, in a letter from the Country. London: J. De- brete M; DCC LAXXIITL (597) $25. Octavo, 4, 33 pages. Half morocco. Rich, page 413. Interesting discussion on the treaty that closed the war for Independence. The last three articles are in favour of the peace, and defend the ministry. . (Thurlow, Lord Edward.) A Refutation of the Letter to an Honble. Brigadier-General, Commander of his Majesty’s Forces in Canada. By an Officer. Urit enim fulgore suo. London: R. Stevens, M DCC LX. (473) $50. Octavo, 2, 52 pages. Full polished calf, gilt top, other edges uncut by Riviere & Son. Sabin 36904; Rich page 133. Autograph of Robert Melville 1761 on title. The Honorable Brigadier General is Lord George Townshend. After the fall of Quebec, Gen. Townshend, who succeeded Gen. Wolfe in command of the British, returned to England and claimed what most people thought was more than his share of credit for the victory. He was reproved in “A Letter to an Honorable Brig. General” which was answered by this work. Notwithstanding the attribution of authorship the “Officer” who wrote this interesting pamphlet, it may be that Townshend wrote this pamphlet himself. The personal bitterness contained in it seems to point to him as the author. 103 Timberlake, Henry. The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (who accompanied the three Cherokee Indians to England in 1760). Con- tains what he observed during his travels to and from that nation, wherein the country, government, customs of the inhabitants are described. Also The Principal Occurences during their Residence in London. Illustrated with An Accurate Map of their Over-hill Settle- ment, and a curious Secret Journal, taken by the Indians out of the Pocket of a Frenchman they had killed. London: Printed for the Au- thor M DCC LXV. (364) $90. Octavo, 8, 160 pages. Folding map and table. Full Spanish calf, gilt edges by Riviere and Son. Rich page 147. Original edition which contains information on the habits, dress, arms and songs of the Cherokees. The map of “Over the Hills” drawn by the author, shows the Tenessee River Country around Fort Loudon. In England the author with his Indians met with an inhospitable reception and got himself in debt for their expenses. (Toplady, A. M.) An Old Fox Tarr’d and Featherd. Occasioned by what is called Mr. John Wesley’s Calm Address to our American Colo- nies. (Quotation). By an Hanoverian. London John French. 1775. (552) ae Duodecimo, 24 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Rich page 221; Green 305, calls it an unworthy piece. The Intention of the Hanoveranian is to show Mr. Wesley’s honesty as a plagiarist, pointing out not less than thirty-one paragraphs borrowed from Johnson’s Taxation, &c., and to raise a little skin by giving the Fox a gentle flogging as a turncoat. To the Commissioners of Forfeitures of the Western District of the State of New York. Whereas by an Act, entitled, An Act to liquidate and settle the accounts of the troops of this State in the service of the ht assed) the ath CCL a ZOO. ote Signed (in ink) by A. Blood- good. (New York 1781.) (314) $40. Small quarto. Broadside bound in half morocco. Not in Evans, ete. Geo. G. Klock’s Application for the Apprisement of a Tract of Land in Harrisons Patent, on the North side of the Mohawk River, containing about 600 acres. (Townshend, Charles.) Remarks on the Letter address’d to Two Great Men, in a letter to the author of that Piece. London: R. and J. Dod- sley (1760) ? (109) $25. Octavo, 64 pages. Half calf, gilt top. Sabin 69470. Not in Rich. Also attributed to Wm. Burke. The author advocates our keeping every part of Canada, ete. “If France is influenced by a dread of the exertion of the power of the British Power, had acknowledged these claims, had given up Nova Scotia or Acadia, with its ancient and true boundaries; had demolished their fort in the Province of New York, had re- moved themselves from the Ohio and renounced all claims to that Territory, and that on these concessions the ministry had then ceased from hostilities without acquiring: or even claiming Canada,” ete. This is an answer to Douglas’s Letter and was in turn answered by Franklin. See under Douglas and Franklin. (Townshend, Charles.) Remarks on the Letter Address’d to Two Great enc, 8 (as before) The Third Edition, corrected. London R. and J. Dodsley; (1761) (549) $12. Octavo, 72 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Sabin 69470. 104 Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty, and the United States of America, conditionally ratified by the Senate of the United States at Philadelphia, June 24, 1795. To which is added a copious Appendix. Second edition. Philadelphia: printed by Lang & Ustick, for Mathew Carey, 118 Market Street, Nov. 2, 1795. (191) — $10. Octavo, 190 pages. Full calf, gilt top. Matthew Carey, the Editor, states in his ad- vertisement, “The importance of the pending Treaty with Great Britain, and the frequent references, in the discussion of its merits, to the Treaties with France and the Federal Constitution, ete., have induced (me) to make a compilation of as many of the documents connected with this interesting subject, as might be necessary to enable the reader to decide for himself, and not take cn trust, the interested quotations of party writers.” Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between his Britannick Majesty and the United States of America. Signed at London, the 19th of November, 1794. Published by Authority. Quebec: Printed by Command of the Governor, by William Vondenvelden. M DCC- XCVI. (55) 2 4925) Quarto, 45 pages. Half morocco. Not in Gagnon and evidently undescribed Canadian issue of Jay’s Treaty, which removed certain dissatisfactions of the Treaty of 1783. Text in English and French. The De Puy copy had only 39 pages, where the treaty ends with finis. The pages to 45 incl. contain an “Explanatory article,” which belongs to a complete copy. Treaty of Peace, Good Correspondence and Neutrality in America be- tween the Most Serene and Mighty Prince James II, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., and the most Serene and mighty Prince Lewis XIV, the Most Christian King. Concluded the 6-16 day of November, 1686. In the Savoy: Thomas Newcomb, M DC LXXXVI. (479) $160. Small quarto, 19, 1 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Not in Rich, ete One of the earliest treaties relating to American between England and France. The Treaty is very important for the History of America, especially for the history of the Hudson’s Bay Company. After the French had captured several forts belonging to the Hud- son’s Bay Company, the Adventurers were excited to a pitch or fury, and Lord Churchill, the Governor of the Company, presented a petition to the King practically asking for a war with France. But James had little inclination towards such a step. He had a commission appointed which, with a similar French Commission concluded the above treaty. Some of the articles, however, were productive of much confusion and misunderstanding. (See Willson’s History of the Great Company). Truest and Largest Account (The) of the Late Earthquake in Jamaica, June the 7th, 1692. Written by a Reverend Divine there to his Friend in London. With some improvement thereof by another Hand. (Quo- tation.) London, Printed for Tho: Parkhurst, 1693. (468 ) $35. Small quarto, 26, 2 pages. Sabin 35665, does not mention the two pages of book ad- vertisements at the end. An interesting account of the earthquake by an eye-witness. (Trumbull, John.) An Essay on the Use and Advantages of the Fine Arts. Delivered at the Public Commencement, in New-Haven. September 12th 1770. New Haven T. and S. Green. (303) $20. Octavo, 16 pages. Half morocco. Evans 11911; Trumbull page 192. Sabin 22971; Trumbull graduated from Yale in 1767 and became a tutor there in 1771, the year following the delivery of this essay, which is the first on the subject, in America. 105 Trumbull, John. M’Fingal! A Modern Poem, in Four Cantos. By John Trumbull, Esq. Embellished with nine copperplates; designed and engraved by E. Tisdale. The First edition with plates and explana- tory notes. (Quotation.) New York: John Buel, M, DCC, XCV. (499) $50. Octavo, VII, 1386 pages. Portrait and eight copperplate engravings. Half morocco, gilt top, other edges uncut, by Macdonald. First illustrated edition and the most interest- ing. McFingal was written at the urgent request of members of the American Congress who believed that Trumbull could aid the cause of independence by writing a poem which should weaken the Tory cause by turning it to ridicule. The author had a keen sense of the ridiculous and he embodied it in crisp, snappy couplets. He was thoroughly familiar with the public men and events of the day, and there were .very few Tories of prominence who escaped the trenchant quality of his wit. The book went through about 50 editions and the influence of the poem in aiding and encourag- ing the cause of independence can hardly be overestimated. The plates in the above edition are very appropriate and I consider the book one of the best illustrated American books of the eighteenth century. (Tucker, Josiah.) A Letter from a Merchant in London to his Nephew in North America, relative to the present posture of affairs in the colonies; in which the supposed violation of charters, and the several grievances complained of, are particularly discussed, and the conse- quences of an attempt towards independency set in a true light. (Quo- tation.) London: J. Walter M DCC LXVI. (495) $25. Octavo, 4, 55 pages. Half morocco, uncut, a few Margins neatly repaired. Rich page 156. First edition of what is considered the most vigorous of Tucker’s numerous tracts. He takes the British severely to task for many faults, when he says: We are ungrateful—we object to the Stamp Act—while England remains quiet under one much more severe than she would impose upon her Colonies,—we grow rich by supply- ing her enemy with goods, purchased of her—when we were young we looked to her for protection, now that we are waxing strong, we are anxious to withdraw from beneath her arm,—we are filled with pride, and arrogance and refuse to do obedience to those to whom it is due,—we are riding before the whirl-winds, which soon must break and crush us. The Bishop ends with this vigorous admonition: “And you, my boy, after you have played the Hero, and spoke all your fine Speeches ;—after you have been a Gustavus Vasa, and every other brave Deliverer of his Country ;— after you have formed a thousand Utopian Schemes, and been a\ thousand times disappointed ;— perhaps even you may awake out of your present political Trance, and become a reasonable Man at last. And assure yourself, that whenever you can be cured of your present Delirium, and shall betray no Symptoms of a Relapse, you will be received with Affection by your old Uncle, your true Friend, and faithful Monitor.” Tucker, Josiah. Tract V. The Respective Pleas and Arguments of the Mother Country and of the Colonies distinctly set forth; And the im- possibility of a compromise of differences or a mutual concession of rights. Plainly demonstrated with a prefatory epistle to the Pleni- potentiaries of the Late Congress at Philadelphia. By Josiah Tucker, D.D, Glocester: “R. Raikes. M DCC LXXKY: (130) $15. Octavo, XVI, 51, 1 pages. Half morocco. Rich page 213. The M. R. said of this tract: The contents of this tract are so foreign from the proper subject of Consider- ation, and so evidently the effusion of ill temper, that did they not proceed from so respectable a character, we should have imagined them solely intented as the vehicle of Insinuations against the colonies, unjust in their nature and malevolent in their design. Tucker, Josiah. An Humble address and Earnest Appeal to those re- spectable Personages in Great Britain and Ireland, who by their en- larged views, etc., are the ablest to judge, and the fittest to decide, 106 whether a Connection with or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America be most for the National Advantage and the Last- ing Benefit of these Kingdoms. By Josiah Tucker, D.D. Gloucester R. Raikes M.DCC.LXXV. (367) 0 S15: Octavo, 93, 2 pages. Folding table. Half morocco. Rich page 213: Dean Tucker seems to think that the Americans are unworthy of the protection of the Mother Country, and that consequently she had better “abandon them entirely to themselves” and to reject them from being ‘fellow members and joint-partakers with us in the privileges and advantages of the British Empire.” The Dean in this tract calls the Monthly Reviewers the agents and confederates of Benjamin Franklin. Tucker, Josiah. An Humble Address and an Earnest Appeal....(as before) (Quotation.) The Second edition. Glocester: R. Raikes, M DCC LXXV. (84) $8. Octavo, 93, 2 pages, folding table. Half morocco. (Tucker, Josiah.) A Series of Answers to certain Popular Objections against separating from Rebellious Colonies and discarding them entirely: being the concluding tract of the Dean of Gloucester on the subject of American affairs. Gloucester: Printed by R. Raikes, M DCC LXXVI. (363) $15. Octavo 108, 5, 6 pages. Half morocco. Rich page 242. The Monthly Review (Jan. 1777) is warm in its defense of Dr. Franklin against Dean Tucker, who endeavours, apparently without effect, to prove in this tract some former aspersions on the char- acter of the doctor. Tucker, Josiah. The True Interest of Great Britain, set forth in regard to the Colonies; and the only means of living in Peace and Harmony with them. Including five different plans for effecting this desirable event. To which is added by the Printer a few more words on the Freedom of the Press in America. By Jos. Tucker, D.D., Dean of Glocester. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Robert Bell, 1776. (434) $50. Octavo, 66, 4, 2 pages. Evans 15119; Hildeburn 3488. An important Revolutionary tract. Appended to this Philadelphia edition are two leaves on the freedom of the press, addressed by the printer (Robt. Bell) to the Friends of Liberty in America, which include “A Short Answer to Some Criticisms- which were exhibited under the signature of Aristides. Extracted from an old pamphlet, published in the year 1756. Entitled: Plain Truth, or, Serious Consideration on the present State of the City of Philadelphia, and Province of Pennsylvania. By a Tradesman of Philadelphia.” (Benjamin Franklin). These two leaves were not included in the original London edition. Tucker, Josiah. Cui Bono ? or an Inquiry, what benefits can arise either to the English or Americans..... from the greatest victories, or successes in the present War? Being a series of letters addressed to Monsieur Necker.....By Josiah Tucker, D.D. Glocester: R. Raikes M DCC LXXXI. (67) $15. Octavo, 141, 1, 1 pages. Half morocco. Rich page 304 mentions only the second edition. The Dean says that no sooner shall the Americans have established their independency, than they will be enslaved by their present rulers, the members of Congress, who will govern them with a rod of iron. The moment they are at peace with England, they will quarrel among themselves, and with the fury of famished wolves; they will endeavour to tear each other to pieces. Pon 107 Turell, Ebenezer. The Life and Character of the Reverend Benjamin Colman, D.D. Late Pastor of a Church in Boston New England. Who deceased August 29th 1747. By Ebenezer Turell, A.M. Pastor of Medford. (Quotation.) Boston; Rogers and Fowle M DCC XLIX. (356) Poa. Small quarto, 20, 236, 2, 1 pages. Half calf, gilt top, other edges uncut. Hvans 6434. One of the earliest American biographies, part of which reads like a thrilling narrative. Contains also a list of the Books written by Colman. (Tyler, Royall.) The Algerine Captive; or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: six years a prisoner among the Algerines. (Quotation from Shakespeare.) Published according to Act of Con- gress. Walpole, New Hampshire, David Carlisle, Jun. 1797. (255) $200. Octavo, 2 volumes, 214, 241 pages. Original sheep binding enclosed in a solander case. Wegelin page 32; Loshe page 109; Gilman page 282 is wrong in collation. This is an important piece of American Fiction. Tyler’s style was clear and correct, without ornamentation or artificiality, very well fitted for story telling. After the first part of his book devoting to a satirical account of New England Customs, he gives a serious picture of the terrors of a slave ship and finally brings his hero to the Algiers, ridi- culing the romantic idea of Algerian slavery generally derived from books. United States, January the 16th, 1792. Sir, As the circumstances which have engaged the United States in the present Indian War may some of them be out of Public Recollection, and others perhaps be unknown, it may appear advisable that you prepaire and publish, from authentic documents, a statement of those circumstances, as well as of the measures which have been taken from time to time, for re-establish- ment of Peace and Friendship......G. Washington. ... Philadelphia, Printed by D. C. Claypoole. (1792) (307) $250. Large folio, 1 page, folded and bound in full brown morocco. Evans 24944. This is a rather important broadside. The above letter is addressed to Secretary of War, H. Knox, who gives his statement on the same sheet in five columns in small type. It is headed: The Causes of the existing Hostilities between the United States, and cer- tain Tribes of Indians North-West of the Ohio, stated and explained from official and authentic documents and published in obedience to the orders of the President of the United States. This Statement is one of the best essays on this war, com- bining correct information with detailed Narrative. Varnum, James M. The Case, Trevett against Welden: On Information and Complaint, for refusing Paper Bills in Payment for Butcher’s Meat, in Market, at Par with Specie. Tried before the Honourable Superior Court in the County of Newport, September Term, 1786. Also the Case of the Judges of said Court before the Hon. General Assembly at Providence. October Session, 1786........ Wherein the Rights of the People to Trial by Jury, etc., are stated and maintained. By James M. Varnum, Esq; Major-General of the State of Rhode Island. Providence: Printed by John Carter 1787 (299) $30. Small quarto, 4, 60 pages. Half morocco. Evans 20825; Winship page 52. “This was a case of very great importance at the time it took place. The plaintiff bought meat of the defendant, a butcher, and tendered him certain paper money issued by the act of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, which was refused. The defendant pleaded ‘that it appears that the act had expired and hath no force.’ ‘The whole community,’ says Mr. Updyke, ‘was stirred to its very foundation.’ Upon this issue was involved the destiny of thousands. Public feeling was intense upon its result. The crises arose, and the experiment was on trial, whether the people were capable of self- government; and upon its issue depended the fate of the nation.” 108 View of the Evidence, (A) relative to the conduct of the American War under Sir William Howe, Lord Viscount Howe, and General Bur- goyne as given before the Committee of the House of Commons...To which is added a Collection of the celebrated fugitive Pieces that are said to have given rise to that Important Enquiry. The Second edi- tion. London Richardson and Urquhart. 1779. (523) $25. Octavo, 154 pages. Half morocco. Rich page 276. “Praise is due to the editor of this publication, for the care and attention which he has manifested in digesting the very important materials of which it is composed. He has introduced them by a proper summary of the contents. He has pointed by marginal notes to the most essential and striking facts, and he has illustrated the evidence of the officers and other gentlemen, by the addition of many occasional remarks and_ strictures, published as events occurred, and especially by letters from Boston, New York, &e., which contain very pertinent but severe comments on the conduct of our commanders in chief. It is a melancholy retrospect which is here given of our military exploits in attempting to reduce the revolted colonies.” M, R. This second edition contains additional material. Virginia. In the House of Delegates, Tuesday, December 13, 1796. John Stewart, C.H.D. (Richmond, 1796) (12) $20. Folio. 1 page. Folded and bound in Half morocco. Swem 7866. Important broadside. Resolved that the people instruct their Representatives upon the propriety of calling a convention to revise the Constitution. Votes and Proceedings, (The) of the Freeholders and other inhabitants of the Town of Boston, in Town Meeting assembled, According to Law. (Published by order of the Town.) To which is prefixed, as Introductory, an attested copy of a Vote at a preceding meeting. Bos- ton: Edes and Gill (1772) (98) $40. Octavo, 4, 43 pages. Stitched enclosed in half morocco slip case. Church 1090; Sabin 6568; Stevens 307; Tower p. 272; Evans 12332; These meetings were held October 28 and November 2 and 20, 1772. Contains a particular enumeration of those griev- ances which gave rise to the discontents in America. Edited by Benjamin Franklin and of the greatest importance for the history of the pre-revolutionary troubles. “A Letter of Correspondence, to the other Town,” pp. 30-85, virtually urges resistance to the rulers of the province. Wafer, Lionel. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. Giving an Account of the Authors Abode there, The Form and Make of the Country...... The Indian Inhabitants, their Fea- tures, Complexion, their manners, Customs...... With remarkable Oc- curences in the South Sea and elsewhere. By Lionel Wafer. The Second Edition. To which are added The Natural History of those Parts, By a Fellow of the Royal Society: And Davis’s Expedition to the Gold Mines in 1702. Illsutrated with several Copper-Plates. Lon- don James Knapton M DCCIV. (204) $20. Octavo, 16, 283, 13 pages. Map and three plates. Original calf (rebacked). Rich page 7. One of the earliest and most interesting books upon Panama, containing the map. A most valuable book in reference to the Panama region. Wafer was a surgeon in Dampier’s expedition across the Isthmus and was left among the Indians on being disabled by a wound. During his sojourn he gained this valuable information regard- ing their life and habits. 109 (Wagstaffe, E.) A True Account Of the Late Pyracies of Jamaica; the — Authors, Abettors, and Encouragers thereof. With other Transac- tions relating thereto. By One just arrived from that Island. To which is added, A Genuine Letter to a very Eminent Personage con- cern’d. London: J. Moore, 1716. , (294) $100. Octavo, 36 pages. Half brown morocco, gilt top. A little known interesting tract. Walker, Sir Hovenden. A Journal: or Full Account of the Late Expe- dition to Canada. With an Appendix containing Commissions, Orders, Instructions, Letters, Memorials, Courts-Martial, Council of War &c. relating thereto. By Sir Hovenden Walker, Kt. (Quota- tion.) London D. Browne. 1720. (3309 $40. Octavo, 4, 304 pages. Half morocco, gilt top. Rich page 27. “Sir Hovenden Walker was the naval commander of the Great Expedition against Canada, which sailed from Boston, N.E., 1710, but which proved a complete failure. owing, it is said, to the unskilfulness of the pilots, by which eight ships and nearly a thousand men were lost in the St. Lawrence. Great blame was attached to Sir Hovenden, and he published this account in his own defense.”—Nichol’s Literary Anecdotes, Vol. I. 178. This is Walker’s Journal of the Naval Expedition which was to co-operate with the Continental land-foree in the reduction of Quebec and which consisted of 15 ships of war, 40 transports, and seven veteran regiments. From-June 25th to July 30, 1711, the fleet lay at Boston taking in supplies and colonial forces. The volume is full of interesting details relating to Walker’s stay at Boston and elsewhere. ‘ Washington, George. Letters from General Washington to several of his friends in June and July, 1776 in which is set forth an interesting view of American politics at that all-important period. Philadelphia: Republished at the Federal Press, 1795. (128) $10. Octavo, 44 pages (halftitle lacking?) half morocco, uncut. Griffin page 307.