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    Founded over 30 years ago by David and NatalieBauman, Bauman Rare Books oers an extraordinary

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    The American Experience:

    1589-1990We are pleased to oer in this American Experience catalogue an exceptional collection o books, documents

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    t h o m a s p a i n e1776 Phlalpha Braor Prtg O Pas Common Sense,

    A Rmarkabl Ucut Copy From A Prvat Famly Collcto:

    T Dclarato O Ipc O July 4, 1776, Was Du Mor o Pas

    Common Sense Ta o Ay O Othr Sgl Pc O Wrtg1. PAINE, Tomas. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants o America... Philadelphia, 1776. Octavo,

    unbound, stitched as issued, uncut; pp. (4), 50; custom hal morocco clamshell box. $62,000.

    Exceptionally rare 1776 Philadelphia printing o this American landmark, the important third edition (issued one month

    aer the rst edition), the rst edition to contain Paines additions to the work, which increased the text by one-third. An

    exceptional uncut copy rom a private collection.

    Te rst edition oCommon Sense was published in Philadelphia by Robert Bell in January 1776. Paine had patriotically

    agreed to give his share o the prots rom Common Sense toward the purchase o mittens or the hal-rozen American

    troops then battling beore Quebec. When Bell said there were no prots, Paine, inuriated, dismissed Bell and employed

    Bradord to publish a new edition. He materially enlarged the work by one-third. He also reduced the price rom two

    shillings to one shilling so that everyone might read the faming arguments, and they did! Reusing to copyright this work,

    he gave permission to al l to reprint it, with the result that it spread rapidly all over the country (Gimbel-Yale, 14). Common

    Sense was by ar the most inuential tract o the American Revolution, and it remains one o the most brilliant pamphlets ever

    written in the English language (A Covenanted People, 27). It is not too much to say that the Declaration o Independence

    o July 4, 1776, was due more to Paines Common Sense than to any one other single piece o writing (GrolierAmerican

    100 14). Tis important edition, published in Philadelphia by W. and . Bradord in February 1776, is the third edition to

    be printed and the rst to contain Paines additions. Gimbel CS-11. Without hal title. Signature clipped rom bottom

    margin o title page. A little light embrowning, some aint damp staining to bottom margins. 1776 editions oCommon

    Sense, especially those printed in Philadelphia, are extraordinarily rare and desirable, and this remarkable uncut copy is

    exceptionally so.

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    t h e f e d e r a l i s t

    T Most Famous A Iutal Amrca Poltcal Work:

    T Frst Eto OTe Federalist2. (HAMILON, Alexander; MADISON, James; JAY, John). Te Federalist: A Collection o Essays. New York, 1788.

    wo volumes. 12mo, period-style ull brown cal. $205,000.

    First edition o Te Federalist, one o the rarest and most signicant works in American political history, which exerted

    a powerul inuence in procuring the adoption o the Federal Constitution. An exceptional copy.

    When Alexander Hamilton invited his ellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison, a Virginian, to join him in

    writing the series o essays published as Te Federalist, it was to meet the immediate need o convincing the reluctant New

    York State electorate o the necessity o ratiying the newly proposed Constitution o the United States. Te 85 essays, under

    the pseudonym Publius, were designed as political propaganda, not as a treatise o political philosophy. In spite o this,

    Te Federalistsurvives as one o the new nations most important contributions to the theory o government (PMM, 234).

    Te Federalistexerted a powerul infuence in procuring the adoption o the Federal Constitution, not only in New Yorkbut in the other states. Tere is probably no work in so small a compass that contains so much valuable political inormation.

    Te true principles o a republican orm o government are here unolded with great clearness and simplicity (Church

    1230). A generation passed beore it was recognized that these essays by the principal author o the Constitution and its

    brilliant advocate were the most authoritative interpretation o the Constitution as draed by the Convention o 1787. As

    a commentary and exposition o the Constitution, the infuence o the Federalisthas been proound (Grolier 100 American

    56). Te most thorough and brilliant explication o the Federal Constitution (or any other constitution) ever written

    (Smith, 263-4). Sabin 23979. Howes H114. Evans 21127. Streeter II:1049. Light scattered oxing. An exceptional copy.

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    w e , t h e p e o p l e . . . A Uqu A Prvously Urcor Eto O T Ut Stats Costtuto

    O O T Earlst Prtgs O Prhaps T Most Importat Documt I

    T Hstory O Amrca, T Oly Kow Copy

    3. (CONSIUION) Plan o the New Federal Government. Philadelphia, September, 1787. Folio sheet (14 by 18

    inches), olded once, printed in double columns; pp.4. $335,000.

    A previously unrecorded and evidently unique early printing o the proposed United States Constitution, with the ull texto the Constitution, the names o the delegates and the states they represent, the resolution that the document be submitted

    to the states or ratication, and the text o Washingtons letter endorsing the Constitution. Early printings o the

    Constitution are extraordinarily rare.

    A unique early printing o the Constitution, done in Philadelphia, the city where the Convention held its historic meetings.

    Tis our-page handbill, issued by Philadelphia printer Robert Smith, gives every indication o being issued in great haste,

    with the text o pages 1 and 4 misaligned, and set in double-column ormat typical o a newsletter handbill o the period.

    While undated, such a ormat clearly was not produced at leisure, and this handbill was almost certainly issued shortly

    aer the Constitution was publicly announced on September 17, 1787.

    Robert Smith apprenticed with the Philadelphia rm o Dunlap and Claypoolewho later became the ocial printers to

    the Constitutional Conventionbeore launching his own newspaper, Te Evening Chronicle, in Philadelphia in February,

    1787. Smith took on a partner, James Prange, and the rm operated as Smith and Prange rom November 1, 1787, meaningthat this printing could only have occurred in the six weeks between September 17 and November 1. Te text o the Constitution

    was publicly read beore the Pennsylvania General Assembly on the morning o September 18, and was printed by Dunlap

    and Claypoole (partly rom the standing type they used to produce their ocial printing o the text on September 17) and

    published in the regular issue o their weekly newspaper,Te Pennsylvania Packet, on September 19. It is almost certain that

    Smith produced this printing o the Constitution within a week o its announcement, and he may have indeed printed it as

    early as uesday, September 18, or the Saturday thereaer, as uesdays and Saturdays were the days o publication oTe

    Evening Chronicle. Logically, Smith would have gone to press with the historic document as soon as the new plan was

    available to be set in type. Even a week later, the new plan would have been cold, essentially unsaleable news to Philadelphians.

    Indeed, i Smith somehow obtained the text o the Constitution rom his ormer colleagues Dunlap and Claypoole, this

    printing may be the earliest unocial printing o the Constitution. Leonard Rapport has observed that most accounts

    name the September 19 edition o Dunlap and ClaypoolesPennsylvania Packetas the rst public printing o the Constitution

    (as distinguished rom the Conventions ocial printing). Such attribution, however, ignores the act that the Packetwas

    only one o ve Philadelphia newspapers in which the Constitution appeared that morning. Was there a rst among the

    newspapers?

    A tip-sheet in the New-York historical society hints that the race may have been lost or those particular newspapers even

    beore the newsboys started their Wednesday morning [the 19th] deliveries. On September 18 Lt. Erkuries Beatty, paymaster

    or the First U.S. Inantry, was in Philadelphia buying supplies. His diary entry or that day reads: Te business o

    Convention read beore the house o Assembly and was published in the Evening. No copy o such a printing is known to

    exist. However, the Philadelphia Evening Chronicle appeared twice a week, on uesdays and Sundays. Copies o all the

    Chronicles September issue survive with one exceptionthat o uesday, September 18. With copies o the ocial printing

    available Monday night or early uesday morning there was time enough or the printer o the Chronicle to have obtained

    and reprinted a copy by uesday evening. I it did not appear in the missing issue, the Chronicle would have had the

    distinction o being the only Phi ladelphia newspaper not to have published the Constitution (Rapport, 81-82). It is quite

    possible that Robert Smith did not publish a regular issue or the 18th, choosing instead to devote his resources to printingthis most important document. I that was in act the case, then this unique printing would constitute the rst publicly

    available printing o the United States Constitution. Similar handbills were issued in New York, Boston, Baltimore and

    Richmond, as the news o the Constitution reached those cities, but Smiths location and his relationship with Dunlap and

    Claypoole indicate that this printing precedes all those, and was in act produced very shortly aer the end o the

    Constitutional Convention. Tis large-ormat, small type edition is not recorded in Evans, Shipton & Mooney, Bristol,

    NAIP, or any o the standard bibliographic sources; this printing was unrecorded until 1996, and in the ten years since its

    discovery, it remains the sole known copy. See Leonard Rapport, Printing the Constitution, in Prologue: the Journal o the

    National Archives, vol. 2, no. 2, 69-90. With expert restoration along center old. One small hole in text, aecting one letter;

    the sheet is completely untrimmed. Excellent, almost mint condition. A signicant and unique discovery.

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    a b r a h a m l i n c o l n

    T Frst Call Ma By M I Orr Tat A Dra Shall B Ma:

    Sg By Lcol O T Fal Day O T Battl O Gttysburg,

    A Pvotal Documt Eactg T Frst Dra I Amrca Hstory

    4. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. Washington, D.C., July 3, 1863. Folio, single wove lea, 8 by 10 inches

    olded once. WIH: Photograph o Lincoln. Washington, D.C., circa 1864. Original photograph, measuring 8 by 10

    inches. $30,000.

    Rare ocial 1863 printed document, nished in a secretarial hand and boldly signed by Lincoln, his command to proceed

    with the rst dra in American history, calling or over 1900 men rom Pennsylvania to be enlisted in the Union Army,

    issued July 3, 1863, the nal day o the Battle o Gettysburg. Accompanied by an 8-by-10 inch photograph o the original

    photographic portrait o Lincoln taken in 1864 by Anthony Berger at Mathew Bradys Washington studio. Fine condition

    with exceptional bold signature.

    Te summer o 1863 marked a crucial transormation in the Union war eort. As newspaper headlines blared Invasion!

    Rebel Forces in Maryland and Pennsylvania! Lincoln remained quietly condent that the Union troops, ghting on

    home ground, would achieve the signal victory so long denied (Goodwin, 531-48). By then, however, Union recruitment

    had arrived at the same impasse it had reached in the South a year earlier Te Union army in 1863 aced a serious

    manpower loss. Te Enrollment Act passed in March had assigned provost marshals to each congressional district to

    enroll every male citizen and immigrant who had led or citizenship aged 20-25. Tis became the basis or each districtsquota, and in July, as stated herein, Lincoln issued the rst dra (out o our), calling up 20 percent o the enrollees,

    chosen by lot in each district (McPherson, 600-1): a total o a hundred thousand troops rom the militias in Pennsylvania,

    Maryland, Ohio and the new state o West Virginia (Goodwin, 531).

    Issued July 3, 1863, the nal day o the Battle o Gettysburg, this document contains, as Lincoln states within, the rst call

    made by me on the State o Pennsylvania under the act

    approved March 3, 1863: assigning 1,951 men to be

    urnished by the 23rd District o the State o

    Pennsylvania and 50 percent in addition: also

    marking the day the Union Armys victory at Gettysburg

    cost over 23,000 Union casualties, more than one-

    quarter o the armys eectives (McPherson, 662).

    Lincoln did not learn o the outcome until dawn o July4th, when he received a telegram reporting, the battle

    had been successully concluded. Soon, however, when

    the names o all the men eligible or the rst dra in

    American history would be placed in a giant wheel and

    drawn, resistance mounted. In New York, on the second

    day o the dra, Scarcely had two dozen names been

    called, the New York imes reported, when a crowd,

    numbering perhaps 500, stormed the building

    smashed the giant wheel, shredded the lists and records,

    and then set the building on re. riggered by a

    provision allowing a draee to either pay $300 or

    provide a substitute, the Dra Riots continued

    unchecked or ve days creating orebodingthroughout the North as other cities prepared to

    commence their own dras (Goodwin, 532-7). Pencil

    notation on verso o photograph. Exceptionally ne

    condition, commemorating an especially important

    event in American history.

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    a b r a h a m l i n c o l nO O T Suprm Uttracs O T Prcpls O Dmocratc From:

    Frst Book-Form Publcato O Lcols Gttysburg Arss

    5. (LINCOLN, Abraham). EVERE, Edward. An Oration Delivered on the Battleeld o Gettysburg. New York,

    1863. Slim octavo, contemporary gilt-stamped purple cloth; pp. 48. Custom clamshell box. $31,000.

    Rare rst book-orm publication o one o the supreme utterances o the principles o democratic reedom, Lincolns

    Gettysburg Address (PMM). An exceptional copy.

    Beore a crowd o over 9,000 assembled at Gettysburg, including members o Congress and nine governors, noted orator

    Edward Everett delivered his memorized two-hour address as President Lincoln waited on the platorm; As Everett started

    back to his seat, Lincoln stood to clasp his hand Te futter and motion o the crowd ceased the moment the President

    was on his eet Tough he had had but a brie time to prepare the address, he had devoted intense thought to his chosen

    theme or nearly a decade (Goodwin, eam o Rivals, 585-6). Lincolns address was briefy met with quiet as the crowd

    stood motionless and silent beore breaking into applause, leading Lincoln to ear the speech a fat ailure Edward

    Everett knew better I should be glad, he wrote Lincoln, i I could fatter mysel that I came as near to the central idea o

    the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes (Goodwin, 586). Te Washington Chronicle o 18-21 November

    reported extensively on this ceremony and included a verbatim text o Edward Everetts Great Oration. On the ourth day

    it noted in passing that the President had also made a speech, but gave no details. When it came to the separate publication

    on 22 November, Everetts Oration was reprinted rom the standing type, but Lincolns speech had to be set up. It was

    tucked away as a nal paragraph on page 16 o the pamphlet. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leafet was

    replaced by a 48-page booklet published by Baker and Godwin o New York in the same year (PMM 351). Te rare 16-page

    pamphlet, Te Gettysburg Solemnities, is known in only two copies, making this the rst obtainable edition. Howes E233.

    Sabin 23263. Monaghan 193. Tis copy additionally eatures two laid-in items, both inscribed by Everett. Te rst contains

    his warm inscription written to his ellow senator rom Massachusetts, Charles Sumner, one o the rst members o

    Congress to urge abolition and one o Lincolns most valued condants (ANB). A second laid-in autograph note promises

    Everetts recommendation upon passage o a resolution providing or two additional cadets to [the Military Academy] to

    be nominated by the Senators. ext generally very clean with only occasional light oxing; publishers cloth ne and

    unrayed, gilt bright. An exceptional copy.

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    Mathw Brays Spl Larg Oval Photograph O Robrt E. L,

    Bolly Sg By L

    6. (LEE, Robert E.) BRADY, Mathew. Photograph signed. Washington, D.C., 1869. Original oval albumen

    photograph mounted on cardstock, measuring 8 by 10 inches; in contemporary oval rame, entire piece measures 12

    by 14 inches. $32,000.

    Original bust-length portrait o Lee by Mathew Brady, boldly signed by Lee just beneath the image, with Bradys studio

    imprint. A splendid piece in contemporary rame, Lees signature ne and bold.

    Tis vintage photograph o perhaps the most revered o American soldiers (Warner, 179) was made by Mathew Brady in

    his Washington Gallery when Lee came to visit Grant at the White House in 1869. It was in the Spring o 1869 that

    General Lee came to his gallery to sit or three portraits. He was then President o Washington University. Te General had

    been visiting riends in Baltimore, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. agart. Following that visit, the General and his riends

    le or Washington. Soon aer their arrival, Lee went to the White House to see President Grant A day or so later, the

    General visited Bradys studio. Te resulting pictures clearly showed his advanced age and the ravages o care and sorrow.

    Aer bidding Brady arewell, Lee le Washington or the last time (Meredith, 218). Lees enormous wartime prestige,

    both in the North and South, and the devotion inspired by his unconscious symbolism o the Lost Cause made him a

    legendary gure (Warner, 183). Meredith, plate 129. Image resh and unaded, expert paper repairs to mount and to small

    repair to edge o photograph. Large signature exceptionally bold and ne. An exceptional piece.

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    j o h n j a m e s a u d u b o nAuubos Birds O America, Royal Octavo Eto Wth 500 Ha-Color Plats:

    O O T Fst Orthologcal Works Evr Prt

    7. AUDUBON, John James. Te Birds o America. New York, 1856. Seven volumes. Royal octavo, publishers ull

    brown morocco gilt. $75,000.

    Second octavo edition, the rst edition with ully colored backgrounds, containing 500 superb hand-colored plates.

    One o the most spectacular series o ornithological prints ever produced. Identical to the rst octavo edition, printed in

    1840-44, except that the prints or the rst time have lovely tinted lithographic-wash backgrounds. Te royal octavo edition

    contained new species o birds and plants not included in the olio edition, with the birds grouped in an orderly scientic

    manner. His rst objective was to observe birds in their native habitat, to see their behavior, their ways o standing,

    walking, fying, their eeding and nesting habits, seasonal plumage and all the rest. He traveled up and down the Mississippi

    and Ohio River areas, and up and down the Atlantic seaboard rom Maine to Key West. He spent a winter near Charleston,

    South Carolina... traveled to Labrador, Newoundland, and Nova Scotia... and exas (Gis o Genius, 137). Te Birds oAmerica exemplies mans ability to accomplish an almost impossible task through sacrice and persistence. Audubon set

    out to paint and publish an example o every bird on the North American continent... He was the rst artist-naturalist to

    illustrate American birds, lie-size, in natural poses (Handbook o Audubon Prints, 17-18). Te most splendid book ever

    produced in relation to America, and certainly one o the nest ornithological works ever printed... Tis immense undertaking,

    this unparalleled achievement, was the work o a man o relentless energy, with no private ortune It is a story without

    equal in the whole history o publishing

    (Great Books and Book Collectors, 210-

    13). Grolier 45. Nissen IVB 52. Anker

    19. Plate 41 with tape repair to verso.

    Slight rubbing to ront ree endpapers

    in Volumes I and VI; some inner hinges

    expertly repaired. Publishers ull tooledmorocco bindings ne, plates or the

    most part vivid and lovely with only

    occasional light oxing, some oxing to

    tissue-guards. A beautiul set o one o

    the most important and desirable o all

    American plate books.

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    l e w i s a n d c l a r kT Corrsto O Amrca Eplorato: Ecgly Rar Frst Eto

    I Orgal Boars O T Dtv Accout O T Lws & Clark Epto,

    T Most Importat Eplorato O T North Amrca Cott

    8. LEWIS, Meriwether and CLARK, William. History o the Expedition Under the Command o Captains Lewis

    and Clark. Philadelphia, 1814. wo volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter brown sheep, original marbled boards,

    morocco spine labels; custom hal morocco clamshell box. $175,000.

    Exceptionally rare rst edition, one o only 1,417 copies printed, o the denitive account o the most important exploration

    o the North American continent, with the amous large olding map o the course o the expedition and ve in-text maps.

    First authorized and complete account o the most important western exploration and the rst o many overland narratives

    to ollow (Howes L317). American explorers had or the rst time spanned the continental United States and had driven

    the rst wedge toward opening up our new ar western rontier (Streeter 1777). Te importance o exploring this area

    [beyond the Missouri River] had been evident to Tomas Jeerson as early as 1783... but it was not until twenty years later

    that Jeerson, then President o the United States, saw the realization o his idea... Te purchase o the Louisiana erritoryrom France in December 1803 greatly increased the importance o the expedition, which nally began its long journey [in

    1804]... Tey wintered in the Mandan vi llages in the Dakotas and in the Spring pushed on west across the Rocky Mountains

    and then down the Columbia River to the Pacic Ocean. Returning by the same route nearly two-and-a-hal years aer

    they had set out they arrived back in St. Louis in September 1806 to the amazed delight o the nation which had given them

    up or lost. Tough unsuccessul in their attempt to nd a transcontinental water route, they had demonstrated the

    easibility o overland travel to the western coast (Printing and the Mind o Man, 272).

    A number o years passed between the end o the expedition and the 1814 printing o the ocial account. Lewis had made

    some arrangements or publication, but upon his suicide in 1809 Clark undertook the project, which was in disarray. Tis

    is the great mystery o Lewiss lie. Tere is only speculation on what kept him rom preparing the journals or the publisher,

    but no one can know the cause or certain, any more than anyone can know or certain the cause o his suicide... When

    Clark arrived at Monticello [where the journals had been sent], there was apparently some talk about Jeersons taking over

    the journals and doing the editing to prepare them or the printer. Tere was no man alive who had a greater interest in thesubject, or one who had better qualications or the job. But he was sixty-ve years old and desired to spend his remaining

    years at Monticello as a gentleman armer... Aer some alse starts, Clark persuaded Nicholas Biddle to undertake the

    work... Biddle was the perect choice. He threw himsel into the work and did it magnicently... In 1814, the book appeared

    (Ambrose, 469-470). Sabin 855 and 40828. Gra 2477. Wagner-Camp 13.1. Paltsits, lxxvii. Small three-by-three inch

    section o map restored in ne acsimile and with closed our-inch tear near gutter, title page o second volume and several

    leaves o text with short tears expertly closed, ree endpapers absent in second volume, usual browning and oxing

    throughout, scarce contemporary bindings a bit worn but ul ly intact. A desirable and complete copy o the most important

    work in American western exploration, extraordinarily rare in original boards.

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    r e v o l u t i o n a r y w a r a c t sA Strlg Collcto O Frst Prtgs O T Most Importat Brtsh Acts:

    T 30 Laws Tat Spark T Amrca Rvoluto

    9. (PARLIAMEN) Revolutionary War Acts. Tirty Acts: 1764-1783. London, 1764-83. Folio, each act disbound,

    each complete with title page as issued. $125,000.

    An extraordinary and complete collection o rare rst printings o the most important British laws that inamed andultimately acknowledged Americas will toward independence, an assemblage o 30 pivotal Revolutionary Acts that record

    imperial authority and colonial resistance in legislation such as the Declaratory Act (1766), the Quartering Acts o 1765-6,

    the ownshend Acts (1767), the Intolerable Acts (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the American Prohibitory Act (1776) and

    the Conciliatory Acts (1778). With the extremely rare rst printings o the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the

    Repeal o the Stamp Act (1766) and the ea Act (1773), less than 1100 copies o each act printed.

    The true ground on which we declare these acts void

    is that the British Parliament has no right to exercise

    authority over us. Thomas Jefferson

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    Tis unparalleled collection o 30 Revolutionary War Acts oers potent evidence

    that the American Revolution primarily emerged rom a contest between the

    oen ill-conceived actions o the British Parliament and the response o

    American colonists. Pressured by these acts, Americans who once considered

    Parliament the bulwark o their liberties soon echoed Franklins conviction

    that time was emphatically not on Britains side (Schama, 461). Parliament

    sought to bring the colonies into line with a new substantial duty on the oreign

    commodity most in demand in Americasugar (Schama, 456). In it, colonials

    spied the thin end o a wedge o taxation without representation (Morison,

    xiv), and when Parliament ollowed with the Stamp Act (1765), Patrick Henry

    compared the introduction o the stamps to the most iniquitous Roman

    tyranny (Schama, 457), and the Stamp Act Congress convened, while Britains

    William Pitt demanded that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally and

    immediately. Yet ultimately that repeal proved ruitless, especially when Britain

    continued to resist the lessons o history and immediately passed the Declaratory

    Act... [restating] Parliaments rights to make binding laws or the colonies

    (Langguth, 85).

    With the Repeal o the Stamp Act (1766), the colonies erupted in celebration.

    Within a year, however, Parliament renewed demands or control in its

    ownshend Acts. Colonists quickly mobilized a boycott o British imports

    (Schama, 462) and a new period o agitation began (Morison, xv). Tis premiere

    collection thus continues with the Repeal o the ownshend Revenue Act (1770),

    the Quebec Act (1774) and the ea Act (1773). o Benjamin Rush and others,

    British tea-laden ships contained the seeds o SLAVERY... [and] Boston

    instantly turned into a revolutionary hothouse, culminating in the Boston ea

    Party (Schama, 469). Britain countered with the Intolerable Acts (1774),

    demonstrating a parliamentary power more dangerous to colonial l iberty than

    mere taxing (Morison, xxxiv). Following wars outbreak, Parliament issued the

    American Prohibitory Act o 1776 and others such as the High reason Act

    (1777) and Peace Act (1782). As American independence loomed, belated

    conciliatory laws were passed, until in 1783 Parliament acknowledged its colony,

    or the rst time, as the United States o America. First editions, rst printings,

    o 30 Revolutionary War acts rom the Sessional Volumes o Parliament,

    preceding all American printings. Acts printed prior to 1796 are extremely

    scarce, since the maximum number printed was only around 1100 copies (Reporto the Committee or the Promulgation o the Statutes, 1796). Very light scattered

    oxing, occasional pinholes, edge-wear along gutters where disbound. A truly

    outstanding collection o Revolutionary War Acts.

    r ev o l u ti o n ar y w ar

    sugaract.1764.currencyact.1764.

    stampact. 1765.

    quarteringact.1765.

    repealofthestampact.1766.declaratoryact.1766.

    quarteringact.1766.

    townshendrevenueact.1767.

    newyorkrestrainingact.1767.

    customscommissionersact.1767.repealofthetownshendrevenueact.177

    tea act.1773.

    bostonportact(akacoerciveorintolerableact

    administrationofjusticeact(akacoerciveorintolerableact

    massachusettsgovernmentact(akacoerciveorintolerableact

    quarteringact(akacoerciveorintolerableact

    quebecact.1774.

    americanprohibitoryact.1776.commissionersactforcommandersofpriv

    hightreasonact.1777.

    capturesact. 1777.

    acttorepealthemassachusettsgovernme(akaconciliatoryact). 1778.

    colonialtaxrepealact (akaconciliatorya

    commissionersactforquietingdisorders(akaconciliatoryact).1778.

    prisonersact.1782.peaceact. 1782.

    acttopreventsuppliestoenemyships.178

    acttorepealtheprohibitoryandrelated

    shipinstrumentsact.1783.

    commissionersactonwarlosses. 1783.

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    j o h n a d a m s : d e f e n c e o f t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n s Lbrty A T Laws Dp Etrly O A Sparato O [Powrs]:

    Frst Eto O Aams Deence O Te Constitutions, A Ecptoal Assocato Copy

    10. ADAMS, John. A Deence o the Constitutions o Government o the United States o America. London, 1787.Octavo, period-style ull tree cal, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $38,000.

    First edition o Adams important work on the separation o powers in the Federal government, a rare association copy

    belonging to inuential Pennsylvania scientist and statesman David Rittenhouse, who played an important role in the

    American Revolution and was appointed by Washington as rst director o the United States Mint, signed by Rittenhouse

    on the ront y lea.

    While acting as Americas minister in Great Britain, John Adams elt an urgency like that o 1776. Great events were

    taking place at home A constitutional convention was in the ong, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his

    Toughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours

    By early January 1787, Adams had rushed the rst installment o his eort to a London printer. itled A Deence o the

    Constitutions o Government o the United States o America copies were sent o at once to the United States and to

    Jeerson in Paris (McCullough, 374). On its receipt, Jeerson wrote back, I have read your book with innite satisactionand improvement. It will do great good in America. Its learning and its good sense will, I hope, make it an institute or our

    politicians, old as well as young (Sowerby 3004). Tis rare rst edition is the personal copy o Philadelphia-born scientist,

    engineer and statesman David Rittenhouse, who played an important role in the American Revolution and was a longtime

    riend o Jeerson and Franklin (DSB). Tough Adams and Rittenhouse oen disagreed on matters o state, Rittenhouse

    consistently impressed Adams with his scientic accomplishments. In 1792 President Washington appointed Rittenhouse

    the rst director o the newly established U.S. Mint. Sabin 233. Howes A60. Light scattered oxing; an exceptional near-ne

    association copy, handsomely bound.

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    b i l l o f r i g h t sA Most Rar A Importat Documt I T Hstory O Lbrty A O

    T Ut Stats: O O T Earlst Prtgs O T 1789 Bll O Rghts,

    T 12 Orgal Propos Ammts o T Costtuto,

    O O Oly 700 Cops Prt For Mmbrs O T Nw Govrmt

    11. (BILL OF RIGHS) UNIED SAES SENAE. Journal o the First Session o the Senate o the United States o

    America. New York, 1789. Folio, contemporary ull sheep; custom clamshell box. $50,000.

    Te rst printing o the ocial account o the daily proceedings o the 1789 rst session o the United States Senate, one o

    only 700 copies printed or members o government, containing one o the earliest printings o the original twelve articles

    o the Bill o Rights proposed by Congress, o which only ten were later ratied by the states.

    Tis is the rst ocial publication o the working journal o the rst session o the Senate, including the Bill o Rights as

    originally proposed to the states or ratication, and the original House o Representatives version o seventeen amendments,

    rejected by the Senate. TeJournalcovers the activities o the Senate rom March 4 to September 29, 1789, a period in which

    numerous important events took place. Foremost among these was the discussion o the proposed Bill o Rights. On pages

    103-6 appear the 17 amendments originally proposed by the House, adoption o which was deeated by the Senate.Numerous reerences to the Bill are made throughout pages 107-160. On pages 163-164 the 12 amendments passed by

    Congress and sent to the states or ratication are printed under the heading, Proposed Amendments. Subsequently, the

    rst two were not ratied by the states, and the remaining ten became the rst ten amendments to the Constitution. Tis

    volume also contains a number o other notable items, including President Washingtons rst address to Congress, the rst

    rules o the Senate, the debate on the Judiciary Bill, and other important rsts in legislation.

    Te Bill o Rights was issued in two 1789 printings, the present version (theJournal o the First Session o the Senate) and in

    theActs Passed at a Congress o the United States... (New York: Childs and Swaine, 1789). Both must have been printed aer

    the close o business on Sept. 29, 1789, but beore the end o the year. Te Doheny copy o the Acts was inscribed to John

    Jay on Dec. 9, 1789; presumably he would have been among the rst to receive a copy, suggesting that the Acts was not

    delivered by the printer until December. It seems likely that the presentJournal o the First Session o the Senate, printed by

    a dierent printer, would have been printed well beore that; however, no absolute priority o printing can presently be

    established. Both o these 1789 printings o the Bill o Rights are o exceptional rarity and importance, and each were printed

    in a very small edition or government use. In May 1789, the rst month o our government, Congress passed a resolution

    directing that 600 copies o theActs o each session, [and] 700 copies o the Journals o each house, [be printed and]

    distributed to the members and to the executive, judiciary, and heads o the departments o the United States government,

    as well as the executive, legislative and judicial branches o every state. Tis would practically exhaust the 600 and 700

    copies, you will note, in ocial distribution, and leave none or public purchase (Powell, Te Books o a New Nation, 87).

    Contemporary manuscript date (1789) in ink on spine. Occasional aint oxing. Contemporary sheep with a bit o expected

    light rubbing, quite sound and attractive. An extraordinarily rare and important landmark in the early history o the

    United States, especially desirable in contemporary binding.

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    m a r k t w a i nO O T Most Durabl Works I Amrca Ltratur:

    Frst Eto, Frst Stat Oom Sawyer, I Elusv Publshrs Morocco

    12. WAIN, Mark. Te Adventures o om Sawyer. Hartord, 1876. Square octavo, publishers three-quarter brown

    morocco, custom clamshell box. $65,000.

    First American edition, rst state o one o the great masterpieces o American literature and a true touchstone o American

    childhood. An essential addition to any Mark wain collection, one o only 200 copies issued in the publishers three-

    quarter morocco binding.

    om Sawyerappeared at a momentous time in American history: Custer had recently lost the battle at Little Big Horn and

    the nation was celebrating its centennial. Due to these events, publication oom Sawyerwas little noticed... Te book has,

    however, proved to be one o the most durable works in American literature. By the

    time o wains death, it was his top-selling book. It has been in print continuously

    since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark wain works (Rasmussen, 459). Also issued

    in cloth and sheep, only 200 copies were issued in this three-quarter morocco binding.

    First printing, rst state, which can be quickly distinguished by the act that the hal-

    title and rontispiece are printed on separate leavesthey are printed on the same lea

    in the later printingsand the entire text is printed on wove paper (MacDonnell, 40).Also with HE on hal title in 10-point rather than 14-point type, peach endpapers,

    preliminary matter paginated [I]-XVI and two blank fyleaves o laid paper at ront

    copies have been noted with two, three and our fy-leaves present no positive point

    o issue can be made (Johnson, 28). BAL 3369. Johnson, 27-30. MacDonnell, 39-40.

    MacBride, 40. Scattered light soiling, as usual. Small marginal closed tear to page 91,

    not aecting text. Front inner paper hinge split, binding about-ne. A nearly ne copy

    in exceptional condition, highly desirable in the original publishers morocco. A

    centerpiece o any collection celebrating Mark wain or, indeed, American literature.

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    r i c h a r d h a k l u y t : v o y a g e s a n d d i s c o v e r i e s , 1 5 8 9It Is Dcult o Ovrrat T Importac A Valu O Ts Etraorary

    Collcto O Voyags: Moumtal Frst Eto O Hakluyts

    Principall Navigations, Voyages, And Discoveries, 1589, Wth Vry Rar Supprss

    Accout O Draks Voyag A Importat Early Accouts O Eplorato I Amrca

    13. HAKLUY, Richard. Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries o the English Nation made by Sea or

    over land... London, 1589. Small olio, early 20th-century ull cal. $60,000.

    First edition o one o the greatest o all travel books, with the rare suppressed account o Drakes voyage.

    A vigorous propagandist and empire-builder, Hakluyts purpose was to urther British maritime enterprise and to intensiyBritish expansion overseas. He saw Britains greatest opportunity in the colonization o America, and was one o the chie

    promoters o the petition to the king or patents or the colonization o Virginia. He met many o the great navigators

    Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher and otherscorresponded with Ortelius and Mercator and collected all the material on

    voyages he could nd. At rst he mainly instigated the translation o such accounts into English, but by 1589 he had

    collected enough material himsel to publish the rst edition o his amous book. It is dicult to overrate the importance

    and value o this extraordinary collection o voyages (Sabin 29594). Beazley considers this edition o 1589 to be constantly

    superior in clearness o arrangement and judgment o selection to any later stage o this memorable work (Cox I: 4). Te rst

    two parts o the text deal with British adventures in Asia, Arica, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Europe. Te

    third part is devoted to America and provides detailed (and in some cases the rst) accounts o the voyages o Cabot,

    Hawkins, Gilbert, Frobisher, Drake, Lane, Hariot and others. Comprehensive and accurate, the Hakluyt compilation is one

    o the classics o travel literature and the rst English collection o voyages.

    Tis copy containsthe suppressed six pages discussing the voyage o Sir Francis Drake: Hakluyt, on the last page o his

    address to the Reader, notes with regret his being compelled to comply with the request o certain riends, in the

    suppression o Sir Francis Drakes Voyage, wherein I must coness to have taken more than ordinarie paines, meaning to

    have inserted it in this worke. He, however, appears to have printed a ew copies privately, and the Voyage thus suppressed,

    is sometimes inserted aer p. 643... It is scarcely necessary to suggest that the addition o... Drakes Voyages add(s) greatly

    to the value o any copy (Sabin). Te Drake narrative gives a complete account o his circumnavigation o 1577-80,

    including his explorations on the Caliornia coast. Without the very rare olding engraved map o the world, almost never

    present, Abraham Ortelius ypus Orbis errarum (almost never present). Sabin 29594. Church 139A. PMM 105. Streeter

    28. Cox I: 3. Neat repairs to title page and colophon. Joints and spine head skillully restored. An excellent copy.

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    e d w a r d c u r t i sT Clck O A Shuttr Op T Door o Etrty: Ewar Curts Majstc

    Canon De Chelly, Sg By Hm, Mout A Fram I Hs Ow Stuo14. CURIS, Edward. Photograph signed. Canon de Chelly. Seattle, 1904. Vintage orotone photograph (12 by 14

    inches), mounted in original Seattle studio rame (16 by 19 inches), with two original printed Curtis Studio labels

    (measuring variously 3-1/2 by 5 inches and 2 by 3 inches) axed to rame back. $35,000.

    Vintage 1904 orotone print by Edward Curtis, his monumental photograph o Canon de Chelly, signed by him and with

    his annotated copyright insignia (wetstamped at the lower corners o the image), this original 11 by 14-inch photograph

    printed at his Seattle Curtis Studio, handsomely matted and ramed in the original gold-tone Curtis Studio rame.

    Very ne condition.

    Edward Curtis majestic image o Navajo crossing an empty vista on horseback, isolated against a peerless landscape o

    towering plateaus, has become one o his most iconic images. Entitled Canon de Chelly, this especially powerul

    photograph, printed at Curtis own Seattle studio and dated 1904, was prominently eatured in his epic photobookNorth

    American Indian (1907), a work considered without a doubt one o the jewels o 20th century bookmaking (Roth, 4).With Curtis signature and annotated 1904 copyright wetstamped into the lower corners o the image, printed using the

    orotone process. Perected and popularized by Curtis, this is a method whereby a photograph made rom a negative is

    printed on a glass plate covered with a gelatin silver emulsion, then painted on the plates back with gold mixed with

    banana oil or with bronze powders mixed in resin to give the appearance o gold to the image (Baldwin, 62). Original

    rame with two original printed labels rom the Curtis Studio in Seattle axed to the verso: one printed with the title

    Canon de Chelly and a short description o the planned project, and the second label printed with the logo and address

    o his studio. Very ne in beautiul original rame. A stunning piece.

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    t h o m a s j e f f e r s o nA Bluprt O Hs Ow M: 1815 Catalogu O Tomas Jfrsos Lbrary,

    T Cor O T Lbrary O Cogrss

    15. (JEFFERSON, Tomas) Catalogue o the Library o the United States. o Which is Annexed, a Copious Index,

    Alphabetically Arranged. Washington, 1815. Quarto, original marbled boards and printed paper spine, custom chemise

    and ull morocco clamshell box. $65,000.

    First edition o the Catalogue o the library sold by Tomas Jeerson to Congress, orming the core o the Library oCongress. A remarkable copy in original marbled boards and printed paper spine, in excellent condition.

    Jeersons library and his scheme or organizing it have been called a blueprint o his own mind (Bestor, 6). An inveterate

    bibliophile, Jeerson had built a library o 6700 volumes by 1815easily the most signicant library ormed by an American

    up to that pointwhen he sold it to Congress or $23,950 (less than hal o what he believed to be its true value) aer the

    original Library o Congress was destroyed when the British burned down the Capitol during the War o 1812. Te

    collection was received in Washington by George Watterston, the newly appointed Librarian o Congress. When Jeerson

    oered his library to Congress in September 1814, he sent along his handwritten catalog or the inspection o the

    congressional library committee, arranged in an overall classication scheme that was adapted rom the second book o

    Francis Bacons Te Advancement o Learning Jeerson added a urther dimension to Bacons scheme by creating 44

    chapters, as he termed them, that identied specic subjects o 20th-century eyes, parts o Jeersons classication may

    seem puzzling. It is no surprise to nd categories such as Modern British History under the broad division o History, but

    such unexpected subjects as Agriculture, Surgery and Natural History also appear there. Te second broad category,Philosophy, combines subjects such as Mechanics, the Law o Nature and Nations, Politics, Phonics and Arithmetic.

    odays reader might sensibly ask not only what Agriculture and Modern British History have in common but also how

    Mechanics and the Law o Nature can both be related to what we call Philosophy. o pursue these questions is to conront

    Jeersons world and his world view (Gilreath, 2-3). Watterston chose to preserve Jeersons basic classication scheme,

    but alphabetize the entries within the chapters, a compromise to which the ever-precise Jeerson objected (Jeerson,

    Writings 14:418). Tis catalogue is almost the entire basis o our ability to reconstruct Jeersons library . Sowerby I, ix; V,

    216-18. Sabin 15564. Instances o minor dampstaining and oxing. Original paper spine lightly rubbed at head and oot.

    Still a ne copy in original marbled boards. Very important and rare, especially in this condition.

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    t h o m a s j e f f e r s o n : t h e r e s i d e n c y a c t ,e s t a b l i s h i n g t h e u . s . c a p i t a l a l o n g t h e p o t o m a c ,

    w i t h j e f f e r s o n s t r a n s m i s s i o n l e t t e rO O T Lamark Accommoatos O Amrca Poltcs: Vry Rar Frst Ocal

    Prtg O T 1790 Rscy Act Establshg Amrcas Prmat Captal Alog T

    Potomac A Eg A Crss Tat Trat T Nw Nato Wth Cvl War

    16. (UNIED SAES CONGRESS) Residency Act. An Act or establishing the emporary and Permanent Seat othe Government o the United States. New York, 1790. Broadside, single olio lea disbound rom a sammelband volume

    (8 by 13 inches), printed on the recto. $75,000.

    Most rare and important 1790 Residency Act broadsheet establishing the nations permanent capital along the Potomac,

    approved by Congress on July 1, 1790, concluding months o divisive national debate raging over Hamiltons proposal o

    ederal debt assumption and Madisons objections to a plan he saw as a dangerous repudiation o the American

    Revolution. Tis momentous Act passed only aer the personal intervention o Tomas Jeerson in brokering a now-

    legendary political compromise. A memorable copy rom the library o Stephen Row Bradley, one o Vermonts rst U.S.

    senators, whose powerul role as the leading Democratic-Republican senator rom New England was central to the

    presidencies o both Jeerson and Madison.

    A document of great rarity and importance in

    American history, this is the rst ofcial printingof the Residency Act that established a permanent

    federal seat of government in what became the

    District of Columbia. This seemingly

    straightforward law notably concluded an explosive

    debate that had induced a total legislative

    paralysis, threatening the very ber of the new

    nation. In establishing that the Temporary and

    Permanent Seat of the Government of the United

    States... a district of territory, not exceeding ten

    miles square, to be located as hereafter directed on

    the river Potomack, this law also marks one of

    Americas most legendary political bargains. For

    by 1790, an agreed-upon site for the nations capital

    had become the rst test of the viability of the new

    federal government under the Constitution...

    Without some kind of breakthrough, the entire

    experiment with republican government at the

    national level would burst and vanish, and the

    states separate to take care of everyone of itself.

    Either the peaceful dissolution of the United States

    or a civil war would occur unless some sort of

    political bargain was struck (Ellis, 50-1).

    Leading this imminent civil war were James

    Madison, the shrewdest and most politically

    savvy leader in Congress and Alexander Hamilton,

    whose seductively simple plan for federal

    assumption of state debts prompted Madison to

    denounce both author and plan as a repudiation of

    the American Revolution (Ellis, 52-8). By the time

    Secretary of State Jefferson intervened, the debate

    had become electromagnetic... Without descending

    to talk about bargains, Jefferson wrote, he invited

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    both men to a private dinner party where he

    recalls brokering a political bargain of

    decidedly far-reaching signicance: Madison

    agreed to permit the core provision of

    Hamiltons scal program to pass; and in

    return Hamilton agreed to use his inuence

    to assure that the permanent residence of the

    national capital would be on the Potomac

    River. If true, this story deserves to rank

    alongside the Missouri Compromise and the

    Compromise of 1850 as one of the landmark

    accommodations in American politics (Ellis,

    50-1, 48-9).

    That momentous evening assured Hamilton

    his Assumption Act in exchange for

    endorsement of the Residency Act. A rare

    association copy from the library of Vermont

    Senator Stephen Row Bradley. Not in Evans.

    Bristol B7559. Shipton & Mooney 46032. See

    Evans 22969. A rare, about-ne association

    copy of a document bearing central

    importance in the history of the federal

    government.

    w i t h :17. JEFFERSON, Tomas. Letter signed.

    New York: July 19, 1790. Folio, single lea o

    ne laid paper (measuring 9-1/2 by 16 inches),

    manuscript hand on the recto. $48,000.

    Rare and important 1790 circular letter rom

    Secretary o State Tomas Jeerson to Tomas Mifin, President (and rst Governor) o Pennsylvania, citing the Residency

    Bill that established the new national capital on the banks o the Potomac.

    Jeffersons circular letter reads: New York. July 19th-1790. Sir-I have the honor to send you herein inclosed [sic] two copiesduly authenticated of the Act for establishing the temperary [sic] and permanent seat of the government of the United States;

    also of the Act further to provide for the payment of the Invalid Pensioners of the United States, and of being with sentiments

    of the most perfect respect-Your Excellency, Most obedient & most humble servant, Thomas Jefferson. [to] His Excellency

    The President of Pennsylvania. Penned in what is likely a secretarial hand and boldly signed by Jeerson, the letter is

    docketed on the recto by the recipient (likely in a secretarial hand): 1790, July 19 th, Letter from the Honorable Thomas

    Jefferson Esq., Sec. of State. Answered July 24th, 1790.

    This rare letter represents the historic end of a quarrel over federal assumption of state debts and the location of a new capital

    that had grown so vitriolic that it didnt seem far-fetched that the union might break up over the issues... It was a monumental

    decision, since it would confer massive wealth, power and population upon the winning state. More important, it would affect

    the style of the federal government (Chernow, 325-6). The struggle deadlocked over Southern resistance to Hamiltons

    assumption plan (beneting the North) and Northern resistance to a southern capital; only a compromise brokered by

    Jefferson himself averted crisis (see the preceeding description for more details).

    On July rst, less than three weeks before writing this letter, Jefferson watched as Congress enacted the Residency Bill. The

    sudden victory of the Potomac location had surprised almost everybody (Ellis, 74), especially those in Pennsylvania, which

    continued to urge Congress to change its mind and name Philadelphia the permanent capital (Riley,Philadelphia, 362). In

    this very rare circular letter, Jefferson writes to Thomas Mifin, Franklins successor as President of Pennsylvania,

    effectively ending Pennsylvanias hopes for making her Federal guest a permanent resident (Riley, 362). Minor archival

    tape reinforcement to fold lines on the verso. Jeffersons signature ne, bold, and exceptionally large. An extraordinary

    document, poised at a key moment in American history, in near pristine condition.

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    a b r a h a m l i n c o l n a n d t h e c i v i l w a rA Ecptoal A Uqu Cvl War Collcto: Moumtal Bography O Lcol,

    Etra-Illustrat Wth Mor Ta 140 Cvl War Era Photographs A Mor Ta 60

    Sgaturs, Lttrs A Documts O T Most Importat Poltcal,

    Mltary A Cultural Fgurs O T Cvl War, Iclug Lcol wc, Shrma,

    Stowall Jackso, Grat, L, Frrck Douglass, A Joh Wlks Booth

    18. (LINCOLN, Abraham) NICOLAY, John G. and HAY, John. Abraham Lincoln: A History. New York, 1890. en

    volumes bound in twenty. Octavo, modern ull red morocco gilt. $92,

    First edition o this magisterial biography, with ten rontispiece portraits

    o Lincoln, numerous maps and diagrams and over 300 wood-engraved

    illustrations, mostly portraits o dignitariesmany produced rom

    Matthew Brady photographshandsomely bound by Sangorski and

    Sutclie. Tis copy extra-illustrated with over 140 original, Civil War-era

    albumen photographs, including several o Lincoln rom cartes-de-visite;

    engravings (several in color); maps; civil war ephemera, a handbill rom

    Lincolns rst presidential election; and with tipped-in signatures, letters

    and documents o more than 60 important gures in Civil War history,

    including: an autograph note signed by Lincoln and an autograph

    document signed by Lincoln; signatures o Stephen Douglas, Horace

    Greeley, Daniel Webster, General Stonewall Jackson, Frederick Douglass,

    William ecumseh Sherman, General Ulysses S. Grant (two signatures),

    General Robert E. Lee, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Ralph Waldo

    Emerson and many others.

    Tis early and denitive biography o Lincoln was the result o 15 years o

    collaboration by Lincolns private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay.

    Te plan was conceived in 1861; and beore they began to write Nicolay

    had spent six years in collecting and arranging the elaborate mass o

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    Lincoln papers loaned by Robert Lincoln... Prepared under the scrutiny

    o Robert Lincoln, and written by Republicans who were Lincoln men

    all through, the work... stands as an impressive monument, not only

    because o the vastness o the undertaking, but also because o its

    enduring historical signicance (DAB). Monaghan I:1071.

    Te autograph document signed by Lincoln dates rom his days as a

    lawyer in Illinois on the circuit court, and involves a case o contract

    law. Tis document, entirely in Lincolns hand, reads: John Durley vs.

    Jess Mitts & Japhet A. Ball. respass on the case upon promises. Damage$200.00. Te clerk o the Sangamon Circuit Court will issue process in

    the above entitled cause returnable to the next term o said court. Aug.

    28 1838. Stuart & Lincoln. For. Pl [plainti]. Te autograph note

    signed by Lincoln dates rom his presidency, and concerns a request

    rom a young woman

    or a job. Te letter is on

    the recto, and Lincolns

    note on the verso reads:

    I would be very glad or

    Miss Hebb to be obliged,

    i it is at all convenient. A. Lincoln. Feb. 23, 1863. Among the photographs

    in the collection is the last studio photograph taken o Lincoln, a tender

    scene o himsel with his son ad, taken by Anthony Berger at MathewBradys gallery on February 9, 1864.

    Tis collection contains signatures, signed documents and letters o: John

    Hay (autograph letter signed), Stephen Douglas (autograph note signed),

    Robert odd Lincoln (autograph letter signed), Salmon P. Chase, Horace

    Greeley, Schuyler Colax, Mary Ann Brown (Mrs. John Brown), Gerrit

    Smith, Samuel H. reat, Hannibal Hamlin, Daniel Webster, Roger B. aney,

    Gideon Welles, General Stonewall Jackson, Bayard aylor, Rear Admiral

    John Dahlgren, Major General George Stoneman, Brigadier General

    Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Brigadier General Don Carlos Buell, William

    Gannaway Brownlow, Simon Cameron, George Bancro, Rear Admiral

    Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Brevet Brigadier General Anson G.

    McCook, Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, Major General John Pope,Charles Francis Adams, Major General George G. Meade, George S.

    Boutwell, William B. Allison, William H. Seward, Major

    General Philip Henry Sheridan, Major General William S.

    Rosecrans, Dr. Henry W. Bellows, Frederick Douglass,

    Abraham Lincoln (autograph note signed and autograph

    document signed), Henry Wol, Andrew Gregg Curtin, Henry

    Wilson, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, General

    William ecumseh Sherman, Major General James B.

    McPherson, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, Major General

    John Sedgwick, John Bright, Lord Palmerston, Major General

    William Buel Franklin, General Ulysses S. Grant (two

    separate signatures), Brigadier General Robert O. yler,

    General Robert Schenck, James G. Blaine, Horatio Seymour,General O.O. Howard, Edward Bates, Hugh McCulloch,

    General Robert E. Lee, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson,

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John ownsend rowbridge

    (autograph poem signed). A magnicent set in ne

    condition.

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    The American Experience

    Part 1: FoundationsThe Colonies, The Revolution and The Constitution

    A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to againstevery government on earth, general or particular;and what no just government should refuse.

    Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787

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    c o n n e c t i c u t c h a r t e rT Earlst Prtg O CoctcutActs And Laws, 1717 Prtg O T Royal

    Chartr, O O Oly wo Chartrs Gratg Colosts T Rght o Popular Elctos

    19. (CONNECICU) Te Charter Granted by His Majesty King

    Charles II. o the Governour & Company o the English Colony o

    Connecticut in New-England in America. New London, 1718 [i.e.

    1723]. Folio, contemporary brown cal rebacked. $15,000.

    Exceptionally rare rst volume o Connecticut Acts and Laws, the

    earliest printing o colonial Acts and Laws in Connecticut and one o

    the earliest in the original colonies, with 16 extremely rare sets o

    consecutive session Acts rom 1715-23, most in their rst or only issue,

    and a 1717 printing o the 1662 royal charter, one o only two charters

    granting colonists the right to popularly elect their governors. A rare

    glimpse into the early history o colonial lie with statutes on lying,

    electoral procedures, regulation o the militia and the protections or

    secrecy.

    In this earliest o printings o Connecticut Acts can be traced the unique

    signicance o the New England colony, which was rst established by

    the earliest western migration in North American history in 1636. woyears later colonists in New Haven drew up a written constitution

    providing representative governments which served them well until

    Governor John Winthrop Jr. obtained or his colony the charter o

    1662, which annexed New Haven and made Connecticut as independent

    as Massachusetts Tat charter remained the undamental law o

    colony and state until 1818. O the original colonies, only Connecticut

    and Rhode Island, which had popularly elected governors under their

    old royal charters, made the transition rom colony to state simply by

    altering the name o the body politic, declaring that the excellent

    constitutions o government derived rom their pious ancestors were

    still in orce, and tacking on a bill o rights (Morison, 67-68, 94, 275). In this extraordinary and rare Connecticut printing

    o the colonial Acts and Laws is ound the 1717 printing o the 1662 royal charter and 16 sets o consecutive May & October

    sessions Acts rom 1715-23, most in their rst or only issue (Acts or October 1717, May 1718 and May 1721 are secondissue). Tis pioneering rst volume o Connecticut Acts is o the greatest rarity, particularly in its printing o early session

    laws that survive in only a ew copies. Printed by

    imothy Green, who moved rom Massachusetts

    to New London in 1714 by invitation o the

    Connecticut Assembly and until his retirement

    remained the colonys ocial printer (Winterich,

    39). Harvard Law Catalogue, 443. Sabin 15757,

    15762. ower 13-29. Marginal cursive on title page

    and inner margin o page 101; small one-inch

    excision to Acts and Laws title page, minimally

    aecting text. Light scattered oxing, slight

    marginal dampstaining, boards with light expert

    restoration. An extremely good copy o a primary

    colonial text.

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    w i l l i a m d o u g l a s s1755A Summary O Te British Settlements In North America,

    Wth Ecptoally Rar Ha-Color Folg Map

    20. DOUGLASS, William. A Summary, Historical and Political, o the First Planting, Progressive Improvements,

    and Present State o the British Settlements in North-America. London, 1755. wo volumes. Octavo, late 19th-century

    three-quarter navy cal gilt. $10,000.

    First English edition o this report on the state o the mid 18th-century America, with extremely rare hand-colored olding

    map o the English colonies, Canada, and the French Encroachments.

    William Douglass grand history was rst issued in serial orm in 1747, then published in two volumes in 1749 and 1752.

    Opinionated and encyclopedic, it was an impressive achievement with an inormative account o colonial lie. Incomplete

    at his death, the Summary is an important source book, and it enjoyed a wide circulation among American and European

    intellectuals. Adam Smith used it in his research or Te Wealth o Nations and had praise or the honest and downright

    Dr. Douglass (ANB). Douglass was an unusually well-educated doctor and historian whose main mission o inoculating

    the pre-Revolution colonies against smallpox has been overshadowed by his many notable writings on contemporary

    American history. Te elaborate hand-colored map by DAnville included in this edition depicts North Americancolonization to 1750. DAnville was, simply, an assiduous researcher o cartographical worksclassical and contemporary

    and eventually was able to compile maps as accurate as 18th-century technology allowed (Bricker, 84). According to

    Sabin, no copy has yet been ound, in its original state, with the map. Tis extremely rare copy contains the map. Te rst

    edition o this work, which contained identical text but not the map, was published in Boston in 1749. Sabin 20727. Howes

    D436. Streeter II:694 (1760 ed.). Eberstadt 113:448. Rich 21. Stevens 644. ooley,Mapping o America 51(a). Contemporary

    owner signature to title page o Volume II and a ew other contemporary markings. Folding map near-ne with several

    expert repairs to verso, a ew spots o soiling, slight trimming to bottom edge. Slight wormholing to title page o Volume

    II,aint scattered oxing to preliminary and nal leaves. An extremely good copy.

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    b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nAmrcas Frst Grat Sctc Cotrbuto: Frst Complt Eto O Frakls

    Illustrat Experiments And Observations On Electricity, 1769

    21. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America...

    London, 1769. Quarto, contemporary ull brown cal rebacked. $22,000.

    First complete edition o the most important scientic book o 18th-century America and Americas rst great scientic

    contribution (PMM 199), with seven engraved plates (two olding), in contemporary cal. An important edition, edited

    and revised by Franklin himsel, and with material and ootnotes appearing here or the rst time.

    Tis rst complete edition is the ourth edition o the original work; the earlier editions, each issued in three parts as

    separately published pamphlets usually bound together, were carelessly published. Franklin edited this new one-volume

    edition himsel, signicantly revising the text, adding or the rst time a number

    o his own philosophical letters and papers, introducing ootnotes, correcting

    errors, and adding an index (Cohen, Benjamin Franklins Experiments). Included

    in this work are accounts o Franklins amous kite and key experiment, his

    work with Leiden jars, lightning rods and charged clouds. Te most dramatic

    result o Franklins researches was the proo that lightning is really an electrical

    phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion beore himeven Newton

    himselbut it was he who provided the experimental proo (PMM). Te

    lightning experiments caused Franklins name to become known throughout

    Europe to the public at large and not merely to men o science. Joseph Priestley,

    in his History o Electricity, characterized the experimental discovery that the

    lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as the greatest, perhaps, since

    the time o Isaac Newton... Franklins achievement marked the coming o age

    o electrical science and the ull acceptance o the new eld o specialization

    (DSB V:135). Without nal lea o errata and advertisement or this edition as

    oen. GrolierAmerican 10. Howes F320. Sabin 25506. A ne copy o an American

    scientic landmark.

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    b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nMoutas Tat Wr Vry Dagrous, I T Emy Ha Oppos A W Ha B

    Carlss: 1756 Autograph Lttr Wrtt By Bjam Frakl Whl Suprvsg T

    Costructo O Fort All Alog T Dagrous Psylvaa Frotr

    22. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Autograph letter signed. Fort Allen, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1756. Folio, single lea (8

    by 13 inches), manuscript hand in ink on recto and verso. $38,000.

    1756 letter rom Benjamin Franklin to longtime riend Samuel Rhoads,

    Philadelphias inuential master builder who would soon design Franklins

    Philadelphia home, written by Franklin rom Fort Allen, where he spent his 50th

    birthday supervising a newly ormed governmental militiathe rst in

    Pennsylvania historycreating orts along an increasingly violent rontier.

    In late 1755, Britain sent General Edward Braddock to America with the mission

    o pushing the French out o the Ohio val ley, Franklin aided eorts to make sure

    that Braddock got the necessary supplies (Isaacson, 166). Tough Franklin warned

    Braddock that he should be wary o Indian ambushes, the arrogant general

    condently marched west Franklins worries were warranted. Te British army

    was ambushed and routed and Braddock was killed Among the ew survivors

    was the American colonel George Washington, who had two horses shot out rom

    under him and our bullets pierce his clothing Braddocks disaster increased the

    threat rom the French and the Indians, and it deepened the political ri in

    Philadelphia (Isaacson, 168). Furious at the political disputes over unding,

    Franklin brokered a compromise, pushing through a bill that uniquely t

    American circumstances (Hawke, 138), by designing a militia that was purely

    voluntary [and] allowed or the democratic election o ocers. Ten, in early

    December, violent Indian raids along Pennsylvanias northern border, not ar rom

    Bethlehem, stunned the colony. Franklin donned a military uniorm and, along

    with his son, headed to the rontier (Isaacson, 169-70), where he celebrated his

    ieth birthday in the command o 500 men. Within days, Franklins militia

    nished construction o Fort Allen, and began work on two nearby stockades.

    Tis letter oers a rare glimpse into that little known period in Franklins lie. Hewrites rom the newly built Fort Allen, Jan. 26, 1756. Dear Friend, I am extremely

    obligd by your kind Concern expressd or my Saety & Welare. We marchd

    hither with the greatest Caution, thro some Passes, however, in the Mountains

    that were very dangerous, i the Enemy had opposd & we had been careless.

    Hitherto God has blessd & preerrd us. We have built one pretty strong Fort, &

    by the End o next Week, or in ten Days, hope to nish two more, one on each side

    o this, & at 15 Miles Distance. Tese I suppose will compleat the projected Line,

    rom Delaware to Susquehanah. I then propose, God willing, to return homewards

    and enjoy the Pleasure I promise my Sel, o nding my Friends well. ill then,

    adieu; My love to all the Wrights. M. Rhoads. Yours aectionately, B. Franklin.

    Written and signed in ink by Frankl in in an elegant cursive on the recto; docketed,

    also on the recto, Fort Allen, Jany 26, 1756, D r. Franklin to Samuel Rhoads, No.

    1.; address inked on the verso, o M. Saml Rhoads, Philada. Tis letters recipient,Philadelphia architect Samuel Rhoads (1711-84), was one o Franklins closest

    colleagues. Delegate to the First Continental Congress and Mayor o Philadelphia

    in 1774, Rhoads was one o the most infuential master builders o the colonial

    period, aiding in the construction o Independence Hall. race o wax seal on

    recto, slight loss rom seal; expert archival repair along oldlines on the verso,

    restoration to corners. A rare glimpse into the public and private li e o a Founding

    Father, near-ne.

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    b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nFrst Eto Bjam Frakl Prtg: T Chartrs A Laws O PsylvaaA T Cty O Phlalpha, 1743

    23. (FRANKLIN, Benjamin, printer). Te Charters o the Province o Pensilvania and City o Philadelphia.BOUND

    WIH: A Collection o All the Laws o the Province o Pennsylvania: Now in Force. BOUND WIH: An Appendix;

    Containing a Summary o Such Acts o Assembly As have been ormerly in Force within this ProvincePhiladelphia,

    1742 [i.e. 1743]. Tree works bound in one, as issued. Small olio, period-style ull speckled cal gilt. $9000.

    First edition o Benjamin Franklins printing o the laws o colonial Pennsylvania.

    Te need or a complete and correct edition o the laws o Pennsylvania was recognized in 1737, near the end o Franklins

    rst year as clerk o the Assembly. Early in 1739 the Assembly requested the Speakerand Attorney General o theProvinceJohn Kinsey, Esq. to begin a revision o the whole body o the laws... On Aug. 12, 1741, the Assembly passed the

    resolution authorizing the new edition... with the stipulation that One Hundred and wenty Copies be bound or the Use

    o the Publick [Franklin] nished the presswork in the spring o 1743... one year later than the date on the imprint

    (Miller 288). Without last two leaves o able at end (c2). Church 943. Evans 5033. Early owner signatures on recto and verso

    o title page, manuscript mark o ownership on ore-edge, City Library, Springeld. Interior generally clean, early library

    perorations to title page and ollowing lea. A very good copy, handsomely bound.

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    b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nT Oly Eto O Frakls Poltcal Wrtgs Prt Durg Hs

    Ltm A Wth Hs Cost

    24. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces London, 1779. Octavo, modernpaneled cal gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $8200.

    First edition o this important collection containing a number o

    Franklin rst printings, beautiully bound in period-style cal-gilt.

    In addition to containing a large number o Franklins political pieces,

    this important collection includes rst printings o a number o

    philosophical pieces, as the editor notes such o FranklinsMiscellaneous

    and Philosophicalpieces as are not elsewhere in print. But what gives

    special value to this collection is that it is the only edition o Franklins

    writings (other than his scientic), which was printed during his lie

    time; was done with Franklins knowledge and consent, and contains an

    errata made by him or it (Ford 342). Franklin writes concerningnational and provincial politics, the Stamp Act, wealth, smuggling,

    spelling, lightning, weather and the Aurora Borealis. His amous epitaph

    is printed prior to a lengthy appendix, an index, and FranklinsAddenda

    and Corrigenda. With rontispiece portrait o Franklin, three engraved

    plates (one olding), and olding table. Ford 342. Howes F330. Sabin

    25565. Light penciled owner signature; a ew penciled marginalia. A

    very handsome copy in ne condition, beautiully bound.

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    t h o m a s p o w n a l l : a m e r i c a , 1 7 7 7Vry Larg (45 By 46 Ichs) Ha-Color Map O North Amrca

    25. POWNALL, Tomas. A New and Correct Map o North America London, 15th February, 1777. Four sheets

    joined, measuring 45 by 46 inches, mounted on linen. $1

    Rare oversized engraved map o North America. A beautiul map, with hand-colored borders representing European

    colonial holdings, elaborate gural title cartouche o a native American amily group, and two inset maps o Ban and

    Hudsons Bay and o Baja Caliornia.

    English maps o this period are very desirable. Late 18th-century English maps were careully constructed and beautiully

    decorated... English explorers, scientists and instrument makers were accomplishing advances that helped to revolutionize

    mapmaking everywhere (ooley, 98). Based on Bowen and Gibsons 1755 map, Sayer and Bennetts Peace o Paris mapdetails the provisions o the treaty which ended the French and Indian war. Several articles o the treaty are engraved in

    the maps blank ocean areas. An interesting note to the inset map o Caliornia relates Kinos discovery o land passage to

    Caliornia and notes the erroneous appearance o the region as an island on earlier maps and charts. Te eastern boundary

    o the Province o New York has been moved rom the eastern shores o Lake Champlain and now runs along the

    Connecticut River. Te title oN. Carolina has been inserted in two lines (ooley, Te Mapping o America 49). Phillips,

    589. Expertly mounted on linen, ne condition. A splendid and rare map o North America.

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    g a r r i s o n o f s a i n t a u g u s t i n e , 1 7 7 6For Provsog T Garrso O Sat August, 1776:

    Ecptoal 77-Ich Ocal Brtsh Vllum Scroll From T Amrca Rvoluto

    26. (AMERICAN REVOLUION)MASON, Kender and JONES, Arthur. In the Roll o Foreign Accounts o the

    XVIIIth Year o King George the Tird. Engrossed statement o accounts, relating to the supply o provisions or the

    British army at St. Augustine, Florida, 1776-78. London, December 22, 1784. Original vellum scroll, consisting o threepanels stitched together, the entire piece measures 11-1/2 by 77-1/2 inches. $15,000.

    Ocial statement o accounts issued by the reasurer o the Exchequer, James Graham, to Kender Mason and the assigns

    o Arthur Jones (deceased) or providing victuals to the British army stationed at the Garrison o St. Augustine, Florida,

    rom 1776 to 1778.

    In 1763 Spain ceded Florida to England in order to regain the capital o Cuba, ushering in 20 years o British rule in Florida.

    Tis period coincided with the American Revolution, during which Florida remained loyal to the Crown. At the time, the

    British stationed orces at the Garrison o St. Augustine (the Spanish-built Fort Castillo de San Marcos) and at outposts in

    East Florida. Merchants Kender Mason and Arthur Jones were both British subjects, later called enemies o America by

    the American courts (Miller vs. Te Ship Resolution), who contracted with the British government to supply provisions to

    the garrison and its outposts. Tis long vellum scroll, engrossed in Gothic script, is a statement o accounts or goods

    provided rom 1776 to 1778though Mason was engaged or at least two more years (another account exists or 1778-80).Payment was authorized by Chancellor William Pitt and Sir Edward James Eliot, Commissioner or the Board o rade

    and Plantations. Te document was issued by James Graham, third Duke o Montrose and Lord o the reasury, and

    executed by John Heaton, Deputy Clerk. Provisions ordered rom Mason by General William Howe in June o 1777 were

    determined not sucient or the purpose and the amount was deducted rom the totalthe nal payment to Mason was

    over 40,000. With three lozenges bearing the impressions o ocial seals. Docketed on the verso, Anglia, Kender Mason

    and Arthur Jones Esquires, contractors or victualling His Majesties Forces in East Florida, upon their Account thereo

    rom 16th March 1776 to 23rd February 1778, axed with three small paper labels o royal authority. Excellent condition,

    with soiling only to the exposed panel.

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    d i a r y o f a s o l d i e r , 1 7 7 6T Frst Amrca Army A A Army O Evryo: 1776 Orgal Mauscrpt

    Rvolutoary War Dary O Joh Coopr, A Solr I Nw Yorks Frst Rgmt,

    Naval Srvc, A Dramatc Hawrtt Rcor O A Solrs L Durg T

    Coloal Struggl o Cotrol T Huso Rvr Vally

    27. (AMERICAN REVOLUION) COOPER, John. Revolutionary War Diary. New York, 1776. WRIEN IN:

    Gaines Universal Register, or, American and British Kalendar, or the Year 1776. New York, 1776. 12mo, contemporary ullcal rebacked in black cloth. $35,000.

    Rare 1776 Revolutionary War Diary o John Cooper, a 24-year-old enlisted

    man in New Yorks First Regiment, Naval Service, containing over 30

    handwritten pages interspersed throughout a rst edition o Gaines

    Universal Register (1776), an almanac whose blank leas were used by

    Cooper in this remarkable account o the year America declared its

    independence, with rank details o an enlisted mans lie and vivid accounts

    o skirmishes with Indians and British troops as Coopers regiment ought

    throughout the spring and summer o 1776 to maintain crucial American

    command o Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River Valley. In

    contemporary cal.

    Te Revolutionary Army o 1776 was dismissed by the British and even

    many patriots as peasantry, ragamuns, or rabble in arms. Yet, deying

    all odds, this was an army o men accustomed to hard work, hard work

    being the common lot. Tey were amiliar with adversity and making do in

    a harsh climate It was the rst American army and an army o everyone

    (McCullough, 1776, 33-4). Tere is perhaps no document that better mirrors

    that democratic nature than this rare 1776 diary, the military record o an

    ordinary enlisted man, John Cooper, who was born in Pennsylvania on

    March 26, 1752 and was about to turn 24 when he made his rst entry here

    on March 1776. Cooper used the blank pages and slim margins o this worn,

    pocket-sized copy oGaines Universal Register, a 1776 almanac printed in

    New York, to record the daily needs, trials and expenses o a soldiers lie, all

    detailed here alongside Coopers matter-o-act descriptions o the harsh physical demands and the deadly risks o war inAmericas struggle throughout the spring and summer o 1776 to ensure colonial control o Lake Champlain and the

    Hudson River Valley.

    Cooper lls 30 non-consecutive pages with careul ly dated entries that begin in March and continue through late December

    1776. Tis exceptional journal oers a rare account o that crucial period when the American army, recently returned rom

    a brutal Canadian campaign, joined with others at Fort iconderoga to obstruct Howes attempt to seize and occupy the

    mouth o the St. Lawrence [and enable the British] to sever the eastern Colonies rom the others (Freeman, 267). In

    March 17, 1776, or example, Cooper writes o meeting the grand army and on the 18th, o setting St. Johns on re and

    runaway with the Light and arrived at the Isle [Aux Noix]. Te next day, he records, Did nothing Remarkable ound a

    bayonate [sic] and sold it the same day or our shillings. In June, his entries urther detail a soldiers everyday lie with

    notations about days when he caught a large quantity o Fish Sent out with a party o men to clear Land or Uncle John

    o Congress [and] went up to Lake George alls & drank Milk Punch. But soon Cooper writes o a rightening encounter

    on an island where he is alarmed there by 4 men being killed or taken Prisoners by Indians & I Escaped. 1 more made

    escape same night and got in to the island about 12 oclock at night. On July 3, Cooper notes that he Lay aboard the

    Enterprize Except some time spent ashore. Tat ship, the Enterprise, was a sloop in Benedict Arnolds small naval feet and

    was engaged in a daily struggle to keep Lake Champlain under American control. Within months, in early October, the

    Enterprise became o the ew in the feet to survive Americas rst naval battlethe Battle o Valcour Island. Te blank

    pages and margins o Gaines Universal Register were occasionally used or such diary entries by other Revolutionary

    soldiers, though these journals are exceedingly rare. See Sabin 26332. Partial olding lea, with manuscript hand identiying

    Cooper on the recto, axed to rear pastedown. Several leaves detached, light dampstaining, some edge-wear to leaves and

    contemporary boards. An extraordinarily rare document o American revolutionary history.

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    j o h n b u r g o y n e : s u r r e n d e r a t s a r a t o g a1780 Frst Eto O Burgoys Accout O Hs Surrr At Saratoga,

    A urg Pot O T War: O O T Bst Sourcs O T Campag

    28. BURGOYNE, John. A State o the Expedition rom Canada, as Laid Beore the House o Commons with a

    Collection o Authentic Documents. London, 1780. Quarto, modern three-quarter polished brown cal gilt. $10,500.

    First edition, with six engraved olding maps and plans with hand-colored details, two with hinged overslips illustrating

    changes in troop positions and movements.

    In 1776, Burgoyne was attached as second in command to Sir Guy Carleton, commander-in-chie o Canada, but grew

    disgusted with Carletons inaction and returned to Britain, where, at the request o the prime minister drew up a plan o

    campaign or the next year. He proposed that an army o 12,000 men, accompanied by 2000 Canadians as guides and

    pioneers, and 1000 Indians as scouts, should advance rom Canada, take iconderoga, and then advance or 200 miles

    through the orests to Albany... His energy impressed the king... and he returned to America in the spring o 1777 with

    supreme command o a orce to make this march (DNB). On

    September 24, he met with 20,000 American soldiers strongly

    entrenched at Behmus Heights. Burgoyne immediately

    attacked in a utile eort, and was orced to retreat. But

    General Gates would not allow him to escape; he harassed

    every mile o the retreat, and at last surrounded him at

    Saratoga He ound himsel obliged to surrender on October17, 1777 (DNB). Burgoynes campaign proved to be the one

    o the turning points o the war: an American army had

    deeated a British army, validating the Revolution not only in

    America, but also in France, which nally declared itsel a

    ull ally. Recognizing that his military reputation had been

    severely damaged, Burgoyne published A State o the

    Expedition, in which he deends the campaigns strategy.

    One o the best sources on the campaign (Streeter II:794).

    Howes B968. Sabin 925