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First Editions of American Authors, Unusual sets of Emerson, Hawthorne, Irving, Etc., from the...

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First Editions of American Authors, Unusual sets of Emerson, Hawthorne, Irving, Etc., from the Library of a Private Collector, Together with one of the Finest Collections of Rare Americana Offered at Auction in New York in a Decade . . . To be Sold at Auction Wednesday and Thursday January 22d and 23d, 1902.

New York: Bangs & Co., 1902. First edition. McKay, American Book Auction Catalogues, 5402; OCLC records three copies (Grolier, Yale and Bowdoin). A finely bound copy of one of the many sales conducted by Bangs & Co. of New York, one of the prominent auction houses of the day. The.....

Price: $150.00

Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha Riportato il Premio Dalla Nobile Accademia Etrusca de Cortona ....

CANOVAI, STANISLAO.

Elogio d'Amerigo Vespucci che ha Riportato il Premio Dalla Nobile Accademia Etrusca de Cortona . . . Con una Dissertazione Guistificativa di Questo Celebre Navigatore.

Firenze: Nella Stamp. De Pietro Allegrini, 1788. First edition. Sabin 10704; Palou 42410. A treatise by Florentine historian and mathematician, Stanislao Canovai (1740-1811), that attempts to restore the reputation of Amerigo Vespucci as the founder of the new world, which was named for him, but he was not generally credited.....

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Memoirs of Major-General Heath. Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, and other...

HEATH, WILLIAM.

Memoirs of Major-General Heath. Containing Anecdotes, Details of Skirmishes, Battles, and other Military Events, During the American War. Written by Himself.

Boston: Printed by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1798. First and only edition. ESTC W20737; Evans 33865; Sabin 61455. The memoirs a major general in the Continental Army, William Heath (1737-1814) of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who saw a great deal of action between Lexington and Concord and the conclusion of.....

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Buckskin and Homespun: Frontier Texas Clothing, 1820-1870. DAVID AND BILLIE PERSONS HOLMAN

HOLMAN, DAVID AND BILLIE PERSONS.

Buckskin and Homespun: Frontier Texas Clothing, 1820-1870.

Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, one of 450 numbered copies; this one is designated "review copy." ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.

Price: $325.00

Buckskin and Homespun: Frontier Texas Clothing, 1820-1870. DAVID AND BILLIE PERSONS HOLMAN

HOLMAN, DAVID AND BILLIE PERSONS.

Buckskin and Homespun: Frontier Texas Clothing, 1820-1870.

Austin: Wind River Press, (1979). First edition, number 37 of 50 numbered copies, signed by David Holman. ¶ A handsome work on the evolution of frontier clothing in 19th century Texas in its deluxe issue with the cloth samples. Prospectus laid in. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie.....

Price: $750.00

Letters of Shahcoolen, A Hindu Philosopher, Residing in Philadelphia; To His Friend El Hassan, an...

KNAPP, SAMUEL LORENZO.

Letters of Shahcoolen, A Hindu Philosopher, Residing in Philadelphia; To His Friend El Hassan, an Inhabitant of Delhi.

Boston: Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1802. First edition. American Bibliography 2490; Sabin 38076. The first book by Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), a series of 14 literary letters fashioned after Goldsmith and Montesquieu. Knapp writes about Mary Wollstonecraft and her influence on American women, women's rights in America, American poetry.....

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An Oration Delivered at Newburyport, on the Fourth Day of July 1810. SAMUEL LORENZO KNAPP

KNAPP, SAMUEL LORENZO.

An Oration Delivered at Newburyport, on the Fourth Day of July 1810.

Newburyport: From the Press of Ephraim W. Allen, (1810). First edition. American Bibliography 20505. A spirited 4th of July oration by one of the more interesting and colorful literary figures of his time, Samuel Lorenzo Knapp (1783-1838), who praises Washington and Hamilton, but not Jefferson. See the DAB.

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Bank check made payable to John Overton and dated Nashville, July 7, 1818. JOHN OVERTON

OVERTON, JOHN.

Bank check made payable to John Overton and dated Nashville, July 7, 1818.

Nashville: Bank of the State of Tennessee, 1818. John Overton (1766-1833) was one of the most prominent and wealthy Nashvillians of his generation and a founder of Memphis. His home in Nashville, Traveller's Rest built in 1799, has withstood the ravages of time and generations of Overtons to survive as.....

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Lectures on History and General Policy . . . And an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the...

PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH.

Lectures on History and General Policy . . . And an Additional Lecture on the Constitution of the United States.

Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, 1803. First American edition. American Bibliography 4914; see under Sabin 65514. 71 lectures on history by Joseph Priestley, a work previously published in England, but issued here in its first American edition, with the addition of the first appearance of his 20-page lecture on the.....

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The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Letter to the...

RICKMAN, THOMAS CLIO.

The Life of Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Letter to the Addressers, &c.

London: Printed and Published by Thomas Clio Rickman, 1819. First edition. Sabin 71242; Gimbel, page 136; Howes R278. An important memoir of Thomas Paine by his lifelong friend and supporter Thomas Clio Rickman (1761-1834), the reform-minded bookseller and poet. “Rickman's name will be forever linked with Paine, for he was.....

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Enchanted Rock: Views of a Texas Botholith . . . Photographs by David Stark & Drawings by Pat...

ROSSMAN, CHARLES.

Enchanted Rock: Views of a Texas Botholith . . . Photographs by David Stark & Drawings by Pat Brown.

(Austin:) Duncan & Gladstone, 1985. First edition, number 71 of 22 numbered copies, printed by David Holman of the Wind River Press. ¶ From the library of David & Valerie Belch.

Price: $200.00

Monody on Major Andrè. . . . To Which are Added Letters Addressed to Her by Major Andrè, in the...

SEWARD, ANNA.

Monody on Major Andrè. . . . To Which are Added Letters Addressed to Her by Major Andrè, in the Year 1769.

Lichfield: Printed and Sold by J. Jackson, for the Author; Sold also by Robinson, Cadell and Evans, [et al.], 1781. First edition. Sabin 79477; Adams, American Controversy, 81-65a; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 291; NCBEL II, 682. The second published work by poet and writer Anna Seward (1742-1809), a.k.a......

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A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois . . . Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. CHRISTIANA HOLMES TILLSON

TILLSON, CHRISTIANA HOLMES.

A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois . . . Edited by Milo Milton Quaife.

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Lakeside Press edition.

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Domestic Manners of the Americans . . . Complete in One Volume. FRANCES TROLLOPE

TROLLOPE, FRANCES.

Domestic Manners of the Americans . . . Complete in One Volume.

London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher; New York: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. First American edition. NCBEL III, 769; Robinson, pages 197-98; Sabin 97028; American Imprints 15041; Clark, Travels in the Old South, vol. 3, 112; Colbert; ODNB. Frances Trollope (1780-1863) traveled to America in 1827 with several children in tow.....

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Lithographed portrait of Daniel Webster after the oil portrait by Chester Harding. DANIEL WEBSTER

WEBSTER, DANIEL.

Lithographed portrait of Daniel Webster after the oil portrait by Chester Harding.

Boston: Published by D. C. Johnston, 1831. A famous portrait by Chester Harding (1792-1866) of American statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), "drawn on stone by D. C. Johnston" and printed by Pendleton's Lithography, Boston.

Price: $200.00

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