AMERICANA TO 1820
AMERICANA TO 1820
Society
History
Society of
the Cincinnati. Pennsylvania. Proceedings of the General
Society of the Cincinnati, with the original institution of the Order.... Philadelphia:
Pr. by John Ormrod, 1801. 8vo. 82 pp.
This publication demonstrates that change among many others, as it traces the Society via its own documents from its founding at the "Cantonment of the American Army, on Hudson's River, 10th May, 1783," through the incorporation of the Pennsylvania branch, to the death of Gen. Washington. Included here are the by-laws of the Pennsylvania chapter.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 1339. Sewn, as issued. Front wrapper missing, rear wrapper present. A few spots of waterstaining. Uncut copy. New protective paper corset provided and the whole housed in a cloth clam shell case with a leather spine label lettered in gilt. A very good copy.
Quaker Life in
Dutchess County, NY — 1779Society
of Friends. To the yearly meeting. Extracts taken from the minnets of our quarterly meeting held at the Oblong by adjournments from ye 1st of the 5 month to 3ed of the same inclusive. 1779. New York: Pr. by Melbert B. Cary,
Jr. at the Sign of the Woolly Whale, 1936. 8vo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). [12] pp.
Long, breathless, run-on sentences make the expected Quaker standards of behavior, in this place and time, quite clear.
• Sewn in publisher’s color-flecked paper wrappers. A crisp, clean copy.
For
German-AMERICANS
Wanting
toLearn
English
Sower (a.k.a. Saur), Christopher, comp. Eine nuetzliche Anweisung oder Beyhuelffe vor Deutsche um Englisch zu lernen.... Nebst einer Grammatic.... Vierte und vermehrte Auflage. Germantaun: Gedruckt und zu bekommen bey Peter Leibert, 1792. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). [4], 282 (i.e., 284) pp. 
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In addition to the lessons it includes short German–English and English–German lexicons. First published in 1751, it is printed here in both fraktur and roman type, with a woodcut headpiece of the all-seeing eye above the preface. This is the fourth of four 18th-century editions.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with early inked inscription “Sebastian Keller jnr.” Sebastian Keller the second was the son of 
Catharine Hummer of White Oak, Pennsylvania; Hummer was the first woman to preach among the German Baptist Brethren of Pennsylvania, and famed for her visions of dead people being baptized in Heaven.
• ESTC W21002; Evans 24771; Arndt & Eck, German Language Printing in the U.S., 853. Contemporary mottled sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; binding scuffed and rubbed, spine and front cover with insect damage. Pages browned and intermittently stained as usual with German American imprints; edges of front free endpaper, first few leaves, and back free endpaper tattered. Front fly-leaf with inscription as above. (26180)
“Take 500 Protestations . . . ” Spofford, Thomas. Astronomical diary, or almanack, for the year ... 1819. ... Calculated for the meridian of Andover ... but will serve without any error of consequence for any of the New-England states. Boston: Hews & Goss, [1818]. 12mo. [18] ff.
how to compose a “modern” love letter plus a (truly) humorous description of marriage. Two states of gathering C noted. In the second, a note has been added at foot of p. [34], correcting information given in the calendar pages about a solar eclipse on April 24th. This is a copy in the state without the correction.
• Drake 3819; Shaw & Shoemaker 43108. Uncut copy; old stitching. A very good copy. (9622)
How Do IKNOW I Am Saved? Spring, Gardiner. Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character. New York: Dodge & Sayre (pr. by J. Seymour), 1813. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). 230 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Shaw & Shoemaker 29843. Contemporary mottled sheep, rubbed; spine with lighter compartment where a label has been lost and with partially inked-over shelving number. Lower (closed) edges, front pastedown, and final text page institutionally rubber-stamped. Front pastedown and free endpaper with pencilled inscriptions; front free endpaper with inked gift inscription dated 1863; back pastedown with bookseller's small ticket. Foxed and spotted; a few corners dog-eared and one section with corners bumped. (25887)
Putting DOWN the
REVOLUTION in Connecticut Steadfast, Jonathan [pseud. of David Daggett]. Count the cost. An address to the people of Connecticut, on sundry political subjects, and particularly on the proposition for a new constitution. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1804. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.25"). 21, ii, [1] pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. First edition.
• Sabin 15716; Shaw & Shoemaker 610. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Title-page with small inked “pseud.” comment next to author's name. Pages age-toned with offsetting and some light spotting (darkest to title-page); one leaf with upper margin repaired some time ago. Page edges untrimmed; one signature unopened. (25211)
Dedicated to “Patrons of
Pure,Stiles, Ezra. A history of three of the judges of King Charles I. Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell: Who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America; and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years. With an account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of the judges. Hartford: Elisha Babcock, 1794. 12mo. 357, [5 (4 blank)], 357, [4 (3 blank)] pp.; 8 plts. (3 fold.); lacks the frontis. port.
Click the images for enlargements. • Evans 27743; Howes S-999; Sabin 91742; Trumbull, Connecticut, 1425. Period-style quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and blind-tooled floral decorations in compartments. Previous owner's signature on the title-page. Rubber-stamps of the Mercantile Library, and inked marks and underlining inside, with scattered marginalia. Frontispiece portrait lacking, with eight plates (three of which are fold-out) present; each of the three folding plates with a split along one fold. Occasional marginal tears and small chips to corners; waterstaining and foxing, yet paper strong and reading easy. (3996)
Englishmen
on the
French
Revolution[Stone,
John Hurford, et al.]. Copies
of original letters recently written by persons in Paris to Dr. Priestley in America.
Taken on board a neutral vessel. Third edition. London: J. Wright, 1798. 8vo (20.7
cm, 8.1"). 36 pp.
• ESTC N1989; Sabin 92070. Removed from a nonce volume, with sewing holes; now in a Mylar folder. Half-title with small numerical stamp, pencilled notations, a bit of staining and two smears/blots of old red ink. Interior slightly age-toned but clean.
A Lot of“STORYS” for the Money! Storys of the bewitched fiddler, perilous situation, and John Hetherington's dream. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--]. 12mo. 24 pp. 
The
final page of the chapbook contains an anecdote about soldiers from an American
regiment making fun of a hunchback who gets back at them with a dig about Bunker
Hill where the regiment suffered heavy losses. "[No.]
28." printed at the foot of the title.
• Not located in RLIN. Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17584)
“The Details of the Late War” Subaltern (Georg Robert Gleig, attrib.).
A subaltern in America; comprising his narrative of the campaigns of the British army, at Baltimore, Washington, &c. &c. during the late war. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart; Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.25"). 266 pp.
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A pencilled annotation in one margin of this copy reads “The author is not aware that the people in the Southern States are not called Yankees”; one particularly anti-American remark later in the volume has been lined through in pencil.
• Sabin 27570; Howes S1115. Publisher's speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; covers sunned unevenly, edge/extremities rubbed, head of spine showing traces of now-absent label. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, pressure-stamp on title-page. Title-page with supposed author's name inked in upper margin. Waterstaining to lower outer corners of first few leaves; scattered spots of foxing and staining; one signature much browned, showing the different effects of time and “life” on different papers. (26376)
His
ADDRESS
for
Vermonters
[Sullivan, George]. An
address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United
States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain.
Windsor, [VT]: Thomas M. Pomroy, 1812. 12mo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). 31, [1 (blank)]
pp. 
• Shaw & Shoemaker 24555; Sabin 393 (not listing this ed.); Howes A77 (not listing this ed.). Half morocco over marbled paper sides, worn and front cover off; library paper shelving label on front cover. Binder's ticket on back free endpaper. Title-page and one other stamped by a now-defunct institution; back free endpaper with pocket. Pages untrimmed, with some browning.
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