NEW JERSEY
NEW JERSEY
“Natural
Equality” — Newark,
1802
Brown, William Lawrence. An essay on the
natural equality of men; on the rights that result from it, and on the duties
which it imposes.... The second American edition. Newark: John Wallis, 1802. 12mo
(17.3 cm, 6.8"). [2 (1 blank)], 141, [1 (blank)] pp.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 1953. On Brown, see: Dictionary of National Biography, VII, 37–38 (under William Laurence Brown). Relatively unworn library buckram; library name pressure-stamped on covers and its bookplate to front pastedown. Hinges reinforced at rebinding with cloth and first few pages fragile along line of reinforcement; front free endpaper separated. Title-page and a few others faintly stamped, title-page with crossed-out ownership inscription. Some offsetting; a very few instances of pencilled underlining; corners occasionally dog-eared or chipped. Overall a fairly decent copy, suffering a bit from earlier "conservation."
A Practical Yet Picturesque View of
the U.S. & Canada De Roos, Frederick Fitzgerald [a.k.a. De Ros, John Frederick Fitzgerald]. Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 ... with remarks on the present state of the American Navy. London: William Harrison Ainsworth, 1827. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.55"). xii, 207, [1] pp.; 14 plts. (1 fold.).
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New
Brunswick and Trenton to Washington and Baltimore before
heading back north through Philadelphia and Boston to reach Nova Scotia and
Canada; in his travelogue, the author proves himself a curious yet gentlemanly
observer not only of America's shipbuilding, marine affairs, and naval strength,
but also of her customs, culture, women, and interactions with “the conquered
Indian” (p. 165).
The volume is illustrated with
an
oversized, folding panoramic view of Quebec along with 13 other plates,
including two maps of the Niagara Falls region; views of Bristol, DE, and
Chester, MA; and a bucolic depiction of the “Water Works of Philadelphia
on the Schuylkil,” all engraved after De Roos's own designs.
Binding: Contemporary hunter green diced calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets and an interior blind rule with small gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine gilt extra in five compartments. Board edges and turn-ins decorated with gilt rolls; rich blue marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.
• Howes D268; Sabin 19677. Binding as above, corners/joints
scuffed and back joint starting from head; spine a little sunned, evenly and
attractively. Scattered light foxing, pages and plates otherwise clean. 
An
admirable book in a nice copy. (26665)
CRANBERRIESEastwood, B. A complete manual for the cultivation of the cranberry, with a description of the best varieties. New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker, & Co., 1860. 8vo. Engr. t.-p., 120 pp; 9 plts. 
• Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches. 
Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of! (12986)
NEW
JERSEY BOOKS 1801–1860
Felcone,
Joseph J. New Jersey
books, 1801–1860. The Joseph J. Felcone Collection. Princeton, N.J.: Joseph
J. Felcone, 1996. 8vo. Frontis., xi, [1 (blank)], 800, [2 (blank)] pp.
• Publisher's red cloth, stamped in gilt on the spine. New.
Documenting
the Sale of a SlaveLloyd, William L. A.L.S. to Garret D. Wall. [New Jersey or Pennsylvania], 22 May 1819. 12mo (6.125" x 8"), 1 p.
Click the image to the left Garret D. Wall was a lawyer in, and later a Senator from, New Jersey.
• Written in a clear hand. Fold along horizontal middle of document. Light stain and residue of mounting into an album. Lacks integral address leaf. Old price and dealer code (Sessler’s) in pencil in lower margin.
Printed in London — (Re-)Bound inTrentonToone, William. The chronological historian; or a record of public events, historical, political, biographical, literary, domestic, and miscellaneous; principally illustrative of the ecclesiastical, civil, naval, and military history of Great Britain and its dependencies, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the present time... Second edition. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1828. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.55"). 2 vols. I: [1] f., ii, 664 pp. II: [1] f., 747, [1] pp.
Binding: Mid- to late-19th-century binding, with binder’s ticket of the True American Bindery of Trenton, NJ.
• Half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles and blind-stamped decorative devices; edges and sides moderately rubbed with a bit of paper skinned from cover of vol. II. Most pages with some degree of foxing. Handsome on shelf, solid in hand.
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