AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
AMERICANA
AFTER 1820
Much
FUNEREAL
Detail . . .
(Taylor, Zachary). Obituary addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Zachary Taylor, president of the United States, in the Senate and House of Representatives, July 10, 1850; with the funeral sermon by the Rev. Smith Pyne, D.D. rector of St. John's church, Washington, preached in the
presidential mansion, July 13, 1850. Washington: William M. Belt, 1850. 8vo. Frontis., 107, [5 (blank)] pp. 
• Not in Sabin. Quarter buckram over paper-covered sides. Without the original mourning wrappers. "Mercantile Library Co." blind-stamped on both sides. Paper call number label on spine. Edges and corners worn, tips of spine pulled, with loss. Ownership signature on front fly leaf, and charge pocket and card on rear free endpaper. Dog-eared. (3722)
Teller's
Tales — Charming
Wood Engravings
Teller, Thomas
[pseud. of George Tuttle]. Tales for all seasons; Or stories
and dialogues for little folks. New Haven: S. Babcock, [1845?]. 12mo (14 cm,
5.5"). 64 pp.; illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements. • American Imprints 45-6534. Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; lightly stained, corners bumped, paper lost at spine. Pages age-toned, with moderate foxing. (25286)
Travels in
Greece & TurkeyTennent, James Emerson, Sir. Letters from the Aegean. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1829. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.4"). [6 (adv.)], x, [25]–248 pp.
The six pages of advertisements offer multiplereviews of the Harper works listed, not just publication information!
Provenance: Front free endpaper with ex libris inscription initialed “GRW”: William [Guillelmus] R. Whittingham, Bishop of Baltimore.
• Shoemaker 40623; NSTC 2E8969. Publisher’s quarter cloth and paper-covered sides, spine with printed paper label; binding faded and worn, spine label chipped and darkened. Front pastedown with institutional rubber-stamp, no other markings; pages untrimmed, and foxed throughout.
With
Extensive Book Advertising at the End — “New BooksTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron. Maud, and other poems. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1856. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 160, [2 (blank)], 12 (adv.) pp.
• Publisher’s cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly scuffed overall, spine with extremities worn and one compartment gently faded, back joint with small ink blotch and corner of front cover with traces of old adhesion, as a sticker. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1859, title-page verso stamped (no other markings). Pages slightly age-toned.
Becky! Comes to AmericaThackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity
Fair. A novel without a hero. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848. 8vo (23.8 cm, 9.3"). Add. engr. t.-p., 332 pp.; 31 plts.
Kempis
for 
CONNECTICUT
[Thomas à Kempis]. Of
the Imitation of Christ. Tr. by John Payne. New-Haven: Pub. by William Storer,
Gray & Hewit, Printers, 1822. 8vo. 42, 210 pp.
The first printing of the Imitation appeared in 1473 and there followed
hundreds of European editions before the first American appeared 1749. It
was as popular with the American audience as it had been in Europe, and
it appeared here in English and German translation and even in an extracted
form, almost always redone for Protestants.
This
is the first printing of the Imitation in Connecticut.
• Shoemaker 9094; Parsons 778. On the translator, see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary sheep with a near-contemporary over-covering of another sheep binding—with a rectangle cut out to expose the original spine label. Over-covering very plain. Expectable foxing and a certain amount of staining; a "decent" copy made interesting by the careful early "conservation" of the binding.
An American Scots Pastor Edits “Kempis” — A Glaswegian Writes the Preface Thomas a Kempis. The imitation of Christ. In three books. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands, 1829. x, [1] 228 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. This has an engraved title-page with vignette incorporating David as harpist, and a steel-engraved frontispiece signed by J. Eddy as engraver, “W. Heath, del.”
Provenance: Inked ownership note to blank of “Charlotte Russell / July 14th — 1831.”
• Publisher's brown cloth shelfback with paper-covered boards; binding fragile, showing considerable wear with tears in the cloth. Foxing and age-toning; page edges lightly chipped and worn. Ex-library: call number on binding, bookplate, pressure-stamps and other identifications, pencilling. Uncut copy. (23938)
Privately
Printed for the
Philobiblon
ClubThorp, Williard. Lost tradition of American
letters. Philadelphia: Privately printed for the Philobiblon Club, 1945. 8vo.
[2], 26, [2] pp. 
• Quarter cloth and marbled paper sides, spine gilt-stamped with title. Pages crisp and binding clean; the whole very nearly pristine. (4925)
WithTWO
Wood-Engraved Plates
[True, Charles Kittredge]. Tri-mountain;
or, the early history of Boston. Boston: Pub. by Heath & Graves, [©
1845]. 12mo (6 inches, 15.5 cm). Frontis., 136 pp. (pp. [7 & 8, &
130] blank; number 131 & 132 not used in pagination), plt., [4 (ads)]
ff.
• Sabin 97079. Publisher's blind stamped charcoal gray cloth with a grain to it; spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Cloth a little bubbled on the boards, with spots of discoloration. Top and bottom of spine pulled. Faint traces of waterstaining at top of some pages and a few other, stray stains. An “okay” copy.
Laugh
Out Loud?
Turner & Fisher,
publishers. Turner's comick almanack [for] 1844. For the northern,
eastern and middle states. Boston: Published by James Fisher, 71 Court Street,
Boston. Publisher of juvenile works, song books, &c., [1843]. 12mo (19.5
cm; 7.75"). [32] pp.; ill. .
Click the images for enlargements. The publishers proclaim themselves “professors of comic phylosophy [sic] and laughing salvation.”
• Drake, Almanacs, 4295. Browning; some tattering; oversewing . (25483)
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