AMERICANA TO 1820
AMERICANA TO 1820
“Oh,
C'mon . . . ”
Quincy, Josiah. [drop-title] Speech of Josiah
Quincey [sic], Representative in Congress for the state of Massachusetts,
on the joint resolution approving of the conduct of the executive of the United
States, in relation to the refusal to receive any farther communication from the
British Minister, 28th December, 1809. No place, [1810?]. 12mo. 24 pp.
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A very uncommon Quincy item. • Not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Removed from a nonce volume; stapled and respined with archival tissue. Six-digit number stamped on title-page.
Dominican Missions in
California Quiñones, Baltasar de. Autograph Letter Signed in Spanish to Fray Ignacio Gentil. Rome: 7 April 1789. Tall 8vo (26.5 cm; 10.5"). [2] pp., with integral address leaf.
Click the images for enlargements. The main question at hand is the appointing of a new attorney/solicitor (i.e., procurador) for the California missions. He says, “quiero que ahora y siempre que ocurra [la necesidad de un nuevo procurador], se haga el nombramiento por la Provincia misma despues de haber oido al Presidente de las Misiones, el cual es mi voluntad que en cuanto sea posible camine con acuerdo de la mayor parte a lo menos de los demas misioneros, antes de hacer su propuesta a la Prov[inci]a.”
He also makes appointments to the positions of “Depositarios del Deposito” and the names of the four appointees are given.
• Written in a clear large hand and with the paper and wax closure in evidence. (25329)
Printed
by
Lydia
BaileyRobinson, William Davis. Memoirs of the Mexican
revolution: Including a narrative of the expedition of General Xavier Mina....
Philadelphia: Pr. for the author, [by] Lydia R. Bailey, pr., 1820. 8vo (28.4
cm, 9.25"). xxxvi, 396 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Shoemaker 3035; Sabin 72202; this edition not in Palau. Contemporary boards, rebacked with paper in the style of the era; original paper label reapplied. Uncut copy with edges untrimmed. Library bookplate with stamps on it, but no other institutional markings.
British Words of Support for
Colonial Rights Rokeby, Matthew Robinson-Morris, Baron. Considerations on the measures carrying on with respect to the British colonies in North-America. London printed; Hartford reprinted: Eben. Watson, 1774. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). 63, [1] pp.
Click the interior image for enlargement. • Evans 13585; ESTC W30498; Howes R-372; Trumbull, Connecticut, 1305; Adams, Amer. Pamphlets, 134j; Sabin 72151; Allibone 1839. On Robinson-Morris, see: Oxford DNB online. Period-style quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and elegant small decorations at head and foot. Pages age-toned; three leaves with minor staining. Title-page with repaired chip to outer margin, traces of early inked inscriptions in center of page, and partially shaved inscription in upper margin. Last text page with inked inscription in lower margin, partially shaved at beginning of inscription. (24866)
An
ABOLITIONIST’s
Take onLorenzo
de’MediciRoscoe, William. The life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, called the Magnificent...the first American, from the fourth London edition, corrected, in three volumes. Philadelphia: Bronson & Chauncey, 1803. 8vo (22 cm, 8.75"). I: xxxi, [1], 426 pp.; illus. II: [4], 427, [1] pp.; illus. III: [8], 435, [13] pp. 
• Uncommon first U.S. edition of this biography of one of the great Renaissance men, accompanied by his collected poems and by an extensive set of appended documents in Italian and Latin. Roscoe, an anti-slavery politician, is now best remembered for this history and for his children’s classic, The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 4994. Contemporary treed sheep, rubbed; joints cracking and front cover of vol. 2 with a small circular patch in similar leather; back covers of all volumes stamped by a now-defunct institution, spines with 19th-century paper shelving labels, and pastedowns with old library bookplates. Pages foxed and with old waterstaining. A very few stray pencil marks; first signature of vol. I partially separated.
Early Evangelical DevotionsRowe, Elizabeth Singer. Devout exercises of the heart, in meditation and soliloquy, prayer and praise. Hartford: Pr. by J. Babcock, 1800. 12mo (14 cm, 5.5"). 180 pp. 
Provenance: On a rear blank, “Amos Clarke his book”; another signature with a plea to borrowers below that. Opposite, “Southington September 7th 179[?]” and the note, “Read your Book Every opportunity.”
• ESTC W37924; Evans 38424. On Rowe, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Quarter sheep over paste boards, covers much abraded and chipped; spine leather torn at base and lacking at head. Dog-ears, shallow chipping, and brownstaining—with loss of individual words in a few places. Early inked notations on endpapers.
Dr. Rush inNON-Medical Mode Rush, Benjamin. An account of the manners of the German inhabitants of Pennsylvania, written in 1789...notes added by Prof. I. Daniel Rupp. Philadelphia: Samuel P. Town, 1875. 12mo. Frontis. (port.), 72 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscriptions of James A. Hoffman, Kutztown (PA), 1877. “Thou shalt not steal.”
• Sabin 74200; Howes R516. Contemporary green publisher's cloth with light wear and one spot to back cover. An article, “A Lesson in Pronunciation for Germans” has been affixed to the rear pastedown. A nice clean copy. (3043)
An AMERICAN Statesman in London Rush, Richard. Memoranda of a residence at the court of London, comprising incidents official and personal from 1819 to 1825. Including negotiations on the Oregon question, and other unsettled questions between the United States and Great Britain. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). xii, 640 pp.
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social and cultural activities while in London.
• Sabin 74265; Howes R523; Allibone 1893. Publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations; rubbed with cloth split at joints and front cover with spot of discoloration. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown, old inked call number on endpapers and flyleaf (which has small old adhesions of paper to verso); no other markings. Very light to moderate waterstaining to upper inner portions of central third of the volume. (26480)
Seven Successful Sermons Russel, Robert. Seven sermons on different important subjects ... the sixty-second edition. Philadelphia: Pr. by R. Folwell for R. Campbell, 1795. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). 84 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Uncommon. ESTC, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 report only nine U.S. holdings, one of which has been deaccessioned.
• ESTC W22234; Evans 29452; Sabin 74292. Contemporary mottled paper, recently rebacked with plain brown cloth; paper abraded around board edges. Hinges (inside) reinforced. Front pastedown with early inked numerals (calculation). Pp. 49/50 bound in out of order. Pages browned and foxed but strong and supple. (25253)
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