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t h o m a s p a i n e1776 Phlalpha Braor Prtg O Pas Common Sense,
A Rmarkabl Ucut Copy From A Prvat Famly Collcto:
T Dclarato O Ipc O July 4, 1776, Was Du Mor o Pas
Common Sense Ta o Ay O Othr Sgl Pc O Wrtg1. PAINE, Tomas. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants o America... Philadelphia, 1776. Octavo,
unbound, stitched as issued, uncut; pp. (4), 50; custom hal morocco clamshell box. $62,000.
Exceptionally rare 1776 Philadelphia printing o this American landmark, the important third edition (issued one month
aer the rst edition), the rst edition to contain Paines additions to the work, which increased the text by one-third. An
exceptional uncut copy rom a private collection.
Te rst edition oCommon Sense was published in Philadelphia by Robert Bell in January 1776. Paine had patriotically
agreed to give his share o the prots rom Common Sense toward the purchase o mittens or the hal-rozen American
troops then battling beore Quebec. When Bell said there were no prots, Paine, inuriated, dismissed Bell and employed
Bradord to publish a new edition. He materially enlarged the work by one-third. He also reduced the price rom two
shillings to one shilling so that everyone might read the faming arguments, and they did! Reusing to copyright this work,
he gave permission to al l to reprint it, with the result that it spread rapidly all over the country (Gimbel-Yale, 14). Common
Sense was by ar the most inuential tract o the American Revolution, and it remains one o the most brilliant pamphlets ever
written in the English language (A Covenanted People, 27). It is not too much to say that the Declaration o Independence
o July 4, 1776, was due more to Paines Common Sense than to any one other single piece o writing (GrolierAmerican
100 14). Tis important edition, published in Philadelphia by W. and . Bradord in February 1776, is the third edition to
be printed and the rst to contain Paines additions. Gimbel CS-11. Without hal title. Signature clipped rom bottom
margin o title page. A little light embrowning, some aint damp staining to bottom margins. 1776 editions oCommon
Sense, especially those printed in Philadelphia, are extraordinarily rare and desirable, and this remarkable uncut copy is
exceptionally so.
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T Most Famous A Iutal Amrca Poltcal Work:
T Frst Eto OTe Federalist2. (HAMILON, Alexander; MADISON, James; JAY, John). Te Federalist: A Collection o Essays. New York, 1788.
wo volumes. 12mo, period-style ull brown cal. $205,000.
First edition o Te Federalist, one o the rarest and most signicant works in American political history, which exerted
a powerul inuence in procuring the adoption o the Federal Constitution. An exceptional copy.
When Alexander Hamilton invited his ellow New Yorker John Jay and James Madison, a Virginian, to join him in
writing the series o essays published as Te Federalist, it was to meet the immediate need o convincing the reluctant New
York State electorate o the necessity o ratiying the newly proposed Constitution o the United States. Te 85 essays, under
the pseudonym Publius, were designed as political propaganda, not as a treatise o political philosophy. In spite o this,
Te Federalistsurvives as one o the new nations most important contributions to the theory o government (PMM, 234).
Te Federalistexerted a powerul infuence in procuring the adoption o the Federal Constitution, not only in New Yorkbut in the other states. Tere is probably no work in so small a compass that contains so much valuable political inormation.
Te true principles o a republican orm o government are here unolded with great clearness and simplicity (Church
1230). A generation passed beore it was recognized that these essays by the principal author o the Constitution and its
brilliant advocate were the most authoritative interpretation o the Constitution as draed by the Convention o 1787. As
a commentary and exposition o the Constitution, the infuence o the Federalisthas been proound (Grolier 100 American
56). Te most thorough and brilliant explication o the Federal Constitution (or any other constitution) ever written
(Smith, 263-4). Sabin 23979. Howes H114. Evans 21127. Streeter II:1049. Light scattered oxing. An exceptional copy.
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O O T Earlst Prtgs O Prhaps T Most Importat Documt I
T Hstory O Amrca, T Oly Kow Copy
3. (CONSIUION) Plan o the New Federal Government. Philadelphia, September, 1787. Folio sheet (14 by 18
inches), olded once, printed in double columns; pp.4. $335,000.
A previously unrecorded and evidently unique early printing o the proposed United States Constitution, with the ull texto the Constitution, the names o the delegates and the states they represent, the resolution that the document be submitted
to the states or ratication, and the text o Washingtons letter endorsing the Constitution. Early printings o the
Constitution are extraordinarily rare.
A unique early printing o the Constitution, done in Philadelphia, the city where the Convention held its historic meetings.
Tis our-page handbill, issued by Philadelphia printer Robert Smith, gives every indication o being issued in great haste,
with the text o pages 1 and 4 misaligned, and set in double-column ormat typical o a newsletter handbill o the period.
While undated, such a ormat clearly was not produced at leisure, and this handbill was almost certainly issued shortly
aer the Constitution was publicly announced on September 17, 1787.
Robert Smith apprenticed with the Philadelphia rm o Dunlap and Claypoolewho later became the ocial printers to
the Constitutional Conventionbeore launching his own newspaper, Te Evening Chronicle, in Philadelphia in February,
1787. Smith took on a partner, James Prange, and the rm operated as Smith and Prange rom November 1, 1787, meaningthat this printing could only have occurred in the six weeks between September 17 and November 1. Te text o the Constitution
was publicly read beore the Pennsylvania General Assembly on the morning o September 18, and was printed by Dunlap
and Claypoole (partly rom the standing type they used to produce their ocial printing o the text on September 17) and
published in the regular issue o their weekly newspaper,Te Pennsylvania Packet, on September 19. It is almost certain that
Smith produced this printing o the Constitution within a week o its announcement, and he may have indeed printed it as
early as uesday, September 18, or the Saturday thereaer, as uesdays and Saturdays were the days o publication oTe
Evening Chronicle. Logically, Smith would have gone to press with the historic document as soon as the new plan was
available to be set in type. Even a week later, the new plan would have been cold, essentially unsaleable news to Philadelphians.
Indeed, i Smith somehow obtained the text o the Constitution rom his ormer colleagues Dunlap and Claypoole, this
printing may be the earliest unocial printing o the Constitution. Leonard Rapport has observed that most accounts
name the September 19 edition o Dunlap and ClaypoolesPennsylvania Packetas the rst public printing o the Constitution
(as distinguished rom the Conventions ocial printing). Such attribution, however, ignores the act that the Packetwas
only one o ve Philadelphia newspapers in which the Constitution appeared that morning. Was there a rst among the
newspapers?
A tip-sheet in the New-York historical society hints that the race may have been lost or those particular newspapers even
beore the newsboys started their Wednesday morning [the 19th] deliveries. On September 18 Lt. Erkuries Beatty, paymaster
or the First U.S. Inantry, was in Philadelphia buying supplies. His diary entry or that day reads: Te business o
Convention read beore the house o Assembly and was published in the Evening. No copy o such a printing is known to
exist. However, the Philadelphia Evening Chronicle appeared twice a week, on uesdays and Sundays. Copies o all the
Chronicles September issue survive with one exceptionthat o uesday, September 18. With copies o the ocial printing
available Monday night or early uesday morning there was time enough or the printer o the Chronicle to have obtained
and reprinted a copy by uesday evening. I it did not appear in the missing issue, the Chronicle would have had the
distinction o being the only Phi ladelphia newspaper not to have published the Constitution (Rapport, 81-82). It is quite
possible that Robert Smith did not publish a regular issue or the 18th, choosing instead to devote his resources to printingthis most important document. I that was in act the case, then this unique printing would constitute the rst publicly
available printing o the United States Constitution. Similar handbills were issued in New York, Boston, Baltimore and
Richmond, as the news o the Constitution reached those cities, but Smiths location and his relationship with Dunlap and
Claypoole indicate that this printing precedes all those, and was in act produced very shortly aer the end o the
Constitutional Convention. Tis large-ormat, small type edition is not recorded in Evans, Shipton & Mooney, Bristol,
NAIP, or any o the standard bibliographic sources; this printing was unrecorded until 1996, and in the ten years since its
discovery, it remains the sole known copy. See Leonard Rapport, Printing the Constitution, in Prologue: the Journal o the
National Archives, vol. 2, no. 2, 69-90. With expert restoration along center old. One small hole in text, aecting one letter;
the sheet is completely untrimmed. Excellent, almost mint condition. A signicant and unique discovery.
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a b r a h a m l i n c o l n
T Frst Call Ma By M I Orr Tat A Dra Shall B Ma:
Sg By Lcol O T Fal Day O T Battl O Gttysburg,
A Pvotal Documt Eactg T Frst Dra I Amrca Hstory
4. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. Washington, D.C., July 3, 1863. Folio, single wove lea, 8 by 10 inches
olded once. WIH: Photograph o Lincoln. Washington, D.C., circa 1864. Original photograph, measuring 8 by 10
inches. $30,000.
Rare ocial 1863 printed document, nished in a secretarial hand and boldly signed by Lincoln, his command to proceed
with the rst dra in American history, calling or over 1900 men rom Pennsylvania to be enlisted in the Union Army,
issued July 3, 1863, the nal day o the Battle o Gettysburg. Accompanied by an 8-by-10 inch photograph o the original
photographic portrait o Lincoln taken in 1864 by Anthony Berger at Mathew Bradys Washington studio. Fine condition
with exceptional bold signature.
Te summer o 1863 marked a crucial transormation in the Union war eort. As newspaper headlines blared Invasion!
Rebel Forces in Maryland and Pennsylvania! Lincoln remained quietly condent that the Union troops, ghting on
home ground, would achieve the signal victory so long denied (Goodwin, 531-48). By then, however, Union recruitment
had arrived at the same impasse it had reached in the South a year earlier Te Union army in 1863 aced a serious
manpower loss. Te Enrollment Act passed in March had assigned provost marshals to each congressional district to
enroll every male citizen and immigrant who had led or citizenship aged 20-25. Tis became the basis or each districtsquota, and in July, as stated herein, Lincoln issued the rst dra (out o our), calling up 20 percent o the enrollees,
chosen by lot in each district (McPherson, 600-1): a total o a hundred thousand troops rom the militias in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Ohio and the new state o West Virginia (Goodwin, 531).
Issued July 3, 1863, the nal day o the Battle o Gettysburg, this document contains, as Lincoln states within, the rst call
made by me on the State o Pennsylvania under the act
approved March 3, 1863: assigning 1,951 men to be
urnished by the 23rd District o the State o
Pennsylvania and 50 percent in addition: also
marking the day the Union Armys victory at Gettysburg
cost over 23,000 Union casualties, more than one-
quarter o the armys eectives (McPherson, 662).
Lincoln did not learn o the outcome until dawn o July4th, when he received a telegram reporting, the battle
had been successully concluded. Soon, however, when
the names o all the men eligible or the rst dra in
American history would be placed in a giant wheel and
drawn, resistance mounted. In New York, on the second
day o the dra, Scarcely had two dozen names been
called, the New York imes reported, when a crowd,
numbering perhaps 500, stormed the building
smashed the giant wheel, shredded the lists and records,
and then set the building on re. riggered by a
provision allowing a draee to either pay $300 or
provide a substitute, the Dra Riots continued
unchecked or ve days creating orebodingthroughout the North as other cities prepared to
commence their own dras (Goodwin, 532-7). Pencil
notation on verso o photograph. Exceptionally ne
condition, commemorating an especially important
event in American history.
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a b r a h a m l i n c o l nO O T Suprm Uttracs O T Prcpls O Dmocratc From:
Frst Book-Form Publcato O Lcols Gttysburg Arss
5. (LINCOLN, Abraham). EVERE, Edward. An Oration Delivered on the Battleeld o Gettysburg. New York,
1863. Slim octavo, contemporary gilt-stamped purple cloth; pp. 48. Custom clamshell box. $31,000.
Rare rst book-orm publication o one o the supreme utterances o the principles o democratic reedom, Lincolns
Gettysburg Address (PMM). An exceptional copy.
Beore a crowd o over 9,000 assembled at Gettysburg, including members o Congress and nine governors, noted orator
Edward Everett delivered his memorized two-hour address as President Lincoln waited on the platorm; As Everett started
back to his seat, Lincoln stood to clasp his hand Te futter and motion o the crowd ceased the moment the President
was on his eet Tough he had had but a brie time to prepare the address, he had devoted intense thought to his chosen
theme or nearly a decade (Goodwin, eam o Rivals, 585-6). Lincolns address was briefy met with quiet as the crowd
stood motionless and silent beore breaking into applause, leading Lincoln to ear the speech a fat ailure Edward
Everett knew better I should be glad, he wrote Lincoln, i I could fatter mysel that I came as near to the central idea o
the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes (Goodwin, 586). Te Washington Chronicle o 18-21 November
reported extensively on this ceremony and included a verbatim text o Edward Everetts Great Oration. On the ourth day
it noted in passing that the President had also made a speech, but gave no details. When it came to the separate publication
on 22 November, Everetts Oration was reprinted rom the standing type, but Lincolns speech had to be set up. It was
tucked away as a nal paragraph on page 16 o the pamphlet. It was similarly treated when the meanly produced leafet was
replaced by a 48-page booklet published by Baker and Godwin o New York in the same year (PMM 351). Te rare 16-page
pamphlet, Te Gettysburg Solemnities, is known in only two copies, making this the rst obtainable edition. Howes E233.
Sabin 23263. Monaghan 193. Tis copy additionally eatures two laid-in items, both inscribed by Everett. Te rst contains
his warm inscription written to his ellow senator rom Massachusetts, Charles Sumner, one o the rst members o
Congress to urge abolition and one o Lincolns most valued condants (ANB). A second laid-in autograph note promises
Everetts recommendation upon passage o a resolution providing or two additional cadets to [the Military Academy] to
be nominated by the Senators. ext generally very clean with only occasional light oxing; publishers cloth ne and
unrayed, gilt bright. An exceptional copy.
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6. (LEE, Robert E.) BRADY, Mathew. Photograph signed. Washington, D.C., 1869. Original oval albumen
photograph mounted on cardstock, measuring 8 by 10 inches; in contemporary oval rame, entire piece measures 12
by 14 inches. $32,000.
Original bust-length portrait o Lee by Mathew Brady, boldly signed by Lee just beneath the image, with Bradys studio
imprint. A splendid piece in contemporary rame, Lees signature ne and bold.
Tis vintage photograph o perhaps the most revered o American soldiers (Warner, 179) was made by Mathew Brady in
his Washington Gallery when Lee came to visit Grant at the White House in 1869. It was in the Spring o 1869 that
General Lee came to his gallery to sit or three portraits. He was then President o Washington University. Te General had
been visiting riends in Baltimore, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. agart. Following that visit, the General and his riends
le or Washington. Soon aer their arrival, Lee went to the White House to see President Grant A day or so later, the
General visited Bradys studio. Te resulting pictures clearly showed his advanced age and the ravages o care and sorrow.
Aer bidding Brady arewell, Lee le Washington or the last time (Meredith, 218). Lees enormous wartime prestige,
both in the North and South, and the devotion inspired by his unconscious symbolism o the Lost Cause made him a
legendary gure (Warner, 183). Meredith, plate 129. Image resh and unaded, expert paper repairs to mount and to small
repair to edge o photograph. Large signature exceptionally bold and ne. An exceptional piece.
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j o h n j a m e s a u d u b o nAuubos Birds O America, Royal Octavo Eto Wth 500 Ha-Color Plats:
O O T Fst Orthologcal Works Evr Prt
7. AUDUBON, John James. Te Birds o America. New York, 1856. Seven volumes. Royal octavo, publishers ull
brown morocco gilt. $75,000.
Second octavo edition, the rst edition with ully colored backgrounds, containing 500 superb hand-colored plates.
One o the most spectacular series o ornithological prints ever produced. Identical to the rst octavo edition, printed in
1840-44, except that the prints or the rst time have lovely tinted lithographic-wash backgrounds. Te royal octavo edition
contained new species o birds and plants not included in the olio edition, with the birds grouped in an orderly scientic
manner. His rst objective was to observe birds in their native habitat, to see their behavior, their ways o standing,
walking, fying, their eeding and nesting habits, seasonal plumage and all the rest. He traveled up and down the Mississippi
and Ohio River areas, and up and down the Atlantic seaboard rom Maine to Key West. He spent a winter near Charleston,
South Carolina... traveled to Labrador, Newoundland, and Nova Scotia... and exas (Gis o Genius, 137). Te Birds oAmerica exemplies mans ability to accomplish an almost impossible task through sacrice and persistence. Audubon set
out to paint and publish an example o every bird on the North American continent... He was the rst artist-naturalist to
illustrate American birds, lie-size, in natural poses (Handbook o Audubon Prints, 17-18). Te most splendid book ever
produced in relation to America, and certainly one o the nest ornithological works ever printed... Tis immense undertaking,
this unparalleled achievement, was the work o a man o relentless energy, with no private ortune It is a story without
equal in the whole history o publishing
(Great Books and Book Collectors, 210-
13). Grolier 45. Nissen IVB 52. Anker
19. Plate 41 with tape repair to verso.
Slight rubbing to ront ree endpapers
in Volumes I and VI; some inner hinges
expertly repaired. Publishers ull tooledmorocco bindings ne, plates or the
most part vivid and lovely with only
occasional light oxing, some oxing to
tissue-guards. A beautiul set o one o
the most important and desirable o all
American plate books.
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l e w i s a n d c l a r kT Corrsto O Amrca Eplorato: Ecgly Rar Frst Eto
I Orgal Boars O T Dtv Accout O T Lws & Clark Epto,
T Most Importat Eplorato O T North Amrca Cott
8. LEWIS, Meriwether and CLARK, William. History o the Expedition Under the Command o Captains Lewis
and Clark. Philadelphia, 1814. wo volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter brown sheep, original marbled boards,
morocco spine labels; custom hal morocco clamshell box. $175,000.
Exceptionally rare rst edition, one o only 1,417 copies printed, o the denitive account o the most important exploration
o the North American continent, with the amous large olding map o the course o the expedition and ve in-text maps.
First authorized and complete account o the most important western exploration and the rst o many overland narratives
to ollow (Howes L317). American explorers had or the rst time spanned the continental United States and had driven
the rst wedge toward opening up our new ar western rontier (Streeter 1777). Te importance o exploring this area
[beyond the Missouri River] had been evident to Tomas Jeerson as early as 1783... but it was not until twenty years later
that Jeerson, then President o the United States, saw the realization o his idea... Te purchase o the Louisiana erritoryrom France in December 1803 greatly increased the importance o the expedition, which nally began its long journey [in
1804]... Tey wintered in the Mandan vi llages in the Dakotas and in the Spring pushed on west across the Rocky Mountains
and then down the Columbia River to the Pacic Ocean. Returning by the same route nearly two-and-a-hal years aer
they had set out they arrived back in St. Louis in September 1806 to the amazed delight o the nation which had given them
up or lost. Tough unsuccessul in their attempt to nd a transcontinental water route, they had demonstrated the
easibility o overland travel to the western coast (Printing and the Mind o Man, 272).
A number o years passed between the end o the expedition and the 1814 printing o the ocial account. Lewis had made
some arrangements or publication, but upon his suicide in 1809 Clark undertook the project, which was in disarray. Tis
is the great mystery o Lewiss lie. Tere is only speculation on what kept him rom preparing the journals or the publisher,
but no one can know the cause or certain, any more than anyone can know or certain the cause o his suicide... When
Clark arrived at Monticello [where the journals had been sent], there was apparently some talk about Jeersons taking over
the journals and doing the editing to prepare them or the printer. Tere was no man alive who had a greater interest in thesubject, or one who had better qualications or the job. But he was sixty-ve years old and desired to spend his remaining
years at Monticello as a gentleman armer... Aer some alse starts, Clark persuaded Nicholas Biddle to undertake the
work... Biddle was the perect choice. He threw himsel into the work and did it magnicently... In 1814, the book appeared
(Ambrose, 469-470). Sabin 855 and 40828. Gra 2477. Wagner-Camp 13.1. Paltsits, lxxvii. Small three-by-three inch
section o map restored in ne acsimile and with closed our-inch tear near gutter, title page o second volume and several
leaves o text with short tears expertly closed, ree endpapers absent in second volume, usual browning and oxing
throughout, scarce contemporary bindings a bit worn but ul ly intact. A desirable and complete copy o the most important
work in American western exploration, extraordinarily rare in original boards.
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r e v o l u t i o n a r y w a r a c t sA Strlg Collcto O Frst Prtgs O T Most Importat Brtsh Acts:
T 30 Laws Tat Spark T Amrca Rvoluto
9. (PARLIAMEN) Revolutionary War Acts. Tirty Acts: 1764-1783. London, 1764-83. Folio, each act disbound,
each complete with title page as issued. $125,000.
An extraordinary and complete collection o rare rst printings o the most important British laws that inamed andultimately acknowledged Americas will toward independence, an assemblage o 30 pivotal Revolutionary Acts that record
imperial authority and colonial resistance in legislation such as the Declaratory Act (1766), the Quartering Acts o 1765-6,
the ownshend Acts (1767), the Intolerable Acts (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the American Prohibitory Act (1776) and
the Conciliatory Acts (1778). With the extremely rare rst printings o the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the
Repeal o the Stamp Act (1766) and the ea Act (1773), less than 1100 copies o each act printed.
The true ground on which we declare these acts void
is that the British Parliament has no right to exercise
authority over us. Thomas Jefferson
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Tis unparalleled collection o 30 Revolutionary War Acts oers potent evidence
that the American Revolution primarily emerged rom a contest between the
oen ill-conceived actions o the British Parliament and the response o
American colonists. Pressured by these acts, Americans who once considered
Parliament the bulwark o their liberties soon echoed Franklins conviction
that time was emphatically not on Britains side (Schama, 461). Parliament
sought to bring the colonies into line with a new substantial duty on the oreign
commodity most in demand in Americasugar (Schama, 456). In it, colonials
spied the thin end o a wedge o taxation without representation (Morison,
xiv), and when Parliament ollowed with the Stamp Act (1765), Patrick Henry
compared the introduction o the stamps to the most iniquitous Roman
tyranny (Schama, 457), and the Stamp Act Congress convened, while Britains
William Pitt demanded that the Stamp Act be repealed absolutely, totally and
immediately. Yet ultimately that repeal proved ruitless, especially when Britain
continued to resist the lessons o history and immediately passed the Declaratory
Act... [restating] Parliaments rights to make binding laws or the colonies
(Langguth, 85).
With the Repeal o the Stamp Act (1766), the colonies erupted in celebration.
Within a year, however, Parliament renewed demands or control in its
ownshend Acts. Colonists quickly mobilized a boycott o British imports
(Schama, 462) and a new period o agitation began (Morison, xv). Tis premiere
collection thus continues with the Repeal o the ownshend Revenue Act (1770),
the Quebec Act (1774) and the ea Act (1773). o Benjamin Rush and others,
British tea-laden ships contained the seeds o SLAVERY... [and] Boston
instantly turned into a revolutionary hothouse, culminating in the Boston ea
Party (Schama, 469). Britain countered with the Intolerable Acts (1774),
demonstrating a parliamentary power more dangerous to colonial l iberty than
mere taxing (Morison, xxxiv). Following wars outbreak, Parliament issued the
American Prohibitory Act o 1776 and others such as the High reason Act
(1777) and Peace Act (1782). As American independence loomed, belated
conciliatory laws were passed, until in 1783 Parliament acknowledged its colony,
or the rst time, as the United States o America. First editions, rst printings,
o 30 Revolutionary War acts rom the Sessional Volumes o Parliament,
preceding all American printings. Acts printed prior to 1796 are extremely
scarce, since the maximum number printed was only around 1100 copies (Reporto the Committee or the Promulgation o the Statutes, 1796). Very light scattered
oxing, occasional pinholes, edge-wear along gutters where disbound. A truly
outstanding collection o Revolutionary War Acts.
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sugaract.1764.currencyact.1764.
stampact. 1765.
quarteringact.1765.
repealofthestampact.1766.declaratoryact.1766.
quarteringact.1766.
townshendrevenueact.1767.
newyorkrestrainingact.1767.
customscommissionersact.1767.repealofthetownshendrevenueact.177
tea act.1773.
bostonportact(akacoerciveorintolerableact
administrationofjusticeact(akacoerciveorintolerableact
massachusettsgovernmentact(akacoerciveorintolerableact
quarteringact(akacoerciveorintolerableact
quebecact.1774.
americanprohibitoryact.1776.commissionersactforcommandersofpriv
hightreasonact.1777.
capturesact. 1777.
acttorepealthemassachusettsgovernme(akaconciliatoryact). 1778.
colonialtaxrepealact (akaconciliatorya
commissionersactforquietingdisorders(akaconciliatoryact).1778.
prisonersact.1782.peaceact. 1782.
acttopreventsuppliestoenemyships.178
acttorepealtheprohibitoryandrelated
shipinstrumentsact.1783.
commissionersactonwarlosses. 1783.
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j o h n a d a m s : d e f e n c e o f t h e c o n s t i t u t i o n s Lbrty A T Laws Dp Etrly O A Sparato O [Powrs]:
Frst Eto O Aams Deence O Te Constitutions, A Ecptoal Assocato Copy
10. ADAMS, John. A Deence o the Constitutions o Government o the United States o America. London, 1787.Octavo, period-style ull tree cal, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $38,000.
First edition o Adams important work on the separation o powers in the Federal government, a rare association copy
belonging to inuential Pennsylvania scientist and statesman David Rittenhouse, who played an important role in the
American Revolution and was appointed by Washington as rst director o the United States Mint, signed by Rittenhouse
on the ront y lea.
While acting as Americas minister in Great Britain, John Adams elt an urgency like that o 1776. Great events were
taking place at home A constitutional convention was in the ong, and as he had been impelled in 1776 to write his
Toughts on Government, so Adams plunged ahead now, books piled about him, his pen scratching away until all hours
By early January 1787, Adams had rushed the rst installment o his eort to a London printer. itled A Deence o the
Constitutions o Government o the United States o America copies were sent o at once to the United States and to
Jeerson in Paris (McCullough, 374). On its receipt, Jeerson wrote back, I have read your book with innite satisactionand improvement. It will do great good in America. Its learning and its good sense will, I hope, make it an institute or our
politicians, old as well as young (Sowerby 3004). Tis rare rst edition is the personal copy o Philadelphia-born scientist,
engineer and statesman David Rittenhouse, who played an important role in the American Revolution and was a longtime
riend o Jeerson and Franklin (DSB). Tough Adams and Rittenhouse oen disagreed on matters o state, Rittenhouse
consistently impressed Adams with his scientic accomplishments. In 1792 President Washington appointed Rittenhouse
the rst director o the newly established U.S. Mint. Sabin 233. Howes A60. Light scattered oxing; an exceptional near-ne
association copy, handsomely bound.
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b i l l o f r i g h t sA Most Rar A Importat Documt I T Hstory O Lbrty A O
T Ut Stats: O O T Earlst Prtgs O T 1789 Bll O Rghts,
T 12 Orgal Propos Ammts o T Costtuto,
O O Oly 700 Cops Prt For Mmbrs O T Nw Govrmt
11. (BILL OF RIGHS) UNIED SAES SENAE. Journal o the First Session o the Senate o the United States o
America. New York, 1789. Folio, contemporary ull sheep; custom clamshell box. $50,000.
Te rst printing o the ocial account o the daily proceedings o the 1789 rst session o the United States Senate, one o
only 700 copies printed or members o government, containing one o the earliest printings o the original twelve articles
o the Bill o Rights proposed by Congress, o which only ten were later ratied by the states.
Tis is the rst ocial publication o the working journal o the rst session o the Senate, including the Bill o Rights as
originally proposed to the states or ratication, and the original House o Representatives version o seventeen amendments,
rejected by the Senate. TeJournalcovers the activities o the Senate rom March 4 to September 29, 1789, a period in which
numerous important events took place. Foremost among these was the discussion o the proposed Bill o Rights. On pages
103-6 appear the 17 amendments originally proposed by the House, adoption o which was deeated by the Senate.Numerous reerences to the Bill are made throughout pages 107-160. On pages 163-164 the 12 amendments passed by
Congress and sent to the states or ratication are printed under the heading, Proposed Amendments. Subsequently, the
rst two were not ratied by the states, and the remaining ten became the rst ten amendments to the Constitution. Tis
volume also contains a number o other notable items, including President Washingtons rst address to Congress, the rst
rules o the Senate, the debate on the Judiciary Bill, and other important rsts in legislation.
Te Bill o Rights was issued in two 1789 printings, the present version (theJournal o the First Session o the Senate) and in
theActs Passed at a Congress o the United States... (New York: Childs and Swaine, 1789). Both must have been printed aer
the close o business on Sept. 29, 1789, but beore the end o the year. Te Doheny copy o the Acts was inscribed to John
Jay on Dec. 9, 1789; presumably he would have been among the rst to receive a copy, suggesting that the Acts was not
delivered by the printer until December. It seems likely that the presentJournal o the First Session o the Senate, printed by
a dierent printer, would have been printed well beore that; however, no absolute priority o printing can presently be
established. Both o these 1789 printings o the Bill o Rights are o exceptional rarity and importance, and each were printed
in a very small edition or government use. In May 1789, the rst month o our government, Congress passed a resolution
directing that 600 copies o theActs o each session, [and] 700 copies o the Journals o each house, [be printed and]
distributed to the members and to the executive, judiciary, and heads o the departments o the United States government,
as well as the executive, legislative and judicial branches o every state. Tis would practically exhaust the 600 and 700
copies, you will note, in ocial distribution, and leave none or public purchase (Powell, Te Books o a New Nation, 87).
Contemporary manuscript date (1789) in ink on spine. Occasional aint oxing. Contemporary sheep with a bit o expected
light rubbing, quite sound and attractive. An extraordinarily rare and important landmark in the early history o the
United States, especially desirable in contemporary binding.
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m a r k t w a i nO O T Most Durabl Works I Amrca Ltratur:
Frst Eto, Frst Stat Oom Sawyer, I Elusv Publshrs Morocco
12. WAIN, Mark. Te Adventures o om Sawyer. Hartord, 1876. Square octavo, publishers three-quarter brown
morocco, custom clamshell box. $65,000.
First American edition, rst state o one o the great masterpieces o American literature and a true touchstone o American
childhood. An essential addition to any Mark wain collection, one o only 200 copies issued in the publishers three-
quarter morocco binding.
om Sawyerappeared at a momentous time in American history: Custer had recently lost the battle at Little Big Horn and
the nation was celebrating its centennial. Due to these events, publication oom Sawyerwas little noticed... Te book has,
however, proved to be one o the most durable works in American literature. By the
time o wains death, it was his top-selling book. It has been in print continuously
since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark wain works (Rasmussen, 459). Also issued
in cloth and sheep, only 200 copies were issued in this three-quarter morocco binding.
First printing, rst state, which can be quickly distinguished by the act that the hal-
title and rontispiece are printed on separate leavesthey are printed on the same lea
in the later printingsand the entire text is printed on wove paper (MacDonnell, 40).Also with HE on hal title in 10-point rather than 14-point type, peach endpapers,
preliminary matter paginated [I]-XVI and two blank fyleaves o laid paper at ront
copies have been noted with two, three and our fy-leaves present no positive point
o issue can be made (Johnson, 28). BAL 3369. Johnson, 27-30. MacDonnell, 39-40.
MacBride, 40. Scattered light soiling, as usual. Small marginal closed tear to page 91,
not aecting text. Front inner paper hinge split, binding about-ne. A nearly ne copy
in exceptional condition, highly desirable in the original publishers morocco. A
centerpiece o any collection celebrating Mark wain or, indeed, American literature.
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r i c h a r d h a k l u y t : v o y a g e s a n d d i s c o v e r i e s , 1 5 8 9It Is Dcult o Ovrrat T Importac A Valu O Ts Etraorary
Collcto O Voyags: Moumtal Frst Eto O Hakluyts
Principall Navigations, Voyages, And Discoveries, 1589, Wth Vry Rar Supprss
Accout O Draks Voyag A Importat Early Accouts O Eplorato I Amrca
13. HAKLUY, Richard. Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries o the English Nation made by Sea or
over land... London, 1589. Small olio, early 20th-century ull cal. $60,000.
First edition o one o the greatest o all travel books, with the rare suppressed account o Drakes voyage.
A vigorous propagandist and empire-builder, Hakluyts purpose was to urther British maritime enterprise and to intensiyBritish expansion overseas. He saw Britains greatest opportunity in the colonization o America, and was one o the chie
promoters o the petition to the king or patents or the colonization o Virginia. He met many o the great navigators
Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher and otherscorresponded with Ortelius and Mercator and collected all the material on
voyages he could nd. At rst he mainly instigated the translation o such accounts into English, but by 1589 he had
collected enough material himsel to publish the rst edition o his amous book. It is dicult to overrate the importance
and value o this extraordinary collection o voyages (Sabin 29594). Beazley considers this edition o 1589 to be constantly
superior in clearness o arrangement and judgment o selection to any later stage o this memorable work (Cox I: 4). Te rst
two parts o the text deal with British adventures in Asia, Arica, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Europe. Te
third part is devoted to America and provides detailed (and in some cases the rst) accounts o the voyages o Cabot,
Hawkins, Gilbert, Frobisher, Drake, Lane, Hariot and others. Comprehensive and accurate, the Hakluyt compilation is one
o the classics o travel literature and the rst English collection o voyages.
Tis copy containsthe suppressed six pages discussing the voyage o Sir Francis Drake: Hakluyt, on the last page o his
address to the Reader, notes with regret his being compelled to comply with the request o certain riends, in the
suppression o Sir Francis Drakes Voyage, wherein I must coness to have taken more than ordinarie paines, meaning to
have inserted it in this worke. He, however, appears to have printed a ew copies privately, and the Voyage thus suppressed,
is sometimes inserted aer p. 643... It is scarcely necessary to suggest that the addition o... Drakes Voyages add(s) greatly
to the value o any copy (Sabin). Te Drake narrative gives a complete account o his circumnavigation o 1577-80,
including his explorations on the Caliornia coast. Without the very rare olding engraved map o the world, almost never
present, Abraham Ortelius ypus Orbis errarum (almost never present). Sabin 29594. Church 139A. PMM 105. Streeter
28. Cox I: 3. Neat repairs to title page and colophon. Joints and spine head skillully restored. An excellent copy.
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e d w a r d c u r t i sT Clck O A Shuttr Op T Door o Etrty: Ewar Curts Majstc
Canon De Chelly, Sg By Hm, Mout A Fram I Hs Ow Stuo14. CURIS, Edward. Photograph signed. Canon de Chelly. Seattle, 1904. Vintage orotone photograph (12 by 14
inches), mounted in original Seattle studio rame (16 by 19 inches), with two original printed Curtis Studio labels
(measuring variously 3-1/2 by 5 inches and 2 by 3 inches) axed to rame back. $35,000.
Vintage 1904 orotone print by Edward Curtis, his monumental photograph o Canon de Chelly, signed by him and with
his annotated copyright insignia (wetstamped at the lower corners o the image), this original 11 by 14-inch photograph
printed at his Seattle Curtis Studio, handsomely matted and ramed in the original gold-tone Curtis Studio rame.
Very ne condition.
Edward Curtis majestic image o Navajo crossing an empty vista on horseback, isolated against a peerless landscape o
towering plateaus, has become one o his most iconic images. Entitled Canon de Chelly, this especially powerul
photograph, printed at Curtis own Seattle studio and dated 1904, was prominently eatured in his epic photobookNorth
American Indian (1907), a work considered without a doubt one o the jewels o 20th century bookmaking (Roth, 4).With Curtis signature and annotated 1904 copyright wetstamped into the lower corners o the image, printed using the
orotone process. Perected and popularized by Curtis, this is a method whereby a photograph made rom a negative is
printed on a glass plate covered with a gelatin silver emulsion, then painted on the plates back with gold mixed with
banana oil or with bronze powders mixed in resin to give the appearance o gold to the image (Baldwin, 62). Original
rame with two original printed labels rom the Curtis Studio in Seattle axed to the verso: one printed with the title
Canon de Chelly and a short description o the planned project, and the second label printed with the logo and address
o his studio. Very ne in beautiul original rame. A stunning piece.
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t h o m a s j e f f e r s o nA Bluprt O Hs Ow M: 1815 Catalogu O Tomas Jfrsos Lbrary,
T Cor O T Lbrary O Cogrss
15. (JEFFERSON, Tomas) Catalogue o the Library o the United States. o Which is Annexed, a Copious Index,
Alphabetically Arranged. Washington, 1815. Quarto, original marbled boards and printed paper spine, custom chemise
and ull morocco clamshell box. $65,000.
First edition o the Catalogue o the library sold by Tomas Jeerson to Congress, orming the core o the Library oCongress. A remarkable copy in original marbled boards and printed paper spine, in excellent condition.
Jeersons library and his scheme or organizing it have been called a blueprint o his own mind (Bestor, 6). An inveterate
bibliophile, Jeerson had built a library o 6700 volumes by 1815easily the most signicant library ormed by an American
up to that pointwhen he sold it to Congress or $23,950 (less than hal o what he believed to be its true value) aer the
original Library o Congress was destroyed when the British burned down the Capitol during the War o 1812. Te
collection was received in Washington by George Watterston, the newly appointed Librarian o Congress. When Jeerson
oered his library to Congress in September 1814, he sent along his handwritten catalog or the inspection o the
congressional library committee, arranged in an overall classication scheme that was adapted rom the second book o
Francis Bacons Te Advancement o Learning Jeerson added a urther dimension to Bacons scheme by creating 44
chapters, as he termed them, that identied specic subjects o 20th-century eyes, parts o Jeersons classication may
seem puzzling. It is no surprise to nd categories such as Modern British History under the broad division o History, but
such unexpected subjects as Agriculture, Surgery and Natural History also appear there. Te second broad category,Philosophy, combines subjects such as Mechanics, the Law o Nature and Nations, Politics, Phonics and Arithmetic.
odays reader might sensibly ask not only what Agriculture and Modern British History have in common but also how
Mechanics and the Law o Nature can both be related to what we call Philosophy. o pursue these questions is to conront
Jeersons world and his world view (Gilreath, 2-3). Watterston chose to preserve Jeersons basic classication scheme,
but alphabetize the entries within the chapters, a compromise to which the ever-precise Jeerson objected (Jeerson,
Writings 14:418). Tis catalogue is almost the entire basis o our ability to reconstruct Jeersons library . Sowerby I, ix; V,
216-18. Sabin 15564. Instances o minor dampstaining and oxing. Original paper spine lightly rubbed at head and oot.
Still a ne copy in original marbled boards. Very important and rare, especially in this condition.
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t h o m a s j e f f e r s o n : t h e r e s i d e n c y a c t ,e s t a b l i s h i n g t h e u . s . c a p i t a l a l o n g t h e p o t o m a c ,
w i t h j e f f e r s o n s t r a n s m i s s i o n l e t t e rO O T Lamark Accommoatos O Amrca Poltcs: Vry Rar Frst Ocal
Prtg O T 1790 Rscy Act Establshg Amrcas Prmat Captal Alog T
Potomac A Eg A Crss Tat Trat T Nw Nato Wth Cvl War
16. (UNIED SAES CONGRESS) Residency Act. An Act or establishing the emporary and Permanent Seat othe Government o the United States. New York, 1790. Broadside, single olio lea disbound rom a sammelband volume
(8 by 13 inches), printed on the recto. $75,000.
Most rare and important 1790 Residency Act broadsheet establishing the nations permanent capital along the Potomac,
approved by Congress on July 1, 1790, concluding months o divisive national debate raging over Hamiltons proposal o
ederal debt assumption and Madisons objections to a plan he saw as a dangerous repudiation o the American
Revolution. Tis momentous Act passed only aer the personal intervention o Tomas Jeerson in brokering a now-
legendary political compromise. A memorable copy rom the library o Stephen Row Bradley, one o Vermonts rst U.S.
senators, whose powerul role as the leading Democratic-Republican senator rom New England was central to the
presidencies o both Jeerson and Madison.
A document of great rarity and importance in
American history, this is the rst ofcial printingof the Residency Act that established a permanent
federal seat of government in what became the
District of Columbia. This seemingly
straightforward law notably concluded an explosive
debate that had induced a total legislative
paralysis, threatening the very ber of the new
nation. In establishing that the Temporary and
Permanent Seat of the Government of the United
States... a district of territory, not exceeding ten
miles square, to be located as hereafter directed on
the river Potomack, this law also marks one of
Americas most legendary political bargains. For
by 1790, an agreed-upon site for the nations capital
had become the rst test of the viability of the new
federal government under the Constitution...
Without some kind of breakthrough, the entire
experiment with republican government at the
national level would burst and vanish, and the
states separate to take care of everyone of itself.
Either the peaceful dissolution of the United States
or a civil war would occur unless some sort of
political bargain was struck (Ellis, 50-1).
Leading this imminent civil war were James
Madison, the shrewdest and most politically
savvy leader in Congress and Alexander Hamilton,
whose seductively simple plan for federal
assumption of state debts prompted Madison to
denounce both author and plan as a repudiation of
the American Revolution (Ellis, 52-8). By the time
Secretary of State Jefferson intervened, the debate
had become electromagnetic... Without descending
to talk about bargains, Jefferson wrote, he invited
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both men to a private dinner party where he
recalls brokering a political bargain of
decidedly far-reaching signicance: Madison
agreed to permit the core provision of
Hamiltons scal program to pass; and in
return Hamilton agreed to use his inuence
to assure that the permanent residence of the
national capital would be on the Potomac
River. If true, this story deserves to rank
alongside the Missouri Compromise and the
Compromise of 1850 as one of the landmark
accommodations in American politics (Ellis,
50-1, 48-9).
That momentous evening assured Hamilton
his Assumption Act in exchange for
endorsement of the Residency Act. A rare
association copy from the library of Vermont
Senator Stephen Row Bradley. Not in Evans.
Bristol B7559. Shipton & Mooney 46032. See
Evans 22969. A rare, about-ne association
copy of a document bearing central
importance in the history of the federal
government.
w i t h :17. JEFFERSON, Tomas. Letter signed.
New York: July 19, 1790. Folio, single lea o
ne laid paper (measuring 9-1/2 by 16 inches),
manuscript hand on the recto. $48,000.
Rare and important 1790 circular letter rom
Secretary o State Tomas Jeerson to Tomas Mifin, President (and rst Governor) o Pennsylvania, citing the Residency
Bill that established the new national capital on the banks o the Potomac.
Jeffersons circular letter reads: New York. July 19th-1790. Sir-I have the honor to send you herein inclosed [sic] two copiesduly authenticated of the Act for establishing the temperary [sic] and permanent seat of the government of the United States;
also of the Act further to provide for the payment of the Invalid Pensioners of the United States, and of being with sentiments
of the most perfect respect-Your Excellency, Most obedient & most humble servant, Thomas Jefferson. [to] His Excellency
The President of Pennsylvania. Penned in what is likely a secretarial hand and boldly signed by Jeerson, the letter is
docketed on the recto by the recipient (likely in a secretarial hand): 1790, July 19 th, Letter from the Honorable Thomas
Jefferson Esq., Sec. of State. Answered July 24th, 1790.
This rare letter represents the historic end of a quarrel over federal assumption of state debts and the location of a new capital
that had grown so vitriolic that it didnt seem far-fetched that the union might break up over the issues... It was a monumental
decision, since it would confer massive wealth, power and population upon the winning state. More important, it would affect
the style of the federal government (Chernow, 325-6). The struggle deadlocked over Southern resistance to Hamiltons
assumption plan (beneting the North) and Northern resistance to a southern capital; only a compromise brokered by
Jefferson himself averted crisis (see the preceeding description for more details).
On July rst, less than three weeks before writing this letter, Jefferson watched as Congress enacted the Residency Bill. The
sudden victory of the Potomac location had surprised almost everybody (Ellis, 74), especially those in Pennsylvania, which
continued to urge Congress to change its mind and name Philadelphia the permanent capital (Riley,Philadelphia, 362). In
this very rare circular letter, Jefferson writes to Thomas Mifin, Franklins successor as President of Pennsylvania,
effectively ending Pennsylvanias hopes for making her Federal guest a permanent resident (Riley, 362). Minor archival
tape reinforcement to fold lines on the verso. Jeffersons signature ne, bold, and exceptionally large. An extraordinary
document, poised at a key moment in American history, in near pristine condition.
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a b r a h a m l i n c o l n a n d t h e c i v i l w a rA Ecptoal A Uqu Cvl War Collcto: Moumtal Bography O Lcol,
Etra-Illustrat Wth Mor Ta 140 Cvl War Era Photographs A Mor Ta 60
Sgaturs, Lttrs A Documts O T Most Importat Poltcal,
Mltary A Cultural Fgurs O T Cvl War, Iclug Lcol wc, Shrma,
Stowall Jackso, Grat, L, Frrck Douglass, A Joh Wlks Booth
18. (LINCOLN, Abraham) NICOLAY, John G. and HAY, John. Abraham Lincoln: A History. New York, 1890. en
volumes bound in twenty. Octavo, modern ull red morocco gilt. $92,
First edition o this magisterial biography, with ten rontispiece portraits
o Lincoln, numerous maps and diagrams and over 300 wood-engraved
illustrations, mostly portraits o dignitariesmany produced rom
Matthew Brady photographshandsomely bound by Sangorski and
Sutclie. Tis copy extra-illustrated with over 140 original, Civil War-era
albumen photographs, including several o Lincoln rom cartes-de-visite;
engravings (several in color); maps; civil war ephemera, a handbill rom
Lincolns rst presidential election; and with tipped-in signatures, letters
and documents o more than 60 important gures in Civil War history,
including: an autograph note signed by Lincoln and an autograph
document signed by Lincoln; signatures o Stephen Douglas, Horace
Greeley, Daniel Webster, General Stonewall Jackson, Frederick Douglass,
William ecumseh Sherman, General Ulysses S. Grant (two signatures),
General Robert E. Lee, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Ralph Waldo
Emerson and many others.
Tis early and denitive biography o Lincoln was the result o 15 years o
collaboration by Lincolns private secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay.
Te plan was conceived in 1861; and beore they began to write Nicolay
had spent six years in collecting and arranging the elaborate mass o
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Lincoln papers loaned by Robert Lincoln... Prepared under the scrutiny
o Robert Lincoln, and written by Republicans who were Lincoln men
all through, the work... stands as an impressive monument, not only
because o the vastness o the undertaking, but also because o its
enduring historical signicance (DAB). Monaghan I:1071.
Te autograph document signed by Lincoln dates rom his days as a
lawyer in Illinois on the circuit court, and involves a case o contract
law. Tis document, entirely in Lincolns hand, reads: John Durley vs.
Jess Mitts & Japhet A. Ball. respass on the case upon promises. Damage$200.00. Te clerk o the Sangamon Circuit Court will issue process in
the above entitled cause returnable to the next term o said court. Aug.
28 1838. Stuart & Lincoln. For. Pl [plainti]. Te autograph note
signed by Lincoln dates rom his presidency, and concerns a request
rom a young woman
or a job. Te letter is on
the recto, and Lincolns
note on the verso reads:
I would be very glad or
Miss Hebb to be obliged,
i it is at all convenient. A. Lincoln. Feb. 23, 1863. Among the photographs
in the collection is the last studio photograph taken o Lincoln, a tender
scene o himsel with his son ad, taken by Anthony Berger at MathewBradys gallery on February 9, 1864.
Tis collection contains signatures, signed documents and letters o: John
Hay (autograph letter signed), Stephen Douglas (autograph note signed),
Robert odd Lincoln (autograph letter signed), Salmon P. Chase, Horace
Greeley, Schuyler Colax, Mary Ann Brown (Mrs. John Brown), Gerrit
Smith, Samuel H. reat, Hannibal Hamlin, Daniel Webster, Roger B. aney,
Gideon Welles, General Stonewall Jackson, Bayard aylor, Rear Admiral
John Dahlgren, Major General George Stoneman, Brigadier General
Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Brigadier General Don Carlos Buell, William
Gannaway Brownlow, Simon Cameron, George Bancro, Rear Admiral
Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Brevet Brigadier General Anson G.
McCook, Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, Major General John Pope,Charles Francis Adams, Major General George G. Meade, George S.
Boutwell, William B. Allison, William H. Seward, Major
General Philip Henry Sheridan, Major General William S.
Rosecrans, Dr. Henry W. Bellows, Frederick Douglass,
Abraham Lincoln (autograph note signed and autograph
document signed), Henry Wol, Andrew Gregg Curtin, Henry
Wilson, Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, General
William ecumseh Sherman, Major General James B.
McPherson, Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, Major General
John Sedgwick, John Bright, Lord Palmerston, Major General
William Buel Franklin, General Ulysses S. Grant (two
separate signatures), Brigadier General Robert O. yler,
General Robert Schenck, James G. Blaine, Horatio Seymour,General O.O. Howard, Edward Bates, Hugh McCulloch,
General Robert E. Lee, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John ownsend rowbridge
(autograph poem signed). A magnicent set in ne
condition.
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The American Experience
Part 1: FoundationsThe Colonies, The Revolution and The Constitution
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to againstevery government on earth, general or particular;and what no just government should refuse.
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787
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c o n n e c t i c u t c h a r t e rT Earlst Prtg O CoctcutActs And Laws, 1717 Prtg O T Royal
Chartr, O O Oly wo Chartrs Gratg Colosts T Rght o Popular Elctos
19. (CONNECICU) Te Charter Granted by His Majesty King
Charles II. o the Governour & Company o the English Colony o
Connecticut in New-England in America. New London, 1718 [i.e.
1723]. Folio, contemporary brown cal rebacked. $15,000.
Exceptionally rare rst volume o Connecticut Acts and Laws, the
earliest printing o colonial Acts and Laws in Connecticut and one o
the earliest in the original colonies, with 16 extremely rare sets o
consecutive session Acts rom 1715-23, most in their rst or only issue,
and a 1717 printing o the 1662 royal charter, one o only two charters
granting colonists the right to popularly elect their governors. A rare
glimpse into the early history o colonial lie with statutes on lying,
electoral procedures, regulation o the militia and the protections or
secrecy.
In this earliest o printings o Connecticut Acts can be traced the unique
signicance o the New England colony, which was rst established by
the earliest western migration in North American history in 1636. woyears later colonists in New Haven drew up a written constitution
providing representative governments which served them well until
Governor John Winthrop Jr. obtained or his colony the charter o
1662, which annexed New Haven and made Connecticut as independent
as Massachusetts Tat charter remained the undamental law o
colony and state until 1818. O the original colonies, only Connecticut
and Rhode Island, which had popularly elected governors under their
old royal charters, made the transition rom colony to state simply by
altering the name o the body politic, declaring that the excellent
constitutions o government derived rom their pious ancestors were
still in orce, and tacking on a bill o rights (Morison, 67-68, 94, 275). In this extraordinary and rare Connecticut printing
o the colonial Acts and Laws is ound the 1717 printing o the 1662 royal charter and 16 sets o consecutive May & October
sessions Acts rom 1715-23, most in their rst or only issue (Acts or October 1717, May 1718 and May 1721 are secondissue). Tis pioneering rst volume o Connecticut Acts is o the greatest rarity, particularly in its printing o early session
laws that survive in only a ew copies. Printed by
imothy Green, who moved rom Massachusetts
to New London in 1714 by invitation o the
Connecticut Assembly and until his retirement
remained the colonys ocial printer (Winterich,
39). Harvard Law Catalogue, 443. Sabin 15757,
15762. ower 13-29. Marginal cursive on title page
and inner margin o page 101; small one-inch
excision to Acts and Laws title page, minimally
aecting text. Light scattered oxing, slight
marginal dampstaining, boards with light expert
restoration. An extremely good copy o a primary
colonial text.
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w i l l i a m d o u g l a s s1755A Summary O Te British Settlements In North America,
Wth Ecptoally Rar Ha-Color Folg Map
20. DOUGLASS, William. A Summary, Historical and Political, o the First Planting, Progressive Improvements,
and Present State o the British Settlements in North-America. London, 1755. wo volumes. Octavo, late 19th-century
three-quarter navy cal gilt. $10,000.
First English edition o this report on the state o the mid 18th-century America, with extremely rare hand-colored olding
map o the English colonies, Canada, and the French Encroachments.
William Douglass grand history was rst issued in serial orm in 1747, then published in two volumes in 1749 and 1752.
Opinionated and encyclopedic, it was an impressive achievement with an inormative account o colonial lie. Incomplete
at his death, the Summary is an important source book, and it enjoyed a wide circulation among American and European
intellectuals. Adam Smith used it in his research or Te Wealth o Nations and had praise or the honest and downright
Dr. Douglass (ANB). Douglass was an unusually well-educated doctor and historian whose main mission o inoculating
the pre-Revolution colonies against smallpox has been overshadowed by his many notable writings on contemporary
American history. Te elaborate hand-colored map by DAnville included in this edition depicts North Americancolonization to 1750. DAnville was, simply, an assiduous researcher o cartographical worksclassical and contemporary
and eventually was able to compile maps as accurate as 18th-century technology allowed (Bricker, 84). According to
Sabin, no copy has yet been ound, in its original state, with the map. Tis extremely rare copy contains the map. Te rst
edition o this work, which contained identical text but not the map, was published in Boston in 1749. Sabin 20727. Howes
D436. Streeter II:694 (1760 ed.). Eberstadt 113:448. Rich 21. Stevens 644. ooley,Mapping o America 51(a). Contemporary
owner signature to title page o Volume II and a ew other contemporary markings. Folding map near-ne with several
expert repairs to verso, a ew spots o soiling, slight trimming to bottom edge. Slight wormholing to title page o Volume
II,aint scattered oxing to preliminary and nal leaves. An extremely good copy.
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b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nAmrcas Frst Grat Sctc Cotrbuto: Frst Complt Eto O Frakls
Illustrat Experiments And Observations On Electricity, 1769
21. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphia in America...
London, 1769. Quarto, contemporary ull brown cal rebacked. $22,000.
First complete edition o the most important scientic book o 18th-century America and Americas rst great scientic
contribution (PMM 199), with seven engraved plates (two olding), in contemporary cal. An important edition, edited
and revised by Franklin himsel, and with material and ootnotes appearing here or the rst time.
Tis rst complete edition is the ourth edition o the original work; the earlier editions, each issued in three parts as
separately published pamphlets usually bound together, were carelessly published. Franklin edited this new one-volume
edition himsel, signicantly revising the text, adding or the rst time a number
o his own philosophical letters and papers, introducing ootnotes, correcting
errors, and adding an index (Cohen, Benjamin Franklins Experiments). Included
in this work are accounts o Franklins amous kite and key experiment, his
work with Leiden jars, lightning rods and charged clouds. Te most dramatic
result o Franklins researches was the proo that lightning is really an electrical
phenomenon. Others had made such a suggestion beore himeven Newton
himselbut it was he who provided the experimental proo (PMM). Te
lightning experiments caused Franklins name to become known throughout
Europe to the public at large and not merely to men o science. Joseph Priestley,
in his History o Electricity, characterized the experimental discovery that the
lightning discharge is an electrical phenomenon as the greatest, perhaps, since
the time o Isaac Newton... Franklins achievement marked the coming o age
o electrical science and the ull acceptance o the new eld o specialization
(DSB V:135). Without nal lea o errata and advertisement or this edition as
oen. GrolierAmerican 10. Howes F320. Sabin 25506. A ne copy o an American
scientic landmark.
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b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nMoutas Tat Wr Vry Dagrous, I T Emy Ha Oppos A W Ha B
Carlss: 1756 Autograph Lttr Wrtt By Bjam Frakl Whl Suprvsg T
Costructo O Fort All Alog T Dagrous Psylvaa Frotr
22. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Autograph letter signed. Fort Allen, Pennsylvania, January 26, 1756. Folio, single lea (8
by 13 inches), manuscript hand in ink on recto and verso. $38,000.
1756 letter rom Benjamin Franklin to longtime riend Samuel Rhoads,
Philadelphias inuential master builder who would soon design Franklins
Philadelphia home, written by Franklin rom Fort Allen, where he spent his 50th
birthday supervising a newly ormed governmental militiathe rst in
Pennsylvania historycreating orts along an increasingly violent rontier.
In late 1755, Britain sent General Edward Braddock to America with the mission
o pushing the French out o the Ohio val ley, Franklin aided eorts to make sure
that Braddock got the necessary supplies (Isaacson, 166). Tough Franklin warned
Braddock that he should be wary o Indian ambushes, the arrogant general
condently marched west Franklins worries were warranted. Te British army
was ambushed and routed and Braddock was killed Among the ew survivors
was the American colonel George Washington, who had two horses shot out rom
under him and our bullets pierce his clothing Braddocks disaster increased the
threat rom the French and the Indians, and it deepened the political ri in
Philadelphia (Isaacson, 168). Furious at the political disputes over unding,
Franklin brokered a compromise, pushing through a bill that uniquely t
American circumstances (Hawke, 138), by designing a militia that was purely
voluntary [and] allowed or the democratic election o ocers. Ten, in early
December, violent Indian raids along Pennsylvanias northern border, not ar rom
Bethlehem, stunned the colony. Franklin donned a military uniorm and, along
with his son, headed to the rontier (Isaacson, 169-70), where he celebrated his
ieth birthday in the command o 500 men. Within days, Franklins militia
nished construction o Fort Allen, and began work on two nearby stockades.
Tis letter oers a rare glimpse into that little known period in Franklins lie. Hewrites rom the newly built Fort Allen, Jan. 26, 1756. Dear Friend, I am extremely
obligd by your kind Concern expressd or my Saety & Welare. We marchd
hither with the greatest Caution, thro some Passes, however, in the Mountains
that were very dangerous, i the Enemy had opposd & we had been careless.
Hitherto God has blessd & preerrd us. We have built one pretty strong Fort, &
by the End o next Week, or in ten Days, hope to nish two more, one on each side
o this, & at 15 Miles Distance. Tese I suppose will compleat the projected Line,
rom Delaware to Susquehanah. I then propose, God willing, to return homewards
and enjoy the Pleasure I promise my Sel, o nding my Friends well. ill then,
adieu; My love to all the Wrights. M. Rhoads. Yours aectionately, B. Franklin.
Written and signed in ink by Frankl in in an elegant cursive on the recto; docketed,
also on the recto, Fort Allen, Jany 26, 1756, D r. Franklin to Samuel Rhoads, No.
1.; address inked on the verso, o M. Saml Rhoads, Philada. Tis letters recipient,Philadelphia architect Samuel Rhoads (1711-84), was one o Franklins closest
colleagues. Delegate to the First Continental Congress and Mayor o Philadelphia
in 1774, Rhoads was one o the most infuential master builders o the colonial
period, aiding in the construction o Independence Hall. race o wax seal on
recto, slight loss rom seal; expert archival repair along oldlines on the verso,
restoration to corners. A rare glimpse into the public and private li e o a Founding
Father, near-ne.
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b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nFrst Eto Bjam Frakl Prtg: T Chartrs A Laws O PsylvaaA T Cty O Phlalpha, 1743
23. (FRANKLIN, Benjamin, printer). Te Charters o the Province o Pensilvania and City o Philadelphia.BOUND
WIH: A Collection o All the Laws o the Province o Pennsylvania: Now in Force. BOUND WIH: An Appendix;
Containing a Summary o Such Acts o Assembly As have been ormerly in Force within this ProvincePhiladelphia,
1742 [i.e. 1743]. Tree works bound in one, as issued. Small olio, period-style ull speckled cal gilt. $9000.
First edition o Benjamin Franklins printing o the laws o colonial Pennsylvania.
Te need or a complete and correct edition o the laws o Pennsylvania was recognized in 1737, near the end o Franklins
rst year as clerk o the Assembly. Early in 1739 the Assembly requested the Speakerand Attorney General o theProvinceJohn Kinsey, Esq. to begin a revision o the whole body o the laws... On Aug. 12, 1741, the Assembly passed the
resolution authorizing the new edition... with the stipulation that One Hundred and wenty Copies be bound or the Use
o the Publick [Franklin] nished the presswork in the spring o 1743... one year later than the date on the imprint
(Miller 288). Without last two leaves o able at end (c2). Church 943. Evans 5033. Early owner signatures on recto and verso
o title page, manuscript mark o ownership on ore-edge, City Library, Springeld. Interior generally clean, early library
perorations to title page and ollowing lea. A very good copy, handsomely bound.
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b e n j a m i n f r a n k l i nT Oly Eto O Frakls Poltcal Wrtgs Prt Durg Hs
Ltm A Wth Hs Cost
24. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces London, 1779. Octavo, modernpaneled cal gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spine. $8200.
First edition o this important collection containing a number o
Franklin rst printings, beautiully bound in period-style cal-gilt.
In addition to containing a large number o Franklins political pieces,
this important collection includes rst printings o a number o
philosophical pieces, as the editor notes such o FranklinsMiscellaneous
and Philosophicalpieces as are not elsewhere in print. But what gives
special value to this collection is that it is the only edition o Franklins
writings (other than his scientic), which was printed during his lie
time; was done with Franklins knowledge and consent, and contains an
errata made by him or it (Ford 342). Franklin writes concerningnational and provincial politics, the Stamp Act, wealth, smuggling,
spelling, lightning, weather and the Aurora Borealis. His amous epitaph
is printed prior to a lengthy appendix, an index, and FranklinsAddenda
and Corrigenda. With rontispiece portrait o Franklin, three engraved
plates (one olding), and olding table. Ford 342. Howes F330. Sabin
25565. Light penciled owner signature; a ew penciled marginalia. A
very handsome copy in ne condition, beautiully bound.
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t h o m a s p o w n a l l : a m e r i c a , 1 7 7 7Vry Larg (45 By 46 Ichs) Ha-Color Map O North Amrca
25. POWNALL, Tomas. A New and Correct Map o North America London, 15th February, 1777. Four sheets
joined, measuring 45 by 46 inches, mounted on linen. $1
Rare oversized engraved map o North America. A beautiul map, with hand-colored borders representing European
colonial holdings, elaborate gural title cartouche o a native American amily group, and two inset maps o Ban and
Hudsons Bay and o Baja Caliornia.
English maps o this period are very desirable. Late 18th-century English maps were careully constructed and beautiully
decorated... English explorers, scientists and instrument makers were accomplishing advances that helped to revolutionize
mapmaking everywhere (ooley, 98). Based on Bowen and Gibsons 1755 map, Sayer and Bennetts Peace o Paris mapdetails the provisions o the treaty which ended the French and Indian war. Several articles o the treaty are engraved in
the maps blank ocean areas. An interesting note to the inset map o Caliornia relates Kinos discovery o land passage to
Caliornia and notes the erroneous appearance o the region as an island on earlier maps and charts. Te eastern boundary
o the Province o New York has been moved rom the eastern shores o Lake Champlain and now runs along the
Connecticut River. Te title oN. Carolina has been inserted in two lines (ooley, Te Mapping o America 49). Phillips,
589. Expertly mounted on linen, ne condition. A splendid and rare map o North America.
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g a r r i s o n o f s a i n t a u g u s t i n e , 1 7 7 6For Provsog T Garrso O Sat August, 1776:
Ecptoal 77-Ich Ocal Brtsh Vllum Scroll From T Amrca Rvoluto
26. (AMERICAN REVOLUION)MASON, Kender and JONES, Arthur. In the Roll o Foreign Accounts o the
XVIIIth Year o King George the Tird. Engrossed statement o accounts, relating to the supply o provisions or the
British army at St. Augustine, Florida, 1776-78. London, December 22, 1784. Original vellum scroll, consisting o threepanels stitched together, the entire piece measures 11-1/2 by 77-1/2 inches. $15,000.
Ocial statement o accounts issued by the reasurer o the Exchequer, James Graham, to Kender Mason and the assigns
o Arthur Jones (deceased) or providing victuals to the British army stationed at the Garrison o St. Augustine, Florida,
rom 1776 to 1778.
In 1763 Spain ceded Florida to England in order to regain the capital o Cuba, ushering in 20 years o British rule in Florida.
Tis period coincided with the American Revolution, during which Florida remained loyal to the Crown. At the time, the
British stationed orces at the Garrison o St. Augustine (the Spanish-built Fort Castillo de San Marcos) and at outposts in
East Florida. Merchants Kender Mason and Arthur Jones were both British subjects, later called enemies o America by
the American courts (Miller vs. Te Ship Resolution), who contracted with the British government to supply provisions to
the garrison and its outposts. Tis long vellum scroll, engrossed in Gothic script, is a statement o accounts or goods
provided rom 1776 to 1778though Mason was engaged or at least two more years (another account exists or 1778-80).Payment was authorized by Chancellor William Pitt and Sir Edward James Eliot, Commissioner or the Board o rade
and Plantations. Te document was issued by James Graham, third Duke o Montrose and Lord o the reasury, and
executed by John Heaton, Deputy Clerk. Provisions ordered rom Mason by General William Howe in June o 1777 were
determined not sucient or the purpose and the amount was deducted rom the totalthe nal payment to Mason was
over 40,000. With three lozenges bearing the impressions o ocial seals. Docketed on the verso, Anglia, Kender Mason
and Arthur Jones Esquires, contractors or victualling His Majesties Forces in East Florida, upon their Account thereo
rom 16th March 1776 to 23rd February 1778, axed with three small paper labels o royal authority. Excellent condition,
with soiling only to the exposed panel.
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d i a r y o f a s o l d i e r , 1 7 7 6T Frst Amrca Army A A Army O Evryo: 1776 Orgal Mauscrpt
Rvolutoary War Dary O Joh Coopr, A Solr I Nw Yorks Frst Rgmt,
Naval Srvc, A Dramatc Hawrtt Rcor O A Solrs L Durg T
Coloal Struggl o Cotrol T Huso Rvr Vally
27. (AMERICAN REVOLUION) COOPER, John. Revolutionary War Diary. New York, 1776. WRIEN IN:
Gaines Universal Register, or, American and British Kalendar, or the Year 1776. New York, 1776. 12mo, contemporary ullcal rebacked in black cloth. $35,000.
Rare 1776 Revolutionary War Diary o John Cooper, a 24-year-old enlisted
man in New Yorks First Regiment, Naval Service, containing over 30
handwritten pages interspersed throughout a rst edition o Gaines
Universal Register (1776), an almanac whose blank leas were used by
Cooper in this remarkable account o the year America declared its
independence, with rank details o an enlisted mans lie and vivid accounts
o skirmishes with Indians and British troops as Coopers regiment ought
throughout the spring and summer o 1776 to maintain crucial American
command o Lake Champlain and the upper Hudson River Valley. In
contemporary cal.
Te Revolutionary Army o 1776 was dismissed by the British and even
many patriots as peasantry, ragamuns, or rabble in arms. Yet, deying
all odds, this was an army o men accustomed to hard work, hard work
being the common lot. Tey were amiliar with adversity and making do in
a harsh climate It was the rst American army and an army o everyone
(McCullough, 1776, 33-4). Tere is perhaps no document that better mirrors
that democratic nature than this rare 1776 diary, the military record o an
ordinary enlisted man, John Cooper, who was born in Pennsylvania on
March 26, 1752 and was about to turn 24 when he made his rst entry here
on March 1776. Cooper used the blank pages and slim margins o this worn,
pocket-sized copy oGaines Universal Register, a 1776 almanac printed in
New York, to record the daily needs, trials and expenses o a soldiers lie, all
detailed here alongside Coopers matter-o-act descriptions o the harsh physical demands and the deadly risks o war inAmericas struggle throughout the spring and summer o 1776 to ensure colonial control o Lake Champlain and the
Hudson River Valley.
Cooper lls 30 non-consecutive pages with careul ly dated entries that begin in March and continue through late December
1776. Tis exceptional journal oers a rare account o that crucial period when the American army, recently returned rom
a brutal Canadian campaign, joined with others at Fort iconderoga to obstruct Howes attempt to seize and occupy the
mouth o the St. Lawrence [and enable the British] to sever the eastern Colonies rom the others (Freeman, 267). In
March 17, 1776, or example, Cooper writes o meeting the grand army and on the 18th, o setting St. Johns on re and
runaway with the Light and arrived at the Isle [Aux Noix]. Te next day, he records, Did nothing Remarkable ound a
bayonate [sic] and sold it the same day or our shillings. In June, his entries urther detail a soldiers everyday lie with
notations about days when he caught a large quantity o Fish Sent out with a party o men to clear Land or Uncle John
o Congress [and] went up to Lake George alls & drank Milk Punch. But soon Cooper writes o a rightening encounter
on an island where he is alarmed there by 4 men being killed or taken Prisoners by Indians & I Escaped. 1 more made
escape same night and got in to the island about 12 oclock at night. On July 3, Cooper notes that he Lay aboard the
Enterprize Except some time spent ashore. Tat ship, the Enterprise, was a sloop in Benedict Arnolds small naval feet and
was engaged in a daily struggle to keep Lake Champlain under American control. Within months, in early October, the
Enterprise became o the ew in the feet to survive Americas rst naval battlethe Battle o Valcour Island. Te blank
pages and margins o Gaines Universal Register were occasionally used or such diary entries by other Revolutionary
soldiers, though these journals are exceedingly rare. See Sabin 26332. Partial olding lea, with manuscript hand identiying
Cooper on the recto, axed to rear pastedown. Several leaves detached, light dampstaining, some edge-wear to leaves and
contemporary boards. An extraordinarily rare document o American revolutionary history.
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j o h n b u r g o y n e : s u r r e n d e r a t s a r a t o g a1780 Frst Eto O Burgoys Accout O Hs Surrr At Saratoga,
A urg Pot O T War: O O T Bst Sourcs O T Campag
28. BURGOYNE, John. A State o the Expedition rom Canada, as Laid Beore the House o Commons with a
Collection o Authentic Documents. London, 1780. Quarto, modern three-quarter polished brown cal gilt. $10,500.
First edition, with six engraved olding maps and plans with hand-colored details, two with hinged overslips illustrating
changes in troop positions and movements.
In 1776, Burgoyne was attached as second in command to Sir Guy Carleton, commander-in-chie o Canada, but grew
disgusted with Carletons inaction and returned to Britain, where, at the request o the prime minister drew up a plan o
campaign or the next year. He proposed that an army o 12,000 men, accompanied by 2000 Canadians as guides and
pioneers, and 1000 Indians as scouts, should advance rom Canada, take iconderoga, and then advance or 200 miles
through the orests to Albany... His energy impressed the king... and he returned to America in the spring o 1777 with
supreme command o a orce to make this march (DNB). On
September 24, he met with 20,000 American soldiers strongly
entrenched at Behmus Heights. Burgoyne immediately
attacked in a utile eort, and was orced to retreat. But
General Gates would not allow him to escape; he harassed
every mile o the retreat, and at last surrounded him at
Saratoga He ound himsel obliged to surrender on October17, 1777 (DNB). Burgoynes campaign proved to be the one
o the turning points o the war: an American army had
deeated a British army, validating the Revolution not only in
America, but also in France, which nally declared itsel a
ull ally. Recognizing that his military reputation had been
severely damaged, Burgoyne published A State o the
Expedition, in which he deends the campaigns strategy.
One o the best sources on the campaign (Streeter II:794).
Howes B968. Sabin 925