46 47 48 49 50 51 52 AMBROSE (I.) Deaths in Lancashire in Great of | Christ. | New-York: Arrest. | A | Sermon | Preached | at Preston 12mo, pp. 64. Polished calf, gilt edges, by F. BEdford. ONE OF THE RAREST Of Brad FORD'S IMPRINTS. AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Proceedings of, at the annual meeting held in Worcester, October 21, 1864. Boston: 1864. 8vo, pp. 80. Half morocco, gilt top, uncut. One of 25 copies only printed on fine paper. AMERICAN HISTORICAL RECORD. Edited by Benson J. Lossing. Philadelphia: 1872-73. Sm. 4to, vols. I. and II., in parts as published. AMERICAN NOTES AND QUERIES. Nos. I, to 4. [Philadelphia: W. Brotherhead. 1857.] 8vo, pp. 160. Half calf, UNcut. An Autograph letter from the publisher announcing the failure of the work, and setting forth the causes thereof inserted. Contains articles on "Book Illustrators," an account of the sale of "E. B. Corwin's Library," reprints of rare Autograph Letters, etc. AMERICAN PIONEER. (The) A Monthly Periodical, Devoted to the objects of the Logan Historical Society; or to Collecting and Publishing Sketches Relative to the Early Settlement and Successive Improvement of the Country.. UNCUT. ... Cincinnati: John S. Williams. 1842–3. 2 vols., roy. 8vo, pp. 448; 480. Numerous Engravings. Half red morocco, gilt top, A SPLENDID COPY. Very difficult to find Complete. PLATES and FACSIMILES of Antiquities, OLD HISTORICAL BUILDINGS, RELICS, &c. Edited by John S. Williams. "The great mass of historic material in these volumes is composed of Journals of Campaigns against the Indians, Narratives of Captivity, Incidents of Border Warfare, Biographical Sketches of Frontiersmen, Indian Warriors, and White Scouts."— Field. AMERICA'S APPEAL to The Impartial World. | Wherein the | | | Rights of the Americans, as | Men, British Subjects, and as Colo- | nists; the Equity of the Demand, and of the Man- ner in which it is made upon them by Great Britain, | are stated and considered. And, The Opposition made by the Colonies to Acts of Parlia- | ment, their resorting to Arms in their necessary | Defence, against the Military Armaments, employed to enforce them, Vindicated. | Hartford, Printed by Ebenezer Watson. 1775. 8vo, pp. 72. Half morocco. We have never sold a copy. A VERY RARE TRACT not mentioned by RICH. AMES (F.) An Oration on the Sublime Virtues of General George Washington, Pronounced at the Old South Meeting-House in Boston... on Saturday the 8th of February, 1800. By Fisher Ames. Boston: Young & Minns. [1800.] 8vo, pp. 31. UNCUT. First Edition. RARE. 53 AMES. An Oration. [Another Edition.] Philadelphia: 1800. 8vo, pp. 51. 54 AMES. An Oration. [Another Edition.] New York: 1800. 55 56 57 AMES. Works of Fisher Ames. Compiled by a Number of his Friends. To which are prefixed, Notices of his Life and Character. [By J. T. Kirkland.] Boston: T. B. Wait & Co. 1809. 8vo, pp. xxxi., (6), 519. Portrait. Half red morocco, gilt top, UNCut. "American Principles a Review of the above, by John Quincy Adams, 8vo, pp. 56, is bound in at the end of the volume. This, in its turn, was answered by John Lowell. AMORY (T. C.) The Military Services and Public Life of Major General Sullivan, of the American Revolutionary Army. By Thomas C. Amory. Boston: Wiggin and Lunt. 1868. 8vo, pp. 320. Portrait. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. ANALECTIC PRESS SERIES. [The following works are Printed exclusively for Private Distribution, and have never before occurred for sale.] The series consists of: I. American Chronology Illustrated by Quotations from Shakspeare. [By John B. Moreau.] New York: 1872. pp. (3), 60. Sixty copies only printed. II. A Collection of One Hundred and Fifty Engravings, Executed on Wood by Alexander pp. 10, (36). Ten copies only printed. IV. Poems hitherto Uncollected, by the Rev. Francis L. Hawks, D.D. With a Preface by pp. 27. Twenty-five copies only printed. The only copy with a half-title. PORTRAIT of one of the printers inserted. Together 5 vols., roy. 8vo, half light green crushed levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by W. MATTHEWS. Beautifully printed on one side only by MASTER CHARLES L. MOREAU, a youthful amateur printer, on his own private hand-press, exclusively for presents. In the production of the Extra No. Master Moreau was assisted by MASTER H. R. DROwne. AN ELEGANT, Rare and MOST DESIRABLE SET OF VOLUMES. 58 [ANBURY (Thomas.)] Travels through the Interior Parts of America. In a Series of Letters. By an Officer. ... London: William Lane. MDCCLXXXIX. 2 vols., 8vo, pp. vii., (21), 467; 558. Map and 7 Plates. Half gray calf. Fine copy of the FIRST EDITION, with the Facsimiles of Continental Money, not included in the Second. 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 [ANBURY.] Travels through the Interior Parts of America; in a Series of Letters. By an Officer. A New Edition. London: William Lane. MDCCXCI. 2 vols., 8vo, half blue morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Map and 6 Plates. Very fine Copy. The Author was an officer under General Burgoyne, for whose unfortunate campaign these volumes were intended as a vindication. ANDERSON [(Thomas.)] The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, containing his strange varieties of Fortune in Europe and America. Compiled from his own Papers. London: Owen. 1754. 12mo, pp. 263. Half calf. The author was kidnapped in London, taken to America, and sold to a planter at Senupexen Inlet, Md., for £10, and afterwards joined the Virginia Rangers against the French Indians, &c. See M. R. x. 147. ANDRÉ (Major John.) The Cow Chace. [As Originally published in Three Numbers of RIVINGTON'S ROYAL GAZETTE.] Folio, half olive morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. New York: 1780. The VERITABLE FIRST EDITION of the COW CHACE, of which we are unable to trace the sale of any other copy. ANDRÉ. The Cow Chace, A Poem in Three Cantos. By Major John André, Adjutant General to the British Army in New York, in 1780. Albany: J. Munsell. 1866. Sm. 4to, pp. 69. Half blue morocco, gilt top, UNcut. Thirty Copies only printed. India proof PORTRAIT of MAJOR ANDRÉ inserted. Edited by Franklin B. Hough. ANDRÉ. Proceedings of a Board of General Officers, Held by Order of His Excellency Gen. Washington, Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States of America. Respecting Major John André, Adjutant General of the British Army. September 29, 1780. Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey. M.DCC.Lxxx. Sm. 8vo, pp. (2), 21. Crimson morocco, gilt top, nearly uncut. AN Elegant Copy of the ORIGINAL EDITION. VERY RARE. ANDRÉ. Proceedings of a Board of General Officers Respecting Major John André. New York: Privately Printed. 1867. Roy. 8vo, pp. (2), 21. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Forty-nine Copies only printed in EXACT FACSIMILE of the rare original edition, with the print of "THE UNfortunate DEATH OF MAJOR ANDRÉ.' ANDRÉ. Minutes of a Court of Inquiry, upon the case of Major John André, with Accompanying Documents. ... With an Additional Appendix containing Copies of the Papers found upon Major André when arrested. Albany: J. Munsell. 1865. Sm. 4to, pp. iv., 66. Portrait. Half red morocco, gilt top, UNcut. One hundred copies only privately reprinted for Mr. John F. McCoy. 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 ANDRÉANA. Containing the Trial, Execution and Various Matters connected with the History of Major John André Adjutant General of the British Army in America, A.D., 1780. Philadelphia: Horace W. Smith. 1865. 4to, pp. (4), 67, (4). Half red morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Fifty Copies only printed on this paper. The engravings published with the volume have been replaced with finer and better impressions. Eight fine PORTRAITS are inserted, mostly INDIA PROOFS and PROOFS BEFORE LETTERS, among which are the RARE PORTRAIT of ANDRÉ drawn by himself, and engraved by SHERWIN; and that of SIR H. CLINTON, engraved by BARTOLOzzi, and printed in tint. [ANDREWS (Charles.)] The Prisoners' Memoirs; or Dartmoor Prison; Containing a Complete and Impartial History of the entire Captivity of the Americans in England, .... Also a Particular Detail of... that Horrid Massacre at Dartmoor, on the Fatal Evening of the 6th of April, 1815. New York: Printed for the Author. 1815. 12mo, pp. 283. Plate. Half olive morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. The folded "View of Dartmoor Prison," is frequently wanting. ANDREWS (E. W.) An Address before the Washington Benevolent Society, in Newburyport, on the 22d of Feb., 1816. By Edward W. Andrews, A.M. [In Verse.] Newburyport: William B. Allen & Co. 1816. 8vo, pp. 15. Half green morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by BRADSTREET. India proof PORTRAIT of WASHINGTON inserted. ANDREWS (J.) History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland; commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783. By John Andrews, LL.D. With Portraits, Maps, and Charts. London: MDCCLXXXVI. 4 vols., 8vo, pp. ii., 448; 449; 445; 416, (60), xiv. 24 Portraits and 7 Maps. Half olive morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. FINE COPY. Highly commended by Dr. Boucher. Includes portraits of Gens. Washington, Greene, Clinton, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, Lafayette, De Grasse, Count D'Estaing, and Captain Asgill. ANDREWS (J.) An Eulogy on General George Washington. ... Delivered ... in Newburyport, February 22d, 1800. By John Andrews, A.M. Newburyport: [1800.] 8vo, pp. 21. UNCUT. ANDROS (T.) The Old Jersey Captive: or a Narrative of the Captivity of Thomas Andros, ... on board the Old Jersey Prison-Ship at New York, 1781. In a series of Letters to a Friend. ... Boston: William Peirce. 1833. 12mo, pp. 80. Half crimson morocco. ANNUAL REGISTER. (The) Or a View of the History, Politicks, and Literature of the Years 1758 to 1792. London: Dodsley. 1759–92. 35 vols., Index 2 vols., together 37 vols., 8vo, calf. These volumes cover the entire period of the American Revolution; for the history of which they are acknowledged to be the best and most profuse authority. 73 ANTIQUITY, HONOR, and DIGNITY OF TRADE, particularly as connected with the City of London; Written by a Peer of England, and Addressed to his Youngest Son, as an Inducement to follow a Mercantile Concern. Westminster: Machell Stace. 1813. Roy. 8vo, pp. (2), 65. Paneled calf. Printed on writing paper. EXCEEDINGLY Scarce. SIXTY PORTRAITS inserted; many of which are SCARCE and CURIOUS and some VERY rare. From the De La Forrest collection, at the sale of which the late Mr. John Allan was an eager competitor and always coveted the work, which he never was able to obtain. 74 Aquinas (Thomas.) Summa de Articulis Fidei et Ecclesiæ Sacramentis. [Moguntiæ: typis Joh. Guttenberg. Circa. 1460.] Sm. 4to, Gothic Letter, rubricated capitals, 13 leaves, 34 lines to a page. Not in BRUNET. Olive morocco, richly tooled and gilt sides after an elegant Grolier pattern, inside lined with polished crimson morocco beautifully tooled and gilt, morocco joints, gilt edges. IN THE FINEST state OF PRESERVATION. “One of the scarcest books in the world, consisting only of 12 leaves according to Santander; Panzer says 13, and Laire, Ind. 11. p. 260, gives it 14. Panzer is most correct: it ends in the following manner: 'Explicit summa de articulis et ecclesie sacramentis, edita a fratre Thoma de Aquino ordinis fratrum predicatorum Deo gratias. The types exactly resemble those used in the celebrated Catholicon of Joh. de Balbis in 1460; it is printed in long lines, of which there are 34 in a page. No mark of punctuation but the period, no initial letters, catchword, signature, &c. The paper thick, white, and good."-Beloe's Anecdotes of Scarce Books. Vol. iv. page 138. The following occurs on the fly leaf: "With the exception of a perfect copy of the Mazarine Bible, belonging to Mr. Lenox, and the fragment of the same work in my collection, this little tract is believed to be the earliest specimen of typography in this country.' G(EORGE) L(IVERMORE.) 75 Aquinas. Encipit Prima Pars Secunde Edita a Fratre Thoma De Aquino. (Colophon.) Alma in vrbe moguntina.... p petru Schoiffer de gernshem. Anno dni millesimo quadringentesimo Septuagesimo pmo. [1471] Octaua die nouembris. 76 Folio, Gothic Letter, rubricated capitals, 175 double column leaves, 61 lines to a column. state. Notwithstanding that a worm has pierced a few leaves, and that some others are slightly · water-stained; this volume forms a most desirable specimen of the "divine art" in its infant The precision and regularity of its register are not excelled by the best typographical examples of the present day. Books with a date so early as 1471 are of very rare occurrence, and especially so, when from the press of PETER SCHOIFFER the veritable inventor of movable types. ARGENSOLA (B. L.) The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing, their History, Ancient and Modern, National and Political. Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclination of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. Written in Spanish by Bartholomew Leonardo de Argensola. Now translated into English and Illustrated with a Map &c. London: Printed in the year 1708. Sm. 4to, pp. (4), 260, (8). Map and 3 Plates. Half blue morocco, gilt edges. FINE Cory. |