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All books on this list are in cloth (unless
noted), and are in good used condition. Some are ex-lib, but none have
cardholders. They may have removed spine labels, ink stamps, etc.
8513. Morton, Thomas. New English Canaan of Thomas
Morton. With Introductory Matter and Notes, by Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
New York: Burt Franklin. 1967. First Published by The Prince Society,
Boston, 1883. Cloth, ex-lib, label on spine, 8 ¾ x 6 ¾, 381 pages, very
good.
Facsimile reprint of work first published in 1637. The
original title:
New English
Canaan or New Canaan.
Containing an
Abstract of New England, Composed in three Books.
The first Book
setting forth the original of the Natives, their Manners and Customs,
together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English.
The second Book
setting forth the natural Endowments of the Country, and what staple
Commodities it yieldeth.
The third Book
setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what
remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together
with their Tenents and practice of their Church.
Printed at
Amsterdam, 1637.
$45.00
SOLD
8514. Munson, Samuel B. A New Map of the Western
Rivers, or Traveller's Guide. Cincinnati:
George Conclin, 1846. Map dated 1846 at title, 1842 at engraver's
imprint. Measures 24 x 11 1/2, "...exhibiting the Mississippi, Missouri,
Ohio and Illinois
Rivers, with all principal Towns, Islands & Distances." In a small 3 x
4 1/2 paper-covered binding, worn at the fold. The map has two short old
tape repairs, and has some small splits in the folds.
The only recent auction record is from Dorothy Sloan (2001), for the 1843
edition, which sold for $3,220. "This finely engraved little pocket map for
the traveler on western rivers is very rare. The engraving and drafting firm
of Doolittle & Munson were active in Cincinnati in the 1840s; they created the
map that accompanies Stiff’s The Texan Emigrant...OCLC records only the Graff
copy at the Newberry Library (not in Graff
Catalogue). The Eberstadts (131:500) offered a copy of the 1845 edition for
$125 in 1953."
$2500.00
8515. Oliver, Peter. The Puritan Commonwealth. An
Historical Review of the Puritan Government in Massachusetts in its Civil and
Ecclesiastical Relations from its Rise to the Abrogation of the First
Charter. Together with some general Reflections on the English colonial
Policy, and on the Character of Puritanism. Boston: Little, Brown
and Company. 1856. Cloth, 9 x 6, spine ends chipped, 502 clean pages,
tight, bookplate, numbers on spine.
“A work of importance, inasmuch as it is the ablest
presentation of what may be called the ‘other side’ of Puritanism. It is not
simply an unfriendly, but also an exceedingly severe, criticism of the Puritan
polity. The motives, the principles, and the conduct of the early settlers of
New England are subjected to a most searching examination. The author has
made exhaustive use of the original sources of information as well as of the
more accessible materials. The work is written with rare grace and beauty of
style; and it abounds in terse and emphatic passages which go far to compel
our admiration…” – Adams, A Manual of Historical Literature (1889).
$125.00
8516. Packard, Francis R. Some Account of the
Pennsylvania Hospital, From its first Rise to the Beginning of the Year 1938.
Philadelphia: Engle Press, 1938. Cloth spine with paper boards, 10 x 7 ½, 133
pages, ink call letters on spine, no cardholder or bookplate, a few incidental
institutional markings, some finger smudges on the binding. Many plates.
First Edition. “In the following pages is narrated the
story of the oldest hospital [founded 1751] in what is now the United States,
which still occupies and uses buildings erected before the Revolution and
other s finished shortly after that historic epoch.” Includes the history of
the hospital during the Revolution.
$45.00
SOLD
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