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Catalogue
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America
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31.
COX, ROSS. The Columbia River; or, Scenes and Adventures
During a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky
Mountains Among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown; Together
with a Journey Across the American Continent. London, Henry Colburn
and Richard Bentley, 1832. Two volumes. Third Edition. $1,500
8vo; pp. xx, 333; pp. vi, 350. Original grey cloth, embossed edges,
spine lettered in gilt, slightly sunned; a few stains on paste-downs
of both volumes. A near-fine set.
Howes C828. "The narratives of Cox, Alexander Ross and Franchere
are the chief sources of fur trading history in the early Oregon
country."- (Howes).
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32.
DES BARRES, J. F. W. Cape St. Mary N.E. one mile; South entrance
of Grand Passage; St. Mary's Bay. Published as the Act directs 1st
Feb. 1st [sic], 1781, by J.F.W Des Barres, Esq. $1,250
30-1/4" x 21" (77 cm x 53 cm) within the platemark. Hand-coloured
etching from volume II of Des Barres' Atlantic Neptune. Three views
on one sheet. Heavy laid paper with watermark of "J Bates";
few tiny pinholes; few small repairs in margins, mostly on verso;
lightly age-browned; very good.
Spendlove, p. 20. Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres was a military
engineer of a Swiss Huguenot family. When the Seven Years' War commenced
in 1756, he went off to North America and was with Amherst at the
siege of Louisbourg in 1758. Thereafter, he served with Wolfe at
Quebec in 1759 and was in Halifax in 1761. When the French captured
St. John's, Newfoundland in 1762, DesBarres was part of the English
force which recaptured it. He then began working with James Cook
charting the coasts of Newfoundland and spent several years surveying
and measuring, the results of which were published in his 'Atlantic
Neptune'. "The large prints from 'The Atlantic Neptune' are
among the finest and most beautiful pictures of Canada ever made".
(Spendlove, p. 18).
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33.
DES BARRES, J. F. W. The Entrance of Mines Basin, Ile Haut
and Cape Chegnecto. Published as the Act directs Jany. 1st, 1779,
by J. F. W. Des Barres, Esq. $1,100
Approx. 20" x 17-1/2" (47 cm x 44 cm) within the platemark.
Hand-coloured etching from volume I of Des Barres' Atlantic Neptune.
Two views on one sheet. Heavy laid paper with watermark of "J
Bates"; few small repairs in margins, mostly on verso; margins
lightly age-browned; brown stain in left bottom corner of margin,
with no affect to image.
Spendlove, p. 20: Many issues of 'The Atlantic Neptune', "appeared
yearly between 1770 and 1781, with very many variations. ... Des
Barres' delineation of ships was particularly effective..."
(pp. 18-19).
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34.
DICKINSON, JOHN. Letters from A Farmer in Pennsylvania, to
the Inhabitants of The British Colonies. New York, The Outlook Company,
1903. One of 260 copies. $125
4to; pp. lxvii, (1), 146, (2); frontispiece and one colour plate.
Original quarter-vellum and paper-covered boards; spine little worn;
uncut and unopened; the colour plate is highlighted in gilt. A very
good copy.
Howes D329; Sabin 20044: "A calm yet full enquiry into the
right of the British Parliament to tax the American colonies; the
unconstitutional nature of which attempt is maintained in a well-connected
chain of close and manly reasoning." A limited edition of a
serious study of the legal rights of colonies, which was first published
in 1768 in Philadelphia and reprinted in the two subsequent years.
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35.
[DICKINSON, JOHN]. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania,
to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. Philadelphia: Printed
by William and Thomas Bradford... 1769. Third edition. $2,850
Small 8vo in 4's; pp. [2], 104; disbound; title-page little dusty;
contemporary hand has written the author's name neatly on title.
Howes D329; Sabin 20044; Evans 11238; Adams, "American Independence,"
54h; Grolier, "American 100," 13. "These twelve letters
appeared first in the Pennsylvania Chronicle between November 30,
1767 and February 8, 1768. Before the end of 1767 almost every colonial
newspaper began to reprint the series. Some printed only a few of
the letters, but others printed all twelve." The author was
one of a small group who, right up until 1776, urged conciliation;
however, he briefly served in a special force raised in Delaware
and took part in the Battle of Brandywine. He then held a variety
of important offices, and "in 1787 as a delegate from Delaware
he became a member of the convention to frame the Federal Constitution,
and took an active and useful part in its proceedings."-(DAB,
vol. V, pp. 299-300). Adams notes two issues of the edition with
no priority.
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