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Catalogue
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America
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Very Important Association Copy
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46. FRANKLIN, JOHN. Narrative of A Journey to the Shores
of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London, John
Murray, 1823. First edition, first issue. SOLD
4to; pp. (iii)-xvi, 768; 30 plates (11 coloured); 4 folding maps;
errata slip; lacks half-title. Full blind-stamped calf, blind- and
gilt-ruled; rebacked long ago; marbled endpapers and fore-edges;
binding minimally rubbed. A fine, clean copy belonging originally
to Captain Sir Henry Duncan, with his bookplate and pictorial ownership
stamp. A Presentation Copy to Sir Henry from the Rev. Dr. Hood "as
a small token of gratitude, for his great kindness to his two sons,
Lieutenants Robert and George Hood, R.N., to whom, indeed, they
are indebted for everything, ...".
TPL 1248; Sabin 25624; WCB 23:1; Field 560; Graff 1406; Peel 80;
Arctic Biblio. 5194. The story related here is one of a most devastating
and frightful journey of 5,500 miles in northern Canada. One of
the objects of the expedition was to determine the longitude and
latitude of the northern coast of North America. The members of
the expedition travelled both overland and by canoe, and were decimated
by murder, hunger and cold. Robert Hood, midshipman with this expedition,
had first served under Duncan on the Imperieuse in the Adriatic,
during the Napoleonic Wars, and had made his name as an artist there
when he presented his private logs to his superiors. When the British
Admiralty turned its efforts to finding a Northwest Passage, Hood
joined Franklin's ship and was responsible for many of the paintings
from which the plates in this work are done. Also, he "had
been the first to conduct a careful magnetic survey of the northwest"
and his journal "describes the flora, fauna, and geography
of the land, and records observations on the climate, magnetic phenomena,
and aurora borealis." - (DCB, vol. VI, pp. 327-329) Hood was
one of the eleven men to die on this expedition. Exhausted, starving,
and dehydrated, he was murdered by one of the Iroquois voyageurs
who was subsequently executed by John Richardson. An interesting
and important association copy.
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47.
GARRARD, LEWIS H[ECTOR] (1829-1887). Wah-to-Yah, and the
Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los
Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire Cincinnati:
H. W. Derby & Co.; New York: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850. First
edition. $2,000
12mo; pp. [viii], 349 (p. 269 misnumbered 26). Original decorated
black cloth; title in gilt on back-strip; slightly worn on head
and heel of spine. Some staining and foxing; small tear in gutter
of p. 9-10, with some loss of text. Stored in protective box.
Howes G70; Wagner-Camp-Becker 182; Graff 1513; Sabin 26687; Streeter
I: 170. "Garrard left Westport on September 12, 1846, in a
Santa Fe wagon train led by Col. Ceran St. Vrain, and returned to
Saint Louis in the summer of 1847. His account describes the Taos
Massacre and the subsequent trials of the prisoners. In the course
of his travels, Garrard met several well-known figures of the last
days of the fur trade including Jim Beckwourth, Kit Carson, and
George Ruxton."- (Wagner-Camp-Becker). Extremely scarce.
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48.
GEE, JOSHUA. The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered:
Shewing That the surest Way for a Nation to increase in Riches,
is to prevent the Importation of such Foreign Commodities as may
be rais'd at Home... Some Account of the Commodities each Country
we trade with takes from us, and what we take from them; with Observations
on the Balance. London, Printed by Sam. Buckley, 1730. Second edition.
$1,100
8vo; pp. [18], 147, [1]; later quarter-calf with marbled paper over
boards, worn; hinges reinforced; stamp on verso of title inked out
with some transfer to title at tail, one leaf trimmed, with stamp
at tail inked out with some transfer to next page, prelims. incorrectly
bound (ie. blank follows title, and notice "To the Reader"
inserted in the text of Preface).
European Americana 730/94; Goldsmiths' 6736; Kress 3870; not in
Sabin; Howes G92: "Largely concerning England's American colonies."
A scarce work relating to the balance of trade between Britain and
other countries and colonies. Includes, among other things, discussions
of England's trade with the tobacco plantations, with Carolina,
with the sugar plantations, with Pensilvania (sic), and with New-England;
discusses the increase in the home consumption of sugar; takes notice
of the French "encroachments": "They have built the
Forts of Mobile, Pensacola, Halbamas, Cusatees, Prudhomme, Creve-coeur,
La Salle, Deonville, Frontenac, Mont Real, and several others from
the Missisippi (sic), and so down the River St. Lawrence upon the
Back of all our Settlements." An important tract, first published
in 1729, of which there exists more than ten different editions,
including translations into French and German.
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The Five Intolerable, or Coercive, Acts!
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49. [GREAT BRITAIN]. Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto.
Cap. XIX. An Act to discontinue, in such Manner, and for such Time
as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or
shipping, of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise at the Town, and within
the Harbour, of Boston, in the Province of Massachuset's Bay, in
North America. London, Charles Eyre & William Strahan, 1774.
Folio; caption title, pp. 515-522 (pp. 517 and 520 misnumbered 417
and 420); printed in Black Letter; small erasure on title, affecting
a few letters; overall very good and clean. (The Boston Port Act).
[bound with]:
Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. XXXIX. An Act for the
impartial Administration of Justice in the Cases of Persons questioned
for any Acts done by them in the Execution of the Law, for the Suppression
of Riots and Tumults, in the Province of Massachuset's Bay, in New
England. London, Charles Eyre & William Strahan, 1774.
Folio; caption title, pp. 991-998; printed in Black Letter. (The
Administration of Justice Act).
[bound with]:
Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. XLV. An Act for the
better regulating the Government of the Province of Massachuset's
Bay, in New England. London, Charles Eyre & William Strahan,
1774.
Folio; caption title, pp. 1047-1062; printed in Black Letter. (The
Massachusetts Government Act).
[bound with]:
Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. LIV. An Act for the
better providing suitable Quarters for Officers and Soldiers in
His Majesty's Service in North America. London, Charles Eyre &
William Strahan, 1774.
Folio; caption title, pp. 1251-1252; printed in Black Letter. (The
Quartering Act).
[bound with]:
Anno Regni Georgii III. Decimo Quarto. Cap. LXXXIII. An Act for
making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province
of Quebec in North America. London, Charles Eyre & William Strahan,
1774.
Folio; caption title, pp. 1827-1835; in Black Letter. (The Quebec
Act). $18,500
Recent full panelled calf; an extremely good, wide-margined copy
of these very important Acts.
The first four of these Acts were designed to punish Boston for
the Tea Party and to reinforce royal authority at the expense of
popular liberty by alterations in the Massachusetts charter. In
order of issuance, these Acts closed the Port until such time as
the East India Company should be paid for the tea which was destroyed;
changed the royal charter of Massachusetts; provided for the quartering
of troops in the colony without provincial consent; and gave royal
officials in conflict with colonial authorities the right to trial
in England. These four are also known as the Coercive Acts. The
fifth Act extended the boundaries of Quebec south to the Ohio river
and west to the Mississippi, restored French civil law, and pledged
the toleration of the Roman Catholic religion in Quebec. Whether
viewed as a liberal and just action on the part of Britain towards
its French-Canadian subjects, or as a timely check towards its unruly
colonists, this Act too was considered an infringement on the liberties
of the colonists; all served as tinder to the flames of independence.
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50.
[GREAT BRITAIN]. Anno Decimo Quarto Georgii III. Regis. Cap.
LXXXVIII. An Act to Establish a Fund towards further defraying the
Charges of the Administration of Justice, and Support of the Civil
Government within the Province of Quebec, in America. London, Charles
Eyre and William Strahan, 1774.
[and]:
Anno Decimo Quinto Georgii III. Regis. Cap. XL. An Act for Amending
and Explaining [the above] Act...Charles Eyre and William Strahan,
1775. . $150
Folio; caption-title, pp. 1899-1904; removed; folio; caption-title,
pp. 1227-1228; removed.
Taxes in effect at the time of the surrender [1763] are now withdrawn;
"in Lieu of and in Stead thereof, other Duties should be raised
by the Authority of Parliament, for making a more adequate Provision
for Defraying the Charge of the Administration of Justice, and the
Support of Civil Government in said Province...." This taxation
act followed hard upon the heels of the notorious Quebec Act of
the same year.
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