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Catalogue
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America
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71. [JUVENILE]. The Story of the Innocent Amelia; or the
Treacherous Brother. In a series of letters. Being a Fact. Putney,
Ver. Printed [by Cornelius Sturtevant?] for, and sold by J. Hinds,
Walpole, New Hampshire, 1799. $2,500
24mo; pp. [4], [5]-59, [4]; first and final blank leaves pasted
to wallpaper wrappers, and the work sewn into contemporary drab
cardboard wrappers; contemporary owner's name on verso of title;
a very good copy of an extremely scarce work.
Evans 36378; McCorison 541; Welch 1272.1; not in Gumuchian or in
the Osborne Coll.; we have located copies only at the American Antiquarian
Society [ESTCW27017] and the Vermont Historical Society; we have
found no copies at NYPL, LofC, or Huntington; Minn., Brown, UMich.,
UCLA, Yale, Amer.Phil. Society and Harvard appear to have microfiches
only. Marcus McCorison has indicated that Sturtevant was the only
printer of record in Putney, Vermont at this time. A scarce, ephemeral
work of American juvenile literature, presented as letters "from
William Devons to his correspondent George Smith" and containing
the age-old plot of two brothers vying for the hand of a lovely
lady.
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72.
[KNOX, WILLIAM]. An Appendix to the Present State of the
Nation, containing a Reply to the Observations on that Pamphlet.
London, J. Almon, 1769. First edition, second issue. $250
8vo; pp. [5]-62, (61)-68; wanting half-title; removed; clean and
tight.
Howes (1994) K222. In 1768 Knox had written a rather gloomy pamphlet
entitled 'The Present State of the Nation," a defence of Grenville's
ministry and of his taxation policies as they affected the American
colonies; this was answered and ridiculed by Edmund Burke in his
"Observations on a Late State of the Nation" (1769). Burke's
work was enormously popular and went through several printings,
evoking finally this present pamphlet as Knox's reply. This issue
has the 8-page "Postscript", not present in the first
issue.
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73.
LAFAYETTE, MARQUIS de. Lafayette in Virginia. Unpublished Letters.
Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press, 1928. $100
4to; pp. xi, (1), 64, folding plate; original quarter-cloth and
printed paper over boards; a fine copy.
Historical Documents of the Institut Français de Washington,
Cahier II. Contains letters from Lafayette to Thos. Jefferson, W.
Nelson, Patrick Henry, Gen. Wayne and Col. Davis.
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"one of the most beautiful editions of Lafitau's work"
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74. LAFITAU, J[OSEPH] F[RANCOIS]. De Zeden der Wilden van
Amerika. Zynde Een nieuwe uitvoerige en zeer kurieuse Beschryving
van derzelver Oorsprong, Godsdienst, manier van Oorlogen, Huwelyken,
Opvoeding, Oeffeningen, Feesten, Danzeryen, Begravenisten, en andere
zeldzame gewoonten; Tegen Der Zeden der oudste Volkeren vergeleken,
en met getuigenissen uit de oudste Grieksche en andere Schryveren
getoetst en bevestigt. In's Gravenhage, by Gerard Vander Poel, 1731.
Two volumes in one. First Dutch edition. $3,000
Folio; 2 ff, pp. 36, (18), 300 [i.e. 302], (1); 2 ff. pp. 301- 555
[i.e. 558]; forty-two copper-engraved plates (including engraved
frontispiece), one engraved map and two engraved vignettes; titles
in red and black. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt; two leaves
of prelims reversed; few leaves browned; small, unobtrusive hole
at foot of spine and small crack at head of front joint. A very
good, LARGE-PAPER COPY of this scarce Dutch edition, lacking rear
free endpaper, but otherwise complete with half-titles and final
blank in Vol. I, and with the same mispagination as the copy cited
by TPL. This copy is the largest we have seen, with exceedingly
wide margins, and fully 10 cm taller than the TPL copy.
Sabin 38598; Howes L22; TPL 159 (defective copy); Field 851 (41
plates); Lande S1194; JCB I, p. 472 incorrectly calling for 47 plates);
not in Vlach. Lafitau was a Jesuit priest assigned to Canada from
1712 to 1718. Most of that time was spent among the Iroquois, whose
manners, customs, religion, etc. are here delineated with great
detail. He was convinced that the aboriginal peoples of North America
derived from Tartar antecedents, and his concise descriptions and
graphic illustrations attempt to prove that point. "Aside from
all the designs of proving the probability of this hypothesis, the
work is a grand cyclopaedia of Indian history, and customs at that
date. The numerous engravings, although most of them remind us of
de Bry, are finely executed and illustrative of aboriginal life
and peculiarities." -(Field) This is a superior copy of "one
of the most beautiful editions of Lafitau's work."-(Lande).
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75.
[LARTIGUE, JEAN-JACQUES, Bishop of Montreal]. Mémoire
sur l'amovibilité des curés en Canada: suivi de remarques
sur les Notes de Mr. Lafontaine, Avocat, Relativement à l'Inamovibilité
des curés dans le Bas-Canada, 25 mars 1837. Montréal,
Se vend chez E. R. Fabre (Imprimerie Louis Perrault). $100
8vo; 2ff, pp. 54; 41, [1], f; title vignette; recent leather-like
binding, title lettered in gilt, ex-library stamp on 2 leaves, bound
with original printed wrappers, dampstaining to initial and final
leaves; otherwise very clean and tight.
TPL 2085, 2086; Sabin 39106. Lartigue (1777-1840) was the first
Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal. He discusses the authority of
the church to protect the clergy according to established laws.
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