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Catalogue
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America
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121.
SMITH, WILLIAM. An Oration in Memory of General Montgomery,
and of the Officers and of the Officers and Soldiers, Who Fell with
Him, December 31, 1775, before Quebec: drawn up (and delivered February
19th, 1776.) at the desire of the Honorable Continental Congress.
Philadelphia: Printed by John Dunlap, And, Belfast, Reprinted, By
James Magee, 1776. $900
12mo; pp. 48; removed and sewn; closely cropped, touching a few
letters and page numbers.
Howes S703; Sabin 84640; Adams, American Independence 228h. This
is a most important oration by William Smith, Provost of the College
and Academy of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania),
commemorating the attack on Quebec and the loss of men in said attack.
"In making this address before the Continental Congress, Smith
aroused stupefaction and hostility by suggesting appeasement with
England."- (Howes) The Congress was so upset by some of his
remarks that it refused to give him a vote of thanks; he subsequently
removed some of the more offensive passages and had the work printed
himself. This scarce Irish edition was published the same year as
the first [American] edition.
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122.
SPARGO, JOHN. Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. Rutland, Vt., The
Tuttle Company, 1926. Presentation copy, signed by the author. $75
8vo; pp. 34; original beige printed cardboard wrappers; signed by
Spargo on the front wrap; stapled as issued; wrappers lightly dusty;
small scuff at upper corner of front wrap; overall a very good copy.
An address "delivered at Castleton, Vermont, May 9, 1925, at
the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
gathering of the Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen, in that
village, and their departure for Ticonderoga." -(Note) This
speech by Spargo, noted historian, celebrating the resolve of Allen
and noting the bravery of Vermonters, closes on an interesting note
given the date between the two World Wars - "There are among
us those who preach in the name of peace and morality an infidel
pacifism, who would have us believe that in taking up arms for the
achievement of the nation's independence the fathers were wrong,
… The logic of that doctrine is the surrender of civilization
to the jungle, and the enslavement of the human soul to whatever
tyranny shall arise."
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123.
STAEHLIN [von STORCKSBURG], J[AKOB] von. An Account of the
New Northern Archipelago lately discovered by the Russians in the
Seas of Kamtschatka and Anadir. London, C. Heydinger, 1774. First
edition in English. $5,000
8vo; pp. xx, 118, 1 folding, engraved map, outlined in contemporary
colour; engraved title vignette; wanting 2 pp. adverts; original
marbled paper over boards, rebacked and recornered; brown stain
at lower corner of first two leaves, causing paper to be friable;
both corners reinforced with archival paper.
Lada-Mocarski 20 (note); Wagner, Cartography, I, pp. 183-191; Howes
S863; Arctic Biblio. 16667; JCB 1995; Hill, p. 280; Sabin 90063;
Smith 9801; Streeter VI:3467; Wickersham 5824 (incorrect pagination);
Ricks, p. 208. From 1764 to 1768 several trading voyages were made
beyond Kamschatka, to the Aleutian, Kodiak, Unalaska, and other
islands, by Captain Syndo [Sind, Synd] and the Promyschleniki, or
Commercial, Company. Von Staehlin, secretary to the Russian Imperial
Academy of Sciences and member of the Royal Society in London, here
compiles the reports and accounts sent by the traders to the Russian
government; these reports describe the natives, and the fauna and
flora of the newly-discovered islands. The folding map, depicting
Alaska as a large island, was used by William Coxe in his 1780 edition
of An Account of the Russian Discoveries... The second part of von
Staehlin's work, pp. [41]-118, consists of P.L. Le Roy's "A
Narrative of the Singular Adventures of Four Russian Sailors, Who
were cast away on the desert Island of East-Spitzbergen...,"
which has its own title-page. A scarce and important work for the
history of the northwestern portion of North America.
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124.
STUART-WORTLEY, EMMELINE, Lady. Travels in the United States,
Etc., During 1849 and 1850. London, Richard Bentley, 1851. Three
volumes. First edition. $2,000
8vo; pp. xv, [1], 307, [1] (p. xiii misprinted "xii");
pp. xi, [1], 351. [1]; pp. vii, [1], 316; original blue blind-stamped
cloth binding; little sporadic light foxing; few leaves in vol.
I have small tears at head from careless opening; all of vol. II
and most of vol. III are unopened; a bright, near fine set in original
cloth, complete with half-title in vol. II (none called-for in vols.
I and III).
Howes W687; Sabin 93220; Clarke III:419; Robinson, pp. 121-122.
The author (1806-1855) was an English travel writer and prolific
poet; most of her literary output relates to her travels. During
her wedding journey through Europe she became enamoured with travelling
and sight-seeing, and the intensity of her travels increased after
the deaths of her husband and her son. Her subsequent travels, usually
with her daughter, Victoria (later Lady Gregory), became increasingly
difficult and punishing; on the trip reported here, staying within
the confines of the "civilised" northeast and southern
United States usually visited by Victorian Englishwomen eventually
proved difficult, and she insisted on pushing on to Mexico, the
Isthmus of Panama, Peru and Ecuador. Her descriptions of all of
these areas are extremely interesting. She began her journey in
New York, and thence to Boston, Bridgeport, and a number of places
in New England, before heading south to Baltimore, Philadelphia
and Washington. She swung through the South and visited Louisville,
New Orleans, and Mobile, before heading off to Mexico, Central America
and Peru. Her comments about American society, its manners, mores
and customs, are judicious and well-informed. In 1855 she and her
daughter travelled to the Crimea, Egypt and the Holy Land, where
she died of dysentery. In this work, vol. I relates to the United
States, vol. II to Central America, and vol. III to South America.
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One of the Scarcer Franklin Search Works
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125. SUTHERLAND, PETER C[ORMACK]. Journal of a Voyage in
Baffin's Bay and Barrow Straits, in the Years 1850-1851, performed
by H.M. Ships "Lady Franklin" and "Sophia".
London, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1852. Two volumes.
First edition. $3,000
8vo; pp. lii, 506, (2) + 32 (Publishers Cat.); pp. vii, (1), 363,
(1), ccxxxiii (Appendix), (1); 6 lithographed plates and 2 folding
lithographed maps; 4 of the plates and both maps are coloured; numerous
illustrations in the text. Original cloth; binding minimally worn
at corners and edges; overall a very good, clean copy of this scarce
work, with a neat bookplate.
Arctic Biblio. 17231; TPL 3214. The author was surgeon aboard one
of the ships that took part in the search for Franklin and his crew.
The work is a compendium of his notes, written on a daily basis,
as the expedition sailed from Aberdeen, through Davis Strait, to
the western coast of Greenland, and on through Baffin Bay, Lancaster
Sound, etc. The crew wintered over at Assistance Bay, and Sutherland
tells of conversations with other Franklin search parties, and of
finding relics of the Franklin expedition.
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