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Edward Everett Hale Pursues Good Works — Signed
Hale, Edward Everett. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unknown recipient. On paper, in English. Roxbury, MA: 1893. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [1] f.
$75.00
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Letter written and signed by Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), an author, historian, and Unitarian minister descended from a distinguished American family. In his day one of the nation's most prominent men of letters, Hale may now be best remembered for two stories: “The Man Without a Country,” a patriotic pro-Union allegory of the then-raging U.S. Civil War, and “The Brick Moon,” generally considered to be
the earliest known literary depiction of a man-made satellite.
With the present letter, Hale notifies an unidentified recipient of a planned meeting for an Ithaca church subscription committee, by way of a clearly written note on his Roxbury, MA, letterhead. This very nice example of his signature (here, “Edw. E. Hale”) on his stationery is also a pleasing reminder of the great author's commitment to good works throughout his life.
Creased along original folds, one lower corner creased acriss.
Excellent bit of Hale memorabilia. (36715)

“Wild as Well as Civilized Regions” of North America,
Captured by Capt. Hall
Hall, Basil. Forty etchings, from sketches made with the camera lucida in North America, in 1827 and 1828. Edinburgh: Cadell & Co.; London: Simpkin & Marshall, and Moon, Boys, & Graves, 1829. Folio (33.2 cm, 13.07"). [2], ii, [22] pp.; 1 fold. map, 20 plts.
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First edition: Early American sights as captured by British naval officer Hall, the noted explorer and author of Travels in North America, for which publication
these drawings might be considered the illustrations. The camera lucida was patented in 1807, offering artists revolutionary accuracy and realism — “with his Sketch Book in one pocket, the Camera Lucida in the other . . . the amateur may rove where he pleases, possessed of a magical secret for recording the features of Nature with ease and fidelity, however complex they may be,” Captain Hall proclaims in the introduction, and record he did: Niagara Falls, “View from Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts,” “Mississagua Indians in Canada,” South Carolina rice fields, a Georgia forest log-house, the “embryo town” of Columbus, two slave drivers, “chiefs of the Creek Nation,” the Mississippi at New Orleans, steamboats and stage coaches, etc. The etchings are preceded by
a hand-colored folding map depicting Hall's route through the United States and Canada, steel-engraved by William Home Lizars (who also engraved the plates from Hall's drawings). Each plate offers two vignettes, with text descriptions printed on opposing pages; they appear here in their original uncolored state.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of prominent collector Walter Charles [James], 1st Baron Northbourne (1816–93).
Sabin 29721; Howes H46. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with vellum shelfback, spine with printed paper label; binding darkened with extremities rubbed. Plates with light waterstaining to lower outer portions, foxing variously.
A solid copy, in publisher's boards, of this engaging picture book. (40536)

A Writer at a (Charming!) Loss for Words
Hall, Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to Isabella Walsh. Philadelphia: 17 December 1827. Small 4to (24 x 19 cm; 9.5" x 7.5"). 1 p.
$100.00
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Inscribed on a page of Walsh's autograph album was this kind and playful sentiment:
“Your Brother has just called with this album, in which, he tells me, it is your wish that I should write something.
I am so much flattered by your request that I lose no time in complying with it: but I am much at a loss what to say that shall deserve a place in so gay a book — & in such good Company.
But as it becomes every well bred lion to roar for the entertainment of the company when he is bid — whether he be in a growling mood or not — I take up my pen accordingly.
Yet I daresay you will often have the mortification of hearing the visitors to this your 'menagerie' exclaim — 'Well! I am sure I never saw such a stupid wild beast before — I dont [sic] believe he is a real lion after all — I have heard many a donkey make quite as good an exhibition!'”
Hall (1788–1844) was a Scot, a naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28 (1829). Miss Walsh (b 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (Philadelphia lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).
Provenance: The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 Nov. 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. (34491)

A Visit from an Unnamed BUT
Possibly Discoverable &
Probably Published WOMAN Writer
Hall, Capt. Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to “Madam.” Putney Heath: no year. 12mo (7.125" x 4"). 2 pp., with integral blank leaf.
$125.00
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Hall (1788–1844), a Scot, naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28, tells his correspondent that she is welcome to call on him on Sunday as she proposes, any time after 10:30 A.M. He gives detailed instructions on how to reach his house: It “is on the top of the Heath close to the Telegraph, which is a single Staff, a Semaphore.” He tells her he has finished making notes of her vol. II but has lent vol. I to another and does not yet have it returned to him.
As Hall writes that he will be easy to find because he is “about as well known here though I hope in a different spirit as in Yankee Land,” we date the letter to some time shortly enough after publication of Travels in North America for oblique reference to its angry reception there to be both natural and “fresh”; and, indeed, we wonder if his correspondent is American?
Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. Old folds, a few spots of pale tea-colored stains. Written in a pale ink that is yet quite legible. (33346)
1874 Tunes for Teachers Lancaster, PA
Hall, W. B., & E. O. Lyte. The Teachers' Institute glee book. Designed for the use of teachers' institutes and common schools. Lancaster, PA: Published by the authors, 1874. Oblong 8vo. 176 pp.
$30.00
Publisher's ads on the endpapers. Publisher's paper boards. Covers rubbed and soiled, spine chipped. Light foxing. Complete. (6087)

BAL Woman Author
Hamilton, Gail [pseud. of Mary Abigail Dodge]. [drop-title] Tracts for the times: Courage. [New York: C.B. Richardson], 1862. 8vo (23 cm, 8.75"). 4 pp.
$125.00
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First edition of the author's second separately published work: It was first printed in the 27 January 1862 issue of The Congregationalist.
BAL 4703; Sabin 20506. Removed from a nonce volume. Last leaf with tears (repaired). Age-toned. (38407)

A Fortuneteller, a Determined Mother, a Murder by Arsenic
Harden, Jacob S., defendant. Life, confession, and letters of courtship of Rev. Jacob S. Harden of the M.E. Church, Mount Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., N.J. Executed for the murder of his wife on the 6th of July 1860, at Belvidere, Warren Co., N.J. Hackettstown, NJ: E. Winton, printer, 1860. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). 48 pp., frontis. port.
$375.00
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Harden (1837–60) “poisoned his wife with arsenic after a fortuneteller had told him that she would not live long. His mother-in-law was the real cause of the crime for she hounded until he reluctantly married the girl, although there does not seem to have been any necessity that he do so” (McDade).Felcone adds that soon after he met Miss Louisa Dorland, “Louisa's mother was determined that her daughter would marry Harden, and, after encouraging them to spend nights together, she forced the marriage. After several months of unhappiness, Harden poisoned his wife. He fled, was captured, tried, and hanged . . . before an immense crowd.”
McDade, Annals of Murder, 438; Felcone, New Jersey Books 1698-1800. 838. Stitched, lacks the wrappers; the frontispiece portrait of Harden detached but present. Short tears
in margins, dog-earring, tattering, waterstain, etc. Only a good+ copy; this was a very cheaply printed production, hence the condition problems. (39252)

Taking the Fad TOO Far?
Harsha, D.A. The Heavenly token a gift book for Christians. New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis: Asher & Co., 1859. 12mo (18.6 cm; 7.625"). Engr. frontis., 491 pp.
$125.00
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Religious “gift book” in name only, here reissued from the 1856 edition, with an engraved frontispiece of a throne under a rainbow overlooking people praying on earth by S.A. Schoff after Hammatt Billings. Tepper aptly notes about a similar edition that “it is 500 pages of exhaustive sermonizing on the love of Christ. . . . this is an interesting example of the lengths publishers would go to in
riding the coattails of the gift book fad.”
Binding: Blue publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt with fancified title and partly arabesque design, covers decoratively framed in blind.
Not in Faxon, nor Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books; for another year, see Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 100. Bound as above, recently well rebacked with original spine laid on and new endpapers, gently rubbed, small sticker on spine. Light age-toning and foxing (especially around the frontispiece as usual), with occasional other spotting or staining (some perhaps in press); a sound copy representing
an interesting phenomenon in marketing. (37262)

Harvard Library Catalogue Signed by
President Quincy
Harvard University. A catalogue of the library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf & Co., 1830–31. 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.8"). 4 vols. I: xvii, [3], 490 pp. II: [2], [491]–952, [2] pp. III: xii, 233, [1] pp. IV: viii, 224 pp.
$1000.00
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First of the 19th-century catalogues of Harvard's holdings, here
uncut and unopened in four volumes, including the Catalogue of the Maps and Charts, which was published shortly after the three main volumes.
Provenance: Inscribed to a Philadelphia social club “from the President & Fellows of Harvard University,” signed by Josiah Quincy.
American Imprints 1772 & 7465; Sabin 30729 (vols. 1–3) & 30730 (maps). Publisher's quarter cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels; worn and soiled/stained but sound, with spines sunned and front lower outer corner of vol. I chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, endpapers with call number, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription as above. (26904)

“This King Midas Was Fonder of
Gold than Anything Else in the World”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The golden touch. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1927.
$85.00
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First published in Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Boys and Girls (1852), this is his retelling of the Midas story.During the heyday of the fine press movement in America, the
Grabhorns printed this handsome edition in 240 copies with illustration and title-page vignette drawn and then hand-colored by the indefatigable
Valenti Angelo.
Heller & Magee, Grabhorn, 93; BAL 7720; Clark A18.31. Publisher's quarter vellum with gold and blue patterned paper sides, in original papercovered slipcase; slipcase with edges sunned and with a rough partial split to one edge from one corner, volume internally and externally pristine. Unopened save one fold to show illustration; a fine copy. (33532)

He Beat
Mark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular
Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00
First U.S. edition with the Wyeth illustrations, following the original (unillustrated) printing of 1871. Written by a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, these dialect poems greatly influenced Samuel Clemens's choice of linguistic style for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; they were illustrated for the present edition by one of America's best-known illustrators and painters, who also provided a preface.
BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)

Bruce Rogers Designed This — An Uncut, Unopened Copy
Hay, John. A poet in exile. Early letters of John Hay. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910. 12mo. 48 pp., 2 plts.
$50.00
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Hay's letters and poetry written to Nora Perry while he was a law clerk in Warsaw, IL, in an imagined “exile” from Providence (1858–60); the last letter begins perhaps just to touch on what was to be the great event and change in his life, his move to Washington first as one of Lincoln's private secretaries and later as one of his most intimate friends.
The text was edited by Caroline Ticknor and the volume was
designed by Bruce Rogers.
Issued in an edition of 440 copies, 400 of which were for sale. This is copy 158: It retains the prospectus and the spare label.
Work of Bruce Rogers 199; Warde 102. Publisher's brown paper–covered boards. A fine copy, uncut and unopened. (31244)
Hayden's
Survey: Thomas
on
Grasshoppers
& Locusts
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer, & Cyrus Thomas. Report
of the United States Geological Survey of the territories: Synopsis of the Acrididae of North America.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.4"). x, 24, 262 pp.; 1 plt.
$375.00
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First edition: Vol. V of a five-volume series, this volume is dedicated to zoology and
botany. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, remembered today as one of the primary proponents of the
creation of Yellowstone National Park, was a surgeon and geologist who led the massive United States
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories from 1867 through 1879, and edited the
resulting publications. The present portion of that enormous undertaking consists of “A Synopsis of
the Acrididae of North America,” written by pioneering American entomologist Cyrus Thomas.
Thomas's monograph describes earwigs, cockroaches, devils-horses, walking-sticks,
grasshoppers (this category including locusts), and crickets, and is illustrated
with a few in-text wood engravings in addition to the lithographed plate (done
by W.H. Holmes) showing 17 different U.S. insects.
This copy is uncut and unopened.
Schmeckebier, Catalogue & Index of the Publications
of the Hayden, King, Powell, & Wheeler Surveys, 21. Period-style quarter tan cloth
with light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and half-title with outer margins repaired. Page edges untrimmed, signatures
unopened. Spots of staining to outer margins of a few leaves. In fact a nice copy.
(25282)
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 4to (30.4 cm,
11.9"). xv, [3], 366 pp.; 65 plts.
$175.00
First edition: Vol. VII of the final reports of Hayden’s massive survey, consisting of Leo Lesquereux’s report on the “Tertiary Flora” of the American west. This treatise is part II of “Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories,” but complete in and of itself, and illustrated with 65 plates lithographed by T. Sinclair & Son.
Publisher’s cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with discoloration to upper edge and small bump to outer edge, cloth rubbed along edges and joints, spine scuffed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages and plates clean, and the large volume quite solid. (19652)

Popular Philosophical Dialogues
Helps, Arthur, Sir. Friends in council: A series of readings and discourse thereon. Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe & Co. (pr. by Allen & Farnham), 1853. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"2 vols. I: [2 (adv.)], viii, [2], 291, [1] pp. II: vi, [2], 271, [1] pp.
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Essays on social and moral problems including educating women and children, improving the condition of the rural poor, and giving and taking criticism, presented in a framing text involving several personable imaginary figures whose interspersed dialogues enliven the philosophical exposition. Helps, a civil servant, was much admired in his day for this popular work, which was at least partly inspired by his time as a member of the Cambridge Conversazione Society (a.k.a. the Apostles).
Present here is an early U.S. edition of the first series; two series were published, the first in 1847–49 and the second in 1859.
Much of the second volume of this series is dedicated to the question of slavery.
Allibone 818. On Helps, see: Dictionary of National Biography online. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; moderate rubbing most noticeable at vol. I spine head, and vol. II with strip of dark cloth tape at head of spine extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplate and call-number sticker, front free endpapers lacking, title-pages pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining and light pencilled bracketing. (26412)
Love
Blooms in
Rough
Places
Helton, Roy. Outcasts
in Beulah Land and other poems. New York: Henry Holt, 1918. 8vo. vi, 144, [8
(adv.)] pp.
$15.00
First edition. Rough-and-tumble but still romantic verses set mostly in the city, featuring yellow-eyed mill dolls, jealous husbands, and the unfortunate Creole Kate.
Original paper-covered boards, spine reinforced with cloth tape, front and back covers faintly pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine with inked title and paper shelving label. Front pastedown with bookplate; title-page and several others perforation-stamped.
A rough copy that's definitely been tumbled very interesting contents, however! (3939)

19th-Century American
Signed Blind–Embossed Binding
This Copy Extra-Illustrated
Hemans, Felicia; Reginald Heber; & Robert Pollok. The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok. Complete in one volume. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1838. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). Frontis., engr. t.-p., [10], vii, [ii]–xvi, 479, [1], [ii]–xvii, [1], 43, [1], 79, [1] pp.; 2 add. engr. plts.
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A stereotyped collection of works by three early 19th–century British poets, presented in
a handsome American blind-embossed binding. This anthology includes some of Hemans' (1793–1835) most admired works, such as Records of Woman and Hymns on the Works of Nature, along with the best-known hymns and poems of Heber (1783–1826) and Pollok (1798–1827).
The present example is an extra-illustrated copy. In addition to a frontispiece of Hemans and a pastoral title-page vignette, both engraved by W.H. Ellis, it bears tipped in on the back of the frontispiece a stunning added engraving of Hemans after a plaque by Edward William Wyon (“by A. Collas's Patent Process”). A portrait of Pollok “engraved by T.A. Dean from the only drawing from life ever taken” is mounted on a leaf before his Course of Time.
Binding: Intricately embossed burgundy calf with gilt lettering to spine; the spine design is derived from a Remnant & Edmonds spine plaque, according to Wolf. Each board has a medallion in the center featuring a woman in a chariot pulled by two galloping horses with several delicate stars in the sky; the medallion is framed by elaborate acanthus and foliate motifs. Blue marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Signed by
Benjamin Gaskill (“Gaskill, Phila”) on spine.
WorldCat locates only eight copies of this 1838 edition.
Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 190. Bound as above, mildest rubbing; marbled endpapers rubbed and slightly discolored just along edges from action by turn-ins. First set of contents with pages bound out of order. Interior age-toned as expectable, with instances of foxing especially along top edges throughout and with light evidence of old waterstaining along bottom ones; title-page with short inked line from outer edge, added engraving with small closed tear
A nice example of Gaskill's embossing work and a delightful volume overall, “personalized.” (38710)

Improvements in TWO KINDS of Pumps — Patented!
A Very LARGE & Attractive Document
Henderson, William M. Patent No. 38308: Improvement in pumps. [Washington, D.C.: United States Patent Office, 1863] . Folio (appr. 50 × 27 cm, 20" × 14.5"). [3] ff.
$750.00
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Patent granted to William M. Henderson of Baltimore for improvements in “double action suction and force pumps.” F. [1] is the patent itself on an engraved form, with the hand signature of Secretary of the Interior I.P. Usher; f. [2] is
a drawing of the device as improved upon, and [3] is Henderson's official description of it.
This is a very large and beautiful version of the U.S. “letters patent” document, with an elegant engraved eagle, the calligraphic blazon “The United States of America,” and a handsome engraving of the Patent Office building in Washington (drawn by A.A. von Schmidt and engraved by W.H. Dougal) occupying almost the entire top half of the first page.
Henderson's story as an inventor, involving emigration from England, “field work” building railway bridges in Chile, and residence in the late-19th-century U.S. industrial centers of Baltimore and Philadelphia, is interesting both as individual and as
representative of American inventors' careers in a very inventive era.
Henderson's papers are held at the Hagley Museum, & Library, Wilmington, DE: see, https://invention.si.edu/william-m-henderson-papers-1847-1893. Laced together with a light blue silk ribbon; folded. Some foxing, especially on drawing; soiling on exterior fold with traces elsewhere; and spotting to ribbon and blue-green wafer. (8638)

“Direct-Action Independent Steam Engines”
IMPROVEMENTS, Described
Henderson, William M. Patent No. 65,911: Improvement in steam pumps. [Washington, D.C.: United States Patent Office, 1867] . Folio (appr. 40 × 28 cm, 15.75" × 11"). [3], [1 (blank)] ff.
$475.00
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Patent granted to William M. Henderson of Philadelphia for “improvements in the mode of constructing and operating direct-action independent steam engines.” F. [1] is the patent itself on an engraved form, with the hand signature of acting Secretary of the Interior W.I. Otto; f. [2] is
a drawing, with some coloring in blue and red, of the device as improved upon, and f. [3] is Henderson's official description of it.
Henderson's papers are held at the Hagley Museum, & Library, Wilmington, DE: see, https://invention.si.edu/william-m-henderson-papers-1847-1893. Laced together with a red silk ribbon. Some browning, especially adjacent to ribbon and matching red wafer; and a few tiny tears in edges. Short closed tears along the folds, without loss. (8635)

Direct-Action Compound Engines
IMPROVED, 1870
Henderson, William M. Patent No. 105,941: Improvement in direct-acting compound engine. [Washington, D.C.: United States Patent Office, 1870] . Folio (appr. 37 × 25 cm, 14.5" × 10"). [2], 2, [1 (blank)] ff.
$475.00
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Patent granted to William M. Henderson of Philadelphia for “improvement in direct-acting compound engine.” F. [1] is the patent itself on an engraved form, with the hand signature of acting Secretary of the Interior W.I. Otto; f. [2] is
a drawing of the device as improved upon, and the following 2 ff. are Henderson's official description of it.
Henderson's papers are held at the Hagley Museum, & Library, Wilmington, DE: see, https://invention.si.edu/william-m-henderson-papers-1847-1893. Laced together with a brown silk ribbon. Some browning, especially adjacent to ribbon and the bright green wafer. (8634)
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Herndon, William Lewis; & Gibbon, Lardner. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, made under direction of
the Navy Department.... Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853, & A.O.P. Nicholson, 1854. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. I: 414, [2], iii, [1] pp.; 16 plts. II: x, [2], 339, [1] pp.; 36 plts.
$600.00
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Original government issue of these “Minute, accurate, and very interesting accounts of the aborigines of the Andes, and the Amazon and its tributaries” (Sabin). These two volumes are parts I and II of Senate Executive Document no. 36, 32d Cong., 2d sess., consisting of Lieut. Herndon’s description of following the Amazon itself and Lieut. Gibbon’s account of his travels along the Amazon’s tributaries in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Many of the 52 lithographed plates are in duotone; some were done by Ackerman Lithography and some by P.S. Duval & Co., after views of scenery, buildings, and natives drawn by Lieut. Gibbon.
Two volumes of maps, not present here, were issued separately.
Sabin 31524; Palau 113897. Publisher’s textured cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; vol. I with spine sunned and cloth chipped at spine extremities; vol. II with corners bumped, cloth peeling away from spine and chipped at spine extremities, spine with gilt dimmed and small area of unobtrusive discoloration from now-absent label. Front pastedowns each with pencilled owner’s name and institutional rubber stamp (no other markings); front free endpaper of vol. II starting to tear along inner margin. Mild to moderate foxing and spotting; a few text gatherings unopened. One plate in vol. I with short tear from outer margin, turning into a narrow scrape extending about halfway into the upper portion of the image; one leaf in vol. II with tiny portion (less than one word) affixed to opposing plate.
Not a perfect set, but a perfectly fascinating one.
A Well-Meaning but
Not Very High-Rising MUSE
Hill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887. 4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp.
$280.00
Uncommon, posthumously printed writings from Mrs. John M. Hill, a Concord, NH, resident who grew up in South Berwick, Maine (the first permanent settlement in that state) and attended school in Exeter, NH. The work was
privately printed as a holiday gift for friends of the author; the poems and short pieces display intelligence, but not much by way of polished craft — unsurprising given that most of them were written during Hill’s adolescence. One unfinished poem ends abruptly with “. . . my Muse would plume her wing, / And higher as she rises sweeter sing — ”; the note beneath humorously reads “Muse did n’t get any further up that trip” (p. 25).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1887.
Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom band labelled “Christmas 1887"; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. (13883)

College Sermons — Presentation Copy
Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
$100.00
Sole edition: Sermons delivered at Hobart College, 1893, Geneva, NY, and S. Stephen's College, Annandale, NY.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)

Inscribed by Hoover
Hoover, J. Edgar. Masters of deceit: The story of Communism in America and how to fight it. New York: Henry Holt, 1958. 8vo. x, 374 pp.
$250.00
Third printing (stated) of Hoover's exhortation to fight the Red Menace.
Presentation copy: This copy inscribed “To Sister Mary Jane / Best wishes / J. Edgar Hoover / Xmas 1958.”
Publisher's cloth, dust jacket in protective sleeve taped to covers; dust jacket with minor scuffing at corners and spine extremities, one crease to back, price clipped. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; endpapers with offsetting from tape. Pages clean. (24821)

Something Different from
the Creator of Ruritania
Hope, Anthony, pseud. Helena's path. New York: McClure Co., 1907. 8vo. Frontis., [6], 241, [1] pp.
$40.00
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First edition of this romance from the author of The Prisoner of Zenda, Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. The volume opens with an unsigned, color-printed plate; the sprightly, chivalrous tale features two strong-willed protagonists and their cast of entertaining friends — including a barrister who must bear the brunt of Lord Lynborough's amused disdain for the law.
Despite Hope's having been English and even knighted, this work was apparently never printed in England.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped garden design, spine with gilt-stamped title. Signed binding: Front cover with monogram of a J crowned with E (unidentified designer).
Binding as above, cocked, with minimal rubbing to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription dated Christmas 1904. A few corners bumped, one torn away. Pages very clean. A bright, pretty copy. (29132)

CREE
Horden, John. A grammar of the Cree language, as spoken by the Cree Indians of North America. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881. 12mo (161 mm; 6.375"). viii, 238 pp.
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First edition of one of the first Cree grammars in English. Horden, who began his life as an ironworker, received his calling in 1851 and was sent to Canada with only two weeks notice — during which time he was expected to find a wife. He succeeded in finding both a wife and a fruitful career, eventually becoming the first bishop of Moosonee, diocese of Rupert's Land.
Horden's approach here is rooted in descriptive grammar and is expressed in terms of classic Latin-based structure. He urges his language-learning students to begin with his grammar, but to “use the living voice of the Indians as much as possible” as their guide (p. vi).
Pilling, Algonquian, 237; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Cree-73 (giving incorrect page count); Pilling, Proof-Sheets, 1853; Evans 090; Banks p. 40; NSTC 0353034. Not in Vancil, Cordell Collection. Publisher's green cloth with modest decoration and “Cree Grammar” stamped in black; dark grey discoloration (smoke?) to spine and adjoining one inch on each cover. Text block edges darkened, discoloration to endpapers, fly-leaves, and occasionally another page, with a slim crescent of grey to top of title page. Otherwise, occasional foxing only and a good, sound copy. (34349)
Dartmouth's Laureate
Hovey, Richard. Dartmouth lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., (copyright 1924). 8vo. xiv, 94 pp.
$65.00
First edition. Poems by “Dartmouth's Laureate," edited by Edwin Osgood Grover.
BAL 9401. Green publisher's cloth, front cover stamped in white and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; clean and solid, with only very slight traces of wear to extremities. Front free endpaper with inked owner's name. (16665)

Tamzen Parsons: Murdered, at
17, by a Bigamist Seducer
Hughes, John W, defendant. The trial of Dr. John W. Hughes, for the murder of Miss Tamzen Parsons; with a sketch of his life, as related by himself ... Cleveland: [Published by John K. Stetler & Co.] Printed by The Leader Company, 1866. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 57, [1 (blank)] pp.
$600.00
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The sub-title reads, “A record of love, bigamy and murder, unparalleled in the annals of crime. Trial was held in the Court of Common Pleas for Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in December, 1865.”
“Jealous and intoxicated, Hughes, on the streets of Bedford, Ohio, shot and killed the seventeen-year-old girl he had seduced. At his execution, he spoke for fifteen minutes until the sheriff reminded him 'Time is going.' Then he dropped” (McDade).
There were multiple issues of this work: one with the title-page in red and black and a title-page vignette of the murderer, another printed only in black and without the title-page vignette, and one in black with the vignette portrait. Offered here is a copy of the latter.
McDade, Annals of Murder, 493. Removed from a nonce volume; light age-soiling and -toning. Else very good. (39263)
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Hunt, Capt. E.B. Union foundations: A study of American nationality as a fact of science. New York; London: D. Van Nostrand; Trübner & Co., 1863. 8vo. 61 pp.
$40.00
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