20. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Speech of the People, Men and Women, to Petition

relating to the

Annexation of Texas to this Union. 8vo, stitched, uncut.

Washington, 1838

21. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). The Jubilee of the Constitution. A Discourse delivered at the request of the New York Historical Society. Frontispiece. 8vo, new cloth, original wrappers bound in. New York: Samuel Colman, 1839

FIRST EDITION. One of the best monographs on the Constitution ever written.

22. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Letters on the Masonic Institution. 8vo, cloth (cover stained). Boston, 1847

23. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Letters and Opinions of the Masonic Institution. 8vo, half morocco. Cincinnati, 1851

24. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). Letters, from the Hon. John Quincy Adams, to Edward Livingston. 8 pp. 8vo, boards, leather back, uncut. N. p., n. d.

Dated at end, "Washington, April 10, 1833."

25. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). A. N., in the third person. 8vo, Braintree, Jan. 24, 1789.

To Thomas Russell, about some bottled porter.

26. ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). A. L., 1 p. 4to. Washington; May 14, 1819; A. L., 1 p. oblong 8vo, June 1, 1819. 2 pieces.

Two interesting letters, but both have had the signatures removed. The first is about a sculptor named Cardelli, who wishes to make busts of the Presidents of the United States. The second is in regard to a plan of Government offered by Col. Hamilton to the Federal Convention in 1787.

27. ADDISON (ALEX.). The Trial of Alexander Addison, Esq., President of the Courts of Common Pleas. . . . on an Impeachment by the House of Representatives. Taken in short hand by Thomas Lloyd. 8vo, boards, cloth back, uncut (small repair to title). Lancaster, 1803

Second Edition, with additions.

28. ADDRESS and Recommendations to the States by the United States in Congress assembled. Square 8vo, half maroon

morocco.

Philadelphia Printed: Hartford: Reprinted by Hudson & Goodwin, 1783

Very Scarce. A fine copy. Relates principally to the Public Debt.

29. ADDRESS of Republican Members of the Senate and Assembly, adopted at a Meeting at the Senate Chamber, in the Capitol, of the City of Albany, April 4, 1820. 8vo, sewn. In slip case. Albany, 1820

30. ADDRESS of the Antimasonic Republican Convention, to the People of Massachusetts [Held at Worcester, Sept. 5th and 6th, 1832]. 8 pp. 8vo, folded.

N. p., n. d.

31. ADDRESS of the Committee of the City of New York, acting under the Authority of the General Committee of Correspondence of the State of New York, in support of the Nomination of the Hon. De Witt Clinton to the Presidency of the United States. 8vo, sewn (imprint slightly defaced). In slip case.

New York, 1812 32. ADDRESS OF THE CONVENTION of the Representatives of the State of New York to their Constituents. 8vo, half cloth and boards. Fish-Kill: Printed by S. Loudon, 1776

VERY RARE. A Revolutionary piece of the greatest interest to New Yorkers as it bears contemporary evidence of the spirit and patriotism of the times. This Address was issued when the outlook was darkest; the State Government had just been driven from New York City, which was in possession of the British, and the date of the issuing of the appeal is just two days before Washington revived the hopes of all patriots by his brilliant victory at Trenton.

33. ADDRESS to the Republican Citizens of the State of New York. 8vo, new covers, in slip case. Albany, 1813

An Address signed by 40 names in opposition to Daniel D. Tompkins for Governor.

34. AKERLY (SAMUEL). The Geology of the Hudson River and the adjacent regions. Illustrated by a Geological section of the Country from the neighborhood of Sandy Hook, in New Jersey, northwards through the Highlands in New York, towards the Catskill Mountains. Folding map. 12mo, original boards, uncut. In half morocco case. New York, 1820

FINE COPY. VERY SCARCE. With copyright notice pasted on back of title. Among much other interesting information furnished is that concerning the discovery of a bed of decomposed rock in the neighborhood of Hell-Gate, which was known as the kaolin of the Chinese, from which their best porcelain is made.

35. ALBANY, N. Y. The Charter of the City of Albany, Printed by Order of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City Aforesaid. (Thomas Dongan, Gov.). 4to, pp. 24, New York: Printed by Hugh Gaine, in Hanover-Square, 1771; Together with LAWS AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ALBANY. 4to, pp. 64, some edges uncut. Albany: Printed by Alexander and James Robertson, 1773. 4to, contemporary boards in half morocco slip case. New York and Albany, 1771 and 1773

VERY FINE COPIES OF THESE EXTREMELY SCARCE PIECES. The "Charter'' has been printed on Large Paper, but has been trimmed only enough to permit its being bound up with the "Laws and Ordinances.'' On the title of the Charter" are the initials "J. V. R." possibly Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, and the later signature of P. E. Elmendorf, Jr.

36. ALDEN (TIMOTHY). An Account of Sundry Missions performed among the Senecas and Munsees in a series of Letters. With an Appendix. Frontispiece portrait. 16mo, boards, roan back. New York, 1827

FIRST EDITION. A valuable contribution to the history of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania at the time it was being settled. Alden made tours among the settlements and Indian villages and writes much about them and such characters as Cornplanter, Red Jacket, Mary Jamieson, and others. His accounts of Cornplanter, whom he frequently visited, are among the most intimate accounts of him we have.

37. ALEXANDER (JAMES) AND SMITH (WILLIAM). The Complaint of James Alexander and William Smith to the Committee of the General Assembly of the Colony of New York, etc. 19 pp., verso blank. Folio, full olive levant morocco, gilt top, uncut, by Stikeman. N. p., n. d. [J. P. Zenger, 1735]

OF EXCESSIVE RARITY. Alexander and Smith were counsel for Zenger at the commencement of his prosecution, but were disbarred for questioning the legality of the court. This is the complaint to the Assembly, of the injustice of this Act of the court. It was printed by Zenger in 1735, as was also another Vindication of James Alexander and William Smith. Hildeburn, in his "Printers and Printing in New York," p. 28, says of these two that they are of "excessive rarity and great historical importance, but of which no library in New York possesses a copy." Lenox now has both, having purchased many New York imprints from the Hildeburn collection. A CHOICE COPY.

PRESENTATION COPY FROM ETHAN ALLEN

38. ALLEN (ETHAN). An Animadversory Address to the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont, with Remarks on a Proclamation, under the hand of his Excellency George Clinton, Governor of the State of New York. 8vo, uncut, in slip-case.

Hartford: Watson and Goodwin, 1778

VERY SCARCE. At the foot of the title is written in the hand of Col. Ethan Allen, "To be Delivered to the Hon'ble. Brig. Gen. Stark." There was no matter of more importance to the people of New York just prior to the Revolution than the settlement of the dispute with New Hampshire about the territory which constituted the State of Vermont. Ethan Allen first became noted on account of his partisanship, and his pamphlets are now among the scarcest of New York books.

39. ALLEN (ETHAN). Reason the only Oracle of Man, or a Compendious System of Natural Religion. 8vo, original sheep. Bennington, 1784

THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Remarkable as being the first work published in America in direct opposition to the Christian Religion. Trumbull remarks: "Nearly all the copies, it is said, were burned (as they richly deserved to be) by the conscience-stricken publisher."' With bookplate of John E. Wool.

40. ALLEN (ETHAN) AND FAY (JONAS). A Concise Refutation of the Claims of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay, to the Territory of Vermont; with Occasional Remarks on the long

disputed Claim of New York to the same. 8vo, full olive levant morocco, Jansen style, gilt top, uncut, by The Club Bindery.

Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin [1780]

A SUPERB COPY OF THIS EXCEEDINGLY RARE TRACT, as are all of the Ethan Allen tracts on the Vermont controversy. It was published by order of the Governor and Council of Vermont. The Lefferts copy with bookplate.

41. ALLEN (JONATHAN A.). An Appeal to the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont, on the subject of the Anti-Masonic excitement, by a Committee previously appointed for that purpose, etc. 8vo, boards, leather back. Middlebury, Vt., 1829

42. ALLEN (W. A.). Story of the Dedication of the Indian Memorial Monument, June 21, 1894 [at] Painted Post, N. Y. 8vo, original wrappers, in slip-case. [Painted Post, 1894]

POSSIBLY UNIQUE ALMANAC

43. ALMANAC. Poor Roger, 1771. Poor Roger, 1771. The American Country Almanack, for the Year of Christian Account 1771. By Roger More Philodespot. 16mo, sewn.

New York: Printed by Samuel Inslee and Anthony Car [1770]

AN EXCESSIVELY RARE ALMANAC AND POSSIBLY UNIQUE. It is not quoted in Morrison's Bibliography of American Almanacs. Paltsits says that Inslee and Car printed three Almanacs of which no copies are known. This imprint is very rare, only two other works being known, viz., “The American Village," a Poem, of which there are copies in the L. of C. and "An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of Angina Suffocation," 1771. Evans notices this Almanac, but does not cite any copy.

44. ALMANAC. Bickerstaff's Genuine Boston Almanac for 1787. Curious woodcuts. 16mo, pictured boards. [Boston, 1786]

VERY RARE. Contains "True and faithful Narrative of the Captivity and Travels of Capt. Isaac Stewart, taken by the Indians near Fort Pitt, 1764." This captivity was unknown to Field and Ayer.

45. ALMANAC. The New-England Anti-Masonic Almanac, for the years of our Lord 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835. Woodcuts. 6 vols. 8vo, boards, leather back, uncut. In a half leather Boston: John Marsh and William Souther, 1829-34 Complete Set, with the exception of the First Number. A very scarce collection, especially in uncut state.

case.

46. ALMANAC. Paul Pry's Almanac for the Year 1831. By David Young. Illustrations. 12mo, sewn, uncut. New York, 1830

47. ALMANACS. Hutchins Improved Almanack for 1801, 1803, 1804, 1805; Stoddard's Diary for 1812; The Farmers' Calendar for 1815 and 1817; The Farmer's Diary for 1819; Phinneys' Calendar, 27 numbers from 1820 to 1867; The Christian Almanac for 1829; The Western and Oneida Almanac for 1846; Gaffney's Oneida Almanac for 1849; The Know-Nothing Almanac for 1856; The Whig Almanac for 1848-1850, 1852-55; The Tribune Almanac for 1860-1863, 1867. 51 pieces. A few imperfect.

48. ALMANACS.

Iakentasetatha Kahnawakeha tsini kahawis nonwa ioserate 1899. Almanach Iroquois. Par G. Forbes; also, the same for 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909. Woodcuts on titles. 9 pieces, original wrappers, in cloth case.

Tiohtiake (Montreal), v. d.

In the first number (1899) a green paper slip announces (in French) that this is the first of a series of Almanacks for the Caughnawaga and St. Regis Catholic Indians.

THE RAREST NEW YORK ITEM

49. AMBOYNA. The Second Part of the Tragedy of | Amboyna: | or, a | True Relation of a | Most Bloody, Treacherous, and Cruel Design of the Dutch in the New- Netherlands in America. For the total Ruining and Murthering of the | English Colonies in New-England. | Small 4to, full red levant morocco, gilt and blind tooling, gilt edges, by Rivière. London, 1653

OF EXCESSIVE RARITY. In March, 1653, some of the English settlers in New England claimed to have discovered a plot on the part of the Dutch in New Netherland to hire the Indians to massacre all the English in New England. The so-called "Tragedy of Amboyna" was still fresh in the minds of the English and when the news of this plot was published the above seemed a natural title for the book.

THIS IS BY FAR THE RAREST BOOK RELATING TO NEW YORK, but THREE COPIES APPEAR TO BE KNOWN, the present copy, the Murphy-KalbfleischChurch copy, and one in the British Museum. IT IS THE FIRST BOOK IN ENGLISH WHOLLY ABOUT NEW YORK, being printed 17 years earlier than Denton's Description. Earlier references to New York are in English books, printed before 1653, but they are all general works.

[SEE FRONTISPIECE]

50. AMBOYNA. The Second Part of the Tragedy of Amboyna; or, a True Relation of a Most Bloody, Treacherous and Cruel Design of the Dutch in New Netherland in America, for the Total Ruining and Murthering of the English Colonies in New England. 8vo, boards, uncut. New York, 1915

One of 95 copies reprinted by Henry F. De Puy from the rare original in the present collection.

51. AMBOYNA. A True Relation of the Unjust, Cruel, and Barbarous Proceedings against the English at Amboyna in the East. Indies, by the Netherlandish Governour, etc. Frontispiece by T. Faithorne. 12mo, antique calf. London: T. Bentley, 1651

With bookplate of Ed. Hailstone.

52. AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. Archeologica Americana. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society. [Vol. I.] 8 plates (should be 14). 8vo, original boards, cloth back, paper label (shaken). Worcester, Mass., 1820

The very rare first volume of the Am. Ant. Soc. Contains a reprint of Hennepin's Discovery of the Mississippi, Antiquities of Ohio, by Caleb Atwater, and other miscellaneous articles.