SALE NUMBER 1721 ON PUBLIC EXHIBITION FROM THURSDAY, MARCH FIRST THE AMERICAN LIBRARY OF THE LATE WILLIAM H. WINTERS FORMERLY LIBRARIAN OF THE NEW YORK LAW INSTITUTE A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF EARLY ACTS THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN SAN FRANCISCO THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ST. LOUIS "THE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA" ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FIRST LAW BOOK HIS OWN COPY, WITH AUTHENTICATING CERTIFICATE TO BE SOLD BY ORDER OF MRS. WINTERS THE ANDERSON GALLERIES PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK 1923 CONDITIONS OF SALE All bids to be PER LOT as numbered in the Catalogue. The highest bidder to be the buyer. In all cases of disputed bids the lot shall be resold, but the Auctioneer will use his judgment as to the good faith of all claims and his decision shall be final. Buyers to give their names and addresses and to make such cash payments on account as may be required, in default of which the lots purchased to be immediately resold. 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SALE THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH EIGHTH, AT 2:30 E7 W54 FIRST SESSION NUMBERS 1-350 1 ACTORS AND ACTRESSES of Great Britain and the United 2 [ADAMS (JOHN).] A Selection of the Patriotic Addresses to the President, together with the President's Answer. 12mo, sheep (joints broken). Boston, 1798 3 ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY). An Oration at Plymouth commemorating the First Landing of our Ancestors, 1802; Oration on the Life and Character of Lafayette, 1835; Eulogy on the Life and Character of James Madison, 1836; and others. 13 pieces, 8vo, sewn. 4 AIKIN (LUCY). The Life of Joseph Addison. Portrait. 2 vols., 12mo, half blue polished morocco, gilt tops, uncut. London, 1843 5 ALABAMA. Acts Passed at the Fifth Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, begun and held at the Town of Cahawba, on the Third Monday in November, 1823. Israel Pickens, Governor. 8vo, half sheep (worn). Cahawba Printed and for sale by Wm. B. Allen & Co., 1824 FIRST BOOK PRINTED IN ALABAMA 6 ALABAMA. Acts passed at the First Session of the First Gen- EXCESSIVELY RARE. BUT FEW COPIES KNOWN. With no record of sale at MC83526 7 ALABAMA CLAIMS. A Collection of Material relating to the Geneva Arbitration and Alabama Claims. Over 40 pamphlets bound in six vols., 8vo, calf, gilt, gilt tops. V. p., v. d. A choice collection including some VERY RARE pamphlets: A Suppressed Pamphlet by Robert C. Winthrop, on the Position of the United States at Geneva, with a 4 p. A. L. s. relating to the pamphlet; Epitome of the Geneva Award Contest (Manning), 1882; Speech of Charles Sumner on the Settlement of Claims, 1870; Our Foreign Relations (Sumner), 1863; The Alabama Arbitration (Balch), 1900; etc., etc. 8 ALDINE PRESS. A Catalogue of the Productions of the Aldine Press, from its first Establishment at Venice in 1494, together with Lyonese and Venetian Counterfeits, the Giunta and other Works Illustrative of the Series. 12mo, boards, morocco back, uncut. London: James Toovey, 1880 9 ALMANACS. The American Anti-Slavery Almanacs for 1836, 7, 8, and 1844. 4 pieces, 12mo, sewn. 10 11 12 13 Democrats Almanac for 1841; Tippecanoe Almanac for 1841; Websters Calendar for 1852; Miller's Planters' and Merchants' State Rights Almanac for 1861; Know Nothing Almanac for 1855 and 1856. 6 pieces. The General Scott Almanac for the Year 1853. Numerous woodcuts, one crudely colored. Small 4to, sewn. Philadelphia, 1853 The Know Nothing Almanac and True Americans' Manual for 1855 and 1856. 2 pieces, 16mo, original wrappers. New York, 1855-6 The Old Rough and Ready Almanacs for 1847 and 1849. 2 vols., 12mo, original wrappers. Contains accounts of the death of the gallant Capt. Walker, the "Thunderbolt of the Rangers'', Col. Seymour's Capture of the Mexican Flag, the Capture of Mexico City, etc. 14 ALTON RIOTS. Beecher (Edward). Narrative of the Riots at Alton in connection with the Death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy. 16mo. Alton, 1838 15 Another copy. 16mo (stained). Alton, 1838 16 AMERICAN AUTHORS. Discourse before the Phi Beta Kappa Society (Joseph Story), 1826; Correspondence with Harper Brothers (Theodore S. Fay), 1847; Reply to the Letter of J. Fenimore Cooper (Caleb Cushing), 1834; and others. 20 pieces, sewn. 17 James Russell Lowell (Scudder), 2 vols., 1901; Richard Henry Dana (Adams), 2 vols., 1891; Remembrances of Emerson (Albee), 1901; and others. 14 vols., 12mo. 18 Oration on the 87th Anniversary of National Independence (Holmes), 1863; Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, 1871; Address on the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies (Emerson), 1844; and others. 10 pieces, 12mo and 8vo, sewn. 19 Works of Paulding, Fay, Hillard, Cushing, Story, etc. About 75 vols., various sizes and bindings. 20 AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. The Beacon Biographies. Edited by M. A. DeW. Howe. 13 vols., 18mo, limp cloth, gilt tops, Boston, n. d. uncut. 21 AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. A Collection of material on Foreign Views on American Constitutional Law. 10 pieces in four vols., 12mo and 8vo, half morocco. V. p., v. d. Includes: Die Verfassungen der Vereinigten Staaten (Bromme), 1848; P. F. Aiken's vergleichende Darstellung der Constitution Groszbritanniens und der Der Vereinigten Staaten (Clement), 1844; Die Verfassungen der Vereinigten Staaten Nordamerika's (Engelhard), 1834; Das Bundes-Staatsrecht der Vereinigten Staaten (Mohl), 1824; The Constitution of the United States compared with our Own (Tremenheere), London, 1854; etc. 22 AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. Fireside Travels (Lowell), 1864; The Vagabond (Badeau), 1859; Hansford (Tucker), 1857; Burton (Ingraham), 2 vols., 1838; and others. 20 vols., 12mo. V. p., v. d. 23 AMERICAN HISTORY. The Authentic Letters of Columbus (Curtis), 1895; Hudson and Fulton (Hall), 1909; Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1901; and others. About 50 pieces, mostly pamphlets. 24 25 History of the Old South Church, 1898; A Guide in the Wilderness, or the History of the First Settlements in the Western Counties of New York (Cooper), 1897; A Narrative of the Wonderful Escape and Dreadful Sufferings of Col. James Paul (Sherrard), 1869; and others. About 30 pieces, 8vo, sewn. The Letter of Columbus on the Discovery of America, 1892; Record of the 33rd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1880; Captain William Kidd (Abbott), 1874; and others. 9 vols., various sizes and bindings. |