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SIGNED BY PHYSICISTS, ASTRONOMERS, MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, DOCTORS, AND MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES
[SWASEY FAMILY]. Swasey family guest book (signed by Ambrose Swasey & many others), oblong 8vo, full leather, 27 pages used, others blank. [Exeter, New Hampshire] January 1, 1929-October 7, 1936.
A Swasey familly guest book, apparently presented before the first entry therein by Laurence and Marion Swasey, inscribed to their uncle, a great American mechanical engineer: "Merry Christmas to Uncle Ambrose [Swasey (see DAB)] from Laurence and Marion 1928." Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937), his wife, and six friends from New Hampshire, signed the book on Oct. 24, 1933. The names of a number of people appear more than once. Notables include John R. Freeman, engineer, author of Earthquake Damage, Earthquake Insurance (1932); Samuel W. Stratton, physicist & president of M.I.T., and his assistant Morris A Parris; Charles A. Barbour, president of Brown University;… Read More

FAUCHET, Claude, and others. Collection complete des tableaux historiques de la revolution Française. [Text by Claude Fauchet, Constitutional Bishop of Calvados, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, Pierre-Louis Ginguené and François-Xavier Pagès]. 3 vols., folio, early 19th century 1/4 red morocco over red boards (some rubbing), small leather corners, spine elaborately gilt, "Boileau" stamped in gold at bottom of each spine, 3 engraved frontispieces, 66 portraits & 154 plates (all with original tissue guards), uncut. Paris: chez Auber imprimé par Didot anié, et terminé par Charles, 1804. With half-titles. A scarce, large uncut copy, presumably from the library of Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet, FRS, DL, JP (1794-1869), archaeologist (see ODNB & Hazllitt, A Roll of Honor, p. 22). First published in monthly parts, 1791-1796, and commercially… Read More

FAULKNER, William. Mosquitoes. 8vo, original orange lettered blue cloth, pp. [ii] 349, [1] blank. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.
First Edition of Faulkner's second novel; one of 3047 copies. An excellent copy in price clipped gray-green dust wrapper printed in red, with depictions of mosquitoes [Petersen A4b], advertisements for Soldiers' Pay on lower cover. The jacket spine is mildly browned, its spine extremities little rubbed, and two corners have minor wear. Michael Sadleir's copy, with his small label inside front cover. Petersen A4. Massey 154. ABAA-VBF

ONCE-UPON-A-TIME WE OWNED THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT
[FENNEKOL, Frederick Willem (1761 or 2-1837). Proeve over de kust van Guinea, koudende eene poging tot onderzoek, hoe, en in noeverre, dat land tot eene ware volkplanting zou kunnen gevormd worden. 8vo, original plain gray boards, pp. 154, [1], uncut. S'Gravenhage: J. Immerzeel, Junior, 1831.
First Edition. With half-title. Fine copy of a plan to establish Dutch settlements in Guinea, West Africa, as a method of making the Dutch part of the Gold Coast profitable after the end of the slave trade. The Dutch outlawed the slave trade in 1814, thereby making their West African colony less profitable. The author was born in Guinea in 1761 or 2, and his object here is to investigate the possibility of new settlements in Guinea. The Dutch had a long history in West Africa, ending with their selling what is now Ghana to the British in 1872, whereupon the British made it a crown colony. An interesting work on Dutch colonial and economic history,… Read More

A FINE PRESENTATION COPY
GIVEN TO CANADIAN FRIENDS WITH WHOM THE AUTHOR VISITED FIELD, Rachel. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years. With Illustrations of Dorothy P. Lathrop. 4to, original cloth (rubbed; front cover and spine faded to green), printed label (browned; with one corner chipped), colored frontispiece, pp. 207 + 2 color plates (edges of the 45% of the book slightly stained at lower blank margins). New York: Macmillan, [May] 1930.
Early edition of the author's most famous book; a classic juvenile illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop. First printed October, 1929, reprinted twice in December, 1929, and this copy a May, 1930, reprint. The book was awarded the Newberry Medal in June 1930, the month before this copy was presented by Field to some Canadian friends. Not a prime copy, but a fine association copy, inscribed to family friends: "For Docia [Eudocia Dewey Jones] and little Docia [Docia Flynt Jones Horton] with such… Read More

HE COMMANDED THE FIRST U. S. NAVY WARSHIP TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE
[FINCH, Captain W[illiam] B., U. S. Navy].
3 ½ x 3 ½" engraved bookplate in sepia of Capt. Finch. A handsome plate with Finch's shield bearing his name above "U. S. Navy," the shield resting on a pair of crossed cannons, cannon balls and ammunition at their base, with other artillery equipment and furled flags at the rear. N.p., n.d.
On 8 June 1830, the sloop Vincennes,
under Capt. W. B. Finch, completed an around the world voyage, the first U. S. Navy warship to do so. Fine.

WATERCOLOR MAP OF THE SAW MILL RIVER DAM. YONKERS, NEW YORK, 1841FINDLAY, Andrew, Surveyor (b. 1811). Map of a Mill Dam in the Village of Yonkers in the County of West Chester and State of New York Belonging to Wells & Paddock. Scale 100 Feet to an Inch. West Farms Oct: 7th 1841. Andrew Findlay Surveyor. Folio (22 ½ x 15 ¾"), Original Manuscript Map, partly in color, signed twice by the surveyor, Anthony Findlay, with manuscript references and contents [32 lines]. West Farms, [part of the town of Westchester until 1846], New York,1841.
"Andrew Findlay, the eminent surveyor and civil engineer, was born in the village of Westchester, August 6, 1811…"-John Thomas Scharf, ed., History of Westchester County: New York, including Morrisania (1886), vol. 1, p. 843. Fourteen of Findlay's Westchester maps may be seen in color at Westchestergov.com. Here the compass and all of the Saw Mill River colored in light blue; title circled in red. Yonkers,… Read More

FISH, Helen Dean.
The Boy's Book of Verse. A Treasury of Old and New Poems. With an Introduction by Franklin K. Mathews. 8vo, original dark red cloth (gilt lettering on spine slightly faded), colored pictorial label on front cover, pp. xviii, 406. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923.
First Edition. Fine copy in an excellent example of the dust jacket, which has the same illustration as the front cover label. The jacket is not price-clipped, the top edges have a few short tears, and there is a bit of blank paper missing at the top of the spine, not affecting any lettering. A delightful anthology meant to introduce boys to the pleasures of poetry. "...the anthology is a ripping read" in which the verse "explored themes of courage, daring, and honor as well as tragedy, death, war, and responsibility...Fish even included poems that did not appeal to her own sensibilities..."-Christine Rosen, Poetry Without Pandering, Sangamore Institute, July 15, 2003. Fish (1889-1953) was… Read More

[FLACIUS ILLYRICUS, Matthias]. Eine Weissagung und ein schöner Herrlicher trost für alle hochbetrübte frome Christliche hertzen zu diser jtzigen trübselligen zeit Aus dem XIIII. Cap. Der offenbarung Johannis. 4to, old laid paper wrappers, pp. [8]. [Magdeburg: Michael Lotter] 1548.
Only Edition. By a Croatian-born (Istria) former professor of Wittenberg (1520-1575), the most prominent opponent of the "Leipzig Interim"; published in Magdeburg, where Flalcius was from 1549 a leader of the prolific Lutheran printed propaganda resistance. "In June 1546, only four months after Martin Luther died...Emperor Charles V launched a military campaign against the German Protestant princes to solve by force the problem of Christendom's split...Next spring, the victorious emperor tried to impose his provisional religious settlement, commonly called the Augsburg Interim, on Protestant territories in order to restore Catholic practices...Soon the Lutheran camp split into two… Read More

AN ILLUSTRATED DIARY OF A BUSINESS TRIP BY STEAMSHIP TO THE WEST INDIES WITH ORIGINAL HAND-DRAWN PLANS OF HARBORS & TOWNS & ANOTHER TRIP BY SAIL TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

[FORWOOD, Sir William Bower (1840-1928)]. English merchant, shipowner, wealthy businessman, and Liverpool politician. Original Manuscript "Diary" of a voyage to the West Indies in one of his own steamships, the "Columbian," January 20th 1867 to March 27th 1867. [63] pp., + 6 accomplished full-page sketches of the West Indian towns and harbors the writer visited. 4to, original morocco (considerably rubbed), written at sea, and at various islands in the West Indies, 1867. BOUND WITH: Manuscript Diary, entitled, "Journal of Trip to Spain and Portugal in the S. S. 'Talisman' 1868." [43] pp., written on rectos only, at sea and on land in Spain and Portugal, 17 October 1868 to 25 November 1868.
The writer of these two very legible… Read More

[FRANKLIN, Benjamin and JACKSON, Richard, an answer to]. Examination into the Value of Canada and Guadeloupe, with an Impartial Account of the latter, In Answer to a late Pamphlet, entitled, The Interest of Great-Britain, considered with Respect to her Colonies. In a Letter to a Gentleman in England. 8vo, disbound, pp. [2], 40 [i.e. 41], [1] blank, iv. London: Printed for William White, 1761. $2000.00
First Edition. Rare, with only one copy at auction since 1924. Textually complete, with lower half of title-page in facsimile (with errata on verso), as is the last leaf, pp. iii-iv, being part of the "Appendix," giving "A Specification of the Sugar Works in Guadaloupe and Grand-terre, and to whom they belong." An anonymous 18th century owner has corrected the errata, and tipped-in a full page of manuscript about the French trade in furs with the Indians, worth 1,000,000 livres, with a breakdown of distribution to the nine named posts from Detroit to St. Joseph. Written in answer to Franklin's pamphlet,… Read More

PRESENTATION COPY OF THE DE LUXE "SPECIAL EDITION"
FRITZ, John. Autobiography of John Fritz. [Illustrated]. 8vo, original gilt lettered dark green full Persian morocco (minor rubbing at top of spine), front cover stamped in gold, spine in 5 compartments, lettered in gold, inner gilt dentelles, marbled end papers, photogravure frontispiece of the author, p. xvi, 326, t.e.g., uncut. New York: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1912. First Edition, de luxe issue of 200 copies issued simultaneously with the trade edition published by Wiley and Sons. The full-page prospectus, which is laid-in, states that the book will be "ready for distribution December 20, 1911, and that this de luxe "Special Edition issued by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers through the courtesy of the Author and concurrent with the edition published by John Wiley and Sons" is limited to… Read More

FROBISHER, [Nathaniel], compiler & publisher. Frobisher's New Select Collection of Epitaphs. Humorous, Whimsical, Moral, & Satyrical. 12mo, original boards, engraved title, pp. 216, uncut. London: Printed for Nath. Frobisher, in the Pavement, York [1790?].
First Edition. A compilation of approximately 150 epitaphs in verse on the great, and not so great, with an alphabetical index of names, and an alphabetical index of first lines, compiled by Nathaniel Frosbisher (1752-1799), was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and spent his career as a bookseller and stationer at York, with his first shop in The Pavement, York. Information about Frobisher can be found in H. Ling Roth, The Yorkshire Coiners, 1767-1783. And Notes on Old and Prehistoric Halifax (1906), pp. 264-265.The only American represented here is Benjamin Franklin, as might be expected. His epitaph is his own, "On a Printer of Boston, in New-England." Well known are Aphra Behn, General Wolfe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake,… Read More