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GEORGE II BANISHES THE PRINCE OF WALES FROM HAMPTON COURT: A CONTEMPORARY MANUSCRIPT APPARENTLY IN WALPOLE'S HAND
GEORGE II, King of Great Britain (1683-1760). [WALPOLE, Sir Robert]. Contemporary MS copy of George II's famous letter to his son, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751), throwing him out of St. James's Palace over the birth of a granddaughter. 1 1/2 pp., folio, with integral blank, entitled, "The King's Letter." Hampton Court 10th Sept. 1737.
The letter was drafted by John, Lord Hervey (see, Memoirs,
807-808 & altered and amended by Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Oxford 1676-1745). This copy appears to be in Walpole's hand. Frederick had not given his parents, George II and Queen Caroline, "the least intimation..that the Princess was with Child...," and the suspicion was that a fraud was intended. "On the evening of 31 July 1737, while the royal family was residing at Hampton Court, Augusta went into labour. Despite… Read More

GILLMEYER, Jacob.
Interest Tables calculated at Six per cent, per annum, showing the interest on all sums, from one dollar to ten thousand...With directions. Also, Banking time-tables in twelve series...with directions. 12mo, original full dark green morocco, front cover-title and author's name stamped in gold, thin chain decorative gold borders, pp. 6, [72]. [Baltimore?] 1836.

Only Edition of "an abridgement of a large work, by the same author, which has been highly approved, and for which, among others, the following testimonial has been obtained...," according to a pink "Printed Advertisement" pasted inside front cover, bearing a testimonial from officers of the Bank of the United States, November 18, 1834. At the bottom of that slip Gillmeyer offers a $300.00 reward to anyone who can find the "first fair detection of an error of ONE CENT in the interest calculations..." The author's "large" work of 53-pages, is Banking Time Tables, in twelve series (Washington, D.… Read More

THE FIRST AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED EDITION
GOLDSMITH, [Oliver]. [ANDERSON, Alexander, illustrator]. The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. By Dr. Goldsmith. Two volumes in one. 12mo, contemporary tree calf (rebacked, corners rubbed), old leather label, pp. 252 + 4 wood engraved plates by Anderson (including frontispiece). New-York: Printed by James Oram for Christian Brown, 1803. First American illustrated edition; first New York edition in any form. Excellent copy. Hamilton, on page xxxiii in his preface to vol. 1, states that these cuts were some of the better known of Anderson's work. Reprinted twice more by Oram in 1807. Oval hand decorated early bookplate of one "Elen Thompson", and bookseller's label on free half of front endpaper advertising "Lottery Tickets Sold at the Book Store of Thomas & Whipple, Market Square, Newburyport." OCLC locates 7 copies (NYPL; UCLA; Yale; AAS; Harvard; Princeton; Rutgers). Very… Read More

NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS
GOWER, R[ichard] H[all], in the India
Service. A Description of several instruments for Measuring a Ship's Way through the Water, By...With an Account of his Patent Perpetual Log, and how the same principle may be applied to shew the absolute velocity of the Wind, and the depths of the Sea.
8vo, modern cloth backed marbled boards, half-title, title, [5]-32 + 2 copper engraved plates. London: Printed for the Author, 1792.
First Edition of author's rare first nautical work, with the half-title. ESTC locates two copies in England (BL & NMM), and two copies in this country (BA & NYPL). Gower (fl. 1767-1833), a sea captain and naval architect, "had been shocked by the low standard of navigation which he found in the convoy which took him to the East Indies...He devised a patent log, part of the workmanship being entrusted to Alexander Grant, and the sole rights of sale vested in Messrs Gilbert [& Wright] of 148 Leadenhall Street. He refers to "the… Read More

AUSTRONESIAN DOUBLE-BODIED BOATS AND A EARLY MENTION OF STEAMBOATS
GOWER, R[ichard] H[all], of Ipswich, in the India Service, naval architect, inventor (fl. 1767-1833). AMsS "Opinion as to the value of Double-bodied vessels," comparing the hydrodynamics of a catamaran and a proa. Bifolium on laid paper watermarked "1813. 4to, pp. 2, [2] blank, addressed on verso of blank leaf to "Miss Applegath," folded for delivery. N.p., n.d., London? 1813?]. Gower (fl. 1767-1833), was a sea captain and naval architect. If indeed this was written the year the paper is watermarked, or even close to that year, it contains a very early mention of steamboats. Glasgow engineer Henry Bell launched Britain's first truly commercial steamboat, the Comet, which was built on the River Clyde in 1811-12. Here Gower writes about Pacific Austronesian proas, which usually have two unequal-length parallel hulls. He was an inventor of several optical… Read More

A DVANCE COPY
GRAHAM, R[obert] B[ontine] Cunninghame. Brought Forward. Thick 8vo, original printed green wrappers (spine wear, including a small chip mising; a few corners mildly rounded), pp. xiv, 205, [1] blank, 16 ads. London: Duckworth [1916].
Advance Issue of the First Edition, and scarce. Essays and travel sketches, some about South America. Paraguay, Argentina, etc. The Preface begins, "Luckily the war has made eggs too expensive for me to fear the public will pelt me off the stage with them. Still after years of wriring one naturally dreads the cold potato and the orange-peel..." who thinks "like your true Scot..." "Nobody who has read such moving character studies...as his sombre narrative of the passing of James Keir Hardy in Brought Forward...but must respect and admire him for his contribution to English Letters."-H. M. Tomlinson in DNB. NCBEL IV, 1318.

HORATIO GREENOUGH TO RICHARD H. DANA PRAISING EDWARD AUGUSTUS BRACKETT'S SHIPWRECKED MOTHER AND CHILD, BASED ON THE DEATH OF MARGARET FULLER AND HER SON SIGNED BY EDWARD EVERETT
GREENOUGH, Horatio, American sculptor, 1805-1852. Printed circular letter, 1p., 4to, to Richard Henry Dana. Boston, Feb. 23, 1852. Ship
Docketed in manuscript "Edwd Everett/ Chairman/ Committee Athenaeum." Everett played a major role in the life and careers of a number of artists, including sculptor Horatio Greenough. Hand addressed and stamped for mailing to Ebenezer Francis, Esq. (1775-1858), "the well-known millionaire," on State St. [Boston]. Francis was a merchant, financier, and Dirctor of the Boston Bank and President of Suffolk Bank. Brackett's "Shipwrecked Mother and Child, a well-known and controversial marble sculpture was inspired by the drowning of renowned feminist and transcendentalist Margaret Fuller and her family off of Long Island in 1850."-Tufts University exhibit. It is considered the masterwork, of Edward… Read More

THE FIRST TREATISE ON MORAL PHILOSOPHY WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN AMERICA
GROS, John Daniel.
Natural Principles of rectitude for the conduct of man in all states and situations of life; demonstrated and explained in a systematic treatise on Moral Philosophy. Comprehending The Law of Nature-Ethics-Natural Jurisprudence-General Oeconomy-Politics-and the Law of Nations. 8vo (in 4's), modern morocco backed marbled boards, pp. xvi, 456. New York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1795.
Only Edition; Complete with half-title. "The first treatise on Moral Philosophy written and published in America."-Sabin 28933. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy. Gros was a professor of moral philosophy, geography and chronology at Columbia, as well as the minister of the German Reformed Church in New York. An ardent patriot during the American Revolution, he served as chaplain in three different army regiments. Foxing, which is confined to the very beginning, and the end. Well represented in institutions, there are no copies… Read More