[Rarebooks] fs: Today in History: R.I.P. Yankee Doodle (s)

Tue Mar 30 08:58:27 EST 2004

On March 30th, 1986, actor James Cagney dies.  Best known for his
tough-guy rolls, he was best-loved for his unforgettable performance as
George M. Cohan in the classic movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy"...

On March 30th, 2004, British writer/broadcaster Alastair Cooke dies. 
Author of the BBC's weekly "Letter from America" since 1946, Cooke served
as an observor and ambassador from his adopted country to the rest of the
world for many decades...

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Faux, W. "MEMORABLE DAYS IN AMERICA" BEING A JOURNAL OF A TOUR OF THE
UNITED STATES, principally undertaken to ascertain, by positive evidence,
the Conditions and Probable Prospects of British Emigrants; including
accounts of Mr. Birkbeck's Settlement in the Illinois; and intended to
show Men and Things as they are in America" Cleveland; The Arthur H. Clark
Company: 1905. Originally published in 1823. Issued here, edited by Reuben
Gold Thwaites, as volumes XI and XII of the "Early Western Travels"
series. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 6.5"x9.5", 305 + 341 pages; many b/w plates
and maps; an assembled set -the first volume is ex-lib with removed spine
number, stamps, new endpapers, etc; some soil; the second volume has some
light soil. [02637] $125.00

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Holmes, Abiel. "AMERICAN ANNALS, FROM THE DISCOVERY BY COLUMBUS IN THE
YEAR 1492 TO THE YEAR 1826" Cambridge; W. Hilliard: 1829. 2nd edition.
Holmes' work was the first serious American attempt to chronicle the early
history of the Europeans in America, and remains a landmark on the
bookshelf of American histories. Holmes himself worked from previous
authors and hoped to shed light and reason on his subject-

"A new world has been discovered...a new empire has arisen, which has been
a theatre of great actions and stupendous events. That remarkable
discovery, those events and actions, can now be accurately ascertained,
without recourse to such legends as have darkened and disfigured the early
annals of most nations".

Holmes was Minister of the First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts and
the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Hardcovers. 2 volumes. 6"x9", 584 +
599 pages. Bound in period cloth with spine labels; ex-library with spine
labels, bookplates, etc. Some cover wear and soil, outer hinges chipped;
pages a bit browned, a few spots. [02813] $175.00

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Howes, Wright. "U.S.-IANA (1700-1950)". New York; R.R. Bowker Company:
1954. The first edition of this classic Americana bibliography. "A
descriptive check-list of 11,450 printed sources relating to those parts
of Continental North America now comprising the United States". Hardcover.
7"x10", 656 pages; ex-library, with stamps, marks, etc. Covers scuffed,
hinges ever so slightly shaken, but a solid and useful reference copy.
[03456] $65.00

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Morse, Jedediah. "AMERICAN UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY: OR A VIEW OF THE PRESENT
STATE OF ALL THE EMPIRES, KINGDOMS, STATES AND REPUBLICS IN THE KNOWN
WORLD, AND OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN PARTICULAR..." Boston;
Printed by J.T. Buckingham for Thomas & Andrews: 1805. 5th edition. First
published in 1796. This massive two-volume text included material on the
study of geography and the geography of the world, and much statistical
and geographical material on the United States. Hardcovers. 2 volumes.
5.5"x9", 864 + 664 pages, plus 6 folding maps; bound in period calf with
leather spine labels; covers quite worn and rubbed, hinges cracking a bit;
internal toning and some spots and soil; maps fairly clean. There is a
note on the title page about a separate atlas of maps which is not usually
found with these volumes, and is not present here. [02816] $450.00

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Spargo, John. "ANTHONY HASWELL. PRINTER - PATRIOT - BALLADER. A
Biographical Study with a selection of his ballads and an annotated
bibliographical list of his imprints". Rutland; The Tuttle Company: 1925.
Edition limited to 300 signed copies. The story of one of Vermont's most
colorful patriots and printers. Frankly, taking account of the tale of woe
Spargo recites in his Foreword, it is a blessing we know anything about
Haswell at all, as at various times his carefully assembled papers were
lost, dispersed, burnt and otherwise destroyed.

Born in Portsmouth, England in 1756, Haswell came to America as a boy and
at the age of twelve was apprenticed in the soon-to-be-radical town of
Boston, Massachusetts, where he promptly fell in with the wrong crowd and
found himself a "Son of Liberty" at age fourteen, and in 1773, as a lad of
seventeen, he helped throw the tea into Boston harbor at the "Boston Tea
Party". He served with Washington's army during the Revolution, and then
moved to Bennington, Vermont, where he established the Vermont Gazette in
1783. Soldier, newspaperman, writer, balladeer...

Haswell also had a talent for making trouble, and in 1800 he was tried
under the Sedition Act for passages which he had printed in his paper. A
hostile judge more or less told the jury to convict him, and Haswell was
found guilty and imprisoned for two months. During his stay in stir he
issued frequent letters, which were used against the Federalists in the
campaign of 1800. Finding himself treated as a hero upon his release, he
celebrated by composing a few new ballads. Ah well... This study began as
a simple bibliography of his works, which it remains, but expanded to
include much more biographical and bibliographical material. Hardcover.
10"x13", xv + 293 pages, plus 35 b/w plates. Rebound in new cloth with new
endpapers; covers fine, contents near fine. [03585] $250.00

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Trumbull, Henry. "HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA, of the Landing of
our Forefathers, at Plymouth, and of their most remarkable Engagements
with the Indians, in New England..." Boston; George Clark: 1836.
"Engagements with the Indians, in New England, from their first landing in
1620 until the final subjugation of the Natives in 1679. To which is
annexed the particulars of almost every important engagement with the
savages at the westward to the present date. Including the defeat of
Generals Braddock, Harmer & St. Clair, by the Indians at the Westward; the
Creek and Seminole War, &c.".

First published in 1810, this proved to be a tremendously popular history,
with several subsequent editions. This edition includes material on the
Indian wars of the early 19th century. Hardcover. 5.5"x8.25", 56 pages,
folding frontispiece showing the 1812 battle with Tecumseh; portrait plate
of King Phillip, and plate of "Milly Francis entreating her father to
spare the life of an American captive". Bound in period cloth with a newer
leather spine; covers soiled and rubbed; blank endpaper with corner torn
away; text somewhat soiled, with several water stains; endpapers spotted.
[02717] $100.00

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Winthrop, Robert C. "WASHINGTON, BOWDOIN, AND FRANKLIN, as portrayed in
Occasional Addresses". Boston; Little, Brown and Company: 1876. A series
of addresses given by Winthrop, chief amongst them the dedication speech
he gave as the Speaker of the House of Representatives at the laying of
the cornerstone of the Washington Monument in 1848. He notes in the
Preface to this volume that the Monument still is not completed, and
includes a nice lithograph showing the work that has been done (174 feet),
and the work still to be done (they were going to 485 feet).

This is followed by four other short works on Washington. There is also
the speech he gave about James Bowdoin at Bowdoin College, and then a few
speeches on Benjamin Franklin, the Boston Tea Party, and the Centennial
Commemorations at Lexington and Bunker Hill in 1875. Winthrop (1809-1894)
was a very accomplished man, serving in the House of Representatives and
eventually becoming Speaker before being appointed to Daniel Webster's
Senate seat when Webster resigned. Although he had studied law in
Webster's office early in his career, Winthrop had some difficulty filling
the famous Union man's shoes in the Senate, and was evidently not quite
enough of an antislavery firebrand for his Massachusetts' constituents,
being defeated when he sought the seat on his own. He retired from public
office to become President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a post
he held for several decades.

Hardcover. 6"x9.5", 186 pages, lithographed frontispiece of the
uncompleted Washington Monument; several folding facsimile plates;
original green cloth with gilt spine titles; ex-lodge library with
bookplate and varnished spine with label; front endpaper with several
short tears, but otherwise a very clean, tight copy. [05093] $100.00

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