[Rarebooks] fs: Charles Carroll of Carrollton (2 significant works)
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Greetings Booklovers,
We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 8442 ) [Carroll, Charles] Mayer, Brantz. JOURNAL OF CHARLES CARROLL OF
CARROLLTON, DURING HIS VISIT TO CANADA IN 1776, AS ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS
FROM CONGRESS; WITH A MEMOIR AND NOTES.
Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1876. 3/4 leather, Octavo, 110
pages, Engraved portraits. Very good.
The centennial reprint of Carroll's journal during his journey to
Canada with Benjamin Franklin and fellow Marylander Samuel Chase in 1776.
Carroll's cousin, the Reverend John Carroll, also accompanied the
delegation. The purpose of the trip was to gauge the feeling of the
Canadians and, if possible, to turn their sympathies to the Americans'
cause. Bound in marbled paper over boards with leather spine and fore
corners, gilt rules, gilt spine titles. Engraved frontispiece portrait of
Charles Carroll with tissue guard. Tissue guarded engraved portraits of
Chase, Franklin, and John Carroll also illustrate the volume. See HOWES #C
179; SABIN #11068. Adhesive of frontispiece tissue guard is browned along
inner margin. Prior owner bookplate on front pastedown. Minor extremity
rubs. Hinges not cracked. Lovely copy. $300.00
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(No. 9077 ) Rowland, Kate Mason. THE LIFE OF CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON,
1737-1832, WITH HIS CORRESPONDENCE AND PUBLIC PAPERS (IN 2 VOLUMES).
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. Limited edition, Original cloth,
Octavos, xxii, 400 & vi, 487 pages, black & white plates. Very good, ex
library.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton in Maryland was the longest living and
only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. This uncommon
biography remains a standard source on the life of this prominent Founding
Father and the political struggles in Maryland on the eve of the American
Revolution. Includes a bibliography, a census of [then] known portraits of
Carroll, and a fold-out genealogical table of the Carroll line. One of 750
letterpress copies, the type being distributed after printing. HOWES #R476.
Bound in pebbled maroon cloth over boards with spines lettered in gilt,
Carroll coat of arms in gilt on upper boards, top edges gilt. Tissue guarded
frontispieces. Small private library stamps at lower fore corners of both
front free endpapers and both title pages, number stamped on both title
pages, catalogue numbers in white at heels of both spines. A few leaves
roughly opened, a few yet unopened. Bindings and hinges remain snug, gilt
bright. Easily fine but for the institutional markings. $200.00
See photo: http://www.backcreekbooks.com/bookphotos/9077.jpg
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Fordham, Elias Pym (Edited by Frederic Austin Ogg). 'Personal Narrative of
Travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky; and of
a Residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818.'
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