[Rarebooks] fs: Charles Carroll of Carrollton (2 important books)

[Back Creek Books]

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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. 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
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