[Rarebooks] FS: 4 Nice Americana -Indians, Militia, Quakers, Navigation

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Four interesting Americana books, offered as a lot-


Dyckman, J.G.  "THE AMERICAN MILITIA OFFICER'S MANUAL, being a plain and
concise system of instruction for Infantry, Field & Horse Artillery,
Cavalry and Riflemen. As adopted by law for the standard of discipline in
the states of New-York and New-Jersey. With An Appendix, containing forms
for orders, returns &c. and directions for holding courts martial"  New
York; N.B. Holmes: 1825. 2nd edition, revised, corrected and enlarged.
Hardcover. 4"x7", 179 pages, folding frontispiece table showing "the
proper station of each officer in a regiment of infantry".  Bound in full
contemporaneous mottled calf with a red spine label, minor rubbing to the
tips, etc. There is scattered minor foxing throughout, but it is not all
that pronounced.


Johnson, Walter R.  "A REPORT TO THE NAVY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ON AMERICAN COALS APPLICABLE TO STEAM NAVIGATION, and to other purposes" 
Washington; Gales and Seaton: 1844.  Hardcover. 6"x9", 605 pages, newly
rebound in nice quarter leather with raised bands and marbled boards.


Sergeant, Rev.  "A LETTER FROM THE REV'd MR. SERGEANT OF STOCKBRIDGE, to
Dr. Colman of Boston; Containing Mr. Sergeant's Proposal of a more
effectual Method for the Education of Indian Children..."  New York; Thea
Heye: 1929. Edition limited to 200 copies printed by the Lancaster Press. 
A facsimile of a rare pamphlet issued in Boston in 1743, reprinted from an
original in the library of Thea Heye, wife of the founder of the Museum of
the American Indian. It contains the Rev. John Sergeant's plan for
educating Indian children to be civil and industrious by establishing
boarding schools where they will be taught English. This is followed by
Dr. Colman's Reply, in which he includes an account of work already done
by the Rev. Isaac Hollis with the Stockbridge Indians, a branch of the
Algonquian tribe. An important document, scarce in any edition. 
Hardcover. 5.5"x8", 16 pages, paper-covered boards, parchment spine, as
issued; printed on deckle-edged Roma paper; light soil; parchment on spine
split along the crease and reglued with very slight loss; some cover soil.


Bowden, James.  "THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN AMERICA. Volume
I"  London; Charles Gilpin: 1850.  This is the first volume of James
Bowden’s comprehensive two-volume study of the experience of the Quakers
in America. Bound in period calf leather, this volume features four maps,
two plates with lithographed line drawings of: "Boston, from
Dorchester-Neck" and "New Amsterdam, now New York. Taken from a Dutch Map
of 1656". Also three lithographic plates of facsimiles of letters. The
text includes the origins of the Society of Friends with George Fox in
Leicestershire, England and covers the arrival of the Friends in America
in 1655 and their first 25 years in the New World, ending in Carolina in
1682. Hardcover, volume one of two. 5.5”x8.5”, 426 pages, four maps (two
folding), 5 lithographic plates. Bound in period full sprinkled sheep,
with black leather spine labels. The tips are rubbed. Light foxing and
soil. Outer spine edges splitting along top and bottom.

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The four books offered as a lot for $575.00, net, ppd.

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