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CLINTON George First Governor of New York State 1777 1795 1801 1804; also 4th Vice President of the United States 1805 1812ABAA

1777BB002CLINTON George First Governor of New York State 1777-1795 1801-1804; also 4th Vice-President of the United States 1805-1812 under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. "Kingston laid in ashes by the Enemy" . 8vo 7-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches 1-1/2 pages on laid paper with integral address leaf remnants of wax seal some fading to text and signature scattered minor It should be noted that Clinton was sworn in as New York's first governor on 9th July 1777 shortly after Kingston was established as its first capitol 20th April 1777. Thus the burning of Kingston and change of capitol to eventually Albany was a consequence of the War for Independence. Remarkable handwritten manuscript explaining that the British troops arrived at Kingston before his own re-enforcements whereupon 1000 men burned the town and immediately returned to their ships warning that a similar fate awaits the settlements along the shore and that forage and property should be moved from the path of the enemy reminding him to take the sleigh from the barn as it is all the personal property that remains to him after the destruction in Kingston noting that the enemy is advancing up the river to Saugerties with Tryon commanding on the east side and Vaughn on the west. TranscriptHead Quarters Hurley 17th October 1777Dear Brother"Before this can reach you you will receive the â€“ disagreeable account of Kingston being laid in ashes by the Enemy. They landed before my troops arrived after a little opposition by the few militia Cols Pawling & Snyder could collect and marched about 1000 Men immediately up to Town - where they were told by some Tories who continued in it that my People were advancing on the Hurley Road & they immediately set it in Flames and extracted precipitately on Board their Vessels tho their Orders were to proceed to Hurley & the adjacent Neighborhoods to give them the same Fate so that tho I was not able to get my Troops Time enough to save Kingston they saved this and the other Parts of the Country near it. This will show you the Fate New Windsor & the other settlements along shore are to partake on the Enemy's Return down. Therefore the Necessity of removing the Forage &c from the Banks of the River among which remember my Slay in the Barn as it is now the only moveable Property I have left the Best being removed to Kingston shared its Fate tho indeed a great share of Property has been saved out of Town. The enemy sailed up the River this Morning as high as Saghertyes burning along Shore as they go. When they go a little higher I will follow them. They have Parties on both Sides of the River. Tryon commands those on the East & Vaughan on the West Side of the River.Yours SincerelyGeo ClintonOn Friday evening 16 October 1777 a British fleet commandeered by James Wallace and John Vaughn the latter on board the 'Friendship' which had anchored near Easopus Island the day before came into the mouth of Rondout Creek and engaged the gallery "Lady Washington". Shortly after noon the British landed on Rondout Creek and the Cove above Columbus Point. Vaughn personally led the march capturing and forcing a negro to lead them into town without meeting resistance. The troops went through the streets in parties led by Tories setting the whole place on fire in response to the occasional resistance lodged by residents from within their houses. There was looting and vandalism. Meanwhile part of the fleet went a bit up the River and creek to destroy landings and sloops. By the time George Clinton arrived into Kingston the whole town was ablaze and the British party had set out to return to their ships.In a letter on 18 October penned at Little Britain NY in response to this letter his brother B. Genl. James Clinton writes:D'r BrotherYours of yesterday's Date I have just received. I am sorry for the Loss of Kingston &c. Five of the Enemy's Shipping Returned Down the River last night without Doing any Damage Except fireing Some Cannon and small arms at our men and wounding one of ours on Board of a Ferry Boatâ€¦"The war became personal for the governor specially after what had happened to Kingston. In a letter to William Smith @ 31 October 1777 his sentiments and commitment are laid bare:"The Cruelties as well Cowardice with which this Warr has been conducted ag't us must I think be sufficient at this late Hour to convince every Man that all connection with Great Britain is at an Endâ€¦"Reference: Public Paper of George Clinton First Governor of New York War of the Revolution Series. New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. 1900. Volume II pp. 457-459. Our letter of 17 October 1777 appears to be unknown to the editors of the Clinton papers although they do list and transcribe the 18th October response by his brother James. Consequently our letter appears to be the only firsthand account by the governor of New York on the actual burning of Kingston an event historically reenacted locally each year within Ulster County. Autograph Letter Signed, â€œGeo Clintonâ€, written to his brother Gen. James Clinton in New Windsor (â€œDear Brotherâ€), from books

Washington George 1732 1799; commander of American armies in the Revolutionary War 1775 1783; first President of the United StABAA

Letter text in the hand of aide-de-camp Tench Tilghman signed "Go. Washington" as commander-in-chief of the American Army to General David Forman Head Quarters Bergen County 4 September 1780; additionally signed by Washington on the address leaf on the verso of an otherwise blank integral leaf

178063128Head Quarters Bergen County NJ 1780. Folio one page approximately 125 words in part: "I perceive . that you had collected about two hundred Cattle more and that a further number might be obtained . I cannot of right command the services of the militia . let the commanding officers know how distressed the Army has been and is likely to be for provisions and that it will be rendering splendid service to us and distressing the enemy to remove the Cattle from those parts of the Coast which furnish the New York Markets." Very good. Browned one small piece detached one word of text easily repaired. After Washington's victory at Monmouth June 1778 during which battle Forman had served as an advisor to Charles Lee the war settled into stalemate with Washington's army in New Jersey and the British forces content to remain in New York both sides keeping an eye on each other while trying to provide for their soldiers the American forces suffering deprivation similar to that of Valley Forge. Meanwhile on the day this letter was written word reached Washington of the complete rout of Horatio Gates and his troops at Camden South Carolina opening Virginia to British invasion from the South. Bolstered by American victories at Kings Mountain Oct. 1780 and Cowpens Jan. 1781 and the depletion of Cornwallis's army at its victory over Nathaniel Green at Guilford Court House Washington in conjunction with his French allies moved south to envelop Yorktown earning the British surrender in October 1781 effectively ending the war. General David Forman 1745-1797 born and raised in Monmouth County New Jersey was appointed colonel of a New Jersey regiment that reinforced Washington at New York in June 1776. After suppressing a loyalist uprising later that year during which time he earned the nickname "Devil David" he was chosen to lead a regiment in the Continental army and in 1777 was commissioned brigadier general to lead the New Jersey militia commanding that force in the battle of Germantown Oct. 1777. Disagreements with the New Jersey legislature led to his resignation from that command and he spent the rest of the war running listening posts especially along the coast of New Jersey providing Washington with intelligence on the movements of the British fleet and army a service he was providing at the time of this letter. see DAB Tench Tilghman 1744-1786 born and raised in Talbot County Maryland graduated from the precursor to the University of Pennsylvania in 1761 taking up a mercantile business until the outbreak of the revolution. After serving briefly as a captain in the army he joined Washington as a volunteer and served continuously as an aide-de-camp to the general for the balance of the war. "The amount of secretarial work in addition to military duties that he performed for Washington was prodigious" DAB and he was granted a regular commission of lieutenant-colonel in 1781. After the victory at Yorktown Tilghman was chosen by Washington to carry the announcement of the surrender of Cornwallis to the Continental Congress. Provenance: When recently purchased the letter was in an old frame and removal revealed an autograph note inside the backing included here as follows: "This letter was bought by me about 1860 of Miss Brown residing at 92 Columbus Street Albany New York. She was a sister of an old minister of St. Peters Church. This Miss Brown was a client of Orlando Meads and myself and found this letter in a barrel in the garret of the home occupied by her sister at Manalapan New Jersey formerly owned by General David Forman. signed Dexter Reynolds / Albany Sept. 7 1902. Presented to my son Marcus T. Reynolds." A newly discovered Washington letter shedding light on the general's relationship to state militias and his concerns for providing for his troops while disrupting the supply lines of the British. Not in Fitzgerald or the Founders Online from the National Archives which lists 57 other Washington letters to Forman 1777-1782 showing a gap from 24 July 1780 to 17 May 1781 and two others post-war.Ã‚Â 9836. unknown books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis35 000,00 $US≈ 29 613,50 €

OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN Latin and ItalianABAA

Officio della B. V. Maria per tutti i tempi dell' anno Con le dichiarazioni e spiegazioni dell' Abate Alessandro Mazzinelli

17562896Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni 1756. 8vo 208 x 133 mm. 24 407 1 pp. 2 parts the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus Giuseppe Passaro two engraved title vignettes 12 engraved tailpiece vignettes a few unsigned others by Frey after Passaro or by M. Schedi engraver 3 engraved capital initials numerous red-printed woodcut initials. Foxing occasionally severe short marginal tear to fol. Z7.Slightly later eighteenth-century Roman gold-tooled red goatskin covers with large dentelle border composed of a triple neo-classical roll-tooled outer frame enclosing six large ornaments each with a basketweave design of diagonally crossing gilt fillets framed in volutes and leafy sprigs a few tiny petal or star tools board edges protected with a probably later frame of silver or silver-plated metal discreetly nailed to the binding two elaborately chased silver fore-edge clasps and catches spine in six uniformly gold-tooled compartments gilt edges with gauffred border design pair of green ribbon page markers marbled endpapers; 20th-century black morocco felt-lined case. Provenance: with Gumuchian Catalogue XII/1930/225; Maurice Burrus bookplate purchased from Gumuchian in 1934 purchase notes at end. A striking rococo binding in fine condition on a luxuriously printed and illustrated Office of the Virgin from the official Vatican press.From the mid- to late eighteenth century the Salvioni press used one or more bookbinding workshops that produced finely gold-tooled bindings for their Vatican publications. Although often referred to as the "Salvioni bindery" this appellation is circumstantial: "the Salvioni firm was responsible for promoting the bindings but it is not known which workshop produced them" British Library Database of Bookbindings. Some of these "Vatican" bindings incorporated variously colored or mottled leather. This example with its basketweave cartouches relies purely on tooling for its effect. An example evidently from the same workshop on a book printed at Rome in 1791 by Salomini using analogous cartouches as corner-pieces as well as a similar "spiraling" border design and some of the same leafy spray and star tools is reproduced in Legature papali no. 264."Whereas the . more flamboyant bindings produced by the Salvioni Bindery rely frequently on polychrome enamel heightening these Vatican bindings strike a somewhat more sober note with their very fine dark-red morocco and rich gold-tooling of high quality" Martin Breslauer Catalogue 107/428.Gumuchian Catalogue de Reliures du XVe au XIXe siecle no. 225 plate 68. Cf. British Library Database of Bookbindings Shelfmark c27e18; For other "Salvioni" bindings see Miner / Walters Art Gallery The History of Bookbinding no. 523; Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Legature papali da Eugenio IV a Paolo VI no. 264 plate CXCIII. Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni hardcover books

Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 345,75 €

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign PartsABAA

A BOUND VOLUME OF EIGHT SERMONS EACH A SEPARATE IMPRINT PREACHED BEFORE THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS AT ITS ANNIVERSARY MEETINGS IN 1755 1758 1759 1761 1762 1765 1766 1767

176729803London 1767. Bound in attractive contemporary or early 19th century half morocco marbled boards marbled endpapers and raised spine bands. 'Sermons' stamped in gilt on spine. Bookplate of Paul Beilby Thompson 1784-1852 the first Baron Wenlock an English Whig and Member of Parliament during the late 1820's and the 1830's. Pages 80; 77 1; 99 1; 88; 91; 119 1; 68 1; 98 1 pp each as issued. A lovely set in Near Fine condition tear to one blank margin on the 1767 Sermon and spotting on a couple of its leaves. The Preachers listed chronologically are Thomas Hayter 1755 James Johnson 1758 Anthony Ellis 1759 Richard Newcome 1761 John Hume 1762 Philip Yonge 1765 William Warburton 1766 John Ewer 1767. In addition to their Sermons the pamphlets print the Society's Charter its Proceedings over the preceding year names of members and donors; the names of the Society's missionaries in Canada the American Colonies and the West Indies with their narrative reports on their work including conversions of Indians and Negroes; and a list of the Bishops and Deans who have preached before the Society beginning in 1701. The form of a bequest to the Society is usually printed at the end. The Society's efforts in the American colonies aroused great resentment among some leading American clergy particularly Charles Chauncy and Jonathan Mayhew who viewed its activities as attempts to establish the Church of England in the New World and to destroy the democratic organization of American churches. Their resistance during the 1760's paralleled political developments which would produce the American Revolution. Certainly the Sermons reflect the high-water mark of British self-assurance. Bishop Hume describes "the real state of the multitudes-- a set of thoughtless illiterate untutoured creatures." Warburton's 1766 Sermon "a statement of British manifest destiny." Gephart dismisses objections of non-Episcopalians to the Society's mission: Americans suffer from the "outrageous folly" of "Freethinking." They are "a People where wealth and Civil Faction have as usual inflamed religious zeal." And the Society of Jesus has "immerged themselves in the worst part of civil intrigues." At the same time he and his colleagues unequivocally denounce "the infamous traffic for Slaves" which "directly infringes both divine and human Law." They are "endowed with all our Faculties possessing all our qualities but that of colour; our BRETHREN both by Nature and Grace." HAYTER: ESTC T47758. JOHNSON: Goldsmiths' 9409. Sabin 36223. ELLIS: ESTC T14001. NEWCOME: Sabin 54938. ESTC N23710. HUME: ESTC N37286. Goldsmiths' 9804. YONGE: Adams American Controversy 65-28. WARBURTON: Adams American Controversy 66-61. Sabin 101276. Blockson 8984. Gephart 10084. EWER: Adams American Controversy 67-5. unknown books

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Washington George; Richelet Pierre From the Library of George WashingtonABAA

Washington George. Dictionnaire Portatif De La Langue Francoise.George Washington's Copy Together with a Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenaeum

17617561Lyon: Chez Pierre Bruyset - Ponthus 1761. Full Leather. Very Good. President George Washington's copy with his bookplate which was restruck before 1863 from the original copper plate. "The inventory of Washington's books made at the time of his death.shows that his library then numbered about nine hundred volumes. These under his will became the property of his nephew Judge Bushrod Washington who also inherited his papers and the Mansion House of Mount Vernon. Here Judge Washington lived and added to General Washington's library a part at least of his own books. In his will in 1826 he provided as follows: 'All the papers and letter books devised to me by my uncle Gen'l Washington as well as the books in my study other than law books I give to my nephew Geo. C. Washington; the books in the cases in the dining-room I give to my nephew John A. Washington.' In the inventory of his estate are these items: In the dining-room 468 vols. miscellaneous works left to John A. Washington 658 vols. of miscellaneous works left to Geo. C. Washington 1125 N. of miscel. Pamphlets left Geo. C. Washington beside 169 vols. of State papers 22 vols. of Journals of Congress and 649 vols. of Law Books 22 law pamphlets. These latter were destined for Bushrod Washington Herbert the son of a niece in case he should be trained for the law. Mount Vernon was next occupied by John A. Washington. The books left to George C. Washington remained there for many years but in 1847 or 1848 a considerable portion of them perhaps all that remained were sold to Henry Stevens the bookseller. Mr. Stevens announced his intention of sending them over to the British Museum. To prevent this and to secure them for Boston a number of Boston and Cambridge men particularly Prof. Jared Sparks Prof. Andrews Norton Mr. George Livermore and Mr. Charles Eliot Norton.raised $3800 to purchase them from Stevens. This amount and $450 beside was collected the Athenaeum itself contributing $500; and at a meeting of the subscribers it was voted to place the books permanently in the Boston Athenaeum.The remainder of Washington's library has been scattered and no large number of his books now exists in any one place beside the Boston Athenaeum. What became of the rest of the books left to George C. Washington can only be conjectured. Those given to John A. Washington passed to his son John A. Washington and then to his son Lawrence Washington of Alexandria Va.other sales have given an opportunity to book collectors to bid for books which once belonged to Washington. The titles of the Catalogues of these sales will be found on pp. 470-475 of this volume. A sale of books claiming to be from Washington's library but having spurious book-plates took place in Washington in 1863." The present title is one of those. So the "spurious" bookplate was struck by the Washington family from the original copper plate and placed into some of the books in the collection - so to call it "spurious" is a misnomer. The collection of General Washington in the Boston Athenaeum contains 13 volumes with this bookplate - they were purchased in Washington in 1863 see page 565 of "A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenaeum". 12mo 775 pages. Contemporary calf marbled end papers red leather lettering piece on spine; all edges stained red. Internally very good; binding shows considerable wear. Bookplate of George Washington on front pastedown a 19th century restrike from the original copper plate. Housed in a contemporary full leather box with a slide-off top. Chez Pierre Bruyset - Ponthus hardcover books

Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 3 807,45 €

Archconfraternity of the Stigmata of St. Francis.ABAA

Illuminated manuscript on vellum in Latin. "Franciscus Tituli S. Petri & Marcellini S.R.E. Cardinalis Pignattellus . Dilectis nobis in Christo Confratribus Confraternibus Sacror. Stigmatum & S. Antonii de Padua in Ecclia. Parrochili S. Conini Loci Cicognoli Cremonen. .

170639295Rome 1706. 8vo 22.7 cm 9.5' 10 ff. The parish church in the municipality of Cicognolo in the province of Cremona in the Italian region of Lombardy located about 90 kilometres 56 mi. southeast of Milan and about 14 kilometres 9 mi. northeast of Cremona has=> petitioned to establish a chapter of the archconfraternity of the Stigmata of St. Francis. Â Â Â Â Approval has been granted and this is the official document establishing the archconfraternity there. It is written in roman hand in brownish-black ink with => extensive variously sized headings indited in gold and has a full-page portrait of St. Francis a medallion vignette of his hands receiving the stigmata and a large triple-bordered decorated initial "D" all accomplished => in colors and gold and incorporating or surrounded by generous flourishes of flowers painted variously in shades of rose yellow and blue. All leaves have borders in black and gold and sometimes green except one initial blank. Â Â Â Â On the verso of the last leaf are the signatures of "custodians" of the archconfraternity in Rome below which are two paper and wax seals one lacking the paper with the seals' owners' names below attesting to the completion of the application process and the granting of the petition. Â Â Â Â Binding: Contemporary crimson morocco covers lavishly gilt-tooled. The center panel is richly filled with floral motifs and small stars surrounding a center emblem of the hands of St. Francis within a circular border of flames. Surrounding the center panel are four outer frames created by variety of large and small rolls. Marbled paper pastedowns in an unusual "patchwork" style. Binding as above manuscript recased without the original ties. Some text rubbed and illegible clean cracks in fourth leaf crudely repaired hole in last leaf causing text loss. Curious green tarnishing of the gold. A most attractive binding a beautifully painted manuscript an interesting artifact of Catholic social history and => a great tool for teaching about conservation concerns. unknown books

Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Co., LLC (PRB&M) · États-Unis3 500,00 $US≈ 2 961,35 €

Naples and the Two SiciliesABAA

Collection of 6 manuscripts relating to the anti-Spanish riots in Rome in March 1736

1736257005Rome 1736. 59 pp. in all on laid paper. 4to all with one exception approx. 27 x 20 cm. Provenance: Frederick North 5th Earl of Guilford 1766-1827; library of Sir Thomas Phillipps ex Ms. 7544; with H.P. Kraus. 59 pp. in all on laid paper. 4to all with one exception approx. 27 x 20 cm. Riots in Rome: The Spanish Bourbons in Southern Italy - from the Thomas Phillips Collection. Following the acquisition of the Kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies by the Bourbons of Spain in 1736 the conquering Spanish troops returning through Rome and Papal States provoked anti-Spanish riots in March of 1736. The following 6 manuscripts each in a different contemporary hand all from the collection of Sir Thomas Phillips and comprising Phillips Ms. 7544 relate to those events. They are as follows: 1 CONTI Antonio attributed to. "Relazione dei tumulti accaduti on Roma l'anno 1736. Loro origine e sequele." 13 pp. on 7 leaves. 2 "Sopra il tumulto populare seguito in Roma il 13 Marzo 1736." 6 2 blank pp. on rectos of 7 leaves. 3 "Se domanda se un Popolo si solleva tumultiamente nel Domnio altrui contro una nazione con offesa del Sovrano di essa ottenuto il perdona generale ." 4pp. on two leaves. 4 Same text as above with minor differences e.g. "amnistÃ " for "perdona". 4 pp. 21.5 x 15 cm. 5 Manuscript Letter fair copy headed "Sigl. Mio" 2 Giuglio 1736" beginning: "Non potevate far cosa pui grata all mia amicizia che commnicarmi la lettera trasmessa da Roma ."12 4 blank pp. Docketed on final page: "Relazione dei tumulti seguiti in Roma l'anno 1736 per i scrivi Austrici contro i Spagnuoli" 6 Manuscript Letter fair copy headed "Sigl. Mio". 15 pp. N.p. n.d. From the collection of Thomas Phillips 1792-1872. "His collection of over 60000 manuscripts was an outstanding achievement in the annals of bibliophily" ODNB and such was the scale that over 100 years passed after his death until the last tranche of the papers were finally sold in 1977 to H.P. Kraus. The attribution would seem to be based on a manuscript of the same title in the University of Chicago Special Collections Library v. OCLC: 154339939. unknown books

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Foster Hannah Webster A Lady of Massachusetts the Author of The CoquetteABAA

The Boarding School; or Lessons of a Preceptress to her Pupils

17983468Boston: Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews 1798. First edition. Rebound to style in full calf with morocco and gilt to spine. Original endpapers retained. 252 pages. Paper repairs to chips along the outer edges of title and dedication pages not touching text. Pages toned with light scattered foxing throughout mostly limited to pages 193-209; overall unmarked legible and pleasing. The second work by the first native-born American woman novelist it has become quite scarce. Currently the only first edition on the market this title has appeared only three times at auction since 1983. The rare second novel by best-selling Massachusetts author Hannah Webster Foster. Only one year before the release of her epistolary novel The Coquette made Foster a literary sensation. "Not only was it the first novel written by a native-born American woman in its depiction of an intelligent and strong-willed heroine the novel transcends many of the conventions of its time and place" History of American Women. Her sophomore release was no less important. Continuing to deploy the popular epistolary form of its predecessor The Boarding School "promotes improved female education through its depiction of an exemplary boarding school teacher" and remained "equally concerned with the status of women in the early republic" ANB. At a time when the fledgling nation was debating women's status and establishing its earliest statutes on schooling Foster uses her platform to argue "the many advantages of a good education and the importance of improving those advantages." Dividing the work into two key sections Foster uses the first portion to describe "the finishing school run by Mrs. Maria Williams including exhortations on social conduct reading and general preparations for survival"; meanwhile the second portion is dedicated to "letters from the students to the teacher and to each other demonstrating the beneficial effects of Mrs. William's instruction" History of American Women. Recent scholarship has emphasized that The Boarding School builds upon an already central concern in Foster's prior novel: "the crucial role played by tightly knit circles of women" which "would have been deeply resonant to the young women who were her primary readers" Pettengill. Like The Coquette her second book "portrays women during the crucial transition in their lives from daughterhood to wife-and-motherhood from parental to husbandly authority. But the boarding school set is younger with school days still fresh in their memories and the complications of courtship and marriage only just coming into their range of vision.in The Boarding School the male world is shadowy and vague.not yet jostling the women with demands that threaten even as they support the logical self-sufficiency of sisterhood and the female sphere" Pettengill. By bridging the didactic advice book with the epistolary novel Foster suggests that women need education as "the foundation of a useful and happy life" and that school provides them with this as well as with a lifelong female community built on shared experience. The "perfect Republican mother" Mrs. Williams provides the girls with the perfect model on which to base themselves giving Foster a means for arguing that women must educate other women in order to create a strong and lasting national foundation Newton. BAL 6242. ESTC W29990. Evans 33748. Isaiah Thomas and E.T. Andrews unknown books

Whitmore Rare Books · États-Unis3 250,00 $US≈ 2 749,83 €

Slave Trade Richard Harison United States Attorney for the District of New YorkABAA

MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED BY HARISON TO WILLIAM RAWLE U.S. ATTORNEY FOR PENNSYLVANIA SEEKING RAWLE'S AID IN SECURING TESTIMONY FROM A RELUCTANT WITNESS IN HARISON'S PROSECUTION OF THREE CASES FOR VIOLATION OF THE 1794 SLAVE TRADE ACT

179635853New York 1796. Single page 9-1/2" x 15-3/4" entirely in manuscript. Headed with names of three cases pending in the New York District Court followed by Harison's letter to Rawle. Old folds with a pinhole at a fold intersection no text loss. Short fold split expertly repaired. Very Good. Harison 1747-1829 was President Washington's appointee in 1789 as the first United States Attorney for the District of New York. He served until 1801 when Edward Livingston succeeded him. His correspondent William Rawle was Washington's appointee as U.S. Attorney for Pennsylvania. Rawle was founder and first president of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and a highly respected writer on governmental matters. The Slave Trade Act of 1794 passed by the Third Congress and signed by President Washington was the first American regulation of the international slave trade. It prohibited Americans from trading in slaves to any foreign country. Harison had brought several cases under the Act as noted in this Letter: The United States vs. The Brigantine Active; and two by George Geer for himself and the USA vs. Elisha King. Harison explains "The above Suits were commenced upon the Act prohibiting American Citizens from carrying on the Slave Trade in foreign Countries." Harison's problem: "The principal witness is supposed to have been prevailed upon by undue Methods to quit this District is thought to be either in Philadelphia or Baltimore." If he's in Philadelphia "I will esteem it a Favor if you will take every regular Method of procuring his Testimony." If he's in Baltimore please "recommend the Business to the Attorney for the District of Maryland. The Public is in every Point of View interested in the Event." Diligent research has uncovered no additional information on these cases. unknown books

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CATHERINE THE GREATBETZKY ie. Betskoi Ivan IvanovichABAA

LES PLANS ET LES STATUTS; des differents etablissements ordonnes par sa Majest Imperiale Catherine II.Pour L'education de la jeunesse et L'utilit Generale de son Empire. Translated by Mr. Clerc

177557996Amsterdam: Chez Marc-Michel Rey 1775. First continental edition after the first edition in Russian of 1766. 8vo Two volumes pp. 408 110; 375. Bound in full calf that shows some light rubbing to head bands and edges free endpaper loose in volume one. A nice clean copy. Illustrated with 4 folding tables. Scarce. Cioranecu 38333; V. Gestel-Van het Schip 14; Mortier & Mat Diderot et son temps 196 note; STCN 4 copies. from Wikipedia: "Catherine II Russian: Yekaterina Alekseyevna; 2 May O.S. 21 April 1729 - 17 November O.S. 6 November 1796 also known as Catherine the Great Yekaterina Velikaya was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796 the country's longest-ruling female leader and arguably the most renowned. She came to power following a coup d'Ã©tat when her husband Peter III was assassinated. Russia was revitalised under her reign growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognised as one of the great powers of Europe. She enthusiastically supported the ideals of The Enlightenment thus earning the status of an enlightened despot. As a patron of the arts she presided over the age of the Russian Enlightenment a period when the Smolny Institute the first state-financed higher education institution for women in Europe was established. At the instigation of her factotum Ivan Betskoy she wrote a manual for the education of young children drawing from the ideas of John Locke and founded 1764 the famous Smolny Institute which admitted young girls of the nobility." Betskoi who had worked with Diderot was Catherine's chief advisor for this enlightened educational initiative. Catherine was not advocating universal education but girls were included with boys and children of the petit bourgeois were mixed with children of the nobility in pilot schools. This idea along with that of Catherine's orphanage and theories on the duties of enlightened rule were an attempt to assimilate the advances in political thinking on the continent with the traditional Russian temperament while establishing Catherine as a center of European thought. Chez Marc-Michel Rey unknown books

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