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DRAWINGS OF THE MASTERS HAYES Bartlett textABAA

American Drawings

Willis N. P. & W. H BartlettABAA

American scenery; or land lake and river illustrations of transatlantic nature. From drawings by W. H. Bartlett engraved in the first style of the art by R. Wallis J. Cousen Willmore and others

184252681London: published for the proprietors by George Virtue 1842. 4to 4 volumes in 13; 2 maps and over 200 fine steel engravings list of subscribers and advertisement leaves with the author's notice in the final volume. Bound with: Canadian Scenery Illustrated. Original quarter roan gilt-lettered in decorated publisher's boards; occassional spotting to edges of plates. A rare set of the two works issued together and assembled from the original parts. A most appealing set of an illustrated classic here in extended form with both the separate American and Canadian publications issued in this form as one continuous work numbered as a coherent series on the bindings. The series in this form includes over 200 steel-engraved images. The publisher's charming binding is in particularly good condition. "The New World of Columbus.its sudden rise to independence wealth and power" Author's preface is captured in this Victorian publication on the United States and "British America" Canada with fine engravings after the noted British landscape painter William Henry Bartlett. This is a wonderful illustrated romp published at a time to illustrate the last days of relative freedom of the North American native peoples Willis cites Blumenbach in analysing the "real character of the aboriginal inhabitant" and the development of the cities on the West coast of America and unusually Lower Canada. William Bartlett "made four voyages to the United States and Canada.the fruits of which appeared in American Scenery and Canadian Scenery" DNB. The famous plates depict North American cities New York Philadelphia Boston Washington; important buildings such as the U.S. Bank the Capitol and Yale College; bridges parks falls ferries rivers; as well as fine views of Canada through Quebec Montreal Toronto and including Niagara Falls and Thousand Isles. Also included is an engraved portrait of Bartlett a map of the north-eastern United States and Lower Canada. Sabin calls Canadian Scenery "the finest of Mr. Bartlett's works." Willis's "The Literary Department" accompanying letterpress lyrically opines on the picturesque quoting Byron's Childe Harold on sighting Niagara Falls and noting that in America the traveller may imagine "an Eden newly-sprung from the ocean". Abbey 651 American Scenery; Sabin 3784 3786. published for the proprietors by George Virtue hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis4 600,00 $US≈ 3 892,06 €

Signer of the Declaration of Independence Bartlett JosiahABAA

Autograph document signed Josiah Bartlett "J Bartlett"

1769315321Rockingham County NH 1769. 1 p. pen and ink on paper blank on verso. 4.5 x 7.75 inches. Old folds dog-eared corner else fine. 1 p. pen and ink on paper blank on verso. 4.5 x 7.75 inches. A memo written during Bartlett's tenure as justice of the Peace for Rockingham County recording an agreement for the transfer of a deed from Joseph Chandler to Josiah Judkins upon payment of a note. American physician statesman and jurist Josiah Bartlett 1729-1795 was born in Amesbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and moved to the frontier settlement of Kingston in Rockingham County New Hampshire in 1751 where he opened his practice as the county's sole physician. Bartlett was elected to the New Hampshire colonial assembly in 1765 served as colonel of the Rockingham County militia and was appointed justice of the peace. From 1775-1776 and in 1778 and 1788 Barteltt was New Hampshire's delegate to the Continental Congress where as the representative of the northern most colony he was the first delegate to vote for independence from Great Britain. Bartlett was a signer of the Declaration of Independence served on the committee that drafted the Articles of Confederation and helped ratify the Constitution. He later served as a judge in the Court of Common Pleas and despite not being a lawyer was appointed Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and in 1792 he became New Hampshire's fourth Governor. Two-hundred years after his death Josiah Bartlett entered the chronicles of American pop culture when despite a difference in the spelling of his last name he became the fictional direct ancestor of "President Josiah Bartlet" a leading character played by actor Martin Sheen in NBC's drama The West Wing. Bartlett is also a character in both the stage and motion picture adaptation of the musical 1776. Photo unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis1 650,00 $US≈ 1 396,06 €

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