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122. GARDINER (MRS. JOHN, of Boston). Double medallion, in fashion of ancient coins. Scarce.

123. GELATTLY (JOHN), two different; Benjamin Hatley Foote (called the purest Chippendale plate); Isaac Norris, two different; John Tharp Lawrence, two different; Edward Hailstone, and others. 51 pieces.

124. HARVARD CLUB LIBRARY. Large pictorial.

125. HARVARD COLLEGE. Sigill: Coll: Harvard: Cantab: Nov: Abgl: 1650. Armorial. Signed, N. Hurd, sculp. The College shield, surrounded by holly branches, above a ribbon with motto "Detur digniori."

126.

The earliest of the Harvard plates. Fine impression. Allen, 351.

Armorial, Thorndike "Gift Plate." Signed, N. Hurd

Sc. Boston. Allen, 352.

127. Two different; Yale University, three different; Franklin Institute Library, and other Libraries and Clubs. 26 pieces.

128. Hasty Pudding Library. Pictorial. Signed Callender. 2 similar, one damaged in corner; [also] a later plate of Harvard College. Billings inv. Smith sculp. 3 pieces.

129. HOLLYER (S.). Pictorial. Remarque proof, signed.

130. HOPTON (W. F.). Stephen Whitney; Leonard Vasari Reynolds. Pictorial. 2 pieces, signed.

131. IVES (BENJAMIN, of Beverly). Armorial Chippendale. Pull from original plate. Scarce.

132. JARVIS (LEONARD, JR.), signed N. Hurd, restrike; Mary E. Rath-Merrill, signed Wm. Foster; Frederick Remington; Dean Sage; George Parker Winship; William North Duane, re-engraved by H. A. 1905, and others. 25 pieces.

133. LIVINGSTON (HENRY W.). Armorial Chippendale. Motto-Spero meliora. Printed in sepia.

134. LIVINGSTON (WALTER). Motto "Spero meliora." RARE.

RARE.

Armorial Chippendale.

135. MC ALLISTER (HALL); J. West Roosevelt; Rev. C. F. Hoffman, two different; Daniel Webster; Philip R. Fendall; William F. Havemeyer, and others. 35 pieces.

136. MACDONALD (A. N.). Helen Lang; George D. Merrill; George Mervin Wood; George Leonard Lindsay; Henry Herbert Bowers; Thomas Coke Watkins; Isaac and Elizabeth Day. Pictorial and armorial. 7 pieces, signed.

137.

George Leonard Lindsay; George Mervin Wood; George D. Merrill; Elizabeth T. Merrill. Pictorial and armorial. 4 pieces, signed.

138. MIELATZ. Plates of Lila Vanderbilt Field. Armorial and fanciful; Spears. Fanciful, with crest. Motto "Qui s'y frotte s'y pique." Signed by Mielatz, one autographed also. 2 pieces.

139. NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY. Designed on heraldic lines, but purely symbolic. Chippendale shield, with supporters of Minerva and Mercury. A small plan of a city with cathedral buildings appears at the feet of Minerva, with the word Athenai in Greek characters. Signed, E. Gallaudet, Set.

Allen, 613. This is the plate of what is probably the oldest lending library in America. The view of "Modern Athens' is without doubt intended as a view of New York, and as such, adds greatly to the interest of the plate.

140. Pictorial. Library interior. Minerva helmeted, is presenting a book to an Indian, who is kneeling before her. Signed, Engd. by P. R. Maverick, 65 Liberty-Street. Close margins. Allen, 614.

141. Allegorical. Minerva, just alighted from the clouds, is presenting a book to an Indian. Signed, Maverick, Sct. Crown Street.

Allen, 615. The earlier of the two impressions of this plate, with Indian's body showing dots instead of lines as in the following plate, which fact is not recorded by Allen. The date on this plate (1789) is also engraved.

142.

The same as the preceding, with body of the Indian having straight lines. Signed, Maverick Sct. Crown Street.

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144. O'REILLY (JOHN BOYLE). Bust in oval, inscription beneath: Given by the Papyrus Club to the Boston Public Library, etc. By Sidney L. Smith. Signed, 1897.

145. OSBORN (HENRY FAIRFIELD); Rev. Morgan Dix; Lloyd Aspinwall; G. G. Frelinghuysen; Daniel B. Fearing; Frederick W. French and others. 33 pieces.

146. PARKER, Earl of Macclesfield. Larke Armorial. Motto"Sapere aude."

147. PETERSEN (CARL E.); William Seward Webb; J. Wat son Webb; Frederica Vanderbilt Webb; Richard Grant White; Herman Le Roy Edgar; Stuyvesant Fish and others. 38 pieces.

148. QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Crested monogram. C. W. Sherborn, 1890.

Signed

THREE RARE BOOKPLATES BY PAUL REVERE

149. REVERE (PAUL). Gardiner Chandler. Armorial Chippendale. Signed Revere sculp. Rounded corners, with book number in ink in one corner.

RARE. Not in the Eno collection. This, and the two following items REPRESENT THREE OF THE FOUR BOOKPLATES BY PAUL REVERE, WHICH WERE SIGNED BY HIM. The well-known Eno collection contained only ONE

signed Revere plate.

150.

David Greene, of Massachusetts. Armorial Chippendale. Motto "Nec timeo nec sperno." Signed Revere sep. Fine impression. RARE.

151.

William Wetmore. Armorial. Motto "Tentanda via est. Printed in blue. Signed, Revere sc. Fine plate. RARE.

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Not in the Eno collection.

152. SHERBURNE (C. W.). Robert Day; G. W. Reid; Daniel Berkeley Updike. Armorial. 3 pieces, signed.

153. SPENCELEY (J. W.). Mathilde E. Thebaud; Henry Rogers Winthrop; Georgia Medora Lee; Winfred Porter Truesdell; W. H. Perry. Pictorial and armorial. 5 pieces, signed.

154. George H. Mifflin, signed Proof; Charles E. Cameron; Zella Allen Dixson; Levi W. Eaton; Andrew Smith of Whitchester and Cranshaws. Pictorial and fanciful. 5 pieces, signed.

155. SITTE (OTTO, of Breslau): Johannes Blanke; Edmond des Robert; Oskar Leuschner; Carl G. F. Langenscheidt and others. 28 pieces.

156. STREAMER (VOLNEY); Amy Ivers Truesdell, two dif ferent; North East Harbor Library, two different; Edward Lauterbach; Louis Rhead and others. 60 pieces.

157. WHYTE-MELVILLE of Bennochy and Strathkinness. Fine armorial. Signed Griffiths.

158. VAN RENSSELAER (K. K., Esqr.-of New York). Armorial, ribbon and wreath. Signed, Maverick, Sep. Allen, 883.

159. VAN RENSSELAER (STEPHEN). crest. Name in script beneath; The same. cling crest. 2 similar. Signed J. E. Gavit.

Armorial, with Name in ribbon encirTogether, 3 pieces.

160. BOSTON, MASS. Two Plans for Forming the Town of Boston into an Incorporated City. 8vo, half wine-color levant morocco (first word of title cut away.

Published by order of the Town [1784] EXTREMELY SCARCE. The Town Meeting adjourned to June 17th for further consideration of the matter. A Manuscript note at the foot of

the last page reads: "On 17 June The motion for an incorporation was rejected by a vast majority, the town hall being crowded."

161. BOSTON MASSACRE. A Short Narrative of the horrid Massacre in Boston, perpetrated In the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of the XXIX Regiment, Which, with the XIV Regiment, were then quartered there, with some Observations on the State of Things prior to that Catastrophe. 8vo, half roan (no frontispiece).

Printed by Order of the Town of Boston: London, Re-printed, 1770

162. The Trial of William Wemms, James Hartegan, William M'Cauley, Hugh White, Matthew Killroy, William Warren, John Carrol and Hugh Montgomery, Soldiers in his Majesty's 29th Regiment of Foot for the Murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr, on Monday Evening, the 5th of March, 1770, at the Court. . . at Boston, the 27th day of November, 1770. . . taken in shorthand by John Hodgson. 8vo, half roan, uncut.

Boston: Printed. London, reprinted [1770]

Fine copy of this very rare trial. John Adams considered the battle of King Street on the 5th of March, 1770, more important to the Independence of America, than the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, or the surrenders of Burgoyne and Cornwallis.

163. BOSTWICK (DAVID). A Fair and Rational Vindica. tion of the Right of Infants to the Ordination of Baptism: being the Substance of several Discourses. Small 4to, wine-color morocco, gilt back, by Sanford. New York: Printed by John Holt, 1764.

THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION, printed from the author's notes written in a sort of short-hand of his own invention, and deciphered by a young Minister in the neighborhood of New York. No copy appears to have previously occurred for sale at auction.

164. BRADSTREET (JOHN). An Impartial Account of Lieut. Col. Bradstreet's Expedition to Fort Frontenac. To which are added, A few Reflections on the Conduct of that Enterprise, and the Advantages resulting from its Success. By a Volunteer on the Expedition. 8vo, red morocco, gilt back, by Sanford.

FIRST EDITION.

in many years.

London: Printed for T. Wilcox, 1759 EXTREMELY RARE. No copy appears to have occurred

165. BRADY (N.) AND TATE (N.). A New Version of the Psalms of David. Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches. Small 8vo, original sheep, (foxed).

Boston: Printed by Joseph Bumstead, 1790

Old names of former owners on fly leaves.

166. BRAINERD (DAVID). Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, or the Rise and Progress Of a Remarkable Work of Grace Amongst a Number of the Indians in the Provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, justly represented in a Journal Kept by Order of the Honourable Society (in Scotland) for propagating Christian

Knowledge. With some general Remraks. Small 4to, half roan, many lateral edges uncut.

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by William Bradford [1746] A VERY RARE BRADFORD IMPRINT, and a very good copy in uncut condition, with the Second Title at page 80, "Divine Grace Displayed," and the last leaves containing the Attestation of the Deacons of Freehold, which are not always found.

167. BREAZEALE (J. W. M.). Life as it Is; or, Matters and Things in General. 12mo, cloth, roan back. Knoxville, 1842

THE VERY RARE FIRST EDITION. Contains historical sketches of the exploration and first settlement of the State of Tennessee; manners and customs of the inhabitants; their wars with the Indians; Battle of King's Mountain; History of the Harps (two noted murderers), etc., etc.

168. BROADSIDE. By the Queen. A Proclamation, For Settling and Ascertaining the Current Rates of Foreign Coins in Her Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America. 4to (repaired in fold and on margin, Arms trimmed into at top).

169.

EXCESSIVELY RARE.

London: Charles Bill, 1704

The Case of the Inhabitants in Pensilvania. Folio (slightly worn in folds). N. p. [1742] Respecting the paper currency, which is shown to have been highly beneficial, and the proposed bill for doing away with it strongly objected to. No copy of this broadside located by Sabin.

170. By the King. A Proclamation. Declaring the Cessation of Arms, as well by Sea as Land, agreed upon between His Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the States General of the United Provinces, etc. Folio.

VERY RARE.

London: Printed by Thomas Baskett, 1748

171. By the King. A Proclamation [regarding the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle]. Folio. London: Thomas Baskett, 1748

172.

Virginia, to wit. Thomas Lee, Esq.; President of His Majesty's Council and Commander in Chief, of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia. Folio.

Williamsburg: [William Hunter] 1750

AN EXTREMELY RARE BROADSIDE, regarding two counterfeiters, Low Jackson and Edward Rumney.

173. Virginia. By the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq.; His Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of this Dominion. A Proclamation, For Encouraging Men to enlist in his Majesty's Service for the Defence and Security of this Colony. 4to. Williamsburg [William Hunter], 1754 EXTREMELY TARE. "Whereas it is determined that a Fort be immeately built on the River Ohio, at the Fork of the Monongahela, to oppose any hostile attempts of the French, and the Indians in their inter est.. I promise . that over and above their pay, Two Hundred Thousand Acres shall be laid off and granted to such persons, who by their voluntary engagement shall deserve the same. NOT IN EVANS AND AS FAR AS CAN BE TRACED THE ONLY COPY KNOWN.

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