1777 1778 1779 Kenilworth. Complete set: PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER.- and various portraits from Lodge: PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. SIX beautiful PORTRAITS of SCOTT in various states, and an Autograph Note WRITTEN and SIGNED by him are also inserted. The whole work, plate for plate and leaf for leaf, is in the very finest condition, without spot or stain of any kind, and there is probably NO FINER COPY EXTANT. The This edition, the largest and handsomest in existence, has now become scarce. illustrations comprise portraits and views from the designs of Stanfield, Nasmyth, Sir D. Wilkie, Turner, Martin, Allom, Leitch, etc., with many fac-similes of autographs. "Single pages of these works are worth whole volumes of common inventions."-Mrs. Brunton. SCOTT. Marmion a Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With all his Introductions, and the Editor's Notes. Illustrated by Eighty-Engravings on Wood from Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. MDCCCLV. 8vo, pp. 408. Green morocco, richly gilt back and sides, gilt edges. SCOTT. The Lord of the Isles by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With all his Introductions, and the Editor's Notes. Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood from Drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. MDCCCLVII. 8vo, pp. 367. Green morocco, richly gilt back and sides, gilt edges. Uniform with the preceding No. SCOTT. The Lay of the Last Minstrel by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. With all his Introductions, and the Editor's Notes. Illustrated by One Hundred Engravings on Wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. MDCCCLIX. 8vo, pp. 354. Green morocco, richly gilt back and sides, gilt edges. Uniform with the preceding No. 1780 [SCOTT.] The Scott Exhibition, 1871. hibition held at Edinburgh, in July and August, the commemoration of the Centenary of the Scott. 1781 Catalogue of the Ex- 4to, pp. xiv., 206. Half crushed green levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by BRADSTREET. Prepared for publication by Sir William Stirling Maxwell, Bart., David Laing, LL.D., and James Drummond, R.S.A., and illustrated with thirty-two fine photo-lithographs of portraits and busts of Sir Walter Scott, by the Woodbury process, and numerous facsimiles of original manuscripts and autographs. This elegant and handsome work (the impression of which was limited to 250 copies) forms a most desirable volume, peculiarly valuable to all who feel interested in the Life and Writings of the great novelist. SCOTT [(Winfield.)] Memoirs of Lieut.-General Scott, LL.D. Roy. 8vo, pp. xxii., 653. Half blue morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. TWENTY FINE ILLUSTRA 1782 SCOTTISH PASQUILS. A Book of Scottish Pasquils. [With prefatory Remarks and copious Notes, edited by J. Maidment.] Edinburgh: 1827-28. 1783 1784 Sm. 8vo, 3 parts bound in 1 vol. pp. xxx. 80; xxi., 102; xiv., 93. Half blue morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. ORIGINAL EDITION. Sixty copies only printed. VERY RARE. Priced in a recent London catalogue at £4. 15. 0. The first and genuine edition of the above collection of Scottish Pasquils and Lampoons, now very scarce: they serve to explain many personal allusions and minor historical events referred to by historical writers, and illustrate in a marked degree the habits and morals of the people of Scotland, during the reigns of Charles I. and his descendants. SEARSON (J.) Mount Vernon; A Poem. Being the seat of his Excellency George Washington, in the State of Virginia: LieutenantGeneral and Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces of the United States of America. By John Searson, formerly of Philadelphia, Merchant. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author by Folwell. [1799.] 8vo, pp. 83, 4. Portrait. Half green morocco. FINE COPY. VERY SCARCE. The por trait is wanting in many copies. "This rural, romantic and descriptive Poem of the seat of so great a character, it is hoped may please with a copper-plate likeness of the General; it was taken from an actual view on the spot by the author, 15th May, 1799. Also, a cursory view of Georgetown, City of Washington and the Capitol."- Extract. SEAVER (J. E.) Deh-he-wa-mis; or A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison: otherwise called the White Woman, Who was taken Captive by the Indians in MDCCLV; and who continued with them Seventy-Eight Years. Containing an Account of the Murder of her Father and his Family; her Marriages and Sufferings; Indian Barbarities, Customs and Traditions. Carefully taken from her Own Words. By James E. Seaver. Also The Life of Hiokatoo and Ebenezer Állen; and Historical Sketches of the Six Nations, the Genesee Country, and other Interesting Facts connected with the Narrative; By Ebenezer Mix. Devon, ... London, 1847. ... 18mo, pp. 184. Books 18, 18. Half red morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by BRADSTREET. RARE. 1785 SEAVER. SEAVER. The Life of Mary Jemison, Deh-he-wä-mis. By James E. Seaver. Fourth Edition. With Geographical and Explanatory Notes. New York and Auburn: 1856. 1786 12mo, pp. 312. Half blue morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. "This well written narrative, purporting to be only the biography of a captive among the Senecas, is really the best resumé we have of incidents in the history and common life of the Seneca Indians. Its truthfulness is vouched for by such veracious testimony as that of Eli Parker, an educated chief of that nation, though its authenticity can scarcely have greater corroboration than the fact that Mr. Seaver received almost the whole mass of incidents narrated in his book, directly from the lips of the aged captive herself. A portion of the book which future ethnologists will highly prize, is contained on pp. 300 to 312, where the Indian names of nearly 400 localities, in the State of New York, are given, with their English significations."— Field. SECRET Proceedings and Debates of the Convention assembled at Philadelphia in the year 1787, for the purpose of forming the Con 1787 1788 stitution of the United States of America. From notes taken by the late Robert Yates, Esq. Chief Justice of New York, and copied by John Lansing, Esq. late Chancellor of that State, Members of that Convention. Including "The Genuine Information" laid before the Legislature of Maryland by Luther Martin, Esq. then Attorney General of that State, and a member of the same Convention. Also other Historical Documents relative to the Federal Compact of the North American Union. Albany: Websters and Skinners. 1821. 8vo, pp. 308. Half gray calf, carmine edges. Fine copy of the SCARCE original edition. PORTRAIT inserted. SECRET Proceedings and Debates, &c. [Reprint of the preceding.] Sm. 8vo, pp. xi., 335. Half morocco. SEDGWICK (T. Jun.) A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston, Member of Congress, in 1774, 1775, and 1776, Delegate to the Federal Convention in 1777, and Governor of the State of New Jersey, from 1776 to 1790. With Extracts from his Correspondence, and notices of various members of his family. By Theodore Sedgwick, Jun. New York: J. J. Harper. 1833 8vo, pp. 456. Portrait. Half maroon morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. 1789 SENTER (I.) The Journal of Isaac Senter, Physician and Surgeon to the Troops Detached from the American Army Encamped at Cambridge, Mass., On a Secret Expedition against Quebec, under the Command of Colonel Benedict Arnold, in September, 1775. [Edited by Edward D. Ingraham.] Philadelphia: 1846. 1790 1791 8vo, pp. 40. Half calf, UNCUT. Privately Printed. VERY SCARCE. The editor's own copy with TWO SCARCE PORTRAITS inserted; together with Two Autograph Letters of JARED SPARKS, and one each of GEORGE BANCROFT, and JOHN P. KENNEDY, all relating to the work. The preface was written by Henry Penington. [SERLE (Ambrose.)] Americans against Liberty or an Essay on the Nature and Principles of True Freedom, showing that the designs and conduct of the Americans tend only to Tyranny and Slavery. London: J. Mathews. MDCCLXXV. 8vo, pp. 64. Half morocco. "The author is an able advocate for the British claims."— M.R. LIII. 51. SETTLE (D.) A true reporte of the laste voyage into the West and Northwest regions, &c. 1577. worthily atchieued by Capteine Frobisher of the sayde voyage the first finder and Generall. With a description of the people there inhabiting, and other circumstances notable. Written by Dionyse Settle, one of the companie in the sayde voyage, and seruant to the Right Honourable the Earle of Cumberland. Imprinted at London by Henrie Middleton. Anno, 1577. [Providence: Reprinted. 1868.] ... Sm. 4to, pp. 63. Half red morocco, gilt top, UNCUT, by W. MATTHEWS. Fifty copies only PRIVATELY PRINTED for Mr. John R. Bartlett. VERY SCARCE. 1792 SEWALL (D.) An Eulogy Occasioned by the Death of General Washington, Pronounced at the Middle Parish, in Kittery, February 22d, 1800. By Daniel Sewall, Esq. Portsmouth: 1800. 1793 1794 8vo, pp. 20. UNCUT and RARE. SEWALL (J. M.) Eulogy on the Late General Washington, Pronounced at St. John's Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, 31st December, 1799, at the Request of the Inhabitants. By Jonathan M. Sewall, Esq. Portsmouth: (1800.) 4to, pp. 28. UNCUT and SCARCE. SEWALL (S.) Phænomena quædam | Apocalyptica | Ad Aspectum Novi Orbis configurata. | Or, some few Lines towards a description of the New Heaven. | As It makes to those who stand upon the New Earth. By Samuel Sewall, A.M. and sometime Fellow of Harvard College at Cambridge in New-England. | The Second Edition.... [Followed by:] The Fountain Opened: | or | The Admirable Blessings plentifully to be Dispensed at the National Conversion of the Jews. By... Samuel Willard. M.A.... | The Third Edition. [With Appendix by Samuel Sewall.] Massachuset: | Boston, Printed by Bartholomew Green: ... 1727. The two works above described are usually found together; this volume contains an addition as follows: Proposals Touching the Accomplishment | of| Prophesies | Humbly Offered. | By Samuel Sewall. M.A. and sometime | Fellow of Harvard College at Cambridge | in New-England. | Massachuset; Boston, Printed by Bartholomew Green. 1713. Sm. 4to, pp. (8), 64; 24. Title 1 l., pp. 12, Verses 1 l. Crushed green levant morocco, gilt edges, by W. PRATT. LARGE and FINE COPY. EXCESSIVELY Rare. "Mr. Sewall inclines to the opinion that the Indians are descendants of the Israelites; and he adopts, after the learned Mr. Nicholas Fuller, the name of Columbiana for the continent of America."- N.A.R. xi. p. 107. 1795 [SEWALL.] A Versification of President Washington's | Excellent Farewell-Address, | to the | Citizens of the United States. | By a Gentleman of Portsmouth, N. H. | Portsmouth, New-Hampshire: Printed and Sold by Charles Pierce, at the | Columbian Bookstore. 1798. Roy. 8vo, pp. 54. Polished calf, yellow edges, by F. BEDFORD. Large and clean copy. 1796 VERY SCARCE. SEWARD [(Anna.)] Monody on | Major André. | By Miss Seward. M.DCC.LXXXI. 4to, pp. vi., 47. Half morocco. Fine copy, with Miss Seward's AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE at the end of the Monody. The Letters are said to have been the creation of Miss Seward's own imagination. 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 SEWARD. Monody | on | Major André. By Miss Seward. | (Author of the Elegy on Capt. Cook.) To which are added, Letters Addressed to her by Major André in the year 1769. | New-York,| Printed by James Rivington. M.DCC.LXXXI. Sm. 8vo, pp. iv., 35. Scarlet morocco, gilt edges. PORTRAIT of the AUTHOR inserted. EXCEEDINGLY RARE. SEVENTY SIX SOCIETY. [The Publications of the Seventy Six II. The Examination of Joseph Galloway, Esq., by a Committee of the House of III. Papers relating to Public Events in Massachusetts preceding the American Revo- IV. Papers relating chiefly to the Maryland Line during the Revolution. Edited by Together, 4 vols., 8vo, balf blue morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. Only 150 sets printed. SHAKESPEARE (W.) Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. London Printed by Isaac laggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623. [London: Reprinted. 1808.] Imp. folio, balf red levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT. LARGE and ELEGANT copy, measuring 9 inches by 15 inches on the leaf. RARE in this condition. An exact reprint of the first folio, with a fine impression of the portrait after Droeshout's engraving. "This uncastrated reprint of 1808, is much more coveted than the later attempts at facsimile, and will fast rise in value. The original, from which it is reprinted, is continually increasing in value. Mr. Daniel's copy produced £716 28., and the competition, whenever a copy occurs, is so strong, that, probably, what our ancestors deemed dear at £100, will be regarded as cheap at £1,000 by our successors." SHAKESPEARE. The Plays of Shakespeare. In Nine Volumes. 9 vols., 48mo, crimson morocco, gilt edges. A few copies only printed on INDIA PAPER; and the SMALLEST COMPLETE EDITION ever issued. RARE. This beautiful edition of Shakespeare was published under the patronage of George John, Earl Spencer; and is one of the finest specimens of typography ever produced. It is illustrated with 38 engravings from drawings by Stothard, and is further adorned with charming woodcut headings and tail pieces, portrait of the Bard after Droeshout, &c. The text is from the best edition of Shakespeare, 15 vols., by Johnson and Stevens; with a Glossary. SHAKESPEARE. The Shakespearian Dictionary; forming a General Index to all the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare; from a few words to fifty or more lines: |