Americana Spring 2023

Americana Spring 2023

James Cummins Bookseller is proud to present a catalogue of Americana featuring many new arrivals. Highlights include the September 1787 magazine printing of the Constitution; Siebert's copy of one of the first detailed accounts of Florida, Observations upon the Floridas by Charles Vignoles; and an early and important letter from Thomas Jefferson, seeking to settle his father-in-law's estate, including the sale of hundreds of enslaved people.

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Item #338238 Autograph letter signed to attorney David Roberts, on the Tariff bill of 1832, Henry...

Autograph letter signed to attorney David Roberts, on the Tariff bill of 1832, Henry Clay and other members of Congress...

Washington, D.C: January 15, 1832. The letter continues: " ... Read & ponder that well. It is the result of cabinet party consultations to which the best men have contriobuted all their wisdom, and we must, can, will & shall sustain it. I heard him deliver it. His manner was..... Read More about Autograph letter signed to attorney David Roberts, on the Tariff bill of 1832, Henry Clay and...

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Item #346076 Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions ... To which is added, a sermon after...

Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions ... To which is added, a sermon after his funeral preached by the Reverend...

London: Printed for J. Batley ... and for Sam. Gerrish, in Boston, New England, 1727. First edition. From the library of the noted early American scientist John Winthrop (1714-1779), the great-great-grandson of the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. At the time of publication Winthrop was a student at Harvard..... Read More about Sermons and Discourses on Several Occasions ... To which is added, a sermon after his funeral...

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Item #346683 Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C....

Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C. Perry, detailing a duel between two...

Port Praya, Cape Verde Islands: January 27, 1845. "... Lieut. Reid came into my cabin and informed me that Mr. Hurst had been brought on board badly wounded. On going into the Ward Room I found that a ball from one of the ship pistols had passed through both his..... Read More about Contemporary true copy of an autograph letter signed from H. Bruce to Matthew C. Perry, detailing...

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Item #346102 American Banker's Association. Book of Photographs. Descriptions. General...

American Banker's Association. Book of Photographs. Descriptions. General Information.

[New York]: 1895-1898. A mugshot gallery of criminals created by the Pinkerton agency for the use of banks across the country. Commissioned by the American Banker's Association for the use of its members, the volume was issued with 180 mugshots and descriptions and with the remaining as a partially blank..... Read More about American Banker's Association. Book of Photographs. Descriptions. General Information

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Item #326725 From New England to the Pacific. Notes of a Vacation Trip across the Continent in...

From New England to the Pacific. Notes of a Vacation Trip across the Continent in April, May, and June 1884...

Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1884. First edition. The Raymond Excursion Party of 60 left Boston in April 1884 for an overland tour by train. The author gives descriptions of Chicago, Denver and Colorado mines, the southwest, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Monterey, etc. Spalding worked for..... Read More about From New England to the Pacific. Notes of a Vacation Trip across the Continent in April, May, and...

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Item #333126 Parson & Pool's Original Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennessee Jubilee Singers. The Only...

Parson & Pool's Original Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennessee Jubilee Singers. The Only Company on the Road To-day Presenting the...

Providence, R. I: Watcheer Print[er], [No Date but circa 1880's-1900?]. Original promotional poster for the Jubilee Singers production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncommon broadside advertising an upcoming performance of Parsons & Pool's long-running UNCLE TOM'S CABIN stage production, with woodcuts showing scenes from the play superimposed over an image of..... Read More about Parson & Pool's Original Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennessee Jubilee Singers. The Only Company on...

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Item #325218 The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, From Its Earliest...

An Important Early History of Tennessee

The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, From Its Earliest Settlement Up To The Year 1796; Including...

Knoxville, Tenn: Printed for the Author by Heiskell & Brown, 1823. First edition. An Important Early History of Tennessee. "This work, only less rare than the Aboriginal History of Tennessee by the same author, contains a large portion of the material relating to the border warfare with the Indians ....... Read More about The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee, From Its Earliest Settlement Up To The...

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Item #346901 St. Louis Isle, or Texiana; With Additional Observations made in The United States...

With Among the Earliest Views of the Houston-Gulf Coast Area

St. Louis Isle, or Texiana; With Additional Observations made in The United States and in Canada.

London: Simmonds and Ward, 1847. First edition. With Among the Earliest Views of the Houston-Gulf Coast Area. "The author had a rough experience in the new Republic and published his account to deter prospective emigrants from following in his 'fatal footsteps.' The work takes issue with the writings of Newell..... Read More about St. Louis Isle, or Texiana; With Additional Observations made in The United States and in Canada

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Item #352466 Partly printed treasury warrant, issued for "protection of the frontier ... for...

Partly printed treasury warrant, issued for "protection of the frontier ... for services rendered in Capt. John Littleton's Company", endorsed...

Austin: June 12, 1860. "Littleton was the Karnes County delegate to the Secession Convention, January 28, 1860, through February 4, 1861. When the United States troops evacuated the forts on the Rio Grande, his sixty-man company, described by the Clarksville Northern Standard as "well mounted, well armed, and well posted..... Read More about Partly printed treasury warrant, issued for "protection of the frontier ... for services...

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Item #352853 Description of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities...

Description of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore.

Washington, D.C: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. First edition. "When in 1843 Congress approved the construction of an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, Vail acted as Morse's chief assistant and received Morse's 'What hath God Wrought' message on May 24, 1844 ... [The present pamphlet] containts one..... Read More about Description of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington...

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Item #338513 Washington's Farewell to the People of the United States. Published for the...

Washington's Farewell to the People of the United States. Published for the Washington Benevolent Society.

Greenfield: Printed and sold by Denio & Phelps, 1812. Written largely by Alexander Hamilton, Washington's famed Farewell Address was first printed in newspapers in September 1796 at the end of his second term as President, emphasizing the importance of unity and morality, the dangers of political factions and sectionalism and..... Read More about Washington's Farewell to the People of the United States. Published for the Washington Benevolent...

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Item #334488 Negro History Week Beginning February 9, 1936 [Cover title]. Carter G. Woodson

Negro History Week Beginning February 9, 1936 [Cover title].

[Washington, D.C: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1936. First edition, first(?) issue without rubber stamp on front cover. First edition, issue without the publisher's statement in rubberstamp on lower front cover: "The pamphlets for 1937 are exhausted. This copy of 1936 has most of the same..... Read More about Negro History Week Beginning February 9, 1936 [Cover title

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Item #351919 Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America. Lorenzo de Zavala

By the First Vice-President of the Texas Republic

Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America.

Paris: Imprenta De Decourchant, 1834. First edition. By the First Vice-President of the Texas Republic. Exiled from Mexico in 1830, Zavala came to New York to seek colonization for his empresario grants in southeastern Texas, transferring his interests to the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. "From December 1832 until..... Read More about Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America

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Item #346753 The Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having...

The Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having printed and published a libel against...

London: J. Almon, 1765. Zenger's trial represented the first case involving freedom of the press in America: “One of the famous decisions in legal history, establishing the epochal doctrine of the freedom of the press” (Howes). In 1733, John Peter Zenger published articles critical of the New York colonial Governor..... Read More about The Trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, Printer: Who was charged with having printed and...

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