Something for Everyone A Christmas-Related Miscellany of Americana

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Story of the Dade Massacre 1. Alvord, Benjamin: ADDRESS BEFORE THE DIALECTIC SOCIETY OF THE CORPS OF CADETS, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE GALLANT CONDUCT OF THE NINE GRADUATES OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY, AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES' ARMY, WHO FELL IN THE BATTLES WHICH TOOK PLACE IN FLORIDA.... New York. 1839. 62pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Some foxing, light vertical crease through first half of text. Every good.

A rare speech delivered to the cadets of West Point on Dec. 29, 1838, giving a detailed account of both the Dade Massacre, fought in late December 1835, and the Battle of Okee-cho-bee, fought on Christmas Day in 1837. An important source for the two most significant military events of the Second Seminole War. HOWES A193. SABIN 987. $3250. 2. [Art]: DESCRIPTION OF THE MODEL OF ANCIENT JERUSALEM, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES AND THE WRITINGS OF JOSEPHUS. Boston. 1849. 36pp. folding plate. Original printed wrappers. A trifle dust soiled. Some chipping at spine. Else very good. Exhibition guide issued for the Boston showing of Brunetti's model of ancient Jerusalem. The folding plate is a map of the model. There was also an engraving published which this explained. $300. 3. Barnard, George N.: SAVANAH [sic], GA. No. 1. [New York. 1866]. Albumen photograph from a negative taken in 1866, 10 x 13 7/8 inches, on original two-tone gilt-edged thin card mount, 15 7/8 x 19 1/4 inches, with plate title and photographer's credit. Areas of mild discoloration throughout; repaired tear to mount, right edge. Else good. A stunning image from Barnard's PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN, an album which is one of the two greatest photographic monuments to the Civil War and "a landmark in the history of photography" (Keith F. Davis). A contemporary reviewer wrote of this image and its companions: "These photographs...surpass any other photographic views which have been produced in this country - whether relating to the war or otherwise" (HARPER'S WEEKLY, Dec. 8, 1866, p.771). George N. Barnard's PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN, EMBRACING SCENES OF THE OCCUPATION OF NASHVILLE, THE GREAT BATTLES AROUND CHATTANOOGA AND LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, THE CAMPAIGN OF ATLANTA, MARCH TO THE SEA, AND THE GREAT RAID THROUGH THE CAROLINAS (1866), together with Alexander Gardner's PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCHBOOK OF THE CIVIL WAR (1866), are the two greatest photographic monuments of the Civil War. Between them they contain some of the most famous images of the War. This photograph shows the warehouses on the Savannah River, which may well have contained the 250,000 bales of cotton that Sherman mentioned in his telegram to Lincoln in which he offered Savannah as a Christmas present. It is in any event a wonderful photograph illustrating one of the great non-casualties of the war. When Sherman arrived at the outskirts of Savannah and connected with the U.S. Naval forces on the coast, the destruction and agony of the city appeared to be inevitable. However, the Confederate troops evacuated the city, the Mayor surrendered, and Savannah was spared. The bright sunny day enhanced by thick, fast-moving clouds (transposed by Barnard onto the photograph) seems to celebrate the great military non-event. There is a double-wheeled steamboat docked on the river. DE RENNE, p.1317. HOWES B150, "b." SABIN 3462. Taft, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN SCENE, pp.232, 486. George N. Barnard, PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN..., with a new preface by Beaumont Newhall (New York, 1977). Keith F. Davis, GEORGE N. BARNARD PHOTOGRAPHER OF SHERMAN'S CAMPAIGN (Kansas City, Mo., 1990). $1500. Handsome Binding 4. [Bible]: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED. New York: American Bible Society, 1841. 431,112pp. Contemporary red pebbled morocco, gilt, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed. Minor foxing, mostly to exterior leaves. Very good. Stereotyped edition of the New Testament, in a nice contemporary binding.

$200.

First Greek New Testament Printed in America 5. [Bible in Greek]: HE KAINE DIATHEKE. NOVUM TESTAMENTUM. JUXTA EXEMPLAR JOANNIS MILLII ACCURATISSIME IMPRESSUM. Worcester, Ma.: Excudebat Isaias Thomas, Jun., 1800. 478pp. Later calf. Text block stained, else good. The first Greek New Testament printed in America, printed by Isaiah Thomas and edited by Caleb Alexander. EVANS 36952. $500. Earliest Obtainable Oklahoma Imprint, First Part of the Bible Translated into Cherokee 6. [Cherokee Language]: Worcester, Samuel Austin, and Elias Boudinot, [translators]: THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO JOHN. TRANSLATED INTO THE CHEROKEE LANGUAGE. Park Hill: Mission Press. John F. Wheeler, printer, 1838. 101pp. 12mo. Original cloth spine and marbled boards. Very minor soiling and wear. Presentation inscription from Elias Boudinot on front flyleaf. Some light foxing but internally clean. Very good plus. Rare first edition of this early Park Hill Mission imprint. Printed entirely in Cherokee except for part of the title, which is in English, this work uses Sequoyah's syllabary (generally called the "Cherokee alphabet"). This is the fourteenth surviving Oklahoma imprint and the third piece to come off the Park Hill Mission press. The first press in the territory was established at Union Mission in 1835, and eleven imprints survive, printed between late 1835 and June of 1837. The press moved to Park Hill in the summer of 1837, and two imprints survive from that year - an almanac and a primer. This is the first imprint from 1838, and it is the first translation of any part of the New Testament into Cherokee. The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester and Elias Boudinot. Dr. Samuel A. Worcester (1798-1859), a missionary among the Cherokee for thirty-four years, had long recognized the potential of printed Cherokee to aid in the dissemination of religious knowledge. In December 1827 the MISSIONARY HERALD printed Worcester's eleven-line Cherokee translation of the first five verses of Genesis (rooted in the linguistic genius of Sequoyah) and contained the news that eighty-six pieces of Cherokee type were being cast in Boston. This type would be used to print the famous CHEROKEE PHOENIX newspaper and numerous other works in the Cherokee language. Elias Boudinot (1802-1839), known by his Cherokee name of Gallegina Uwati and also known as Buck Watie, was a promising young Cherokee of mixed parentage who had recently returned to Georgia after completing his education at the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut. He assisted Worcester with the present production and also served as editor of the PHOENIX. Boudinot later concluded that the Cherokees would be forced west of the Mississippi no matter what they did, and signed a treaty he felt gave them the best deal in lands in Oklahoma, an act for which he was eventually assassinated. The present copy of this rare little volume contains a presentation inscription from Boudinot to Mrs. Elizabeth Gerlick, written in both Cherokee and English. The English inscription reads, "Presented to Mrs. Elizabeth Gerlick by her friend Elias Boudinot, Cherokee Chief." Boudinot was assassinated in 1839, the year after this was published. Such a presentation inscription is, therefore, incredibly rare and desirable. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA 20. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHEROKEE) 10 (4th ed). PILLING, PROOF SHEETS 4225. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.173. $14,000. A Massive Civil War Archive of a New York Officer 7. [Civil War]: Mickle, William: [MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF OVER EIGHTY CIVIL WAR-DATED LETTERS, AN 1864 PERSONAL JOURNAL, A PERSONAL ROLL BOOK, TWO CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS, AND NUMEROUS POST-WAR LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS FROM CAPTAIN WILLIAM MICKLE, 134th NEW YORK INFANTRY REGIMENT]. [Various places. 1862-1865].

Approximately eighty Civil War-dated letters, an 1864 personal journal, a personal roll book, two contemporary photographs, and numerous post-war letters and documents. Typical age-toning, minor foxing, and soiling. Minor spotting to photographs. Overall, very good. An engaging and important Civil War archive from Captain William Mickle, consisting in part of over eighty Civil War-dated letters dated December 6, 1862, through May 30, 1865. Also included are two photographs and numerous post-war letters, battle descriptions, and documents. The two photographs of Mickle are a war-dated carte de visite featuring Mickle standing in uniform in a studio, and the other is a cabinet card showing Mickle circa 1870 (the card is stamped by Peck and Sons photographers). The war-dated letters are written from Mickle to various family members, and consist of significant content on the midnight battle at Wauhatchie, Tennessee, as well as content on the Chattanooga Campaign, the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea, and the final campaign through the Carolinas. The archive has been well cared-for and thoughtfully organized. The 134th New York Infantry Regiment mustered in for three years beginning in September 1862. At the age of twenty-three, William Mickle (1838-1922) enlisted as a private in 1862 at Duanesburg, New York, into Co. "H" of the regiment. He received several promotions throughout his service in the Civil War, from first sergeant, then to first lieutenant, sergeant, second lieutenant, and finally captain. The regiment participated in numerous engagements, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. For a short period, Mickle served as adjutant-general for General O. O. Howard; at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, he served under General U.S. Grant; and while serving under General Thomas Hooker, he was appointed Commissary and Quartermaster of a brigade of six batteries. He transferred to Co. "C" on June 16, 1864, and was discharged on June 9, 1865. After the war, Mickle became an educator and a Methodist minister serving large churches in New York. Many of Mickle's war-dated letters retain their original transmittal envelopes. On Dec. 19, 1862, only days after the Battle of Fredericksburg, Mickle writes that the battle "was a hard fight. Our troops had no breastworks & had to march right in front of a hundred cannon & they were slaughtered off like sheep....Our Lieutenant Colonel found our pickets & the Rebel pickets trading coffee for tobacco. Our boys had the coffee & the Rebels had the tobacco.... So goes this war business." Mickle's regiment arrived at Fredericksburg too late to participate in the main battle. On May 8, two days after the end of the Battle of Chancellorsville, Mickle informs his parents that he had "been in the terrific fight across the Rappahannock." On May 26, 1863, he expresses strong feelings toward the Confederate leadership following the death of Stonewall Jackson: "we hear favorable news from the S.W. I hope Genl. Grant will accomplish all we anticipate. Genl. Jackson (or Stonewall Jackson) is dead. I wish all the Rebel leaders would either die or give up their deluded principles." Following the Battle of Gettysburg, he writes about the Union pursuit of Lee's fleeing army on July 21, 1863 (in part): "We are again in Va. pursuing the flying Rebels as we move toward Richmond. Our Cavalry & Flying Artillery are constantly falling upon their rear making sad havoc among their trains & capturing many prisoners." Mickle and the 134th participated in the Chattanooga Campaign in October and November 1863. From "Head Quarters Artillery II Corps. Lookout Valley, Tenn." on Nov. 4, 1863, just six days after the Battle of Wauhatchie, which began at midnight on October 28, Mickle writes home about the battle. The suddenness of the Confederate assault took the Union Army by surprise: "Well you must not be surprised to see that we are now in Lookout Valley under that notorious mountain, where the Rebs have been stationed this long time, occasionally popping a 20 pound shell into the town of Chattanooga at our boys. But Fighting Joe Hooker knows how to skedaddle the Johnies! Our troops moved from Bridgeport, Ala. last week to this place but after they had driven the Rebs from the valley had all quietly lain down to sleep about 12 O'clock at night, they came down from the mountain & pounced upon us, evidently with the intent to annihilate us, but our gallant boys 'couldn't see it in that light' as they say, so they jumped up amid the leaden shower, seized their guns & went into the Johnies like a dose of salt....The fight lasted till about 3 in the morning when our boys charged up the heights & drove them in confusion from field."

Mickle gives another account of his experiences in Lookout Valley in another letter to his wife, Oleavia. As the presidential election of 1864 approached, Mickle's letters contain some of his political opinions. For example, in one dated Oct. 26, 1864, he writes that "One or two such triumphs before Election would make McClellan retire from the scene in disgust. 'Honest Abe' would run alone! The Darkies had a torchlight procession here the other night & a 'Little Mac' satellite threw stones into the crowd when one of the Guards sent him his compliments in the shape of a blue-gill!" Perhaps most interesting among this deep collection of letters are the numerous examples with content about Mickle’s march with Sherman toward the Atlantic. From "around Atlanta" the soldier writes on Aug. 4, 1864, "We are advancing the right wing of our army toward East Point about 6 miles below Atlanta....Our cavalry burned 700 wagons of Hood's Head Quarter train & their supply train & did them much damage." Later on Dec. 19, 1864, "Before Savannah," Mickle writes that "Genl. Sherman sent in a demand for the surrender of the city & rec'd the reply yesterday at 10 a.m. of course it was in the negative & we are to take the place in Sherman's own time." Days later on Christmas Eve in Savannah, the soldier wrote his wife to "narrate to others that your husband has been with Sherman in both his brilliant campaigns & shared the glory so justly attributed to the captors of Atlanta & Savannah." The work wasn't finished, though: "he [Sherman] may have another short campaign prepared for us through South Carolina." Mickle's final letters were written during that final campaign under Sherman in North and South Carolina. From Goldsborough, North Carolina, on April 9, 1865 (the day of Lee's surrender), he writes, "We may have a little fighting here with Joe Johnston, but it will not amount to much now. Our army alone can whip the Confederacy combined while Grant has his mighty army ready with Thomas in East Tenn. with another large body of troops." Events continued to occur quickly during April. Mickle reports on April 22, 1865, about the sad news of the assassination of President Lincoln: "Of course, you have heard all about the cruel assassination of our late President....All had begun to appreciate the virtues of that great & noble man....Our Country has lost one of her ablest statesmen & the South have killed their best friend he was just ready to forgive them the highest crime a man can be guilty of, viz., treason." Mickle's 1864 leather-bound journal is also included. The journal was printed for the 1863 calendar year, but Mickle used it for 1864, often striking through the printed dates. The journal includes important content regarding the Atlanta Campaign. For example in his entry for May 8, 1864, Mickle writes about the Battle of Rocky Face Ridge: "Moved 6 miles & attacked . . . [illegible] in Rocky Face Ridge under Genl [John W.] Geary & made several charges but could not carry the fight and held them. lost severely. Returned alone to Hed. Qrs. about 9 P.M. Quietly well 'played out.'" Lists and other military-related annotations are also included in the journal. Near the back are two pages of verse from a "Darkey Melody" written in the vernacular of slaves. Mickle's war-dated roll book, ca. 1862, is also included containing lists of soldier's names from Co. "H." In addition are many pages of Mickle's post-war manuscript notes and narratives of his war-time service, with titles such as "Thomas' on the assault of the Ridge," "Pollard on this assault of Mission Ridge," and "On Barbarities of our Soldiers." Notes also included are those on the Gettysburg campaign, the March to the Sea, and more. Seven letters written to Mickle during the war are additionally included. One example is a two-page letter written from two Southern belles from Arellton, Virginia, transmitting gifts to Union officers and asking Mickle to visit. The ladies sign "Secesh" after their names, but they address the letter to "Lieutenant Mickle / 'not' Yankey." Numerous additional post-war items are included, most dated from the late-1860s through the first decade of the 1900s. These items include Mickle's 1894 diary, military pension documents, estate documents, insurance policies, Methodist documents, newspaper articles, election documents, telegraphs, personal family items, prayer and sermon notes, an 1866 letter of commendation for Mickle's war-time service signed by New York Gov. Reuben Fenton, his 1871 Master Mason certificate, and numerous letters and envelopes. Also included is Mickle's copy of Mackey's MASONIC RITUALIST: OR MONITORIAL INSTRUCTIONS (New York: Clark & Maynard, 1867).

A voluminous Civil War archive from an experienced officer who served the 134th New York during the heart of the conflict. An important collection for information on Sherman's March. $17,500. 8. [Confederate Imprint]: TANNHAUSER; OR, THE BATTLE OF THE BARDS. A POEM. By Neville Temple and Edward Trevor [pseudonyms]. Mobile: S..H. Goetzel & Co. 1863. 125pp. Half morocco and plain boards, spine gilt. Old stamp on titlepage and several other leaves; tanned. Good. An odd literary flowering in the embattled Confederacy. Parrish & Willingham attribute actual authorship to Julian H.C. Fane and Edward R. Bulwer-Lytton. S.H. Goetzel produced a number of fictional works during the war, including issues of Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS and A CHRISTMAS CAROL. All Confederate literature is quite scarce. PARRISH & WILLINGHAM 6313. CONFEDERATE HUNDRED 29. CRANDALL 3138. $500. Cook's Third Voyage, to Hawaii and the Northwest Coast 9. Cook, James, and James King: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FOR MAKING DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPTAINS COOK, CLERKE, AND GORE, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS THE RESOLUTION AND DISCOVERY; IN THE YEARS 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, AND 1780. London: Printed by H. Hughs for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. Three text volumes: Titles with engraved medallion vignettes; twenty-four engraved maps, coastal profiles, and charts (thirteen folding); folding letterpress table. Atlas: Sixty-three engraved plates, charts, and maps (including one folding map and one double-page map). Quarto text volumes: Contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine gilt, black morocco labels. Large folio atlas: Expertly bound to style in half tree calf and marbled boards, spine gilt uniform to the text volumes. Very good. Provenance: John Hutton (armorial bookplate in the text). A fine set of the second and best edition of the official account of Cook's third and last voyage, during which he explored Hawaii and the west coast of America, Canada, and Alaska. "Cook's third voyage was organized to seek the Northwest Passage and to return [the islander] Omai to Tahiti. Officers of the crew included William Bligh, James Burney, James Colnett, and George Vancouver. John Webber was appointed artist to the expedition. After calling at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society Islands, the expedition sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands, which Cook named the Sandwich Islands. Cook charted the American west coast from Northern California through the Bering Strait as far north as latitude 70 degrees 44 minutes before he was stopped by pack ice. He returned to Hawaii for the winter and was killed in an unhappy skirmish with the natives. Charles Clarke took command and after he died six months later, the ships returned to England under John Gore. Despite hostilities with the United States and France, the scientific nature of this expedition caused the various governments to exempt these vessels from capture. The voyage resulted in what Cook judged his most valuable discovery - the Hawaiian Islands" Hill. The typography of the second edition text of the third voyage is generally considered superior to the first (Hughs took over the printing from Strahan and reset all the text). Contemporary support for this view is reported by Forbes, who quotes an inscription in a set presented by Mrs. Cook to her doctor, Dr. Elliotson, which notes: "the letter press of the second edition being much superior to the first both in paper & letter press." An attractive set of Cook's third voyage, with the plates in the atlas free of any foxing and with strong impressions of the plates. HILL 361 (1st ed). HOLMES 47. SABIN 16250. STREETER SALE 3478. HOWES C729a, "b." WAGNER, NORTHWEST COAST 695-699, 701. LADA-MOCARSKI 37. FORBES 85. BEDDIE 1552. $24,000. Rare American Edition 10. [Cook, James]: CAPT. COOK'S THIRD AND LAST VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, IN THE

YEARS 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, & 1780. Philadelphia: W. Woodward, for B. Johnson, 1796. 252pp. 12mo. Modern pink paper boards, printed paper label. Light dampstaining and soiling to text, heavier in some places. Good plus. "Faithfully abridged from the quarto edition." An abridged children's version of Capt. James Cook's third and final voyage, on which he was murdered by natives. The third voyage was undertaken to continue the British survey of the Pacific, but most particularly to search for a northwest passage from the western side. Sailing in 1776, the expedition called at Kerguelen Island, Tasmania, New Zealand, and the Cook, Tonga, and Society islands, then sailed north and discovered Christmas Island and the Hawaiian Islands. They then thoroughly explored and charted the Northwest Coast from the Bering Straits along the coast of Alaska and Canada, as far south as present northern California. Returning to Hawaii in 1778, the expedition was at first received warmly; but after departing and being forced to return to repair a mast, trouble developed which led to a tragic series of events in which the great navigator was killed. Relatively scarce, with fewer than ten copies listed in ESTC. EVANS 30276. ESTC W37314. FORBES 257. $2000. 11. [Cook's Third Voyage]: A VIEW OF CHRISTMAS HARBOR IN KERGUELEN'S LAND. London. [ca. 1784]. Engraving. Folio. Matted, suitable for framing, with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE.

$100.

12. Dobie, J. Frank: THE LONGHORNS. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1941. vii-xxiii,388pp. plus numerous illustrations by Tom Lea. Original pictorial cloth. Presentation inscriptions on front free endpaper and half title. Bookplate of Donald Bloch on front pastedown, with an envelope addressed to him with enclosed materials laid in. Near fine. First edition, trade issue. Warmly inscribed to both Donald Bloch and V.M. Yost by the author. Donald Bloch, a longtime Denver bookseller, most likely had Dobie sign the copy he had acquired with the inscription to Yost. The laid-in envelope includes a book review by Dobie and a small press work commissioned by Jack and Rosalie Reynolds. The work entreats recipients to do what they can to bring rain in time for Christmas, so that Dobie may be relieved of the melancholy that a persistent drought has caused him. "Dobie himself described this book as a 'history of the Longhorn breed, psychology of stampedes; days of maverickers and mavericks; stories of individual lead steers and outlaws of the range; stories about rawhide and many other related subjects. The book attempts to reveal the blend made by man, beast, and range.' One of the true classics of range cattle literature" Reese. SIX-SCORE 32. ADAMS HERD 694. DOBIE, p.102. DYKES, KID 295. DYKES, LEA 135,136. GRAFF 1099. HOWES D375. 44&44 18. McVICKER A9a(2). $500. 13. Drepperd, Carl W.: A NATIONAL PRIMER IN THE MODERN MANNER EMBELLISHED WITH FIFTEEN CONTEMPORARY WOODCUTS. Metuchen, New Jersey: Charles F. Heartman, 1927. [19]pp. Illus. Original stiff printed wrappers, cord stitching. Slight edge tanning to wraps. Otherwise very good. From an edition of 200 copies. Humorous Christmas greeting put out by a famous eccentric American bookseller. Illustrated with reproductions of colonial-style woodcuts, but with 20th-century commentary applied to the images. $30. An American Printer at Sea 14. Duffy, Edward Paul: PRIVATE JOURNAL OF EDWARD PAUL DUFFY, PRINTER, U.S. FLAGSHIP TRENTON, EUROPEAN SQUADRON, BEGINNING IN MARSEILLE, FRANCE [manuscript title]. [At sea, primarily in the Mediterranean]. 1880-1881. [186]pp. plus 26 blank pages. Includes many newspaper clippings and pamphlets. Quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and paper boards. Spine nonexistent at foot. Calf significantly rubbed, missing in most places. Boards rubbed, loose. Text clean, brittle, but loosely bound; some pages loose. Text in good condition. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label.

Edward Paul Duffy was a soldier and printer aboard the U.S.S. Trenton. During his time on board, Duffy printed the TRENTON HERALD, a twice monthly newspaper. Newspaper clippings pasted to the front board of his journal portray Duffy as the pioneer of American amphibious printing and estimate his readership to number one thousand. Duffy also served as a correspondent to the BALTIMORE SUN, writing of the activities of the European Squadron and his experiences in various Mediterranean cities. Clippings of his articles from the BALTIMORE SUN are tipped in, as well as some pieces of his shipboard printing, INSPECTION OF POWDER DIVISION and COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TIMES OF EVOLUTIONS DURING INSPECTION OF EUROPEAN SQUADRON. Duffy's journal records the daily weather, activities aboard the Trenton, and his trips off the ship in cities such as Madeira and Villefranche. He frequently notes his press and letters or activities related to it, such as the printing of a program for the Snowflakes, which performed before Christmas of 1880, and subscriptions made to his paper by prominent Americans such as capitalist J.W. Mackay. The Trenton sailed home for the centennial celebration of the victory at Yorktown, but Duffy was honorably discharged after two years of service and discontinued his journal upon reaching the Chesapeake Bay. A wonderful record of shipboard printing in the American Navy. $2250. 15. Green, Thomas J.: JOURNAL OF THE TEXIAN EXPEDITION AGAINST MIER; SUBSEQUENT IMPRISONMENT OF THE AUTHOR; HIS SUFFERINGS, AND FINAL ESCAPE FROM THE CASTLE OF PEROTE. WITH REFLECTIONS UPON THE PRESENT POLITICAL AND PROBABLE FUTURE RELATIONS OF TEXAS, MEXICO, AND THE UNITED STATES. New York. 1845. 487pp. plus eleven plates (including frontispiece) and two plans (one folding). Original blindstamped cloth, gilt, a near fine copy. Green enlisted as a volunteer for the retaliatory expedition into Mexico after the Mexican pillage of San Antonio. He co-led an unauthorized attack on the town of Mier on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande on Christmas day, 1842. The attempt to take over the town failed, and Green and the other Texans were taken as prisoners and led on an arduous overland trek to the Mexican fortress, Perote, near Vera Cruz. In what is known as the Black Bean Episode, some of the Texans were forced to draw beans from a jar, and those drawing black beans were executed. This was in accordance with Santa Anna's order that one in ten of the prisoners be shot as outlaws. After several months of hard labor, Green and a few others managed a dramatic escape from Perote. The events are recounted in vivid detail, and Dobie has commented that the author "lived in wrath and wrote with fire." The handsome engraved plates depict battles, executions, the Perote stronghold, Green's escape, and other dramatic scenes described in the account. "The most important account of the tragic Texan expedition against Mier" - Jenkins. "Green's is one of the most exciting accounts of the tragic affair of the Texian Expedition. As a participant Green was able to write a vivid and terrifying tale. He was particularly bitter toward Sam Houston and believed Houston was responsible for the deaths of those Americans shot as brigands" - Graff. Houston was incensed at the publication of Green's book. In a speech in the U.S. Senate, Houston declared that the copy in the Library of Congress should be "expelled therefrom, and given to some of the sewers of the city." HOWES G371. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 80. STREETER TEXAS 1581. RADER 1670. JONES 1104. RAINES, p.98. SABIN 28562. GRAFF 1643. DOBIE, p.55. $1100. 16. Hall, James N.: [AUTOGRAPH NOTE, SIGNED, FROM JAMES N. HALL TO RAY DAVIS AT THE Baltimore Evening Sun, DISCUSSING POSTWAR CONDITIONS IN TAHITI]. Tahiti. Jan. 17, 1946. Pen and ink, 14 lines on engraved notecard headed "Tahiti, French Oceania." With mailing envelope addressed in Hall's hand. Fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, leather label. Prolific author James Norman Hall (1887-1951), best known for his Bounty trilogy and other collaborations with Charles Nordhoff (1887-1947), gives his correspondent a pithy review of conditions in Tahiti just after the end of the second world war:

"Dear Davis! "Your Christmas greeting came by the first mail we have had from the U.S.A. in ten weeks. The service to our part of the Pacific is still haphazard, although I think there will soon be an improvement. Tahiti is still perfect from my point-of-view - the island, I mean. The people on it are another matter, but it is too much to expect its inhabitants, particularly the white inhabitants, to live up to the island itself...." $500. First Hawaiian Bible Issued as a Single Publication 17. [Hawaiian Bible]: KA PALAPALA HEMOLELE A IEHOVA KO KAKOU AKUA O KE KAUOHA KAHIKO A ME KE KAUOHA HOU I UNUHIIA MAILOKO MAI O NA OLELO KAHIKO.... Oahu & Honolulu: Na Na Misionari I Pai, 1843. 1451pp. Large, thick octavo. Contemporary ruled Hawaiian sheep. Binding rubbed, minor wear at extremities of joints. Small insect track in extreme lower edge of first eight leaves. Ink stamp of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Library on front pastedown, verso of titlepage, and final text page. Scattered foxing and age toning. Very good, in original condition. In a half morocco box. The first joint publication of the Old and New Testaments as an entity in the Hawaiian language, printed for the American Bible Society at the Mission Presses in Oahu (Old Testament) and Honolulu (New Testament). A number of printings of various books or groups of books of the Bible were printed as early as 1827, and the first Hawaiian printing of the New Testament appeared in 1835, with the Old Testament following in 1838. These printings are frequently found bound together, although issued separately. This is the first publication of the complete approved text as an entity, paginated continuously, and issued as one book. The New Testament has its own titlepage (p.1129) and imprint. The verso of the first titlepage bears the words, "Ka lua o ke pai ana" (the second printing), referring to the only other printing of the entire Old Testament in 1838 at the same press. A second printing of the entire Bible was made later in 1843; but curiously enough, Judd, et al, record no other complete printing of the Bible in the Hawaiian language through 1899. A handsome copy of an important Hawaiian Bible, in a Hawaiian binding. JUDD 265. FORBES 1416. HUNNEWELL, pp.24-25.

$7500.

Rare and Early Hawaiian Hymnal 18. [Hawaiian Hymnal]: [Bingham, Hiram]: O KE KUMU LEOMELE, NO NA HIMENI A ME NA HALELU E HOOLEA AKU AL I KE AKUA. [bound with:] NA HIMENI HAWAII, ME NA LEOMELE; OIA KA LUA O NA HAPA O KE KUMU LEOMELE. Oahu: Na Na Misionari, 1834-1837. 360pp. Separate titlepage on p.57, with continuous pagination. 12mo. Contemporary blue-green cloth boards, rebacked in later calf, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and edgeworn. Bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing. Good. This is the first work printed in Hawaii that includes musical scoring, and a rare Hawaiian hymnal and manual. The first part is comprised of a musical and singing instruction manual, while the final three hundred pages are a hymnal, including some 194 religious hymns in Hawaiian. The first part translates: "The rules of music for hymns and psalms to praise God." The second part translates: "Hawaiian hymns with their music; the second part of the rules of music." Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), who produced this work, was a Congregational missionary in Hawaii from 1820 to 1841. In 1825 he began his translation of the New Testament, and by 1839 he and his associates had translated the entire Bible. "Although dated 1834 this book was so difficult to produce at the Mission Press that it was not completed until three years later. Present day Hawaiian music is based in part on the music taught by the missionaries so this is a particularly interesting example of early printing in the Islands" - Streeter. FORBES 917. BALLOU, BOOKS IN THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE 129. JUDD 110. STREETER SALE 3759. $5000.

With Handsome Images of the Holy Land 19. [Holy Land]: ALBUM MISSIONIS TERRAE SANCTAE. PARS PRIMA JUDAEA ET GALILAEA. [with]: PARS ALTERA SYRIA, CYPRUS, AEGYPTUS. Milan: Luigi Micheli, [1893]. Two volumes. [10],146,[4]; [4],147-263,[4] leaves. 263 photogravures. Printed on heavy stock. Thick, oblong quarto. Original stamped cloth with leather spines, gilt. Moderate wear to spine and corners. Small ink stamps on edges of text blocks, a few in text, not affecting images. Several leaves loose. Very good. Scarce work on Franciscan missions in the Holy Land. with 263 photogravures of places facing explanatory text. The first volume contains images of Judea and Galilee, while the second comprises illustrations of Syria, Cyprus, and Egypt. Illustrations include exterior scenes showing missions in their surroundings, town views, scenes of holy places, including the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem, interiors of the churches, scenes in the missions including printing shops and a variety of manufacturing shops, and group shots of friars with their students. A superb collection of images. $5000. 20. Hopkins, John H.: THREE KINGS OF ORIENT. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. New York. [1865]. Seven chromolithograph plates. Quarto. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Extremities lightly rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean and fresh. Very good.

This, the most successful of all American carols, was written and composed by Deacon Hopkins in 1857, and first published in his collection of Carols, Hymns & Songs in 1863. This is the first separately published edition. It is illustrated throughout by Hopkins and contains six exquisite chromolithographic miniatures - the Nativity, the Magi, Palm Sunday, the Ascension, Christ burdened beneath the Cross, and the Resurrection, as well as a plate reproducing the carol with music. Chromolithographs are by Julius Bien. $200. 21. [Hutton, Anthony Calvert]: BRITISH JUSTICE IN AFRICA; DEVELOPED IN OFFICIAL AND OTHER DOCUMENTS, CONCERNING CERTAIN RECENT PROCEEDINGS AT THE BRITISH FORTS ON THE COAST OF GUINEA: TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRODUCTION, BY THE ENGLISH EDITOR. London: Printed by and for J. Innes, [1815]. [2],xliv,149[i.e. 49]pp. Modern boards, leather label. Very good. An account of commercial mayhem and official incompetence at the small trading settlement of Annamaboe, ten miles from the Cape Coast Castle on the coast of Guinea. The trouble began on Dec. 22, 1814 when A.C. Hutton, a local trader, was interrupted in his work by a group of local native chiefs ("Pynins") in search of their customary Christmas allocation of liquor. Hutton shrugged off this request as inopportune, and "the Pynins replied by telling him, amid characteristic roaring and halloos, to leave their town directly; that they would beat the gong-gong and proclaim to the town that they had stopped his trade." Local British officials proved utterly unable to sort out the affair, and in the end Hutton and the governor of Annamaboe engaged in a fist fight. In a long introduction the unidentified editor of this account provides a good deal of horrific background to what was essentially a trivial dispute. Several incidents are described in which British traders are murdered. Very scarce. The NUC locates only three copies (MH-L, DHU, and NN). KRESS B6644. $850. 22. Kingsley, Charles: AT LAST: A CHRISTMAS IN THE WEST INDIES. New York. 1871. xii,[13]-465pp. plus advertisements. Frontis, plates, textual illus. Original gilt cloth. Some wear to extremities, a bit frayed at head of spine, scattered traces of foxing. A very good, tight copy. First American edition. The author toured the islands of the West Indies and offers many illustrations of what he saw as well as descriptive text of the customs of the natives and plant life. $70. Superb Chromolithographs 23. [Lee, Jean]: THE ILLUMINATED CHRISTIAN YEAR. [Np, but probably Philadelphia: Duffield Ashmead, ca. 1870]. Ten color plates, including titlepage. Slim folio. Contemporary brown cloth, gilt-lettered cover, a.e.g. Minor wear to covers, more particularly to spine; small repairs at head and toe of spine. Plates bright and clean. Very good. A curious American color plate book, produced by one of the most accomplished color printers, Duffield Ashmead. This production consists entirely of ten plates: an ornate title, followed by plates celebrating Advent, Christmas, the Epiphany, Lent, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, White [?] Sunday, and the Trinity. Each plate is accompanied by a prayer. Ashmead employed a broad palette of rich greens, purples, reds, and blues across his plates, to which he has added generous amounts of gilt. As early as 1868 he produced a series of children's book titled THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY, via the "color relief printing" process, an avant guard labor sufficient to place Ashmead at the forefront of color printing during his time. A lovely production. Quite scarce. Not in Bennett or McGrath. OCLC locates only a handful of copies. $1250. 24. [Moore, Clement C.]: OBSERVATIONS UPON CERTAIN PASSAGES IN MR. JEFFERSON'S NOTES ON VIRGINIA, WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE A TENDENCY TO SUBVERT RELIGION, AND ESTABLISH A FALSE PHILOSOPHY. New York. 1804. 32pp. Original plain wrappers, stitched. Rear wrapper torn, else near fine.

A violent attack on Jefferson and his book, by this arch-Federalist and author of TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Howes ascribes this work, incorrectly, to Nicholas Rogers. HOWES R416. GAINES 342. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 6812. $500. An Original Thomas Nast Cartoon of Lincoln's White House 25. Nast, Thomas: No. 2. THE SMALL WHITE HOUSE FOR THE LARGE STATESMEN [manuscript caption title]. [Np, but possibly New York. n.d., but possibly ca. 1864?]. Pen and ink manuscript cartoon, on heavy card stock measuring 8½ x 10½ inches. A few small chips, particularly to corners. Tear in lower left corner; some scuffing at center of image. Minor soiling. About very good. In a grey cloth folder, gilt leather label. An original cartoon by the father of the American political cartoon, Thomas Nast, signed by him in the lower right corner. The drawing shows the White House inhabited by sleeping giants; one man lays stretched prone along the top of the building, while a long pair of legs emerges from the front portico. Yet another pair of legs protrudes from the right side of the building, while a large set of hands and feet stick out of windows on the left side of the building. In the foreground, a black woman stands over an iron stove, cooking, with her washboard in the fountain on the lawn and a clothesline strung from the house to a post planted in the front yard. This almost certainly is a reference to Abraham Lincoln's White House, with the famously tall President sticking out of the windows. Thomas Nast (1840-1902) was a German-born political cartoonist who made famous many iconic American images, particularly through his work for HARPER'S WEEKLY. "Among Nast's most notable contributions to American popular art was his creation of lasting symbols. The best known was Santa Claus, who first appeared in 1862. Nast's Santa, a genial, rotund elf who distributed presents and good cheer, differed from the thin, ascetic precursors in European folklore, such as Père Noël or, in Bavaria, Pelze-Nicol. He became one of Nast's favorite subjects. To represent Tammany Hall, Nast seized upon the tiger's head used by Tweed and his associates as their emblem. In 1870 he devised the donkey to designate the Democrats, followed in 1874 with an elephant as the symbol of the Republican party" - ANB. ANB (online). $6500. 26. [Ojibwa Hymnal]: ANAMIE-NAGAMONAN KAKINA ENISHINABEWIIEG, KITCHITWAWINING KIJE-MANITO: KITCHITWAWINIG ENDASSO-WINSOIEG. Nipigon, Ontario. 1931. 370pp. Square quarto. Original black pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Small chip to titlepage. Near fine in publisher's cloth slipcase. A hymn book in the Ojibwa language, including hymns to be sung at Christmas, Vespers, in honor of various saints, and Latin hymns. Includes musical notations. No copies listed on OCLC. Scarce. $250. "These are the times that try men's souls" 27. Paine, Thomas: THE AMERICAN CRISIS. London: W.T. Sherwin, 1817. [2],196pp. Antique-style speckled sheep, gilt, red morocco label. Titlepage remargined at gutter, not affecting text. Titlelpage soiled. Minor foxing and toning. About very good. Untrimmed and partially unopened. Thid English collected edition of Paine's AMERICAN CRISIS series, featuring his immortal line, "These are the times that try men's souls," probably the most famous lines Paine ever wrote, and after the Declaration of Independence, the most ringing phrases of the struggle for independence. The first number of THE AMERICAN CRISIS was issued by Paine in December 1776 to help rejuvenate the patriot cause among the dispirited American soldiers after the defeats on Long Island and the loss of New York, and before Washington's victory at Trenton on Christmas, 1776 provided a ray of military hope. The publication proved an important boost to the morale of the American army, and later numbers soon followed (a total of thirteen parts plus two supernumerary issues were eventually issued, but only the first five were ever issued in separate pamphlet form, the later numbers making their debut in newspapers). HOWES P16 (ref). $1200.

Presentation from FDR to His Children 28. [Roosevelt, Franklin D.]: Lindley, Ernest K.: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: A CAREER IN PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY. Indianapolis. 1931. 379pp. plus frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt. Corners lightly worn, spine a bit sunned. Presentation inscription on front fly leaf. Very good. Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt, inscribed by him to his children: "For my very dear children, James & Betsy, from their devoted Pa. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Christmas 1931." A wonderful association. $5000. Inscribed by FDR, Charting the Way Out of the Great Depression 29. Roosevelt, Franklin D.: LOOKING FORWARD. [with:] ON OUR WAY. New York: John Day, 1933, 1934. 279,[1]; xiv,300,[1]pp. Original blue publisher's cloth, gilt. Light soiling to cloth of first title. Both jackets clipped at corners, some minor chipping and a few small tears. Both internally fresh and clean, with presentation inscription by the author on front fly leaf and bookplate on each front pastedown. Very good in a very good dust jacket, and near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed together in a custom blue cloth slipcase, cloth chemise with leather label for each volume. First edition of each title, both inscribed to Frederick Holbein at Christmas by Roosevelt the year each was published. In LOOKING FORWARD the newly inaugurated president reflects on the events leading to the Great Depression and the way forward out of the crisis. ON OUR WAY is the sequel volume, presenting Roosevelt's personal account of the first year of his administration and the ideals of the New Deal. LOOKING FORWARD is a fifth printing, while ON OUR WAY appears to be a first printing. $6500. A Pair of Early Charles Russell Pencil Sketches 30. [Russell, Charles M.]: [PAIR OF ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWINGS BY CHARLES RUSSELL, SHOWING SCENES OF AN INDIAN HUNTING WITH A RIFLE, AND A GROUP OF INDIANS RIDING HORSES]. [Great Falls, Mt. n.d., ca. 1900]. Each illustration drawn in pencil on the verso of a trade card of the Park Hotel, Great Falls, Montana, each card 3¼ x 5½ inches. Small stain in upper left corner of horse

riding drawing, faint crease in lower left corner of hunting drawing, else fine. In a folding green cloth chemise and green cloth slipcase, spine gilt. An outstanding pair of original pencil drawings by the great western illustrator, Charles Russell. One of the drawings shows a group of three Indian braves riding horses bareback at a high rate of speed. The lead rider is about to take a whip to his horse. The other illustration shows a male Indian holding a rifle and peering around a tree. Whether the brave's prey is animal or human is a question left to the imagination of the viewer. Both of these illustrations are drawn on the verso of trade cards of the Park Hotel of Great Falls, Montana. Charles Russell and his wife moved from Cascade to Great Falls, Montana in 1897. One of Russell's first paying jobs in Great Falls was to draw original illustrations on menus for a special Christmas dinner at the Park Hotel that December. These two sketches are unsigned, but their attribution to Charles M. Russell has been confirmed to us by Patrick Stewart, the former Director of the Amon Carter Museum and a leading Russell scholar. A pair of evocative sketches by one of the greatest western artists. $8500. A Ditty on Tahiti as Natural Paradise 31. [Tahiti]: THE SURPRISING LIFE AND VOYAGE OF TOM LAMBERT, SHEWING HOW HE LEFT ENGLAND MISERABLE AND RETURNED HAPPY [caption title]. London. [ca. 1840]. Broadside, 20 x 14½ inches. Ten woodcuts. Old fold lines. Light soiling. Loss along center fold, affecting one or two words of text. Center fold reinforced on verso. Still, about very good. A broadside written in forty-nine rhymed stanzas, detailing the miserable life of Englishman Tom Lambert, until he found religion and happiness among the savages of Tahiti. Upon arriving in Tahiti young Tom is amazed at the piety and peace of the evangelized natives - a stark contrast to the raucous environs of London to which he is accustomed. He laments: "These Mission Men, oh! would they go, / Said Thomas, to my home, / Salvation to my friends to shew, / That they might good become." The text seems to have been written in celebration of Christmas, with several mentions of the holiday in the text and wishes for a happy Christmas closing the text. Illustrated with cuts of ships and other sea-faring illustrations. Only five copies listed in OCLC, all in Australia and New Zealand. OCLC 220444180, 156818175. $850. Bible Stories in Chippewa 32. [Vogt, Casimir]: GETE-DIBADJIMOWIN TCHI BWA ONDADISID JESUS CHRIST GAIE JESUS O BIMADISIWIN GAIE O NIBOWIN. St. Louis: B. Herder, 1885. [2],140,[1]pp. including illustrations. 16mo. Frontis. Original sheep backed pink printed boards. Spine rubbed. Lightly tanned. Very good. Stories from the Old and New Testament, rendered in a narrative style in the Chippewa language. Included are retellings of the Creation, Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, Abraham and Isaac, the Ten Commandments, the Birth of Christ, the Sermon on the Mount, the Raising of Lazarus, and the Crucifixion, all accompanied by engravings. Rev. Casimir Vogt was a missionary to the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin. "A mixed-blood Indian from Red Cliff Reservation, named John Gordon, assisted in the preparation of this work" - Pilling. OCLC locates ten copies. PILLING ALGONQUIAN, p.518. AYER INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHIPPEWA) 151. $450.

Watercolors of Northern Siberian Tribes 33. Znamensky, Mikhail Stepanovich: [THREE WATERCOLORS SHOWING SCENES OF THE KHANTY PEOPLE, A NORTHERN SIBERIAN TRIBE FROM THE VICINITY OF TOBOLSK, PAINTED TO CELEBRATE THE 300th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF TOBOLSK AND THE ANNEXATION OF SIBERIA TO RUSSIA]. Tobolsk. [ca. 1880]. Three watercolors, 7½ x 10½ inches, matted to 13 x 16 inches. Fine. In a blue three-quarter cloth portfolio. A set of three lovely watercolors by Mikhail Stepanovich Znamensky, a prominent 19th-century Siberian artist, writer, historian, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Each is captioned in pencil and all are signed by the artist. The first scene shows two summer tents with three Khanty women seated in or just outside them. One woman holds a child. The second image is a winter snowscape showing a man with three reindeer standing outside a log cabin. The third scene depicts three Khanty people in traditional clothing standing in a dining room, with a Russian official seated on the left; a portrait of the Tsar hangs on the wall in the background and an animal skin is draped on the table. Very well educated as a religious artist, Znamensky was among the elite of Tobolsk and was close to many exiled members of the famous Decemberist revolt of 1825 (Puschin, Yakushkin, and others), as well as the outstanding Russian writer, Pyotr Yershov. Znamensky worked as a teacher in several religious and secular colleges in Tobolsk, was a translator of the Tatar language, and illustrated the literary works of Gogol, Yershov, Goncharov, and Tolstoy. He regularly published his caricatures in the magazines of Saint Petersburg. His main interest, however, was Siberian history and ethnography. Znamensky's essays and stories on Siberian history were regularly published in the local magazines, and several of his books on the subject were published in Tobolsk, Tyumen, and Saint Petersburg. In pursuance of his interest, Znamensky traveled extensively in Siberia, Central Asia, and the northern regions of Asiatic Russia in the 1850s and 1860s, making sketches and paintings of the landscapes and tribes. In 1872 his works were exhibited at the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition, where they were awarded the silver medal from Moscow University. The present watercolors are from a series of works created to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Tobolsk and the annexation of Siberia to Russia, which was celebrated in 1885. The artist took a special trip around the towns of the region, the result of which was a unique series of sketches and watercolors. From this body of work an album entitled "From Tobolsk to Obdorsk" was created, specially bound in birch bark. It was

comprised of thirty-two images showcasing local life in Tobolsk, Berezov, and Obdorsk, with images of local people, the surrounding area, and historical sketches. The album was exhibited in the Tobolsk Art Gallery in 1889. Later, in 1894, the heir to the Russian throne - the future Nikolai II - visited Tobolsk during his round-the-world trip. He was quite taken with the album, which he acquired for the high price of 800 roubles (per his inscription on the verso of the folder). The album came to the Emperor's library in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, and after the Revolution of 1917 it became part of the Russian State Library in Moscow where it currently resides. The three watercolors offered here were not part of that album, but are similar stylistically and clearly come from the same series. For example, the image with the three Khanty and the Russian official appears almost exactly in the album, with trivial changes in detail, such as a different color of tablecloth. Znamensky's watercolors weren't published in Russia before the Revolution of 1917. His album "From Tobolsk to Obdorsk" was printed in facsimile for the first time in 2008. His drawings were used, however, as illustrations in the first and only edition of the book by the Italian ethnographer and anthropologist, Stefano Sommier, UN' ESTATE IN SIBERIA FRA OSTIACCHI, SAMOIEDI, SIRIENI, TATARI, KIRGHISI e BASKIRI (Florence, 1885). This valuable report of Sommier's travels through Siberia in 188 contains fourteen interesting woodcuts based on Znamensky's watercolors and depicts Samoyeds and Ostyaks resting in their dwellings, riding deer, playing musical instruments, walking in market places, and more. Znamensky's original works can be found in many Russian state institutions. $12,500.