Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

200 200 c   (NEW YORK CITY.) Vue de la Nouvelle Yorck. Hand-colored engraving, 12 1 / 2 x 17 3 / 4 , plus some remnants of margin folded under; minor foxing. [Europe, circa 1780s?] [200/300] The mirror image of a more common New York waterfront scene engraved by Leizelt (see Cresswell 553). The title is reversed for use in a vue d’optique viewer. 199 c   (NEW YORK CITY.) Scrap- book and commonplace book of literary figure Henry M. Western. Approximately 250 pages. Folio, original 1 / 4 calf, worn, disbound with boards present; contents variously worn. New York and vp, 1812-57 [400/600] Henry Membery Western (1797-1853) was a wealthy New York City lawyer with a literary bent; he also owned an estate called Dosoris in Glen Cove, Long Island. Highlights include 6 letters addressed to Western; a card reading “The difference between an American and an African is only one letter and part of another. African / American”; Western’s 14-page manuscript play, “Malvina, or Fashionable Foibles,” dated 1820; and numerous original poems by Western, most signed with his pseud- onym Hans Ry Werter. Also laid down in the scrapbook is an engrav- ing by Henry’s father Thomas titled “Thomas Western’s Plan of Defence.” It depicts his pro- posed fortifications for New York in the War of 1812. We sold two other examples of this plan in our 27 April Americana auction, both also found among Henry Western’s papers, and have traced no other copies; we believe these to be the only 3 copies extant. with –a binder of modern genealogical notes on the Western family. 199