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

260 260 c   (TEXAS.) Willis, J. The Texas Quick Step, as Performed by the Military Bands. 3 pages on two detached leaves, with lithograph illustration on title, 13 1 / 2 x 10 1 / 4 inches; inked page numbers in upper corners, pencil notes on music. New York: Hewitt & Jaques, 1841 [1,000/1,500] The cover depicts a bayonet-wielding soldier on the march to Texas, with a long line of others in the background behind him. Three variant issues have been traced, with other copies naming Willis as pub- lisher on the title page (priority undetermined); a Firth and Hall imprint appears to be later. Streeter, Texas 1402. None traced at auction, and 4 in OCLC of the two early issues. 261 c   (TEXAS.) Johnston, Joseph E., et al. Reports of the Secretary of War, with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonio to El Paso. 2 folding maps with hand-colored routes, 72 plates (some color). 250 pages. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, worn, backstrip chipped and coming detached; short closed tear top one map; early pencil gift inscription on front free endpaper. 31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 64. Washington, 1850 [400/600] The official reports of the expeditions which opened upWestTexas to American settlement. Many of the plates relate to American Indians. Graff 2228; Howes J170 (“aa”); Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 111; Raines, page 128 (calls for only 71 plates); Sabin 36377;Wagner-Camp 184. 262 c   (THEATER.) Pilon, Frederick. The Fair American: A Comic Opera in Three Acts. [4], 9-68 pages. 8vo, disbound; minor foxing. London, 1785 [250/350] first complete edition of a play first produced in London in 1782; the songs were published by themselves that year.The plot follows young Angelica, a refugee uprooted from South Carolina by the Revolution. She goes on to marry a British officer, and the closing scene plays to British fantasies of a restored empire: “The first toast after supper shall be ‘The union of England and America!’ . . .Then would Britain soon behold / Peace return, a pilgrim blest! / And the parent state enfold / All her children to her breast!” Sabin 62861; none of any edition traced at auction since a Dublin edition at Swann, 6 March 1958. 261