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

281 c   (WAR OF 1812.) The Eagle and Harp; a Collection of Patriotic and Humourous Songs and Odes. 120, 125-147 pages (but complete). 8vo, original boards, minor wear and soiling; minor foxing; several later owner’s inscriptions on front endpapers and title page dated 1863. Baltimore, MD: J. &T.Vance and J. Cole, 1812 [400/600] A volume of patriotic songs (words only, no music) put out in reaction to theWar of 1812, with titles such as “John BullWill Get the Gripes,”“An Ode to theVolunteers of 1812,”“Let Foreigners Boast,” and more. On 24 November 1863, this volume was owned by George Eitemiller (1849-circa 1925) of McConnellsburg, PA; he was then attending telegraph school in nearby Chambersburg. Four months after the Confederates swept through his region and were defeated at Gettysburg, and just 5 days after Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, young Eitemiller was overcome by patriotism and inscribed the volume 4 times in pencil, writing on the title page “Hurrah for Liberty & Union.” His son George Floyd Eitemiller would later die on the Titanic in 1912. Not inWegelin; Sabin 21615 (giving the title as “Eagle and Hawk”); Shaw & Shoemaker 25311. None known at auction since a Swann sale, 24 July 1980, lot 124. 282 c   WASHINGTON, GEORGE. The President’s first annual State of the Union address, in an issue of the Massachusetts Centinel. 4 pages, 14 3 / 4 x 9 3 / 4 inches, on one folding sheet; disbound, minor wear and dampstaining. [Boston], 16 January 1790 [500/750] Most of the front page is devoted to Washington’s first annual address to Congress. He urges that the nation be prepared to “punish aggressors” among the “hostile tribes of Indians,” and hopes for a “competent fund designated for defraying the expences incident to the conduct of our foreign affairs,” The longest section is devoted to “the promotion of Science and Literature,” possibly through “the institution of a national university,” asserting that “Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.” News of North Carolina’s approval of the Constitution is noted in his address and in a separate news article. 283 c   (WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Tuckerman, Henry T. The Character and Portraits of Washington. 13 plates. 104 pages. 4to, original cloth gilt portfolio, lacking cloth ties, moderate wear to backstrip; moderate foxing; unbound, uncut, unopened, one of 156 copies, this copy not numbered. NewYork, 1859 [400/600] The plate list calls for 12; the plate of “Greenough’sWashington” at the end of the volume is unlisted. Issued in a small limited edition; no copies traced at auction since 1970, and only one original copy found on OCLC. 284 c   (WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Washington’s Political Legacies. 208, xiv pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, rebacked; without the portrait as usual, intermittent toning, minor dampstaining to final leaves; early owner’s signature on front free endpaper, later bookplate on front pastedown. Boston, 1800 [400/600] Includes a biography ofWashington by J.M.Williams. Evans 38998; Sabin 101750. 285 c   (WASHINGTON, GEORGE.) Group of 6 Washington-related engravings. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1794-1849 and undated. [400/600] Sartain after Savage. [The Washington Family.] Hand-colored mezzotint, 24 1 / 2 x 32 inches; proof before lettering, laid down on paper. Np, undated * Sadd after Matteson. Washington Delivering his Inaugural Address. Hand-colored engraving, 20 3 / 4 x 26 inches to sight; laid down in mat. New York: John Neale, 1849 * Le General Washington, Commandant en Chef des Armees Americaines. Engraving, 9 1 / 4 x 6 3 / 4 inches, laid down on paper. Np, undated * Holloway. Genl. Washington. Engraving, 12 1 / 4 x 10 inches, laid down on board. Np, 1794 * After Washington Hood. The Tomb of Washington. Etching, 9 x 13 1 / 2 inches. Np, undated * Sartain after Strickland. The Washington Monument, to be Erected in Washington Square, Phila. Mezzotint, 17 1 / 4 x 11 3 / 4 inches. Np, undated.