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

45 c   (AVIATION.) Signed photo of aviator Frank Goldsborough. Photograph, 7 x 9 3 / 4 inches; closed incision and small perforation in image area, other light wear; faint stamp on verso. Np, [1930] [600/900] For every aviator who gained enduring fame in the early days of flight, probably ten more died in the attempt. Frank H. Goldsborough (1910-1930) was born in Washington D.C. and raised in New York City. His father was an aviator who died in a crash in 1927. Frank followed in his footsteps and piloted the biplane American Boy to the junior transcontinental speed record in May 1930, and gained a degree of national celebrity through a series of New York Times columns in which he described his exploits. Two months later, he crashed his plane in Vermont and died of his injuries the following day. This photo, signed “Best Regards, Frank H. Goldsborough, American Boy,” was produced by the New York Times’s own photo service, Wide World Photos, and thus dates from the very brief period of Goldsborough’s fame. 45 46 c   (BIBLE IN ENGLISH.) Brown, John;editor. The Self-InterpretingBible. Folding map, 19 plates. [500], [550] pages. 2 volumes. Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked with portion of original backstrips laid down, moderate wear; leaves b1-2 misbound after c2; minor dampstaining, intermittent minor foxing, repairs to map, 3 plates, and 5 text leaves, lacking leaf G2 in Apocrypha; with the 8-page subscriber list at end (often lacking); manuscript Cahoon family register on one blank leaf facing New Testament title page, John Howell bookplate on first front pastedown. NewYork: Hodge and Campbell, [1790]-1792 [600/900] first american edition . The first Bible printed in NewYork, issued in 40 parts over two years. Although issued as the posthumous work of a Scottish editor,the plates wereAmerican and it was promoted with patriotic fervor. The frontispiece features the New York seal and allegorical figures of religion, liberty, and America holding the Constitution and the Bible. Evans 22348, 23181, 24099; Hills 37;Wright, pages 102-9. 46