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

55 FRONTIER PRINTING 55 c   (BIBLE IN GERMAN—NEW TESTAMENT.) Das Neue Testament unsers Herrn und Heilandes Jesu Christi. 537, [3] pages. 12mo, contem- porary calf, minor wear, lacking clasps; dampstaining, foxing. Somerset, PA: Friedrich Goeb, 1814 [700/1,000] The first separately printed NewTestament west of the Allegheny Mountains, following Goeb’s complete folio Bible of 1813. Shaw & Shoe- maker 30871;Wright, page 154. 56 c   (BLIND.) [Howe, Samuel Gridley.] [Blind Child’s Second Book.] [10], 14-57, [2] leaves of embossed text. Oblong 8vo, contemporary 1 / 2 calf, moderate wear; lacking free endpapers and the first 3 leaves, shaken, hinges split, minor wear. [Boston: New England Institution for the Education of the Blind, 1836] [400/600] A book printed in raised Boston Line Type, a precursor to Braille which used the modified shapes of actual letters. The book contains the Ten Commandments and a series of lessons, concluding with a description of the solar system illustrated by two full-page diagrams. Inscribed with the name of William Hatch (1833-after 1875), very likely the young man from Bristol, RI who was sent at state expense to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in 1845 and remained there for several years. The school report boasted that “books in raised letters for the blind can be procured there.” (Report of the Commissioner of Public Schools of the State of Rhode Island, January 1854, page 4). OCLC lists only 4 surviving copies, only one of them apparently complete; the Perkins School for the Blind has images of an appar- ently complete copy on line. 57 c   BRYANT,WILLIAM CULLEN, editor. Picturesque America. Numerous plates and illustrations. viii, 568; [2], vi, 576, [2] pages. 2 volumes. Large 4to, publisher’s gilt pictorial morocco, minor wear with tasteful repairs to corners; a few leaves coming loose inVolume II, otherwise minimal wear to contents; early pencil gift inscriptions on front free endpapers. NewYork, 1872 [250/350] 58 c   (BURR,AARON.)Van Ness,William Peter (“Aristedes”). An Examination of the Various Charges Exhibited against Aaron Burr. [4], 116 pages. 8vo, later 1 / 2 morocco, moderate wear; moderate foxing, author’s name in ink on title page. [Philadelphia?]: Privately printed, 1804 [200/300] Second edition, expanded. Howes V37; Sabin 98530; Tompkins Burr 103.