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

110 110 c   (DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.) [Hacker, Francis; photographer?] Mammoth photograph of the Capitol and environs. Albumen print, 15 1 / 4 x 21 inches, mounted on linen-backed paper; formerly rolled; minimal wear. Washington, DC, circa 1870 [3,000/4,000] This view was apparently taken from the Smithsonian Institution building, looking east across the National Mall to the United States Capitol. The greenhouse of the United States Botanic Garden (constructed in 1867) can be seen just in front of the Capitol, with the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad crossing over in the foreground. The photographer is uncredited, but the view resembles another at the Library of Congress credited to Hacker. 111 c   (EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINT—1726.) Willard, Samuel. A Compleat Body of Divinity in Two Hundred and Fifty Expository Lectures. [2], iv, 3, [3], 158, 177- 914, [1] pages. Folio, contemporary paneled calf, moderate wear, rebacked; lacks frontispiece as usual, marginal repairs to title page; title page in red and black; early inscriptions on title page and endpapers, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Boston: Green and Kneeland, 1726 [400/600] “The first folio volume, other than Laws, and the largest work up to this time printed in the United States”—Evans 2828. Sabin 104075; Streeter sale II:675. Provenance: Jonathan Fuller (rear free endpaper); gift from the Rev. Richard Salter (1721-1787) to his grand-nephew Richard Salter Storrs (1763-1819) in 1782 (front free endpaper); M.S. Carothers (bookplate).