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

183 c   (NEW HAMPSHIRE.) Edgerly, Josiah B. Carpenter’s account book spanning thirty years. [156] manuscript pages. Folio, original 1 / 4 calf, minor wear, with “JB Edgerly” inked on front board; dampstaining, two leaves partially excised. Farmington, NH, 1833-64 [800/1,200] Josiah Bartlett Edgerly (1800-1888) of Farmington, NH is variously listed in census records and town histories as a wheelwright, carriage maker, and carpenter. Among the many products Edgerly recorded in this cash book are sleigh and wagon arms, whiffletrees, axles, gun stocks, chests, and coffins. He also undertook painting, varnishing, and various repairs. He also served as a deputy, justice of the peace, and surveyor at various points—but the extent of his woodworking is of primary interest here. 184 c   (NEWYORK.) Commonplace book of steamship employee James L. Jessup, including letters from Union College. [78] manuscript pages. Folio, original 1 / 2 calf, worn, vermin damage to lower backstrip extending slightly into inner margins; some pages torn out, contents clean and legible. Vp, 1841-44 [400/600] James Lewis Jessup (1825-1863) of Newburgh, NY was employed on the Hudson River steamer Highlander, which apparently gave him time to write or transcribe essays and poetry into this volume. Two of his apparently original essays, “The Mechanic” and “On the Steam Engine,” reflect his work. Perhaps most interestingly, Jessup transcribed 7 long letters from his cousin James Robert Graham (1824-1914), then a student at Union College in Schenectady, NY (and later a prominent Presbyterian minister). The letters, which fill the last 30 pages of the book, discuss hazing of freshmen, studies, and the local sights. 185 c   (NEWYORK.) Dunlap, Arthur Scott. Diary of a student during the closing months of the Civil War. [91] manuscript diary pages plus 7 pages of memoranda. 4to, original 1 / 4 calf, minor wear; contents clean and legible. Rutland and Cooperstown, NY, 1 January to 31 December 1865 [200/300] Arthur Scott Dunlap (1847-1869) was the son of a prosperous farmer in Rutland, up in far northern New York. 17 years old when the war ended, he did not enlist, but avidly followed war developments. Upon the fall of Richmond he wrote “The great Waterloo of the rebellion has been fought. Richmond is ours fairly, nobly, gallantly men. All honor to our brave soldiers and the skillful commanders” (6 April). Ten days later he wrote a long entry with a heavy black border: “The sad intelligence which reached us yesterday is alas but too true. Our honest, honored noble president killed by the hand of the assassin.” The last months of this diary were spent at the short-lived Cooperstown Semi- nary; he describes his arrival there on 23 August. Provenance: sold by Thomas Cullen to collector Milton R. Slater, 2007. 186 c   (NEW YORK.) Manual for the Use of the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State of New York. Folding plate tipped in from another volume. 371 pages. 8vo, original red calf, moderate wear, with Mackenzie’s name stamped in gilt on front board; moderate foxing, 1849 calendar laid down on front free endpaper; inked notes and underlining in some sections. NewYork, 1846 [400/600] This was the personal copy of William Lyon Mackenzie (1795-1861), who was assigned to cover the convention by Horace Greeley of the NewYork Tribune. Mackenzie was an important Canadian political figure who had previously served as the first mayor of Toronto and was a leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion; he served as a journalist during a ten-year exile in the United States.He was said to be impressed by the progressive constitution which emerged from this convention.This volume is heavily annotated in parts, presumably in Mackenzie’s hand.The section on the Texas constitution is heavily underlined, and the list of delegates is marked up.The folding plate,“Diagram of the State Convention Chamber, 1846,” is not normally found in this volume; it was published the same year in “Debates and Proceedings in the New-York State Convention.” Mackenzie’s assigned seat appears in the upper right, apart from the other reporters.