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The rare first edition. Original cloth, inner hinges strengthened, yet a very good copy. "Compiled mainly from original records of old Frederick County, now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jeffersdon, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan, and Frederick. The author served as Clerk of the old County Court. A book of acknowledged importance to local historians and genealogists alike. HAYNES 2999. HOWES C-203.
$ 850.00

152. Cobb, Howell et al. TO OUR CONSTITUENTS.
[Washington, D.C.: Towers, printer, 1849]. 8 pp.

Dated: Washington City, February 26, 1849. First edition. Original sef- wraps. A near fine, uncut copy. Signed in type: Howell Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke, John H. Lumpkin. These Congressmen state in the opening lines of text: "We addres s you this circular from a sense of duty to ourselves. A portion of the Southern representatives in Congress, have recently issued an address to the people of the South on the exciting question of slavery. We were unable to unite with them in the movement, and the absence of our names from the paper which they have published, has given rise to strictures upon our course which we now propose to notice..." DeRENNE p.521: "Address by Howell Cobb, Linn Boyd, Beverly L. Clarke and John H. Lumpkin, in reply to Calhoun's Address of January 22, 1849, favoring the maintenance of a nation-wide Democratic party"
$ 150.00

153. Craighill, Robert T THE VIRGINIA "PEERAGE;" OR SKETCHES OF VIRGINIANS DISTINQUISHED IN VIRGINIA'S HISTORY.
Richmond, Va.: William Ellis Jones, 1880. vi,356 pp.

Title page states Volume 1, but no more were published and this volume is complete unto itself. First edition. Original cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, yet a very good copy. Contains informative biographies of George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and John Randolph of Roanoke. The appendix reprints the Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North America, now met at Congress in Philadelphia, setting forth the causes and necessity of their taking up arms - July 6th, 1775. HAYNES 4156.
$ 85.00

154. Johns, Anne Page et al. THE ROLFE PROPERTY WARREN HOUSE AT "SMITH'S FORT PLANTATION" 1652-1935.
[Richmond, Va., 1938]. 15 pp., plates.

Second printing. Offprint from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume XLIII, No. 3, July, 1935. Original printed wrappers. A near fine copy. Rolfe's property, Smith's Fort Plantation, was immediately opposite Jamestown and descended to Powhatan's English grandson.
$ 35.00

155. Hodgson, Joseph Jr. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE JEFFERSON SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, AT THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION,
HELD IN THE PUBLIC HALL, APRIL 13, 1857 BY JOSEPH HODGSON, JR., OF FLUVANNA. Richmond: J. D. Hammersley & Co., 1857. 16 pp.

At head of title: "Error ceases to be dangerous when truth is left free to combat it." Jefferson. First edition. Original printed wrappers. A very good copy. An address on Thomas Jefferson's political philosophy. Shuffelton: THOMAS JEFFERSON: A COMPREHENSIVE, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM, 1687: "Political progress and the error of secession; a pro-union appeal to the authority of TJ."
$ 350.00

156. Minot, George Richards. AN EULOGY ON GEORGE WASHINGTON, LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WHO DIED DECEMBER 14,
1799. DELIVERED BEFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON, AT THE REQUEST OF THEIR COMMITTEE. Boston: From the Printing Office of Manning & Loring, [1800]. 24 pp.

Title within mourning border. Half-title: JUDGE MINOT'S EULOGY. Second edition, published the same year as the first. Pamphlet bound in cloth, Ex Libris, moderate foxing. A very good copy with the ownership signature of John D. W. Williams who is listed in Clark's BOSTON BLUE BOOK. The author was an historian of great reputation and a founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. JENKINS 766 observes that this is one of the earliest Washington eulogies, delivered January 9, 1800. HAYNES 12327. STILLWELL: WASHINGTON EULOGIES, 173.
$ 250.00

157. Paine, Thomas. PUBLIC GOOD, BEING AN EXAMINATION INTO THE CLAIM OF VIRGINIA TO THE VACANT WESTERN TERRITORY, AND OF THE RIGHT OF THE UNITED
STATES TO THE SAME: TO WHICH ARE ADDED, PROPOSALS FOR LAYING OFF A NEW STATE TO BE APPLIED AS A FUND FOR CARRYING ON THE WAR, OR REDEEMING THE NATIONAL DEBT. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1780. London: J. Watson, 1841. 28 pp., illus.

Scarce reprint of the rare Philadelphia, 1780 first edition known in only two copies. Original self-wraps, lightly soiled. A very good or better copy. GIMBEL 31: "When Virginia claimed the territory now known as West Virginia for herself, Paine immediately wrote and published [PUBLIC GOOD], in which he argues that the territory, having been won through the joint effort of the thirteen states, should benefit all. Naturally, this did not endear him to Virginia, and later, when the legislature of that state was asked to recompense Paine for his wartime activities, it refused to do so" One of the least known, yet most interesting and significant works of Thomas Paine. Paine continues in PUBLIC GOOD the same arguments for a strong federal union and the warnings against the dangers of state sovereignty that he made in COMMON SENSE. He also calls for the convening of a "Continental convention" to draw up a new federal constitution with a strong central government. HOWES P-30. SABIN 58237. STREETER SALE 1301.
$ 250.00

A 158. Walker, James Alexander. PLAN OF ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA, ADOPTED AT THE STATE CONVENTION HELD IN STAUNTON, VA., APRIL
23D, 1896. np, 1896. 3 pp.

First edition. Original bifolium. A very good copy. Signed in type: James A. Walker, Chairman Republican State Convention. Walker earned the nickname "Stonewall Jim" for his days as commander of the famed Stonewall Brigade. He attended Virginia Military Institute. In 1852, he was expelled just before his graduation for alleged disobedience in Jackson's classroom. Cadet Walker had challenged Professor Jackson to a duel over a perceived insult. Then, he studied law at the University of Virginia in 1854 and 1855 before being admitted to the bar the following year. During the Civil War he was Colonel of the 4th Virginia Infantry. He was promoted to brigadier general and assigned command of the Stonewall Brigade in May 1863, leading it during the Gettysburg Campaign, where his regiment participated in the attacks on Culp's Hill. When the war ended in 1865, Walker returned to his law practice and political career, being elected as a Democrat to the House of Delegates of Virginia in 1871 and 1872. Five years later, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. In 1890, Walker was a charter member of The Virginia Bar Association. In 1893, Walker switched allegiances and joined the Republican Party. He was elected to the Fifty- fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses (serving from 1895 until 1899. A previously unrecorded item. Not in OCLC/WORLDCAT and precedes all other similar titles listed. A rare and important work by a noted Virginian.
$ 750.00

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