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Saint Paul: White Pine Bureau, 1920. Printed Wraps. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Volume VI, Number 6 of this important publication. Bound in stiff printed wraps, b&w illustrations, 16 pp., minor soiling. Contains architectural information relating to Essex, Connecticut.

Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong and Crocker Brewster, 1821. Apparent First Edition . Illustrated Blue Wraps. Good Plus/No Jacket as Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Contains 36 pp., woodcut illustration on front cover and repeated on title page, moderate foxing throughout, covers somewhat darkened, spine about 1/2 chipped away, old repair (sewn with thread) on lower spine. Shaw & Shoemaker's Checklist of American Imprints 5941.

Londini: Gul. Thurlbourn, 1732. First Edition . First Edition, thin 8vo, bound in blue leather spine with marbled boards, 29 pp., lacks half-title, title page has small piece missing from the corner and is lightly spotted. Middleton was a celebrated English scholar, divine, controversialist and considered one of the earliest English rationalistic theologians. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge of which he became a fellow in 1706. He was appointed chief librarian of the university about 1720 and about 1731 received the Woodwardian professorship of geology, even though he had no background on the subject. In the present work, he points out the services which might be expected from a study of fossils in confirming the history of the deluge. Reference: Dictionary of National Biography, p.345.

Very Good. 5 1/2" x 8.25. Holograph letter, dated 4-18-11, on Miller's green stationery with the upper left imprinted "From / Joaquin Miller, / The Heights / Dimond, Cal." The letter, written on one side only, is difficult to read but relates to his admiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne. It reads in part, "...Hawthorne (was) great, very great but to my mind the greatest thing about him was his heart as shown in his English notes and Travels published by his son soon after his death. A shy, silent man...(signed) Joaquin Miller.

New York: Charles Scribner, 1860. First Edition, Blindstamped Red Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Contains 116 pp; plus 5 folding facsimiles bound in rear, 2 engraved plates (including frontispiece), top and bottom of spine worn to the level of the pages, spine slightly darkened.
Lee's fame was resurrected in Hamilton (The Musical) in the song Stay Alive:
Instead of me, he promotes Charles LeeMakes him second-in-command(I'm a general, whee!)Yeah, he's not the choice I woulda gone withHe sh*ts the bed at the Battle of Monmouth
Everyone, attack!Retreat!Attack!Retreat!What are you doing, Lee? Get back on your feet!But there's so many of themI'm sorry, is this not your speed?