This group of fragments from a papyrus roll of the Book of the Dead includes portions of Chapters 18-24; further portions of the same roll are in the Louvre. Only pharaohs were permitted to use royal cartouches around their names, and the name of the original commissioner of this roll, Pedenemty, has such a cartouche. He is not attested outside of this roll, which apparently dates to the twenty-sixth dynasty. It is possible that he was a local pharaoh in Upper Egypt or one of the Kushite rulers. The text is written in vertical columns of cursive hieroglyphs, in black ink with red rubrics and vignettes.

This edition of Cicero's treatise, printed for university students in Leipzig, includes the first appearance of Johann Gabriel Senensis' commentary on the text. It is extremely rare, with no copies of the edition recorded in North American libraries. A contemporary German student has added in manuscript additional commentary, from interlinear glosses to extended annotations in the margins. The manuscript additions are apparently classroom lecture notes.

One of the monuments of early linguistic studies, Teseo's treatise is the first Western attempt to explain the grammar and syntax of Aramaic, Syriac, Armenian, various dialects of Arabic, and Ethiopic. Teseo was a friar who devoted himself to the study of oriental languages in order to assist in the standardization of the performance of Christian ritual in the oriental churches. In order to print this volume he designed and assisted in the cutting of the typefaces; this was the first movable type ever cut for most of these alphabets and it served as a model for many later designers. Teseo's work was instrumental in expanding the ancient linguistic studies of Renaissance and Reformation Europe beyond the conventional focus on the three biblical languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. This first edition of the work is preserved in a contemporary vellum binding and has the "devil's alphabet," which was excised by the Inquisition from many copies of the work.

The most successful German cookbook of the Renaissance, this volume offers recipes for fish, crab, eel, and beaver; chicken, pig, veal, and venison; sauces, breads, and soups. For the more ambitious, there are sections on gilding food; on preparing green, blue, or yellow milk; and on a variety of sweet and fragrant dishes. The section on wine describes the entire process of vinting, including the preparation of barrels, the maintenance of the cellar, and the reparation of spoiled wines. There are also recipes for spiced, fruit, and medicinal wines. The brewing section is much shorter, dealing mostly with salvaging bad brews. The woodcuts depict the plants and animals used in the recipes, cooks and bakers at work, and cooking implements. This copy is generously splattered with the grease and sauces of the kitchens in which it was used.

Six months after the death of Marguerite de Navarre, the three daughters of the Earl of Sommerset, Anne, Marguerite, and Jane, composed and published in Paris a collection of Latin poems in honor of the queen. Ronsard, scandalized by the fact that no French poets had so honored the deceased, had the girls' poems translated into French and assembled a collection of new poems on the same subject by himself and by the members of his circle to publish along with the translations. This first printing of the French collection includes the first appearance of more than eight hundred lines of verse by Ronsard.

Nothing is known of Paulini, the designer and engraver of this Mannerist alphabet--not even his first name. Each letter is a fantastic composite of human figures, botanical and marine specimens, landscapes or cityscapes, with a frame of arabesques, grotesques, putti, antique statuary, and the like. No two frames are identical. Each letter encapsulates a mythological episode from Ovid, A for Actaeon, B for Bacchus, C for Cadmus, etc. The Ovidian episode is illustrated behind each letter, and printed captions identify the figures.

The author of this compendium, Mathias Tanner (1630-92), was from Pilsen in Bohemia and joined the Society of Jesus in 1646. The book consists of a series of biographies of Jesuit priests who were martyred throughout the world in the course of their work "against pagans, Mohammedans, Jews, heretics, and the impious." Each biography is illustrated with an engraved vignette in a characteristic Bohemian baroque style. The work is arranged in four parts: Europe, Africa, Asia, America. The longest section is the one devoted to Asia. It is also the one that contains the most lurid images. The "Societas americana" part includes a long biography of Isaac Jogues, evangelizer of the Mohawks.

Known as il Cieco di Venezia (the blind man of Venice), Paolo Britti was one of the most reputed popular poets of his day. The dates of his birth and death are not known, but his "canzoni" (songs) appeared from 1618 onwards and he was evidently still active around 1680. His songs were printed mostly in Venice but also in the neighboring cities of Treviso, Padova, Bassano, and Verona. Known as "ventarole" because they could be used as fans ("ventaglio"), they were sung to music apparently often composed by Britti himself, which has not survived. While they belong to the tradition of popular street poetry, they rise above this usually anonymous genre by proclaiming themselves the work of a single author and by their formal innovations. Britti's themes range from love to the realities of everyday life (including bordellos and venereal disease). His songs are closely related to the contemporary theatrical tradition and especially to the commedia dell' arte.

The collection now in the Beinecke comprises sixty-six songs, eleven of them in two editions, all illustrated with crude woodcuts. Most of those printings are unrecorded by bibliographers. A further indication of their rarity is that there are only eight entries for Britti in The National Union Catalog.

Provincial newspapers in the modern sense began with the eighteenth century, and Francis Burges's Norwich Post, founded around 1701, is generally considered the first. Stephen Bryan's Worcester Post-Man, which started to appear in 1709 and is still running, is not only the oldest surviving provincial newspaper but the oldest commercially published English newspaper still in existence. The present run of 46 issues covers almost a year from August 1715 till July 1716. The events it reports include the fall of the Whig ministry, the death of Queen Anne, and the Hanoverian accession--with the entirety of the 10 January 1716 issue devoted to the King's speech to Parliament. Foreign news is present, with reports from Vienna, Venice, and Paris.

That such a long, early run should have been preserved is in itself exceptional. This set is even more exceptional insofar as its early provenance has survived: many issues bear, on the blank page six, the name of the Reverend Joseph Guest of Winforton, a village on the river Wye, thirty miles from Worcester.

The composer Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) wrote numerous orchestral and instrumental works, operas, and songs, including 128 settings of texts by Goethe. He was also the author of books about music and volumes of political commentary, including this set of "confidential letters about France," dated from Strasbourg, Lyon, and Paris between 6 January and 30 March 1792. It was Reichardt's sympathy with revolutionary ideas that led to his dismissal two years later as music master to the Prussian court.

These letters, full of banter and colorful phrases, give a glimpse into the penurious life of P. L. Courtier, author of six recorded works, including his Poems of 1796. Davenport was also trying to pursue a literary career, and evidently felt pressured to publish before the turn of the century. In the fall of 1799 Courtier admonishes his friend:

"I doubt very much whether R. A. Davenport Esq. means to eke out the Anthology of 1799: for I suspect that, after all, it will be a New Century Boy! Recollect yourself: tis verily November began . . . If, therefore, our Pomes, as Old Peter used to call them, are to be Published this year, look yet mon, there are but a few weeks of November, then followeth that Old Muddy Books, December . . . Do, therefore, as much as you can do, which is more than you have done-that is, if you really intend to show-off during the Year 1799!

Sophie Schubert Mereau was the author of two novels and two volumes of poetry. After her divorce from Friedrich Mereau, a law professor, she married the writer Clemens Brentano in 1803 and died in childbirth three years later. This is the first German translation of Boccaccio's Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta and Sophie Mereau's last published work. It is handsomely printed in Unger Fraktur, which made its first appearance around 1793.

Descended from a family who had emigrated to the New World in the 1630s, Ebenezer Stevens joined a Boston artillery company in 1768 at the age of seventeen. Five years later, the company took part in the Boston Tea Party. An officer in the Revolutionary War, he fought at the battle of Bunker Hill under Major General Horatio Gates, played a key role at Saratoga, and served under Lafayette in Virginia and at Yorktown (he can be seen in John Trumbull's painting in the Rotunda in Washington, D.C.)

After the war he entered the shipping business while pursuing a political career as a member of the New York State assembly. Having attained the grade of major general of the artillery of the state of New York, he participated in the battle of Fort Erie and left military service in 1814. He died in Rockaway, Long Island, in 1823. The youngest of his eleven children, Mary Lucretia, married F.W. Rhinelander and their first daughter was Edith Wharton's mother.

The papers contain Revolutionary War documents, 1812 War documents (the most spectacular being a manuscript map of the Battle of Fort Erie), and correspondence documenting Stevens's military, political, and professional life, including financial records for the firm Ebenezer Stevens & Sons up to 1866. Of particular note are letters from his agent in Antigua, Thomas Norbury Kirby, mostly from the mid-1790s.

Byam Stevens, Ebenezer's son and successor in business, married Frances Gallatin, daughter of Jefferson's secretary of the treasury. Together with the Stevens papers came thirty-seven letters from Gallatin and four from his subordinate Edward Jones, dating from 1793-1812 and all addressed to David Gelston, tax collector for the city and port of New York and superintendent of light houses.

Situated at the heart of the Paris "grands boulevards," the Th‚ƒtre de la Porte Saint-Martin opened its doors in 1802 to close them for the first time in 1807 when Napoleon suppressed all Parisian theaters. It reopened for two and a half years in 1810, and, more permanently, in 1814. It went on to stage nearly all the French Romantic dramas and premiered a number of them, including Alexander Dumas's Antony, Balzac's Vautrin, and Victor Hugo's Marion Delorme, Lucrèce Borgia, and Marie Tudor. Its troupe comprised at that time the legendary Frederick Lemaître, the French Kean (for whom Dumas wrote a play based on the English actor), whose celebrity was revived by the film Children of paradise; Marie Dorval, mistress of Alfred de Vigny; and Juliette Drouet, mistress of Hugo.

The Beinecke has just acquired a collection of 212 plays housed in 31 portfolios. The largest in private hands since the nineteenth century, it represents the theater's repertory from 1802 (Pixéré-court's Pizarre, with which it opened) to 1876 (Cournier's Le médecin de son honneur). Other authors include Anicet-Bourgeois, Dumanoir, D'Ennery, and Auguste Maquet. The plays cover genres as diverse as comedies, melodramas, ballets, and op‚ras-comiques. Individual titles include Le pasteur (Paris, 1846), the inspiration for Verdi's Stiffelio; an adaptation of Sheridan's School for scandal; and plays based on Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Goethe's Faust.

Döbereiner (1780-1849), Goethe's lifelong friend, was professor of chemistry, technology, and pharmacy at the University of Jena. He invented a lighter that used hydrogen and powdered platinum, the principle of which led the Swedish chemist J. J. Berzelius to develop the concept of catalysis. Döbereiner's observation of similar chemical properties in certain triads of elements anticipated the discovery of the periodic system of elements. He also contributed to industrial projects, such as the production of sugar from starch and of illuminating gas from coal. Goethe's earlier letter, in the hand of his secretary J. A. F. John but signed with a personal greeting at the end, has to do with the acquisition of equipment for the laboratories at the University of Jena. In the second letter (also in secretarial hand) Goethe asks about the nature of a chemical reaction that has caused a silver spoon to take on a gold sheen after being soaked in a brew of red cabbage.

James Henry Morley, of Pacific, Missouri, traveled by boat from St. Louis to Fort Benton and then by trail to the gold fields in Montana, departing May 1862 and returning August 1865. This bound carbon transcript of his daily diary records in detail his trip by steamboat to Fort Benton, prospecting and working as a miner both alone and with mining associations, serving as juror for cases of murder and claim jumping, surveying new towns, witnessing clashes between Indians and whites, and participating in meetings that organized the towns of Marysville and Centreville.

One of the formative experiences in the life of the poet Stefan George (1886-1933) was his meeting, in 1903, with a Munich schoolboy named Maximilian Kronberger. The handsome child wrote poetry, and George soon adopted him into his circle, revering him almost as a divine presence. Maximilian died the next year of meningitis, which drove George nearly to suicide but ultimately raised his poetry to a new level of intensity, as in the cycles Jahr der Seele and Der siebente Ring. This memorial book for "Maximin" contains poems by Stefan George and members of his circle as well as Maximilian Kronberger's own poems. The lavish volume was designed by the painter Melchior Lechter (1865-1937), who produced several of George's early books. The influence of William Morris is evident. Copy 24 of 200, the book is illustrated with a photograph of Max Kronberger.

The early years of the twentieth century were a time of extraordinary book design in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Gathered here are a few examples of illustrated books from the decade 1913-23.

Kasimir Edschmid. Bilder. Lyrische Projektionen. Darmstadt, 1913. Poems, with woodcuts by Hermann Georgi. Number 22 of 210 copies, bound in parchment and signed by both the author and artist.

Robert Walser. Geschichten. Leipzig, 1914. Walser's stories are illustrated by his brother Karl. The sketches, quite different from Georgi's Expressionist images, anticipate Fritz Kredel's style of illustration. Robert Walser's deceptively simple fiction moves in the ironic mode, bordering on absurdity. The Swiss author (1878-1956) spent his later years in mental institutions.

Ernst Barlach. Die Wandlungen Gottes. Berlin, 1922. In high Expressionist style, these seven woodcuts portray the "transformations of God," bounded by the first day of creation and the seventh day of rest. Barlach (1870-1938) was a sculptor, dramatist, and novelist as well as a graphic artist. His work was banned by the Nazis, who persecuted him.

Jakob Bosshart. Neben der Heerstrasse. Zürich, 1923. These stories by a little-known Swiss author are illustrated by one of the best-known artist of the Expressionist period, E. L. Kirchner. The book is printed in an unusual Jungendstil Fraktur, as yet unidentified. Bosshart, who signed this copy, was a friend of Robert Musil.

Joachim Ringelnatz. Turngedichte. Munich, 1923. Satirical and humorous "gymnastics poems" illustrated by the caricaturist Karl Arnold. Arnold's seventeen line drawings, reminiscent of Georg Grosz though gentler in spirit, are in the style of the "new objectivity" (neue Sachlichkeit), which followed upon Expressionism.

Donald Gallup is presenting his T. S. Eliot collection to the Library. The "A" and "B" sections alone comprise 173 works in 1037 volumes. The examples on view suggest the depth of the bibliographer's work to identify variants and to obtain copies.

Ara Vus [i.e. Vos] Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press, 1920. Of a total edition of 264 copies, number 1 of 4 printed on Japanese vellum & not for sale. Presentation inscription dated 23 Sept. 1920 to John Quinn from the author.

Ara Vus [i.e. Vos] Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press, 1920. Of a total edition of 264 copies, one of 4 printed on Japanese vellum & not for sale. Autograph of John Rodker.

Ara Vus [i.e. Vos] Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press, 1920. Of a total edition of 264 copies, number 20 of 30 signed copies numbered 5-34.

Ara Vus [i.e. Vos] Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press, 1920. Of a total edition of 264 copies, number 40 of 220 copies numbered 35-255. Presentation inscription dated 5 Feb. 1929 to Edgar Jepson from the author.

Ara Vus [i.e. Vos] Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press, 1920. Of a total edition of 264 copies, number 136 of 220 copies numbered 35-255. Ara Vus [i.e. Vos] Prec. [London]: The Ovid Press, 1920. Of a total edition of 264 copies, 1 of 10 numbered copies for review.

The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. No. 4 of 1000 copies, first binding, first state (determined by the correct spelling of "mountain" on page 41), in original dust-jacket and original glassine inner jacket.

The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. No. 427, first binding, later state (determined by the dropping out of the "a" in "mountain" on page 41).

The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. No. 6, first binding, later state, in original dust-jacket and original glassine inner jacket. Bookplate of Fania Marinoff [Van Vechten].

The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. Second impression, 1923. No. 881 of 1,000 copies, called "Second Edition" in the colophon.

The Waste Land. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1923. Copy in original boards with asterisk label. With author's presentation inscription to Edgar Jepson, Christmas, 1923, and 3 manuscript corrections.

The Waste Land. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1923. Copy in original boards with ruled label.

The Waste Land. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1923. Copy in original boards with label without rules.

The sinfonia concertante was composed by the twenty-five-year old Walton while he was living in Chelsea with the Sitwells, under whose tutelage he had made his sensational debut with Façade in 1923. It is an ebullient work, for which Walton apparently reused material written for an abortive ballet project for Diaghilev. It was premiered on 5 January 1928 under Ernest Ansermet, with York Bowen playing the "quasi obbligato" piano part. It was published later that year with the three movements dedicated to Osbert, Edith, and "Sachie" Sitwell respectively. Walton later revised it in 1943.

Two manuscripts of the work, both part of the Walton archive in the Frederick R. Koch Collection at Yale, were hitherto known: an intermediate version of the 1928 score, differing in places from the published text, and the wartime revised version. The present manuscript--probably the first Walton score to come up for auction--is the earliest, presenting substantial variants from the Koch manuscript. It is written in ink throughout with some pencil corrections in Walton's hand. More puzzlingly, it includes conductor's markings in blue pencil (possibly in the hand of Henry Wood?) indicating that a private pre-premiere performance might have been arranged. It has been suggested that the manuscript was given to the pianist Angus Morrison, a close friend of the Sitwells at the time and the creator of Constant Lambert's Rio grande.

Two of the original founders of the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916--Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco--were from Rumania. Between the world wars, Rumania was indeed the seat of a remarkable modernist artistic and literary efflorescence, as evidenced by the names of such contrasted artists as Constantin Brancusi and Victor Brauner. The collection recently acquired by the Beinecke documents this notable, if today forgotten avant-garde, which came to an end when the Communists took over in the late 1940s. The collection includes 70 books, among them works by Benjamin Fondane, Virgil Gheorghiu, Gherasim Luca, Naum Gellu, Sasa Pana (notably his Munti noaptea nelinistea, illustrated with a frontispiece by Man Ray), and, especially, Ilarie Voronca (his 1923 Restristi, illustrated by Brauner, his 1927 Colomba, illustrated by Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and his Ulisse, illustrated with a portrait of the author by Marc Chagall). Periodicals include complete runs of Alge (Seaweed, 1930-31, revived briefly in 1933), Contimporanul (The con-temporary, 1922-32), published under Janco's artistic directorship, Integral (1925-28), Muci (Boogies, one issue, 1932), Orizont (1944-47), Punct: revista de arta constructivista internationala (1924-25), and 75HP (one issue, 1924, with a cover by Brauner).

Unquestionably one of the major names in the history of twentieth-century theater, the French playwright Jean Anouilh was born in Bordeaux on 23 June 1910. He came to prominence as early as 1932 with the success of L'hermine at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre in Paris, and for the next five decades his name was never absent from the French and international stage. He is the author of more than forty plays, which he published thematically as Pièces roses, Pièces noires, and Nouvelles pièces noires (including Antigone, one of his most performed works), Pièces brillantes, Pièces grinçantes (including La valse des torèadors) and Nouvelles pièces grinçantes, Pièces costumées, Pièces baroques (including Cher Antoine and Ne réveillez pas Madame), and Pièces secrètes. Anouilh also wrote translations of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Graham Greene, as well as more than a dozen screenplays, several ballets, and television adaptations. He died suddenly in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 3 October 1987.

The collection of manuscripts acquired from Anouilh's son Nicolas includes unpublished juvenilia, complete autograph manuscripts of the plays Mandarine (his second), Roméo et Jeannette, L'invitation au château (Ring round the moon, revived last season on Broadway), Cher Antoine, Ne réveillez pas Madame, and corrected typescripts of Antigone (1944), Cher Antoine, and La culotte. The archive also includes the autograph manuscripts of cinematographic adaptations of La chanson de Roland and Jean Giraudoux's La folle de Chaillot, notebooks, and annotated copies of Antigone and Pauvre Bitos.

Known at various times as Wishart & Co., Wishart Books, Lawrence & Wishart, and Ernest Wishart, this distinguished London publishing firm, still in existence, was founded by Ernest Wishart in the early 1920s and was amalgamated with Martin Lawrence in 1936. The archive acquired by the Beinecke includes some business records, primarily from 1938 and 1939, but with significant material from 1931 to 1950, such as a 1934-36 book of sales (recording, for example, the distribution of free copies of Nancy Cunard's Negro), and correspondence with printers and binders; dust-jacket artwork; and letters from a variety of correspondents, among them Mulk Raj Anand, George Barker, Oswell Blakeston, the Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose, Basil Bunting, Mary Butts (6 letters concerning her essay on Huxley for Scrutinies), Robert Byron, Claud Cockburn, Cyril Connolly, Cunard (21 letters, all from 1938-39), John Davenport, Douglas Garman (Wishart's brother-in-law), Douglas Goldring, Gerald Kersh (more than 40 letters from the author of Jews without Jehovah), Constant Lambert, F.R. Leavis, George Scott Moncrieff, Myles Mordaunt, Llewellyn Powys and Alyse Gregory, George Reavey, Grant Richards, and Jack Butler Yeats (25 letters, all relating to the publication of Sligo.)

The British poet Jeremy Reed was born in 1951 in Jersey and holds a B.A. from the University of Essex. He is the author of many collections of verse and has published several novels, an autobiography, and translations of Novalis and Montale. Among his sources of inspiration are American popular culture and rock music, in particular the work of Elvis Presley. His archive contains all his extant manuscripts, published or unpublished, a large number of poetry notebooks, and correspondence with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ted Hughes, John Lehman, Rosamond Lehman, James Merrill, and Kathleen Raine. His extensive correspondence with fellow poet David Gascoyne was already part of the Beinecke's collections.

Born in 1958 on the island of St. Kitts in the West Indies, Caryl Phillips grew up in England and was educated at Queen's College, Oxford. He began his literary career as a playwright in the early 1980s. He has since published six novels (the last of them, The nature of blood, was published in 1997), two volumes of nonfiction, and film and radio scripts as well as contributions to British and American journals, including Bomb and The New Republic. He currently teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University.

The archive now in the Beinecke Library comprises all of Caryl Phillips's papers to date, including the drafts of all his published works and correspondence with Peter Carey, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Salman Rushdie, Charles Simic, and Derek Walcott, among others. It is Yale's first archive of a major contemporary Caribbean writer, whose fiction focuses of the roots of racial prejudice in diverse historical settings.

The following items were purchased at the second part of the Frank T. Siebert sale in October 1999.

The South:

Robert Ferguson. The present state of Carolina with advice to the settlers. London, 1682 (Wing F52A). First edition of this colonization tract, generally attributed to Ferguson (d. 1714) and recorded in only five other copies.

Thomas Nairne. Letter from South Carolina; giving an account of the soil, air, product, trade government, laws, religion, people, military strength, &c. of that province; together with the manner and necessary charges of settling a plantation there, and the annual profit it will produce. London, 1710. Howes N5. This promotional tract was authored by the most famous Southern colonist at the time of Queen Anne's War. He was burned at the stake at the hands of the Choctaw Indians in 1715 after being tortured for several days. The Siebert copy of this uncommon item came from the collection of the Marquess of Bute.

Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck. Extract of the journals of Von Reck, who conducted the first transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia. London, 1734. Howes 104. No other early account of the Salzburgers' migration exists in English. Driven off their land by the Bishop of Salzburg, they were settled by James Oglethorpe in Georgia.

Benjamin Martyn. Account shewing the progress of the colony of Georgia in America from its first establishment. London, 1741. Howes M353. This first edition of the first historical, year-by-year account of Georgia includes a discussion of the prohibition of Africans from the colony.

William Stork. Description of East Florida, with a journal, kept by John Bartram of Philadelphia, botanist to His Majesty for the Floridas. London, 1769. Howes S1042. Third and rarest edition, enlarged with three folding maps not present in the second, published three years before.

Jesse Denson. The chronicles of Andrew: containing an accurate and brief account of General Jacksons victories in the South, over the Creeks. Also his victories over the British at Orleans. With a biographical sketch of his life. Lexington, Kentucky, 1815. Howes D257. First edition of one of the earliest and rarest accounts (known in two other copies) of the Creek Campaign and the battle of New Orleans in January 1815, which made Jackson an instant national folk hero.

Samuel Perkins. General Jackson's conduct in the Seminole War, delineated in a history of the period, affording conclusive reasons why he should not be the next president. New York, 1828. Howes P235. First edition of this detailed account written from an anti-Jackson perspective.

True and authentic account of the Indian war in Florida, giving the particulars respecting the murder of the widow Robbins, and the providential escape of her daughter Aurelia, and her lover Mr. Charles Somers, after suffering almost innumerable hardships. New York, 1836. Howes S278. One of three editions, each with a different title, of this anonymous account of the Seminole War. The author claims to have spent eleven weeks witnessing the events he reports. This title is known in only three other copies.

William Gates. Proceedings of general court martial, for the trial of Major William Gates, of the Second Regiment of Artillery. New York, 1837. Not in Howes. Gates was court-marshalled by President Jackson following the Seminoles' attack on Fort Banwell. Gates was exonerated and later captured Osceola.

William Biggs. Narrative of William Biggs, while he was a prisoner with the Kickepoo Indians. [Edwardsville, Illinois?] 1826. Howes B443. First edition of a privately printed frontier narrative known in only three other copies. Biggs was captured in 1788 and remained with the Indians until he was able to purchase his freedom.

Oliver M. Spencer. A true narrative of the capture of the rev. O.M. Spencer, by the Indians. Washington, Pennsylvania, 1835. Howes S835. First edition of a much-reprinted Indian captivity narrative. Spencer was ten when he was captured in 1792. He was ransomed the following year and returned home in 1795.

Samuel Austin Worcester. Cherokee hymns. Compiled from several authors, and revised. Park Hill, Oklahoma Territory, 1841. Sixth edition and the first printed at Park Hill (the first four were printed at New Echota, Georgia).

Elias Boudinot. Poor Sarah. Park Hill, 1843. First Indian Territory edition of this popular story.

Legh Richmond. The dairyman's daughter. [With:] G.C. Smith. Bob the sailor boy. Park Hill, 1847. First edition in Cherokee, translated by S.A. Worcester and Stephen Foreman.

John Buttrick Jones. Elementary arithmetic in Cherokee and English, designed for beginners. Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1870. First edition of what was called the "half-breed arithmetic." The projected series was rejected by the tribal schools as "too much white man."

Alfred Wright. Chata uba isht taloa. Boston, 1829. First edition of this Choctaw hymnal, recorded in one copy by The National Union Catalog.

David King. Dah-ko-tah (Sioux) first book, or Introduction to the spelling book. Designed for the use of the mission schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Pittsburgh, 1839. First edition of this school manual. The title page vignette shows the mission house and school established by Alfred Brunson at Little Crow village on the Mississippi River, in present-day Minnesota. Two copies are recorded in The National Union Catalog.

William Hamilton. Original hymns, in the Ioway language. By the missionaries, to the Ioway & Sac Indians, under the direction of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. Indian Territory, Ioway and Sac Mission Press, 1843. In Iowa. The 125 copies of this book that were printed in 1843 represented the first or second book-length project to be completed on the hand press at the Ioway and Sac mission in modern Kansas.

William Hamilton. We-wv-hae-kju [Catechism in the Iowa language]. Indian Territory (Kansas), Ioway and Sac Mission Press, 1844. One of 200 copies printed and one of only four copies known to have survived.

Jotham Meeker. Original and select hymns, in the Ottawa language. By Jotham Meeker, missionary of the Amer. Baptist Board of Foreign Missions. Shawanoe, Ind. Ter., Press of Amer. Baptist Board of For. Missions, 1845. One of two known copies.

Cherokee Nation. Constitution (1827). Constitution of the Cherokee Nation, made and established at a general convention of delegates, duly authorised for that purpose, at New Echota, July 26, 1827. New Echota, Georgia, Printed for the Cherokee Nation, at the Office of the Statesman and Patriot, 1827. The first edition of the first Cherokee constitution.

Cunne Shote, the Indian chief, a great warrior of the Cherokee Nation. London, 1762. A mezzotint engraving by James McArdell after a painting by Frances Parsons of an important Cherokee leader.

G. H. C. Melody and the Ioway Indians. As they were present to His Majesty Louis Philippe 1st, April 21st, 1845. Boston, Bufford & Co's., [1845]. A tinted lithograph depicting twelve Iowa Indians together with their interpreter and Mr. Melody, who organized the European tour. The print was sold to raise money for the Ioway School.

The Thomas W. Streeter copy of a rare Italian work on Catholic Indian missions:

Samuel Mazzuchelli. L'Memorie istoriche ed edificanti d'un missionario apostolico dell'ordine dei predicatori fra varie tribu di Selvaggi. Milano, Boniardi-Pogliani, 1844. Mazzuchelli, a member of a prominent Milanese family, served as missionary in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa from 1830 through 1844. Formerly owned by Thomas Streeter, this copy is one of only two know to exist in the United States.

Thomas C Battey. Letters to his family, 1874 March-July. 18 autograph letters in which Battey, a Quaker working with the Kiowa Indians at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, describes his work and the events preceding the military campaigns of the Red River War. He describes Indian raids into Texas, a burned wagon train, and other attacks, and reports on various Indian tribes, including the Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians.

William Rector. Supplement to the Arkansas gazette. Monday, November 13, 1820. The War! Between Pre-emption rights and the location of the New-Madrid Claims upon Pre-emption rights. Arkansas, Arkansas Gazette, 1820. Known in no other copy, this folio broadside puts forth an analysis by Arkansas surveyor William Rector of the battle for Quapaw and Chickasaw Indian lands by settlers from New Madrid, Missouri, who had been displaced by the disastrous earthquake of 1811.

Francisco Sarracino, Governor of New Mexico. Esperiencia ha demostrado que la fuente de donde dimanan los males que aquejan al Territorio no ha sido otra que la indiferiencia despreciativa con que sus mismos havitantes han visto siempre la defenza de aus propios intereses. Santa Fe, 1835. One of the earliest and rarest examples of printing in New Mexico, this broadside is unrecorded in major bibliographies. In it, New Mexico Governor Francisco Sarracino indicts the "criminal apathy" of local officials who do not help national officials enlist local residents for service in the campaign against the Apache and Navajo.

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