New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-18
EARLY AMERICANA
TO BE DISPERSED
Sale Next Week Of a Pri
vate COllectiOn-SOme
Interesting Items.
COPY OF PETTRICH'S
INDIAN PORTRAITS
Napoleana - An Early English
Book on WOmenS
Rights.

The library Of the late Professor J. n
Alexander. OF Baltimore will he sold In
this CITY on the afternoon and evening or
next Monday and ON the afternoon or
the Tuesday following a. the Anderson
Auction Rooms 1t consists of a collection
Of books Of miscellaneous interest-works
on African dialects and European Ian
guages. books on uumismatics. criminal
trials. etc. and includes also some Ma
noleana i'm French, English and German
that should have the consideration or
amateurs It's main interest, however. is
found IN its Americana. which interest Is
strengthened by the fact that another
smaller. library Of books on the same sub
iect is 10 be sold together with Profes-
sor AioXander's collection.
These Americana cover wide field
The most valuable item cataloSued is the
only known perfect copy Of the first edi-
ton Of the rare Portraits Of Distin-
.uished Indians from Several Tribes Who
visited Washington i'm 1897 also. Faith
ful Representation Of the Indian war
Dance" etc. five autographed plates by
Ferdinand Pettrich Baltimore, 1920. De
tached portraits from this work are in the
New York Public Library and damaged
copy of the second edition IS IN the Mu-
scum Of Natural History In this city. An
other rare entry is the first edition com
nlete. Of Mrs Anne Royals BLACK BOOK
Continuation Of Travels In the United
states" published I'm Washingtn In I'D
Mrs. ROYAL was stolen when a child by the
Indians and lived with them for fifteen
wears. Later she established herself az
the national capital and published the
washington Paul Pry.' She had sour
rilous pen. a fact 10 which her abusive
"Black Book" bears ample evidence
There are here. further copy OF John
Rogers's Statements. Calculations and
Hints Relative TO Railroads and Moving
Power Locomotive Engines Baltimore
lS20 a. very rare pamphlet on locomo-
tives. written two years before the hrSt
one was used on this continent, copy oi
Andrew Sherburne's Memoirs OF Pen
sioner of the Navy Of the Revolution
0-tica 1881: a COPY of John Woods his
tory of the Administration OF Jonn
Adams (NeW York. 1872, which was sup
messed by Aaron Burr as being iuiI oil
untruth and scandal collection or carry
hooks and pamphlets dealing with Amerl-
can canal and railroad projects, among
them a copy Of John a RockwelIs re-
ports on the Panama and Nicaragua
routes washington. 1870, William COD
belts "A Years Residence in the United
States" (New York, lSS-'l@, in three
parts first editions. early Western, South
American and West Indian travels Colo
NAL and state histories. works on Indian
languages. early American church records
and publications dealing with the ReVou-
ton. the War Of 1912 and the civil War.
Among the miscellaneous items In the
sale are an Aldine Budaeus. "libri de
Asse ct Partlbus Eus." dedicated 10 Gro
lier 0522l; some autographs and first edit
lions Of American authors; "Glosso-
eraphia Auglicana Nova. or Dictionary
Interpreting such lIard Words OF WHAT
evor Language as are al Present used IN
the English Tongue" london 100; John
pickeriug's Vocabulary. or COLLECTION oil
Words and Phrases which have been
supposed 10 be Peculiar 10 the United
states" Boston. 1870; and curious Old
book dealing with a very modern subject
"Tbe Iawes Resolutions Of Women
Rights. or the Lawes Provision for Nom-
ON" Goudon. 1922 The Napoleana are
notahlv rich i'm contemporary studies OF
Iis campaigns from the early ones IN
italy to that OF 1914 in France.