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"B. Free Franklin,"" An American Emblem of Defiance and Patriotism: Benjamin Franklin Works to Negotiate the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix After Pontiac's Rebellion by Benjamin Franklin

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Title: "B. Free Franklin,"" An American Emblem of Defiance and Patriotism: Benjamin Franklin Works to Negotiate the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix After Pontiac's Rebellion
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 13/02/1768. We are not aware of any other ""B Free Franklin"" signature in private hands still attached to the autograph letter it accompanied This letter belonged to the Townsend family, an early American merchant family. ""I am fascinated by Franklin’s use of the moniker, 'B. Free Franklin.' He was brilliant and defiant all in the same breath,"" writes presidential descendant Massee McKinleyhttps://vimeo.com/1012298456?share=copy The British victory in the French and Indian War resulted in the ejection of the French from lands presently part of the United States, and after the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the organization of the expanded British colonial empire and introduction of British military and American colonial settlers into Native American lands. Moreover, the French had carried on a lucrative fur trade with the Native Americans, and with them gone American colonial traders tried to replace them. The attitudes of the British and colonials towards the Native Americans were not friendly as the French had been, and this soon led to conflict and violence. In 1763, Pontiac's Rebellion broke out. This was an attempt by a confederation of Native American tribes in the Ohio, Illinois and Great Lakes areas to take British forts and force withdrawal of British soldiers, as well as to break up settlements and drive colonial settlers out of the region. The traders, most of whom were major firms seeking expansion, ended up suffering severe financial losses in the rebellion. These merchants formed a group known as the ""Suffering Traders,"" later known as the Indiana Company.""B Free Franklin""Prominent in the group was trader William Trent, who had been a captain of Pennsylvania troops in the expedition against the French in Canada in 1747. He attended several Indian councils during the French and Indian War and accompanied the expedition to retake Fort Pitt from the French in 1758. In 1760 he joined forces with the firm of Simon, Trent, Levy, & Franks as their agent (the firm was closely associated with the Gratzes), and he was given power of attorney for the group of claimants. Trent was responsible for taking the claims of the traders for substantial restitution to the British and the Indian tribes. Their work would lead to an episode that would involve Benjamin Franklin in London, the King of Great Britain, and end in the cession of millions of acres.In 1768, the King's government, hoping that a negotiated boundary with the Native Tribes would diminish conflict and cement Britain's hold on the new lands, ordered negotiations between the British Crown and the Six Nations that resulted in the famous Treaty of Fort Stanwix, The treaty was signed in November of 1768, and it proved to be not only the venue for defining the boundary of several states, but also for William Trent and his group to bring its case against the tribes. However, in order to do so, the traders needed Benjamin Franklin's help.Franklin was then colonial agent for Pennsylvania in London, was very well connected, and had access to the records of the various traders and their operations as submitted to London. On October 1, 1767, Trent wrote Franklin a letter [presently at Yale University] identifying himself as the representative for the traders group, mentioning that Franklin had already received ""All the Accounts belonging to the Indian Traders who had lost by the Depredations of the French and Indians,"" and then as ""Attorney in fact, for those Indian Traders,"" he asked Franklin, ""as a particular favor…to transmit to me by the first Packet, all those several Indian Traders Accounts and Vouchers"" as held in London.Franklin obliged, sending him this Autograph Letter Signed, London, February 13, 1768, to Trent, sending the documents he had requested. ""I send by Capt. Duncan the copies of the Accounts you wrote for, which I hope will get safe to hand. I am Sir, Your most humble Servant, B. Franklin.""Trent took this letter and information to Ft. Stanwix, where he joined General William Johnson in negotiating the Treaty. There, the British required the Native Americans to give a land grant to the ""suffering traders."" The land, known as the ""Indiana Grant,"" was along the Ohio River and comprised nearly 1/4 of what we know of today as West Virginia, land that would eventually be expanded to encompass parts of modern day Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.The story of this letter does not end here, as on the verso of the letter is the address panel, which contains the great rarity of a ""B Free Franklin"" free frank. Only a handful of these have reached the market in decades, and our research has turned up no other known ""B Free Franklin"" free frank with intact autograph letter in private hands. The closest would be a letter signed by Franklin but not in his hand, where the address panel was fragmentary and was detached from the letter.Along with John Hancock's, this signature is the quintessential (and much more uncommon) signature of an American Founder. The frank is addressed ""To William Trent, Philadelphia, via New York packet. BFreeFranklin."" At top right is the red London ""Free"" stamped designation, and at top left is the ""0/10"" postage paid entry. Above the address panel are packet stamps dated 17 February and 12 March, the reason being that the February 17 sailing of the New York packet was cancelled after the letter was given that packet stamp, and the letter was instead sent by the March packet and given its 12 March packet stamp also. Why did Franklin write this way? No one knows for certain. It could have been a humorous way to tweak the British government, a way to express solidarity for the Colonies while in London, or another reason.This letter belonged to the Townsend family, an early American merchant family. It had not been offered for sale in at least a half century, if at all. It was first sold by Raab in 2010 and has had no other owners.

CHASTELARD by (BINDINGS - DE SAUTY). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES

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Title: CHASTELARD
Author: (BINDINGS - DE SAUTY). SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1865. FIRST EDITION, First Issue. 174 x 105 mm. (6 3/4 x 4"). 4 p.l., 219 pp. SPLENDID DEEP PURPLE CRUSHED MOROCCO, LAVISHLY INLAID AND GILT, BY ALFRED DE SAUTY (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with rows of green morocco medallions inlaid with a red tulip on a stippled gilt background, the space between the circles with gilt-tooled tan morocco and inlaid morocco dots, raised bands, spine compartment tooled with pointillé gilt, turn-ins with gilt French fillet, gray endpapers, top edge gilt. Ashley Library VI, 55-56. Isolated faint foxing, a couple leaves with expertly repaired short marginal tears, other trivial imperfections internally, but an excellent copy, the text clean and fresh, and IN A SPARKLING BINDING with no signs of use. This is the first printing of Swinburne's tragedy set in the court of Mary, Queen of Scots, offered in an unusual, remarkably flamboyant, and very skillful binding by De Sauty. One of the most accomplished binders at work in the first third of the 20th century, Alfred de Sauty (1870-1949) was the son of an engineer who had studied that discipline himself before taking up bookbinding, and he brings an engineer's precision to his handiwork. He not only possessed enormous technical skill (he made his own tools), but also had a refined imagination for design. He began his career as a finisher for the renowned Riviere bindery, and after leaving their employ in the late 1890s, he worked as a designer at the Hampstead bindery; in her essay "The Mysterious Mr. De Sauty," binding authority Marianne Tidcombe observes, "De Sauty was responsible for some of the best designs of the two binderies, and carried out all the stages of the craft himself, from sewing to the designing and exceptionally delicate tooling of the covers." In his "Styles and Designs of Bookbindings from the 12th to the 20th Century," Nixon features a binding similar to this one in the techniques employed--particularly the intricate gold tooling--as an exemplar of De Sauty's work, citing it as "a most accomplished piece of finishing." He further notes that De Sauty's "finishing was of a very high standard and he was a patient and careful worker." Prideaux praised De Sauty in her "Modern Bookbindings," saying that "his inlays are distinguished for the taste shown in the association of colours, and his finishing has some of the brilliant qualities of the French school, seen particularly in the finely studded tooling of which he seems particularly fond." In 1922, De Sauty left England for America: he had been recruited to become the manager of the Extra Bindery at RR Donnelly Co. in Chicago, where he did much to raise the standards of hand bookbinding in the United States. Swinburne (1837-1909) was a virtuoso of verse, able to produce dazzling and enthralling lines in a wide range of meters and stanzaic forms. He was also a shocking pagan in terms of the content of his poetry, a significant portion of which was erotic. Though he was dismissed from Oxford for disciplinary reasons, he formed important friendships there with Ruskin, Tennyson, Morris, Rossetti, and Burne-Jones. The present item is an early tragedy based on historical events, in which the title character falls desperately in love with Mary Queen of Scots, who seems to encourage his affections; however, after he is discovered in her room, she allows him to be executed for his transgression. DNB tells us that "many reviews complained about the immoral nature of the passion of Chastelard for Mary . . . and his wilful pursuit of romantic self-destruction." Modern scholars have noted the strong sado-masochistic themes in the work, evident in Chastelard's willingness—eagerness, even—to die for love, and his verdict on the fickle queen: "men must love you in life's spite; / For you will always kill them; man by man / Your lips will bite them dead; yea, though you would, / You shall not spare one; all will die of you." As a young man, Swinburne was so severely disappointed in love that he chose never to marry, and his hurt and bitterness over this loss comes through in many of his lyrics..

The Yale Younger Poets Anthology

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Title: The Yale Younger Poets Anthology
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press. (1998). The uncorrected proof copy of this anthology of the longest running poetry series in the U.S. Paperclip marks to prelims; light cover foxing. Near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.

South Sea Memories: Gleanings from a Drifting Trail through Isle-Specked Polynesia from Hawaii to the Antipodes by Adams, John Quincy

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Title: South Sea Memories: Gleanings from a Drifting Trail through Isle-Specked Polynesia from Hawaii to the Antipodes
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News, 1919. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 196pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Yellow cloth covered boards with black ink stamped titles. Very good. The edges of the covers are ever so slightly rubbed and bumped. Inscribed by John Quincy Adams on the front free endsheet. A personal account, from a member of the LDS church, of time spent in Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand, etc. in the early 1900's immersed in Polynesian culture. Includes multiple photographs. John Quincy Adams was also the author of The Birth of Mormonism. Ex-libris Rosalie Sorrels, American folk singer-songwriter who resides in the mountains of Idaho.

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