Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - May - 2005 Issue
More From The American West From Arthur H. Clark
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Some first editions are a long time coming. Jacobo Sedelmayr was a Jesuit missionary to the Pima Indians of northern Mexico and southern Arizona in the middle of the 18th century. From 1744-1751, he wrote a series of letters and reports about his mission. It took 200 years for these to finally be gathered together and published, in Jacobo Sedelmayr Missionary, Frontiersman, Explorer in Arizona and Sonora, published by the Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society in 1955. Interestingly, Clark points out that Sedelmayr's reports show no indication of resentment among the Pimas, who would engage in a bloody revolt in late 1751. Around 100 Spanish settlers and a few missionaries would be killed before it was put down. $75.
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Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000. -
