44 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 55ADAMS, Samuel. Document signed. Massachusetts, November 28, 1796. Single sheet (15-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches), printed document engrossed by hand, framed with portrait measuring 23 by 23 inches. $9500 Document signed by Samuel Adams as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, affirming that William Donnison has taken “the oaths and the declarations prescribed by the Constitution of this Commonwealth” and appointing him to the Court of Common Pleas in the county of Suffolk. “In 1788 Adams ran for Congress, but lost to the 31-year-old Fisher Ames. The following year he was elected Massachusetts’s lieutenant governor, then reelected annually until he became governor on the death of John Hancock in 1793. Voters then chose him as governor in his own right each year thereafter until January 1797, when he retired from office” (ANB). Early tape and paper repairs to folds, not affecting bold and clear Samuel Adams signature. Dickens’ Own Copy Of Edmonds’ Two-Volume Life And Times Of General Washington 56(WASHINGTON, George) (DICKENS, Charles) EDMONDS, Cyrus. The Life and Times of General Washington. London, 1835. Two volumes. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter morocco gilt rebacked with original spines laid down, custom box. $8800 First edition of British author Edmonds’ biography of Washington, Dickens’ personal copy, each volume containing his bookplate (displaying a lion above Dickens name) and a letterpress bookplate stating “From the library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870,” added after Dickens’ death to identify those books in Dickens’ possession at that time. This rare association copy of Edmonds’ biography of Washington is Dickens’ own copy. Books purporting to be from Dickens’ library at the time of his death ought to meet three criteria: 1) Dickens’ engraved bookplate of a recumbent lion holding a star; 2) the smaller typeset “Gadshill Place” label, dated June 1870, stating “From the Library of Charles Dickens”— these were affixed to volumes for the 1878 sale of part of Dickens' library coordinated by Dickens’ son and Sotheran’s; 3) a corresponding listing in Stonehouse’s 1935 reprinting of Sotheran’s inventory for that sale; this set meets all three. Interiors with light scattered foxing, slight marginal dampstaining to preliminaries, a few minor expert paper repairs. Rare Document Signed By Samuel Adams, 1796
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