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Rare nineteenth century oil painting after John Gadsby Chapman (New York/Italy, 1808-1889) depicting the birthplace of President George Washington in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Oil on canvas, the painting depicts the inlet of the Potomac River which divides the site of the Washington family home at Pope's Creek Plantation in the foreground from the Maryland shore and farmyard visible in the distance. A stone marker in the extreme foreground reads: "Here on the 22 February AD 1732 Geo Washington was Born." Likely an early copy of the engraving after John Gadsby Chapman's painting of the same scene, now in the collection of Mount Vernon. "Chapman painted nine landscapes illustrating locations significant to the life of George Washington. The series begins with the site of Washington's birth at the Pope's Creek Plantation in Westmoreland County, continues through the site of the Battle of Yorktown, and concludes with scenes of Mount Vernon including the bedchamber in which Washington died and the new tomb in which he was interred in 1831. Chapman exhibited seven of these paintings at the National Academy of Design in New York City during the summer of 1835. Later, nine of the paintings were acquired by James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860), the New York author and onetime Secretary o...

Price: $6,500.00 Item Number: 145244

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First separate edition of Joseph Meredith Toner's George Washington as an Inventor and Promoter of the Useful Arts; exquisitely bound by Stikeman

TONER, Joseph Meredith [George Washington].

George Washington as an Inventor and Promoter of the Useful Arts. An Address Delivered at Mount Vernon, April 10, 1891, by J.M. Toner, M.D.

Washington, D.C.: Press of Gedney & Roberts Co, 1891.

First separate edition of Turner's address delivered at Mount Vernon on the occasion of the visit of the officers and members of the Patent Centennial Celebration. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Stikeman & Co. with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. In near fine condition. Remnant of the original front wrapper bound in. Stamps of the Freedom Foundation Library. Bookplate to the pastedown. An exquisitely bound example of this rare work.

Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 133402

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"FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, AND FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN": FIRST EDITION OF George Washington: A Biography; Volume one inscribed by DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN

FREEMAN, Douglas Southall.

George Washington: A Biography.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-54.

First edition of the author’s monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning work, widely considered the definitive biography of Washington. Octavo, six volumes, original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, with Vol. I inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "Autographed for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Ramage with every good wish Douglas Southall Freeman." In near fine condition. Vol. 5 in the publisher's slipcase. A very sharp set.

Price: $1,250.00 Item Number: 149571

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