Source : HRS Kentucky 1787 to 1810

Source Title American Imprints Inventory: The Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects Works Progress Administration. No. 5 Check List of Kentucky Imprints 1787-1810.
Description

This volume contains a list of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Kentucky from the beginnings of its press in 1787 through the year 1830.

Scope of Text

The Kentucky titles contained in this volume were gathered with the help of libraries containing Kentucky materials, as well as from the American Bibliography of the late Charles Evans; from the comprehensive bibliography in the second volume of Ralph Leslie Rusk's Literature of the Middle Western Frontier; from the invaluable imprint catalogue of the New York Public Library; from a large collection of book dealers' and book auction catalogues; and from various other sources.

•This list of issues of the early Kentucky press, except for newspapers and other periodicals, comprises 379 items, printed or presumed to have been printed within those years. Of the total, 51 items fall into the classification of broadsides, leaving 328 which are books or pamphlets. One hundred eighteen of the titles are concerned with religion. Ninety-six are official publications of the state of Kentucky. Thirty-five titles are almanacs, and 13 are schoolbooks. Political propaganda and controversy is the topic of 37 titles. Eighteen titles concern the Masonic order. Industry is the topic of three of the works. Six titles concern general literature, five titles address travel, and three are orations.
Total Records in AED 812
  • Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: These are the Times that Try Men's Souls, Thomas Paine. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Manuscrpit from Aboard The Discovery, Signed by George Vancouver. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Exceedingly Rare Holograph Fragment of James Cook's Logbook. $80,000-$120,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Thomas Lechford: Important First-Hand Account of Life in New England. $40,000-$60,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: The First Expanded Edition of Common Sense, Thomas Paine. $30,000-$50,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Album of Exceptional California Lettersheets. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: An Exceptional Group of Gold Rush Letters, c. 1849-1850. $20,000-$30,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: Mather's King Phillips War Tract 1639-1723. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Colonial America: The Collection of William Nesheim: The First Contemporaneous Account of the Salem Witch Trials, Cotton Mather. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: Poor Richard's Almanack 1749, Benjamin Franklin. $15,000-$20,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin: Fruits of Mormonism by Nelson Slater. $15,000-$25,000
    Bonhams, Oct. 13-23: California! The Gold Rush Collection of Bruce Maclin, Across the Plains in '49 by Emanuel Goughnour. $12,000-$18,000
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    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Queen Elizabeth I. A queen’s defense of the realm, and the birth of the British Empire. $500,000 to $700,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Vanessa Bell — [Virginia Woolf]. An exceptional encapsulation of the Bloomsbury Group. A striking tile created by Vanesa Bell for her sister, Virginia Woolf, ca. Christmas 1926. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.
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