Benson Egbert, First Edition (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Gregg Press Edition. 83 pages. Possible ex-library copy.

hard cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: Kirk and Mercein. 1817. First edition. 99pp. Harcover, no jacket. Fair condtion. Original paper boards are age darkened and heavily rubbed/soiled; the spine covering is missing, exposing the string binding which is somewhat fragile but holdinig together. There are significant stains, especially at the front and back, but the text is mostly clean and perfectly readable. There are a handful of pencilled notes in the margins.  Very scarce first edition of Egbert Benson's vindication of the captors of Major Andre in the Benedict Arnold saga.  Benson was a founding father who represented New York at the Continental Congress and served as Chief Justice of the NY Supreme Court.  (cfm).

hardcover. Condition: very good. First. 72pp. 8vo, modern gray cloth, some pages with contemporary annotations to text, light browning to text. New York: T. & W. Mercein, 1817. First Edition. Very good Memoir on place names in New York City with an emphasis on Dutch names when it was in New Netherlands. Author was New York's first Attorney General, chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, a member of the Continental Congress, and later a Representative in the first four years of the United States Congress. Benson also was a founder and the first president of the New-York Historical Society. Shaw and Shoemaker 40183.

First Edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers; 18pp. Removed, with binding residue at bound edge; title page somewhat discolored, with a repaired tear at right margin; old tissue repairs to final text leaf; complete and Good. Uncommon and early critical examination of Washington Irving, whose Sketch Book was first appearing in parts the same year. Benson's pamphlet refers to a sketch in the first part of the Sketch Book, titled "The Wife" - to which Benson takes tongue-in-cheek exception regarding, among other things, Irving's characterization of Dutch women. Egbert Benson (1746-1833) was a prominent figure in New York society, an attorney and jurist who served as the first Attorney General of the State of New York; he was also one of the founders of the New York Historical Society in 1804 and an early member of the American Antiquarian Society. An infrequently-seen and interesting piece of Irvingiana. S&S 47201.