Books, Manuscripts, Broadsides, Audubons

Founding Documents, Aquatint Travel Books, and Audubon. Early manuscript maps, town-founding documents, business and personal papers, and the library amassed by Col. Elisha Camp and his wife Sophia Hale Camp in Sackets Harbor, NY, from 1809 until they died in 1866 will be featured in Blanchard Auction Services? on-line auction with on-line bidding available now through March 28. The Camp archive richly documents the lives of first-generation settlers of Jefferson County NY?s most important port, their acquisition of household furnishings, and Col. Camp?s roles in early U.S.-Canadian trade and Lake Ontario steamboat and railroad promotion. Also included are the Camps? descendants? presidential appointments signed by Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. The Camps? library includes: important works on African-Americans? lives and Abolitionism; early militia and U.S. Army drill books; early medical books; published aids to international trade & commerce from 1757 to 1821; and the books with which the Camps instructed their children in all the subjects of the day, including religion, science, farming, and philanthropy. The Camps? children and grandchildren added to the family?s shelves books on women?s rights, Civil War manuscript letters and books, and photographs, manuscripts, and printed items documenting military service in Arizona and the Philippines from 1880 to 1901, and more. Rare travel items to be auctioned will start with U.S. Navy Admiral A. S. Crowninshield?s unpublished manuscript autobiography (1843-1909), in which he details in his own hand his Annapolis days aboard the U.S.S. Constitution, Civil War service, cruises to (and stays in) China and Japan via Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town in 1866, etc. Better known, but almost as rare is an extraordinary first edition of the great Brazilian rarity about a port Crowninshield admired, Lt. Henry Chamberlain?s Views and Costumes of the C