{"id":318,"date":"2011-06-14T09:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watkinson.wp.trincoll.edu\/?p=291"},"modified":"2015-08-12T17:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:58:41","slug":"at-auction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2011\/06\/14\/at-auction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bought at auction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to go to auctions, especially when I find bargains for me or the library.\u00a0 The best auction for rare books near Hartford takes place periodically in Northampton, MA, and is run by New England Book Auctions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebookauctions.com\/\">http:\/\/www.nebookauctions.com\/<\/a>).\u00a0 On June 7 my summer intern (studying to be a rare book librarian at Indiana University) and I attended an uncatalogued shelf sale.\u00a0 Of the five things I acquired for the Watkinson, I am particularly happy about two of them:<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/06\/constable1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-293\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2011\/06\/constable1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The constable&#8217;s guide: being a concise treatise on the powers and duties of a constable and collector in the state of New York, <\/em>by Horace Dresser.\u00a0 (Binghamton, NY: printed by J. Orton, 1832).<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite class of book is the handbook or guide which was used by someone as a\u00a0fundamental reference in the course of their work.\u00a0 Horace Dresser (1803-1877) was one of the first lawyers in New York to defend and assist fugitive slaves.\u00a0 He also wrote on constitutional questions, and a book on the &#8220;American Rebellion.&#8221;\u00a0 In this work, he states that &#8220;the law pertaining to the office of constable has hitherto remained scattered through so many volumes, that &#8230; a sort of digest of the law relative to this office, with the forms adapted to its requirements, seemed &#8230;. a desideratum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The second purchase will be described in another post&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to go to auctions, especially when I find bargains for me or the library.\u00a0 The best auction for rare books near Hartford takes place periodically in Northampton, MA, and is run by New England Book Auctions (http:\/\/www.nebookauctions.com\/).\u00a0 On June 7 my summer intern (studying to be a rare book librarian at Indiana University) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}