OShaughnessy: Catalogue of An Interesting Collection of Books and Pamphlets on American History. To Be Sold At Auction Tuesday Afternoon and Wednesday Morning and Afternoon, March 14th and 15th, 1916, 18,

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Auction Date
March 14, 1916 - March 14, 1916
Page Size: 958 items in 10 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
892 LIFE of Gen. Winfield Scott; also Sketch of the Life of Wm. A. Graham New York

1852

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893 LITTLE (GEORGE) Life on the Ocean; or Twenty Years at Sea: being the personal Adventures of the Author Boston

1844

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894 LITTLE (GEORGE) The American Cruiser; a Tale of the last War Boston

1847

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895 [LOWELL (JOHN)] Peace without Dishonor-War without Hope: a Calm and dispassionate Enquiry into the Question of the Chesapeake, etc Boston

1807

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896 MASSACHUSETTS. Report of Committee of Senate: the President's Message and Proclamation; the Act declaring War, etc Boston

1812

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897 MASSACHUSETTS. Patriotic Proceedings of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Jan. 26-March 4, 1809 Boston

1809

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898 MESSAGE of the President recommending an immediate Declaration of War;... Washington

1812-13

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899 NAVAL MONUMENT (THE); containing Official and other Accounts of all Battles fought between the Navies of the United States and Great Britain during the late War Bost.

n. d.

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900 [PAULDING (J. K.)] The Lay of the Scottish Fiddle London

1814

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901 PICKERING (TIMOTHY) Letter, exhibiting to his Constituents (in Mass.) a View of the imminent Danger of an Unnecessary and Ruinous War, pp. 32;... Boston

1808

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902 PICKERING. Interesting Correspondence between Gov. Sullivan and Col. Pickering; in which the latter vindicates himself against groundless charges (of Gov. Sullivan and others),... Boston

1824

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903 PIERCE (WM. LEIGH) The Year New York

1813

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904 John Symons, editor QUEENSTOWN HEIGHTS. The Battle of: being a Narrative of the Opening of the War of 1812, with of Gen. Sir Isaac Brock, etc Toronto

1859

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905 REMARKABLE SHIPWRECKS adventures and suffering of crews of vessels wrecked at sea, etc Hartford

1813

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906 REMARKS on a, Pamphlet, entitled An Enquiry respecting the Capture of Washington by the British on 24th of August, 1814, &c., &c., by Spectator. Baltimore

1816

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907 REYNOLDS (J) Peter Gott, the Cape Ann Fisherman Boston

1856

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908 [RIPLEY (GEN. ELEAZAR WHEELOCK)] Facts relating to the Campaign on the Niagara, 1814 Boston

1815

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909 SILLIMAN (AUG. E.) A Gallop among American Scenery: or Sketches of American Scenes and Military Adventure New York

1843

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910 SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE Phil.

1848

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911 SPEECHES of Josiah Quincy, on the Nonintercourse Law against Great Britain, 1811....

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912 SPEECHES (on the Embargo, the War of 1812, etc.)

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913 STANSBURY (ELIJAH) Life and Times of; with early Reminiscences Baltimore

1874

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914 STATE PAPERS, on the Negotiation and Peace with America, 1814 London

1815

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915 STEVENS (J. H.) Discourses (the Duty of Union in a Just War, at Stoueham, Mass., April 8, 1813...

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916 TALES of the Niagara Frontier (illustrative of the War of 1812) Buffalo

1845

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917 TREATIES between the United States and Great Britain: from the Treaty signed at Paris, 1783, to the Treaty signed at Ghent, 1814 Boston

1815

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918 [WATERHOUSE (BENJAMIN)] A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, who was captured at sea by the British in May, 1813, and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in Egland, and last, at Dartmoor Prison Boston

1860

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919 WILLIAMS (JOHN S.; Major in the War of 1812) History of the Invasion and Capture of Washington, and of the Events which preceded and followed N. Y.

1857

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920 Convers Francis WATERTOWN, Mass. Historical Sketch of: 1630-1830 Cambridge

1830

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921 WEBSTER (NOAH) Dissertations on the English Language: with Notes, historical. To which is added an Essay on a reformed Mode of Spelling, with Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject Boston

1789

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922 WEBSTER (NOAH) The Prompter: or a Commentary on Common Sayings and Subjects, which are full of Common Sense, the best Sense in the World Hartford

1791

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922A WEBSTER (NOAH) The Prompter, etc Boston

1797

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923 WEBSTER (NOAH) Grammatical Institute of the English Language: Part Second (Grammar) Boston

1790

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923A WEBSTER (NOAH) A.L.S. 4to. New York: June 15, 1829 New York

June 15, 1829

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924 WEBSTER (NOAH) Grammar: 3d Edition, with many corrections, Bost., 1794;-American Spelling Book, Concord, N. H., 1828; -Elementary Spelling Book, New Brunswick, N. J., 1829

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925 J. G. Holland WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. History of: the Counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin and Berkshire (with separate histories of its 100 towns) Springfield

1855

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926 WEST POINT, N. Y. Guide Book to West Point and Vicinity; containing Descriptive, Historical and Statistical Sketches of the U. S. Military Academy, etc New York

1844

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927 WHEATLEY (PHILLIS) Memoir and Poems (with preface) Boston

1834

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928 David McClure and Elijah Parish WHEELOCK. Memoirs of Eleazar Wheelock, Founder and President of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School;... Newburyport

1811

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929 WILDER (DAVID) History of Leominster (Mass.) from June 26, 1701, the date of the Deed from George Tahanto, Indian Sagamore, to July 4, 1852 Fitchburg

1853

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930 WILLIAMS (AARON) The Harmony Society, at Economy, Pa. Founded by George Rapp, 1805 Pittsburg

1866

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931 WILLSON (MARCTUS) American History: comprising Historical Sketches of the Indian Tribes; American Antiquities; History of the British Provinces, of Mexico, of Texas, etc New York

1847

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932 Robert C. Winthrop WINTHROP (JOHN). Life and Letters of: from his Embarkation for New England, 1630, with the Charter and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to his Death in 1649 Boston

1867

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933 Hutchinson (Francis) WITCHCRAFT. An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft: with Observations upon Matters of Fact, etc Lond.

1720

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934 Moore (George) WITCHCRAFT. Notes on the History of Witchcraft in Massachusetts...

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935 Upham (Charles W.) WITCHCRAFT. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather N. Y.

1869

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936 Wendell (Barrett) WITCHCRAFT. Were the Salem Witches Guiltless? Salem

1892

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937 Winsor (Justin) WITCHCRAFT. The Literature of Witchcraft in New England Worcester

1896

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938 WITCHCRAFT. The Salem Belle: a Tale of 1692 (and the Persecution) Boston

1842

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939 Kimball (H. D.) WITCHCRAFT. Witchcraft Illustrated: Facts, Theories and Incidents; with a Glance at Old and New Salem and its Historical Resources Boston

1892

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940 Kittredge (George L.) WITCHCRAFT. Notes on Witchcraft Worcester

1907

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941 WORCESTER, Mass. Valuation and Taxes of (Merrick)..

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942 L. H. Bagg YALE COLLEGE. Four Years at Yale New Haven

1871

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943 YALE COLLEGE. Larning's Benefit. Rare and Unparalleled Attraction ! Printed at the Rowdy Journal Office New Haven

(1844)

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944 YALE COLLEGE. Pamphlets and leaflets; about 110, bound in 2 vols

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945 John S. Wood YALE COLLEGE. Yale Yarns: Sketches of Life at Yale University New York

1897

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946 YALE COLLEGE. Yale Class Book Shaken

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947 ZIMMERMAN (M.) Solitude considered with Respect to its Influence on the Mind and the Heart. To which is prefixed the Life of Zimmerman Brooklyn

1813

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