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,

Auction Details

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
101	GORDON (WM.)	Sermon, before the House of Representatives, on the Day intended for the Choice of Counsellors, agreeable to the Advice of the Continental Congress	Watertown	1775	USD -	Unknown
102		HARLEM PLAINS. Commemoration of 100th Anniversary of the Battle (Oration, historical sketches, etc.)	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
103	HART (CHARLES HENRY)	Robert Morris: the Financier of the American Revolution: a Sketch	Phil.	1877	USD -	Unknown
104	HASKELL (CALEB)	Diary: May 5, 1775-May 30, 1776	Newburyport	1881	USD -	Unknown
105	HAYDEN (H. E.)	Major John Garrett, slain July 3, 1778: a forgotten Hero of the Massacre	Wilkes-Barre	1895	USD -	Unknown
106	HERSEY (CHARLES)	Reminiscences of the Military Life and Sufferings of Col. Timothy Bigelow, of the 15th Mass. Regiment, during the War of the Revolution	Worcester	1860	USD -	Unknown
107	HILL (F. STANHOPE)	The Lucky Little Enterprise and her Successors in the U. S. Navy: 1776-1900	Boston	1900	USD -	Unknown
108		HISTORIC LETTERS (of Benedict Arnold, Gens. Gates, Irvine, Sullivan, Wayne, Putnam, Washington, and others), from the Collection of the West Chester State Normal School	Phil.	1898	USD -	Unknown
109	HULL (GEN. WILLIAM)	Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of: prepared from his MSS	N. Y.	1848	USD -	Unknown
110		INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE. Jan. 30; May 22; June 12	Boston	1777	USD -	Unknown
111	JOHNSTON (HENRY P.)	Yale (College) and her Honor-Roll in the American Revolution: 1775-1783	New York	1888	USD -	Unknown
112	KIDDER (FREDERIC)	History of the First New Hampshire Regiment in the War of the Revolution	Albany	1868	USD -	Unknown
113	LABREE (LAWRENCE)	Rebels and Tories; or, the Blood of the Mohawk ! A Tale of the American Revolution	New York	(1851)	USD -	Unknown
114		LEXINGTON, Mass. Address (on battle of April 19, 1775),...			USD -	Unknown
115	LIPPITT (CHARLES W.)	Rhode Island's early Efforts in the Revolution	Central Falls	(1896)	USD -	Unknown
116		LONDON GAZETTE (The)	London	March 13-16, 1779	USD -	Unknown
117	LORING (GEORGE B.)	A Vindication of Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons against the Charge of Treasonable Correspondence during the Revolutionary War	Salem	1888	USD -	Unknown
118	LOVELL (ALBERT A.)	A Sketch of the Life of Major Ezra Beaman, together with Documents of Public Interest	Worcester	1882	USD -	Unknown
119	LUNT (PAUL)	Diary: May-Dec., 1775	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
120	MACK (EBENEZER)	Life of G. M. De Lafayette: a Marquis of France; a General in the French and American Revolutions, etc	Ithaca, N. Y.	1841	USD -	Unknown
121	MELVILLE (HERMAN)	Israel Potter: his Fifty Years of Exile	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
122	MOORE (GEORGE H.)	The Treason of Charles Lee, Major General, second in command in the American Army of the Revolution	N. Y.	1860	USD -	Unknown
123	MOORE (GEORGE H.)	Historical Notes on the Employment of Negroes in the American Army of the Revolution	New York	1862	USD -	Unknown
124	MOORE (HUGH)	Memoir of Col. Ethan Allen; containing the most Interesting Incidents connected with his Private and Public Career	Plattsburgh	1834	USD -	Unknown
125	MURRAY (JOHN)	Jerubbaal, or Tyranny's Grove destroyed and the Altar of Liberty Finished	Newburyport	1784	USD -	Unknown
126		OBSERVATIONS on the Nature of Civil Liberty...			USD -	Unknown
127	PAUL (EDWARD J.)	The Part borne by Sergt. John White Paul, in the Capture of Gen. Richard Prescott, Commander of the British Forces, near Newport, R. I., 1777			USD -	Unknown
127A		POTTER. Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter (a native of Cranston, R. I.), who was a soldier in the American Revolution, etc		1824	USD -	Unknown
128	PRICE (RICHARD)	Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, etc	Boston	(1776)	USD -	Unknown
129		PRINCETON Mass. Soldiers of the Revolution (names, dates of death and other facts)	Boston	(1897)	USD -	Unknown
130	QUINCY (JOSIAH)	Memoir of the Life of Josiah Quincy, Jun., of Mass	Boston	1825	USD -	Unknown
131	RAE (W. F.)	Wilkes, Sheridan, Fox: the Opposition under George III	London	1874	USD -	Unknown
132	READ (T. B.)	Paul Redding: a Tale of the Brandy-wine	Boston	1845	USD -	Unknown
133	REED (JOSEPH) and CAOWALLADER (JOHN)	pamphlets. Reprint of: with an Appendix (mostly correspondence of Revolutionary celebrities)	[Phil.]	1863	USD -	Unknown
134	REED (WM. B.)	Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, Military Secretary of Washington at Cambridge, Adjutant General of the Continental Army, etc	Phil.	1847	USD -	Unknown
135		REMARKS on Letters from Washington to Joseph Reed during the American Revolution (Sparks),...			USD -	Unknown
136	RIKER (JAMES)	Evacuation Day, 1783, its many stirring Events: with Recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale	New York	1883	USD -	Unknown
137	[ROKEBY (LORD)]	Considerations on the Measures carrying on with Respect to the British Colonies in North America	Boston	1774	USD -	Unknown
138		SAVANNAH: Siege of, in 1779, as described in Two Contemporaneous Journals of French Officers in the Fleet of Count d'Estaing	Albany	1874	USD -	Unknown
139	SIMMS (J. R.)	The American Spy: or Freedom's early Sacrifice	Albany	1857	USD -	Unknown
140	[SIMMS (W. GILMORE)]	The Partisan: a Tale of the Revolution (Marion and his men, etc.)	New York	1835	USD -	Unknown
141	STAPLES (CARLTON A.)	Samuel Dexter: 1726-1810	Dedham	1892	USD -	Unknown
142	STAPLES (WM. R.)	Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee		1845	USD -	Unknown
143	STEARNS (SAMUEL)	The North American's Almanack and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for 1776	Massachusetts-Bay	(1775)	USD -	Unknown
144	STEVENS (B. F.)	Portrait of John Paul Jones presented to the Bostonian Society, Nov. 12, 1889	Boston	(1889)	USD -	Unknown
145	STEVENS (B. F.)	Isaac Hull and American Frigate Constitution.	Boston	(1890)	USD -	Unknown
146	Wm. A. Duer.	STIRLING (LORD). Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, Major General in the Army of the U. S. during the Revolution	New York	1847	USD -	Unknown
147	STONE (WM. L.)	Memoir of the Centennial Celebration of Burgoyne's Surrender, Schuylerville, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1877	Albany	1878	USD -	Unknown
148	SULLIVAN (WM.)	The Public Men of the Revolution: including Events from the Peace of 1783 to the Peace of 1815	Phil.	1847	USD -	Unknown
149	TOWNSEND (CHARLES H.)	The British Invasion of New Haven, Conn.; their burning of Fairfield and Norwalk, 1779, etc	New Haven	1879	USD -	Unknown
150	TRESCOT (WM. H.)	The Diplomacy of the Revolution: an Historical Study	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
151	TRUMBULL (JOHN)	Autobiography, Reminiscences and Letters: 1756-1841	New Haven	1841	USD -	Unknown
152	TRUMBULL (JONATHAN) and WOODWARD (J. G.)	Vindication of Patriots of the American Revolution	Hartford	1896	USD -	Unknown
153	TUDOR (WM.)	Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts: containing also Notices of some Contemporary Characters and Events: 1760-1775	Boston	1823	USD -	Unknown
154	UPHAM (W. P.)	Memoir of Gen. John Glover, of Marblehead (his services in the Revolution, etc.)	Salem	1863	USD -	Unknown
155	H. W. Cunningham, editor	(LIEUT.-COL. JOSEPH). Journal of: April-July, 1776	Cambridge	1905	USD -	Unknown
156		REVOLUTIONARY ORDERS of Gen. Washington: 1778-82; selected from the MSS	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
157	WASHBURN (EMORY)	An Address: Commemorative of the Part taken by the Inhabitants of Leicester (Mass.) in the Events of the Revolution	Boston	1849	USD -	Unknown
158	WATSON (JOHN L.)	Paul Revere's Signal: the true Story of the Signal Lanterns in Christ Church, Boston	Cambridge	1877	USD -	Unknown
159	WEBSTER (SAMUEL)	The Misery and Duty of an Oppress'd and Enslaved People, in a Sermon, Salisbury (Mass.), July 14, 1774, on a Day set apart for Fasting and Prayer, on Account of approaching Public Calamities	Boston	1774	USD -	Unknown
160	WHEILDON (W. W.)	New History of the Battle of Bunker Hill...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
161	Senor Alguno	[AMES (NATHAN).] Childe Harvard; a Romance of Cambridge	Boston	1848	USD -	Unknown
162	[AMES (NATHANIEL)]	A Mariner's Sketches, originally published in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal, Providence		1830	USD -	Unknown
163		AMHERST, MASS			USD -	Unknown
164		APPLETON'S Dictionary of New York and Vicinity,...			USD -	Unknown
165	E. Y. Clarke	ATLANTA, GA. Illustrated History of	Atlanta	1877	USD -	Unknown
166	Henry Hall	AUBURN, N. Y. History of	Auburn	1869	USD -	Unknown
167	H. Fowler	AUBURN, N. Y. History of the Church (all Christian denominations in the city, 1867), by H. Fowler;-Twenty-Five Years' Rectorship of St. Peter's Church, Auburn, and others			USD -	Unknown
168		AUTHENTIC and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene in Southampton Co., Va., when 55 of its inhabitants (mostly women and children were inhumanely massacred by the Blacks	N. P.	1831	USD -	Unknown
169		AUTOBIOGRAPHY of a Notorious Legal Functionary (Jack Ketch-the hangman)	London	1838	USD -	Unknown
170	Charles Cowley	AYER, Mass. Reminiscencess of James C. Ayer and the Town of Ayer	Lowell	(1879)	USD -	Unknown
171	BADEAU (ADAM)	The Vagabond	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
172	BALDWIN (JOHN D.)	Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology	N. Y.	1872	USD -	Unknown
173	BALDWIN (JOHN D.)	Pre-Historic Nations; Inquiries concerning some of the great Peoples and Civilizations of Antiquity (ancient communication with America, etc)	N. Y.	1873	USD -	Unknown
174		BAPTIST. Minutes of the Black-River Association, Brownville, Jefferson Co., N. Y., June, 1821, with Circular, Letters, etc		1821	USD -	Unknown
175		BAPTIST. Minutes of the Holland Purchase Association, Aurora, June, 1821	Batavia	1821	USD -	Unknown
176	BARBER (J. W.)	Historical Collections, relating to the History and Antiquities of every Town in Massachusetts	Worcester	1839	USD -	Unknown
177	BARBER (J. W.)	History and Antiquities of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania	Portland	1848	USD -	Unknown
178	J. W. Barber and Henry Howe	BARBER (J. W.). Historical Collections of the State of New York: Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, etc	New York	1842	USD -	Unknown
179	BARNARD (JOHN: of Marblehead, Mass.)	Sermons on Several Subjects	Boston, N. E.	1727	USD -	Unknown
180	BARNEY (COMMODORE JOSHUA)	Biographical Memoir of: from Autobiographical Notes and Journals, and other Authentic Sources	Boston	1832	USD -	Unknown
181	BEECHER (W. H.)	Discourse, at Installation of Rev. R. S. Crampton, at Warsaw, N Y., and of Rev. J. B. Preston, Attica, N. Y., Oct., 1839	Batavia, N. Y.	1841	USD -	Unknown
182	E. M. Stone	BEVERLY, Mass. History of: 1630-1842	Boston	1843	USD -	Unknown
183		ANNUAL REVIEW and History of Literature	London	1802-09	USD -	Unknown
184	BERJEAU (J. P.)	Le Bibliophile Illustre	London	1861-62	USD -	Unknown
185		BIBLIOTHEQUE de l'Amateur de Livres. Connaissances necessaires a un Bibliophile	Paris	1877	USD -	Unknown
186		BBLIOTHECA SUSSEXIANA. Library of the Duke of Sussex	London	1844-45	USD -	Unknown
187	BIERSTADT (O. A.)	The Library of Robert Hoe. A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
188	[BLISS (PHILIP)]	Bibliographical Miscellanies. Being a Selection of Curious Pieces, in Verse and Prose	Oxford	1813	USD -	Unknown
189	Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf	BOOKBINDING. The Art of	London	1880	USD -	Unknown
190	S. T. Prideaux	BOOKBINDING. Historical Sketch of, by S. T. Prideaux	London	1893	USD -	Unknown
191		BOOKBINDING. Guide du Libraire-Antiquaire et du Bibliophile	Paris	1882-84	USD -	Unknown
192		Davenport (Cyril). BOOKBINDING	London	1896	USD -	Unknown
193	BOSSANGE (HECTOR)	Ma Bibliotheque Francaise	Paris	1855	USD -	Unknown
194	BOUCHOT (HENRI)	Le Livre; l'Illustration-la Reliure: Etude Historique Sommaire	Paris	(1886)	USD -	Unknown
195		CATALOGUES of Books, Autographs, etc., of W. E. Benjamin: Nos. 60-80	New York	1894	USD -	Unknown
196		CATALOGUES of the American Library of S. L. M. Barlow	New York	1889	USD -	Unknown
197	Joseph Sabin, editor	CATALOGUES of the Library of E. G. Squier	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
198	COLLET (STEPHEN)	Relics of Literature (the First English Catalogue; literary fabrication; early drama, etc.)	London	1823	USD -	Unknown
199	COPINGER (W. A.)	Bibliographiana, No. 1	Manchester	1895	USD -	Unknown

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Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

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