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
299		CURRENCY (The): its Influence on Internal Trade of the Country (James Harley)...			USD -	Unknown
300	DAVIS (ANDREW McF.)	Provincial Banks: Land and Silver...	Cambridge		USD -	Unknown
301		ESSAYS; Reports; Addresses, etc.: 1807-1900			USD -	Unknown
302		EXPLANATION and Vindication of Samuel Leggett...			USD -	Unknown
303		FINANCE; Currency; Tariff: 1823-80			USD -	Unknown
304	GALLATIN (ALBERT)	A Sketch of the Finances of the United States	New York	1796	USD -	Unknown
305	GALLATIN (ALBERT)	Speech, 1st March, 1798, upon the Foreign Intercourse Bill	Phil.	1798	USD -	Unknown
306	GALLATIN (ALBERT)	Views of the Public Debt, Receipts and Expenditures of the United States	Phil.	1801	USD -	Unknown
307	GALLATIN (ALBERT)	Report on the Subject of American Manufactures	Bost.	1810	USD -	Unknown
308	GALLATIN (ALBERT)	Memorial of the Committee appointed by the Free Trade Convention With Appendix (by Albert Gallatin)	N. Y.	1832	USD -	Unknown
309	GALLATIN (ALBERT)	Peace with Mexico	N. Y.	1847	USD -	Unknown
310	GIBBONS (J. S.)	The Banks of New York, their Dealers, the Clearing House and the Panic of 1857	New York	1858	USD -	Unknown
311	GILBART (JAMES W.)	History of Banking in America: with an Inquiry how far the Banking Institutions of America are adapted to this Country	London	1837	USD -	Unknown
312		GLOCESTER, R. I. Report of the Committee appointed by the General Assembly of the State of R. I.,..		1809	USD -	Unknown
313	[JEFFERSON (THOMAS)]	Report of the Secretary of State on the Privileges and Restrictions on the Commerce of the United States in Foreign Countries	Phil.	1793	USD -	Unknown
314	JOYCE (JEREMIAH)	A Complete Analysis, or Abridgement of Smith's Wealth of Nations, etc	London	1818	USD -	Unknown
315		LEGGETT. Explanation (The) and Vindication of Samuel Leggett, late President of the Franklin Bank, N. Y	New York	1831	USD -	Unknown
316		MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT (with accompanying documents, and others), etc	Washington	1830-31	USD -	Unknown
317	MOODY (JOHN)	The Truth about the Trusts: a Description and Analysis of the American Trust Movement	New York	(1904)	USD -	Unknown
318	[PAINE (THOMAS)]	Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money	Phil.	1786	USD -	Unknown
319	REED (GEORGE B.)	Sketch of the Early History of Banking in Vermont	Boston	(1879)	USD -	Unknown
320	SAY (J. B.)	Treatise on Political Economy; or the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wealth	Phil.	1846	USD -	Unknown
321		SPEECH of Hon. Wm. Gaston....	Washington and Boston		USD -	Unknown
322	STONE (E. M.)	The Architect and Monetarian: Memoir of Thomas A. Tefft, including his Labors in Europe to establish a Universal Currency		1869	USD -	Unknown
323	[WARE (N. A.)]	Notes on Political Economy, as applicable to the United States	N. Y.	1844	USD -	Unknown
324	[WEBSTER (Pelatiah)]	Essay on Money as a Medium of Commerce, with Remarks on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Paper admitted into general circulation	Phil.	1786	USD -	Unknown
325	DANA (CHARLES A.)	The Art of Newspaper Making	New York	1895	USD -	Unknown
326	J. W. Hanson	DANVERS, Mass. History of, from its Early Settlement to 1848	Danvers	1848	USD -	Unknown
327	DARBY (WILLIAM)	A Geographical Description of the State of Louisiana, the Southern Part of the State of Mississippi and Territory of Alabama	New York	1817	USD -	Unknown
328	Baxter P. Smith	DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. History of	Boston	1878	USD -	Unknown
329		DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. Literary Tablet: Essays in poetry and prose	Hanover	1804-07	USD -	Unknown
330		DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. Dartmouth Athletics: a Complete History of all Sports at the College	Concord	1893	USD -	Unknown
331	DAVIS (A.)	History of New Amsterdam; or, New York as it Was, in the Days of the Dutch Governors; with Papers connected with the Revolution	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
332	DAVISON (G. M.)	The Fashionable Tour; an Excursion to the Springs, Niagara, Quebec, and through the New England States: with Geographical and Historical Sketches	Saratoga Springs	1828	USD -	Unknown
333	DEAN (JOHN WARD)	History of the Gerrymander	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
334	DEANE (CHARLES)	Roger Williams and the Massachusetts Charter	Cambridge	1873	USD -	Unknown
335		DEERFIELD, MASS. A Brief Sketch of the first Settlement of: with a few of the Events which took Place there in early Times	Greenfield	1833	USD -	Unknown
336		DELAWARE. The Swedes on the Delaware (Kidder), 1876;...			USD -	Unknown
337	DE PEYSTER (J. WATTS)	The History of Carausius, the Dutch Augustus and Emperor of Britain, with which is interwoven an Historical and Ethnological Account of the Manapii, the ancient Zeelanders and Dutch Flemings	Poughkeepsie	1858	USD -	Unknown
338	DE PEYSTER (J. WATTS)	The Battle of the Sound or Baltic, 1658, between the Hollanders and Swedes	Poughkeepsie	1858	USD -	Unknown
339	DE PEYSTER (J. WATTS)	Napoleone di Buonaparte, pp. 48;-Napoleone di Buonaparte, 2d series, pp...	New York	1896-98	USD -	Unknown
340	DICKINSON (RODOLPHUS)	A Geographical and Statistical View of Massachusetts Proper	Greenfield	1813	USD -	Unknown
341	William A. Emerson	DOUGLAS, Mass. History of: from the earliest period to 1878	Boston	1879	USD -	Unknown
342	DRAKE (FRANCIS S.)	The Town of Roxbury (Mass.): its memorable Persons and Places, its History and Antiquities, etc	Roxbury	1878	USD -	Unknown
343	DUER (WM. A.)	Letter addressed to Cadwallader D. Colden, in Answer to Strictures in his Life of Robert Fulton; with Appendix containing the Laws concerning Steam Boats, etc	Albany	1817	USD -	Unknown
344	[DWIGHT (TIMOTHY)]	The Triumph of Infidelity: a Poem		1788	USD -	Unknown
345		EARLY ENGRAVING in America			USD -	Unknown
345A	Cooper (J. Fenimore)	EARLY FICTION. The Prairie, 1827...			USD -	Unknown
345B		Homeward Bound	Cambridge	1904	USD -	Unknown
346		EARLY LITHOGRAPHY. American Toilet (The)	New York	n. d. (circa, 1825)	USD -	Unknown
347	Charles Prentiss	EATON (GEN. WM.). Life of: principally collected from his correspondence and other MSS	Brookfield	1813	USD -	Unknown
348		ECHO (THE). Engravings by Leney, designed by Tisdale	[New York]	[1807]	USD -	Unknown
349	EDWARDS (JONATHAN)	A Treatise concerning Religious Affections, etc	New York	1768	USD -	Unknown
350	ELLIOTT (CHARLES WYLLYS)	The Book of American Interiors	Bost.	1876	USD -	Unknown
351	ELLIOT (JONATHAN)	Historical Sketches of the Ten Miles Square framing the District of Columbia...	Washington	1830	USD -	Unknown
352		EPISCOPAL. Bull (Rt. Rev. George). Discourse concerning the Spirit of God, etc	Boston	1740	USD -	Unknown
353	Chauncy (Charles)	A Compleat View of Episcopacy, etc	Boston	1771	USD -	Unknown
354		EPITAPHS from the Old Burying-Ground in Cambridge (Mass.)	Cambridge	1845	USD -	Unknown
354A	Barton (W. S.)	EPITAPHS Barton (W. S.). Epitaphs from the Cemetery on Worcester Common, with Notes, References and Index	Cambridge	1845	USD -	Unknown
355		EPITAPHS Inscriptions on the Grave Stones .... of Northampton, and of other Towns in the Valley of the Connecticut, with brief Annals of Northampton Transcribed by T. Bridgeman	Northampton	1850	USD -	Unknown
356	EVERETT (EDWARD)	Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
357	EVERETT (EDWARD)	Memorial of Edward Everett from the City of Boston	Boston	1865	USD -	Unknown
358	EXETER (N. H.). Bell (Charles H.)	Phillips Exeter Academy: a Historical Sketch	Exeter	1883	USD -	Unknown
359		FATHER ABBEY'S WILL; to which is added a Letter of Courtship to his Virtuous and Amiable Widow	Cambridge	1854	USD -	Unknown
360	FELT (J. B.)	Ecclesiastical History of New England, etc	Boston	1855-62	USD -	Unknown
361	FENTRESS (WALTER E. H.)	Centennial History of the United States Navy Yard,	Portsmouth	1876	USD -	Unknown
362	[FESSENDEN (T. G.)]	Democracy Unveiled; or Tyranny stripped of the Garb of Patriotism	Boston	1805	USD -	Unknown
363	FISHER (ELIJAH)	Journal: while in the War for Independence, and continued two Years after he came to Maine: 1775-1784	Augusta, Me.	1880	USD -	Unknown
364	FITCH (ASA)	First to Ninth (inclusive) Reports on the Noxious Beneficial and other Insects of the State of New York	Albany	1856-65	USD -	Unknown
365	Helen Harcourt	FLORIDA. Home Life in	Louisville	1889	USD -	Unknown
366	FOSTER (G. G.)	Celio: or New York above-ground and underground	New York	(1850)	USD -	Unknown
367	FOSTER (H. C.)	An Excursion among the Poets	Richmond, Va.	(1853)	USD -	Unknown
368	FOX (CHARLES)	A Portrait of George Washington, from an Original Drawing, as he appeared while reviewing the Continental Army on Boston Common, 1776: History of the Portrait, etc	Boston	1851	USD -	Unknown
369	Master Mason	FREE MASONRY: its Pretensions exposed in faithful Extracts of its Standard Authors; with a Review of Town's Speculative Masonry its base Service to the Illuminati, etc	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
370	Hardie (James)	FREE MASONRY: The New Free-Mason's Monitor; or Masonic Guide	New York	1818	USD -	Unknown
371	FRENCH (J. H.)	Gazetteer of the State of New York, etc	Syracuse	1860	USD -	Unknown
372	GAINE (HUGH)	The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Private	New York	1902	USD -	Unknown
373	Laland (Thomas)	GAINE IMPRINT.History of Ireland	Phil. and New York	1774	USD -	Unknown
373A		GAINE IMPRINT. The Young Clerk's Vade Mecum: or Compleat Law Tutor	New York	1776	USD -	Unknown
374	Pomfret (John)	GAINE IMPRINT. Poems upon Several Occasions	New York	1785	USD -	Unknown
375		GALAXY OF WIT (THE); or, Living Philosopher	Bost.	1830	USD -	Unknown
376	GARDINER (LION)	Papers and Biography of: 1599-1663	St. Louis	1883	USD -	Unknown
377	GAYARRE (CHARLES)	Louisiana: its History as a French Colony	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
378	GAYARRE (CHARLES)	The School for Politics	N. Y.	1854	USD -	Unknown
379	T. Bicknell	GENEALOGY. Bicknells (The): Joshua Bicknell's Genealogy; 1635-1880	Boston	1880	USD -	Unknown
380	G. T. Ridlon	GENEALOGY. Burbank and Burbanck Families in the U. S. Contribution to the Genealogy of, by G. T. Ridlon	Saco, Me.	1880	USD -	Unknown
381	W. L. Weaver	GENEALOGY. Fenton Family. Genealogy of the Descendants of Rober Fentonr Windham, Conn	Willimantic	1867	USD -	Unknown
382	Geo. Gale	GENEALOGY. Gale Family. Genealogy of, by Geo. Gale, of Galesville,	Albany	(1864)	USD -	Unknown
383	D. T. V. Huntoon	GENEALOGY. Huntoon (Philip): and his Descendants	Canton, Mass.	1881	USD -	Unknown
384	Joris Dircksen	GENEALOGY. Brinckerhoff (Joris Dircksen)	New York	1887	USD -	Unknown
385	Wm. H. Sumner	GENEALOGY. Sumner (Increase). Memoir of; by Wm. H. Sumner. With Genealogy of the Sumner Family	Boston	1854	USD -	Unknown
386	G. W. Messinger	GENEALOGY. Messinger Family (The): in Europe and America	Lowell, Mass.	1882	USD -	Unknown
387	W. H. Whitmore	GENEALOGY. Usher Family of New England. Brief Genealogy of	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
388	Henry F.	GENEALOGY. Waters (Henry F.). Genealogical Gleanings in England	Salem	1885-89	USD -	Unknown
389		GENEALOGY. Whitmarsh Family. Genealogy of: Revised Edition	N. Y.	1902	USD -	Unknown
390		GENEALOGY. Fletcher Family. Genealogical and Historical Sketches of	Lowell, Mass.	1878	USD -	Unknown
391		GENEALOGY. Thayer. Catalogo Biographico de la Casa de Thayer de Braintree. Por Luis Thayer Ojeda	Santiago de Chile	1904	USD -	Unknown
392	Thomas Thayer Ojeda	GENEALOGY. Thayer Family of Thornbury	Santiago	1907	USD -	Unknown
393		GENEALOGY. Historical and Genealogical Researches, and records of passing events of Merrimack Valley (Mass.)	Haverhill	(1857)	USD -	Unknown
394	John Wentworth	GENEALOGY. Wentworth. Genealogy: comprising the origin of the name, the family in England, and a particular account of Elder William Wentworth and his descendants	Boston	1870	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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