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
395		GENESEO, N. Y. Souvenir of Reunion, after Fifty Years of the Excursion Party from Temple Hill High School to Niagara	Cambridge	1882	USD -	Unknown
396		GENUINE Speech of an eminent Dutch Patriot, lately made in the Assembly of the States-General on their Ratification of the Parliamentary Articles for a General Peace	London	(1748)	USD -	Unknown
397		GEOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of St. Domingo, Cuba, and Nicaragua, with Remarks, etc			USD -	Unknown
398		GEORGIA. Gold Placers of Dahlonega, Ga. (Blake and Jackson)...			USD -	Unknown
399		GEORGIA. Extracts from a Diary kept by Hon. Jonathan Macon of a Journey from Boston to Savannah, 1804	Cambridge	1885	USD -	Unknown
400	GERSTAECKER (F.)	Wild Sports in the Far West	Boston	1861	USD -	Unknown
401	GERSTAECKER (F.)	Wild Sports in the Far West	Boston	1870	USD -	Unknown
402	James R. Pringle	GLOUCESTER, MASS. History of	Gloucester	1892	USD -	Unknown
403	[GOODENOW (STERLING)]	A Brief Topographical and Statistical Manual of the State of New York	New York	1822	USD -	Unknown
404	Peter Parley	[GOODRICH (S. G.).] Stories about New York	New York	1851	USD -	Unknown
405	GOODWIN (JOHN A.)	The Puritan Conspiracy against the Pilgrim Fathers	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
406	GREEN (SAMUEL S.)	The Use of the Voluntary System in Maintenance of Ministers in the Colonies of Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay	Worcester	1886	USD -	Unknown
407	GREENLEAF (J.)	Sketches of the Ecclesiastical History of the State of Maine	Portsmouth	1821	USD -	Unknown
408	GREENOUGH (HORATIO)	Aesthetics at Washington	Washington	1851	USD -	Unknown
409	HAMILTON (ALEXANDER)	Letter, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams	New York	1800	USD -	Unknown
410	Paul Leicester Ford	HAMILTON (ALEXANDER). A List of Treasury Reports and Circulars issued by Alexander Hamilton: 1789-1795	Brooklyn	1886	USD -	Unknown
411	HAMILTON (W. C.)	History of the Town of New Lots, Kings County, N. Y	Brooklyn	1884	USD -	Unknown
412	HARRIS (T. W.)	A Treatise on some of the Insects injurious to Vegetation (in Massachusetts)	Boston	1862	USD -	Unknown
413	George Cabot	HARTFORD CONVENTION. A Short Account of the: taken from Official Documents ... to which is added an attested Copy of the Secret Journal of that Body	Boston	1823	USD -	Unknown
414	B. Peirce	HARVARD UNIVERSITY. History of: 1636-1775	Cambridge	1833	USD -	Unknown
414A	Eliot (Samuel)	HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of its present State	Boston	1848	USD -	Unknown
415	[Pierce (Aug.)]	HARVARD UNIVERSITY. The Rebelliad; or Terrible Transactions at the Seat of the Muses; a Poem	Boston	1842	USD -	Unknown
416		HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Advocate (The)	Cambridge	1867-71	USD -	Unknown
417	HASSAM (J. T.)	The Bahama Islands	Cambridge	1899	USD -	Unknown
418	HAVEN (SAMUEL F.)	History of Grants under the Great Council for New England	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
419	HAVEN (SAMUEL F.)	Historical Address, Dedham, Mass., Sept. 21, 1836 (embracing history of the town: 1636-1836)	Dedham	1837	USD -	Unknown
420	W. G. Zeigler and B. S. Crosscup	HEART (THE) of the Alleghanies, or Western North Carolina: its History, People, Narratives, etc., and Legends of its Wilderness	Raleigh	(1883)	USD -	Unknown
421	HELPS (ARTHUR)	The Spanish Conquest in America and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies	London	1855-61	USD -	Unknown
422	HERRING (RICHARD)	Paper and Paper-Making, ancient and modern	London	1855	USD -	Unknown
423		HISTORIA MUNDI: or Mercator's Atlas	London	(1635)	USD -	Unknown
424		HISTORICUS. The Sham-Patriot unmasked; or an Exposition of the Arts of Demagogues, etc	Haverhill, Mass.	1805	USD -	Unknown
425	HOLLEY (O. L.)	Picturesque Tourist; a Guide to the Northern and Eastern States and Canada	New York	1844	USD -	Unknown
426	HOLMES (ABIEL)	Sermon, Cambridge, Jan. 4, 1801 (on events of the 18th century)	Cambridge	1801	USD -	Unknown
427	HOWE (HENRY)	Historical Collections of the Great West	Cincinnati	1854	USD -	Unknown
428	HOYT (ALBERT H.)	Pepperrell Papers; with Sketches of Lieut.-Gen. James St. Clair and Admiral Sir Charles Knowles	Boston	1874	USD -	Unknown
429	HOYT (E.)	Antiquarian Researches: comprising a History of the Indian Wars in the Country bordering Connecticut and Parts adjacent Indian Depredations in the neighboring Country, etc	Greenfield, Mass.	1824	USD -	Unknown
430		HUDSON RIVER. Traveller's Steamboat and Rail-road Guide to	New York	(1857)	USD -	Unknown
431		HUDSON RIVER. Map of the Hudson River from New York to Albany, with Historical and Descriptive Notes	New York	(circa 1830)	USD -	Unknown
432	HUGGINS (JOHN R. D.)	Hugginiana; or Huggins' Fantasy, etc	New York	1808	USD -	Unknown
433	HUTCHINSON	Copy of Letters sent to Great Britain, by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson...	Salem	1773	USD -	Unknown
434		AMERICAN ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science	Cambridge	1858	USD -	Unknown
435	ANDERSON (R.)	Memoir of Catharine Brown, of the Cherokee Nation	Boston	1825	USD -	Unknown
436		APES. A Son of the Forest	New York	1831	USD -	Unknown
437	AUBREY (FRANK)	The Devil-Tree of El Dorado	New York	(1897)	USD -	Unknown
438	BANDELIER (ADOLF F.)	The Delight Makers	New York	(1890)	USD -	Unknown
439	BANDELIER (ADOLF F.)	Report of an Archaeological Tour in Mexico	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
440	BANDELIER (ADOLF F.)	Hemenway Southwestern Archoeological Expedition. Contributions to the history of the Southwestern U. S	Cambridge	1890	USD -	Unknown
441	BANDELIER (ADOLF F.)	Final Report of Investigations among the Indians of the Southwestern United States	Cambridge	1890-92	USD -	Unknown
442		BARBER. The True Narrative of the Five Years' Suffering and Perilous Adventures, by Miss Barber, wife of Squatting Bear, a celebrated Sioux Chief	Phil.	(1873)	USD -	Unknown
443	BARD (SAMUEL A.)	Waikna; or Adventures on the Mosquito Shore	New York	1855	USD -	Unknown
444	BELDEN (GEORGE P.)	Belden, the White Chief; or Twelve Years among the Wild Indians of the Plains	Cincinnati	1870	USD -	Unknown
445	BLAKE (FRANCIS E.)	Lucy Keyes, the lost Child of Wachusett Mountain	Bost.	1893	USD -	Unknown
446	BLAKE (FRANCIS E.)	Rutland and the Indian Troubles of 1723-30	Worcester	1886	USD -	Unknown
447	BODGE (GEORGE M.)	The Narragansett Fort. Fight, Dec. 19, 1675	Boston	1886	USD -	Unknown
448		BOOK (THE) OF COMMON PRAYER, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church .... with Occasional Prayers and divers Sentences			USD -	Unknown
449	BRADY (CAPT. SAMUEL)	Sketches of the Life and Indian Adventures of	Lancaster, Pa.	1891	USD -	Unknown
450	Foot (Joseph I.)	BROOKFIELD, MASS. An Historical Discourse, Nov. 7, 1828	Brookfield	1829	USD -	Unknown
451	CARRINGTON (GEN. HENRY B.)	Some Phases of the Indian Question	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
452	CASS (LEWIS)	Discourse .... before American Historical Society	Washington	1836	USD -	Unknown
453	CATLIN (GEORGE)	Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians	London	1848	USD -	Unknown
454	CHAUNCY (CHARLES)	Sermon . . . . at Ordination of Rev. Joseph Bowman, to the Work of the Gospel-Ministry, more especially among the Mohawk Indians, on the Western Borders of New England	Boston	1762	USD -	Unknown
455	COOPER (J. F.)	The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish	Phil.	1829	USD -	Unknown
456	CORNING (CHARLES R.)	An Exploit in King William's War, 1697: Hannah Duston	Concord, N. H.	1890	USD -	Unknown
457		COSTUMES of America (mainly of the Aborigines)	Phil.	1852	USD -	Unknown
458	COTHREN (WM.)	Second Centennial Celebration of Ancient Woodbury and the Reception of the First Indian Deed, Woodbury, Conn., July, 1859	Woodbury	1859	USD -	Unknown
459	CUMMINGS (E. C.)	The Mission of Father Rasles as depicted by Himself	Portland, Me.	(1892)	USD -	Unknown
460	CUSTER (ELIZABETH B.)	Tenting on the Plains; Gen. Custer in Kansas and Texas	N. Y.	1893	USD -	Unknown
461	CUSTER (GEN. G. A.)	My Life on the Plains, or Personal Experiences with Indians	New York	1876	USD -	Unknown
462	DARLING (CHARLES W.)	Anthropophagy	Utica	1886	USD -	Unknown
463	DEARBORN (G.)	A.L.S., pp 4, 4to, New York, Dec. 21, 1837	New York	Dec. 21, 1837	USD -	Unknown
464	DEARBORN (HENRY A. S.)	A Sketch of the Life of the Apostle Eliot, etc. Frontispiece (lithograph of Eliot Monument) and reprint from Eliot's Indian Bible	Roxbury	1850	USD -	Unknown
465	DE FOREST (J. W.)	History of the Indians of Connecticut	Albany	1871	USD -	Unknown
466		DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of Catlin's Indian Gallery: Portraits, Landscapes, Costumes, etc....			USD -	Unknown
467	DODGE (COL. RICHARD I.)	Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men...	Hartford	1882	USD -	Unknown
468	DRAKE (SAMUEL G.)	Tragedies of the Wilderness; Authentic Narratives of Captives who have been carried away by the Indians from the various Frontier Settlements, etc	Boston	1846	USD -	Unknown
469	DRAKE (SAMUEL G.)	Early History of Georgia, embracing the Embassy of Sir Alexander Cuming to the Country of the Cherokees, 1730	Boston	1872	USD -	Unknown
470	EASTMAN (CHARLES)	Indian Boyhood (personal reminiscences)	New York	1907	USD -	Unknown
471	[EASTMAN (EDWIN)]	Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches	Jersey City	(1873)	USD -	Unknown
472		ELIOT, ME. Historical Society	Eliot	(1897)	USD -	Unknown
473	ELLIS (GEORGE E.)	The Red Man and the White Man in North America, from its Discovery to the present Time	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
474	EVERETT (HORACE, OF VT.)	Speech on the Indian Annuity Bill, June 3, 1836 (with appendix relating to the Seminoles)	Washington	1836	USD -	Unknown
475	FIELD (THOMAS W.)	Catalogue of the Library of	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
476	J. C. G. Brainard	FORT BRADDOCK LETTERS; a Tale of the French and Indian Wars	Worcester	1827	USD -	Unknown
477	FROST (JOHN)	Illustrated Historical Sketches of the Indians: exhibiting their Manners and Customs on the Battle Field and in the Wigwam	Boston and Hartford	1854	USD -	Unknown
478	FROST (JOHN)	Illuminated History of North America	New York	1859	USD -	Unknown
479	GILBERT (BENJAMIN)	Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of; and his Family, who were surprised by the Indians (and captured), 1780	Lancaster, Pa.	1890	USD -	Unknown
480	GILMAN (DANIEL C.)	Historical Discourse, Norwich, Conn., Sept. 7, 1859 (200th anniversary of the settlement)	Boston	1859	USD -	Unknown
481		GOSPEL ADVOCATE: conducted by a Society of Gentlemen	Boston	1821-26	USD -	Unknown
482		GROTON, MASS. Proceedings, July 4, 1876, in commemoration of the Destruction of the Town, 1676 (by the Indians), etc	Groton	1876	USD -	Unknown
483	HALE (HORATIO)	Chief George H. M. Johnson (Onwanonsyshon): his Life and Work Among the Six Nations	New York	(1885)	USD -	Unknown
484	HALLOCK (W. A.)	The Venerable Mayhews and the Aboriginal Indians of Martha's Vineyard	New York	(1874)	USD -	Unknown
485	HARRISON (J. B.)	Latest Studies on Indian Reservations	Phil.	1887	USD -	Unknown
486	GIDDINGS (JOSHUA R.)	The Florida Exiles and the War for Slavery; or the Crimes committed by our Government against the Maroons, etc	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
487	HEARD (ISAAC V. D.)	History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862-63	New York	1863	USD -	Unknown
488	HECKEWELDER (JOHN)	An Account of the History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations, who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States	Phil.	1818	USD -	Unknown
489	HECKEWELDER (JOHN)	Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Monhegan Indians: 1740-1808	Phil.	1820	USD -	Unknown
490		HISTORY of the Indian King, Metamora; the last of the Wampanoags	Phil.	1844	USD -	Unknown
491	Old Humphrey	HISTORY, Manners and Customs of the North American Indians	New York	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
492	HOLMES (JOHN)	Historical Sketches of the Missions of the United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen	Dublin	1818	USD -	Unknown
493	HUNTER (JOHN D.)	Manners and Customs of Several Indian Tribes located West of the Mississippi	Phil.	1823	USD -	Unknown

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