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
594		MAPS. Catalogue of Maps and Charts in the Library of Harvard University (with presentation inscription of Josiah Quincy),...			USD -	Unknown
595	John Melish.	MAPS. Map of the United States, with the British and Spanish Possessions. By John Melish. Engraved by J. Vallance and H. S. Tanner	Phil.	1820	USD -	Unknown
596		MAPS. Lloyd's American Railroad Weekly: large folio, descriptive sketches printed on verso,...	Boston	1851	USD -	Unknown
597		MAPS. Sage's R. R. Map (Western States)...			USD -	Unknown
598	MARSDEN (JOSHUA)	Narrative of a Mission to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Somers Islands; with a Tour to Lake Ontario	Plymouth Dock	1816	USD -	Unknown
599		MARSHALL. Extracts from John Marshall's Diary (of Braintree, Mass.): Jan., 1689-Dec., 1711	Cambridge	1900	USD -	Unknown
600	MARSHALL (O. H.)	The Niagara Frontier: Sketches of its early History and Indian, French and English Local Names	Buffalo	(1865)	USD -	Unknown
601	James McSherry	MARYLAND. History of 1634-1848	Baltimore	1849	USD -	Unknown
602	[Martin (Luther)]	MARYLAND. Modern Gratitude	Baltimore	(1801)	USD -	Unknown
603		MARYLAND. Letter from Richard Raynal Keene to Luther Martin, Esq., Attorney-General of Maryland, upon the Subject of Modern Gratitude.	Baltimore	1802	USD -	Unknown
604		MARYLAND. Letter to Luther Martin, Esq., on his late Parental Conduct exemplied in his Publication entitled, Modern Gratitude.	Baltimore	1802	USD -	Unknown
605		MARYLAND. A Political Essay, addressed to the; People of Maryland	Baltimore	1808	USD -	Unknown
606	George Moore	MARYLAND. MS. Record of Marriages in Maryland and Delaware: 1789-1804			USD -	Unknown
607		MARYLAND. Maryland Resolutions, and the objections to them, 1822;-Montgomery County,...			USD -	Unknown
608		MASS. CONVENTION. Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention chosen to revise the Constitution, 1820-21	Boston	1853	USD -	Unknown
609		MASSACHUSETTS. Correspondence relating to Mass. claim (for services in War of 1812),...			USD -	Unknown
610		MASSACHUSETTS. Election Sermons: 1804-74 (10 nos. missing), 60 pieces			USD -	Unknown
611		MASSACHUSETTS. First Annual Report of Births, Marriages and Deaths, pp. 119, 1843;-Statistical View of the Population of Mass...			USD -	Unknown
612		MASSACHUSETTS. Boston. Hawes School Memorial; re-unions; biographical sketches of the old masters; list of members, etc	Boston	1889	USD -	Unknown
613		MASSACHUSETTS. Malden. The Bi-Centennial Book of Malden; with matters pertaining to the history of the place	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
614	R. I. Davis	MASSACHUSETTS. Merrimack Valley. Gleanings from	Portland	1881	USD -	Unknown
615	Mrs. E. Vale Smith	MASSACHUSETTS. Newburyport. History of (1620-1854)	Newburyport	1854	USD -	Unknown
616	Rich (Shebnah)	MASSACHUSETTS. Truro-Cape Cod; or Land Marks and Sea Marks	Boston	(1883)	USD -	Unknown
617		MASSACHUSETTS. Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay: 1628-1641	Cambridge	1850	USD -	Unknown
618		MASSACHUSETTS. Defense of the Legislature of Mass., Bost., 1804,...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
619	MATHER (COTTON)	Magnalia Christi Americana: or the Ecclesiastical History of New England: 1620-1698	Hartford	1820	USD -	Unknown
620	Samuel Mather	MATHER. Life of Cotton Mather	Boston	1729	USD -	Unknown
621	MATHER (SAMUEL, son of Cotton Mather)	The Fall of the Mighty Lamented. A Funeral Discourse (on the Queen of England), March 23d, 1737, 8	Boston	1738	USD -	Unknown
622	MATTHEWS (ALBERT)	The Term Indian Summer.	Boston	(1901)	USD -	Unknown
623	MAY (HENRY)	Poetical Essays on Several Affecting Subjects	London	1761	USD -	Unknown
624	MAYER (BRANTZ)	Calvert and Penn; or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania	Phil.	1852	USD -	Unknown
625	MEDFORD (MACALL)	Oil without Vinegar, and Dignity without Pride: or British, American and West India Interests considered	London	1807	USD -	Unknown
626	MEEKER (ELI)	Sermons on Philosophical, Evangelical and Practical Subjects	N. Y.	1827	USD -	Unknown
627	J. S. Howe	METHUEN, MASS. Historical Sketch of 1640-1876	Methuen	1876	USD -	Unknown
628	D. Francesco Saverio Clavigero	MEXICO. History of; collected from Spanish and Mexican Historians, etc	Richmond, Va.	1806	USD -	Unknown
629	Becher (H. C. R.)	MEXICO. A Trip to Mexico, being Notes of a Journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back,...	Toronto	1880	USD -	Unknown
630	Wilson (Robert A.)	MEXICO. A New History of the Conquest of Mexico: in which Las Casas' Denunciations of the Popular Historians of that War are fully vindicated	Phil.	1859	USD -	Unknown
631	MILLSPAUGH (CHARLES F.)	Medicinal Plants: an Illustrated and Descriptive Guide to Plants indigenous to and naturalized in the United States which are used in Medicine	Phil.	1892	USD -	Unknown
632	W. W. Wood	MISSISSIPPI. Ho! for Brazil! etc			USD -	Unknown
633	MOORE (GEORGE H.)	The Treason of Charles Lee, Major General, Second in Command in the American Army of the Revolution	New York	1860	USD -	Unknown
634	MOORE (GEORGE H.)	Notes on Tithing-men and the Ballot in Massachusetts	Worcester	1884	USD -	Unknown
635	MORSE (JEDEDIAH)	The American Gazetteer: Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbours, Indian Tribes, etc....	Charlestown and Boston	1804-08	USD -	Unknown
636	MOTT (GEORGE S.)	The First Century of Hunterdon County, New Jersey	Flemington, N. J.	1878	USD -	Unknown
637	MURRAY (LINDLEY)	Lecteur Francois: ou, Recueil de Pieces en Prose et en Vers, etc	N. Y.	1803	USD -	Unknown
638	George Hood	MUSIC. History of Music in New England: with Biographical Sketches of Reformers and Psalmists	Boston	1846	USD -	Unknown
639	Joseph Bird	MUSIC. Gleanings from the History of Music, etc	Boston	1850	USD -	Unknown
640		NANTUCKETT, MASS. Churches and Pastors of: 1659-1902 (Dudley)...			USD -	Unknown
641		NATICK, MASS. History of; from the Days of the Apostolic Eliot: 1650-1830	Boston	1830	USD -	Unknown
642	John Albee	NEWCASTLE (N. H.): Historic and Descriptive	Boston	1884	USD -	Unknown
643	W. De Loss Love	NEW ENGLAND. Fast and Thanksgiving Days of	Boston	1895	USD -	Unknown
644		NEW HAMPSHIRE. Dedication of a Memorial to Rev. John Tucke: 1702-1773...	Concord	(1914)	USD -	Unknown
645		NEW HAMPSHIRE. History of the 14th Regt. of N. H. Vols.: 1862-65	Boston	1882	USD -	Unknown
646	Capt. D. Eldredge	NEW HAMPSHIRE. Third New Hampshire (The) and all about It: 1861-65	Boston	1893	USD -	Unknown
647	King (T. Starr)	NEW HAMPSHIRE. The White Hills; their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry	Boston	1866	USD -	Unknown
648		NEW HAMPSHIRE. New Hampshire Men at Louisburg, 1745: Roll of	Concord	1896	USD -	Unknown
649	J. W. Barber	NEW HAVEN, CONN. History and Antiquities of: from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time	New Haven	1838	USD -	Unknown
650		NEW HAVEN, CONN. Centennial Discourse, 200th Anniversary, pp. 115, 1838 (Kingsley)...			USD -	Unknown
651		NEW HAVEN, CONN. New Haven Gazette and Connecticut Magazine	New Haven	1787	USD -	Unknown
652		NEW IPSWICH, N. H. History of: 1736-1851; with Genealogical Notices of the principal Families, etc	Boston	1852	USD -	Unknown
653		NEW JEESEY. Charters of the Long Dock Company..			USD -	Unknown
654		NEW JEESEY. On the Zinc Mines of Franklin, Sussex County...			USD -	Unknown
655	Clapp (Theodore)	NEW ORLEANS. Autobiographical Sketches and Recollections, during 35 Years' Residence in New Orleans	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
656	Smith (S. F.)	NEWTON, Mass. Life of Rev. Joseph Grafton: with Appendix (historical, statistical, ecclesiastical) pertaining to the Town	Boston	1849	USD -	Unknown
657		NEW YORK CITY. Phelps' Strangers and Citizens' Guide, with Maps and Engravings, pp. 72 (1857); Taintor's City of New York, with Map and views, 1867			USD -	Unknown
658	Walter Barrett [J. A. Scoville]	NEW YORK CITY. Old Merchants of New York	New York	1863-66	USD -	Unknown
659		NIAGARA. Peck's Tourist's Companion to the Falls, Lakes, Canada, etc.,..			USD -	Unknown
660	NILES (H.)	Things as they Are; or, Federalism turned inside out!! Being a Collection of Extracts from Federal Papers, &c., and Remarks upon them, originally written for and Published in the Evening Post	Baltimore	(1809)	USD -	Unknown
661		NORTH CAROLINA. Freedmen's Affairs in N. C.: 1864-65...			USD -	Unknown
662	Solomon Williams	NORTHAMPTON, Mass. Historical Sketch of, from its First Settlement	Northampton	1815	USD -	Unknown
663		NORTHERN TRAVELLER (THE); containing the Route to Niagara, Quebec and the Springs; with Descriptions of the Principal Scenes and useful Hints to Strangers	New York	1825	USD -	Unknown
664		NORTHERN TRAVELLER (THE). and Northern Tour; with the Routes to the Springs, Niagara, and Quebec, and the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania; also the Tour of New England	New York	1830	USD -	Unknown
665		NORTHERN TRAVELLER (THE). and Northern Tour: with Routes from the South, and Appendix, containing the Western Traveller, and Emigrant's or Stranger's Guide to the Valley of the Mississippi	New York	(1834)	USD -	Unknown
666	Theodore Dwight	NORTHERN TRAVELLER (THE). and Northern Tour: with the Tour of New England, and a Brief Guide to the Virginia Springs, and Southern and Western Routes	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
667	OLIVER (ANDREW)	An Essay on Comets, etc	Salem	1772	USD -	Unknown
668		BIOGRAPHICAL and Genealogical,		1804-97 (85)	USD -	Unknown
669		CIVIL WAR; Reconstruction, Slavery			USD -	Unknown
670		CONNECTICUT. Historical; Political, etc.: 1792-1884			USD -	Unknown
671		CURRENCY and Finance			USD -	Unknown
672		CURRENCY, Finance, Economics			USD -	Unknown
673		HISTORICAL Addresses and Sketches: 1748-1907			USD -	Unknown
674		KENTUCKY; Wisconsin; Ohio; Missouri, etc			USD -	Unknown
675		MASSACHUSETTS. Historical; Dedication; Centennial; Memorial Addresses, Sketches, etc			USD -	Unknown
676		MASSACHUSETTS. Boston: many with maps and views			USD -	Unknown
677		MASSACHUSETTS. Bourne, Boxford, Bridgewater, Brookline, Brookfield, Clinton, Concord, etc			USD -	Unknown
678		MASSACHUSETTS. Dartmouth, Dedham, Deerfield, Dunstable, Fall River, Greenfield, Groton, etc			USD -	Unknown
679		MASSACHUSETTS. Hadley, Hanover, Haverhill, Hingham, Hyde Park, etc			USD -	Unknown
680		MASSACHUSETTS. Harvard College			USD -	Unknown
681		MASSACHUSETTS. Essex County: 1795-1900			USD -	Unknown
682		MASSACHUSETTS. Indian Orchard, Kingston, Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Lexington, etc			USD -	Unknown
683		MASSACHUSETTS. Lowell, Lynn, Marlboro, Marshfield, Medfield, Medford, Mendon, Milford, etc			USD -	Unknown
684		MASSACHUSETTS. Natick, Needham, New Bedford, Newbury, Norton, Oxford, Palmer, Pembroke, etc			USD -	Unknown
685		MASSACHUSETTS. Plymouth, Princeton, Quincy, Randolph, Rochester, Salem, Shirley, Shrewsbury, Somerville, Spencer, Sutton, etc			USD -	Unknown
686		MASSACHUSETTS. Taunton, Templeton, Topsfield, Upton, Warwick, Wrentham, etc			USD -	Unknown
687		MASSACHUSETTS. Western Massachusetts: Worcester, Deerfield, Pittsfield, Lee, Lenox, etc			USD -	Unknown
688		MASSACHUSETTS. Centennial and Memorial Addresses and Proceedings; Historical Sketches, etc			USD -	Unknown
689		NEW HAMPSHIRE. Services of, in the Revolution (Derby);...			USD -	Unknown
690		NEW HAMPSHIRE. Historical, Memorial and other addresses, sermons, etc.: 1803-1901			USD -	Unknown
691		NEW HAMPSHIRE. Historical Sketches and addresses; Memorial addresses, election, funeral and other sermons, etc.: 1772-1880			USD -	Unknown
692		NEW HAMPSHIRE. Constitution of New Hampshire, as amended by Convention...			USD -	Unknown
693		NEW HAMPSHIRE. Election Sermons, Convention and other Addresses, etc.: 1792-1884			USD -	Unknown

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