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
694		NEW HAMPSHIRE. History of Hampstead for 100 Years (Smith)...			USD -	Unknown
695		NEW YORK CITY. Ordination, Funeral and other Sermons: 1821-81			USD -	Unknown
696		NEW YORK CITY. Historical, Biographical, Political and other addresses, essays, etc.: 1815-1909			USD -	Unknown
697		NEW YORK CITY. The same, another lot: 1815-1900			USD -	Unknown
698		NEW YORK CITY. Controversial: Review of Dr. Charming's Dedication Discourse...			USD -	Unknown
699		NEW YORK CITY. Anniversary Discourse, before N. Y. Academy of Music...			USD -	Unknown
700		NEW YORK CITY. Account of the N. Y, Hospital, 1820...			USD -	Unknown
701		NEW YORK CITY. Biographical Addresses and Memoirs: 1835-98			USD -	Unknown
702		NEW YORK CITY. (City and State)			USD -	Unknown
703		NEW YORK; New Jersey, Conn.; Mass.; Pa			USD -	Unknown
704		NORTHERN NEW YORK. Historical Collections of Junior Pioneer Association...			USD -	Unknown
705		NORTHERN NEW YORK. Historical Sketches: The Old Senate House...			USD -	Unknown
706		POLITICS and Economics			USD -	Unknown
707		POLITICAL Memoirs, etc. 1795-1885			USD -	Unknown
708		SLAVERY and Civil War: Narratives and Addresses; Sanitary Commission Bulletins; Society of Army of the Potomac annual reports, etc			USD -	Unknown
709		SOUTHERN: Virginia, La.; Md.; S. C., etc			USD -	Unknown
710		SOUTHERN: Georgia; S. C.; Tenn.; Florida; Alabama; Kentucky, etc			USD -	Unknown
711		WESTERN: Illinois; California; Mexican War, etc			USD -	Unknown
712		WEST POINT, N. Y. Battle Monument; history, etc...			USD -	Unknown
713	Charles A. Washburne	PARAGUAY. History of	Bost.	1871	USD -	Unknown
714	PEALE (REMBRANDT)	Notes on Italy; written during 1829-30	Phil.	1831	USD -	Unknown
715	PERKINS (FREDERIC B.)	Scope; or the lost Library: a Novel of New York and Hartford	Bost.	1874	USD -	Unknown
716	PERRY (A. L.)	Scotch-Irish in New England	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
717		PHILADELPHIA. Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately prevalent in Philadelphia,...	Phil.	1793-94	USD -	Unknown
718		PHILADELPHIA. Our First Families, a Novel of Philadelphia Good Society	Phil.	1855	USD -	Unknown
719	PICKERING (JOSEPH)	Inquiries of an Emigrant: being the Narrative of English Farmer, 1824-1830, etc	London	1832	USD -	Unknown
720	PIKE (NICOLAS)	A New and Complete System of Arithmetic, for the Citizens of the United States	Newburyport	1788	USD -	Unknown
721		PIRATES. History of the Lives and bloody Exploits of the most noted Pirates; their Trials and Executions; the late Piracies in the West Indies; Trial and Execution of Pirates in Boston, 1835, etc	Hartford	1835	USD -	Unknown
722	S. A. Green	PIRATES. Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere	Cambridge	1911	USD -	Unknown
723	Jacob Porter	PLAINFIELD, Mass. Topographical Description and Historical Sketch of	Greenfield	1834	USD -	Unknown
724	James Thacher	PLYMOUTH, MASS. History of: 1620-1832	Bost.	1832	USD -	Unknown
725	Steele (Ashbel)	PLYMOUTH. Chief of the Pilgrims: or Life and Times of William Brewster, ruling Elder, Plymouth, 1620	Phil.	1857	USD -	Unknown
726	Davis (Wm. T.)	PLYMOUTH. Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth. I....	Boston	1883	USD -	Unknown
727		PORTRAIT. Charles Carroll of Carrollton	Phil.	1832	USD -	Unknown
728	Wm. H. Harrison	PORTRAIT. President of the U. S. Large folio, drawn on stone by A. Newsam. P. S. Duval Lith	Phil.	1841	USD -	Unknown
729	POTE (CAPT. WM.)	Journal of, during his Captivity in the French and Indian War: 1745-1747	New York	1896	USD -	Unknown
730	POWER (TYRONE)	Impressions of America: 1833-35	Phil.	1836	USD -	Unknown
731	[PRINCE (THOMAS)]	The Christian History, containing Accounts of the Revival and Propagation of Religion in Great Britain and America for the Year 1743	Boston	[1743-]1744	USD -	Unknown
732	PRINCE (THOMAS)	Sermon, July 18, 1745; occasioned by the taking of Louisbourg by New England Soldiers, assisted by a British Squadron	London	1746	USD -	Unknown
733	PRINCE (THOMAS)	A Sermon, Boston, Aug. 14, 1746, being the Day of General Thanksgiving for the Deliverance of the British Nations by the Victory near Culloden	Boston (N. E.)	1746	USD -	Unknown
734	PRINCE (THOMAS)	The Salvations of God in 1746. Thanksgiving Sermon, Nov. 27, 1746 .... wherein the Most Remarkable Salvations of the Year past, both in Europe and North America .... are briefly considered	London	1747	USD -	Unknown
735	PRINCE (WM. R.)	A Treatise on the Vine: its History from the Earliest Ages, with Description of above 200 Foreign and 80 American Varieties, etc	New York	1830	USD -	Unknown
736	QUINCY (JOSIAH)	Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Jun	Boston	1825	USD -	Unknown
737	ADAMS (CHARLES FRANCIS)	Railroads: their Origin and Problems	N. Y.	1878	USD -	Unknown
738	ADAMS (CHARLES FRANCIS)	Notes on Railroad Accidents	New York	1879	USD -	Unknown
739	ADAMS (CHARLES F., Jr., AND HENRY)	Chapters of Erie and other Essays	N. Y.	1871	USD -	Unknown
740		ARGUMENT, re. Philadelphia and Reading R. R...			USD -	Unknown
741		BOSTON AND MAINE R. R. Report of Committee, with folding map, 1849;-Reports of Directors, 1857, 1861 (2), 1863, 1865, 1866			USD -	Unknown
742		BOSTON AND WORCESTER R. R. Annual Reports: 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 25th,...			USD -	Unknown
743		BRADSHAW'S Railway Almanack, Directory, Shareholders' Guide and Manual for 1848	London and Manchester		USD -	Unknown
744		CHICAGO AND ALTON RR. Official Guide...			USD -	Unknown
745		CONNECTICUT and Passumpsic Rivers R. R. Co. Annual Reports, 1849, '51, '52, '57			USD -	Unknown
746	DEMPSEY (G. D.)	Atlas of the Engravings to illustrate and pictorially explain the Locomotive Engine in all its Phases	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
747		FITCHBURG R. R. Annual Reports: 1852, '8, '9, '63, '71, '79...			USD -	Unknown
748		HARPER'S New York and Erie Railroad Guide Book: containing a Description of Rivers, Towns, etc	New York	1855-6	USD -	Unknown
749		HOOSAC TUNNEL Consolidation. Reports of the Hearings (1st-19th) before the Committee on Railways	Boston	1873	USD -	Unknown
750	JACKSON (WM.)	A Lecture on Railroads, Jan. 12, 1829...	Boston		USD -	Unknown
751	LOUGHBOROUGH (J.: of the St. Louis Bar).	The Pacific Telegraph and Railway: an Examination of all the Projects of these Works, etc	St. Louis	1849	USD -	Unknown
752		MASSACHUSETTS. Report of Committee on Railways and Canals...			USD -	Unknown
753		MITCHELL'S Traveller's Guide through the United States...			USD -	Unknown
754		NEW HAMPSHIRE. 3d and 19th Reports of Northern R. R. (1848-64)...			USD -	Unknown
755		NEW JERSEY. Letters to the People of Iew Jersey, on the Frauds,...			USD -	Unknown
756		NEW JERSEY. A General Railroad System for New Jersey . an Examination of the alleged Monopoly of the Camden & Amboy R. R. Co., with legal opinions, etc	Newark	1860	USD -	Unknown
757		NEW JERSEY. Opinion of Joel Parker .... on Questions involved in the Case of the Proprietors of the Bridges over the Rivers Passaic and Hackensack against the Hoboken Land and Improvement Co	Jersey City	1860	USD -	Unknown
758		NEW YORK. Speech of Pryor Lea, on the Bill proposing to construct a National Road from Buffalo to New Orleans...			USD -	Unknown
759		NEW YORK. Heath & Raphael vs. Erie Railway Co., James Fish, Jr., and J. D. White	New York	1871	USD -	Unknown
760		PECK'S Tourist's Companion to Niagara Falls, Saratoga Springs, the Lakes, Canada, etc	Buffalo	1845	USD -	Unknown
761		[RAYMOND (GEN. WM. OF N. Y.).] A View of the War, its Causes, and Results	New York	1861	USD -	Unknown
762		SPEECH of Mr. Hoffman, on Appropriation to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, for Cumberland R. R....			USD -	Unknown
763		TEHUANTEPEC. The Isthmus of: Results of a Survey for a Railroad to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans	New York	1852	USD -	Unknown
764		VERMONT CENTRAL R. R. Reports of Investigating Committee, with Appendix	Boston	1853	USD -	Unknown
765		VERMONT VALLEY R. R.; Annual Report...			USD -	Unknown
766		WESTERN. Railroad System of Minnesota (Taylor)...			USD -	Unknown
767		WINCHESTER AND POTOMAC R. R.: Reports, etc...			USD -	Unknown
768	WIRT (WILLIAM)	Argument, delivered at Annapolis, Aug. 1829, in support of a Motion to dissolve an Injunction obtained by the Baltimore and Oho R. R. Co. against the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company	Washington	1830	USD -	Unknown
769	RANDOLPH (JOHN)	Letters of: to a Young Relative: 1806-1822	Phil.	1834	USD -	Unknown
770	RAPELJE (GEORGE)	A Narrative of Excursions, Voyages, and Travels, in America, Europe, Asia, and Africa	New York	1834	USD -	Unknown
771		REMINISCENCES of the French War;....	Concord, N. H.	1831	USD -	Unknown
772	REYNOLDS (J.)	Peter Gott, the Cape Ann (Mass.) Fisherman	Boston	1856	USD -	Unknown
773		RHODE ISLAND: Dorr War	Washington	(1844)	USD -	Unknown
774		RHODE ISLAND. Might and Right		1844	USD -	Unknown
775		RHODE ISLAND. Hints to the Farmers of Rhode Island...			USD -	Unknown
775A	King (Dan)	RHODE ISLAND. Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr, with Outlines of the Political History of Rhode Island	Boston	1859	USD -	Unknown
776	Durfee (Job)	RHODE ISLAND. Complete Works; with Memoir		1849	USD -	Unknown
777	Frieze (Jacob)	RHODE ISLAND. A Concise History of the Efforts to obtain an Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island, from 1811 to 1842		1842	USD -	Unknown
778	[Kettell (Samuel)]	RHODE ISLAND. Daw's Doings, or the History of the late War in the Plantations	Boston	1842	USD -	Unknown
779	Richmond (John W.)	RHODE ISLAND. Rhode Island Repudiation; or the History of the Revolutionary Debt of Rhode Island		1855	USD -	Unknown
780	RILEY (JAMES)	Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, 1851, the Sufferings of the Survivors, etc.; to which is added a Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Oswego by Judah Paddock	New York	1818	USD -	Unknown
781	ROBBINS (CHANDLER)	The Regicides Sheltered in New England			USD -	Unknown
782	ROGER (CHARLES)	The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilization	Quebec	1856	USD -	Unknown
783	George Prince	ROSIER'S Narrative of Waymouth's Voyage to the Coast of Maine in 1605. Complete: with Remarks by George Prince, showing the River explored to have been the Georges River	Bath, Me.	1860	USD -	Unknown
784	ROSS (JOEL H.)	What I saw in New York; or a Bird's Eye View of City Life	Auburn	1851	USD -	Unknown
785	RUDD (M. D.)	An Historical Sketch of Salisbury, Conn.; and an Explanatory Note on Indian Names	New York	1899	USD -	Unknown
786		RUSSELL. Autobiography of David Russell, a Boston boy: his travels and adventures in Peace and War: 1805-56	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
787		RUTLAND, VT. Centennial Celebration of: including Addresses, Historical Papers, etc	Rutland	1873	USD -	Unknown
788	R. G. Johnson	SALEM, N. J. Historical Account of the First Settlement of, by John Fenwick, with many Events (of 150 years)	Phil.	1839	USD -	Unknown
789	SANDERS (DANIEL)	Journal of the Travels and Sufferings of	Leominster	1797	USD -	Unknown
790	[SANSOM (JOSEPH)]	Letters from Europe, during a Tour through Switzerland and Italy, 1801-02	Phil.	1805	USD -	Unknown
791		SARGENT (EPES). Arctic Adventure by Sea and Land, from the earliest Date to the last Expeditions	Boston	1857	USD -	Unknown
792	SARONY (NAPOLEON)	6 cabinet photographs, one imperial, and old carte-de-visite of...			USD -	Unknown

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December 15, 2025

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.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

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