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
793	SHANK (DAVID)	Rise and Progress of Methodism in Cobleskill Centre, Schoharie Co., N. Y	Albany	1864	USD -	Unknown
794	His Excellency James Bowdoin	SHAYS' REBELLION. Commonwealth of Massachusetts	Boston	17th Feb. 1787	USD -	Unknown
795	SHERMAN (JOHN)	View of Ecclesiastical Proceedings in the County of Windham, Conn.: Documents, Letters, etc., pp. 110; Utica, 1806;-One God in One Person only, etc			USD -	Unknown
796	[SHIPLEY (J.)]	A Speech intended to have been Spoken on the Bill for altering the Charters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay	Boston	1774	USD -	Unknown
797		SHIPWRECK. Authentic Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley, wrecked on the Coast of Barbary, June, 1818	Boston	1820	USD -	Unknown
798		SHIPWRECK. Narrative of the Loss of the Pulaski,....			USD -	Unknown
799	SHUMWAY (GEO. R. H.)	The Presbytery of Geneva: a Sketch of its History during the last Fifty Years	Lyons (N. Y.)	1857	USD -	Unknown
800	SMITH (BUCKINGHAM)	An Inquiry into the Authenticity of Documents concerning a Discovery in North America claimed to have been made by Verrazzano	New York	1864	USD -	Unknown
801	SMITH (SIR JAMES E.)	A Grammar of Botany, etc	New York	1822	USD -	Unknown
802		SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. Institution of: its Organization, Members, Proceedings, etc	Boston	1812	USD -	Unknown
803		SOUTH CAROLINA. Letter from Robert Goodloe Harper, to his Constituents, 1801			USD -	Unknown
804	SPRINGER (JOHN S.)	Forest Life and Forest Trees; with Descriptions of Lumbering Operations on the various Rivers of Maine and New Brunswick	N. Y.	1856	USD -	Unknown
805	SQUIER (E. G.)	Nicaragua; its People, Scenery, Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic Canal	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
806		STANDARD OIL. Newspaper articles, editorials, etc			USD -	Unknown
807		STANDARD OIL. Mahoning Oil Reporter, nos. 1, 2, 3. 3 pieces	Youngstown, O.	1861	USD -	Unknown
807A	Dodge (J. R.)	STANDARD OIL. West Virginia: its Farms and Forests, Mines and Oil-Wells, etc	Phila.	1865	USD -	Unknown
808		STANDARD OIL. Spectator: Extra			USD -	Unknown
809		STANDARD OIL. Extra from the Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufactures for Upper Canada	Toronto	March, 1862	USD -	Unknown
810	S. H. Daddow and B. Bannan	STANDARD OIL. Coal, Iron, and Oil; or the Practical American Miner	Pottsville, Pa.	1866	USD -	Unknown
811	STEINER (BERNARD C.)	Statistics of the Connecticut Election Sermons: 1674-1830	Boston	1892	USD -	Unknown
812	STEARNS (SAMUEL)	The North American Almanack for 1776	Massachusetts Bay	(1775)	USD -	Unknown
813	STEPHENS (JOHN L.)	Incidents of Travel in Central America. Chiapas, and Yucatan. Numerous engravings	New York	1841	USD -	Unknown
814	STEPHENS (JOHN L.)	Incidents of Travel in Yucatan	New York	1843	USD -	Unknown
815	STEWART (VIRGIL A.)	History of, and his Adventures in capturing and exposing the Great Western Land Pirate...	New York	1836	USD -	Unknown
816	STILES (EZRA)	A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I, Gen. Whalley, Gen. Goffe and Col. Dixwell, who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America	Hartford	1794	USD -	Unknown
817	Ebeling (C. D.)	[STILES.] Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Amerika	Hamburg	1793	USD -	Unknown
818	Abiel Holmes	STILES (EZRA). Life of	Boston	1798	USD -	Unknown
819	STOCKTON (LUCIUS H.)	Address, before the Convention of the Friends of Peace, of New Jersey, July 4, 1814	Trenton	(1814)	USD -	Unknown
820	[STOCKTON (LUCIUS H.)]	A History of the Steam-Boat Case, lately discussed by Counsel before the Legislature of New Jersey	Trenton	1815	USD -	Unknown
821	STONE (WM. L.)	Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston	New York	1875	USD -	Unknown
822	[SULLIVAN (JAMES)]	Dissertation upon the Constitutional Freedom of the Press in the United States	Boston	1801	USD -	Unknown
823	SWAN (JAMES G.)	The Northwest Coast; Three Years' Residence in Washington Territory	N. Y.	1857	USD -	Unknown
824	Timothy C. Cheney	SYRACUSE, N. Y. Reminiscences of	Syracuse	1857	USD -	Unknown
825	TANNER (H. S.)	Traveller's Guide and Map of Roads, Canals and Steam Boat Routes of the United States	Phil.	1825	USD -	Unknown
826	[THOMPSON (W. T.)]	Major Jones's Courtship, etc., with Additional Letters;-Major Jones's Sketches of Travel in his Tour from Georgia to Canada	Phil.	n.d.	USD -	Unknown
827	THORBURN (GRANT: Seedsman, New York)	Forty Years' Residence in America	Boston	1834	USD -	Unknown
828	THORPE (T. B.)	The Hive of The Bee-Hunter.	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
829	Logan	The Master's House; a Tale of Southern Life	New York	1854	USD -	Unknown
830	TORREY (R. C.)	History of Fitchburg, Mass.; comprising also a History of Lunenburg, etc	Fitchburg	1865	USD -	Unknown
831	TREMEARNE (MAJ. A. J. N.)	The Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria: an account of an Official's seven Years' Experience, and Description of the Manners, Habits and Customs of the Native Tribes	Phil. (London)	1912	USD -	Unknown
832		TROY, N. Y. Brief Account of .... the Divisions of the First Presbyterian Church; Summary Relation of the Trial of N. S. S. Beman, etc	Troy	1827	USD -	Unknown
833	TRUMBULL (BENJAMIN)	A Complete History of Connecticut. Civil and Ecclesiastical .... 1630-1713	Hartford	1797	USD -	Unknown
834		UNIQUE (The): or Biography of many Distinguished Characters	Boston	1830	USD -	Unknown
835	UPHAM (CHARLES W.)	Records of Massachusetts under its First Charter	Boston	1869	USD -	Unknown
836		UTICA, N. Y. Brief Statement of the Citizens of Utica, etc....			USD -	Unknown
837	Zadock Thompson	VERMONT. History of	Burlington	1842	USD -	Unknown
838		VERMONT. Ordination Sermon (Burton), Middlebury,...			USD -	Unknown
839		VERMONT. 4th of July Oration, 1809;-Election Sermon,...			USD -	Unknown
840	VINTON (JOHN ADAMS)	The Antinomian Controversy of 1637	Boston	(1873)	USD -	Unknown
841		VIRGINIA. The Federal Constitution in: 1787-88	Cambridge	1903	USD -	Unknown
842	Bouldin (Powhatan)	VIRGINIA. The Old Trunk or Sketches of Colonial Days (in Virginia)	Danville, Va.	1896	USD -	Unknown
843	WALKER (JOSEPH B.)	Life and Exploits of Major Robert Rogers, the Ranger	Boston	1885	USD -	Unknown
844	Wm. V. Wells	WALKER'S EXPEDITION to Nicaragua; a History of the Central American War, and the Sonora and Kinney Expeditions.)	New York	1856	USD -	Unknown
845	WALTON (W. T.)	Narrative of a Revival of Religion, in the 3d Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, etc	Utica	1826	USD -	Unknown
846	WARE (HORACE E.)	Was the Government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony a Theocracy?	Cambridge	1906	USD -	Unknown
847	WARE (HORACE E.)	An Incident in Winthrop's Voyage to New England	Cambridge	1908	USD -	Unknown
848		ACCOUNT of the Funeral Honours bestowed on the Remains of Capt. Lawrence and Lieut. Ludlow;...	Boston	1813	USD -	Unknown
849		ADDRESSES, Discourses, etc., on the War of 1812		1812-15	USD -	Unknown
850		ALL THE TREATIES between the United States and Great Britain, from the Treaty of Peace, Paris, 1783, to the Treaty of Peace, Ghent, 1814	Boston	1815	USD -	Unknown
851		AMERICAN Naval Battles: Complete History of the Battles .... from 1794 to the present Time; the Wars with France and Tripoli; Great Britain (1812), and Algiers	Concord	1848	USD -	Unknown
852		APOLOGY (The) of Patriots, etc			USD -	Unknown
853	ARMSTRONG (JOHN)	Notices of the War of 1812	New York	1836-40	USD -	Unknown
854		BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE: a Discourse (Parsons),...			USD -	Unknown
855	George Bancraft	BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE. Inauguration of the Perry Statue at Cleveland...	Cleveland, O.	1861	USD -	Unknown
856		BEAUTIES (The) of Brother Bull-Us, by his loving Sister Bull-A	New York	1812	USD -	Unknown
857		BOSTON PATRIOT. 1811-12 (irregular)			USD -	Unknown
858		BROADSIDE. Privateering and Pirateering, alias, the Peace Party at War! alias, the Devil to Pay in the Federal Camp	Boston	(1812)	USD -	Unknown
859		BROADSIDE. Chesapeake and Shannon	Boston	(1813)	USD -	Unknown
860		BROADSIDE. Chesapeake and Shannon: a List of the Killed and Wounded on Board the Chesapeake, furnished by Lieut	Boston	(1813)	USD -	Unknown
861		BROADSIDE. Perry's Victory (11 eight-line verses)		(1813)	USD -	Unknown
862		BROADSIDE. Treaty of Peace Signed and Arrived!	Portland, Maine	(1815)	USD -	Unknown
863		BROADSIDE. HORRID MASSACRE \| AT \| DARTMOOR PRISON, ENGLAND.\|	Boston	(1815)	USD -	Unknown
864		BROADSIDE. A Brief Account of the Execution of the Six Militia Men			USD -	Unknown
865	BURGES (TRISTRAM)	Battle of Lake Erie; with Notices of Commodore Elliot's Conduct in that Engagement		1839	USD -	Unknown
866	[COBB (JOSIAH)]	A Green Hand's First Cruise . . . . Together with a Residence of Five Months in Dartmoor (Prison)	Boston	1841	USD -	Unknown
867		COLORED CARICATURE: John Bull making a new Batch of Ships to send to the Lakes.	Phil.	(1814)	USD -	Unknown
868		DARTMOOR PRISON. Drawn by Glover Broughton, 1815	Boston	(1852)	USD -	Unknown
869		DUDLEY. Col. Wm. Dudley's Defeat opposite Fort Meigs, May 5th, 1813	Cincinnati	1869	USD -	Unknown
870		EMBARGO. Peace without Dishonour-War without Hope: : a calm and dispassionate...			USD -	Unknown
871		EMBARGO, etc.: 1806-1811			USD -	Unknown
872		EXPOSITION (An) of the Causes and Character of the Late War with Great Britain	Clement	1815	USD -	Unknown
873	FOOTE (SAMUEL)	The Bankrupt: a Comedy	New York	1813	USD -	Unknown
874	FROST (JOHN)	Pictorial Book of the Commodores: comprising Lives of distinguished Commanders in the Navy of the U. S	New York	(1845)	USD -	Unknown
875		HARRISON (GEN.). Sketch of the Life and Public Services of William H. Harrison; Commander in Chief of the North-Western Army during the War of 1812, etc		1840	USD -	Unknown
876	Caleb Cushing	HARRISON (GEN.). Outlines of the Life and Public Services, Civil and Military	Boston	1840	USD -	Unknown
877	HARRISON (WM. HENRY)	Outlines of the Life and Services of (Caleb Cushing)....			USD -	Unknown
878		HARTFORD CONVENTION. Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates, Convened at Hartford, Conn., Dec. 15th, 1814	Boston	1815	USD -	Unknown
879	Cabot (George)	HARTFORD CONVENTION. A Short Account of the Hartford Convention, taken from Official Documents and addressed to the Fair Minded and the Well Disposed	Boston	1823	USD -	Unknown
880	HUNT (GILBERT J.)	The Historical Reader; containing The Late War between the United States and Great Britain, 1812-15	New York	1819	USD -	Unknown
881	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. Brief Sketch of the Life, Character and Services of Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson	Concord, N. H.	1828	USD -	Unknown
882	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. Biographical Sketch of Andrew Jackson the Hero of New Orleans	New York	1828	USD -	Unknown
883	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. An Epick Poem in Commemoration of Gen. Andrew Jackson's Victory, 8th Jan., 1815	Boston	1827	USD -	Unknown
884	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. Suggestions on Presidential Elections, etc....			USD -	Unknown
885	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. Abstract of Debate on the General Appropriation Bill for 1831, etc	n. p.	(1831)	USD -	Unknown
886	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. Brief and Impartial History of Andrew Jackson By a Free Man	Boston	1831	USD -	Unknown
887	[Hill (Isaac)]	JACKSON. Memoirs of Andrew Jackson, by a Citizen of Massachusetts, portrait, Boston, 1828;-The same (thick paper), portrait, Boston, 1828	Boston	1828	USD -	Unknown
888		JACKSON. Biography of Andrew Jackson, President of the U. S., etc	Hartford	1832	USD -	Unknown
889		JACKSON. Memoirs of Andrew Jackson,...			USD -	Unknown
890	[LATHROP (JOHN)]	A Compendious History of the late War; containing an Account of all the Important Battles and many of the smaller Actions between the American and British Forces, and Indians, 1811-15	Boston	1815	USD -	Unknown
891		LEVY (JOHN). Life and Adventures of	Lawrence	1871	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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