Bangs: AUCTION SALE, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY DECEMBER 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th, 1885, EACH DAY AT 3 P. M. OF A PORTION OF THE LIBRARY OF J. THOMAS SCHARF, A.M. LL.D. OF BALTIMORE, MD. COMPRISING A LARGE AND UNUSUALLY FINE COLLECTION OF AMERICANA, LOCA, Dec011885,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 01, 1885 - December 01, 1885
Page Size: 1481 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1099 Paul Revere's Signal Lanterns, April 18, 1775; Battle of Lexington...

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1100 Missisco Valley, Vt.; Lexington, Mass., from its First Settlement...

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1101 Parkersburg, W. Va., 1860; Lee Street Baptist Church, Baltimore...

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1102 Early Settlement of Virginia; Reminiscences Worcester Fire Society...

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1103 Sons of Rhode Island; Astor Place Opera House Riot...

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1104 Souvenir of Lexington (illustrated); National Washington Monument...

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1105 Virginia Historical Register, 1853; Great Fire in Boston...

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1106 History of the Northwest Fur Company; Traditions of the Blackfeet...

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1107 Eulogy on King Philip, 1836, by an Indian; Early French Forts and footprints of the Valley of the Mississippi...

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1108 Blackfeet Indians; Pigmy Graves of Tennessee...

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1109 Gyles Captivity; Burning of Medfield...

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1110 Legends, Customs and Social Life of the Senecas of Western New York; The Pequots...

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1111 Aborigines of the Valley of the Ohio...

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1112 Pirates Glen and Dungeon Rock; Original Fortification of St. Louis (very scarce)...

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1113 Education, by Francis L. Key (author Star Spangled Banner); Opening Baintree town hall...

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1114 French Revolution of 1848; Schoolcraft's address before the Micigal Historical Society in 1880...

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1115 Letters from Secretary of State to Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, 1808; Origin of the Japan Expedition...

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1116 Col. Auguste Chouteau's narrative of the Settlement of St. Louis; American primer Norfolk, 1803...

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1117 War of 1812; Hartford Convention...

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1118 Wm. Sewel Quakers. History of the rise, increase and progress of the, with several remarkable occurrences Phila.

1876

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1119 Mayer's first discourse before the Maryland Historical Society, 1844; Astor Place riot. 1849...

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1120 Eastern boundary of Louisiana. 1814; Oration of Gen. Hugh Mercer, 1840...

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1121 Tewksbury Investigation; Minerals of Vermont...

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1122 Transactions Maryland Academy of Science (scarce), 1837; First colonists of New England...

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1123 Occupation of Boston by the British; Annals of Homeopathy in New York...

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1124 Pre-historic Copper Implements; Medical Society of Albany...

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1125 Aroostook Territory Exploration and Survey of...

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1126 Virginia Historical Register; Correct Arms of N. Y....

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1127 Military Adventures of a Shoemaker in the Revolution; Gen. Philip Schuyler...

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1128 Vatican Decrees; Origin of the Japan Expedition, (very rare,) Parkersburg, Va....

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1129 Committee of Observation, Hagerstown, Md., 1775--77; Expedition of De Soto...

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1130 Origin of Japan Expedition (very rare); Marbles of Vermont...

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1131 Welcome of Kossuth; Our First Hundred Years...

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1132 Our Pioneers of Licking Co., Ohio; California Mail Bag...

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1133 California; Sermon Preached at Lexington April 19, 1776, to Commemorate the Blood Shed on that Day...

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1134 Mason and Dixon's Line; Father Marquette...

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1135 History of Carpenters Hall Philadelphia, by C. Souder; Attractions of Saratoga...

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1136 Paisley a Local Sketch of New York; 100 Cities of the United States...

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1137 Travels of Father Hennepin; Controversy Bishop Hughes and Senator Brooks...

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1138 California and Oregon, with Maps, 1849; Early Jesuit Missions in America...

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1139 Industries of Philadelphia, 1870; Manufactures of Philadelphia, 1860...

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1140 Reminiscences of Morris Ill.; Reminiscences of Worcester, Mass., Fire Society...

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1141 Jay's Letter on Dawson's Introduction to the Federalist; Spirit of Rhode Island History...

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1142 Ticonderoga Once More; Narragansett...

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1143 Capture of Ticonderoga in 1775; Waymouth's Voyage to Maine in 1605, Chronicles of Cisco Bay...

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1144 Benj. Banneker (the negro astronomer); Gen. John Eager Howard, Gen. Jackson...

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1145 David Rittenhouse, 1796 (scarce); Maj. Saml. Ringgold...

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1146 Nathan Smith, Thomas H. Benton, De Witt Clinton....

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1147 George Law, Judge B. R. Curtis, Wm. Kelly, Genealogy of the Sumner family; Cake family...

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1148 The Vassall's Family; Jno. W. Francis...

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1149 Henry Onderdonk, Jr. QUEENS COUNTY, N. Y. Documents and letters intended to illustrate the revolutionary incidents of N.Y.

1848

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1150 Thomas Van Rensselaer Queenstown. A narrative of the affair of in the war of 1812 New York

1880

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1151 Queensbury, N. Y. A History of the Town of Albany

1874

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1152 Francis Wishaw Railways of Great Britain and Ireland described and illustrated London

1842

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1153 Charles Francis Adams, Jr. Railroads. Their origin and problems New York

1880

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1154 Ramsey, David Life of Washington Balto.

1814

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1155 E. San ford Haynham, Mass. History of Providence

1870

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1156 Rebel War. Clerk's diary at the Confederate States Capital Philadelphia

1866

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1157 Report on the condition of the State Banks

1840

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1158 Henry W. Elliott Report upon the condition of affairs in the Territory of Alaska Washington

1875

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1159 A. C. Hanson Report of the contempt case against Baptist Irvine, editor of the Baltimore Whig Baltimore

1808

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1160 Henry Barnard Reports and official documents of the common schools of Connecticut, and sketches of the school system of other States, &c. Hartford

1838-1842

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1161 Report of the committee of Congress to examine the Bank of the United States, and Mr. Cheves's expose of the affairs of 1819-1822

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1162 Report and journal of the joint commissioners to adjust the boundary line of Maryland and Virginia Annapolis

1874

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1163 Report of the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, giving an account of the labor riot for 1877 Harrisburg

1878

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1164 George L. Harrison Remains of Wm. Penn. The mission to England, visit to the grave letters, &c. Philadelphia

1882

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1165 H. M. Brackenridge Recollections of Persons and Places in the West Phila.

1868

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1165a Sarah A. Dorsey Recollections of Brig.-Gen. H. W. Allen. C. S. Army, ex-Gov. of Louisiana N. Y.

n. d.

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1166 Recollections of the Life of John Binns, with anecdotes political, historical, &c. Phila.

1834

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1167 Records of Living Officers of U. S. Navy and Marine Corps Phila.

1870

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1168 W. C. Russell Representative Actors. A collection of criticisms, anecdotes, personal descriptions, &c. London

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1169 Charles Burr Todd Redding, Conn. History of N. Y.

1880

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1170 Reminiscences of Troy, from 1790 to 1807 Albany

1800

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1171 E. S. Thomas Reminiscences of the last 65 years, commencing with the battle of Lexington, &c. Hartford

1840

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1172 Reed, Henry Lectures on the British poets Phila.

1870

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1173 Reed, Esther. Life of Phila.

1858

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1174 His grandson, W. B. Reed Reed, Joseph. Life and correspondence of Phila.

1847

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1175 Read, J. M., Jr. Henry Hudson, his friends, relatives, early life and discovery of Delaware Bay Albany

1866

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1176 Rees, Jas Dramatic Authors of America Phila.

1845

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1177 Records of the Presbyterian Church in America from 1706 to 1788 Phila.

1841

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1178 John Bristed Resources of the United States; or, a view of the agriculture, commerce, manufactures, people, &c. N. Y.

1818

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1179 John Callender, M A. Rhode Island. Civil and religious affairs of the colony of Providence

1888

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1180 Henry Jackson Rhode Island. Churches in Providence

1854

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1181 Edwin M. Snow, M.D. Rhode Island. Report upon the census of Providence

1867

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1182 Hon. Wm. R. Staples Rhode Island. History of the destruction of the Gashee Providence

1845

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1183 Rhode Island. Historical sketch of the jails and prisons of 1638-1877 Providence

1877

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1184 Jas. D. Knowles Rhode Island. Memoir of Roger Williams, founder of the State of Boston

1834

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1185 Benj. Cowell Rhode Island. Spirit of '76 in, or sketches of the efforts of the government and people in the War of the Revolution Boston

1850

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1186 Romeo Elton, D. D. Rhode Island. Early history of Boston

1843

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1187 John W. Richmond Rhode Island. Repudiation, or the history of the revolutionary department of Providence

1855

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1188 Rhode Island. Report of the select committee of Congress on the interference of the Executive in the affairs of

1841

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1189 Rhode Island. Dorr's rebellion

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1190 Zachariah Allen, LL. D. Rhode Island. Defense of the Rhode Island system of the treatment of the Indians and of Civil and Religious liberty Providence

1876

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1191 Henry Jackson Rhode Island. Account of the churches in Providence

1854

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1192 Oliver P. Fuller, A. M. Rhode Island. History of Warwick from its settlement in 1642 to the present time Providence

1875

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1193 Frederic Denison, A. M. Rhode Island. Westerly and its witnesses from 1626 to 1876 Providence

1878

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1194 Wilkins Updike Rhode Island Bar. Memoirs of the Boston

1842

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1195 Frederic Denison, A. M. Rhode Island. Westerly and its witnesses, 1626-1876

1878

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1196 Benj. L. Oliver Rights of an American Citizen, with a commentary on State Rights and on the Constitution and Policy of the United States Boston

1832

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1197 Ritter, A. History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia, from 1742 to the present time, &c. Philadelphia

1857

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