Henkels: The Proud Paperss (ROBERT PROUD, Historian of Pennsylvania). EMBRACING, The Original Manuscript of Proud's Pennsylvania, The Original Manuscript (unpublished) of Smith's Pennsylvania, The Original Manuscript (unpublished) of Bennett's New England, Valuabl, 893,

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Auction Date: January 01, 1903 - January 01, 1903

Page Size: 1159 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
384	DARKY, WM.	View of the United States, Historical, Geographical and Statistical	Philadelphia	1828	USD -	0.50
385		DARTMOOR PRISON. The Prisoner's Memoirs	New York	1815	USD -	1.20
386	DEARBORN NATHANIEL	Boston Notions, being an authentic and concise Account of "That Village" from 1630 to 1847	Boston	1848	USD -	2.50
387	DICKINSON, JNO.	DICKINSON, JNO. A Book from the Library of			USD -	0.50
388	DOUGLASS, WM.	A Summary, Historical and Political, of the first Planting, progressive Improvements, and present State of the British Settlement in North America	Boston, New England	1749	USD -	4.50
389	DRAKE, CAPT. J. M.	The History of the Ninth New Jersey Veteran Volunteers	Elizabeth	1889	USD -	0.60
390	DRAKE, SAMUEL A.	Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast	New York	1875	USD -	1.10
391	DARNELL, ELIAS	Journal of the Hardships and Sufferings of those Heroic Kentucky Volunteers and Regulars, Commanded by General Winchester in 1812 and 1813	Philadelphia	1854	USD -	1.75
392	WM. H. Egle	DAUPHIN and Lebanon Counties, Pa.; History of	Philadelphia	1883	USD -	5.00
392a		DAUPHIN and Lebanon Counties, Pa.			USD -	4.00
393		DAUPHIN County, Pa.; New Historical Atlas of, with History of the County	Philadelphia	1875	USD -	2.75
394	DAVIS, W. W. H.	History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, from the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time	Doylestown	1876	USD -	8.00
395	DAY, SHERMAN	Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, relating to its History and Antiquities	Philadelphia	1843	USD -	1.25
396	DE FOREST, JOHN W.	History of the Indians of Connecticut, from the Earliest Known Period to 1850	Hartford	1851	USD -	1.25
397		DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, Captain Bernard	London	1800	USD -	2.25
398	DICKINSON, JOHN	Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies, regarding the Right of Taxation	Philadelphia	1768	USD -	3.50
399	DICKINSON, JOHN	DICKINSON, JOHN. The Political Writings of	Wilmington	1801	USD -	1.40
400	DORR, REV. BENJAMIN	A Historical Account of Christ Church, Philadelphia, from its Foundation, 1695, to 1841	New York	1841	USD -	0.80
401	DOUGLAS, BEN	History of Wayne County, Ohio, from the Days of the Pioneers and First Settlers to the Present Time	Indianapolis, Ind.	1878	USD -	1.25
402	DRAKE, SAMUEL G.	Annals of Witchcraft in New England and Elsewhere in the United States, from the First Settlement	Boston	1869	USD -	Not Sold
403	DRAKE, SAMUEL G.	The Witchcraft Delusion in New England; Its Rise, Progress and Termination, as Exhibited by Dr. Cotton Mather	Roxbury	1866	USD -	Not Sold
404	DRAKE, SAMUEL. G.	The Aboriginal Races of North America	New York	N. D.	USD -	2.00
405	DRAKE, SAMUEL G.	Tragedies of the Wilderness; or, True and Authentic Narratives of Captives who have been Carried Away by the Indians from the Various Frontier Settlements of the Unitcd States	Boston	1841	USD -	5.00
406	DUBOIS, HENRI PENE	Four Private Libraries of New York; a Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America	New York	1892	USD -	1.30
407	DURRIE, DANIEL S.	A History of Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin	Madison	1874	USD -	0.60
408		EARLY BOSTON PLAY, Barbarossa	Boston	1794	USD -	0.25
409		EATON, GEN. WM. The Life of the Late	Brookfield	1813	USD -	1.00
410	EDWARD, DAVID B.	The History of Texas; or, The Emigrants, Farmers and Politicians' Guide	Cincinnati	1836	USD -	2.00
411	EGLE, WILLIAM H.	An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania--Civil, Political and Military-- from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time	Harrisburg	1876	USD -	3.60
412	ELLIS, FRANKLIN	History of Monmouth County, New Jersey	Philadelphia	1885	USD -	8.25
413	ELLIS, FRANKLIN, and EVANS, SAMUEL	History of Lancaster County, Pa., with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men	Philadelphia	1883	USD -	5.50
414	Wm. H. Shaw	ESSEX AND HUDSON COUNTIES. NEW JERSEY, HISTORY OF	Philadelphia	1884	USD -	10.00
415	EVANS, NATHANIEL	Poems on Several Occasions	Philadelphia	1772	USD -	3.25
416		EVERETT, EDWARD, MEMORIAL OF	Boston	1865	USD -	0.25
417	EVERETT, EDWARD, A MEMORIAL OF	For the City of Boston	Boston	1865	USD -	0.25
418	FAIRBANKS, GEORGE R.	History of Florida from its First Discovery by Ponce de Leon, in 1512, to the Close of the Florida War	Philadelphia	1871	USD -	1.00
419	FERRIS, BENJAMIN	A History of the Original Settlements on the Delaware, from its Discovery, by Hudson, to the Colonization under William Penn	Wilmington	1846	USD -	4.50
420	FILSON, JOHN	The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke; and an Essay towards the Topography and Natural History of that Important Country...			USD -	185.00
421	Robt. and Joanna Peters	FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS, NO. 11.	Louisville	1896	USD -	Not Sold
422		FILSON CLUB PUBLICATIONS, NO. 12. Bryant's Station	Louisville	1897	USD -	Not Sold
423	FINDLST, WlLUAM	History of the Insmrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1796	USD -	8.00
424	FISHER, GEORGE G.	Biographical Sketches of the Deceased Physicians of Westchester County, N. Y.	New York	1861	USD -	0.10
425	FISHER, SYDNEY GEORGE	Men, Women and Manners in Colonial Times	Philadelphia	1898	USD -	2.20
426	FLINT, TIMOTHY	Biographical Memoirs of Daniel Boone, interspersed...	Cincinnati	1845	USD -	0.60
427	William Rounseville Alger	FORREST, EDWIN. Life of the American Tragedian	Philadelphia	1877	USD -	3.00
428	FOSTER, JNO. Y.	New Jersey and the Rebellion	Newark	1868	USD -	0.70
429	Fox. CHARLES	A Portrait of George Washington, from an Original Drawing...	Boston	1857	USD -	0.80
430	FRANCHERE, GABRIEL	Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the Years 1811-12-13-14;...	New York	1854	USD -	0.60
431	FRANCIS, JNO. W.	Old New York; or. Reminiscences of the Past Sixty Years	New York	1858	USD -	1.00
432	FRANKLIN, BENJ.	Some Account of the * Success of Inoculation for the Small-pox in England and America	London	1759	USD -	27.00
433	FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN	An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania	London	1759	USD -	5.00
434	M. St. John	FRANKLIN'S BOOK. Lettres d'un Cultivateur Americain	Paris	1787	USD -	6.50
435	FRANKLIN, DR. BENJAMIN	The Life	Albany	1797	USD -	0.60
436	FRANKLIN, BENJ.	A New and Curious Theory of Light and Heat, in a letter to David Rittenhouse	N. P.	N. D.	USD -	0.40
437	FRANKLIN, --	The Religion of Nature Delineated (by Wm. Wollaston)	London	1731	USD -	1.00
438	FRANKLIN, --	Some Account of the Late Peter Collinson	London	1770	USD -	1.25
439	FUTHEY, J. SMITH, and COPE, GILBERT	Chester County, Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1881	USD -	6.50
440	GAss, Patrick	A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery under the Command of Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke	Pittsburg	1807	USD -	12.50
441	Abbot, Rev. A and E.	A Genealogical Register of the Descendants of George Abbot, of Andover	Boston	1847	USD -	1.00
442		ALLEN FAMILY. Genealogical Sketches of the	Boston	1869	USD -	0.80
443	Thos. A. Glenn, editor	AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, The A Monthly Magazine of Genealogy and Local History	Ardmore, Pa.	1899	USD -	1.50
444	Harriet Stockton Antrim	ANTRIM FAMILY. Records of the Antrim Family of America	Burlington, N. J.	1899	USD -	3.75
445	AUSTEN, JOHN O.	Ancestral Dictionary			USD -	0.50
446	C. C. Baldwin	BALDWIN GENEALOGY. Notes on the Ancestry of Sylvester Baldwin	Boston	1872	USD -	0.30
447	BAXTER, KATHARINE S. A.	Godchild of Washington	New York	1887	USD -	2.00
448	Mrs. J. A. Weisse	BETHUNE. History of the Bethune Family, together with a Sketch of the Faneuil Family	New York	1884	USD -	0.60
449	BIBIGHAUS, JOHN	Descendants of, of Bedminster, Bucks County, Pa.	N. P.	1888	USD -	3.25
450		BIDDLE, CHAS., AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF. Vice-President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 1745-1821	Philadelphia	1883	USD -	1.75
451		BINGHAM FAMILY. Genealogy of the	Harrisburg	1890	USD -	8.00
452	BLAKE, SAMUEL	Blake Family	Boston	1857	USD -	1.00
453	BORDEN, RICHARD	BORDEN, RICHARD. Pedigree of	Philadelphia	1901	USD -	2.75
454		BORNEMAN FAMILY. The History of the	Boyertown	1881	USD -	0.60
455	BOUTELLE, JOHN A., and BURKE, WILLIAM A.	The Burke and Alvord Memorial	Boston	1864	USD -	0.80
456		BREED FAMILY. A Record of the Descendants of Allen Bread	Philadelphia	1892	USD -	7.00
457	Clement, John	Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlere in Newton Township	Camden	1877	USD -	4.50
458	COFFIN, HARRIET	COFFIN, HARRIET. EARLY Wills, illustrating the Ancestry of	Boston	1893	USD -	1.25
459	CORWIN, EDWARD T.	The Corwin Genealogy (Curwin. Curwen, Corwine) in the United States	New York	1872	USD -	0.25
460	CRAIGHEAD, REV. J. G.	The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead. 1653-1876	Philadelphia	1876	USD -	0.90
461	DAVIS, W. W. H.	History of the Hart Family of W. Minster. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to which is added the Genealogy of the Family	N. P.	1867	USD -	4.00
462	DAWSON, CHARLES C.	A Collection of Family Records, with Biographical Sketches and other Memoranda, of Various Families and Individuals bearing the Name of Dawson, or Allied Families of that Name	Albany	1874	USD -	1.00
463	Frederic Gregory Forsyth	DE FORSYTH DE FRONSAC:. Memorial of the	Boston	1897	USD -	3.00
464	DE VOL. THOMAS F.	Genealogy of the De Veux Family, introducing the Numerous Forms of Spelling the Name by Various Branches and Generations in Past Eleven Hundred Years	N. P.	1885	USD -	0.25
465	DINSMOOR	Dinsmore Family. Their Earliest History and Genealogy, etc.	Boston	1891	USD -	0.75
466		DORLAND FAMILY. Records of the	Washington	1898	USD -	2.25
467		Dows, or DOWSE FAMILY IN AMERICA. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence Dows	Lowell, Mass.	1890	USD -	1.25
468		FARNSWORTH MEMORIAL; being a record of Matthias Farnsworth and his descendants in America	Manti, Utah	1897	USD -	1.75
469		FRENCH FAMILY. County Records of the Surnames of Francus, Franceis	Boston	1896	USD -	1.00
470	A. D. Weld French	FRENCH FAMILY. Index Armoral to an emblazoned Manuscript of the Surnames of French, Franc, Francois, Frene and others, British and Foreign	Boston	1892	USD -	0.40
471	FRETZ, REV. A. J.	A Brief History of John Valentine Kratz and a Complete Genealogical Family Register	Elkhart	1892	USD -	2.50
472	GENTRY, THOMAS G.	Family Names from the Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Scotch	Philadelphia	1892	USD -	3.50
473	Wm. Gibbs, of Lexington, Mass.	GIBBS FAMILY	N. P.	N. D.	USD -	0.50
474	GLENN SARAH KATHERINE	GLENN SARAH KATHERINE. Descendants of	Philadelphia	1901	USD -	4.00
475		HAINES FAMILY. Ancestry of William Shipley Haines, with some account of the Descendants of John and Joseph Haines and Colonel Cowperthwait	Philadelphia	1887	USD -	0.60
476	W. H. Whitmore	HALL FAMILY, settled at the Town of Medford, Mass.	Boston	1855	USD -	0.80
477	Mary Coffin Johnson	Higleys and their Ancestry, an Old Colonial Family	New York	1896	USD -	3.50
478	Albert Henry Hinds	HINDS FAMILY. History and Genealogy of the	Portland, Maine	1899	USD -	1.00
479	HOLSTEIN, MRS. ANNA M.	Swedish Holsteins in America, from 1644 to 1892; with Papers not before Published Relating to his Brother of Revolutionary Fame, Colonel Hugh Hughes, of New York, the Families of DeHaven	Norristown	1892	USD -	4.50
480		Hubbard FAMILY. One Thousand Years of Hubbard History. 866 to 1895	New York		USD -	2.75
481		HUNT FAMILY. Genealogy of the name and family of Hunt	Boston	1862-3	USD -	3.50
482		HUNTON or HUNTOON FAMILY. Philip Hunton and his Descendants	Canton, Mass.	1881	USD -	0.25

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