Parke Bernet: The Distinguished Collection of Americana Formed by C.G. Littell, Chicago, 1945yr,

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Auction Date: February 05, 1945 - February 05, 1945

Page Size: 1141 items in 12 pages

Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
ABERT, LIEUT	J. W. Report...of the Examination of New Mexico, Made by Lieutenant J. W. Abert.	Washington	1848	USD -	22.50
ACUNA, CHRISTOVAL D'.	Voyages and Discoveries in South-America. The First up the River of the Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil...The Second up the River of Plata, and thence by Land to the Mines of Potosi. By Mons. Agarete. The Third from Cayenne into Guiana.	London	1698	USD -	50.00
ADAIR, JAMES	The History of the American Indians; particularly those Nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia.	London	1775	USD -	57.00
AGASSIZ, LOUIS	Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals, Compared with Those of Other and Similar Regions. By Louis Agassiz. With a Narrative of the Tour, by J. Elliot Cabot. And Contributions by Other Scientific Gentlemen.	Boston	1850	USD -	65.00
AKEN, DAVID	Pioneers of the Black Hills or Gordon's Stockade Party of 1874. A Thrilling Narrative of Adventure, Hardships, Laughable Episodes and Startling Experiences, as Graphically Told by David Aken, one of the Party.	N. p.	circa 1876	USD -	70.00
ALASKA. U. S.	COAST SURVEY, BENJAMIN PEIRCE, Supt. Alaska and Adjoining Territory, 1869. The Yukon River, Ranges of Mountains, Shores of Norton Sound and Many Features of the Interior from a Reconnaissance by W. H. Dall, Director of the Scientific Corps, W. U. Tel. Exp	New York	1869	USD -	8.00
ALASKA	The Official Guide to the Klondyke Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska. Vivid Descriptions and Thrilling Experiences.	Chicago	1898	USD -	6.00
ALASKA	Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska.	Washington	1900	USD -	16.00
ALBERT, MATHEW, and GEORGE FREDERIC LOTTER	A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided According to the Last Treaty of Peace, Concluded at Paris, the 20th of Jan. 1783. Where in Are Particularly Distinguished, the Thirteen Provinces Which Compose the United States	[London]	1784	USD -	22.00
ALLEN, MISS A. J.	Ten Years in Oregon. Travels and Adventures of Doctor E. White and Lady, West of the Rocky Mountains.	Ithaca, N. Y.	1848	USD -	9.00
ALLEN, MISS A. J.	Ten Years in Oregon. Travels and Adventures of Doctor E. White and Lady, West of the Rocky Mountains.	Ithaca, New York	1850	USD -	11.00
AMERICA	"A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements adjacent thereto. By Henry Popple. C. Lempiere inv. del B. Barron Sculp." 20 sheets, each with good margins, which if joined would measure 91 1/2 by 94 inches; accompanied by		1733	USD -	135.00
AMERICAN PIONEER, THE	A Monthly Periodical, devoted to the Objects of the Logan Historical Society; or, to Collecting and Publishing Sketches relative to the early Settlement and Successive Improvement of the Country. Vols. I and II, all issued.	Cincinnati	1842--1843	USD -	30.00
AMERICAN REVOLUTION	The American Military Pocket Atlas; being an Approved Collection of Correct Maps, both General and Particular, of the British Colonies; especially Those which now are, or probably may be the Theatre of War...	London	1776	USD -	35.00
AMERICAN REVOLUTION	Plan of the City and Environs of Quebec, with the Siege and Blockade by the Americans, from the 8th of December, 1775 to the 13th of May, 1776.	London	12 Septemr.1776	USD -	11.00
AMERICAN REVOLUTION	A Map of the Inhabited Part of Canada from the French Surveys; with the frontiers of New York and New England from the large survey by Claude-Joseph Sauthier. Engraved by Wm. Fadden, 1777.	London	Feb. 25, 1777	USD -	17.50
AMERICAN REVOLUTION	A New and Correct Map of North America, with the West India Islands. Divided According to the last Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris, 10th, Feby. 1763, wherein are particularly Distinguished the Several Provinces and Colonies, which Compose the British	London	1777	USD -	22.50
[ANBUREY, THOMAS]	Travels through the Interior Parts of America. In a Series of Letters. By an Officer.	London	1789	USD -	37.50
[ANDERSON, ROBERT A.]	Fighting the Mill Creeks. Being a Personal Account of Campaigns Against Indians of the Northern Sierras.	Chico, Cal.	1909	USD -	3.00
ANDREWS, C. C.	Minnesota and Dacotah: in Letters descriptive of a Tour through the North-West, in the Autumn of 1856.	Washington	1857	USD -	13.00
ANSON, GEORGE	A Voyage round the World, in the Years MDCCXI, I, II, III, IV.	London	1748	USD -	30.00
APPLEGATE, JESSE	Recollections of My Boyhood. By an Oregon Pioneer of 1843.	Roseburg, Oregon	1914	USD -	30.00
ARGYLE, ARCHIE	Cupid's Album.	New York and St. Louis	1866	USD -	17.00
ARIZONA	Memorial and Affidavits Showing Outrages Perpetrated by the Apache Indians, in the Territory of Arizona, for the Years 1869 and 1870. Published by Authority of the Legislature of the Territory of Arizona.	San Francisco	1871	USD -	65.00
ARKANSAS	The Constitution of the State of Arkansas. Framed and Adopted by the Convention which Assembled at Little Rock, January 7th, 1868, and ratified by the Registered Electors of the State at the Election...March 13, 1868...1870 &unknown; The Constitution of t	Little Rock	1870--1876	USD -	27.50
[ARMROYD, GEORGE]	A Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States, Natural and Artificial; Present and Prospective.	Philadelphia	1826	USD -	12.50
ARROWSMITH, A.	A Map Exhibiting All the New Discoveries in the Interior Parts of North America...Additions to June 1814.	London	1814	USD -	32.50
ARROWSMITH, A.	A Map of the United States of North America Drawn from a Number of Critical Researches. Additions to 1819.	[London]	[1819]	USD -	27.50
A[SH] T[HOMAS]	Carolina; or a Description Of the Present State of that Country, and The Natural Excellencies thereof.	London	1682	USD -	280.00
ASHE, THOMAS	Travels in America, performed in 1806, for the Purpose of exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monangahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of their Banks anad Vicinity.	London	1808	USD -	40.00
ASHLEY, [WILLIAM HENRY]	The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822--1829, with the Original Journals Edited by Harrison Clifford Dale.	Cleveland	1918	USD -	25.00
ATHERTON, WILLIAM	Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-Western Army, under General Winchester: Massacre of the Prisoners: Sixteen Months Imprisonment of the Writer and others with the Indians and British.	Frankfort, Ky.	1842	USD -	10.00
ATWATER, CALEB	The General Character, present and future prospects of the People of Ohio. An Address delivered at the United States' Court House, during the term of the United States Circular Court in Columbus, Ohio, December, 1826.	Columbus	1827	USD -	26.00
ATWATER, CALEB	Remarks made on a Tour to Prairie du Chien; thence to Washington City, in 1829.	Columbus, O.	1831	USD -	16.00
ATWATER, CALEB	A History of the State of Ohio, Natural and Civil...	Cincinnati	[1838]	USD -	5.00
AVERY, A.	Hand-Book and Travellers' Guide of New Mexico...For Tourists, Miners, Capitalists and Emigrants.	Denver	1881	USD -	130.00
[BACHE, ROBERT]	View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West. Containing a General Description of that entire Country...and likewise of the Cities and Towns, progress of Education of each State and Territory.	Philadelphia	1832	USD -	16.00
BAILY, FRANCIS	Journal of a Tour in unsettled Parts of North America in 1796 & 1797....With a Memoir of the Author [by Sir J. Herschel.]	London	1856	USD -	35.00
BALDWIN, JOSEPH G.	The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches.	New-York	1853	USD -	15.00
BALDWIN, THOMAS	Narrative of the Massacre, by the Savages of the Wife and Children of Thomas Baldwin, Who since the melancholy period of the destruction of his unfortunate family, has dwelt alone...in the extreme western part of the State of Kentucky, etc.	New York	1835	USD -	15.00
BANDELIER, A. F.	The Gilded Man (El Dorado) and Other Pictures of the Spanish Occupancy of America.	New York	1893	USD -	22.00
[BARCA, MADAME CALDERON DE LA.]	Life in Mexico, during a Residence of Two Years in that Country. With a Preface by W. H. Prescott.	London	1843	USD -	7.00
BARCLAY, JAMES	The Voyages and Travels of James Barclay, containing Many Surprising Adventures, and Interesting Narratives.	N.p.	1777	USD -	125.00
BARRINGTON, DAINES	Miscellanies. [Containing "Journal of a Voyage in 1775. To Explore the Coast of America, Northward of California, by the second Pilot of the Fleet, Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle, in the King's Schooner, called the Sonora, and commanded by Don Juan Franci	London	1781	USD -	17.50
BARRY, T. A. and B. A. PATTEN	Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the "Spring of '50."	San Francisco	1873	USD -	15.00
BARTLETT, JOHN R.	Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Tex, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53.	New York	1854	USD -	20.00
BARTRAM, JOHN	Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals, and other matters worthy of Notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, In his Travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, In Canada.	London	1751	USD -	90.00
BARTRAM, WILLIAM	Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws...	Philadelphia	1791	USD -	57.00
BEAN, EDWIN F.	Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County, California. Containing a Complete History of the County, with Sketches of the various Towns and Mining Camps, the Names and Occupation of Residents;	Nevada	1867	USD -	40.00
BEATTY, CHARLES	The Journal of a Two Months Tour; with a View of Promoting Religion among the Frontier Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and of Introducing Christianity among the Indians to the Westward of the Alegh-geny Mountains. To Which Are Added, Remarks on the Language	London	1768	USD -	42.50
[BEAUFOY, MARK]	Tour through Parts of the United States and Canada. By a British Subject.	London	1828	USD -	42.50
BECK, LEWIS C.	A Gazetteer of the States of Illinois and Missouri; containing a General View of each State, a General View of their Countries, and a Particular Description of their Towns, Villages, Rivers, &c. &c.	Albany	1823	USD -	130.00
BEECHEY, F. W.	Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom.	London	1831	USD -	35.00
BELL, MAJOR HORACE	Reminiscences of a Ranger; or, Early Times in Southern California.	Los Angeles	1881	USD -	27.00
BELL, WILLIAM A.	New Tracks in North America. A Journal of Travel and Adventure whilst engaged in the Survey for a Southern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean during 1867--8.	London	1869	USD -	18.00
BELKNAP, WILLIAM W.	Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the Territory of Alaska.	[Washington]	[1870]	USD -	5.00
BELTRAMI, J. C.	A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, leading to the Discovery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody River; with a Description of the whole course of the former, and of the Ohio.	London	1828	USD -	25.00
[BENEZET, ANTHONY]	Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes; with Some Advice thereon, extracted from the Epistle of the Yearly-Meeting of the People called Quakers, held at London in the Year 1748....Second Edition.	Germantown	1760	USD -	10.00
BENTON, JOSEPH A.	The California Pilgrim: A Series of Lectures.	Sacramento	1853	USD -	7.50
BESCHKE, WILLIAM	The Dreadful Sufferings and Thrilling Adventures of an Overland Party of Emigrants to California, Their Terrible Conflicts with Savage Tribes of Indians!! and Mexican Bands of Robbers!!!...Compiled from the Journal of Mr. George Adam, One of the Adventure	St. Louis	1850	USD -	95.00
BESTE, J. RICHARD	The Wabash: or Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior of America.	London	1855	USD -	20.00
[BEVERLEY, ROBERT]	The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts. By a Native and Inhabitant of the Place.	London	1705	USD -	85.00
[BIDWELL, GEN. JOHN.] MARCUS BENJAMIN. John Bidwell, Pioneer	A Sketch of His Career.	Washington	1907	USD -	15.00
BIDWELL, GEN. JOHN	Echoes of the Past. An Account of the First Emigrant Train to California, Fremont in the Conquest of California, the Discovery of Gold and Early Reminiscences.	Chico, Cal.	circa 1914	USD -	10.00
BIRGE, JULIUS C.	The Awakening of the Desert.	Boston	[1912]	USD -	17.00
BIRKBECK, MORRIS	Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois, with Proposals for the Establishment of a Colony of English.	Philadelphia	1817	USD -	22.50
BIRKBECK, MORRIS	Letters from Illinois.	Philadelphia	1818	USD -	12.50
BIRKBECK, MORRIS	Letters from Illinois.	London	1818	USD -	10.00
BIRKBECK, MORRIS	Extracts from a Supplementary Letter from the Illinois; an Address to British Emigrants; and a Reply to the remarks of Williams Cobbett, Esq.	London	1819	USD -	22.50
BIRKBECK, MORRIS	Extracts from a Supplementary Letter from the Illinois, dated January 31st, 1819. Address to British Emigrants arriving in the Eastern Ports, July 13th, 1819. Reply to William Cobbett, Esq. July 31st, 1819.	New York	1819	USD -	37.50
BIRKBECK, MORRIS	An Address to the Farmers of Great Britain; with an Essay on the Prairies of the Western Country. To which is annexed the Constitution of the State of Illinois.	London	1822	USD -	30.00
BLACKFORD, ISAAC	An Address, at the First Stated Meeting of the Indiana Colonization Society, Delivered at Indianapolis, in the Hall of Representatives...on the 14th Day of December, 1829...	Indianapolis	1829	USD -	35.00
BLACK HAWK	Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, embracing the Traditions of his Nation, Indian Wars in which he has been engaged, cause of joining the British in their late War with America, etc.	Cincinnati	1833	USD -	50.00
BLACK HAWK	Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, embracing the Tradition of his Nation, Indian Wars in which he has been engaged, cause of joining the British in their late War with America, etc.	Boston	1834	USD -	6.00
[BLAINE, WILLIAM]	An Excursion through the United States and Canada during the years 1822--3. By an English Gentleman.	London	1824	USD -	27.50
BLEDSOE, A. J.	Indian Wars of the Northwest. A California Sketch.	San Francisco	1885	USD -	25.00
BLEECKER, ANN ELIZA	The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in Prose and Verse. To which is added, A Collection of Essays, Prose and Poetical, by Margaretta V. Faugeres.	New-York	1793	USD -	35.00
BLUNT, EDMUND M.	Traveller's Guide to and through the State of Ohio, with Sailing Directions for Lake Erie.	New York	1833	USD -	70.00
BOLLER, HENRY A.	Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West: 1858--1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake.	Philadelphia	1868	USD -	60.00
BONNER, T. D.	The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckworth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians.	New York	1856	USD -	37.50
BOSSU, NICHOLAS	Travels Through that Part of North America formerly called Louisiana. Translated from the French, by John Reinhold Forster.	London	1771	USD -	50.00
BOUCARD, A.	Travels of a Naturalist.	London	1894	USD -	10.00
BOUCHETTE, JOSEPH	A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada, with Remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the Relative Connexion of Both Provinces with the United States of America.	London	1815	USD -	18.00
BOUGAINVILLE, LEWIS DE	A Voyage Round the World. Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769. Translated from the French by John R. Forster.	London	1772	USD -	32.50
[BOUGHTON, J. S.]	The Lawrence Massacre by a Band of Missouri Ruffians under Quantrell, August 21, 1863, etc.	Lawrence, Kansas	[1884]	USD -	22.00
BOURKE, JOHN G.	The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona.	London	1884	USD -	13.00
BOURKE, JOHN G.	An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre. An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Apaches in the Spring of 1883.	New York	1886	USD -	22.50
BOURKE, JOHN G.	On the Border with Crook.	New York	1891	USD -	22.50
BOWLES, SAMUEL	Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.	Springfield, Mass.	1865	USD -	4.00
BOWNAS, SAMUEL	An account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Late of Kachecky in New-England: Who, with Four of her Children, and Servant-Maid, was taken Captive by the Indians, and Carried into Canada...Taken in Substance from her own Mouth, by Samuel Bownas.	London	1782	USD -	20.00
BOX, CAPT. MICHAEL J. Capt.	James Box's Adventures and Explorations in New and Old Mexico. Being the record of Ten Years of Travel and Research, and a Guide to the Mineral Treasures of Durango, Chihuahua, the Sierra Nevada (East side), Sinaloa, and Sonora, (Pac+ific side), and the S	New York	1861	USD -	23.00
BOX, CAPT. MICHAEL J.	Adventures and Explorations in New and Old Mexico, being the Record of Ten Years of Travel and Research, and a Guide to the Mineral Treasures of Durango: Sierra Nevada, and the southern part of Arizona.	New York	1869	USD -	12.00
BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY M.	Views of Louisiana; together with a Journal of a Voyage up the Missouri River, in 1811.	Pittsburgh	1814	USD -	65.00
BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY M.	History of the Late War, between the United States and Great Britain.	Baltimore	1818	USD -	11.00
BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY M.	Recollections of Persons and Places in the West.	Philadelphia	[1834]	USD -	10.00
BRADBURY, JOHN	Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; including a Description of Upper Louisiana, together with the State of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories...	Liverpool	1817	USD -	45.00
BRADBURY, JOHN	Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811; including a Description of Upper Louisiana together with the States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee, with the Illinois and Western Territories.	London	1819	USD -	55.00
BRAKE, HEZEKIAH	On Two Continents. A Long Life's Experience. Published by the Author.	Topeka, Kansas	1896	USD -	10.00
BREAZEALE, J. M. W.	Life as it Is; or Matters and Things in General: containing amongst other things, Historical Sketches of the Exploration and First Settlement of the State of Tennessee; Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants; their Wars with the Indians; Battle of King's	Knoxville	1842	USD -	50.00
BREWERTON, G. DOUGLAS	The War in Kansas. A Rough Trip to the Border, among New Homes and a Strange People.	New York	1856	USD -	15.00

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

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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