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
WESTON, S.	Life in the Mountains: or, Four Months in the Mines of California. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers; backstrip slightly chipped.	Providence	1854	USD -	15.00
WETMORE, ALPHONSO	Gazetteer of the State of Missouri...To which is added an Appendix, containing Frontier Sketches, and Illustrations of Indian Characters.	St. Louis	1837	USD -	15.00
WHARTON, THOMAS I.	Notes on the Provincial Literature of Pennsylvania. Read at a Meeting of the Council, September 21st, 1825. [Excerpt].	N.p.	[1823]	USD -	3.00
[WHEAT, M.]	Travels on the Western Slope of the Mexican Cordillers, in the Form of Fifty-one Letters...By Cincinnatus.	San Francisco	1857	USD -	20.00
WIERZBICKI, F. P.	California as it Is, and as it may Be, or, a Guide to the Gold Region.	San Francisco	1849	USD -	475.00
WILKES, GEORGE and P. H. BURNETT	The History of Oregon, Geographical and Political. Embracing an Analysis of the Old Spanish Claims, the British Presentations, the United States Title; an Account of the Present Condition and Character of the Country, and a through Examination of a Projec	New York	1845	USD -	325.00
WILKEY, MAJOR WALTER	Western Emigration. Narrative of a Tour, and one Year's Residence in "Edenburgh," (Illinois,) By Major Walter Wilkey. An honest Yeoman of Moosebora, State of Maine.	New York	1839	USD -	4.00
WILLCOX, R. N.	Reminiscences of California Life. Being an Abridged Description of Scenes which the Author has passed through in California, and other Lands, etc.	Avery, Ohio	1897	USD -	40.00
WILLIAMS, JESSE	A Description of the United States Lands of Iowa: being a minute description of every section and quarter section, quality of soil, groves of timber, prairies, ledges of rock, coal banks, iron and lead ores, water-falls, mill-seats...With an Appendix.	New York	1840	USD -	50.00
WILLIAMS, JOHN G.	The Adventures of a Seventeen-Year-Old Lad and the Fortunes He Might Have Won.	Boston	1894	USD -	10.00
WILLIAMS, JOSEPH	Narrative of a Tour from the State of Indiana to the Oregon Territory in the Years 1841--2. With an Introduction by James C. Bell, Jr.	New York	1921	USD -	9.00
[WILLIAMSON, MRS. ELIZA]	An Adventure on the Banks of the Ohio, or The Interesting Story of Mrs. Eliza Williamson. Founded on Fact. Compiled by the Author of The Man of the Mountain.	Boston	1818	USD -	20.00
WILLIAMSON, PETER	French and Indian Cruelty; Exemplified in the Life and Various Vicissitudes of Fortune of Peter Williamson, a Disbanded Soldier. Containing a Particular Account of the Manners, Customs, and Dress, of the Savages; of Their Scalping, Burning, and Other Barb	York	1758	USD -	45.00
WILLS, CHARLES W.	Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea. Letters and Diary of the Late Charles W. Wills, Private and Sergeant 8th Illinois Infantry...Compiled and Published by his Sister.	Washington	1906	USD -	4.00
[WILSON, SAMUEL]	An Account of the Province of Carolina in America. Together with an Abstract of the Patent, and several other Necessary and Useful Particulars, to such as have thoughts of Transporting themselves thither. Published for their Information.	London	1682	USD -	220.00
WINCHESTER, CAPTAIN J. D. Capt. J. D.	Winchester's Experience on a Voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan Gold Fields.	Salem, Mass.	1900	USD -	8.00
[WINCHESTER, JAMES]	Historical Details of the Campaign of the North-Western Army under Generals Harrison and Winchester during the Winter of 1812--13. Together with some particulars relating to the Surrender of Fort Bowyer, &c.	Lexington, Ky.	1818	USD -	525.00
WINTHROP, THEODORE	The Canoe and the Saddle, Adventures among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests; and Isthmiana.	Boston	1863	USD -	5.00
WISE, LIEUT. HENRY A.	Los Gringos: or an inside view of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia.	London	1849	USD -	15.00
WISLIZENUS, F. A.	Memoir of a Tour to Northern Mexico, connected with Col. Doniphan's Expedition, in 1846 and 1847.	Washington	1848	USD -	15.00
WISLIZENUS, F. A.	A Journey to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1839. Translated from the German, with a Sketch of the Author's Life, by Frederick A. Wislizenus.	St. Louis	1912	USD -	10.00
WISTAR, ISAAC JONES	Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, 1827--1905. Half a Century in War and Peace.	Philadelphia	1937	USD -	11.00
WITHERS, ALEXANDER S.	Chronicles of Border Warfare; or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites of North-Western Virginia; and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that Section of the State; with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c.	Clarksburg, Va.	1831	USD -	22.50
WOOD, REV. AARON	Sketches of Things and People in Indiana.	Indianapolis	1883	USD -	27.50
WOOD, JOHN	Journal of John Wood, as kept by him while traveling from Cincinnati to the Gold Diggings in California, in the Spring and Summer of 1850. Containing an Accurate Account of the Occurrences, Transactions and Circumstances Daily. Also, an Account of each Tr	Columbus [Ohio]	1871	USD -	130.00
WOODMAN, JR., David	Guide to Texas Emigrants.	Boston	1835	USD -	27.50
WOODS, DANIEL B.	Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings.	New York	1851	USD -	10.00
WOODS, JOHN	Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country, United States. With an Account of its Animal and Vegetable Productions...A Description of the Principal Towns, Villages, &c, &c., with the Habits and Customs of the Ba	London	1822	USD -	40.00
WOODS, JOHN	Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country, United States. With an Account of Its Animal and Vegetable Productions, Agriculture, &c. &c. with the Habits and Customs of the Back-Woodsmen.	London	1822	USD -	27.50
WOOLWORTH, JAMES M.	Nebraska in 1857.	Omaha City, N. T.	1867	USD -	60.00
WORK, JOHN	The Journal of John Work, a Chief-Trader of the Hudson's Bay Co. during his expedition from Vancouver to the Flatheads and Blackfeet of the Pacific Northwest. Edited, and with account of the Fur Trade in the Northwest, and Life of Work, by William S. Lewi	Chicago	1923	USD -	8.00
WRIGHT, ROBERT M.	Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest in the Days of the Wild Indians, the Buffalo, the Cowboy, Dance Halls, Gambling Halls and Bad Men.	N.p.	circa 1913	USD -	22.50
WYATT, WILLIAM N.	Wyatt's Travel Diary 1836. With Comments by Mrs. Addie Evans Wynn and W. A. Evans (Grandchildren of W. N. Wyatt).	Chicago	1930	USD -	11.00
WYETH, JOHN B.	Oregon; or a Short History of a long Journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the Region of the Pacific, by Land; drawn up from the Notes and oral Information of John B. Wyeth, one of the Party, who left Mr. Nathaniel J. Wyeth, July 28th, 1832, four days' march	Cambridge	1833	USD -	270.00
WYETH, NATHANIEL J.	The Correspondence and Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831--6. A Record of Two Expeditions for the Occupation of the Oregon Country, with Maps, Introduction and Index....Edited by F. G. Young. In: Sources of the History of Oregon, vol.	Eugene, Ore.	1899	USD -	9.00
[YOUNG, BRIGHAM]	General Epistle from the Council of the Twelve Apostles to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Abroad, Dispersed throughout the Earth.	[Liverpool]	[1848]	USD -	130.00
[YOUNG, FRANK C.]	Echoes from Arcadia. The Story of Central City, as Told by One of "The Clan." 1903 &unknown; Across the Plains in '65. A Youngster's Journal, from "Gotham" to "Pike's Peak."	Denver, Colo.	1903--1905	USD -	40.00
YOUNG, J. H.	The Tourist's Pocket Map of the State of Indiana Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads, Distances, &c. COLORED; gauze preserved.	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	15.00
YOUNG, J. H.	The Tourist's Pocket Map of South Carolina, exhibiting the Internal Improvements, Roads, Distances, &c. [with inset map] Vicinity of Charleston.	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	5.00
YOUNG, J. H.	The Tourist's Pocket Map of Kentucky, exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads, Distances, &c. [with two inset maps] Vicinity of Louisville, and, Vicinity of Frankfort & Lexington.	Philadelphia	1839	USD -	6.00
YOUNGBLOOD, CHARLES L.	Adventures of Chas. L. Youngblood during Ten Years on the Plains. Compiled from his own Journal.	Boonville, Ind.	1882	USD -	65.00

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

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

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

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

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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