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
BRICKELL, JOHN	The Natural History of North-Carolina. With an Account of the Trade, Manners, and Customs of the Christian and Indian Inhabitants.	Dublin	1737	USD -	55.00
BROOKS, J. TYRWHITT	Four Months among the Gold-Finders in Alta California: Being the Diary of an Expedition from San Francisco to the Gold Districts.	London	1849	USD -	12.00
BROUGHTON, WILLIAM ROBERT	A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean...Performed in His Majesty's Sloop Providence, and Her Tender, in the Years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.	London	1804	USD -	210.00
BROWN, ALEXANDER	The Genesis of the United States. A Narrative of the Movement in England, 1605--1616, which resulted in the Plantation of North America by Englishmen...A Series of Historical Manuscripts now first printed, together with a reissue of Rare Contemporaneous T	Boston	1890	USD -	20.00
BROWN, ALEXANDER	The First Republic of America.	Boston	1898	USD -	12.00
BROWN, HENRY	The History of Illinois, from its First Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Time.	New York	1844	USD -	20.00
BROWN, JAMES S.	Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown.	Salt Lake City	1900	USD -	12.50
BROWNE, J. ROSS	Adventures in the Apache Country: a Tour Through Arizona and Sonora, with Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada.	New York	1869	USD -	30.00
BROWNE, J. ROSS	Crusoe's Island: a Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk. With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe.	New York	n.d.	USD -	6.00
BRUNSON, REV. ALFRED	A Western Pioneer: or, Incidents of the Life and Times of Rev. Alfred Brunson, A. M. D. D., embracing a Period of over Seventy Years. Written by Himself.	Cincinnati	1872--1879	USD -	22.50
BRYANT, EDWIN	What I Saw in California: Being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and through California, in the Years 1846, 1847.	New York	1848	USD -	17.00
BRYANT, EDWIN	What I Saw in California: Being the Journal of a Tour by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and through California, in the Years 1846, 1847.	London	1849	USD -	6.00
BULKELEY, JOHN and JOHN CUMMINS	A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740--1.	London	1743	USD -	25.00
BULLITT, THOMAS W.	My Life at Oxmoor. Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War.	Louisville, Ky.	1911	USD -	17.00
BULLOCK, WILLIAM	Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico; containing Remarks on the Present State of New Spain, its Natural Productions, State of Society, Manufactures, Trade, Agriculture, and Antiquities, &c.	London	1824	USD -	25.00
BULLOCK, WILLIAM	Sketch of a Journey through the Western States of North America, from New Orleans, by the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati, and Falls of Niagara, to New York, in 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, by Messrs. B. Dr	London	1827	USD -	52.50
BUNNELL, DAVID C.	The Travels and Adventures of David C. Bunnell...containing an Accurate Account of the Battle of Lake Erie, etc. Written by Himself.	Palmyra	1831	USD -	45.00
[BURLEND, REBECCA]	A True Picture of Emigration; or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a Full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and Ultimate Success of an English Family Who Emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the Year 1831.	London	circa 1848	USD -	12.50
[BURLEND, REBECCA]	A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America: Being a Full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and Ultimate Success of an English Family who emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, near Leeds, in the year 1831.	London	circa 1848	USD -	20.00
BURNABY, ANDREW	Travels through the Middle Settlements in North-America, in the Years 1759 and 1760. With Observations upon the State of the Colonies.	London	1775	USD -	20.00
BURNET, JACOB	Notes on the Early Settlement in the North-Western Territory.	Cincinnati	1847	USD -	10.00
BURNETT, PETER H.	Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer.	New York	1880	USD -	22.50
BURNEY, JAMES	A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean.	London	1803--1817	USD -	115.00
BURNEY, JAMES	History of the Buccaneers of America.	London	1816	USD -	15.00
BURPE, LAWRENCE J.	The Search for the Western Sea. The Story of the Exploration of Northwestern America.	London	1908	USD -	22.50
BURROWS, J.M.D.	Fifty Years in Iowa: being the Personal Reminiscences of J.M.D. Burrows, concerning the Men and Events, Social Life, Industrial Interests, Physical Development, and Commercial Progress of Davenport and Scott County, during the period from 1838 to 1888.	Davenport	1888	USD -	17.00
BURTON, RICHARD F.	The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.	London	1861	USD -	12.50
BUTLER, MANN	History of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.	Louisville, Ky.	1834	USD -	17.50
BUTLER, CAPT. W.F.	The Great Lone Land: a Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America...	London	1873	USD -	4.00
BUTTRICK, JR., TILLY	Voyages, Travels and Discoveries.	Boston	1831	USD -	350.00
BYFIELD, NATHANIEL	An account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country adjacent, April 18, 1689.	London	1689	USD -	130.00
CAIRO, ILLINOIS	Prospectus and Engineers' Report, relating to the City of Cairo, incorporated by the State of Illinois.	St. Louis	1839	USD -	22.50
CALIFORNIA	The Pioneer; or, California Monthly Magazine. Edited by F. C. Ewer. Vols. I-IV (all published), Jan., 1854 to Dec., 1855.	San Francisco	1854--1855	USD -	85.00
CAMPBELL, PATRICK	Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America. In the Years 1791 and 1792. In which is given an account of the Manners and Customs of the Indians, and the present War Between them and the Federal States, etc.	Edinburgh	1793	USD -	165.00
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM W.	Annals of Tryon County; or, the Border Warfare, of New-York, during the Revolution.	New York	1831	USD -	7.00
CANADA	Le Canada faict par le Sr de Champlain ou sont la Nouvelle France, la Nouvelle Angleterre, la Nouvelle Holande, la Nouvelle Svede, la Virginie, &c. avec les Nations voisines et autres Terres nouuellement decouuertes, suivant les Memoires de P. Du Val, Geo	[Paris]	[1677]	USD -	45.00
CANFIELD, CHAUNCEY L., Editor	The Diary of a Forty-Niner.	New York, San Francisco	1906	USD -	20.00
CANFIELD, THOMAS H.	Northern Pacific Railroad. Partial Report to the Board of Directors, of a Portion of a Reconnaissance made in 1869, between Lake Superior and the Pacific Ocean. Accompanied with Notes on Puget Sound, by Samuel Wilkeson.		May, 1870	USD -	45.00
CANNON, ELDER GEORGE Q.	Writings from the "Western Standard," published in San Francisco, California.	Liverpool	1864	USD -	27.50
CAPRON, ELISHA, S.	History of California, from its Discovery to the Present Time...With a Journal of the Voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and back, via Panama.	Boston	1854	USD -	10.00
CARITHERS, REV. W. B.	The Jumping-Off Place. An Article Descriptive of the Great Palouse Country! (caption heading).	[Palouse City, Whitman County, Washington Territory]	[1885]	USD -	35.00
CARPENTER, WILLIAM W.	Travels and Adventures in Mexico: in the Course of Journeys of upward of 2500 Miles performed on Foot.	New York	1851	USD -	3.00
CARR, JOHN	Early Times in Middle Tennessee.	Nashville	1857	USD -	22.50
CARSON, KIT.	Kit Carson's Own Story of his Life as Dedicated to Col. and Mrs. D. C. Peters about 1856--57, and never before published. Edited by Blanche C. Grant.	Taos, New Mexico	1926	USD -	32.50
CARTER, E. S.	The Life and Adventures of E. S. Carter, including a Trip across the Plains and Mountains in 1852, Indian Wars in the Early Days of Oregon in the Years of 1854--5--6. Life and Experience in the Gold Fields of California, and Five Years' Travel in New Mexi	St. Joseph, Mo.	1896	USD -	80.00
CARVALHO, S. N.	Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West; with Col. Fremont's Last Expedition across the Rocky Mountains; including Three Months' Residence in Utah, and a Perilous Trip across the Great American Desert to the Pacific.	New York	1857	USD -	17.00
CARVER, JONATHAN	Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768.	London	1778	USD -	32.50
CARVER, JONATHAN	Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the years 1766, 1767, and 1768.	London	1779	USD -	17.50
CARVER, JONATHAN	Travels through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768.	London	1781	USD -	50.00
CARVER, JONATHAN	Three Years' Travel throughout the Interior Parts of North America...containing an account...of that vast Continent.	Walpole, N. H.	1813	USD -	5.00
[CASS, LEWIS]	National Road West of the Ohio. Letter from the Secretary of War, A Report in relation to the National road west of the Ohio.	[Washington]	[1836]	USD -	7.00
CATLIN, GEORGE	Last Rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes.	London	1868	USD -	7.00
[CHAMBERS, CHARLOTTE.] LEWIS H. GARRARD	Memoir of Charlotte Chambers.	Philadelphia	1856	USD -	21.00
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE	Voyages of Samuel de Champlain. Translated from the French by Charles Pomeroy Otis. With Historical Illustrations and a Memoir by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter.	Boston	1880	USD -	35.00
CHANDLESS, WILLIAM	A Visit to Salt Lake; being a Journey Across the Plains and a Residence in the Mormon Settlements at Utah.	London	1857	USD -	10.00
CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE F. X. DE	Journal of a Voyage to North America, undertaken by Order of the French King, Containing The Geographical Description and Natural History of that Country, particularly Canada. Together with an Account of the Customs, Characters, Religion, Manners, and Tra	London	1761	USD -	70.00
CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE F. X. De	Journal of a Voyage to North America. Edited, with Historical Instruction, Notes and Index, by Louis Phelps Kellogg.	Chicago	1923	USD -	25.00
CHASTELLUX, MARCUS DE	Travels in North America, in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782....Translated from the French by an English Gentleman...with Notes by the Translator.	Dublin	1787	USD -	30.00
[CHAUNCY, CHARLES]	A Letter to a Friend; Giving a concise, but just, Account, according to the Advices hitherto received, of the Ohio-Defeat;...To which is added, Some General Account of the New-England Forces, with what they have already done, counter-balancing the above L	Boston	1755	USD -	175.00
[CHAUNCY, CHARLES]	A Second Letter To a Friend; Giving a more Particular Narrative of the Defeat of the French Army at Lake-George, By the New-England Troops, than has yet been published: Representing also the vast Importance of this Conquest to the American-British-Colonie	Boston: N. E.	1755	USD -	250.00
CHESTNUT, MARY BOYKIN	A Diary from Dixie.	New York	1905	USD -	7.00
[CHETWOOD, W. R.]	The Voyages and Adventures of Capt. Robert Boyle, in several parts of the World...To which is added, the Voyage, Shipwreck, and Miraculous Preservation, of Richard Castelman, Gent. With a Description of the City of Philadelphia, and the Country of Pennsyl	London	1726	USD -	10.00
CHICAGO	General Directory and Business Advertiser of the City of Chicago, For the Year 1844; together with a Historical Sketch and Statistical Account, to the present Time. By J. W. Norris.	Chicago	1844	USD -	130.00
CHICAGO	[Heading of text:] General Burnside's Order No. 84, Suppressing the Chicago Times, and its History.	[Chicago]	[1864]	USD -	30.00
CHICAGO	[J. W. FOSTER and others]. The Lakeside Memorial of the Burning of Chicago, A. D. 1871.	Chicago	1872	USD -	7.00
CHICAGO	The Palmer House Illustrated.	Chicago	1876	USD -	25.00
CHICAGO FIRE	The Lakeside Monthly, October, 1872. Anniversary Fire Number.	Chicago	1872	USD -	16.00
CHICAGO MAGAZINE	The West as it Is.	Chicago	1857	USD -	70.00
CHITTENDEN, HIRAM M.	The American Fur Trade of the Far West. A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fe.	New York	1902	USD -	37.00
CHITTENDEN, HIRAM M.	History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri. Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge, Pioneer Navigator and Indian Trader, etc.	New York	1903	USD -	10.00
	CINCINNATI LITERARY GAZETTE, THE. Volumes I [and II], January to June [and July to December], 1824.	Cincinnati	1824	USD -	80.00
[CLARK, AUSTIN]	1852--1865. Reminiscences of Travel.	[Middletown, Conn.]	[1865]	USD -	45.00
CLARK, C. M.	A Trip to Pike's Peak and Notes by the Way. Being descriptive of Incidents and Accidents that attended the pilgrimage; of the country through Kansas and Nebraska; Rocky Mountains; Mining Regions and Operations, etc.	Chicago	1861	USD -	85.00
[CLARK, O. S.]	Clay Allison of the Washita, first a Cow Man and then an Extinguisher of Bad Men. Recollections of Colorado, New Mexico and the Texas Panhandle. Reminiscenses of a '79er.	N.p.	[1922]	USD -	32.50
CLARKE, A. B.	Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journey of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California.	Boston	1852	USD -	140.00
CLARKE, LEWIS And MILTON	Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, during a Captivity of more than Twenty Years among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian States of North America.	Boston	1846	USD -	12.00
CLAY, JR., MRS CLEMENT C.	A Belle of the Fifties. Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853--66. Put into Narrative Form by Ada Sterling.	New York	1905	USD -	5.00
CLAY, JOHN	My Life On the Range.	Chicago	[1924]	USD -	22.50
CLAYTON, WILLIAM	William Clayton's Journal. A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.	Salt Lake City	1921	USD -	15.00
CLELAND, ROBERT G.	The Place Called Sespe. The History of a California Ranch.	[Chicago]	1940	USD -	12.50
CLEVELAND, RICHARD J.	A Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises.	Cambridge	1842	USD -	55.00
[CLUNY, ALEXANDER]	The American Traveller; or, Observation on the Present State, Culture and Commerce of the British Colonies in America, and the Further Improvements of Which They Are Capable; with an Account of the Exports, Imports and Returns of Each Colony Respectively.	London	1769	USD -	180.00
COBBETT, WILLIAM	A Year's Residence, in the United States of America. Part I only.	London	1818	USD -	13.00
COBBETT, WILLIAM	A Year's Residence, in the United States of America...In Three Parts. Second Edition.	London	1819	USD -	12.50
COCKBURN, JOHN	A Journey Over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea. Performed by John Cockburn, and Five Other Englishmen...who were taken by a Spanish Guarda-Costa...and set on Shoar [sic] at a Place called Porto-Cavalo...as also an Exact Accou	London	1735	USD -	32.50
COFFIN, CHARLES F.	The Life of Elijah Coffin; with a Reminiscence, by his son Charles F. Coffin. Edited by his daughter, Mary C. Johnson, Printed for his family only.	N.p.	1863	USD -	32.50
COFFIN, GEORGE	A Pioneer Voyage to California and Round the World 1849 to 1852. Ship Alhambra Captain George Coffin.	[Chicago]	[1908]	USD -	7.00
COGHLAN, MARGARET	Memoirs of Mrs. Coghlan, (Daughter of the late Major Moncrieffe,) written by Herself, and Dedicated to the British Nation; being interspersed with Anecdotes of the late American and present French War, etc.	New York	1795	USD -	4.00
[COHEN, M. M.]	Sketch of the Seminole War, and Sketches during a Campaign. By a Lieutenant, of the Left Wing.	Charleston	1836	USD -	27.50
COKE, HENRY J.	A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles.	London	1852	USD -	22.50
COLBY, CHARLES	Handbook of Illinois, accompanying Morse's New Map of the State.	New York	1854	USD -	13.00
COLDEN, CADWALLADER	The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada.	London	1755	USD -	25.00
COLE, CORNELIUS	Memoirs of Cornelius, Ex-Senator of the United States from California.	New York	1908	USD -	4.00
COLE, GILBERT L.	In the Early Days Along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852. Compiled by Mrs. A. Hardy.	Kansas City, Mo.	1905	USD -	11.00
COLESON, ANN.	Miss Coleson's Narrative of her Captivity among the Sioux Indians! An Interesting and Remarkable Account of the Terrible Sufferings and Providential Escapes of Miss Ann Coleson, a Victim of the late Indian Outrages in Minnesota.	Philadelphia	1864	USD -	17.50
COLLINS, DENIS	The Indians' Last Fight; or, the Dull Knife Raid.	[Girard, Kansas]	circa 1914]	USD -	52.50
COLLINS, JOHN S.	Across the Plains in '64. Incidents of Early Days West of the Missouri River---Two Thousand Miles in an Open Boat from Fort Benton to Omaha---Reminiscences of the Pioneer Period of Galena, General Grant's Old Home.	Omaha	1904	USD -	22.50
COLORADO. Leadville, Colorado	The Most Wonderful Mining Camp in the World. A City only Two Years Old! With Twenty Thousand People, a complete System of Water Works, and all Modern Improvements.	Colorado Springs, Colo.	1879	USD -	45.00
COLT, MRS MIRIAM DAVIS	Went to Kansas; being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to That Fairy Land, and Its Sad Results; together with a Sketch of the Life of the Author, and How the World Goes with Her.	Watertown	1862	USD -	11.00
[COLT, SAMUEL.] U. S. SENATE	COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS. [Report on the subject of Samuel Colt's improved repeating fire arms.] February 12, 1849.	[Washington]	[1849]	USD -	4.00

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

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.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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December 9-17, 2025

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.

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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Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

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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