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
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
COLTON, J. H. The State of Indiana Delineated: Geographical, Historical, Statistical & Commercial, and a brief view of the Internal Improvements, Geology, Education, Travelling Routes, &c. New York

1838

USD - 150.00
COLTON, J. H. Guide for the Territory of Iowa, with a correct Map, showing the Township Surveys, &c. &c. New York

1839

USD - 190.00
COLTON, J. H. Particulars of Routes, Distances, Fares, etc. to accompany Colton's Map of California and the Gold Region, collected from official documents. New York

1849

USD - 90.00
COLTON, J. H. Map of the United States, the British Provinces, Mexico, &c. showing the Routes of the U. S. Mail Steam Packets to California, and a Plan of the Gold Region. Drawn and engraved by J. M. Atwood. New York

1849

USD - 15.00
COLTON, REV. WALTER Three Years in California. New York

1850

USD - 10.00
COLTON, REV. WALTER Three Years in California. New York

1850

USD - 15.00
COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During his First Voyage, 1492--93), and Documents relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real. Translated, with Notes and Introduction, by Clements R. Markham. London

1893

USD - 12.50
CONARD, HOWARD L. "Uncle Dick" Wootton, the Pioneer Frontiersman of the Rocky Mountain Region. An Account of the Adventures and Thrilling Experiences of the most Noted American Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Scout, and Indian Fighter now Living. With an Introduction by Maj. Josep Chicago

1890

USD - 35.00
CONFEDERATE STATES Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America. 8th February, 1861... Montgomery, Ala.

1861

USD - 140.00
COOK, DARIUS B. Six Months among Indians, Wolves and Other Wild Animals, in the Forests of Allegan County, Mich., in the Winter in 1839 and 1840. Interesting Stories of Forest Life. The Exploits of Tecumseh and Other Chiefs, Their Cruelty to Captives. How Tecumseh Was Ki Niles, Mich.

1889

USD - 45.00
COOK, JOHN R. The Border and the Buffalo. An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains. Topeka

1907

USD - 8.00
COOK, JOHN R. The Border and the Buffalo. An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains. The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain. Topeka, Kansas

1907

USD - 7.50
COOKE, P. ST. GEORGE Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or Romance of Military Life. Philadelphia

1857

USD - 37.50
COOKE, P. ST. GEORGE Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or Romance of Military Life. Philadelphia

1859

USD - 17.50
COOKE, P. ST. GEORGE The Conquest of New Mexico and California; an Historical and Personal Narrative. New York

1878

USD - 22.00
CORNEY, PETER Voyages in the Northern Pacific. Narrative of Several Trading Voyages from 1813 to 1818, between the Northwest Coast of America, the Hawaiian Islands and China...Establishments on the Northwest Coast. Honolulu, H. I.

1896

USD - 16.00
CORNWALL, BRUCE Life Sketch of Pierre Barlow Cornwall. San Francisco

1906

USD - 24.00
COUES, ELLIOTT On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer and the Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garces...in his travels through Sonora, Arizona, and California 1775--1776. New York

1900

USD - 12.50
COYNER, DAVID H. The Lost Trappers: a Collection of Interesting Scenes and Events in the Rocky Mountains; together with a short Description of California: also some account of the Fur Trade. Cincinnati

1847

USD - 27.00
COX, REV. JOHN E. Five Years in the United States Army. Reminiscences and Records of an Ex-Regular. Owensville, Ind.

1892

USD - 22.00
COX, ROSS Adventures on the Columbia River, including the Narrative of a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains, among various Tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: Together with a Journey across the American Continent. London

1831

USD - 30.00
COX, SANDFORD, C. Recollections of the Early Settlement of the Wabash Valley. [Indiana.] Lafayette [Indiana]

1860

USD - 17.50
COXE, DANIEL A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Louisiane. As also of the Great and Famous River Meschacebe or Missisipi, the Five vast Navigatable Lakes of Fresh Water, and the Parts Adjacent. London

1722

USD - 150.00
COXE, DANIEL A Description of the English Province of Carolana. By the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Louisane. London

1741

USD - 65.00
CRAKES, JR., SYLVESTER Five Years a Captive among the Black-Feet Indians: or, a Thrilling Narrative of the Adventures, Perils and Suffering endured by John Dixon and his Companions, among the Savages of the Northwest Territory of North America. Never Before Published. Columbus

1858

USD - 80.00
CRANE, CLARKSON Last Adventure. San Francisco in 1851. Translated from the original journal of Albert Benard de Russailh. San Francisco

1931

USD - 7.50
CRAWFORD, C. H. Scenes of Earlier Days in Crossing the Plains to Oregon, and Experiences of Western Life. Petaluma, Cal.

1898

USD - 40.00
CRAWFORD, MEDOREM Journal of the Expedition Organized for the Protection of Emigrants to Oregon, &c. Under the Command of Medorem Crawford, Capt, Assistant Quartermaster United States Army. Senate, 37th Congress, 3d Session, Ex. Doc. 17. [Washington]

[1863]

USD - 23.00
CREMONY, JOHN C. Life Among the Apaches. San Francisco

1868

USD - 12.50
CRESPEL, EMANUEL Voiages du R. P. Emmanuel Crespel, dans le Canada et son Naufrage en revenant en France. Mis an jour Par le Sr. Louis Crespel son Frere. A Francfort sur le Meyn

1742

USD - 90.00
CRESPEL, EMANUEL Travels in North America, by M. Crespel. With a Narrative of his Shipwreck, and Extraordinary Hardships and Sufferings on the Island of Anticosti; and an Account of that Island, and of the Shipwreck of his Majesty's Ship Active, and others. London

1797

USD - 45.00
[CREVECOEUR] J. HECTOR ST. JOHN Letters from an American Farmer; describing Certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs, not Generally Known...of the British Colonies in North America. London

1782

USD - 105.00
[CREVECOEUR] J. HECTOR ST. JOHN Letters from an American Farmer; describing certain Provincial Situations, Manners, and Customs...of the British Colonies in North America. Belfast

1783

USD - 25.00
CROGHAN, COL. GEORGE The Journal of Col. Croghan. [In The Monthly Journal of Geology and Natural Sciences. Conducted by G. W. Featherstonhaugh. Vol. I, no. 6.] Philadelphia

1831

USD - 4.00
[CROGHAN, COL. GEORGE] The Journal of Col. Croghan. [In: The Monthly American Journal of Geology and Natural Sciences, December, 1831. Conducted by G. W. Featherstonbaugh.] Philadelphia

1831

USD - 21.00
CUMING, F. Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and a Trip through the Mississippi Territory, and Part of West Florida...with a Notice of an Expedition through Louisiana. Pittsburgh

1810

USD - 65.00
CUMMINS, SARAH J. Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins, Touchet, Wash. La Grande, Oregon

[1914]

USD - 7.00
CURWEN, SAMUEL The Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, and American in England, from 1775 to 1783; with an Appendix of Biographical Sketches. Boston

1864

USD - 3.00
[CUTLER, JERVAISE] A Topographical Description of the State of Ohio, Indian Territory, and Louisiana. Comprehending the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers...and a Concise Account of the Indian Tribes west of the Mississippi. To which is added, an Interesting Journal of Mr. Chas. L Boston

1812

USD - 85.00
[CUTLER, MANASSEH] An Explanation of the Map which Delineates that Part of the Federal Lands, Comprehended between Pennsylvania West Line, the River Ohio and Scioto, and Lake Erie; confirmed to the United States by sundry Tribes of Indians, in the Treaties of 1784 and 1786,

1787

USD - 155.00
CUTTS, JAMES MADISON The Conquest of California and New Mexico, by the Forces of the United States, in the Years 1846 & 1847. Philadelphia

1847

USD - 40.00
DABNEY, OWEN P. True Story of the Lost Shackle or Seven Years with the Indians. [Salem, Oregon]

[1897]

USD - 4.00
DALL, W. H. and Others The Yukon Territory...Introduction by F. Mortimer Trimmer. London

1898

USD - 11.00
DAMON, SAMUEL C. A Trip from the Sandwich Islands to Lower Oregon, and Upper California; or, Thirty Leaves Selected from "Our Log-Book". By Samuel C. Damon, Seamen's Chaplain. In: The Friend, Vol 7, 1849. Honolulu, Oahu, H. I.

1849

USD - 145.00
DANA, E. A Description of the Bounty Lands in the State of Illinois: also, the Principal Roads and Routes, by Land and Water through the Territory of the United States, extending from the Province of New Brunswic [sic], in Nova Scotia, to the Pacific Ocean. Cincinnati

1819

USD - 7.00
DANA, E. Geographical Sketches of the Western Country: Designed for Emigrants and Settlers, being the results of Extensive Researches to which is added a summary of all the most interesting matters on the subject, including a particular description of the unsold p Cincinnati

1819

USD - 27.50
DARBY, WILLIAM A Tour from the City of New-York, to Detroit, in the Michigan Territory, made between the 2d of May and the 22d of September, 1818.... New-York

1819

USD - 12.50
DARNELL, ELIAS A Journal containing an Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships, Sufferings, Battles, Defeat and Captivity, of those Heroic Kentucky Volunteers and Regulars, commanded by General Winchester, In the Years 1812--13. Also Two Narratives, By Men tha Philadelphia

1854

USD - 40.00
DAUBNEY, CHARLES Journal of a Tour through the United States, and in Canada, Made during the Years 1837--38.... Oxford

1843

USD - 40.00
[DAVIES, GEN. HENRY E.] Ten Days on the Plains. New York

n.d.

USD - 32.00
DAVIS, JOHN Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America; during 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802... London

1803

USD - 20.00
DAVIS REV. NICHOLAS A. The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, with the Battle of Fredericksburg. Richmond

1863

USD - 35.00
DAVIS, WILLIAM H. Sixty Years in California. A History of Events and Life in California; Personal Political and Military... San Francisco

1889

USD - 17.50
DAVIS, WILLIAM H. Seventy-five Years in California. A History of Events and Life in California: Personal, Political and Military...Edited and with an Historical Foreword and Index by Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco

1929

USD - 30.00
DAWSON, MOSES A Historical Narrative of the Civil and Military Services of Major-General William H. Harrison, and a Vindication of his Character and Conduct as a Stateman, a Citizen, and a Soldier. With a detail of his Negotiations and Wars with the Indians, until the Cincinnati

1824

USD - 32.50
DAWSON, SARAH M. A Confederate Girl's Diary. With an Introduction by Warrington Dawson. Boston

1913

USD - 4.00
DAWSON, THOMAS F., and F. J. V. SKIFF The Ute War: a History of the White River Massacre and the Privations and Hardships of the Captive White Women among the Hostiles on Grand River. Denver

1879

USD - 220.00
DEARBORN, HENRY Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775--1783. Edited from the Original Manuscripts by Lloyd A. Brown and Howard H. Peckham. With a Biographical Essay by Hermon Dunlap Smith. Chicago

1939

USD - 10.00
DE BARTHE, JOE. The Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard, Chief of Scouts, U. S. A. St. Joseph, Mo.

[1894]

USD - 27.50
DE BRY, THEODORE Das Vierdte Buch von der Neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe vnd grundtliche Historien von dem Nidergangischen Indien so von Christoforo Colombo im Jar 1492. erstlich erfunden. Durch Hieronymum Bentzo von Meyland welcher 14. Jar dasselbig Landt durchwandert auffs fle

[1613]

USD - 75.00
DECALVES, ALONSO Travels to the Westward, or Unknown Parts of America. Being a Tour of almost fourteen Months. Containing An account of the Country, upwards of two thousand miles west of the Christian parts of North America; with an account of White Indians, their manners Portland [Maine]

1796

USD - 60.00
DECALVES, ALONSO New Travels to the Westward, or Unknown Parts of America: Being a Tour of almost fourteen months. Containing an Account of the Country, upwards of two thousand Miles West of the Christian Parts of North America; with an Account of White Indians, their Man

1797

USD - 85.00
DE HAAS, WILLS History of the Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Western Virginia; embracing an Account of the Various Expeditions in the West, previous to 1795... Wheeling

1851

USD - 50.00
[DELANO, ALONZO] Pen Knife Sketches; or, Chips of the Old Block. A Series of Original Illustrated Letters, written by one of California's Pioneer Miners. Sacramento

1853

USD - 85.00
DELANO, A[LONZO] Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; being Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: with Particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West. Auburn and Buffalo

1854

USD - 30.00
[DELANO, ALONZO] Old Block's Sketch-Book; or, Tales of California Life. Sacramento

1856

USD - 140.00
[DELEVAN, JAMES] Notes on California and the Placers: How to Get There, and What to do Afterwards. By One Who Has Been There. New-York

1850

USD - 30.00
DE ROOS, LIEUT. FRED. FITZGERALD Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States and Canada in 1826...with Remarks on the Present State of the American Navy. London

1827

USD - 17.50
DEVOL, GEORGE H. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi. Cincinnati

1887

USD - 17.00
DICKENSON, JONATHAN God's Protecting Providence, Man's Surest Help and Defence in Times of the Greatest Difficulty, and Most Eminent Danger. Evidenced in the Remarkable Deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other Persons, from the Devouring Waves of the Sea; amongst whic Philadelphia: London

1700

USD - 75.00
DICKENSON, JONATHAN The Shipwreck and Dreadful Sufferings of Robert Barrow, with Divers Other Persons, amongst the Inhuman Canibals of Florida; Faithfully Related by Jonathan Dickenson, who was concerned therein... Salem, (O.)

1826

USD - 35.00
DIMSDALE, THOMAS J. The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains. Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Trial, Capture and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band, together with accounts of the Lives and Crimes of many of the Robb Virginia City, M. T.

1866

USD - 65.00
DIMSDALE, THOMAS J. The Vigilantes of Montana, or, Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains. Being a Correct and Impartial Narrative of the Chase, Trial, Capture, and Execution of Henry Plummer's Road Agent Band...with Sketches of Life in the Mining Camps of the "Far West". By Virginia City, M. T.

1882

USD - 12.00
DISTURNELL, J. The Emigrant's Guide to New Mexico, California, and Oregon; giving the different Overland and Sea Routes. New York

1849

USD - 130.00
DIXON, GEORGE A Voyage round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788...Second Edition. London

1789

USD - 15.00
DOBBS, ARTHUR An Account of the Countries adjoining to Hudson's Bay, in the North-west Part of America: Containing a Description of their Lakes and Rivers, the Nature of the Soil and Climates, and their Methods of Commerce, &c. Shewing the Benefit to be made by settlin London

1744

USD - 65.00
DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, A. Edited by John R. Commons, Ulrich B. Phillips [and others.] Cleveland

1910

USD - 15.00
DODDRIDGE, REV. DR. JOSEPH Notes on the Settlement of the Indian Wars, of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, from the Year 1763 until the Year 1763 inclusive. Together with a View, Of the State of Society and Manners of the First Settlers of the Western Country. Wellsburgh, Va.

1824

USD - 45.00
DODGE, GRENVILLE M. Biographical Sketch of James Bridger, Mountaineer, Trapper and Guide. New York

1905

USD - 22.50
DODGE, J. R. Red Men of the Ohio Valley: An Aboriginal History of the Period commencing A. D. 1650, and ending at the Treaty of Greenville, A. D. 1795; embracing Notable Facts and Thrilling Incidents in the Settlement by the Whites of the States of Kentucky, Ohio, Ind Springfield, O.

1859

USD - 30.00
DODGE, RICHARD I. The Hunting Grounds of the Great West. A Description of the Plains, Game, and Indians of the Great North American Desert. With an Introduction by William Blackmore. London

1877

USD - 20.00
DODGE, COL. RICHARD I. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West. Hartford

1884

USD - 7.00
DOLLARD, ROBERT Recollections of the Civil War, and Going West to Grow Up with the Country. Scotland, S. D.

1906

USD - 11.00
DOMENECH, ABBE EM. Seven Years' Residence in the great Deserts of North America. London

1860

USD - 14.00
DONNAVAN, C. Adventures in Mexico: Experienced during a Captivity of Seven Months in the Interior---Having Been Captured at Camargo, by Canales' Band of Guerrillas...and Sold into Slavery... Cincinnati

1487 [i.e., 1847]

USD - 17.50
DONOHO, M. H. Circle-Dot A True Story of Cowboy Life Forty Years Ago. Topeka

1907

USD - 150.00
[DOUGLAS, DAVID.] W. J. HOOKER Companion to the Botanical Magazine; being a Journal containing such interesting information as does not come within the prescribed limits of the magazine. London

1835--1836

USD - 75.00
DOUGLAS, DAVID Journal Kept by David Douglas during His Travels in North America, 1823--1827; together with a Particular Description of Thirty-three Species of American Oaks and Eighteen Species of Pinus... London

1914

USD - 22.50
DOWELL, B. F. The Petition of B. F. Dowell and Others asking Pay for Two Companies of Oregon Volunteers, and Their Expenses, Called into Service in 1854. Jacksonville, Oregon

1869

USD - 50.00
DOWNIE, MAJOR WILLIAM Hunting for Gold. San Francisco, Cal.

1893

USD - 18.00
DRAKE, BENJAMIN Tales and Sketches, from the Queen City. Cincinnati

1838

USD - 15.00
DRAKE, DANIEL Natural and Statistical View, or Picture of Cincinnati and the Miami Country...with an Appendix, containing Observations on the Late Earthquakes, the Aurora Borealis, and South-west Wind. Cincinnati

1815

USD - 22.50
DRAKE, DANIEL Remarks on the Importance of Promoting Literary and Social Concern, in the Valley of the Mississippi, as means of Elevating its Character, and Perpetuating the Union, etc.

1833

USD - 55.00
DRAKE, DANIEL A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of its Population. Cincinnati

1850

USD - 75.00
DRAKE, DANIEL Discourses Delivered by Appointment, before the Cincinnati Medical Library Association, January 9th and 10th, 1852. Cincinnati

1852

USD - 35.00
DRAKE, DANIEL Pioneer Life in Kentucky. A Series of Reminiscential Letters from Daniel Drake, M. D., of Cincinnati, to His Children. Edited with Notes and a Biographical Sketch by His Son, Charles D. Drake. Cincinnati

1870

USD - 27.50
DRAKE, SAMUEL G. Indian Biography, containing the Lives of More Than Two Hundred Indian Chiefs... Boston

1832

USD - 3.00
DRAYTON, JOHN A View of South-Carolina, as respects Her Natural and Civil Concerns. Charleston

1802

USD - 65.00
DRIPS, J. H. Three Years Among the Indians in Dakota. By J. H. Drips, Sergeant in Company L. Sixth Iowa Cavalry. Brule Index, Kimball, South Dakota

1894

USD - 75.00
DUNDASS, SAMUEL R. Journal of Samuel Rutherford Dundass, formerly Auditor of Jefferson County, Ohio, including his Entire Route to California, as a Member of the Steubenville Company bound for San Francisco, in the Year 1849. Steubenville, O.

1857

USD - 270.00
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