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
HORN, HOSEA B.	Horn's Overland Guide, from the U. S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California,	New York	1852	USD -	115.00
HOWARD, H. R.	The History of Virgil A. Stewart, and his Adventure in Capturing and exposing the Great "Western Land Pirate" and his Gang, in Connexion with the Evidence.	New York	1836	USD -	17.00
HOWE, JOHN	A Journal kept while employed as a British Spy, during the Revolutionary War, also, while he was engaged in the Smuggling Business, during the late War.	Concord, N.H.	1827	USD -	150.00
[HUBBARD, GURDON S.]	Incidents and Events in the Life of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. Collected from Personal Narrations and other Sources, and arranged by his Nephew, Henry E. Hamilton.	N.p.	1888	USD -	16.00
HUBBARD, ROBERT	Historical Sketches of Roswell Franklin and Family. Drawn up at the request of Stephen Franklin.	Dansville, N. Y.	1839	USD -	37.50
HUBBARD, WILLIAM	The Present State of New-England. Being a Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to the present year 1677; But chiefly of the late Troubles in the two last years 1675, and 1676. To whic	London	1677	USD -	300.00
HUBBARD, WILLIAM	The History of the Indian Wars in New England from the First Settlement to the Termination of the War with King Philip, in 1677...Carefully revised...and Extensive Notes by Samuel G. Drake.	Roxbury, Mass.	1865	USD -	17.00
HUBBARD, WILLIAM	William Hubbard's "Narrative", 1677. A Bibliographical Study. By Randolph G. Adams.	N. Y.	[1939]	USD -	3.00
HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY	BECKLES WILLSON. The Great Company, being a History of the Honourable Company of Merchants-Adventurers Trading into Hudson's Bay...	New York	1900	USD -	12.00
HUGHES, JOHN T.	Doniphan's Expedition; containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney's Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan's Campaign against the Navajos, etc.	Cincinnati	[1847?]	USD -	17.50
HULL, WILLIAM	Memoirs of the Campaign of the North Western Army of the United States, A. D. 1812....With an Appendix, containing a Brief Sketch of the Revolutionary Services of the Author.	Boston	1824	USD -	15.00
HUMFREVILLE, J. LEE	Twenty Years among Our Savage Indians. A Record of Personal Experiences, Observations, and Adventures among the Indians of the Wild West....	Hartford	1897	USD -	17.50
HUNT, JAMES H.	Mormonism: embracing the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Sect, with an examination of the Book of Mormon. Also their troubles in Missouri, and final expulsion from the State. With an Appendix, giving an account of the late disturbances in Illinois, which	St. Louis	1844	USD -	35.00
HUNTER, COL. GEORGE	Reminiscences of an Old Timer. A Recital of the Actual Events, Incidents, Trials, Hardships, Vicissitudes, Adventures, Perils, and Escapes of a Pioneer, Hunter, Miner and Scout of the Pacific North-west.	San Francisco	1887	USD -	10.00
HUTCHINS, THOMAS	A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and North Carolina, Comprehending the Rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi sic, &c...	London	1778	USD -	400.00
HUTCHINS, THOMAS	An Historical Narrative and Topographical Description of Louisiana, and West-Florida, comprehending the River Mississippi with its Principal Branches and Settlements, and the Rivers Pearl, Pascagoula, Mobile, Perdido, Escambia, Chact-Hatcha, &c.	Philadelphia	1784	USD -	100.00
HUTCHINSON, WILLIAM F.	Life on the Texan Blockade.	Providence	1883	USD -	7.00
ICARIAN COMMUNITY	[ETIENNE] CABET. Voyage en Icarie.	Paris	1848	USD -	20.00
ICARIAN COMMUNITY. [ETIENNE] CABET	Colony or Republic of Icaria in the United States of America. Its History....	Nauvoo, Illinois	1852	USD -	170.00
ICARIAN COMMUNITY	Charter and By-Laws of the Icarian Community.	Nauvoo, Ill.	1857	USD -	115.00
[IDE, WILLIAM B.]	A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide; with a Minute and Interesting Account of one of the Largest Emigrating Companions (3000 Miles over land), from the East to the Pacific Coast, and what is claimed as the most authentic and reliable accou	[Claremont, N. H.]	[1880]	USD -	35.00
IMLAY, G[ILBERT]	A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, containing a Succinct Account of Its Climate, Natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners and Customs...To Which Is Added, a Delineation of the Laws and Government of the State o	London	1792	USD -	60.00
IMLAY [GILBERT]	A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America: containing a Succinct Account of its Soil, Climate, Natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners, and Customs....To Which are added, the Discovery, Settlement, and Present State o	London	1793	USD -	35.00
IMLAY, GILBERT	A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America; containing a Succinct Account of Its Soil, Climate, Natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners, and Customs....Third Edition, with Great Additions.	London	1797	USD -	110.00
INMAN, COL. HENRY	Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail.	Kansas, Mo.	1881	USD -	32.50
INMAN, HENRY	The Old Santa Fe Trail. The Story of a Great Highway.	New York	1897	USD -	27.50
INDIAN CAPTIVITIES	Narrative of the Tragical Death of Mr. Darius Barber, and his Seven Children, who were inhumanly Butchered by the Indians, In Camden County, Georgia, January 26, 1813. To which is added an account of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Barber, who was ca	Boston	1818	USD -	130.00
INDIAN TREATIES	Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Treaties concluded with Sundry Tribes of Indians. March 1st, 1810....	Washington City	1810	USD -	13.00
INDIAN TREATY	The Particulars of an Indian Treaty at Conestogoe, between his Excellency Sir William Keith, Bart. Governor of Pennsylvania, and the Deputies of the Five Nations.	Dublin	1723	USD -	250.00
INDIAN TREATY	Message of the President of the United States, Transmitting a Treaty, lately concluded between the United States, and the Kaskaskia Tribe of Indians.	Washington	1803	USD -	20.00
INDIAN TREATY	Treaty between the United States of America and the Chiefs and Delegates of the Pottawatamie Tribe of Indians. Concluded April 22, 1836---Ratified May 25, 1836.	N.p.	[1836?]	USD -	11.00
INDIANA	Map of the "N. W. Territory". Engraved by W. Barker.	[Philadelphia]	[1801]	USD -	3.00
INDIANA	Translation of a Memorial in the French Language, of Sundry Citizens of the County of Wayne, in the Indiana Territory. 17th of January, 1805.	Washington City	1805	USD -	20.00
INDIANA	Report of the Committee, appointed on the Thirteenth Instant, to Inquire into the Expediency of Dividing the Indiana Territory. December 31, 1808...	City of Washington	1808	USD -	4.00
INDIANA	Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Indiana. Drawn by F. Lucas, Jr. Engraved by Young & Delleker. COLORED.	[Philadelphia]	[1822]	USD -	7.00
INDIANA	The Indiana Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary; containing a Description of the several Counties, Towns, Villages, Settlements, Roads, Lakes, Rivers, Creeks, and Springs in the State of Indiana.	Indianapolis	1833	USD -	17.00
INDIANS	Indian Battles, Murders, Sieges and Forays in the South-West. Containing the Narratives of Gen Hall, Col. Brown, Capt. Carr, John Davis, and others.	Nashville, Tenn.	[1853]	USD -	45.00
INDIANS	Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, 2 vols., 1912 &unknown; Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Powell), 1896.	Washington	1896--1912	USD -	18.00
IRVING, JR., JOHN T.	Indian Sketches, taken during an Expedition to the Pawnee Tribes.	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	18.00
IRVING, THEODORE	The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de Soto.	Indianapolis	1833	USD -	7.00
[IRVING, WASHINGTON]	The Crayon Miscellany. By the Author of The Sketch Book. No. 1. Containing A Tour on the Prairies.	Philadelphia	1835	USD -	15.00
IRVING, WASHINGTON	Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains.	Philadelphia	1836	USD -	18.50
IRVING, WASHINGTON	The Rocky Mountains: or, Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures in the Far West.	Philadelphia	1837	USD -	40.00
IVINS, VIRGINIA WILCOX	Pen Pictures of Early Western Days.	N. p.	1905	USD -	25.00
JACKSON, ANDREW	Correspondence between Gen. Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun, President and Vice-President of the U. States, on the Subject of the Course of the Latter, in the Delineation of the Cabinet of Mr. Monroe, on the Occurrences in the Seminole War.	Washington	1831	USD -	30.00
JACKSON, ANDREW	Message from the President the United States, in Answer to a Resolution of the Senate relative to the British Establishments on the Columbia, and the State of the Fur Trade, &c.	Washington	1831	USD -	8.00
JACOB, J. G.	The Life and Times of Patrick Gass, now sole Survivor of the Overland Expedition to the Pacific, under Lewis and Clark, in 1804--5--6... Together with Gass' Journal of the Expedition condensed; and Sketches of some Events occurring during the Last Century	Wellsburg, Va.	1859	USD -	37.50
[JACOB, JOHN J.]	A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the late Capt. Michael Cresap.	Cumberland, Md.	1826	USD -	75.00
JAMES, EDWIN	Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20, by Order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlem	Philadelphia	1823--1822	USD -	70.00
JAMES, EDWIN	Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Rocky Mountains, performed in the Years 1819, 1820...Compiled from the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Party.	London	1823	USD -	50.00
JAMES, W. S.	Cow-Boy Life in Texas, or 27 Years a Mavrick. A Realistic and True Recital of Wild Life on the Boundless Plains of Texas, being the Actual Experience of Twenty-Seven years in the Exciting Life of a Genuine Cow-Boy Among the Roughs and Toughs of Texas.	Chicago	[1893]	USD -	15.00
JAMES, WILLIAM	A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War between Great Britain and the United States of America; Preceded by a Cursory Examination of the American Accounts of their Naval Actions fought previous to that period....	London	1817	USD -	15.00
JANSON, CHARLES W.	The Stranger in America: Containing Observations made during a long residence in that Country, on the Genius, Manners and Customs of the People of the United States...	London	1807	USD -	27.50
[JEFFERSON, THOMAS]	Notes on the state of Virginia; written in the year 1781, somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, for the use of a Foreigner of distinction, in answer to certain queries proposed by him....	[Paris]	[1784]	USD -	625.00
JEFFERSON, THOMAS	Notes on the State of Virginia.	London	1787	USD -	30.00
JEFFERSONIAN, THE. Weekly	Horace Greeley, Editor. Vol I, no 7, from Saturday, March 31, 1838 to no. 52, Saturday, February 9, 1839 inclusive. With an extra number dated Albany, N. Y., June, 1838.	Albany	1838--1839	USD -	5.00
JEFFREY, J. K.	The Territory of Wyoming. Its History, Soil, Climate, Resources, etc.	Laramie City	1874	USD -	60.00
JENKINS, JEFF	The Northern Tier: or, Life Among the Homestead Settlers.	Topeka	1880	USD -	14.00
JENNINGS, N. A.	A Texas Ranger.	New York	1899	USD -	12.00
JEWITT, JOHN R.	Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston, during a Captivity of Three Years among the Savages of Nootka Sound...	New York	[1815]	USD -	9.00
JEWITT, JOHN R.	A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt; only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston during a Captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound.	Middletown	1815	USD -	7.50
JOCKNICK, SIDNEY	Early Days on the Western Slope of Colorado and Campfire Chats with Otto Mears, the Pathfinder, from 1870 to 1883, inclusive.	Denver, Col.	1913	USD -	10.00
JOHNSON, CAPT. CHARLES	A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, and also Their Policies, Discipline and Government, from their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Year 1724..	London	1724[6]	USD -	80.00
JOHNSON, LAURA W.	Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance.	Philadelphia	1889	USD -	5.00
JOHNSON, OVERTON, and WILLIAM H.	WINTER. Route across the Rocky Mountains, with a Description of Oregon and California; their Geographical Features, their Resources, Soil, Climate, Productions, &c., &c.	Lafayette, Ind.	1846	USD -	475.00
JOHNSON, MRS SUSANNAH	A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs Johnson. Containing an Account of her Sufferings, during Four Years with the Indians and French.	Walpole, Newhampshire	jun. 1796	USD -	55.00
JOHNSON, THEODORE T.	Signs in the Gold Region and Scenes by the Way.	Dublin	1850	USD -	7.00
JOHNSTON, CHARLES	A Narrative of the Incidents attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston, of Botetourt County, Virginia, who was made Prisoner by the Indians, on the River Ohio, in the year 1790....To which are added, Sketches of Indian Character and	New York	1827	USD -	20.00
JOHNSTON, WILLIAM G.	Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by Wm. G. Johnston, a Member of the Wagon Train first to enter California in the Memorable Year 1849.	Pittsburgh	1892	USD -	75.00
JOHONNOT, JACKSON	The Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnot, of Massachusetts, who served as a Soldier in the Western Army in the expedition under Gen. Harmar and Gen. St. Clair. Containing an Account of his Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape from the Kickappo Indians.	Greenfield, Mass.	1816	USD -	27.50
JONES, A. D.	Illinois and the West.	Boston	1838	USD -	30.00
JONES, C. J.	Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure. A Volume of Facts Gathered from Experience, by Hon. C. J. Jones, Whose Eventful Life Has Been Devoted to the Preservation of the American Bison and Other Wild Animals...Compiled by Colonel Henry Inman.	Topeka, Kansas	1899	USD -	20.00
JONES, DANIEL W.	Forty Years among the Indians. A True yet Thrilling Narrative of the author's Experiences among the Natives.	Salt Lake City	1890	USD -	10.00
JONES, DAVID	A Journal of Two Visits Made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773.	Burlington	1774	USD -	210.00
JONES, J. B.	A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital.	Philadelphia	1866	USD -	15.00
[JONES, JAMES A.]	Tales of an Indian Camp.	London	1829	USD -	25.00
JOUTEL, [HENRI]	A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to find out the Mouth of the Mississipi River...	London	1714	USD -	120.00
JOUTEL, HENRI	Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage. A reprint (page for page and line for line) of the first English Translation, London, 1714...and Notes by Melville B. Anderson.	Chicago	1896	USD -	20.00
JUDD, A. N.	Campaigning against the Sioux. Being Extracts from a Diary kept during one of three Expeditions participated in by the author against the Sioux, under General Alfred Sully in 1863--4--5.	[Watsonville, Cal.]	[1906]	USD -	75.00
JUDD, SILAS	A Sketch of the Life and Voyages of Captain Alvah Dewey. Comprising a Period of Twenty-Six Years.	Chittenango [N. Y.]	1838	USD -	65.00
KALM, PETER	Travels into North America; containing its Natural History, and a circumstantial Account of its Plantations and Agriculture in general, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country, the Manners of the Inhabitants,...Translated into E	[Vol. I:] Warrington	1770	USD -	110.00
KANE, PAUL	Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouvers' Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and back Again.	London	1859	USD -	45.00
KANE, THOMAS L.	The Mormons. A Discourse Delivered before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: March 26, 1850.	Philadelphia	1850	USD -	20.00
KEATING, WILLIAM H.	Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c. Performed in the Year 1823, by Order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun,...under the Command of Stephen H. Long....	London	1825	USD -	22.50
KEITH, SIR WILLIAM	The History of the British Plantations in America. Wtih a Chronological Account of the most remarkable Things, which happen'd to the first Adventurers in their several Discoveries of that New World. Part I. Containing the History of Virginia; with Remarks	London	1738	USD -	65.00
KELLEY, HALL J.	A Geographical Sketch of that Part of North America, called Oregon: Containing an Account of the Indian Title;---the Nature of a Right of Sovereignty;---the First Discoveries;---...Rivers, Bays, &c....the Disposition of the Indians, and the Number and Sit	Boston	1830	USD -	270.00
KELLEY, HALL J.	A General Circular to all Persons of Good Character, who wish to Emigrate to the Oregon Territory, embracing some account of the Character and Advantages of the Country; the Right and the Means and Operations by which it is to be Settled;---and all Necess	Charlestown	1831	USD -	90.00
KELLY, FANNY	Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians.	Hartford	1871	USD -	5.00
KELLY, WILLIAM	An Excursion to California over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada, with a Stroll through the Diggings and Ranches of that Country.	London	1851	USD -	22.50
KELLY, WILLIAM	Across the Rocky Mountains, from New York to California: With a Visit to the Celebrated Mormon Colony, and the Great Salt Lake.	London	1852	USD -	10.00
KEMBLE, FRANCES A.	Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838--1839.	New York	1863	USD -	17.50
KENDALL, GEORGE WILKINS	Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, comprising a Description of a Tour through Texas, and across the Great Southwestern Prairies...	New-York	1844	USD -	32.50
KENDERDINE, THADDEUS S.	A California Tramp and Later Footprints; or, Life on the Plains and in the Golden State Thirty Years Ago, with Miscellaneous Sketches in Prose and Verse.	Newtown, Pa.	1888	USD -	10.00
KER, HENRY	Travels through the Western Interior of the United States from the year 1808 up to the year 1816. With a Particular Description of a Great Part of Mexico, or New-Spain.	Elizabethtown, N. J.	1816	USD -	30.00
KERCHEVAL, SAMUEL	A History of the Valley of Virginia.	Winchester	1933	USD -	55.00
KEYES, E. D.	Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events, Civil and Military.	New York	1884	USD -	3.00
KIMBALL, CHARLES P.	The San Francisco City Directory, by Charles P. Kimball. September 1, 1850.	San Francisco	1850	USD -	3.00
[KIMBER, EDWARD]	A Relation, or Journal, of a late Expedition to the Gates of St. Augustine, on Florida: Conducted by The Hon. General James Oglethorpe, with a Detachment of his Regiment in London. By a Gentleman, Voluntier in the said Expedition.	London	1744	USD -	180.00
KING, CAPT.	CHARLES. The Fifth Cavalry in the Sioux War in 1876. Campaigning with Crook.	Milwaukee, Wis.	1880	USD -	80.00
[KINGSFORD, WILLIAM]	Impressions of the West and South, during a Six Weeks' Holiday.	Toronto	1858	USD -	6.00

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