Parke Bernet: The Celebrated Collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter, 1966yr,

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Auction Date
October 25, 1966 - October 25, 1966
Page Size: 609 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
THEVENOT, MELCHISEDECH Recueil de Voyages de Mr. Thevenot. Paris

1681

USD - 2,500.00
HENNEPIN, LOUIS Description de la Louisiane, Nouvellement Decouvert au Sud' Ouest de la Nouvelle France ... Paris

1683

USD - 1,700.00
CORONELLI, VINCENZO Partie Orientale du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France. Paris

1689

USD - 150.00
HENNEPIN, LOUIS Nouvelle Decouverte d'un Tres Grand Pays ... Utrecht

1697

USD - 1,200.00
TONTI, HENRI DE Dernieres Decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale de M. de La Sale ... Paris

1697

USD - 1,900.00
HENNEPIN, LOUIS A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America ... London

1698

USD - 650.00
LAHONTAN, LOUIS ARMAND, BARON DE New Voyages to North America. London

1703

USD - 400.00
DELISLE, GUILLAUME Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle-France ... Paris

1703

USD - 450.00
DELISLE Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle-France ... Paris

1703

USD - 100.00
DELISLE Carte du Mexique et de la Floride ... Paris

1703

USD - 375.00
DELISLE Carte du Mexique et de la Floride ... Paris

1703

USD - 100.00
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 Missisipi River ... London

1714

USD - 550.00
DELISLE Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi ... Paris

1718

USD - 250.00
SENEX, JOHN A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi. [London]

[1719]

USD - 175.00
MISSISSIPPI COMPANY A Full and Impartial Account of the Company of Mississipi ... Projected and Settled by Mr. Law ... In French and English. London

1720

USD - 2,100.00
MISSISSIPPI COMPANY Geographische Beschreibung der Provinz Louisiana in Canada von dem Fluss S. Lorenz bis an den Ausfluss des Flusses Mississipi; samt enem kurzen Bericht von dem florirenden Actien-Handel. [Nuremberg]

[1720]

USD - 1,300.00
MISSISSIPPI COMPANY Relation de la Louisiana, et du Fleuve Mississipi. Amsterdam

1720

USD - 1,100.00
MOLL, HERMAN A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France ... [London]

1720

USD - 300.00
MOLL A New Map of the North Parts of America claimed by France ... [London]

1720

USD - 175.00
BACQUEVILLE DE LA POTHERIE, CLAUDE Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionale ... Paris

1722

USD - 750.00
LAFITAU, JOSEPH F. Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, Comparees aux Moeurs des Premiers Temps. Paris

1724

USD - 250.00
CRESPEL, EMMANUEL Voiages du R.P. Emmanuel Crespel, dans le Canada et Son Naufrage en Revenant en France ... Frankfort

1742

USD - 1,300.00
CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE F.X. Histoire et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France ... Paris

1744

USD - 275.00
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY The Present State of the Country and Inhabitants, Europeans and Indians, of Louisiana, on the North Continent of America ... London

1744

USD - 500.00
DUMONT, GEORGES MARIE Memoires Historiques sur la Louisiane. Paris

1753

USD - 550.00
SAGEAN, MATTHIEU The Original Manuscript Account of the Kingdom of Aacaniba ... Englished by Quin Mackenzie ... Text in French and English. London

1755

USD - 1,500.00
LE PAGE DU PRATZ, ANTOINE Histoire de la Louisiane ... Paris

1758

USD - 175.00
JEFFERYS, THOMAS The Natural and Civil History of the French Dominions in North and South America ... London

1760

USD - 1,100.00
LA TOUR, BERTRAND DE Memoires sur la Vie de M. de Laval, Premier Eveque de Quebec. Cologne

1761

USD - 225.00
LE PAGE DU PRATZ, ANTOINE The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina ... London

1763

USD - 180.00
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM Hispaniae Novae sivae Magnae, Recens et Vera Description. [Antwerp]

1579

USD - 100.00
TORQUEMADA, JUAN DE [Primera] Parte de los Veynte y Un Libros Rituales y Monarchia Yndiana ... Seville

1615

USD - 13,000.00
TATTON, GABRIEL Nova et rece Terraum [sic] et Regnorum Californiae, Novae Hispaiae Mexicanae, et Peruviae ... n.p.

1616

USD - 3,000.00
BENAVIDES, ALONSO DE Memorial que Fray Juan de Santander ... Comissario General de Indias, presenta a ... Don Felipe Quarto ... Madrid

1630

USD - 6,000.00
FRANCISCANS. PROVINCIA DEL SANTO EVANGELIO Constituciones, y Leyes Municipales de esta Provincia del S. Evangelio ... Mexico

1667

USD - 1,600.00
CALDERON, FRANCISCO Informe Extrajudicial ... que Calderon ... hizo al ... Padre Fray Antonio de Somoza ... acerca de los Procedimientos de el muy Reverendo Padre Fray Hernando de la Rua, en el oficio de Comissario General de las Provincias de Nueva Espana ... Madrid

1671

USD - 2,750.00
MEDINA, BALTHASAR Chronica de la Santa Provincia de San Diego de Mexico, de Religiosos Descalcos de N. S. P. S. Francisco en la Nueva-Espana ... Mexico

1682

USD - 1,500.00
CORONELLI, VINCENZO Le Nouveau Mexique ... avec Partic de Californie ... Paris

168[8?]

USD - 160.00
KINO, EUSEBIO FRANCISCO A.L.s.

USD - 6,000.00
HERRERA, ANTONIO DE The General History of the Vast Continent and Islands of America ... London

1725--26

USD - 750.00
HERRERA, ANTONIO DE Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentales ... [with] Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas i Tierra Firme ... Madrid

1730

USD - 300.00
ARLEGUI, JOSEPH Chronica de la Provincia de N. S. P. S. Francisco de Zacatecas ... Mexico

1737

USD - 1,100.00
[ALTAMIRANO, PEDRO IGNACIO] Informe Historico, Canonico, y Real, por las Missiones de la Compania de Jesus de la Nueva-Espana ... [Madrid ?]

[ca. 1751--57]

USD - 2,250.00
[ORTEGA, JOSE] Apostolicos Afanes de la Compania de Jesus ... Barcelona

1754

USD - 450.00
BENAVIDES, ALONSO DE Tanto, que se saco de una Carta, que el R. P. Fr. Alonso de Benavides, Custodio, que fue del Nuevo Mexico, embio a los Religiosos de la Santa Custodia de la Conversion ... [Mexico]

[ca. 1760]

USD - 300.00
GAMBOA, FRANCISCO XAVIER DE Comentarios a las Ordenanzas de Minas ... Madrid

1761

USD - 275.00
SPAIN. DECREES Real Decreto, que Previene las Reglas, y Condiciones con que se puede hacer el Comercio desde Espana a la Provincia de la Luisiana. Madrid

1768

USD - 225.00
GALVEZ EXPEDITION Noticia Breve de la Expedicion Militar de Sonora y Cinaloa, su Exito Feliz ... Mexico

1771

USD - 550.00
SPAIN. LAWS Instruccion para formar una Linea o Cordon de Quince Presidios Sobre las Fronteras de las Provincias Internas de ... Nueva-Espana ... Mexico

1771

USD - 1,200.00
ALZATE Y RAMIREZ, JOSE ANTONIO DE Nuevo Mapa Geographico de la America Septentrional ... Paris]

[ca. 1772]

USD - 800.00
LOPEZ, JUAN Mapa Geografico del Gobierno de la Nueva Granada o Nuevo Mexico ... Madrid

1795

USD - 375.00
UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Message from the President of the United States ... Relative to the Arrest and Imprisonment of Certain American Citizens at Santa Fe, by Authority of the Government of Spain. Washington

1818

USD - 200.00
BRINGAS DE MANZANEDA, DIEGO MIGUEL Sermon que en las Solemnes Honras Celebradas en Obsequio de los VV. PP. Predicadores Apostolicos ... Misioneros del Colegio de Propaganda Fide de la Santa Cruz de Queretaro ... muertos ... gloriosamente a manos de los ... Barbaros. ... Madrid

1819

USD - 125.00
STORRS, AUGUSTUS Answers of Augustus Storrs, of Missouri, to Certain Queries upon the Origin, Present State, and Future Prospect, of Trade and Intercourse, between Missouri and the Internal Provinces of Mexico, propounded by the Hon. Mr. Benton. (18th Congress, 2nd Sessio Washington

1825

USD - 125.00
RILEY, BENNETT Message from President of the United States ... Relating to the Protection of the Trade between Missouri and Mexico. [Communicating Major Riley's report.] February 8, 1830. ([2]1st Congress, 1st Session. [Senate Doc. no.] 46) [Washington]

[1830]

USD - 100.00
EXPOSICION Exposicion hecha al Supremo Gobierno de la Union por los Representantes de ... Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, y Territorio de Nuevo-Mejico, con Motivo de los Desastres que Sufren por la Guerra de los Barbaros. Mexico

1832

USD - 550.00
MADERO, JOSE ISIDRO Circular. [Text begins:] Quebrantados los tratados de paz por la nacion Apache, se ha hecho indispensable declararle y hacerle la guerra por cuantos medios scan capaces a conseguir la tranquilidad del Estado ... [Regulations for combating hostile Apaches] Chihuahua

1832

USD - 140.00
MADERO Jose Isidro Madero Gobernador del Estado de Chihuahua a Todos sus habitantes sabed: [Stringent regulations for arming the population against attacks by the Apaches. Lists 18 articles to be accomplished. Dated at end:] Chihuahua a 16 de Junio de 1832. [Chihuahua]

[1832]

USD - 100.00
UNITED STATES. PRESIDENT JACKSON Message from the President of the United States, ... concerning the Fur Trade, and Inland Trade to Mexico. February 9, 1932. (22nd Congress, 1st Session [Senate Doc. no.] 90) [Washington]

[1832]

USD - 35.00
MONTERDE, JOSE MARIANO Manifiesto que a los Habitantes ... de Chihuahua, Dirige el Gobernador ... sobre los resultados de la visita que hizo a los presidios y fronteras ... Chihuahua

1843

USD - 475.00
ABERT, JAMES WILLIAM Message from the President of the United States, ... communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Abert, on the upper Arkansas and through the country of the Camanche Indians, in the fall of the year 1845 ... (29th Congress, 1st Session. Sena [Washington]

[1846]

USD - 5,750.00
BENTON, THOMAS H. AND ALEXANDER W. DONIPHAN Return of the Missouri Volunteers. Address of the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, to Col. Doniphan and His Regiment, at their Reception in St. Louis, upon their Return from Mexico, and Col. Doniphan's Reply. Jefferson City

[1847]

USD - 1,100.00
CONQUEST OF SANTA FE The Conquest of Santa Fe and Subjugation of New Mexico by the Military Forces of the United States ... with Documents in Reference to Annexation ... Philadelphia

1847

USD - 325.00
EDWARDS, FRANK S. A Campaign in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan. Philadelphia

1847

USD - 100.00
HUGHES, JOHN TAYLOR Doniphan's Expedition; containing an account of the Conquest of New Mexico. Cincinnati

1847

USD - 1,300.00
RICHARDSON, WILLIAM H. Journal of William H. Richardson, a Private Soldier in Col. Doniphan's Command. Baltimore

1847

USD - 3,300.00
NATIONAL ROAD TO CALIFORNIA National Road to California. Public Meeting in Victoria. [Victoria, Texas]

[1847]

USD - 550.00
ABERT, JAMES WILLIAM Report of the Secretary of War, communicating ... a Report and map of the Examination of New Mexico, made by Lieutenant J. W. Abert, of the Topographical Corps. (30th Congress, 1st Session. Senate Ex. [Doc.] No. 23.) February 10, 1848. [Washington]

[1848]

USD - 200.00
ROBINSON, JACOB S. Sketches of the Great West. A Journal of the Santa-Fe Expedition, under Col. Doniphan ... Portsmouth

1848

USD - 3,400.00
GARRARD, LEWIS HECTOR Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances ... Cincinnati

1850

USD - 90.00
SMITH, BUCKINGHAM The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. Translated by Buckingham Smith. Washington

1851

USD - 250.00
MEXICO. SECRETARIA DE HACIENDA Iniciativa del Gobierno para la Demarcacion de la Linea de Comercio Libre en la Frontera del Norte. Mexico

1852

USD - 125.00
BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, connected with United States and Mexican Boundary Commission ... 1850 ... '53. New York

1854

USD - 150.00
FROEBEL, JULIUS Aus Amerika, Erfahrungen, Reisen and Studien. Leipsic

1857--58

USD - 200.00
MARCOU, JULES Geology of North America; with Two Reports on the Prairies of Arkansas and Texas, the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, and the Sierra Nevada of California. Originally made for the United States Government. Zurich

1858

USD - 375.00
REID, JOHN C. Reid's Tramp; or, a Journal of the Incidents of Ten Months Travel Through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, and California. Selma, Ala.

1858

USD - 1,800.00
IVES, JOSEPH CHRISTMAS Colorado Exploring Expedition. Preliminary Report of First Lieut. J. C. Ives, Topographical Engineers, to Captain A. A. Humphreys ... [Washington]

[1858]

USD - 50.00
MOLLHAUSEN, BALDUIN Reisen in die Felsengebirge Nord-Americas bis zum Hoch-Plateau von Neu-Mexico ... Leipsic

1861

USD - 200.00
HUTAWA, JULIUS Map of Mexico & California 2nd Edition. St. Louis

1863

USD - 60.00
HUTAWA Map of Mexico & California ... 2nd Edition. ... St. Louis

1963

USD - 60.00
BELL, WILLIAM A. New Tracks in North America. London

1869

USD - 60.00
COOKE, PHILIP ST.GEORGE The Conquest of New Mexico and California; an Historical and Personal Narrative. New York

1878

USD - 50.00
SHEA, JOHN GILMARY The Expedition of Don Diego Dionisio de Penasola, Governor of New Mexico, from Santa Fe to the River Mischipi and Quivira in 1662 ... New York

1882

USD - 30.00
LAND LAWS Spanish and Mexican Land Laws. New Spain and Mexico. [Compiled by Matthew G. Reynolds and translated by Henry O. Flipper.] St. Louis

1895

USD - 200.00
ALLEN, D. C. A Sketch of the Life and Character of Col. Alexander W. Doniphan by D. C. Allen, of Liberty, Mo. Liberty, Mo.

1897

USD - 60.00
LITTLE, JAMES A. What I Saw on the Old Santa Fe Trail. ... Plainfield, Ind.

[1904]

USD - 50.00
QUIVIRA SOCIETY Quivira Society Publications. Los Angeles, Albuquerque, and Berkeley

1933--58

USD - 375.00
LEA, TOM Calendar of Twelve Travelers Through the Pass of the North. El Paso

1946

USD - 45.00
DU BOIS, JOHN VAN DEUSEN Campaigns in the West, 1856--1861 ... Tucson

1949

USD - 75.00
CORTES, HERNANDO Praeclara Ferdinadi. Cortesii de Noua maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio ... [Colophon]

M.D.XXIIII

USD - 8,000.00
[LOPEZ DE GOMARA, FRANCISCO] The Pleasant Historie of the Conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne, Atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes ... Translated out of the Spanishe tongue, by T[homas] N[icholas]. Anno. 1578. [Printer's mark.] London

[1578]

USD - 1,700.00
DIAZ DEL CASTILLO, BERNAL Historia Verdadera de la Conqvista de la Nueva-Espana. Escrita por el Capitan Bernal Diaz del Castillo, vno de sus Conquistadores ... Madrid

1632

USD - 1,000.00
GAGE, THOMAS The English-American his Travail by Sea and Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's, Containing a Journall of Three Thousand and Three hundred Miles within the main Land of America ... Also, a New and exact Discovery of the Spanish Navigation to those London

1648

USD - 250.00
CLAVIGERO, FRANCESCO SAVERIO The History of Mexico. Collected from Spanish and Mexican Historians, from Manuscripts and Ancient Paintings of the Indians. London

1787

USD - 80.00
HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER and A. BONPLAND ... Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne; par Alexandre de Humboldt. Avec un Atlas Physique et Geographique, fonde sur des observations astronomiques, des mesures trigonometriques et des Nivellemens barometriques ... Paris

1811

USD - 600.00
HUMBOLDT Essai Politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne. Paris

1811

USD - 75.00
PEREZ Y COMOTO, FLORENCIO Impugnacion de algunos errores politicos que fomentan la insurreccion de Nueva Espana. Por el Dr. D. Florencio Perez y Comoto, de la real sociedad patriotica de la Habana, y consultor de la economica de Guatemala. Mexico

1812

USD - 55.00
SPAIN. LAWS Las Cortes generales y extraordinarias decretan la siguiente Instruccion para el Gobierno Economico-Politico de las Provincias [Dated and signed at end:] Dado en Cadiz a 23 de Junio de 1813. A la Regencia del Reyno. Es copia. Mexico 17 de Febrero de 1814. [Mexico]

[1814]

USD - 50.00
ARREDONDO, JOAQUIN D. Joaquin de Arredondo ... Gobernador, Comandante General y Gefe Superior Politico de las Quatro Provincias Internas de Oriente ... [Presents decree of the Spanish Cortes, passed 29 March 1820, restoring its law of 9 November 1812, abolishing all persona [Monterey]

[1820]

USD - 325.00
MEXICO (FIRST REGENCY.) DECREES La Regencia Gobernadora Interina del Imperio, a Todos sus Habitantes. Caption-title. [Mexico]

[1821]

USD - 200.00
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