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AUCTION 22: PART II

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607.     [AMERICANA]. Lot of 52 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americana imprints, including items by Tocqueville and Wilkinson. Included are:

ADAMS, Henry. The United States in 1800. Ithaca: Great Seal Books, [1958]. 2 copies, very good (one with some notes in ink and pencil). Third printing.

ADAMS, James Truslow (editor). Album of American History. Colonial Period. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1944. Very good in worn d.j.

ADAMS, James Truslow (editor). Album of American History. Volume II 1783-1853. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1945. Near fine in worn d.j.

American History Illustrated VII:9 (January, 1973). Gettysburg: National Historical Society, 1973. Upper wrap chipped, else very good.

[AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY]. Early Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: McCalla & Stavely, 1884. Good.

BARCK, Oscar Theodore, Jr. & Hugh Talmage Lefler. Colonial America. New York: Macmillan, 1958. Good.

BARNES’S HISTORICAL SERIES. A Brief History of the United States. New York, Cincinnati, & Chicago: American Book Co., 1885. Good.

BOATNER, Mark M. Landmarks of the American Revolution. [Harrisburg]: Stackpole Books, [1973]. Fine.

BOWERS, Claude G. The Party Battles of the Jackson Period. Boston, New York & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Riverside Press, 1922. Good plus condition.

CURTIS, William E. The Relics of Columbus. Washington: William S. Lowdermilk Co., [1893]. Bound with several other assorted titles. Poor condition, library stamp on fore-edge.

De Bow’s Review. 3d S., III:IV (October, 1857). Lower wrap absent, incomplete copy.

EVERITT, Charles P. The Adventures of a Treasure Hunter. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952. Good. Gift inscription from Mike Vinson to Bill Morrow.

EVERY, Dale Van. A Company of Heroes. The American Frontier 1775-1783. New York: William Morrow, 1962. Bookplate, else fine in d.j. (sunned, lightly worn).

EVERY, Dale Van. Ark of Empire. The American Frontier 1784-1803. New York: William Morrow, 1963. Bookplate, else fine.

FALCONER, Thomas. On the Discovery of the Mississippi. Austin: Shoal Creek, [1975]. As new.

FLEXNER, James Thomas. Steamboats Come True. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, [1978]. Fine in good price clipped d.j.

[FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA]. McCAULEY, I.H., et al. Historical Sketch of Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Chambersburg: John M. Pomeroy & D.F. Pursel, 1878. Covers and first few leaves detached, spine badly chipped, otherwise very good internally.

FRONCEK, Thomas. Voices from the Wilderness. New York: McGraw Hill, [1974]. Fine in very good d.j.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, 1938. Good.

IROQUOIS CLUB. Officers, Committees and Roster of Members Iroquois Club, 1890. Chicago. N.p., n.d. (ca. 1890). Fine.

JONES, U.J. History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley. [Harrisburg: The Telegraph Press, 1940]. Good. Facsimile of 1889 edition.

[LAWRENCE COUNTY, MISSOURI]. Lawrence County, Missouri 1845-1970. A Brief History. [Mount Vernon]: Lawrence County Historical Society, [1970]. Good.

LLOYD, Alan. The Spanish Centuries. Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. Near fine in d.j (sunned, tape repair, price-clipped). First edition.

MATTHEWS, W.H., Richard W. Houston, and Ollie A. Randall. The Story of the Emergency Work Bureau, New York City, October 1, 1930-August 31, 1933 [wrapper title]. N.p., n.d. Wraps detached, browned, brittle, water stained.

MEYERS, R.C.V. Life and Adventures of Lewis Wetzel. Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Co., [1883]. Very good.

MORISON, Samuel Eliot. By Land and by Sea. New York: Knopf, 1954. Very good.

MORISON, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Very good in worn d.j.

MORROW, James. Remarks before the Jefferson County Anti-Slavery Society at Carmel Meeting-house, August, 1837 [caption title]. N.p. Disbound. Foxed, otherwise very good.

O’CONNOR, Richard. The German-Americans. An Informal History. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1968. Fine in lightly worn d.j. First edition.

OLDROYD, Osborn H. (editor). The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles. Boston: D.L. Guernsey, 1882. Very good.

PARKMAN, Francis. Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV. Boston & New York: Little, Brown, & J.F. Taylor, 1899. Very good.

PARKMAN, Francis. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. Boston & New York: Little, Brown, & J.F. Taylor, 1899. 2 vols. Very good.

PARKMAN, Francis. La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West. Boston & New York: Little, Brown, & J.F. Taylor, 1899. Very good.

PARKMAN, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe. Boston & New York: Little, Brown, & J.F. Taylor, 1899. Volumes 2 and 3 only (of 3). Good.

PARKMAN, Francis. The Old Régime in Canada. Volume 1 of 2 only. Boston & New York: Little, Brown, & J.F. Taylor, 1899. Text water stained, fair to good condition.

PARKMAN, Francis. The Oregon Trail. Boston & New York: Little, Brown, & J.F. Taylor, 1899. Fair to good condition.

PARKER, Augustus G. Parker in America 1630-1910. Buffalo, n.d. (ca. 1910). Good.

[PREBLE COUNTY, OHIO]. History of Preble County, Ohio. Cleveland: W.W. Williams for H.Z. Williams & Bro., Publishers, 1881. Good.

ROSEGARDEN, J.G. The American Philosophical Society [wrapper title]. Philadelphia, 1908. Reprinted from Founders’ Week Memorial Volume. Very good.

TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis De. Democracy in America. Cambridge: Sever & Francis, 1862. 2 vols. Very good.

TOTTEN, Christine M. Roots in the Rhineland. [New York]. German Information Center, [1983]. Near fine.

ULREY, Lewis Valentine. The Great Subversion. [caption title]. N.p., [1937]. Near fine. Anti-Communist address to San Antonio Rotary Club.

UNITED STATES. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS. Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790. Pennsylvania. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. Good.

UNITED STATES.& PRESIDENT, 1850-53 (Millard Fillmore). Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the First Session of the Thirty-Second Congress. Washington: House Exec. Doc. No. 2, 1851. 2 copies, fair and poor condition. First edition.

WESTBROOK, Mary Virginia Winston. History of the Hawaiian Islands. Waco: Printed for the author, 1924. Near very good.

WILKINSON, James. Memoirs of My Own Times. Philadelphia, 1816. 2 vols. (of 4), thick 8vo, full contemporary sheep, black calf spine labels. Binding very worn, hinges weak, text foxed. Clarence R. Wharton’s copy, with his bookplate, contemporary ownership inscription of James W. Breedlove.

WINSOR, Justin. Narrative and Critical History. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, & Co., 1884-1889. 7 (of 8 vols.--lacking Vol. 1, Aboriginal America). Light rubbing to some volumes, otherwise in fine condition.

WOODWARD, W.E. A New American History. New York: Garden City Publishing Co., [1938]. Good.

WORMSER, Richard. The Yellowlegs. The Story of the United States Cavalry. Garden City: Doubleday, [1966]. Very good.

YOUNG, Alexander. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1844. Good.

($400-800)

Auction 22 Part II Abstracts

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