Bibliotheca Historica: Or, A Catalogue of 5000 Volumes of Books and Manuscripts Relating Chiefly to the History and Literature of North and South America, Among which is Included the Larger Proportion of the Extraordinary Library of the Late Henry Stevens, Senior, by Barnet, Vt., Founder and First President of the Vermont Historical & Antiquarian Society; the Whole Comprising ... a Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, Rich and Rare, Useful and Common ... Including Many Titles Never Before Recorded in an American Catalogue. Ed. with Introduction and Notes by Henry Stevens, G.M.B., F.S.A. ... To be Sold by Auction by Messrs. Leonard & Co. ... in Boston ... the 5th ... 8th ... April 1870...

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H. O. Houghton, 1870 - 234 pagine
 

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Pagina 71 - The History of the United States for the year 1796 " in which the Charge of Speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury is fully refuted. Written by himself.
Pagina 175 - HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES on the earliest discoveries in America, 14531530. With comments on the earliest charts and maps ; the mistakes of the early navigators and the blunders of the geographers ; the Asiatic origin of the Atlantic coastline of North America ; how it crept in and how it crept out of the maps.
Pagina 35 - SHORT AND EASY METHOD WITH THE DEISTS ; wherein the certainty of the Christian Religion is demonstrated by infallible proof: in a letter to a friend.
Pagina 223 - A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants.
Pagina 169 - The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning An°: 1584, to this present 1624.
Pagina 175 - Printed in the best style of the Chiswick Press, regardless of time, it comprises 2934 titles given in full, with the collation and price of each work. It was intended as far as it went to be a manual for collectors of this expensive class of books. But it did not go very far, containing as it does, not a selection, but only such books as the author happened to possess at that time. It was intended to supply the deficiencies by additional volumes, but these have never appeared, and probably never...
Pagina 82 - An Impartial History of the War in America, between Great Britain and her Colonies from its Commencement to the end of the Year 1779...
Pagina 104 - A SPEECH intended to have been spoken on the bill for altering the charters of the Colony of Massachusett's Bay.
Pagina 108 - Mémoires des Commissaires du Roi et de ceux de Sa Majesté Britannique, sur les possessions et les droits respectifs des deux Couronnes en Amérique ; avec les actes publics et pièces justificatives [par l'abbé de la Ville et MM.
Pagina 206 - The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship.

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