Something about Ourselves, For eighteen years we have been actively engaged collecting and selling Americana. During that period many of the rarer works and nearly all of the commoner items have passed through our hands. At no one time have we had in stock so large and varied an assortment of desirable Americana as now, due to the fact that we have recently purchased two large private collections entire. All works mentioned in this catalogue (are now on our shelves, but in most cases, as we have but a single copy, an early order is desirable. Our Aim. Our purpose has always been to keep on hand out-of-print "working books" of recognized value at reasonable prices. An examination of this catalogue will convince the reader that this collection is first and above all a "working collection." While rarities are found on nearly every page they are valuable not only as rarities but for their historical importance as well. The public library or historical society cannot satisfactorily fill the wants of their historical readers unless they can supply them with these "tools" of research, and a chance is here offered at a lower price than will be possible later on, to strengthen this most important part of an American library large or small. It would be impossible to mention in detail all the desirable items as this would include nearly the entire catalogue. The following is a partial list selected at random: Early Voyages, An exact description of the West Indies 1655, Apianus, Cosmographia 1584, Bemish Discovery of America, Blome's Jamaica 1678, Brereton, 1706, Cartier, Paris, 1863, various items on Columbus, Cortes, De Sota, 1859, Esquemeling, Garcia, 1729, Geographical Society of London, 50 volumes, Groans of the Plantations, 1689, Grynaeus Novos Orbis, 1532, Harcourt Guiana, 1613, Harrise, John Cabot, Hartlib, Reformed Virginia SilkWorm, 1655, Heylyn, Cosmographie, 1667, La Hontans Voyage, 1703, Petarin's History of the World, 1659, Johnson's Pyrates, 1724, Works on Sir Walter Raleigh, Sagard's Le Grand Voyage, etc., Paris, 1632, Shea's Early Voyages on the Mississippi, Works on Captain John Smith, Thevet's Les Singulartez de la France, etc., 1558, second earliest work relating to Canada, Voyages by Anson, Drake, Falconer, Hacke, Hakluyt, Phillips, Sharp, Verrazano, Vespucius, best edition of Dampier Voyages, etc. American Revolution. Andrews' History of the War, 4 volumes, Barnum, The Spy Unmasked, first edition, Original orations on the Boston Massacre, Burgoyne Campaigns, 4to, 1780, Impartial History of the War in America, with the rare portraits, 1780, Lossing's Field Book, first edition, presentation copy, Sanderson's Lives of the Signers, 9 volumes, Observations on the Stamp Act, Boston, 1769, Washingtoniana. War 1812. Atcheson, American Encroachmenst of British Rights, London, 1808, Brannan, Official Letters of the Military and Naval Officers during the War, Guernsey, New York City in the War 1812, Ingersoll's Second War between United States and Great Britain, 4 vols., James' Naval History of Great Britain, 6 vols., James' Chief Naval Occurrences of the late War (1812), Williams' Sketches of the War, etc. Mexican War. Encarnacion Prisoners, Louisville, 1848, Jenkins' History of the War, Mansfield's The Mexican War, Oswandel's Notes on the War, Ramsay, The Other Side. Indians and Archaeology, Adair's Indians, 4to, 1775, Bancroft, The Native Races of the Pacific States, Beatty's Journal, 1768, Bollaert, Ethnological and Antiquarian Researches, Complete set Bureau of Ethnology Reports, Catlin's Indians, Colden's Five Indian Nations, Lond., 1775, Delafield's Antiquities of America, 4to, 1839, Drake, The Indian Tribes of U. S., Eliot Tracts (reprints), Gallatin's Synopsis of the Indian Tribes, Heckewelder's Indians of Penna., Hough, Indian Titles of New York State, Kane, Wanderings of an Artist among N. A. Indians, Long's Voyages of an Indian Interpreter and Trader, 4to, Lond., 1791, Loskiel's Missions of the United Brethren, McKenney, Indian Tribes, colored plates, Brant's Mohawk Prayer Book, 1787, Rigg's Grammar and Dictionary of the Dakota Language, Schoolcraft's Indians, 6 vols., 4to, Shea's Complete set Library of American Linguistics, 15 vols., Squier's Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Serpent Worship, Stone's Red Jacket, large paper, various Captivities among the Indians, books in the Indian languages, etc. Genealogy, Genealogies of the Families of Andrews, Coit, Davenport, DeVoe, Dwight, Giles Memorial, Goodwin, Hayes, Hill, Hurlbut, Hyde, Little, Noble, Pope, Potts, Shattuck, Street, Talcott and many others, Harleian Society Publications, Hinman's Early Puritan Settlers of Connecticut, Holgate's American Genealogy, Savage's Genealogical Diction. ary, Smith Families of New York and Long Island, etc. California. Bancroft's History of California, 5 vols., Histories by Capron, Frost, Cronise, Hittell, Nordhoff, Thornton, Upham, Annals of San Francisco by Soule, Gihon and Nisbet Shaw's Rambles in California, etc. Carolina, Bartram's Travels in, Phila., 1791, Coxe, Description of, 1741, Chapman's Edgefield County, Holbrook's Ichthyology of S. C., Annals of Newberry, Toumey's Geology of South Carolina, 1848, Wilson's Carolina, 1682, etc. Connecticut, Barber's Historical Collections, Dodd's East Haven Register, Chapin's Glastonbury, Mead's Greenwich, Steiner's Guilford, Blake's Hamden, Hinman's Connecticut in the Revolution, Perkins' Meriden, Atwater's New Haven, First New Haven Directory, Caulkins' Norwich, Peters' Connecticut, first edition, Sedgwick's Sharon, Huntington's Stamford, Trumbull's History, 1818, Stoughton's "Windsor Farmers," Ancient Woodbury by Cothren, etc. Delaware. Acrelius, New Sweden, Ferris, Original Settlements on the Delaware, Vincent, History of Delaware, in parts, Montgomery's Wilmington, etc. Georgia, A State of the Province of Georgia, London, 1742, Whitefield's Tracts, Wright's Memoir of Gen. Oglethorpe, etc. Illinois. Histories of Adams, Champaign, Clinton, Cook, DeKalb, Edwards, Fulton, La Salle, Pike, and St. Clair Counties, Ford's History of Illinois, Wood's Two Years' Residence in the Illinois Country, etc. Kentucky, Allen's History of, Filson's Discovery of, 1793, Ranck's History of Lexington, McMurtrie's Louisville, Spaulding's Early Catholic Missions of Kentucky, etc. Louisiana. French's Historical Collections, 5 vols., Martin's History of Louisiana, 1851, etc. Maine. Noye's History of Norway, Hough's Pemaquid, Sullivan's District of Maine, 1795, Eaton's History of Thomaston and Rockland, etc. Massachusetts, General Histories by Austin, Barry, Hale, Hutchinson, Minot, Shurtleff. Town Histories of Beverly, Cambridge, Danvers, Easthampton, Fall River, Fitchburg, Framingham, Gardner, Groton, Haverhill, Hingham, Ispwich, Leominster, Lowell, Lynn, Nantucket, New Bedford, Northfield, Oxford, Pittsfield, Rockport, Rowley, Rutland, Stockbridge, Sturbridge, Taunton, Watertown, Woburn, Worcester, Histories of Boston by Drake, Moore, Savage, Loring, Lodge, etc. etc. New England. Bay Psalm Book, Cambridge, 1862, Byfield's Late Revolution in New England, 1689, Cobbet, The Civil Magistrate's Power, 1653, Hubbard's Indian Wars, Cotton Mather's Late Memorable Providences relating to Witchcraft, 1691, India Christians, Boston, 1721, Batteries upon the Devil, 1695, Magnalia Christi Americana, 1702, A Sixth Collection of Papers, 1689, John Norton's Abel being Dead yet speaketh, 1658, Pincheon The Jewes Synagogue, 1652, Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. New Hampshire. General Histories by Barstow, Lawrence, J. Bailey Moore. Towns of Candia, Con. cord, New Ipswich, Sanbornton, Windham. New Jersey. General Histories by Gordon, Mulford, Raum, Sypher and Apgar. Burlington, Camden County, Cape May County, Cumberland County, Monmouth and Ocean Counties, Morristown, Newark, Orange, Paterson, Princeton, Salem, Trenton, New Jersey Laws, Trenton, 1784. New York State, Brodhead's Conquest of New Netherland, Stiles' Brooklyn, 3 vols., Wilkinson's Bingham, Ketcham's Buffalo, Campbell's Border Warfare of N. Y., Brigg's History of Concord, Goodwin's Cortland Co., Dunlap's New Netherlands, Benton's Herkimer Co., Hough's Lewis Co., Prime's Long Island, Murphy's Anthology of New Nether lands, Davis' History of New Amsterdam, Mrs. Lamb's City of New York, Fernow's Record of New Amsterdam, 7 vols., Zenger's Trial, 1738, Jones' Oneida Co., Hough's St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties. Simm's Schoharie County, Bolton's Westchester Co., Scharf's History of Westchester Co., Pelletreau's Early Wills, Westchester Co., etc. Ohio, Drake's Cincinnati, 1852, Whittlesey's Early History of Cleveland, Butterfield's Seneca Co., 1848, Douglas' Wayne Co., Harris' Journal, 1805, Hurd's Hamilton Co., Antrim's Champaign and Logan Cos., etc. Pennsylvania, Bradford Imprints, Bache's Bristo! Borough, Day's Historical Collections, Books from the Ephrata Press, Penna. Historical Society Memoirs Complete Set, Watson's Ann als of Philadelphia, Proud's History of Penna., 1798, Shippen Papers, etc. Tennessee, Clayton's History of Davidson Co., Haywood's Tennessee, 1823, Putnam's History of Middle Tennessee, etc. Texas. Domenech's Missionary Advertures in, Edwards' History of, Foote's Texas and Texans, Kendall's Texan Santa Fe Expedition, Kennedy's Texas, 1841, Laws of the Republic of, Houston, 1838, Stiff's The Texas Emigrant, 1840. Virginia, Campbell's History of Virginia, 1813, Grigsby's Virginia Convention, Howe's Historical Collections, Jefferson's Notes on Semple's Baptists in Virginia, Capt. John Smith's True Relation of Virginia, Stith's History of Va., 1753, etc. The West, Agassiz Lake Superior, Bartlett's Personal Narrative, Bossu Travels in N. A., 1771, Cox, Columbia River, Cumming's Tour, Ellicott, Journal, Imlay's Topographical Description, Mounette, Mississippi Valley, Pike and Long's Expeditions. Arctic and Alaska. Dall's Alaska, Whymper's Travels, Back, Beechey, DeLong, Franklin, Greely, Hall, Kane, Parry, Ross, Scoresby Voyages. British America. Hind's Exploration, Hudson Bay Pamphlets, Memorials of the Commissioners of Nova Scotia, Robson's Hudson Bay. Central America. Squier's Central America and Nicaragua, Stephen's Yucatan. Mexico. Brocklehurst Mexico of To-day, De Solis Diaz, Mayer, Ober, Ward, etc. South America. Burton, Ewbank, Fletcher and Whymper's Brazil, Boddam-Whetham, Dalton and Schombruk's Guiana, Charlevoix's Paraguay, Fernandez, Historia de la Peru, 1571. |