The Cambridge of 1776: Wherein is set forth an Account of the Town, and of the Events it Witnessed: With Which is Incorporated the Diary of Dorothy Dudley Now first published
by [American Revolution] [Cambridge, Massachusetts] [Ladies Centennial Committee] Dudley, Dorothy; Gilman, Arthur. (edited by)
Cambridge: Lockwood, Brooks, and Company, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor. Octavo. x, 123 pages, [5] pages advertisements, [1]. Illustrated. Light cloth hardcover with gilt title and black and white illustration on the front cover. Front board detached. Cloth spine has a hand made partial paper title label that is chipped. Cloth binding is darkened, lightly soiled, and chipped on the spine. Interior contents are clean. This is a former institutional copy from the Long Island Historical Society with... Read More
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Anecdotes of the American Indians, Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character
by [Native Americans]]
Hartford: Published by C. M. Welles, 1850. Later printing. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo. [1], 252 pages, [1]. Frontispiece illustration. Text illustrated with small sketches. Green cloth hardcover with blind stamped boards. Gilt title and decorations on the spine. Light to moderate scattered foxing to the contents. Pages 51-58 are pulled loose. Some pencil notes and repetitive recording of places written on the last three of four blank end sheet pages. Copyrighted 1843. Author(s) not specified but believed or possibly... Read More
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Random Notes on Early American History and Hannah Dustin
by [American History] [Native Americans] [Indian Captivity] Gardner, Pliny
Watertown, New York: Hungerford-Holbrook Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. 164 pages. Illustrated. Jacket has light shelf wear and edge creases. Interior contents clean. The majority of the book covers the biography and Indian captivity of Hannah Dustin. Random illustrations include early Native Americans; the execution of Lady Jane Grey; photograph of Jesse James (dead); John Wilkes Booth; sinking of the Lusitania; etc. From wikipedia: Hannah Duston (also... Read More
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American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, In The Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A. D. 1776. Vol. VI
by [American Ancestry] [Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers]
Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1891. First Edition. Soft cover. Good/fair. Quarto. [8], 211 pages, [8]. Red flexible boards with black illustrated title on the front cover and black title on the spine. Includes tan illustrated dust jacket. Edges shaded red are partially faded. Light edge wear to the red covers and spine. Dust jacket has light toning, soil, edge chips, and splits at the flap folds. Small "nick" to the text foredge.
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A Sermon, Occasioned By the Death of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the U. States, Delivered in the Cedar St. Presbyterian Church on Sabbath, April 11th, 1841
by [American Presidents] [William Henry Harrison] Ramsey, Rev. William
Philadelphia: Printed at the Office of the Christian Observer, 1841. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 15 pages. Light color printed wraps with title on front wrap. Light to moderate scattered foxing to contents. Paper has been vertically folded. Old ink signature on the front cover. A different owner name stamped inside.
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The Journal and Order Book of Captain Robert Kirkwood of the Delaware Regiment of the Continental Line
by [American Revolution] [Robert Kirkwood] Turner, Rev. Joseph Brown (editor)
Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1910. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Wraps. 277 pages. Bound printed wraps with title on the front cover. Untrimmed edges. Light soiling and edge tears and creases to the front title cover. Light soiling and edge wear to rear wrap. Paper spine mostly perished. Inscribed on front cover "with the compliments of Henry Whiteley.
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The History of North and South America From its Discovery, to the Death of General Washington. In Two Volumes
by [America] Snowden, Richard Esq
Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1809. Leather bound. Fair. 12mo. Two volumes in one. [4], 196 pages, [1]; 166 pages. Illustrated with folding maps of North and South America. Brown calf leather binding with leather title label on the spine. Leather is dry and rubbed on the board edges and outer joints. Front and rear end sheets have been removed. Text is moderately toned with scattered foxing. Maps have irregular folds. Approx. 2" closed tear to the North American... Read More
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Documentary History of the American Revolution: Consisting of Letters and Papers Relating to the Contest for Liberty, Chiefly in South Carolina, From Originals in the Possession of the Editor, and Other Sources. 1764-1782. Two volumes
by [American Revolution] [South Carolina] Gibbes, R. W. M.D.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. Printed at the Columbia Banner Office, Columbia, S. C., 1855. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavos. Matched set. Two volumes xi, xii (blank), 292 pages, [1]. Volume II: [1], xii, 293 pages, [1] page blank, [2]. A mixed brown cloth set. Volume I published in 1855 and volume II in 1857. Volume I has a leather title label on the spine and volume II has gilt stamped lettered title on the spine. Light... Read More
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The Breakdown of the Royal Management of Lands in the Southern Provinces, 1773-1775
by [American South] [American Revolution] Sioussat, St. George L.
[Philadelphia?], 1929. Reprint. Wraps. Good. Stapled printed wraps. Pages 67-98. Contents vertically creased. Previous owner name written top of the front cover. Light soil to the covers.
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Official Program of the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Yorktown Virginia
by [American Revolution] {Yorktwon, Virginia]
Richmond: Yorktown Sesquicentennial Association. Printed by Lewis Printing Co. Inc, 1931. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. Tall stapled, illustrated soft cover. 60 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs, a two page color illustrated map, decorations, and drawn illustrations. Booklet includes a copied typed, signed letter addressed "To Whom it May Concern". The letter laid inside the front cover is signed by the Secretary of the Committee. This copy also includes a vintage brochure from Colonial National Park... Read More
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Vintage New York photograph Album early 1900's
by [Amsterdam, New York?]
Amsterdam, New York, n.d.. Photograph Album. Good. Oblong photograph album. Approx. 11" x 7". 41 black and white photographs Photographs include waterfalls, buildings, homes, view of McConnell & Cramer horse wagon, children playing with guns, group people pictures, house surrounded by snow, a canal, a Victorian monument, construction of a rail bridge, a railroad depot, and more. Provenance unknown. Amsterdam High School picture located in this album (magnify glass needed). First leave is torn in the gutter and... Read More
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Nubia and Abyssinia: Comprehending Their Civil History, Antiquities, Arts, Religion, Literature, and Natural History
by [Ancient History] Russell, Rev. Michael LL.D.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1833. Harper's Stereotype Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo. [1], [1] page advertisement, pages 3-331 pages, [8] pages advertisements, [1]. Illustrated title page, folding frontispiece map, and illustrations in text. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on spine. Some shelf wear and fading to the cloth binding. Moderate toning and foxing to the text. Former institutional copy with a book label from "Athens (Georgia) Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association" on the front paste down.
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The Fifty Seventh Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. Army of the Potomac
by Anderson, Captain John (U.S. Army)
Boston: E. B. Stillings & Co., Printers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. xiv, [1], 512 pages. Illustrated with portraits. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt title and insignia on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Some fading and wear to the blue cloth. Both front and rear flyleaves removed. Hinges cracked. Frontispiece detached. Roster located in back. Nevins I page 51.
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The Woodland Southeast
by Anderson, David G.; Mainfort, Robert C. Jr. (editors)
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 680 pages. Illustrations. Glossy color illustrated covers. Light shelf and edge wear. interior contents clean.
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The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast
by Anderson, David G.; Sassman, Kenneth E. (editors)
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 526 pages. Light edge and shelf wear to the paperback. Interior contents clean.
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The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830 Ethnogenesis and Reinvention
by Anderson, Gary Clayton
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. viii, 376 pages. Illustrations. Interior contents clean.
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Maine Families in 1790. Vol. 4
by Anderson, Joseph Crook II; Thurston, Lois Ware C. G. (editors)
Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1994. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. xiv, 393 pages. Green cloth hardcover with titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine and gilt lettering. Map illustrated end papers. Typed letter signed by Lois Thurstonl aid inside.
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The Life of General Stand Watie and Contemporary Cherokee History
by Anderson, Mabel Washbourne
Pryor, Oklahoma: Self published, 1931. Revised Edition. Wraps. Very good. Wraps. 9" x 6". Gray paper wraps with title on the front cover. 85 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece photograph portrait and 2 photographs of monuments of Stand Watie. Watie was born in 1806 near Calhoun Georgia. Watie left for the Indian Territory in 1835 and was one of the Cherokee leaders before the Civil War. He was the only Native American Confederate General commanding the Confederate Indian Cavalry... Read More
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Georgia A Pageant of Years
by Anderson, Mary Savage; Barrow, Elfrida De Renne; Screven, Elizabeth MacKay; Waring, Martha Gallaudet
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo. xi, [1], 245 pages. Illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover with title on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Light shelf wear and soil to the dust jacket. Front and rear end sheets are toned.
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Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California
by Anderson, Mary E.
Boston: The American Tract Society, 1865. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. 238 pages, [1]. Brown cloth hardcover with decorative blind stamped covers. Gilt title on the spine. Illustrated with color frontispiece and black and white illustrations in text. Light edge wear to the spine extremities. Corners bumped. Rear flyleaf missing. Previous owner name stamp on the front paste down. Interior contents clean.
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Annual Proceedings of the M.W. Grand Lodge of the State of Tennessee, Held in the City of Nashville on the First Monday in October, A. L. 5867. Ordered to be Read in all the Lodges
by Anderson, M. W. Joseph M.; Fuller, R. W. Charles [Masons]
Nashville: Printed at the Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 689 pages, [4[. Reddish marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and corners. Reddish marbled end papers. Title on the spine is chipped upper section missing about half the title. Leather is worn on the spine and corners. Outer joints cracked. Hinges reinforced. This copy has continuos pagination for the 1868, 1868, 1870, and 1871 reports. There is no report of 1869 bound inside.... Read More
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Life of Rev. George Donnell, First Pastor of the Church in Lebanon; With A Sketch of the Scotch-Irish Race
by Anderson, President T. C.
Nashville: A. A. Stott, Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. viii, 334 pages. Brown cloth hardcover with title on the spine. Paper remnant located middle spine. Shelf wear and stains to the cloth binding. Corners bumped. Light to moderate foxing and toning to the contents.
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The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890
by Andersson, Rani-Henrik
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with color illustrated dust jacket. xxii, [1], 437 pages. Illustrations. Interior contents are very clean.
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1867-1868 Business Account Ledger
by [Anderson, South Carolina] [Business] [Reconstruction]
Anderson, Court-House, South Carolina: n/a, 1869. Ledger. Good. Ledger. Brown leather binding with gilt stamped borders on the covers. Marbled text edges. Missing the spine. Alphabet tab index for accounts located in front. 261 numbered pages follows. 142 pages including the alphabet index used in the ledger. Some of the used pages list only the account name. After page 125 the account book is unused. Ledger mainly consists of cash accounts. Unknown company or individual kept... Read More
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The Wild Man from Sugar Creek The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge
by Anderson, William
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975. Hardcover. Good/good. Octavo. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. A few small edge tears to the jacket. Light foxing to the verso of the jacket. Light wear to the cloth binding. Light foxing to the end sheets. Very small note written in the upper left corner rear paste down. Interior contents clean.
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