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EARLY & RARE BOOKS AND RELATED ITEMS AUCTION
6:00 AM PT - Nov 10th, 2007

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Conestoga Auction Company

768 Graystone Road
Manheim, PA 17545
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604 Items

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2304 Lot 2304

(California) Dana, Richard Henry. TWO YEARS BEFOR E THE MAST. A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF LIFE AT SEA, NY, Harper & Br...

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2305 Lot 2305

(The South) 2 items, incl. Kemble, Frances Anne J OURNAL OF A RESIDENCE ON A GEORGIAN PLANTATION IN 1838-1839. NY, ...

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2306 Lot 2306

THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE TRADE, ANCIE NT AND MODERN. THE FORMS OF SLAVERY THAT PREVAILED IN ANCIENT NAT...

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2307 Lot 2307

(2 Pacific Railroad Surveys) REPORTS OF EXPLORATI ONS AND SURVEYS…FOR A RAILROAD FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE PACIFI...

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2308 Lot 2308

(Pacific Railroad Surveys) Ibid. Volume X. Washin gton, 1859. Large 4to, 400 + 27 + 97 + 13pp. with 28 hand colored...

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2309 Lot 2309

(Civil War/Buchanan Administration) MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES…AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE FI...

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2310 Lot 2310

(Lincoln/Civil War) 5 various titles related to L incoln and his administration. THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by JG ...

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2311 Lot 2311

(Civil War/Lincoln) Bigelow, John. RETROSPECTIONS OF AN ACTIVE LIFE, Baker and Taylor, NY, 1909-13, 5 volumes, xiv...

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2312 Lot 2312

(Civil War) FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED FAMOUS LEA DERS AND BATTLE SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR, NY, 1896, large folio, 5...

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2313 Lot 2313

(Civil War)2 vols, LIFE AND DEATH IN REBEL PRISON S by Robert Kellogg, Hartford, L Stebbins, 1865, 1st ed, 400pp, i...

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2314 Lot 2314

(Civil War/Quarryville author) BATTLE FIELD AND P RISON PEN, OR THROUGH THE WAR, AND THRICE A PRISONER IN REBEL DUN...

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2315 Lot 2315

(Civil War) 2 items, incl. PHILADELPHIA IN THE CI VIL WAR 1861-1865 by Frank H Taylor, Phila, 1913, 8vo, 360pp, fol...

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2316 Lot 2316

(Civil War) THE OLD FRANKLIN ALMANAC, Phila, Hasl ett & Winch, this being a bound volume of 7 consecutive almanacs ...

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2317 Lot 2317

(Medical history of the Civil War) THE MEDICAL AN D SURGICAL HISTORY OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, PART III, VOLUME ...

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2318 Lot 2318

(Cornell University) CORNELL UNIVERSIITY A HISTOR Y by Waterman Thomas Hewett, NY, University Pub Society, 1905, 4t...

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2319 Lot 2319

(Massachusetts) HISTORY OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASS ACHUSETTS. PRECEDED BY AN ACCOUNT OF OLD QUABUNG, INDIAN AND ENGL...

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2320 Lot 2320

King, Thomas Starr. THE WHITE HILLS THEIR LEGENDS , LANDSCAPE AND POETRY by Thomas Starr King, Boston, Estes and La...

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2321 Lot 2321

Rupp, I Daniel. HE PASA EKKLESIA AN ORIGINAL HI STORY OF THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS AT PRESENT EXISTING IN THE U...

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2322 Lot 2322

(Alfred Nevin, Lancaster, PA academic and theolog ian) 2 items by Nevin, incl. GUIDE TO THE ORACLES; OR, THE BIBLE ...

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2323 Lot 2323

(Theology) 2 items, incl. THE LIFE OF JOHN HENRY STILLING (Jung-Stilling, Johann Heinrich, 1740-1817), Gettysburg...

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2323A Lot 2323A

(2 American Imprints) Includes SELECT SERMONS, O N IMPORTANT SUBJECTS. TAKEN FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE REV. CLAR...

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2324 Lot 2324

(American Imprint) THE BEAUTIES OF POETRY, BRITIS H AND AMERICAN: Phila, M Carey, 1791, 1st ed, viii, 244pp. 12mo, ...

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2325 Lot 2325

(American Imprint) MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, PROSE AND POETICAL by John Blair Linn (1777-1804), NY, Thomas Greenleaf, 1...

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2326 Lot 2326

(American Imprint) THE LETTERS OF JUNIUS. Phila, printed for Robert Campbell, 1795, 12mo, {4}, xii, 13-283, [13]p...

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2327 Lot 2327

(2 American Imprints) Scougal, Henry. THE LIFE OF GOD,IN THE SOUL OF MAN. Phila, Ormrod and Conrad, 1795. 12mo, [6...

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2328 Lot 2328

ENCYCLOPAEDIA; OR, A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES , AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE; Phila, Thomas Dobson, circa 1792-...

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2329 Lot 2329

(American Imprint) Freneau, Philip, POEMS WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR, Phila, Lydi...

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2330 Lot 2330

(Early American periodical) Dennie, Joseph, ed. T HE PORT FOLIO, Phila, Bradford and Inskeep, 1811. Vol 6, nos. 1-6...

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2331 Lot 2331

(3 American imprints) incl. Gordon, James. HISTO RY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND: CONTAINING AND IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT ...

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2332 Lot 2332

(Napoleon) SCOTT, SIR WALTER - THE LIFE OF NAPOLE ON BUONAPARTE, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF T...

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2333 Lot 2333

(Natural Philosophy) Cheyne, George, PHILOSOPHICA L PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION. NATURAL AND REVEALED, in 2 parts, 4th e...

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2334 Lot 2334

(Ancient Caledonians) Macpherson, John, CRITICAL DISSERTATIONS ON THE ORIGIN, ANTIQUITIES, LANGUAGE, GOVERNMENT, ...

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2335 Lot 2335

(Netherlands, etc.) THE WORKS OF SIR WILLIAM TEM PLE, IN TWO VOLUMES. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, THE LIFE AND CHARACTER...

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2336 Lot 2336

(Parliamentary Debates) WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, IN THIRTEEN VOLUMES, Vol XIII only (being the 2nd & last volume ...

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2337 Lot 2337

(British Admiralty) Campbell, John, LIVES OF THE ADMIRALS AND OTHER EMINENT BRITISH SEAMEN…IN FOUR VOLUMES, 3rd e...

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2338 Lot 2338

(Artillery/fortifications) Muller, John, A TREATI SE CONTAINING THE ELEMENTARY PART OF FORTIFICATION, REGULAR AND I...

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2339 Lot 2339

(Arms & Armour) Skelton, Joseph and Sir Samuel Ru sh Meyrick, ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS OF ANTIENT ARMS AND ARMOUR, IN...

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2340 Lot 2340

Wright, Marcus J., WRIGHT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF T HE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, Washington, War Records Office, (1900), ...

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2341 Lot 2341

(WW I French political cartoons) Galli, Henri, L' ALBUM ZISLIN DESSINS DE GUERRE, Paris, Berger-Levrault, nd, 4to p...

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2342 Lot 2342

(WW II Nurnberg Trials) NAZI CONSPIRACY AND AGRES SION, Washington, GPO, 1946, 8 vols., 8vo., ex-lib, bound in publ...

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2343 Lot 2343

(Architecture/Engineering design) Johnson, Willia m, THE PRACTICAL DRAUGHTSMAN'S BOOK OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, AND MAC...

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2344 Lot 2344

(Industrial Expositions) Butterworth, Benj. THE G ROWTH OF INDUSTRIAL ART….Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, Southe...

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2345 Lot 2345

REPORTS OF THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES OF JULY 29, 1 878, AND JANUARY 11, 1880. ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSE...

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2346 Lot 2346

(Flower/fruit color plates) Boardman, Rosina Cox LILLIES AND ORCHIDS, NY, Robert Grier Cooke, 1906, 4to., (vi), 2...

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2347 Lot 2347

(Color botanical plates) ADDISONIA. COLORED ILLUS TRATIONS AND POPULAR DESCRIPTION OF PLANTS, 4to., 11 vols., being...

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2348 Lot 2348

Downing, A. J., THE HORTICULTURIST AND JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE, 4to., 4 vols, #'s I-IV, comprising th...

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2349 Lot 2349

Ibid. 8 vols., New Series, Vols. I-VIII, Jan. 185 1 thru Dec. 1858, same description of contents and condition as p...

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2350 Lot 2350

(Scarce agriculture magazine) THE LANCASTER FARME R, Published Monthly under the auspices of the Lancaster County A...

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2350A Lot 2350A

(417 hand-colored Botanical plates) Andrews, H.[ enry C.], (fl. 1799-1828), THE BOTANISTS REPOSITORY COMPRISING CO...

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2351 Lot 2351

(2 Sporting Books) Long, Joseph W., AMERICAN WIL D-FOWL SHOOTING. CONTAINING…INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING GUNS, BLINDS,...

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