Indispensable Works on Western History

Father Pierre Jean De Smet, Life, Letters, and Travels

Missionary Labors and Adventures Among the Wild Tribes of the North
American Indians, 1801-1873, Embracing minute description of their
Manners, Customs, Games, Mode of Warfare and Torture, Legends;
Traditions, etc., all from Personal Observation made During Many
Thousand Miles of Travel, with Sketches of the Country from St. Louis
to Puget Sound and the Athabasca. Edited from the original unpub-
lished manuscript journals, Letter-books and from his Printed Works
with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological and other Notes; also a
Life of Father De Smet. Map and illustrations by Major Hiram Martin
Chittenden, U. S. Engineers, and Alfred Talbot Richardson. 4 vols., 8vo,
cloth (about 1,600 pages)
$15.00 net

Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike

To the Headwaters of the Mississippi River, the interior parts of
Louisiana, Mexico, and Texas, in the years of 1805-6-7. Reprinted in
full from the original Philadelphia edition of 1810. With copious notes
to the text, compiled from many unpublished sources of information, a
new Memoir of Pike and an Index by Dr. Elliott Coues.
Edition limited. 3 vols., 8vo, cloth,

150 on hand-made paper,

New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest

$10.00 net $20.00 net

The Journals of Alexander Henry (Partner of the Northwest Company), with Explorations and Life with the Fur Traders on the Red, Saskatchewan, and Columbia Rivers, 1799-1814, now first published from the Coventry Manuscripts in the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, with which are collated the original unpublished manuscripts of David Thompson, Explorer and Geographer of the Northwest Company. The whole carefully edited with copious notes by Dr. Elliott Coues, with maps, index, etc.

Limited edition. 3 vols., roy, 8vo, cloth,

100 on hand-made paper,

The American Fur Trade of the Far West

$10.00 net $20.00 net

By MAJOR HIRAM M. CHITTENDEN, U. S. ENGINEER CORPS.

A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains, and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fé, etc., written largely from manuscript and other records hitherto inaccessible. Illustrated with maps and plates. $10.00 net

3 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut, per set

A work of the highest merit and greatest importance on the early history of the Great West. The author has embodied in it the results of years of painstaking research, going into the whole subject with a thoroughness and ability rarely met with in these days. Every known printed authority has been consulted and digested, and in addition a mass of original manuscripts hitherto inaccessible has been placed at Capt. Chittenden's disposal. The result is that many important details connected with the discovery and development of the West are now first brought to light.

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PRICED CATALOGUE

OF A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF

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OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS

RELATING TO THE

DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT, AND HISTORY OF
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COMPRISING

Early Voyages of Discovery, Pre-Columbian and Columbian;
First Settlement of the Colonies; French and Indian War;
The Revolution, Washingtoniana; War of 1812; War with
Mexico; Civil and Political History of the United States;
Rare State, County, and Town Local Histories of every
State and Territory; Biographies of Eminent Men; An
Unusual Collection of Family Histories and Genealogies;
The American Indians, their Antiquities, Ethnology, History,
Wars, and Languages; Arctic Voyages of Discovery; British
America, Canada; Mexico; Central and South America and
the West Indian Islands.

We are always ready to purchase FOR CASH at full market rates large or small collections of books, and special sets of volumes of value. The distance from New York makes no difference, a brief list giving title and author, date of publication and binding, being all that is necessary. We have for years made extensive purchases from Executors and others in all parts of the United States, and Public Libraries and Historical Societies having "duplicates" will find it to their advantage to communicate with us.

Francis P. Harper

INTRODUCTION

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E take pleasure in presenting our new Americana Catalogue embodying the results of purchases made largely from private libraries during the last two years. We may say that all the books described here are desirable items, and many are of great rarity. We would call special attention to the large number of titles under Genealogy and Family Histories.

All works mentioned in this Catalogue are now on our shelves, but in most cases we have but a single copy, so an early order is desirable. While rarities are to be found on nearly every page, our purpose has been to keep in stock out-of-print "WORKING BOOKS" of recognized value at reasonable prices. A study of this Catalogue will reveal that the prices are below the average usually asked for desirable copies. Good Americana is becoming each year scarcer and is undoubtedly increasing in value but we have, owing to our exceptional facilities for tracing and purchasing private collections entire, been able, with but few exceptions, to adhere to the prices of former years.

The descriptions are in most cases brief and all lots are in good second condition and perfect, unless otherwise described.

NEW YORK, 1905.

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All books are warranted perfect unless otherwise stated. Any book
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