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Articles - October - 2024 Issue

William L. Parkinson is offering the Mello Collection at auction on October 12th

William L. Parkinson, Books, long time dealer and occasional auctioneer, is offering The Robert A. Mello Collection at auction on October 12th.  Highlights fall into three categories: Americana, Vermontiana, and Maps that are presented as 475 lots.  The sale will start at 10:30 am on October 12th at Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, University of Vermont Campus, Burlington, Vermont. For old timers, when they scan these lots, they will feel like they have stepped back into the 1980’s.  This is a very pure sale, very deep.

 

For collectors and collecting institutions this is a chance to buy nice copies for fair prices.

 

Links and contacts are provided at the end of the descriptive text

 

While no estimates are being provided, they have listed highlights.

 

Americana – (Ethan Allen), Russell’s American Almanack . . . 1780; Allen, Reason the Only Oracle of Man (1784); Anburey, Travels (1789); Boller, Among the Indians (1868);  Burgoyne, A State of the Expedition from Canada (1780); (Burr), Frankfort, Kentucky, broadside about the Burr Conspiracy trial (1806); Canfield, Northern Pacific Railroad (1870); Carver, Three Years Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America (1789); Chastellux, Travels in North-America (1787); (Crockett), The Crockett Almanac 1840; Farmer, The Emigrant’s Guide . . . Surveyed Part of Michigan (1830); Garland, The Book of the American Indian (1923); Gass, A Journal of the Voyages and Discoveries of a Corps of Discovery (1807); Greenleaf, A New Universal Atlas (1842); Hamilton, Report of the Secretary of the Treasury . . . Support of Public Credit (1795); Irving, Astoria (1836); Humphreys, Life of the Hon. Major General Israel Putnam (1788); Indian Speeches Delivered by Several Chiefs (1810); Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues (1884); Mackenzie, Voyages from Montreal (1802); (Madison, WI), [Draper], Madison: The Capital of Wisconsin (1855); Mather, Ecclesiastes . . . Jonathan Mitchel (1697); Mitchell, Mitchell’s Traveller’s Guide (1838); (Sayer & Bennett), The American Military Pocket Atlas (1776); Scharf, History of Delaware (1888); (Scott), Report of the Decision . . . Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford (1857); Scott, The United States Gazetteer (1795); Smith, The True Travels, Adventures and Observations (1819); Smith, The History of the Province of New-York (1757, 1792 and 1829); Stedman, History . . . the American War (1794); (Symmes), broadside announcement for journey to the center of the earth (1818); early U.S. House and Senate journals (1790s); (War of 1812), Troy, New York, broadside criticizing Jefferson’s Embargo and the possibility of “a war of conquest” (1812);  Seth Warner signed military document (1780).

 

 

 

Vermontiana --  Ira Allen, Olive Branch titles (1804-06); Allen, History of the State of Vermont (1798); Beers county atlases, full set; Benedict, Army Life in Virginia (1895); Benedict, Vermont at Gettysburg (1870), inscribed to Ulysses S. Grant; Benedict, Vermont in the Civil War (1886-88), limited large-paper edition; Benjamin, The St. Albans Raid (1865); Burgett, Atlas of the State of Vermont (1876); Carpenter, History of the Eighth Regiment Vermont Volunteers (1886);   Child, county gazetteers, full set; Mason & Co. county histories, full set; N. Chipman, Sketches of the Principles of Government (1793); Thomas Chittenden signed militia appointment (1786); The Trial of Cyrus B. Dean, for the Murder of Jonathan Ormsby and Asa Marsh (1808); Eldredge, The Torrent (1831); Fletcher, A Narrative of the Captivity & Sufferings of Ebenezer Fletcher (1813 and 1866); Gallup, Sketches of Epidemic Diseases in the State of Vermont (1815); Gilman, The Bibliography of Vermont (1897); Graham, A Descriptive Sketch of the Present State of Vermont (1797); B. Hall, History of Eastern Vermont (1858); H. Hall, The History of Vermont (1868); Haswell, Memoirs and Adventures of Captain Matthew Phelps (1802); Haynes, History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers (1870 and 1894); Hemenway, Vermont Historical Gazetteer (1868-91), all five volumes and Index; Hitchcock, Report on the Geology of Vermont (1861); Palmer, The Second Brigade (1864); Perry, Recollections of an Old Soldier (1822); Ripley, Vermont Riflemen in the War for the Union (1883); Ross, The Steamboats of Lake Champlain (1930); Russell, A History of the Vermont State Prison (1812); Safford, Youth’s Almanac, for the Year 1846 (1845); Sanders, A History of the Indian Wars (1812); Spargo, Anthony Haswell (1925);  Steele, The Indian Captive (1818); Sturtevant, Pictorial History Thirteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers (1910); Thompson, The Green Mountain Boys (1839); Thompson, History of Vermont (1842); early Vermont legislative journals and laws (17779-1800); (Vermont statehood), broadside “An Act Giving Effect to the Laws of the United Sates Within the State of Vermont” (1791); Walker, The Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley (1869); Wilbur, Early History of Vermont (1899-1903); Williams, Life in Camp (1864); Williams, History of Vermont (1794 and 1809). 

 

 

Maps – (Addison County, VT), Walling, “Map of Addison County” (1857); (Burlington), Johnson, “Map of Burlington in Vermont” (1836);  (Burlington), “Grasse Mount Property” (1855); (Canada), Matthaeus Seutter, “Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada” (ca. 1756); (Connecticut River Valley), Pierce, “An Improved Reference Map of the Valley of the Connecticut” (1828); (Eastern Canada), Bonne, “L’Isle De Terre-Neuve, L’Acadie . . . et La Partie Orientale du Canada” (1780);  (Granville, NY), Hatheway, “Official Map of the Incorporated Village of Granville” (1894); (Hudson River), Sauthier, A Topographical Map of Hudson’s River” (1777); (Lake Champlain), Brassier, “A Survey of Lake Champlain” (1776); (New York), Montresor, “A Map of the Province of New York” (1775);  (Ohio, Indiana and Illinois), Mitchell, “Map of the States of Ohio, Indiana & Illinois and Part of Michigan Territory” (1831); (Orleans, Lamoille & Essex Counties, VT), Walling, “Map of the Counties of Orleans, Lamoille, and Essex, Vermont” (1859); Presdee & Edwards wall-maps of Burlington, Ludlow and Montpelier, Vermont (1853); (Quebec), Jeffreys, “A Plan of Quebec” (1759); (Railroads), Kennedy, “Map & Profile of the Vt. Central and Vt. and Canada Railroads” (1848); Townsend, “Townsend’s Patent Folding Globe” (1869); (Vermont), James Whitelaw, wall-map of state (1796, 1821 and 1838); (Vermont) White, “Map of Vermont” (ca. 1850); Wilson, “A New American Celestial Globe” (1826); (Windsor County, VT), Doten, “Map of Windsor County” (1855); (Wisconsin), Chapman, “Chapman’s Sectional Map of Wisconsin” (1856).

 

A full electronic catalogue with photographs available at Parkinsonbooks.com

 


WILLIAM L. PARKINSON, BOOKS

P.O. Box 40

Hinesburg, VT   05641

Ph. (802) 482-3113

Cell (802) 238-8001

For questions, email  william@parkinsonbooks.com

www.parkinsonbooks.com

 

AUCTIONEERS: WILLIAM PARKINSON, J. KEVIN GRAFFAGNINO

 

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