Grant Zahajko Auctions: Books, Maps & Atlases: Birmingham-Southern College Collection, 73124, DAVENPORT

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Auction Date
July 31, 2024 - July 31, 2024
Page Size: 501 items in 21 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
201

Recollections of Northern India With Observations on the Origin, Customs, and Moral Sentiments of the Hindoos, and Remarks on the Country and Principal Places on the Ganges.

1848 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 346.50
202 Anderson, Rufus.

Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation Third edition, 1828.

Boston 1828 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 126.00
203 Morse, Jedidiah:

An Abridgment of the American Gazetteer. Exhibiting, in Alphabetical Order, a Compendious Account of the States, Provinces, Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Rivers, Bays, Harbours, Gulfs, Sounds, Capes, Mountains, Forts, Indian Tribes & New Discoveries.

1798 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 126.00
204 M. Henri Mouhot (1826-1861),

Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos, during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 in two volumes.

London, 1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 819.00
205 Edward William Lane,

Arabian Society in the Middle Ages Studies From the Thousand and One Nights.

London, 1883 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 63.00
206

Speeches on the Passage of the Bill for the Removal of the Indians, Delivered in the Congress of the United States, April and May, 1830.

Boston, 1830 USD 150.00 - 225.00 USD 220.50
207

1820 A View of the United States of America.

1820 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 409.50
208 T. W. Atkinson

"Oriental and Western Siberia",

1858 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 157.50
209

Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.

London 1845 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,071.00
210 Catlin, George,

Catlin (George, American painter, author, and traveler, 1796-1872) Autograph Letter signed to "My Dear Vattemare",

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,268.00
211 FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS,

THE WORKS OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, THE LEARNED AND AUTHENTIC JEWISH HISTORIAN AND CELEBRATED WARRIOR.

ELIZABETH-TOWN, N. J. 1829 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 126.00
212

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, COMMUNICATING THE REPORT OF THE REV. R. R. GURLEY, WHO WAS RECENTLY SENT OUT BY THE GOVERNMENT TO OBTAIN INFORMATION IN RESPECT TO LIBERIA.

1850 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 25.20
213

Kollek, Teddy, For Jerusalem: A life signed First Trade Edition, one of two hundred and fifty specially printed, bound and signed.

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 189.00
214

Die Preussische Expedition nach Ostasien, Wahrend der Jahre 1860-1862.

1860-1862 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 126.00
215 Benson, Henry.

Life Among the Choctaw Indians, and Sketches of the South-West.

Cincinnati 1860 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 220.50
216 Joshua Toulmin Smith,

The Discovery of America by the Northmen in the Tenth Century,

William S. Orr & Co.,, London: 1842 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 94.50
217 Hodgson, W.B., Benjamin Hawkins, and J.E.D. Shipp,

Creek Indian History, As Comprised in Creek Confederacy, and The Creek Country, to Which is Added The Last Night of a Nation,

Americus, Ga. 1938 USD 150.00 - 225.00 USD 315.00
218

The Life of David Brainerd

Ca.1830-35?. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 126.00
219

Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian concerning the aboriginal history of America.

Baltimore 1829 USD 150.00 - 225.00 USD 94.50
220

Chronicles of Border Warfare by Alexander Scott Withers.

1831 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 126.00
221 Epaphras Hoyt

''A History of the Indian Wars Bordering the Connecticut River''

Greenfield, Massachusetts. 1824 USD 125.00 - 175.00 USD 126.00
222 BAIRD, CHARLES W.

The Huguenot Emigration to America,

New York 1885 USD 150.00 - 225.00 USD 189.00
223 Samuel G. Drake.

The Aboriginal Races of North America; Comprising Biographical Sketches of Eminent Individuals, and an Historical Account of the Different Tribes.

New York 1880 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 126.00
224 Commander Andrew H. Foote

Africa and The American Flag

New York. 1854 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 126.00
225 THRUSTON, Gates P.

The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States and the State of Aboriginal Society in the Scale of Civilization Represented by Them

1890 USD 150.00 - 225.00 USD 189.00
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