Monday, May 17, 2010

Americana--Recent acquisitions, antiquarian and ephemera



Green, Ben. E. (Benjamin Edwards), 1822-1907. The irrepressible conflict between labor and capital : a brief summary of some of the chief causes and results of the late Civil War in the United States, as presented in the translator's preface to Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac's History of the working and burgher classes, in which the origin, nature and objects of the much calumniated French Commune are historically explained. Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1872 (Philadelphia : J. Fagan & Son)

French, L. H. (Leigh Hill), 1863- Seward's land of gold; five seasons experience with the gold seekers in northwestern Alaska, by L.H. French ... New York, Montross, Clarke & Emmons [1905?]

Grinnell, Joseph, 1877-1939. Gold hunting in Alaska as told by Joseph Grinnell. Ed. by Elizabeth Grinnell. Elgin, Ill., Chicago, David C. Cook Pub. Co. [c1901]

Howitt, William, 1792-1879. Land, labor and gold; or, Two years in Victoria : with visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. By William Howitt. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1855.

McDermott, Walter. Losses in gold amalgamation / by Walter McDermott and P.W. Duffield. London, 1890.

Williams, Henry T. The Pacific Tourist...second edition. New York: Henry T. Williams, 1877

Stearns, John M. (John Milton), 1810-1898. The rights of man, the true basis of reconstruction : an address delivered at North Springfield, Vermont, July the fourth, 1866 / by John M. Stearns. Williamsburgh, N.Y. : Printed by L. Darbee & Son, 1866.

Collins, Mary C. (Mary Clementine), 1847-1920. Indian children of the prairie. New York : American Missionary Association, 19??

Days of '76 : souvenir program, August 8-9-10, 1929, Deadwood, S.D. : it's wild, it's Western, it's real! / [staged under auspices of the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce]. Sixth Annual "Days of '76" [Deadwood, S.D.] : Deadwood Chamber of Commerce, [1929]