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Catalogue  219
Franco-Américains; Nouvelle-Angleterre /
Franco Americans; New England

|155.  BROWNELL, Henry Howard. «The Pioneer Heroes of the New World. From the Earliest Period (982) to the Present Time». New York, Dayton and Wentworth, 1855. 640 p. (24 cm). First edition. Gilt decorated red cloth, all edges gilt, spine slightly worn and a small part splitting. With numerous hand-colored plates and portraits. Pagination inscribed as 720 (last page) but should be 640. Two leaves missing from table of contents, but text is repeated before each chapter. About the Northmen in America, Columbus, Sebastien Cabot, Americus Vespucins, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Hernando Cortes, Fernando Magellan, Pizarro, discovery and settlement of Canada, Virginia, Florida, New York, New England, the Mississipi Valley, Pennsylvania, Daniel Boone pioneer of Kentucky, Lewis and Clarke, Texas settlement and political history, Oregon, California, Colonel Fremont’s exploration, the Mormon settlement and the North-West Passage.    125 $

156.  COLBERT-MAULEVRIER, Comte de. «Voyage dans l’intérieur des Etats-Unis et au Canada». Baltimore, The John Hopkins Press, 1935. XXIII,87 p. (26 cm). Reliure d’édition. De la série "Historical Documents, Institut Français de Washington", Cahier VIII. Cachets. Portrait et illustrations. Avec une introduction et des notes par Gilbert Chinard; il s’agit de voyages en Pennsylvanie, dans l’État de New-York et au Canada dans la seconde partie de l’année 1798.    35 $

157.  (FALMOUTH ME). «Falmouth, Maine, 250th Anniversary 1718-1968». N.p., (1968). 32 p. (28 cm). Illustrations. Franco American content.    30 $

158.  FENELLY, Catherine. «Textiles in New England, 1790-1840». Sturbridge MA, Old Sturbridge Village, 1961. 40 p. (21 cm). Illustrations. Textile industry & fabrics in Massachusetts.     20 $

159.  HANSON, J.W. (ed.). «The World’s Congress of Religions; the Addresses and Papers delivered before the Parliament, and an Abstract of the Congresses held in the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., August 25 to October 15, 1893, Under the Auspices of The World’s Columbian Exposition. – Profusely Illustrated – With Marginal Notes». No Place, The Official Publishers of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893. 1196 p. (23 cm). Original cloth with gilt decorations on front board; spine slightly sunned. Profusely illustrated.    45 $

160.  MOLINARI, Gustave de. «Lettres sur les Etats-Unis et le Canada». Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1876. 365 p. (19 cm). Reliure en plein bougran, couvertures imprimées présentes. Légère trace d’humidité. L’auteur a visité le Canada, surtout Québec, mais le voyage porte bien plus sur les USA car il vint en Amérique afin de visiter l’Exposition de Philadelphie en 1876. Sa visite porte sur New York, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Boston & Chicago. L’un des rares voyageurs français qui apprécia la cuisine américaine; il affirme, qu’en cinq minutes, il put avaler un lunch qui put satisfaire le plus grand gourmet!!! Titre rare.  Howes 1080.    125 $

161.  NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA. «Between Friends / Entre Amis». Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1976. 261,(32) p. (36 cm). Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth & torn dust jacket. A book celebrating the American Bicentennial with pictures along the 5000 miles of the border.     40 $

162.  PLUMMER, Edward Clarence. «Souvenir of Three Hundredth Anniversary of Amrican Shipbuilding, Bath, Maine, August 5-9, 1907». Bath ME, Times Company Printers, 1907. (172) p. (23 cm). Original pictorial wrappers. Profusely illustrated. Shipbuilding on the Kennebec; material about Sir William Phipps, the attack against Quebec, the fight against British ships during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 etc. Nice copy and a very scarce book.    175 $

163.  SMITH, Matthew Hale. «Sunshine and Shadow in New York». Hartford, J.B. Burr and Company, 1869. 718,(2) p. Original gilt decorated cloth, spine lightly sunned, top cover gilt decorated. With 12 engravings. Author is very casual with comments about high society, John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, prisons, police, detectives, blackmail, gambling houses, dance houses, Wall Street, Jews and Catholics. Light foxing, a very good copy generally.     95 $

164.  TANNER, Virginia. «A Pageant at Bennington, Vermont. – In Celebration of the 150^th Anniversary of The Battle of Bennington, 1777-1927». Concord, Rumford Press, 1927. 92 P. (23 cm). Acted and sung and danced by the Citizens of Bennington. Illustrated with artefacts from the Battle of Bennington.    60 $|

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