Bibliotheca Americana: Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America ...

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1886 - America

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Page 28 - AB, one of the commissioners appointed in pursuance of the sixth article of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America...
Page 275 - Taylor. Statistics of Coal : •Including Mineral Bituminous Substances employed in Arts and Manufactures ; with their Geographical, Geological, and Commercial Distribution and amount of Production and Consumption on the American Continent. With Incidental Statistics of the Iron Manufacture. By RC Taylor. Second edition, revised by SS Haldeman. Illustrated by five Maps and many Wood engravings. 8vo. cloth §6.00 Templeton.
Page 22 - THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR. GORDON PYM of Nantucket. Comprising the Details of a Mutiny and atrocious Butchery on board the American Brig Grampus, on her way to the South Seas, in the Month of June, 1827.
Page 143 - Debates and other proceedings of the convention of Virginia, convened at Richmond, on Monday the second day of June, 1788, for the purpose of deliberating on the constitution recommended by the grand federal convention.
Page 259 - Reports upon the survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the Summit of the Rocky Mountains.
Page 23 - Reprint of the Original Letters from Washington to Joseph Reed during the American Revolution, referred to in the Pamphlets of Lord Mahon and Mr. Sparks.
Page 191 - The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady; whose life and character are peculiarly distinguished — being a continental soldier, for nearly three years, in the late American war.
Page 4 - HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Establishment of the Constitution in 1789. By GEORGE BANCROFT.
Page 175 - Proceedings / of a / Board / of / General Officers, / Held by Order of / His Excellency Gen. Washington, / Commander in Chief of the Army of the United / States of America. / Respecting / Major John Andre, / Adjutant General of the British Army. / September 29, 1780.
Page 165 - Cockburn (John). A Journey over Land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South Sea. Performed by John Cockburn and Five other Englishmen, who were taken by a Spanish Guarda Costa in the John and Jane...

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