Historical and Miscellaneous

PUBLICATIONS.

Ohio Valley Historical Series.

In our Prospectus, issued in April, 1868, we announced our intention of publishing, under this general title, a series of works relating to the early history of the Valley of the Ohio. It has not been our aim to give a consecutive history, but merely to collect and preserve by publication hitherto unpublished manuscripts of value relating to the subject, and to reprint some of the early works on Western history which are out of print and rare.

In carrying out this design we have issued the seven works here described. We have endeavored to make them valuable contributions to Western history-with what success we leave it for others to say-and to produce them in an attractive style. They have been liberally patronized where we least expected, and have met with little sale where we most looked for it-in the Valley of which they treat. We have not been sufficiently supported to warrant the continuance of the Series, and are reluctantly obliged to announce its close. They may yet work their way into public favor; if they do, we will perhaps renew the experiment, as there is no lack of material worthy of publi

cation.

[From the Historical Record.]

66 They are all beautifully printed on fine paper, with rubricated titlepages, and should be in the possession of every intelligent family in the Ohio Valley, and held almost as sacred as a family record. They are golden grains which compose the history of the heroic age of that country."

[From New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.] "The Ohio Valley Historical Series' may well be termed model books in their way. In forin and execution so dainty and elegant that the East may well look to her laurels in the typographic art, if she would not be outdone by the Cincinnati printers. Nor are the contents of these volumes less fascinating than their excellencies of mechanical execution." . "We welcome this noble (though private) enterprise, which has undertaken to give us in so authentic and so handsome a shape, these precious historic memorials of the Ohio Valley. Their interest is not merely local: it is national in its character."

Number One.

Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians in 1764.

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N HISTORICAL ACCOUNT of the EXPEDITION against the OHIO INDIANS, in the year MDCCLXIV, under the command of HENRY BOUQUET, Esq., Colonel of Foot, and now Brigadier General in America, including his TRANSACTIONS with the INDIANS, RELATIVE to the DELIVERY of their PRISONERS, and the PRELIMINARYS of PEACE, with an INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT of the Preceding CAMPAIGN, and BATTLE of BUSHYRUN.

To which are annexed MILITARY PAPERS containing REFLECTIONS on the WAR with the SAVAGES; a METHOD of forming FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS; some ACCOUNT of the INDIAN COUNTRY; with a LIST of NATIONS, FIGHTING MEN, TOWNS, DISTANCES, and different Routes.

Published from authentic Documents by a Lover of his Country" (DR. WILLIAM SMITH, Provost of the College of Philadel phia).

With a Preface by FRANCIS PARKMAN, author of "Conspiracy of Pontiac," etc., and a translation of DUMAS' Biographical Sketch of GENERAL BOUquet.

The MAP and PLATES are finely reproduced by the PhotoLithographic Process.

One volume, 8vo., pp. xxiii, 162, finely printed on tinted paper, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $3.00

A few large-paper copies have been printed on extra-heavy tinted paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut, Price, $6.00.

[From the Round Table.]

"A better initial volume to the Obio Valley Historical Series could not be desired than this. Everything is in its favor-the beauty of the volume itself, an invariable characteristic of whatever leaves its publisher's press; the rarity of the work reprinted, the importance in the history of our anti-revolutionary colonizations of the events which occasioned the expedition; and, by no means the least, the brief explanatory preface added by Mr. Francis Parkman. * * * So that, while the antiquarian or historian will get most out of the work, the average reader will find in it no small pleasure along with the side light it throws upon the events of a period of which popular ideas are vague and undefined."

[From the Cincinnati Gazette.]

"It is, in short, a worthy beginning to an enterprise which must commend itself to all scholars and literary men, and which reflects credit upon Cincinnati, as well as upon the enterprise and tact of the publishers."

[From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register.] "This is the first of the reprints of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, now in course of publication by Messrs. Clarke & Co., and is presented to us in a shape and style befitting the rarity of the volume, and its intrinsic value as an authentic and reliable narrative of one of the earliest British military expeditions into the territory North-West of the Ohio River.' * * * The volume is elegantly printed on tinted paper, has a good index, and is an honor to the enterprising publishers."

[From the American Literary Gazette and Publisher's Circular.]

"This is the first volume of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, just commenced by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. We have heretofore spoken of the plan of the projected series. It will undoubtedly form a valuable material for history. We can not too highly commend the admirable manner in which the publishers have produced the work. The paper and typography are unexceptionable. The original maps and plans are most successfully reproduced according to the Osborn Process,' by the American Photo-Lithographic Company, and the entire manufacture reflects credit on the skill and taste of Messrs. Clarke & Co."

[From the Atlantic Monthly.]

"The whole narrative is most entertaining for the interest of the subject, and for the quaintness of that highly literary style of the last century in which it is written. * * * *

"Its quaintness every one must relish, and none can help noticing the clearness and solidity of the narration. * * * It is an enterprise to which we heartily wish success, both for the valuable matter it will preserve for the use of the student and the pleasure it will afford the general reader."

Number Two.

Walker's History of Athens County, Ohio.

ISTORY OF ATHENS COUNTY, OHIO, and

H incidentally of the OHIO LAND COMPANY and

the FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE STATE at MARIETTA, with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the EARLY SETTLERS, NARRATIVES OF PIONEER ADVENTUREs, etc. By CHARLES M. WALKER.

Illustrated with an original Map, showing the lands purchased by the Ohio Company, the Donation Tract, and Athens County, Past and Present, with fine Steel Portraits of Hon. Thomas Ewing, Sr., Bishop Ames, Judges Ephraim Cutler and Isaac Barker, and General John Brown.

One volume, 8vo., pp. viii, 600, finely printed on tinted paper, neatly bound in English cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. Price, $6.00

A few large-paper copies have been printed on extra-heavy tinted paper. Portraits on India paper. Portraits on India paper. Cloth, gilt top, and uncut edges, or entirely uncut. 2 vols. Impl. 8vo. Price, $12.00.

[From the Historical Magazine.]

"We have never found a more complete local history, nor one in which the author has more successfully labored to present the annals, the statistics, and the local biographies of a community, with fidelity and elaborate minuteness; and as a specimen of really elegant typography, it is worthy of all praise."

[From the Cincinnati Commercial.]

"It is a work so thorough, so complete, so carefully prepared, that it will remain for many years the history of the territory embraced within the early limits of the county. The typography is superb, and the portraits are executed in the best style of steel line engraving."

[From the New York Tribune.]

"The publication of the Ohio Valley Historical Series, of which this elegant work forms the second volume, is an enterprise for which men of letters are under deep obligation to the good sense and good taste of the publishers. *** The present volume, though modest in its pretensions, claiming little more than a local interest, is far more valuable in its contents than its title or its unpretending preface might lead one to suppose. It embraces a history of the great Ohio Land Company and the first settlement of the State at Marietta, with biographical