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Allen W. Trelease Indian Affairs In Colonial New York:: The Seventeenth Century Original Hardcover
Ithica Cornell University Press 1960 First Edition Very Good Very Good No Dust Jacket
Original Blue 1960 First Edition Hardcover The Classic History of the Diplomacy and Warfare in the Dynamics of Five Nation Iroquois Longhouse contending with Delaware Algonquin amidst English and Dutch contending with French Montreal and with each contending with each other, creating today's New York! This book tells the story with academics and good writing and source material..Clean library copy.No pocket just small spine numbers and University of Manchester (England) book plate and withdrawn stamps otherwise clean and tight. Three Geese in Flight since 1977 offering the noble struggle for the west. From Numenor to Valley Forge. Wrapping with care and respect. First Edition.
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Benjamin Myer Brink Editor Olde Ulster Vol.1 November 1905 No.11 An Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Kingston New York Benjamin Myer Brink 1905 1st Edition Paperback Fine
Kingston New York: Benjamin Myer Brink, 1905. Book. Fine. Wrappers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Original 1905 Gray Card Stock Covers. Collectible condition. Rare Series from Kingston NewYork the old Dutch capital of New York in colonial times and burned by the British in the American Revolution as "The nest of every rebel" and where George Washington came to pay tribute to the brave town and greet the Mason lodge This issue "Bill of Sale for a Negro Boy" and "The Earliest Israelites in the Esopus 1668" "Journal of Henry Pauling" "The Stone at the Grave of Thomas Chambers" More ads. Rare clean NOT a library copy.. First Edition.
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79.00 USD
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Burke Davis George Washington and the American Revolution Hardcover
U.S.A. Random House 1975 2nd Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
U.S.A.: Random House, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Very Good Hardcover Very Good Dust jacket Clean pages NOT a library book Stated "First Edition Numbers start with 2 Very interesting battle plans marching routes, muster roles, military strategy of George Washington. "Fort Lee""Princeton" "Yorktown" Clean free of markings. No jacket chips, price clipped, tight binding. Action cover painting of the great general. Dust jacket present.
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D.O. Thomas and W. Bernard Peach Edited Richard Price The Correspondence Of Richard Price Volume I: July 1748 - March 1778 Hardcover
U.S.A. Duke University Press 1983 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
First Edition Hardcover 194 pp.Letters from and two the Welsh radical Richard Price who was major influence of the American revolution but was bot as well known as Thomas Paine. here we have Benjamin franklin, Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson. Clean ex-library minimal library markings. Solid hardcover No writing No underlines Jacket has only one chip on top of cover and sunning on cover and light wear. NO numbers on hardcover spine and remains of tape on jacket spine. Overall book and jacket very good.. Very important lesser known Celtic and Welsh influence of Founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson used Welsh cipher with Meriwether Lewis! Independent customer service dedicated since 1977 Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Eugene T. Petersen France At MacKinac A Pictorial Record Of French Life and Culture 1715-1760
U.S.A. Mackinac State Historic Parks, 1968 First Edition Paperback Very Good
Very Good First Edition 38 pp. b/w Photo and drawins and map of the French Colonial Life of the Eighteenth century soldier and the Woman on the post from 1715-1760 Vlean pages a little edge wear on rear card stock cover. Tight no writing or underlines.A window in French on the Great lakes in the French and Indian wars era. Nicely done. First Edition.
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George W. Browne The St. Lawrence River
New York Weathervane 1985 First Thus Hardcover Near Fine Near Fine
Near Fine Clean hardcover Near Fine Completely intact Dust Jacket 365 pp. NO writing NOT a library copy. I find this a more usable edition than the old 1900s more often than not fragile edition. Here we have one of the most interesting Heroic ages of North America , the four way struggle between the Five Nations Iroquois and the Algonquins and the French in Quebec and Montreal and the English and Dutch in Albany. Then the when spins and you have the nascent Thirteen colonies all this swirls around Medieval French Fort Chambly, Quebec, Montreal Ticonderoga English Crown Point and Mohawks and Lenape All here with photos. Clean NOT a library copy[removed][removed] Dust jacket present.
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33.00 USD
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I.F.Grant Hugh Cheape Periods In Highland History Hardcover
U.S.A Barnes and Noble 2000 First Thus Hardcover Fine Fine
U.S.A: Barnes and Noble, 2000. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover and Dust jacket Both Fine. First Thus. From photo examples of magical Scottish crystal amulets to Highland harps this study of folklore and history in the Scottish Highlands is as good as it gets.NOT alibrary copy. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Ivah Dunklee BURNING OF ROYALTON, VERMONT BY INDIANS Original 1906 Edition
Boston Geo. H. Ellis Co., Printers 1906 First American Edition Paperback Very Good+
Original 1906 BURNING OF ROYALTON, VERMONT BY INDIANS First Edition 88 pp. B/W Illus photos bound in Card Stock Covers with painting of Native Mohawk and stone headed War club in red and green. Very Good+ clean pages. Small tear on bottom of front cover and a little one where rear cover touches spine. Spine very good. NOT a library copy NO writing. This Card stock 1906 edition has great advertisements for Chocolate and coffee. But the historical heart of the book is a treasure. Account of a Caughnawaga Mohawk raid down into Vermont. Also includes actual Zadock Steele's Captivity Narrative as well. Accounts of Mohawk kindness and cruelty, Militia the same. A rare product of this Revolutionary War Frontier event! This is inscribed in pencil to G.A. Ainsworth. Handsome clean copy. Since 1977 wrapping with care. First Edition.
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85.00 USD
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Jacob Judd Edited Philip Van Cortlandt The Revolutionary War Memoir and Selected Correspondence of Philip Van Cortlandt First Edition Hardcover
U.S.A. 1976 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good
Clean Very Good handsome Blue God and red Hardcover Very Good intact Portrait Dust Jacket Clean pages. NOT a library copy NO writing. Dutch American aristocrat Philip Van Cortlandt became Lt.Colonel of Fourth New York at Ticonderoga Colonel Second New York was in every major battle Saratoga, Valley Forge, he even took a long musket shot at Joseph Brant described by him, sat at Arnold's court Martial became commanding officer of 2nd and 4th New York, at Yorktown all written by him here. Maps 192 pp. Clean Color portrait on cover. The feel of his passion and reserve give a feel of the time like little else. here true first Sleepy Hollow Edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Lincoln Diamanat Dive ! The Story of David Bushnell and His Remarkable 1776 Subnarine
Fleischmanns Green Mountain Press 1st Edition Paperback Fine
Fleischmanns: Green Mountain Press Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Clean Collectible B/W Illustrated First Edition Study. No writing No underlines NOT a library copy. Here is another example of why the American Revolution was the "Age of Enlightenment" made manifest. Great drawings, and photos of replica too. Since 1977 Three Geese In Flight First Edition.
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29.00 USD
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Michael A. McDonnell Masters Of Empire Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
U.S.A. Hill and Wang 2015 0809029537 / 9780809029532 First Edition Fine Fine
Fine First Edition Hardcover and Collectible Fine Dust Jacket Clean free of markings in book. A bold revisionist look at the Native Great Lake Algonquin Ojibwa, Anishinaabeg, Odawa, as the center of power in the formation of North America as opposed to the more accepted Iroquois Huron and Six Nation Longhouse of the east. Collectible First Edition Hardcover Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Miller, Marla R Betsy Ross and the Making of America
U.S.A. Henry Holt and Co. 2010 0805082972 / 9780805082975 First Edition Hardcover Fine Fine
Henry Holt and Co..Fine Hardcover Fine Collectible Dust Jacket Clean 467 pp. NOT a library copy.First Book Club Edition. Unfortunately "revisionism" is the jaded mans stimulation. Only in cliché are women spoke of in the American Revolution and no bigger cliché is Betsy Ross. But she was not a cliche.. Really insightful to see woman as rebels as human and as American. Her interactions with George Washington are very interesting.Great book. Wonderful gift too . Fine. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Nathaniel Sylvester Historical Sketches Of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness
U.S.A. Harbor Hill Books 1973 4th Edition Paperback
Good+ dusky but clean pages NOT a library copy NO writing in book. Great one volume history of the history and struggle of the Adirondack mountain corridor from the beginning French and Indian war to the revolution. Included is the "Legend of The Diamond Rock" the rare mysterious quartz cairn called "Diamond Rock' near Albany and the Hudson river that has a place from before the before. Here it's legend is given.
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Nathaniel Sylvester Historical Sketches Of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness
U.S.A. Harbor Hill Books 1973 4th Edition Paperback
Good+ dusky but clean pages NOT a library copy NO writing in book. Great one volume history of the history and struggle of the Adirondack mountain corridor from the beginning French and Indian war to the revolution. Included is the "Legend of The Diamond Rock" the rare mysterious quartz cairn called "Diamond Rock' near Albany and the Hudson river that has a place from before the before. Here it's legend is given.
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Rabbi I. Harold Sharfman Jews On The Frontier An Account of Jewish Pioneers and Settlers in Early Accounts Hardcover
Illinois Regency 1977 First Edition Hardcover Very Good
First Edition Clean Very Good 337 pp.Hardcover Very Good Dust Jacket B/W Photos and Illus.NOT a library copy,. Light handling wear to price clipped jacket else solid tight and very good! Fantastic exciting scholarly study of Jews in the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary War. Jewish fur traders among the Quakers in Pennsylvania Iroquois working with Hebrews in the wilderness. Notes, bibliography.Many b/w photos, drawings, documents Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Rosemary Radford Ruether Rosemary Skinner Keller Editors Woman and Religion in America Volume 2: The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods Hardcover
San Francisco Harper and Row 1983 1st Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good
San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Clean First Edition Near Fine Hardcover Very Good- Mylar protected dust jacket NOT Price clipped NOT a library copy. Several chips at top of front cover and a few smaller ones with little creases at top but bright and tight in it's plasticine mylar cover. Mo writing no underlines. B/W photos and drawings. Primary documents and diaries for Seneca Iroquois, African American, Spanish Catholic, Sephardic woman, Puritan New England, French Catholic Spiritual life of colonial woman by woman themselves. Tight clean Since 1977 we wrap first in paper. Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Sean O' Faolain Edited The Autobiography Of Wolfe Tone Edited Sean O' Faolain First Edition Hardcover
London Thomas Nelson 1937 First English Edition Hardcover Very Good Near Very Good
London: Thomas Nelson, 1937. Book. Very Good.Clean Hardcover. First English Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good First Edition 307 pp. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NOT a library copy. Wolfe Tone and the 1798 rebellion in First Edition hardcover with the dust jacket and in such good shape. The dust jacket is black with a bust of Tone. It has one small chip on top of front cover and several rubs and some soiling on rear of jacket.. Pages clean free of writing.Wolfe influenced by the non sectarian American Revolution against Britain. Tone's autobiography edited by this great Irish writer. NOT a library book.Three Geese in Flight Irish Books from the Land to the West since 1977 Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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Skinner Auction House Skinner Americana Sale 1434 March 21, 1992 Bolton Auction catalog
Massachusetts Skinner 1992 Paperback Near Fine
Near Fine Skinner Americana Sale 1434 March 21, 1992 Bolton Auction Illustrated Catalog With Prices. Here is a jaw dropping b/w illustrated collection of Colonial Americana that went on sale in 1992 at famed Skinner Auction House.A few examples George Washington autograph letters, Paul Revere autograph tobias lear colonial silver pine furniture chippendale mahogany side chair rugs rocking horse clocks on and on with prices. Clean Near Fine condition. NOT a library copy First Edition.
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T. Apoleon Cheney Historical Sketch Of The Chemung Valley By T. Apoleon Cheney (Limited Printed Hardcover Reprint)
U.S.A. W.E. Morrison & Co 1986 First Thus Hardcover Fine
Fine Tall Quarto Red Hardcover Gilt Cover and Spine Titles. Limited 1986 Printed Facsimile Cloth Of the 1867 First Edition. NOT a library copy NOT a print on demand. Frontis drawing of Gen. John Sullivan. Central and Western New York Chenango county to General Herkimer and Oriskany to Cherry Valley. This was written when the loyalist saber cuts were still remembered as were Seneca hunger. The battle of Minisink and Cherry Valley. Tryon County Militia. Upstate New York and it's true heroic age.Very handsome tall red Hardcover in Fine collectible condition. Three Geese In Flight since 1977
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75.00 USD
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Tehanetorens Wampum Belts By Te-ha-ne-tor-ens Six Nations Indian Museum
Onchiota New York Six Nations Indian Museum 1979 First Edition Fine
Fine Condition True First Edition Published by Six Nations Indian Museum. 71 pp. B/W photos of Six nation children each holding on a different page the different historical Wampum Treaty belts from the formation of the League of the Longhouse up and through the Revolutionary War and the formation of the United States. Full history of each belt and its origins and treaty. Fine First Edition on Mohawk artist and historian Kahonhes illustration of perhaps Hiawatha demonstrating the Two Row Wampum Belt to children on the wood colored covers. Fine collectible condition. Since 1977 Three Geese In Flight wrapping our books first in brown paper before shipping.. . First Edition.
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Trelease, Allen W, Indian Affairs in Colonial New York:The Seventeenth Century Hardcover
U.S.A Cornell Univ Press 1960 First Edition Hardcover Very Good
Original First Edition Blue Cornell Univ Press Hardcover Silver Spine Lettering Bright. NO writing in text No Dust Jacket. English Manchester University book plate Pocket removed. Small numbers on spine else tight binding free of inscriptions. Very important study of both the Six Nations and the Delaware Lenape and Wappinger, and Mahican Algonquins fur trade and inter nation treaties and battles. The first classic academic study of New York Native history and there interaction. Since 1977 we wrap first in brown paper before packing First Edition.
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William H. Hill Old Fort Edward Before 1800 An Account of the Historic Ground Now Occupied by the Village of Fort Edward Original Signed Limited Edition Hardcover
Fort Edward New York Privately Printed 1929 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Signed
Handsome Large Quarto Dark Blue Leather and Lighter Blue paper over boards Limited First Edition Printing to 500 Copies here rare signed by William H. Hill on First Preliminary, Clean 383 pp. text. No writing at all, NO book plates NOT a library book A little rubbing on the paper part of cover but tight Fine pristine leather and spine gilt titles. Fold out map If you collect French and Indian war or Rev. War in the north this is a rare gem. Famous in Last of the Mohegans where General Webb held bacj during William and Henry Massacre, So much first had lore photos miltary plans of colonial fortification, Philip Schulyer, Washington, Ticonderoga. A true American treasur. Specializing in the American Heroic age since 1977 First Edition.
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