Search Results: Authors starting with N from WILLIAM ALLISON BOOKS

[Salem] Nathaniel Whitaker. Autograph Document Signed. Salem, Massachusetts. November 25, 1774. One sheet laid paper 16.5 x 17 cm. Unevenly cut on two edges. Has been folded. Notes in Greek on the verso. Very good.
Nathaniel Whitaker was an outspoken Presbyterian minister with a long and wide-ranging career. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1752. Between his ordination in 1755 and his death in 1795, Whitaker ministered to five different congregations. He was in Salem from 1769 to 1784, officiating in what was known as the Tabernacle church. Whitaker was an outspoken Whig, zealously supporting the cause of the colonists and during the Revolution he published several pamphlets on his political opinions. He also accompanied Reverend Samson Occom, an educated member of the Mohegan tribe to Scotland and England to raise funds for the establishment of an institution for the education and Christianization of the North American Indians. This document attests that Hannah, Wife of… Read More

[Railroads][Mexico] Map of the Mexican National R. R. Laredo Route and Connections. [Map title] New York: American Bank Note. Co. 1890. Color map. 61 x 61 cm. Folded into 10 x 20 cm. Panel title: "Mexico; Mexican National R.R., Laredo Route." "Eastern Edition, - December 1890" --Panel. Includes mileage and elevation chart of Mexican cities, temperatures, timetables, and rates. One large and several small fold splits, else very good.
OCLC shows one holding of this map. (SMU). There are two holdings of a "Western Edition" (Ariz. Hist. Soc. & Colo. Col.) Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Includes text and profile of route from Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo.

Choice Farming Lands in Iowa and Nebraska. 1,880,000 Acres For Sale by the Railroad Land Companies of Iowa and Nebraska, In Tracts to Suit Purchasers, at Low Prices, on Credit or for Cash. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Horton & Leonard, Printers, Chicago. 1871. Yellow wraps. 23 cm. Map. 48 pp. + 8 pp. ads. Front cover 2 corner chips. Rear cover 2 inch tear with chip. Old tape repair. Stain to back cover affecting the last pages of ads. Edge stains, not affecting text light wear.
OCLC shows 7 holdings (St. Hist. Soc. Iowa; U. Iowa; Newberry; U. Ill.; UU. Neb.-Kearney; Yale & SMU.) Not in Adams, Herd. Published by the Iowa Railroad Land Company, the Iowa Falls and Sioux City Railroad Land Company, the Sioux City and Pacific Land and Town Lot Company, and the Elkhorn Land and Town Lot Company. It has a section on Stock Raising.

[Civil War] J. Newton Culver. Handwritten Fair Copy of Diary Entries. Company H, Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers. 1862-1865. 20 pp. Very good.This is apparently a fair copy of entries of the original diary, perhaps to preserve it, as portions are described as illegible, blurred pencil writing. I can locate no other record of this diary. Appears to be period writing and paper. About 2900 words, with entries for some 85 days. Culver was twenty years old in August, 1862 when he enlisted as a musician. His service record is confirmed in the National Park Service records M548 Roll 3. Early after their enlistment the Regiment is rushed to Washington to protect the Capitol. The Eleventh took part in the battle of Fredericksburg. In November 1862 they march through Virginia: "November 19th. Took up our march at 7 A.M. in the rain. We went into camp about 2 P.M. opposite Fredericksburg, passing through Falmouth. The Rebels hold the other side of the river. Their troops are in sight. November 20th. Our… Read More

Great Northern Railway. A United States Survey Ordered. Twenty New Townships to be Surveyed from the Free Government Lands of the Milk River Valley, Montana. N.p.: Great Northern Railway Company. [1890s?] Pictorial wraps. Maps. 8.5 x 11 in. Illustrated. 4 pp. Full page map is Great Northern Railway Line and Connections, Poole Bros., Chicago. Also map of Free Government Lands in the Great Reservation of the Milk River Valley. Agent rubber stamp on rear cover. Has been folded. Edge chipping, some small edge tears, else very good.
OCLC shows no holdings. Great Northern Railroad promotional for Milk River Valley, east of Chinook. The St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway was the creation of James J. Hill. Hill and three other investors purchased the nearly bankrupt St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1878, renaming it the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company the following year. In 1890 all properties and operations were leased to the Great Northern Railway Company and the Great Northern… Read More

Noyes, Alva J. The Story of Ajax. Life in the Big Hole Basin. Helena, Montana: State Publishing Co. 1914. First edition. Dark blue cloth. Frontis. Index. Illustrated. Thirteen plates, including frontis. 158 pp.
Adams, Herd 1691: "Scarce." Reese, Six Score 82. Adams, Six Guns
1626. Graff 3051. Howes N219 "aa". "His autobiography, supposedly the first published in Montana, contains many references to the cattle industry and important Montana pioneers." -- Reese. "[T]he best of Montana pioneer books." -- Peter Decker. "First autobiography published in Montana; by a settler of 1860." -- Howes. "Noyes went to Montana in 1866 and this is an important and very rare history of early settlement and specifically the cattle industry there. A rare book, remarkably difficult to find." – Reese.