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41Title:  A sketch of the history of Maryland during the three first years after its settlement: to which is prefixed, a copious introduction    
 Creator:  Bozman, John Leeds, 1757-1823 
 Publication:  Edward J. Coale, Baltimore,1811. 
 Notes:  Introduction: p. 9-259. Republished as v. 1 of the author's History of Maryland, Baltimore, 1837. 
 Call #:  F13DA B793 
 Extent:  387 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Maryland -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | America -- Discovery and exploration | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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42Title:  The explorers of North America, 1492-1806    
 Creator:  Brebner, John Bartlet, 1895-1957 
 Publication:  Macmillan Company, New York,1937, c1933. 
 Notes:  Four folded maps tipped in. 
 Call #:  E101 B85 
 Extent:  xv, 502 p. : maps ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  North America -- History | Explorers | America -- Discovery and exploration
 
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43Title:  The first frontier    
 Creator:  Coleman, R. V. (Roy V.), 1885- 
 Publication:  C. Scribner's Sons, New York,1948. 
 Notes:  Bibliography: p. 409-440. 
 Call #:  E191 C692 
 Extent:  xiii, 458 p. illus., ports., maps. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  America -- Discovery and exploration | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | United States -- Social life and customs
 
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44Title:  A pictorial history of America: embracing both the northern and southern portions of the New World    
 Creator:  Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860 
 Publication:  House & Brown, Hartford,1853. 
 Call #:  E178 G655 1853 
 Extent:  848, 48 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  America -- Discovery and exploration | America -- History | United States -- History
 
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45Title:  Nouvelles recherches sur les derniers voyages du navigateur florentin, et le reste des documents et âeclaircissements sur lui ; avec les textes dans les mâemes langues qu'ils ont âetâe âecrits    
 Creator:  Varnhagen, Francisco Adolfo deVisconde de Porto Seguro, 1816-1878 
 Publication:  C. Gerold, Vienne,1870] 
 Call #:  E125 V5V4 
 Extent:  57 p., [1] p. of plates : ill., fold. map ; 35 cm. 
 Subjects:  Vespucci, Amerigo, -- 1451-1512 | America -- Discovery and exploration | America -- Names
 
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46Title:  Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical discovery in the interior of North America in its historical relations, 1534-1700    
 Creator:  Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 
 Publication:  Houghton, Mifflin, Boston and New York,1894. 
 Call #:  F25J W782 
 Extent:  viii,379p. incl.illus.,ports.,maps,plans. 23cm. 
 Subjects:  New France | America -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River Valley
 
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47Title:  Adventurers in the wilderness    
 Creator:  Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 
 Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939
 Wood, William Charles Henry, 1864-1947
 Publication:  Yale University Press, New Haven,[c1925] 
 Call #:  E178.5 P132 v.1 
 Extent:  369 p. illus., maps (part col.) ports. 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians of North America | America -- Discovery and exploration | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
 
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48Title:  The diplomatic history of America: its first chapter 1452-1493-1494    
 Creator:  Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910 
 Publication:  B.F. Stevens, London,1897. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references. 
 Call #:  E110 H323 
 Extent:  viii, 230 p. : map ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Tordesillas, Treaty of, 1494 | Demarcation line of Alexander VI | America -- Discovery and exploration
 
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49Title:  The conquerors of the New world and their bondsmen: being a narrative of the principal events which led to negro slavery in the West Indies and America    
 Creator:  Helps, ArthurSir, 1813-1875 
 Publication:  W. Pickering, London,1848-1852. 
 Call #:  F1411 H482 
 Extent:  2 v. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery | Indians, Treatment of | America -- Discovery and exploration
 
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50Title:  Examen critique de l'histoire de la gâeographie du nouveau continent et des prográes de l'astronomie nautique aux quinziáeme et seiziáeme siáecles    
 Creator:  Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 
 Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
 Publication:  Gide, Paris,1836-1839. 
 Notes:  On page preceding t.p.: Histoire do la gâeographie du nouveau continent. Originally published as "1. ptie., 4. sâection" of "Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland." Bibliographical footnotes. 
 Call #:  F2221 H919 
 Extent:  5 v. : maps (4 fold.) ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Geography -- History | Navigation -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration
 
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51Title:  American history: ... giving to the reader a full view of the history of America from the earliest discovery to the present day    
 Creator:  Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838 
 Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838
 Publication:  Leavitt and Allen, New York,[1855?] 
 Notes:  Vol. 2 has title: Library of American history. 
 Call #:  E173 K69 Oversize 
 Extent:  2 v. in 1. : ill. ; 30 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration | America -- History
 
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52Title:  The Two Americas: their complete history from the earliest discoveries to the present day    
 Creator:  Williams, Henry Llewellyn, 1842- 
 Stephenson, L. M.
 Publication:  Allen & Willmarth, New York,1880. 
 Notes:  Added t.p., illus. Earlier editions appeared under title: The People's history of America. Includes "an appendix by H.L. Williams, bringing the history of both North and South America down to the present day. To which are added Hubbard's History of the Indian Wars in New England, and "A general summary of the development of the United States ..." ; with an introduction by P.C. Headley. Also a full chronology ... from the year 458 to the present time ... [by L. M. Stephenson]." 
 Call #:  E173 K71 Oversize 
 Extent:  2 v. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 31 cm. 
 Subjects:  America -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration | United States -- History
 
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53Title:  Library of American history: a reprint of standard works: connected by editorial remarks, abounding with copious notes, biographical sketches, and miscellaneous matter, intended to give the reader a full view of American history, colonial and national    
 Creator:  Knapp, Samuel L. (Samuel Lorenzo), 1783-1838 
 Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798
 Robertson, William, 1721-1793
 Grahame, James, 1790-1842
 Ramsay, David, 1749-1815
 Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795
 Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704
 Church, Benjamin, 1639-1718
 Publication:  C.H. Jackson & Co, J.H. Turney, New York,1835-1836. 
 Notes:  Originally pub. in weekly numbers, under title: The American library. Later editions published anonymously under titles: American history ... [1855] The two Americas ... 1880. 
 Call #:  E173 K67 
 Extent:  2 v. in 1. front. (port.) 29 x 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- History | America -- Discovery and exploration | America -- History
 
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54Title:  The birth of the American people    
 Creator:  Morgan, James, 1861-1955 
 Publication:  The Macmillan company, New York,1930. 
 Call #:  E188 M84 
 Extent:  xi p., 1 Á., 335 p. front., plates. ports., double map, facsims. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  America -- Discovery and exploration | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
 
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55Title:  The westward crossings: Balboa, Mackenzie, Lewis and Clark    
 Creator:  Mirsky, Jeannette, 1903-1987 
 Publication:  A.A. Knopf, New York,1946. 
 Notes:  "First edition." "Sources and background books": p. 361-365. 
 Call #:  E27 M676 
 Extent:  xv, 365, xiii p., 1 Á. plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) plan, facsims. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Explorers | America -- Discovery and exploration | North America -- Description and travel
 
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56Title:  History of the New World called America    
 Creator:  Payne, Edward John, 1844-1904 
 Publication:  At the Clarendon Press, Oxford,1892-99. 
 Notes:  No more pub. up to time of author's death, Dec. 1904. cf. Geogr. journal, Feb. 1905. 
 Call #:  E58 P346 
 Extent:  2 v. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians | America -- Antiquities | America -- Discovery and exploration
 
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57Title:  The pioneer heroes of the New world: from the earliest period (982) to the present time    
 Creator:  Brownell, Henry Howard, 1820-1872 
 Publication:  Mack R. Barnitz, Cincinnati, Ohio,1857. 
 Notes:  Added engraved colored title-page. First issued as "Discoverers, pioneers, and settlers of North and South America ..." 1853. Appendix : Kansas and Nebraska territories, p. [721]-736. 
 Call #:  B 3946 
 Extent:  736 p., [38] leaves of plates (some colored) : ill.,ports. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  America -- Discovery and exploration | America -- History | Ohio imprints 1857
 
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58Title:  Morning stars of the New world    
 Creator:  Parker, Helen Eliza FitchMrs, 1827-1874 
 Publication:  J.C. Derby, Phillips, Sampson and Co.; [etc., etc.], New York, Boston,1854. 
 Notes:  Later edition has title: Discoverers and pioneers of America. 
 Call #:  B 5302 
 Extent:  xii, [13]-416 p. front., plates. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Biography | America -- Discovery and exploration | Ohio imprints
 
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59Title:  Algemeine geschichte der lèander und vèolker von America: nebst einer vorrede Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens ; mit vielen kupfern    
 Creator:  Schrèoter, Johann Friedrich, 1710-1788 
 Lafitau, Joseph-Franðcois, 1681-1746
 Charlevoix, Pierre-Franðcois-Xavier de, 1682-1761
 Publication:  Bey J. J. Gebauer, Halle,1752-1753. 
 Notes:  Dedication signed: "J. F. S." Includes index. The first part, comprising most of v. 1, is a translation of J. F. Lafitau's "Moeurs des sauvages americains comparâees aux moeurs des premiers tems", Paris, 1723. Part 2 is compiled from various sources, and includes "Das chronologische verzeichnis der entdeckungen der Newen welt", translated from Charlevoix's "Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France, 1745" (i. e. 1744) cf. Vorrede. Baumgarten's "Vorrede" contains a bibliography of the New world. 
 Call #:  E143 S382 
 Extent:  2 v. : ill., plates (part fold.), maps (part fold.) ; 26 x 31 cm. 
 Subjects:  Indians | America -- Description and travel | America -- Discovery and exploration
 
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60Title:  The trve travels, adventvres and observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America: beginning about the yeere 1593, and continued to this present 1629    
 Creator:  Smith, John, 1580-1631 
 Publication:  Republished at the Franklin Press, William W. Gray, Printer, Richmond,1819. 
 Notes:  Includes "The generall historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles ... divided into sixe bookes ..." Books 1-3 are paged continuously with "The trve travels," forming part of v. 1 (p. 55-247) with separate t.-p. bearing the note "From the London ed. of 1627." Books 4-6, forming v. 2, have title: The generall historie of Virginia ... vol. II. From the London edition of 1629 ... 
 Call #:  F16DA S652T 
 Extent:  2 v. : ill., fold. plates, fold. map ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Voyages and travels | America -- Discovery and exploration | Imprints, Early American To 1820
 
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