LANCASTER MENNONITE HISTORICAL SOCIETY DR. ROBERT HESS BOOK SALE SATURDAY , OCTOBER 13, 2012, 9:00 A.M. TEL : (717) 393-9745; FAX : (717) 393-8751; EMAIL : [email protected] WEBSITE : http://www.lmhs.org/ The Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society will conduct an all-day sale of the Dr. Robert Hess Book Collection on October 13, 2012 at the Fivepointville, PA Fire Hall (please note that this sale will not take place at the society’s headquarters).The Fivepointville Fire Hall is located along Route PA Route 897 on the western edge of Fivepointville. The books in this sale are all from the collection of the late physician, Dr.Robert Hess. This expansive collection includes books on the subjects of local and Mennonite History, including rare books on the Civil War, nature, religion, and other interesting topics. Catalogs for this sale are available from the society for $8.00, ($4.00 for society members) by calling 717-393-9745 or writing to the society at 2215 Millstrean Road, Lancaster, PA 17602. The catalog is also available for free on our web site at www.lmhs.org/auction.html . 1. Catton, Bruce. The Centennial History of the Civil War , 1961-63, vols. 1-2, The Coming Fury (2 copies); Terrible Swift Sword ; 564, 559pp (gc). 2. Elson, Henry W. The Civil War through the Camera , 1912. 16 pts., ca. 20-24pp/pt (gc). 3. Kane, Harnett T. Plantation Parade: The Grand Manner in Louisiana , 1945. 342pp (gc); Carmer, Carl. Stars Fell on Alabama , 1934. 271pp (gc); Vandiver, Frank E., Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance , 1952. 349pp (gc). 4. Dodd, William E. Expansion and Conflict: The Riverside History of the United States , 1915. 353pp (gc); Thompson, Charles Willis. The Fiery Epoch, 1830-1877 , 1st ed., 1931. 365pp (mc); Simkins, Francis Butler. The South, Old and New: A History of 1820-1947 , 1947. 548pp (gc). 5. The Civil War . Vol. 1: Eisenschiml, Otto, and Ralph Newman. The American Iliad as Told by Those Who Lived It ; Vol. 2: Newman, Ralph, and E.B. Long. The Picture Chronicles of the Events, Leaders and Battlefields of the War , 1956. 719, 254pp (ub, gc). 6. The Photographic History of the Civil War . Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller, 1957, vols. 1-10 in 5. ca. 300- 400pp/vol. (ub, gc). 7. Stern, Philip van Doren. The Confederate Navy: A Pictorial History , 1962. 255pp (vgc); Buchanan Lamont. A Pictorial History of the Confederacy , 1951. 288pp (gc). 8. Freemen, Douglas Shouthall. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command , 1942-44. Vols. 1-3. 773, 760, 862pp (ub, gc). 9. The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War , 1960. Edited by Richard M. Ketchum. 630pp (vgc); Lossing, Benson J. A History of the Civil War, Illustrated , 1912. 512pp (mc). 10. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War . Edited by Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, 1956, vols. 1-4. ca. 750pp/vol. (ub, gc). 11. The Blue and the Gray: The Story of the Civil War as Told by Participants . Edited by Henry Steele Commager, 1950, vols. 1-2. 1201pp/2 vols. (ub, gc). 12. Hoehling, A.A. The Last Train from Atlanta , 1958. 549pp (gc); Longstreet, James. From Manassas to Appomattox , 1896. 698pp (mc). 13. Owsley, Frank Lawrence. King Cotton Diplomacy , 1959. 614 pp (gc); Nichols, Alice. Bleeding Kansas , 1954. 307pp (gc); Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Compact History of the Civil War , 1 st ed., 1960. 445pp (vgc); Adams, Henry. The Great Secession Winter of 1860-61; Edited by George Hochfield, 1958. 428pp (gc). 14. Whipple, Wayne. The Heart of Lincoln , 1915. 101pp (gc); Fox, George G. Abraham Lincoln’s Religion: Sources of the Great Emancipator’s Religious Inspiration , 1 st edition, 1959. 120pp (gc); Wolf, William J. The Almost Chosen People , 1 st edition, 1959. 215pp (gc); Carnegie, Dale. Lincoln, the Unknown , 1932. 302pp (gc). 15. Lincoln’s Devotional , 1957. 192pp (gc); Schurz, Carl. Abraham Lincoln , 1891. 117pp (gc); The Poets’ Lincoln: Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President ; Edited by Osborn H. Oldroyd, 1915. 261pp (mc); Butterworth, Hezekiah. In the Boyhood of Lincoln: A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk , 1893. 268pp (mc). 16. Fox, George G. Abraham Lincoln’s Religion , 1 st edition, 1959. 120pp ( ); Donald, David. Lincoln Reconsidered , 1 st edition, 1956. 200pp (vgc); Drinkwater, John. Abraham Lincoln: A Play , 1919. 112pp (mc); Bullard, F. Lauriston. Abraham Lincoln and the Widow Bixby , 1946. 154pp (gc). 17. Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years , 1926. Vols. 1-2. 480, 482pp (ub, gc); Sandburg, Carl. Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years , 1954. Vol. 1. 762pp (gc). 18. Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln Collector: The Story of Oliver R. Barrett’s Great Private Collection , 1960. 344pp (gc); Nicolay, John G. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln , 1902. 578pp (mc); Lincoln for the Ages , edited by Ralph G. Newman, 1960. 512pp (gc); The Lincoln Reader . By Paul M. Angle, 1947. 564pp (mc). 19. Tarbell, Ida M. The Life of Abraham Lincoln , 1917. Vol. 2. 475pp (mc); Donald, David. Lincoln’s Herndon , 1 st ed., 1948. 396pp (gc); Randall, J.G. Lincoln the President , 1953. 467pp (gc); Chittenden, L.E. Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel , 1909. 54pp (mc); Angle, Paul M. The Lincoln Reader , 1947. 564pp (gc). 20. The Lincoln Treasury. Compiled by Caroline Thomas Harnsberger, edited by Arthur Brogue, Jeanette Elder, and Harold Flitcraft, 1950. 372pp (gc). The Lincoln Encyclopedia . Edited by Archer H. Shaw, 1950. 395pp (gc); Horner, Harlan Hoyt, 1950. 395pp (gc); Horner, Harlan Hoyt. Lincoln and Greenly , 1953. 432pp (dj, gc). Page 2 October 13, 2012 21. Wall, Bernhardt. Following Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865 , illustrated ed., 1943. 415pp (gc); Chittenden, L.E. Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration , 1891. 470pp (gilt top edge, gc); Hayes, Melvin L. Mr. Lincoln Runs for President , 1 st ed., 1960. 352pp (gc); Allen, Nevin. The Emergence of Lincoln , 1951. Vol. 1: Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos 1857-1859 , 472pp (gc). 22. Williams, Harry T. Americans at War: The Development of the American Military System from the Revolution to 1860 , 1960. 105pp (gc); Keim, De Benneville Randolph. Sherman: A Memorial in Art, Oratory, and Literature by the Society of the Army of the Tennessee with the Aid of the Congress of the United States of America , 1904. 410pp (gc); With Sherman to the Sea: The Civil War Letters, Diaries, and Reminiscences of Theodore F. Upson . Edited by Oscar Osburn Winther, 1958. 181pp (gc). 23. Sawyer, Joseph Dillaway. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans . Edited by William Elliot Griffis, 1922. Vols. 1- 3. 372, 410, 444pp (gilt top edges, gc). 24. The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States . Edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel 1925-29, vols. 1-6, 8-12, 14-15., ca 325pp/vol (ub, gilt top edges, gc). 25. Grove, J.M. Personal Manuscript and Journal from Franklin and Marshall Academy . 190 handwritten pp (marbled edges, gc). 26. Russel, Paul M. Let’s Look at Our Heritage in Eastern Lancaster County: “Breakbasket of the Revolution,” 1977. 154pp (gc); Loose, John Willson. The Heritage of Lancaster , 1978. 226pp (dj, vgc). 27. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: A History . Edited by H.M.J. Klein, 1924, vols. 1-4. 544, 628, 224, 484pp (gc). 28. Reading and Berks County Pennsylvania: A History . Edited by Cyrus T. Fox, 1925, vols. 1-3. ca 400pp/vol. (gc). 29. Reading and Berks County Pennsylvania: A History , Edited by Cyrus T. Fox, 1925, vols. 1-3. ca 400pp/vol. (gc). 30. The City of Reading Pennsylvania and the Dedication of City Hall ,[1929]. 47pp (pb, mc); 50th Anniversary Story of Berkshire Knitting Mills, Reading , Pa., [1956]. 47pp (pb, gc); Official Souvenir of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Patriotic Order Sons of America , Reading, Pennsylvania. August 23-28, 1897. 96pp (gc); Industrial Berks County, 1748-1948 , 1948. 34pp (gc). 31. Seton, Ernest Thompson. Lives of Game Animals , 4 vols., 1925-28. ca 750pp/vol. (ub, gc). 32. Nature Neighbors by Color Photography: Embracing Birds, Plants, Animals, and Minerals . Edited by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1914, vols. 1, 3-5 [1 of 2,050 sets]. ca. 200pp (ub, gc). 33. Shiras, George. Hunting Wild Life with Camera and Flashlight , 1936, vols. 1-2. 450, 454pp (ub, gc). 34. Ordmond, Clyde. The Complete Book of Hunting , 1972. 431pp (gc); Shiras, George. Hunting Wild Life with Camera and Flashlight , 1936, vol. 2. 454pp (gc); Roosevelt, Theodore. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist , 1910. 529pp (mc). 35. House, Homer D. The Wild Flowers of New York , 1918, vols. 1-2. 181, 180pp (ub, mc). 36. Forbes, Allen. Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland , printed to Commemorate the Tercentenary of the Landing of the Pilgrims, 1920-21, vols. 1-2. 225pp/vol. (ub, gilt top edge, covers with gilt tool, gc). 37. Dunlap, William. History of the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and the State of New York, to the Adoption of the Federal Constitution , 1839-40, vols. 1-2. 487, 528pp (ub, ds, mc); The Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York, 1777-1795, 1801-1804 , 1899-1900, vols. 1-4. ca. 750- 875pp (ub, mc). 38. Motley, John Lothrop. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History . Vols. 1-2. 763, 782pp (ub, gilt top edge, gc). 39. Keuffel and Esser Company General Price List Catalogue , 1937. 580pp (mc); Kolesch and Company Illustrated Catalogue and Price-List , 1913. 336pp (mc); Implement Blue Book: The Standard Implement and Vehicle Directory of the United States , 1913. 543pp (gc). Davidson, Brownlee J., and Leon Wilson Chase.