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Excerpt from The Bibliographer's Manual of American History, Vol. 1: Containing an Account of All State, Territory, Town and County Histories Relating to the United States of North America, With Verbatim Copies of Their Titles, and Useful Bibliographical Notes, Together With the Prices at Which They Have Been Sold for The This book is designed to be as complete a list as possible of the titles of the books and pamphlets that have been published upon American State, County and Township history. It includes the titles of the books, pamphlets and reprints that have been published previous to January first, 1904. Except in a very few important instances no books published after that date are listed. Books upon early territorial history and exploration have been included when containing information of historical importance' Thus, titles, are given of some books upon New England, the Northwest, the Middle States and the South. When possible, the title given is verbatim. A at the end of the title signifies that the book has been examined and its title and pagination verified. The title usually given is the inner one, upon the title page proper, except in some instances of the older books having several titles, when each one is given. Following the title may be found such items of bibliographical interest as have been thought worthy of note. The prices for which each book has been sold are then given, with a description of its condition. Where no binding is mentioned, the original is to be understood; the price given, unless the edition is specified, is that for the original edition, the price of later editions following. The price is for the whole work and not for each volume separately. The auction lists examined include the important ones since 1860, and in some cases embrace earlier sales. Where the name of the owner is to be found on the auction catalogue, it is given; where the sale is anonymous the auctioneer's name alone is mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.