[LITERATURE--AMERICAN]. A large collection of works of American literature, travel and history, approximately 40 volumes, 8o and 4o, most worn and soiled. Including: An Answer to a Pamphlet entitled Taxation no Tyranny. London, 1775. Later calf-backed boards. -- RAYNAL. A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. London, 1783. 8 volumes, 8o. Contemporary calf. -- COXE, Tench. A View of the United States of America... Dublin, 1795. 8o. Contemporary calf. -- JEFFERSON, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Philadelphia, 1801. 8o. Plates. Modern buckram. "First Hot-Pressed Edition." -- BRACKENRIDGE, H.M. History of the Late War... Baltimore, 1817. 8o. Plates. Old calf. -- BIRKBECK, Morris. Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois. London, 1818. 8o. Folding maps. Contemporary half morocco. Third edition. -- View of the Valley of the Mississippi, or the Emigrant's and Traveller's Guide to the West. Philadelphia, 1834. 8o. Original cloth. -- PECK, J.M. A New Guide for Emigrants. Boston, 1836. 12o. Original cloth. -- COOPER, James Fenimore. The History of the Navy of the United States. Philadelphia, 1839. 2 volumes, 8o. Original cloth. -- FIELD, Cyrus. The Atlantic Telegraph. Report of the Proceedings at a Banquet given to Cyrus W. Field. New York, 1866. 4o. Extra-illustrated. Contemporary quarter calf. -- DEPEW, Chauncey M. One Hundred Years of American Commerce... New York, 1895. Thick 4o. Plates. Original morocco, name of Philip D. Armour stamped in gilt on front cover. (40)