[Rarebooks] FS: Benson Lossing, American Historical Record (periodical)

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      LOSSING, Benson J., editor.  The American Historical Record and 
Repository of Notes and Queries.  Concerning the History and 
Antiquities of America and Biography of Americans.  Philadelphia: Chase 
& Town, 1872-1874.
      36 issues of this periodical bound in three volumes, comprising 
Volume 1, Number 1 (January 1872) through Volume 3, Number 36 (December 
1874), all published under this title (subsequently issued as 'Potter's 
American Monthly').  Illustrated with a chromolithograph view of 
Annapolis in 1797, woodcut portraits, and other black and white 
illustrations.  Bound in three-quarter black calf and marbled boards, 
gilt lettered spines, with the original wrappers and ads bound in.  
[iv], 576; [iv], 508; [ii], 574 pp.  Modest rubbing to the edges, 
otherwise a fine set.
      A complete run of this scarce historical periodical under its 
original title.  Not mentioned in Lomazow, American Periodicals (1996), 
either under this title or under 'Potter's Historical Monthly.'
      For a representative picture of the contents of this interesting 
periodical we will simply enumerate the contents of Volume 1, No. 9 
(September 1872): 1) A sketch by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., of the Dutch 
Reformed Church at New Utrecht, Long Island, built in 1690; 2) an 
outline sketch of early newspapers in Boston and New York, by William 
L. Stone; 3) an  account of the captivity among the Turks of William 
Foster, a shipmaster of Charlestown, Mass., in 1671; 4) a brief record 
of Royal communications to the American colonies at the outbreak of 
Queen Anne's War, or the War of the Spanish Succession; 5) the first 
publication of a manuscript poem, found among the correspondent's 
grandfather's papers, on the burning in Narragansett Bay of the British 
armed schooner 'Gaspee'; 6) sketch of the career of the Polish-American 
patriot Count Pulaski; 7) an account of "physionnnotracy," an engraving 
process used by the Philadelphia printer St. Memin for producing 
profile portraits; and 8) an article on the first railroads and 
locomotives in the United States.  The various issues also have a fair 
amount of material on the Civil War.
      In addition, each issue includes a section of Notes and Queries; a 
section of Autograph Letters--type reproductions of various manuscript 
letters of historical interest, with facsimile signatures; Societies 
and Their Proceedings; Current Notes; Obituaries; and Literary Notices. 
  Each of the three volumes has a general index, an index of 
illustrations, and an index of facsimile signatures.  A gold-mine of 
fascinating Americana.

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