Comprising Early Voyages of Discovery ; Pre-Columbian and Columbian ; First Settlement of the Colonies ; French and the Indian War ; the Revolution ; Washingtoniana ; War of 1812 ; War with Mexico ; Civil and Political History of the United States ; Rare State, County and Town Local Histories of Every State and Territory ; Biographies of Eminent Men ; an Unusual Collection of Family Histories and Genealogies ; the American Indians, Their Antiquities, Ethnology, History, Wars, and Languages ; Arctic Voyages of Discovery ; British America, Canada ; Mexico ; Central and South America and the West Indian Islands