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198126725Tallahassee FL: University. As New. 1981. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - -- with a bonus offer-- . University paperback
198829483Yasuda Kasai Fine Art Foundation. New. 1988. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED--text in Japanese with some English translations. -- with a bonus offer-- . Yasuda Kasai Fine Art Foundation paperback
18472301030038James Lusk City of Jefferson 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Black Codes: Anti-abolitionist laws in Missouri Bound in contemporary leather. Hardcover. Mylar cover. Some wear rubbing with loss to extremities. Hinges cracked. Scattered toning. 398 pages ; 23 cm. Includes anti-abolitionist laws preventing free negroes from emigrating to the state keeping negroes illiterate to suppress negro preachers by requiring police officers to be present to prevent "all seditious speeches and disorderly and unlawful conduct of every kind" and to restrict meetings and assemblies and to fine free negroes and imprison them if they enter into Missouri. "In 1847 the General Assembly passed an act stating that 'No person shall keep or teach any school for the instruction of negroes or mulattos in reading or writing in this State.' An uneducated black population made white citizens feel more secure against both abolitionists and slave uprisings although it probably did little to suppress the desire for freedom. Numerous persons and organizations defied the law. In addition meetings religious or otherwise conducted by other African Americans were prohibited unless some sheriff constable marshal police officer etc. was present. Violations could receive a $500 fine six months in jail or both Laws 1847 pp. 103-104." - MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES Missouri's Early Slave Laws: A History in Documents. James Lusk, City of Jefferson hardcover
1778296649Philadelphia: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First. hardcover. near fine. 12 370 pages. Thick 12mo attractively bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt-decorated spine leather worn at head; light foxing throughout; pages trimmed a bit close at top but otherwise with ample margins. Philadelphie et se vend a Paris: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First Edition. A near fine copy with original drab wrappers bound in.<br/> <br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111.<br/> <br/> Chez Cellot & Jombert unknown
1778296649Philadelphia: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First. hardcover. near fine. 12 370 pages. Thick 12mo attractively bound in contemporary mottled calf with gilt-decorated spine leather worn at head; light foxing throughout; pages trimmed a bit close at top but otherwise with ample margins. Philadelphie et se vend a Paris: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First Edition. A near fine copy with original drab wrappers bound in.<br/><br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111.<br/><br/> Chez Cellot & Jombert unknown books
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Fine brown quarter leather bdg., brown boards with decorative embossing. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic script). 176 p., 33 unnumbered b/w plates of views of the Middle Eastern cities, Kaiser and queen's portraits, ills. of their maritime voyages, a general view of Beirut, a panorama of Jerusalem (in two pages), The Government House and Lake Tiberia in Beirut, a general view of Jaffa, churches and castles and Masjid-i Aksa of Jerusalem, Idlib, the interior of the Umayyad Mosque in Jerusalem, The Government House of Jaffa, Beirut - Damascus railways, street views and architectural buildings from Damascus, the market place of Jaffa, Bethlehem and the church, views of Trablus-Sam [i.e. Tripolis], ruins of Baalbek, and other numerous b/w photos, published for only this book. Slight stains on pages, a modern repair on a leaf with tape, otherwise a very good copy. Bound together with "Eski Sevda" which is a compilation of Turkish tales. First and only edition of this richly illustrated scarce and uncommon book was printed for the German Emperor Wilhelm II and his wife Augusta Victoria, the commemoration of the construction of Alman Çesmesi [i.e. German Fountain] in Constantinople, and the first anniversary of the Wilhelm II's travel to the Ottoman Empire in 1898. The fountain's design was drawn by the architect Spitta and constructed by the architect Schoele with the German architect Carlitzik and Italian architect Joseph Anthony, working on the project. The fountain was built in Germany and then transported piece by piece to Istanbul, reassembled in its current site, and officially opened on January 27, 1901, on the birthday of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Wilhelm II's voyage to the Levant in 1898 was a state visit that the German Emperor undertook in the Ottoman Empire between 25 October and 12 November 1898. The Kaiser started his journey to the Ottoman Eyalets with Istanbul on 16 October 1898; then he went by yacht to Haifa on 25 October. After visiting Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the Kaiser went back to Jaffa to embark on Beirut, where he took the train passing Aley and Zahlé to reach Damascus on 7 November. This book is richly illustrated including many views of the cities of this voyage's destinations like Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut (Beirut), Jafa, Baalbek, etc. On 10 November, Wilhelm went to visit Baalbek before heading to Beirut to board his ship back home on 12 November. His visit spurred interest in the German Templer colonies in Palestine. One of the Kaiser's traveling companions, Colonel Joseph von Ellrichshausen, initiated the formation of a society for the advancement of the German settlements in Palestine, named the Gesellschaft Zur Förderung der Deutschen Ansiedlungen in Palästina, in Stuttgart. It enabled the settlers to acquire land for new settlements by offering them low-interest loans. A subsequent second wave of German settlers founded Wilhelma (named after the Kaiser, now called Bnei Atarot) in 1902 near Lod, Walhalla (1903) near the original Jaffa colony, followed by Bethlehem of Galilee (1906). The German Settlement Society successfully encouraged some of the Templars to return to the official, national Protestant Church. The non-Templar colony of Waldheim (now Alonei Abba) was subsequently founded next to Bethlehem of Galilee in 1907 by proselytized Templers now affiliated with the Old-Prussian State Church. The visit resulted in the highest-profile political event in the life of Theodor Herzl, considered the founder of Zionism. Through the efforts of William Hechler, via Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Herzl publicly met Wilhelm II three times during the voyage, once in Istanbul (on 15 October 1898) and twice in Palestine (29 October and 2 November). The meetings significantly advanced Herzl's and Zionism's legitimacy in Jewish and world opinion. (Wikipedia). Only one copy in OCLC (Library of Congress. Karl Süssheim Collection, no. 1300) 900684728. Özege 7023
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Original handsome 1/3 leather bdgs. with attractive decorations at spines. A chipped on the second, and a period label on the first volume's spines. Spines are not homogeneous in their artistic style. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 2 volumes set: (412 p.; 398 p.). Extremely rare first printed Turkish edition of this first-hand account with a compilation of period sources of 150 dynasties from 1000 AH to c. 1655, self-translated from Arabic by the author, of his Arabic work titled "Fadhlakat al-Tawarîh" [i.e. The report of history] with an addendum for the Ottoman readers by adding what he had seen since 1653. In the book, the events starting from 1592 are told in accordance with the classical Islamic historiography tradition, and short biographies of the viziers, scholars, sheikhs, poets and famous people who died in that year are given at the end of each year. Hadji Khalifa influenced the Arab and Turkish historiographers, who succeeded him in terms of methodology. Hadji Khalifa was the celebrated Ottoman-Turkish polymath and leading literary author of the 17th-century Ottoman Empire. Franz Babinger hailed him "the greatest encyclopaedist among the Ottomans." OCLC lists only three sets: 1030930786, 1030930787 (One is complete in Orient-Institut in Istanbul); 634635343, 634635657 (Two are complete in Berlin and München).; Özege 5707.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Contemporary cloth bdg. Roy. 8vo. (23 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [4], [4], 454 p., 21 folded plates including numerous 288 b/w plates. Minor wear on extremities of boards and spine. Dark blue endpapers. A tear on the last plate, not missing. A minor chip on the head page. Several plates are missing. A plate was repaired in its period with a good Ottoman blind-stamped paper. Fading on boards. Otherwise a good copy. Extremely rare first edition of this first physics textbook ever published in the Ottoman Empire, including 32 modern physical subjects in 21 chapters with two articles, by early physics and math teachers in the Mühendishâne [i.e. Ottoman Engineering School] Mehmed Emin Dervish Pasha. This work, prepared to be taught in engineering schools, is valuable for its plain expression, variety of the first subjects in the period it deals with, and its content enriched with illustrations. This rare book is very important to be the first textbook to cover the following topics: Ratio of forces to velocities and their effects on objects, centripetal force, lever, pulley, inclined plane, weight, the pressure of liquids, the balance of gases, barometer, manometer, theoretical views on some musical instruments, heat dissipation force of objects, heat increase forces, thermometer, etc. Dervish Pasha also included in his book the pioneering experiments that he had done in Muhendishane, which attracted a lot of attention during his time in the Ottoman scientific society. (Sources: The First Physics Textbook in Ottoman State: Usûl-ü Hikmet-i Tabiiye (Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature), Akagündüz, S. Y.). Hegira 1281 = Gregorian 1865. Only two institutional copies in OCLC 49368193.; Özege 22161.
Very Good Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Extremely rare huge chromo-lithograph map in 24 sheets mounted on canvas, showing a large zone including Midyat (Mardin), Mosul, Mt. Cilo (Resko-Buzul) on the southeast; Kahta (Adiyaman), Munzur Mt., Divrigi (Sivas) on the west; the Black Sea on north and Turkish borders to Armenia, Azerbaijan on the east, and to Russia on the northeast. In addition shows in separate little portions, roads, mountains and hills, lakes, and telegraph and post ways and borders in that zone. Not in any libraries and any collection. An attractive map with its huge size and decorative surface. Several toponyms are underlined in red ink. Otherwise a very good example. Original folded map mounted on canvas. 118x112 cm. In Ottoman script (Turkish with Arabic letters). Scale: 1/630.000.
19124149Senior Class of 1912 Nebraska State Normal School at Peru 1912 A 1912 yearbook from Nebraska's first college first state-supported college. Stiff card boards full dark brown leather gilt front board lettering/decoration bright 10 3/8 x 8 inches 218 pp. Very good modest edgewear/rubbing; pages clean with no marks and binding sound. Rare. K071. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Senior Class of 1912, Nebraska State Normal School at Peru hardcover
19114148Senior Class Nebraska State Normal School at Peru 1911 A 1911 yearbook from Nebraska's first college first state-supported college. Hardcover full brown leather gilt front board lettering and decoration bright 10 1/2 x 8 inches 232 pp. Laid in: a card with a printed Peru poem. Very good modest edgewear; sunning spine; pages clean with no marks and binding tight. Rare. K071. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Senior Class, Nebraska State Normal School at Peru hardcover
66230Minneapolis: Mnemonic Press 2022. Edition limited to 25 signed and numbered copies 7½" x 5" consisting of a title leaf a 12-page gathering "Prologue" and six bifolia containing a total of 26 collages and mixed media created by Bart during the incipient days of the pandemic. Conceived and directed by Harriet Bart; produced by Paul Nylander at Four Tree Press; giclee and letterpress print on paper; boxed deigned by Jody Williams and executed by Campbell-Logan Bindery; folio titles excerpted from Emily Dickinson. Covid: Book of Days is based on mixed-media drawings and collages created in response to the events of March through May 2020. On March 13 Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz closed the State in response to the deadly spread of Covid-19. Bart went to her studio that day collected a small box of art materials a stack of precut paper and went home. There she created a workspace 18 x 18" the size of Emily Dickinson's desk. From March 13 thru May she created more than 50 mixed media drawings and collages some of which comprise Covid: Book of Days. From the artist's website: "Harriet Bart creates evocative content through the narrative power of objects the theater of installation and the intimacy of artists books. She has a deep and abiding interest in the personal and cultural expression of memory; it is at the core of her work. Using bronze and stone wood and paper books and words everyday and found objects Bart's work signifies a site marks an event and draws attention to imprints of the past as they live in the present. "Bart's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Germany and she has completed more than a dozen public art commissions in the United States Japan and Israel. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bush Foundation McKnight Foundation MacDowell Colony Virginia Center for Creative Arts NEA Arts Midwest and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Since 2000 Bart has published numerous fine-press books and mixed media bookworks. She has won three Minnesota Book Awards most recently in 2015 for Ghost Maps. Her work is included in many museum university and private collections. In 2020 the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis presented "Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection." Curated by Laura Wertheim Joseph Abracadabra. will be the first retrospective and monograph of her work. Bart is a guest lecturer curator and founding member W.A.R.M. and the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art in Minneapolis MN. Mnemonic Press unknown
1978ZB394429National Association for State Information Systems 1978-1988. volumes 3-13. 1978-1988. partly bound library markings textually clean & tight PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. National Association for State Information Systems unknown
2021DBS-9781774077504Delve 2021. 1st. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
2021DBS-9781774077504Delve 2021. 1st. Hardcover. New. Delve hardcover
First edition. Original printed boards, small 12mo, lvi, [94] pages. "This was suppressed, and the author and publisher were both imprisoned and fined. It is a satire on the New Yorkers"--Sabin 36827; Rosenbach, American Jewish Bibliography, 242. Shoemaker 12971; BAL 11020. Pages untrimmed as issued. Suppressed libelous satire of New York high society, mocking over 100 local personalities, by early Jewish American dramatist Samuel B. H. Judah (1804-1876) . His plan to publicize this book was nothing short of brilliant. Immediately following publication of Gotham and the Gothamites, Judah paid to have flyers posted throughout New York City, offering a reward for the identity of the anonymous author. He then sent anonymous letters to many of the personalities he had described in the book, calling their attention to the book's existence--one of whom was playwright (and eventual Sheriff of New York) Mordecai Manuel Noah, the subject of ten footnoted pages. Noah sued, with the trial finding Samuel Judah was guilty of libel, fined, and imprisoned, though he was pardoned five weeks later because of ill health. He was eventually admitted to the New York bar and practiced law there for over 50 years. Some foxing as expected, all endpapers present, touch of wear to crown of spine and and some rubbing to the covers front, but a nice solid clean copy with all original elements present. About Good++ Condition. (AMR-57-13-BDR)
322 pages. Translated from the first Russian edition. Contents include: Jews in the land of Kiev Russia and the Moscow State; The first Jews in Russia; The further growth rate of Jews in Russia; Politics of the Russian Government with regard to the Jewish question; How Jewish capital was created in Russia; The social structure of Russian Jewry; Jewish participation and their role in the cultural life of Russia; Jews in Russian literature and criticism; Jews - Russian lawyers; Russian Jewry at the beginning of the twentieth century; The Balis Affair; The Jewish question from February to October 1917; Jews in USSR; Personal-national autonomy; Thirty-year total; The war years; The post-war period; The state of Israel and the problem of double citizenship; Supplements I and II. Apparently the author self-published a first English edition in New York in 1967. This copy may be a later reprint as a small Truth Seeker address label has been placed over original text on the copyright page. Regardless, this copy appears to be circa 1970s or prior. Brown stains to lower portion of back cover modestly affect last three pages - text unaffected. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Signed by both Milton and Rose Friedman and briefly inscribed (For Bob) upon half-title page. Reprint of the 1980 first edition with a new Introduction by the authors. "In this classic about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Nobel laureate and presidential advisor Milton Friedman and his wife Rose explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington, and how good intentions often produce deplorable results when government is the middleman. The Friedmans also provide remedies for these ills - they tell us what to do in order to expand our freedom and promote prosperity." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. PRESSMAN p.242. Book
1975001905paris "Paroles peintes n°5", Odette Lazar-Vernet 1975 In-4 en feuilles Couv., chemise et étui Ed. originale
1883051482Pasadena Ca: R. W. C. Farnsworth / Pacific Press 1883. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 132 Pp. Bright Red Cloth Elaborately Gilt On Front Cover Elaborately Stamped In Blind On Rear Cover; Floral Endpapers. Pacific Press Imprint On Copyright Page And Their Pacific Press Book Bindery" Paper Label On Front Pastedown. Possibly The Earliest Book To Include "Pasadena" In Its Title. Presentation Inscription To A Member Of A Prominent Pasadena Family From Winifred Farnsworth Hall Daughter Of The Editor Dated In 1945 And With The Recipient's Ownership Signature And A Few Pencil Notes Around The Printed Text Referring To His Family. <br/> <br/> R. W. C. Farnsworth / Pacific Press hardcover
18571610310056Annapolis : Robert F. Bonsall; Baltimore: M. Curlander; State of Maryland; Michie Company 1857. Hardcover. Good. A massive 188 volume set that shows the evolution of Maryland's judiciary. Contains Reports of the Maryland Appeals Court for: 1851 - 1948 with gaps. Additional volumes 1961 1967 1968. Missing volumes: 76 85 90 91 93 172 175 177 190. This collection contains the Maryland Court of Appeals decisions during the mid-19th century to mid-20th century. Vols. 1-8 1851-1855 and vols. 32 1869-1870 41 1874 56 1880-1881 are the Peterson reprint printed circa 1896. Volumes are bound in tan legal cloth with red and black spine labels. Good binding and covers. Internally clean unmarked pages. Some of the early volumes have restoration work where the paper has torn at the margins. Scattered State of Maryland stamps. The set appears to have been from the Court's library. An important legal reference of the supreme court of Maryland. Opinions are arranged chronologically. Each volume has a table of cases a list of the judges of the court an index of petitions for certiorari a table of statutes cited and an index digest. <br> According to Judge Bond the Court was reformed in the 1851 Maryland Constitution which required a written opinion to be printed. For this reason the Reports begin in 1851. Many of the early Reports deal with slavery and "negroes". A few of the more interesting cases include: Northern Central Company vs. Mary Ann Scholl 1860 where the Court ruled that a railway company was liable for the loss of a slave owner of a slave who escaped into free soil Pennsylvania via a train ticket. Adeline Brown vs. Maryland 1865. Brown was accused of encouraging a negro apprentice to flee their servitude. Slavery was abolished in the 1864 Maryland Constitution. To sidestep this inconvenient liberation an apprenticeship scheme was constructed by Maryland to keep black children in bondage involuntary indenture i.e. slavery by another name. The rationale behind this law was that blacks needed to be taught "the habits of industry" and that this was in the best interest of the child. In practice this meant that black children were forced to be servants without pay to their former masters without the right of their parents to have a say. It gave the Court the ability to make this contractual "binding" of master to apprentice until the age of 21. The legislature in keeping with past practices made it illegal to encourage "apprentices" to abscond. In Coston v. Coston 25 Md. 500 Md. 1866 Leah Coston a recently freed slave attempted to gain her children who were being held in this apprenticeship program by her former master. Maryland's apprenticeship program was appealed to the US Supreme Court in Re Turner where Justice Samuel P. Chase ruled decidedly against it. See Zachary S. Schultz's Coston v. Coston 25 Md. 500 Md. 1866: The Plight of One Family Out of Many Fighting Apprenticeship in Reconstruction Maryland. Other landmark cases include In re Taylor 1877 where the court ruled African Americans didn't have the right to practice law not changed until 1888. In re Etta H. Maddox 1901 the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled Women could not practice law in Maryland. This decision was overturned in 1902 when Maddox became the first female attorney in Maryland. In Murray v. University of Maryland Donald Murray a black Marylander successfully sued for admission to the University of Maryland School of Law based on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Baltimore NAACP attorneys Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall the future Supreme Court Justice argued for Murray. In Weyler v. Gibson 110 Md. 636 1909 the Court ruled in favor of the state taking private property for the expansion of the Maryland State Penitentiary. The case featured the right of the state to use eminent domain and condemnation against a private property owner. In totality the Reports of the Maryland Court of Appeals show the gradual and hard-fought advancement of the rights of all people in Maryland. The Reports illustrate the evolution of Maryland from a conservative Southern agricultural state where the black population was denied basic freedoms to one that guaranteed equal protection under the law. Maryland served as the beachhead for the Nathan Ross Margold and the NAACP's legal strategy of attacking "separate but equal" in Murray and in Williams v. Zimmerman. <br> This collection represents an important history of Maryland law unlikely to be offered for sale again. This is an extremely large and heavy set that requires additional postage for delivery. Annapolis : Robert F. Bonsall; Baltimore: M. Curlander; State of Maryland; Michie Company hardcover
1618214886London.: No pubisher. 1618. 6 xxii 12 491 5 pages title page printed in red and black dedication preface contents references errata 18.4 x 14.8 cms endpapers renewed with the original front endpapers laid down aged-toned and chipped title-page toned and a little faded upper corner chipped with the inked owners' inscription of Thos. Bryan Richards 1798 and Wm. Cooke early inked marginalia and underlining; contemporary hollow-backed vellum manuscript author and title on the spine tidemark to the lower corner of the text leaves affecting the margin only a good sound copy. First edition of an antiquarian classic by John Selden 1584-1654 eminent jurist polymath prolific scholar and in recent times celebrated for his ownership of the earliest surviving Chinese merchant map of East Asia re-discovered with justifiable fanfare as a treasure of the Bodleian Library by Robert Batchelor in 2008. <br> <br>At the time of its release Selden's "The History of Tithes": "gave great offense to the clergy and was vigorously refuted in a number of volumes to which Selden was forbidden the right to print replies" Pforzheimer. It has been noted that the absence of the printer's name and the place of publication showed that Selden anticipated an unfavourable reaction to his denial of divine right of tithes. He was not disappointed. The work was suppressed and Selden was forced to apologize for having given offense-- and the book was withdrawn from circulation. His work was much studied: this copy with early marginalia: "by this Historie the Right of tithing belong not to ye profession of ye Canonist Civilian or Divine but with Lawyers." the last three words hastily crossed out. <br> <br>Early owners include London Antiquary Thomas Bryan Richards whose extensive Library was sold by King & Lochée in 1812. . [No pubisher, hardcover
1778152956Philadelphia: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First. hardcover. near fine. 12 370 pages. Thick 12mo handsomely rebound in modern tree calf with red & green leather labels on gilt-decorated spine; deckled edges very light foxing and staining to some pages but mostly the text is bright and clean with wide margins. Philadelphie et se vend a Paris: Chez Cellot & Jombert 1778. First Edition. A near fine copy with original drab wrappers bound in.<br/> <br/> The earliest collection of American state constitutions printed in France. Contains early printing in French in a book of the Articles of Confederation and the Declaration of Independence. "First collected edition compiled by Regnier." Howes R-111.<br/> <br/> Chez Cellot & Jombert unknown
192259401Framingham MA: R.H. Long Bay State Automobile Company 1922. Oblong 4to. 15 linen-backed silver gelatin photographs on thick matte finish paper white linen hinges at gutter margin two brass screwposts at spine very slight shelfwear rubbing NF. These dealer showroom sales photographs depict the inaugural model year of the short-lived Bay State Automobile founded and manufactured by Long in Framingham MA. Initially a shoe manufacturer he had initially begun manufacturing automobile bodies for the Franklin Automobile Co. based in Syracuse NY during World War I and afterwards became inspired to build his own. The Bay State Automobile Company featured a Continental Motors Co. 6-cylinder engine and introduced his “assembled†automobile at the 1922 New York Auto Show. It’s estimated that approximately 4000 Bay States were produced during the four years and were often successful in popular automobile travel endurance contests at the time. The photographs here open with the 2-door sedan fitted with a Continental package on the rear and white wall tires followed by young well-dressed women driving a 2-door coupe 7-passenger 4-door sedan 4-door touring car and 2-door roadster. Of additional interest are the photographs of the R.H. Long Factory formerly used for shoe manufacturing including five photos showing the labor intensive process of building the wooden frame covered in steel bodies machinery & the factory floor along with two showing side & upper views of the chassis and Continental straight-6 engine. In 1927 Long secured the Cadillac dealership contract which initially sold both La Salle and Cadillac models in competition with Packard and the company still operates to this day in Southborough MA. It is believed only one Bay State Automobile a 1927 model survives intact to this day. See: Cadillac’s Marathon Man Reprinted with Permission Cadillac Insider Magazine May/June 1991 Long Automotive Group 2022. R.H. Long, Bay State Automobile Company, unknown
