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18092212260018Boston: Edward Cotton 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo original marbled stiff wrappers 168 pp. Includes map. Some toning offsetting. Minor splitting at wrap hinge. Listings for John Quincy Adams Paul Revere John Hancock etc. Edward Cotton hardcover
1809106397<p>Pamphlet 12mo original marbled stiff wrappers 168 pp. Lacking map bookplate on front pastedown wear soiling and fading to binding with edge wear and some splitting at spine tear on one leaf foxing and toning; good overall. Scarce Boston directory published in 1809 does not appear in auction records. With period bookplate of E Loring Richards. Includes a listing of streets and wharves. Lists some important people from the period including John Quincy Adams Paul Revere and John Hancock.</p> Edward Cotton,
1874004105<p>London: House of Commons 1874. Collection of papers relating to the Boston election of 1874 comprising - 1. 'Copy of the Shorthand Writer's Notes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of the Boston Election Petition' iv 76pp; 2. 'For the Trial of Election Petitions' pp19-30; 3. 'Summons to Witness' form 1p; 4. 'Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 5 vi-xiv 2 3-51pp 1; and 5. 'Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 3 2-268pp. Half calf and marbled paper over boards raised bands spine in six panels title label to second panel gilt thick and thin double rules either side of bands. Rubbed to extremities lightly foxed to edges and occasionally to margins a few pen lines to margins previous owners name to head of a few of the different reports but generally clean. The fourth named includes a poll book printed on blue paper. The Liberals William Ingram and Thomas Parry were initially elected but "an election petition found extensive bribery relating to Parry's votes which on the initial count totalled 1347. However 353 of these were struck off - and further may have been taken if the process had not stopped on 8 June 1874 - leading to Malcolm's election instead. A Royal Commission was established to investigate the borough. A separate petition against Ingram was dropped" Wikipedia - Boston Election page. First Edition. Hardback. Good. Folio.</p> House of Commons hardcover
1825102273<p>Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN.</p>
186943274Boston 1869. Near fine some browning at upper edge. 1 sheet. Folio. Signed and dated 1 January 1869. Sealed with 50 cent Internal Revenue conveyance stamp. Title arches over an etching of a three masted ship steaming at sea. Boston Lloyds was an insurance organization formed as "an Association for the purpose of taking Marine Risks by means of Individual Underwriting" and "by power of attorney have ing each member authorized Richard S. Haven to make insurance for them in their individual capacity as the said Richard S. Haven may deem proper; and for that purpose to perform all acts necessary to the proper fulfillment of the object." There were sixty members each allowing Haven to commit them up to $500 each. One of the firms was S. C. Thwing & Co. of Boston whose commitment document this is. Its primary owner was Supply Clap Thwing 1798-1871 a wealthy businessman with roots tracing back to the Pilgrims. He was active in the mercantile trade between the East Indies and New Orleans was a ship owner and active in the coal trade. Richard S. Haven came to Boston from California became an insurance agent for a number of companies before forming Boston Lloyds which unfortunately did not last half a decade perhaps failing about 1874. Rare. The only known documents on Boston Lloyds are held in the archives of the Peabody Essex Museum. The United States Insurance Gazette V. 28 new series 1868-9 pp. 26-7; Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society p. 251. unknown
189445223Boston 1894. Toned and torn along folds but still very good. 4 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Written on four sheets of Parker House Stationary and prepared for the annual School Festival in Mechanics Hall for the year's graduates from Boston's Public Schools on June 30th 1894.<br /> <br /> Frederic Thomas Greenhalge 1842-1896 was a British-born Harvard graduate who practiced law before he made the transition into Massachusetts politics. Greenhalge served as Mayor of Lowell Massachusetts 1880-1881; was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1885; was a member of the US House of Representatives 1889-1891 and was the Massachusetts Governor -the first foreign born- from 1894 until his death in 1896. He abolished the annual Fast Day celebration replacing it with Patriots' Day.<br /> <br /> "This my young friends is a world - not of rest & recreation except in evanescent moments - but of toil and trial - of stress & storm - and thank Heaven of achievement and triumph."<br /> <br /> with photo portrait of Greenhalge on a 4.5 x 7 inch card with printed signature "Compliments of The Republican Committee of Massachusetts."<br /> <br /> with clipping from the Boston Transcript Saturday June 30 1894. Torn in half with some loss but contains complete transcript of the speech and description of the proceedings. unknown
184438801Boston: John H. Eastburn City Printer 1844. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean copy. 13 pp. 8vo. The Primary School committee was much agitated by the Secretary of the Board of Education Horace Mann's Seventh Annual Report which complained that there was no real system of education in Boston specifically that the teachers in the higher grades were forced to teacher the basic elements that should have been covered earlier: "The elements must be taught somewhere. If neglected in the primary schools they must be taught in the grammar schools. And thus the order of things is reversed and disarrangement introduced into the whole school system. The teacher who is employed and paid for instructing in the higher branches is compelled to devote time and attention to the studies appropriately belonging to schools of a lower grade. This is found to be the case to too great an extent in the schools of our city. We do not say this to the disparagement of the primary school teachers or from the belief that there is a want of fidelity on their part. We believe it to be in part at least owing to the system of teaching or rather want of system in the primary schools." The Primary School committee attempted to rebut his criticism point by point. Over 175 years later this problem remains as intractable as ever.<br /> <br /> Not at AAS. OCLC locates 8 printed copies. American Imprints 44882. John H. Eastburn, City Printer unknown
18966716Boston: winter 1896. Octavo-sized correspondence record book 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. The original engraved invitation precedes the individual acceptance and rejection few letters which are divided by sex. A complete list of attendees is included as is the handwritten menu perhaps a contract with notes on what was to be supplied by the caterer Joseph Lee and what by Mrs. Blake. The stationery includes many addresses on Beacon Hill as well as the Porcellian Club Somerset Club Hasty Pudding Club etc. Some wear to the binder and to some of the correspondence at folds or at the edges. Generally near very good. A stationer’s - Shipman - adhesive half-leather letter file book. winter hardcover
182225245Boston 1822. 8pp untrimmed and widely margined with some chipping at the fore-edge. Partly uncut title leaf loose. Good. The signature 'Rantoul' is written at the blank upper margin of title page.<br /> <br /> An expression of Boston's revolt against domination by the Federalist Central Committee which opposed electoral reforms and thwarted efforts to end imprisonment for debt. The Middling Interest which also opposed the entrenched and self-serving Republicans sought election by ward of State and Federal representatives. The Middling Interest sought on behalf of the emerging middle class the power and recognition which both of Boston's political parties had denied them. "We hold that rich men acquire no political influence justly by their wealth alone." No man "can or ought to have influence on any other qualifications than the soundness of his judgment the fairness of his mind and his ability to be useful." <br /> FIRST EDITION. AI 8654 11. unknown
1827100681<p>8vo modern half morocco & marbled boards 260 xv pp. Title page soiled top 2" stained some other staining and soling within; very good in very nice binding. This is a copy of the earliest Charters of Boston listed by Sabin. Includes regulations on buildings courts fires health and gunpowder. Sabin 6629.</p> True and Greene-City Printers, hardcover
187030939Boston: J.A. Cummings & Co. Prs. 1870. Broadside 5" x 11 1/4". Printed in black ink using several different typesettings. Edgeworn archival tape repairs on verso of short closed tears. About Good. <br /> <br /> Evidently unrecorded OCLC 31877942 notes a similar broadside located only at Brown by the same printer J.A. Cummings & Co., Prs. unknown
180586618Boston: E. Lincoln Water Street 1805. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Sewn wrappers; 622pp final page a blank. Moderate foxing and discoloration to title page; text quite fresh with sewing intact - Very Good.<br /> <br /> Documentary account of the controversy surrounding the construction of the South Street Toll Bridge aka the Dover Street Bridge connecting Boston to Dorchester in the years 1803-05. The case was an early example in America of publicly-supported private development involving the annexation of much of what is now South Boston and the destruction of substantial existing property on the South Street side. Various petitions for and against the project are presented in the current pamphlet; these are signed in type by some of the principal players in the scheme including William Tudor and Gardner Greene for and multiple citizens under the signature of Edward Tuckerman opposing. The bridge was constructed later in 1805. S&S 8207. RINK 2618. SABIN 6598. E. Lincoln, Water Street unknown
188135773Boston: Printed by Order of the Society 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. 1 xx 218 pages 1. Illustrated. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. top edge gilt. Untrimmed text edges. Interior contents are in very clean and in good condition. Several unopened pages maybe an unread copy. The covers however have shelf wear and rubs. There is some insect damage on the rear joint back cover. Fair. Printed by Order of the Society hardcover
182331106Boston: s.i. 1823. Very Good. Boston: s.i. 1823. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Bound in plain wrappers with contemporary hand-written title label to front cover; somewhat later endpapers.Half-title to another publication bound in at end. Wraps chipped sheets uniformly toned; mild spotting; name signature of Benjamin French to title brief marginalia else legible throughout and Very Good. [s.i.] unknown
182520637Boston: True and Greene 1825. First Edition. 22 pp complete with original wrappers but with the stitching perished so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper edgewear otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and more specifically the factions who opposed a new toll-free bridge in Boston because it would be detrimental to the interests of those holding a charter and collecting tolls for the existing Charles River bridge. Moser's Daniel Webster bibliography attributes this eloquently written pamphlet to Massachusetts State Senator David Henshaw 1791-1852. We have not been able to confirm this but it seems reasonable given that he was one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in Boston belonged to a group of real estate investors who would benefit from population growth spurred by the proposed new bridge and "represented the growing group of Bostonians who were shut out from the traditionally privileged class" Haines and Sherwood Supreme Court in American Government and Politics p. 32. Daniel Webster was one of the attorney representing the interests of the Charles River Bridge Company which was incorporated in 1785. Ultimately in a landmark decision in favor of free enterprise Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 1837 the Unites States Supreme Court ruled that the charter of the Charles River Bridge Company did not exclude the state of Massachusetts from chartering another bridge nearby. Sabin 6597. True and Greene unknown
188142466Five Points: Donaldson Brothers 1881. 1881. TRADE CATALOG. 6 1/4" x 3 3/4" in tan pictorial wrappers showing a young girl holding a large hat. 20 pp. showing ladies' misses' and children's straw hats. Each page offers 3 different styles on each page. Minor wear to spine and extremities. Very good plus. Donaldson Brothers, 1881. unknown
18997503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown
189034156Boston MA: Rockwell and Churchill City Printers 1890. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xxvii 537 pages 2. Dark cloth hardcover with gilt seal and title on the front cover. Gilt title and number 22 on the spine. Ex-institutional copy with two book plates and a deaccession stamp on the front paste down. Shelf wear to the cloth binding.Corners worn and frayed. Interior contents clean. Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers hardcover
188542031Philadelphia: W.H. Butler n.d. ca 1885. 1885. TRADE CATALOG. 5 11/16" x 12 3/4" color sheet folded to 6 panels. Illustrations. Among the successful shoe-machines invented by the Globe Buffer company was the “Globe Buffer” a machine for “buffing” or sandpapering the bottoms of boots and shoes. The first “ Globe Buffer" was set up in November 1881. The company also manufactured the “Globe Heel Scourer” for smoothing or scouring the edges of heels of boots and shoes. The company also introduced the "Globe Insole" an invention the promised to replace the flexible leather that was currently in vogue for insoles to shoes. It was invented and patented by Mr. George A. Fullerton and consists of a substance very similar to leather but which is stronger and much more flexible. To test the merits the shoes thousands of pairs were produced and worn and in not a single pair of them did a stitch give out. The material for the insoles is stronger than any leather of the same thickness. It is preserved while leather is destroyed by perspiration. The edges are smooth which prevents them from cutting the stitches. Shoes made of it will not squeak. The brochure offers one cover panel showing 2 cherubs one holding a woman's boot and the other the "Globe Flexible Insole; one panel offering the company's guarantee; and one panel offering information about their insoles. "Remember that the INSOLE is the foundation of the shoe and that Glove Flexible Insole" is superior in every particular to leather or any other known substance. That the stitches and tacks are all beneath the surface thus contributing a smooth soft cushion." Opposite 3 panels offers a beautiful color sailing scene showing a yacht race and with "Compliments of the Globe Buffer co. only Manufacturers of Globe Flexible Insoles at the bottom of one panel. One panel has been separated and neatly reattached using cellophane tape. W.H. Butler, n.d. [ca 1885]. hardcover
184657019Boston:: Pulbished by all the Booksellers 1846. First edition. original printed wrappers. Very light foxing; wrappers unchipped and unworn; overall very nice. 8vo. Pulbished by all the Booksellers, unknown
188735265Boston: Presswork by Rockwell and Churchill City Printers 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Tall quarto. 2 x 161 pages 1 page blank pages 162-170 1 page blank pages 171-395 2. Green cloth covered boards with dark brown leather corners and spine. Reddish marbled end sheets. All edges shaded red. Leather scuffed on the edges of the front cover. A few spots on the green cloth covers. Contents are printed facsimiles of the Colonial laws. Interior contents in very good condition. Presswork by Rockwell and Churchill City Printers hardcover
182636379Boston: n/a 1826. Ledger. Fair. Folio. 94 leaves 188 pages. Brown suede leather binding with Cambridge style designs on the covers. Marbled end papers. Chipped leather label on the spine. Lean to the binding in part due to removed pages. Hinges cracked and cords visible in the front hinge. No loose pages. Interior contents mostly clean. The first 21 pages used for pasted down serial clippings of the story titled "Only A Shop-Girl; or A Pearl in Pledge. A Story Founded on Actual Events that Occurred in Boston by Nathan D. Urner" no date. This serialized version ends on Chapter 25 with no more clippings to finish the story. Several of the ledger leaves are neatly removed in the gutters. <br /> <br /> Dozens of accounts records remain from November 1826 to July 15 1830. A few clippings and paper left inside. Exact location and owner of the ledger unknown. Location is in Massachusetts and Boston areas with several places identified. A sampling of account names include Livery Stable; Wm White printers; Tim M. Baker; Geo. Phipps butcher; Peter Mackintosh; Genl John P. Boyd officer in the Army and 1812 War Veteran; Gibson and Lewis; Charles Colburn masons; Smith & Clapp; Sewell Fiske; Lombast & Whitmore; Eben Gay; Little & Eads; Wm Johnson painters; Henry Leeds; Moses Fletcher; Benj F. Munroe; Capt. Mitchell; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Rev. Henry Ware Unitarian; James Bartlett; Tho Winslow; Charles Sterns; Charles Morse; Martin Burr; North Bank; S. P. Heywood; Jonas Hale; Capt. Goodridge; Capt. Henry Fowle and dozens others. n/a unknown
184456150Boston 1844-45. 1. MANN Horace Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education; Together with the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1844. First edition. Octavo 25cm. Original brown paper wrappers with printed title on front untrimmed; 1991pp. Inscribed "J. F. Bumstead Esq. / with best regards from / Horace Mann" on front wrapper. With a few contemporary pencil annotations. A fresh copy edges gently rubbed one or two small stains to wraps: Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> This copy presented by Mann to J. F. Bumstead-plausibly Josiah Freeman Bumstead 1797-1868 who authored primary school primers readers and spellers published by Ticknor and other Boston firms in the 1840s.<br /> <br /> 2. MANN Horace. The Common School Journal vol. VI no. 5; March 1 1844. Containing the "Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education to the Board of Education." PRESENTATION COPY FROM SAMUEL MAY TO ADIN BALLOU. Octavo 26cm. Original paper wrappers printed on front; 64-200pp. Inscribed to "Rev. Adin Ballou / with the best regards of / Sam J. May - / Let all that have eyes read / or all that have ears hear this / admirable document -" With one or two minor marginal pencil marks. Ex libris and discard stamp of Swarthmore College to final leaf. Textblock sound though rubbed but front cover detached rear cover lacking; some staining to outer leaves minor foxing: Good.<br /> <br /> Presentation copy from Samuel Joseph May 1797-1871 to Adin Ballou 1803-1890 founder of the Hopedale Community. May was one of Mann's allies in establishing the Massachusetts state school system and both he and Ballou were members of the New England Non-Resistance Society a peace organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison. <br /> <br /> 3. Association of Masters of the Boston Public Schools. Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original brown paper wrappers printed in black on front; 144pp. Inscribed "B. A. Gould" to front upper cover--possibly pioneering Boston astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1824-1896. With occasional marginal pencil marks. A fresh copy with one or two tiny chips to spine: Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> 4. MANN Horace. Reply to the "Remarks" of Thirty-One Boston Schoolmasters on the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Wm B. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1844. Octavo 23cm. <br /> In original dark beige paper wrappers printed in black on front; 176pp. A sound copy with losses at head and tail of spine joints partly split but holding internally clean: Very Good. <br /> <br /> 5. ASSOCIATION OF THE MASTERS OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Barnum Field; Wm A. Shepard; S. S. Greene; Joseph Hale. Rejoinder to the "Reply" of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education to the "Remarks" of the Association of Boston Masters Upon His Seventh Annual Report. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1845. First edition. Octavo 22cm. Original beige wrappers printed in black on front; 55 1 56 40 64pp. Inscribed "The Misses Adams / 1 May 1922" on verso of title page. A sound fresh copy with split at front upper joint chip at tail minor dirt to wraps but internally clean: Very Good. <br /> <br /> Five pamphlets on Horace Mann's 1844 annual report to the Board of Education including two presentation copies of different editions of the report itself and three responses. Mann had toured Europe with his new wife Mary Peabody and friend Samuel Gridley Howe and studied schools in eight countries with special interest in the Prussian school system. His 1844 annual report comparing American and European school systems was received with great offense by Boston schoolteachers. "A group of thirty-one schoolmasters. . . published a sharply worded critique of his seventh Annual Report" targeting "Mann's recommendations for teacher training as well as his opposition to corporal punishment." However this group "soon faced Mann's wrath in the form of written rejoinders" and were ultimately vanquished when "Mann's allies were elected to the Boston School Committee." <br /> <br /> Despite the controversy Mann's efforts to "merge the best that he found in European educational systems with the principles of the growing American common school movement" saw remarkable success. Under his direction the Board of Education spent over $2 million on improved school buildings increased teacher salaries by over 50% opened fifty new high schools commissioned uniform school textbooks from Boston publishers and alotted time for student exercise-shaping the public school system as we know it ANB. All the titles in this collection are uncommon in the book trade. unknown
186510246Boston: the hotel 1865. Menu printed on silk 30 x 10.5 cm. one leaf printed verso only. Illustrated with an engraving of vignettes of freight transport via ship and train. WITH: Printed envelope 8 x 13 cm. with an engraving. A handsome menu printed on silk for a banquet celebrating the Boards of Trade of the Western Cities given by the City of Boston at the Revere Hotel. Revere House was one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman. Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. The engraving on the envelope depicts the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. The hotel has had an additional structure added to the previously flat roof. The bill of fare for the Western Boards of Trade included Green Turtle Soup Baked Shad in a Wine Sauce Leg of Southshore Mutton in Caper Sauce Duffield's Ham Pate de Foie and much more. In remarkably fine condition with only the slightest fraying to the edges of the silk. The envelope with an engraving of the Boston's City Hall has some light soil but is near fine. the hotel hardcover
185010254Boston Mass: Propeller Press 142 Washington St 1850. Bi-fold menu 21 x 13.5 cm. 4 pages. Illustrated. The Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society was formed in 1846. This "Seventh Anniversary" banquet offered an alcohol free menu with Baked Trout in Anchovy Sauce Mutton Cutlet in Gardner's Sauce Eels with Tartar Sauce Mongrel Ducks seven types of pie or cake AND then dessert. The final page contains an engraving of Quincy House. The menu is stained and has some dark fold marks mostly visible on the final page. Otherwise very good. Propeller Press, 142 Washington St unknown
