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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
1881950No place listed: Forbes Co 1881. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 16mo 5 ½" x 2 ¾"; 26pp; chromolithographed stiff pictorial wrapper steamboat to front and Hotel Pemberton illustration to rear; string binding; 17pp advertisements 4 with illustrations; 2 maps; small chip to fore-edge rear wrapper and one to bird's-eye view map bottom corner; near fine. Held in 7 WorldCat libraries. Timetable for the steamboat and railroad with two maps: center-fold color map of the ferry route and a black & white bird's-eye view of Melville Garden Downer Landing Hingham Massachusetts. Boston newspaper advertisements for furniture tableware clothing beer bicycles builders grocers and more. Forbes Co unknown
1893863601893. BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE with brief sketches of prominent brokers bankers banks and moneyed institutions of Boston 1834-1893. Boston: Hunt & Bell 1893. Bound in maroon cloth over deckled boards with gilt spine and front. Sunning and some soiling to covers. Color frontispiece some stains at edges. Final rear blank sheet has damage from silverfish. Other interiors clean and extensively illustrated on glossy papers in black and white with prints and photo reproductions of people banks and landmarks in Boston. A scarce item. unknown
187935738Boston: Printed by the Order of the Trustees 1879. First edition. Quarter morocco over marbled boards five raised bands gilt titles and decorations. A very good copy spine and boards rubbed contents crisp. xv 476 pp. in two cols. 4to. Palau 375073. Printed by the Order of the Trustees hardcover
18942103160046Boston The Chapter; S.J. Parkhill 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed. Rare Massachusetts Masonic work in original fine binding no. 2 of only 12 Doubly signed and inscribed by Seranus Bowen M.E. Grand High Priest. Limited edition of "only 700 copies printed . of which only 12 were bound in crushed levant of the later this copy is number 2." Fine binding. Bound in polished brown levant morocco. Front hinge mended. Gilt ruled spine and covers. Gilt dentelle. Top edge gilt. Stamped in gold John Gaigh. Inscribed to R.E. John Haigh by Bownen. 145 pp. Includes list of members. <br> Presumably John Haigh's copy 1832-1896 of Somerville Massachusetts. Haigh was a noted industrialist mason and book collector. - Necrology of The New-England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register NEHGS Boston Mass. 1897 Vol. 51 Page 82. Boston, The Chapter; S.J. Parkhill hardcover
186183848Boston: George C. Rand & Avery 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The original 1861 publication of the testimonial of "The Medical Profession of Philadelphia New York and Boston rebound in black cloth with gilt-lettered and slightly chipped spine label 56pp. Text clean pages evenly toned. The last pages are in effect forms requesting monies for Dr. Morton and his family. William T. G. Morton 1819-1868 was a surgeon dentist in Hartford Connecticut who claimed to be the first person to perform surgical anethesia on a patient's tumor in 1846. "Morton immediately patented ether hoping to retain its use exclusively for himself. Later he made repeated appeals to the American Congress for financial recompense for his 'invention'. Morton's instructor the chemist and geologist Charles Thomas Jackson said it was he who had made the discovery and had suggested that Morton should try it out. Horace Wells the dentist from Hartford Connecticut put forward his well-substantiated claim to have produced anaesthesia two years earlier with nitrous oxide. It is sad that such an epoch-making event should have been followed by 20 years of acrimony vituperation and litigation between three contestants each claiming to have originated anaesthesia." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine May 2020 pp 226-227. George C. Rand & Avery hardcover
182140754Boston 1821. Broadsheet oblong 8" x 10." Seal and blue ribbon intact in the left blank margin. A variety of type fonts and sizes completed in ink manuscript. Engraving of Screaming Eagle with shield "E Pluribus Unum" banner and arrows. Signed in ink by H. Dearborn as President and Thaddeus Page as Recording Secretary. The verso records that on 3 August 1826 Bradford transferred this Certificate to A Republican Institution. The verso prints the 16th Article of the By-Laws permitting transfers of certificates among members. Signed twice by Bradford. Very Good plus.<br /> <br /> William B. Bradford was a Boston wholesale and retail grocer. The Boston Public Library's Archives contain some of his papers. The "Republican Institution was founded in 1819 'as a body politic and corporate forever for the purpose of procuring a building and keeping it in repair with suitable apartments for a reading room library and the meeting of the said society in the town of Boston Massachusetts.' Its intent was to provide a forum for political education and discussion of best means of promoting national welfare. Measures approximately 10" x 8 1/4". Affixed at left is the large corporate seal which indicated that the corporation was incorporated in 1819. Attached to and extending below the paper seal is a blue ribbon" online 'Republicanism' web site description of a specimen Certificate and description of the Institution 'Historical Pillars of the Republican Party'.<br /> Henry Dearborn of Boston had been a veteran of the Revolutionary War a Federalist Congressman and Secretary of War. He founded the Institution which was chartered in February 1819. Its purpose was to promote political thought and discussion. Seeking to purchase a building the Institution's organizers resolved to sell four hundred shares in the Institution for $25 each. A person could purchase up to four shares. unknown
1805822291805. THE BOSTON WEEKLY MAGAZINE; Devoted to Morality Literature Biography History the Fine Arts Agriculture &c. &c. Volume II -- 1803-4 & III -- 1804-5. Boston: Published by Gilbert and Dean at their Printing-Office No. 78 State-Street 1805. Two complete years of this weekly from 29 October 1803 through 19 October 1805 bound together: Volume II no. 1-52; Volume III no. 1-52. Folio. Pp. vi208;vi208. Text is printed in triple columns. Each volume is preceded by an index arranged according to the style of the piece essay history useful poetry etc. There are two title-pages for Volume III; one is bound at the beginning of Volume II and the other is in its proper place. The title-page for Volume II is lacking. Paper quality varies throughout. Text leaves are age-browned and occasionally lightly soiled and/or foxed mostly light to moderate but in a few instances it is heavy with a few dog-eared corners and occasional edgewear. Volume II no. 41 p. 163-4 has some loss at the bottom fore-corner resulting in a loss of text to the last few lines in one column. Bookblock is splitting with remnants of the backstrip; but the boards are missing. The June 16 1804 issue third page p.135 second column. "Domestick" mentions that Captain Lewis was in Pittsburg "accompanied by twenty Indian chiefs." There are a couple of tohter references to the L&C expedition. unknown
18909319Boston: Robinson Engraving Co 1890. Menu in painted wooden boards bound with cord 20 x 15.2 cm. 10 gold-printed leaves each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association held in May 1890 at Boston's great hotels the Parker House Hotel Vendome and American House. The H.M.M.B.A. was founded in 1879 to offer hotel workers insurance plans; it was later to become the Bankers Life and Casualty Company. The program and menu for the three-day meeting includes the meeting itself music speakers presentations carriage excursions etc. The painted wooden boards hold die-cut 'booklets' dedicated to the Convention headquartered at the Parker House the Eleventh Annual Banquet held at the American House and the Reception held at the Hotel Vendome. The boards are scored and textured painted in silver with gold spots and hold a hand-lettered piece of 'vellum'. Some rubbing to edges of boards otherwise very good. Robinson Engraving Co 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>
188510250Boston: Kiley Printer 7 Spring Lane 1885. Bi-fold menu 13.5 x 12 cm. 4 pages. Illustrated. Engraved menu for a banquet given for Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks former Senator from and Governor of Indiana. Hendricks was the 21st Vice President lasting a mere 8 months in office from March 4th through November 25th 1885. This dinner was given by the Bay State Club at the famous Parker House. In the few short months he had left Hendricks was to give a controversial speech in support of Irish independence and head of the Boston machine politician Martin Lomasney was to name the Hendricks Club after him. The light tan card stock boards sport a gilt-edged circular medallion with an engraving of the Vice President. The card is lightly dusty and with the slightest of abrasions at the corners. Otherwise near fine. Signed by the Hendricks on the front panel below the portrait medallion. Kiley, Printer, 7 Spring Lane hardcover
188510269Boston: Parker House 1885. Menu on silk 31 x 15 cm. printed recto only and with hand painted floral ornament. In thick blank card stock bound with thick pale blue and white silk cord. A banquet menu presented to members of visiting Commercial Clubs of several Midwestern cities. Highlights of the menu include Penobscot Salmon a la Hollandaise Philadelphia Squab and a Pistachio Cream Meringue. The unprinted cardstock "boards" are separated neatly at the hinge but are intended to fold in half and thus have left a neat horizontal crease across the center of the menu. Some lighter creases are present as well and there is light soiling. Still very good plus. Parker House hardcover
18812301150003Civil Service Reform Association Boston Mass. 1881. First Edition. Art Prints & Posters. Very Good. American Civil Service Reform : Massachusetts : Good Governance in the Gilded Age Original Broadside. Sheet in excellent condition. Printed on blue paper. Two folds. Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 21 inches. Small ink stamp on bottom left corner dated 1881. <br> The broadside lays out the principles of good government. It offers quotes from President Grant and Gen. Garfield about the importance of civil service reform; the example of success in England; explains the core reason for the Civil Service Reform Association; a brief view of the Association's constitution; and a list of the principal officers. <br> The Association's President Moorfield Storey and other "Mugwumps" were strongly in favor of anti-corruption / good government reforms advocated by Grover Cleveland and other reformers. "The principles' of the Association were as follows: "That while certain officers of the Government should be in sympathy with the policy of the Administration the routine business should be conducted on business principles; that officers should be appointed on account of fitness for the work to be done and should be continued in office as long as they do that work well' that offices should not be used for partisan purposes; that Representatives are chosen to legislate and their time should not be given to the distribution of patronage; that the adoption of the well-devised system carrying out these principles will insure better administration and better legislation." Also includes a reprinted article on the Association from the New York Times February 19 1881. Civil Service Reform Association (Boston, Mass.) 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
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
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
187537864N. P. 1875 -1900. RAILROAD. Thirteen plate glass negatives portray engines from the short-line and short-lived Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad. The narrow gauge railroad began taking passengers to and from East Boston and Lynn in 1875. At East Boston those wishing to continue to Boston proper took a ferry across the harbor. The railroad ceased operations in 1940 following a decrease in ridership after the Great Depression and the rise in the automobile. The railway was known for its “Mason Bogie” steam engines also nicknamed “Coffee roasters.” Plates are in varying conditions; some show little rubbing and others are quite distressed. Photograph numbering is arbitrary.Slides depict Engines 3 4 5 9 12 and 19; several are duplicate or very similar: 1. Engine #3 “Jupiter” Left 3/4 view. 1877. Copy by J. Foster Adams 2. Engine #4 On passenger train @ Revere Beach found in Fred Kyper collection 3. Engine #5 “Leo” Right 3/4 view from the rear 4. Engine #9 @ East Boston Right 3/4 view “copied by Dad from one of his pictures” 5x7” 5. Engine #9 in East Boston Passenger Yard right side view “copied and taken by Dad” 5x7” these 2 in same envelope 5x7” 6. Engine #9 East Boston Passenger Yards Right 3/4 view 7. Engine #9 East Boston Passenger Yards Right 3/4 view enlarged image. these 2 in same envelope3.5 x 4.5” 8. Engine #9 “ 9. Engine #12 East Boston Roundhouse right 3/4 view found in Norton D. Clark Collection 10. Engine #12 Same as above with two crew members 11. Engine #19 No Train Right 3/4 view 3 crew 3.5 x 4.5” 12. Engine #19 Same larger 5 x 7” labeled 425 on envelope and plate itself 13. Engine #19 Same 5 x 7” quite distressed. Two of these images appear in books Boston Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad by Robert Liljestrand and David Sweetland and Narrow Gauge to Boston by Frank Kyper. We are offering these books in as new condition along with all the glass plates. The photo with Engine #19 has also been found online. A wonderful collection of railroadiana. unknown
1890227691890. Chinese American Boston Chinese American cabinet card circa 1890s a formal studio portrait produced during the height of the Chinese Exclusion era. Created in Boston around or shortly after the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act the photograph provides evidence of Chinese American presence in New England and self-representation in the diasporic community through dignified and professional portraiture despite legal and social marginalization.<br /> <br /> Chickering Elmer. Chinese American man portrait. Boston: Elmer Chickering Studio circa 1890s. Albumen cabinet photograph mounted on original cardstock. The sitter is depicted in a composed frontal pose wearing a dark high-collared suit associated with middle-class professional attire of the period with a carefully styled mustache and direct gaze. The photograph conforms to late 19th-century studio conventions in lighting posture and presentation aligning the subject visually with the formal portrait norms of Boston society clientele typically served by Chickering's studio. The mount verso bears the printed mark "The Original Chickering Photographic Studio" identifying the maker as an established Boston portraitist known for photographing actors public figures and affluent patrons. The choice of studio and format indicates intentional participation in mainstream visual culture positioning the sitter within a framework of dignity and social assertion.<br /> <br /> Produced during a period when Boston's Chinese community was small and concentrated in the South Cove now Bay Village this portrait is especially significance by its timing amid exclusionary federal policy and local discrimination. Chinese Americans in the Northeast during the late 19th century are infrequently documented in formal studio settings particularly by high-profile commercial studios. The photograph contributes to the limited visual record of Chinese American life in the region illustrating both the constraints of the exclusion era and the presence of individuals navigating and asserting identity within those conditions. Minor edge wear to mount; image clear with strong tonal contrast. Overall very good condition. A significant example of Chinese American studio portraiture in the late 19th-century United States. unknown
1849List1801Boston: Anti-Slavery Bazaar 1849. Small broadside measuring 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches printed on green wove paper. Some creases and a small tear at margin near fine. Near Fine. The American Anti-Slavery Society hosted annual bazaars which served as fundraisers with money going to supporting the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper. Many women were involved with the event and sold abolitionist items. Offered here is one such piece of ephemera from the 1849 fair a poem written by an unknown author with the pen name “M.†The poem was featured in the poetry section of The Liberator January 26 1849 Vol. XIX. No. 4. with the description “The two following poetical effusions were written for the Anti-Slavery Bazaar In Faneuil Hall by friends of freedom in the old world.†<br /> It reads:<br /> <br /> Ye friends of liberty all hail!<br /> May your endeavours never fail<br /> In freedom’s sacred cause!<br /> May blessings e’er attend your course<br /> In striving to uproot all force<br /> And stern oppression’s laws!<br /> Yours is a noble task my friends!<br /> And God his gracious favor lends<br /> To speed ye on your way<br /> Until you reach the blessed goal<br /> When ev’ry dark benighted soul<br /> Shall hail bright freedom’s ray.<br /> Oh! may he speed the time when all<br /> Their fellow-men shall brethren call<br /> And the deep wrong remove<br /> When the dark chains of slavery<br /> Give place to sacred liberty<br /> And bonds of holy love!<br /> Oh! it were happiness to bind<br /> In such bright chains all human kind<br /> And set each captive free;<br /> For when oppressions all shall cease<br /> And this fair world be fill’d with peace<br /> Like Heav’n on earth ‘twill be!<br /> <br /> A very nice example of the anti-slavery movement during this period. Uncommon with one copy appearing at auction and none listed in OCLC. Anti-Slavery Bazaar unknown
18071812290002Boston: Beecher & Armstrong 1807. Hardcover. Acceptable. Boston Massacre Early American Printing Contemporary boards conserved and rebacked on modern spine. Ink and perforated stamps on title page. 120 p. First published in 1770 under the title: The trial of William Wemms James Hartegan etc. Taken in short hand by John Hodgson. <br> Future President John Adams successfully represented the accused British soldiers in the tumultuous trial. <br> "The trial of the British soldiers of the 29th Regiment of Foot : for the murder of Crispus Attucks Samuel Gray Samuel Maverick James Caldwell and Patrick Carr on Monday evening March 5 1770 before the Honorable Benjamin Lynde John Cushing Peter Oliver and Edmund Trowbridge esquires justices of the Superior court of judicature Court of assize and general gaol delivery held at Boston by adjournment November 27 1770." <br> From the library of Richard Manning Hodges 1827-1896 noted American surgeon Harvard College 1847 Harvard Medical School 1850. Boston: Beecher & Armstrong hardcover
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
181041597Boston 1810. 44 folio issues each 4 pp and 14" x 20-1/4." Number 4 of Volume 32 through Number 51 of Volume 32; Whole Number 1378 through Whole Number 1425 LACKING No. 7 Whole No. 1881 January 22 No. 16 Whole No. 1390 February 19 No. 18 Whole No. 1392 February 26 and No. 29 Whole No. 1403 April 5. Number 17 Whole No.1391 present but bound out of order. Untrimmed. Some tears with some effect on text. Overall Good plus.<br /> <br /> A venerable Boston publication of greatest significance during the Revolutionary years but covering all local national and international issues during the tensions with England and France in Madison's early presidency. 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
18478890Boston 1847. Broadsheet menu 31 x 13.6 cm. 2 pages. Illustrated with an engraving of the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. A menu and wine list for the hotel restaurant of Revere House issued in the hotel's inaugural year. Built on the site of home of Boston's Kirk Boote Revere House became one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman and Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. Paran Stevens 1802-1872 at times the general manager and later a co-owner of the hotel was to become proprietor of additional luxury hotels in Claremont N.H. Philadelphia and New York. He had a considerable reputation as connoisseur of wines and liquors and was said to have the finest nose in the country. The "Stevens Sherry" was tailor-made to suit his palette and it was said that his cellars were "never equaled in America". The Wine List includes the usual categories: Madeira Sherry Champagne Hock Sauterne Port Burgundy and Claret along with a short selection of Porter and Ale. What is unusual is the detail in the descriptions of some of the Madeira and Sherry including Dornelios Vasconcellos Sercial Rapid East India Madeira imported by J. W. Boott Esq. in 1819 – bottled in 1822 and Governor Phillip's imported in 1820 from Page Phelps & Co. ~ Paper is age-toned and has a water stain along the bottom edge. Still bright and legible. Very good. No records of other copies of this menu have been located. Menus from any location in the United States prior to 1850 are very scarce. Rare. unknown
183252838Munroe and Francis Boston 1832. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A Boston Housekeeper Mrs. N.K.M. Lee. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia Boston: Munroe & Francis 1832. 12mo first edition pp. xxxvi 300 full sheep probably a 20th-century binding gilt stamped lettering and rules to spine with endpages replaced and no half-title reverse of ffep preserving a gift inscription with another ownership signature on title page. Woodcut engraving showing how to break down an ox with the facing page giving prices of various cuts of meat. See Lowenstein American Cookery 160 and Cagle & Stafford 447. OCLC Worldcat locates several copies in American institutions but this first edition is scarce in the private marketplace the auction records showing that the last sale took place in 2008 $1800 at Swann gallery. Condition of this book: Very good and tight boards worn at extremities scattered light to moderate foxing. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; United States; 19th century; Cooking Wine & Dining. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52838. . Munroe and Francis hardcover
