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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
19533554907250881953. First Edition. Signed by Author. Dereham Norfolk : G. Arthur Coleby nd 1953. First UK Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Undated. 1953. A Softback not issued with a dustwrapper. 71 pages. stapled cream card covers lettering in blue fading to edges of spine panel scattered foxing to covers prelims lightly foxed scattered foxing to some page margins. Signed - without dedication - by the author to the title page. Further inscription to reverse of front cover presumably by the Author's wife: "Mary with love and best wishes from Mary & Noel. 1953". A very good copy of an extremely rare item. Collects five ghost stories The Half Legs The Bellarmine Jars "Lot 629" The North Cloister Walk P AIA Johns Blak. This little book is - in our experience - virtually impossible to find. A rare survival. Further photographs available upon request. unknown
5815SIEGE OF BOSTON. The Siege of Boston lasted from April 1775 to March 1776 when the British withdrew from the city. General Henry Knox hauled captured cannons across Massachusetts in the middle of winter to fortify Dorchester Heights and the British knew their position was unsustainable so they retreated to Nova Scotia.DS. 1pg. 6 x 2 . September 15 1775. Winter Hill Somerville Massachusetts. A document signed Benja Tuck concerning wages; this was written during the important Siege of Boston. Tuck communicated: I Benj Tuck Do give this order to Capt. Moses Leavitt to Draw what wages is Due or Shall be allowd to me for Being in the American Service Benj Tuck. The reference to the American service is relatively early coming nine months before the Declaration of Independence and three months after Bunker Hill. This phrase means that the soldiers saw themselves as part of a different military than the British Army and this was three months after the Continental Army was officially formed. Moses Leavitt 1745-1803 was a Continental Army officer from North Hampton New Hampshire and later a general of their militia as well as a state senator. Tuck was most likely a soldier from New Hampshire. Winter Hill is a part of Somerville Massachusetts and important during the American Revolution. In 1775 British troops marched on Winter Hill to attack a powder house owned by the patriots. Just after Bunker Hill wounded Continental Army soldiers were hospitalized there. The document is housed in a contemporary frame; there is the usual foxing and soiling and a vertical fold. unknown
2006mon0000085261Skinner 2006T. paperback. New. in x in x in. Skinner paperback
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
1901ZB445353Boston Cooking School 1901-1911. volumes 6-15 bound in mid-20th century buckram with most front covers retained ex library else texts clean & bindings tight. - 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. Boston Cooking School 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
177135252Boston: Printed by Edes & Gill In Queen-Street 1771. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Stitched wraps. Approx. 8" x 5". 2 79 pages. Black thick paper covers. Two punch holes on the left edge. Spine is chipped with small tears. Light toning and damp staining to the text. Title page has a black border with skull and cross bones illustration at the top of the page. Scarce 12 copies located in OCLC as of 11/23. <br /> <br /> Evans 12080. Sarah Prince Gill was an Evangelical and organizer of Women prayer groups in Boston. She also was a Patriot. Gill married Moses Gill a merchant and politician from Massachusetts. The Colonial printer John Gill was the brother in law to Sarah Gill. <br /> <br /> AI generated: An Eighteenth Century imprint with a skull and bones illustrated title page is commonly referred to as a "memento mori" imprint. Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning "remember that you will die" and it refers to artistic or literary works that serve as a reminder of the inevitability of death. The skull and bones illustrated title page was a popular motif during the 18th century often used in books and other printed materials to symbolize mortality and the transience of life. Printed by Edes & Gill, In Queen-Street unknown
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
199765956Massachusetts Historical Society Boston 1997. Hardcover. Used - Good. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society 1859-1997 some volumes are 19th century reprints. Various paginations illustrated. About 9 x 6" gold lettered brown cloth. Lacking volumes 2 1835-55 14 1875-6 18-19 1880-2 2d series 1 1883-5 6 1890-1 8 1892-4 18 1904-5 volume 41 1907 & 86 1974. Extensive compilation of scholarly articles by Massachusetts Historical Society members. Mixed set few volumes have library marks frayed spine tips shaken most appear unused overall very good set with some bookplates & signatures. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston hardcover
1977122334455770The sole UK edition privately printed by Sebastian Carter at The Rampant Lions Press Cambridge in 1977. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. One of only 750 copies issued. Wraps with printed decorated card covers and a white title label to the front cover. A thin strip of fading of the salmon colouring at the spine. Some very light spotting to the title page and a very slight crease to the lower corner of some pages otherwise a lovely copy. Inscribed by the author on the title page : 'Nan with love from Lucy'. The recipient was the celebrated artist Nan Youngman. Loosely inserted is the Rampant Lions Press flyer. A collection of 25 Poems beginning with 'The Fountain' and ending with 'Farewell to the Trappist' published when the author was 85 years old. The book is protected in an archival folder. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Privately printed by Sebastian Carter at The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge
2000003907Wilmington North Carolina : Coastal Carolina Pr 2000. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 2000 B00K: Fine/As New/ . B00K: Fine/As New/ 1445.67 1928556035 Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks; Carolina Young People; SIGNED Weatherford Carole Boston Coastal Carolina Press NC 2000 Second Edition Light And Dark Blue Spine With Title In White And Black Letters Soft Cover B00K: Fine/As New/ 88 Numbered Pages That Were Lightly Read And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine Slightest Of Edge And Shelf Ware Gift Inscription On The Title Page Signed By The Author In Black Ink. = Description Applies To This B00K Only. = This Author Signed Book Has A Special Significance Is Hard To Find Will Be Packaged And Shipped = Carefully To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE. == California State Law Now Requires The Following Notice Be Given: == Seller Did Not See And Was Not Present When This Item Was Signed. No Certificate Of Authenticity Is Included In This Sale/Purchase Price. If You Would Like A Certificate Of Authenticity You Can Obtain One At Your Own Convenience And Expense Which Is Not Included In The Purchase Price Of This Item. == <br/> <br/> Coastal Carolina Pr paperback
1773018505Edinburgh: John Gray. Full leather. vi 408 pp. First two blanks with slight loss along edges from worming one contents leaf missing previous owners' names in ink dated 1790 on the final blank slight foxing else Good. Extremely rare with the World Catalog locating only three copies at libraries. Boston was a notable Scottish divine at Simprin Berwickshire and Ettrick. . Good. Hard Bound. First Edition. 1773. John Gray 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
2011x-1461380472Springer Verlag 2011. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 879 pages. 10.50x8.00x1.75 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
197700212063Cambridge UK: Privately Printed. Bound in salmon coloured limp wraps with abstract pattern and white title label to front cover this dated 1977 softcover Limited Edition of 750 is Fine. Privately printed by Sebastian Carter at The Rampant Lions Press Cambridge England. 31pp with 25 Poems beginning with The Fountain anf ending with Farewell to the Trappist. Condition as new! . Fine. Limp Wraps. Limited Edition. 1977. Privately Printed paperback
1791935P11Edinburgh: Alexa. M'Laren 1791. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". None. An early edition of this scarce religious work guiding the reader on how to live a pious and devout life. An early edition of this scarce work which was first published in 1773.By Thomas Boston this work is a religious text exploring what it means to be a true believer. The work is presented through several discourses all intended to promote the comfort and direction of Christians and to improve society.Boston was a Scottish Presbyterian church leader a man of singular piety who is best known for his 1720 work 'Human Nature in Its Fourfold State'. Including a soliloquy on the art of man-fishing. In a full calf binding. Externally a little rubbed. Minor bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. A few light marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Good Alexa. M'Laren hardcover
151917617<p>Boston: The Libbie Printing Co n.d. ca. 1915-1919 Probably printed ca. 1915-1919. The Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government BESAGG campaigned for women's suffrage between 1901 and 1920. In 1915 a state constitutional amendment that would have given women the right to vote in Massachusetts failed and this broadside may have been printed in the wake of the failure. . Green paper sheet printed in black. Broadside 7 x 9 ". Uniform toning due to paper quality. Creased in the middle. With a small chip missing from one edge and a bit of discoloration at one edge. Small open tear about 1" not affecting legibility. Housed in a modern black wooden frame 10 x 12". Two small pieces of tape about " on verso. A very good copy of a scarce and fragile item. The broadside presents ten arguments for why women should have the right to vote including "because women have to obey the laws just as men do they should vote equally with men" and "because women pay taxes just as men do thus supporting the government they should vote equally with men." Other arguments include the fact that over five million women worked industrial jobs at the time so they deserved a voice in improving workplace legislation; and that "mothers need every help in making their children's environment good."</p> The Libbie Printing Co
1935233291935. Public TransitMassachusetts Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area including Lynn Haverhill Lawrence Saugus Marblehead Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars trolley routes terminals and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition from privately run trolley networks to publicly managed metropolitan transit. Most images show the Boston Elevated Railway and Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway orbit with additional views tied to Springfield Providence and Connecticut operations placing the photographs within the broader interurban rail network that linked Boston to surrounding towns before the official creation of the MBTA. <br /> <br /> Boston's subway system is the oldest in the United States created in the 1890s by the Rapid Transit Commission in response to severe streetcar congestion on Tremont Street. The system created by the Boston Elevated Railway Company at the turn of the century helped define the infrastructure of modern Boston transit. These photographs preserve the street-level operating environment in the early years of expanding public transport in the city: destination boards transfer points yard scenes terminal loops and rolling stock moving through dense commercial districts snowbound streets and residential outskirts prior to the establishment of the MBTA in 1947.<br /> Photo archive of 41 silver gelatin photographs approximately 3 x 5.5 inches greater Boston and nearby cities in New England circa 1934-1946. The archive includes single-car and articulated streetcars coupled cars work or service equipment and yard scenes photographed in active street settings. Visible destination and route identifiers include Main Myrtle Lakeside Watertown Boston Tunnel Beach Bluff Saugus Branch Essex St Lawrence Main St line Haverhill Oak Park line and Marblehead Depot with captions on verso marking dates and locations. Several photographs show cars in dense commercial blocks with visible storefronts and wall advertising including American Loan & Savings Association Whitworth's Rubber Sporting Goods M. Casey & Co. Cigars & Tobacco Coca-Cola Pillsbury's Best Flour Harms School of Business and Rem for coughs; others show cars at depots loops and yards including Hooker St Yards. Repeated fare and service slogans are also visible on the cars especially "Save money with weekly pass" and "Ride all day for $1 20 cities 51 towns" makes the archive particularly strong as evidence of regional transit marketing and network integration. Other images capture scenes of the train cars in the snow at crossings switching tracks and running beside early automobiles an active record of the trolley system functioning within everyday urban traffic.<br /> This archive preserves the operating network that fed a larger system of public transit across city neighborhoods and outlying towns serviced by America's oldest subway system. The photographs show the routes terminal circulation yard storage and municipal reach of this system especially in the Eastern Massachusetts territory where one fare structure and one rolling-stock family served dozens of communities. Light handling wear and some discoloration on verso images clean and complete. Overall very good condition. A large visual record of the Greater Boston street railway service moving through city streets suburbs and terminals. unknown
1930389977Boston Massachusetts: The South Boston Hebrew Juniors 1930. Softcover. Very Good. Typed magazine and accompanying holograph essay. Quartos. The magazine consists of six sheets typed on the rectos stapled together with two additional blank sheets serving as front and rear covers. The front cover is detached very good. A “special paper†published by the members of the South Boston Hebrew Juniors as part of a fundraising effort. Made-up of various short pieces relating to the club including an original poem and a jest about how to become an American citizen. With an accompanying holograph essay: “Anti-Semitism the Scourge of Israel; and Palestine the Hope of Israel.†written in ink on the rectos only of six notebook sheets presumably by one of the club's younger members. References are made to: “the thousands who are homeless in the Mississippi Valley …†“war and desolation in China†and to “the millions in Eastern Europe whose spirit has been broken .†Some toning and a few scattered tiny tears to the right edges very good. There are no known copies of the magazine which is quite probably a lone survivor. The South Boston Hebrew Juniors unknown
19728777LUTHER 1972. 1. softcover. Maloftege! LUTHER paperback
19713838LUTHER 1971. 1. softcover. Maloftege! LUTHER paperback
19729571LUTHER 1972. 1. softcover. LUTHER paperback
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
