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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 books
1860688Boston: Prentiss & Deland Printers 1860. 8vo. 235 x 145 mm. 9 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches. 20 pp. Original printed wrappers stitched as issued. Wrappers and paper stock showing some light soiling but otherwise a very good copy. The director of the Athenaeum Alfred Ordway and his committee consisting of Edward C. Cabot Charles Codman and G. Howland Shaw put this exhibition together from the collections of the Athenaeum and perhaps more importantly from the private collections that were being built at mid-century in Boston. The catalogue contains 67 select pieces of sculpture many with annotations and 334 paintings drawings and watercolors each with the donor's name attached. The pamphlets offers a good look at the collecting patterns of the Boston elite and the names Adams Beecher Burgess Kemble Perkins Sharpe Tompkins are Boston notables that are repeated as owners of items throughout the catalogue.  . Prentiss & Deland, Printers unknown books
198929501989. Softcover. VG. Wraps. 20 pp. 12 bw 12 color plates. Catalogue lists 70 works. Also has a brief chronology and list of exhibitions. A French born painter his works are Impressionistic and were apparently shown exclusively in France until his introduction to America by this gallery. unknown books
19902949Boston MA: Vose Galleries 1990. Pamphlet. VG. Tan color illustrated wraps. 16 pp. 11 bw 12 color plates. Catalogue lists 55 works. Also has a brief chronology and list of exhibitions. A French born painter his works are Impressionistic and were apparently shown exclusively in France until his introduction to America by this gallery. Vose Galleries unknown books
1876002305Boston: Mcindoe Bros. Prs. 1876. First Edition. Very good. Small broadside n. d. ca 1876; 9 3/4 x 5 3/4; thin beige stock illustrated with a wood engraving and and an intricate border; text in several fancy fonts; two small nicks and several faint creases to edges; overall in very good condition. A beautiful advertising broadside for window awnings which were manufactured by the well-known Boston Blower Company manufacturers of various pieces of machinery Champion Knife and Fork Scourer etc. window treatments and so on. The broadside illustrated and described the reasons why one should buy the fixtures and the ways to order them. Mcindoe Bros., Prs. unknown books
1980149051980. Softcover. VG. Wraps. 32 pp. 13 color 49 bw plates. Wonderful color plates of works by lesser-known regional artists. These Painting Annual issues are terrific reference works for these artists and contain important information. price list laid in. unknown books
2001108812Boston: Childs Gallery 2001. Softbound. VG. Stapled wraps; 15 pp.; 26 color 6 bw plates. Includes works from Old Master to Modern 1690s to 2003; Pieces by John Singer Sargent Milton Avery Albert Swinden Frank Stella and others with annotations. Childs Gallery unknown books
198537321985. Softcover. VG. Wraps. 32 pp. 27 color 36 bw plates. Wonderful color plates of works by lesser-known regional artists. These Painting Annual issues are terrific reference works for these artists and contain important information. unknown books
19901047651990. Softbound. VG. Wraps. appx. 20 pp. 43 color plates. Wonderful color plates of works by lesser known regional artists. These Painting Annual Issues are terrific reference works for these artists and contain important information. Also has a few European works. unknown books
19911047661991. Softbound. VG. Wraps. appx. 20 pp. 26 color plates. Wonderful color plates of works by lesser known regional artists. These Painting Annual Issues are terrific reference works for these artists and contain important information. Also has a few European works. unknown books
1979217552Berkeley: City Miner Magazine 1979. Magazine. Eleven issue broken run various pagination 7x10 inches articles photos poetry fiction reviews interviews lightly wear otherwise very good first edition magazines in stapled pictorial wraps. Issue numbers 1-5 7-9 11 12 & 14. numbering was erratic with whole numbering beginning with issue #8 aka volume 3 #1. Mostly Bay Area San Francisco Counter Culture art poetry literature and politics. Issue number one has an interview with Moe Moskowitz of Moe's Books in Berkeley. City Miner Magazine unknown books
110632hardcover. many color diagrams some folding. 8vo cloth; spine ends repaired. Boston: Rockwell & Churchill 1893.<br/><br/> unknown books
1809WRCAM8213Boston 1809. Vol. XL No. 2048 and Whole No. 2633. Two issues 4pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned old folds old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices most importantly regarding the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase its constitutional ramifications for the United States and the reluctance of Spain to recognize the sale of the territory by France to the U.S. News of the purchase had become public on Oct. 17. On Nov. 30 Spain formally delivered the colony to the French colonial prefect who transferred the territory to William Claiborne and Gen. Wilkinson the American commissioners on Dec. 20. BRIGHAM I pp.277-79. unknown books
180131356Boston: D. Bowen 1801. Letterpress broadside woodcut coffin and urn decoration 23 x 18 1/4 inches. Minor losses in the margins at sheet edges not affecting text. A remarkably early American museum broadside.<br/> <br/>A broadside advertisement for the Columbian Museum in Boston one of the earliest American museum publications extant. Opened by Daniel Bowen in 1795 the museum specialized in the exhibition of fine art as well as curiosities. The museum was an expansion on Boston's first such institution also founded by Bowen in 1791 which was dedicated primarily to the exhibition of wax figures. The Columbian also played host to a variety of public performances and lectures. "One exhibit more suggestive of P. T. Barnum than the sedate offerings of a modern museum featured a bibulous elephant who consumed vast quantities of spiritous liquor the museum's advertising assuring the public that 'thirty bottles of porter of which he draws the corks himself is not an uncommon allowance.' . Despite such vulgarities Bowen's Museum is said to have had a significant influence on the history of American painting. The works of art on display there especially those of Robert Edge Pine formed the only public art gallery in Boston. Art historians credit this collection with influencing three major painters: Washington Allston the great Romantic painter Samuel F. B. Morse better known as the inventor of the telegraph and Edward Greene Malbone a miniaturist of note all of whom resided in the Boston area in the 1790s" W.P. Marchione Allston-Brighton Historical Society. This broadside advertises Bowen's wax sculptures of famous figures such as John Adams George Washington and Benjamin Franklin but further promotes a much more eclectic range of exhibited items. First among these are a collection of "large historical paintings" which depict a wide array of subjects including "Mrs. Yates in the character of Medea" "Time clipping Cupid's wings" and "His Excellency John Hancock late Governor of Massachusetts painted by Mr. Copeley." Prominently placed in the center of the broadside is an announcement that a "Monument to the Memory of General Washington has lately been erected in the centre of the Museum" with a small woodcut purporting to be the object in question. Also advertised are a collection of "automaton and musical clocks" and a concert organ "one of the most elegant Instruments of the kind ever imported" as well as a number of "natural curiosities" consisting mostly of birds snakes and a very large fish "12 feet in length" caught in Boston harbor. "The Museum has been established in Boston about five years during which time the collection of natural and artificial Curiosities elegant Paintings Wax Figures &c. have been constantly increasing and is now universally visited as one of the most rational and entertaining places of amusement in the United States: -- And will be removed from Boston at the expiration of the lease. Music on the Concert Organ. -- Admittance Fifty Cents." Though several editions of advertisements for the Columbian Museum have been noted by OCLC ESTC and Evans this particular broadside is apparently unrecorded. D. Bowen unknown books
19989573Miami FL:Talisman 1998. 1st edition. Fine folded broadside glued into stiff wrappers marked Review Copy with a letter from author SIGNED laid in. Talisman Broadside One. Miami, FL:Talisman, unknown books
19011848071901. Paperback. VG Faded stamp on cover. Pressed ownership stamp pressed onto first several pages. Blue paper wraps with ciler lettering. 54 pages 1 unnumbered leaf of plates. paperback books
1839WRCAM36501Boston: Press of Dow & Jackson 1839. x3-77pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled wrappers string- tied. Wrappers rubbed and worn. Minor foxing. Very good. With the ownership signature of "Samuel E. Sawyer" a member of the library at the head of the titlepage. Includes a history of the Boston Mercantile Library Association the constitution and by-laws a list of officers by year of service and a list of members. The library catalogue runs some forty-six pages listing more than two thousand works in a number of disciplines. Included are works of American and world history and travel science trade literature religion manners and more. Scarce with AMERICAN IMPRINTS and OCLC together locating only five copies. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 57241. OCLC 20321096. Press of Dow & Jackson unknown books
183530636Boston: David Hooton.Printer.Merchants' Hall 1835. 12pp stitched in contemporary plain yellow wrappers. Title page vignette of the Department dousing a house fire. Very Good plus.<br/><br/> This rare Charter of an early mutual aid society evidently located only at the Boston Public Library was established to assist injured Boston firemen who "are liable in the discharge of their duty to many casualties to which citizens generally are not exposed." <br/> The pamphlet prints the 1830 Act of the Legislature incorporating the Association; Edward Prescott George Dearborn and Jonathan A. Davis are the named incorporators. The Articles render every Boston fireman eligible for membership. Annual dues are fifty cents. Injured members are barred from negotiating directly with the City Government for financial assistance: that's the job of the Association the names of whose officers are printed at page 12. Thomas C. Amory was President of the Board of Trustees.<br/>OCLC 33064696 1- Boston Public 1038097739 also Boston Public as of October 2019. AI 30581 1- Boston Public. Not in Sabin or on AAS's online web site. David Hooton...Printer...Merchants' Hall unknown books
2000UPARCOR00fpThe Institute of Contemporary Art Boston 2000. Very Good. Parker Cornelia. Cornelia Parker. Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Boston MA: The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston 2000. 78pp. Illustrated. Square 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston paperback books
1978286141Boston: Design Media Concepts Corporation 1978. unbound. very good. Poster. Offset lithograph. 27.5" x 22.5". In very good condition.<br/><br/> Original exhibition poster for "Costumes of the Latin Quarter" at the Boston Center for the Arts. Art work by Erte with decorative text that reads "Woman As Fantasy". Romain de Tirtoff 23 November 1892 %u2013 21 April 1990 was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté. 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields including fashion jewelry graphic arts costume and set design for film theatre and opera and interior decor.<br/><br/> Design Media Concepts Corporation unknown books
178726593Boston 1787. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". 18 leaves each with vertical columns. 20 pages are completed in manuscript. Plain contemporary wrappers with inner margins and spine reinforced by tape; wrappers separated from text and the leaves are loose. Else lightly worn and Very Good. <br/><br/> This list of county taxpayers has names of more than one hundred residents; tables report their personal and real property assessments and their poll real estate and personal property taxes paid. A few of the people were Ebenezer Hancock younger brother of John Hancock and Deputy Paymaster-General of the Continental Army; Thomas Pemberton antiquarian and historian of the Revolution; James Tewksbury who had been a Minute-Man; Dr. Amos Winship a naval surgeon and acquaintance of John and Abigail Adams; Samuel Austin a Boston selectman in 1774. unknown books
178726656Boston 1787. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". 18 leaves each with vertical columns. 22 pages completed in manuscript. Plain contemporary wrappers inner margins and spine reinforced by tape; wrappers separated from text several leaves loose. A clean and Very Good text. <br/><br/> This list of county taxpayers has names of more than one hundred residents; tables report their personal and real property assessments and their poll real estate and personal property taxes paid. Some well-known Revolutionary figures include Major William Bell Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; Benjamin Austin political writer; Jonathan Loring Austin secretary to the Massachusetts Board of War until October 1777; Capt. Nathaniel Goodwin of the 1st Plymouth Co. Regiment; and Dr. Thomas Welch one of the founders of the Massachusetts Medical Society and a surgeon in the Continental Army. Also listed are Dr. James Pecker first vice-president of the Massachusetts Medical Society and Dr. Joseph Whipple also a founder of the Massachusetts Medical Society. unknown books
199032505Boston: Museum of Fine Arts. Fine. 1990. Paperback. 0878463283 . Exhibition catalog. 60 color plates. First edition paperback. Fine in oversized illustrated wraps. . Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
19295764Boston: College of Business Administration Bureau of Business Research 1929. Stapled booklet 51 4 pages. Tables. First and only edition. Very detailed study of the operation of ice cream counters in drug stores. Soiled internally and on printed stapled wrappers. Good only. Scarce. OCLC locates eight copies. College of Business Administration, Bureau of Business Research unknown books
197751634Boston: Mr. Boston Distiller Corp 1977. 56th printing. Small 8vo pp. 216. Index. Illustrated. Paper over boards. Edges slightly soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Mr. Boston Distiller Corp unknown books
