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188423722Boston: Billings Clapp & Co 1884. Wraps. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 18 unnumbered pages. 16 x 12 cm. Large folded advert for Nicol's Sarsaparilla with Iodode Of Lime at rear. A contemporary perhaps scurrilous attempt to sell medicine to families via a purported children's book. Interior with blank checkerboard spaces opposite a drawing within the squares that a child can copy to the accompanying blank. Front and back covers are chromolithographs. Drawing with advertising message on grid facing pages with plain grids. OCLC: 177708141. "The publishers manufactured Nichols' bark and iron./ Dated from one of the testimonials./ Outer pages laid down inside wraps. Billings Clapp & Co unknown
1887164541887. Women in Sciences United Hospital and Dispensary Baldwin Place Boston. Typed signed letter inviting to joining hospital advisory board and information sheet about the board. Letter dated May 18 1887. Notable for the time the membership board for United Hospital and Dispensary lists several woman doctors and emphasizes that here "women may be treated by competent female physicians exclusively if they so desire." It also lists Mary Livermore a famous journalist and advocate of women's rights. Very good. unknown
184036863Boston 1840. Broadside 5-5/8" x 9-3/4." Old margin folds and tear at blank upper corner. At head is a depiction of the Seal of Boston within an illustration of clouds. Light dusting one fox spot. About Very Good.<br /> <br /> Josiah Quincy Jr. was Mayor of Boston 1845-1849. Whig candidates for Alderman Warden Clerk Common Councilmen Inspectors School Committee and Overseers of the Poor are also listed. unknown
1861List3000Boston Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp 1861. Single sheet letterpress broadside measuring 18 x 24 ½ inches. Folded with small tears at folds and marginal damage; excellent to Near Fine. Offered here is a “phonographic report†i.e. it includes the audience’s reaction of a speech delivered by abolitionist Wendell Phillips 1811–1884 to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston on April 21 1861. The report was printed in an extra of William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator newspaper. Shortly following the first Battle of Fort Sumter the speech finds Phillips throwing his full support behind the cause of war. He insists to his audience:<br /> <br /> “The anti-slavery enterprise to which I belong started with peace written on its banner. We imagined that the age of bullets was over; that the age of ideas had come; that thirty millions of people were able to stake a great question and decide it by the conflict of opinions; and without letting the ship of State founder lift four millions of men into Liberty and Justice. . Our mistake if any has been that we counted too much on the intelligence of the masses on the honesty and wisdom of statesmen as a class. . The North thinks—can appreciate argument—is in the nineteenth century—hardly any struggle left in it but that between the working class and the money kings. The South dreams—it is the thirteenth and fourteenth century—baron and serf—noble and slave. . Our struggle therefore is no struggle between different ideas but between barbarism and civilization. Such can only be settled by arms. Prolonged cheering.â€<br /> <br /> We find three copies of this newspaper in OCLC. Of interest to scholars of Phillips’ work and of abolitionism especially Boston abolitionists.<br /> <br /> 1 “Wendell Phillips Dead: The Last Hours Of One Of The Apostles Of Abolition†The New York Times February 3 1884 1. William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp unknown
1868020499Boston: Washburn & Co Seed Merchants Boston 1868. No Binding. Near Fine. Very good condition lovely frontispiece of a hand-colored floral arrangement another in the rear of Gladiolus. 150 illustrated pages note pages are clean. <br/> <br/> Washburn & Co, Seed Merchants, Boston, unknown
189144848Boston and Portsmouth Steamship Company 1891. Softcover. Cover edges sun-darkened; a few dampstains on front cover; bound edge chipped and split at top end; a few small stains on title page; pages slightly toned; binding loose; otherwise very good condition. . Unnumbered pages. Illus. Folding map showing "The Course Taken by the Boston and Portsmouth SS Co." - from which course the photos are taken. Oblong. Boston and Portsmouth Steamship Company paperback
190066218The Investor Publishing Company Boston 1900. Pamphlet. Used - Good. 32-40 pages per issue. 11.75 x 8.5" stapled. Banks statements mining Standard Oil menace real estate securities stocks & bonds Arkansas Valley railroad monopolies Massachusetts Electric Company Nebraska copper Bryan menace advertisements &c. Marginal soiling staining few paper adhesions 1 issue else VG. The Investor Publishing Company, Boston unknown
189866217The Investor Publishing Company Boston 1898. Pamphlet. Used - Good. 32 pages per issue. 11.75 x 8.5" stapled. Textile mill stock prices real estate mining bank statements stocks & bonds railroads municipal indebtedness advertisements articles on Kansas Lackawanna constitutional imperialism benefits of war money Jersey Central speculation &c. Corner tear small loss marginal soiling damping few bit loose G. The Investor Publishing Company, Boston 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
19007547Boston Mass: Stickney & Poor Spice Company 1900. Booklet stapled in wrappers 15 x 8.5 cm. 12 pages. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely-produced product cookbook for Stickney & Poor's mustard with twenty-seven recipes including lots of salads and sandwiches. Very light soil to brown printed tan wrappers otherwise fine. One handwritten recipe to interior wrapper panel Scotch Wood-Cock Ethelynde Smith". OCLC locates just one copy Historical Society of Penn. Stickney & Poor Spice Company unknown
18518220Boston: Eastburn's Press 1851. Sewn binding. Good. Octavo 29pp. A good copy in the publisher's yellow sewn wraps. Front wrap detached but present otherwise a clean bright example with mild chipping to wrapper extremities. Very faint flattened vertical crease throughout. Scarce and ephemeral volume loaded with forensic accounting of this railroad; one of the earliest commercial rail systems in the US. OCLC notes a single physical holding naturally at AAS. Eastburn's Press unknown
1864AQ28474Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son 1864. 49pp 1. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Esher to FEP very occasional light spotting. A tribute to American financier Joshua Bates 1788-1864 from a selection of Boston merchants including both the record of an in-person assembly and a selection of letters penned in his memory. Bates who founded the Boston Public Library in 1852 donated 30000 volumes to the institution with the main hall being named in his honour. . First edition. 8vo. Printed by John Wilson and Son 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
1835861T25Cardiff: Rivington; Griffiths; Williams; T. Price c1835. Hardback. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A collection of eight essays in the original Welsh language. Welsh language. Scarce publications. A collection of eight essays written by Reverends including: The Grace of Love 1831. Baptism of Infants 1830. The Law of God 1819. The Lord's Payer 1830. Two Sermons 1830. A Rebirth of a Martyr 1827. Diary 1810. God's Life in the Soul of Man 1779. Bound in contemporary paper covered boards. Externally very smart with light shelf wear and the odd small mark to the board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with light spotting and the odd tide mark. Very Good Rivington; Griffiths; Williams; T. Price hardcover
186027356Boston: Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration 1860. First edition. Removed. A very good clean bright copy with mail folds. Unpaged 1 pp. Sm. 4to. A letter from the Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on immigration informing its members that it has a "favorable opportunity of supplying employers in all branches of manufactures trade agriculture mining domestic services etc. with such help as they require. of a superior class of skilled labor from Great Britain." Committee of the Boston Board of Trade on Immigration unknown
187824797MABoston MA: Rockwell and Churchill City Printers 1878. 274 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; spine and edges sunned. Corners and spine ends bumped. Edges of leaves a bit age toned. Contains Complete Printing of "Charlestown Book of Possessions 1638-1802." Still a strong sturdy copy given its age. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers Hardcover
1859Alibris7990Rufus Leighton Jr 1859. Hard cover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. Contemporary cloth. 1/4"chip at head of spine; wear at top edge very light even sunfade to spine; 5 modest spots on front board. A very nice copy. Good plus. Hinges and endpapers are sound. Contemporary pencil. This volume assembles the moving last set of correspondences between the beloved and singularly important Unitarian Transcendentalist minister and his last congregation during the last years of his life. 182pp ads. In this volume are assembled for the first time Parker's farewell letter to the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society in Boston their reply and his letter dated May 1859 constituting his recollections of his "Experience as a Minister" extending some 157 well written pages covering the whole range of religious and historical 'moment' of these critically formative years. Rufus Leighton, Jr hardcover
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
1888WC4211888. Author First American edition. The cloth binding has some light wear it is sound. There is some very light edge foxing throughout the text is otherwise very clean. hardcover
1848070504Charleston: Printed by Walker & Burke 1848. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6" x 3.75" x 0.5. RARE. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1848. Only three copies listed on WorldCat. Bound in brown publisher's cloth with blind debossing on the covers and gilt lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers. xx 131 pp. Cover is worn and soiled with a 2.5" closed tear on the back. Previous owner's name in pencil on the title page with occasional marks throughout also in pencil. Foxing and continuous dampstain throughout yet text is still quite legible. Hinges are strong and binding is sound. A unique little copy. Full refund if not satisfied. Printed by Walker & Burke hardcover
1852193782Boston: J.H. Eastburn city printer 1852. Hardcover. Very Good-. Cover has general wear corner damage scuffing. Bookblock has foxing and age toning. Interior pages have foxing age toning. Bookplate of previous owner on interior front cover. Green boards gilt decorative elements. 288 pages 1 leaf of plates : map. Report prepared at the request of a City Council committee./ Includes index./ Includes index. J.H. Eastburn, city printer hardcover
185266985Printed in the USA: J. H Eastburn 1852. First edition. Cloth over boards. Very good. Hardcover original cloth brown over boards. 8vo. 288 pp. Illustrated with a single b/w folding map after the index titled "Skeleton Map of Rail Roads Between Cape Canso and St. Louis." Beautiful original Benjamin Bradley binding. Gilt emblem of the city of Boston stamped on front and back covers. Extensive blind tooling on the covers and spine typical of Bradley bindings. Half title gilt stamped on spine. Text block shows very slight foxing mostly along the fore edge but the pages are bright clean and unmarked. The binding is strong and square. Covers are a little worn at the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. Small bump in the middle of the fore edge of the back board and on its bottom corner. Overall a very handsome copy. J. H Eastburn unknown
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
183036359Boston: Samuel H. Parker. Press of Putnam & Hunt 1830. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Stitched printed wraps. 24 pages. Original covers present with edge chips tears and creases. Heavy toning to parts of the covers. Edge tears to the untrimmed pages. Several edge creases to the pages. Interior contents mostly clean. Inscription at top reads Rev. W Boyle With the Author's regard." Fair only. Samuel H. Parker. Press of Putnam & Hunt unknown
187824532Boston Massachusetts: Sampson Davenport and Company 1878. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First Edition. 6 ads 860 2 pages. Advertisements on endpapers as well. Colored folded map of Massachusetts in front. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth with coppergilt lettering on spine panel. Cover is worn with silverfish damage to surface of cloth and front hinge paper. Sound textblock front hinge loose and could use reinforcement. Cloth. A scarce survival most were discarded as they became dated or when the nice colored map was removed and sold separately. Now a great reference for who was active in Boston a major city at the time. Sampson, Davenport, and Company unknown
