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186427277Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son 1864. First edition. Paper wrappers. A very good copy sunned at the extremities one crease throughout leaves clean. 18 pp. 8vo. Sabin 31825. Printed by John Wilson and Son unknown books
1861607241861. CITY OF BOSTON MA. REPORT OF THE JOINT SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE EASTERN AVENUE. Boston : J. E. Farwell & Co. City Printers 1861. City Document No. 58. Four folding maps. 15 pp. 8vo. pamphlet format sewn signatures. Despite its relatively bright appearance the paper is very brittle; the entire pamphlet is quite edge-chipped with detached wrappers. The maps are browned at folds with some creases starting and one of them is split along a fold. The pamphlet is offered as is. unknown books
185624788Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press 1856. 31 1 blank pp stitched. Light tanning of final page bottom corners of first two leaves a bit worn. Quite clean. Signed in type by Wm. Minot Jr. Thomas C. Smith Nathl. Whiting. Very Good. The Committee addresses concerns resulting from "the present depressed condition and market value of the Stock of the Road the absence of Dividends for the last eighteen months and the presence of a Debt which though not large was still sufficient to burthen the future earnings of the road." <br/>OCLC 28680972 5. J.H. Eastburn's Press unknown books
183255449Boston: J. E. Hinckley and Co 1832. First edition 8vo pp. 87 1; uncut and stitched as issued; tables in the text; without the folding map and lithograph plan as called for in some OCLC listings; contemporary annotations at the back in Acts of Incorporation; very good. Includes a geological memoir of the area between Massachusetts and Narragansett Bays. American Imprints 11443. <br/><br/> J. E. Hinckley and Co unknown books
1861M12986Boston:: David Clapp 1861. 1861. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers; creased top right corner chipped spine wear. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "When some time since we had occasion to allude to the fact that ether had proved fatal in a number of instances the announcement was received with much surprise and more than one incredulous correspondent was moved to inquire on what authority the statement was made. The authority was given and reference was made to twenty-five cases that up to that time had been reported. The Boston Society for Medical Improvement soon after appointed a committee to report 'on the alleged dangers which accompany the inhalation of the vapor of sulphuric ether' and recently this committee discharged their obligations in a lengthy and very elaborate report. That they have had 'unequalled facilities' for collecting material this document bears the most unequivocal evidence; and in this respect it may be considered complete. .The report. . . consists of two portions the text and an appendix of forty-one cases of alleged deaths by ether upon which the conclusions of the committee are based. The profession is under great obligations to the Boston Society for instituting this investigation and to the committee for the unwearied zeal they have manifested in the collection of evidence upon the subject of their repot" AMT p. 308. REFERENCES: "Ether as an Anaesthetic." American Medical Times. Nov. 9 1861. 308-316 pp. See: John Farquhar Fulton Madeline Earle Stanton The Centennial of Surgical Anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anaesthesia VII.33. Locations: American Antiquarian Society UCLA Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. David Clapp, 1861. unknown books
196914462Boston: Museum of Fine Arts 1969. Softcover. VG. Black and white wraps with white lettering. 184 pp. Numerous bw plates. Three-page introduction catalogue of 28 illustrated annotated works notes on paper types used by Rembrandt table of watermarks many fine plates and details. Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
1969165081Boston: Museum of Fine Arts 1969. Hardcover. VG-/VG- previous owner's name inside in ink dj is price clipped has moderate wear to edges corners and spine. Black and white wraps with white lettering. 184 pp. Numerous bw plates. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from October 1-November 9 1969. Museum of Fine Arts hardcover books
190745821n.p. 1907. 1st Printing. Single sheet blue lettering now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy light soiling mostly to recto corners rubbed overall bright. Single sheet. Illustration at head of recto by Henri Cassiers 1858 - 1944. Approx: 8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>There is an option to detach postcard however this is still attached and no creasing. unknown books
1965106293<p> Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight edgewear creasing and aging; otherwise in excellent shape. This 1965 Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1963 team. Featured players include Carl Yastrzemski in his third season with Boston Frank Malzone Russ Nixon Rico Petrocelli Reggie Smith and Ed Bressoud. Includes full page color photo of Frank Malzone. </p> books
1967106297<p> Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight staining or cover wear normal aging; otherwise in very good plus condition. This 1967 Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1967 team. This issue provides a Boston Red Sox all time player roster 1906-1966. Featured 1967 players include Carl Yastrzemski Reggie Smith Tony Conigliaro Jose Santiago and Jerry Moses. </p> books
1964106292<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight aging otherwise near mint. This 1964 Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1964 team. Featured players include Carl Yastrzemski Frank Malzone Don Conley Russ Nixon Rico Petrocelli Reggie Smith Tony Conigliaro and Ed Bressoud. Includes a color photo of pitcher John Lamabe. Picture has signed name but can't tell if it is actual signature doesn't show any indentation on back. </p> books
1963106291<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight edgewear and aging; otherwise in excellent shape. This 1963 Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1963 team. Featured players include Carl Yastrzemski in his third season with Boston Frank Malzone Don Conley Russ Nixon Rico Petrocelli Lou Clinton and Ed Bressoud. </p> books
1961106295<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some slight aging otherwise in near mint condition. This 1961 Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1963 team. Featured players include Carl Yastrzemski in his first season with Boston Chuck Schilling Frank Malzone Don Conley Russ Nixon Rico Petrocelli Lou Clinton and Ed Bressoud. Copy is in excellent condition. # 106295</p> books
1957106290<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some aging and browning slight edgewear; otherwise in excellent shape. The 1957 Boston Red Sox Yearbook features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1957 team. Featured players include Ted Williams Frank Malzone Billy Goodman Sammy White Jimmy Piersall Fear Stikes Out and Mickey Vernon.</p> books
1955106289<p>Program format 8 1/2 x 11 paper illustrated 48 pp. Some aging and browning a little spine wear corner piece missing from pages 42 and 43 but not really affecting text or pictures; otherwise very good. Classic 1950s Boston Red Sox Yearbook that features pictures profiles and records of players on the 1955 team. Featured players include Ted Williams Frank Malzone Billy Goodman Sammy White Dick Brodowski Jimmy Piersall Fear Stikes Out and Joe Buck. # 106289</p> books
18966716Boston 1896. A bound volume of autograph letters with the invitation and autograph menu. Octavo 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of letters mounted on stubs. A superb record of the social grace of an era long gone. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small 'dancing' party for the society 'A' list of Boston. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. Also includes a complete list of the final attendees and a manuscript record of the menu and engraved invitation accompany the individual acceptance and rejection few letters. Very good; some wear to the binding. A stationer's Shipman adhesive half leather letter file book. hardcover books
1882WRCAM20280Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council 1882. 175pp. plus plates including a few photogravures. Tall octavo. Original gilt cloth. Light fraying to head of spine. Else very good. Nicely illustrated guide to the old state house in Boston. Illustrated with beautiful photogravures of the interior as it looked at the time of publication. Printed by Order of the City Council hardcover books
188215029Boston: Boston City Council 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth chipped at backstrip extremities. Very good. 175 pages. 4to thirty illlustrations. Index. Bookplate EX-library. Boston City Council hardcover books
185027528Boston: n.p. 1850. First edition. A very good copy of this self-mailer sealing wax present small chip to blank. 1 pp. Addressed to Sam G. Rea Salem Mass. with 5 cent cancel postmarked Boston April 6 1850. An attempt to solicit the owners of Dividend 4 to then petition the East Boston Company to extend the deadline for land acquisition along the Wharves as the value of the land was expected to grow rapidly with the arrival of the Grand Junction railroad and water from Lake Cochituate. The committee was headed by Albert Bowker most likely the Treasurer of the East Boston Savings Bank Samuel O. Mead financier from Weymouth and Joshua Bates financier who shortly funded the start of the Boston Public Library. n.p. unknown books
1767313300Boston: Printed by Mein and Fleeming 1767. 2 pp. prospectus printed recto and verso of a single sheet. 4to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. Damage at edges with loss to text month October missing from heading lower corner torn away with loss to"G" in Fleeming in imprint a few letters lost from right margin on recto and 12 lines affected on verso toned and stained. Signed "Mich. Franklin 1768" at top of recto. 2 pp. prospectus printed recto and verso of a single sheet. 4to 10-1/2 x 8 inches. Early American newspaper prospectus. Rare early American newspaper prospectus announcing publication of The Boston Chronicle a weekly Loyalist paper. "John Mein a bookseller was the publisher and John Fleeming the printer. With the beginning of the second year the size of the paper was enlarged to folio and it was publihsed every Monday and Thursday and was the first newspaper to be published twice a week in New-England. To avoid popular resentment of his political views Mein was forced to leave the country before the close of its second year and the paper was continued by Fleeming in the name of the firm until its publication ceased on the 25th of June 1770" Evans.<br/><br/>The five "conditions" listed on the recto detail the general design of the paper - that it will be printed on high quality demy paper with specially designed type 8 pages in quarto priced at 6 shillings and 8 pence printed every Monday and delivered to subscrribers with care. The verso with text in three columns outlines a plan of the contents of the paper including coverage of current events and issues essays on moral subjects notices on newly published books poetry etc. Ford Broadsides 1418; Shipton-Mooney 41736; Bristol B2787 recording 4 copie; Evans 10565 for newspaper Printed by Mein and Fleemin[g] unknown books
186943274Boston 1869. Near fine some browning at upper edge. 1 sheet. Folio. Signed and dated 1 January 1869. Sealed with 50 cent Internal Revenue conveyance stamp. Title arches over an etching of a three masted ship steaming at sea. Boston Lloyds was an insurance organization formed as "an Association for the purpose of taking Marine Risks by means of Individual Underwriting" and "by power of attorney have ing each member authorized Richard S. Haven to make insurance for them in their individual capacity as the said Richard S. Haven may deem proper; and for that purpose to perform all acts necessary to the proper fulfillment of the object." There were sixty members each allowing Haven to commit them up to $500 each. One of the firms was S. C. Thwing & Co. of Boston whose commitment document this is. Its primary owner was Supply Clap Thwing 1798-1871 a wealthy businessman with roots tracing back to the Pilgrims. He was active in the mercantile trade between the East Indies and New Orleans was a ship owner and active in the coal trade. Richard S. Haven came to Boston from California became an insurance agent for a number of companies before forming Boston Lloyds which unfortunately did not last half a decade perhaps failing about 1874. Rare. The only known documents on Boston Lloyds are held in the archives of the Peabody Essex Museum. The United States Insurance Gazette V. 28 new series 1868-9 pp. 26-7; Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society p. 251. unknown books
1937200152Boston 1937. hardcover. very good. Illus. 8vo tan boards. Boston 1937. vg<br/><br/> Published by the Banks and Trust Companies of Boston<br/><br/> unknown books
1930List328Boston 1930. Oblong quarto 49 pp. With appx. 1400 photos most measuring less than an inch square with roughly 175 in larger formats up to 3 ½ by 5 inches. Very Good. A wonderful labor of photographic love created by an unidentified young woman with ties to the Cabot family of Beacon Hill. The album composed largely of tiny contact prints glued in neat grids. Off-kilter compositions - a portion of a steeple against the sky the tail of a dog etc. - are mixed in with more traditional landscapes leading one to question whether the photographer had modernist aspirations or just took a lot of pictures.<br /> <br /> The photographer is unknown but our best guess is that it was someone who was a friend of Ellen Cabot of Beacon Hill perhaps while both were students or just after. Ellen Cabot the most frequent subject of the album is shown in a variety of settings often accompanied by her dog Prowler. Aerial photography the New England coastline camping life in Cambridge and equestrian competition are all on display. Other highlights include a dog named Benito Mussolini and artful shots of a monk's torso. A portion of the photos perhaps five or ten percent are not present though the album is otherwise in excellent condition. Handwritten label on the front reads "Newport Races to Topsfield autumn 1930". Overall the album is a testament to the energy and spontaneity of youth and the possibilities of the photographic form as well as an intimate look into Boston's storied upper class. unknown books
184146846Norwich: M. B. Young Print 1841. 1st printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Tack holes at the corners. Faint fold lines. Very Good. Broadside 13 lines of introductory text at top over 2 columns of text describing the paintings to be exhibited. A job printing announcement with the city lecture location therein day of week and date all in manuscript at top. Price of the lecture 25 cts in mss in the 7th line from the bottom. In the lower margin has been inked "Tickets sold at the Book Store of Mr Bolles Steam Boat Hotel & at the doors". 18" x 12" <br/><br/>"Petra is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra declined rapidly under Roman rule in large part from the revision of sea-based trade routes. In 363 an earthquake destroyed many buildings and crippled the vital water management system. In the 12th century the Crusaders built fortresses but left after a while. As a result Petra was forgotten for the Western world until the 19th century. The first European to describe them the ruins was Swiss traveller Johann Ludwig Burckhardt during his travels in 1812. The Scottish painter David Roberts visited Petra in 1839 and returned to England with sketches ." Wiki In this advertisement "Mr Swift" announces "a course of 2 lectures in the New London Court House in this place commencing Wednesday evening April 14th upon PETRA or The Excavated City". He exclaims that the lecture will be accompanied by "Seventeen large and beautifully executed paintings representing the present condition of these wonderful and justly celebrated cities." The broadside then goes on to describe in detail the subject of each of the 17 paintings. He concludes by asserting "The views exhibited are real Paintings --- not Magic Lantern illusions." No doubt this Mr Smith was riding the coattails of Roberts' sketches. one wonders where today might be found those paintings. And if no longer extant here we document their onetime existence. As an aside it should be noted that Eli Smith had a bit of a brouhaha with one J. S. Buckingham who also published some text on Petra of which Smith felt there were inaccuracies and so published same. The contretemps resulting in Buckingham publishing an 1840 pamphlet documenting the correspondence between the two: PUBLIC ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MR. BUCKINGHAM In DEFENSE Of His LECTURES On PALESTINE AGAINST The CRITICISMS Of The REV. ELI SMITH PUBLISHED ANONYMOUSLY In The NEW YORK OBSERVER In 1839. No copies of this broadside found on OCLC. Rare. M. B. Young, Print unknown books
197938808NY:: Atheneum. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0689501366 . First American edition. Previous owner's blind-stamp on front free endpaper else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Atheneum, hardcover books
