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1881882671881. BOSTON. KING'S HAND-BOOK OF BOSTON. Profusely Illustrated. Cambridge: Moses King 1881. Fourth revised and enlarged. 8vo. 328pp. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black to front hinge cracked. Interior slightly darkened. Tab-mounted double-page map in fine condition. An attractive copy. unknown books
1885882681885. BOSTON. KING'S HAND-BOOK OF BOSTON. Profusely Illustrated. Cambridge: Moses King 1885. Seventh edition revised and enlarged. 8vo. 387pp. Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black to front and spine. With fold-out map intact but may of the folds split. Front and back hinges nearly sprung. Spine weak. unknown books
1881882661881. BOSTON. KING'S HAND-BOOK OF BOSTON. Profusely Illustrated. Cambridge: Moses King 1881. Fourth revised and enlarged. 8vo. 328pp.Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black to front and spine. Light wear to cloth and extremities. Light foxing to plates. Tab-mounted double-page map in fine condition. A solid attractive copy. unknown books
183027456Boston: Boston Chemical Printing Company 1830. 12" x 11" broadside poem printed on white cotton cloth in two columns. A decorative rectangular border surrounds the poem. The inside border is surrounded by twenty vignettes in oval borders. Vignettes include animals such as a fox and an owl as well as scenes such as a soldier leading an army a king holding his scepter a face in the clouds blowing wind at the trees. Spotted at lower left corner and another light spot. Very Good. <br/><br/> This poem is a dialogue between Charles and Father concerning the reformation of Neighbor Joe a former drunk who would curse and beat his wife and children. He told Father that through the example of his eldest daughter Emeline a student in the Sabbath School and follower of the Bible he was able to ask God for forgiveness and change his wicked ways.<br/>OCLC 30730589 4- AAS Mass. Hist. Soc. Yale Brown as of December 2018. Benes Textiles in New England II page 200. Boston Chemical Printing Company unknown books
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 books
186628424New York: J. Craft Steam Printer 1866. 31 1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers illustrated with the American Screaming Eagle. Wrapper title as issued. Light wrapper wear Very Good.<br/><br/> This rare pamphlet "introduces to the farmers and agriculturalists of the New England States a fertilizer in which they will find more of interest than ourselves.We know that prejudice is sometimes entertained against the blending of science with agriculture but this error is passing away." It includes explanations scientific analyses confirming the Company's enthusiastic claims and testimonials.<br/>OCLC 191307947 1- AAS. J. Craft, Steam Printer unknown books
18881249Boston: J. R. Leeson & Co. 1888. 8vo. 32 pp. <br><br>The U.S.'s major importer of flax publishes a propaganda pamphlet of reprints of articles from the popular press concerning a bill raising import duties on flax. Leeson says such high duties will not protect the American farmer because the American farmer doesn't raise flax. Original printed wrappers. A good copy. J. R. Leeson & Co. unknown books
190017120521Boston: Engraved and printed by R.A. Supply Co. for Boston and Maine Railroad 1900. Wraps. Very good. Oblong octavo size five volumes illustrated. An early photographic account of New England each volume has a one-page introduction and 30 black and white plates. Of especial interest to any of us who have lived or currently live in the areas pictured as the changes over the past 100 years have been seismic. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Five volumes staple bound original paper wrappers with titles embossed in gilt five pages of text printed to recto only 171 black and white plates with captions all printed to recto only; oblong octavos 5 7/8" by 8". <br/><br/>___CONDITION: All five volumes are in varying degrees of very good condition the wrappers all display a bit of age toning but all are internally bright and complete with no prior owner markings "New England Lakes" and "Rivers of New England" have some chips and tape repairs to the wrappers with "Rivers of New England" lacking the back wrapper otherwise an overall very good set of scenic New England views. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Engraved and printed by R.A. Supply Co. for Boston and Maine Railroad unknown books
1881223045Boston: Rockwell and Churchill 1881. hardcover. good. 183pp. 8vo original brown cloth spine ends top of front cover and edges of corners worn cloth lightly soiled. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill 1881.<br/><br/> Most of the text is an appendix that lists the names of taxpayers in Boston Brookline and Chelsea for the years 1674 1676 1681 1685 1687 1688 1691 1695 with an index of names.<br/><br/> Rockwell and Churchill unknown books
189557745Boston: Rockwell and Churchill city printers 1895. 8vo pp. 85 1 8 photogravure plates 6 lithograph plates 8 folding plates and tables Transit Commission presentation slip tipped in at the title page; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. Much of the report concerns the proposed subway and subway stations and the estimates of cost for the construction of the Boston Harbor tunnel. OCLC locates only the Lake Forest College copy in Lake Forest Illinois which of course can't be true. <br/><br/> Rockwell and Churchill, city printers hardcover books
182727539Boston: True and Greene Printers 1827. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Scattered foxing else a very good untrimmed and unopened uncut copy. 47 pp. 8vo. Shoemaker 28229. True and Greene, Printers unknown books
18393991Boston: John H. Eastburn Print 1839. VG with moderate age wear. Green sewn wraps. 8 pp. Lists 45 works listing the owners. Some pictures are annotated with poetry also. Exceedingly rare. First page has a statement explaining the circumstances of this exhibition. Also can be found in yellow wraps. John H. Eastburn, Print paperback books
182327621Boston: Printed by Russell & Gardner 1823. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Edgeworn soiled and dampstained throughout mainly at the edges; about good. 35 pp. 8vo. Printed by Russell & Gardner unknown books
183411732Washington 1834. 8vo. 2 pp. <br><br>Government document: 23d Congress 2d Session. 26. Removed from a nonce volume; inner margin a little irregular; fold mark along width of leaf. Light foxing. Title-page with number inked in top margin by an early hand. unknown books
18956575New York: Frederick B. Stokes Company 1895. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ as Issued. Light shelf/edge wear tips through through at two spots at at bottom of boards light rubbing to boards several spots of minor soiling at text block two rust stains near gutter at rear else tight bright and unmarred. Quarterbound red cloth boards color pictorial boards same image front and rear gilt and black ink lettering frontispiece. 4to. np. Illus. color and b/w plates. <br/><br/>Published in conjunction with Children's Book of Dogs and Cats. The two "smaller" books 'Cats and Kittens' and 'Dogs Great and Small' each include the half of the primary work that fit the title and are signficantly more scarce than the quite uncommon primary work. Overall a very handsome copy. Frederick B. Stokes Company hardcover 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
1842672Boston: Printed by William White and H. P. Lewis 1842. 12mo. 183 x 120 mm. 7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches. 24 pp. Stitched as issued in original green printed wrappers. Very good copy. Second edition revised originally published in 1841 in 20 pages. The Boston Museum and Gallery opened in 1841 and included pictures statuary water colors drawings and a natural history museum filled with botanical and animal specimens. It was established thirty years before the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The paintings include works by European masters such as Brueghel Velasquez Guido Reni and a number of examples of the work of the Republican radical Salvator Rosi to name a number of the most prominet. The highlight of the collection is Thomas Sully's depiction of Washington's Passage of the Delaware which is well described in the catalogue by  as well some of the works by Benjamin West S. F. B. Morse and H. C. Pratt. There is also a listing of the water colors and engravings in the collection as well as s short description of the Gallery's cabinet of curiosities. OCLC lists four copies of the 1841 issue and four copies of this issue at AAS Harvard NYPL and the Newberry Library. 672. Printed by William White and H. P. Lewis unknown books
1854822Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son 1854. <p>8vo.  230 x 145 mm. 9 x 5 ½ inches. xxiii 298 pp. Original brown embossed cloth; piece of spine missing. Ownership signature of 'James A. Woolsen of 7 Bowdoin Square' appears in pencil on the front free endpaper.</p><br /> <p>"Since 1848 see above the date of our last Catalogue the Library has increased from six thousand volumes to sixteen thousand volumes; and although a hastily prepared Supplement was printed in 1851 the titles of nearly six thousand volumes the latest and most valuable additions to the Library were not to be found on any printed Catalogue."    </p><br /> The catalogue includes a substantial historical sketch of the library and the acquisitions of books over a thirty-year period. Along with a subscription fee of two dollars members were obliged to present the Library with "one or more volumes either in biography history voyages travels or works relative to mercantile subjest . . ." The provision of the by-laws was later abolished as the books given were generally of worthless value. Printed by John Wilson and Son unknown books
1832WRCAM22028Boston 1832. 8pp. Quarto. Dbd. Old horizontal crease mark through center rather tanned a bit foxed. Good. This is almost certainly the first printed Boston Athenæum exhibition catalogue. It lists over three hundred paintings by living artists e.g. Stuart Peale Sully G.S. Newton and others and deceased "Old Masters." Each listing includes the title of the painting and artist's name as well as that of the proprietor. Most of the living artists are American although many of the Old Masters are European. Though not dated this catalogue was printed sometime before 1835 the year in which Gilbert Stuart Newton noted as a living artist died. unknown books
