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1838134236Bostob; Charles Stimpson 1838. First Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 408 pages; Description: v. Fold. Maps. 15-28 cm. Subjects: Boston Mass. --Directories. Almanacs American --Massachusetts - 19th century. Small closed tear to the map. Bostob; Charles Stimpson hardcover
188142466Five Points: Donaldson Brothers 1881. 1881. TRADE CATALOG. 6 1/4" x 3 3/4" in tan pictorial wrappers showing a young girl holding a large hat. 20 pp. showing ladies' misses' and children's straw hats. Each page offers 3 different styles on each page. Minor wear to spine and extremities. Very good plus. Donaldson Brothers, 1881. unknown
18852230617Philadelphia PA: American Baptist Publication Society 1885. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover dark orange cloth boards ornately decorated on front and spine. Exterior shows scuffing and soiling along with edge and corner bumps/wear. Spine is a bit worn with a dark shade to one side. The interior binding of the text portion of the pages is good and tight but the hinge is cracked at the rear board in the front hinge is starting. No signatures or bookplates no library markings no handwriting found. Pages are toned due to age and there is some scattered foxing and spotting present. The book would normally grade as VG but condition was lowered because of the hinge cracking at boards. <br/> <br/> American Baptist Publication Society hardcover
1859833001859. PRINTS - BOSTON SOUTH BOSTON 1859 HANDCOLORED LITHOGRAPH BY JOSEPH FOXCROFT COLE. Boston: J. F. A. Cole ca. 1859. Image matted to 22 x 29 1/2 inches. Three spots of browning to the sky area faint arc of foxing a few more to the scenes below the main image. Main image features a main intersection of roads one signposted "G Street Ward 12". Great perspective. Very good overall. Below the title is printed: "To the citizens of South Boston this picture is most respectfully dedicated by the Artist. unknown
1874004105<p>London: House of Commons 1874. Collection of papers relating to the Boston election of 1874 comprising - 1. 'Copy of the Shorthand Writer's Notes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of the Boston Election Petition' iv 76pp; 2. 'For the Trial of Election Petitions' pp19-30; 3. 'Summons to Witness' form 1p; 4. 'Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 5 vi-xiv 2 3-51pp 1; and 5. 'Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 3 2-268pp. Half calf and marbled paper over boards raised bands spine in six panels title label to second panel gilt thick and thin double rules either side of bands. Rubbed to extremities lightly foxed to edges and occasionally to margins a few pen lines to margins previous owners name to head of a few of the different reports but generally clean. The fourth named includes a poll book printed on blue paper. The Liberals William Ingram and Thomas Parry were initially elected but "an election petition found extensive bribery relating to Parry's votes which on the initial count totalled 1347. However 353 of these were struck off - and further may have been taken if the process had not stopped on 8 June 1874 - leading to Malcolm's election instead. A Royal Commission was established to investigate the borough. A separate petition against Ingram was dropped" Wikipedia - Boston Election page. First Edition. Hardback. Good. Folio.</p> House of Commons hardcover
1891mon0003532014R. Clipston Sturgis 1891. Hardcover. Good. . Rare. Number 59 of only 500 copies. Ex-lib with the usual labeling. Some age spots here and there throughout some dust prints but no major stains. Slight scuffing to boards general shelf wear. Binding tight. R. Clipston Sturgis hardcover
190021289Boston MA: Rockwell and Churchill Press 1900. First edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 64 pages with a report of the Chief Engineer on the East Boston Tunnel. Includes numerous construction photographs diagrams and maps many as foldouts. Also includes the usual financial report for the year. Bound in blue-gray cloth with lettering in gilt. Cloth mildly soiled. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> Rockwell and Churchill Press hardcover
1825102273<p>Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN.</p>
185010254Boston Mass: Propeller Press 142 Washington St 1850. Bi-fold menu 21 x 13.5 cm. 4 pages. Illustrated. The Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society was formed in 1846. This "Seventh Anniversary" banquet offered an alcohol free menu with Baked Trout in Anchovy Sauce Mutton Cutlet in Gardner's Sauce Eels with Tartar Sauce Mongrel Ducks seven types of pie or cake AND then dessert. The final page contains an engraving of Quincy House. The menu is stained and has some dark fold marks mostly visible on the final page. Otherwise very good. Propeller Press, 142 Washington St unknown
182721387Boston: Dutton & Wentworth 1827. Stitched and untrimmed with first and last leaf rather dusty else a clean and Very Good text. vi 106pp. Accompanied by a typed note on the verso of Revere Sugar Refinery stationery from 'P.R.C.' to 'G.D.F.' concerning the bridge. <br /> <br /> "The proposed bridge was erected in 1828 and known as Warren Bridge." OCLC. Evidently intended to assist Harvard College the plan aroused considerable opposition as it would compete with the toll bridge located only a short distance away. <br /> FIRST EDITION. II Harv. Law Cat. 449. BEAL 11593. OCLC 4182895 14. AI 30433 13. Not in Marke Eberstadt Decker. Dutton & Wentworth unknown
18478890Boston 1847. Broadsheet menu 31 x 13.6 cm. 2 pages. Illustrated with an engraving of the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. A menu and wine list for the hotel restaurant of Revere House issued in the hotel's inaugural year. Built on the site of home of Boston's Kirk Boote Revere House became one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman and Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. Paran Stevens 1802-1872 at times the general manager and later a co-owner of the hotel was to become proprietor of additional luxury hotels in Claremont N.H. Philadelphia and New York. He had a considerable reputation as connoisseur of wines and liquors and was said to have the finest nose in the country. The "Stevens Sherry" was tailor-made to suit his palette and it was said that his cellars were "never equaled in America". The Wine List includes the usual categories: Madeira Sherry Champagne Hock Sauterne Port Burgundy and Claret along with a short selection of Porter and Ale. What is unusual is the detail in the descriptions of some of the Madeira and Sherry including Dornelios Vasconcellos Sercial Rapid East India Madeira imported by J. W. Boott Esq. in 1819 – bottled in 1822 and Governor Phillip's imported in 1820 from Page Phelps & Co. ~ Paper is age-toned and has a water stain along the bottom edge. Still bright and legible. Very good. No records of other copies of this menu have been located. Menus from any location in the United States prior to 1850 are very scarce. Rare. unknown
184438801Boston: John H. Eastburn City Printer 1844. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean copy. 13 pp. 8vo. The Primary School committee was much agitated by the Secretary of the Board of Education Horace Mann's Seventh Annual Report which complained that there was no real system of education in Boston specifically that the teachers in the higher grades were forced to teacher the basic elements that should have been covered earlier: "The elements must be taught somewhere. If neglected in the primary schools they must be taught in the grammar schools. And thus the order of things is reversed and disarrangement introduced into the whole school system. The teacher who is employed and paid for instructing in the higher branches is compelled to devote time and attention to the studies appropriately belonging to schools of a lower grade. This is found to be the case to too great an extent in the schools of our city. We do not say this to the disparagement of the primary school teachers or from the belief that there is a want of fidelity on their part. We believe it to be in part at least owing to the system of teaching or rather want of system in the primary schools." The Primary School committee attempted to rebut his criticism point by point. Over 175 years later this problem remains as intractable as ever.<br /> <br /> Not at AAS. OCLC locates 8 printed copies. American Imprints 44882. John H. Eastburn, City Printer unknown
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. J. E. Hinckley and Co unknown
1894ZB498125Boston Mass. No. 48 Boylston Street 1894. first edition; 12mo 150 pp minor library markings paper wrappers chipped at extremities text clean and 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. Boston, Mass., No. 48 Boylston Street unknown
189779501897. Good. BOSTON Metropolitan Park Commissioners Board of. Report. January 1897. Public Document No. 48. Boston: Wright & Potter 1897. 8vo pp.89 8 gravure plates from photographs 2 maps including 1 fold-out of the Metropolitan Park District and 2 plans. Includes report by The Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects. Orig. cloth. hardcover
18912304130032G.H. Ellis Boston Mass 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Minor shelf wear. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. xxvi 270 pages ; 24 cm. LOC stqmp. G.H. Ellis, Boston, Mass 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
1868150997Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son City Printers 1868. The land of Washington has greeted the land of Confucius First edition in wrappers of this work commemorating the August 1868 visit to Boston by the first Chinese embassy to the United States. The contents includes the text of a banquet speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson articulating Confucianism's contribution to notions of human goodness. In 1867 the Qing court appointed the Bostonian Anson Burlingame 1820-1870 as its envoy extraordinary to the Western powers and the following year Burlingame led China's first official embassy to the United States and Europe. Burlingame was the ideal choice for such a task possessing "a frank noble disposition habits of industry a charming and persuasive manner and promising talents as an orator" quoted in the ANB. With the Chinese ministers Zhigang and Sun Jiagu at his side Burlingame landed on America's Pacific Coast in March 1868 before city-hopping eastwards and reaching Washington in June. There after extended negotiations the two parties concluded the landmark Burlingame-Seward Treaty the first time a foreign power explicitly recognized China's sovereignty. Following these negotiations the embassy journeyed to Boston staying between 20 August and 2 September. The present commemorative volume prints the full text of speeches given at the welcome reception and grand banquet. Other sections detail the engagements laid on for Burlingame and his party such as visits to the governor's mansion and local manufacturing sites. Burlingame's effusive and somewhat hyperbolic words at the banquet capture the historical importance of the embassy: "the presence here of my associates with the sunshine of the Orient upon their faces and the warmth of its fires in their hearts arouses more emotions than the most eloquent tongue can express. The land of Washington has greeted the land of Confucius. The great thoughts of the one have been wedded to the great deeds of the other" p. 20. Pages 52-55 contain the text of a speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson who was invited to address the welcome banquet. To attendees Emerson extolled the longevity of China's culture and its scientific technological and cultural successes achieved long before those of European countries. Discussing Chinese philosophy Emerson praised Confucius as having anticipated Jesus' teachings of goodness towards others by five hundred years - an expression of Confucianism's sustained influence on Emerson's transcendentalism. "Confucianism reinforced Emerson's emphasis on the moral imperative for every individual and. the Confucian ideal of the ethical solitary learned and decorous man certainly appealed to Emerson's sense of himself" Versluis p. 70. The speech was later reprinted in his Miscellanies 1904. Copies of the present work were also bound in cloth with no stated priority between the two bindings. Octavo. Emblem of the city of Boston to title page. Original blue coated card wrappers title and emblem of the city of Boston to front cover in black. Small pencilled annotation to front cover library stamp of Tufts College to title page. Wrappers lightly soiled and rubbed in places with one small chip slight colour bleed to verso of wrappers internally clean and bright. A very good copy of this fragile publication. BAL III 23. Arthur Versluis American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions 1993. hardcover
1852SKU1044239J. H. Eastburn 1852. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. J.H. Eastburn; Boston 1852. Hardcover. A Good full leather binding gilt emblem on front and rear board gilt lettering on spine some handling/scuffing to boards rubbing along board edges and joints exposed board corners AEG with some blemishes bit cocked five raised hubs previous owner handwritten ink info and small bookstore sticker front free endpaper some age toning to pages small moisture stain top page edge some scattered foxing to front and back matters fold out map in rear present and intact without Dust wrapper. A good and overall clean copy. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches. 288pp. indexed. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. J. H. Eastburn hardcover
186183848Boston: George C. Rand & Avery 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The original 1861 publication of the testimonial of "The Medical Profession of Philadelphia New York and Boston rebound in black cloth with gilt-lettered and slightly chipped spine label 56pp. Text clean pages evenly toned. The last pages are in effect forms requesting monies for Dr. Morton and his family. William T. G. Morton 1819-1868 was a surgeon dentist in Hartford Connecticut who claimed to be the first person to perform surgical anethesia on a patient's tumor in 1846. "Morton immediately patented ether hoping to retain its use exclusively for himself. Later he made repeated appeals to the American Congress for financial recompense for his 'invention'. Morton's instructor the chemist and geologist Charles Thomas Jackson said it was he who had made the discovery and had suggested that Morton should try it out. Horace Wells the dentist from Hartford Connecticut put forward his well-substantiated claim to have produced anaesthesia two years earlier with nitrous oxide. It is sad that such an epoch-making event should have been followed by 20 years of acrimony vituperation and litigation between three contestants each claiming to have originated anaesthesia." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine May 2020 pp 226-227. George C. Rand & Avery hardcover
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
190040065Boston: Issued By The Boston and Maine Railroad / Engraved & Printed By R. A. Supply n. d. ca 1900. 1900. NEW ENGLAND. First Editions. 6" x 8" stiff embossed printed wrappers titles stamped in gold gilt on the front covers n. p. 80 pp. 80 pp. 64 pp. & 64 pp. illustrated from photographs. One page of text precedes views from photographs in each volume printed on rectos only. In all four volumes a total of 140 views of New England scenes. A few signs of light use to two covers else contents clean and tight in all four volumes. Very good copies. Issued By The Boston and Maine Railroad / Engraved & Printed By R. A. Supply, n. d. (ca 1900). unknown
183423862Boston New York & Philadelphia: Lilly Wait and Co. Goodrich and Wiley T.T. Ash 1834. First edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth spine and illustrated green boards. Very good. 102 -212 pages. 17 x 13.5 cm. Index and List of Illustrations latter are black and white engravings. Owner inscriptions front free endpaper scattered light foxing. Back cover announces Periodical Publications Supplied By Samuel Coleman successor to Lilly Wait & Co. Lilly, Wait, and Co., Goodrich and Wiley, T.T. Ash hardcover
1846370888Boston: Published by All the Booksellers 1846. 48pp. Pencil annotations. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers soiled minor wear. 48pp. Pencil annotations. 8vo. The description offered in catalogue 590 by the venerable Goodspeed's who knew a thing or two about Boston Brahmin simply cannot be improved: "Vexatious to some but amusing to others because of the biographical comments. A mayor of Boston is called "a 'desperate punster'" and a famous Boston historian is described as "'a showy boy at school and college" and "a pushing man with industry and memory enough to be a good scholar but with great talents for making himself ridiculous.'" The anonymous author or authors "'hold it to be the inalienable right of all Yankees to inquire into and to thoroughly sift and examine their neighbor's affairs."'"<br /> <br /> The early pencil annotations in this example correct some information add a few names of descendents and record deaths. Sabin 6623 Published by All the Booksellers unknown
190024438Boston: Rogers and Manson 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Half green cloth gilt lettered and beige boards. Very good. 1 Text page. 52 pages. 35 x 27 cm. Black and white full page photographs each image described. Book label of publisher front cover paste-down. Interior contents clean and fresh. Front cover board lightly soiled with owner inscription at head. OCLC: 967237817. Rogers and Manson hardcover
