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1913021809Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1913. Cloth. Good. Red cloth. 583 pp. With illustrations. Volume one ONLY of a town history of Lexington Massachusetts from its settlement by colonists to the mid 1800s. GOOD condition. Ex-library with spine label interior markings pockets and pastedowns. Uneven fading minor soiling and edgewear. Houghton Mifflin unknown
1905021305Boston: Municipal Printing Office 1905. Pamphlet. Poor. Pamphlet lacking any wraps issued. 18 pp. LACKING the 1645 map ONLY three maps present. A collection of three maps depicting Boston Massachusetts in 1630 1635 and 1640. These were originally found in the Town Records Book of Possessions and other sources. The primarily depict property and owners as well as roads ways. Text with names for references included with each map. POOR condition. EX-LIBRARY. Spine reinforced with black tape. Exterior labels interior pastedown and stamping present. Paper very brittle. Heavy chipping tearing and loss along the fore edge and lower edge. The first map TORN into two pieces neatly along one of the folds. Other maps intact. Last map MISSING. POOR condition as is. Reference copy only. Really we swear. Municipal Printing Office unknown
1838014141Portland: S.H. Colesworthy Publisher 1838. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet lacking any wrappers issued and perhaps disbound from a larger work. Iv 88 pp Wright American Fiction 1774-1850 indicates this has 90 pages but text appears complete. A religious parable charting the author's transition from beliefs in Partialism through Methodism and finally to Universalism citing the many "hazards" along the way. Called "an imaginative inversion of Bunyan's own allegory" The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan p. 598. GOOD condition ex-library. Blindstamp and a few other minor library markings present. Name of publisher handwritten in ink on the title page. Ink word on the last page of text. Minor to moderate soiling and staining to the outer pages with moderate scattered foxing throughout. Perhaps missing a last leaf. S.H. Colesworthy, Publisher unknown
019372Madison WI: PACC Publisher. Wraps. Very Good. no date circa 1990. Wraps. 16 pp. including covers. Signed by the author with a short inscription on the inside rear cover. A brief guide to common words used by the American Roma written from a law enforcement perspective. Words are given in English along with their phonetic Roma counterparts. VERY GOOD condition. Minor curling to the corners. PACC, Publisher unknown
1901014341Washington: Government Printing Office 1901. Pamphlet. Poor. Printed wraps. MISSING rear wrapper and ALL pages after page 256. A collection of rulings on laws and other legal decisions relating to Native Americans in the United States and their treatment in the legal sense by the US government. This includes specific claims lawsuits and rulings under territorial and state affairs civil actions and claims etc. giving names of tribes and/or persons mentioned in each case or ruling/law. POOR condition. MISSING rear cover and all pages after 256. Heavy browning to the front cover with tape burns near the spine. Heavy chipping and tattering to the backstrip with some chipping along the fore edge. Some toning in the interior. Government Printing Office unknown
1868020311New York: Harper and Brothers 1868. Wraps. Fair. Folio. Illustrated wraps. Folio. Pagination runs 401-416. Black and white photos and illustrations throughout. Single issue of this journal this featuring a full page front cover political cartoon by Thomas Nast. Titled "The Political Niagara-A Drowning Man Catches at a Straw" the work depicts the Democratic Party just about to go over the falls grasping at a cane that bears the head of an African American man with a sign to the write mentioning the S.P. Chase as their candidate for president. A US flag in the distance reads Grant/Colfax. Nasr and Harper's were politically aligned with Lincoln and his Republican Party with Nast perhaps alluding to African Americans as a way to gain political salvation for the Democratic Party. Interior features a part of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins as well as a large illustration accompanying an article detailing a duel between two African American men near Savannah Georgia but apparently in South Carolina. The duel was between Jackson Brand and Eugene Moorehead as the result of alleged political loyalties. Moorehead apparently was part of a conservative group to which Jackson Brand had recently joined having previously been a Republican. A duel with shotguns was fought with Brand mortally wounded. FAIR/GOOD condition. Horizontal fold crease present. Moderate toning with some soiling and offsetting. Some chipping and tearing mostly along the fore edge. Pages 411-416 with a 2 inch triangular piece torn off from the fore edge affecting some text. Pages 407-416 have a tear at the upper middle right small at first and increasing larger toward the end affecting text and illustrations in that area. Harper and Brothers unknown
1804019430Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin Printers 1804. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet side folding in two separate sections. Pagination runs 659-672 plus a blank rear leaf. A descriptive printing of various laws and acts passed in Connecticut including those relating to surveyors courts gaolers and sheriffs the New Haven Aqueduct Company etc. GOOD condition. Two sections held together with a paper clip. Minor toning and foxing. Some chipping tearing and tattering along the fore edge. Pages unopened along the top edge. Hudson and Goodwin, Printers unknown
018513No Place: New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co. presumed Publisher. Unbound. Good. No place or date. Presumed early 1900s. Single sheet roughly 17 by 10 inches. A map depicting the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket with what appear to be railroad lines in red as well as steamboat lines. Part of Cape Cod and New Bedford also depicted. The rail lines may be the narrow gauge lines that were in operation on the islands from the late 1800s to about 1917. May have been part of a travel booklet at some point GOOD condition. Horizontal and vertical fold crease present with a few other small wrinkles and creases present. Light toning and soiling. A few minor tears along the edges. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co., presumed Publisher unknown
021153Barrington NH: Barrington N.H. Historical Society. Wraps. Very Good. no date presumed 1993. Illustrated wraps. 133 pp. Two maps in a rear pocket and a few illustrations throughout. Addendum to the work laid in. A guide to the locations layouts and people found in the various graveyards located throughout Barrington New Hampshire. VERY GOOD condition. Minor wrinkling and fading to the wrappers. Bookplate on inside front cover. Barrington, N.H. Historical Society unknown
1924019931New York: National Automobile Chamber of Commerce 1924. Wraps. Good. Illustrated card stock wraps. 230 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A catalog to various automobiles including cars trucks and other commercial vehicles made by a variety of manufacturers. Includes cost principal mechanical details and specifications. Manufacturers include Auburn Apperson Chevrolet Durant Haynes Dodge Studebaker Olds Nash Pierce-Arrow etc. Perhaps of note are four pages of electric vehicles including cars and commercial vehicles made by Rauch and Lang Autocar and Ward Motor Vehicle Company. While electric cars had been around since the late 1800s their use declined by 1920 due to innovations in gasoline power car design and discovery of vast amounts of oil rendering them all but obsolete by the early to mid 1920s. GOOD condition. Five strips of yellowed tape present across the spine. Covers and text block a bit wavy presumably from water exposure at some point. Minor soiling fading and discoloration to the covers. Faint dampstain visible along the fore edges of all the pages in the interior. National Automobile Chamber of Commerce unknown
008831No Place: No Publisher. Unbound. Fair. Handwritten letter detailing the medical procedures undertaken to heal an 'ununited fracture of the humerus.' No author date or location although dates in the text indicate the treatment took place around 1851-1852 perhaps in Massachusetts. Single sheet folded into four pages all full of writing. The author documents his encounter with a 28 year old male who had broken his humerus in a carriage fall. It had not healed correctly despite attempts by other doctors. The doctor/author of this letter recalls his efforts to reset the bones including removing callouses and other treatments that eventually led to an apparent somewhat successful outcome. FAIR/GOOD condition. A one by two inch area of loss present at the upper left corner resulting in small amounts of MISSING text in that location on the first two pages. Dark browning present in this area with other small spots of browning and staining to the paper. Small hole at the center fore edge with a few letters missing because of this. Another tiny hole present in the last page. Horizontal fold creases present. A few tiny tears along the extremities. Light fading. No Publisher unknown
008797No Place: A.E. Lord Printer. Wraps. Good. No place or date. Presumed circa 1906. Purplish blue printed wraps. Unpaginated approximately 40 pages. Black and white photo portraits throughout. A guide or program to a concert and ball held in 1906 for the apparent benefit of the Haverhill Massachusetts Police Relief Association. Black and white photo portraits of the various members of the Haverhill police department with ads for local businesses interspersed. Portraits accompanied by name position held and date when appointed. GOOD condition. Heavy fading to the wraps with very heavy offsetting/fading along the spine and extremities. Minor soiling and staining. Some wrinkling and creasing mostly along the spine. Paint and ink smudge/stains to the rear cover with two tape scars to the front cover. First leaf with a 2 1/2 inch tear in the upper gutter. Paper browned with very minor scattered soiling. A.E. Lord, Printer unknown
1878016766No Place: No publisher 1878. Pamphlet. Good. No publisher place or date. Presumed US Government Printing Office Washington DC: 1878. Pamphlet disbound from a larger work. No wrappers. 39 pp. A lengthy piece requesting compensation for land purchased by the US government from the Pottawatomie Nation and various Native American tribes affiliated with it. It cites various treaties and actions in seeking money for land in the Michigan and Indiana region. GOOD condition. Minor toning. Some wear chipping and creasing along the spine edge. No publisher unknown
1915022351No Place: No publisher 1915. Wraps. Good. No publisher place or date. Presumed San Francisco 1915. Color illustrated wraps with the front cover being the painting "The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules" by Perham Wilhelm Nahl. Unpaginated. Black and white photos and color illustrations throughout. A promotional booklet issued to provide a guide to the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco that was celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. The booklet contains a short history of the Panama Canal as well as extensive descriptions of the the Exposition itself including the buildings and palaces for the event. It also describes places to visit in San Francisco and California. Includes color illustrations of buildings black and white photos of places in Yosemite the California coast etc. Inside front cover with a bird's eye view map of the Panama Canal region with a bird's eye view map of San Francisco and beyond in the rear. The Panama Pacific International Exposition San Francisco was essentially a World's Fair that while touted as celebrating the opening of the canal also promoted the rebuild of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. GOOD condition. General toning and minor soiling to the covers. Minor wrinkling and creasing. A 1 ½ inch tear present at the top front hinge. A few small bumps and tears along the upper rear cover. No publisher unknown
1952009919No Place: United States Lines Publisher 1952. Unbound. Good. Stated Preliminary March 1952 Reprint. A large fold out brochure measuring approximately 48 by 9 inches when unfolded. Consisting of several pages stapled at the middle this presents a detailed floor plan of first class cabins and amenities on the cruise ship S.S. United States. With short advertising copy and information about the 'state of the art' aspects of the ship. The S.S. United States was a passenger cruise ship designed to US Navy specifications and subsidized by the US government as it was to be used as a troop transport ship in wartime should the need arise. It achieved speed records in crossing the Atlantic and was in service from July 1952 to 1969. GOOD condition. Some staining spotting and soiling to the piece with minor creasing wrinkling and edgewear. Staples rusted. United States Lines, Publisher unknown
1879020827New York: Lynch Cole and Meehan 1879. Wraps. Good. no date circa 1879. Plain wraps. 123 pp. plus ads. Illustrations throughout. A monthly almanac accompanied by accounts of Ireland Irish history and historical figures including a biography of Robert Emmett; a history of Dublin Ireland; an account of the almost finished St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York; poetry etc. GOOD condition. Heavy toning to the wrappers with some dampstaining and minor soiling. Extremities of the book and covers rather scuffed with some curling. Heavy offsetting to the rear cover. Text block toned with minor scattered foxing and staining. Lynch, Cole and Meehan unknown
1868020623Boston: Briggs and Co 1868. Hard Cover. Good. Illustrated paper covered boards with a green cloth spine. Small illustration of C. Robinson and Sons Tannery and Leather Belting Manufactory in Concord New Hampshire. 240 pp. A plethora of illustrated advertisements throughout the book. A directory to businesses in New Hampshire for 1868 including mercantile and manufacturing arranged by subject and town. Illustrations of engines bank vaults carriages etc. throughout. GOOD condition. Moderate toning and some soiling to the covers. Paper scuffed off from the top center rear edge. Signature on the upper front cover and first two pages in the interior. Dampstaining in the top margin of the book throughout. Briggs and Co unknown
020738Watertown MA: Watertown Woman's Club Publisher. Wraps. Good. no date presumed circa 1910. String tied printed wrappers. Approximately 36 pp. A survey of the activities and finances of the Watertown's Woman Club in Watertown Massachusetts from 1910 to 1911. This includes a treasurer's report a list of members an account of events and activities etc. The Watertown Woman's Club was founded in 1894 by Alice M. Potter Silsbee. Restricted to 150 members at any one time the club held literary exercises held classes on fine and domestic arts and hosted lectures by experts on a variety of subjects. According to the Watertown Library the club was also part of the women's suffrage movement although no activities supporting that cause are listed in this book. GOOD condition. 1 ½ inch jagged tear at the lower front cover with some creasing and wrinkling along the bottom edge. Minor soiling and staining to the covers. Some creasing. Watertown Woman's Club, Publisher unknown
1856012083Washington: Printed at the Union Office 1856. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet lacing any wraps issued. 29 pp. A report by Mordecai Oliver dissenting from the majority report issued by the House of Representatives investigating fighting and turmoil in the territory of Kansas. This includes some account of fighting between pro-slavery and free state members as well as influence of people from Missouri. GOOD condition. Minor toning and wrinkling. Rear cover soiled. Two horizontal fold creases present. Printed at the Union Office unknown
1858018840Boston: Little Brown and Company 1858. First Edition. Cloth. Good. First edition. Brown cloth. 436 pages with all illustrations and maps present as called for. Volume one only out of three of this history of early New England with sections on the indigenous inhabitants early explorations by European explorers early European settlements early European colonies in New England etc. GOOD condition. Ex-library with interior pocket and paste down present. No exterior library markings noted. Uneven fading and offsetting to the covers with heavy offsetting along the extremities and spine. Minor soiling. Several small spots of ink staining to the covers. Cloth a bit frayed and worn along the extremities. Minor toning to the text block in the interior. Little, Brown and Company unknown
1851016751St. Louis: James R. Albach Publisher 1851. Cloth. Good. Second edition revised and enlarged. Modern black cloth. Xxiv 818 pp. A lengthy historical survey of the settling of what was considered the West in the United States in 1850 focusing on events in Kentucky Illinois and other territories and states in the Midwest. This includes sections on interactions and battles with Native Americans the massacre at Chicago etc. GOOD condition. Cloth faded with some soiling and scuffing. Scattered foxing in the interior. Minor toning to the paper. Sabin 60955. James R. Albach, Publisher unknown
1855004875Boston: J.B. Yerrinton and Son Printers 1855. First Edition. Original Wraps. Good. 43 pp. Pamphlet. Lacking any wraps that may have been present. Side-sewn. An impassioned piece arguing for the removal of Judge Edward Greely Loring from office due to his support of the Fugitive Slave Law and forced return of two escaped enslaved people found in Massachusetts. Phillips was a noted abolitionist who spoke widely on the subject of racial injustice. GOOD condition. Edward Loring's name in pencil several times at the top of the title page. General darkening to the paper with minor offsetting and a minor stain to the center front cover. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. Sabin 62520. J.B. Yerrinton and Son, Printers unknown
008342No Place: No Publisher. Wraps. Good. No publisher place or date presumably circa 1899. States 'Reprinted from the New York Tribune April 27 1899. Pamphlet. 24 pp. A collection of speeches by various politicians reflecting on the career of Senator William P. Frye of Maine while also interjecting political opinion and lobbying on then current issues. Of note is a several page speech of Theodore Roosevelt then governor of New York who muses on Frye as well as current affairs in politics both economic and foreign policies. Other speakers mention the Philippines encouraging expansion of the US territories. GOOD condition ex-historical society. A few stamps present to the covers and interior. Three faint vertical creases present. General browning and minor soiling to the wraps. Minor chipping along the extremities with a few small creases and tears. No Publisher unknown
1811020737Portsmouth NH: Charles Tappan Publisher 1811. Pamphlet. Poor. Printed wraps side sewn. Printed at the Oracle Press. 24 pp. including covers. Monthly almanac with the usual information on the moon etc. While calculated for the town of Portsmouth New Hampshire the almanac states it could be used by any New England state. Also present is a list of the courts/court dates in New Hampshire as well as detailed descriptions of a variety of counterfeit bills knocking off those produced by a plethora of banks from New York Massachusetts Maine and elsewhere. A list of uncurrent bills is also provided. A new method of producing clean cider is described as well. POOR condition. All leaves essentially DETACHED from each other with one or two clinging on to each other. Heavy chipping curling creasing and tearing to the corners and fore edge. Moderate scattered foxing spotting staining and soiling heavy to the rear cover. Faint owner's signature present. A very worn but intact copy of this obscure almanac. Charles Tappan, Publisher unknown
1823010670Portland ME: Todd and Smith Publisher 1823. Tabloid. Good. Large tabloid format. Remains of binding along the spine. Each issue 4 pages long with ads. A collection of weekly newspapers featuring local news commentary on politics national and international news. This includes the blockade of Cadiz Haitian literature a short piece on 'Another Black Conspiracy' recalling an uncovered plot of rebellion of African-Americans in Havana Cuba; an account from General Leavenworth recalling his fighting and encounters with the Ricara Native American tribe of the Missouri River area etc. Seba Smith was a 19th century American humorist from Maine known as being one of the first writers to use the American vernacular in humor Wikipedia. GOOD condition. Horizontal fold crease present. General browning minor scattered foxing and a few small tears/holes to the paper. Spine very rough. Minor scattered staining. Ink inscription at the upper left corner. Todd and Smith, Publisher unknown
