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1802262552Paris: Henrichs 1802. hardcover. 12mo 402pp. occasional toning full tree calf decoratively gilt spine with leather label. Paris: Chez Henrichs AN XI 1802. Very good copy.<br/> <br/> Maine de Biran's first psychological book emphasizing will and activity which has remained an important theme in French psychology. Early ownership name and stamp including that of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/> <br/> Henrichs unknown
1802262552Paris: Henrichs 1802. hardcover. 12mo 402pp. occasional toning full tree calf decoratively gilt spine with leather label. Paris: Chez Henrichs AN XI 1802. Very good copy.<br/><br/> Maine de Biran's first psychological book emphasizing will and activity which has remained an important theme in French psychology. Early ownership name and stamp including that of art historian Meyer Schapiro.<br/><br/> Henrichs unknown books
1890Alibris.0036220LONDON: JOHN MURRAY 1890. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. POPULAR GOVERNMENT Four Essays; Propects OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT Nature OF DEMOCRACY Age of Progress and U.S. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Hardcover CONDITION GOOD-LEATHER BOUND SPINE AND BOOK EDGES. COPYRIGHT 1890. 261 p. POPULAR GOVERNMENT Four Essays; Propects OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT Nature OF DEMOCRACY Age of Progress and U.S. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Hardcover CONDITION GOOD-LEATHER BOUND SPINE AND BOOK EDGES. COPYRIGHT 1890 PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURRAY ALBE POPULAR GOVERNMENT Four Essays; Propects OF POPULAR GOVERNMENT Nature OF DEMOCRACY Age of Progress and U.S. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES Hardcover CONDITION GOOD-LEATHER BOUND SPINE AND BOOK EDGES. COPYRIGHT 1890 PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET LONDON.261 PAGES. PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO. NEW STREET SQUARE LONDON by Sir Henry Sumner Maine Author JOHN MURRAY hardcover
18560048741856 Nantes, Typographie de Vincent Forest & Émile Grimaud [et] Paris, Imprimerie Lithographique d'Auguste Bry, sans date [circa 1856]. Deux volumes grand in folio (346 X 478 mm) demi-chagrin vert lierre, dos lisse cloisonné d'un triple filet doré, auteur, titre et tomaison dorés, premier plat de la couverture vert eau conservé en tête du second volume (reliure de l'époque). Volume I : (1) f. de titre, XL pages, 10 pages, (1) f. d'errata et supplément, 6 pp.-8 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-2 pp.-6 pp.-6 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-8 pp.-4 pp.-8 pp.-4 pp.-2 pp.-6 pp.-8 pp.-6 pp.-4 pp.-2 pp.-6 pp.-8 pp.-2 pp.-4 pp.-6 pp.-6 pp. [=136 pages] de descriptif des planches, 36 planches hors-texte montées sur onglets - Volume II : 2 pp.-12 pp.-2 pp.-6 pp.-8 pp.-12 pp.-6 pp.-8 pp.-6 pp.-4 pp.-2 pp.-14 pp.-6 pp.-4 pp.-6 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-4 pp.-6 pp. [=130 pages], 24 planches hors-texte montées sur onglets. Cernes marginaux de mouillure claire sans gravité, quelques rousseurs éparses.
18487350Standish Maine 1848. Quarto 8.25 x 13 inches 336 numbered pages. Marbled boards over half-calf; gilt-ruled spine. Pages hand-ruled in red. ~ An account book of a prosperous and well-stocked general store with manuscript entries in chronological order from the town of Standish Maine. The first journal entries in the accounts page 16 are headed "Standish September 11 1844" and the final headed "Standish May 13th 1848". The account book records daily sales and records customer names along with details of the purchases of foodstuffs sewing supplies building materials various types of alcohol spices and more. Specific items include: nails powder coffee cambric flannel silk velvet trimming for coat raisins ink eggs saleratus butter whiting panes of glass fish Borax tea sugar calico ticking tobacco pepper pork crackers oil olive oil ribbon pork meal antimony turpentine cayenne pimento wine brandy c. candy chalk lime beef stake and iron. A wide variety of measurements are present " Bushel Corn" "1 pt. N New England Rum" "6 yards sheeting" "25 #fish" " Bushel Oats" " oz. Nutmeg" "1 Pair Calf Boots" "1 qt Whiskey for Medicine" "1 Gallon Molasses" "1 Box Mustard" " 1 Qt. Gin" and there are barrels gills cords and so on. Some "finished" items such as an almanac boots a padlock matches and a broom are sold. The account names are mostly men and include Benjamin Morton Daniel Freeman Samuel Phinney Simeon Mansfield Philbrisk B. Abbot Seth Higgins Moses L. Sanborn Benjamin Meserve and dozens more. School District No. 5 purchases a padlock and a broom. A copy of Mitchell's Geography is sold on June 2nd 1847. It's notable that sometime in late 1846 or early 1847 sale of spirits now have the words "for medicine" appended. By 1848 the clarification has been dropped. Balances are kept and payments recorded although not all clients paid with cash; a "Richard Whiswell" paid his debt for items including Castile soap and cassis by sawing wood and working in the garden on more than one occasion. A "J.G. Robinson" purchases a gallon of oil by bartering "1 pair women's shoes to be sold for 6/ or returned." Payment of an employee's wages Daniel D. Lowell are included page 257 "By your services in my store one year from June 18 1846 to June 18 1847 $100.00". ~ While this account book bears no "title page" internal evidence supports the identity of the keeper of the records as Gardner Dennett 1822-1877 of Standish Maine. A number of times significant debits are made to pay a "balance of note". Each time these are debits in the name of G. Dennett. Also laid-in page 267 is a receipt for building materials purchase elsewhere naming Dennett as the buyer. Gardner is listed as "Trader" in a variety of contemporary lists and became postmaster of Standish on August 22nd of 1847 during the period of accounts recorded here. Just a month before this account books ends Gardner was one of the founding Trustees of the Standish Academy. "Mary Dennett" also appears regularly both as a client and as a participant in the business. She was not however Gardner's wife he married Eliza R. Howe October 19 1836 but his mother Mary Lowell Dennett. Standish in Cumberland County is about fifteen miles north of Portland. The town was settled by Massachusetts residents and named in honor of Captain Myles Standish. ~ The first sixteen pages of accounts have been pasted over with newspaper clippings circa late 1880's the clippings forming more of a commonplace book than a cookery compilation. The clippings include a near full-page lithograph of the operatic soprano Clara Louise Kellogg a lengthy depiction of the wedding of Daniel C. Thompson of Berwick to Dorcas Hayes of North Yarmouth many poems an engraving of the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey Ca. and a history of the Statue of Liberty which provides a rough dating of the addition of the clippings as the article states the "the Collosus to be unveiled to-day" - October 28 1886. The manuscript is in remarkably good condition for a daily working document such as an account book and is in a single neat hand throughout almost entirely legible. Some light stains or smudges but nothing that is not evidence of use in the positive sense. The free front endpaper is missing a two-inch piece of the lower right corner; some offsetting from leather corners. Rubbed and somewhat soiled the binding is blue marbled boards over half- plain calf gilt-ruled at the spine. Some scuffing and chipping to spine leather. Laid-in are a number of pressed ferns. Good or a bit better. Still overall an attractive piece of evidence of the workings of a general store in the early years of it Maine's statehood and a document of various aspects of the food system of the time including local and global distribution labor and shifting laws. hardcover books
183234328Portland 1832. Broadside 11-3/4" x 19". Lightly foxed generously margined and untrimmed with lower blank margins chipped some old folds. Else Very Good. Matted. Dated in type at the end: Portland Oct. 25th 1832."<br /> <br /> The text of this rare broadside urging the defeat of President Jackson in the upcoming presidential election is printed in three columns. It is followed by six columns consisting of hundreds of printed names of Portland citizens endorsing its sentiments. <br /> Despite his promises to the contrary Jackson has expanded the power of the presidency reneged on his promise to serve only one term and enthusiastically practiced the Spoils System. "The expenses of his administration have largely exceeded those of any of his six predecessors." He has claimed the power of "interpreting for himself" the Constitution although contradicted by "the Supreme Judiciary." <br /> AI 10824 1- Harvard. OCLC 58786948 3- AAS NYHS Harvard as of November 2023. unknown
183234328Portland 1832. Broadside 11-3/4" x 19". Lightly foxed generously margined and untrimmed with lower blank margins chipped some old folds. Else Very Good. Matted. Dated in type at the end: Portland Oct. 25th 1832."<br/><br/> The text of this rare broadside urging the defeat of President Jackson in the upcoming presidential election is printed in three columns. It is followed by six columns consisting of hundreds of printed names of Portland citizens endorsing its sentiments. Despite promises to the contrary Jackson has expanded the power of the presidency reneging on his promise to serve only one term; enthusiastically practiced the Spoils System; and "the expenses of his administration have largely exceeded those of any of his six predecessors." He has claimed the power of "interpreting for himself" the Constitution although contradicted by "the Supreme Judiciary." <br/>AI 10824 1- Harvard. OCLC 58786948 3- AAS NYHS Harvard as of October 2017. unknown books
18103720<p><b><i>Early Maine Murder Trial Gone Awry</i></b><br /></p><p>An account of a murder trial in Malta now Windsor in the District of Maine. Paul Chadwick was a surveyor on what was then the northern frontier of Maine and in an area where disputed land titles were common. Chadwick was shot while conducting a survey by a group of landowners disguised as Indians. Despite fairly overwhelming evidence of the guilt of the accused the jury found all not guilty. <br /></p>Previous owner's Rice Dudley book label on front pastedown. Another early owner's name Moody Kent in ink in several places.<br /><br /><b>References:</b> Shaw & Shoemaker: 21516 3 locations. Sabin: 47985. Williamson: 5651. Noyes: 505. Skillin: 10-32. McDade: 641. <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b> 186 2 pp. Original blue/gray paper-covered boards with chipping. Paper spine cracked and eroded. Original paper spine label with vertical separation. Occasional foxing and staining mostly very light. A solid example of a scarce early Maine imprint. Ezekiel Goodale
1850299Biddeford: N.p. 1850. Broadside 14" x 8" double column signed in type by three selectmen with attestation by town clerk at end. Folded in quarters with several tiny holes no loss a number of creases minor stains one short marginal tear etc. but overall quite sound. Comprised of 19 Articles proscribing certain types of behavior the unique broadside specifies fines or other punishments for lawbreakers. Most interesting is Article 4: "No boy or other person shall be allowed to play at the game of bat and ball in the public streets of the village. Any person offending against this article shall forfeit and pay fifty cents for each offence." In addition to the obvious like public drunkenness these include: riding horses at a gallop in town or more than a walk on the covered bridge; "any boy or other person" who hangs onto a sleigh or carriage; anyone "causing dogs or any other animals to fight" in the streets; "Any person wantonly exposing himself sic naked in sight of any dwelling house"; a person injuring an ornamental tree on any street; anyone mutilating or pulling down signs or public notices or throwing dirt or setting off firecrackers or sliding down hills in the public streets &c. &c. According to internet resources Biddeford Maine passed a city charter and adopted a mayoral form of government in 1855. Not recorded in OCLC. 299. N.p. unknown books
181940311Paris, Michaud, 1819. In-8 broché de 31 pp. sous chemise étui, demi-chagrin rouge à coins.
1850299Biddeford: N.p. 1850. <p>Broadside 14" x 8" double column signed in type by three selectmen with attestation by town clerk at end. Folded in quarters with several tiny holes no loss a number of creases minor stains one short marginal tear etc. but overall quite sound.</p> <br /> <p>Comprised of 19 Articles proscribing certain types of behavior the unique broadside specifies fines or other punishments for lawbreakers. Most interesting is Article 4: "No boy or other person shall be allowed to play at the game of bat and ball in the public streets of the village. Any person offending against this article shall forfeit and pay fifty cents for each offence."</p> <br /> <p>In addition to the obvious like public drunkenness these include: riding horses at a gallop in town or more than a walk on the covered bridge; "any boy or other person" who hangs onto a sleigh or carriage; anyone "causing dogs or any other animals to fight" in the streets; "Any person wantonly exposing himself sic naked in sight of any dwelling house"; a person injuring an ornamental tree on any street; anyone mutilating or pulling down signs or public notices or throwing dirt or setting off firecrackers or sliding down hills in the public streets &c. &c. According to internet resources Biddeford Maine passed a city charter and adopted a mayoral form of government in 1855.</p> <br /> <p>Not recorded in OCLC. 299</p> . N.p. unknown
1862WRCAM55597Various locations mostly Louisiana 1862. 120pp. Contemporary sheep later leatherette backstrip title stamped in dark brown on front board reading "GUARD BOOK D. CO. 12TH. REG. MAINE." Some edge wear mild chipping and light scuffing to boards. Front hinge detached spine cracked. Occasional thumb-soiling to text. Still very good. A manuscript record book documenting an entire year of guard duty worked by various members of Company D 12th Maine Infantry Regiment Volunteers during the early part of the Civil War. The majority of time recorded in this book emanates from Louisiana while the 12th Maine Regiment was attached to Butler's Expeditionary Corps from January to March 1862. On their way to Louisiana the regiment travelled on the Steamship Constitution to Ship Island Mississippi serving there until May 4 1862. The Regiment then traveled to New Orleans for guard duty at the U.S. Mint until October 1862. While in New Orleans the Regiment took part in the expedition to Pass Manchaca from June 16 to 20 and the expedition to Ponchatoula from September 13 to 18. In October the Regiment moved slightly north to Camp Parapet in Shrewsbury Louisiana and served there until November 19 1862; the record book ends here. <br> <br> Each two-page opening of the ledger is pre- printed with a large column on the left for names and thirty-one numbered smaller columns for marking days served on guard duty. Most days have just one or two tick marks for any particular soldier indicating just one or two men were on active patrol mostly privates but also sergeants corporals musicians wagoners and others. The number of guard shifts worked by the regiment increased dramatically in May 1862 when they arrived at the U.S. Mint in New Orleans before falling off again the next month presumably after some relief arrived. In addition to guard duty service notations indicate reasons for absences such as "died at" "sick" "in confinement" "permanent detail" "enlisted for cook" "light duty" "in the woods" and "hospital." Notations from February 1862 indicate that James H. Andrews died onboard the Constitution on February 14 and two other soldiers caught sickness at Fortress Monroe. Another entry shows that S.G. Tracy "Died at Ship Island 12 of April 1862." Later in July Capt. H.W. Dunn is detailed for daily duty at the "Reding Press" in New Orleans. In August G.F. Drown is "Detailed as Nurse in General Hospital St. James Hotel N.O." <br> <br> Material from the Trans-Mississippi West is rare this early in the Civil War and also usually not as thorough as the present record book documents an entire year of service. A unique record of Civil War service for a peripatetic Maine volunteer infantry regiment serving in the Bayou State. hardcover books
18203763<b>First Official Printing of Maine's Constitution</b><br /><br />A very scarce example of the first printing of the Maine Constitution. As noted on the verso of the title leaf 200 copies were ordered "printed for the use of the Legislature." In contrast the next printing ordered by the Legislature -- in 1825 -- was for 10000 copies. OCLC locates examples at six institutions. <br /><br /><br /><b>References:</b> Noyes <i>Maine Imprints to 1820</i>: 931. Skillin <i>A Bibliography of Maine Imprints 1785-1820</i>: 20-70. Not in Williamson A <i>Bibliography of the State of Maine</i>. Thompson:<i> Important Maine Maps Books Prints and Ephemera</i>: 28A. The Thompson copy sold for $1840 in 2003. Sprague <i>The Mirror of Maine</i>: see 11 for the 1825 edition. Shoemaker <i>A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820</i>: 2075.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b> Contemporary calf. Boards well-scuffed and with small gouged area. Significant chipping of spine leather; hinges and joints cracked. Age-toned and areas of staining throughout. An unsophisticated but appealing example of a very scarce book. Published by Order of the Legislature. Printed by Francis Douglas. hardcover
1898List2965United States and Caribbean 1898. Approximately twenty-nine pieces: logbook of eighty-four double-sided pages measuring 13 x 20 inches; eight letters seventeen documents and forms and three pieces of miscellany. Much wear and significant damage to logbook including water damage mildew and tearing; log book overall fair to good minus. Other materials good to very good. Overall good. William Higgins 1791–1872 was a farmer sea captain and owner of and investor in ships from Bowdoinham Maine. According to the Maine Maritime Museum which holds his family papers Higgins’ ships traded mainly in lumber which they took from Wilmington North Carolina to the Caribbean.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a logbook recording the travels of several of Higgins’ ships particularly the brigs Mary Jane and Llewellyn alongside related documents and personal letters. The logbook dating between 1832 and 1836 extensively documents the course wind data and weather remarks for travels of the ships between east coast US port cities and various locations in the Caribbean including Barbados St. Thomas and Martinique. The logbook also contains a copy of astronomer and mathematician Elijah Burritt’s illustration “A Plan of the Solar System Exhibiting its Relative Magnitudes and Distances†engraved by W. G Evans and printed in 1835 by F.J. Huntington.<br /> <br /> The letters and documents date from 1830 to 1867 and are also mostly business-related including an insurance document for the brig William Parrington a roll of sailors enlisted to work on a six-month journey between the Caribbean and the US in 1845 a bill of sale for ¼ stake in the brig Mary Jane and receipts and logs for items including various liquors sugar molasses casks and so on. One letter from a young man in Wilmington requests advice on how to start his own business in the style of Higgins’; other letters concern family matters. One interesting undated document is a writ addressed to the Marshal of the District of Maine concerning a lawsuit filed against Higgins and Rufus Carr master of the William Parrington by Zachrisson Nelson Co. The suit alleged that Carr acting as an agent for the ship’s owners that is Higgins had agreed to an affreightment involving shipping from Jamaica to Spain to New York but had then “wholly neglected and refused to do soâ€.<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of maritime history and trade in the mid-19th century. unknown
18900000807Rochester 1890. Original Dark Blue Cloth. Very good. Oblong 8vo. Original dark blue cloth gild border tooling on front cover; tooling only on rear cover. Collation: Title page for Specimen Book followed by around 90 chromolithograph or pochoir color plates of various fruits and trees for clients. <br/><br/>This specimen book was presented interested parties who would purchase from plants from the nursery. The plates were prepared by Brunswick & Co. Rochester. Some offsetting present from fruit image to verso of preceding plate. hardcover books
186223052301021st Maine Light Artillery; Union Army 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Union Army Order Book Large folio. 75 pages. Written by a fine hand 1862-1864. Also includes original typed orders from General Butler etc. Includes orders received by the unit from January 16 1862 through July 14 1864. Much of this period the battery was assigned to Louisiana Mississippi the Gulf of Mexico. <br> The battery was attached to 3rd Brigade Department of the Gulf until September 1862. It was attached to Weitzel's Reserve Brigade Department of the Gulf until January 1863. It was attached to Artillery 1st Division XIX Corps Department of the Gulf until January 1864 and the 2nd Division until April 1864. It then served at Camp Barry Defenses of Washington XXII Corps until July 1864. <br> The Battery notably served in the following engagements: Siege of Port Hudson; Battle of Fort Stevens; Third Battle of Winchester; Battle of Fisher's Hill; Battle of Cedar Creek. 1st Maine Light Artillery; Union Army hardcover
18901146c. 1890. Pencil chalk and watercolor. Margins: 21 ¼ x 14 ½. Roosevelt-Richards is just recently being recognized for her place in American artBorn: <br /><br />Known for: Juvenile book and magazine illustration<br />1905 was the year she came to Wilmington.Delaware and studied with Howard Pyle remaining there for 7 years.By the time Richards had begun her studies under Pyle she was a published illustrator with works appearing in juvenile literature books.In a 1927 interview she recalled Pyle's attitude toward his teaching: "Twice a week we would come together and Mr. Pyle would criticize our efforts and offer suggestions. He always acted as if it were a privilege we gave him." After her stay in Wilmington Richards settled permanently in New Haven actively participating in the art community there.<br /> books
18901146c. 1890. Pencil chalk and watercolor. Margins: 21 ¼ x 14 ½. Roosevelt-Richards is just recently being recognized for her place in American artBorn: <br /><br />Known for: Juvenile book and magazine illustration<br />1905 was the year she came to Wilmington.Delaware and studied with Howard Pyle remaining there for 7 years.By the time Richards had begun her studies under Pyle she was a published illustrator with works appearing in juvenile literature books.In a 1927 interview she recalled Pyle's attitude toward his teaching: "Twice a week we would come together and Mr. Pyle would criticize our efforts and offer suggestions. He always acted as if it were a privilege we gave him." After her stay in Wilmington Richards settled permanently in New Haven actively participating in the art community there.<br />
188130409Ellworth Maine: S. F. Colby & Co engraved by William Bracher printed by F. Bourquin Philadelphia 1881. Folio. 16 3/4 x 14 1/4 inches. 96pp including 5pp ads in rear. 39 hand coloured lithographed maps 17 double-page some printed recto and verso of same sheets numerous insets complete. Contemporary black morocco upper cover lettered in gilt marbled endpapers gilt edges.<br/> <br/>Provenance: Edward C. Burleigh name in gilt on upper cover<br/> <br/>The first atlas devoted to Hancock County Maine.<br/> <br/>In 1881 cartographer/surveyor George N. Colby assisted by J.H. Stuart and others published the first atlas of Hancock County towns villages plantations and timber lots. The maps identify many property owners by name and show the locations of homesteads businesses roads schools churches mills and cemeteries in those plantations towns and villages. Including all the insets 87 maps were produced by Colby Halfpenny and Stuart drawn on stone by William Bracher and printed by F. Bourquin of Philadelphia. The detailed town plans include Mount Desert Island Bar Harbor Ellsworth Bluehill Southwest Harbor and numerous others. As with most 19th century county atlases the work was published strictly by subscription. Given the relatively small size of the county in terms of population the atlas would not have been published in a large print run resulting in its rarity today. "Despite their limitations and inaccuracies nineteenth-century county atlases nonetheless preserve a detailed cartographical biographical and pictorial record of a large segment of rural America in the Victorian age" Ristow American Maps and Mapmakers p. 424. This copy with provenance to Edward C. Burleigh the Governor of Maine from 1889-1893.<br/> <br/>LeGear 14311. S. F. Colby & Co [engraved by William Bracher, printed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia] unknown books
1893160511893 PARIS, Alphonse Picard, CAEN,Henri Delesques, 1893, N° 1, 3, 5 & 6 - Broché - In-8 - Couverture imprimée avec médaille au nom d'Arcisse de CAUMONT - Importante iconographie : nombreuses planches PP Ht & illustrations en texte - 85 pages & Pagination 191 à 589 - Bon exemplaire, Intérieur très frais.
18283754<p><b>Important Early Chart of Portland Maine Harbor</b></p><p>Lemuel Moody 1767-1846 was an enterprising sea captain and nautical entrepreneur in Portland Maine. Realizing "the great necessity of a correct Chart of Portland Harbour and the dangerous Rocks near Cape Elizabeth also of Winter Harbour and the numerous islands in Casco Bay" Moody decided to produce such a chart. By 1825 the <i>Atlantic Neptune</i> charts that included this area were more than 50 years old and in need of updating. Moody took advantage of the opportunity and produced this chart using the <i>Atlantic Neptune</i> charts as the foundation. In a notation on the original agreement for producing the chart Moody states that "I did the whole of the survey." This impressive chart of Casco Bay was his sole cartographic undertaking. </p><p>The chart covers the area from Saco Bay to Seguin Island. A large inset at the upper left focuses on the immediate area around Portland harbor including a detailed layout of streets and wharves. Small drawings of several sailing ships decorate the chart. Of particular interest is one sailing vessel being towed by a steam-belching vessel southeast of Small Point an early record of steam-powered ships in Maine waters.</p><p>One of the prominent landmarks that Moody included on the chart is the Portland Observatory an 86' high tower that still stands atop Portland's Munjoy Hill. The Observatory one of Moody's entrepreneurial undertakings was built in 1807 and served as a marine signaling tower. Using a telescope from the tower and a flag-based signaling system Moody would – for an annual fee – alert ship owners of the arrival of their vessels well in advance of their arrival in the harbor.</p><p>The chart went through at least five states of which this is the second. The fortuitous survival of Moody's business records and the known construction dates of certain marine landmarks make it possible to identify the dates and production run of the various states of the chart with a fair degree of specificity. While all the charts produced include the initial publication date of 1825 in the title later states were known to have been printed in 1828 1832 1838 and 1857. The initial 1825/6 printing was 191 charts. For this second state only 49 charts were struck from the plates.</p><p>The second state is distinguished by the addition of two light towers that were constructed in Cape Elizabeth in 1828. Known now appropriately enough as "Two Lights" the two structures still stand though one has been decommissioned as a navigation aid. The updates to the copperplate and printing of this state were by Andrew Allen of Boston.</p><p>Moody's chart is very uncommon in any of its states. OCLC identifies three institutional holders as of September 2021: State Library of Massachusetts Osher Map Library and Boston Public Library. Additional examples are held at the Maine Historical Society Library of Congress Yale and at least one private collector. No examples of the chart were identified in the <i>Antique Map Price Record</i> during its run from 1983 to 2011.</p><p>A very attractive example of an important and scarce early Maine chart.</p><p><b>Reference</b>: Phillips <i>A List of Maps of the United States</i>: p. 717 Mistakenly titled as Map of Portland Harbour and Islands…</p><p><b>Acknowledgment:</b> I am indebted to Ms. Frances Pollitt formerly of the Maine Historical Society for sharing her research on the dating and production of Moody's chart.</p><b>Condition: </b>Lined on reverse mending several tears. Very minor recreation of image loss and restoration of blank margin areas.<p>ICN 7690.3.</p> [Lemuel Moody.] .] Engd by D. G. Johnson. Entered According to Act of Congress July 13th, 1825. [but 1828.]
182841555, , 1828-1877. Manuscrit in-folio à l’encre brune (42 x 27 cm) de (1)-160-(8) ff. en belle page, 187 grandes miniatures dans le texte finement coloriées à l'époque, demi-vélin à coins, dos lisse muet (reliure de l'époque).
