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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.]
17763748<b>Striking Casco Bay Chart from the Atlantic Neptune 1776</b><br /><br />This is an exceptional chart of the coast of Maine between Cape Elizabeth and Popham from the early Revolutionary War period. It is from Des Barres' monumental <i>Atlantic Neptune</i> a sea atlas published by the British Admiralty during the last quarter of the 18th century. The <i>Atlantic Neptune</i> has been called "the most splendid collection of charts plans and views ever published." <br /><br />The present chart includes all of Casco Bay naming the larger islands and extends east to include Seguin "Segevin Island" and Georgetown Islands. Among the numerous geographic features named are Great Jebieg Chebeague Merrymeeting Bay Segadahock River Arrowsick Island and Halfway Road i.e. Rock. Roads are shown on the chart as are individual buildings. <br /><br />The chart is dated July___ 1776 i.e. with a prominent space after the month as if a date were going to be inserted. There is no type-stamped "15" at the upper right as called for in some copies of state "b" of the Stevens Catalogue. <br /><br />The chart was folded into four vertical panels about 30 1/4 x 12" to accommodate being "bound up in tall narrow form" Stevens' Catalogue p. vii. The chart paper has the LVG watermark consistent with the earlier issues of the chart. <br />A scarce early state of a desirable chart. <br /><br /><b>References:</b> Stevens <i>Catalogue of the Atlantic Neptune</i>: 105 State: b. Sellers & Van Ee <i>Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies</i> 1750-1789: 855. <br /><br /><b>Condition: </b>A wonderfully clean example of a striking chart of Casco Bay.<br /><br />ICN 3763. From The Atlantic Neptune.
176611625Amsterdam and Paris: P.-F. Gueffier 1766. Contemporary cat’s paw sheep neatly restored slightly defective gilt spine and label red edges pink silk marker; interleaved throughout — a vertical crease divides the interleaves in two columns. <p>With: Jousse Daniel-Charles.       1742-1769.<br />        Lettre D’Un Orléanois…Sur La Nouvelle Histoire De L’Orléanois. Bruxelles and Paris E. Flon and J. Debure 1766. 12mo 173 x 110 mm. inlaid in blank quarto sheets for binding. 40p.</p> <br /> <p>      Ad I-II: This volume belonged to the local historian and Orléans Cathedral canon Louis-Eusèbe Loiseau 1721-95.<br />       Ad I: ALL PUBLISHED SUPPRESSED. Only Edition. Luchet believed “Good history is a long fable†p. iv tr. Immediately upon publication of this first volume of a projected five Luchet’s fanciful account of the history of Orléans and environs 52 B.C.E. to 1428 C.E. came under fire. He had manufactured personal information abandoned the facts cloven to the marvelous and doubted Jeanne d’Arc’s divine mission pp. 307-419. This last angered the clergy and THE DUC D’ORLÉANS FORCED THE AUTHOR TO BUY UP AND DESTROY THE EDITION.<br />       COUNTERING LUCHET’S FANTASIES LOISEAU COMPILED HIS OWN THIRTY THOUSAND WORD DOUBLE-COLUMN CHRONOLOGY filling 115 interleaf pages. Its preface summarizes Luchet’s History — “detestable in substance and form†tr. lists errors and sketches a damning biography of Luchet. One column of the manuscript chronology draws on Polluche’s Essais historiques sur Orléans 1778 and the other on articles in Calendrier historique d’Orléanois by the Orléans Maurist librarian Louis Fabre 1710-98.<br />       The longest and earliest inserted manuscript is A FIFTEEN-PAGE ESSAY UNFAVORABLE TO LUCHET’S HISTORY identifying still more inaccuracies nine concern Jeanne d’Arc. The Mémoire takes a statistical and economic perspective on Orléans its architecture and exports. Signed by Loiseau the Observations treats the by-laws of the new Orléans learned society born of the 1786 merger of two earlier groups. Loiseau was secretary of one for 25 years 1761-85.<br /> ¶Lanéry d’Arc Le Livre d’or de Jeanne d’Arc. Bibliographie 700; Lelong Bibliothèque historique de la France III: 35603-4; Brainne et al. Les Hommes illustres de l’Orléanais I: 250-2.<br />       Ad II: Only Edition the author’s sole book and the first published attack on Luchet’s History. Exposing 108 blunders with context and secondary source proof Jousse used material gathered by his father 1710-81 who supplied all the entries related to Orléans in Lelong’s Bibliothèque historique 1768-78.<br /> ¶Lanéry d’Arc 700; Lelong III: 35604; Conlon Le Siècle des Lumières 66:976.<br />       All items are in good condition.</p> P.-F. Gueffier unknown
1680353098Likely Boston 1680. 4pp. Clerically signed Robert Warwick and Edward Gorges above an additional reaffirmation of grant dated June 1631 clerically countersigned by Thomas Wiggin James Parker James Watts and George Donglan. Docketed "Patent Saco: east of the river". Bifolium. Usual folds minor separations two repaired. 4pp. Clerically signed Robert Warwick and Edward Gorges above an additional reaffirmation of grant dated June 1631 clerically countersigned by Thomas Wiggin James Parker James Watts and George Donglan. Docketed "Patent Saco: east of the river". Bifolium. In 1629 less than a decade after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock the Council of New England an English joint stock company founded to establish colonial settlements in America issued a series of grants subdividing their royal charter that had ceded to them all land between "degrees 34 and 44" from sea to sea. These grants were important being among the earliest grants independently issued within the colonies. <br /> <br /> The present grant is of particular note for the history of Maine being the grant made to Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonython for the land north of the Swanckadocke River i.e. the Saco River. The text of the grant reads in part:<br /> ".Whereas King James of famous memory late King of England Scotland France and Ireland by his Highness' letters patent and royal grant under the great seal of England bearing date the third day of November in the eighteenth year of his reign of England France and Ireland etc. for the causes therein expressed did absolutely give grant and confirm to the said Council for the affairs of New England in America and their successors forever all the land of New England lying and being from forty to forty-eight degrees of northerly latitude and in length by all that breadth aforesaid from sea to sea throughout the main land . that the said council for the affairs of New England in America as well for and in consideration that Thomas Lewis Gentleman has already been at the charge to transport himself and others to take a view of New England in America aforesaid for the bettering of his experience in advancing of a plantation and does now wholly intend by God's assistance with his associates to plant there both for the good of his Majesty's realms and dominions and for the propagation of Christian religion among those infidels and in consideration also that the said Thomas Lewis together with Captain Richard Bonighton and also with their associates and company have undertaken at their own proper costs and charges to transport fifty persons there within seven years next ensuing to plant and inhabit there to the advancement of the general plantation of that country and the strength and safety thereof among the natives or any other invaders also for the encouragement of the said Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonighton and other considerations the said council thereunto moving have given granted enfeoffed and confirmed and by this present writing do fully clearly and absolutely give grant enfeof and confirm to the said Thomas Lewis and Captain Richard Bonighton their heirs and assigns for ever all that part of the main land in New England in America aforesaid commonly called or known by the name of Swanckadocke or by whatsoever other name or names the same is or shall be hereafter called or known by situated lying and being between the cape or bay commonly called Cape Elizabeth and the cape or bay commonly called Cape Porpoise containing in breadth from northeast to southwest along by the sea four miles in a straight line or accounting seventeen hundred and three score yards according to the standard of England to every mile and eight English miles upon the main land on the north side of the river Swanckadock after the same rate from the sea through all the breadth aforesaid ."<br /> <br /> The original vellum grant with seals is located in the archives of the Maine Historical Society. The present example is one of several extant early manuscript copies made during the subsequent conflicts and competing claims between the crown Massachusetts and Maine. In 1652 commissioners were appointed to determine the correct boundary between Massachusetts and several of the early patents with the former gradually extending their claim northward. In 1653 the settlers of Saco and other parts of Maine yielded to Massachusetts and the region was renamed Yorkshire or County of York. In 1664 after the Restoration the region was restored as an independent province but much of the region sold back to Massachusetts in 1678. After the charter of Massachusetts was annulled in 1684 and James II ascended to the crown in 1685 the region was once again assigned as part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Maine would remain part of Massachusetts until the final separation in 1820. <br /> <br /> The present undated copy likely dates from the period circa 1664 when a royal commission consisting of Richard Nicolls Sir Robert Carre George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick was sent to oversee the government of the colonies in New England. However it could also date as late as the period from the 1680s when Sir Edmund Andros became the Commissioner for the Dominion of New England. Documentary History of the State of Maine vol. 7 p. 117 unknown
171521151London 1715. Broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Small folio. Bound to style in half calf over marbled paper-covered boards. Ornamental border. Minor foxing. Very good. A project for colonizing Maine in 1715. One of only two surviving copies.<br/> <br/> A rare early petition relating to British settlement in the eastern part of present-day Maine. The authors refer to petitioning "his Majesty in Council on the 6th Day of December last for having a Colony settled between New England and Nova Scotia" with "over one thousand disbanded men" and to be funded with the proceeds of a proposed coinage operation. The only copy of this document listed by OCLC and ESTC is at the New-York Historical Society which estimates merely that the document was printed during the 1700s. The historical context the text cited above and discovery of this broadsheet among similar petitions dating almost exclusively to 1714 and 1715 however make 1715 an extremely likely date of printing. In the Treaty of Utrecht 1713 the French ceded the land east of the Kennebec River presumably the area in question here to the British; this event and the reference to "disbanded soldiers" suggest that the War of the Spanish Succession had recently ended which it finally did in 1714. George I succeeded Queen Anne in late 1714 meaning that the petitioning of "December last" could not have been earlier than that year. With the new monarchy and a major upheaval in the House of Commons following the general election of 1715 petitionary literature distributed in the lobby of Parliament surged with this document almost certainly among the examples from that year. The petitioners evidently officers who had served in the recent war call attention to the fact that the lands they hope to settle "were formally survey'd and given by King Charles the Second to the Duke of York" and that the area has been confirmed as rich for farming. They ask that Parliament allow them to present their formal proposals for the settlement or "if not thought proper to have a Colony settled in that part of North-America" at least still to grant them a contract to coin 1000 tons' worth of half-pence and farthings. A very important Maine document one of only two surviving copies. unknown
193812984COLLECTION OF EARLY BRITISH FANZINES: THE SATELLITE FANTAST NEW WORLDS GARGOYLE & ZENITH Various places 1938 to 1942 first editions mostly vg copies. 17 SATELLITES being volume 1 #1 thru volume 3 #5 the complete run; 14 FANTASTS being volume 1 #1 thru volume 3 #2 the complete run; 4 NEW WORLDS the complete run of the first incarnation; 5 ZENITHS & 3 GARGOYLES. All sets contain issue 1 #1 with original and no where else reprinted contributions by: Arthur C. Clarke C. S. Youd John Burke Ted Carnell John Russell Fearn Eric Maine William Temple et.al. A literal Who's Who of early British Fandom. All from the library of author and publisher of The Satellite John Burke. Rare! 43 different issues. Various unknown
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 />
1779K89BNAR73VU7Maastricht 1779. 8vo 22.5 x 13.5 cm. J.E. Dufour & P. Roux Contemporary decorated paper wrappers. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4 XXVII 1 232 pp. Very rare first edition printed in Maastricht of a mining manual by a French enlightened marquis who worked as chief librarian at the Hessen-Kassel court of Friedrich II 1720-1785. Although mentioned reference literature the book is very rare on the market and we found no copy in auction records. Luchet was an acquaintance of Voltaire and in fact had a letter of recommendation from him that helped him obtain his position at the Hessen-Kassel court. Luchet's other writings concerned literature and theatre which makes this mining manual a curious standout. It is unclear why this work was printed in Maastricht except that the Maastricht south Limburg region does have a long history of mining. In a lengthy discourse on mining in the preliminaries Luchet makes a strong pro-mining statement. This is followed by reflections on several aspects of mining often in a question and answer form. He goes into the medical consequences of mining and names several minerals and metals such as coal quartz lead tin gold silver copper and more.A second edition appeared in 1797 often bound with H. Struve Methode analytique des fossils Lausanne 1797.Bookplate on front paste-down owner's name on title-page small stamp on title-page and pages 9 99 199 and 232. First few pages with marginal stains. Binding worn. Otherwise in good condition and wholly untrimmed.l Geology emerging 1404; Hoover 549; Wellcome III p. 451; Worldcat 3 copies; not in Margerie. unknown
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
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
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
1919307722Boston 1919. 291 photographs usually four to a page on 75 black album leaves captioned throughout in white ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Post bound album in black leather over limp boards edges rubbed front joint tender. A few photographs loosened but all present and complete one photo folded at left edge long ago. Black cloth folding box red morocco spine label. 291 photographs usually four to a page on 75 black album leaves captioned throughout in white ink. 1 vols. Oblong folio. An excellent and fully captioned photograph album of summer trout fishing and camping in the Rangeley district at Loon Lake Maine and other places of interest. The photographer is unnamed but evidently from Boston or the north shore with some connections further south on Long Island.<br /> <br /> The album records two trips to Maine: the first to Loon Lake in 1915 and the J. Lewis York family fishing camp including several fine images of York often with a bear cub on a lead 66 photographs on 17 leaves ; and the second undated to Green Lake Mike Marr's camp at Indian Pond to Squaw Mountain Pond with Fred Lessor guide and to Moosehead Lake and the Kennebec 36 photographs on 9 leaves. <br /> <br /> Three trips to Nova Scotia in 1914 1919 and 1923 to the Kedgemakoogee Rod and Gun Club on Kedgemakoogee Lake the Shelburne River and other trout fishing excursions 139 photographs on 37 leaves. In the June 1923 trip Irving Lake Dam on the Shelburne is described as the best fishing water of the trip. A few participants are identified: E.L. Matlack O.H. Muir and Wilson Forrest and the unidentified grinning angler with a large string of trout may well be the compiler. <br /> <br /> As well as scenes from the Piping Rock Horse Show Long Island noting Miss Lansdale up in several snapshots 22 photographs on 5 leaves; and a trip to Atlantic City at the end with the Shriners parade and seaside scenes 27 photographs on 7 leaves. Cf. Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 186 for a similar album unknown
17953732This is the first general history of Maine written in the post-Revolutionary War time period that saw several state histories published including those by Belknap Jefferson and Ramsay. Despite its distinctly chilly initial reception and the less than impressive editorial standards Sullivan's <i>History</i>is a cornerstone work in any collection of Maine material. <p>The <i>History</i>includes as the frontispiece Osgood Carleton's <i>A Map of the District of Maine Drawn from the latest Surveys and other best Authorities by Osgood Carleton</i>. The map measuring 20 5/16 x 16 3/8" includes an inset titled <i>A Map of those parts of the Country most famous for being harassed sic by the Indians</i>. Carleton's map was the most detailed done of Maine to that time. </p><p>At the head of the title page is an inscription which has been lined out: "For D. Laincourt from his Friend the Author."</p><p><b>References:</b> Evans: 29589. Howes <i>USiana:</i> S-1122. Sabin: 93499. Williamson <i>A Bibliography of the State of Maine</i>: 9608. Thompson: <i>Important Maine Maps Books Prints and Ephemera</i>: 18A. For the map: Wheat & Brun <i>Maps and Charts Published in America before 1800</i>: 171. McCorkle <i>New England in Early Printed Maps 1513-1800</i>: Me795.1. </p><p><b>Condition: </b>vii iv 421 pp. With folding map frontispiece.Original full calf with worn red title label. Boards scuffed and bumped with areas of abrasion; joints cracked. Text block is very tight. Occasional light foxing and staining throughout. The map is in remarkably good condition especially in comparison to the usual state in which it is found. Trimmed close as usual along the binding edge. A sharp dark impression with minimal foxing or offsetting. <br /></p><p>ICN 7660.3.</p> Printed by I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews hardcover
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
196458640Portland Maine U. S. A.: Portland Art Museum. As New. 1964. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 64 pp. With 91 ills. 16 col. . 24 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Portland Art Museum paperback
196859083Portland Maine U. S. A.: Portland Art Museum. As New. 1968. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 144 pp. With 132 ills. 13 col. . 20 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Portland Art Museum paperback
18003722<b><i>Family Register of Seward Porter circa 1800</i></b><br /><br /><br />A nicely accomplished though primitive family register of the Seward and Eleanor Porter family. Two colorful plants with birds in their top branches fill the sides of the register. At the top hover two angel-like figures one bearing an hour glass the other blowing a horn. <p>Seward and Eleanor Porter were from Weymouth Massachusetts but relocated to Falmouth in the District of Maine in about 1777 and then to Freeport in about 1782. This family register lists the names birth places and birth dates of the Porter's 13 children from 1778 to 1797. </p>Their fourth son on the list -- also named Seward Porter -- would become a prominent Maine mariner and entrepreneur. He brought the first steamboat to Maine in 1823. In 1837 he published a now-highly-prized set of charts of the Maine coast. For Seward Porter the son see:<i>Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers</i>: Vol 3 p. 453 and Guthorn <i>United States Coastal Charts 1783-1861</i>: p. 29. <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b> Approximately 14 x 10." Iron gall ink on wove sheet with colored decorations. The sheet is mounted on a ca. 1815 newspaper and strips of wallpaper about 1" wide have been applied along the left and right sides. The piece is in fair condition with overall cockling and some water damage. There is a small puncture on the left edge. The ink notations of the birth dates and locations are faded but legible.<br /><br />ICN 3198.
19822091202133210982Slatkine 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 11 books in total Slatkine paperback
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
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
140940258Melbourne Australia: Fast Forward 1982. Complete run of 13 issues in 12 #008/009 is a double issue. Magazines often folded and sometimes staple bound with a variety of folded inserts with cassettes housed in silk-screened colored plastic wallets. Near Fine condition overall appearing to contain all inserts etc.; slightly rubbed and soiled occasional slight creasing to inserts or oxidation to staples. Small tear to rear wallet of #005. Issue 008/009 wallet gilt lettering well-rubbed. Offsetting to wallet of #011. Rare as a set.<br /> <br /> <p>One of the very first cassette magazines which was popular financially successful and proved to be influential in the burgeoning global "cassette culture" of '80s independent music directly spawning such other projects as Sub Pop editor/ label head Bruce Pavitt was a contributor to the double-issue and the UK's Mix. The audio portion was structured somewhat like an old-timey news broadcast featuring new music as well as interviews with musicians. In addition to featuring the sounds of Aussies The Birthday Party Primitive Calculators Dead Can Dance Scientists and the Go-Betweens et al many prominent cutting-edge British and American musicians such as Pere Ubu The Clash The Fall The Residents Adam and the Ants and Gang of Four were interviewed and sometimes provided songs. Being Australian the magazine was bound to have a sense of humor. Robert Smith of The Cure got in on the act and provided "A Few Stylish Tips" in #013 about how he obtained that perfect lift for his '80s hair: soap and water. Crossword puzzles became a feature early on. Also Michael Trudgeon's design of the magazine was inspired growing in sophistication throughout the run adding inserts steadily stylishly utilizing only one or two colors in the printing process. <p>A real acme of early '80s independent music print and design cultures. Its run lends credence to the idea that post-punk truly went beyond punk in many ways. Fast Forward unknown
196110426GOLDMANN WILHELM 1961. 1. softcover. GOLDMANN, WILHELM paperback
51-0639Circa 19th Century. Oil on board. 8.5 x 12 inches. Titles and notes in the margins; possible signed as well. Circa 19th Century. 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
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
