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185545251Augusta House Augusta ME 1855. Very good folded small tear to one edge minor soiling and ink bleed through. 3 pp. Bifolium. 8 x 10 inches. Letter dated January 4th 1855 one day after the Maine elections from Maubec Mitchell Rawson newly elected Whig member of the Maine House of Representatives to fellow Whig party member and candidate for Governor Isaac Reed reporting on the efforts to fix the vote in favor of Reed's opponent Anson Morrill. Rawson had been appointed as a member of a gubernatorial committee that morning so was privy to the shenanigans: "Much talk is made about the course which some members of the Senate & House wish to pursue. I tell them I have no objections to throwing out the votes in the Hancock Plantation & thereby elect or in any way assist Mr. Milliken but to throw them all out & by so doing disfranchise some thousand & declare Mr. Morrill elected by the people. I tell them such a course will be suicidal to the great American party which Mr. Reed & myself are one."<br/><br/>He goes on to report who is opposed to these moves and who might be witnesses: "When I see you I will inform you who are the men who are so conscientious about this matter. I am perfectly quiet & cool but I have been at work. most of the time for the last 24 hours. They the Committee propose to spend the night in the committee room so as to have it said that we are doing up business in shape but they are more anxious to declare Mr. Morill Gov by the dear people. I have heard nothing from you but I think my course is patriotic or an honest one & I shall pursue it unless you suggest otherwise. Don't show my letters to anyone. I shall be glad when this session shall close."<br/><br/>Anson Morrill 1803-1887 was elected Maine's Governor in 1855 and served until 1856. He had been a candidate under the Know Nothing and then Republican parties.<br/><br/>John F. Milliken however was not among the list of Representatives in 1855 but seems to have gotten himself appointed Postmaster in his hometown.<br/><br/>Isaac Reed 1809-1887 was a merchant and shipbuilder. He served in the Maine Senate 1839-1840; 1850 1863; the Maine House of Representatives 1842-1843; 1846; 1870-1871; as State Treasurer 1856; and in the U.S. House of Representatives 1852-1853.<br/><br/>Maubec Mitchell Rawson b. 1825 was from Waldoboro Maine. unknown books
1795101339Boston: Printed by I Thomas and E.T. Thomas 1795. First edition. Engraved frontispiece foldng map drawn by Osgood Carleton. 8vo. Rebound in modern buckram with brown leather spine label with "Index of Names and Places in Sullivan's History of Maine" bound in at rear separately pubished by A.J. Huston Portland Maine. n.d. Map with 2-inch tear into image from inner margin uniform toning to text and map. Overall though very good. First edition. Engraved frontispiece foldng map drawn by Osgood Carleton. 8vo. The First General History of the State with Map. Howes S- 1122 "First general history of this state"; Evans 29589 Printed by I Thomas and E.T. Thomas unknown books
19420000450New York: The Macmillan Company 1942. First edition. Â Slight foxing at the edges of the text block previous owner's name in ink at the front paste down otherwise Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed & age toned particularly on the verso with a half-inch tear at the front fold. Octavo 8.25" x 6.5" 192 pages illustrations in text & full page by Marguerite Davis. Original green cloth lettered in black on the spine with pictorial vignette mounted to the upper cover in pictorial dust jacket. <br/><br/>"The story of the lovely Damariscotta region shares with its readers the happiness of a country summer. The many illustrations in the book were drawn by the artist in the very cove where the story is laid." Elizabeth Coatsworth won the 1931 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association for The Cat Who Went to Heaven. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1907515031907. Bangor: The Thos. W. Burr 1907. Bangor: The Thos. W. Burr 1907. Maine. Charter and Ordinances of the City of Bangor Together with the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City. Bangor: The Thos. W. Burr Printing Co. 1907. vi 456 pp. Contemporary three-quarter morocco over cloth raised bands and gilt title to spine marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities light fading to spine internally clean. $35. unknown books
184011603Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 8vo. 2 pp. <br><br>Concerns the boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick. Government document: 26th Congress 1st Session. Senate. 370. Rare: We fail to trace any copies via OCLC. Removed from a nonce volume; gutter margin a little irregular; two holes in inner margin not touching text. Moderate spotting. Early inked notation above title and at foot of p. 2. Blair & Rives, printers unknown books
183819085Washington: Thomas Allen printer 1838. 8vo. 2 pp. <br><br>Government document: 25th Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 355. Ho. of Reps. Removed from a nonce volume. Ink numeral in top right corner of p. 1. Age-browned. Thomas Allen, printer unknown books
183812319Washington: Thomas Allen printer 1838. 8vo. 2 pp. <br><br>Resolves relating to fortifications on the U. S.-Canada border. Government document: 25th Congress 2d Session. Doc. No. 363. Ho. of Reps. removed from a nonce volume; inner edge a little irregular; small chips in top right corner short tear to outer margin crease along bottom right corner. Foxed. Thomas Allen, printer unknown books
182815125Washington: Pr. by Duff Green 1828. 8vo. 126 pp. <br><br>Report pp. 350 signed in type by John L. Megquier and 7 others. Government document: Senate document United States. Congress. Senate; 20th Congress 1st Session no. 171. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shoemaker 36385. Removed from a nonce volume; small holes in inner margin costing a letter or two on some pages. Light foxing. Ink numeral in top right corner of p. 1. Pr. by Duff Green unknown books
184436140Washington D.C.: n.p. 1844. First edition. Removed. A very good copy. 1 pp. 8vo. The main resolution was an attack on the heinous process of re-enslaving freed blacks: "Resolved. That we do most solemnly in behalf of the people of this State protest against the existence of any laws in any of the States of Territories of this Union which subject our free colored citizens to the liability to be arrested and imprisoned and to be sold into slavery for the payment of the costs of such arrest and imprisonment; that we do protest against such laws as unconstitutional and as endangering the Union." Maine approved this on March 22 1843 sent a copy to all members of the House and Senate and to all the governors of States and Territories. OCLC locates no copies. Not in Sabin Blockson Dumont Work LCP. Afro-Americana Clark: New England in U.S. Government Publications 1789-1849: 1145. n.p. unknown books
1836WRCAM52765N.p. likely Augusta 1836. 62pp. Folded sheets stitched. Minor foxing and toning. Very good. Untrimmed. A rare Maine slip-bill document resolving that the citizens from Maine and other states should not interfere with the issue of slavery in slave-holding states. The legislature writes: "Any interference therefore of a State or the inhabitants of a State with the domestic concerns of another State is dangerous as having a direct tendency to create jealousies between the States and thereby weakening the attachment to the Union which is our only security against domestic dissensions and foreign aggressions." <br> <br> This is a somewhat surprising position for the state of Maine to have taken at the time. Maine came into the Union in 1820 as a free state to balance the admission of the slave- owning state of Missouri. Also Maine opposed the admission of the Republic of Texas in 1836 the same year the present document was printed on the basis of Texas' position on slavery. It is curious that they would take two seemingly opposite positions in the same year. Still the legislature printed the resolution and authorized copies to be sent to the four southern slave-owning states mentioned in the title. unknown books
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
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
1856225142Augusta: Fuller & Fuller 1856. First. hardcover. good. Laws of the United States in Relation thereto. 106pp. 12mo original brown cloth lower right edge of covers and corners bumped edges of corners worn scattered light foxing mostly to margins. Augusta: Fuller & Fuller 1856. First Edition.<br/><br/> Published for the use of the militia by authority of the legislature by George M. Atwood.<br/><br/> Fuller & Fuller unknown books
1982140940258Melbourne 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. 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. 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 books
189022854No Place Listed: No Photographer Noted 1890. Two negatives on glass plates; depicts rocky shoreline sailing vessels close-in to coast populated small island - perhaps Deer Island area or other resort; approx. 4" x 5"; no photographer or studio noted; not mounted; one plate with a little loss of image in the outer border chipped emulsion; in good condition interesting 19th century photographic work from the age of sail. NOTE: Lamp shadow is not in the image plate; our images show these negatives converted to positive via software. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. No Photographer Noted Paperback books
1899364591899. Softbound. VG. Black wraps. 16 pp. 4 bw plates. 35 works listed. Rare. Includes illustrated works by Alexander Pope F.H. Hatfield Abbott Graves Eva Cowdery. paperback books
1906364581906. Softbound. VG soiling to front cover. Tan wraps. 46 pp. 10 bw plates. or so artists and sculptors are represented by 132 oils 29 miniatures and 6 works of sculpture. Rare. Includes illustrated works by Bela L. Pratt Carlton T. Chapman Ben Foster Ava de Lagercrantz Joseph Lauber F.H. Richardson Harriette Wood Robinson Walter Satterlee Edmund C. Tarbell Douglas Volk. paperback books
190856921908. Softbound. VG small spot on lower front cover. Greenish wraps. 48 pp. 16 bw plates. 118 artists and sculptors are represented by 167 paintings and 14 works of sculpture. Rare. Artists biographies at rear. Great copy with many prominent Boston artists represented. Some of the artists represented include Charles Aiken Marion Boyd Allen Mary Fisher Austin J. Carroll Beckwith Frank Benson William John Bixbee Anne Blake Dwight Blaney J.G. Brown Adelaide Cole Chase Colin Campbell Cooper Emma Lambert Cooper Charles Courtney Curran Leon Dabo John Enneking Gertrude Fiske Ben Foster Daniel Chester French Henry Gallison Abbott Graves Charles P. Gruppe Susan Ricker Knox Robert Vonnah Childe Hassam Jean N. Oliver Anna Vaugn Hyatt Hugh Bolton Jones Cullen Yates Isidore Konti William Robinson Leigh George Lawlor Helen Pratt Philip Little Henry Hobart Nichols Walter L. Palmer Ben Foster Alexander Pope etc. paperback books
19091361241909. Softbound. VG old inked name on cover at top. Greenish wraps. 42 pp. 14 bw plates. 164 paintings and 9 sculptures. Rare. Artists biographies at rear. Great copy with many prominent Boston artists represented. Some of the artists represented include Frank Benson William John Bixbee Anne Blake Dwight Blaney J.G. Brown Adelaide Cole Chase Colin Campbell Cooper Emma Lambert Cooper Charles Courtney Curran Leon Dabo John Enneking Ben Foster Henry Gallison Abbott Graves Robert Vonnah Childe Hassam Jean N. Oliver Hugh Bolton Jones Cullen Yates Isidore Konti Bela Lyon Pratt Philip Little Rhoda Holmes Nicholls Adelaide Palmer Ben Foster Alexander Pope etc. paperback books
191228601912. Softbound. VG. Greenish wraps. 48 pp. 16 bw plates. 124 artists and sculptors are represented by 101 oils 30 watercolors 24 miniatures and 30 works of sculpture. Rare. paperback books
1915363211915. Softbound. Very dampstained but no pages stick together and very little rippling. Very usable. Greenish wraps. 48 pp. 17 bw plates. 140 or so artists and sculptors are represented by 120 oils 28 watercolors 14 miniatures and 22 works of sculpture. Rare. paperback books
18562203738Benjamin D. Peck 1856. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edges rubbed. 1856 Hard Cover. vx 384 pp. CONTENTS: List of Ordinances in this volume; List of Statutes cited; City Charter and Amendments; Agents; Alien Passengers; Amusements; Auctioneers; Billiard Rooms; Boats and Lighters; Boundary Lines; Bowling Alleys; Bridges; Buildings; Carriages; Cemeteries; City Clerk; City Constable and Messenger; City Engineer; City Hall; Clerk of the Common Council; Constables; Courts; Cows; Criers; Dogs; Drains and Sewers; Elections; Finance; Fire; Gunpowder; Harbor; Hawkers and Pedlers; Hay; Health; House of Correction; House of Reformation; Intelligence offices; Jurors; Lamps; Leater; Libraries; Licenses; Lumber; Lunatics; Market; Ordinances and By-Laws; Paupers; Pawn Brokers; Permits; Pilots; Police; Public Buildings; Registryof Births Marriages and Deaths; Riots; Schools; Seal of the City; Solicitor; Steam Engines; Streets; Taxes; Trees; Truants; Wards; Watch; Watering Troughs; Weighters and Gaugers; Weights and Measures; Weigher of Hard Coal; Weigher of Plaster; Wells and Pumps; Wharves; Wood Bark and Charcoal; Work Houses; Revised Ordinances; Appendix -- Acts authorizing the City of Portland to aid in the construction of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Rail Road -- Acts of incorporation of Portland Gas Light Company -- Additional Acts relating to City of Portland -- Acts relating to town of Portland -- Catalogue of City Government; Index; Instructios to Ward Officers. Benjamin D. Peck hardcover books
1872106553<p>31 issues of The Riverside Echo for the year 1872 not consecutive and not complete for the year. Each issue is about 8 pages some center creases edge folds some margin and edge chips and tears normal aging. Upper corner with Geo. W. Duncan stamp or notation. Overall in good or better condition. Mostly a literary newspaper but a few other items are sometimes included. </p> books
185557411Portland: Benjamin C Peck 1855. First edn. 8vo pp. 60. Bound in yellow printed wraps some foxing and toning a very good copy. The Portland Rum Riot also called the Maine Law Riot was a brief but violent period of civil unrest that occurred in Portland Maine on June 2 1855 in response to the Maine law which prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the state from 1851. Benjamin C Peck unknown books
1902101618Collection of over 30 letters many with original envelopes and stamps a few empty envelopes letters folded some staining soiling and aging a few tears at folds; generally very legible. This collection of letters belonged to Bernard Jordan who lived in Maine. A few different addresses in Maine but the 1940 Census shows him living in Raymond Cumberland Maine which is the address on many of the letters. While the archive spans many years most of the letters are from the 1920s or earlier. Oddly last item in the group is a phone bill from 1962. Most of the content is family related and a letter from June 6 1914 wishes him happy eighteenth birthday. The lot includes one postcard. books
