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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
194726042New York: The Exposition Press 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. A 64 pp poetry collection by the Maine painter and poet. A very good copy in lightly chipped dustwrapper. SIGNED by Simpson on the front endpaper. The Exposition Press hardcover books
1888WRCLIT79366Bangor ME: O. F. Knowles & Co. 1888. 184pp. Ornately gilt chocolate brown cloth a.e.g. Portrait. Margins ruled in red. Trivial wear at extremities otherwise about fine and bright. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the writer with the original purchase price in ink in the corner of the endsheet bearing the inscription. Mrs. Jenkins resided in Kenduskeag ME and must have had significant means to underwrite this expensive production. OCLC locates 14 copies including a few outside of Maine repositories. OCLC: 13532000. O. F. Knowles & Co. hardcover books
194261353Grand Lake ME and other sites 1942. 4to 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches with 79 mounted photographs mostly in the 2 1/2 x 3 inch range with a few much smaller and a few 7 x 9 almost all with ink captions and with a little other manuscript commentary six on them picturing a 1940 hunting trip to Grand Lake Washington County Maine guns but no game 36 picturing May and June 1941 fishing trips to Grand Lake Maine plenty of fish and 10 picturing a September 1941 fishing trip to Grand Lake Stream Maine more fish the balance picturing a day at the Suffolk Downs Boston races 14 photographs including two with the horses approaching the wire club gatherings some with an outdoor theme and family and business activities; also included is a signed copy of the 1942 Massachusetts Fish and Game Association annual meeting program. Royce 1876-ca. 1950 apparently a principal at the Harvard Brewery in Lowell Massachusetts here records in short photographic essays his sporting outings with fellow New England brewers and other friends. Paper browned and somewhat brittle but a good solid album throughout. Brown pebbled cloth and board album tied. #8478. <br/><br/> hardcover books
185229962np: F. Ferguson Printer 1852. Broadside 5" x 13". Light spotting and wear two short closed margin tears. Good.<br/><br/> This pro-Temperance broadside rebuts the canard that the Sons of Temperance are the prime force behind enactment of the Maine Liquor Law. "Men of all denominations and parties are firm supporters of this law; look everywhere and you find it depends not alone upon the Sons of Temperance." The broadside also denies "that this law makes the man who buys liquor a criminal. An absolute falsehood-- not one word of truth in it." Opponents of the law are "lying." Indeed "DROWNING MEN CATCH AT STRAWS. BUT THE HAND-WRITING IS UPON THE WALL. A Prohibitory Liquor Law must and will be enacted."<br/>Not located on OCLC or the AAS web site or in Williamson or Sabin. F. Ferguson, Printer unknown books
185928659Skowhegan: M. Littlefield - Printer 1859. 1st thus. White printed wrappers entitled: "CATALOGUE Of The BLOOMFIELD ACADEMY. 1859.". Wrapper soiled & worn. Chunk from top edge near gutter gradually decreasing in size affecting first half of booklet. Withal a Good copy of a rare survivor. 19 1 pp. 12mo. 8-1/8" x 5" <br/><br/>The Bloomfield Academy founded in 1809 as the Canaan Academy with the name change coming a decade later. It was Skowhegan's first high school and enjoyed full-capacity in the 1840s & 1850s though in 1871 the high school graduated its last class a scant 3 students. M. Littlefield - Printer unknown books
192847944Portland: Maine Historical Society 1928. Hardcover. Very good. lx 338pp index. Pages tanned spine lettering dulled with some mottling else a very good hardback in publisher's green cloth. <br/><br/> Maine Historical Society hardcover books
191622535Lewiston ME: Lewiston Journal Company 1916. First Edition. Large 8vo pp. 340. Illustrated. Green cloth stamped in gilt little faded but a very good tight copy. "In `The Trail of the Maine Pioneer' the club women of Maine offer a second book of Maine historical stories a companion volume to "Maine in History and Romance." This is a collection of prize stores resulting from a contest run by the Lewiston Journal in 1916 and open only to club women affiliated with the Maine federation. Lewiston Journal Company unknown books
184434352Kennebunkport Maine 1844. Folio broadsheet 11" x 16" printed in four columns recto and verso. Light scattered foxing old folds else Very Good.<br/><br/> On July 4 1844 Maine's Democratic Party Convention was held in Alfred. Joshua Herrick a farmer was Maine's Democratic Congressman for its First Congressional District during the 1843-1845 Session. He sought renomination. But he was challenged by Judge William Alen Hayes. Hayes's campaign manager was future Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford whose manipulations aroused deep resentment over lawyers' control of the democratic process. This broadside reflects those class divisions emerging within the Democratic Party.<br/> Hayes who "is without doubt the richest man in the District-- has all the monied institutions at his control or in his interest-- all the aristocracy a queer idea in a dem. party but nevertheless true all or nearly all the Lawyers. Now what has Col. Herrick to go against this tremendous influence He is what we call self-made. has comparatively but little property but he has the confidence of the yeomanry of the District." Despite this appeal Herrick abandoned his effort to secure the Party's renomination and withdrew his name from consideration. He ran without the nomination and lost. <br/>Not located on OCLC or the online site of AAS as of October 2017. unknown books
184037337South Berwick ME 1840. Broadside 11-3/4" x 14-1/2." Text as recited above in bold type of various sizes. Beneath are the printed signatures in smaller type of about 200 local citizens endorsing the call for assembly. Old folds as usual with several small pinholes along the folds which do not affect text. Ink signature on blank verso "Micajah Grant" preceded by "Mrs" "Hon.". Good plus.<br/><br/> South Berwick Democrats seek support for the re-election of Maine Governor John Fairfield 1797-1847. Elected in 1838 he beat his Whig i.e. "Federalist" opponent in the 1840 campaign. <br/>Not located on OCLC as of January 2021 or at the online AAS site. unknown books
1983BL4115Louvain-la-Neuve:: Editions de l'Institut Superieur de Philosophie 1983. 1983. Series: Bibliotheque Philosophie de Louvain 29. 8vo. ix 115 pp. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Scarce. ISBN: 2801701939 Editions de l'Institut Superieur de Philosophie, 1983. unknown books
