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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
1878313330Rockland Maine 1878. 93 pp written recto and verso blue lined sheets in ink in a legible hand. Folio 310 x 208 mm. Three-quarter black calf and marbled boards. Minor wear to covers very good. 93 pp written recto and verso blue lined sheets in ink in a legible hand. Folio 310 x 208 mm. Detailed accounts of expenses for several commerical voyages under the command of Captain Merrick M. Packard on board three different vessels-- the Bark G.W. Horton the Schooner John S. Ingraham and the Schooner Ella-- on behalf of his father-in-law's business the John Bird Company of Rockland Maine. Ports of call include Philadelphia Cayenne French Guyana Philadelphia New Orleans Charleston Savannah Pensacola Munganillo Mazanillo Port Royal Havana New York Baltimore etc. John Bird & Co were wholesale grocers and provisioners as well as purveyors of lime. The ledger records amounts paid for chandler's bills dockage block makers stevedore's services pilotage and toage wharfage and loading custom house and quarantine fees sails chronometer lamp oil caulking dishes etc.<br/>Captain Packard 1822-1882 was born in Thomaston or Camden Maine and died in Smithville North Carolina after almost fifty years seafaring. unknown books
176726308Newport R.I. 1767. Manuscript map in ink and wash on a single folio sheet 15 1/4 x 19 inches. Docketed in manuscript on verso "Map of Leveretts Patent alias Muscongus." With two manuscript documents one being 3pp. on folio sheets dated at Boston May 19 1787; the other being 3pp. on folio sheets dated at Providence R.I. on May 30 1787. Also with a half-page of manuscript dated Boston March 28 1768. All three documents relating to the lands depicted on the map. Map with minor separations along horizontal fold. The half-page document being only the beginning portion of a longer letter otherwise the manuscripts in near fine condition. A highly important manuscript map of Colonial Maine: heavily annotated by William Ellery a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island.<br/> <br/>An attractive eighteenth century manuscript map of Penobscot Bay Maine heavily annotated by William Ellery a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island who made claims to some of the lands depicted on the map. The map was drawn by British Rear-Admiral Jahleel Brenton who commanded the HMS Queen during the Revolution and whose family lost much of its property as a result of the Revolution. The map is skillfully rendered as would be expected of a British naval officer and is done on a scale of about three miles to the inch. The map depicts the coastline from the Damariscotta River in the southwest to the Penobscot River in the northeast and shows and names the many islands of the Bay as well as many inlets harbors rivers ponds etc. The location of a fort and settlements have also been added. This information was all added by William Ellery 1727-1820 a signer of the Declaration of Independence from Rhode Island. Ellery explains in a manuscript note in the lower right corner of the map dated at Newport Rhode Island in 1767: "This map of Leverett's Patent &c was copied from a copy by Jahleel Brenton Esq. one of the Proprietors; and presented by his son Samuel Brenton to William Ellery who wrote the References Names of Places &c. William Ellery." In the upper left corner of the sheet Ellery has added a long manuscript note explaining the survey and the boundaries of Leverett's Patent as depicted on the map. This map and the accompanying manuscript documents were found among William Ellery's papers and were part of Ellery and his brother Benjamin's attempts to claim lands in Maine that they believed belonged to their family. "Leverett's Patent" also known as the Waldo Patent or the Muscongus Patent was issued in 1629 to Thomas Leverett and John Beauchamp. It granted land and trading rights for a thirty-six square mile area along the Penobscot Bay in present-day Maine between the Muscongus River and Penobscot River. According to the documents present here Leverett inherited the full patent upon Beauchamp's death and at his own death divided the grant among his ten children who then divided the land again amongst the next generation. Around 1720 Gen. Samuel Waldo of Boston acquired a large portion of the patent and began recruiting immigrants from Germany to settle the area. The letter fragment present here dated March 28 1768 and addressed to Benjamin and William Ellery asserts that the Ellerys have an "undoubted right to a half share" of the Muscongus lands as a result of a purchase made by their grandfather. The unidentified author of the letter goes on to describe the Waldo heirs as "exceeding difficult to deal with." Also present are two manuscripts one being a 1787 copy of the original 1629 grant of the Muscongus Patent from the Council of Plymouth the other being a manuscript deed of sale signed by James Green for a portion of the original patent. A handsome colonial era manuscript map of the coast of Maine drawn by a British Rear-Admiral and used by a signer of the Declaration of Independence to defend his family's claims to the land. Significant manuscript maps of this early date are virtually unknown in the market. unknown books
1890187Various locations in Massachusetts 1890. Very good. 247pp. Small quarto. Late 19th-century tan cloth. Binding lightly worn and soiled. Stamps for the Engineering Department of the B. & M. R.R. on binding and endsheets. Minor soiling to contents. Written in a neat and legible hand. The Boston & Maine Railroad and the Eastern Railroad were both founded in 1836 and ran competing lines throughout the 19th century. The B. & M. acquired the Eastern in 1890 ending competition on the rail route from Boston to Portland. This volume describes more than 300 land transactions made by the Eastern and Boston & Maine Railroads primarily from the early operational years of the 1830s and 1840s. This volume appears to have been copied out neatly at a later date perhaps after the purchase of the Eastern by the B. & M. and includes transactions ranging from 1836 to 1894. It is indexed by town at the end. Entries include the sellers' names the bounds of the parcel the price paid and the date. The towns involved include Chelsea Everett Lynn Revere Saugus Swampscott Salem Beverly Rowley Hamilton Wenham Ipswich Newbury Newburyport and Salisbury. unknown books
18948243New York: A.J. Johnson Company 1894. Single-side printed map; 10 3/4" x 13 1/2" size; drawn and engraved on copper-plate; hand colored; counties cities rivers indicated more; ample margins for framing; shrink-wrapped to archival foam core for protection and shipping; very good condition; an attractive and decorative map. . Very Good. A.J. Johnson Company unknown books
44656n. p. n. d. Ca 1850s. Folds and faint foxing else VG. Manuscript broadside. Oblong: 4-1/2" x 7-1/2" <br/><br/>In 1854 some of the women of Springvale Maine formed a women's anti-slavery society called the "Daughters of Freedom" the "Sons of Freedom" society formed shortly after. This broadside annnouces an anniversary meeting and an upcoming convention for both groups. unknown books
1839154611839. 25th Cong. 3d Sess. SD270. 1839. 32pp disbound. Very Good. offered with MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTING ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS IN RELATION TO THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE STATE OF MAINE AND THE BRITISH PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK. FEBRUARY 27 1839. 25th Cong. 3d Sess. SD271. 1839. 8pp disbound. Very Good. 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
190540168Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1905. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey cloth. Printed in green and gold t.e.g. Fine. First edition. Illustrated. 1 vols. 8vo. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
187310250Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co 1873. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original tan pictorial boards black calf spine. Bottom half of spine perished some cover wear internally fine. 1873 Christmas gift inscription on title. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. A Resort Summer of 1873 in Drawings and Rhyme. An account of the adventures of a group of friends vacationing at Mt. Desert Maine recounted in humorous verse and equally humorous drawings evidently by two members of the party. Summer romances the hazards of the communal dining table days of genteel ennui and other activities with the first names of the participants indicated as a partial aid to social historians a few of them are named in pencil on the title page are described in double columns of rollicking verse narrative and accompanying plates. A charming period piece and a not insignificant bit of amusing Americana. J.R. Osgood & Co unknown books
189037094NY: NY Album. Very Good. 1890. Hardcover. ca. 1890 Photographic views mounted on 30 panels about 6-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches in board covers the front cover embossed with a fancy design. . NY Album hardcover books
1868687971868. Settle your Accounts or Lose Your Credit Broadside. Maine. Notice! Persons Having Accounts at This Store Are Requested to Settle Them Before the First Day of January Next. North Harpswell ME Nov. 13th 1868. 9" x 12" broadside. Light browning foxing and faint dampstaining vertical and horizontal fold lines one at center of top edge with a very short tear. $150. The text states that the store will cancel the credit accounts of those who fail to pay by January 1. unknown books
1943243413Le Mans: Le Maine Libre 1943. Pamphlet. 56p. illustrated with b&w photographs fuzzily-reproduced also a sketches and documents in facsimile. Softbound a stapled 9x6 inch pamphlet front cover printed in red and dark blue on buff. Staples rusted with a little migration covers very dirty with dust stain pressure marks handling crimps corner-tip creases; text paper is very toned but not yet fragile with faint staining. A fair reading copy. Le Maine Libre 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
1859169289Paris: Dezobry 1859. hardcover. Publiees par Ernest Naville avec la Collaboration de Marc Debrit. 3 volumes 8vo 3/4 black morocco backed boards gilt decorated spines. Paris: Dezobry E. Magdeleine 1859. First Edition. Very Good.<br/><br/> The first compilation of Main de Birans philosophical and psychological essays. The author called "the reformer of Empiricism" became a member of the Chamber of Deputies and was made commander in the Legion of Honor.<br/><br/> Dezobry unknown books
533814to and 8vo. Nine pages approximately 500 words total. One letter in part: "A party of six including myself expect to come to the lake this summer on a camping out expedition . We shall want three good canoes paddles setting poles &c and provisions. Can you have ready for us Aug. 6th" D.T. Sanders & Co. was located in Greenville Maine on the south end of Moosehead Lake. Each letter folded for mailing. Very good lot. <br/><br/> unknown 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
1843WRCAM52065London: T.R. Harrison 1843. 264pp. Dbd. Loosely stitched. Manuscript alternate page numbers very faint occasional foxing but overall a clean and crisp copy. A Parliamentary printing of documents relating to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 negotiated principally by Daniel Webster and Lord Ashburton which resolved several boundary disputes between the United States and Canada. Foremost it determined the border between Maine and New Brunswick which had been the subject of growing local confrontations known informally as the Aroostook War. The treaty also agreed on crimes for which extradition was possible and notably neglected to include flight from slavery on that list. The documents contain correspondence between Webster and Asburton on both of those subjects as well as several letters discussing the Caroline affair in which a group of agitators for Canadian independence attacked an American steamboat on the Niagara River and sent it ablaze over the Falls in 1837. T.R. Harrison unknown 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
1977SKU1018250Liberty Fund Inc 1977-07-01. Hardcover. New. 0913966142 New in shrink wrap. From our shop to your shelf! Liberty Fund Inc hardcover books
188661544New York: Henry Holt and Company 1886. First American. 8vo. xii 261 pp. Rust brown cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Very good. <br/><br/> Henry Holt and Company hardcover books
200441324NY:: St. Martin's. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0312328478 . The author's first book. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . St. Martin's, hardcover books
200431114NY: St. Martin's. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0312328478 . First printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . St. Martin's hardcover 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
1830392391830. Maine Acts January Session 1830 Maine. Public Acts of the State of Maine Passed by the Tenth Legislature at Its Session Held in January 1830. Published Agreeably to the Resolve of the 28th June 1820. Portland: Day & Fraser 1830 iv 1225-1267 8 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Stab-stitched pamphlet in printed wrappers bound into recent maroon textured cloth endpapers renewed. Browning to half-title foxing to wrappers minor dampstaining to first few leaves. Occasional light foxing interior otherwise fresh. Ex-library. Bookplate to front pastedown stain from removed label below small inventory label to head of Table of Contents. A nice copy in a good-quality binding. $50. With index. This book is often bound with public acts of the Sixth through Eleventh Legislatures. Babbitt Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 156. unknown books
