Cambridge MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999. . 8vo. 336 pp. Very Good. Soft Cover. All text.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999. paperback
Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse in Court-Street. 1785. 4to: xxxii 568 pp. Very good on lightly spotted and discoloured paper. In heavily-worn original boards consisting of quarter-binding with grey boards and cream spine with slight staining at head of spine. Foxed endpapers. LACKING PLATES. Fifty-four papers by James Bowdoin Edward Augustus Holyoke Benjamin Lincoln Joseph Willard Mannaseh Cutler Caleb Gannett Eli Forbes Edward Wigglesworth Jeremy Belknap and others. The prelims include a three-page list of the Academy's members including George Washington John Adams John Hancock Benjamin Franklin and eight pages of its 'Statutes'. Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, in Court-Street. 1785. hardcover
Cambridge Mass. : Charles Folsom Metcalf & Co 1833 - 1846. Hardcover. Good. Two quarto volumes. New series 1833-1846. Rebound in modern green cloth. Perforated library stamp on titles. Scattered foxing. Hand colored map of Nova Scotia and colored lithographs to rear of volume I. Foldout charts in Volume II are facsimiles on modern paper. Volume I contains Father Sebastian Rasles' Dictionary of the Abnaki Language. Rale had been a French missionary who had encourage native resistance to Yankee settlement. Abenaki is a now endangered Algonquian language which the Eastern dialects is spoken by the Micmac Maliseet Passamaquoddy Penobscot Indians of Maine New England and Quebec. Pilling 3196. <br> Contents of Vol. 1:A Discourse in Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; Remarks on Longevity and the Expectation of Life in the United States Relating More Particularly to the State of New Hampshire with Some Comparative Views in Relation to Foreign Countries; A Table of the Longitude and Altitude; Tables of the Present Value of a Life-Annuity at Any Age According to Dr. Wigglesworth's Bill of Mortality; Occultations and Eclipses Observed at Dorchester Massachusetts; Observations on the Comparative Rates of Marine Chronometers; Remarks and Inquiries concerning the Birds of Massachusetts; A Meteorological Journal from the Year 1786 to the Year 1829; Remarks on the Mineralogy and Geology of Nova Scotia; Table Showing the Present Value of the Right of Dower of a Married Woman in Any Real Estate Provided She Survives Her Husband; Description of a New Stand for a Reflecting Telescope; Latitudes and Longitudes of Several Places in the United States as Determined by Observation; Tables Exhibiting the Number of White Persons in the United States at Every Age Deduced from the Last Census; Description of a Machine Called a Gypsey for Spinning Hemp and Flax; A Dictionary of the Abnaki Language in North America. With an Introductory Memoir and Notes. <br><br>Vol. 2: Plantae Fendlerianae Novi-Mexicanae: An Account of a Collection of Plants Made Chiefly in the Vicinity of Santa Fe New Mexico; A Memoir upon the Geological Action of the Tidal and Other Currents of the Ocean; History and Transformations of Corydalus cornutus; Internal Anatomy of Corydalus cornutus in Its Three Stages of Existence; Contributions to the Bryology and Hepaticology of North America; Description of the Observatory at Cambridge Massachusetts; On Some Applications of the Method of Mechanical Quadratures; Illustrations of Fossil Footprints of the Valley of the Connecticut. Cambridge [Mass.] : Charles Folsom, Metcalf & Co hardcover