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réf. 40359AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES AUTOMOBILE CLUB OF BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS. AUTOMOBILE DIARY. $95.00 Boston: circa 1914. 8vo. Limp textured leather. 48 pages. Scarce autmobile travel item not recorded on OCLC. The Automobile Club of Boston printed leather bound an Automobile Diary for their members which includes pages for keeping travel records as well as milage gas consumption repairs vehicle maintenance etc. It also includes rules of the organization and state driving regulations for their members to know. Filled with numerous auto related advertisements. Very good. 40359. unknown books
réf. 9504BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL CLUB THE BOOK OF THE BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL CLUB 1925. Boston: The Author 1925. Folio. Cloth spine boards. Frontispiece 246 1 pages 1 plate. First edition. Spanish architecture is illustrated with measured drawings photographs and two water color drawings. Bookplates tips and covers lightly worn else very good. unknown books
réf. 11365BOSTON THE BOSTON ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR 1864. Boston: George Coolidge 1864. 24mo. Publisher's blindstamped cloth. vi 282 6 pages 1 folding map. First edition. There is a fine folding map of Boston 9.75 x 11 inches in this almanac including a business directory a city register and information on transportation. There is some water damage affecting covers and margins but not text or map. unknown books
réf. 23784THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS. BOSTON ARCHITECTURE. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press 1970. Square 8vo. Printed wrappers. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated guide to the architecture of Boston. Bookplate light rubbing to covers else very good. unknown books
réf. 9502BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL CLUB THE BOOK OF THE BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL CLUB 1924. New York: Carl T. Waugh Co. 1924. Folio. Cloth spine boards. Frontispiece 100 pages. First edition. Being examples of early English architecture with measured drawings and photographs. Covers worn edges browned as usual else good. unknown books
réf. 12435BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF A SPECIAL LOAN EXHIBITION. Boston: The Author 1936. 8vo. Boards. xiv i pages 101 plates with accompanying text. First edition. Exhibition catalogue of Japanese artwork marking the tercentenary of Harvard University. Name in ink some cover wear minor foxing on endpapers else very good. unknown books
réf. B302094-2Boston 1986. 6pp. =single sheet folding. 4to. Orange self-wraps. Boston, 1986. paperback books
réf. B36767-3Boston 1986. 6pp. =one folding sheet. Sm. 4to. Blue self-wraps. Boston, 1986. paperback books
1879réf. 17817Boston: L. Prang & Company 1879 Second edition. . Bound in darker tan paper wrappers. Printed on thinner paper than the earlier edition. Tape lining both joints. All exercises but the last page are completed. Signed in pencil on the cover: James Malcolm Graham 1886. Very good copy. . Octavo. 22 cm. x 15 cm. . Illustrated. Very good. Walter Smith 1836-1886 was an English art educator and author. He moved to Massachusetts in 1871 where he was first appointed to Professor of Art Education at the Massachusetts Normal School of Art. Smith later became the Massachusetts State Director of Art Education and Director of Drawing where he instructed and supervised art teachers. Smith was an important early figure in the field of industrial design. He also wrote books on art education instruction for teachers and drawing guides for students. This is the second revised edition of a booklet aimed at helping students learn to draw. This edition begins with an explanation of the book particularly explaining that the printing is light so that students can fill in the lines and that students should use soft pencils to do so. The drawing exercises are mostly for shapes and vary in complexity L. Prang & Company, books
1929réf. 10268Boston: various 1929. Archive. One medium-sized file box containing approximately six hundred twenty-five items including: commercial brochures 121 samples 11 posters 3 typed letters signed/TLS 304 autograph letters signed/ALS 149 postcards & telegrams 29 and periodicals 5. The commercial or trade brochures are mostly small booklets bi-folds and tri-folds graphically illustrated with images of the equipment on offer and frequently printed in two colors or in duotone. A small but deeply engaging archive depicting the business activities of the Boston Massachusetts kitchen equipment supply firm W.H. Davenhall. The supply company serviced businesses with food production and serving needs far beyond the traditional restaurants and hotels. There are in fact few of those represented therein. The company's stock in trade seemed to have been the many "secondary" food establishments growing in number in the early twentieth century including soda fountains candy shops tea rooms diners cafeterias educational dining facilities gas stations with food offerings cafes lunch shops beauty parlors fraternity houses and military bases. The types of equipment depicted in the archive represents changes in food production for a population rapidly moving away from traditional home dining and increasingly consuming food in new types of establishments. The rapid economic expansion that made all this change possible came to a halt with the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. The archive illustrates the experience of a small business in the years leading up to the Crash with issues collecting debts bankruptcy of suppliers and clients etc. The correspondence includes offers of new equipment or supplies often the line between brochure and correspondence is blurred orders inquiries demands for payments complaints requests for new supplier arrangements bankruptcy notices of former customers and more. In addition to the typed and handwritten letters there are postcards and telegrams. A handful of label samples and posters are included as well. Finally there are materials produced by trade periodicals including: Institutional Merchandising Hot Off the Griddle published by Westinghouse American Restaurant Magazine and The Soda Fountain. A wide range of business topics is visible in this archive: bill collection disputes about what was delivered or when disputes about salesmen adding items to an order bankruptcy of a client price changes a UNH fraternity orders a half dozen aluminum pitchers surprised complicated returns of defective merchandise development of school cafeterias the Crash of '29 deliveries abandoned or rejected and more. Condition is generally very good or better. A more detailed description including complete lists of suppliers and clients is available by request. various unknown books
1885réf. 10269Boston: Parker House 1885. Menu on silk 31 x 15 cm. printed recto only and with hand painted floral ornament. In thick blank card stock bound with thick pale blue and white silk cord. A banquet menu presented to members of visiting Commercial Clubs of several Midwestern cities. Highlights of the menu include Penobscot Salmon a la Hollandaise Philadelphia Squab and a Pistachio Cream Meringue. The unprinted cardstock "boards" are separated neatly at the hinge but are intended to fold in half and thus have left a neat horizontal crease across the center of the menu. Some lighter creases are present as well and there is light soiling. Still very good plus. Parker House hardcover books
1847réf. 8890Boston 1847. Broadsheet menu 31 x 13.6 cm. 2 pages. Illustrated with an engraving of the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. A menu and wine list for the hotel restaurant of Revere House issued in the hotel's inaugural year. Built on the site of home of Boston's Kirk Boote Revere House became one of the city's leading hotels hosting guests that included Charles Dickens Jenny Lind and Walt Whitman and Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of the portico. Paran Stevens 1802-1872 at times the general manager and later a co-owner of the hotel was to become proprietor of additional luxury hotels in Claremont N.H. Philadelphia and New York. He had a considerable reputation as connoisseur of wines and liquors and was said to have the finest nose in the country. The "Stevens Sherry" was tailor-made to suit his palette and it was said that his cellars were "never equaled in America". The Wine List includes the usual categories: Madeira Sherry Champagne Hock Sauterne Port Burgundy and Claret along with a short selection of Porter and Ale. What is unusual is the detail in the descriptions of some of the Madeira and Sherry including Dornelios Vasconcellos Sercial Rapid East India Madeira imported by J. W. Boott Esq. in 1819 - bottled in 1822 and Governor Phillip's imported in 1820 from Page Phelps & Co. ~ Paper is age-toned and has a water stain along the bottom edge. Still bright and legible. Very good. No records of other copies of this menu have been located. Menus from any location in the United States prior to 1850 are very scarce. Rare. unknown books
1890réf. NF1618A MEMORIAL OF THE AMERICAN PATRIOTS WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL JUNE 17 1775 WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEDICATION OF THE MEMORIAL TABLETS ON WINTHROP SQUARE CHARLESTOWN JUNE 17 1889 AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING ILLUSTRATIVE PAPERS Boston City Council 1890 third edition some wear and fraying to the spine extremities a couple of signatures starting else just about a vg copy with all fold outs plates and illustrations fine and present in the publishers original binding. 1/2000 copies. Boston City Council 1890 unknown books
1936réf. 6324Boston Mass: North Bennet Street Industrial School 1936. Wire-O metal coil binding 26 x 18.5 cm. 57 7 pages. Index is table of contents. Advertisements. Foreword printed on a separate sheet laid-in at front. Title author and publication data from cover. Date from information in second edition of 1937. FIRST EDITION. A community fundraising cookbook for the benefit of North Bennett Street Industrial School. There is no front matter title page intro etc. and the recipes are not attributed but are drawn from members of the surrounding community Boston's North End. Other fundraising efforts for the school are featured in the advertising section including The Perfection Bottle Rack "made by the unemployed" and an unnamed Spanish olive oil "sold exclusively by the North Bennet Street Industrial School". There is also a full page illustrated ad for Prince Superfine Macaroni. ~ Card stock boards printed in blue and silver; edge wear and pulls at a few wire coils. "123" written in ink at head of front wrapper panel otherwise very good. With the bookplate of cookery author and collector June Platt. OCLC locates five copies and four copies of the 1937 second edition. North Bennet Street Industrial School hardcover books
1881réf. 950No place listed: Forbes Co 1881. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 16mo 5 ½" x 2 ¾"; 26pp; chromolithographed stiff pictorial wrapper steamboat to front and Hotel Pemberton illustration to rear; string binding; 17pp advertisements 4 with illustrations; 2 maps; small chip to fore-edge rear wrapper and one to bird's-eye view map bottom corner; near fine. Held in 7 WorldCat libraries. Timetable for the steamboat and railroad with two maps: center-fold color map of the ferry route and a black & white bird's-eye view of Melville Garden Downer Landing Hingham Massachusetts. Boston newspaper advertisements for furniture tableware clothing beer bicycles builders grocers and more. Forbes Co unknown books
1970réf. 268399Greenwich: New York Graphic Society 1970. Softcover. Very Good. Paperback in very good Condition shelf rubbing with some light bumping light yellowing of page edges. New York Graphic Society unknown books
1989réf. 228646New York: Viking 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First am. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket a nice clean copy almost new. Viking hardcover books
1996réf. 345696Baton Rouge LA: Gothic Press 1996. 45p. 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; frontis. illus. inked out ownership name on publisher's blank else in very good condition. Science fiction poetry. Gothic Press unknown books
1977réf. 36904Puffin Books 1977. BOSTON Lucy M. AN ENEMY AT GREEN KNOWE. NY: Puffin Books 1977. 16mo. printed wraps. First Edition thus. Near fine. $10.00. Puffin Books unknown books
réf. B145214-6Boston 1994. 6pp. single folding sheet printed in blue on yellow card stock. Self-wraps. The catalogue of Ellen Gallaghers first solo exhibition with a densely written meditation by Mario Diacono Crypto-graphing the History-sized Body. Seven works on canvas were shown all dating from 1994. Boston, 1994. paperback books
réf. B145217-7Boston 1999. 6pp. single sheet folding printed in dark blue on tan card stock. Sm. 4to. Tan-colored self-wraps. printed in blue. Gallaghers seventh solo exhibition and her second with Mario Diacono. Diaconos text Black Icons is a meditation on the gold and black of the works in the show considered in the contexts of Byzantine art and the contemporary Black experience. Boston, 1999. paperback books
réf. 9850Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1785. Broadside 16.125” x 13.25”. Title above two columns of text. CONDITION: Good old folds with a few small losses to lettering and ornamental border along folds mostly reinstated by hand. One of only two known copies of an eighteenth-century broadside consisting of sailing directions centering around the Gurnet Light on the north side of Plymouth Bay to guide ships entering and leaving one of the most historic harbors in the United States—the site of the Mayflower’s landing. This pilot was originally published in 1768 in connection with the construction of what is thought to have been the second lighthouse “on the Gurnet head” which included twin beacons or “two lanthorns” as noted in the directions distinguishing it from the Boston Light and making it the first twin lighthouse in America. It was built on land rented from John and Hannah Thomas for five shillings a year and John served as its first keeper. During the Revolutionary War John Thomas raised and served with a regiment of volunteers from Plymouth County. Following his departure from home Hannah took over his lighthouse duties making her the first female lighthouse keeper in America. John died from smallpox in Quebec in 1776 and Hannah continued to serve as keeper until 1786. The Gurnet or Gurnet Point is located at the end of a long narrow peninsula that together with Saquish Neck forms the northern boundary of Plymouth Bay and protects it from some of the sea’s mightiest swells. The Gurnet lighthouse served as a critical aid in navigation through much of the latter half of the eighteenth century. These sailing directions advise “to the southward you may bring them the twin lights in one which is a very good Mark to clear you of Brown’s Island or Sand Bank.” Mariners “coming from the northward bound into Plymouth” are warned “you must not bring the Lights more Southerly than S. by W. to avoid High Pine Ledge which lays N. from the Gurnet Head about two and a half and three miles…” A number of other navigational hazards are mentioned throughout these very detailed directions including the Gurnet Rock Dick’s Flat Muscle Banks etc. While printed from a different typesetting the text of this second edition is nearly identical to that of the first edition suggesting that the directions had proven quite reliable. The Boston Marine Society began as a fellowship of mariners in 1742 and was incorporated in 1754. Among its founders was Moses Bennet the first of the committee members mentioned in this broadside’s title. The Society was founded to “make navigation more safe” 1754 charter and to provide relief for the families of mariners lost at sea. “The construction of lighthouses and placement of buoys and markers has often been accomplished with the advice of the Society. Of particular concern to the Society was the appointment of pilots to see to the safe passage of vessels in and out of the port” The Boston Marine Society. While OCLC appears to indicate eight holdings for the 1768 edition consultation of the catalogs of the libraries listed reveals that just two have physical copies Harvard and AAS. The Boston Public Library is also listed as having a copy of the 1768 but theirs is actually the 1785 edition. The OCLC records for the 1785 edition are similarly misleading showing what initially appears to be five physical holdings but all of these turn out to be digital or microform. Bristol and Ford record only the BPL copy. In short there are just two recorded examples of the 1768 edition and one of the 1785. An exceptionally rare and vital New England maritime broadside of the eighteenth-century. REFERENCES: Bristol R.P. Supplement to Charles Evans’ American bibliography B6058; Shipton C.K. National index of American imprints through 1800 44677; Ford 2408; Rink Technical Americana 3876; ESTC W24527; “Plymouth Gurnet Lighthouse” at lighthousefriends online; “The Boston Marine Society” at The Boston Marine Society online. Offered in partnership with Ten Pound Island Books of Gloucester Mass. Boston: [Commonwealth of Massachusetts,] 1785 unknown books
1971réf. 335409Boston: Museum of Fine Arts 1971. hardcover. near fine/very good. DURER Albrecht. Lavishly illustrated with print reproductions. 295 pages. 4to dark blue cloth d.w. edgewear light dusted soiling to edges. Boston: Museum of Fine Art 1971. Exhibition catalogue. Small faint marks to text block edges. Near fine copy in very good dust wrapper. Errata. Museum of Fine Arts unknown books
1844réf. 38801Boston: John H. Eastburn City Printer 1844. First edition. Disbound. Removed from a larger volume else a very good clean copy. 13 pp. 8vo. The Primary School committee was much agitated by the Secretary of the Board of Education Horace Mann's Seventh Annual Report which complained that there was no real system of education in Boston specifically that the teachers in the higher grades were forced to teacher the basic elements that should have been covered earlier: "The elements must be taught somewhere. If neglected in the primary schools they must be taught in the grammar schools. And thus the order of things is reversed and disarrangement introduced into the whole school system. The teacher who is employed and paid for instructing in the higher branches is compelled to devote time and attention to the studies appropriately belonging to schools of a lower grade. This is found to be the case to too great an extent in the schools of our city. We do not say this to the disparagement of the primary school teachers or from the belief that there is a want of fidelity on their part. We believe it to be in part at least owing to the system of teaching or rather want of system in the primary schools." The Primary School committee attempted to rebut his criticism point by point. Over 175 years later this problem remains as intractable as ever. Not at AAS. OCLC locates 8 printed copies. American Imprints 44882. John H. Eastburn, City Printer unknown books
1913réf. 45630Boston: The Everett Press Company 1913. Self wrappers. Very good copies. 4 1 pp.; 6 1 pp. 9 x 6 inches. Two advertising leaflets of two works of Herbert Milton Sylvester. 1. Holiday Offer-Choice Americana Price Greatly Reduced Indian Wars of New Engand. Trifold 6 pp. With Order form. Offers two editions both published by Everett three years earlier. 2. Invalable Historical Work. Maine Pioneer Settlements. Bifolium. 4 pp. With order form. This multivolume work was published in 1909 by the Clark Company. Theodore Everett and H.D. Everett organized The Everett Press Company in Boston in 1892. The Everett Press Company unknown books
