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1779réf. 3689Scarce Contemporary Stony Point Battle Plan This rather crude woodcut depicts a battle plan of General "Mad Anthony" Wayne's daring and dramatic capture of the British fortification at Stony Point about 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York City. The battle planned in detail by Washington took place around midnight on July 16 1779. The lower portion of the battle plan includes a four item key: "A. The British Fortress B. Abattes abatis in front C. The Reserve D. The detached Party who stormed the Works." Nebenzahl's A Bibliography of Printed Battle Plans of the American Revolution 1775-1795 cites only a 1784 London-printed battle plan by Faden for the Stony Point engagement #145. The offered plan is not noted by Nebenzahl was published in America and was issued five years earlier than the Faden plan. The Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack for 1780 would almost certainly have been published in November or December of 1779 – within six months of the actual battle. A very scarce almanac in the trade. Auction records indicate the most recent copy sold at the Gutman sale in 2005 for $4800. Prior to that Swann sold an example in 1979. References: For the almanac: Evans: 16287; Drake: 3290. For the map: Cresswell: 309. Condition: Map appears on verso of title page and measures about 6 ½ x 3 ¾." Almanac is complete in 24 pp. Slight loss of road table text at upper tip of final leaf. ICN 7643. Printed and sold by Draper and Folsom, and John Mycall of Newbury.
1779réf. List3711London 1779. Autograph letter signed Joseph Green to Boston merchant Samuel Eliot. Folded letter datelined "London Mar. 26th 1779" with "Rec'd 22nd Decr. 1779" docket on top flap. 7 x 9 ¼ inches 3pp. Some repairs with archival tape folded small tears at some folds. Excellent. A thoughtful Revolutionary-era letter written by Joseph Green the Boston clergyman poet satirist and wit whose verses made him one of the best-known literary figures in colonial New England. A graduate of Harvard College and member of Boston's mercantile elite Green maintained friendships with figures including Mather Byles and Benjamin Church. He is known for his satirical poetry and as a signer of the 1773 attestation supporting Phillis Wheatley's authorship of Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral. A Loyalist during the American Revolution and named in the 1778 Massachusetts Banishment Act Green departed Boston in 1775 and spent the remainder of his life in England. The present letter was written only a year before his death in London in 1780. Written during the period of British blockade and privateering that turned the Atlantic into a contested military space the letter survives as a rare example of communication successfully passing between a Loyalist exiled in London and a Boston merchant. Green repeatedly returns to the difficulty of maintaining contact noting that "all means of correspondence seem to be cut off" and explaining that he is able to write only because he has found "a particular friend in whom I can confide." The letter itself written in March and not received until December 1779 provides tangible evidence of the obstacles confronting transatlantic correspondence during the Revolution. Green writes: "Having now an opportunity of writing by a particular friend in whom I can confide I embrace it to let you and our niece know that your Aunt and I are both well and very solicitous to hear of your health and welfare. We think it no small unhappiness to be so far removed from so many of our friends especially at a time when all means of correspondence seem to be cut off; but when we consider what scenes of confusion and distress we have escaped and what repose and quiet we have enjoyed here we ought not to repine. "Notwithstanding we have been so long in Engl'd I have seen nothing of the country and your Aunt next to nothing of the town. I amuse myself in trolling thro' several parts of it where new objects are perpetually presenting themselves; and I am the fonder of this exercise as it contributes to health as well as amusement. "The climate here agrees well with my constitution. I enjoy better health than I did at home & my friends tell me I am younger. But I know better than to believe them in this because I think if I was to go about it I could prove I am near four years older than when I left Boston." Green's remarks describe the reality of transatlantic communication during the Revolutionary War when Loyalists abroad and their friends in America frequently depended upon trusted private carriers rather than regular postal channels. The letter's journey from London to Boston-requiring months to arrive and bearing Eliot's receipt docket of December 22 1779-illustrates precisely the obstacles Green describes. Green continues with observations on one of the great public controversies of wartime Britain the celebrated court martial of Admiral Augustus Keppel following his engagement with the French fleet off Brest. Green describes the intense public reaction and the partisan passions surrounding the affair: "We have had a forced and ostentatious display of joy on acct. of Admiral Keppel's acquittal. He has been try'd by a court martial on a charge brought against him by Admiral Palliser for misconduct in the engagement he had the last summer with the French fleet off Brest. This has been made a party affair and has been carry'd to a most extravagant height. The whole city has been illuminated three or four nights and there have been great rejoicings thro' the Kingdom. But the matter is now pretty well over and Palliser has ruin'd himself by it." Most affecting however is Green's reflection on the increasingly remote prospect of ever returning to Boston. He seems to realize that his exile may be permanent writing that "At the time I left Boston it was uncertain when I should return or whether I should return at all. But the improbability was not so great then as it is now. The door was then shut now it is bolted." Green's letter offers a moving account of Loyalist exile-separation from friends and family with hope for return fading. We find no other records of letters written by Green during this period in commerce or at auction. books
1890réf. 9319Boston: Robinson Engraving Co 1890. Menu in painted wooden boards bound with cord 20 x 15.2 cm. 10 gold-printed leaves each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association held in May 1890 at Boston's great hotels the Parker House Hotel Vendome and American House. The H.M.M.B.A. was founded in 1879 to offer hotel workers insurance plans; it was later to become the Bankers Life and Casualty Company. The program and menu for the three-day meeting includes the meeting itself music speakers presentations carriage excursions etc. The painted wooden boards hold die-cut 'booklets' dedicated to the Convention headquartered at the Parker House the Eleventh Annual Banquet held at the American House and the Reception held at the Hotel Vendome. The boards are scored and textured painted in silver with gold spots and hold a hand-lettered piece of 'vellum'. Some rubbing to edges of boards otherwise very good. Robinson Engraving Co hardcover
1890réf. 9319Boston: Robinson Engraving Co 1890. Menu in painted wooden boards bound with cord 20 x 15.2 cm. 10 gold-printed leaves each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association held in May 1890 at Boston's great hotels the Parker House Hotel Vendome and American House. The H.M.M.B.A. was founded in 1879 to offer hotel workers insurance plans; it was later to become the Bankers Life and Casualty Company. The program and menu for the three-day meeting includes the meeting itself music speakers presentations carriage excursions etc. The painted wooden boards hold die-cut 'booklets' dedicated to the Convention headquartered at the Parker House the Eleventh Annual Banquet held at the American House and the Reception held at the Hotel Vendome. The boards are scored and textured painted in silver with gold spots and hold a hand-lettered piece of 'vellum'. Some rubbing to edges of boards otherwise very good. Robinson Engraving Co hardcover books
1897réf. 62596Boston:: P. K. Foley September 1897- MArch 1904. publisher's printed wrappers. Some light chipping and use to wrappers. 8vo. P. K. Foley, unknown
1925réf. 797Boston and Maine Transportation Company 1925. Document no binding. Very good. 9" x 11"; tri-fold title and half-tone illustration of a motor coach; fee and ticket information on rear panel; routes with time and a larger half-tone illustration of the motor coach to verso; a few pin holes from tacks some creasing; very good. Not recorded. Advertising brochure for bus service that ran from Boston through Newburyport Mass. Hampton Portsmouth N.H. then up into Maine through York Ogunquit Wells Beach Biddeford to Portland. This was a major tourist route and transverse "over the old Newburyport Turnpike the longest perfectly straight road in New England laid out years ago and now a splendid State highway". Boston and Maine Transportation Company unknown books
1900réf. 34Boston: R.A.Supply Company printer for B and M Railroad 1900. Staplebound wraps. Fine. 12mo long; 40pp gilt embossed title to grey wrapper with 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations to recto only with title; fine. One page of text and black and white photographs of the rivers surrounding lands and train tracks. R.A.Supply Company, printer for B and M Railroad unknown books
1864réf. AQ28474Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son 1864. 49pp 1. Original publisher's blind-stamped dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board T.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Armorial bookplate of Esher to FEP very occasional light spotting. A tribute to American financier Joshua Bates 1788-1864 from a selection of Boston merchants including both the record of an in-person assembly and a selection of letters penned in his memory. Bates who founded the Boston Public Library in 1852 donated 30000 volumes to the institution with the main hall being named in his honour. . First edition. 8vo. Printed by John Wilson and Son hardcover
1888réf. 35464Boston Printed By Order Of The City Council 1888. Hardcover. Used: Good/None as Issued. Front hinge is tender small holes in front gutter gilt decoration to front board embossed repeat to rear board both beveled Please email for photos. Boston, Printed By Order Of The City Council hardcover
1809réf. 45000Boston: Edward Cotton. Poor. First Edition Thus. Disbound. Americana and American History Social History Most Recent Listing; 168 pages; Boston: Poor. 1809. First Edition Thus. 168 pages; Printed by Munroe Francis & Parker. Disbound lacking original wrappers and initial/final blanks top 1/4" to 1" missing from first six leaves with some loss of text top edge of last few leaves eroded at top margin map missing 1/2" - 1 1/2" strip along top edge. A very flawed example of this scarce Boston directory published in 1809. Includes a listing of streets and wharves; names and addresses for hundreds of Bostonians including John Quincy Adams Paul Revere John Hancock etc. . . 1809. Edward Cotton unknown
1809réf. 2212260018Boston: Edward Cotton 1809. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo original marbled stiff wrappers 168 pp. Includes map. Some toning offsetting. Minor splitting at wrap hinge. Listings for John Quincy Adams Paul Revere John Hancock etc. Edward Cotton hardcover
1809réf. 106397Pamphlet 12mo original marbled stiff wrappers 168 pp. Lacking map bookplate on front pastedown wear soiling and fading to binding with edge wear and some splitting at spine tear on one leaf foxing and toning; good overall. Scarce Boston directory published in 1809 does not appear in auction records. With period bookplate of E Loring Richards. Includes a listing of streets and wharves. Lists some important people from the period including John Quincy Adams Paul Revere and John Hancock. Edward Cotton,
1809réf. 106397Pamphlet 12mo original marbled stiff wrappers 168 pp. Lacking map bookplate on front pastedown wear soiling and fading to binding with edge wear and some splitting at spine tear on one leaf foxing and toning; good overall. Scarce Boston directory published in 1809 does not appear in auction records. With period bookplate of E Loring Richards. Includes a listing of streets and wharves. Lists some important people from the period including John Quincy Adams Paul Revere and John Hancock. Edward Cotton, books
1874réf. 004105London: House of Commons 1874. Collection of papers relating to the Boston election of 1874 comprising - 1. 'Copy of the Shorthand Writer's Notes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of the Boston Election Petition' iv 76pp; 2. 'For the Trial of Election Petitions' pp19-30; 3. 'Summons to Witness' form 1p; 4. 'Report of the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 5 vi-xiv 2 3-51pp 1; and 5. 'Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission Appointed to Inquire Into the Existence of Corrupt Practices at Parliamentary Elections in the Borough of Boston' 1876 3 2-268pp. Half calf and marbled paper over boards raised bands spine in six panels title label to second panel gilt thick and thin double rules either side of bands. Rubbed to extremities lightly foxed to edges and occasionally to margins a few pen lines to margins previous owners name to head of a few of the different reports but generally clean. The fourth named includes a poll book printed on blue paper. The Liberals William Ingram and Thomas Parry were initially elected but "an election petition found extensive bribery relating to Parry's votes which on the initial count totalled 1347. However 353 of these were struck off - and further may have been taken if the process had not stopped on 8 June 1874 - leading to Malcolm's election instead. A Royal Commission was established to investigate the borough. A separate petition against Ingram was dropped" Wikipedia - Boston Election page. First Edition. Hardback. Good. Folio. House of Commons hardcover
1825réf. 102273Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN.
1825réf. 102273Letter sheets 8" x 12" 3 pages plus integral address leaf. Extensive tape repairs to folds mostly archival tape but some regular tape too which has caused a little browning in areas long tear obscures writers signature but partially visible creased normal aging and browning remnant of wax seal; otherwise good or better. The letter is to Boston Mayor Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 a future head of Harvard and served eight years in Congress. It appears after becoming Boston's mayor he sent delegates to New York and Philadelphia to study fire fighting techniques in those cities. The author of this letter read about this mission and sent Mayor Quincy a lengthy letter on the subject. The probable author is Solon Robinson 1803-1880 although his signature is partially obscured by a tear. However on the back page a smudged docketed note identifies him as Solon Robertson or Robinson. Robinson was a writer and would become a well known Indiana pioneer. In any case the author would suggest a far more modern system for fighting fires than the existing practice of engines carrying water to fires which would become useless when the water ran out. he proposed putting lead aqueduct pipes "laid deep underground and leading to every part of the city." While her does not use the term fire hydrants the water would be accessed from locked iron covers that would serve that function. ABN. books
1869réf. 43274Boston 1869. Near fine some browning at upper edge. 1 sheet. Folio. Signed and dated 1 January 1869. Sealed with 50 cent Internal Revenue conveyance stamp. Title arches over an etching of a three masted ship steaming at sea. Boston Lloyds was an insurance organization formed as "an Association for the purpose of taking Marine Risks by means of Individual Underwriting" and "by power of attorney have ing each member authorized Richard S. Haven to make insurance for them in their individual capacity as the said Richard S. Haven may deem proper; and for that purpose to perform all acts necessary to the proper fulfillment of the object." There were sixty members each allowing Haven to commit them up to $500 each. One of the firms was S. C. Thwing & Co. of Boston whose commitment document this is. Its primary owner was Supply Clap Thwing 1798-1871 a wealthy businessman with roots tracing back to the Pilgrims. He was active in the mercantile trade between the East Indies and New Orleans was a ship owner and active in the coal trade. Richard S. Haven came to Boston from California became an insurance agent for a number of companies before forming Boston Lloyds which unfortunately did not last half a decade perhaps failing about 1874. Rare. The only known documents on Boston Lloyds are held in the archives of the Peabody Essex Museum. The United States Insurance Gazette V. 28 new series 1868-9 pp. 26-7; Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society p. 251. unknown
1869réf. 43274Boston 1869. Near fine some browning at upper edge. 1 sheet. Folio. Signed and dated 1 January 1869. Sealed with 50 cent Internal Revenue conveyance stamp. Title arches over an etching of a three masted ship steaming at sea. Boston Lloyds was an insurance organization formed as "an Association for the purpose of taking Marine Risks by means of Individual Underwriting" and "by power of attorney have ing each member authorized Richard S. Haven to make insurance for them in their individual capacity as the said Richard S. Haven may deem proper; and for that purpose to perform all acts necessary to the proper fulfillment of the object." There were sixty members each allowing Haven to commit them up to $500 each. One of the firms was S. C. Thwing & Co. of Boston whose commitment document this is. Its primary owner was Supply Clap Thwing 1798-1871 a wealthy businessman with roots tracing back to the Pilgrims. He was active in the mercantile trade between the East Indies and New Orleans was a ship owner and active in the coal trade. Richard S. Haven came to Boston from California became an insurance agent for a number of companies before forming Boston Lloyds which unfortunately did not last half a decade perhaps failing about 1874. Rare. The only known documents on Boston Lloyds are held in the archives of the Peabody Essex Museum. The United States Insurance Gazette V. 28 new series 1868-9 pp. 26-7; Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society p. 251. unknown books
1799réf. 16528Boston. 1799. An early and scarce example of an act of incorporation for an American insurance company. Only two copies are located by the NUC. 13pp. Woodcut of ship on titlepage. Blue wrappers. Front endpapers foxed else a very good copy. EVANS 35221. unknown
1799réf. 16528Boston. 1799. An early and scarce example of an act of incorporation for an American insurance company. Only two copies are located by the NUC. 13pp. Woodcut of ship on titlepage. Blue wrappers. Front endpapers foxed else a very good copy. EVANS 35221. unknown books
réf. 3735831Boston: Printed by Henry P. Lewis Minot’s Building Spring Lane 1841. 16mo approx. 5 x 3¾ in. 1–34–20 pp. Lacks original printed wrappers historic paper wrappers supplied. Noticeable tide marks and dust soiling to most pages; some dog-eared. Text easily legible and a sound copy. Scarce 1841 catalogue from the Boston Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts on Tremont Street issued the same year the institution opened under the proprietorship of Moses Kimball. Admission to the Museum was 25 cents with catalogues sold for 6¼ cents. Founded as a hybrid institution combining art display public instruction and popular entertainment the Boston Museum quickly became a cultural landmark predating the establishment of the Museum of Fine Arts by three decades. The booklet lists just over 300 works of paintings engravings and marble and plaster statuary—representing an ambitious blend of fine art and patriotic commemoration in antebellum Boston. The catalogue presents this early American museum collection featuring works by prominent and unspecified artists of America and Europe. The museum’s collection held portraits of national figures vernacular portraits popular still life themes of the period. Among the paintings and engravings are Washington’s family by E. Savage Washington by Stuart a self portrait by Benjamin West a landscape by Brughel Death of Absalom by Velasquez Fruit Piece by Carravagio several works by Copley the Duke of Wellington by Charles Wilson Peale various works by E. Savage David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale John Adams by Wm Stanley Lt. Gov Gill and Wife by Copley Historical compositions include Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence Benjamin West’s Death of General Wolfe Battle of the Boyne and Alfred dividing his Loaf with the Pilgrim and John Singleton Copley’s dramatic Rescue of Brooke Watson from a Shark at Havana Landing of Columbus by E. Savage. There is a long description of the painting Passage of the Delaware by T. Sully. Other examples include portraits of Pocahontas after Thomas Sully a Choctaw warrior presented by Col. J. Jenkins and the tragedian Thomas A. Cooper as Hamlet “painted at 30 years of age.” Landscapes and genre subjects include Mount Vesuvius in Eruption by F. Savage Ship Yard at South Boston with a distant View of the City 1830 Old Man Warming Himself by H. Inman and a series of Grecian and domestic scenes. The “Statuary Busts and Plaster Casts” section details the museum’s holdings included depictions of: Washington Franklin Hamilton John Adams Samuel Adams Henry Clay Andrew Jackson Dr. Warren Listening Slave and Voltaire alongside classical figures such as Apollo Bacchus Venus de Medici Telemachus and Mentor and Milton. :::::::DELETE this bullllll :::: These pairing of American patriots with European figures suggest the Museum’s attempt to place national heroes within the tradition of classical and Enlightenment ideals.xxxxx unknown
1966réf. ABE-202662333New York: October House Inc. 1966. 1966. 8vo. pp. 185. many illus. cloth. dw. Exhib. Cat. Hardcover. [New York]: October House, Inc., [1966]. Hardcover
1803réf. 8213Boston. November 5 1803 and June 28 1809. With News of the Louisiana Purchase The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices most importantly regarding the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase its constitutional ramifications for the United States and the reluctance of Spain to recognize the sale of the territory by France to the United States. News of the purchase had become public on October 17. On November 30 Spain formally delivered the colony to the French colonial prefect who transferred the territory to William Claiborne and General Wilkinson the American commissioners on December 20. Vol. XL No. 2048 and Whole No. 2633. Two issues 4pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned old folds old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. BRIGHAM I pp.277-79. unknown
1827réf. 106693Newspaper folio 4pp. Folded at center library stamp in right corner crude tape repair along spine pages pretty much separated a few chips and tears along edges normal aging good or better. Coverage of local news items. Nathaniel Willis and Asa Rand, books
1803réf. 8213Boston. November 5 1803 and June 28 1809. With News of the Louisiana Purchase The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices most importantly regarding the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase its constitutional ramifications for the United States and the reluctance of Spain to recognize the sale of the territory by France to the United States. News of the purchase had become public on October 17. On November 30 Spain formally delivered the colony to the French colonial prefect who transferred the territory to William Claiborne and General Wilkinson the American commissioners on December 20. Vol. XL No. 2048 and Whole No. 2633. Two issues 4pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned old folds old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. BRIGHAM I pp.277-79. unknown books
