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1805réf. 86618Boston: E. Lincoln Water Street 1805. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Sewn wrappers; 622pp final page a blank. Moderate foxing and discoloration to title page; text quite fresh with sewing intact - Very Good. Documentary account of the controversy surrounding the construction of the South Street Toll Bridge aka the Dover Street Bridge connecting Boston to Dorchester in the years 1803-05. The case was an early example in America of publicly-supported private development involving the annexation of much of what is now South Boston and the destruction of substantial existing property on the South Street side. Various petitions for and against the project are presented in the current pamphlet; these are signed in type by some of the principal players in the scheme including William Tudor and Gardner Greene for and multiple citizens under the signature of Edward Tuckerman opposing. The bridge was constructed later in 1805. S&S 8207. RINK 2618. SABIN 6598. E. Lincoln, Water Street unknown
1823réf. 31106Boston: s.i. 1823. Very Good. Boston: s.i. 1823. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Bound in plain wrappers with contemporary hand-written title label to front cover; somewhat later endpapers.Half-title to another publication bound in at end. Wraps chipped sheets uniformly toned; mild spotting; name signature of Benjamin French to title brief marginalia else legible throughout and Very Good. [s.i.] unknown
1805réf. 86618Boston: E. Lincoln Water Street 1805. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Sewn wrappers; 622pp final page a blank. Moderate foxing and discoloration to title page; text quite fresh with sewing intact - Very Good. Documentary account of the controversy surrounding the construction of the South Street Toll Bridge aka the Dover Street Bridge connecting Boston to Dorchester in the years 1803-05. The case was an early example in America of publicly-supported private development involving the annexation of much of what is now South Boston and the destruction of substantial existing property on the South Street side. Various petitions for and against the project are presented in the current pamphlet; these are signed in type by some of the principal players in the scheme including William Tudor and Gardner Greene for and multiple citizens under the signature of Edward Tuckerman opposing. The bridge was constructed later in 1805. S&S 8207. RINK 2618. SABIN 6598. E. Lincoln, Water Street unknown books
1880réf. D1575New York: Geo. F. Nesbitt & Co 1880. Paperback. Good. 56 pp. Gray wrappers unrestored. Small nicks and tears some loss to spine. Typical for such a fragile item. Geo. F. Nesbitt & Co paperback books
1823réf. 31106Boston: s.i. 1823. Very Good. Boston: s.i. 1823. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Bound in plain wrappers with contemporary hand-written title label to front cover; somewhat later endpapers.Half-title to another publication bound in at end. Wraps chipped sheets uniformly toned; mild spotting; name signature of Benjamin French to title brief marginalia else legible throughout and Very Good. [s.i.] unknown books
1825réf. 20637Boston: True and Greene 1825. First Edition. 22 pp complete with original wrappers but with the stitching perished so gatherings are loose. Pink staining to front wrapper edgewear otherwise very good. Scarce pamphlet criticizing monopolies in general and more specifically the factions who opposed a new toll-free bridge in Boston because it would be detrimental to the interests of those holding a charter and collecting tolls for the existing Charles River bridge. Moser's Daniel Webster bibliography attributes this eloquently written pamphlet to Massachusetts State Senator David Henshaw 1791-1852. We have not been able to confirm this but it seems reasonable given that he was one of the leaders of the Democratic Party in Boston belonged to a group of real estate investors who would benefit from population growth spurred by the proposed new bridge and "represented the growing group of Bostonians who were shut out from the traditionally privileged class" Haines and Sherwood Supreme Court in American Government and Politics p. 32. Daniel Webster was one of the attorney representing the interests of the Charles River Bridge Company which was incorporated in 1785. Ultimately in a landmark decision in favor of free enterprise Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 1837 the Unites States Supreme Court ruled that the charter of the Charles River Bridge Company did not exclude the state of Massachusetts from chartering another bridge nearby. Sabin 6597. True and Greene unknown
1764réf. 3845Classic Map of Boston from 1764 This classic map of Boston and the immediately surrounding area aooeared near the end of the French & Indian War. The map is from Bellin's Petit Atlas Maritime in 1764. A 16-item legend above the map identifies various public buildings churches and fortifications. Condition: Very good. Clear dark impression with attractive hand color. Age toning at the edges. Wide margins. Crease in lower right margin outside of platemark. ICN 7512.3 From Petite Atlas Maritime.
réf. 62491Boston: Published by Charles Stimpson 1829. Scarce and Charming Street Plan of Boston A scarce separately-issued pocket map edition of this folding map of the city of Boston originally printed in the Boston Directory for 1829. The Boston Directory first appeared in 1789 and was printed more or less consistently by a variety of publishers through the early 20th century. Publisher Charles Stimpson who took over with partner John Frost in 1820 turned the irregularly printed directory into a yearly affair bundled with the Boston Advertiser. A similar plan of Boston appeared in their first edition and was continually updated as the city grew and evolved. This is the first edition published with only Stimpson's name on the imprint and the detailed street plan represents Boston at a period of considerable change. The filling of Mill Pond which began in 1807 for example was only completed in 1828 making this an early example of a city plan which shows the streets of the finished project and the newly constructed and somewhat controversial Warren Bridge see Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 1837. While this map is primarily found in the 1829 edition of Stimpson's directory a small number of copies were issued separately as pocket maps folding into a gilt leather folder and completed with neat hand-coloring. In her book Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston historian Nancy Seashores attributes the maps in Stimpson's directories from 1828 to 1838 to copper engraver Hazen Morse originally of Haverhill. This copy belonged to Captain Crofton Thomas Croasdaile Vandeleur 1808-1876 a member of the prominent Irish Vandeleur family. Vandeleurs spent centuries as members of parliament soldiers or both; descendants Joe and Giles Vandeleur participated in Operation Market-Garden in the Second World War and were featured as characters in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far. An interesting and detailed snapshot of Boston during a time of growth and expansion quite rare in the separately-issued pocket map format as here. OCLC locates copies of the 1829 map at only five institutions: the British Library the American Antiquarian Society the Massachusetts Historical Society the Boston Public Library and the Newberry Library. Folding into contemporary roan gilt binding 3¼ x 2¾ inches. Map trimmed to the neatline minor splitting along some folds. Contemporary ownership inscription of "Cap't Crofton Vandeleur 34th Reg't" on verso see below. Very good. OCLC 760222152 1021281603 556668729. Nancy Seasholes Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston Boston: MIT Press 2003 p.441. hardcover
réf. 62491Boston: Published by Charles Stimpson 1829. Scarce and Charming Street Plan of Boston A scarce separately-issued pocket map edition of this folding map of the city of Boston originally printed in the Boston Directory for 1829. The Boston Directory first appeared in 1789 and was printed more or less consistently by a variety of publishers through the early 20th century. Publisher Charles Stimpson who took over with partner John Frost in 1820 turned the irregularly printed directory into a yearly affair bundled with the Boston Advertiser. A similar plan of Boston appeared in their first edition and was continually updated as the city grew and evolved. This is the first edition published with only Stimpson's name on the imprint and the detailed street plan represents Boston at a period of considerable change. The filling of Mill Pond which began in 1807 for example was only completed in 1828 making this an early example of a city plan which shows the streets of the finished project and the newly constructed and somewhat controversial Warren Bridge see Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge 1837. While this map is primarily found in the 1829 edition of Stimpson's directory a small number of copies were issued separately as pocket maps folding into a gilt leather folder and completed with neat hand-coloring. In her book Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston historian Nancy Seashores attributes the maps in Stimpson's directories from 1828 to 1838 to copper engraver Hazen Morse originally of Haverhill. This copy belonged to Captain Crofton Thomas Croasdaile Vandeleur 1808-1876 a member of the prominent Irish Vandeleur family. Vandeleurs spent centuries as members of parliament soldiers or both; descendants Joe and Giles Vandeleur participated in Operation Market-Garden in the Second World War and were featured as characters in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far. An interesting and detailed snapshot of Boston during a time of growth and expansion quite rare in the separately-issued pocket map format as here. OCLC locates copies of the 1829 map at only five institutions: the British Library the American Antiquarian Society the Massachusetts Historical Society the Boston Public Library and the Newberry Library. Folding into contemporary roan gilt binding 3¼ x 2¾ inches. Map trimmed to the neatline minor splitting along some folds. Contemporary ownership inscription of "Cap't Crofton Vandeleur 34th Reg't" on verso see below. Very good. OCLC 760222152 1021281603 556668729. Nancy Seasholes Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston Boston: MIT Press 2003 p.441. hardcover books
1881réf. 42466Five Points: Donaldson Brothers 1881. 1881. TRADE CATALOG. 6 1/4" x 3 3/4" in tan pictorial wrappers showing a young girl holding a large hat. 20 pp. showing ladies' misses' and children's straw hats. Each page offers 3 different styles on each page. Minor wear to spine and extremities. Very good plus. Donaldson Brothers, 1881. unknown
réf. 20567Tablette recouverte de papier maroquiné rouge, décor de roulettes dorées sur les plats, ardoise façon vélin pour la marque de points d'un coté avec son crayon en étain, tableau imprimé des paiements du Boston au verso, Molette tournante pour le comptage des points (quelques usures sur les tranches). Dix-neuvième siècle, (100 x 155 mm). Bon état compte tenu de la fragilité de l'objet.
1916réf. 41829Lynn Mass: The Hancock Press 1916. 1916. TRADE CATALOG. 6" x 4" in orange and green pictorial wrappers with a stylish young lady on the front wrapper holding her hat on a windy day. 20pp. to include wrappers. List containing style numbers and brief description of several boots listed in the catalog. Pricing stated as $5.00 up. The boots shown are black & white brown & white solid black and solid brown. Colorful illustrations of either a couple women or landscapes bordering each picture of a boot. "For Autumn Wear extraordinary boots await your inspection. KAPLAN'S WOMAN'S SHOP 85-87-89 Main St. Ware. Mass." Briefly describes La France shoe designing which is always the last word in pronounced fashion trend. Light wear to spine and top fore-edge of front wrapper else a very nice copy. The Hancock Press, 1916. unknown
réf. 3727267Boston; New-England Printed by Green & Russell at their Office in Queen-street MDCCLVII. 1757. First Edition. 27 1 blankpp. Small 8vo. In contemporary homemade two-piece coarse paper cover with annotations; hand-stitched. Ownership inscriptions: on upper homemade cover “Lydia Studley Her Book” and on verso of final leaf “Lydia Studley.” Cover and all pages with rounded corners; foxing and minor soiling; without half-title else very good. Colonial Boston sermon given on the occasion of the installation of the Reverend Samuel Baldwin 1731-1784 as pastor of the First Congregational church in Hanover Massachusetts. At the foot of page 27 is an interesting provenance: “Lydia Studley Her Book. Given to her by the Reverend Mr. Samuel Baldwin.” She is likely Lydia Studley 1748–1828 of Hanover Plymouth County Massachusetts: Baldwin became a fervent American Revolution patriot. A Harvard College graduate “he carried his arms to church; and on one occasion while the British were lying at Boston and infesting the coast he thanked the Lord ‘that there was hemp sufficient to hang all the Tories.’”¹ The author Rev. William Cook was born in Hadley Massachusetts in 1696. He also graduated from Harvard and became pastor of the East Church in Sudbury Baldwin’s birthplace until his death in 1760.² Here Cook preaches on St. Paul’s farewell sermon to the Church at Ephesus as recounted in Acts 20:20—“I kept back nothing that was profitable to you”—words quite suitable for an ordinand beginning his ministry. John Stetson Barry’s A Historical Sketch of the Town of Hanover 1853 notes Baldwin “officiated as a Chaplain in the Army and gave eloquent exhortations to his own flocks at home and to the minute men of the town” pp65–66 and that he is listed on the Staff Officers Roll in 1776 as Chaplain upon the Bristol Alarm. p121 ESTC W28888. Evans 7879. Sabin 16294. Thomas History of Printing in America p534. Notes. 1. Baldwin The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500 to 1881 Cleveland 1881 p624. 2. Hudson The History of Sudbury Massachusetts. 1638-1889. Sudbury 1889 p291. unknown
1929réf. 10117Boston Massachusetts: The Sisterhood; Printed by The Alpine Press Inc 1929. Octavo 20.5 x 13.75 cm. viii 257 iii pages. Table of contents. Committee from page iii. Stated "Revised Edition". A charitable cookbook emanating from the locus of Conservative Judaism in Boston with approximately eight hundred recipes the majority of them attributed. Representative among them: Potato Ball Soup Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup Cold Beet Soup Gefilte Fish Marinat Sour Fish Pickled Herring Chopped Liver Sardine Entrée with walnuts and celery Stewed Tongue Chinese Chicken Chow Mein Cheese Blintzes Sweet Potatoes and Apples Boiled Asparagus Carrot Zimis i.e. tsimmes Squash Pie Potato Kugel Noodle Pudding Banana Macaroon Mousse Prune Frozen Cream Cheese Cake Paravah Cake Pound Cake Hazelnut Torte Mon Kichles i.e. kichlach Plum Jam Apple Butter. A concluding section groups holiday recipes for Passover Purim Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Eve and Hanukah. Clean and bright. In publisher's beige cloth lettered in black; some very light soil to boards otherwise near fine. OCLC locates twelve copies; edition not in Brown; none of the editions in Bitting or Cagle. [The Sisterhood; Printed by] The Alpine Press, Inc hardcover
1929réf. 10117Boston Massachusetts: The Sisterhood; Printed by The Alpine Press Inc 1929. Octavo 20.5 x 13.75 cm. viii 257 iii pages. Table of contents. Committee from page iii. Stated "Revised Edition". A charitable cookbook emanating from the locus of Conservative Judaism in Boston with approximately eight hundred recipes the majority of them attributed. Representative among them: Potato Ball Soup Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup Cold Beet Soup Gefilte Fish Marinat Sour Fish Pickled Herring Chopped Liver Sardine Entrée with walnuts and celery Stewed Tongue Chinese Chicken Chow Mein Cheese Blintzes Sweet Potatoes and Apples Boiled Asparagus Carrot Zimis i.e. tsimmes Squash Pie Potato Kugel Noodle Pudding Banana Macaroon Mousse Prune Frozen Cream Cheese Cake Paravah Cake Pound Cake Hazelnut Torte Mon Kichles i.e. kichlach Plum Jam Apple Butter. A concluding section groups holiday recipes for Passover Purim Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur Eve and Hanukah. Clean and bright. In publisher's beige cloth lettered in black; some very light soil to boards otherwise near fine. OCLC locates twelve copies; edition not in Brown; none of the editions in Bitting or Cagle. [The Sisterhood; Printed by] The Alpine Press, Inc hardcover books
1832réf. 50297Boston: Crocker and Brewster 1832. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 14pp1 table. Plain blue wraps over side stitched signatures. Foxed throughout with some minor loss to the edges else a good example. Crocker and Brewster paperback books
1866réf. 38815Boston: Nichols and Noyes 1866. First edition. Paper wrappers. Lacking the wrappers else a very good copy contents lightly soiled. 22 pp. 16mo. Results of the meeting called by pastor Dr. N. Adams to address congregational concerns over the lack of activity in the church. Some of the recommendations include a renewal of covenant addresses to church members union among churches observance of the Sabbath Sabbath schools and a city missionary society. Sabin 70116. Nichols and Noyes unknown books
1905réf. List2839Boston Massachusetts 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean dated December 16 1905. Three months prior a young woman's torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later a suitcase containing her limbs was found and she was identified as Susanna Geary. In September Geary had gone to the medical practice on Tremont Street where Dean worked as a nurse and Dean had performed an abortion for her - at the time an illegal procedure in Massachusetts. Geary developed sepsis from the surgery; when she died Dean and three men one a doctor conspired to dismember Geary and dispose of her body in the ocean.1 The doctor was acquitted and the two men pleaded guilty but Mary S. Dean was never found. 1 "Says McLeod Made Plans: Crawford Testifies in Suit Case Trial" The Boston Globe November 28 1905. unknown
1905réf. List2839Boston Massachusetts 1905. Single 8.5 x 8.5 inch sheet cut from a larger whole; likely missing a portion. Marks at upper left side some folding. Otherwise excellent to near fine. Wanted poster for Mary S. Dean dated December 16 1905. Three months prior a young woman's torso had been found in a suitcase floating in Boston Harbor. A month later a suitcase containing her limbs was found and she was identified as Susanna Geary. In September Geary had gone to the medical practice on Tremont Street where Dean worked as a nurse and Dean had performed an abortion for her - at the time an illegal procedure in Massachusetts. Geary developed sepsis from the surgery; when she died Dean and three men one a doctor conspired to dismember Geary and dispose of her body in the ocean.1 The doctor was acquitted and the two men pleaded guilty but Mary S. Dean was never found. 1 "Says McLeod Made Plans: Crawford Testifies in Suit Case Trial" The Boston Globe November 28 1905. unknown books
réf. 81353Barba Paris, Barba, 2 volumes, 1810, pleines reliures d'époque, 17x10.5cm, 12 gravures H.T., xij (avertissement, discours préliminaire -pour les 2 volumes-), 310 p., 331 p., des trous de ver et des épidermures sur la reliure, coins émoussés, des rousseurs sur les toutes premières pages de chaque volume, intérieur propre pour le reste.
réf. 22724Boston: Hubbard W. Swett & Co. 128 Washington Street. 1859. William White Printer 4 Spring Lane. The 'Rebellion' was precipitated by the whipping of Thomas J. Whall a Catholic boy at the Eliot School for refusing to recite the ten commandments in the Protestant King James translation. It resulted in the creation of nationwide Catholic parochial schools. 29pp 8vo. Saddle-stitched pamphlet with uncut edges and without wraps. On aged and worn paper. In double column and small print. A transcript of the closing arguments in the case without editorial interpolation. Scarce. No other copy traced of original edition. Boston: Hubbard W. Swett & Co., 128 Washington Street. 1859. [William White, Printer, 4 Spring Lane.] paperback
1899réf. 7503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown
1899réf. 7503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown books
1885réf. 42031Philadelphia: W.H. Butler n.d. ca 1885. 1885. TRADE CATALOG. 5 11/16" x 12 3/4" color sheet folded to 6 panels. Illustrations. Among the successful shoe-machines invented by the Globe Buffer company was the “Globe Buffer” a machine for “buffing” or sandpapering the bottoms of boots and shoes. The first “ Globe Buffer" was set up in November 1881. The company also manufactured the “Globe Heel Scourer” for smoothing or scouring the edges of heels of boots and shoes. The company also introduced the "Globe Insole" an invention the promised to replace the flexible leather that was currently in vogue for insoles to shoes. It was invented and patented by Mr. George A. Fullerton and consists of a substance very similar to leather but which is stronger and much more flexible. To test the merits the shoes thousands of pairs were produced and worn and in not a single pair of them did a stitch give out. The material for the insoles is stronger than any leather of the same thickness. It is preserved while leather is destroyed by perspiration. The edges are smooth which prevents them from cutting the stitches. Shoes made of it will not squeak. The brochure offers one cover panel showing 2 cherubs one holding a woman's boot and the other the "Globe Flexible Insole; one panel offering the company's guarantee; and one panel offering information about their insoles. "Remember that the INSOLE is the foundation of the shoe and that Glove Flexible Insole" is superior in every particular to leather or any other known substance. That the stitches and tacks are all beneath the surface thus contributing a smooth soft cushion." Opposite 3 panels offers a beautiful color sailing scene showing a yacht race and with "Compliments of the Globe Buffer co. only Manufacturers of Globe Flexible Insoles at the bottom of one panel. One panel has been separated and neatly reattached using cellophane tape. W.H. Butler, n.d. [ca 1885]. hardcover
1941réf. 28176New York:: Reynal and Hitchcock 1941. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very sharp jacket with just a little of the usual rubbing and some light soiling to the back panel. 8vo. Reynal and Hitchcock, hardcover
