Author: Saltonstall, William G.,
Title: Ports of Piscataqua: soundings in the maritime history of the Portsmouth, NH Customs District etc..
Description: Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, 1941. Fair. Tan binding, brown spine. Cover dampstained, pages sl rumpled, owner name ft endpaper. The author has delighted in historical eavesdropping by reading other people's letters, listening to their depositions, culling their deeds and wills, account-books and diaries, log-books and contracts, almost to live their lives, and found their original language much spicier than any later paraphrasing.

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