BOWDITCH, N.I.

Suffolk Surnames

1857. BOWDITCH, N.I. SUFFOLK SURNAMES. Boston: Printed by John Wilson and Son, 1857. First edition, inscribed by the author to Josiah L. Hale of Newburyport on the ffep. and dated March 12, 1857. 108 pp. Tall, slim 8vo. brown cloth, blind-stamped decoration to all sides, gilt-stamped title to spine. With only a couple of tiny spots on the fore-edge, some light sunning to spine, and a touch of wear to heel and crown, this is a clean and fresh copy in near fine condition. .

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Book number: 60606

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BRIDGMAN, Thomas

Memorial of the Dead in Boston

1852. BRIDGMAN, Thomas. MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD IN BOSTON; containing an exact transcript from Inscriptions, Epitaphs and Records of the Monuments and Tombstones in Copp's Hill Burying Ground, in the city of Boston. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1852. Second edition, first published by Munroe in 1851 under the title "Epitaphs from Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston." Wood-engraved frontispiece of Copp's Hill and 14 small wood-engravings throughout the text. xxiv,252,[4] pp. + a "List of Patrons of 'Boston Epitaphs'," 15 pp. 12mo. publisher's brown cloth with a gilt-stamped vignette of the Mariner's Tomb on upper and lower boards, and gilt-stamped title and decoration to spine, brown coated endpapers, a.e.g. Contemporary binder's ticket (B. Bradley & Co. Boston) on rear pastedown. Binding shows wear at corners and slight loss at heel and crown, with a bit of spotting and discoloration in places to cloth; but it is sound overall and internally clean. It is a very good copy of an uncommon book. (Sabin 7839). Founded in 1659, Copp's Hill Burying Ground is Boston's second oldest burying ground. It is the final resting place of the Mather family of ministers and other notable early residents of Boston, as well as artisans, tradespeople, merchants, and African-Americans. Although the latter, who were buried in unmarked graves, are not included in this history. .

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Book number: 87439

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BUCKMINSTER, Joseph

Sermon

1808. BUCKMINSTER, Joseph. A SERMON, delivered at the installation of the Rev. James Miltimore, to the pastoral care of the Fourth Church in Newbury, April 27, 1808, Newburyport: Printed by W. & J. Gilman, Middle-Street, for William Sawyer & Co, Book-sellers, No. 3..Market-Square. May..1808. 35 pp. 8vo. sewn signatures, with remnants of paper wrappers at spine. Ink notation at the head of title-page. Text leaves are lightly age-browned. Light marginal foxing throughout, slightly heavier on the beginning and ending leaves, with some edge-chipping to the first leaf. The final two leaves are nearly detached. Good plus overall. Buckminster's sermon is followed bt "The Charge," by Dr. Parish of Byfield, and the "Right Hand of Fellowship," by Mr. Dana of Newburyport. .

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Book number: 65457

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BURN, Richard

The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer

1770. BURN, Richard. THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND PARISH OFFICER. London, Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1770. Octavo. Four volumes. Xxxi,500; 508[2]ff.; 515[3]; [iv]464pp. plus tables and index. Eleventh edition. The most important work of a legal scholar who edited the ninth-through-eleventh editions of Blackstone's Commentaries. A useful compendium which went into many English editions, and was also popular in the Colonies. It was the only legal book to be published in America before the Revolution, specially abridged and adapted for use in the American colonies. Internally fine, in early calf. Volumes I and II are rebacked; volumes III and IV have weak hinges, externally split. .

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Book number: 76936

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BUSH, Prescott

Typed Letter, Signed

1954. BUSH, Prescott. TYPED LETTER, SIGNED. United States Senate letterhead stationery, 10 1/2 x 8 in. dated May 25, 1954. Addressed to Robert Dudley French, Master of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale University, the letter expresses Bush's personal concern about the ongoing McCarthy-Army hearings and explains his rather limited public response to them. "I would have no hesitancy in answering the questions propounded in your letter.. in my opinion, it is in the public interest that members of the Senate withhold comments on the merits of the controversy until they (the hearings) have been concluded. Believe me, my former teacher and old friend, nothing has more seriously disturbed me since I came to the Senate.. For the present, the only action which appears open to me is to advocate the adoption of uniform rules which would give the Senate a greater measure of control over investigations than it has had in the past. This I have done.." The body of the letter is twenty-four lines and signed Pres twice at the end; once below a typed closing, and the second time below the hand-written postscript: "Please read my Cheshire speech" To illustrate the advocacy he mentions in his letter, Bush enclosed a press release of a speech he delivered in Cheshire, CT on May 15th and a tear sheet from the Congressional Record of May 24th. The letter and the enclosures are clean and neatly creased twice (for mailing). The Congressional Record is printed on paper of poor quality and is quite browned, with some transfer to the letter and the tear sheet. .

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Book number: 74063

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CANADA

Census of the Canadas

1855. (CANADA). CENSUS OF THE CANADAS. 1851-2. Agricultural Produce, Mills, Manufactories, Houses, Schools, Public Buildings, Places of Worship, &c. Vol. II [only]. Quebec: Printed by Lovell and Lamoureux, at their steam-printing establishment, Mountain Street. 1855. Volume two only. First edition of the second volume of the first national Canadian census. 8vo.: iv,474 pp. + [1] errata. Original green cloth, title and maple leaf printed to spine within a single-rule. Ex library; without any external marks, and having only a bookplate and two discreet embossed stamps within. Text leaves are clean; although a few leaves near the end have shallow creasing at the fore-edge. Cloth is sunned, particularly at spine, showing moderate soiling and staining overall, with wear at corners and to a couple of spots on spine. The upper joint is starting and there is a horizontal closed tear at spine. A good working copy. .

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Book number: 64920

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CHIAPPELLI, Fredi

First Images of America, 2 Volumes

1976. CHIAPPELLI, Fredi, ed. w/ Michael J. B. ALLEN and Robert L. BENSON. FIRST IMAGES OF AMERICA: THE IMPACT OF THE NEW WORLD ON THE OLD, 2 VOLUMES. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. 515/516-957 pp. 8vo. tan cloth stamped in black and white. Fine in very good publisher's maroon cloth slipcase with pastedown illustration. Slipcase slightly rubbed, small chip to fore-edge. Books fine with b/w and color illustrations. Errata slips laid in. .

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Book number: 83678

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CHILDS, Ebenezer Larkin

Letter of Ebenezer Larkin Childs... To Thomas O. Larkin

1948. CHILDS, Ebenezer Larkin. LETTER OF EBENEZER LARKIN CHILDS, FROM WASHINGTON, D.C. TO THOMAS O. LARKIN, MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. Introductory notes by Robert J. Parker. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1948. Number 9 of the Letters of the Gold Discovery; limited to 750 copies. A quarto folder produced at the Quercus Press, with a facsimile of the letter (reproduced by the Stanford University Press) laid-in. Very fine. .

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Book number: 69847

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CIST, Charles

Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals and Future Prospects

1841. CIST, Charles. CINCINNATI IN 1841: ITS EARLY ANNALS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS. Cincinnati: Printed and PUblished for the Author, 1841. 5 engraved illustrations, plus 2 engraved advertisements. 12mo. 300 pp. + 88 pp. adv. Original brown cloth with gilt-stamped title at spine; however, the top board, with the frontisp. & t.p. attached, is detached and the backstrip has a closed horizontal tear near the center. Ex-library; 19th century bookplate on front pastedown and two small embossed seals within. Plates and facing pages are moderately foxed, though text leaves are mostly clean. A good reading copy which,because of the binding, is offered as is. (Sabin 13152). .

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Book number: 74902

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CLARK, William Bell

Naval Documents of the American Revolution

1964. CLARK, William Bell, ed. NAVAL DOCUMENTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Washington D.C.: (Naval History Division, U.S. Navy), 1964(-1972). Forewords by John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. 6 volumes. Illustrated. Each volume is approximately 1500 pp. Small 4to. navy cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine, gilt emblem to front board. Volume 1 with sunned spine and shaken binding; volumes 2-4 also with light sun to spine. Some volumes show light rubbing and bumping at fore-corners. Clean and bright within. A very good set. .

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Book number: 75296

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CLAVERS, Mary

New Home in the West

1872. CLAVERS, Mary. NEW HOME IN THE WEST; Or, Glimpses of Life Among the Early Settlers. New York: James Miller, 1872. Frontispiece. Small 8vo. red cloth, title gilt-stamped to spine and front board. Ex-library; all usual markings. Newspaper review clip mounted to fly-leaf. Some lean to spine; spine is sunned. Volume is edgeworn, especially at front fore-edge and spine tips which are chipped. Generally clean within. A good copy. .

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Book number: 75921

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CAPE COD

Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 1839, of the

1840. [CAPE COD]. CAPE COD CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT BARNSTABLE, SEPT. 3, 1839, OF THE INCORPORATION OF THAT TOWN, SEPT. 3. 1639. Giving a full detail of the preliminary proceedings of the committees, and the speeches and toasts at the dinner. Correctly reported and revised. Barnstable: S. B. Phinney, 1840. 92 pp. Bound with: A DISCOURSE PRONOUNCED AT BARNSTABLE ON THE THIRD OF SEPTEMBER, 1839, AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SECOND CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF CAPE COD. By John Gorham Palfrey. Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, 1840. 71 pp. Octavo, contemporary quarter calf, marbled sides, gilt title at spine. Affixed to the final pastedown is a ticket to the celebration; it is inscribed with the name of Eben Bacon of Barnstable, a member of the Committee of Arrangements. The leather is rubbed, scuffed and rather dry; though the binding is sound. There is an abraded patch at the front pastedown, probably due to bookplate removal. The first title has moderate to heavy foxing throughout; the second title is clean. Two works bound in one, in very good condition. (Sabin 10734). .

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Book number: 75283

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COLUMBUS, Chrisopher

Latin Version of 1493 of the First Letter of Columbus to the Noble Lor

1890. COLUMBUS, Chrisopher. "THE LATIN VERSION OF 1493 OF THE FIRST LETTER OF COLUMBUS TO THE NOBLE LORD RAPHAEL SANCHEZ ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Reproduced in fac-simile by the heliotype process, with a note and a translation [by R. H. Mayor]." [Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, Volume 9, October, 1890.] pp. 390-444, + [1] plate and [8] pp. facsimile, extracted from the Bulletin. Slim 4to. blue cloth, gilt title at spine. Ex library; bookplate to front pastedown and one other discreet mark. Free endpapers and the first leaf of text detached. Some light soiling to bottom margin of a few leaves, but a clean and good copy overall. The facsimile is of the "Ferdinand" edition of Stephen Plannck (Rome, 1493). It is preceded by Mayor's translation, which is from a different Latin text, and appeared in his Select Letters of Christopher Columbus (London, 1847) - one of the publications of the Hakluyt Society. .

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Book number: 63635

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COLUMBUS, Chrisopher

Latin Version of 1493 of the First Letter of Columbus to the Noble Lor

1891. COLUMBUS, Chrisopher. THE FIRST LETTER OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TO THE NOBLE LORD RAPHAEL SANCHEZ ANNOUNCING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA. Reproduced in fac-simile from the copy of the Latin version of 1493 now in the Boston Public Library, with a new translation [by Henry W. Haynes]. Boston: Published by the Trustees, 1891. 17 pp. + [1] plate and [8] pp. facsimile. Slim 4to. blue cloth, gilt title at spine; original paper wrappers bound in. Ex library; bookplate to front pastedown and one other discreet mark. Ffep. and front leaf of text detached. Text and binding are clean and fresh; it is a very good copy overall. Facsimile of the "Ferdinand" edition of Stephen Plannck (Rome, 1493), with a preface and translation by Haynes. The facsimile was first printed in the library Bulletin of October, 1890, but with a translation from a different Latin text by R. H. Mayor. .

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COMETTANT, Oscar

Voyage Pittoresque Et Anecdotique Dans le Nord Et le Sud Des Etas-Unis

1866. COMETTANT, Oscar. VOYAGE PITTORESQUE ET ANECDOTIQUE DANS LE NORD ET LE SUD DES ETAS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE. Paris: A. Laplace, 1866. A revised and enlarged edition of "L'Amerique, telle qu'elle est" (Paris, 1864); Howes (C 647) identifies it as the best edition. Illustrated with 22 plates, including four in color, after drawings by Saintin, Jules Noel, Lebreton, and Foulquier, engraved by Willmann, Outhwaite, Ferdinand Delannoy, Lalaisee, and Golin. Tall octavo. 26 cm. [4],469 pp. + [2] adv. pp. Contemporary binding of red quarter morocco with gilt-stamped title and decoration, red cloth sides with frames blocked in blind, embossed endpapers, t.e.g. Contemporary label of New Orleans bookseller Herbert & Co. on front pastedown. Binding is sound but shows moderate soiling overall; and the cloth is worn along edges. Tissue guards are foxed affecting margins of plates, and occasionally an image, and facing text leaves; but the text is generally clean. A very good copy of Comettant's journey from New York City to upstate New York and Canada, down through Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Virginia, South Carolina, New orleans, up to Ohio, and back to new York City. Howes C647("best ed."), Sabin 14940. .

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Book number: 78619

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Keywords: Maps and Travel