Creed, Percy R., ed.

The Boston Society of Natural History, 1830-1930

Boston, Printed for the Society, 1930. 1st edition . Hardcover. 117p. illus. Printed by D.B. Updike, The Merrymount Press. Very good condition, edges lightly worn Smith 707.

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Book number: 009805

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Boston; Museums; Press Books; Ma: Boston Books About Books Merrymount Press Updike, Daniel B Natural History

Crosby, Katherine

Blue-Water Men and Other Cape Codders

New York, Macmillan, 1946. 1st printing. Hardcover. 288p. illus. Very good condition/good, The ins and outs of Cape Cod its houses its churches its people and their stories. Illus. with 17 B/W photographs.

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Book number: 004650

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana Cape Cod United States - Description & Travel Massachusetts

Crosby, Everett Uberto

The Making of Nantucket : Family Lives and Fortunes in the Nineteenth Century

New Bedford, Mass. Spinner Publications, 2018. Paperback. 250 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Fine condition Summary: "The Making of Nantucket. Family Lives and Fortunes in the Nineteenth Century, the book has as its subject the striking achievement of a small town resourceful enough to have fashioned a fortune from the sea and then, having lost it, to have been able to reinvent itself as a burgeoning summer resort. The story on the life of one of the leading local merchants who lived long enough (from 1791 to 1878) to illustrate the major changes that took place.

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Book number: 46086

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Shipowners--Massachusetts--Nantucket--Biography; Merchants--Massachusetts--Nantucket--Biography; Crosby Family

Crosby, Elisha Oscar

Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby; Reminiscences of California and Guatemala from 1849 to 1864, Edited by Charles Albro Barker

San Marino, Calif. The Huntington library, 1945. Hardcover. xxvi, 119 p. front. (port.) plates. 24 cm. Printed by Anderson & Ritchie : The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. Very good condition/good, Summary: Elisha Oscar Crosby (1818-1895), a New York lawyer, fell victim to "California fever" and sailed for the West in December 1848. In California he had a distinguished legal and political career that led to a diplomatic appointment. Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby (1945) prints handwritten reminiscences and anecdotes prepared by Crosby in his old age. Topics include: early life in New York, the voyage west via Panama, law practice in mining camps, the 1849 Constitutional Convention, and service in the state senate. Crosby also reflects on the inequities of the California Land Act of 1851 and his term as U.S. minister to Guatemala, 1861-1864.

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Book number: 42343

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Urbanization --California; Real Estate Development --California; Law --Political Aspects --California; Mines and Mineral Resources --California; California --Description and Travel; California --History --1850-1950; Guatemala --Description and Travel; War

Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)

The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend

Tuscaloosa, Univ. of Alabama Press, c1996. Hardcover. 258 p. Fine condition .

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Book number: 012344

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Legends; Folklore Sacagawea Indians of North America Lewis & Clark Expedition Shoshoni Women

Curtis, John Gould

History of the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts, by John Gould Curtis; a Memorial to Edward W. Baker; Prepared Under the Direction of the Brookline Historical Society.

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. 1933. Hardcover. xxiii, 349 p. front. plates, ports. fold. map. 23 cm. Very good condition .

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Book number: 012930

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Brookline Historical Society (Brookline, Mass. ) ; Brookline (Mass. )--History Brookline, Mass.

Curtis, Charles Pelham

An Oration, Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1823, in Commemoration of American Independence...

Boston, Joseph W. Ingraham, 1823. PAMPHLET. 34p. Ex-library, Very good condition Shoemaker .

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Book number: 32937

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Oration Fourth of July Orations

Cushing Memorial Park Commission

First Annual Report of the Cushing Memorial Park [Delafield, Wisc. ] Commission to the Department of Wisconsin G.A. R. , June 1, 1927

Madison, Conservation Commission of Wisconsin, 1927. Pamphlet. Good condition .

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Book number: 29509

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Delafield, Wisconsin Parks

Dahlinger, Charles W.

Pittsburgh : A Sketch of Its Early Social Life

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Hardcover. 216p.. Very good condition, small nick on spine Inscribed by the author to F. W. Anistutz.

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Book number: 38117

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Pennsylvania Pittsburgh

Dallas, Sandra

No More Than Five in a Bed : Colorado Hotels in the Old Days

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, c1967. Hardcover. 208p. Very good condition/good.

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Book number: 34484

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Colorado Hotels

Dalzell, Robert F.

Daniel Webster and the Trial of American Nationalism, 1843-1852 [by] Robert F. Dalzell, Jr

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. xv, 363 p. port. 24 cm. Very good condition/good.

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Book number: 40017

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Webster, Daniel United States - Politics & Government

Dame, Lawrence

New England Comes Back. With an Introduction by Stewart H. Holbrook

New York, Random House, c1940. First printing. Hardcover. 319p. illus. Very good condition, spine faded .

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Book number: 38700

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: New England

Damrell & Moore, and George Coolidge.

The Boston Almanac for the Year 1857. Number XXII.

Boston, John P. Jewett & Co. c1852. Hardcover. 208+ p. illus. fold. map. Very good condition Brief manuscript annotations of daily weather conditions.

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Book number: 30113

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Boston, Massachusetts Almanacs

Daniels, Bruce Colin

Puritans at Play : Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England

New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 1996. Paperback. xiv, 271 p. Very good condition .

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Book number: 45569

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Puritans--Recreation--New England--History--17th Century; Puritans--Recreation--New England--History--18th Century; Leisure--New England--History

Davenport, J. W.

Cape Cod Locater

Madison, Wisc. 1987. First edition. Hardcover. 128p. illus.. Very good condition/good.

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Book number: 42991

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Cape Cod, Mass.