Crawford, Mary Caroline

St. Botolph's Town: An Account of Old Boston in the Colonial Days

Boston, L.C. Page & Co. 1908. 1st printing. Hardcover. xii, 365 p. plates, ports. fold. map. 20 cm. Ex-library, Very good condition Title within ornamental border; illustrated end-papers.

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Book number: 45511

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Boston (Mass. )--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775. Americana Boston

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