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Chronicles Of the First Planters Of the Colony Of Massachusetts Bay From 1623 To 1636
by Alexander Young
Historical Sketch Of Copp's Hill Burying Ground, With Inscriptions and Quaint Epitaphs
by John Norton
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Lost Boston
by Kay, Jane Holtz
LOST BOSTON is a visual feast, a stunning presentation of a city's physical development, and an eloquent appeal for the preservation of what makes the city special. Bringing history to life with more than 350 photographs and prints, Jane Holtz Kay traces Boston's evolution brick by brick and block by block, creating what THE WASHINGTON POST hailed as "an elegant architectural history, excellently illustrated."
1982 Guide to Rhode Island: The biggest little state in the union
by Rhode Island Department of Economic Development
Providence: State of Rhode Island Department of Economic Development, 1982. Softcover. Near Fine.. Slim staple-bound, 9" x 4." 48 pp. Color cover. Calendar of events, points of interests, where to stay, etc.
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CA$20.76
Veduta di Boston
by FERRARIO, Giulio
Milan. Batelli. Aquatint with hand-coloring. Image measures 6.25" x 9".<br/><br/> This lovely aquatint shows a view of the Boston Common from Cambridge across the Charles River. A large building flying an American Flag sits in the foreground with the city behind it, an expanse of water and a few small boats between them. The Boston Commons and State House can be identified in the cityscape. In addition, numerous church steeples rise from the clustered building into the hazy yellow...
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Description of the Grand Historical Picture of Belshazzar's Feast Painted by Washington Allston, and now Exhibiting at the Corinthian Gallery, Federal Street
by [Corinthian Gallery]; [Washington Allston (1779-1843)]]
Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1844. Fifth Edition. 8pp. 8vo. Removed; without wrappers. Scattered foxing; Very Good. Description of American painter Washington Allston's masterpiece, Belshazzar's Feast, a monumental 12 x 16-foot historical painting begun in 1817 and left unfinished at his death in 1843. The painting was posthumously exhibited at Boston's Corinthian Gallery. The description is accompanied by the complete Biblical text that inspired the painting (Daniel 5: 1-31) and an account of the...
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The Common Trust Fund..what it is, and how it can help you and your family
by The National Shawmut Bank of Boston
Boston: The National Shawmut Bank of Boston, 1954. Softcover. Very Good with light handling and wear.. 8vo., 12 pp. staple-bound in duo tone wrappers, with pocket folder in rear. Black and white illustrations. With promotional newspaper and list of bank branches laid in.
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CA$27.68
John F. Kennedy: From Childhood to Martyrdom
by United press International and Chase Studios, Ltd
Washington, D.C.: Tatler, 1963. Softcover. Near Fine in pictorial wraps. 4to. 102 pp. Black and white photos throughout.
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CA$48.43
![More Blunders than One. A Farce.--In one Act [Series title: "Spencer's Boston Theatre."]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/272/613/1405613272.0.b.jpg)
More Blunders than One. A Farce.--In one Act [Series title: "Spencer's Boston Theatre."]
by Thomas G. Rodwell, Esq. [James Thomas Gooderham Rodwell (d.1825)]
Boston: William V. Spencer, 1855. vi, [7]-33, [3]pp. 7½ x 4 inches. Illustrated front wrap; gathered and stitched. Lacks rear wrap, rubbed, worn; large paper losses at upper corner of final two leaves, but only affecting six total lines of text; else Fair. Playscript for a farce first produced at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1825. Also known as More Blunders Than One, Or, the Irish Valet, the play was published as the tenth title in the series, "Spencer's Boston Theatre," co-published by William V....
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GCN Gay Community News,Ê The Gay Weekly; Vol. 4., No. 17, October 23, 1976: An Analysis of the Movement
by Lyn Rose, Managing Editor
Boston: Gay Community News, 1976. Softcover. Very Good in lightly age-toned newsprint.. 16" x 11" tabloid newspaper folded in half. Newsprint. With black and white photos and ads throughout. Contains columns, features, reports, resources, events, entertainment and ads. Lightly-toned newsprint. The GCN began as a weekly newsletter for the Boston. MAÊ area but expanded fairly quickly into a national tabloid and had sister publications in Hawaii and Australia/New Zealand.
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1970 Guide to Massachusetts Museums
by Francis W. Sargeant, Governor
Boston: Massachusetts Department of Commerce and Development, 1970. Softcover. Very Good with light pencil name on cover and first page and some soiling and wear along the spine.. Slim perfect bound, 9" x 4." 120 pp. Glossy color cover. Guide and directory to museumsÊ and historic houses and buildings in the commonwealth.
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Boston: Portrait of a City
by Walter Muir Whitehill
Barre, , 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Poor. Illustrator: Katharine Knowles. Book Profusely illustrated with b/w photos 2nd Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 112 pages. Item Type: Book. Clean and bright pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Glassene wrapper is torn and with some loss. No inscriptions. Illustrator: Katharine Knowles. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Travel & Places; ; . Please contact H4o Books if you...
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![A Grouping of Twenty-One [21] C1970s-1990s 1980s Massachusetts Promotional Tourism Brochures](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/796/978/1568978796.0.b.jpg){kind=small}
A Grouping of Twenty-One [21] C1970s-1990s 1980s Massachusetts Promotional Tourism Brochures
by Various
Various: Various, 1990. Softcover. Generally Very Good to Near FineÊ with some light handling and soiling. Mixed grouping of Massachusetts tourist brochures containing the following: Cape Anne Whale Watch; Logan Airport Simplified; Boston Passport to Public Art; Old Sturbridge Village; Yankee Fleet Whale Watch; The Museums of Boston; The Concord Guide-Map; Worcester Art Museum Guide; Fisheries and Maritime Collections/Cape Ann Historical Association; Facts About Massachusetts; Streets and Homes in Old...
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Frommer's Boston `97
by Morris, Marie
Frommer, 1997-01-01. Paperback, Trade. Fine. Frommer's Boston 0 Paperback, Trade - Seems unopened
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Account of the Poor Fund and Other Charities Held in Trust by the Old South Society, City of Boston
by Joseph Ballard
Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1868. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. With Copies of Original Papers Relative to the Charities and to the Late Trial Before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts in 1867. Front gutter cracked and with institutional book plate on the front paste down. General overall wear commensurate with this unusual Civil War-era volume.
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Boston Statues
by Walter Muir Whitehall; Photographs by Katharine Knowles
Barre: Barre, 1970. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket.. 4to., 120 pp. Dust jacket and initial sales price intact [$10.00]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs by Katharine Knowles. Unmarked pages. This work has been reissued many times in many formats.
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Boston After the Great Fire
by HARPER'S WEEKLY
New York: Harper's Weekly, 1872. unbound. Woodcut. Image measures 22 3/4 x 33 inches.<br/> <br/> This engraved view of Boston after the Great Fire of 1872 was published nationally in the December 14, 1872 issue of Harper's Weekly. The fire, which destroyed about 65 acres of downtown Boston, was the worst in the city history. Steamboats in the foreground hose down the burnt wharfs. Behind the harbor, the burnt downtown spreads out before the viewer as a mass of charred remains. To the...
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A New & Complete Map of the City of Boston ; New and complete map of the city of Boston; E.P. Dutton & Co.'s map of Boston; with part of Charlestown, Cambridge, Brookline, Dorchester &c
by DUTTON, E. P
Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1868. Map. Lithograph with hand coloring. Measures 24 1/4 x 21 3/4 ". Original brown buckram case with gold title, publisher notes printed inside yellow paste down. Cover not attached. Some wear along original folds, with some loss to border upper right, otherwise in good condition. 1868.<br/> <br/> Scarce case map of Boston and surround with relief shown by hachures. Horse railroads noted. Published at the Boston Map Store with original booklet attached....
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Boston Business Map Compliments of Eastern Airlines
by Eastern Airlines
Boston: Eastern Airlines, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. 6" x 4" folding out to 16" x 24." Two-sided with map of Boston streets on one side and a regional map with locations and index of all hotels, high tech companies, etc. With Index and black and white and color ads.
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Carte de la Baye de Baston Situee dans la Nouvelle Angleterre
by BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas
Paris: Jacques Nicolas Bellin, 1764. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Page measures 12 1/2" x 9 3/8". Image measures 9"x 7".<br/><br/> Charming early chart of Boston Harbor. Shows depths and sandbars. Very good condition. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), was the official hydrographer to the French king and the first person to hold the title of "Ingénieur de la Marine of the Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine" (chief engineer of the...
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![A Grouping of Eleven [11] C1970s-1980s Specialty and Road Maps of Boston and Massachusetts](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/978/1568978794.0.b.jpg){kind=small}
A Grouping of Eleven [11] C1970s-1980s Specialty and Road Maps of Boston and Massachusetts
by Various
Boston: National Park Service, Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Management, US Trust, Mobil, Shell,Ê Massachusetts Department of Transportation and theÊ Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1990. Softcover. Very Good with some light handling and wear. Mixed grouping of eight [8] Boston, Boston Metro Area and Massachusetts maps: Greater Boston Street Map [C1990], Official Transportation Map [1975-1976], National Park Service Boston [2], Massachusetts Forests and Parks [C1990], Eastern Massachusetts and...
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A chart exhibiting the normal course & velocity of the tidal current at ebb in Boston Harbor
by BACHE, A.D. & U.S. COAST SURVEY
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1851. unbound. Sea chart. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 7.5 x 9 inches.<br/> <br/> This fantastically detailed sea chart issued by the United States Coast Survey in 1851 beautifully depicts the Boston Harbor and tidal currents. It extends as far north as Nahant, as far south as Petticks Island, to Hull, and as far west as Boston.The map is in good condition, with minor toning.<br> <br> Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) was an...
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![[Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique Fittings. Supplementary Catalog](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/527/490/1468490527.0.b.jpg)
[Trade Catalogs:] Reproductions of Antique Fittings [and] Reproductions of Antique Fittings. Supplementary Catalog
by [Israel Sack]
Boston: I. Sack, c. 1930s. Two trade catalogs, 40pp and 16pp, with price lists. Very good. American antiques dealer Israel Sack, Inc. was founded in Boston in 1903 as a furniture repair business. As their antiques business thrived, they started to sell reproductions of antique fittings and hardware used to restore (or authentically reproduce) period furniture. The catalogs illustrated metal drawer pulls, escutcheons, hinges, door locks, door knockers, ornaments, and castors; wooden finials and pendants;...
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New England Under Water
by Boston Post Staff Photographers
Boston: Rand Avery Supply Co. with the co-operation of the Boston Post, 1936. Softcover. Near fine in unlaminated salmon wraps. 8vo 7" x 9" tall [oblong]. A collection of 86 black & white photographs documenting the 1936 floods in New England. The Flood of 1936 affected a large portion of the Eastern United States in March of that year when two weeks of extremely heavy rains burst dams and washed away homes and businesses. Overall the book is in very good condition. Uncommon.
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CA$103.78
1838 Letter of Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring to Connecticut shipowner Charles P. Williams regarding a legal case to be argued before Joseph Story, Circuit Justice and U.S. Supreme Court Justice
by C. G. Loring [Charles Greely Loring (1794-1867)]; [Charles P. Williams (1804-1879)]; [U. S. Associate Justice Joseph Story]
Boston [Massachusetts], J[an]u[a]ry 9, 1838. [3]pp. Autograph Letter Signed. 9½ x 7¾ inches. Bifolium with integral address leaf and remnant of red wax seal; postal cancelation stamped in red; pale blue wove paper with countermark of "J. Green & Son 1836." Folds; very good. 1838 letter from Boston lawyer Charles G. Loring (1794-1867) to his client, Stonington, Connecticut shipowner and businessman Charles P. Williams concerning the legal matter of Charles P. Williams v. The Suffolk Insurance Company...
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The Lexington-Concord Battle Road. Hour-by-Hour Account of Events Preceding and on the History-Making Day April 19, 1775
Concord: Concord Chamber of Commerce, 1975. Softcover. Near Fine in pictorial wraps. Octavo. 40 pp. With b&w illustrations and maps.
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Boston Saxophone Orchestra. Abdon Laus, Director using Buescher True Tone Saxophones
by [Boston Saxophone Orchestra]
[Likely Boston. After 1924.] Photograph, tinted. 14½ x 19¾ inches. Unique? An outstanding example in fine condition. Excellent circa 1920s photograph of the Boston Symphony Orchestra advertising Buescher True Tone Saxophones: "In late 1924, the first bassoonist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Abdon Laus, who performed the saxophone solos in the BSO's concerts when required, began to put together the Boston Saxophone Orchestra, drawn from professional and good amateur players in the city [...] [T]he...
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The Bean & The Scene Drawings of Boston and Cambridge by Barbara Westman
by Westman, Barbara
Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers. 1969. Oblong Quarto Size [approx 30.5cm. x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Edgewear to Dustjacket with some chipping to spine ends and corners and age-toning to edges. Wonderful colour illustrations by Barbara Westman. Inscribed to Don Dunstan, previous Premier of South Australia by a Boston resident. Introduction by Herbert A. Kenny. 35 pages. A charming look at Boston, Cambridge...
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