Boston: Hurd and Houghton, 1873. Cloth. Green cloth. 182 pages. Illustrated. Includes two fold-out maps, missing map facing page 27. A somewhat informal, although detailed, history of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine, spanning from their discovery and use as fishing islands in colonial..... More
No Place: No Publisher, 1966. Wraps. Printed wraps. 128 pp. Single issue of this journal, with this number focusing on the military in Africa, including articles such as: the future of the military in Ghana; from Mau Mau to missiles; and a look at civil rights in the United States..... More
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1961. Cloth. Revised edition. Red cloth in dust jacket. 247 pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. A history of the various Native American tribes that lived in the region of present day Massachusetts (and elsewhere in present day New England). The author compiled information from early colonial..... More
New York: Henry C. Bowen, Publisher, 1883. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid journal. 32 pp. Disbound from a larger work. The Independent was a long running newspaper that promoted Congregationalism and advocated for abolition and women's suffrage, among other social issues. This issue contains a reply to some previous commentary by..... More
Paris: Librairie Patriotique. Wraps. circa 1883. Printed wraps. 24 pp. Illustrated frontispiece reproducing the painting La Mort De Bara. All text in French. A short work giving a biography, history and discussion of the legends surrounding Joseph Bara, who served as a French republican drummer boy in the French Revolution..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. Black and white illustrations throughout. Single issue of this magazine, including a lengthy article chronicling the travels of Edwin Lord Weeks from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. Done by caravan, this issue recalls his journey from Tabreez to Ispahan;..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers. 1885. Half Leather. Half leather with brown cloth. 984 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bound volume collecting six months worth of issues. Included is the poem "Of That Blithe Throat of Thine," by Walt Whitman; "Farmer Finch," by Sarah Orne Jewett; passages from the..... More
Fitchburg, MA: Printed Reveille Office, 1852. Cloth. Purple cloth. 263 pp. A history of the founding and growth of Leominster, Massachusetts. GOOD condition. General fading, heavy to spine. Minor soiling and scuffing. Three small divots/scuffs to the cloth on the front cover. Minor edgewear. Scattered foxing in the interior. More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1893. Wraps. Illustrated wraps. Black and white illustrations throughout. Single issue of this magazine, including a lengthy article chronicling the travels of Edwin Lord Weeks from the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf. Done by caravan, this issue recalls his journey from Trebizond to Tabreez;..... More
New York: Frank Leslie, Publisher, 1865. Tabloid. Side folding tabloid journal format. Folio. Black and white illustrations throughout. Single issue of this general interest magazine, with this containing a cover story of the Atlantic (transatlantic) telegraph cable and the news of it nearing completion. This includes several illustrations of locales..... More