New York: G.A. Whitehorne, Printer. Pamphlet. 1861-69. Bound volume, with printed wraps for each report. Disbound, lacking the hardcover binding that presumably once was present. Pagination varies. A collection of the first nine reports from the Artists' Fund Society of New York City, giving the names of officers, lists of..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Jetty House, 2009. First Edition. Cloth. #32 of 100 copies issued in this format. Signed by the photographer on the title page. Green cloth in unclipped jacket, in green cloth slipcase. 114 pp. Primarily a work of photography, with Paul Wainwright documenting the architecture and woodwork in the..... More
No Place: No publisher. Pamphlet. No publisher, place or date. Perhaps Boston, circa 1825. Side sewn pamphlet. No wrappers, if issued. 8 pp. A report of the actions and officers of the Massachusetts Peace Society, an antiwar organization that existed from 1815 to 1828, when it merged with the American..... More
New Bedford, MA: George R. Phillips, Publisher, 1909. Tabloid. Large tabloid format, single sheet. 2 pp. Single issue of this weekly paper devoted to the whaling industry. It was founded in 1843 and published until 1914. This issue with a list of names, masters, sailing date, and destination, along with..... More
No Place: Acushnet Historical Commission, Publisher, 1996. Wraps. Revised edition. Printed wraps with blue paper spine. 92 pp. A work transcribing inscriptions found on gravestones in the Long Plain Cemetery in Achushnet, Massachusetts. This includes descriptions of the shape of the stones, locations, size and transcriptions. Dates range from 1789..... More
Boston: Printed at the Presses of S. Hall and Thomas and Andrews, 1797. Leather. Full calf leather. Pagination runs A-QQQ 4. Only four out of seven maps called for are present, MISSING the following three maps: the map of Northern States, map of the Southern States, and the map of..... More
Montpelier, VT: Walton and Goss, Printers, 1813. Pamphlet. Pamphlet. 27 pp. An anti-France work, blaming French culture and politics for the problems of the United States, including the War of 1812. Truair saw debauchery everywhere in French thinking, especially after the French Revolution, and asserted Jefferson, Madison and others were..... More
Boston: No publisher, 1901. Cloth. Blue cloth. No jacket. Ix, 324 pp. An extensive collection of letters by James Murray, a colonist who moved to America from Scotland in 1735. He lived in both North Carolina and Boston. Remaining loyal to Britain at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Murray..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1873. Cloth. Stated fourth edition. Burgundy cloth. 422 pp. Illustrations and three fold out maps present. A history of the various early battles of the Revolutionary War, discussing somewhat briefly, the politics that led to the war, and describing the various encounters and skirmishes at..... More