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Books in the Massachusetts Aisle
Total Matching Books: 8, Displaying 1 - 8.
Paul Revere's Boston: 1735-1818.
 [106756] (BOSTON - 18TH CENTURY) Walter Muir Whitehill.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1975. 234 pages. Oversized. Softbound, stiff paper covers. In very good condition. Clean attractive copy. Illustrated with photos and drawings, some in color from the exhibition. Furniture, art, silver, paintings, paper ephemera and other fascinating items from this exhibit presented and discussed. Many beautiful examples of decorative arts within. $25
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 Amy Lydia Boyden, Kate Whitney Boyden, Anna Fry Hall, Augusta Ann Stevenson. [Cover title]
[141183] (MASSACHUSETTS & NEW HAMPSHIRE) [Various] .
[N.p.]: [s.n.], [n.d. ca. 1824]. Octavo, 42 pages. First Edition? Bound in blue gilt-stamped cloth. With numerous full-page portraits or illustrations from photographs. A very good copy, light internal spotting from age, mild rubbing to spine's cloth. Various memorial tributes to these four women who all died in the years 1923 and 1924 and who had connections to family or spouses in Beverley, Massachusetts or Tamworth, New Hampshire: Amy Lydia Hoag Boyden, (1835-1924) Kate Whitney Boyden, (1864-1924.) Anna Fry Hoag Hall, (1831-1920) and Augusta Ann Stevenson, (1829-1923.) Almost all of the memorials within are signed in pencil beneath the printed initials of their contributors. (For instance a poem signed in type as R.W.B. is signed underneath as Robert W. Boyden. It is presumed, but not certain, that these are all the individual holographs of these individual contributors.) $45
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Parchment Notes. [cover title]
[141210] (MASSACHUSETTS - 19th c. ADVERTISING) [J.S. Marsh & Son] .
[N.p.]: [s.n.], [late 19th c.]. [3] ff. A woman's 4¼ x 2¾ inch cloth-bound book slate. Beveled edges and decorated cloth binding; mounted color lithograph of a fashionable young lady to upper cover, orig. slate pencil present. In near fine condition, a lovely example. This item was an advertising giveaway for J.S. Marsh and Son who were grocer merchants in Springfield, Massachusetts. $75
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 Dedication of the Armory of the Lynn Light Infantry, Thursday, October 28, 1869.
[141349] (MASSACHUSETTS - LYNN LIGT INFANTRY) [Anon.].
[N.p.]: Thomas P. Nichols, Printer, [1869?]. Small broadside, 9¾ x 4¾ inches. With ornamental type border. Normal folds, one short closed tear, very good example. A celebratory item for the dedication of the armory of the Lynn Light Infantry, presumably from Lynn, Massachusetts. A voluntary was played by the Germania Band followed by a hymn by S.E. Ireson whose lyrics are printed five four-line stanzas. This was followed by a prayer by Reverend T.E. Vassar and then a patriotic, pro-Union “Original Hymn” with four stanzas in four lines. A dedicatory address by the Honorable R.G. Usher was followed by Keller's “American Hymn” as the finale. $85
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Family Record. Capt. Simeon Long was born September 19th, 1760, and died June 10, 1848 ... [First lines of printed broadside]
[141229] (MASSACHUSETTS - NANTUCKET) [Long Crosby Steele Families].
[N.p., Nantucket ?]: [s.n.], [n.d. ca. 1848?]. Broadside, approx. 10 x 8 inches, with repeating ornamental border motif. Staining, folds and creases, short tears, two tape mend shadows to verso. An unusual item. Most genealogical family registers were usually kept by manuscript in the family bible. The Long family, however, were apparently affluent enough to have theirs printed, perhaps to be laid into their family bible and those of their kith and kin. This item appears to document three women married to Simeon Long throughout his life and their children. One sees Captain Simeon Long and Jane Crowell and their progeny; followed by the name Simeon Long and Catherine M. Crosby and children; and, lastly, Simeon Long and Chloe Steele and children. $100
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Whereas I am the Proprietor of Hale's Patent for his newly invented Spring Baggage Rack and Driver's Seat, and also of Draper's Patent for his newly invented Baggage Rack and Mail Box… [first lines]
[142143] (MASSACHUSETTS - STAGE COACHES - INVENTORS) [Nathaniel Knapp?].
: , . [N.p. internal date suggests 1817.] Single sheet, letterpress form, approx. seventeen lines of modestly-varied type. Light spotting, else fine condition. Not on OCLC, nor in Shaw and Shoemaker. Hurd, A partly-printed form (never completed save for Nathaniel Knapp's autograph) intended to reward patent rights for two inventions concerning the improvements of stage coaches and carriages. The form notes that a numbered plate shall always be attached to some part of the carriage utilizing this invention, and that corresponding paperwork could be demanded by the Proprietor or his attorney when called for. “Hale's Patent” likely refers to Benjamin Hale of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was a pioneer in stage coaches and stage routes, most notably between Boston and Portsmouth. Hurd (p. lxvi) states: “Many improvements of stage springs are accredited to him, as well as the introduction of the trunk-rack, by which means the passenger's luggage was employed to ballast the coach, whereas formerly it had rested, a dead weight, on the axles…” “History of Essex County, Massachusetts,” (Lewis & Co., 1887.) $150
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 Senatus Academicus [1814 Diploma for Williams College, Massachusetts.]
[140814] (MASSACHUSETTS - WILLIAMS COLLEGE) Hutchens Taylor .
: , . [1814 Diploma for Williams College, Massachusetts.] 9¾ x 12 inches and printed on thin parchment. Normal folds, foxing, very good condition. A light blue silk ribbon with the college's wax and embossed paper seal is cleverly slotted through the bottom of the document. An early American 1814 partly-printed college diploma for a baccalaureate degree awarded to Hutchens Taylor, printed in Latin. Signed by college President, Ebeneezer Fitch and Daniel Noble. Rev. Ebeneezer Fitch, Yale graduate, was the school's preceptor upon its opening in 1791 and the college's first president. David Noble was also an original trustee of the college. An 1818 commencement announcement records Taylor receiving his degree of Master of Arts, four years later in 1818. Williams College is a liberal arts college in Western Massachusetts. Amherst became its arch rival when alumni from Williams left to form Amherst. [Egleston, “Williamstown and Williams College,” pages. 24-28.] $350
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1820 autograph letter signed from Jairus Ware as judge in Wrentham, Massachusetts writing to the Overseers of the Poor in Pembroke.
[141321] (MASSACHUSETTS - WRENTHAM) Jairus Ware.
: , . ALS. 1 p. 7½ x 6 inches. July 13th, 1820. Wrentham, Massachusetts. Integral address panel has separated along fold line, red wax seal removed, good condition. An autograph letter signed from Jairus Ware as judge in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Ware writes to the Overseers of the Poor in Pembroke to tell them that: “John Hayford a pauper of your town has again fallen into distress here, and we have been applied to for relief. You are therefore requested to remove him...” Ware goes on to add that the town of Wrentham has also paid for medical expenses for Hayford's care. $50
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