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[AMERICANA]. –– [NEW ENGLAND]. A group of 39 works related ...
[AMERICANA]. –– [NEW ENGLAND]. A group of 39 works related ...
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[AMERICANA]. –– [NEW ENGLAND]. A group of 39 works related to Boston and the New England region, including: MINOT, George Richards. Continuation of the History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from the Years 1748. Boston: Manning & Loring, 1798. Volume I (of two) only, 8vo. Original paper–backed drab boards, printed spine label, uncut (spine panel and label mostly perished, hinges cracked with some separation). FIRST EDITION. The second volume wasn’t published until 1803. –– Stimpson’s Boston Directory… Boston: Charles Stimpson, 1842. 12mo. Includes 7pp. listing of “People of Color”; 16pp. ads at front. Original cloth–backed drab boards. –– WINSOR, Justin, editor. The Memorial History of Boston… Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881. 4 volumes, 4to. Numerous maps, plates, facsimiles, etc. Early half polished calf, marbled sides, raised bands gilt, morocco lettering–pieces gilt in 2 compartments, remainder tooled in gilt, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers (ex–library with hand call numbers on spines, bookplates of the North East Harbor Library, stamps on titles, some wear to extremes). FIRST EDITION. –– CONWELL, Russell H. History of the Great Fire in Boston. Boston: B.B. Russell, 1873. Small 8vo. Numerous engraved plates. Original gilt–lettered green cloth. FIRST EDITION. –– Bradford’s History “Of Plimoth Plantation”. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1898. Large 8vo. Numerous engravings. Original blue cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, OWNED BY A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF A PASSENGER ON THE MAYFLOWER (Bradford’s). A lengthy inscription on front free endpaper to Flora L. Bradford from Charles E. Hosmer? and with a Bradford Genealogy tipped in. –– SPRING, James W. Boston and the Parker House. Boston: J.R. Whipple, 1927. 8vo. Illustrated. Original blue paper over boards, photographic label on front cover. [With:] a bronze key tag from the Parker House (oxidized). –– PITMAN, Almira. After Fifty Years. Norwood: Plimpton Press, 1931. 8vo. Illustrated. Original gilt–decorated red cloth. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. –– And several others, all 8vo, condition generally very good.
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