FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
Boston: 1846. Original printed wraps, stitched, 32pp. Wraps with several chips. Rubberstamps and perforation stamp. Else a clean text. Good+. LCP 6524. More
Boston: 1846. Original printed wraps, stitched, 32pp. Wraps with several chips. Rubberstamps and perforation stamp. Else a clean text. Good+. LCP 6524. More
Boston: 1857. Original printed wraps [loose, lightly dusted], stitched. 27, [1]. 24 pp. Light wear, couple of rubberstamps. Good+. LCP 6534. More
Boston: 1851. Original printed wraps, stitched, 40pp. Light wear, couple of rubberstamps, else Very Good. Not in LCP. More
[Barnstable]: Printed at the Office of the Barnstable Patriot, [1847]. Folio, 8pp. Uncut, folded, with caption title as issued. Generously margined, margin spotting, Very Good. The Committee charges that Massachusetts Whigs, like their despised Federalist ancestors who opposed the War of 1812, disgracefully refuse to support the United States in..... More
[Worcester? 1850?]. 7, [1 blank] pp. Stitched, untrimmed, generously margined. Printed in double columns. Small burn mark on pages 5-7 costing several letters. Good+. The State Central Committee adopts Calhoun's Compact Theory of the Union, i.e., that each State constitutes a separate sovereignty bound to the others by a solemn..... More
[c.1818]. Single sheet of watermarked paper folded to 8" x 9.75". [3], [1 blank] pp, folded. Light chipping to outer edges, a few short splits at folds, a few very small holes along center fold. Good+. This Circular reprints Belknap's 1794 Address to the American "Gentlemen of Science" describing the..... More
Boston: Nathaniel Willis, 1781. Folio. 53, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, untrimmed, occasional fox mark; small holes at leaf 23-24 affect several letters. Good+. The Resolves focus on many Revolutionary war matters: Resolve on the petition of Col. Josiah Brewer, and of Orana and other chiefs of the Penobscot tribe that..... More
Elephant folio printed broadsheet, completed in neat ink manuscript and signed by Captain Charles N. Hunt and Captain George Nelson. Old folds, several fold splits repaired, minor loss. Else Very Good. The 39th Regiment Massachusetts Infantry was organized at Camp Stanton in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, August 13 through September 2, 1862..... More
[Boston? 1854]. Broadside, 8.5" x 14", printed in three columns on blue paper. Old folds, a few very short fold splits [no text loss], light wear. Very Good. This broadside lists the names and townships of the members of the Massachusetts legislature, numbered through 425... More
Boston: Printed by Phelps and Farnham, 1824. 16pp. Untrimmed, stitched, spine reinforced with tape. Tanned, dampstain running through first three leaves, scattered spotting, rubberstamps and blindstamp on title page and its verso. Good. AI 16474 [many locations]. OCLC records copies with two leaves of plates, not present here. More
[Winchendon, Mass.? 1848]. Broadside, 8" x 10", printed on blue paper in different typesettings, blanks completed in manuscript. Two horizontal folds with light wear at either end, light tanning at edges and along folds. Signed in ink by Sidney Fairbank. At bottom of return is a chart showing a total..... More
Boston: 1862. 16pp, stitched, outer leaves lightly dustsoiled, front and rare leaves loose. Good+. A scarce 1862 campaign pamphlet. "These articles discuss the political situation in the United States in " NUC. Andrew, Bancroft, and Sumner are staunchly anti-slavery and for prosecution of the War until total victory is won..... More
Boston: Eastburn's Press, [1841]. Broadside, 13-3/4" x 22". Printed in three columns separated by rules. Signed at the end in type by Thos. Kinnicutt and 39 others [including Edw. Dickinson, father of Emily Dickinson]. Mild spotting, Very Good. This rare Massachusetts broadside endorses the Whig program and its candidates for..... More
Boston: Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1781. Folio. 49, [1 blank] pp. Light tanning, untrimmed, stitched [loosened], Near Fine. The Acts are a compilation of statutes passed at the October 1780 Session, with much Revolutionary War content, including organization of the militia, definitions of treason, and estates of British loyalists. Evans..... More
[Boston, N.E. Printed by S. Kneeland, 1760]. Folio. Pages 449-455, [1 blank]. Imprint at colophon. Untrimmed, mild wear, Very Good. Bound in later buckram with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. The Assembly passed an Act to rebuild Boston after part of the Town "was lately consumed by Fire," and several other..... More
[Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1752]. Folio. Caption title, as issued. Pages 425-426. Imprint at colophon. A couple of light rubberstamps. Evans 6876. ESTC W14639 [4 locations]. [bound with] ACTS AND LAWS... AT THE PARLIAMENT BEGUN AND HOLDEN AT WESTMINSTER, THE TENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, ANNO DOM. 1747... [Boston..... More
Boston: 1865. 1099, 80 pp. Lacks the title page, else a complete record of Massachusetts in the Civil War through most of 1864. A few leaves with some margin crimping. Good+. More
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1805. 119, [1 blank] pp. Bound in quarter sheep and paper-covered wooden boards [front inner hinge cracked]. Some toning, Very Good. More
Boston: William White, Printer, 1857. 30pp, stitched in original printed and decorated wraps [margin tear to front wrap, closed tear to rear wrap]. Embossed library stamp to title, Good or so. Officers, Members, and Committees; General Arrangements; Schedule of Premiums. Sabin 45824 [first edition]. Not in Eberstadt, Decker. More
[Boston? 1850]. 24pp, spine reinforced. Caption title [as issued]. Faded rubberstamp in a blank margin, Very Good. Massachusetts weighs in on slavery in the Territories, the Compromise of 1850, and other matters relating to "the unhappy fact of slavery." Condemning slavery, expressing distress that some Americans defend it as a...... More
[Boston? 1839]. 4pp, folded. Caption title [as issued]. Two holes in left blank margin from previous stitching. Light scattered foxing. Good+. The Resolves assert the duty of Massachusetts to protect its Negro citizens who are imprisoned as suspected slaves when traveling South. Such incidents were not unusual when ships docked..... More
AN ACT PASSED BY THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT OR ASSEMBLY OF HIS MAJESTY'S PROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS-BAY IN NEW ENGLAND... AN ACT FOR ALTERING THE TIMES FOR HOLDING THE COURTS OF GENERAL SESSIONS. Boston: S. Kneeland. 1758. Folio. Pages 495-[496], with caption title, as issued. Evans 8178. NAIP w014797..... More
Boston: J.H. Buford's Lith. 1853. Six leaves, each 26" x 14 1/2", folded into a cloth-backed case [marbled paper over boards] with printed label on front cover. A few short breaks at folds, old institutional stamp on front pastedown of the case. Else Near Fine. Each leaf shows two measured..... More
1849. Boston, George C. Rand & Co., Printers. 1849. 74, [2] pp. Stitched. Wrapper title [as issued], with presentation signature of "J.G. Carter." Some wrapper wear, text clean and Very Good. Choate's Address deals at length, with much learned precedent, on the power of the legislature to remove judicial officers..... More
[Boston: 1757?]. Broadside, 7-1/2" x 12-1/2." With seal [which obscures a few letters at the top]. Printed tax assessment instructions, completed in manuscript, ordering Gray to levy upon Joseph Power, the Constable of Greenwich, the amount of 7 pounds, 3 shillings, and two pence, which he was required to collect..... More