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MASSACHUSETTS] Massachusetts on the Sea : 1630-1930. Limited Edition
Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, Boston, 1930,
[MASSACHUSETTS]. Massachusetts on the Sea : 1630-1930. Compiled by Marine Committee. (Boston): Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, MCMXXX. Pp. 32 + 15 leaves of plates. 4to, sail cloth spine with illustrated blue paper covered boards. This is No. 3313 of a Limited Edition authorized bythe Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A brief look at three hundred years of Massachusetts men and women on the sea. Top edge bumped, minor edgewear, else vg. 40.00
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A Member of the Massachusetts Bar) McGEE, Thomas D'Arcy) Mysteries of Crime, as shown in Remarkable Capital Trials
Samuel Walker and Company, Boston, 1870,
(A Member of the Massachusetts Bar). Mysteries of Crime, as shown in Remarkable Capital Trials . By a member of the Massachusetts Bar. Boston: Samuel Walker and Company, 1870. Pp. (2),[1]-432,(2), frontis., + 5 p. of plates. Illustrated. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt device to front and spine. Contents: 1. Mystery of the Medical College: Trial of John W. Webster, 2. The Priestly Murderer, 3. Murder of Ellen Jewett: Trial of Richard P. Robinson, 4. The Unknown Assassin, 5. Henry G. Green, the Murderer of His Bridge, 6. AnnaSchonleben, the Poisoner, 7. Albert J. Tirrell, charged with the Murder of Maria Ann Bickford, 8. The Murder of Captain Joseph White, 9. William Jone s, a criminal too good to be a Murderer, 10. Rev. Ephraim K. Avery, for theMurder of Sarah M. Cornell, 11. Abraham Thornton: A Mystery of Ancient Eng lish Law, 12. Poising of William Chapman, 13. The Case of William Corder: Unavailing Deception, 14. George C. Hersey, the Poisoner, 15. Sawney Cunningham: A wicked career, 16. Moses Chapman Elliot, 17. Assassination of ThomasD. McGee (prominent early Canadian politician), 18. The Wilson and Thorn C ase, 19. The Kleinschrot Family, the Parricides of the Black Mill, 20. Murder of Edward Mathews: A Physican's Victim, 21. George Rauschmair: The Telltale Ring, 22. Caspar Frisch, the Murderer from Vanity, 23. Stephen and Jesse Boorn: Victims of Circumstantial Evidence, 24. Thomas Harris, 25. John Jennings, 26. William Shaw, 27. James Crow, 28. A Narrow Escape, 29. JonathanBradford. Some edgewear, faint stain to p. 7, inner hinges cracked, pp. 19 5-214 nearly loose, else vg. 40.00
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MASSACHUSETTS LAW] SACCO, Nicola) VANZETTI, Bartolomeo) Record of a Public Hearing Before Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts Legislature on the Resolution of Representative Alexander J. Cella Recommending a Posthumous Pardon for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti . errata slip.
Committee for the Vindication of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1959,
[MASSACHUSETTS LAW]. Record of a Public Hearing Before Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts Legislature on the Resolution of Representative Alexander J. Cella Recommending a Posthumous Pardon for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti ; Gardner Auditorium, Massachusetts State House, Boston, April 2, 1959 . [Boston]: Committee for the Vindication of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1959. Pp. 168. Large 8vo, blue printed card covers. The report of a hearing into the 1921 murder convictions of suspected anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the efforts made to pardon the two men posthumously. Covers browned, detached at front hinge, else vg. Errata slip tipped to second leaf. 30.00
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Falmouth, Massachusetts Residential Falmouth ..... Homes, New and Old.
Falmouth Board of Industry, Falmouth-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, 1897,
(Falmouth, Massachusetts). Residential Falmouth ..... Homes, New and Old. Falmouth-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts : (Board of Industry, 1897). Pp [1]-96. Illustrated. 8vo, grey cloth, gilt lettering and red native scene to front board, blind stamped crest to rear board. Includes a number of nautical scenes : Quissett Harbor; The Quissetta; Boat-House of H.E. Hibbard; Panoramic View of “The Anchorage”; On the Rocks, off Nobska; The Ashumet; Steam YachtNashawena – Flagship of the Mass. Yacht Club; On a Furlough [docked ship]; The Ruth Cleveland; The Commodore Morris (Whale Ship), and the Famous Capt ains who sailed in her. Covers badly waterstained and waterstain to bottom edge (resulting in last two leaves being stuck together), front hinge broken, a couple of short tears, else good only. As is. 50.00
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Colonial Society of Massachusetts) SMITH, Philip Chadwick Foster. BAKER, William Avery. RILEY, Stephen T. Seafaring in Colonial Massachusetts. in dj.
Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980,
(Colonial Society of Massachusetts). Seafaring in Colonial Massachusetts : A Conference Held by The Colonial Society of Massachusetts November 21 and 22, 1975. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980. Pp 240, frontis., [56] pp plates. 8vo, blue cloth. Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 52. Contents include: "Vessel Types of Colonial Massachusetts" by William Avery Baker; "Abraham Browne's Captivity by the Barbary Pirates, 1655" by Stephen T. Riley; "Guarding the New England Coast: The Naval Career of Cyprian Southack" by Sinclair Hitchings; "The Colonial Charting of the Massachusetts Coast" by William P. Cumming; "The Atlantic Neptune" by Augustus P. Loring; "The Price and Profits of Accomodation: Massachusetts-Louisbourg Trade 1713-1744" by Donald F. Chard; "The Whale Oil Trade, 1750-1775" by Richard C. Kugler; "King George, The Massachusetts Province Ship, 1757-1763: A Survey" by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith; "Smuggling, the Navy, and the Customs Service, 1763-1772" by Joseph R. Frese, S.J. Vg in dj. 60.00
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Manuscript Notebook - Massachusetts Untitled manuscript notebook (diary), probably from Massachusetts, dated 1847
1847,
(Manuscript Notebook). An untitled manuscript notebook (diary), probably from Massachusetts, dated 1847. Pp (16). Small 8vo, blue stitched wrappers. One end contains 2 pages of Sermon titles from January to August 1847, the remainder is a diary, whose first entries are : “April 29 1847. In the afterwe were visited with a dreadful storm. First distant thunder, then a very unusual darkness of an olive green hue, next a tremendous blast of wind, snow, rain, thunder & lightning, which did much damage to barns and outhousesetc, no lives lost. It lasted about 10 minutes. May 25 1847. Took passage the Schooner (illegible) from Bridgeport, for Salem, anchored at the mouth of Por. River & lay all night [...]” . Covers browned and creased, else good. 80.00
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Milton Academy - Massachusetts] Visions and Revisions : A Pictorial History of Milton Academy, On Occasion of the School's Bicentennial. in dj.
Trustees of Milton Academy, Milton, MA, 1995,
[Milton Academy - Massachusetts]. Visions and Revisions : A Pictorial History of Milton Academy, On Occasion of the School's Bicentennial . Milton, MA: (Trustees of Milton Academy, 1995). Pp. [i]-xii,1-147,(1). Illustrated. 4to, blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Vg in dj. 25.00
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Westford, Massachusetts Westford .... 250 Years.
Westford 250th Anniversary Committee, Westford, 1979,
(Westford, Massachusetts). Westford ….... 250 Years. (Westford) : Publishedby the 250th Anniversary Committee, 1979. Pp (144) unpaginated. Illustrate d. Advertisements. 4to, illustrated white card covers. First settled in 1635, Westford was originally a part of neighboring Chelmsford, but soon grew large enough to sustain its own governance and was incorporated as Westfordin 1729. Penned name, else very good. 40.00
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