![Item #040103 HARVARD UNIVERSITY [Albertype views by Louis Glaser]. Cambridge Massachusetts](/pictures/040103.jpg)
NY: Adolph Wittemann, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 16 plates of Albertype views, accordion-fold (leporello) format. Printed ad on rear pastedow: "Souvenir Albums...Souvenir Articles...Amee Brothers, 5 Harvard Square...." Views include: Memorial Dining Hall; Gore Hall Library; Hemenway Gymnasium; Astronomical Observatory; Botanic Garden & Herbarium; Harvard Medical School; Museum of Comparative Zoology;..... More
Boston: Tichnor Brothers, (1935). First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. (48)pp of views from photographs and drawings, including: Sagamore and Bourne Bridges; Quissett Harbor; Wood's Hole; Falmouth; Mashpee; Chatham; Hyannisport; Yarmouith; Provincetown; centerfold of seven lighthouses; &c; map inside back cover. Color-pictorial covers. 10" x 8.5" [WorldCat finds only two holdings..... More
Boston: Dutton & Wentworth, State Printers, 1835. First Edition. Original Wraps. 97pp; three [of four] folding charts at end--lacks #4 and back cover. 9.5" x 6.25", edges untrimmed as issued. American Imprints 32883. More
Gloucester: Board of Trade, (1909). First Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. (84)pp on coated stock. Contains extensive text and views from photographs: History of Gloucester; The Fisheries; Gloucester's Methods of Catching Fish; Recipes for Cooking Gloucester Codfish; Gloucester Schools; Sites for Summer Residences; &c. The 35-page advertising section includes many for..... More
Original documents. Ten (10) half-page receipts on printed billheads, accomplished by hand, for various services and materials. Included: Col. C.R. Mudge Post 114, G.A.R.; Wm. Jones--House, Sign & Fresco Painter, Paper Hanger & Glazier; Little & Larkin--Coach & Carriage Hardware and Trimmings; John S. Poyes & Co.--Coach & Carriage Hardware..... More
Nantucket, MA: Published by the author, 1948. Seventh Edition. Original Wraps. 108pp; three color maps, many illus from photographs. Includes about 30 pages of local ads. 8.5" x 5.25" Has folding maps of: Nantucket Town; Nantucket County and Siasconset; and steamboat routes, lighthouses and lightships. All of the historic sights..... More
![Item #038342 PITTSFIELD CITY GUIDE, RAILROAD & STREET DIRECTORY & MAP [our title]. Pittsfield...](/pictures/038342.jpg)
Pittsfield, MA: J.B. Goussett, circa 1895. First Edition. Broadsheet, folded to eight panels of text with 11" x 14" map on verso. Paper tanned and fragile, still intact. Includes several ads for local businesses. Folds to 5.5" x 3.5" [OCLC locates only the New York Hist Soc holding of this..... More
Provincetown, MA: 1940s. Original document. On the recto is a photograph of the "Cee Jay" with a party aboard. Text on the verso, in part: "Fishing Trips on Yacht 'Cee Jay' ... Bait and Lines Free ... $4.00 per person ... For safety, by far, the fastest big boat in..... More
Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. 15pp. "[59]" printed above title, and changed by an old hand to "(17)". Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.5" [American Imprints 3875. WorldCat finds two library holdings; add the LC..... More
Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1820. First Edition. Softcover. 15pp. "[59]" printed above title. 9.75" x 6" [American Imprints 3875. WorldCat finds two library holdings; add the LC deposit copy and the AAS copy.]. More
Springfield: Board of Trade, circa 1920. First Edition. Pictorial Stiff Wrappers. 24pp + (24)pp views from photographs on coated stock, showing public buildings and residences. Gilt-stamped tan wrappers with view of Springfield municipal buildings on cover. 8" x 5" [WorldCat locates seven holdings of this title: Yale, Cornell, Boston Athenaeum..... More
Springfield: Board of Trade / Press of F.A. Bassette Co., 1900. First Edition. Decorative Wrappers. (36)pp. Contains 14 full-page plus some smaller views from photographs, and running text. Views include: Art Museum; Union Railway Station; Main Street Looking South; Post Office; Main Street Looking North; Court Square; Public Library; Science..... More
Yarmouth-port, MA: W.S. Fisher, 1845. First Edition. 4pp, newspaper format, 24" x 17". Contains: "Uncle Abel and Little Edward" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; A Noble Name for A Noble Ship; "Lucy Dutton" by Fanny Forrester; The Mutiny on Board Ship Sharon; Marine Hospital at Hyannis; Town Officers for 1845; Local..... More
Boston: Boston & Portsmouth Steamship Co., 1891. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. (35)pp; 17 views from photographs, descriptions on facing pages; folding map bound at back, opens to 8" x 16". Printed by Thomas H. Brackett, Boston. Pictorial light-board covers; lower portion of spine roughened, else clean and tight. 5.75" x...... More
Lansing, Michigan: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, 1922. First edition thus. Original Wrappers. 55pp with index. Printed green wrappers. Removed from bound volume of pamphlets: three small stab-holes in spine. 9" x 6.25" [WorldCat locates four holdings: NYPL, Harvard, Library of Michigan, U Illinois-Urbana.]. More
Detroit: Wayne State Univ Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. pp: 331 with index, (3)publisher's ads. Bound in blue cloth, copper lettering on spine, decorated dust wrapper. 9.25" x 6". Signed by the author on the title-page. "...a guide to more than one thousand literary and dramatic works set in Michigan..... More
Detroit: Cornell Studios, circa 1915. Original document. Unused card. Shows a man in a chauffeur's cap, holding the end of an air-horn, and a woman in a very large hat, both facing the camera from a studio-prop automobile. Imprint of Cornell Studios on verso. Approx 3.25" x 5.5"... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., (1915). 1915 edition. Original Wrappers. 54pp, including ads for six hotels, etc. Full-color map, opens to 21" x 28". Folds into tan card covers, printed in black. 6.5" x 4" [OCLC cites two holdings: Minnesota Hist Soc and Penn State.]... More
St. Paul: State Board of Immigration, 1878. First Edition. Softcover. 88pp; small railway map in text; large, folding map of Minnesota shows towns, county lines, railroads, post offices, &c., detached from binding and laid in. Bound in printed green wrappers; lower tip chipped from cover, no text loss. 8.5" x...... More
1900. Original document. Advises a Mr. Purtleman that "B.N. Merrill lives here. He is married and works on a farm." Signed by O.C. Enge, P.M. 8" x 3.5" in the original mailing envelope. Some soiling. More
St. Paul, Minnesota: Girart Hewitt, 1867. Fifth Edition. Softcover. pp: 36, (8) full-page ads. The ads are by: Winona & St. Peter Railroad, selling "250,000 acres of the finest farming lands in the northwest"; Hastins & Dakota Railway, offering Actual Settlers Only portions of a 1,280,000-acre land grant; Milwaukee &..... More
St. Paul, Minn. McGill-Warner Co., 1941. First Edition. Softcover. Map by M.J. Grindhem, opens to 17.5" x 12.5", printed in black and red. Folds into printed stiff wrappers, 7" x 4.5" More
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Co., circa 1905. Original document. Unused, without address or message. More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. pp: viii, 61 with index; text illus from photographs. Bound in pictorial wrappers. 10.25" x 7.5" Contains 125 annotated entries. More
Chicago: Curteich, circa 1950. Original edition. Postcard, illus in color. 3.5" x 5.5" This card has views of Dulany Hall, Goodwill Hall, and Lake McKay Community Club. Laurence C. Jones (1884-1975) was Founder and Principal of The Piney Woods Country Life School, near Braxton, Mississippi. Jones and his school were..... More