A Researcher's Guide to Boston
Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Several Illus. 8vo, pr. wrs. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, (2003). Fine Guide to sources of genealogical records in Boston. More
Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Several Illus. 8vo, pr. wrs. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, (2003). Fine Guide to sources of genealogical records in Boston. More
Dobbs Ferry: Oceana Publications, 1974. 8vo, tan cloth. Dobbs Ferry: Ocean Publications, 1974. Very good(+). More
profusely illus. in color and b/w. 4to, cloth, d.w. (Indianapolis): Haddington, (1976). vg. More
300 illus., 245 in color. 4to, cloth, d.w. Boston: Centry Hill Press, (1995). Fine Signed by both authors. More
Illus. 8vo, blue cloth; (light foxing to some margins, back cover lightly soiled, spine lettering scuffed). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Trade Edition. A very good(-) sturdy copy. More
illus. 561pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. chipped). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. More
illus. 81pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Very good. More
Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2003. Illustrated in b/w and color throughout. 462 pages. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, (2003). A fine copy in a fine wrapper. More
Boston: Beacon Press, 1990. 405pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Boston: Beacon Press, (1990). vg. More
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1896. Illustrated. 115 pp., light blue cloth, lettered in gilt, decoratively stamped in dark blue & red; spine very lightly sunned. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1896. First Edition. A blank flyleaf has been excised, otherwise a very good copy of a scarce children's book. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Illus. 8vo, pink cloth, d.w. torn, chipped, and lightly soiled. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. From the diary of the author's girlhood in Boston and Cambridge at the turn of the century. More
illus. 8vo, cloth; (cloth soiled). Boston, 1932. More
Boston: 1930. Illus. 41pp. 8vo, green cloth. Boston, 1930. Very good Signed by the author. Song lyrics and poetry on Boston, mostly remembering events during the American Revolution and up to the year 1800. More
New York: Dodd Mead, 1882. Illustrated on every page with chromolithographs by H. W. McVickar. 32 pages. Thin wide 8vo, neatly rebound in burgundy cloth with gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial paper covers on front and rear covers preserved. New York: Dodd Mead, (1882). First edition. Rather clean but for contemporary Xmas inscription on rear of frontis, which unfortunately also has a child's ink scribblings, otherwise a fine copy. More
London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774. [2], 80 pages. Slim 8vo, newer 1/2 calf and marbled boards (spine lightly sunned; trace of foxing to several pages, otherwise fine). Boston: Printed. London: Re-printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1774. Third Edition. First British edition after the first edition printed in Boston the same year. The Boston Port Bill was the British response to the Boston Tea Party of 1773. After its enactment, the British Navy blockaded Boston harbor causing economic hardship..... More
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1976. Introduction by Edmund S. Morgan. Facsimiles. Very thin 4to, pr. wrs., wrappers and half-title lightly dampstained. (Boston): Massachusetts Historical Society, (1976). More
illus. 72pp. 4to, cloth. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1895. vg. More
illus. 8vo, bds; (spine ends worn). Boston: R.H. Stearns, 1915. More
illus. 8vo, cloth. Chicago: Rand McNally, (1974). vg. More
Macy-Masius Publishers, 1927. Ed. by Mark Van Doren. 12mo, decorated blue cloth, d.w. slightly chipped and lightly soiled. N.p.: Macy-Masius Publishers, 1927. An abridgement. More
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1970. 106pp. 8vo, green cloth, cloth lightly soiled, front flyleaf and last blank page browned in inner margin. Westport: Greenwood Press, (1970). More
illus., Frontis. in color. 8vo, cloth. Philadelphia: Penn, 1923. vg. More
Bot: John H. Eastburn, 1846. 2 large folding maps, one of the streets of Boston, the other of MA, RI, and CT., many tables and graphs. 179 pages plus a 95 page appendix, 8vo, original stamped cloth; areas of heavy foxing, covers rubbed, worn, spine ends chipped. Boston, 1846. First Edition. Signed by Josiah Quincy, Mayor of Boston and President of Harvard University, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Rubbed, worn but still a very good copy. Shattuck's "...method of procedure..... More
Boston: City Council, 1871. 2 folding maps of Boston, one very large. ix, 720pp. 4to, original brown cloth, front flyleaf chipped, spine ends repaired, cloth lightly soiled. Boston: City Council, 1871. First Edition. Author was a physician, three term Mayor of Boston, and author. (This work was) his most important work...It is a minute account of Boston places, well written and readable." DAB XVII, p. 142. Internally a bright, tight copy. Large folding map has a 3 inch tear near..... More
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