Boston. 1808. 40pp. Dbd. Final two leaves detached; tear in final text leaf, crudely repaired. Light foxing and soiling. Good. Local history of merit, delineating religious societies in Portsmouth. Relatively scarce on the market.
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Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1940. 640pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements. Large folding map affixed to rear wrapper. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and beginning to pull away from the text block, spine cracked. Good, lacking the second folding map. Gives descriptions and points of interest for fourteen northeastern.....
Washington, D.C. American Automobile Association, 1941. 656pp. including maps, illustrations and advertisements, plus two large folding maps. Printed stiff pictorial wrappers. Wrappers soiled and faded, a note in ink on the front wrapper. One leaf detached. Very good. Descriptions and points of interest for fourteen Northeastern states, the District of.....
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[ca. 1938]. Bronze medal, 1 1/4 inches in diameter. Struck on the obverse: "DANIEL WEBSTER / LIBERTY AND UNION. NOW AND FOR EVER. ONE AND INSEPERABLE." Struck on the reverse: "1788- 1938 / NEW HAMPSHIRE CONSTITUTION SESQUINTENNIAL / OLD NORTH MEETING HOUSE,CONCORD." Golden brown patina. Very good condition. A handsome.....
London: Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1776. 210,215-250,253-330,333-370,373-442,445- 470,473-614,617-654,657-678,681-828pp. Folio. Modern calf, spine gilt, raised bands. Each act has separate general titlepage; pagination and register are continuous. Slight shelf wear, occasional tanning, lacking one general titlepage and several blanks (see below). Very good. An impressive collection of the.....
[Portsmouth, N.H. 1775]. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Lightly silked. Minor edge chipping, a handful of clean tears expertly repaired, second leaf inset into slightly larger backing sheet. Very good. Official manuscript copy of a document by His Majesty's Court of General Sessions of the Peace in New Hampshire.....
Portsmouth: Printed and sold by D. Fowle, [1762]. [24]pp. 20th-century red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Minor soiling and wear. Very good plus. A Portsmouth printing of this early almanac by one of the most prolific almanac makers in colonial America. Ames' run of almanacs predated Benjamin Franklin's POOR.....
Worcester, Ma. [ 1908]. 133pp. Quarto. Original limp leather binding, rebacked. Corners chipped. Slight loss to corners of "Skeleton Key" map, which is pasted inside front cover. Overall quite good. One of the earliest American motoring atlases, compiled "from United States Government surveys, official state, county and city surveys and.....
Manchester. 1891. 55pp. plus plates. Folding frontis. Original limp cloth wrappers. Very good. The plates depict the lakes in New Hamsphire, with explanatory text. The frontispiece is a panorama of Lake Winnipesaukee.
[N.p., but likely New Hampshire. 1846]. 8pp. Single folded sheet. Minor wear. Very good plus. Untrimmed and unopened. George Barstow (1812-1883) was praised by John Greenleaf Whittier as "a young lawyer of fine talents" and "democratic principles." As a delegate to the New Hampshire Democratic Convention in the fall of.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1863. iv,108pp. 12mo. Publisher's blindstamped burgundy cloth, spine gilt. Boards rubbed and sunned with a few spots of soiling, two chips to joints (but still strong), spine ends starting to fray. A few spots of foxing and even tanning throughout. Small manuscript label to front.....
Boston. 1792, 1791-1792. Three volumes. viii,362,[ciii]; 493,[1]; 480,[8]pp., plus folding map bound in as frontispiece in first volume. Early 20th-century sheep and marbled boards, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn. Later ownership inscription on front pastedowns. Some offsetting to titlepage of first volume from map; map lightly foxed and.....
Dover: Printed for O. Crosby and J. Varney by J. Mann and J.K. Remick, 1812. Three volumes. 351; [iii]-377; 354pp., plus folding map in first volume. Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt extra, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf of each volume. Very minor worming to.....
Portsmouth, N.H. 1860-1861. 168pp. plus [4]pp. of ads at front. 16mo. Original blindstamped cloth, expertly rebacked with new cloth spine. Some black ink stains on covers. Tanned. Else good. City directory for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which lists the residents and includes a section on the city ordinances. Also includes a......
Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1872. Colored folding map, 33 x 22 1/2 inches. Folded into original pebbled cloth. Front board detached. Bisected and mounted on linen, as issued. Old bookplate and withdrawal stamp on front pastedown, short closed tear along linen fold of upper outer section, not affecting map itself. A.....
Philadelphia: Smith & Coffin, 1857. Wall map, 56 x 56 inches, with full period hand-color. Expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in red cloth, on contemporary rollers. Lightly tanned, faint old stain along upper edge, but in very good condition. A large, attractive wall map of Rockingham County, New.....
[Manchester, N.H., Boston, Ma., Ship Island (off the coast of Mississippi) and locations in Louisiana, as detailed below]. January 22 - December 10, 1862. Eleven autograph letters, signed, (ten with envelopes), totaling [36]pp. Later transcriptions accompany the letters. Old folds, occasional light staining and/or tanning, one letter with small tears.....
New York: Colton & Company; Portland, Me.: C.C. Hall, 1855. Folding pocket map, 40 3/4 x 33 inches. Full contemporary color. Several small separations at folds; minor foxing. Gilt- stamped leather cover worn, spine perished. Very good. One of the finest of all 19th-century maps of Maine, first published in.....
New Haven: Printed by T. & S. Green, 1794. [2],16,[1]pp. Gathered signatures, stitched as issued. Early ink signature on titlepage, a few small ink notes in text. Very good, untrimmed. Lists funds contributed by various towns in Connecticut for use of missionaries in New York west as far as the.....
Concord, N.H. 1815. 108pp. 12mo. Original calf backed paper boards. Front board detached. Tanned, marginal dampstaining, else internally good. Published the same year as the first, Philadelphia edition. This popular work gives a long explanation of Great Britain's culpability. Howes notes that it is also attributed to President James Madison.....
Exeter, NH: Henry Ranlet, 1794. 390,[5]pp. Contemporary sheep. Extremities lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Light foxing and wear. About very good. Later edition of a popular sermon preached by Doddridge, first printed in London in 1735, with title, THE CARE OF THE SOUL URGED AS THE.....
Portsmouth, N.H. Printed at the N.H. Gazette office, [1808]. 12pp. Dbd. First leaf detached. Soft horizontal fold. Toned and foxed. A good copy. A New Englander's defense of the Embargo Act against Daniel Webster's recent pamphlet, CONSIDERATIONS ON THE EMBARGO LAWS (1808), which is considered to be Webster's first publication.....
Portsmouth. 1909-1910. [192]pp. plus three bank deposit slips. Approximately 25,000 words. Calf over paper boards, contemporary manuscript title. Minor scuffing to leather. Good. Kept by Fill, the Chief Boatswain, this journal records the activities of two boats, the Southery and the Topeka, which were used as prison ships in Portsmouth.....
[Washington]. 1848. 7pp. Dbd. First leaf removed, stab holes in gutter. Tanned at extremities. A good reading copy. In his speech Foote criticizes a New Hampshire senator for voting against the Resolution of Thanks to Gen. Taylor for Taylor's service to the nation in the Mexican- American War. Foote argues.....
Concord, N.H. 1825. 127,[1]pp. Early 20th-century buckram, gilt leather labels. Cloth somewhat dust soiled, front hinge starting. Paper shelf label on spine, institutional ink stamp and ownership inscription on titlepage, blind stamps on initial leaves. With a contemporary manuscript annotation on final leaf. Some tanning, occasional foxing. Good plus. An.....
