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The Joint Standing Committee on Prisons, to Whom Was Referred the Several Reports of the Inspectors, Warden, Chaplain and Physician of the State Prison, Present the Subjoined Report. Senate... . No. 31. Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Massachusetts. Committee on Prisons · 1841

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, n.p. 1841. First edition. Removed. 9 pp. 8vo. The committee reported that prisons were overcrowded, the legislature did not reduce the harshness of sentences so prisoners could not be release early to alleviate overcrowding, and the mentally ill should be prodided diff...

An Act for the Prevention of Frauds in the Sale of Oils. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Senate... . No. 31

Massachusetts · 1833

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Boston, n.p. 1833. First edition. Removed. 4 pp. 8vo. An act to keep spermaceti oil pure. A very good copy, rear wrapper lightly soiled, browning along extremities.

An Act to Annex a Part of the Town of Newbury to the Town of Newburyport. Senate... . No. 30

Massachusetts · 1833

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Boston, n.p. 1833. First edition. Removed. 20 pp. 8vo. Johns Wills' petition was approved and a portion of Newbury went to Newburyport. A very good copy, browning along extremities.

The Old State House Defended from Unfounded Attacks Upon Its Integrity. Being a Reply to Dr. G.H. Moore's Second Paper, Read Before the Bostonian Society, Feb. 9, 1886

Whitmore, William H. · 1886

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Rockwell & Churchill, 1886. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 8 pp. 8vo. About good with large chips to wrappers and marginal tears on most leaves.

A Review of the Report of the Water Commissioners of 1845; with an Examination of Some of Its Statements and Estimates

Wilkins, John H. · 1846

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Boston, Printed by Freeman and Bolles, 1846. First edition. Removed. 56 pp. 8vo. Hearings were held before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature in February and March, 1845 on the City of Boston's proposal to obtain fresh drinking water from Long Pond. The...

The Public Rights in Boston Common. Being the Report of a Committee of Citizens

Committee of Citizens [Boston] · 1877

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Boston, Press of Rockwell and Churchill, 1877. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. xv, 64 pp. 8vo. Committee included W. H. Whitmore, G. B. Chase, H. A. Hill, Abbott Lawrence, C. H. Dalton. Wrappers edgeworn, a few small chips, rear wrapper detached, interior clean, about ...

An Address to the Members of the City Council, on the Removal of the Municipal Government, to the Old State House

Otis, Harrison Gray · 1830

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Boston, John H. Eastburn, City Printer, 1830. First edition, first state. Original printed stitched paper wrappers. 15 pp. 8vo. Printer's erratum tipped in on page 15. Also published as a collection with President Quincy's centennial address and Sprague's centennial ode. Check...

A Letter from the Hon. Timothy Pickering, a Senator of the United States from the State of Massachusetts: Exhibiting to His Constituents a View of the Imminent Danger of an Unnecessary and Ruinous War. Addressed to His Excellency James Sullivan, Governor of the Said State

Pickering, Timothy · 1808

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Boston, Oliver Steele and Co. printers, 1808. Dsb. 16 pp. 8vo. Pickering's letter was published at Boston in 1808 and reprinted many times that year. It was the first of many New England pamphlets opposing the Embargo Act. See Howes P343. Shaw & Shoemaker 15929. Sabin 62652. D...

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Receipts & Expenditures of the City of Boston, and County of Suffolk, May 1, 1827

Boston · 1827

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Boston, True and Greene, Printers, 1827. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 47 pp. 8vo. Shoemaker 28229. Scattered foxing else a very good untrimmed and unopened (uncut) copy .

First Annual Report of the Ward Eleven War Relief Committee. January 1, 1864

Ward Eleven War Relief Committee. Eben Howes · 1864

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Boston, Geo. C. Rand & Avery, Printers, 1864. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 14 pp. 8vo. A report on the progress of supporting the families of those serving in the Civil War living in Ward Eleven in Boston, Massachusetts (now the South End). Scarce. Not at AAS. OCLC ...

[Proxy Solicitation for Dividend No. 4 of the East Boston Company, Dated April 4, 1850]

East Boston Company. Bowker, Albert. Samuel O. Mead and Joshua Bates Jr. · 1850

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Boston, n.p. 1850. First edition. 1 pp. Addressed to Sam G. Rea, Salem, Mass. with 5 cent cancel postmarked Boston April 6 [1850]. An attempt to solicit the owners of Dividend 4 to then petition the East Boston Company to extend the deadline for land acquisition along the Whar...

Architecture Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. [Pelican History of Art]

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell · 1958

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Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1958. First edition. Cloth. xxix, 498 pp. + plates 192 pp. Illus. with 192 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. The most comprehensive general work of the period It is the standard work and includes extensive notes. Artzen J135. Spine rubbed, label worn, else a very go...

Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790. [Pelican History of Art]

Waterhouse, Ellis · 1956

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Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1956. Second printing. Cloth. xv, 271 pp. + plates 192 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. Sm. 4to. A condensed, well-written, authoritative survey of British painting from the period of Henry VIII and Holbein to the end of the 18th c. Valuable bibliography wit...

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture (1866-1922) [with] Annual Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station (1879-1895) [with] Annual Report of the Storrs School Agricultural Experimental Station, Storrs, Conn (1888-1896) [Forty-Three Volumes]

Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture · 1922

$600.00 (€544.36 | £454.08 | ¥95,824)

Hartford, Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1922. First editions. Cloth. Illus. with b/w reproductions, drawings, photos, and figures. 8vo. A nearly complete run from the first report of the Board in 1866 to 1922 (lacking 1896, 1907-11, 1...

The Journal of General Physiology. 1918-1936 [Nineteen Volumes]

Loeb, Jacques, Osterhout, W.J.V., et al. eds · 1936

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

New York, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1936. First editions. Cloth. Illus. with thousands of in-text figures. 4to. A complete run from inception to 1936. A near fine set, clean, crisp, unmarked, with occasional rubbing and light soiling to edges.

The Arts in America. The Colonial Period

Wright, Louis B, et al. · 1966

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First edition. Cloth. xvi, 368 pp. Illus. with 267 b/w plates. Sm. 4to. "Authorative general essays as well as a good pictorial survey of American Art in the colonial period. Includes: From Wilderness to republic by L.B. Wright; Archite...

The Parthenon

Bruno, Vincent J., ed · 1974

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, W. W. Norton, 1974. First edition. Cloth. xvii, 334 pp. Illus. with 63 b/w reproductions and 67 text diagrams. 8vo. Inscribed by editor. A very good+ copy, roll to spine, small tear to top edge of free endpaper.

Leonardo Da Vinci. The Marvelous Works of Nature and Man

Kemp, Martin · 1981

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1981. First edition. Cloth. 384 pp. Illus. with 88 b/w plates and 100 figures. Sm. 4to. The classic work by one of the great scholars of Leonardo. Freitag 6898. Owner's name on free front end paper, else a near fine copy. No dust jacket.

Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence [Two Volumes]

Freedberg, S. J. · 1961

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1961. First edition. Cloth. x, 644 pp; xxxiii, 514 pp. Illus. with 700 b/w plates and reproductions. Sm. 4to. Publisher's errata laid in Vol. I. This richly illustrated work focusses on the history of classical painting of Rome and Florence of t...

Raphael

Jones, Roger, and Penny, Nicholas · 1983

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New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, 1983. First edition. Cloth. 256 pp. Illus. with color & b/w reproductions, photos and plates. 4to. Freitag 10212. A very good copy with lightly sunned spine. No dust jacket.