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A New History of the United States. The Greater Republic


Morris, Charles, LL.D.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston & Co., 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 711 pages. Embraces "the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year. Showing how from thirteen colonies with a scattered population along the Atlantic Coast, a great republic has been formed, embracing forty-five states with 75,000,000 inhabitants and vast colonial possessions in two hemispheres." Green cloth w/ gilt lettering on front cover and embossed lettering on spine. Large compass design on front cover. Water damage (discolored) on bottom right corner on front and back covers. Floral white/green print end pages. Great color map of the U.S. on frontispiece. Pages 69 and 71 ripped out at edge of text, but pages are still there and text still legible. Plate between pages 346, 347 starting to come out.

Record # 803724


Price: $22.00 

 

Account of the Treasurer of the Colony of Rhode Island for the Port Royall Expedition 1710, An


N/A

Hardcover. Providence RI, Society of Colonial Wars, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 11 pages, red cloth covers with black lettering, spine label. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 405938


Price: $13.00 

 

Alexander H. Ladd's garden book, 1888-1895: A 19th century view of Portsmouth


Ladd, Alexander H

Softcover. US, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Hampshire [distributor], 1st, 1996-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 462716


Price: $13.00 

 

American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods


N/A

Softcover. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., rep, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of 88 paintings and drawings by 40 artists. 104 pages with 93 illustrations (37 in color). A very good, clean copy. A few nicks around edges of front and back cover, small dent at the top of back cover.

Record # 805365


Price: $11.00 

 

American Family of the 1890s: Paper Dolls in Full Color


Tierney, Tom

Softcover. New York, Dover, 1st, 1987, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 802511


Price: $8.00 

 

American Furniture from the First Colonies to World War I


Butler, Joseph T.

Hardcover. London, England, Triune Books, rep, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Reference guide for American furniture design from the colonial period up until World War I. 144 pages, illustrated with 240 photographs, 40 of which are in full-color. Cloth bound book is in very good condition, old price sticker attached inside the cover. Dust jacket is price-clipped and shows edge wear and has small rip near the top of the spine.

Record # 805077


Price: $13.00 

American Indian As a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times, The (SIGNED)Beck, Horace P.

American Indian As a Sea-Fighter in Colonial Times, The (SIGNED)


Beck, Horace P.

Softcover. Mystic CT, Marine Historical Association, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Softcover, light tan paper wrappers, 92 pages with b&w illustrations. Light soil to wrappers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR BECK TO FELLOW WRITER JOHN CLAGETT. Also with Clagett's ownership signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 411857


Price: $29.00 

 

American Narrative Painting


Hoopes, Donelson F.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of American paintings from the Colonial era. 192 pages with b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, a clean copy. Evidence of rubbing/scratching on front and back covers.

Record # 805368


Price: $19.00 

 

American Painting - First Flowers of Our Wilderness


Flexner, James Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping, closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613124


Price: $23.00 

 

Arts in America, The: the Colonial Period


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Cream cloth with gild decoration to front cover. Gilt lettering to red leatherette spine. Dust jacket edge wear with tiny tear to bottom right edge, otherwise a very nice, clean and tight copy.

Record # 605191


Price: $19.00 

 

Atlantic Frontier, The - Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763


Wright, Louis B.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust.

Record # 54032


Price: $15.00 

 

Autobiography of Rev. James B. Finley; or, Pioneer Life in the West


Strickland (Editor), W. P.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, OH, Jennings and Graham, First Edition, 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 455 pages. Hardcover. Blue embossed boards with some soiling, scuffing & wear to edges. Gilt titles to spine. Fraying to crown & heel. of spine Heavy foxing to preliminary pages, spotting throughout. Frontis illustration, James B. Finley, & engravings in b/w. Tight binding.

Record # 751367


Price: $63.00 

 

Beppy Marlowe of Charles Town


Gray, Elizabeth Janet

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 5th , 1944, Dust Jacket: Good, 281 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustrations by Loren Barton. Dust jacket worn, chipped at the top, bottom of spine. Front fly leaf missing.

Record # 512385


Price: $15.00 

 

British Atlantic, American Frontier - Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America


Hornsby, Stephen J.

Hardcover. Lebanon, University Press of New England, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 307 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Single black line on each edge - similar to remainder marks. Clean, unmarked text. Light wear.

Record # 611792


Price: $75.00 

 

Chambersburg, Frontier Town 1730-1794: A Bicentennial Narrative of the Origin and Growth of Chambersburg and Franklin County in Pennsylvania


Havens, Paul Swain

Hardcover. Chambersburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, color frontispiece, b&w illustration. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 407230


Price: $31.00 

 

Chapters of Brazils Colonial History 1500 -1800


de abreu, Joao Capistrano

Hardcover. NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56156


Price: $20.00 

 

Colonial and Federal House, The: How to Build an Authentic Colonial House


Newcomb, Rexford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Beige illustrated cloth, no dust jacket as issued. Light edgewear and bumps to edges of slightly faded spine. The front end paper has been cut diagonally across the upper corner, previous owner's signature blotted out on front paste-down.

Record # 810158


Price: $50.00 

 

Colonial Fights and Fighters


Brady, Cyrus Townsend

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, Reprint, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Illustrated with original drawings by Gibbs, Schoonover and others, and reproductions from rare old prints, maps, and diagrams. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Minor cover and spine edge wear and stains. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852328


Price: $28.00 

 

Colonial Folkways: A Chronicle of American Life in the Reign of the Georges


Andrews, Charles M.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 255 pages. Contains 16 plate illustrations. Gilt top edge. Volume 9 of the Chronicles of America Series, Allen Johnson Editor. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Small stain to first few pages. Light browning to top edges of pages. Paper on front hinge starting to crack. Hole to rear endpaper. Corners bumped. Light markings to rear cover. Small bump in edge of front cover.

Record # 504152


Price: $30.00 

 

Colonial Furniture of West New Jersey


Hopkins, Thomas Smith/Walter Scott Cox

Hardcover. Haddonfield, Historical Society of Haddenfield, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 114 pages. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies - this being #1. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Light fraying to top and bottom of spine cloth. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610343


Price: $188.00 

 

Colonial Interiors, Second Series, Southern Colonial and Early Federl


Sale, Edith Tunis

Hardcover. New York, Bonanza Books, Reprint, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in b&w. Year unknown, reprint from 1930. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 606335


Price: $20.00 

Conquest of Mexico, The Thomas, Hugh

Conquest of Mexico, The


Thomas, Hugh

Softcover. Pimlico, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 812 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear to covers and edges of spine. Old UK price sticker on rear cover. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 454090


Price: $30.00 

Cradle of Colonialism, TheMasselman, George

Cradle of Colonialism, The


Masselman, George

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 534 pages, black & white plates, maps. Dust jacket with light wear, soil.

Record # 51416


Price: $25.00 

 

Cultural Bond, The : Sport, Empire, Society (Sport in the Global Society)


Mangan, J.A.

Hardcover. US, Routledge, 1st US, 1993-12-31, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 465858


Price: $44.00 

 

Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic 1740-1820, The


Childs Gallery

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.

Record # 808175


Price: $12.00 

 

Decorative Arts and Paintings of the Colonies and New Republic 1740-1820, The


Childs Gallery

Softcover. Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, 1st, Unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of works from one gallery. Glossy white covers with color plates on front and back. Light scratches. Staple wrappers tight, pages glossy, clean and crisp. Numerous small b/w plates of paintings, furniture, and other decorative art related to colonies. Catalog is divided up by historical period or subject. Brief explanations of each work provide some historical information.

Record # 808174


Price: $12.00 

 

DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT, THE. A COLLECTIONS OF AMERICAN WRITINGS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY


Smith, Bernard, editor

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. 16 full color reproductions of family members in Colonial costumes. Intact and very clean.

Record # 219831


Price: $16.00 

 

Diary of Ebenezer Parkman 1703-1782: First Part- Three Volumes in One 1719-1755


Walett (Ed.), Francis G.

Hardcover. Worcester MA, American Antquarian Society, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850026


Price: $60.00 

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North AmericaFreeman, Victoria

Distant Relations: How My Ancestors Colonized North America


Freeman, Victoria

Hardcover. South Royalton, Vt., Steerforth Press, 1st, October 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 535 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with minor sunning to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458524


Price: $15.00 

Dwelling of Colonial America, TheWaterman, Thomas Tileston

Dwelling of Colonial America, The


Waterman, Thomas Tileston

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some fading to spine, slight foxing to covers. Spine very slightly cocked but tight. Clean copy. Small "Library of George Murphy" impressed in lower corner of front end papers.

Record # 2230931


Price: $23.00 

 

Eighteenth-Century Houses of Williamsburg, The


Whiffen, Marcus

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VI, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Revised , 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 289 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial endpapes. White pictorial dust jacket with tiny tear to upper right corner and minimal wear, otherwise like new.

Record # 605532


Price: $19.00 

 

Empire's End: A History of the Far East From High Colonialism to Hong Kong


Keay, John

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages. Yellow boards, black spine with gilt lettering. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Very good color pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 40244


Price: $8.00 

 

Exercises in Celebrating the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Cambridge


Clapp (Ed.), Robert P.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Cambridge City Council/Charles Sever, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, 9 b&w plates. Brown cloth with dark brown and gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Bright, clean copy with just a little edgewear to rear cover edge.

Record # 605718


Price: $26.00 

 

Faith of Our Fathers - The Pilgrims


Wallace, Jr., Dewey D.

Wilmington, NC, Consortium/McGrath, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages.

Record # 305404


Price: $15.00 

 

Famous Colonial Houses


Hollister, Paul M. , Illust. by: James Preston

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company Publishers, 1st, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Famous colonial houses with descriptions of their historical significance. Full-page color illustrations by James Preston. 170 pages. Paper shows some age toning. Blue cloth covers with gold gilt title. The cloth shows wear around the edges and has small piece torn loose at the top.

Record # 805106


Price: $29.00 

 

Federal Convention and the Formation of the Union of the American States, The


Solberg (Ed.), Winton U.

Paperback. NY, Liberal Arts Press, rep. wraps, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 409 pages. The American Heritage Series

Record # 55521


Price: $15.00 

 

Fones Record, The


Arnold, James N.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Clearfield Company Inc. , reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, hardcover. The records of the proprietors of the Narragansett, otherwise called the Fones Record. Spotting to endpapers and flyleaf. Mild spotting to text block edges. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951889


Price: $19.00 

Foods from the Founding Fathers: Recipes from the Five Colonial SeaportsBurke, Helen Newbury

Foods from the Founding Fathers: Recipes from the Five Colonial Seaports


Burke, Helen Newbury

Hardcover. Hicksville NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 349 pages, illustrated with historic photographs and drawings by Nadia Samoiloff Reynolds. Dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped. Top corner with a small bump. Spine cocked, otherwise clean.

Record # 411526


Price: $48.00 

 

Gardiners of Massachusetts, The: Provincial Ambition and the British-American Career


Milford, T.A.

Hardcover. Lebanon NH, University of New Hampshire Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, hardcover. The account of three generations of the Gardiner family during the Revolutionary era. Light rubbing to boards. Light pencil marking to rear endpapers. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951916


Price: $19.00 

Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific RevolutionNewman, William R.

Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution


Newman, William R.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Softcover. Light normal age wear, significant fading to spine and edges of front cover. Very light pencil marking in text.

Record # 2231101


Price: $25.00 

 

Golden Age of Piracy, The


Rankin, Hugh F.

Hardcover. New York, Colonial Williamsburg/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine and decoration on front cover board, excellent. Dust jacket price clipped, has some agewear (see image). Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great condition. The 7th in a series of popular histories of Williamsburg and Tidewater, Virginia in the eighteenth century.

Record # 32452


Price: $15.00 

 

Green Mountain Boys, The - A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont


Thompson, Daniel P.

Hardcover. Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Company, Second Edition, 1853, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 364 pages. Hardcover. Two volumes in one, revised edition to the original published work by the author of "May Martin or The Money Diggers;" "Locke Amsden or The Schoolmaster." Green cloth boards with embossed decoration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Scuffed edges to boards, frayed edge to spine. Moderate foxing throughout. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 750434


Price: $100.00 

 

Guardian, The - The Men Who Ruled India


Woodruff, Philip

London, Jonathan Cape, 3rd, 1955, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages, B&W illustrations, maps. Bottom corner bumped, previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 302941


Price: $12.00 

 

Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


Williams, Gregory L. (Ed.), L. Eileen Parris (Ed.)

Hardcover. Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Binding tight. Covers excellent. Clean and bright inside. In great shape.

Record # 31418


Price: $25.00 

 

Henry Lloyd's Salt Box Manor House


Osann, Jean B.

Softcover. New York, Lloyd Harbor Historical Society, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 108 pages, paperback. The history and restoration of the Henry Lloyd Manor House in Long Island, New York. With b&w photographs throughout. Light rubbing to wraps. A bright and clean copy.

Record # 951516


Price: $19.00 

Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour (SIGNED)Carrier, Thomas J.

Historic Georgetown: A Walking Tour (SIGNED)


Carrier, Thomas J.

softcover. Mount Pleasant, SC, Arcadia Publishing, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469964


Price: $19.00 

 

Historic Silver of the Colonies and its Makers


Bigelow, Francis Hill

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Historical volume on silver in the American colonial period. 476 pages illustrated with 325 black/white photographic reproductions. Very good condition despite some fading and wear to spine and slight bumping to corner. Previous owner's name and date written in ink inside the cover.

Record # 805177


Price: $13.00 

 

History of America Pewter, A


Montgomery, Charles F.

Hardcover. New York, Weathervane Books, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 246 pp. Quarto. All forms of pewter, including Pewterers, Britannia Makers, Marks, public Collections, Winterturn Collections, Composition, Cleaning, etc. Filled with b/w illustrations. Dust jacket torn on edges, spine slightly slanted.

Record # 804788


Price: $13.00 

 

History of Southern Rhodesia: Early Days to 1934


Gann, L. H.

Hardcover. New York , Humanities Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 354 pages. Blue cloth, top edge cosmetic stain, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 810058


Price: $20.00 

 

History of the Town of Plymouth


Thacher, James

Hardcover. Boston, Marsh Capen & Lyon, 1st, 1835, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, From it's first settlement in 1620 to the present time. Fold-out map present. Light foxing, small worm hole in last 12 pages. Spine extrem. worn, cloth worn at front hinge

Record # 55548


Price: $60.00 

 

Images of Imperial Rule


Ridley, Hugh

Hardcover. London, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 181 pages. Light edgewear, creasing to dust jacket. Faint underlining in pencil on a few pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453850


Price: $12.00 

 

Indian Captive: The Experiences of Zadock Steele Described in the Narrative Written by Himself


French, Mary M. Billings

Hardcover. Woodstock VT, Elm Tree Press, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 46 pages, black cloth spine and salmon boards. Paper label on front and spine, spine label chipped. Illustrated map on endpapers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 900243


Price: $38.00 

Inventing IraqDodge, Toby

Inventing Iraq


Dodge, Toby

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, October 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454793


Price: $15.00 

 

Journal of Madam Knight, The


Knight, Sarah Kemble

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages. Includes an introductory note by Malcolm Freiberg and INSCRIBED BY FREIBERG on front fly leaf. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Mild, musty odor, otherwise very good with dust jacket.

Record # 302035


Price: $30.00 

 

Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, The: An Historical Study


Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley

Hardcover. New York , G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.

Record # 900010


Price: $48.00 

 

Leap in the Dark, A: The Struggle to Create the American Republic


Ferling, John

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, Book Club, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 558 pages. Blue cloth cover, some wear to edges. Dust jacket is bumped on edges of spine. Inside is very bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Record # 455716


Price: $12.00 

Little Brown BrotherWolff, Leon

Little Brown Brother


Wolff, Leon

Hardcover. HISTORY BOOK CLUB, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages, b&w photos. Minor wear to dust jacket, else in excellent condition.

Record # 453832


Price: $12.00 

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New NationPrice, David A.

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation


Price, David A.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471697


Price: $15.00 

Making of New England, The. 1580-1643.Drake, Samual Adams

Making of New England, The. 1580-1643.


Drake, Samual Adams

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1886, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 251 psges. Brown cloth, illustrated stamped covers with red lettering. Gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, black & white illustrations. Light spine cock, bumped corners, binding crack. Edgewear.

Record # 408346


Price: $38.00 

 

Memoir Concerning the French Settlements and French Settlers in the Colony of Rhode Island


Potter, Elisha R.

Hardcover. Providence, Sidney S. Rider, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 81 pages plus additional pages of family information. Many unopened pages. Folio style fold out cover with book enveloped within. Sun fading to spine and along top edge of front cover - approx. 1/2".

Record # 604861


Price: $32.00 

 

Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston 1692-93


Farber, Norma

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. Minor soil.

Record # 403228


Price: $12.00 

 

Moffatt-Ladd House: Its Garden and Its Period:1763, The


Orcutt, Phiilip Dana

Softcover. Portsmouth, NH, The New Hampshire Society of Colonial Dames of America, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Blue-cloth backed boards with black spine, laid in pamphlet on the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, numerous b&w plates. Wear to cover edges and spine, discoloration along cover edges due to age, light chipping to some pages; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 806052


Price: $20.00 

 

New American Selection of Lessons on Reading and Speaking, A


Dana, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Thomas and Andrews, 3rd Edition, 1799, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Leather binding with red leather text block & gilt titles to spine. Gilt compartment lines to spine. Binding is worn and solid, intact. Soiling throughout as would be expected for its age, light pencil to last page. Copperplate engravings by Samuel Hill. Early colonial printing in good condition for its age.

Record # 6670125


Price: $75.00 

 

New England Girlhood, A


Larcom, Lucy

Hardcover. Glouster, MA, Peter Smith, Rep.rint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Reprint of a classic memoir of pre-Civil War days. 274 pages.

Record # 61236


Price: $15.00 

 

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion 1620-1860


McWilliams, John

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. College bookstore price tag on dust jacket back cover. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket back cover: "John McWilliams winnows through the history and myth of New England to recover the past on its own terms while simultaneously tracing its later refractions. The combination, across nine pivotal events in colonial and early republican history, gives us the changing face of New England through as never before."

Record # 30366


Price: $38.00 

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's FoundingWilentz, Sean

No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding


Wilentz, Sean

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very light remnants of pencil marking in front end papers, otherwise very clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231006


Price: $19.00 

 

Once Upon a Time in Rhode Island


Pyle, Katherine, Illust. by: Helen B. Mason

Hardcover. Rhode IIsland, Society of Colonial Dames in Rhode Island, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, hardcover. Stories of Rhode Island. Blue boards with titling intact. Illustrated by Helen B. Mason. Mild rubbing to boards. Fading to spine. Light bumping to corners and spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951807


Price: $15.00 

 

Out of the Noonday Sun: Edwardians in the Tropics


Pakenham, Valerie

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial end papers. Small closed tear to upper edge of dust jacket's front cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 810182


Price: $10.00 

 

Papers Relating to the First Settlement and Capture of Fort Oswego 1727-1756 (WITH FOLD-OUTS)


O'Callaghan, E.B.

Softcover. London, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This is 64 page extract from a larger volume (pages 443 - 506), possibly London Magazine. This is the original printing and features 4 fold-out plans and illustrations, all in excellent condition. Bound in a clear acetate folder.

Record # 407419


Price: $63.00 

 

Pilgrims, The


Noble, Frederick A.

Hardcover. Boston, Pilgrim Pr, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 483 pages, with b&w illustrations. Gilt titles and top edge. Ex-library residue on rear fly leaf and sticker on spine, light spine edge fray, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 4779


Price: $13.00 

 

PIONEER IRON WORKS


Clarks, Mary Stetson, Illust. by: Joshua Tolford

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages. History of Saugus Iron Works of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Illustrated in b/w by Joshua Tolford. 8vo. Color pictorial and white cloth. Minor foxing to endpapers. Brown spotting in small section of spine. Very Good. Matching pictorial dust jacket. Tear in front near top of spine. Minor browning. Some wear and small tears around edges.

Record # 219860


Price: $13.00 

 

Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend


Mossiker, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear, but in good shape. Red boards, with black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Deckled edges. Some foxing to edges, however pages clean.

Record # 31443


Price: $15.00 

 

Puritan in England and New England, The.


Byington, D.D., Ezra Hoyt

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 3rd, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Residue from sticker on spine, bumped edges. Fraying along spine and edges. Pages untrimmed. Ex-library with usual stamping and residue. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 852610


Price: $20.00 

 

Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors


Rust, Val D.

Hardcover. Urbana and Chicago IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 253 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. History of the early Mormons and their origins in early American colonial history. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light fading to spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952512


Price: $31.00 

 

Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, The


Mather, Frederic Gregory

Hardcover. Albany, F. G. Mather, 1st, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1204 pages. Black & white illustrations. Ex-museum library copy with minimal library marking. Moderate fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Previous owners inscription in pencil on front endpaper. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 610309


Price: $225.00 

 

Revolutionary New England 1691-1776


N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, b&w illustrations, 469 pages. Cover has edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 207261


Price: $15.00 

 

Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast


Garrett, Edmund H. (pictures), Illust. by: Edmund H. Garrett

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1897, Dust Jacket: None, 221 pages. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett with 80 b/w drawings (including frontispiece and title page), some in-text and some full page. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. B/W frontispiece and illustrated title page. Top edge gilt. Pages lightly age toned. green cloth with gilt decoration, pictorial, and lettering on front and spine. Minor edgewear and wear to top and bottom of spine. Corners very lightly rubbed and bumped.

Record # 803243


Price: $11.00 

 

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution


Schama, Simon

Hardcover. US, Ecco / HarperCollins, 1st, 2006-04-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 478 pages. Light shelf-wear to 1/2 sized dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462359


Price: $10.00 

 

Royal Navy in America 1760-1775, The: A Study of Enforcement of British Colonial Policy in the Era of the American Revolution


Stout, Neil R.

Hardcover. Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages. Minor fading and rubbing on dust jacket. Otherwise, very clean pages and tight binding.

Record # 852387


Price: $18.00 

Selected Letters of Cotton MatherSilverman, Kenneth (ed.)

Selected Letters of Cotton Mather


Silverman, Kenneth (ed.)

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 446 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some wear,small tears and chipping to upper edges. Price clipped. Scrape to bottom end of text block. Slight foxing to top of text block, bend to lower cover. Name of previous owner in pen in front end papers.

Record # 2231056


Price: $23.00 

 

Settlers on the Eastern Shore, 1607-1750


Scott, John Anthony

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light soiling of covers. A little spotting on bottom edge. Foxing on top edge. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 856186


Price: $21.00 

 

Social New York Under the Georges 1714-1776


Singleton, Esther

Hardcover. NY, Appleton, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. Bright gilt decorated covers

Record # 51304


Price: $65.00 

 

Social New York Under the Georges: 1714-1776


Singleton, Esther

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages, b&w illustrations. Hinge cracked at first blank page, previous owner's inscription on same page. Blue cloth with bright gilt decoration on front cover and spine, top edge gilt.

Record # 402352


Price: $35.00 

 

Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont - 1914, The


Peck, Hamilton Sullivan/Heman Woods Allen/Officers and Committees of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont

Softcover. Burlington, Society of Colonial Wars, 1st, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Digest format - Measures: 9.5" X 6". Ex-library with minimal stamping. Covers with darkening to paper, chipping along edges. Good reference copy.

Record # 613276


Price: $25.00 

 

Spirit of America in Country Furniture, 1700-1840, The


Jordan, Jerard & Pat

Softcover. Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace - Homestead Book Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w. Orange pictorial paper wrappers with black titles. Light wear to covers and spine and small imprint from original price-sticker to front, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 605672


Price: $8.00 

Spirit of America in Country Furniture, 1700-1840, TheJordan, Jerard & Pat

Spirit of America in Country Furniture, 1700-1840, The


Jordan, Jerard & Pat

Softcover. Des Moines, IA, Wallace - Homestead Book Co., 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages illustrated throughout with photographs in color and b&w. Orange pictorial paper wrappers with black titles. Light wear to covers and spine and small imprint from original price-sticker to front, else a nice, clean copy.

Record # 2230523


Price: $15.00 

 

St. Mark's Rest - Lectures on Art - The Elements of Perspective


Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Colonial Press Company, NA, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 413 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations related to problems of perpective. Small damp wrinkle at top of preliminary pages. Some light staining to spine label and cover cloth. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 613217


Price: $19.00 

Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender CloudRamirez, Renya K.

Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud


Ramirez, Renya K.

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal light wear to jacket edges. Spine somewhat cocked. Light pencil marking.

Record # 2231007


Price: $23.00 

 

Technical Training and Development in Papua, 1894-1941


Austin, Tony

Softcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University, 1977, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. Some fading and wear on cover. Small price stickers on front cover. Unidentified signature on front cover.

Record # 2230449


Price: $25.00 

 

THE THREE-FOLD PRINTING CENTENNIAL


Herscher, Fr. Irenaeus

Paperback. None, None, N/D, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 60 page pamphlet in which the author narrates the History of Printing. Starting at page 29 through page 40 is a comprehensive bibliography listing hundreds of publications about printing and history thereof. A few selected sub-headings within the bibliography are: The Beginnings of the Alphabet and Writing, The First Printing Press in America, The First Printing Press in British Colonial America. 8vo. The bibliography is very impressive. Bound in plain white wrappers.

Record # 809167


Price: $10.00 

 

The Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas 1833-1896


Crocombe, R.G. and Marjorie

Hardcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket. Clean and tight copy. Pacific History Series: No 2

Record # 2230463


Price: $19.00 

This Was America: True Accounts of People and Places, Manners and Customs, As Recorded by European Travelers to the Western Shore in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth CenturiesHandlin, Oscar (ed.)

This Was America: True Accounts of People and Places, Manners and Customs, As Recorded by European Travelers to the Western Shore in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries


Handlin, Oscar (ed.)

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some fading to jacket and light chipping to spine edges. Stamp of former owner of front end papers as well as in pen (blacked out).

Record # 2231000


Price: $23.00 

 

Tristram Bent


Safford, Henry Barnard

Hardcover. New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 311 pages. Chipping on dust jacket covers. Slight sun-fading along dust jacket spine. Minor soiling and scratching on rear dust jacket cover. Dust jacket flaps clipped. A little damp-staining on top edge of rear dust jacket cover and flap. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Some finger prints on pages 308-309. Good reading copy.

Record # 856217


Price: $19.00 

 

Virginia's First German Colony


Vann, Elizabeth Chapman Denny/Margaret Collins Denny Dixon

Softcover. Richmond, VA, The Authors, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Softcover. Green wraps with sunfade to edges, stapled pamphlet binding. Black & white illustrations throughout. Pen marks to bottom front wrap, stamped titled page, Shelburn Museum, Vermont. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751379


Price: $19.00 

 

Williamsburg Cabinetmakers: The Archaeological Evidence


Hume, Ivor No'l

Softcover. Williamsburg, VA, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy illustrated covers with rubbing, especially along the edges. Back cover is sunned. Staple binding. Pages are clean and crisp, but a little faded. 46 black and white plates, each with description. 46 listed at back. Clean and tight. 48 pages.

Record # 806929


Price: $12.00 

 

Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times: Margaret Winthrop


Earle, Alice Morse

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages, 2-page illustrated plate in front of book. Light foxing to plate. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Rough-cut pages. Rubbing to cover corners. Spine faded. Library bookplate inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851488


Price: $15.00 

Women of the House, The : How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a DynastyZimmerman, Jean

Women of the House, The : How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty


Zimmerman, Jean

Hardcover. UK, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 1st, 2006-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461377


Price: $13.00 

 

World Turned Upside Down, The - Essex County During America's Turbulent Years, 1763 - 1790 (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Tagney, Ronald N.

Hardcover. Wesr Newbury, MA, Essex County History, First Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 504 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles spine. Map illustration of Essex County to endpapers. Inside is clean & unmarked with illustrations in black & white. Dust jacket with sunfade to spine & small tears to edges. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751410


Price: $50.00 

 

Zanzibar Chest, The: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands


Hartley, Aidan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tan cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light foxing to top edge. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. The story of the Hartley family in Africa, an enthralling narrative of men and women meddling with, embracing, and ultimately being transformed by other cultures.

Record # 32164


Price: $15.00 

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