Search Results: Massachusetts History from Lippincott Books

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1980. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiii, 230 pp. Red cloth, spine title gilt. "All the rich detail of the mansions of Newburyport's merchants and sea captains are captured on film...more than 300 illustrations featuring the exteriors and interiors of private homes, churches, and other public buildings...in addition, it shows covered bridges, summer houses, fences and provides detailed architectural drawings of garden layouts, newels, stairways, windows and other important details." Spine slant, otherwise near fine. Dustjacket has a little edge wear. Oversize book: overseas customers please request a shipping quote, or anticipate a request for additional postage; the book will ship at cost.

Boston, Massachusetts: The New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1978. Second Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. viii, 1094 pp. Black cloth, spine title gilt. Facsimile of the 1860 2nd edition, greatly revised and expanded from the first edition. Two volumes in one. Black and white drawings and portraits throughout. With fold-out map. Four appendices. Includes a memoir of the author. Near Fine.

Somersworth, NH: New England History Press, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. [x], xii, 631 pp. A facsimile of the 1909 edition with a new foreword by David H. Wadsworth. With two folding maps in back pocket. Aqua blue cloth, map endpapers, Near Fine in VG+ dust jacket

Boston: James Loring, 1831. Hardcover. Fair. [iv], 406, [2] pp. Appendices, index. A protective 19th century cloth has been attached at the endpapers over the original leather binding . Front board loose, previous owner's name, foxing throughout. A reading copy.

Worcester, Mass: Worcester Historical Society, 1932. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 142 pages. Collection of historical sketches published between 1929-1931 in the periodical This Week in Worcester. From the library of Francis Greene, historian and author of the History of Boothbay, Southport, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the definitive history of the Boothbay region, with his bookplate on the rear pastedown. News clipping tipped-in to front paste down. Cloth spine and marbled paperboards with spine gilt. Foxed throughout text.

Hardcover. Very Good. 15 pamphlets bound together in red cloth, with title gilt on spine. The collection includes historical material on towns and churchs in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, including Boothbay, Camden and Wells, Newburyport, Salem, Andover Center and Hampton, among other places. Includes A Historical Sketch of Charlestown. Boston, 1814; A Topographical and Historical Sketch of Epsom, New Hampshire. Pittsfield, N.H., 1885, Josiah Coffin Papers (Coffin was a historian of Newbury, Mass), and The Fire Clubs of Salem. Also one T.L.S. from the author of an historical sketch. Of interest are the historical discourses on the First Congregational Church of Boothbay, Maine and on the Old South Meeting House of Newburyport, Massachusetts, both biographical source material for Rev. John Murray's life. Murray was minister to the town of Townsend, now Boothbay, and later the chaplain to the Penobscot Expedition. From the library of Francis Greene, historian and author of the… Read More

Orono, Maine: University of Maine, 1959. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. University of Maine Bulletin Vol. LXI No. 17, April, 1959. University of Maine Studies Second Series, No. 74. x, 60, [2] pp, with appendices. Softcover. Near Fine

Cohasset, Massachusetts: Town of Cohasset, Massachusetts, 2002. Fine/Fine. xix, 388 pp. With color map. Color and black and white photos throughout. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Boston: Parish of the Advent, 1944. Probable First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 212 pp, [vii], with index. Dark red cloth, b&w photographs. Previous owner's signature, spine shows very slight sunning and soiling, otherwise clean and tight, Very Good.

Nashua, New Hampshire: E. H. Spalding, 1878. First Edition . Paper Wrappers. Very Good. furthur subtitled: also Genealogical Tables of Portions of the Families of Henry Farwell, Robert Fletcher and John Jones of Concord, and Thomas Bancroft of Reading, and James Cutler of Watertown, from the earliest immigrant Ancestor to the Present Generation. 125, [1] pp. Genealogies of the families of Farwell, Bancrolt, and other names enumerated on the title page, are also found here. A good example of Hill's scholarship is his treatment of a local legend from the French & Indian Wars, in which an Indian leader named Pagus was killed by a colonist named Chamberlain. An early broadside, " Expeditions of Lovewell," says Pagus and Chamberlain stopped in mid-fight to wash their flint lock muskets in a stream; and then Chamberlain having finished first, shot Pagus. Hill showed that this version of events was not only wrong, but patently ridiculous. (He felt the early settlers should have… Read More

Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1909. First Edition . Hardcover. GVG. 276 pp. Annotations in pencil on Green Family line on pertinent pages and on rear free endpaper. GVG.