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Oak Bluffs, MA: Oak Bluffs Historical Commission, 1980. 25 x 20 cm. This is an interesting story of the history of Oak Bluffs and Martha's Vineyard, an island off the coast of Southeastern Massachusetts. The town became a famous ""watering hole"" for Americans and foreigners in the late 1880s, and was re-named Cottage City in 1880, then reclaimed… Read more about this item

Hanoi, Viet Nam: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1987. 18.6 x 14.4 cm. Very poor, amateurish printing for museum of sculpture in Danang, Viet Nam. Museum was built in 1919 and exhibit artifacts from Kingdom of Champa. Text provides history of Kingdom and description of Cham architectural and sculptural vestiges. Photos of objects are grey and white, and… Read more about this item

Old Point Comfort, VA: J.B. Kimberly, ca. 1895. 24 x 20 cm. Book of post-card size black-and-white photos of scenes at Fortress Monroe, VA, including 16 1/2 inch long panorama of the Fortress with warships in background; Hotel Chamberlain, View along Moat, Guard Mount, St. Mary's Star-of-the-Sea, Casemates in which Jeff. Davis was confined, Officers' Quarters and Shore Park,… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Isles of Shoals Unitarian Association, 1964. 14.6 x 22 cm. History of islands off coast of Portsmouth, NH and Massachusetts, from 1614 visit by Captain John Smith. Maps, photos. Roster of Ministers. Geology, plant life, birds, fish. Memorials to Rev. Tucke, Rev. Asa Merrick Parker, Thomas H. Elliott, William I. Lawrance, Ella Adams, Mallie James Floyd, Katharine… Read more about this item

Concord, MA: The Erudite, 1902. 12 x 18 cm. "I know the world, for I have traveled many years in Concord."" --Thoreau. This home of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Hawthorne and Fuller, was also the place where on April 19, 1689 the Concord Militia assembled in order to march to Boston to assist in the overthrow of Governor Andros.… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Lothrop Publishing Co, 1895. 13.5 x 17.9 cm. Author begins book with a train ride from Boston's Causeway Street, past the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, and Lechmere Point in East Cambridge (which calls to mind the ride of Paul Revere); then past the powder-house and the brickyards, then the farms of Belmont; then the flotilla of… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Samuel W. Miller, 1934. 22 x 31 cm. Booklet offers ""Many Pictures Never Before Published"" of Admiral Byrd's Famous Trip to the Antarctic and the South Pole. Photos of Little America, Village nine miles from Ross Ice Barrier. Penguins. Bernt Balchen, airplane pilot. Paul Seiple, Boy Scout. Paper booklet, 4 cm closed tear in… Read more about this item

Harrow, England: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1929. 13 x 19 cm. Illustrated guide to Abbey with map of buildings, which shows additions by century. Paper booklet, with ads, very good. . Catalogs: Travel/History.

Portland, ME: Elwell, Pickard & Co, 1877. 42 x 58 cm. India Today by Rodney Paul-- humorous account of travels amongs Hindoos. ""Hindoo babies never cry; and no one shows them how to laugh. In Benares you have Brahmins, the most interesting and intellectual, Mohammedans, who are arrogant and dissolute, with warlike and fanatical dispositions; and Parsees, the… Read more about this item