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Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Community League, Inc, 1946. 13 x 18 cm. Bird's-Eye view of Cape Ann; short History; Dogtown, Cape Ann's original settlement; Beaches, islands and museums; old shops and old mills. Includes map of Cape Ann. Paper booklet, fold-out map stapled to last page. Good. . Catalogs: Travel/Cape Ann.

Firenze, Italia: Tipografia Della Biblioteca Di Cultura Liberale, 1909. 10 x 16 cm. La Calvizie - Sue cause: Grandi progressi ha fatto e fa ai nostri tempi la scienza medica; ma se ci troviamo a domandare non tanto ai profani, quanto anche a molti dei medici, che cosa sia la calvizie vedremo molti di essi imbarazzati a rispondere. Certificati medici. Altre Attestazioni. Anche, Orario estivo da Roma a Napoli, Torino, ecc. Paper booklet, edges slightly tanned, good. . Catalogs: Advertising/Medical.

Leipzig, Germany: Karl Baedeker, Publisher, 1928. 11 x 16 cm. . Can fly via French Air Union from London to Marseilles. Very complete guide to Italian Lakes, Venice, Rome, Naples, Florence, Amalfi Drive; excellent maps. Red cloth on flexible boards, slightly frayed at corners, gilt printing faded, marbled page ends, very nice maps, appear complete, very good. . Catalogs: Travel.

Boston, MA: Massachusetts Board of Education, 1900. 15 x 23 cm. This is author's 12th annual report. Statistics for state normal schools. Information on free evening drawing schools. Tables show industrial drawing instruction in Mass. Schools, including director, supervisor or special teacher. Map of state shows status of drawing in schools. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Educational.

Amherst, MA: Massachusetts State College, 1941. 15 x 23 cm. New varieties of blueberry bush that yield larger, sweeter berries grown from Vaccinium corymbosum. Soil requirements. Selection of varieties: Pioneer, Rubel and Wareham. Propagation. Planting. Soil Management. Pruning. Insects and Diseases. Paper booklet, marginal notes in pencil in some places, fair. . Catalogs: Farming.

New York, NY: New York Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, 1923. 15 x 23 cm. Report by Commander of the Military Order of Foreign Wars on conditions in the Ruhr and Rhineland as he observed them in summer 1923. Includes samples of German and French propaganda, from 1915 to 1923. paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: World War I/History.

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, New York State Veterinary College, 1946. 28 x 22 cm. Many photos show Chorioptic Scabies of Cattle, Psoroptic Scabies, Sarcoptic Mange, Demodectic Mange, Stephanofilariasis, Lousiness or Pediculosis. Paper booklet, 2 x 2 cm tar-like stain on front cover, otherwise very good. . Catalogs: Farming/Educational.

Munich, Germany: Soyuzom Borbiy za Osvobozhdyeniye Narodov Rossii, 1954. 34 x 50 cm. Anti-Soviet Propaganda newspaper published in Munich, West Germany. Headlines: ""Spring begins in January"" and ""Legacy of the Last Year"" discusses the world political situation in Korea and Indo-China; the plight of the French in Indo-China; a ""Brilliant speech"" by President Eisenhower at the United Nations Organization about international control of atomic energy. ""Dvye Storoniy Medali"" (Two sides of the Medal) from the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism. Report of message by President Eisenhower to Congress, on support for nations of the free world and anticommunist states, including Indo-China and Chiang Kai Shek's Chinese government (Taiwan). Newspaper, very good. . Catalogs: Cold War/Newspapers.

New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. 21.6 x 24.2 cm. Published just after Picasso's 75th birthday. Frontispiece, Girl Writing, 1934, in color. Women of Algiers, 1955, in color. Remainder of reproductions black and white, arranged in mainly chronological order. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Art/Educational.

Boston, MA: American Unitarian Association, 1843. 13 x 20 cm. How shall we judge between the conflicting claims of different religious systems? If in examining the different schemes of theology offered to your notice, you perceive one of them to be fitted, in a higher degree than any of the rest, to meet the wants of our nature and to carry it forward to its perfection, then you have reasonable ground for presuming, that it approaches nearest to the standard of the primitive gospel, and therefore best deserves acceptance. Paper booklet, fastened with stitching. Pages uneven. Good. . Catalogs: Religious.

Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1893. 17 x 24 cm. Copy of address delivered on Feb. 23, 1893 eulogizing James G. Blaine, statesman. Cloth on board, blind stamped with gold printing. Very good condition. . Catalogs: Biography.

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 canoes and pleasure boats on the Charles at Waltham; then the Norumbega Tower, and Kendall Green, and the Hastings Organ Works, then the Codman Estate and Walden Pond. Early History of Concord, photos of historic buildings and sites, pictures of Hawthorne's Grave, Emerson's Grave, the Battle Ground. Houses of Historic Interest. How to reach commemorative tablets. Houses of Literary Interest. Free Public Library. Monuments. Lake Walden. The River and Surroundings. Carnival of the Boats. Includes fold-out map of Concord, showing the travel and positions of American and British forces on April 19. 1775. Softbound book, cover wrap has 5 cm closed tear near… Read More

New York, NY: Institute of Social Economics, ca. 1891. 15 x 23 cm. Bates, who was United States Commissioner of Navigation, makes the case for a strong merchant marine, with good, well-built American ships. The ocean ship is the arm of empire, an object of life and beauty. Nations that take and keep the sea develop military, as well as civil, prowess. Author gets quite emotional about ""what a selfish, short-sighted, disparaging ridiculous suggestion.. To quit building ships ourselves, and buy from Great Britain!"" Paper booklet, cover spine partly torn, edge frayed, cover soiled, hole punched through corner of booklet, poor. . Catalogs: Nautical/History.

Salem, MA: The Salem Press Co, 1901. 15 x 24 cm. Details and history of the Whipple House; pictures of Whipple House. Report of annual Meeting, Dec. 3, 1900. List of members. Paper booklet, cover and first three pages dampstained, spine torn 3 cm. Bottom of cover frayed, frontis. Loose. Poor. . Catalogs: History/New England.

New York, NY: Published by Carlton & Porter, 1859. 10 x 15 cm. Georgy in Trouble; Aunt Amy; Georgy's Great Sorrow; Georgy's Dark Days; Georgy and His New Friends. Blindstamped black cloth on board, spine torn. Pencil notes on ffep. On end free paper penned notations from S.S. library, Walton. Fair. . Catalogs: Children's.

Boston, MA: World Peace Foundation, 1918. 14 x 20 cm. Foundation seeks to educate people of all nations on waste and destructiveness of war. This issue shows how Germans attempt to drive a wedge into Belgium. Paper booklet, good. . Catalogs: History/Propaganda.

Norwood, NY: Hall & Tracey, Publishers, 1876. 12 x 18 cm. Endeavors to show and convince every unprejudiced, candid and intelligent reader that immersion is not Bible baptism, but sprinkling is. Paper booklet, cover has large stain, good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Keeping the Faith. ""But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."" Heb. III. 6. Beecher: ""As the sweet, fair, white flower works its way from the soil up to the blossom, under the sun; so men are to work their way up from the lower forms of nature till they blossom in the very breath of the bright beauty of the God that loves them."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Soul Power. ""Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirity of God calleth Jesus accursed; and no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost."" 1 Cor. XII, 3. Beecher: ""I preach Jesus to you. I preach his living presence to those who want a Leader. I preach his love and sympathy to those who have not the love and sympathy of man. I preach him as the One, above all, who stoops to every creature on the globe."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

New York, NY: J.B. Ford & Co, 1874. 14 x 19.7 cm. Subject: Summer in the Soul.""Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."" Luke XVII, 21.Beecher: ""What I hope for and long for is to see in the Roman Catholic Church, and the Episcopal Church, and the Lutheran Church, and the Presbyterian Church�..is to see in them all the spirit of Christ so prominent that their characteristic quality shall be the one which is in the candle, not in the candlestick."" Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.