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The Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 1839. . . Barnstable, [Mass.] 1840. [And] A Discourse Pronounced at Barnstable on the Third of September, 1839, at the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of Cape Cod. By John Gorham Palfrey.
1840
 

Illustrissimo Jacobo Sullivan...Theses hasce Juvenes in Artibus initiati...
1808
 

The New Bedford Directory, Containing the City Register, a General Directory of the Citizens, and a Special Directory of Trades, Professions, &c.
1849
 

Laws of Harvard College
1820
 

Catalogue of the Institute Library, with the Constitution & By-Laws.
1847
 

Collection of Facts and Documents Relative to the Project of a Bridge from South Street in Boston to Dorchester Neck, and the Annexation of that Peninsula to the Town of Boston.
1805
 

Annual Report of the Board of Managers...New-England Anti-Slavery Society (i.e. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society). Third, sixth, eighth, ninth, eleventh.
1835
 

SENATE...No. 56. Report and Resolves on the Subject of Slavery. [Bastard title].
1836
 

SENATE...No. 57. Report of the Committee to whom was referred the Memorial of the Anti-Slavery Society. [Bastard title].
1836
 

Senate...No. 84. Resolutions Relating to the Abolition of Slavery. [Bastard title].
1837
 

Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Legislature of Maine, on so much of the Governor's Message as relates to the North-eastern Boundary.
1832
 

Papers on Agriculture; Consisting of Communications Made to the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture.
1804
 

Proceedings of the Overseers of Harvard University, the Report Accepted, and the Resolutions Adopted...Relative to the Late Disturbances in That Seminary.
1834
 

Fourth Antimasonic State Convention. Antimasonic Republican Convention, of Massachusetts, Held at Boston, Sept. 11-13, 1833, for the Nomination of Candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth, and "For the Purpose of 'Consulting Upon the Common Good, by Seeking Redress of Wrongs and Grievances Suffered' from Secret Societies."
1833
 

Catalogue of the Social Circulating Library, in Dedham, South Parish, with the Proprietors' Names, and the Constitution of the Library.
1844
 

A Table of Simple Interest at 6 per cent. for any Sum, from one Day to a Year, calculated to a Farthing. Haverhill, [Mass.], July 10, 1765. [Caption title]. Broadside, 18" x 22".
1765
 

Constitution of a Society for Detecting Horse-Thieves, and Recovering Stolen Horses. To which are Added, the Names of the Members.
1814
 

N. 5. Fifth Antimasonic State Convention, for 1834. AntiMasonic Republican Convention, for Massachusetts, Held at Boston, Sept. 10 and 11, 1834, for the Nomination of Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and to Advance the Cause of Equal Rights, by the Suppression of Secret Societies.
1834
 

Rules of the Bar of the County of Worcester, [Mass.] 1828.
1828
 

Constitution of the Female Auxiliary Education Society of Salem and Vicinity. Instituted Oct. 1, 1815.
1818
 

To the Inhabitants of Boston. The Boston Young Men's Temperance Society...William F. Otis, President...[Caption title & partial text]. Broadside, 10" x 8-1/2".
1833
 

Extract from the Resolves of the General Court of the State of Massachusetts...30th Day of November 1776. A Resolve for Amending and Ecplaining a Late Act of the General Assembly...intitled, "An Act for Providing a Reinforcement to the American Army." [Caption title]. Royal 8vo broadside.
1776
 

The Greatest Burglary on Record. Robbery of the Northampton National Bank. The Cashier Overpowered at Midnight, Tortured, and Forced to Give the Combinations of the Vault and Safe. Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in Money and Bonds Stolen. $25,000 Reward.
1876
 

Catalogus Senatus Academici...in Universitate Harvardiana...
1812
 

A Catalogue of the Fraternity of OBK, Alpha of Massachusetts, Harvard University, Cambridge. 1810.
1810
 

Catalogus eorum, qui adhuc in Universitae Harvardiana...
1806
 

Mechanics Hall. Tuesday Even'g, March 31, 1874. Mrs. Scott Siddons and Master Henry Walker the Class of '74 of the W.T.I....a choice selection of Readings...[Caption title & partial text]. Broadside 43" x 28".
1874
 

Regulations, Relative to the Navigation of the Middlesex Canal.
1830
 

The Worcester Village Directory, Containing the Names of the Inhabitants, Their Dwelling Houses and Places of Business--Arranged According to the Streets and Squares, to Accompany a Map of the Village of Worcester.
1872
 

Order of Exercises at the Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Settlement of Springfield, May 25, 1836. [Caption title]. Tall 4to broadside, verse in two columns.
1836
 

A Happy New Year to All. New Year's Address of the Carriers of the Newburyport Herald. [Caption title]. Folio broadside, verse printed in two columns with triple typographical border.
1849
 

Southbridge Journal, Extra. Southbridge, May 17, 1864, [Caption title.] Narrow sm. 4to. broadside, with portrait.
1864
 

Fall Meeting of the Amherst College Athletic Association. Blake Field. Wednesday, October 14, 1885...
1885
 

Account Book of the Crocker Family of Barnstable, Massachusetts (title supplied). 1791-1846. 185 pp. Narrow folio, 6.5” x 16." Contemp. calf backed boards. Lined paper, legible ink. Covers worn, few pages torn, no apparent loss. Very sound.
1791
 

WENTWORTH, DR. WILL Homoeopathic Receipt Book, 1896-1904. 360 pp., plus approximately 35 billheads and loose receipts. 4to. Covers loose, but sound. Ink.
1896
 

ADAMS, J.Q. Tax lists 1813. Back cover “ Quincy December 24th, 1813. Noah Curtis, Josiah Bass, Assessors of the Town of Quincy”. Pencilled on front “Elijah Baxter Nichols”. Folded in half 6.5 x 8 in. no cover, edges tattered, no loss. 20 pp. Ink.
1813
 

ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL Catalogue of the Professors and Students of the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. January, 1819. [Caption title]. Broadside, 18.5" x 11.5". Typographical border. [and] Catalogue of the Professors and Students of the Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts, December, 1824.
1819
 

ANON. Awful Calamities: or, the Shipwrecks of December 1839, Being a Full Account of the Dreadful Hurricanes of Dec. 15, 21, & 27, on the Coast of Massachusetts; in which were lost more than 90 vessels, and nearly 200 dismasted...and more than 150 lives destroyed...and also of the dreadful disasters at Gloucester. Fourth Edition.
1840
 

ANON. The Convalescent Camp at Washington. Letter from a Chicopee Volunteer. [Caption title]. Sm. folio broadsheet. Eight columns of text, dated January 11, 1863, to "Friend Sanford" from "Ned."
1863
 

ANON. Lunenburg Directory, for 1834. [Caption title].
1834
 

ANON. The Cape Cod Centennial Celebration at Barnstable, Sept. 3, 1839. . .
1840
 

BAKER, EDWARD D. A Partial List of the Native Flora of Waltham, Mass.
1883
 

BALDWIN, THOMAS & JO "The Warren Association convened at Charlton [Mass.] on the 13th & 14th of Septr. 1796. To the Woodstock Association sendeth Greeting." ALS, single sheet folded into 4 pp., message written on recto only; last page addressed to "Woodstock Association."
1796
 

BANKS, NATHANIEL P. Attention! All Citizens of Brookline and Roxbury, read and willing to start for Washington, by daylight, to-morrow, Tuesday, are requested to meet at the drill room, Brookline, at Eight o'clock, this Monday Evening. May 26, 1862. Broadside, 10" x 8."
1862
 

BARNARD FREEDMEN'S-A Third Annual Report...[Caption title].
1867
 

BEMIS, GEORGE. Report of the Case of John W. Webster, Master of the Arts and Doctor of Medicine of Harvard University...Indicted for the Murder of George Parkman, Master of Arts of Harvard University...Before the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...
1850
 

BRADFORD, ALDEN. History of Massachusetts, from 1764 [...to 1820]. Vol. I-[III] (all).
1822
 

BRADFORD, CAPT. ROBT Muster Roll of Capt. Bradford. Co. L[ight] Infantry 2d Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. John Bailey, for Aug. & Sept. 1780. Folio holograph broadsheet.
1780
 

BROWN, SYLVANUS. Voice Around the Jail. Vol. I, # 2. Sm. folio. 4 pp.
1843
 

CHICKERING, JESSE. A Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts, from 1765 to 1840.
1846
 

CLARK, B.F. Alarming Developments, Connected With Our Courts. The Wrong Member of Middlesex Bar, Convicted of Perjury, and the Means By Which It Was Accomplished Exposed! [Wrapper title].
1848
 

CONGREGATIONAL CHURC Proceedings of the Convention of Congregationl Ministers, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Together with a Statement of the Number, and Names of the Congregational Associations, Ministers, Candidates, Vacancies, &c. in the Commonwealth; Letters of Correspondence with the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in other States, &c. Published by Order of Convention. MDCCXCV.
1795
 

CROSBY, EVERETT U. Nantucket in Print.
1946
 

CROSBY, EVERETT U. "95% Perfect" The Older Residences at Nantucket.
1944
 

CUSHING, L.S. An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors and for the More Equal Distribution of Their Effects; Passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts, April 23, 1838. With an Outline of the System Thereby Introduced, and Forms of Proceeding Under the Same.
1838
 

DEVENS, SAMUEL ADAMS Sketches of Martha's Vineyard and Other Reminiscences of Travel at Home, Etc. By an Inexperienced Clergyman.
1838
 

DIX, D.L.. Memorial To the Legislature of Massachusetts. [Caption title].
1843
 

DIX, D.L.. Memorial To the Legislature of Massachusetts. [Caption title].
1843
 

ELIOT, SAMUEL A. Letter to the President of Harvard College. By a Member of the Corporation.
1849
 

FARMER, JOHN. An Historical Memoir of Billerica, in Massachusetts. Containing Notices of the Principal Events, in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Town, from Its First Settlement to 1816.
1816
 

FAY, APPLETON. A Pure Democracy. [Caption title]. Leaflet, printed on p. 1.
1847
 

FELT, JOSEPH B. An Historical Account of Massachusetts Currency.
1839
 

FRANCIS, JAMES B. Fall of the Pemberton Mill. From the Journal of the Franklin Institute. [Bastard title]
1860
 

FRANCIS, JAMES B. Lowell Hydraulic Experiments. Being a Selection from Experiments on Hydraulic Motors, on the Flow of Water Over Weirs, in Open Canals...Made at Lowell, Massachusetts. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with Many New Experiments, and Illustrated with Twenty-Three Copper-Plate Engravings.
1868
 

GILES, CHARLES. The Convention of Drunkards: a Satirical Essay on Intemperance. To which are added, Three Speeches on the Same Subject; an Oration on the Anniversary of American Independence; and an Ode on the Completion of the Erie Canal. Third Edition.
1852
 

GREGORY, JOHN. The Bramble. To which is added a Letter to Rev. Thomas Whittemore, an Answer to the Hoe, a Sermon on Temperance...and a Reply to certain Editors who noticed the Bramble.
1837
 

HALLETT, BENJAMIN F. BOSTON PRESS, AND SEMI-WEEKLY ADVOCATE. Vol. 4, # 318 - 349, 305 - 375. January 3 - December 30, 1834.
1834
 

HANCOCK, JOHN Govern ...An Act for obtaining a just and accurate Account of the Quantity of Land within this Commonwealth, granted to or surveyed for any Person, the Number of the Buildings thereon, and of its Inhabitants, pursuant to a Resolve of Congress, passed the Seventeenth Day of February, one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty-Three...[Partial caption text]. Folio broadside.
1784
 

HARRIS, THADDEUS MAS Constitutions of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons...Together with the History and General Regulations of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. Second Edition, Revised and Corrected; with Large Additions.
1798
 

HATFIELD, MASSACHUSE This Paper is circulated for the purpose of obtaining a subscription for Doctor Peck to pay for his removal to this place as he was encouraged & the undersigned promise to pay the several sums afixed [!] to their respective names. [Caption title & text]. Dated Hatfield, [Mass.], March 8, 1837. 4to. Ms. document, in ink & pencil, 1-1/2 pages.
1837
 

HITCHCOCK, FREDERICK The Handbook of Amherst, Massachusetts. Seventh Illustrations.
1891
 

HOLMES, ABIEL. An Address...Before the American Antiquarian Society...on Their Second Anniversary, October 24, 1814.
1814
 

HOPKINS, JOHN. Last Will and Testament of John Hopkins, Northampton, Massachusetts, September 1840. With seal and signatures of four witnesses.
1840
 

HOWE, SAMUEL. The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law, in Massachusetts. Edited by Richard S. Fay and Jonathan Chapman, Counsellors at Law.
1834
 

HOWE, SOLOMON, Print The Gray Mare. Or Johnny, the Miller, and Beautiful Kate. [Caption title]. Broadside, 7.5" x 8.5." Verse printed in two columns with woodcut at title.
1838
 

HOWE, SOLOMON, Print The Gray Mare. Or Johnny, the Miller, and Beautiful Kate. [Caption title]. Broadside, 9.75" x 8.5." Verse printed in two columns with woodcut at title. On verso are two poems, "Lines Composed on the Prevailing Malignant Cholera," and "Apostrophe to the Shade of Mina."
1838
 

HUSE, GEORGE W. Account Book of a Wooden Parts Maker. Inside front cover: “George W. Huse, Book 1846." Dec. 9, 1845 to Jan. 21, 1861. Tall folio, calf cover, lined pages. 8.25”x13," 130 pp. Minor cover wear. Ink, bright.
1845
 

JACKMAN, JOSEPH. The Sham-Robbery, Committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge, on His Own Person, in Newbury, Near Essex Bridge, Dec. 19, 1816, with a History of His Journey to the Place Where He robbed Himself. And His Trial with Mr. Ebenezer Pearson, Whom He Maliciously Arrested for Robbery. Also the Trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston.
1819
 

JILLSON, CLARK. Progress Attributed to the Laboring Classes: A Poem Delivered Before the Worcester County Mechanics' Association, March 3d, 1853.
1853
 

KEITH, SAMUEL N. Narrow Gauge for the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Railroad. [Caption title].
1872
 

KNOKERKOKE. Budget of Rhymes For Enfield and Greenwich Plains, Mass., for 1882. [Caption title]. Narrow small folio broadside, printed in three columns.
1882
 

LAMSON, ALVAN. Fourteen Pamphlets by or about Alvan Lamson, long-time minister of Dedham, Massachusetts.
1825
 

LEAVITT, JONATHAN. A Summary of the Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Settlement, Support, Employment and Removal of Paupers.
1810
 

LEONARD, SAMUEL. Holograph Correspondence from Samuel Leonard of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to his wife Mehitable Leonard, 1828-1842. 22 signed and dated, some postmarked. 10 miscellaneous documents 1822-1865 including a 10 pp. speech on the peddler’s bill, an 1820 induction notice into the South Bridgewater Rifle Company, etc.
1828
 

LINCOLN. Manuscript Warrant Served by the Constable, Zeb. Farrar, as Directed by the Selectmen, Sam Hoar, Joshua Brooks & Ephr. Brown to summon freeholders and other inhabitants qualified by law to vote in town meetings...October 27, 1806 [or 1808?]. Quarto document in holograph, docketed on verso.
1806
 

LOWELL, J.R. Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Concord, [Mass.], Sept. 12, 1885.
1885
 

LUNT, GEORGE. Order of Exercises, at the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the Settlement of the Ancient Town of Newbury, Now Comprising the Towns of Newbury, Newburyport, and West-Newbury. Tuesday, May 26th, 1835. [Caption title.] Broadside, 7.5" x 16".
1835
 

MANN, HORACE. Lecture on Education.
1840
 

MANN, HORACE. Lecture on Education.
1840
 

MANN, HORACE. Abstract of the Massachusetts School Returns, for 1840-41.
1841
 

MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-S Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers...with an Appendix.
1842
 

MASSACHUSETTS ANTI-S An Account of the Interviews Which Took Place on the Fourth and Eighth of March Between a Committee of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and the Committee of the Legislature.
1836
 

MASSACHUSETTS GENERA Address of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital to the Public.
1814
 

MASSACHUSETTS RIFLE Annual Reports...for 1886-98, 1900-04, 1906-08, plus Massachusetts Rifle Association Annual Matches.
1886
 

MASSACHUSETTS. Two manuscript letters, one dated July 12, 1798, from the town of Cambridge to the Overseers of the Poor of the town of Medfield, concerning one Anthony Frederick, a Negro; the second, a retained copy of a reply by the town of Medfield, to the town of Cambridge, dated August 11, 1798.
1798
 

MASSACHUSETTS. Constitution of the Kingston Temperance Society, with a List of Officers & Members for 1834.
1834
 

MASSACHUSETTS. An Investigation into Freemasonry by a Joint Committee of the Legislature of Massachusetts....
1834
 

MILES, HENRY A. Lowell, As It Was, and As It Is.
1845
 

ORR, HECTOR. An Oration, Pronounced at Bridgewater, [Mass.], October 1, 1801, at the Request of the Columbian Society.
1801
 

PEASE, RICHARD L. & To the Selectmen...[regarding Edgartown and Tisbury fulfilling their quotas for the draft]. [Caption title.] 4to broadside, printed in two columns.
1864
 

PEIRCE, BENJAMIN. A Catalogue of the Maps and Charts in the Library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1831
 

PHILLIPS, WENDELL. Remarks of Wendell Phillips, at the Mass Meeting of Workingmen in Faneuil Hall, Nov. 2, 1865.
1865
 

RASCALL, A. GT. A Gr Notice. Great Sale at Auction. The Subscriber, having used up all his old customers, and finding that he can no longer get a decent living here by duping the people, has determined to quit these diggings, and go to parts where he is unknown....[Caption title & partial text]. Broadside, 10" x 8".
1843
 

RIPLEY, EZRA. Half Century Discourse, Delivered November 16, 1828, at Concord, Massachusetts.
1829
 

RIPLEY, EZRA. The Obligations of Parents to give their children a virtuous education, and to provide Schools for this purpose, with Advice to Scholars...a Sermon, delivered Sept. 7, 1820, at the Opening of Three New School Houses...affectionately inscribed to the children and youth in Concord, who usually attend the schools.
1820
 

SELDEN, R.E. Jr. An Address Before the Middlesex Association, for the Promotion of Temperance; Delivered at Essex, February 17th, 1829.
1829
 

SHATTUCK, LEMUEL. Letter to the Secretary of State on the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Massachusetts.
1845
 

SHEPARD, D.M. Artist East Church, Salem [and] Interior of East Church, Salem.
1855
 

SPRAGUE, CHARLES. Order of Services at the Dedication of the New Church, Erected by the First Congregational Society in Concord, Dec. 29th, 1841. [Caption title]. Broadside, 8.5" x 11.5".
1841
 

STRONG, CALEB. The Speech of His Excellency Governor Strong, Delivered Before the Legislature of Massachusetts, October 16, 1812. With the Documents, which accompanied the same....
1812
 

SUMNER, WILLIAM H. An Inquiry into the Importance of the Militia to a Free Commonwealth; in a Letter...to John Adams, Late President of the United States; with His Answer.
1823
 

TAX ASSESSMENTS. An Act for enquiring into the Rateable Estates within this Commonwealth. [Caption title.]
1792
 

THOMAS, ISAIAH. Olim Meminisse Juvabit. To (the Hon. James Burrill, LLD.) The American Antiquarian Society...(Isaiah Thomas)...
1815
 

THOMPSON, JAMES. An Oration. Pronounced Before Mount Zion Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons: at Hardwick, Mass. June 24, A.L. 5834. It being the Festival of St. John the Baptist.
1824
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. Cape Cod.
1865
 

THOREAU, HENRY D. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. New and Revised Edition.
1868
 

TRUMBULL, HENRY. Life and Adventures of Robert, the Hermit of Massachusetts, Who has lived 14 Years in a Cave...
1829
 

TUFTS, JOSEPH. Don Quixots at College; Or, a History of the Gallant Adventures Lately Achieved by the Combined Students of Harvard University; Interspersed with Some Facetious Reasonings.
1807
 

TURNER, W.H. Chief E Running Regulations of the Haverhill Fire Department Adopted May, 1871. [Caption title]. 4to broadside, printed on salmon colored stock, typographical border.
1871
 

VAILLE, F. O. & H. A The Harvard Book, A Series of Historical, Biographical and Descriptive Sketches. By Various Authors. Illustrated with Views and Portraits. Vol. II [only].
1875
 

WARE, EVELYN WOODFOR The Islanders. A Romance of Martha's Vineyard.
1892
 

WARREN, JOHN COLLINS A Letter Addressed to a Republican member of the House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts on the Subject of a Petition for a New Incorporation, to be entitled, "A College of Physicians."
1812
 

WEBSTER, DANIEL. Webster's Oration, Delivered at the Bunker Hill Celebration, 17th June, 1843. [Wrapper title].
1843
 

WHITE, JOHN. A Centennial Discourse...in...Dedham, January 17th, 1836.
1836
 

WILLIAMS, JOHN M. Extracts from a Charge Delivered to the Grand Jury at Northampton...
1838
 

WINCHESTER. Facts Relating to Woburn, and the Proposed New Town of Winchester.
1850
 

WORCESTER. An Act to Establish a Fire Department in the Town of Worcester. [Caption title]. Broadside, 11.5" x 9". Printed in two columns.
1835
 

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