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Aubrey Parkman
1978. United States Army Corps of Engineers - New England Division, Waltham,
Mass
Table of contents:
Foreword
Preface
Narrow Redoubts and Granite Casemates
Civil Works Begin
The Districts and the Division
Navigable Rivers and Safe Harbors
The Cape Cod Canal
New Harbor Defenses
A Larger Military Mission
Flood Control
Designs for Hydroelectric Power
New Challenges and Tasks
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
259 pages, 6x9 hardbound, Appendix, 22 pages. Notes, bibliography, index,
Condition: Ex-library; Text block stamps, call number, sticker on cover.
Price reflects condition. M
Taverns and Stagecoaches of New England Volume II $12.00
The State Street Bank 1954
Table of contents: travel in the early days, taverns and their landlords,
some taverns of old Boston, Bunch of Grapes Tavern, Boston, Green Dragon
Tavern, Boston, Stavers starts Boston’s first stagecoach line, White
Mountain coaching parades, Eagle Tavern, East Poultney, Vermont ,
Shelburne, Vermont museum and its stagecoach inn, Red Lion Inn,
Stockbridge, Mass, Eagle House, Haverhill, Mass, Horse Marine News,
Publick house, Sturbridge, Mass, Groton Inn, Buckman Tavern, Lexington,
Mass, Munroe Tavern, Lexington, Mass, pistol ornamentation of stagecoach
days, Punch Bowl Tavern, Brookline, the "Old Ordinary," Hingham, Mass, The
Tree of Knowledge, Duxbury, mass, Doty Tavern, Ponkapoag, Canton, Mass,
the Morse and other early taverns of Walpole, Mass, Israel Hatch,
stagecoach and tavern mogul, Cherry Tavern, Ponkapoag Canton, Mass., rare
tavern signboards, some Connecticut tavern stories, other new England
signboards, the coming of the iron horse.
124 pages, 6x9 softbound, good condition
Meeting
House & Church in Early New England $20.00
Edmund W. Sinnott
New York: Bonanza Books 1963
In this beautifully and profusely illustrated volume, Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott describes the
character and history of some two hundred of the most interesting and important of the
meeting houses and churches built during the first two centuries after the settlement of
New England. He discusses the religious climate in which their architecture developed, the
characters of the men who built them and who preached or worshipped in them, together with
the historical events in which they had a part. In addition, all the surviving
ecclesiastical structures built by 1830-more than 500 in all-are listed in an Appendix,
giving the more important facts about each. The cut-off date of 1830 allows inclusion of
the buildings of the Federal period and a few examples of the Greek Revival.
This book will be of great value to any reader interested in antiquities, and of
particular importance to all concerned with American architecture, with the development of
its ecclesiastical forms, and with New England history in general.
The complex character of the new England Puritan, says Dr. Sinnott, is illuminated by a
knowledge of his meeting house, the building in which both church services and town
meetings were held. At first these buildings were very plain structures, but reached a
high degree of architectural excellence in the typical white steepled churches of the
first third of the nineteenth century.
Dr. Sinnott shows that the architectural evolution of these buildings clearly reflects the
changing life and thought of the Puritans during their first two centuries in New England,
and the development of the Puritan Tradition, which has had such an important influence in
American history. Though most of the building are of the dominant Congregational order,
the contributions of other religious bodies, especially Episcopalians, Baptists, and
Quakers are also described. One chapter is devoted to a description of the many changes
which these old structures have undergone and the reason for such changes.
Dr. Sinnott's pages are lively in style and reflect both his interest in the changing
cultural and religious patterns of New England life and his antiquarian's concern for the
valuable heritage represented by these buildings. Over the years, fire, wind, decay, and
'changing architectural fashions have resulted in the loss of many old churches, and it is
important that the remaining ones be carefully preserved. In Meetinghouse and Church in
Early New England, Dr. Sinnott shows not only their architectural and historical
importance, but their significance in our history.
243 pages, hardbound, good condition, dust jacket has edge wear.
Ghosts from King Phillips War - Hauntings Mysteries Curiosities
$12.50
Edward Lodi
Middleboro:
Rock Village Publishing, 2006
(table
of contents) Setting The Theme, King Philip's Head, The Bear That's
Saved Bridgewater, If A Relic from King Philip's War, The Incident of The
Barking Dog, Cenotaph In Granite, King Phillips Cave, King Philip's Coast,
Scalp On The Face of The Moon, On The Subject of Heads, May He Rest In
Pieces, Lost In The Mists of Time, The Mystery of Mount Hope Rocks, The
Mystery of The Missing Bells, The Royal Want The Nod Cemetery, A Grieving
Father Skirts, Restless At Anawan, Echoes On The Ridges, The Ghost Sentry of Voluntown, There Are No Houses In Hell Hollow, Sentinels In Spruce, Ice In
his Beard, The Haunted Castle In Rhode Island, The Miserable Nine, Praise
The Lord and Pass The Ammunition, The Curious Machine of War, The Mysterious
Stranger, America's Homespun Homer, The Pirate of The Forlorn Hope, The
Hunted Hole On The Isle of Shoals, The Ghost Witch of Nahant. Appendix: In
Their Agonie, They Byte, Deep In The, Mark, and I Saw That It Was Dead.
153 pages, softbound, new.
Historic
Storms of New England
$95.00 (someone else is offering this for $175.00)
Sidney Perley
Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co, 1891
Its Gales, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Showers With Thunder and Lightning, Great
Snow Storms, Rains, Freshets, Floods, Droughts, Cold Winters, Hot Summers,
Avalanches, Earthquakes, Dark Days, Comets, Aurora-Borealis, Phenomena In
The Heavens, Wrecks Along The Coast, With Incidents And Anecdotes, Amusing
And Pathetic.
Table of Contents:
I. The Great Storm of August, 1635
II. The Earthquake of 1638
III. The Earthquake of 1663
IV. The Comet of 1664
V. Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1667
VI. The Storm of 1676, and Shipwreck of Ephraim Howe
VII. .The Comet of 1680
VIII. Strange Appearance in the Heavens in 1682
IX. The Dark Day of 1716
X. The Winter of 1716-17
XI. Wreck of the Pirate Ship Whidah
XII. The Aurora Borealis in 1719
XIII. The Storm of February 24, 1722-23
XIV. Earthquake of 1727
XV. The Winter of 1740-41
XVI. The Earthquake of 1744
XVII. The Winter of 1747-48
XVIII. The Hurricane at Pepperell, Mass., 1748
XIX. The Drought of 1749
XX. The Great Earthquake of 1755
XXI. The Hurricane at Leicester, Mass., in 1759
XXII. The Drought of 1762
XXIII. Showers with Thunder and Lightning in 1768
XXIV. The Gale of December 4, 1768
XXV. The Summer of 1769
XXVI. The Great Freshet of 1770
XXVII. The Summer of 1770
XXVIII. The Storm of October 20, 1770
XXIX. The Summer of 1771
XXX. The Hurricane on Merrimac river in 1773
XXXI. The Storm of November, 1774
XXXII. The Dark Day of 1780
XXXIII. The Hurricane of June 23, 1782
XXXIV. The Great Freshet of October, 1785
XXXV. The Tornado of 1786
XXXVI. The Snow Storms of December, 1786
XXXVII. The Cyclone of August, 1787
XXXVIII. The Meteor of 1787
XXXIX. The Gale of 1788
XL. The Whirlwind of June 19, 1794
XLI. The Long Storm of November, 1798
XLII. Hail Storm in Connecticut in 1799
XLIII. The Freshet of 1801
XLIV. The Great Snow Storm of February, 1802
XLV. Storm of October, 1804
XLVI. Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1806
XLVII. The Freshet of 1807
XLVIII. The Meteorite of 1807
XLIX. Cold Friday, 1810
L. The Freshet of 1814
LI. The Tornado in New Hampshire in 1814
LII. The Gale of September 23, 1815
LIII. The Cold Summer of 1816
LIV. The Tornadoes of September 9, 1821
LV. The Spring Freshet of 1823
LVI. The Spring Freshet of 1826
LVII. The Avalanche in the White Mountains, and Destruction of the Willey
Family
LVIII. The Wreck of the Almira, 1827
LIX. Gale and Freshet of April, 1827
LX. The Storm of March, 1830
LXI. The Great Freshet of July, 1830
LXII. Meteoric Display of 1833
LXIII. Winter of 1835-36
LXIV. The Storms of December, 1839
LXV. The '-October Gale," 1841
LXVI. The Storm of 1842
LXVII. The Freshet of 1846
LXVIII. The Storm of December, 1847
LXIX. The Storm of October, 1849
LXX. The "Lighthouse" Storm, 1851
LXXI. The Tornado of August 22, 1851
LXXII. The Storm of April, 1852
LXXIII. The Freshet of November, 1853
LXXIV. Winter of 1856-57
LXXV. The Gale of September 8, 1869
LXXVI. The Tornado at Wallingford, Conn., in 1878
LXXVII. The Yellow Day of 1881
LXXVIII. Cyclone at Lawrence, Mass., in 1890
341 pages, 6x9 hardbound, good condition, corners bumped, small dent bottom
edge
Old Time Time New England January 1949 $5.00
The
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
Boston, Massachusetts: 1949
Table of Contents
The Derry-Osborne Barn
Cocumscusoc (four illustrations) by John Hutchens Cady
New England-1630 to 1848 by Harold Kelsey Estabrook
Ruth Henshaw Bascom (Two illustrations) by Agnes M. Dods
When Boston Harbor Froze by Arthur H. Hayward
Cordwood for Locomotives by J. Almus Russell
22 page magazine, one sheet has detached. SSC
Saco-Lowell Shops Annual Reports 1924-1960
$45.00
These annual reports give an interesting insight into the history of the
Company which manufactured textile equipment, originally with plants in
Bitterford and Saco Maine, Lowell, Massachusetts Newton Upper Falls,
Massachusetts and Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The main offices were in
Boston. Starting out with very plain balance sheet's in 1921, in 1926
adding more narrative detail to 1951 which started the inclusion of
photographs.
8x12 hardbound, very good condition
France and New England
Volume II $12.00
Allen Forbes and Paul F. Cadman
Boston, Mass: State Street Trust Company 1927
Being a further account of the connecting links between that Country and New England
Herein is an account of bits of France in Boston. Incidents of the French stay at Newport
with a description of Franklin in Passy and Paris touching also upon Hartford and
Wethersfield where Washington and Rochambeau met in conference together with the story of
the discovery in Paris of the remains of Admiral John Paul Jones and the founding of the
Society of the Cincinnati with other interesting facts to which are added many views and
reproductions of old prints and things of interest.
183 pages, 7 ½ x 10 softbound, some fading of covers, wrinkles on spine, corner wear.
water stained on back cover, small stain on back cover.
France and
New England Volume III $12.00
Allen Forbes and Paul F. Cadman
Boston, Mass: State Street Trust Company 1929
Being a further account of the connecting links between that Country and New
England
Containing an account of Champlain's three voyages along the New
England Coast with a description of the ships of Champlain, De Monts and
their followers. Also the stories of the French at Lake Champlain and Saint
Croix Island. The First French Jesuit Missionary Colony in New England. The
Birthplace of Champlain and the naming of America to which are added
reproduction of rare prints and maps
97 pages, covers are faded, corners show wear, tape on spine, 1 inch tear,
covers are intact but show wear.
Hans Holzer
Dublin, New Hampshire: Yankee Books, 1987, third printing. Yankee Ghost, Go
Home! "Ocean Born" Mary (Henniker, New Hampshire) The Ghosts of Barbary Lane
(Rye, New York) The Ghost Clock (Milford, New Hampshire) Hungary Lucy
(Hell's Kitchen, New York) Proper Bostonian Ghosts The Ghost of Gay Street
(Greenwich Village, New York) When The Dead Stay on The Ship Chandler's
Ghost (Cohasset, Massachusetts) How Little Girl Ghost Was Sent out to Play
(Lansdowne, Pennsylvania) The Ghost Servant Problem That Ringwood Manor
(Ringwood, New Jersey Return to Clinton Court (Clinton Court, New York) The
Teenagers in The Staten Island Ghost The Phantom Admiral (Whitefield, New
Hampshire) The Somerville Ghost (Somerville, Massachusetts) Come and My
Ghost! (New York City) Country House Ghosts The Girl Ghost on Riverside
Drive (New York City) a Final Word
202 Pages,6x9 Softbound, Good Condition, Birthday Inscription on Title Page.
The Puritan in England and New England $35.00
Ezra Hoyt Byington
Little, Brown Boston, MA 1897 3rd edition
Table of contents: The Puritan in England, The Pilgrim and the Puritan: Which?, The Early
Ministers of New England, William Pynchon, Gent., Religious opinions of the fathers of New
England, The Case of Reverend Robert Breck, of Springfield, The religious life in the 18th
century in Northern New England.
406 pages, 6x9 blue cloth hardbound, lettering a little faded, foxing, one of the pages is
1/4 cut and at that point a tear of an inch begins, 3 inch light thin line on back cover,
good condition for age, minor wear.