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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
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.
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.