New England History, Regional Histories, Life in New England, Colonial New England, Puritans.
| New England Army Engineers in New England, 1775-1975 $18.00 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, 6×9 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, 6×9 softbound, good condition Ghosts from King Phillips War – Hauntings Mysteries Curiosities $12.50 Edward Lodi Middleboro: Rock Village Publishing, 2006 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. 8×12 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. Yankee Ghosts $5.95 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,6×9 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, 6×9 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. A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England $10.00 Howard S. Russell Abridged and with a forward by Mark Lapping University Press of New England, 1982 This is an abridgment of the 1971 hardbound edition. Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments I. THE ROOTS I. New England’s First Farmers 2. Massachusetts Bay 3. Stirring the Soil 4. Distance Beckons the Uneasy 5. To Market, to Market 6. Patterns from Home 7. Settling In 8. The Farm Family II. WAR AND TRADE, 1675 — 1775 9. A Surplus to Sell 10. Growth of the Land: Grass and Grain i i. Growth of the Land: Vegetables and Fruits 12. Growth of the Land: Livestock 13. Wealth from Forests 14. The Ways and the Means 15. Life on the Farm III. THE REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1775 — 1825 16. Patriotic Fervor 17. A New Century Approaches 18. Lines of Force 19. Turnpikes, Canals, and Bridges 20. Combing the Back Country 21. Hay, Grain, and Livestock 22. Growth of the Land: New Crops 23. Comfort and Struggle IV. GOOD GROWING WEATHER, 1825— 1860 24. Things to Come 25. The Eager Young 26. Sheep and Other Livestock 27. Backbone Crops and New Departures 28. Marketing the Woods 29. Yankee Inventors V. WAR AND READJUSTMENT, 1861 AND AFTER 30. For Better and Worse 31. Discouragement 32. Adapt or Perish 33. How the Gardens Grew 34. Any Way to Make a Dollar 35. Agriculture Organizes 36. The Farm Wife VI. A FOURTH CENTURY 37. Seven Million to Be Fed 38. An Artful Adjustment 39. Close of the Third Century 40. The Earth Remains Notes Index 394 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2″ softbound, Very good condition, 36 illus. 7 maps. |