[Rarebooks] FS: Boston Brahmins-Dead or Alive

[Clare Murphy]

Actually only one person mentioned below is still alive but you can't 
tell by looking at him.

1.  REPORT OF THE RECORD COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF BOSTON 
CONTAINING BOSTON BIRTHS FROM 1700-1800, A. Boston., 1894. Original 
black cloth. [379 pgs] Very good. Front inner hinge weak. A very 
useful reference for genealogists. Contains an index of names with 
negroes listed separately, most without last names. Laid-in is a 
hand-written genealogy of the Lamb-Bennett family of Boston.  $230.00

2.  BRIDGMAN, THOMAS.  MEMORIALS OF THE DEAD IN BOSTON; CONTAINING AN 
EXACT TRANSCRIPT FROM INSCRIPTIONS, EPITAPHS AND RECORDS ON THE 
MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES IN COPP'S HILL BURYING GROUND, IN THE CITY 
OF BOSTON. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1852. Illustrated by "copious 
historical and biographical notices of the early settlers of the 
metropolis of New England". First edition. Brown cloth with blind 
embossed rules and gilt embossed pictorial boards, gilt embossed 
lettering and design at spine; aeg. 7.75" x 4.75". [252/15 pgs] Near 
fine. Contemporary gift inscription at paste-down, "Dr. Shaw with 
compliments of Wm. Parsons".  Very interesting list of patrons, 
including Edward Dickinson of Amherst, father of Emily Dickinson, 
Charles Francis Adams, Rufus Choate, Samuel G. Drake, Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, Jenny Lind, John Lothrop, Francis Parkman, Theodore Parker, 
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, George Ticknor, Edward Everett, Henry 
Wadsworth Longfellow, L. H. Sigourney, Daniel Webster and many other 
leading lights of the Boston Brahmin Pursuasion. Buried here are the 
Mathers, Adams, Sewards, Parkmans etc. Helpful index. Minor chipping 
to cloth at head and tail of spine with minimal shelf wear at 
extremities.  Contents are tight and clean, with no foxing.  $250.00

3.  MILLET, SAMUEL.  WHALING VOYAGE IN THE BARK "WILLIS" 1849-1850. 
THE JOURNAL KEPT BY SAMUEL MILLET, A. Boston, MA: Privately Printed, 
1924. Illustrated by 8 plates. Limited edition. 4to. [46 pgs] Fine. 
Limited edition of 50 copies only, this is # 4.  Green marbled paper 
covered boards, with a black spine. all edges un-trimmed.   Hand-made 
Italian paper. Some foxing to ffep only.  Extremely bright and sound 
copy of this special edition.  $950.00

4.  MIXTER, WILLIAM.  HAND-WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE MEETINGS OF THE 
COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS AND CANALS IN MASSACHUSETTS IN 1867-68. 
Wrappers with paper label, lined paper. 7 1/2 x 10". [44 pgs] 
Fascinating source material about early railroad history in New 
England. Much about mergers, extensions, costs, objections by the 
various towns etc. Many of the Boston Brahmin families are 
represented and quoted here, i. e. Oliver Ames, Joseph Choate, Edward 
Appleton, William Cabot, William Russell, Bejamin Coolidge. Also 
mentioned are some of the owners of the land through which the 
railroads would pass and the amount of money the committee voted to 
pay for same.  $360.00

5.  STARK, JAMES. H.  LOYALISTS OF MASSACHUSETTS, THE. Boston: W. B. 
Clarke, 1907. Illustrated by many engravings and portraits, also a 
folding map of Boston in rear pocket. First edition. Bright red cloth 
with gilt design on front board and black design on rear board. Royal 
octavo. Near fine. Former owner's blindstamp on title and shelf 
number on dedication page. Red leather label on rear board. Replete 
with genealogical information. Invaluable to Boston Brahmins. 
"Courageous portrayal of the Loyalist side of the Revolution". Howes 
S 895.  $125.00

6.  SUMNER, CHARLES.  WORKS OF CHARLES SUMNER. Boston: Lee and 
Shepard, 1870. Illustrated by frontis portrait of Sumner. 
Subscriber's edition. 15 volumes. 3/4 brown leather with marbled 
paper covered boards, raised bands, leather title labels, all edges 
marbled. Signed by Charles Sumner. 8vo. Very good. With the 
bookplates of Henry Woods, Boston and Paris, France, one of the 
listed subscribers. Woods was a partner in C. F. Hovey Co., an 
important early Boston department store with offices in NY and Paris. 
Volume XV has a very weak front hinge, the other volumes are strong. 
Many volumes have a bit of shelfwear to spine extremities and 
scuffing to spines. Two of the leather labels have noticeable chips 
to them. All contents are clean and free from foxing.

Charles Sumner was born in 1811. American statesman and jurist. 
Delivered a powerful speech against war in 1845, "The True Grandeur 
of Nations," and in 1851 was elected United States senator. In 1856 
he made a speech, "The Crime Against Kansas," which caused a personal 
attack upon him by a Southern delegate. In 1860 he made his oration, 
"The Barbarism of Slavery," was chairman of Committee on Foreign 
Relations, 1861-71. Sumner was a strong supporter of the American 
claims in the "Alabama" case. Died 1874.  $3500.00

7.  (WATERHOUSE, BENJAMIN).  JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Milledgeville, GA: Grantland, 1816. Second printing of first edition. 
Full calf in very good condition, with red leather label. [240 pgs] 
According to Howes, this account was written by Amos G. Babcock, MD, 
who was a surgeon from MA captured by the British during the War of 
1812 and held at the dreaded  Dartmoor Prison. Many owner signatures 
of members of the Bush Family of MA, including John, Isaac and 
Timothy, all forebears of George and George W. Bush. Foxed and 
lacking end papers and frontis.  $125.00

8.  WEBSTER, JOHN. W.  REPORT OF THE TRIAL OF PROF. JOHN W. WEBSTER, 
INDICTED FOR THE MURDER OF DR. GEORGE PARKMAN BEFORE THE SUPREME 
JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS, HOLDEN AT BOSTON, ON TUESDAY, MARCH 
19, 1850. Boston: Phillips, Samson, 1850. First edition. Wrappers in 
slipcase. [[3]-314 pgs] Fine/none/Near fine. Phonographic report by 
James W. Stone of this sensational trial involving the murderer, 
Webster, a Harvard professor and the victim, Parkman, another 
professor turned money-lender. The body was burned in the medical 
school's furnace and later found by a janitor. Pamphlet is enclosed 
in a custom-made red cloth-covered pullcase, within a red 
half-leather slipcase. Minor fading to a section on rear panel of 
slipcase. McDade 1062, Sabin 102329, BAL 8759.  $350.00

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