[Rarebooks] FS: Town Histories MA #1

[Clare Murphy]

1.  CHAFFIN, W. L.  HISTORY OF EASTON MASSACHUSETTS. Cambridge, MA., 
1886. Illustrated by Forbes albertype plates from photographs and 
four maps, one folding. First edition. Original green cloth with gilt 
rules and lettering. [838 pgs] Near fine. Fine index. Although the 
binding is fine, the first signature is starting. This is a scarce 
town history and a very professional job of research. Former owner's 
signature. Much about the leading family Oakes/Ames.  $135.00

2.  CROWELL, REV. ROBERT AND CHOATE, HON. DAVID, HON. DAVID.  HISTORY 
OF THE TOWN OF ESSEX FROM 1634 TO 1868. WITH, SKETCHES OF THE 
SOLDIERS IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. Essex: Privately Published, 
1868. First edition. Brown cloth with blind embossed designs on 
beveled boards, gilt lettering at spine. 9.5" x 5.75". [488 pgs] Near 
fine. Previous owner's signatures at title page. Some wear at head 
and tail of spine, bottom corners bumped, with minor shelf wear. 
Contents are tight and clean.  $125.00

3.  ELIOT, SAMUEL. ATKINS.  HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE MASSACHUSETTS 
(1630-1913) TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHIES OF CAMBRIDGE PEOPLE, A. 
Cambridge: Cambridge Tribune, 1913. Illustrated by photographs of 
eminent Cantabrigians and architecture. 3/4 blue cloth and paper 
covered boards with pictorial inset. 4to. [308 pgs] Starting at front 
hinge. Some of the people included here are Henry James, Louis 
Agassiz, Charles Bulfinch, Richard Henry Dana, Anne Hutchinson, 
Cotton Mather and Washington Allston.  $75.00

4.  FOX, CHARLES. J.  HISTORY OF THE OLD TOWNSHIP OF DUNSTABLE; 
INCLUDING NASHUA, NASHVILLE, HOLLIS, HUDSON, LITCHFIELD, AND 
MERRIMAC, N.H.; DUNSTALE AND TYNGSBOROUGH, MASS. Nashua: Charles T. 
Gill, 1846. Illustrated by five plates. First edition. Brown cloth 
with blind embossed rules, rebacked with black cloth and original 
title pasted down. 8" x 4.75". [278 pgs] Very good. Mild scattered 
foxing to contents, with some marginal pencil notations.  Some shelf 
wear to extremities.  Contents otherwise clean and tight.  $150.00

5.  GOZZALDI, MRS. MARY. ISABELLA.  SUPPLEMENT AND INDEX TO HISTORY 
OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 1630-1877 WITH A GENEALOGICAL REGISTER BY 
LUCIUS R. PAIGE. Cambridge: Cambridge Historical Society, 1930. First 
edition. Brown cloth with gilt lettering at front board and spine. 
9.5" x 5.75". [860 pgs] Near fine. Clean and tight.  $150.00

6.  HUNTOON, DANIEL. T.V.  HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CANTON, NORFOLK 
COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. Cambridge: Town of Canton, 1893. Illustrated 
by twenty b&w illustrations and three fold-out maps. First edition. 
Navy blue cloth with gilt embossed design at front board, gilt 
lettering and rules at spine; beveled boards. 9" x 5.75". [666 pgs] 
Near fine. Beautifully bound with minimal shelf wear to extremities. 
Contents are clean and tight.  $150.00

7.  LYMAN, PAYSON.  HISTORY OF EASTHAMPTON: "ITS SETTLEMENT AND 
GROWTH; ITS MATERIAL, EDUCATION AND RELIGIOUS INTERESTS, TOGETHER 
WITH A GENEALOGICAL RECORD OF ITS ORIGINAL FAMILIES. ". Northampton: 
Trumbull & Gere, 1866. First edition. Original embossed brown cloth, 
rebacked. 12mo. [192 pgs] Laid-in is a Centennial Souvenir of 
Easthampton, dated 1885, commemorating the founding of Easthampton in 
1785. Lists all manner of celebrating, including fireworks near the 
house of A. B. Lyman on Main Street.  $125.00

8.  PAIGE, LUCIUS. R.  HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. 1630-1877 
WITH A GENEALOGICAL REGISTER AND MANUCRIPT MATERIAL. Boston: H. O. 
Houghton and Company, 1877. Illustrated by a portrait frontispiece of 
Paige, plus five town plans. First edition. Original brown cloth with 
gilt lettering at spine. Signed by Edward F. Everett, 1877, 
Cambridge. Lieutenant Civil War, genealogist. 9.5" x 5.75". [731 pgs] 
Near fine. Included with this important work, are two hand-written 
notes by the author; the first addressed to Mr. S. A. Drake 
(important American historian)  and the other to F. Kidder Esq. 
(Civil War historian). Front inner hinge paper is split. Rebacked 
with original spine laid-down.  Contents are tight and clean.  $250.00

9.  PERLEY, SIDNEY.  HISTORY OF BOXFORD, ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, 
FROM THE EARLIEST SETTLEMENT KNOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME: A PERIOD OF 
ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS, THE. Boxford, Mass: Privately 
Published, 1880. Illustrated by nine b&w plates. First edition. Brown 
cloth with blind embossed designs to boards, gilt lettering and 
design at spine. 9.25" x 5.75". [418 pgs] Very good. Front inner 
hinge is cracked, outer hinge cloth split and appears to have been 
repaired. Corner cloth is worn, with minor shelf wear at extremities. 
Previous owner's signatures at free end papers, and a penciled 
notation at title page.  Four laid in contemporary news paper pieces. 
Mild scattered staining and foxing to contents.  $175.00

10.  QUINCY, JOSIAH.  MUNICIPAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND CITY OF 
BOSTON DURING TWO CENTURIES. FROM SEPTEMBER 17, 1630 TO SEPTEMBER 17, 
1830, A. Boston: Charles C. Litte and James Brown, 1852. Illustrated 
by two b&w engravings. One is a lovely view of Faneuil Hall and 
market by Billings. First edition. Brown cloth with blind embossed 
designs to boards, gilt lettering and design at spine. 9.5" x 5.75". 
[444 pgs] Good. Previous owner's bookplate at paste-down, with 
another previous owner's signature at ffep. Some loss of cloth at 
head and tail of spine, front board corners worn, minor wear at other 
extremities.  Binding split at page 108.  Contents are bright and 
un-opened.  $95.00

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