[Rarebooks] FS: 1801 Collections Massachusetts Historical Society

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the Year
M,DCCC”

Printed by Samuel Hall in Boston in 1801.

DISCUSSION: The 7th volume of the Society's "Collections" series which
provided the texts of historic documents from the 17th and 189th
centuries.

The MHS website notes- "On 24 January 1791, the Rev. Jeremy Belknap
invited nine like-minded Bostonians to join him in creating what they
would call simply, "The Historical Society," now the Massachusetts
Historical Society, the oldest organization in the United States devoted
to collecting materials for the study of American history. As he
envisioned it, the society would become a repository and a publisher
collecting, preserving,and disseminating resources for the study of
American history. Through their pledges of family papers, books, and
artifacts from their personal collections, the founding members made the
Society the nation's first historical repository by the end of their
initial meeting. With the appearance of their first title at the start of
1792, they also made the MHS the nation's first institution of any
description to publish in its field. In the absence of any other American
historical repositories in the 1790s, the MHS took on a broadly national
role, one still apparent in both its collections and its publications. As
other historical institutions were founded elsewhere, including the New
York Historical Society in 1804 and the American Antiquarian Society in
1812, the Society started to direct special attention to Boston,
Massachusetts, and New England. The continuing legacy of its early years
as the nation's only repository of American history, however, is a program
of collections and activities of national and international importance.
The Collections series, published since 1792, fulfills the Society's
mission by making documents from the manuscript collection available to
researchers beyond the walls of its library. These volumes adhere to the
highest standards of documentary editing."

Boston merchant Thomas Coffin Amory's copy, with his plate. The Harvard
Business School's Baker Library, which holds some of Amory's papers,
notes- "Thomas Coffin Amory, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Coffin) Amory,
was born in Boston in 1767. He married Hannah Rowe Linzee in 1785.
Following the family tradition, he became a merchant in Boston. In the
course of his business, he bought and sold all types of products and acted
as an exporter, wholesaler, importer and retailer, depending on what his
associates wished of him. Amory frequently sold his own products as well
as on consignment for standard commercial rates. In addition to the above
activities, Amory acted as a correspondent or agent for merchants in other
parts of the country as well as providing banking and money lending
services. Amory died in 1812."

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 6"x9.25", viii + 280 pages. Printer's light blue
pasteboards and paper spine with label. Untrimmed. Period-lettered name
"John" written large on the endpaper, above the crudely-trimmed name label
of T.C. Amory.

CONDITION NOTES: Spine paper chipped at the base and top, and covers with
wear and soil. Minor internal browning, hinges a bit weak.

PRICE: $275-

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