[Rarebooks] FS: 1859 East Cambridge & Cambridgeport Massachusetts History

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

“Two Hundred Years Ago; or, A Brief History of Cambridgeport and East 
Cambridge, with notices of some of the early settlers. A Christmas and 
Birthday Gift for Young persons”

By Sophia S. Simpson.
Published in Boston by Otis Clapp in 1859.

An interesting informal history of Cambridgeport through the 17th and 
18th centuries, including some reminiscences of the author's life there 
as a girl in the early 19th century. Perhaps most interesting is her 
vivid and memorable account of the "Great Gale" (a Category 3 hurricane) 
of September 23, 1815.

Hardcover. 5"x6", 111 pages, woodcut frontispiece of the Inman House and 
1 black & illustration. Publisher's embossed blue cloth with a fancy 
gilt urn on the cover and elaborate gilt spine decorations. Covers 
somewhat rubbed, top and base of spine a bit threadbare. A few period 
pencil notations.  $65

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