Bar Association of the State of Massachusetts. Tributes of the Bar and of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth to the Memory of Walbridge Abner Field, Together With Memoirs Read Before the Massachusetts Historical Society. Cambridge: The University Press, 1905. 67 pp. [vi], [9]-67 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Original..... More
A Measure to Reduce Incidents of Arson in Lynn, Massachusetts [Broadside]. [Massachusetts]. Davis, Edward S., Mayor. City of Lynn! Mayor's Office, Oct. 4, 1859. By an Order of the City Council I Am Authorized and Instructed to Offer an Award of Five Hundred Dollars!.... Lynn, MA: Bay State Press, Central..... More
A Tax to Defray the Cost of the Revolutionary War [Broadside]. [Taxation]. [Massachusetts]. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (Tax No 3.). Boston, June, 1783. 16" x 10" broadside, amount of assessed tax and date added in manuscript by Thomas Ivers, treasurer and receiver-general of Massachusetts, his signature, dated October 1, 1783, below..... More
The Adventures of a New England Highwayman [Criminals]. [Massachusetts]. [Allan, James (1809-1837)]. Narrative of the Life of James Allen, Alias George Walton, Alias James H. York, Alias Burley Grove, The Highwayman. Being his Death-Bed Confession, To the Warden of the Massachusetts State Prison. Boston: Harrington & Co., Publishers, 1837. 32..... More
1823 Docket Book from Plymouth, Massachusetts [Manuscript]. [Massachusetts]. [Docket Book, Court of Common Pleas, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1823]. [26], [110] pp. Includes 3 thumb-tabbed indexes. Folio (13-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettering piece reading "Dockets/ 1823" to spine. Worn, about 45% of marbled paper lacking from boards, lower..... More
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Appealing Copy of the 1742 Acts and Laws of Massachusetts [Massachusetts]. The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary, to the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England. Boston: Printed and Sold by Samuel Kneeland and Timothy Green, 1742. 14 pp. [Bound with] The Table..... More
[Massachusetts]. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Published in Conformity to a Resolve of the Legislature of April 26, 1853. By the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Boston: White and Potter, 1853. 46. Pamphlet (6" x 9"). Disbound, binding secure, occasional foxing and light browning, some soiling to title page. $15..... More
[Massachusetts]. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1883. 65 pp. 6" x 9-1/2" stab-stitched pamphlet. Wrappers partially detached and chipped, text clean and secure. $45. More
Records of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention [Massachusetts]. Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Held in the Year 1788, and Which Finally Ratified the Constitution of the United States. Boston: William White, 1856. vii, [7], 442 pp. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Original paneled moire cloth, gilt..... More
187 to 168 in Favor of Ratification [Massachusetts]. [Federal Constitution]. Debates, Resolutions and Other Proceedings, Of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Convened at Boston, On the 9th of January, 1788, And Continued Until the 7th of February Following, For the Purpose of Assenting to and Ratifying the Constitution..... More
[Massachusetts]. Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates, Chosen to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts, Begun and Holden at Boston, November 15, 1820, And Continued by Adjournment to January 9, 1821. Reported for the Boston Daily Advertiser. New Edition, Revised and Corrected. Boston: Published at the Office..... More
[Massachusetts]. Publication of the Province Laws: A Stenographic Report of the Hearing Before the Joint Standing Committee on Printing of the Legislature of 1889, On the Order Introduced in the House by Mr. Shepard, of Danvers, Jan. 11, 1889, to Investigate the Work of the Commission On the Province Laws..... More
[Massachusetts]. Thirtieth Report: Judicial Council of Massachusetts for 1954. N.p, s.n., 1954. 105 pp. Folding tables. 6" x 9" pamphlet in later library binding. Internally clean. Ex-library. Institution stamps to title page and edges. $20. More
[Massachusetts]. Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates, Chosen to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts, Begun and Holden at Boston, November 15, 1820, And Continued by Adjournment to January 9, 1821. Reported for the Boston Daily Advertiser. New Edition, Revised and Corrected. Boston: Reported for the Daily..... More
Record of the Important Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820-1821 [Massachusetts]. [Constitution]. Journal of Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of Delegates, Chosen to Revise the Constitution of Massachusetts, Begun and Holden at Boston, November 15, 1820, And Continued by Adjournment to January 9, 1821. Reported for the Boston Daily Advertiser..... More
[Massachusetts]. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Prison Commissioners of Massachusetts, including Reports of All Prison Matters; with Statistics of Arrests, and of Criminal Prosecutions. For the Year 1913. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914. 200 pp. Original red gilt stamped cloth lightly rubbed and soiled. Very good..... More
Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution: A Presentation Copy from Joseph Story [Massachusetts]. [Constitution]. [Story, Joseph (1779-1845)]. Amendments of the Constitution of Massachusetts, Proposed by the Convention of Delegates, Assembled at Boston, On the Third Wednesday of November, A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Twenty. With their Address to the People of this..... More
[Massachusetts]. Howard, Paul D., Compiler. Reports of Contested Election Cases in the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the Years 1923-1942, Together with the Opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court Relating to Such Elections. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, [1942]. xii, 295 pp. Original..... More
[Massachusetts]. Woodman, Horatio, Compiler. Reports of Criminal Cases, Tried in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, Before Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, Judge of that Court from 1823 to 1843. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845. viii, 733, [1] pp. Original law calf, red lettering piece to spine..... More