Barnstable [Mass]: S. B. Phinney, 1840. 92 pp. 8vo. Stitched. First edition. The proceedings ended with a song: "But yet this barren sandy soil / a craddle was to me / and cooling breezes fann'd my brow / From yonder swelling sea." Removed, scattered foxing throughout, title page chipped at..... More

Groton, [MA]: n.p., 1855. 1 sheet. 46 x 17 cm ) 18 x 7 inches. Linen backed. First edition. October, 31, 1855. President of the Day, Geo. S. Boutwell. "The morning will be ushered in by the firing of salutes. At 10 o'clock the Procession will be formed at Liberty..... More

Boston: Wright & Potter, State Printers, 1869. 62 pp. Illus. with two folding charts. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. Inch chip to head of spine, else about very good with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Commandery of the State of Illinois on..... More

Boston: n.p., 1852. 7 pp. 8vo. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Includes names of the directors of each company. OCLC shows only two copies. Small chips and tears along the extremities, creased bottom edge and browning of wrappers, text clean, overall good+. More

Boston: n.p., 1849. 4 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A very good copy. More

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, 1785. [281]-313, [1] pp. [pp. 309-313 misnumbered 509-513]. Folio. Disbound. First edition. Among the acts and laws were the Act for the Regulation of Navigation and Commerce, which required exports only from US vessels, which highlighted the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, since..... More

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, 1786. [344]-434, [1] pp. Folio. Disbound. First edition. Among the laws was one for giving "Paul Revere and John Noyes, the exclusive privilege of erecting a Steam-Engine, for manufacturing Iron" as well as an "Act for the punishment of fornication" for which men were..... More

Boston: Printed by Adams and Nourse, 1783. [37-48] pp. Pages 45-48 misnumbered 41-44. Folio. Stitched, in original plain wrappers. First edition. Most important of the post Revolutionary war acts in this session were for granting to the U.S. Congress certain Imposts and Duties on foreign imported goods and to pay..... More

Boston: n.p., n.d.[1849]. 1 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. Amendments to Senate document no.145. A very good+ copy. More

Boston: Benjamin Russell, 1821. [2], 567-612, 3 pp. Index. Sm. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. The result of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820 was the passage of the first nine amendments to the constitution (five were rejected). They are first published here as "Amendments to the Constitution of..... More

Boston: True and Greene, 1829. [53-230], xii pp. Sm. 4to. Stitched paper wrappers. First edition. Includes "An act of incorporate the New England Asylum for the Blind," the first such institution in the country to education blind and deaf-blind children. Later renamed the Perkins Institute for the Blind, its most..... More