The Four Kings of Canada. Being a Succinct Account of the Four Indian Princes lately arriv'd from North America. with a particular Description of their Country, their strange and remarkable Religion, Feasts, Marriages, Burials, Remedies from their Sick, Customs, Manners, Constitution, Habits, Sports, War, Peace, Policy, Hunting, Fishing, Utensils belonging to the Savages, with several other Extraordinary Things worthy Observation, as to the natural or curious Productions, Beauty, or Fertility, of that Part of the World.

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Publisher: J.E. Garratt & Co: 1891

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2265379

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers lightly toned, 1/2 inch tear to spine head. 1891 Soft Cover. 47, [1] pp. Printed wrappers, sewn binding. 1891 reissue of 1710 original (Sabin 25282, Howes C106: These were Iroquois chiefs taken to London by Col. Schuyler of Albany.). An account of colonial Canada published for the British book trade, providing a great deal of contemporary detail about Native American culture, specifically within the Iroquois tribe. View more info

Guide to Historic Plymouth, Massachusetts: Localities and Objects of Interest (Illustrated)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Rogers Print: 1964

Seller ID: 2266374

Condition: Near Fine

Spine faintly creased. 1964 Small Softcover. 70 pp. A guide to Plymouth, Massachusetts, illustrated with black-and-white images. View more info

Brief History of the Pilgrims: A Continuous History. Their Formation in England, Life in Holland, Experiences throughout the Years of the Establishment at Plymouth. Taken from Bradford's History and Contemporaneous Writings of Bradford and Winslow.

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Burbank, Inc.:

Seller ID: 2266375

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date, text block beginning to loosen from stapled binding, first ten page edges bumped. 63 pp. Brief History of the Pilgrims: A Continuous History. Their Formation in England, Life in Holland, Experiences throughout the Years of the Establishment at Plymouth. Taken from Bradford's History and Contemporaneous Writings of Bradford and Winslow. View more info

Picture Guide to Historic Plymouth

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Pilgrim Society: 1963

Seller ID: 2267173

Condition: Very Good

Wrappers very faintly toned, faint crease along length of pamphlet near spine edge. 1963 Stapled Binding. 40 pp. A guide to colonial Plymouth, Massachusetts. Topics include a list of the Mayflower passengers; Plymouth Rock; Mayflower II; streets, churches, houses, burial hill; and more. Includes black-and-white illustrations. View more info

A Guide at a Glance of Historic Boston

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Rawding Distributing Co.: 1964

Seller ID: 2267176

Condition: Very Good

Spine lightly toned. 1964 Stapled Binding. 48 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Topics include: The State House and Historic Boston Common; Park Street Church; Old Granary Burial Ground; King's Chapel and Burial Ground; The Old South Meeting House; The Old State House; Faneuil Hall; Paul Revere House; Christ Church; Copp's Hill Burial Ground; U.S. Frigate Constitution; Bunker Hill Monument; and more. View more info

An Answer to John Robinson of Leyden, Now First Published from a Manuscript of A.D. 1609 (Harvard Theological Studies Series Volume IX [9])

By: A Puritan Friend; Burrage, Champlin

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2006047

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. An exceptional copy. 1920 Trade Paperback. xiii, 94 pp. Printed wrappers. The first appearance in print of an early 17th century manuscript written in response to the religious teachings of John Robinson, part of whose congregation became the group we now know as the Pilgrims. Text from Bodleian MS. Jones 30 at Oxford. Robinson, John (1575/6? - 1625), Church of England clergyman and separatist theologian, was born at Sturton, Notting... View more info

Three Episodes of Massachusetts History, in Two Volumes: The Settlement of Boston Bay, The Antinomian Controversy, A Study of Church and Town Government

By: Adams, Charles Francis

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1894

Edition: Fourth Edition

Seller ID: 2007289

Condition: Good

Fourth edition. Hinges weakening, vol. 1 front blanks repaired at binding. 1894 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. vi, 532; iv, [533]-1067 pp. 8vo. Fold-out map of Boston Bay and vicinity precedes text, fold-out map of Old Braintree in second volume. A work of colonial history focusing on three important events in Massachusetts: The Settlement of Boston Bay; The Antinomian Controversy; A Study of Church and Town Government. View more info

Sir Christopher Gardiner, Knight: An Historical Monograph. [From Vol. XX. of the Proc's of the Mass. Hist. Soc.], With Additions

By: Adams, Charles Francis

Price: $40.00

Publisher: John Wilson and Son, University Press: 1883

Seller ID: 2007291

Condition: Very Good

1883 printing. Rebound in red cloth, retaining original coral printed wrappers. Signed by author on front wrapper. Front wrapper loosening, boards lightly rubbed, bookplate of Charles Edwin Stratton on front endpaper. We have more books available by this author!. 36 pp. 8vo. A monograph originally published in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, detailing the story of Christopher Gardiner and his flight from the consequences of a rather duplicitous r... View more info

The March of Democracy, in Two Volumes: The Rise of the Union; From Civil War to World Power

By: Adams, James Truslow

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1933

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2200163

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lightly rubbed. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Complete in two volumes. xvi, 428; xix, 438. 8vo. Original beige cloth, gilt titles, red rules. This two volume set, covering from the colonial period through World War I, is the first edition of Adams's work, which he later expanded to include as many as seven volumes. View more info

The March of Democracy: The Rise of the Union (Volume I)

By: Adams, James Truslow

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Charles Scriber's Sons: 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2266170

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. No jacket, bookplate on front endpaper. 1932 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xvi, 428 pp. Volume 1 only of 2 volume set. CONTENTS: Discovery and Settlement; The Colonial System Takes Form; The Duel with France; American Life in 1763; The Insoluble Problems of the New Empire; The Revolution; The Federal Union Formed; The New Nation Gets Under Way; Jeffersonian Democracy; The Presidency of Jefferson; T... View more info

A Character of the Province of Maryland. Described in Four Distinct Parts. Also a Small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland, Their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Religion. Together with a Collection of Historical Letters. A New Edition with an Introduction and Copious Historical Notes. (Gowans' Bibliotheca Americana. 5) [Mary-Land]

By: Alsop, George; Shea, John Gilmary

Price: $120.00

Publisher: William Gowans.: 1869

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 2079685

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition. Corners rubbed with minor loss, interior in exceptional condition. 1869 Large Hardcover. 125, 40 pp. 4to. 1869 reissue of 1666 original. Limited edition, one of 64 large paper copies. Includes Alsop's original work and historical notes by John Gilmary Shea, with Gowans' Catalogue of American Books No. 27 bound in following text. Reproductions of early portrait and map. Reissue of Sabin 963. Howes A-188. View more info

The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths (The Chronicles of America Series)

By: Andrews, Charles M.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1921

Seller ID: 2267144

Condition: Good

Former library copy--usual marks. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1921 Hard Cover. ix, 210 pp. A history of Colonial America. CONTENTS: The Coming of the Pilgrims; The Bay Colony; Completing the Work of Settlement; Early New England Life; An Attempt at Colonial Union; Winning the Charters; Massachusetts Defiant; Wars with the Indians; The Bay Colony Disciplined; The Andros Regime in New England; The End of an Era; Bibliographical Note; Index. View more info

The Colonial Period of American History, in Four Volumes: The Settlements (3 Vols.); England's Commercial and Colonial Policy

By: Andrews, Charles M.; Labaree, Leonard W.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 1934

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 2048831

Condition: Very Good

1960-1964 printings, hardcover of first volume, paperbacks of 2-4. Spines of vols. 2-4 faded. 1934 Trade Paperback. xiv, 551; x, 407; xv, 354; xiii, 477 pp. A history of colonial America through 1700. Includes forewords by Leonard W. Labaree, and index following text of each volume. View more info

The Pilgrim Story

By: Atwood, W.F.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Memorial Press: 1940

Seller ID: 2266376

Condition: Very Good

Faint smudges to rear wrapper. 1940 Soft Cover. 74 pp. Includes woodcut illustrations. A concise history of the Pilgrims. View more info

The Pilgrim Story: Being Largely a Compilation from the Documents of Governor Bradford and Governor Winslow, Severally and in Collaboration; Together with a List of Mayflower Passengers.

By: Atwood, William Franklin; Schreiber, Leo

Price: $5.00

Publisher: The Memorial Press: 1958

Seller ID: 2206546

Condition: Near Fine

Very faintly toned. 1958 Stapled Binding. 76 pp. In the following limited pages the writer attempts to present something of the conditions obtaining in England prior to the Departure, also something of the struggles, privations, courage and forbearance during the first years of the settlement at Plymouth. In so doing dependence is place particularly upon the contemporaneous writings of Bradford and Winslow, both members of the Mayflower party.KEYWORDS: AMERICAN HISTORY C... View more info

The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century

By: Bailyn, Bernard

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1979

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2195252

Condition: Good

Second printing. Cover and pages toned, spine heavily creased, edges rubbed. 1979 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. x, 245 pp. By the middle of the eighteenth century the merchants were dominant figures in the northern American colonies, powerful economically, politically, and socially. But in New England this preeminence had not been present in the first years of settlement; it had been achieved in the course of three generations of social d... View more info

Massasoit's Town, Sowams in Pokanoket: Its History, Legends, and Traditions

By: Baker, Virginia

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Published by the Author: 1904

Seller ID: 2005865

Condition: Very Good

Paperback in gold slipcase and chemise. Minor loss from spine. 1904 Trade Paperback. 43 pp. Stapled binding, printed wrappers. A history of the town led by the sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy, who helped prevent the failure of the Plymouth Colony and the starvation of its settlers. Sowams was a Native American village on the peninsula of Pokanoket (what is now known as Warren, Rhode Island), and site of an early trading post set up by the Plymouth Colony. View more info

Tresor des Anciens Jesuites (Bulletin No. 153, No. 43 de la Serie Anthropologie)

By: Barbeau, Marius

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Musee National du Canada: 1957

Inscription: Signed by author

Seller ID: 2276391

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed to Hella Sachs and signed by author on title page. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed. 1957 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [1], 242 pp. French text. The title translates to 'Treasure of the Old Jesuits'. A study of artifacts left by the Jesuits, who colonized portions of Canada during the 17th century. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology... View more info

The History of Massachusetts, in Three Volumes: The Colonial Period; The Provincial Period; The Commonwealth Period.

By: Barry, John Stetson

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philips, Sampson, and Company / Published for the Author and for sale by His Agent, Henry Barry, at No. 20 Washington Street: 1855

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2006542

Condition: Good

First editions. Vol. I in fair condition with heavy wear to and significant loss from backstrip, front board nearly completely loose. Other two volumes good - front hinge of vol. II loose, front joint split, one gathering in vol. III sprung. With some restoration, this could be an attractive set. 1855 Hard Cover. xii, 516; xii, 514; xii, 468. pp. 8vo. An extensive history of Massachusetts from the time of Christopher Columbus through 1820. The final volume includes an ex... View more info

Christopher Levett of York, the Pioneer Colonist in Casco Bay. [with] A Voyage into New England, Begun in 1623. and ended in 1624. (The Gorges Society. V.)

By: Baxter, James Phinney; Levett, Christopher

Price: $200.00

Publisher: The Gorges Society: 1893

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 1981566

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition (unnumbered). Spine lightly creased with a few faint splits to backstrip, minor loss from spine head and edges. 1893 Trade Paperback. xii, 166 pp. Original wrappers. One of 200 copies. The last book published by The Gorges Society (one of only five publications), combining a biography of one of the earliest Maine colonists with his original 1628 memoirs. These include firsthand accounts of Native Americans, the countryside, and detailed descriptions of ho... View more info

Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine (Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, First Series: Monographs, Volume V [5])

By: Beall, Otho T.; Shryock, Richard H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins Press: 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2005526

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1954 Hard Cover. ix, 241 pp. 8vo. A new perspective on the life of the prominent Puritan minister, focusing on his contributions to early American medicine, and providing the historical context of the medical world during his lifetime. Mather is remembered as among the first Americans to advocate inoculation against disease. View more info

Sowams: With Ancient Records of Sowams and Parts Adjacent - Illustrated

By: Bicknell, Thomas W.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Associated Publishers of American Records: 1908

Edition: Limited Edition

Seller ID: 2005871

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, #302 of an unspecified limitation. 1908 Hard Cover. vi, 194, [10] pp. Original green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. A history of the town led by the sachem of the Wampanoag Confederacy, who helped prevent the failure of the Plymouth Colony and the starvation of its settlers. Sowams was a Native American village on the peninsula of Pokanoket (what is now known as Warren, Rhode Island), and site of an early trading post set up by the Plymouth Colony. I... View more info

Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

By: Bobrick, Benson

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1997

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 2260791

ISBN: 0684810603

Condition: Near Fine

2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 553 pp. George Washington at Valley Forge, Benedict Arnold's treason at West Point, Corwallis's defeat at Yorktown--these are the characters and events most Americans remember from their high-school history lessons about the Revolutionary War. Yet the war itself is so removed from us in time, its villains and heroes so remote, that it fails to grasp the place in popular imag... View more info

John Adams and the American Revolution

By: Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company: 1950

Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)

Seller ID: 2264384

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Lacks jacket. Spine slightly faded, jacket flaps and rear panel mounted on front and rear blanks, publisher's insert laid in. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 699 pp. 8 1/2 x 5 7/8. Map illustrated endpapers. In this highly praised biography of the formative years of the America's second president, Mrs. Bowen portrays John Adams within the context of colonial America and examines the momentous events that forged a new nati... View more info

The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison

By: Brant, Irving

Price: $60.00

Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1970

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2265421

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Spine ends lightly bumped. 1970 Hard Cover. [viii], 681, [3] pp. 8vo. A one-volume biography of the fourth president of the United States, adapted from the six-volume biography Brant spent twenty years writing. View more info

The Fourth President: A Life of James Madison (The Library of the Presidents)

By: Brant, Irving

Price: $30.00

Publisher: The Easton Press: 1985

Edition: Reissue

Seller ID: 2274891

Condition: Near Fine

Publisher's insert and blank bookplate laid in. Minor scuff on page base. 1985 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. [viii], 681, [3] pp. 8vo. Original full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, ribbon marker bound in. A one-volume biography of the fourth president of the United States, adapted from the six-volume biography Brant spent twenty years writing. View more info

We the People Six Volume Set: The Plymouth Colony; The Thirteen Colonies; The Declaration of Independence; The Bill of Rights; The Lewis and Clark Expedition; The Battle of Gettysburg

By: Burgan, Michael; Santella, Andrew; Nobleman, Marc Tyler; Quiri, Patricia Ryon

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Compass Point Books: 2001

Seller ID: 2201755

Condition: Very Good

No visible wear. Nice bright copies. 2001 Hard Cover. Includes: The Plymouth Colony; The Thirteen Colonies; The Declaration of Independence; The Bill of Rights; The Lewis and Clark Expedition; The Battle of Gettysburg.Keywords: AMERICAN HISTORY CIVIL WAR DECLARATION INDEPENDENCE PLYMOUTH COLONY BILL OF RIGHTS LEWIS CLARK NEW WORLD View more info

A Prospect of the Colleges in Cambridge in New England Engraved by Wm. Burgis in 1726 [Colleges]

By: Burgis, Wm. [William]; Andrews, William Loring

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Dodd, Mead and Company: 1897

Edition: First Thus

Seller ID: 2163501

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Bookplate on front endpaper, gatefold frontispiece loose but included. 1897 Hard Cover. 38 pp. 4to. 1897 reissue of 1726 original. A collection of early images of Harvard University, originally produced in 1726, and re-released here with descriptive text, including correspondence between Thomas Hollis and former Harvard President E. Holyoke. View more info

The Narragansett Mortgage: The Documents Concerning the Alien Purchases in Southern Rhode Island, Issued at the General Court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, December 30, 1925

By: Burlingame, Edwin Aylsworth; Council of the Society

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Printed for the Society by E.L. Freeman Company: 1925

Seller ID: 2007192

Condition: Very Good

Includes original jacket. Jacket spine mostly lost, jacket toned. Goodspeed catalog number in pencil on front endpaper. 1925 Hard Cover. 45 pp. Printed on the 250th anniversary of the Great Swamp Fight, an important part of the Indian Wars in colonial America. An account of the land transactions which ultimately caused the Great Swamp Fight. View more info

An Account of the Late Revolution in New-England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent. April 18. 1689. (Sabin's Reprints, Quarto Series. No. I. [1])

By: Byfield, Nathaniel

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Reprinted for Joseph Sabin: 1865

Seller ID: 2007785

Condition: Good

Former library copy (Lowell City Library), usual marks. Binding edge corners of pages lightly stained. 1865 Hard Cover. 26, [1] pp. 4to. 8 3/4 x 7 1/8. Rubricated title page, laid paper. 1865 reissue of 1689 original. Numerous blanks follow text. Sabin 9709: Edition, 250 copies, of which 50 are on large paper. No colophon or other indication of limitation. An account of the uprising in Boston against Sir Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, who promote... View more info