Portland, ME: Foreside Press. 1963. The Foreside Press was an amateur press established by Marybelle and Royal Boston in 1957 at Falmouth Foreside, Maine. The Bostons and the Press moved to Southern Pines, North Carolina in 1970. The output of the Press appears to have been limited to annual Christmas..... More
![Item #3671 United States. [Title on Box:] The Silent Teacher! Wiggin's Sectional Geography of...](https://bickerstaffs.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3671.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600561164)
New Haven, NY. U.S. Map Company. [ca. 1870s.]. Maps soiled and rubbed with very minor surface loss. One small piece, Vermont, is noticeably darker than the others and may be a facsimile. New archival box with original (and stained) label affixed. Overall, good. Assembled size: 11 3/4 x 17 1/2..... More
[Buckstown, ME]: [A.H. Holland], [1812.]. Sheet size: 17 ¾ x 9.” Woodcut dimensions: 2 ½ x 3 ½.”. This is a rare broadside by a remarkably talented 19th century Maine clergyman. Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) served as the pastor of the Blue Hill Congregational Church in Maine for 41 years..... More
Littleton, NH: C. Everett Parker, ca. 1920s. About 7 x 9 ½” on 8 ½ x 11” sheets. This group of six White Mountains views of “The Eastern Playground of America” is designated “Series One” on the original envelope. The views are: • The Mt. Washington Hotel from the..... More
![Item #3685 Anno Regni Annae Reginae... [caption title:] An Act for the Preservation of White and...](https://bickerstaffs.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3685.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1516129996)
Lomdon. Printed by the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceased... 1711. Disbound. This Act of Parliament made it illegal to harvest trees that were "fit for masts, not being the property of any private person" in many of the North American colonies. The fine for felling such a...... More
[Freeport, Maine, assumed.]: Circa 1800. Approximately 14 x 10." A nicely accomplished, though primitive, family register of the Seward and Eleanor Porter family. Two colorful plants with birds in their top branches fill the sides of the register. At the top hover two angel-like figures, one bearing an hour glass..... More
![Item #3713 Destruction de la Statue Royale a Nouvelle Yorck. [printed in mirror image.]. New York...](https://bickerstaffs.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3713.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1600610026)
Augsburg: Grave par Francois Xav. Habermann, Ca. late 18th century. Hand color, likely original. Full margins. Sheet size: about 15 ¾ x 19 ¼ .” Printed area: 11 ¼ x 15 ½. Statue-toppling is a time-honored political tradition, dating back at least as far as 16th century Italy. This engraving..... More
