STIMPSON, CHARLES JR (7 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book is a comprehensive directory of Boston, its residents, and their professions, which also includes listings of all businesses, major municipal organizations, and government offices in and around the city. The 1825 directory contains information about the city's stagecoach and baggage delivery services, the various insurance agencies, and even the city's fire and marine insurance offices. The work is a valuable record of the city's institutions and economy at a time of major changes in both shipbuilding and manufacturing. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the stationery, educational supplies, and other retail items popular in the mid-1800s in Boston. The author, a Boston-based merchant and stationer, offers a detailed account of the types of Boston businesses that sold these products, including their locations and specialties. The book also includes a directory of Boston streets and wharves which would have been commonly known during the author's time. The author's meticulous documentation of Boston's retail landscape in the years leading up to the Civil War provides a rich resource for historians and anyone interested in the material culture of the era. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Boston: Charles Stimpson, Jr., 1835. 1835 Boston city directory, including a folding map, and a 26 page advertising section at the front. Printed hardcover with brown cloth spine, 6.25" tall, 26, 395, [1] pages, including a five page separate listing for "people of color". Covers heavily worn and spotted, binding strip and endpapers possibly replaced at some point in the early 20th century, hinges lightly cracked but secure, text block sound, pages age-darkened but clean, modern name and address stamp in blue at the top of the first page of the advertising section and at the bottom of the final page, map foxed and with numerous old repairs to the reverse side using clear paper tape, some additional separation along fold lines, but complete. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Later cloth, with original front paper cover laid down. Folding map frontis published by Stimpson in 1837. 14, 414 [misprinted as 314] pp. Inner hinge cracked, text clean and Very Good. With the information contained in the title, plus advertisements and the folding map. A separate directory for 'People of Color', with addresses and occupations, is at pages 409-414. Spear 52. AI 46914 [4].