19TH C. BROADSIDE

Black ink on off-white paper, oak frame and glazed, "First Brigade Muster, Steamer Wm. Harrison, Leaves Hingham for Strawberry Hill Muster Field...Fare Round Trip,...50 Cents...J.E. Farewell & Co, Printers, 37 Congress, Boston", wrinkles but overall good condition, 24" x 17", (ex. G. Lincoln collection; ex. John P. Richardson collection).

19TH C. BROADSIDE

Blue ink on cream white paper, framed and glazed, "Opera House! The Citizens of Utica and vicinity are respectfully informed that the eminent actor Mr. Edwin Booth...will appear for one night only...Hamlet...", (Edwin Booth was the older brother of John Wilkes Booth; his role of Hamlet was the most famous of the 19th c.), some foxing, wrinkles, minor discoloration, 23 1/2" x 9" (sight), (ex. John P. Richardson collection).

FOUR 19TH C. CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPHS

Yosemite Valley, California, scenes of fallen redwood trees, horseback tours, all stamped "Geo. Fiske", one signed in ink "Geo. Fiske - Yosemite Valley", 7 1/2" x 4 1/4", (ex. John P. Richardson collection).

"TWO LEGGINS" PHOTOGRAPH

Framed photograph, Edward S. Curtis, "Orig. Sepia Toned Silver print identified in Curtis' hand, x2641, 'Two Leggins' ", "(b. 1848, River Crow...A great war leader...captured over 130 horses, took many scalps, This image is not published", (ex. John P. Richardson collection). 

PEN & INK AND WATERCOLOR

On paper laid down on inside of a book cover, dated "1817", "D. Martiners Lutherus", figure holding a bible, "fecit Johan August Richter", calligraphic decoration in old German script, small water stain on bottom, 13" x 9 1/2", (ex. Solomon Lincoln collection; ex. John P. Richardson collection).

ENGRAVING OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

19th c. framed and glazed, signed engraving of Oliver Wendell Holmes, portrait of Holmes signed in pencil l.r. "Epes Sargent from his Friend OW Holmes", "Sargent was an American Journalist, post/dramatist, advocate of Spiritualism", shows foxing, 7" x 4 1/2", (ex. Solomon Lincoln collection; ex. John P. Richardson collection).

18TH C. DOCUMENT

Partial printed 18th c. document dated March 27, 1762, enlisting Ebenezer Lothrop as a soldier in the Service of the King, Province of Massachusetts Bay, "before me the subscriber, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace" James Otis (twice signed), Note: he became known as "Father of the American Revolution", gold framed, 4 1/2" x 6" (sight), (JPR collection).

18TH C. DOCUMENT

Rare document "Commonwealth of Massachusetts with House of Representatives November 27, 1780, A Resolve prescribing the form of Inlistment for those men belonging to this Commonwealth...until the end of the present war with Britain...Caleb Davis Speaker...Read and Concurred Jeremiah Powell President, Approved John Hancock...", "from Solomon Lincoln's papers, Gen. Joseph Palmer's copy" (JPR), framed and glazed, 10" x 8" (sight), (JPR collection).

EARLY 20TH C. WANTED POSTER

"Notice, do you know anything about name C.H. Darlington...Crime, Burglary, Committed at Santa Barbara, April 10, 1910...We are informed he once shot a man...", from the author Henry Beston collection, and "was one of the many things that adorned the walls of the Henry's study at their Ship Street, Hingham, Mass. home...Shipcote.", framed and glazed, 12" x 9" (sight), (ex. Mrs. Beston; ex. John P. Richardson collection).

RARE BROADSIDE

"Caution to Bird Killers", rare broadside, black ink on paper, "Committee appointed by the Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society to enforce the laws of the State for the preservation of certain birds...Hingham, June 24 1864, Blossom & Easterbrook, PRS, Hingham.", (Note: printed copy on reverse from "The Bulletin of Massachusetts Audubon Society"), framed and glazed, 14" x 10 1/2" (sight), (JPR collection).

BROADSIDE

19th c. broadside, "Sports & Amusements at the Hingham Agricultural Fair...Trial of the Fire Engines...and "Free Exhibition of Punch and Judy", Wheelbarrow Race, once round the Track...Running in Sacks...Hingham Sept 13, 1873", signed on back "W.D. Lincoln in pencil, water stain at base, small break in glass, pine frame, (JPR collection).

AUCTION BROADSIDE

"December 26th and 27th...All of the remaining stock of Dry Goods, Groceries and Varieties...C.B. Whitcomb & Co. So. Hingham, John K. Corbett, Auctioneer...1851.", framed and glazed, (Note: The "A" was left out of Auction in the first line), 11" x 11 1/2". 

19TH C. BROADSIDE

"Standing Wood at Auction...", "The Above Wood is of Good Growth, and is a mixture of Hard and Pine and will be sold in lots to suit purchasers", "J.K. Corbett Auctioneer, Hingham December 5, 1853.", "T. Thaxter land", "from the collections of Hingham Historian, George Lincoln" (JPR), some staining and wrinkles, 12" x 12 1/2" (sight), (JPR collection).

19TH C. BROADSIDE

Small rare 19th c. Temperance broadside, "The Reformed Sailor", a lecture on Temperance at "The Town Hall this evening 24th at 7 1/2 o clock.", "acquired from Mason A. Foley...and hung in the small bar room of my Uncle's estate @ 192 So. Pleasant St. I acquired it from him" (JPR), 8 1/2" x 9 1/2" (framed), (JPR collection).

BROADSIDE

19th c. broadside, black ink on yellow paper, "Old Colony R.R., Main line Division. Superior Court at Plymouth, Special Train. ...leave Plymouth for Hingham...at 5:10 P.M. ...will leave Hingham for Plymouth via Cohasset and Duxbury at 6:40 P.M., Boston October 24 1884.", good condition, shrink wrapped on poster board, note on back "from Warren Jacobs Old Colony RR Collection, Hingham, Mass." (JPR). 

ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS

Child, Francis James; English and Scottish Ballads, 8 vols., Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1860. Very finely bound in blue leather, gilded boards, cover with anchor and dolphin, gilded papers. Very fine condition. Note: contains the "Legend of King Arthur" and "St. George and the Dragon"; (ex. Charles Deane library; ex. John P. Richardson). 

19TH C. FOLIO PRINT

Large 19th c. folio print of "The Old Meeting House, Hingham, Mass., Erected 1681...Wm. Hudson Jr. del. from Nature and on Stone.", small handwritten note on left reads "Taken from the Ruins of the Old Cushing House at Pear Tree Hill FB 1884", appears to be early frame and glass, some tears at top and sides, overall toning and slight staining, 17" x 23" (sight), (JPR collection).

REVOLUTIONARY DOCUMENT/BROADSIDE

Rare 18th c. Revolutionary document/broadside (General Joseph Palmer's copy and signed by him in red ink), with a call to arms at the start of the American Revolution a few days after the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775, "In Provincial Congress, at Watertown, April 23, 1775, Resolved that the following Establishment of Forces now immediately be raised for the Recovery and Preservation of our undoubted Rights and Liberties, be as fellows, viz.", a listing of payment per month for soldiers in each Regiment from Colonel to Private Centinel and that coats and blankets be furnished the soldiers, from each Town and Districts, framed in a 19th c. frame, on the reverse a typed and written history of General Palmer (1716-1788), "...This broadside was part of the papers of Solomon Lincoln, Hingham, Mass." (JPR). 

SPEECHES OF HON. EDMUND BURKE

Four vols., The Speeches of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall, 1816, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly, exceptional leather gilded bindings, very fine condition, includes important speeches on the Conciliation with the Colonies, and American Taxation before the Revolutionary War, (JPR collection).

JOURNAL OF JOSEPH W. CLIFT

An important manuscript diary/journal of Joseph W. Clift "while acting Asst. Surgeon USA in the field from Aug 30th 1862 to July 30th 1863 inclusive.", some pages are missing, very legible writing, (Clift was assigned to Capt. Andrew Cowans Battery of the 1st N.Y. Volunteers and described many of the battles of that year. His descriptions were also sent to Newspapers in NY and set in print with the byline "J.W.C."); (from the collection of the late Frederick Hagar). 

THE OUTERMOST HOUSE BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; copy from Outermost House #2, 1st edition, 1928, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, hard-cover. Original dust jacket, some browning but overall good to fine. On fly leaf: "Signed for Joseph LaCroix Esq. by his old friend the author Henry Beston". Ex Libris: stamped "The Fo'castle H Beston" on the front of the dust jacket as well as on the fly leaf. Also includes a tipped in poem in blue ink, "Original Verse 1928", "To a Dartymoor Cow", "A Devon Cow will climb a tor, She can do all but fly, But where she climbs, we climb no more, Pray do not ask us why.". Photographs by William A. Bradford. Very rare volume originally from Beston's own collection. Also includes a contemporary news clipping from a Boston newspaper with a very favorable review of Outermost House, (JPR collection).

HENRY BESTON'S BACKPACK BOARD & BINOCULARS

Maple, canvas and rope, "acquired from ECB...belonged to her husband...thought he had used it at the Outermost House for packing in necessaries." (JPR tag), 31" l, 1" w; Binoculars (one of two) used by Henry Beston at Outermost House, Eastham, Cape Cod, from 1926, "acquired from his wife Elizabeth Beston in 197.", JPR, Carl Zeiss, Jena, 8x24; (JPR collection).

THE OUTERMOST HOUSE, LIFE ON... BY HENRY BESTON

Beston, Henry; 2nd Edition, 1929, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, hard-cover. Condition: near fine. Dust jacket: small tear upper right (in plastic cover), light brown spotting on spine. Signed on flyleaf "H B 1930". Photographs by William A. Bradford. Note: from Henry Beston's personal collection - acquired from Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston by J.P.R.

HENRY BESTON'S OIL LAMP, LIGHTER, CAMERA, ETC.

Oil lamp; ink bottle with ink, pen and two mechanical pencils; lighter; camera and photographs; glass plate; lamp inscribed "H.B., Fo'castle" on side; cylindrical ink bottle with wood stopper, 3 1/4" h; cigarette lighter marked "HB" in black; and "VP Autographic Kodak Special, patd. 1913", with three photos of beach of the Outermost House, and negatives and a glass plate (8" x 4 3/4") of a shipwreck; (JPR collection).

A VOLUNTEER POILU BY HENRY SHEAHAN

Sheahan, Henry; 1st Edition, 1916, Atlantic Monthly Company, hard-cover, 218 pages. Book jacket: blue cover with title in gilt lettering. Condition: very good, except for small spot on edges of pages 61-66. Signed "Henry Sheahan" on inside front cover, signed on flyleaf "George M Sheahan 1916." (nephew of Henry Beston (Sheahan), also stamped "The Fo'castle H Beston", (JPR collection).

FULL SPEED AHEAD BY HENRY B BESTON

Beston, Henry; 1919, VG- to VF, Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, hard-cover. Green binding with orange lettering, photo illustrated. Presentation copy, signed on flyleaf "To Mrs. Thomas Lacey with all the best wishes of her wandering friend, "Henry B". Monday 21st April 1919", (JPR collection).