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The art of color : the subjective experience and objective rationale of color

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Aug 8, 2022 08/22

Aug 8, 2022 Itten, Johannes, 1888-1967; van Haagen, Ernst, translator

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Translation of: Kunst der Farbe
( 10 reviews )
Topics: Color, Painting, Aesthetics
Source: folio

Four generations of the descendants of John and Dorcus Pearson of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1643

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Aug 3, 2022 08/22

Aug 3, 2022 Pramberg, Noreen C. (Noreen Cook), 1933-

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Spine title: Four generations of descendants of John & Dorcus Peterson
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Pearson family, Pearson, John, 1616?-1693

Advice to passengers & shippers by the steam-ships and sailing-vessels of the Hamburg-American Packet Company

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Jul 28, 2022 07/22

Jul 28, 2022 Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft

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36 p. : 22 cm
( 2 reviews )
Topics: Ocean travel, Travel

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Kasserine Pass

Jul 17, 2022 07/22

Jul 17, 2022 Blumenson, Martin

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341 pages 23 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Tunisia, Military campaigns, Tunisia

1,986 2.0K

The house without a key

Jun 23, 2022 06/22

Jun 23, 2022 Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933

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316 p. ; 19 cm
( 3 reviews )

1,354 1.4K

Sacred books of the East

Jun 21, 2022 06/22

Jun 21, 2022

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( 1 reviews )

The history of the island of Antigua, one of the Leeward Caribbees in the West Indies, from the first settlement in 1635 to the present time

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Jun 13, 2022 06/22

Jun 13, 2022 Oliver, Vere Langford

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"List of works consulted": v. 1, p. [iii]-iv
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Antigua -- Genealogy, Antigua -- History
Source: bplill

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Wolcott genealogy

May 25, 2022 05/22

May 25, 2022 Griffen, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1914-; Alegre, Mitchell R; Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott

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Includes index
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Wolcott family

Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia, with some of their family records

7,173 7.2K

May 14, 2022 05/22

May 14, 2022 Dabney, William H. (William Henry), 1817-1888

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Frontispiece is a mounted photograph
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Dabney family
Source: bplsocsci

Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

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May 11, 2022 05/22

May 11, 2022 Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

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Vols. 16-48 include accompanying papers
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology, Ethnology, Indians
Source: bplgovdocs

Nicholas Jackson of Rowley, Massachusetts, and his descendants, 1635-1976 : with allied lines

177 177

May 2, 2022 05/22

May 2, 2022 Jackson, Blake Smith, 1901-

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Includes bibliographical references and index
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Jackson family, Belding family, Blake family

Report of the congressional committees investigating the Iran- Contra Affair : with supplemental, minority, and additional views

13,329 13K

Apr 29, 2022 04/22

Apr 29, 2022 United States. Congress. House. Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran; United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition

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"November 1987"--Cover
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990, Military assistance, American, Political corruption
Source: bplgovdocs

A history of the town and parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the county palatine of Chester

14,140 14K

Apr 22, 2022 04/22

Apr 22, 2022 Hall, James, of Nantwich

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xvi, 531, [1] p. 29 x 22 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Nantwich (England) -- Genealogy, Nantwich (England) -- History
Source: bplill

South shore rail rapid transit extension, preliminary impact study

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Apr 8, 2022 04/22

Apr 8, 2022 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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various paging; maps ; cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Land use -- Massachusetts -- Quincy, Land use -- Massachusetts -- Wollaston, Local transit --...

Orange line relocation and arterial street construction (southwest corridor project), South Cove to...

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Apr 8, 2022 04/22

Apr 8, 2022 Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

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2 volumes; maps, ill., photos ; cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Accidents -- Massachusetts -- Boston Metro Area, Labor supply -- Massachusetts -- Boston Metro...

Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives

1,819 1.8K

Apr 4, 2022 04/22

Apr 4, 2022 Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State

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17 v. 27 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Massachusetts. Militia, United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Registers, Massachusetts --...

Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives

2,327 2.3K

Apr 4, 2022 04/22

Apr 4, 2022 Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State

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17 v. 27 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Massachusetts. Militia, United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783 Registers, Massachusetts --...

Genealogy of the Fo(r)ster family; descendants of Reginald Foster, who settled in Ipswich, Essex County, Mass. A.D. 1638

1,978 2.0K

Mar 30, 2022 03/22

Mar 30, 2022 Forster, Edward Jacob, 1846-1896

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Reprinted from the Historical and genealogical register
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Foster family
Source: bplsocsci

Books for People with Print Disabilities

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Niagara, a novel

Mar 8, 2022 03/22

Mar 8, 2022 Butor, Michel; Michel Butor Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

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Translation of 6810000 [i.e. Six million huit cent dix mille] litres d'eau par seconde; étude stéréophonique
( 1 reviews )

Col. H.C. Hart's new and improved instructor for the drum : with original notation

536 536

Feb 10, 2022 02/22

Feb 10, 2022 Hart, H. C., Colonel

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Boston Public Library (Music Department) copy: lacking all prior to p.3
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Drum

Genealogical record of Nathaniel Babcock, Simeon Main, Issac Miner, Ezekiel Main,

9,547 9.5K

Feb 5, 2022 02/22

Feb 5, 2022 Brown, Cyrus Henry, b. 1829

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362 p. : 23 1/2 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Babcock, James, 1612?-1679, Babcock family, Main, Simeon, 1772-1821, Miner, Isaac, 1773-1836, Minor...

Boston Public Library Anti-Slavery Collection

7,287 7.3K

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave

Feb 4, 2022 02/22

Feb 4, 2022 Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Mallory, S. V. R., former owner; Mallory, L. C., former owner

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Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) ex libris (bookplate): S.V.R. Mallory; (inscription) L.C. Mallory
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Slavery, African American...
Source: bplscas

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My secrets of beauty

Jan 26, 2022 01/22

Jan 26, 2022 Cavalieri, Lina, 1874-1944

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317 p. : 20 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Beauty, Personal, Cosmetics

McAlpin(e) genealogies, 1730-1990 : Alexander McAlpin of South Carolina and Georgia and his descendants, plus other McAlpin(e) families of North America

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Jan 14, 2022 01/22

Jan 14, 2022 Russell, Doris McAlpin, 1934-

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
( 2 reviews )
Topics: McAlpine family, McAlpin, Alexander, d. 1790
Source: lendinglibrary

Medieval English ancestors of certain Americans : many of the English ancestral lines prior to 1300 of those colonial Americans with known royal ancestry but fully developed in all possible lines

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Jan 9, 2022 01/22

Jan 9, 2022 Boyer, Carl, 1937-

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-275) and indexes
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Families of royal descent, Nobility

VA scarce medical specialist program : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, first session, May 19, 1993

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Jan 3, 2022 01/22

Jan 3, 2022 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations

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Includes bibliographical references
( 1 reviews )
Topics: United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Medical care --...

Meeting the needs of homeless veterans : hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, February 23, 1994

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Jan 3, 2022 01/22

Jan 3, 2022 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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iv, 129 p. : 24 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Homeless veterans -- United States, Veterans -- Services...
Source: bplgovdocs

Travels and adventures of Little Baron Trump : and his wonderful dog Bulger

20,322 20K

Dec 19, 2021 12/21

Dec 19, 2021 Lockwood, Ingersoll, b. 1841; Edwards, George Wharton, 1859-1950, ill

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Bound in gold cloth ; stamped in gold and brown ; decorated endpapers
( 1 reviews )

The Thomas Pennant Barton Shakespeare Collection at the Boston Public Library

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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare : in ten volumes : collated verbatim with the most authentick copies, and revised, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators : to which are added, an essay on the chronological order of his plays; an essay relative to Shakspeare and Jonson [sic]; a dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI; an historical account of the English stage; and notes

Dec 13, 2021 12/21

Dec 13, 2021 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Malone, Edmond, 1741-1812, editor; Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, author of introduction; Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744, author of introduction; Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718, author of introduction; Steevens, George, 1736-1800, author of introduction; Knight, Charles, 1743-1827? engraver; Holloway, Thomas, 1748-1827, engraver; Birrell, A., active 1770-1820, engraver; Sherwin, J. K. (John Keyse), 1751-1790, engraver; Sharp, William, 1749-1824, engraver; Baldwin, Henry,...

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Each volume with vol. half-titles and dated vol. title pages; each play with a divisional title page
( 1 reviews )

The story of Little Black Sambo

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Dec 4, 2021 12/21

Dec 4, 2021 Bannerman, Helen, 1862-1946; Neill, John R. (John Rea), ill

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Also includes ''The story of Topsy'' from Uncle Tom's Cabin
( 4 reviews )
Source: bplill

The Wales family : a genealogy : emphasizing the descendants of Nathaniel Wales, the immigrant who died in Boston in 1661, leading to Horatio Wales (1810-1895) who moved to Illinois in 1836, and then emphasizing his descendants

169 169

Nov 26, 2021 11/21

Nov 26, 2021 Wales, Charles P. (Charles Porter), 1926-

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-107) and index
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Wailes family, Wales, Nathaniel, 1586-1661

A history of the Cobb family

2,869 2.9K

Nov 13, 2021 11/21

Nov 13, 2021 Cobb, Philip Lothrop, b. 1870; Cobb, John L., 1913-

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pts. 1-3. [Barnstable family]--pt. 4. Boston family
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Cobb family

Handbook to the vocal works of Brahms : preceded by a didactic section and followed by copious...

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Nov 10, 2021 11/21

Nov 10, 2021 Evans, Edwin; Evans, Edwin, 1844-1923

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xviii, 599 p. : 23 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Vocal music

Lonely hours : a text book of knitting

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Nov 4, 2021 11/21

Nov 4, 2021 American Lady; American Lady, active 19th century, author

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72 pages ; 15 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Knitting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Un autre monde : transformations, visions, incarnations ... et autres choses

7,192 7.2K

Oct 27, 2021 10/21

Oct 27, 2021 Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847

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Title page printed in red; book is bound in original green publisher's cloth
( 2 reviews )
Source: bplsc

The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

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Biographia Britannica : or, The lives of the most eminent persons who have flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the earliest ages, down to the present times

Oct 26, 2021 10/21

Oct 26, 2021 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; Boston Public Library) John Adams Library BRL

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Paged continuously, with the exception of supplement and appendix, etc., in last volume
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Biography

Annals of witchcraft in New England : and elsewhere in the United States, from their first settlement

1,825 1.8K

Oct 13, 2021 10/21

Oct 13, 2021 Drake, Samuel Gardner, 1798-1875

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Includes bibliographical references
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Witchcraft -- New England

Books for People with Print Disabilities

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Call in the night

Sep 24, 2021 09/21

Sep 24, 2021 Howatch, Susan

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( 1 reviews )

Carter, a genealogy of the descendants of Samuel and Thomas, sons of Rev. Samuel Carter : 1640-1886 : a contribution to the history of the first Carters of Lancaster, Lunenburg and Leominster, Massachusetts

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Sep 22, 2021 09/21

Sep 22, 2021 Carter, Clarabel Augusta Lincoln, b. 1833; Carter Association; Carter, Sarah Ann Fay, b. 1834

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272 p. ; 23 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Carter family, Massachusetts -- Genealogy

Incunabula

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Stultifera nauis : narragonice [pro]fectionis nunq[uam] satis laudata nauis

Sep 18, 2021 09/21

Sep 18, 2021 Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521

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For information about incunabula at the Boston Public Library, consult the library's incunabula research guide . CXXXXV, [3] leaves : 22 cm (4to)
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Folly -- Poetry, Folly -- Early works to 1800, Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800, Folly in art...

The works of the reverend and learned Mr. Henry Grove of Taunton : containing all the sermons, discourses, and tracts published in his life-time. In four volumes

408 408

Sep 12, 2021 09/21

Sep 12, 2021 Grove, Henry, 1684-1738; Amory, Thomas, 1701-1774, author of introduction, etc; Otis, James, 1725-1783, inscriber; Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814, inscriber; Warren, James, 1757-1821, former owner; Otis, Mary, former owner

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Each volume has an individual titlepage; 1. Sermons; 2. Sermons and discourses; 3. Discourses; 4. Discourses tracts and poems
( 1 reviews )

The Swift family; historical notes

203 203

Sep 11, 2021 09/21

Sep 11, 2021 Swift, Katherine

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170 p. 25 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Swift family

Modernism : its failure and its fruits

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Sep 7, 2021 09/21

Sep 7, 2021 Petre, Maude Dominica, 1863-1942

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xvi, 249 p. ; 19 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Modernism (Christian theology)

The English flower garden and home grounds : design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture

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Aug 28, 2021 08/21

Aug 28, 2021 Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935, author; John Murray (Firm), publisher; Richard Clay and Sons, printer

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Title page publication date: M.DCCCCVI
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Floriculture, Flower gardening, Plants, Ornamental, Cottage gardens, Landscape gardening, Gardens,...

Stitches from old English embroideries

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Aug 17, 2021 08/21

Aug 17, 2021 Pesel, Louisa F.; Pesel, Louisa F., -1947, author

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36 color mounted plates ; 25 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Embroidery -- England

Keyboard harmony : exercises in primary improvisation : for students of the pianoforte or organ

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Jul 5, 2021 07/21

Jul 5, 2021 Faelten, Carl, 1846-1925; Faelten, Reinhold, 1856-1949

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Caption title
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Piano, Improvisation (Music)

Incidents in the life of a slave girl.

19,731 20K

Jul 5, 2021 07/21

Jul 5, 2021 Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897; Child, Mrs. (Lydia Maria), 1802-1880, ed

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Preface signed: Linda Brent
( 1 reviews )

The Columbia book of yarns : containing a manual of knitting and crocheting

4,795 4.8K

Jun 30, 2021 06/21

Jun 30, 2021 Schumacker, Anna

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240 p., plates : 23 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Knitting, Crochet
Source: bplgrhum

Report of research on the Lea family in Virginia & North Carolina before 1800

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Jun 20, 2021 06/21

Jun 20, 2021 Rose, Ben Lacy, 1914-

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Includes index
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Lee family

The lion and the hare : being the graphic pedigree of over one thousand descendants of John Winthrop, 1588-1649

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Jun 20, 2021 06/21

Jun 20, 2021 Taylor, Ellery Kirke, b. 1886

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Portrait accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Winthrop family, Winthrop, John, 1588-1649

Descendants and ancestors of Consider Wood and his wife Mary Adams of Middleborough, Massachusetts, Pomfret, Connecticut, Dutchess County, New York, Bradford County, Pennsylvania

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Jun 13, 2021 06/21

Jun 13, 2021 Wood, Norris Philip, 1924-

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"Including descendant families: Adams, Agnew, Ayer, Ball, Barrowcliff, Bennett, Bosworth, Bradshaw, Brister, Chaffee, Codding, Cobb, Coolbaugh, Crawford, Devine, Fisher, Foster, Goodwin, Harris, Harvey, Huber, McAlpine, Maslin, Munn, Pratt, Reynolds, Rockwell, Rogers, Ross, Rumbaugh, Shadduck, Stanton, Stevens, Very, Warner, Wood."
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Wood family, Wood, Consider, 1757-1822, Adams family, Adams, Mary, 1766-1817

The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

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Lettres de Jean-Jaques Cart a Bernard Demuralt, trésorier du pays de Vaud : sur le droit public de ce pays, et sur les événemens actuels

Jun 4, 2021 06/21

Jun 4, 2021 Cart, Jean Jacques, 1747-1813; Demuralt, Bernard; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL

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John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Vaud (Switzerland)

Descendants of Jacob Wilson of Braintree, Massachusetts

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May 17, 2021 05/21

May 17, 2021 Stevens, Ken

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OCLC number: ocm21057291
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Wilson family

The descendants of George Spear who settled at Braintree, Massachusetts, 1642-1988

377 377

May 17, 2021 05/21

May 17, 2021 Spear, Verne Raymond, 1917-

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Cover title: The descendants of George Spear, 1642-1988
( 2 reviews )
Topics: Spears family, Spear, George, b. ca. 1613

Drawing made easy : a helpful book for young artists; the way to begin and finish your sketches, clearly shown step by step

111,314 111K

Apr 26, 2021 04/21

Apr 26, 2021 Lutz, Edwin George, b. 1868

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OCLC number: ocm07014379
( 2 reviews )
Topic: Drawing

The Onthank family, its history and genealogy

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Apr 20, 2021 04/21

Apr 20, 2021 Onthank, A. Heath (Arthur Heath), 1892-

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211 p. 24 cm
( 2 reviews )
Topic: Onthank family

The Wildbores in America : a family tree originally published in 1907, rev. and augm. in this 2d ed.

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Apr 8, 2021 04/21

Apr 8, 2021 Wilbor, John R., b. 1869; Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, 1887-1964

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v. : 24 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Wilbur family

Mann memorial. A record of the Mann family in America. Genealogy of the descendants of Richard Mann, of Scituate, Mass. Preceded by English family records, and an account of the Wrentham, Rehoboth, Boston, Lexington, Virginia, and other branches of the Manns who settled in this country

13,426 13K

Apr 3, 2021 04/21

Apr 3, 2021 Mann, George S. (George Sumner), 1834-1909

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251 p. : 24 cm
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mann family, Mann family (Richard Man, d. 1655)
Source: bplsocsci

The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

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First lines of the practice of physic

Mar 19, 2021 03/21

Mar 19, 2021 Cullen, William, 1710-1790; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL; Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL

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Author's preface dated Nov. 1783. The "new edition" was first published in 4 v., Edinburgh, 1784, and was reprinted in 1789. The four volumes are here reprinted in three
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Cullen, William, 1710-1790, Medicine

Rebel prisoners at Quebec, 1778-1783 : being a list of American prisoners held by the British during the Revolutionary War

338 338

Mar 2, 2021 03/21

Mar 2, 2021 McHenry, Chris

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Includes index
( 1 reviews )
Topics: United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Prisoners and prisons, United States --...

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The Waterman family

Feb 25, 2021 02/21

Feb 25, 2021 Jacobus, Donald Lines, 1887-1970; Waterman, Edgar Francis, b. 1875

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"Waterman historians": v.1, p. [4]-5
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Waterman family

3,752 3.8K

Lake Superior

Feb 25, 2021 02/21

Feb 25, 2021 Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Cabot, James Elliot, 1821-1903

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Includes bibliographical references
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Natural history -- Superior, Lake, Superior, Lake

Loom and spindle : or, life among the early mill girls ; with a sketch of "The Lowell Offering" and some of its contributors

5,635 5.6K

Feb 6, 2021 02/21

Feb 6, 2021 Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, 1825-1911

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Half-bound in red morocco, red marbled boards
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Women, Factory system
Source: bplsc

A Huff genealogy : descendants of Engelbert Huff of Dutchess County, New York

429 429

Feb 4, 2021 02/21

Feb 4, 2021 Trigg, George L

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Includes index
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Huff family, Huff, Engelbert, d. 1765

Genealogy of the Bliss family in America

201 201

Dec 21, 2020 12/20

Dec 21, 2020 Bliss, Aaron Tyler, 1946-

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Includes indexes
( 3 reviews )
Topic: Bliss family

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

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Orbis antiqui descriptio [cartographic material] : in usum scholarum

Dec 7, 2020 12/20

Dec 7, 2020 Menke, Th. (Theodor), 1819-1892; Stulpnagel, F. von; Justus Perthes (Firm : Gotha, Germany)

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Relief shown by hachures
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Classical geography, Classical geography in literature, Geography, Ancient, Historical geography
Source: folio

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Graham's magazine

Dec 2, 2020 12/20

Dec 2, 2020 Graham, George R; Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)

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Vol. title pages have titles: Graham's lady's and gentleman's magazine, 1841-1842, July 1843-1844; Graham's magazine of literature and art, Jan.-June 1843; Graham's American monthly magazine of literature and art, July 1844-June 1856
( 1 reviews )
Topics: Literature, Literature, Modern
Source: Gen Ref

The prisoner of Zenda; being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman

2,661 2.7K

Dec 2, 2020 12/20

Dec 2, 2020 Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933

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iv, 266 p. 16 x 9 cm
( 1 reviews )

The finding of Jasper Holt

3,010 3.0K

Nov 18, 2020 11/20

Nov 18, 2020 Hill, Grace Livingston, 1865-1947; J.B. Lippincott Company; Washington Square Press; Bayha, Edwin F., ill

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272 p., [3] leaves of plates : 20 cm
( 1 reviews )

Genealogy of the Jenks family of America

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Nov 5, 2020 11/20

Nov 5, 2020 Browne, William Bradford, b. 1875

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Cover title: Ancestry of Harlan Walker Jenks
( 1 reviews )
Topic: Jenkins family

The John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library

15,687 16K

Proofs of a conspiracy against all the religions and governments of Europe : carried on in the secret meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and reading societies

Oct 22, 2020 10/20

Oct 22, 2020 Robison, John, 1739-1805; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818, former owner

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John Adams Library copy inscribed on first leaf: "Jeremy Belknap 1798 from Mrs. A. Adams."
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Die Küche in der klassischen malerei : eine kunstgeschichtliche und literarhistorische studie für mediziner und nichtmediziner

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Oct 21, 2020 Sternberg, Wilhelm, b. 1865

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"Literatur und anmerkungen": p. [134]-148
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The Roy family of Virginia and Kentucky

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Oct 19, 2020 Roy, Nancy Reba, b. 1893

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190 p. ; 24 cm
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