Search Results: Cities & Towns from The Owl at the Bridge

Boston, Boston Public Library, 1970. Facsimiles of 18 documents relating to the Boston Massacre, from the collections of the Boston Public Library, with an essay on the event by John Eliot Alden, the BPL Rare Books Librarian. Soft Cover. [32] pages, xviii facsimiles; 28 cm.; VG. Stock#32217b.

First published 1980. "By examining the microcosm of a single vital industry-- construction-- Richard Goldthwaite develops a complete picture of fifteenth-century Florentine society in dynamic transformation. He demonstrates how industry, art, and technology-- spurred on by the wealth of patrons-- combined to propel the city to the cultural forefront of the Italian Renaissance." 459 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Paper; minor shelfwear; Good+. Stock#ofc0667.

Petrópolis: Museu Imperial, 1957. Soft Cover. 233 p., [39] leaves of plates (1 folded), illus.; 27 cm. "The town's name ("city of Peter") honors Emperor Pedro II, the nation's second monarch and son of Pedro I. The city was the summer residence of the Brazilian emperors and aristocrats in the 19th century, and was the official capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1894 and 1903." Stock#46004. Vg / soft cover.

Introduzione di Aldo Palazzeschi. "con una Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze e 163 illustrazioni." Photographic record of those parts of Florence which were altered or destroyed as the city grew. 171 pages of text; 163 black & white illustrations. Very Good; pictorial dust jacket has small closed tears; slipcase beginning to come apart but still useful. With separate folding map, "Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze". Stock#ofc0660.

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1961. Hard Cover. 194 p., 193 p. of photos; 21.5 cm. "Sketch of a journey along forgotten roads and through the timeless towns between New Jersey and California." Stock#47033. BOOK CLUB. Vg / dj good+, torn at top of spine.

Edinburgh University Press [1970, c1966]. Hard Cover. xvi, 338 p., front., illus., plates (incl. ports.), maps, plans, tables; 24 cm. Written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Edinburgh's New Town by an economist with a feeling for the city. Stock#45368. Vg / dj vg.

[New Bedford, Mass.] : Old Dartmouth Historical Society, c1975. Hard Cover. xxiii, 253 p., 226 ill. (1 color), index, 28 cm. Title continues: "exhibition of the Old Dartmouth Historical society at the Whaling Museum in New Bedford December 4, 1975-April 18, 1976" Catalogue of 201 works in various media, organized in five sections: Exploration and Settlement; The Rural Town; The Harbor and the World; Civic and Domestic Pursuits; and The Industrial City. "Produced by The Stinehour Press and The Meriden Gravure Company"--Colophon. Stock# 44,568. Vg

xxxii, 208 pages : 14 illustrations ; Ports., map, frontis. 22 cm. First published in 1893. Edward Everett Hale was born in Boston in 1822 and grew up as Boston was changing from a large town into a city in the 1820's and 30's. It is autobiography with a sense of society in the world of two centuries ago, already nostalgic one century ago. A map showing the land filled in from river and bay are a physical sign of the growth. Stock# 48067.

Entries for Rhode Island; Entries for Cities and Towns; Index. xxxiv, 229 pages; reproduction of typescript; 28 cm. Bound in green publisher's cloth; minor shelfwear to bottom edge of textblock; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0207.

[London, s.n., 1699]. Engraved broadside, 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Title continues: Compared with the Number of members they send to Parliament. Statement of responsibility appears at end: calculated by John Smart [at the Town Clerks Office, London] --this from an earlier, 1698, version (cf. Wing S4011A; Kress 2049; Goldsmiths’-Kress no. 03533). This edition not in Wing. Very good. stock#OB773.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000. Hard Cover. xii, 283 p., illus., 24 cm. "Investigates whether or not we have the cities we need and, if we don't, what we can do to create them." Stock # 31,789x. Fine, new/ dj fine.

547 p.; 22.5 cm. Reprint; originally published New York: Putnam, 1980. A social history of small towns in an engaging narrative and with excursions into writers who grew up in and were shaped by them. Gushing gift inscription on front flyleaf. Stock#48139.

[London] 1731; facsimile Ithaca, N.Y., Historic Urban Plans, 1974. Printed view; 25 x 78 cm. Facsimile of the engraving. Samuel and Nathaniel Buck produced a series of finely etched and engraved views of English cities in the 1730s. Their magnificent panorama of this university town is perhaps the most desirable of the entire set. Historical notes, the arms of city and university, and a detailed legend of 54 entries add to the beauty and interest of this superb print. Number 116 of 500. stock#Flat0033. Vg/ new from publisher.

Champlain, N.Y., Astrion Pub., c1996. Soft Cover. xix, 151 p., illus., index, 24 cm. Bibliography p.145-151. This was Howard Saalman's last provocative book on the architecture of Renaissance Italy and of the development of cities and towns. Stock# 37,578x, Fine/ paper.

NY, Hill & Wang [1968 /c1965]. Hard Cover. x, 278 p., 2 maps; 22 cm. Third printing. A history of the United States that looks at long-term trends, not the obvious crises of short duration. Stock#NEU355. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

Chester, Conn. : Published for the New London County Historical Society [by] Pequot Press, c1976.. Hard Cover. xv, 415 p. : illus., index, 26 cm."From its beginnings New London's history is bound to the sea. Income from the whaling industry alone was fabulous." Bibliography: p. 387-401. Stock#43129. Vg/ dj poor, front flap torn.