Search Results: Rhode Island Colonial History from The Owl at the Bridge

Pamphlet; "Issued by the courtesy of Henry Dexter Sharpe, esquire, governor of the Society." Cover title: "The Pilgrims and Liberty." Softcover. 14 pages; 23.5 cm. Very Good, sewn in printed red paper covers. Stock#40699/h.

Reproduced from typescript. xxxi, 484 pages; 27 cm.; black cloth, spine stamped in silver; minor shelfwear; VG. Stock#ofc0125.

xxiv, 157 pages illustrations 23.5 cm. Argues that the Quaker farmers of Aquidneck (Rhode) Island created a cash crop, sheep raised without fear of wolves or bears, which went sent to Barbados, provided wealth and capital for further development. Bridenbaugh was not a pleasant man, but his insights to American colonial history were original and revealing. Stock# 48065.

Hardcover. 31 pages; 23.5 cm. "Printed... from the original mss. in the archives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts." Bound in red cloth; one copy Very Good with two small edge gouges; the other copy spotted, spine has been wet; both internally clean. Stock#40698x/h.

First Edition. VOLUME 1 ONLY (of two). Contents: Introduction, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Fences and Enclosures. "Early Garden Literature," pages 5-7; Bibliography, pages [443]-450. Hardcover. xxii, 464 pages, illustrations; 37 cm. Very Good; no dust jacket. Stock#OB800 oversize.

Boston: Printed and Published by D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press, 1907. Three volumes. Second edition (first was N.Y., 1847), newly edited, enlarged, and corrected by Daniel Goodwin. Updike's great edition of the history of St. Paul's Church in Wickford, R.I., of the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island, and of the great families of South County-- above all, the Updikes. Merrymount Press Bibliography 283. Hard Cover. xlvi, 622 pages; 11 leaves, viii, 605 pages; iv, 339 pages, illus., facsimiles, portraits; 22.5 cm. Spines nicked; no dust jackets (as issued); good+. Stock#OB696.

Providence: Club for Colonial Reprints, 1916. Hard Cover. xiv, [12], 103 p.; 23 cm. Reprinted from the original edition issued at London in 1646; with an introduction by Howard Millar Chapin. Includes reproduction of title-page of original edition of 1646; also of the t.-p. of the 1649 reprint, with title: The danger of tolerating levellers in a civill state. This is the original reprint, on fine rag-edge paper, not your nasty xerox print-on-demand. Vg / no dj. Stock#OB891.

105 pages. Paintings and photographs illustrate this collection of reminiscences and observations of the coves, salt marshes and riverbanks of Pawtuxet Village. As new condition. Stock#ofc0051.

"Printed for the Society... from the original MS in the Archives of the State of Connecticut." Concerning King Philip's War, 1675-1676. Hardcover. 2 leaves, 9-31 numbered leaves; 23.5 cm. Very Good in red covers; spine has been wet but nothing else affected. Stock#40695/h.

Providence, Printed by S. P. C. for the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island ...1914.. Hard Cover. 2 p. l., [3]-16 pages, double facsimile; 23.5 cm. Title continues: " and containing an account of the operations leading up to an unsuccessful attempt to capture Metacom, alias King Philip, the Wampanoag chieftain. Reproduced in facsimile and published for the first time from the original document preserved in the John Carter Brown Library for the members of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations assembled in a general court at Providence on December 30, 1914." Stock#43467. Good+, edge of rear cover chewed, no text affected.

Providence, John Carter Brown Library, 1986. Soft Cover. Foreword by Martin E. Marty. 102 p., illus.; 30 cm. Contents include The Insistence on Religious Uniformity (Anglicanism in Virginia; Congregational New England); Rhode Island Introduces Diversity (Roger Williams; The Hutchinsonians; Samuel Gorton); English Civil-War Sects in America (Quakers; Ranters; Rogerenes); Beyond English Protestantism (Roman Catholics; Jews; Presbyterians; French Huguenots; Lutherans; German Pietist Sects; Afro-Americans); Conflicting Trends in 18th-century Colonial Religion (Revivalism and Evangelical Religion; Liberal Religion; Coming Together in Revolution); Liberty of Conscience Endorsed. Pictorial paper covers; fine. Stock#20366x.

Providence, R.I. : Printed for the Society by E.A. Johnson Co., 1941. Soft Cover. 28 p., 24 cm. Series: Publication / Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ; no. 33. "Issued at the General Court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, by its Governor, Charles Falconer Stearns, esquire and the Council of the Society, December 30, 1941"--T.p. Stock# 43,472. Good+, chewed along edge / soft cover.

Providence, Printed for the Society [Boston, D. B. Updike] 1932. Hard Cover. iix, 68 p., 95 illus. (incl. plan) map. 28 cm. The end papers are a map. "Printed by D.B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, Boston." (verso of t.p.). Smith (Merrymount) 753. Stock# 43,799. Vg, blue cloth, owner's name on front fly, no dj as issued.

Providnce, Society of Colonial Dames, 1914. Twelve stories of Rhode Island history written for children-- particularly children of recent immigrants, as the introduction points out. Hard Cover. 204, [2] pages, illustrations, 19.5 cm. Good/ covers bumped & worn, no dust jacket. Stock#30989.

Providence, RI: Council of the Society of Colonial Wars, 1977. Soft Cover. [10] p., illus.; 24 cm. Cover title: First Deeds from the Sakonnet Indians. "Published by His Excellency, Le Baron Colt Anthony, Governor and the Council of the Society of Colonial Wars with the financial assistance of Little Compton Historical Society, C. George Taylor, President"--T.p. Publication (Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) no. 52. Stock#47274. Vg / soft cover.

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. With an introduction by James Bryce. First published in two volumes, 1902. Hard Cover. xv, 560 pages, [3] leaves of plates, folding maps (some color); 23 cm. Vg / no dj as issued. Stock#43919 [43909].

"In this volume it is possible to trace more thoroughly than ever before the intellectual interests of Rhode Island for the period 1727-1800 as shown by the output of its press."-- Foreword by Thomas W. Streeter. "...the state was, in the eighteenth century, more thanjust another of the thirteen colonies: it was, so to speak, a microcosm of all the colonies, for here could be found examples of the principal manifestations of the life of the period, intellectual, social, economic, theological, and political. As a consequence the record of printing in Rhode Island in the eighteenth century is in many ways collectively representative of all the colonies."-- Introduction by Alden. xxiv, 665 pages, index; bound in navy linen; mild shelfwear, edges & corners worn, no dust jacket, ex-Mount St. Joseph Passionate Sisters College Library with their pink stamps, ink owner name inside front cover, and pencil annotations of Samuel J. Hough, its most recent owner. Stock#ofc0373.

N.Y., G. P.Putnam, 1908. Hard Cover. xv, 560 p., fold. map, 22.5 cm. "A survey of the Annals of the Commonwealth from its Settlements to the Death of Roger Williams 1636-1683." Stock 32271. Vg/ no dj.

N.Y., Macmillan, 1932. Hard Cover. xiv, 538 p. 22.5 cm. A history of the first half century of Rhode Island as well as a biography of the colony's founder. Stock# 30,132. Vg/ no dj.

Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid, 1877. Hard Cover. xxvi, 356 p. front., map, 21 cm. This is primarily the colonial history of Rhode Island: the century 1783-1876 is covered in three pages. The appendices contain useful documents. This was placed in "a soldier's and sailors camp library" with bookplate and stamps. Clearly the doughboys didn't read it before going off to fight the war to end wars, but the front flyleaf was torn out. Stock#31012. Vg. though ex.lib/ no dj.