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Text Box: Boston and Maine Railroad Among the Mountains, Illustrated; Second Edition 1900 Boston, MA: Boston & Maine Railroad. For travelers north of Boston, this pamphlet offers photos and descriptions of Moosilauke Brook, Cathedral Woods (Intervale, NH), Crawford Notch, Silver Lake (Madison, NH), Mount Washington, Wildcat River (Below Jackson Falls), Fabyan's (Maplewood, NH), Lake Winnipesaukee, Presidential Range, Franconia Mountains, Franconia Notch, more. Black & white photos. 48 pp. 10 x 20.5 cm. Paper pamphlet, moderate wear, fair. (8103) $26.00. Travel Here and There in New England and Canada by the Boston and Maine R.R. Lakes and Streams; Profusely Illustrated by Sweetser, M.F. 1889 Boston, MA: Boston & Maine Railroad. This is a marvelous little book for Boston and Maine passengers as they explore inland New England in 1889. Three beautiful fold-out maps in very good condition show the B&M Route, Lake Winnipesaukee and Lake Sunapee region. Includes facsimile of "Gems of the Northland" by John Greenleaf Whittier, 1889. Lakeward Routes. West Medford, MA Station. To Wolfeborough. Lake Winnisquam. Lake Spofford. Webster Lake. Mascoma Lake. Cover shows waterfall and typical lakeside scenes. Maps are a special nicely preserved treasure. 96 pp. 12.3 x 20.2 cm. Paper booklet, slight soiling of cover, very good. Fold-out maps, very good. (8104) $85.00. Travel Lowell (Mass.) Illustrated, published by Nelson's Colonial Department Store, Lowell, Massachusetts 1907 Lowell, MA: Nelson Colonial Department Store. Photos of Lowell, MA ca. 1906 include City Hall, Post Office, Memorial Block Public Library, New Court House, Armory, Lowell High School, State Normal School; Lawrence, Boott and Merrimack Mills, Stirling and Bay State Woolen Mills on the Concord River; Nelson's Colonial Department Store, including interior views of Store; also Boat House, Vesper Country Club. 24 pp. 25 x 20 cm. Paper booklet, dampstain on left or right corners of pictures, fair. (8098) $25.00. Travel New England Economical Housekeeper, and Family Receipt Book, The, Stereotype Edition [Second Edition] by Howland, Mrs. E.A. (Esther Allen) 1846 Worcester, MA: S.A. Howland. Little book provides New England housekeepers with recipes for scores of dishes, then in Medicinal Department, guidance for asthma, bleeding at the nose, burns and scalds, salve for a burn, sore mouth, dysentery, diarrhœa, consumption, corns and more. Menu for Thanksgiving Dinner: Roast Turkey, stuffed; a pair of chickens, stuffed and boiled, with cabbage and a piece of lean pork; chicken pie, potatoes, turnip sauce, squash, onions, gravy and gravy sauce, cranberry sauce, oyster sauce, plum and plain pudding, with sweet sauce; mince, pumpkin and apple pies. Recipes include Dyspepsia Bread, Rice Bread, Johnny-Cake, Temperance Cakes, Mutton Pie, Indian Pudding, Boiled Calf's Head and Pluck (tongue, heart, liver, brains); Mutton with Oysters; Indian Gruel, Sassafras Mead, many more. Also inserted in book are ten+ handwritten recipes for Fruit Cake, Sweet Pickles, Cure for Dysentery, Pork Cake, Pickling Beef, Lemon Pie, Blood Syrup, more. Also list of those who died in Winchendon (MA) in January, 1875. Excellent little glimpse into New England life in the Nineteenth Century. Frontispiece illustration of two women in kitchen. 108 pp. 10.5 x 18 cm. Paper on board with cloth tape spine; spine worn and frayed. 12+ handwritten recipes and notes and one 1875 newspaper clipping with recipes inserted. Book binding cracked, fair. (8099) $102.00. Cookbooks/Ephemera Artists of the Rockport Art Association, Thirty-fifth Anniversary Edition; a pictorial and descriptive record of The Oldest Art Organization on Cape Ann 1956 Rockport, MA: The Rockport Art Association. 204 pp. + 18 pp. adv. 19 x 20 cm. Wonderful collection of photos and favorite art of hundreds of Rockport artists including Aldro Hibbard, Harrison Cady, Stanley Woodward, Gifford Beal, Agnes Abbot, Gladys and Herb Murphy, John Buckley, Louise Burbank, Franz Denghausen, Blanche Colman, Stow Wngenroth, Paul Strisik, Mayo Sorgman, Harold Rotenberg, Iver Rose, Richard Recchia, Roger Martin, Harold Maddocks, Tod Lindenmuth, Nota Koslowsky, Mildred C. Jones, Prescott Jones, Lilian Westcott Hale, Ruth Hagstrom, Antonio Cirino, many more. Informal photos of RAA events, like Christmas in Rockport, with Lura Phillips, Christmas Tea with Martta Somppi Blanchet Heavy cardboard cover with ring binding, cover soiled, contents very good, overall fair. (4866) $29.00. Art/Antiques Biography Added Thursday, October 28, 2010: James S. Robinson, Apothecary: Robinson's Perfect Emulsion of Norwegian Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphates of Lime and Soda ca. 1890 Memphis, TN: James S. Robinson, Apothecary, Masonic Temple. Advertisement for Robinson's Cod Liver Oil, an effectual remedy for coughs, colds, bronchitis, consumption and all diseases attended with loss of flesh and strength. Prepared fresh each week which secures freedom from rancidity frequently met with in most emulsions that are offered. 1 page. 7.3 x 21 cm. Paper leaflet printed on one side, 1 cm stain at top edge, fair. (8093) $17.00. Advertisement

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