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Johnny Tremain : a novel for old & young

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Description: The Revolutionary War with its famous Boston Tea Party is described in this historical novel of the revolt in Boston. After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1970]
Call number: 660757
Creator: Forbes, Esther(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0440442508; 9780440442509
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.

Treasure Japan tea : full value : the pure tea leaves

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Image of a four-panel label for Treasure Brand's "perfection canister" for tea; geometric borders surround four panels, two featuring text about tea in the "great tea-producing countries of China and Japan" and its storage; two panels feature branches behind a crest with a central medallion showing the goddess Columbia, wearing a headpiece labeled "Liberty," encircled by thirteen stars and the date "1882."

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Johnny Critelli ; and, The knifemen : two novels

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Two novellas. In the title piece, a man whose mother was killed by a union buster grows up to become a union organizer, while The Knifemen is on a doctor turned killer.

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Benjamin Lincoln certificate for a case of imported claret

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Certificate signed by Benjamin Lincoln, as the Customs Collection, certifying the importation of a case of claret, 1807 July 31. Countersigned by Thomas Melville, a major in the American Revolutionary War and participant in the Boston Tea Party (and the grandfather of author Herman Melville).

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Detail of old house at 315 S. Bunker Hill Avenue, 1957

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Built by William and Anna Foss in the mid to late 1880s. Noted mystic Max Heindel became a lodger at the Foss house and marries Augusta Foss in 1910, and thereafter 315 becomes commonly known as the Foss-Heindel house.

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The Country Twenty Five Miles Round New York / Drawn by a Gentleman from that City

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Below the map is a "Chronological Table of the most interesting Occurrences since the Commencement of hostilities in North America," beginning with Dec. 16, 1773. Three hundred Forty-two Chests of Tea destroyed at Boston. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving.

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A Thirty-Miles Round Boston, by M. Armstrong Geo. 14th Aug 1775

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Memorable occurrences from Boston Tea Party to Bunker Hill listed lower, retreat from Bunker Hill shown submap upper right. British forces in Boston August 1st listed. "A. Bell Sc. NB The spherical lines are Five miles distant. Price One Shill." A circular map. MS note: 536 (on backing) Submap: Action near Charlestown 17 June 1775.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Watermark: Seal. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 30 Miles R4.

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