Stitched paper wrappers
1829 · Boston
by Massachusetts
Boston: True and Greene, 1829. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Lacking the spine and rear wrapper, front wrapper with 3" chip to corner, untrimmed with usual ragged edges, city name (Framingham) inked on front wrapper, otherwise contents very good.. [53-230], xii pp. Sm. 4to. Includes "An act of incorporate the New England Asylum for the Blind," the first such institution in the country to education blind and deaf-blind children. Later renamed the Perkins Institute for the Blind, its most famous student was Helen Keller. Other laws include: Pontoosac Turnpike Corp.; Salem Federal Street Brewery; New-England Painted Floor Cloth Co.; Braintree Lyceum; Sheldon English and Classical School of Southampton; Salem Firemen's Insurance Co.; Newburyport Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; Wales Woolen Manufacturing Co.; Newburyport Hosiery Manufacturing Co.; Bristol County Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; Divorce; Round Hill Institution; Hanover Academy; Lowell Institution for Savings; Remedies in Equity; Hampshire Manufacturing Co.; Storage of Gunpowder; Land Ceded to U.S.; Forms of Writs; Sutton Bank; Warren Institution for Savings; North Adams Cotton and Machine Manufacturing Co.; Boston Seamen's Friend Society; Berkshire High School; Abbot Female Academy; Boston Fire Department Insurance Co.; Hatfield Mutual Fire Insurance Co.; Boston and Gloucester Granite Manufacturing Co.; Port Society of the City of Boston; Lynn Mill Dam; Worcester Coal Co.; Diamond Manufacturing Co.; Boston and Lowell Manufacturing Co.; Banks and Banking; Infant School Society; Ale, Beer and Cider; Middleborough Academy; County Commissioners; Concord Mill Dam Co.; Boston Lead Co.; Chatham Academy; Civil Actions; Suits; Tauton Female Charitable Association; Real Estate of Minors; Establishment of Fire Department in Boston; Instruction of Youth; Lowell Bank; Suppression of Lotteries; Salem and Boston Stage Co.; Real Actions; Intestate Estates; Providing Relief for Poor; Taxation; and many more. American Imprints 39497. (Inventory #: 35288)