Boston Rare MapsSpecializing in rare, important and unusual American maps and prints
![The Confession and DYING WORDS of SAMUEL FROST, Who is to be Executed this Day, October 31, 1793, for the Horrid Crime of MURDER. Worcester: Printed and sold at Mr. Thomas’s Printingoffice[sic], Oct. 31, 1793.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/BRM4063-Confessions-Samuel-Frost-1793_lowres-scaled-e1646171869753-150x150.jpg)
A very rare illustrated broadside issued on the occasion of the execution of Samuel Frost for murder on October 31, 1793. Published in Worcester, Massachusetts by Isaiah Thomas, one of the leading printers of the Revolutionary and early Republican eras and the founder of the American Antiquarian Society. The broadside is large and striking, nearly […]
![[Daniel Waldo?], [Account ledger containing the original Articles of Agreement as well as the accounts of shareholders of the Worcester Cotton Manufactory from 1789 to 1791 (and a few later entries for 1794).]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/BRM4273-Worcester-Cotton-Manufactory-account-book_binding_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A fascinating piece of early American industrial history, being the account book of the Worcester Cotton Manufactory, a short-lived venture involving eminent Worcester-County citizens such as Levi Lincoln and Isaiah Thomas. Background Soon after Independence, entrepreneurs began the first, halting attempts to bring large-scale textile manufacturing to the United States, invariably relying on British designs […]
The fatal riot of March 5, 1770, rebranded by Patriots as the Boston Massacre, was immediately seized on as a worthy subject for depiction in print. Paul Revere’s “Bloody Massacre” engraving, pirated from a drawing by artist Henry Pelham, was advertised the Boston press as early as March 26, while Pelham’s own version appeared a […]