Views from the Bunker Hill Monument: Being Directions to Find the Principal Objects to be Seen from its Summit. Designed particularly for Strangers unacquainted with the Localities.
Boston: Printed by Haskell & Moore, No. 4 Washington street, 1846. Second edition. Unbound stitched pamphlet (5.25 x 3.5 inches), 12 pages. Soiled, somewhat worn; in good to very good condition. Item #21171
“To find the ruins of the Ursuline Convent, (which convent was demolished by a mob in 1834,) let the eye rest upon the first little eminence to the right of the large hill in direction of the road, and dropping the eye gradually it will strike the ruins, which are about two miles distant. They could easily be distinguished, but that they are often taken for a number of brick buildings by strangers.” Suitable for the tourist’s pocket or reticule, a brief history of the Bunker Hill Monument (dedicated at last on June 17, 1843, on the anniversary of the battle), with accounts here of the dedication celebrations, descriptions of the features of the monument, and prose descriptions of the sights visible from the summit of the observation deck of the obelisk. There was an 8-page version of a guide published under the same title and printed “for the proprietor” under a Boston imprint; OCLC (11/2023) notes five locations for that version. This 1846 version (slightly shorter in height and with 12 pages) is noted at two locations. OCLC also notes HathiTrust digital copies of this edition at various institutions, and perhaps an institution’s catalog record for a tangible copy or two has snuck in under that OCLC record because such is the nature of uncertainty when it comes to FirstSearch records—but an ephemeral item in any case.
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