Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts, in Four Volumes: A Classified Work, Devoted to the County's Remarkable Growth in All Lines of Human Endeavor; More Especially to within a Period of Fifty Years (Tercentenary Edition)

Complete in four volumes. xi, [1], 450; [451]-917, [5]; 240; 241-515, [3] pp. 4to. A history of Essex County, Massachusetts, with profiles of numerous notable towns (Salem, Ipswich, Gloucester, etc.), and including chapters on witchcraft, military history. Illustrated with maps and photographs. The third and fourth volumes are a series of biographical sketches of prominent citizens, with portraits.