3121. HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ANNUAL REPORT 1885.
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3121. HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ANNUAL REPORT 1885.
3121. HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS ANNUAL REPORT 1885. Boston. 80p. Original stiff wraps. Includes listings of Officers and Trustees, Officers past and present, List of Life-Boats and Gun Stations, River and Harbor Stations, Huts of Refuge, List of Awards 1786 to June 1885, List of Wrecks and Life Boat Service 1881-1885, Instructions to Captains [of stations], Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned, Instructions for Saving Drowning Persons by Swimming to their Relief, Treatment of Frost-Bite, and more. Includes a nice engraved plate of the surf-boat at Gay-Head on Martha’s Vineyard. A tremendous amount of information about this important early predecessor to the Life-Saving Service. Contents clean, tight, original boards present but detached, spine detached, deteriorated. (G+). $158.