London: Strangeways, Printers, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Privately printed and limited to 100 copies. Green cloth cover with printed paper spine label. 35 deckle-edge pages with photo frontispiece of an actual diary page. Protective tissue present. Light wear. Minor sunning to spine; label chipped. Clean pages. Owned by famed... More
Middleborough (Middleboro), Massachusetts: 1885. Hard Cover. Very nice illustrated autograph book given to 16-year old (census records show she was born in 1869) Florence Deane of Middleborough, Massachusetts for Christmas in 1885. Many of the drawings are quite well done. Forty-eight leaves, most with inscriptions or drawings of animals, landscapes... More
Manhattan, Kansas: circa 1870. 1/2 leather. This half-leather volume with marbled boards measures 8” x 10.5” and is titled “Lectures on Natural Philosophy.” It contains approximately 140 manuscript text pages and an additional 80 pages with about 150 meticulous hand-drawn illustrations of apparatus and experiments, some in color. The pages... More
Camp Hulen Tx, Hampton Roads Va, and Louisiana: 1941. Hard Cover. 8vo. The journal's binding is sound although slightly cocked and with cracked hinges. Clean pages with legible entries. Cover has some edge wear. 16 Real Photo Postcards of the 211th in Texas and Louisiana accompany the journal. Lt. Howard's... More
Alltownship, Northampton County, Pennsylvania: 1846. Notebook. This notebook measures 7.5” x 12” and contains approximately 200 pages; about 90 are used for cyphering exercise, 100 are blank, and ten have older ledger entries, from Odenwelder’s grandfather’s general store. It has marbled boards with a leather spine. The binding is generally... More
[Evansville, Indiana]: 1928-1933. Various. The pen and ink drawings range in size from approximately 1” x 2” to about 8” x 10”. Five of the pocket diaries measure 2.75” x 5.5”; one measures 2.75” x 4”. Each contains short ink entries for every day of the week. Whipple was a.... More
Various locations: 1907-1911. Notebook. Campbell was the son of the wealthy owner of the Knight-Campbell Music Company of Denver. His 4” x 7” leather diary contains approximately 385 pages. Each diary page accommodates entries for multiple years Entries begin in January 1907 and continue to October 1911. Most pages contain... More
Camp at Potomac Creek near Falmouth, Virginia: 1863. Loose Leaf Reports. Ten legal-size legible pages record the history of two companies from the 1st New York Infantry during the Civil War. Some minor soiling and edge wear. These official histories were written in April, 1863 as the regiment prepared to... More
United States, Italy, Korea, Vietnam: 1942-1973. Archive. This archive consists of official paperwork, certificates, letters, and a photograph album that belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Carl L. Palmer. The photograph album contains over 50 corner-mounted photographs ranging in size from 3.5” x 5” to 8” x 10”. About 25 additional photographs... More
La Ray, New York: 1887. Notebook. This notebook measures 6” x 7.5” and contains and itemized settling of the estate of Josiah Johnson following his death in 1881 and a weekly journal kept by (most likely) his daughter, Mary for the year of 1887. In nice shape. The journal entries... More
Nashua, New Hampshire: 1879-1886. Notebook. This notebook measures 3.75” x 6” and contains approximately 210 pages of records identifying purchases of material and services from nine different Nashua blacksmiths, wheelwrights, and carriage dealers. The notebook is titled “Blacksmith” on the front cover and front endpaper. The spine covering is missing..... More
