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 about Joseph Conrad's Diary of His Journey Up the Valley of the Congo in 1890
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 about Bound volume of manuscript Natural Philosophy (i.e. Physics) lecture notes and drawings probably...
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 about Coastal Artillery Battery Journal with Real Photo Postcards
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 about Five-year diary of a Colorado piano dealer including his vacation trips throughout Europe in a...
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 about Official Civil War Manuscript Histories of Two Companies within the 1st New York Infantry - 1861...
Various locations: Circa 1862-1865. Disbound. This 3.75” x 5.75” notebook contains 77 pages with about 540 entries. In nice shape although its string binding has perished. Entries are in faint pencil but legible; the cover title “Morgan Bond / Account Book Sutler 94th Il Reg,” has faded but can be... More about Civil War account book kept by a sutler traveling with the 94th Illinois Infantry Regiment
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 about Army Officer’s Archive including an Early Vietnam Photograph Album
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 about Diary kept by a single upstate New York farm woman who was also caring for her mother and another...
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 about A seven-year account book, titled Blacksmith, identifying the materials purchased from and...
