Various locations: 1902-1907. Various. There are three items in this lot: a journal kept from April 1903 through December 1904; an album with photographs taken between 1902 and 1907, and a small pocket diary used in 1907. The journal (7" x 8.5" is legible and includes a number of news..... More
[Richmond, Virginia]: circa 1884-1895. 1/2 leather. This album measures approximately 7.5” x 13”. It contains 166 pages of which 36 are filled with manuscript poetry, prose, and lyrics. Newspaper clippings are affixed to another four or five pages, and there are about 50 additional clippings laid-in along with six manuscript..... More
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
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
Marietta, Pennsylvania: 1861-1880. Wraps. The cover of this 53-page handbound manuscript ledger measures approximately 5.25” x 8” although individual leaves vary in size between 3.75” x 6.25” and 4.5” x 7.5”. Entries are recorded legibly in pencil, and the pages are in nice shape. The binding is sound; however, the..... 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
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
[Toulon, Illinois]: 1875-1898. Notebook. This notebook contains over 120 pages, 66 of which contain Bacmeister’s potential inventions. They are written in pen and pencil; all are legible. An annotation in the front matter suggests Bacmeister initially purchased the notebook in 1859 although he did not begin using it until 1875..... 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
