Albums & Journals
Ornithology, Feathers, Turkeys, Fowl , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Meyersdale, Pennsylvania: Bird Bros, 1915. Letter on illustrated letterhead advertising Giant Bronze Turkeys by Bird Bros, acknowledging receipt of a customer's order and enclosing samples of turkey feathers for the customer's consideration in lieu of younger turkeys which had been already sold. The five feathers have been carefully inserted onto.....
Price: $325.00
correspondence, bath house, dipsy baths, travel and tourism, letterhead,
Kennebunk Beach, ME: 4-Sep-25. A brief letter written on a letterhead from The Dipsy Baths in Kennebunk Beach, ME. A printed black and white photograph of the bathhouses with an American Flags blowing in the wind and several cars in front. The letter is written to Hiram from an unknown.....
Price: $60.00
Women's Fashion Design
[Hendersonville, North Carolina]: March 23rd, 1908. A letter written to "Dearest" from "Your devoted friend", giving the heartbreaking news of the death of an acquaintance, Mrs. Gurley of Hendersonville (tragically, her husband Professor E.W. Gurley would die later that year in November, leaving their daughter Fayetta Gurley orphaned). The author.....
Price: $225.00
Monograms and Crests, Social History
United Kingdom. 25 gilt edge light board leaves with over 600 monograms and crests encountered and preserved by one individual in his day to day life. Includes individuals, presumably acquaintances, municipalities, associations, institutions, etc. A surname has been penned adjacent several of the images. With the exception of the first.....
Price: $225.00
New England, Massachusetts, Manuscript, Correspondence, Westward Expansion, Emigration, Education, Teaching, Women's Work
Massachusetts: 1819-1847. A group of fourteen (14) manuscript letters addressed to Anna Angier Fay (1787-1827) and her daughter Lavinia H. Fay (dates unknown) of Southborough, Massachusetts. Senders include Anna's sister Eliza Angier Warriner of Frankfort, Maine, and friends of Lavinia. Four of the letters are from Eliza, who writes Anna.....
Price: $425.00
remedy,cancer cure,hydrophobia,rabies
A 10" x 6" page that appears to have been removed from a ledger or journal with two entries that appear to be in different hands. The first is a cure for hydrophobia that entails mixing elecampane root, a puff of madder and a quart of new milk brought to.....
Price: $110.00
Ships, Manuscript, Drawings, Transportation
c1928. A hand crafted paper book with 24 leaves. It includes 10 watercolors of ships throughout the ages from the first log canoe to a 1920s passenger liner. Each full page watercolor is accompanied by an informational narrative. The center of the book includes a center-fold of a printed illustration.....
Price: $575.00
boat, ship, mileage, transportation, journal, code, myer's code, flag signal, Massachusetts
Boston, MA: F. W. Barry, Beale & Co., 1911. An unknown boatman's journal detailing the mileage, expenses, and trips taken on a launch (an open motor boat) named Polaris. The journal has been divided into several sections, with one side of the journal being used as a "Mileage and Cash".....
Price: $175.00
construction, ledger, account, building, business history
South Trenton, NY: 1844-1845. A small ledger regarding the expenses, both material and labor, for the construction of an unidentified building along the Nine Mile Creek (also spelled Ninemile Creek) in South Trenton, NY. The owner of the building or the purpose of the building is never specified. The ledger.....
Price: $225.00
Commonplace Book
A book of musings by an unidentified gentleman with the first entry on September 27th, 1825. Entries include To the Flower called Forget me not!, A recipe for Courtship, the tea of Sympathy, The Rose of the Valley, On Leaving a Place of Residence, A Fragment, Lines written beneath a......
Price: $275.00
poetry, friendship, correspondence
Rhode Island or Bellow Falls, VT: [1820]. A poem entitled "On Society" transcribed for Ruth Howland by her "sincere friend", S. Brown. The poem talks of friendship and the pleasure of social bonds. Below are a few of the poems stanzas: "Hail social converse! source of purest pleasure, Sweet and.....
Price: $145.00
Original Art, Made by Hand, Baby Book
May 26th,1890. 12 leaves. vellum, bound with braided silk tie. Cover reads "Baby's Book" With quote at top "each day sees some rare unfolding of the sweet young life, the dawning of a new intelligence" from A Child Shall Lead Them. Elaborately penned with watercolor illustrations. The next page is.....
Price: $900.00
color meeting, african american, yorktown, health, woman's health, correspondence, chuch, religion
Yorktown: January 1869. A pair of letters from Emily to her family keeping them appraised of her trip to Yorktown [NY] in January 1869. The two letters are written within a day of one another, with one addressed to her parents and one to her brother. The family's last name.....
Price: $175.00
Georgia, the South, Women's Life, Reconstruction Era
Atlanta, Georgia: 1868. The double sided letter to the writer's mother shares an update about their life and gossip. The letter is written on Memphis and Charleston Railroad Letterhead from Atlanta, Georgia during the period of Reconstruction. The writer discusses recent illness, a bad cold, and general news about the.....
Price: $65.00
travel album, photograph, tourism, statue of liberty, Furness Bermuda Line, Tom's Moore's House Tavern, travel
Germany: 1920s. An travel album with 18 photographs of a trip from New York to Bermuda. The first photograph depicts the Furness Bermuda Line Offices in New York, which ran a line of shipping vessels that ferried passengers from New York to Bermuda. The next few pictures show the Statue.....
Price: $175.00
Friendship Token, Plaited Hair, Love & Friendship
Galway: 1851. A 4" x 3 3/4" friendship sentiment with an eternal ring of plaited hair with a pink ribbon at base "In future years when turning to survey, The happy joys of many a well spent day. Recalling scenes of pleasure long gone by. If on this lock of.....
Price: $150.00
drawing books, friendship albums,Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WWI, World War I, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
A astonishing friendship album filled with quotes, verses, and drawings belonging to Amelia Isabel Mackenzie, a member of the W.A.A.C. The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918), which later became known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920) was the women's unit of the British Army during and immediately after the.....
Price: $275.00
Remedy, Receipt, Manuscript, Brandy
[1810]. A manuscript receipt listing all of the necessary ingredients with an explanation on processing "let them stand in a warm place" and when done mix equal parts of Brandy -- take half a wine glass morning and night. "Receipt to make Elixer(sic) for the Cholic & Ague". Written on.....
Price: $60.00
manuscript, guest log, guest book, travel & tourism, sports & sporting, fishing, hunting
Kennebec County, Maine: July 7, 1890 - September 10, 1900. A guest book for the Birches, a camp in Maine owned by Frank B. Webber (1848-1910). The cabin was located in the Belgrade Lakes region of central Maine, and it appears it was used by Webber and his extended family.....
Price: $475.00
Made by Hand, Women, Watercolor
c1850s. Thirteen (13) different watercolor illustrations created by Christina Potts. One illustration depicts a fine well-appointed young girl in the foreground with a wonderfully out of perspective cow and a home in the background. A hedge with abstract stone wall at side. Excellent combination of yellows, ochre, blues and green.....
Price: $975.00
Writers, Valentine's Day, Love and Friendship
London, England: Printed for Mrs. Perks, 1814. A particularly rare Valentine Writer with hand-stenciled Cruikshank frontispiece printed in 1814. Provides sweet and amusing messages to send to your sweetheart, tailored to their profession. Includes messages for every trade from Actor, Fish-Monger, and Tallow-Chandler, to Auctioneer, Tailor, Pastry-Cook and Engraver. The.....
Price: $650.00
sketch books
Stamped leather cover with decorative edges and "Scrap Album" on cover. Front end paper has an ex-libris Prize award for Miss S. Lawrence for Improvement in Drawing dated July 25, 1873. The first page has the name Selina and 1873 created with drawn flowers. The next is an acrostic poem.....
Price: $200.00
bridge, card games, playing cards,WWII, World War 2, military history, pacific ocean theater
New York: Educational Press, Inc, 1950. Russell W Roosen was an expert bridge player from Detroit, Michigan. He competed professionally in the game as well as taught classes and gave lectures at the local country clubs. This album is a scrap book, filled with newspaper clippings and other memorabilia. Throughout.....
Price: $175.00
Freemasonry,Matteawan,Henry Ward Beecher, , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Matteawan, New York: Benjamin Sullivan, 1880s. Scrapbook of Benjamin Sullivan (1841-1918) of Matteawan, New York, giving a kaleidoscopic look into his interests, movements, and life. The bulk of the volume is taken up by newspaper clippings, but Sullivan has also enclosed a number of other kinds of ephemera (e.g. menu.....
Price: $450.00