Albums & Journals
Horoscope, Birth Chart, Fortune Telling
Chicago IL: 1904. 8 manuscript page report. Begins with a birth chart and Aspects nad Positions of the Planets followed by Delineation of Character, etc: you know how and what to aim for, Faults to be corrected: guard against losing your temper), Matrimonial Prospects: partner shall be your equal soically.....
Price: $100.00
Florida Citrus,Temperance,Planned Communities
Hall City, Florida: Dr. Geo. F. Hall, 1911. Illustrated letterhead from the office of George F. Hall, featuring imagery of the local citrus (Caloosahatchee Grapefruit) and local farm land. Hall was a retired minister and Chicago native who founded Hall City (now Glades County, Florida) in 1910 as a Christian.....
Price: $125.00
drawings, song bird, doodles, cartoons
1924-1925. A album featuring a series of drawings depicting the characters Cho and Patricia, a song bird and pig respectively. A collection of series of pictures telling the story of their unusual friendship. They include Cho going to church; a series of misadventures, building a brick wall, moving to a......
Price: $550.00
drawings, watercolor, poetry, poem, flower, plants, fairy tales, retellings
c1880. 68 pg journal filled with poetry and watercolors of flora. There are a total of 25 poems in the journal, as some cover multiple pages, however this is a watercolor piece on every page depicting various flowers. At times one can see the pencil the artist used to sketch.....
Price: $525.00
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
Humor,Clubs and Organizations
United States: The Narcisses Club, c.1930s. What appears to be a tongue-in-cheek fictional speech given at a meeting of "The Narcisses Club" in which one of the governing members relates faux news to the others: "We are going to have an entertainment as well as a social ... Miss Bundy.....
Price: $150.00
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
Medical Treatment,Family Medicine
Plymouth, Massachusetts: 1829. A handwritten medical bill in ink made out to "Widdow [sic] Hannah Blakeslee" from "R. Cook" for "medical services for self" from September 16th, 1825 until April 21st, 1829, totaling $14.42, and noting already received payment for medical services rendered to Gerry Blakeslee for $9.00. Located at.....
Price: $125.00
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