Albums & Journals
ABAA-RBMS-2023, Sewing Sample Book,Learn to Sew
United States: c.1918. A notebook with sewing and fabric samples created by a student named Esther Cope for two courses, "Sewing 111" and "Sewing 112". Includes fifteen (15) samples of her sewing work, and twenty-five (25) fabric samples for learning about different kinds of textiles (e.g. silk, chiffon, linen, gingham.....
Price: $600.00
Sketch Books, Note Books, History, Trade
England: c.1854. A pocket sketch book of an unidentified gentleman ("Daniel Davies"?) containing an eclectic and curious amalgamation of content: pencil sketches (a bull frog, a dog, local characters, a seaside castle, a farm); notes on recent trade, including gold being shipped from Melbourne to England; important dates of local.....
Price: $325.00
Sketch book, Lacquer Drawings, Nacre, Mother of Pearl
1842. A 9" x 5 1/2" sketch book with 24 leaves. An 1840s book in rather poor condition with better than average pencil sketches and seven (7) fine lacquer works. They include a Chinese Village scene with a rough sketch of same on adjacent page. Alphabet letters Birds a floral.....
Price: $350.00
social & cultural, correspondence, printing & writing, fountain pens, Waterman fountain pens,
New York, NY: L. E. Waterman Company, 1929. The booklet was produced by the L. E. Waterman Company, who sold a variety of stationary goods, but is perhaps most well known for their luxury fountain pens. It essentially functions as a 'How-to' guide for what is to be considered socially.....
Price: $150.00
Viewbook, Photo Album, Madison Wisconsin
Madison, WI: James E. Moseley, Bookseller, c1910. 16 pages. Embossed illustrated wraps. Includes local views of City Hall, High School, Main Street, various views of University of Wisconsin campus including the horticultural, dairy and agricultural buildings, an evening on Lake Mendota, boating on Lake Mendota with lakeside picnickers and a......
Price: $85.00
maine, Massachusetts, merriam-webster, merriam, webster, vacation, tourism, family photos
New England: 1912-1917. A photo album belonging to the Rowley family consisting of their vacation family photos from a variety of locations in New England in the early 20th century. Some of the vacation spots are: Bellow Falls, VT, Pemaquid Beach, ME, York Beach, ME, Kittery Point, ME, Portland, ME.....
Price: $325.00
teacher, retirement, poem, humor, photograph, humor
Queens, NY: PS19, Jun-41. A memoir book presented to Rose A. Maguire, an elementary school teacher, upon her retirement in June 1951. She taught at a school located in Queens, NY called PS 19 Corona (now known as Marino Jeantet Elementary). The memoir book features over fifty pages of short.....
Price: $275.00
Correspondence, Argentina, Daily life, Argentina countryside
Buenos Aires, Argentina: February 1855. In early 1855, a husband and wife, moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Estancia del Folag with their two sons, Hasen and Jonathan. The collection contains three letters, comprised of eighteen pages, written to the wife's friend. Color vignette on first page with stationer's embossing on.....
Price: $175.00
Libraries and Institutions, Natural History
Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Lyceum and Library Association, c.1858. Printed letter to the Friends of Worcester Lyceum and Library Association requesting volunteers to aid in the Association's upcoming Christmas Fair: "The Fair Committee therefore ask the ladies of Worcester County to contribute such articles of skill, taste and usefulness as will.....
Price: $100.00
friendship, love, civil war, battle flag, dried flowers, in memoriam
New York: John C. Riker, c1860. A friendship album of Addie A. Allen who most likely lived in Connecticut as many of the entries note Connecticut towns in the closing. The album itself dates from 1858-1864, with the bulk of the entries dated between 1858-1860. The majority of the material.....
Price: $650.00
Travelogue, Journal
A collection of 30 legal size pages of narrative describing the itinerary from a European grand tour taken by most likely Thirza Merriam Rowley wife of H. Curtis Rowley and daughter of Homer Merriam. The journal of loose pages is structured by date and provides a daily accounting by specific.....
Price: $375.00
travel journal, travel, scrap album, transportation, printing, stationary
1930-1940s. A unique scrap travel book compiled by an unknown person with each page filled will snippets from letterheads from hotels presumably visited by the journaler. These pieces of the letterhead have been cut out and pasted into the album and there is a range of a singe (larger) piece.....
Price: $225.00
watercolor folk art, 1880s, Victoriana, friendship album, eclectibles, paper dolls, paper americana, ephemera, paper toy, menus, travel americana, children's books, valentines, documents, correspondence
Hand Made Birthday Album - A Tribute to Our Grandmother on her Eightieth Birthday, January 12, 1886 from her ever affectionate Grandchildren Velvet covered album with handmade works demonstrating penmanship, stitchery, watercolor Acrostic Prayer surrounded by a watercolor of the Holy Bible Three (3) pen and ink drawings of.....
Price: $600.00
teenage life, diaries
New York/New Jersey: 1923. Unpaginated. Paper bound personal diary from June 20 to August 13, 1923, handwritten and made to look like a published book by drawning a title page.Preface from the 'editor' is presumably the author of the diary and begins "The second spoke continues and finishes the last.....
Price: $65.00
Journal, Pyrography, Travel
A 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" suede cover with suede tie binding. The cover is pyrography decorated and depicts the exterior and grounds of the Northfield Chateau. The journey begins with the traveler leaving Springfield MA at 3:30 pm on July 3, 1898. Based on the content of the 20.....
Price: $100.00
Social History, Visual Culture, Albums & Journals, Commonplace Books
Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1870-1880s. Large format album with 39 leaves with applied fine chromolithograph album cards and illustrations on both sides of the page, in other words 78 decorated pages. At the center of each page is an applied album cards surrounded by watercolor illustrations and elements relevant to the.....
Price: $2,400.00
Victorian, Scrap, Prints, Lithography, Hand-colored, Engravings, Prints, Graphic Arts
-1870s. A Victorian scrapbook with fine examples of early (i.e. 1830s and 1840s) scraps, with a range of others that can be dated as late as 1877. Larger lithographic prints have been repurposed as pastedowns, and several other large prints (mostly lithographed, some engraved) have been pasted throughout. Of more.....
Price: $375.00
Wigmaking, Weaving, Knotting, Made by Hand, Hair
c1940s. Large format folio with 35 leave. The index is divided in two sections - Weaving and Knotting. Includes actual hair, caps, weaves, etc. The topics include Weaving Broadwork: Origin and use Weaving diagrams Weaving sample Marteau diagrams Marteau sample Pin curl diagrams Pin curl sample Two stem switch diagrams.....
Price: $950.00
cooper union, women's art school, year book,
1932. 40 p. with paper wraps. The typical yearbook with photo images and summaries. This is followed by a series of tongue-in-cheek narratives on the events and organizations experienced by the students through the year. Appropriately includes lots of artwork. One quite specific to their chosen studies is "What the.....
Price: $45.00
print & writing, vertical writing, business history, social situations, invites, how-to
Boston, MA; New York, NY; Chicago, IL: D C Health & Co., 1898. This item is the seventh book in a series of eight workbooks in the Natural System of Vertical Writing by A. F. Newlands and R. K. Row. This book focused on practicing "business and social forms", which.....
Price: $100.00
land development, agricultural, correspondence, business history, caterpillar tractor, billheads and letterheads
San Francisco, CA: El Rico Land Company, 11-Dec-19. A letter to a Mr. Peter Goettsch of Nicolaus, CA, regarding payment of his dividends in the El Rico Land Company. Originally enclosed with this letter was check for $400. The letter is on a specialized letterhead, meant for exactly this type.....
Price: $85.00
Original Poetry, Pens, Humor, Manuscript
[West Virginia?]: 1914. A charming original manuscript poem in blue ink titled "Pen", signed by A.G. Wilcox: "Pen is a thing that they write with Pen is a thing that will brake[sic] Pen is a thing to keep in the house..." Concludes with "Pen is a thing that they write.....
Price: $150.00
weather, government, military history, science & technology, war department, agriculture
Washington DC: War Department, Office of the Chief Signal Office, December 27, 1877. A weather bulletin for December 27, 1877 put out by US War Department, the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, a Division of the Telegrams and Reports for the Benefit of Commerce and Agriculture. Although this bulletin.....
Price: $75.00
Social History, Women's History
Camp Hill, ALA: 1915. Two letters from Alice G. Teele, an instructor at The Southern Industrial Institute, for the Training of White Youth writing to Mrs. Eugene Howlett, Charleston SC. The content relates to what appears to be the socially prominent of the area and there comings and going; politely.....
Price: $95.00