Manuscripts & Penmanship
Friendship Album, Make-Do, Women
Alton, Belknap, New Hampshire: 1831-. Eight (8) pages stitched together with string binding; no covers. Includes 11 different entries from friends and family. The first entry from a male friend concludes with "when this you see Remember me". All entries written inverse and with sentiments of friendship and love, including.....
Price: $325.00
Valentine Verse,Embossed Lace Paper,Gilt,Love Poems
London: 1860s. A handsome 16mo valentine made from gilt lace paper, with contemporary ink verse inside: "When you are standing at your work, Think of me before you stroke; And when on this your eyes you cast, Think of when you saw me last". On the opposite leaf inside the.....
Price: $60.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Folk Valentine,Cut Paper,Love Token,Inscription
England: 1787. An exceptional example of an English hand-cut folk art valentine with an inscription dated 1787. Features an intricate design including sawtooth edges, heart and dove imagery, and pinpricking for texture (e.g. in the doves' wings to mimic feathers). There is one central circle surrounded by eight smaller circles.....
Price: $4,000.00
Friendship Albums,Women and Poetry
Devon, England: 1839-1854. A particularly nice example of a young lady's friendship album from Devon, England, with entries dating between 1839 and 1854. Includes a title-page made with original artwork and penmanship flourishes to mimic engraved title pages of the time. Nearly every leaf is filled with poetry musing on.....
Price: $725.00
Student Attendance,Teaching and Pedagogy,Data and Knowledge Organization,Penmanship and Calligraphy
New London, Connecticut: Bolles & Williams, 1846-1848. A meticulously kept manuscript register of student attendance, written in skilled penmanship by an unidentified teacher between 1846 and 1848 ("W.A. Gallup"?). Includes a title page with stylized typography. The register is designed in a grid, and records the following information: student name;.....
Price: $150.00
Columbia University,History of Library Science,Melvil Dewey,Postal Card
New York, New York: Columbia College Libraries, 1883. A postal card for "Columbia College Libraries", produced in the 1880s during the tenure of Chief Librarian Melvil Dewey (of "Dewey Decimal" fame). Dated Sept. 24, 1883, the handwritten note on the verso requests mail for Dewey to be forwarded. The addressee.....
Price: $100.00
Book of Promissory Notes,Kangaroo
[Plymouth, Massachusetts?]: 1881. A pocket-sized book of lithographed promissory notes from the early 1880s, including two that have been finished in pencil or ink and not excised. Each leaf has a small section to the left with blank spaces for the user to record the following information: amount of money.....
Price: $175.00
Greeting Card
Belfast and London: Marcus Ward & Co., 1890s. A charming greeting card depicting a young blond girl in a straw hat against a pastoral setting, with an inscription in ink on the verso: "Best wishes for Miss Hood from Lizzie". Printed poem on the front titled "The Best of Good.....
Price: $24.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Firefighting,Safety,Inventories and Record Books
United States: 1903. A detailed inventory and record book spanning the dates 1903 and 1906, appearing to have belonged to a firefighter or building manager tasked with safety management. Largely recorded in ink manuscript, the book begins with an inventory of fire safety equipment (e.g. "Fire pails"; "Automatic fire doors";.....
Price: $175.00
Martha's vineyard, autograph albums, religion, oak bluff
Oak Bluff: 1874-1883. These three albums are being offered as a collection. Two of these albums are near complete, while the album with the latest dates is sparse, with only 25 of the 100 or so pages used. One album has a board cover in brown cloth, with "Autographs" gilt.....
Price: $600.00
Manuscript], Odes & Sonnets
A series of correspondence from Samuel R. Wiley, San Francisco, CA to Silas Leach, Wilkes Barre, PA. Each of the Odes and the Sonnet are penned in a lovely hand with calligraphy embellishments at the top. Some with red and black borders. Philosophical and thought provoking works by an octogenarian.....
Price: $550.00
Account Book,History of Massachusetts,Daily life and Commerce in 19th Century New England
Exeter, Massachusetts: 1824-1830. Manuscript account book kept by Benjamin Clark of Exeter, Massachusetts (dates unknown), between 1824 and 1830. The account book has been filled with what appears to be debts owed to Clark, as well as mileage traveled. A representative example of the entries: "Mr. John Gardner, Debtor 20.....
Price: $175.00
Probate,Estate Sales,Daily Life in 1840s America
Merrimack County, New Hampshire: 1848. An inventory list of sales made from the estate of Thomas Miles Wadleigh (1774-1848), nephew of Revolutionary War veteran Thomas Wadleigh (1755-1827). The Wadleigh family were based in Merrimack County, New Hampshire during this period. This account appears to be a draft or fair copy.....
Price: $150.00
Cotton Industry
Howard County, Maryland: Alberton Cotton Factory, 1871. Illustrated letterhead for the Alberton Cotton Factory, featuring at lively image of the factory with people, a horse and buggy, nearby domiciles, and a steaming locomotive going by. Below is a letter handwritten ink by the Treasurer of the company to Mr. William.....
Price: $175.00
WWII,Student-Run Serials,Annotated Proof,Rice University
Houston, Texas: 1944. An annotated proof of a student-run publication from the Rice Institute (i.e. Rice University) in Houston, Texas, published in the midst of the Second World War in June 1944. Promotes the purchase of War Bonds, and features an advert for "America's college girls" to consider joining the.....
Price: $175.00
Soil Conservation, Agriculture, Correspondence, History of New York
Berlin, New York: c.1920-1931. A remarkable archive of material belonging to Edward C. (b.1872) and Emily (b.1884) Henrotin, farmers active in Rensselaer County, New York, in the 1920s. Emily was an active conservationist, and one of the first women to be recognized in her field; her husband Edward was equally.....
Price: $425.00
travel, trains, journal, national parks, national park system, Price Canyon, Salt Lake City, Niagara Falls, Chicago, Denver, Rocky Mountains, Rockies, Erie Canal
c1884. An array of snippets and pages detailing a trip a young family took by train in 1884. A mother, family, and their two young children started in Boston and headed west. They stopped in Niagara Falls, Erie Canal, Denver, Salt Lake, Price Canyon, Black Canyon, Chicago, and Washington DC.....
Price: $125.00
Artistic Penmanship, Works by Children
Northampton, MA: 1865. 4 leaves. Elaborately decorated cover with gilt enhanced illustrated of boy conquering a mountain. He carries a flag reading "Excelsior". He has penned "Mastr Richard Clarke Burnham School. June 1845" in the cartouche. A large format album with decorative border designs printed in different colors with different.....
Price: $700.00
Baby Book
New York, New York: 1914. The baby book of Elwood Williams III (1914-1982), housed in the original box. It was gifted to his parents by his father's employer, James A. Hearn & Son, with an engraved label on the upper lid that reads in part that they "extend with this.....
Price: $200.00
History of Georgia,Education,Berry College
Rome, Georgia: 1925-1938. A small archive of manuscript and printed materials relating to Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Ranging in date from 1925 to 1938, the materials were collected by the school's then-president and chart his professional and personal activities during this time. There is correspondence and poetry; most is.....
Price: $450.00
Billheads and Receipts,Booksellers and Stationers
Bangor, Maine: E.F. Dillingham, 1903. Handwritten receipt on printed billhead for E.F. Dillingham, a Bangor-based "Bookseller, Stationer, and Blank Book Manufacturer" as well as a dealer in "Fine Wall Papers and Room Mouldings". Records the sale of an album and stationary to a Mrs. A.W. Knowlton of Newbury, Maine. Billhead.....
Price: $85.00
Penmanship,Writing and Exercise Books
Boston, Massachusetts: Ginn & Company, 1894. An unused exercise book published by Ginn & Company in 1894 for the classroom, teaching students penmanship. Includes instructions and diagrams on the inside upper wrapper for proper position and pen holding technique. Each page in the book is lined with examples at the.....
Price: $150.00
Beatlemania,Music Heartthrobs of the 1960s,British Invasion Kitsch,Proto Boy Bands,Memorabilia
[United States]: 1960s. An exuberant collection of Beatlemania trading cards from the 1960s, pasted into a book handmade from colored construction paper and staples by who we presume was an enthusiastic young female fan. In total there are 61 cards, including several in color, depicting the boys on tour and.....
Price: $275.00
Tavern Licensing Law, Mathematical argument
c1860s. A 10" x 8" sheet with manuscript page prepared to show an innkeeper that the license law would have a positive impact on profits. The argument is for license laws. The argument is essentially that under the law a tavern keeper would pay 48 cents per quart vs. unlicensed.....
Price: $100.00