Albums & Journals
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
Letterhead,Job Printing,Publishers and Printers
Norfolk, Virginia: Pollock & Barcroft, 1885. An 1885 handwritten letter on letterhead advertising the publishers, job printers, and binders Pollock & Barcroft of Norfolk, Virginia. The letter itself is dated December 15, 1885 and addressed to Col. William D. Coleman of Danville, Virginia. The subject of the letter is regarding.....
Price: $100.00
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
Friendship Albums,Original Drawings and Watercolors,Women and Friendship
Norwich, England: Jarrold & Sons, Ltd, 1906. An early 1900s friendship album, kept by "Doris L'Estrange" from England. Approx. one-quarter filled with original drawings, watercolors, signatures of friends and family, and even a couple pages of musical quotes (J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart). Dates of the entries range from 1906.....
Price: $350.00
Boys' Camps and Camping,YMCA,Boyhood,Snapshots
Southwick, Massachusetts: 1910. A one-of-a-kind photo and narrative album memorializing the summer of 1910 at Camp Congamond. The camp was first held in 1908 for Y.M.C.A. boys, and was located at Congamond Lake in Southwick, Massachusetts. A later iteration would also be established for girls. The present photo album contains.....
Price: $475.00
History of Black Americans in Higher Education,Howard University, University of Chicago,Black Veterans of the First World War
Washington, D.C: 1914. A postal card postmarked April 18th, 1914 in Washington, D.C., sent from Uzziah Miner, an under-studied Black activist and veteran of WWI. At the time of this postal card, he was a Howard University Student seeking information about admissions to the University of Chicago. The message and.....
Price: $150.00
WWI,American Nurses Abroad,Le Bien-Être du Blessé,Franco-American Volunteer Nurse Organizations
France: 1919. A group of four (4) letters from the Franco-American organization Le Bien-Être du Blessé addressed to Ann Cléophas Mullarkey, an American nurse who served in France during the war and assisted the organization in the war's immediate aftermath. From the letters we glean that Mullarkey was awarded a......
Price: $175.00
Music History, Music and Pop Culture, American Music Culture
United States: 1930s. A section removed from a scrap book compiled c.1930s by a banjo player and popular music enthusiast, including three real photo postcards and other photos of himself posing with his banjo, his dog ("Prince and Me-- Both dogs"), and his car. Includes a March 1926 newspaper clipping.....
Price: $225.00
Family Photo Album,Birthdays and Milestones,Mothers and Sons
[Cleveland, Ohio]: 1965. A family photo album created by a mother as a 20th birthday gift for her son, including eleven (11) photos of the young man growing up from infanthood to adulthood. The photos are captioned lovingly by the mother in red ink. Shows what appears to be a......
Price: $275.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Batavia,Civil War,History of New York State
Batavia, New York: 1854-1886. A photo album containing ten (10) original photographs of Batavia, New York, and environs. Captions are dated. Views include: main street (1854); a store decorated in honor of the return of Union soldiers (1865); S. Main Street (1870); a row of shops (n.d.); the "Old Arsenal".....
Price: $275.00
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
Hardware,Mouse Traps
Abingdon, Illinois: Abingdon Trap Company, 1900. Illustrated circular and sales letter on company billhead advertising mouse traps sold by the Abingdon Trap Co. Specifically promotes the "Diamond Joe Mouse and Rat Traps" line of products. Includes a photo of the traps in the box, as well as before and after.....
Price: $150.00
Scrapbooking, Chromolithography, Decals
Germany: Abzieh-Bilder, 1880s. Two (2) brown paper envelopes, each measuring 6" by 5", with chromolithographed onlays advertising Abzieh-Bilder Transfer Pictures, i.e., Victorian scrapbook transfer patterns made in Germany for use in the United States. Each envelope depicts a beautiful young woman holding a bouquet of roses. "Decalmanie" and "Calcomania" are.....
Price: $75.00
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
Historical Memorabilia, Accounting, Cow
New York: M. Day Printer, 1832-1852. Pictorial paper wrappers, illustration of cow on front, the Selling of Joseph to the Ishmaelites on the reverse. A detailed accounting on accounts payable and receivable on portions of each of the estates. Includes a detailed accounting of an auction of the property of.....
Price: $250.00
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