Friendship, Autograph Albums & Sketch Books
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
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
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
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
autograph books, friendship albums
Gilt black leather cover. A true autograph book with signatures, location, and date. Most in Boston or the Boston area. Several from Normal School and/or with gem size photos at upper right corner; mostly women. A few state "Boston Normal School Class '78" other say "C.H.S. class of '75" and.....
Price: $110.00
Friendshipm Social History, Ethnicity, War, Women
Town Hall Anerley, S. E. London: 1918. An autograph album with sentiments and sketches created by various employees of of the Ministry of Munitions, Drawing Office. Predominantly populated by women, as it was the type of work women did in wartime. Includes sentiments such as "Nature, impartial in her ends.....
Price: $550.00
Calligraphy, Autograph Collecting
Sun Prairie, Wisconsin: 1877-1899. Autograph album of Miss Anna Allen, later Mrs. Flint c.1891, including Victorian scrap, calligraphic flourishes, and two rather fine gouaches of wildflowers. Oblong 12mo (4" by 7"), approx. 120 pp., about half-filled with contemporary ink inscriptions ranging in date from 1877 to 1899, in original green.....
Price: $175.00
Autographs, Calligraphic Drawing, Riverhead NY
Riverhead, Long Island: c.1878. The autograph book of Addie [Raynor?], resident in Riverhead, Long Island, New York c.1878. Includes a very fine calligraphic drawing by Usher B. Howell done in ink and gilt; Howell would go on to be President of the Riverhead Bank. Four leaves of loose autograph leaves.....
Price: $400.00
original art, albums
1887-1916. Embossed colored cloth cover,hand drawn original artwork cut and glued onto pages, some with verses and signatures. A few pages say "to Flo", dates range from 1887-1916. Detailed and beautiful artwork; pencil sketches, pen and ink, watercolors, and paints, create a unique album. Verses included on some pages, credit.....
Price: $55.00
Genealogy, Drawing, Friendship Albums
United States: c.1846-c.1970. A small family archive comprised of ten (10) items: one album, two drawing books, a photographic portrait, and several pieces of miscellaneous ephemera related to the related Harmon and Peck families, dating from c.1836 to c.1970. Highlights include: the c.1836 friendship album of Miss Cornelia Harmon (1819-1898).....
Price: $425.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Romanticism,Poetry,Thomas Gray,Shakespeare,Alexander Pope,John Milton
England: 1822. A book of poetry neatly transcribed in ink and inscribed "To William Stokes, from a Friend, in token of his affectionate regard and esteem, which he desires may not be estimated by the poverty of this offering. Jany. 1822." Notable for the sheer volume of manuscript poetry included--.....
Price: $1,200.00
friendship albums
1878. Stamped cloth cover, decorative pages. The friendship album of Edith Beatty, most pages signed Conshohocken, PA. Two pages mention the Class of '95. Many simple pages with brief verse or reference to schoolmates. One longer dedication at the front and the back. Class of '95 chant included, "Wee! Wee!.....
Price: $60.00
Women and Friendship,WWI Veterans
England: 1914. A sweet friendship WWI and post-WWI album inscribed "With love from Ethel 2nd to Ethel 1st For a birthday 1914". Ethel 1st appears to have been a popular and well-liked woman, as the many entries from friends attest, dating well into the 1930s. Includes inside jokes, humorous verses.....
Price: $325.00
friendship album, poem, missionary, India, religion, family
New YorkPrinting & Publishing: J C Riker, [1840]. "To the Dear Brother or Sister to whom this album may be allotted. I would gladly have kept this because it was prized by my dear Amelia, but considering the uncertainty of missionary life and the fact that the writers are strangers.....
Price: $475.00
Friendship Album, Drawings
Forest Gate, London: 1930. Hard cover album with unnumbered pages with numerous sentiments and verses written in 1930. Additionally watercolors that include a woman skier, an interpretation of a worker in Hong Kong, a Harlequin holding a clown, a finely executed scene from nature, a fishing boat, a sports girl.....
Price: $425.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Holographic Will, Original Artwork, Calligraphy
Utica, New York: 1840-1861. The friendship album of Miss. Anna Quinn (dates unknown) of Utica, New York, exceptional for its original artwork, calligraphy, and an enclosed holographic will (i.e. an informal will handwritten on a scrap of paper). Entries with artwork and poetry by friends, family, and acquaintances date from.....
Price: $550.00
friendship album, quote, quotes, poetry, poems, verse, drawing, sketches, pencil, ink, code,
1907-1912. A friendship album of Marie Campbell consisting of mostly originally poems, a few illustrations, and coded phrases, the majority of which are signed and dated. The album starts in 1907 when Marie departed St. Francis Xavier School and the first half of the album are full of notes from.....
Price: $110.00
Female Friendship,Sisterhood,Friendship Albums
Cincinnatus, New York: 1830-1868. Friendship album of Mary S. Osgood Kingman of Cincinnatus, New York, containing a nice assemblage of entries by friends and family, and some poignant obituaries. Entries and ephemera date from 1830 to approx. 1868. Mary (1809-1895) was the eldest daughter of John and Olive Grosvenor Osgood.....
Price: $450.00
friendship album, autograph album, poetry, quotes, drawing, sketches, watercolor, WWI, original art
United Kingdom. A friendship album from the United Kingdom full of quotes, poetry, and twenty-two (22) original artwork pieces, from 1915-1916. The covers are leather with the word 'Album' gilded onto the front cover. The pages are gilded-edge as well. Some notably poetry in the album is the "Hey, diddle.....
Price: $550.00
friendship album, poetry, Foreign Language, German
Philadelphia, PA: Moss & Brother, [1850]. A friendship album belonging to Hattie, whose entries date between 1853-1855. Unfortunately, little is known about the owner of the album beyond her first name, though it is probable she was from New York, as several of the authors of the entries are from.....
Price: $275.00
Women and Friendship
New York, New York: J.C. Riker, 1833. The charming friendship album of a woman, Julia Ann Hall of Meriden (1799-1880), recorded in petite album published by J.C. Riker ("The Young Lady's Remembrancer"). The entries fill the album, and range in date from approx. 1836 until 1848. Locations of entries include.....
Price: $425.00
Sketch Book, Graphite
c1860s. A 6 1/2" x 8 1/4" sketchbook with marbled paper wraps. Naive drawings including love birds in a basket, a church yard, a basket of fruit with a bird(in the style of a theorem), an ancient castle, a fortress on a river and more.
Price: $110.00
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
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