Commonplace Books, Journals, Diaries
Friendship Album, Made by Hand, Autographs
1878-1880. A 3 1/4" x 2 3/4" handmade autograph album cut in the shape of a boot. Heavy textured paper covers. Pages in various colors of paper mostly blank; few with printed lines. Over 20 autographs; few with verses. Mostly from Connecticut. Ribbon tie at top. Rather charming...
Price: $225.00
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
Analytic Workbook, Textile Specimens
c1900. A hard cover analysis book created by a student Adolphe Rusch, Jr. while a student at the Textile School. In depth analysis for each fabric including warp required, filling requires, warp dressing and filling arrangement details. This is followed by the actual finished piece of fabric and detailed hand.....
Price: $750.00
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
Genealogy, death, funeral, journal, social welfare, Lancaster county, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania
Lancaster and Dauphin Counties of Pennsylvania: 1894-1899. A burial ledger, kept by an unknown individual, of the deaths of residents of the Lancaster and Dauphin Counties in Pennsylvania between 1894 and 1899. The ledger lists approximately 600 individuals' name, place they lived, burial date, burial location, and age at time.....
Price: $125.00
Ledger
1834. Includes wages paid to others including tasks performed from 1834-1841 followed by a receivables ledger. Last entry death record of Chauncy, who died at age 60 (1853) , Anne who died at 91 years and Margaret who died at age 65. The Buell family of Ludlow was descended from.....
Price: $65.00
Romanticism, Original Verse, Arctic Exploration, Abbeys
England: 1817-1841. "And here's a Wilderness ---- of strange But gay Confusion-----"inscibed on applied card with deeply embossed border decoration applied on marbled front endpaper An exceptional commonplace book belonging to a gentleman between 1817 and 1841, containing what appears to be largely original verse, pencil and ink drawings, and.....
Price: $1,700.00
commonplace book, religion, diary, weather, courtship, daily life
New York: 1868. A wonderful commonplace book of Augusta Maria Ward Bissell, who lived in Warwick, MA. This commonplace book is a small pocket diary for the year 1868. While each entry is short, normally consisting of a few brief sentences, the details Augusta Ward chooses to record about her.....
Price: $325.00
diaries
Black leather cover, preprinted generic pages, lined pages for each day of the year filled in by hand. Calendar journal with identification page identifies the book as belonging to Frankie Brown in Daytona Florida, some answers on the identification page are tongue in cheek and give the feeling of a......
Price: $85.00
Made by Hand, Manuscript, Inspirational Book, Poetry
Massachusetts: c1906. Watercolor heavy card covers with polka-dot silk ribbon binding. An endearing and thoughtful hand penned daily inspirational book. Each page represents a day of the year with a daily inspirational passage from poets, notables such as Florence Nightingale, Beecher the social reformer and abolitionist, philosopher, Bible passages and.....
Price: $250.00
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
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
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
sermon, quote, religion, robert e. lee,
New York: The Washington Life Ins. Co., 1893. A tiny pocket journal, written by an unknown individual whose entries mostly consists of quotes from sermons delivered by Reverend Moses Drury Hoge (often referred to in the journal as Dr. Hoge). Along with the quotes, are the writer's thoughts on these.....
Price: $175.00
pocket diary, daily life, women's history, journal, social & cultural
Oneida Castle, New York: 1868. A pocket diary belonging to E. M. Cole, an unidentified woman living in Oneida Castle, NY. The diary starts of with several printed pages of general information, such as the calendar for the year, including phases of the moon, church holidays, postal money orders, and.....
Price: $175.00
Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Autodidacts, Classism, Flappers
Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922. First edition of a pocket-sized booklet of mispronunciations, misnomers, and vulgarisms to avoid in the English language. The author's personal views often permeate the entries to great comedic effect, such as in the entry for "flapper": "A very immoral young girl in her early teens".....
Price: $150.00
address book, commonplace book, rowley, business history
Massachusetts: [1919-1930]. A one of a kind commonplace address book, that belonged to Harriet Sophia Rowley (1853-1943), which includes not only the addresses of her family and friends, but also that of local businesses she likes. Sometimes these notes are by the business name or type, but other times it.....
Price: $225.00
high society, daily life, weddings, new york, gender roles
New York: 1841-1848. A diary/common place book from New York in the 1840s. It belonged to a young woman named India Allen. Not much biographical information is known about India, beyond the fact that she lived at 6 Washington Square, New City. Based on her writing it is clear that.....
Price: $500.00
Visiting Cards, Musings
[Auburn, New York]: c.1877. Commonplace book of Louis McCrea, compiled c.1877. Louis was one half of the McCrea Brothers, coal dealers based in Auburn, New York; his business card has been pasted-in, as well as his visiting card to the upper pastedown. brief descriptions of McCrea's travels are recorded, as.....
Price: $225.00
scrapbook, education, school, yearbooks, classmates, schooling, high school, female education
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1919-1923. The very well documented high school years of Rebecca Hileman from Loda, Illinois are captured as Rebecca filled scores of pages with over 100 photographs of friends and family, name cards, souvenirs of school events, news clippings, letters and more. Includes some memorabilia.....
Price: $300.00
business history, merchants, ledger, accounting, science & technology, women's history
Trenton & Utica, NY: 1834-1850. A collection of five (5) ledgers belonging to Warren D. Rowley (1800-1854) Four (4) relate to his mercantile business and one with his personal finances. Rowley conducted business in Trenton and Utica, with his business partner, Daniel S. Curry (1820-1890), who was also his brother-in-law.....
Price: $425.00