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...
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...
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...
Price: $750.00
travel, trains, journal, national parks, national park system, Price Canyon...
c1884. An array of snippets and pages detailing a trip a young family took by train in 1884. A mother...
Price: $125.00
Genealogy, death, funeral, journal, social welfare, Lancaster county, Dauphin county...
Lancaster and Dauphin Counties of Pennsylvania: 1894-1899. A burial ledger, kept by an unknown individual, of the deaths of residents...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $325.00
diaries
Black leather cover, preprinted generic pages, lined pages for each day of the year filled in by hand. Calendar journal...
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...
Price: $250.00
Watercolor, Newspapers and Periodicals
United States: c.1824. Handmade scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings and original watercolors, the second captioned "Cornucopia or Horn of plenty"...
Price: $325.00
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...
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...
Price: $375.00
watercolor folk art, 1880s, Victoriana, friendship album, eclectibles, paper dolls...
Hand Made Birthday Album - A Tribute to Our Grandmother on her Eightieth Birthday, January 12, 1886 from her ever...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $500.00
Benjamin Franklin, Short Stories, Writing
Norwalk, Ohio: 1887. Manuscript writing book of John Anderson of Norwalk, Ohio, complete with elaborate calligraphic headings. Sample titles include...
Price: $325.00
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...
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...
Price: $300.00
Album, Original Art, Drawings, Verse, Poetry, Limericks, Love and Friendship
c1930. Creative - Charming - Skillful - Whimsical In what appears to be the grips of the Great Slump (depression)...
Price: $1,800.00