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By: UNKNOWN
Price: $385.99
Publisher: PARIS FRANCE, 1833
Seller ID: 00JT36
Condition: Very Good
On offer is an original 1833 handwritten genealogical précis for the family of Claude Pierre de la Monnoye [occasionally Monnoie], believed to be a later member of the Bernard de la Monnoye, noted French poet and philologist (1641 - 1728). This is a very intriguing document with two [2] detached, densely written watermarked folio leaves written on three sides held with a smaller note by string.. View more info
By: UNKNOWN
Price: $1,255.99
Publisher: SALEM MASSACHUSETTS MASS MA KITTERY MAINE, 1845
Seller ID: 00MV487
Condition: Good
On offer is an interesting, original 1845 - 1848 manuscript ledger book relative to the economy and trade in Salem, Massachusetts and Kittery, Maine. The first 33-1/4 pages are dated Salem, Feb. 1845 thru Oct. 1846, and deal almost exclusively with tobacco sales, i.e. cigarettes, sixes, yarra cigars, snuff, light Cuba filled cigars, plug tobacco, Rupee snuff, C F cigars, matches etc. Listed in those "tobacco" pages are 4 purchases by the famed "Salem L[ight] Infantry". The remainder of the account book [83 or so pages] is dated Kittery [Maine] Jan. 1847 - Jan. 1848 and is essen... View more info
By: UNKNOWN
Price: $785.99
Publisher: 1880
Seller ID: 0001800
Condition: Very Good
On offer is a charming original manuscript booklet titled 'Ye Marks on China'. An unidentified calligrapher created this lovely little, 12 x 9.5cm, handwritten book using ink on card bound by thread. There are 12 interior pages all detailing symbols and marks for china and many are in colour. c1870-1880s. Overall VG. View more info
By: UNKNOWN MULTIPLE AUTOGRAPHS
Price: $559.99
Publisher: Italy, None: 1808
Inscription: Autograph
Seller ID: 00MV80
Condition: Fair
Two rare documents, purple-stained, partly-printed, ink signed, dated, 1808, each headed IL PREFETTO E ASSISTENTI, DELLA VENERABILE CONGREGAZIONE E COMPAGNIA, DEL SANTISSIMO SACRAMENTO, ERETTA NELLA PARROCCHIA DI SANT'EULALIA DEL QUARTIERE DELLA MARINA.The ink has really lightened on one of these except for the signature. The original file folder contained a very old collection of foreign autographs and documents which indicates: "Spanish War - rare watermarks - unusually good." Documents relating to the 1808 - 1814 Spanish War, or the Peninsula War as is called Spain's War of Indepen... View more info
By: UNKNOWN.
Price: $2,255.99
Publisher: FREDERICK COUNTY MARYLAND MD, 1834
Seller ID: 0002092
Condition: Fair
On offer is a super, original manuscript accounts book and journal dated January 1834 referencing Baltimore, Hagerstown, Georgetown, Philadelphia, and Cumberland strongly suggesting its origin somewhere in Frederic County, Maryland. [While the author is unidentified we are certain local historians or researchers would likely find the owner of this thriving business.] This large, rough handmade book has a dark grey-blue heavy stock paper wraps and rag paper, hand-lined, pages for account entries. The cover has a large "Jan 1834" written in large script. The cover is distinctive with an... View more info
By: UNKNOWN.
Price: $2,055.99
Publisher: Germany, 1865
Seller ID: 0002205
Condition: Good
On offer is a superb, original 1865 handwritten manuscript German cookbook with easily over 200 hundred recipes in this well balanced 'A to Z' in German cookery with the odd non German recipe thrown in. The approximately 180 page hardcover book inscribed by the unknown author and chef: "Wien, 1865 Novbr. & Decbr." begins with Erbsensuppe [pea soup] and Wurzelsuppe [sausage soup] and many more soups on to aspics, breads, meats, savouries, schnitzels, salads, goulashes, puddings, tortes, liqueurs, and much, much more. The legible 8vo has cloth backed marbleized boards and is overall G+ View more info
By: UNKNOWN.
Price: $2,055.99
Publisher: 1890
Inscription: Autograph
Seller ID: 000503
Condition: Good+
On offer is a wonderful large antique photo album packed with photos of an extensive around the world trip; India, Australia, Japan, America, Philippines etc. etc. The album contains 200 images from every corner of the world. The photos are placed in the windows of the album. The album begins with photos of what appears to be Sydney and other Australian images. It then moves on to Timor and Manilla. Then it's off to Japan with many images of Tokyo, Geishas, Gardens, Temples etc. Many of the images are handcolored. Images on ship, rail and then into the American West. Shots of mountains, close ... View more info
By: UNKNOWN.
Price: $6,855.99
Publisher: DECATUR ALABAMA, 1864
Seller ID: 0002553
Condition: Good+
On offer is an original, historic and significant group of six [6] Civil War Carte de Visite [CDVs] circa May of 1864 in Decatur Alabama. The images, outdoor scenes, four apparently unknown, two of these images are in the noted Blue and Gray Civil War Museum in Decatur Alabama make for a super visual record of the difficult times and upheaval of conflict and culture in Alabama during the War. The six CDVs in this collection include; the Pontoon Bridge at Decatur faintly inscribed; the building of breastworks; image of stacked rifles [this same image is noted in the Decatur Daily News September... View more info
By: UNKNOWN.
Price: $1,455.99
Publisher: BALTIMORE MARYLAND MD, 1860
Seller ID: 0009108
Condition: Good
On offer is an absolutely unique and amazing document of one of the most significant events in American history. It is a letter sent from Baltimore and dated October 22, 1860, discussing the Presidential election that would take place in less than two weeks and directly lead to the secession of the Southern States and the beginning of the Civil War. The unknown sender first gently admonishes his friend for not including in his previous letter the result of “the Fall River theft.” “Pray how did it result?” he asks, curious about this local event. The rest of the letter is of the upcomin... View more info
By: VARIOUS
Price: $1,125.99
Publisher: MADRAS INDIA, 1884
Seller ID: 0001068
Condition: Very Good
On offer is an archive of six [6] items relating to one man's career being an unsuccessful railway and mining engineer in India in the late 19th century including: a rather terse and angry 4 page handwritten letter dated 1894 regarding the poor performance of the Mechanical Engineer on site and steps to repair the performance of the Mohpani Coal & Iron Company; a pair of printed testimonials: 1) for the Bengel Iron and Steele Company, 1894; and 2) for South Eastern Railway, 1878; partially printed signed document attesting a particular 'Fitter' having been a member of the Railway Volunteer Cor... View more info
By: W. WILTON WOOD
Price: $1,455.99
Publisher: HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND, 1869
Seller ID: 0008084
Condition: Very Good
On offer is a superb example of an algebra notebook from 1869. This 18-page notebook is in excellent condition. Once belonging to W.W. Wood from Huntington, Long Island, the notebook is filled with examples of algebra problems and their solutions. The notebook covers a period from April 6th, 1869 to June 23rd, 1869. The writing is a combination of pencil and ink. It is written in a very firm hand and contains no erasures. Several entries are signed "W. Wilton Wood" which happens to be the name of a prominent local business man who lived in Huntington, Long Island. This is an excellent... View more info
By: W.D. TOWNLEY
Price: $1,255.99
Publisher: SUTTON ST. HELENS MERSEYSIDE ENGLAND, 1868
Seller ID: 0001321D
Condition: Good
On offer is a remarkable original 1868 photograph of the Sutton Mill Dam, now a wildlife nature park and area of open water located in Sutton in the south of St Helens in Merseyside, England. Once mounted in an album, we assume, the photo was removed. Mounting traces remain but one can read the handwritten note including date, most of the photographers name [W.D. Townley] and the place name. Save for a small fault far mid left that hardly affects the photo which is otherwise G+. View more info
By: W.R. ELLIS
Price: $955.99
Publisher: MADISON COUNTY, ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE, 1888
Seller ID: 0002441
Condition: Very Good
On offer is an interesting, original 19th Century manuscript letter handwritten by W.R. Ellis who writes to Alabama spiritualist and medium Herman Snow (1812-1905). The letter offers a fascinating insight to local, contemporary beliefs. The writer asks for a copy of an address by "Prof A R Wallace" titled "If a man die[s] shall he live again?" He writes: "...most especially do I desire to read what he has to say upon the proof afforded by Spiritualism of a natural immortality...." "I am in a section of our country wedded to old theological dogmas. I see nothing and ... View more info
Price: $2,255.99
Publisher: BOMBAY INDIA, BRITISH EAST INDIA, LEEDS, ENGLAND, 1860
Seller ID: 0009116
Condition: Good
On offer are three [3] letters from a noted but oft forgotten astronomer, engineer, photographic pioneer and scientist from Leeds, England, Washington Teasdale. The letters are from the years 1860, 1864, and 1865 and cover a time in which Teasdale had taken up a post in India working on the development of the first railways linking Bombay with other cities, a major engineering project initiated by Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson of the East India Railway in British India. The first letter, written in March of 1860 is addressed to “My dear Sister.” After apologizing for not writing the las... View more info
By: WESLEY CREVELING
Price: $695.99
Publisher: TRENTON NEW JERSEY, 1891
Seller ID: 0001963
Condition: Good
On offer is an interesting, original 1890s manuscript notebook handwritten by Wesley Creveling who was the Mayor of Trenton New Jersey in 1875 to 1877. The 5½" x 2½" book has about 70 pages of handwritten notes on architecture, hotels in various cities, facts, banking, remedies, genealogy, personal notes, etc. The book is somewhat worn but overall G. BIO NOTES: one on line source: Birth: Oct. 7, 1845 Broadway Warren County New Jersey, USA Death: Apr. 16, 1920 Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pennsylvania, USA Wesley Creveling married Clara Bradway (b.1853 in Clarksboro, NJ.-d.July 10... View more info
By: WILLIAM A. KREBS
Price: $2,655.99
Publisher: FALLWORTH CALIFORNIA SEVENTEEN OHIO, 1896
Seller ID: 0001292
Condition: Good
On offer is a super archive of thirty eight [38] manuscript letters dated April 1896 through November 1896, all handwritten by William A. Krebs to his immediate family back home in Seventeen Ohio. Krebs was a 22-year old man who went to California to seek his fortune, spending several weeks in Los Angeles, 5 months at Red Mountain Ranch near Fallworth, California [decades later famed Frank Capra would own the estate], and finally another month in L.A. before coming home. The writer was a school teacher so collectors and historians of Southern California Americana will finds his letters are wel... View more info
Price: $595.99
Publisher: Indiana Territory, IN, 1862
Seller ID: 000513
Condition: Very Good
On offer is a handwritten letter dated December 15th, 1862. Penned by William A. Mackenzie writes John Hanna (United States District Attorney at the time); the shocking content outlines the illegal actions of a named captain of Company D, 71st Regiment of the Indiana Infantry. The Captain has been found guilty of swindling the Government by falsifying payrolls and extorting funds from his troops. He goes on to say the community asked Mackenzie to place the matter before Hanna for prosecution using the 'overwhelming evidence.' Slight fault at the fold line otherwise fine. View more info
Price: $685.99
Publisher: 10 DOWNING STREET WHITEHALL LONDON ENGLAND BRITAIN, 1839
Seller ID: 000925
Condition: Very Good
On offer is small archive of two [2] items: 1) a short handwritten manuscript note wherein William Ewart Gladstone, as Prime Minister, on headed notepaper of 10 Downing Street, Whitehall writes in the third person: "Mr Gladstone thanks W. Norman for his letter of the 21st, & will endeavour to avail himself of the opportunities offered. Mch 23." Very good condition. 2) Also included, is a letter 'front', addressed and signed by Gladstone in 1839, when he was M.P. for Newark. Gladstone served as Prime Minister on four occasions: 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886 and 1892-1894. View more info
By: WILLIAM GILLETTE
Price: $455.99
Publisher: NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT NH, 1854
Seller ID: 000879
Condition: Very Good+
On offer is a super October 15th, 1854 Connecticut history handwritten manuscript autograph letter signed [ALS] by William Gillette to his son. Mr. Gillette explains in detail the 1st Annual State Fair; "...we all went down to the State Fair last Wednesday...there was the greatest Collection of people ever known in New Haven. They were estimated at 30,000 on Thursday.We all had our Dagartyp [Daguerreotype] taken at N. Haven at Mouthrops which we think are tolerably good we shall send them to you...the weather was delightful all through the time of the fair - a great many cattle were down o... View more info
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By: WILLIAM ROUSY
Price: $1,285.99
Publisher: BALTIMORE MD to NORFOLK VA c/o U.S. SLOOP CYANE, 1841
Seller ID: 0002370
Condition: Good
On offer is a super, fascinating stampless manuscript letter dated 'Baltimore Wednesday Evening, July 14, 1841 Dear Brother Thomas' [Rousy] Midshipman on U.S. Sloop Cyane handwritten by older brother William to his brother who appears to be a newly minted midshipman aboard the noted sloop of war Cyane. Beginning with congratulations the three [3] page and a bit well filled letter, written over a couple of days, brother William provides wisdom and advice as a good brother would along with admonitions of care regarding 'intercourse'. It is likely that the author William was himself a naval offic... View more info
