Category: 18th Century Manuscript

1786 ORIGINAL NAIVE MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A VERY ACTIVE FARMER, TIMBERMAN AND JURY MAN ON THE NORTH SHORE OF LONG ISLAND SOUND

By: JAMES BLAKEMAN, [sometimes BLACKMAN]

Price: $3,055.99

Publisher: STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT, : 1786

Seller ID: 0002231

Condition: Good+

On offer is a super, original, naïve 18th Century manuscript diary handwritten by James Blakeman [sometimes Blackman] of Stratford Connecticut and as inscribed on the title page: "My Journal for the year 1786 James Blakeman's Journal for the year 1786" a 4 x 6¼ inch 13 page monthly account [one title page and then one month to a page] of besides his numerous farming activities including cutting, carting, plowing, making cider, mending fences, transporting hay, flax+++ he tells much local history in his direct, terse notes: "I was at Fairfield on the jury. Came home, dressed flax. I...
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1748 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LEGAL DOCUMENT REGARDING EMPLOYMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES

By: JEAN DE LAURENS, SON OF JEROME

Price: $99.99

Publisher: France, : 1748

Seller ID: 0JT54B

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

Short manuscript document ADS between Jean de Laurens, son of Jerome and Georges-Dominique Laurens, signed in Avignon.
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1786 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RELIC OF LATE 18TH CENTURY CYPHERING AND EARLY AMERICAN EDUCATION IN MATHEMATICS OF A YOUNG BROOKLYN NEW YORK GIRL

By: JOHANNA BERGEN

Price: $3,655.99

Publisher: BROOKLYN NEW YORK, : 1786

Seller ID: 0002009

Condition: Fair

Offered is an original 1786 manuscript cyphering book handwritten by Johanna Bergen of Brooklyn New York. [Johanna was an 18th Century descendent of Hans Hansen Bergen one of the earliest settlers of the New Amsterdam Dutch colony. The Bergen family name is famous throughout Brooklyn, New York and Hans boasts his own Wikipedia entry.] The 13.5 x 12 inch book contains 41 pages filled with such topics as Simple Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division, Money of the United States, Simple Reduction, English Money, Apothecaries Weight, Long Measure, Land Measure, Liquid Measure, Dry Meas...
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1763 ORIGINAL COLONIAL AMERICA MANUSCRIPT LANDLORD TENANT AGREEMENT WITH SURPRISING TERMS OF TENANCY

By: JOHN GAILBREATH

Price: $1,185.99

Publisher: PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA COUNTY OF CHESTER, : 1763

Seller ID: 0001650

Condition: Good

On offer is a superb, original 1763 manuscript relic of Colonial America being a handwritten legal agreement between a shopkeeper and millwright to his future tenant. Historians and collectors of legal Americana will appreciate the wonderful content: the tenant could only keep two fires in the house; in the kitchen and the other room and among other things he had to agree to take in the landlord's wife or mother! Here is a some of the transcription: "Memorandum the____ day of May 1763 made between John Gailbreath of the City of Philadel shopkeeper of the one part and Richard Hall of Spring...
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1784 ORIGINAL POST REVOLUTIONARY COMPLEX MATHEMATICS AND CYPHER BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY NOTED CITIZEN OF ROCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE

By: JOHN McDUFFEE

Price: $2,485.99

Publisher: ROCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE NH, : 1784

Seller ID: 0001768

Condition: Fair+

On offer is an original 1784 manuscript cypher and mathematics book handwritten by John McDuffee of Rochester Vermont. There are 52 pages of arithmetic and mathematical tables, equations and principles: compound multiplication, compound division, reduction for farthings, shillings, etc., calculation the minutes since the birth of the Savior to 1784, tons of wine, hogsheads of wine, The Golden Rule, provisions, measurements, interest, Rules of Practice, gallons of rum, table of money weights and measures, some business principles +++. Measuring 7.25 x 11.75", it is bound in together without...
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1774 ARCHIVE OF TWO (2) MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED BY De FONDEVILLE, PERSONAL SECRETARY TO THE KING OF FRANCE, LOUIS XV

By: JOSEPH DE FONDEVILLE, SECRETARY TO LOUIS XV

Price: $649.99

Publisher: France, : 1774

Seller ID: 0MV567

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

Fascinating pair of handwritten documents. On January, 30 1774, de Fondeville writes from Marignac to Monsieur de Langentiere. Very detailed, very extensive 3 page letter discussing business dealings with Baron de Gaillac. On February 22, a mere 24 days later, de Fondeville re-writes the exact same letter to Madam de Langentiere with even more details, as he has learned of her husband's passing. One can assume Madam wrote de Fondeville explaining the circumstances. Written a mere 2 and a half months before the King's death ending the rule of one of France's worst kings and assuredly the begin...
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1749 SUPERB GOTHIC GERMAN LETTER OF MANUMISSION LIBERATING GEORG WILHELM SCHENK FROM THE SERVITUDE OF HIS MASTER JOHANN HEINRICH BRODER

By: K.V.S. SCHWARTZENAW

Price: $2,285.99

Publisher: HINTERWALDT - BRAUBACH GERMANY, : 1749

Seller ID: 0001067

Condition: Very Good

On offer is a printed for the most part German language manumission document with manuscript entries and signed dated May 30th, 1749. This document is addressed to the honourable Deputy at Braubach regarding "Our dear and trusted Georg Wilhelm Schenk" and his release from the servitude of Johann Heinrich Broder at Hinterwaldt. Signed by K.V.S. Schwartzenaw. Research suggests that Mr. Schenk went on to a position writing reports of some import as they are still listed. Save for some light soiling and some chips to the left side this super document is overall VG.; Manuscript; Folio - ove...
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1737 HANDWRITTEN 44p MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT WITH THE ARCHIVAL BLUE ORDER OF MALTA STAMP ON 'SEIZE DENI ALENCON' LETTERHEAD WITH 158 ENTRIES IN THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JEAN BAPTISTES LIGNE ROYAL SERGEANT

By: LAMPERIRE, COMBAULT, JOUEN, OSSEMONT, LIGNEL, DE TANVILLE et al

Price: $295.99

Publisher: Alecon, Normandy, France, : 1737

Seller ID: 00JT37

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Poor

Stamped with the archival seal of the Order of Malta in Normandy, May 21st, 1737 - this 44 page document was penned, and duly noted, at exactly 10am in the morning. Signed by the lawyers charged with the last will and testament of Mr. Jean Baptistes Lignes (Royal Sergeant). The lawyers in this matter are Lamperire, Combault, Jouen, Ossemont, Lignel, de la Riviere, Ermenouth, de Tanville and Normandie. The document is in poor shape, some pages damaged but still readable and presentable.
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c1770 HANDWRITTEN GENEALOGICAL SURVEY AND RENDERING OF FAMILIAL CONTRACTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE LE PETIT FAMILY COVERING 1606 - 1750

By: LE PETIT D'AVESNE

Price: $845.99

Publisher: AVESNE FRANCE, : 1770

Seller ID: 00JT41

Condition: Very Good+

On offer is a series of 24 original handwritten sheets of paper relating the nearly 150 year history of the Le Petit family of Avesne France. Beyond a mere genealogical listing these documents outlines a series of contracts, accords, certificates, accounting papers and sentences. VG.
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1738 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER REGARDING THE BARBAROUS AND CRUEL TREATMENT OF A CASTAWAY DUTCH VESSEL

By: LIEUTENANT H. HOP, Envoy Extraordinary To England

Price: $1,155.99

Publisher: London, England, : 1738

Seller ID: 000643

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

ON OFFER AN AUTOGRAPHED MANUSCRIPT LETTER HANDWRITTEN AND SIGNED, DATED LONDON, MARCH 30, 1738 BY LIEUTENANT H. HOP, ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY TO ENGLAND FROM THE STATES-GENERAL. IT READS AS FOLLOWS.MY LORD, I DO MYSELF THE HONOUR TO LAY BEFORE YOUR EXCELLENCY THE COPY OF A LETTER WHICH I RECEIVED LAST NIGHT MENTIONING GREAT VIOLENCE COMMITTED TOWARD A DUTCH VESSEL THAT HAD THE MISFORTUNE TO BE CASTAWAY ON THESE COASTS. THESE ARE MY LORD CRUELTIES AND INHUMANITY UNHEARD EVEN AMONGST THE MOST BARBAROUS NATIONS; I TAKE THEREFORE THE LIBERTY TO DECLINE YOUR EXCELLENCY TO BE PLEASED TO EMPLOY HIS GOOD O...
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1770 EDIT DU ROI REGARDING TAX INCREASES FEATURING VERY LARGE VIGNETTE AND LETTRINE

By: LOUIS XV, KING OF FRANCE

Price: $359.99

Publisher: France, : 1770

Seller ID: 0JT103

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Fine

Signed in print "Louis" with other dignitaries this is a very fine pre-revolution edict of the King and rare as such. Stunning vignette.
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FROM THE FILE OF FAMED BIBLIOPHILE SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS: ARCHIVE LOT OF TWO HANDWRITTEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS TO ANTOINE LE CAMUS, DOCTOR OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, PARIS C.1750s

By: M. DESGRANGES

Price: $449.99

Publisher: Paris, : 1760

Seller ID: 0TP112

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

Two handwritten ALS, one dated Paris, February, and what appears to be 1760 (maybe 1750), letter to Antoine Le Camus (1722 - 1772 physician, poet [author of La Medecine de l'Espirit] also noted for warning the women of his day against the use of cosmetics having mercury). Monsieur Desgranges writes in the first letter an apology for not having responded to Camus' earlier letters. It appears Desgrange's father had only recently told his son of the accumulation of letters unanswered. He asks Camus to come by and is very apologetic. Letter 2, undated and apparently unconnected, wherein Desgrange ...
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1783 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT SIGNED DOCUMENT FROM AVIGNON REGARDING HOSPITALS IN LYON

By: M. LARAOUGE

Price: $199.99

Publisher: France, : 1783

Seller ID: 0JT99B

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good+

Slightly stained and a misfolded lower corner but otherwise very good. Larouge provideds various rights to the hospitals of Lyon. Many mentions of various names in the text require further research.
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1742 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT WITH THE ARCHIVAL BLUE ORDER OF MALTA STAMP FOR MADAME LA COMTESSE DE BAO OF ALENCON

By: M. Laurent Françoise Develoger, Notary & Attorneys

Price: $249.99

Publisher: Alençon, Normandy, France, : 1742

Seller ID: 00JT35

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Fair+

Dated 1742 by notary, M. Laurent Françoise Develoger, (first president of the office of Finance of the generality of Alençon) signs the will and testament of Monsieur Vathoy du Metz, son-in-law of Madame la Comtesse de Bao, who is to be the executor of the last will and testament of Mme Bao. The document is stamped with the blue achival seal of the Order of Malta. It also has at various agreements signatures of all concerned parties. The 4 page document is elegantly and densely written and in good shape save for a tear to the back leave not affect text.
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1791 LOI RELATIVE AUX FONCTIONNAIRES PUBLICS QUI ONT REFUSE DE FAIRE LE SERMENT CIVIQUE

By: M.L.F. DU PORT, FOR THE KING

Price: $269.99

Publisher: France, : 1791

Seller ID: 0JT109A

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good+

Royal edict dated May 29, 1791, wherein it is decreed that the public servants that refused to take their civic oath and their punishments. Signed in print, M.L.F. DU PORT and by LOUIS, King of France. Superb vignette.
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1747 DETAILED ALS [AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED] REQUESTING AN ABSOLUTE LEAVE ONLY TO BECOME THE MARECHAL DE CAMP 10 YEARS LATER

By: MARQUIS A.M. DE ROQUEPINES [Colonel of the Royal Comtois Regiment]

Price: $545.99

Publisher: France, : 1747

Seller ID: 00JT32n

Condition: Very Good

In 1747, the Marquis A.M. De Roquepines requests an absolute leave of his superior officer for reasons of poor health. It appears he is so ill that he is putting his affairs in order. Research finds the very same Roquepines becomes the Marechal de Camp.
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1765 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT RULES AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO ADDRESS THE HIERARCHY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HANDWRITTEN BY THE SECRETARY OF HIS ROYAL MAJESTY LOUIS XV

By: Monsieur de Sequeville, Secretary to Louis XV

Price: $2,245.99

Publisher: France, : 1765

Seller ID: 00JT83

Condition: Good+

On offer is a super manuscript relic of Louis XV era French Catholic procedure being a handwritten folio 20 pages, unsigned, in the hand of Monsieur de Sequeville, Secretary to Louis XV. The rules instruct proper etiquette in addressing the religious hierarchy that is not of Royal blood. These include the Pope, Bishops, Fathers, Abbotts etc. Beautiful ceremonial calligraphy make for a lovely ancient French manuscript slightly soiled but otherwise G+.
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1797 TWO [2] ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LETTERS FROM LOVING PARENTS WHO HAVE JUST RELOCATED TO WEST VIRGINIA, TO THEIR DAUGHTER FROM WHOM THEY HAVE NOT HEARD FROM IN NUMEROUS YEARS

By: MOSES and ELIZABETH STARR

Price: $1,285.99

Publisher: NEW FRANKFURT, HARRISON CO. WEST VIRGINIA, : 1797

Seller ID: 0009109

Condition: Good

On offer is are two lovely and fascinating letters from a father and mother to their daughter detailing their situation mere weeks after moving to New Frankford, Virginia. The letter is signed “Moses Starr and Elizabeth Starr” and addressed to their “Dear Daughter.” The first letter is dated November 17th, 1797 and the second is dated December 23, 1797. In the letters, they describe their journey to their new home in West Virginia, their home and their farm. They now live in “New Frankfurt,” in “Harrison County, Simpsons Creek, Eight Miles From Clarkburg.” The first letter begins, “Dear Daught...
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1736 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT DETAILING THE SPECIFICS OF A NEW ROAD THROUGH THE MASSACHUSETTS TOWN OF MARLBOROUGH

By: MOSES WOODS

Price: $1,455.99

Publisher: MARLBOROUGH MASSACHUSETTS MASS MA, : 1736

Seller ID: 0001326

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good

On offer is a charming relic of Marlborough Massachusetts ephemera being a manuscript dated 1736 detailing the specifics of a new road in the town. "A way laid out beginning near the dwelling house of Jeremiah Barstow & so running along between the land of Col Thomas How & the land of Simon Gates & is bounded by said Gates land by boundry mark't trees & it is Eight rods wide until it comes to that which is called the Indian land & then running across the County road along by the house of Zachariah Maynard four rods wide & still extends four rod wide along between land of Daniel Rice & lan...
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SUPERB HANDWRITTEN ARCHIVE OF FIFTEEN [15] LETTERS, DOCUMENTS AND MEDICAL TREATMENTS TO EDME-CLAUDE BOURRU ESTEEMED FRENCH DOCTOR, DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE IN PARIS AND ORATOR AT THE FUNERAL OF GUILLOTIN

By: Multiple Authors

Price: $3,285.99

Publisher: France, : 1788

Seller ID: 00TP10

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good

On offer is a superb archive of medical manuscript documents having been addressed to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and its Dean the esteemed Edme-Claude Bourru (1737-1823), famed 18th century French doctor, [a coin with his likeness was minted], author of numerous treatises on venereal disease and presenter of the funeral oration of Guillotin, [another famed physician more noted for his facilitating the death of humans than of their health.] Bourru has signed and made handwritten notes throughtout the archive. Multiple members of the faculty have also autographed and added other comments. ...
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Category: 18th Century Manuscript