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By: AXEL FREDERIC CRONSTEDT [translated by GUSTAV VON ENGESTROM]
Price: $3,585.99
Publisher: THE POULTRY, LONDON, ENGLAND, UK, CHARLES DILLY: 1788
Seller ID: 0009117
Condition: Good
On offer is an original, hardcover handprinted book from 1788, regarding the Natural Science of Mineralogy (the scientific study of chemistry, crystal structure, and physical properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts). The book comes at the end of the Scientific Revolution in the Western World, roughly from 1600-1800 and is a translation of a book written by Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, the famous Swedish mineralogist and chemist who discovered nickel in 1751 and is regarded as one of the founders of modern mineralogy. The title page reads like many in the 17th and 18th century, long a... View more info
Price: $3,155.99
Publisher: NAPLES ITALY, 1744
Inscription: Autograph
Seller ID: 0001412
Condition: Good+
On offer is a super manuscript relic of 18th Century religious devotion being a vellum covered notebook titled 'Memoria' handwritten by Carlo Antonio Di Cesare, a Jesuit in Naples between 1744 and 1764. Superbly intimate look into the life of this Catholic man using the book as a 'vade mecum' or catchall thusly a diary of notes detailing the life of this Jesuit scholar: it begins with his graduation into the Congregazione de' studenti sotto la protezzione dell'Annunciata of the Jesuit College Gesù Vecchio in Naples to study 'Logic' under Professore Giuseppe Guidone. On 24 November 1744, he p... View more info
By: ELIZABETH KINGSLEY [later SYMONDS]
Price: $6,585.99
Publisher: BEDFORD ENGLAND, 1763
Seller ID: 0002323
Condition: Very Good
On offer is a sensational, original ancient 1763 through 1764 manuscript journal of thoughts, emotions, religious out pouring and continual internal dialogue threaded throughout diary entries of the author's daily life and family. The 144 page book was handwritten by Elizabeth Kingsley [later Symonds] when she married Reverend Joshua Symonds the noted clergyman who presided at the Bunyan Meeting Hall in Bedford and the man who took over after the death of the great John Bunyan author of "Pilgrims Progress." Dated October 20th, 1763 to June 30th, 1764 the 6 ¼" x 7 ½" book with a faded teal co... View more info
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.... View more info
By: JONATHAN IRELAND JR [to TABITHA ROBBINS, JOSIAH BUMSTEAD, ETC.)
Price: $6,855.99
Publisher: Salem, Massachusetts MA, 1787
Seller ID: 0009168
Condition: Good
On offer is a remarkable 230 year old manuscript journal, kept by Jonathan Ireland Jr. of Salem, Massachusetts from 1787 to 1790. The 109 manuscript pages record the correspondence between Ireland and several of his friends, speaking frequently of aspects of fundamentalist christianity and proselytizing their religion in order to bring new ‘souls’ into the flock. The journal is a record of letters, 68 in total, between Jonathan Ireland many different people, including Tabitha Robbins (Ireland's aunt) of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Mr. Josiah Bumstead of Union Street in Boston, Massachusett... View more info
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 begi... View more info
By: RICHARD RENSHAW
Price: $6,255.99
Publisher: MANCHESTER LANCASHIRE UK AFRICA EGYPT, 1796
Seller ID: 000897NNN
Condition: Poor
On offer is the original handwritten manuscript "Voyages and Travels of Richard Renshaw" of the British Army's heralded Royal Regiment of Artillery, Renshaw of the 4th Battalion. Some parts of this manuscript were later published as 'VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE' in 1804. Renshaw retells in detail and with a keen observer's eye the story of his service for Great Britain. He is an educated man who writes insightful and sometimes rollicking accounts of his and the group's adventures. He describes everything he sees through Africa and into Egypt as part of Admiral Nelson's fleet and th... View more info
Price: $5,295.99
Publisher: Toulon, France, 1745
Seller ID: 000649
Condition: Good
On offer is a stunning look into the the mind, finances and economy of Rudelle Dalzon a landlord, caterer and food supplier in pre Revolutionary France on the French Riviera. Many layered, very thick, elephant folio list many, many hundreds of transactions for rents, properties listed, supplies purchased, traded, sums loaned and paid plus many pieces of ephemera stuffed inside. Unpaginated, in original boards on thick paper there are at least 200 pages at two inches thick. Rudelle begins in 1745 and writes well into 1780s. There are at least two businesses running and ancilliary loans with cor... View more info
