Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

RARE WEST TO EAST TO WEST COAST TRAVEL DIARY BY JO AND HER THREE SISTERS

Price: $1,285.99

Publisher: On The Road America USA, : 1908

Seller ID: 000011b

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a really wonderful diary of a young Victorian woman during the year of 1908 as she travels aboard a train from the West to the East coast and then back to the West coast again. As the diary starts out she is leaving her home in California on January 7th and spends most of 1908 traveling with her three sisters and parents. In fact Jo does most of the writing but there are also many times when her sisters write. Jo gets sick at one point then the sisters take over writing and they talk about family being sick and some are quarantined. Her entries are descriptively written telling all...
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1505 - 500+ YEAR OLD HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL, LEDGER AND DIARY OF A WEALTHY BUSINESS MAN OF GENOA

By: ALIXANDRO OF GNANOA

Price: $7,795.99

Publisher: GENOA, ITALY, : 1505

Seller ID: 000423b

Binding: Original Vellum

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

One hundred and eighty four hand numbered pages in this remarkable, 500+ year old, handwritten manuscript ledger, journal and diary : " 1505 Gendenze di Saviz - gnano" as stated on the cover. The first page begins: "Libro de tuto _____ quale so tato asan__giano ala venuta mia. [T]o Alexandro salueto schrise e soto schrise de mia gnovia mar...." Not written by a scribe, this is a working journal and ledger containing hundreds of business entries, purchases, loans and repayments. There are long lists of foods and prices for what is assuredly shopping lists for parties and feasts...
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1936 + 1937 Handwritten Manuscript Diaries of Addie B. Currier of Boltonville Vermont

By: Currier, Addie B.

Price: $955.99

Publisher: Boltonville, Vermont, : 1936

Seller ID: 000039

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

This auction is for a pair of diaries handwritten by Addie B. Currier of Boltonville, Vermont. Addie B. Currier wrote her name in the front of this diary, as well as other personal information, such as height, weight, bust /corset size, waist size, etc. The diary is filled with writing - All of the days have a handwritten entry. No loose or missing pages. Addie is a poor speller, which adds charm to her writings - but please keep this in mind as the names in the diary may be spelled wrong. Some of the things Addie wrote about was the men cutting ice on the river, local events & tragedies, car...
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AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION OF SCOTTISH HAND DRAWN AND ENGRAVED HERALDIC ARMORIALS CRESTS BY DAVID DEUCHAR THE FAMED ENGRAVER OF HANS HOLBEIN'S DANCE OF DEATH

By: DEUCHAR, DAVID

Price: $12,855.99

Publisher: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, WILLIAM F. CLAY

Seller ID: 000024N

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

HERALDIC CREST MANUSCRIPT. Large, thick Folio, late 18th century marbled boards and 1/2 sheep, crack to spine and partial unhinging of front board, age worn but otherwise well-preserved. A handsome and imposing manuscript of 1000s of engraved crests, including numerous crests drawn by hand, arranged by the famed engraver David Deuchar (1743-1808) interestingly organized according to device type (i.e. hands, lions etc.) Carefully compiled and researched manuscript, seemingly intended for publication, with numerous markings accorded to known and unknown heraldic crests and their corresponding ...
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HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT ADS VALENTINE MOTT COLLEAGUE OF PASTEUR RABIES HYDROPHOBIA MEDICAL DISCOVERY

By: Dr. VALENTINE MOTT

Price: $169.99

Publisher: Oregon, : 1884

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 000413

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

VALENTINE MOTT [1852-1918] physician. He had been attending surgeon for the out-door department of Bellevue hospital since 1879, and had performed many of the larger operations in surgery. In May, 1887, he went to Paris as the representative of the American Pasteur Institute, and studied under Louis Pasteur the prophylactic treatment for hydrophobia, which he introduced into the United States, bringing away the first innoculated rabbit that Pasteur allowed to leave his laboratory. He had successfully treated many that had been bitten by rabid animals. His principal medical paper is "Rabies...
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1929 Simple Diary of a Newton, Massachusetts Widow and Mother of Adult Children

By: Gladys Smith White

Price: $389.99

Publisher: Newton, Massachusetts, : 1929

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0011182

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is an simple yet interesting diary written by a woman in eastern Massachusetts in 1929.The author of the diary is Gladys Smith White. Our research has found little biographical information about her. She lived on Chase Street in Newton, Massachusetts and was married to Allan S. White. Allan passed away in 1925 and Gladys passed away in 1954. There is a note in a Newton newspaper from 1921 indicating that Allan had been admitted to hospital, so it is reasonable to assume that he was ill for a long period of time before his eventual death. Gladys kept this diary four years after the dea...
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1888 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRAVEL DIARY OF A YOUNG WOODLAND CALIFORNIA GIRL HEADING TO THE MID-WEST - FUTURE AUTHOR/HISTORIAN OF IOWA [?]

By: H. A. DWELLE

Price: $885.99

Publisher: Woodland, California CA, : 1888

Seller ID: 000614

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a very scarce Pacific Coast Diary with entries from Wednesday November 28th to Sunday September 1st, 1888. Our writer appears to be a young woman; 18 to 20 years old we suspect. She has written H. A. DWELLE WOODLAND CAL. on the inner free endpaper. Miss Dwelle has over written the January 1st through June 29th pages but as mentioned the dates overwritten are in fact November 28th to September 1st. The first months involve a great deal of travel to Iowa City, Salt Lake etc. On return Miss Dwelle still travels a great deal but then mostly one to three day trips. She writes of teachin...
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1928 Diary of a Michigan Teacher on the Trip of a Lifetime, Cruising through Europe, Grand Tour-Style

By: Helen T. Mitchell Maruska

Price: $489.99

Publisher: Michigan, Quebec, Onboard A Ship, Europe, : 1928

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0011168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a very interesting travel diary dating from the later 1920?s detailing a trip to Europe. This travel diary was kept in 1928 by Helen T. Mitchell (later Maruska) (1904-1972). Helen was born to parents Charles and Katherine in Bay City, Michigan. She worked as a school teacher. Helen married Robert P. Maruska (1893-1968) , an accountant, on November 26, 1936. Shortly after marrying, the couple moved to Chicago, where they lived and worked until Robert?s death in 1968. They had no children. On June 20th 1928, Mitchell and some friends embarked on a cruise to Europe. The trip in many w...
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1926 Original Handwritten Diary of a Young Norfolk Man Who Provides an Entertaining Glimpse of Post-Wwi Life, Mildly Inconvenienced by the United Kingdom General Strike and Scandalized by Local Theatre

By: John E. Gibson

Price: $987.99

Publisher: King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, : 1926

Seller ID: 0010037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a detailed 1926 diary that belonged to a 23-year-old Englishman named John E. Gibson. Gibson was born in 1903 in London, and lived and worked in King's Lynn, a town in Norfolk, at the time his diary was written. The authors engaging observations touch on many of the significant events of the year. "Went with Mum to the Theatre to see 'White Cargo', a story of life out in West Africa, & the result of a white man marrying a black . . . The strongest language I've ever heard on a stage was used & one especially made everyone sit up & I was a bit flabbergasted myself: one said to anoth...
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1914-1915 Sensational Firsthand Account of the Geopolitics of the Construction of the Panama Canal by the Only Reporter with Access to the Key Players

By: John Ernst Tiedeman

Price: $7,550.99

Publisher: Panama Canal, Panama City,

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010317

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is an outstanding firsthand account of a well-connected American reporter stationed in Panama to report on the construction of the Panama canal. This account is particularly fascinating as this reporter was the only one granted access to figures such as Colonel Goethals. This journal highlights internal power struggles that took place in the construction of the Panama Canal. The author of this notebook is reporter John E. Tiedeman. Tiedeman had an extraordinary career as a journalist and a World War 1 US intelligence officer that took him across the globe (see BIO NOTES). In December ...
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Evocative 1940s Archive of Letters and Ephemera from a Member of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada During World War II

By: MacGregor Roulston

Price: $2,975.99

Publisher: Quebec, France, Scotland, : 1942

Seller ID: 0010038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is an outstanding collection of beautifully written letters and ephemera from a Canadian World War II soldier who served as a member of the Black Watch, one Canada's great front-line regiments. The archive belongs to Sergeant Macgregor Roulston, and includes more than twenty engrossing and detailed wartime letters, telegrams, and pieces of air mail. Most of the letters are written between Roulston and his wife, Elsie. Several letters are to Elsie from her brother Norman Mathieson, and one is to Roulston from his mother. Roulston was born in 1918 and grew up in Lancaster, Ontario. This...
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1876 Handwritten Manuscript Journal Diary of MARY of Washington DC

By: MARY aka Mamie

Price: $1,495.99

Publisher: Washington DC, : 1876

Seller ID: 000041

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

This charming journal was purchased from the great-great niece of the writer, who was born in Washington, DC just before the Civil War began. She was in her teens when she wrote over 100 pages in her hardback notebook in 1876. In exquisite penmanship, she jotted down notes on history, science, biography, religious and philosophical thought, and other subjects of interest to a young woman with an inquiring mind in Victorian days. Mary, or "Mamie", as she was known, lived a long life of spinsterhood, went blind in her old age, and died in her mid-nineties in the early 1950's. In her fi...
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1867 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT POST CIVIL WAR DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A WELL TO DO BUILDER LIVING IN THE WINTER HILL AREA OF SOMERVILLE MASSACHUSETTS

By: Orsment Woodberry

Price: $1,585.99

Publisher: WINTER HILL MASSACHUSETTS SOMERVILLE MA, : 1867

Seller ID: 0001764

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a very interesting post-Civil-War-era manuscript diary handwritten by Orsment Woodberry in Somerville, Massachusetts, just outside Boston. Woodberry was a carpenter/builder who wrote daily in this diary starting on May 1, 1867, and ending on May 11th, 1869. At the time of writing, he lived on Central Street, in the Somerville neighborhood of Winter Hill. Woodberry was married to Miriam (Johnson) Woodberry, daughter of Philip Johnson of Newburyport, MA. They celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary on September 20th, 1867, and his diary entry that day includes the names of ...
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1928 to 1962 Archive of Diaries of a White Collar London Man Who is a Member of the Ancient Order of Foresters

By: R.A Thomson

Price: $1,850.99

Publisher: London, England,

Seller ID: 0010292

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a remarkable collection of 27 diaries detailing over a quarter of a century of life in London between 1928 and 1962, and membership in an old and respected fraternal order. This is an outstanding collection of personal diaries that covers an extended period of time ? from 1928 through 1962. The collection contains 27 diaries. Some years are missing, but by and large, this covers the period from post WW1 through the Great Depression, WW2 and the reconstruction of the United Kingdom following the war and the beginnings of the enormous social changes ushered in in the 1960?s. The entr...
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1928-1933 Fabulous, Detailed Diary of a UCLA Musician and Sorority Girl Turned Teacher and Wife Who Succeeds Amidst the Tumult of the Great Depression

By: Rosalie Evelyn Cleek Davidson

Price: $1,585.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, Tipton, California, : 1928-1933

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0011162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is the terrific five-year diary of Rosalie Evelyn Cleek Davidson (1909-2003). Rosalie details her senior year at UCLA, where she fits in academics amidst her busy schedule with the Alpha Xi Delta and Sigma Pi Delta sororities, her musical hobbies, and her engagement and marriage to Harold Prescott Davidson (1908-1977). The diary then follows Rosalie through the first three years of her married life, working as a teacher in California as the Roaring ?20s made way for the Great Depression. BIO NOTES on Rosalie and Harold can be found at the end of the listing. Rosalie begins her diary o...
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NOBEL LECTURE - DOUBLE AUTOGRAPH - ENGLISH AND HEBREW

By: SiNGER, ISAAC BASHEVIS

Price: $379.99

Publisher: New York NY, Farrar Strauss Giroux : 1978

Seller ID: 000489

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Very scarce copy of "Nobel Lecture" by Isaac Bashevis Singer, double signed by the author on opposing fep beginning the different language text of English and Yiddish. Very good copy save for some edgewear and general light surface smudginess to the glossy cover.; Yiddish, English; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; NOBEL PRIZE, AUTOGRAPH, JEWISH, HEBREW, YIDDISH, JUDAICA, AUTHOR, WRITER, HOLOGRAPH, SIGNED,
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1930 Photograph Album and Extensive Handwritten Commentary of the Spear Family?s Incredible Road Trip Across the United States of America and Niagara Falls, Canada

By: Spear Family

Price: $1,145.99

Publisher: Yellowstone National Park, United States, Niagara Falls, : 1930

Seller ID: 0010290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a beautiful, richly-decorated Yellowstone Park leather photo album portraying the Spear family?s 1930 family trip intertwined with photographs of scenes for a long-past American west. The unknown author/photographer of this album accompanied her parents on a road trip from their home across the United States to the Rocky Mountains and back. They also took a side-trip to Niagara Falls in Canada. From context, we can determine that it is a young woman who is traveling with her parents. The family surname is Spear, and context suggests that they likely lived in Rhode Island. The album...
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1944 ORIGINAL ROYALMONT NOTEPAD FILLED WITH THE THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS OF A SAILOR FROM OHIO DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR II ABOARD THE USS MONTICELLO AND LATER THE USS WEST POINT

By: UNKNOWN SAILOR

Price: $1,455.99

Publisher: Atlantic Ocean, : 1944

Seller ID: 000044

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

On offer is a handwritten manuscript diary written aboard the USS Monticello AP-61. Very legible in pencil text block has fallen away from the rubber glue top. All 73 sheets are still inside. This comprehensive 5" x 8" Royalmont notebook journal has been well taken care of, as none of the 73 pages exhibit tears, creases, fragility, or foxing. All are completely full of first-hand historical and insider information. The journal is very factual, with only a few entries not pertaining to the ship. The nameless young man from Ohio does talk very fondly about his wife and baby, and about th...
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Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket