Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

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1937-1941 Diary of an Unremarkable American Housewife Living and Travelling in Pre-War America, Maintaining an Awareness of Remarkable Global Events

Price: $759.99

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, Brookfield, New Hampshire, : 1937-1941

Seller ID: 0011001

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Manuscripts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages; On offer is a fine 5-year diary written by a woman in the years leading up to America's entry into WWII. The author is Addie E. Podransik. She was born in 1876 in Illinois and married Wallace Wilson Robinson on October 28, 1903 in Chicago. They had one child together. She later married Joseph Nikolaus Podransik. They had no additional children. Addie passed away in 1951 at the age of 75, and was buried in Brookfield, New Hampshire. Informal research has discovered no additional biographical information about Mrs. Podransik. Her diary is writte...
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1929-1934 Archive of a Depression-Era Beat Cop?s Log Books and Ephemera Documenting His Patrols of Downtown Boston

By: Albert Edward Ellis

Price: $1,255.99

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts,

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010313

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is an archive of nine logbooks and associated ephemera kept by a Boston police officer patrolling in the downtown core during the Great Depression. The police officer who kept these log books is Albert Edward Ellis (1897-1986) , a patrol officer with the Boston Police Department. Prior to entering the force, Ellis served in the US Army during World War I. He married Irene A. Kelley and they lived in Roslindale, MA with their two children, Jeanne and Albert. Ellis became a Mason in 1925. He kept these logs while working in downtown Boston for the Boston Police Department in his 30s. Hi...
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1800 Personal Loan Document between Landlord and Tenant in Pas De Calais, France

By: Antoine Marechal

Price: $149.99

Publisher: Pas DE Calais, France, : 1800

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010141

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is an interesting personal loan note drafted in Revolutionary France. The document is dated the 19th Prairial of Year IX which corresponds to June 7th, 1800. The document was drafted in the Department of Pas de Calais, in northern France and bears a stamp duty seal from that regional government. The parties to it are two individuals ? Antoine Marechal and one Monsieur Enlart. Our informal research has not been able to find any additional information about either of these two men. An excerpt of the document follows: Je soussigne [] Antoine Marechal, cultivateur demeurant a [] receverai...
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1825 Inaugural Pastoral Letter by the New Archbishop of the Diocese of Bourges

By: Archbishop Guillaume-Aubin de Villèle

Price: $169.99

Publisher: Bourges, France, : 1825

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010093

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is the inaugural address of an early 19th century French Archbishop of the Roman Catholic church, Guillame-Aubin de Villele. The document is the pastoral letter published by the newly-installed Archbishop of the Diocese of Bourges, France. Pastoral letters are written by the head of the Diocese to clergy and often to all members of the church in a particular jurisdiction. Such letters were frequently sent out at particular times of the year, coinciding with ecclesiastical seasons, such as Lent or Christmas. However, they were not limited to any particular event or celebration. In this...
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1905 Composition Book of a Descendant of Oregon?s Nahum King, Detailing Experiences At the Lewis and Clark Fair, Great California Earthquake

By: Bertha Anna King

Price: $1,985.99

Publisher: Oregon, United States, : 1905

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010284

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is an exceptional and complete composition book written by Ms. Bertha Anna King. Ms. King?s family were among the early settlers of the state of Oregon, and she is descended from Nahum Amos King. Nahum A. King was a War of 1812 veteran, who was a survivor of the ?Lost Wagon Train? on the Oregon Trail. Kings Valley, Oregon is named for him as he is known to be the first white settler in the region. Our author, Bertha Anna King, was born in Oregon in February of 1889. She passed away in January, 1987, weeks shy of her 99th birthday. She never married. During her life, she graduated from...
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1877 Paris Travel Diary of Maine Teen Who Would Later Become a Member of the Thursday Club

By: C. Maude Newcomb

Price: $1,175.99

Publisher: Biddeford Maine Me, Paris, France, : 1877

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010282

Binding: Flexible leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a fine handwritten journal dating from 1877, describing a trip taken by an American teen to Paris. The journal was written by C. Maude Newcomb, who lived in Biddeford, Maine. Newcomb was born in January, 1861. She passed away in January, 1937 at the age of 61. Newcomb was a member of the Thursday Club of Biddeford, Maine. Our informal research has not turned up any additional information about her. In 1877, Newcomb left her home in Maine to travel with her father, mother and her sisters to Europe. Her father appears to have been quite successful. They went first to Boston where the...
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1938 Incredible Engineering Log Books of Three Merchant Vessels Sunk in World War Two by the Chief Italian Engineer: M. N. Cellina, M. N. Fella, and M. N. Rialto, Includes Deck Logs and Mechanical Engineering Logs

By: Chief Engineers and Ship Masters

Price: $4,985.99

Publisher: Italy, Costa Rica, Libya, Newfoundland,, Società Italia Flotte Reuniti, Italia Società Anonima Di Navigazione, : 1938

Seller ID: 0011043

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is an outstanding collection of three engineering log books of vessels sunk in World War Two (WWII). The log books are those of three ships of the Italian merchant navy MN Cellina, MN Fella, and MN Rialto. In addition to the main or Deck Log, maintained by the ship's Master, a separate log was maintained by the Chief Engineer for the recording of all vital information about the ship's engines, mechanical systems, pressures, operating temperatures, etc. It may also contain technical drawings and specifications. The Chief Engineer had overall responsibility for the Engineering Departmen...
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1856 Physician?s Manuscript Case Study Report on the Clinical Details of a Suspected Extrauterine Conception

By: Dr. Absalom Pride King, Dr. A. P. King

Price: $1,585.99

Publisher: Providence Rhode Island RI, : 1856

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012045

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a weird and wonderful manuscript contribution to 19th century obstetrical medical knowledge written by a practicing Rhode Island physician. The document is a case study report that appears to have been written for intended publication in a medical journal (no records of its publication have been found). The report?s author is Dr. Absaolm Pride (A. P. ) King (1820-1868). Dr. King was a Rhode Island-based medical doctor. (see BIO NOTES at the end of the listing for more information). Dr. King practiced both traditional medicine and homeopathy. In this case, he was acting as a communi...
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1857 Physician?s Manuscript Lecture Compelling the Medical Profession to Accept Homeopathy as a Viable Alternative to Allopathic Medicine

By: Dr. Absalom Pride King, Dr. A. P. King

Price: $2,285.99

Publisher: Providence Rhode Island RI, : 1857

Seller ID: 0012044

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a handwritten medical lecture in which a physician passionately argues that allopathic medicine has lost its way and that letting Mother Nature take the lead in curing patients is crucial to 19th century health care. It was written and presented by one of the founders of the Hahnemann Society of Rhode Island at what was likely its inaugural meeting in January, 1857. The lecture was written and orated by American physician Dr. Absaolm Pride (A. P. ) King (1820-1868). Dr. King was a Rhode Island-based medical doctor, who was educated and practiced as an allopathic physician. He took ...
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1901 Fascinating Human Resources Job Offer Letter to a Salesman from the Company?s Owner

By: E. W. Fisk, Nurseryman

Price: $69.99

Publisher: : 1901

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012041

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a typewritten job offer from the owner of a nursery wholesaler hoping to land a reliable new employee. Dated Feb 21,1901, and signed in ink by E. W. Fisk himself, this typewritten letter is a full page imploring a potential new hire to take a job as a salesman running a currently unmanned territory. Given the fact that each territory operator will work remotely, Fisk highlights the importance of hiring a man who is ?strictly honorable and upright?. Fisk goes on to describe the benefits of working for his company: ?We have been in business for a long time and this long experience en...
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1935 Original Handwritten Diary by a College Student Spending a Busy Summer Working and Socializing in and around New York City

By: Edith Margaret Libby

Price: $485.99

Publisher: New Jersey, New York City, : 1935

Seller ID: 0010017

Binding: Top spiral

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a wonderful diary by Edith Margaret Libby, a college student spending the summer at her home in New Jersey and visiting New York during the Great Depression.Libby was a student at Central College in Fayette, Missouri, at the time of writing this diary. An inscription notes a second address in New Jersey, across the river from New York City, which appears to be Libby's home. It is likely that she is home on a summer break from college and her entries describe places and events in New York City. She opens her journal noting a trip to see Les Miserables. In view of what was going to h...
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1936-1940 Pennsylvania Diary Highlighting the Immense Burden and Resilience of Middle Aged Womanhood and the Power of Community

By: Elizabeth Calaway

Price: $1,159.99

Publisher: Girard, Pennsylvania Penn PA, : 1936-1940

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is the Five Year "A Line A Day" diary of Mrs. Elizabeth Strobel Calaway (1889-1983) from Girard, Pennsylvania. Calaway was a teacher and she wrote religiously and extensively from 1936-1940, when she was aged 47 through 51. Elizabeth was married to George Arthur Calaway [sometimes Caloway], who worked as a contractor. They had one child, Alice Calaway (1916-2010). Elizabeth?s diary demonstrates the unbelievable (and sometimes unbearable) burden on a middle class working woman in 1930s America. Each morning she was up and off to work at her job as a teacher, walking in all weather. Whe...
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1966 Fascinating Marine Biology Scientific Logbook and Reports of a Research Team on the Pacific Ocean Completing a Multi-Year Oceanography Study

By: Eric D. Forsbergh, Witold L. Klawe, Enrique L. Diaz and Cuthbert M. Love

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Bocas DE Cenzia, Panama Bright, : 1965-1966

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a manuscript logbook of extensive notes plus two typed reports from the Director of Investigations of an environmental commission responsible for the conservation and management of marine resources in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This collection feels particularly important when one considers the 21st century focus on environmental protection and climate change. This collection was compiled as part of a large project commissioned by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). The IATTC was initially established as a treaty between the United States and Costa Rica in 1949 wit...
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World War Two French Letter for Shipment of Military Chemicals

By: Etablissements Kuhlmann

Price: $89.99

Publisher: Dole, France, : 1945

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010103

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a fascinating, typewritten letter regarding the shipment of industrial chemicals in France, written on February 16, 1945, near the end of the second World War. The document is a letter from the French chemical firm Etablissements Kuhlmann to a manufacturing client in the town of Dole in eastern France. This document concerns the documentation necessary to ship some wartime chemicals. An excerpt of the letter follows: FABRICATIONS POUR L'INTENDANCE MILITAIREDans le but de faciliter nos expeditions de tanins synthetiques, nous vous serions tres obliges de bien vouloir nous fournir, p...
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1884-1912 Archive of Family Letters Telling the Story of a Beloved Boy from Lackawanna Who Becomes a Husband, Father and Employee

By: Family of Walter Peter Cole

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Usa, : 1884-1912

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012032

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is an archive of nine (9) letters that tell the story of a young Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania man?s life from 1884 through 1912, when he is 19 through 47 years of age. All but one letter is addressed to Walter Peter Cole (1865-1948) of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The final letter is addressed to his wife. Walter P. Cole was born in Wallsville, PA. At one point he lived in Newton, PA, and he settled to raise his family in Dalton, PA. Walter worked as a dairy farmer in Lackawanna County and sold seeds for C. W. Stuart & Co. , Nurserymen. He was married to Minnie Louise (Corey) C...
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1940 Highly Relatable Letter from a Friend Who Just Could Not Make it to the Hospital for a Visit and Feels Just Terrible

By: Flora

Price: $59.99

Publisher: Factoryville, Pennsylvania, : 1940

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012042

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a sweet letter written to Mrs. Daisy (Ball) Bailey (1897-1964) of Dalton, Pennsylvania from her friend Flora who lives in nearby Factoryville, PA. The letter was written on May 12, 1940 and addressed to Daisy at home in Dalton, although at the time of writing, Daisy was hospitalized, having undergone surgery. The letter is four pages (one single page folded in half with writing on four sides). Throughout the entire letter, Flora provides Daisy with multiple reasons (possibly excuses?) as to why she was unable to come to the hospital to visit her. Flora?s reasons include: she was pa...
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1920s Pair of Letters, One Angry and One Joyful, Written to a Pennsylvania Boy in Quantico and Then Back Home in Birdsboro

By: Friends Of Elmer Roland Francis

Price: $79.99

Publisher: Quantico, Virginia, : 1920

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012040

ISBN: L

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer are two letters written to Elmer Roland Francis (1903-1973) of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. The first letter is written while Elmer is serving in the military and staying in the Marine Barracks in Quantico, Virginia in 1923. The second is an upbeat, newsy letter sent to Elmer once he is home in Birdsboro in 1927. The 1923 letter is of a terse tone and reads as though written by someone very close to Elmer. The author of the letter, Gerald Gordon, who is also in the army at the time (he discusses being ?on watch?) expresses frustration with Elmer, who had canceled a planned trip to see the...
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1939 French Orders to British Troops Including Mandatory Masking

By: General Raoul Voruz

Price: $1,255.99

Publisher: France, : 1939

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0010079

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a fascinating General Order from the French government regarding British troops on French soil in the very early days of WWII. The document was issued on October 31st 1939 by the Mission Francaise de Liason (French Liaison Mission) and marked Etat-Major (Condition ? Important). This is 58 days after France declared war with Germany and 52 days after the first British soldiers began arriving in France. It bears the typed signature of General Raoul Voruz, Head of the French Military Mission to the British Expeditionary Force. Les General Routine Ordre ... Rappelllent ainsi qu'ii suit...
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1915 Business Ephemera Archive Exploring the Process of Opening a Business in Copartnership in Scranton, Pennsylvania

By: Henry F. Adams and Paul Kadak

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Scranton Pennsylvania PA, : 1915

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 0012033

Binding: Manuscript

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

On offer is a small archive of ephemera that relates to a business deal between Mr. Henry F. Adams and Mr. Paul Kadak, both of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Henry F. Adams was the owner of a wholesale grocery business called Henry F. Adams & Co. In 1915, he entered into a partnership with Kadak. Together, Adams and Kadak ran a wholesale business, specializing in ?tea, coffee, spices and general groceries? [Form of Articles of Copartnership, 1915]. This archive includes documents related to this copartnership, most importantly, the Copartnership Agreement. The agreement, titled Form of Articles of Co...
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The Christian in Palestine or Scenes of Sacred History

By: HENRY STEBBING

Price: $1,699.99

Publisher: London, Geo. VIRTUE : 1873

Seller ID: 000430

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

THE FAMOUS BLACKMER COPY OF THE BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED 'CHRISTIAN IN PALESTINE. WITH 80 Fine Plates in 4to. AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY! The Book: Henry STEBBING: The Christian in Palestine or Scenes of Sacred History, Illustrated by W. H. Bartlett. Published by George Virtue. London. [1873]. Printed by Joseph Rickery of Sherbourn Lane, London. 4to, Full bright red morocco with gilt rule and heavy gilt spine. Vignette Title. 1 Map. 1 Plan. Double page panoramic view of JERUSALEM plus 78 fine steel engraved views. Stebbing adds his own historical detail to Bartlett's fine engravings. The book surveys not...
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Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket