ca. 1775. 4to. 270 mx 205 mm., (11 x 8 inches). 243 leaves, with some blanks between essays. Text includes numerous equations and hand drawn diagrams in the margins. 19th century vellum backed marbled paper boards, vellum tips, manuscript title on spine. A note in pencil, written in Italian, reads..... More
1914-1916. Small folio. 310 x 255 mm. (12 x 10 inches). 302 pp., with carbon and tracing paper copies, index section in front. Many manuscript notes in Bryant’s hand. Bound in a "Tokio Letter Copying Book”, 3/4 calf, cloth sides, spine very worn; some sheet of tissue creased and a...... More
[Portland, Maine]: John Cox, Mountfort's Wharf, [1843]. 8vo. 220 x 200 mm. (9 7/8 x 8 inches). 4 pp. Advertisement and image of the press on page 1; page 2 blank; page 3 with manuscript about sale and delivery of the press; page 4 addressed to Franklin Spofford of Bucksport..... More
Edgefield District, South Carolina: ca Winter 1863 - 1864. A rare autograph affidavit signed, by six witnesses. Highly legible. 4to. 290 x 185 mm. (11 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). 1 1/2 pp. Written on lined paper. Folded with tears at a number of folds, but sound; small holes caused..... More
Reading, PA. & Boston, MA: 1799 - 1882. Manuscript archive consisting of letters, documents, wills, etc. from the Schoener family of Reading, Pennsylvania, including documents that detail the lives of two generations of family members and their successes and failures in making lives for themselves in 19th century America. Jacob..... More
Philadelphia: January 22, 1790. Autograph Letter Signed. Folio sheet folded. 1 page of text with address on the verso. Folded, with small tears at the folds blank piece missing at the wax seal. Highly legible hand. Watermark paper " I R ". Letter from Adam Zantzinger concern the receipt of money..... More
1816-1818. Informative series of financial instruments that illustrate the contractual arrangements between a bookseller from New York and a merchant from Connecticut in an enterprise that would perpetuate the Third River Paper Mill in Passaic, New Jersey. The Third River, which passed through the property where the paper mail was..... More
