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Item #313960 Manuscript indenture of John and Thomas Dixon to Miss Young. Manuscript

Property transfer in Kent, England

Manuscript indenture of John and Thomas Dixon to Miss Young.

Kent, England: c.1700. Property transfer in Kent, England. Deed transferring pastureland, barn, stable buildings and other property in the parish of Folkestone, in Kent, England during the reign of King George I Incomplete due to the contemporary practice of cutting such documents in half vertically, this would be an excellent..... Read More about Manuscript indenture of John and Thomas Dixon to Miss Young

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Item #19110 A calligraphic panel on vellum with a watercolor of a stem of roses surrounded by...

Superb Modern Calligraphic Panel on Vellum

A calligraphic panel on vellum with a watercolor of a stem of roses surrounded by poems and verses relating to...

n.p: mid 20th century. Superb Modern Calligraphic Panel on Vellum. A beautifully designed and executed panel, demonstrating the scribe's command of the major calligraphic hands. Marcus's lettering shows the influence of the great English scribe and teacher Edward Johnston, and one could hardly wish for a finer influence than that..... Read More about A calligraphic panel on vellum with a watercolor of a stem of roses surrounded by poems and...

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Item #325468 Counterblast. Marshall McLuhan

Original Self-Published Version

Counterblast.

Toronto: McLuhan, 1954. First edition. Original Self-Published Version. The preliminary self-published edition of this text by McLuhan that was later expanded and republished commercially in 1969. Read More about Counterblast

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Item #17917 Typed letter signed “Bill,” to Isabel Leighton. Announcing her appointment to the...

Typed letter signed “Bill,” to Isabel Leighton. Announcing her appointment to the Board of Governors of the Menninger Foundation.

Topeka: The Menninger Foundation for Psychiatric Treatment, Education and Research, 30 March 1950. Accompanied by the final leaf of a typed letter signed “Bill,” also to Miss Leighton, dated 6 April 1950 saying how pleased he is with her acceptance of the position on the Board of Governors of the..... Read More about Typed letter signed “Bill,” to Isabel Leighton. Announcing her appointment to the Board of...

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Item #346004 Mid-19th century French manuscript inventory detailing personal and household goods,...

Inventory of a household moving from France to America

Mid-19th century French manuscript inventory detailing personal and household goods, including books, maps, and engravings sent from France to New...

France & the United States: circa 1840. Inventory of a household moving from France to America. A detailed manuscript inventory listing personal and household goods transported to the United States from France and, separately, items shipped from America back to France. The volume records the possessions of Eugène Mourgue, his..... Read More about Mid-19th century French manuscript inventory detailing personal and household goods, including...

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Item #21734 Autograph Manuscript Verse, commencing “O think nae main o me, sweet may/O think...

Autograph Manuscript Verse, commencing “O think nae main o me, sweet may/O think nae main o me/Im but a wearied...

n.p: n.d. A Scottish poet and literary man, Motherwell edited “The Harp of Renfrewshire” in 1819, wrote “Renfrewshire Characters and Scenery” as “Isaac Brown” in 1824 and in 1827 his work “Minstrelsy Ancient and Modern” brought him to the attention and subsequent friendship of Sir Walter Scott. He collaborated with..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Verse, commencing “O think nae main o me, sweet may/O think nae main o...

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Item #332668 John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. Edited by Linnie Marsh...

WITH JOHN MUIR MANUSCRIPT LEAF

John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe. Illustrated.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1938. First edition, signed by editor Linnie Marsh Wolfe on the half-title page, signed by Wanda Muir Hanna on the dedication page, and with an eight-line holograph manuscript leaf in ink of John Muir, tipped in at the dedication page. WITH JOHN..... Read More about John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir. Edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe....

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Item #17455 Manuscript political Circular, with integral address leaf, addressed to Messrs...

The Federalist Party

Manuscript political Circular, with integral address leaf, addressed to Messrs Clement Leach, Jedediah D. Commins & Jacob Stevens, Lima [Livonia]...

Canandaigua, New York: 2nd April 1814. The Federalist Party. The authors were the Committee of correspondence for the county of Ontario regarding the forthcoming election. “The spirit of true federalism is shaking off its lethargy and increasing the number of its followers every where, by the truth of its predictions..... Read More about Manuscript political Circular, with integral address leaf, addressed to Messrs Clement Leach,...

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Item #17453 Retained copy of the Articles of Agreement between Samuel Pitts and Jedidiah Down...

Establishing a business

Retained copy of the Articles of Agreement between Samuel Pitts and Jedidiah Down Commins, both of Livonia, New York in...

Livonia: 1811. Establishing a business. A very interesting document giving the details for running a business in Western New York State in the first part of the 19th century, from responsibility for washing the clothes of the employees, to taking care of the horse and collecting debts. Read More about Retained copy of the Articles of Agreement between Samuel Pitts and Jedidiah Down Commins, both...

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Item #321536 Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an...

Autobiographical Manuscript Memoir of a 19th Century American Photographer

Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant photographer during the Civil War.

Jersey City, NJ: May 3, 1916. Autobiographical Manuscript Memoir of a 19th Century American Photographer. Born on November 9, 1841, in Constance, Baden-Württtemberg, Germany, Gubelman arrived in New York in May 1854. The following year he found work with famed mapseller J. H. Colton "as pupil to Jos. Schedler who..... Read More about Autograph memoir of a noted New Jersey photographer, including his work as an itinerant...

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Item #23620 Manuscript document, one page, signed by Thomas Orby Hunter, James Harris (tear...

Manuscript document, one page, signed by Thomas Orby Hunter, James Harris (tear affecting letter) and G. Hay, as Commissioners.

Chatham: 9 April 1763. Kennedy was the Commander of H. M. S. “Coventry.” Document instructing him that his ship was being outfitted to be sent to North America, and requiring “utmost despatch in getting her ready for the Sea.” Following the end of the French and Indian War the British..... Read More about Manuscript document, one page, signed by Thomas Orby Hunter, James Harris (tear affecting letter)...

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Item #307715 "Random Rhymes in Manuscript and Reprint" Printers–Scottish American, Colin...

"Hail Brothers of the printing ink!"

"Random Rhymes in Manuscript and Reprint"

[Brooklyn: ca. 1912]. "Hail Brothers of the printing ink!" An unpublished manuscript of poems by the nineteenth century Scottish-American printer and poet, Colin Grant Mackenzie (1832-1913), whose long career as a journeyman pressman brought him into association with Harper Brothers, J.F. Trow, Houghton, the University Press, and other important 19th..... Read More about "Random Rhymes in Manuscript and Reprint"

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Item #332604 Collection of letters and poetry by I.A. & Dorothea Richards, most to their friend...

The record of a nearly 30 year friendship

Collection of letters and poetry by I.A. & Dorothea Richards, most to their friend Hester Pickman.

Various: 1955-1983. The record of a nearly 30 year friendship. I.A. (Ivor Armstrong) Richards (1893 – 1979) was an English poet and literary critic whose work contributed to the foundation of the New Criticism. With C.K. Ogden he wrote a number of books, foremost of which is The Meaning of..... Read More about Collection of letters and poetry by I.A. & Dorothea Richards, most to their friend Hester...

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Item #318115 Latin manuscript leaves. David Ruhnken

Latin manuscript leaves.

late 18th century. This Latin letter by an unidentified writer comments on the state of education and learning with regards to classical Latin and Greek oratory. The comments range from criticism of a variety of nations' aptitude for and accomplishment in those fields (the Italian, French, English, German, and French..... Read More about Latin manuscript leaves

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Item #230664 Collection of Prayers and Religious Quotations, in Slavonic. SLAVONIC

Collection of Prayers and Religious Quotations, in Slavonic.

Russia: 1869. A collection of personal thoughts and prayers opening with the Trebnik of Patriarch Iosafat. On the penultimate page the last paragraph reads “I am sending you instead of prayers this little book ...” ending with the abbreviated name 'Gr. I. Evfr.' (possibly for Grigorii Ivanovich Evrasov) dated 1869..... Read More about Collection of Prayers and Religious Quotations, in Slavonic

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